Patents by Inventor Tohru Kobayashi

Tohru Kobayashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6150065
    Abstract: Disclosed is a charge transfer material which is highly soluble in a binder resin, does not precipitates crystals and produces no pinhole and also disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising the charge transfer material which comprises a butadiene compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, respectively represent a lower alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group or benzyl group which may have a substituent and R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, respectively represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group having 1-4 carbon atoms or a halogen atom; and a butadiene compound represented by the general formula (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Yoko Aoki, Mamoru Yamada, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Hagiwara, Hajime Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6106090
    Abstract: A recording apparatus builds an image at high quality without occurrence of malfunctions attributable to raised/recessed spots on the surface of a conveyance belt and insufficient dimensioning for the width of the conveyance belt, while preventing the interior of the recording apparatus from being contaminated with erroneously ejected ink. The recording apparatus includes a conveyance belt for conveying a recording sheet below four kinds of recording heads, and the conveyance belt has a joint line along which the opposite ends of a band-shaped material are joined to each other. In addition, the conveyance belt has a band-shaped colored portion which is located remote from the joint line by a predetermined distance. The colored portion is detected by an optical sensor, and a control unit controls the driving of the conveyance belt in response to a signal derived from the detection of the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Tomohiro Aoki, Yasushi Murayama, Tohru Kobayashi, Masatoshi Ikkatai, Tatsuo Mitomi, Masaharu Nemura, Yasuyuki Takanaka
  • Patent number: 6092216
    Abstract: A disk controlling apparatus creates sense data indicating the contents of an error and writes it into an intermediate buffer provided within the disk controlling apparatus together with the record normally read when a key portion or a data portion constituting a record is not normally read. The disk controlling apparatus searches the intermediate buffer for desired record, reads and informs an error while taking the sense data into consideration for each record. The disk controlling apparatus stores a write address in a memory at the time of writing data, and when data are normally written the write address is eliminated from the memory, while holding the address when data are not normally written. At the time of reading data, if the address which agrees with the read address is stored in the memory, the disk controlling apparatus reports an error to a host apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Tadashi Kumasawa, Shoichi Murano, Jun Ishikawa, Jun Katayama
  • Patent number: 6083651
    Abstract: A phenothiazine or phenoxazine derivative represented by the following general formula (1), a charge-transporting material comprising the derivative, and an electrophotographic photoreceptor containing the charge-transporting material are disclosed. The charge-transporting material has good solubility in binder polymers, satisfactory sensitivity, and a low residual potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 6034912
    Abstract: A memory portion and a logic circuit portion of a semiconductor device are formed on a single semiconductor substrate in which a first logic circuit block and a second logic circuit block are formed in different areas and the second logic circuit is located between a pair of memory blocks. Data stored in the pair of memory blocks are transmitted to the second logic circuit block for processing via a memory peripheral circuit. A result of the data processing is transmitted to the first logic circuit block or an external device via an input/output circuit provided in the second logic circuit block. A clock signal entered at the center portion of the semiconductor chip is supplied to a plurality of first state clock distributing circuits equidistantly disposed from the center portion and then to a plurality of second stage clock distributing circuits at least equidistantly disposed from each of the first state clock distributing circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Isomura, Atsushi Shimizu, Keiichi Higeta, Tohru Kobayashi, Takeo Yamada, Yuko Ito, Kengo Miyazawa, Kunihiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5989765
    Abstract: A triphenylamine derivative, represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom or an aryl group which may have a substituent group; and m and n each represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5942615
    Abstract: A phenothiazine or phenoxazine derivative represented by the following general formula (1), a charge-transporting material comprising the derivative, and an electrophotographic photoreceptor containing the charge-transporting material are disclosed. The charge-transporting material has good solubility in binder polymers, satisfactory sensitivity, and a low residual potential In general formula (1) Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 may be the same or different and each represents an optionally substituted aryl group; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, or an optionally substituted aryl group; R.sup.3 represents a lower alkyl group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms, an optionally substituted aryl group, or an optionally substituted aralkyl group; X represents a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom; and n and m each represents an integer of 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5912680
    Abstract: A cleaning method for removing a recording ink from a surface of a recording material conveying belt of a recording apparatus. The method includes the steps of detecting a recording material jam; press contacting a cleaning member to a surface of the recording material conveying belt in response to the detected jam, thus removing from the belt surface an improper discharge of recording ink; and separating the cleaning member from the surface of the conveying belt after cleaning for a period of time. The period of time is determined based upon an amount of the recording ink discharged onto the conveying belt surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Tomohiro Aoki, Tohru Kobayashi, Masatoshi Ikkatai, Yasushi Murayama, Tatsuo Mitomi, Masaharu Nemura, Yasuyuki Takanaka
  • Patent number: 5910610
    Abstract: A triphenylamine derivative, represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom or an aryl group which may have a substituent group; and m and n each represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5898636
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a memory portion and a logic circuit portion formed with a same semiconductor substrate comprising a first logic circuit block, a second logic circuit block disposed in an area different from an area in which the first logic circuit block is disposed, and a pair of memory blocks oppositely disposed so that the second logic circuit block comes in between. Data stored in the pair of memory blocks are transmitted to the second logic circuit block for processing via a memory peripheral circuit provided on the second logic circuit block. A result of the data processing is transmitted to the first logic circuit block or an external device via an input/output circuit provided in the second logic circuit block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Isomura, Atsushi Shimizu, Keiichi Higeta, Tohru Kobayashi, Takeo Yamada, Yuko Ito, Kengo Miyazawa, Kunihiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5882813
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a charge transporting material containing at least one triphenylamine compound represented by general formula (1) and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a hydrazone compound, a triphenylamine dimer compound and a distyryl compound: ##STR1## said charge transporting material being able to express high carrier mobility, being high in solubility in a binder polymer, and being able to form a homogeneous charge transporting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Matsushima, Tohru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Yoko Takahashi, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5878204
    Abstract: A disk controlling apparatus creates sense data indicating the contents of an error and writes it into an intermediate buffer provided within the disk controlling apparatus together with the record normally read when a key portion or a data portion constituting a record is not normally read. The disk controlling apparatus searches the intermediate buffer for desired record, reads and informs an error while taking the sense data into consideration for each record. The disk controlling apparatus stores a write address in a memory at the time of writing data, and when data are normally written the write address is eliminated from the memory, while holding the address when data are not normally written. At the time of reading data, if the address which agrees with the read address is stored in the memory, the disk controlling apparatus reports an error to a host apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Shoichi Murano, Jun Ishikawa, Jun Katayama
  • Patent number: 5840811
    Abstract: An optically active block polyester copolymer formed of structural units represented by the following general formulas (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein represents for an asymmetric carbon atom and m and n each represents a natural number in the range of from 300 to 5000 is obtained by subjecting an optically active butyrolactone and a species of lactone other than the optically active butyrolactone to sequential ringopening copolymerization in the presence of a catalyst. This optically active block polyester copolymer possesses a high molecular weight and a high melting point (not less than 130.degree. C.) and forms a biodegradable and hydrolyzable material of high strength capable of tolerating the impacts of actual use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Hori, Tohru Kobayashi, Hideyuki Hongo, Akio Yamaguchi, Yoko Takahashi, Takashi Imai, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5757399
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet recording apparatus comprising a conveying means for a recording medium in a substantially horizontal direction, a head holding means for holding a plurality of ink jet heads in such a manner that the ink jet heads discharge ink vertically downward toward the recording medium conveyed by the conveying means in the substantially horizontal direction, a vertical shifting means for shifting the head holding means in a substantially vertical direction, a head recovery means for recovering and preventing the non-discharge of ink from the plurality of ink jet heads, in a condition opposed to the plurality of ink jet heads, and a horizontal shifting means for shifting the head recovery means in the substantially horizontal direction into a spatial area provided above the recording medium by lifting the head holding means in the substantially vertical direction by means of the vertical shifting means, so that the head recovery means is opposed relation to the plurality of ink
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Murayama, Tomohiro Aoki, Tohru Kobayashi, Masatoshi Ikkatai, Takashi Uchida, Tatsuo Mitomi, Masaharu Nemura, Yasuyuki Takanaka
  • Patent number: 5736284
    Abstract: A charge transporting material high in solubility in a binder polymer and having high carrier mobility is disclosed, which contains a carbazole derivative represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an aryl group which may have a substituent group; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a lower alkyl group or an aryl group which may have a substituent group; R.sup.3 represents a lower alkyl group, an alicyclic alkyl group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms, an aryl group which may have a substituent group, or an aralkyl group which may have a substituent group; and m and n each represents an integer of 0 or 1. An electrophotographic photoreceptor containing the charge transporting material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5635468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquefying alkaline .alpha.-amylase having the enzymatic properties described below, a production process thereof and a detergent composition containing the same.1) Action:It hydrolyzes .alpha.-1,4-glucosidic linkages in starches, amylose, amylopectin and partial degradation products thereof and from amylose, forms glucose (G1), maltose (G2), maltotriose (G3), maltotetraose (G4), maltopentaose (G5) and maltohexaose (G6). It however does not act on pullulan.2) Isoelectric point:It has an isoelectric point higher than 8.5 when measured by an isoelectric focusing electrophoresis.The amylase according to the present invention has a liquefying activity capable of permitting degrading starches and starchy polysaccharides at high random, and has an optimum pH on the alkaline side. Owing to the high isoelectric point, it can be purified readily. Detergents with the amylase incorporated therein have excellent detergency especially against the soil of smeared food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ara, Katsuhisa Saeki, Kazuaki Igarashi, Mikio Takaiwa, Takaaki Uemura, Shuji Kawai, Susumu Ito, Hiroshi Hagihara, Tohru Kobayashi, Atsushi Tanaka, Eiichi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5613066
    Abstract: A disk controlling apparatus creates sense data indicating the contents of an error and writes it into an intermediate buffer provided within the disk controlling apparatus together with the record normally read when a key portion or a data portion constituting a record is not normally read. The disk controlling apparatus searches the intermediate buffer for desired record, reads and informs an error while taking the sense data into consideration for each record. The disk controlling apparatus stores a write address in a memory at the time of writing data, and when data are normally written the write address is eliminated from the memory, while holding the address when data are not normally written. At the time of reading data, if the address which agrees with the read address is stored in the memory, the disk controlling apparatus reports an error to a host apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hitoshi Matsushima, Tohru Kobayashi, Tadashi Kumasawa, Shoichi Murano, Jun Ishikawa, Jun Katayama
  • Patent number: 5573878
    Abstract: A triphenylamine derivative, a charge-transporting material comprising the triphenylamine derivative, and an electrophotographic photoreceptor containing a charge-transporting layer comprising the triphenylamine derivative are disclosed, wherein the triphenylamine derivative is represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, and R.sup.5 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, or an aryl group which may have a substituent, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 and/or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may be taken together to form a ring, and n represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Hagiwara, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Tohru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5567560
    Abstract: A triphenylamine derivative, a charge-transporting material comprising the triphenylamine derivative, and an electrophotographic photoreceptor containing a charge-transporting layer comprising the triphenylamine derivative are disclosed, wherein the triphenylamine derivative is represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, and R.sup.5 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, or an aryl group which may have a substituent, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 and/or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may be taken together to form a ring, and n represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Hagiwara, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Yoshimasa Matsushima, Tohru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5488399
    Abstract: A belt driving apparatus for carrying material to be recorded to a plurality of image recording units. In the belt driving apparatus, the distance of movement of material to be recorded corresponding to one rotation of the belt driving roller has been set to n (an integer)-times (where n=2, 3, 4 . . . ) as long as a distance between each image recording unit. A distance between one image recording unit and another recording unit is equal to or an integral fraction of .pi.(D+2 t), wherein D is the diameter of a drive roller driving the belt and t is the thickness of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuo Mitomi, Tomohiro Aoki, Yasushi Murayama, Takashi Uchida, Tohru Kobayashi, Masatoshi Ikkatai, Masaharu Nemura