Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Kobayashi

Tomoyuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240154044
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a Schottky barrier diode. The Schottky barrier diode includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type and having a region of the first conductivity type and an impurity region of the first conductivity type; a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a first external terminal electrically connected to the first electrode layer; and a second external terminal electrically connected to the second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a first base portion, a first extending portion and a second extending portion. The second electrode layer includes a second base portion and a third extending portion located between the first extending portion and the second extending portion in a second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: AIKO MIYAZAKI, TAKAHIRO ARAKAWA, TOMOYUKI KAWAKAMI, SATOSHI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11970091
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle seat in which the rotation device is disposed without compromising the passenger comfort in the cabin, a vehicle seat includes: a floor panel which has a sheet shape, constitutes a floor surface of a cabin, and has an elongated hole extending linearly; a slide device provided below the floor panel to be slidable along the elongated hole; a rotation device provided on the slide device to be rotatable about a rotation axis below the floor panel, the rotation axis extending vertically and overlapping with the elongated hole; a support leg which is columnar in shape, is provided on the rotation device along the rotation axis, and extends to above the floor panel by passing through the elongated hole; and a seat main body which is joined to an upper end of the support leg and on which an occupant can be seated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Numajiri, Nobuyuki Tezuka, Akihito Kobayashi, Tadashi So, Akira Miyoshi, Tomoyuki Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 11964838
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet; a first exit path from which the sheet with the image printed thereon by the printing unit is discharged while being reversed; a second exit path from which the sheet with the image printed thereon by the printing unit is discharged without being reversed; and a switch member configured to be pivotably arranged so as to switch between the first exit path and the second exit path. The first exit path passes above a pivot center of the switch member, and the second exit path passes below the pivot center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Asano, Takeshi Koda, Toshiro Sugiyama, Waichiro Saiki, Tomohiro Suzuki, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Nagase
  • Publication number: 20240124730
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a dispersant which allows disperse dyes and pigments to be dispersed even in a small addition amount, and can exhibit wettability, a dispersion which can exhibit redispersibility, an ink composition including the foregoing, and a method for producing the foregoing. The present invention provides a dispersant containing 50 to 99 wt % of (A) a styrene-ethyleneoxy group-containing (meth)acrylic acid-based copolymer haying a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 50,000, the copolymer having a styrene content of 1 to 40 wt %, and (B) 1 to 50 wt % of an acetylene-based surfactant which is acetylene glycol or an ethoxylated substance of acetylene glycol having a specific chemical formula, a dispersion, an ink composition, and a method for producing the foregoing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Nissin Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumika Kobayashi, Seigo Kawabata, Tomoyuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11955777
    Abstract: An optical combiner includes: a plurality of first input optical fibers that each include a core; a bridge fiber that includes a bridge input surface connected to the cores of the plurality of first input optical fibers, a diameter reduction portion having a diameter that decreases away from the bridge input surface along an optical axis of the optical combiner, and a bridge output surface located opposite to the bridge input surface along the optical axis; an intermediate optical fiber that includes a core connected to the bridge output surface of the bridge fiber; a second input optical fiber that includes a core; and an output optical fiber that includes a first optical waveguide connected to the core of the intermediate optical fiber, and a second optical waveguide connected to the core of the second input optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Fujita, Ryokichi Matsumoto, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Takuya Kobayashi, Kiwamu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240114260
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a reading circuit that reads out pixel data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate, a memory that stores the read pixel data, and an output circuit that outputs image data based on the stored pixel data at a second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate higher than the second frame rate. The pixel data includes phase difference pixel data and non-phase difference pixel data different from the phase difference pixel data. The reading circuit reads out the pixel data of each of a plurality of frames in parallel within an output period defined by the second frame rate as a period in which the image data of one frame is output, and performs reading of the non-phase difference pixel data and a plurality of reading of the phase difference pixel data within the output period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKURABU, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240080410
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a storage portion that stores captured image data obtained by imaging a subject by an imaging element and is incorporated in the imaging element, an output portion that is incorporated in the imaging element, and a plurality of signal processing portions that are disposed outside the imaging element, in which the output portion includes a plurality of output lines each disposed in correspondence with each of the plurality of signal processing portions and outputs each of a plurality of pieces of image data into which the captured image data stored in the storage portion is divided, to a corresponding signal processing portion among the plurality of signal processing portions from the plurality of output lines, and any of the plurality of signal processing portions combines the plurality of pieces of image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Hitoshi SAKURABU
  • Patent number: 11920221
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet has a composition comprising 0.5% or less by mass of Si, 0.7% or less by mass of Fe, 0.3% or less by mass of Cu, 0.4 to 1.5% by mass of Mn, 0.7 to 1.5% by mass of Mg and an balance comprising Al and inevitable impurities. A degree of integration in the Goss orientation is 1.5 or more. A degree of integration in the Cu orientation is 6.2 or less. A tensile strength is 200 to 310 MPa. An areal ratio of an ?-Al—Fe—Mn—Si based intermetallic compound with an equivalent circle diameter of 0.5 ?m or more is preferably 2.6% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kudo, Ryohei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240072085
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus in which a sensor substrate and a scintillator are bonded by a bonding member, is provided. The scintillator includes a first surface opposing the sensor substrate via the bonding member and covered by a first protective layer, a second surface disposed on an opposite side of the first surface and covered by a second protective layer, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface and covered by a third protective layer. The first protective layer, the second protective layer, and the third protective layer are each configured by one or more layers, and a number of layers of the first protective layer is less than or equal to respective numbers of layers of the second protective layer and the third protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI OIKE, TAMAKI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11915951
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage disposed in a processing chamber for mounting a wafer, a plasma generation chamber disposed above the processing chamber for plasma generation using process gas, a plate member having multiple introduction holes, made of a dielectric material, disposed above the stage and between the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber, and a lamp disposed around the plate member for heating the wafer. The plasma processing apparatus further includes an external IR light source, an emission fiber arranged in the stage, that outputs IR light from the external IR light source toward a wafer bottom, and a light collection fiber for collecting IR light from the wafer. Data obtained using only IR light from the lamp is subtracted from data obtained also using IR light from the external IR light source during heating of the wafer. Thus, a wafer temperature is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobuya Miyoshi, Kazunori Shinoda, Tatehito Usui, Naoyuki Kofuji, Yutaka Kouzuma, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Kenetsu Yokogawa, Satoshi Sakai, Masaru Izawa
  • Publication number: 20230194172
    Abstract: Provided is a method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell which enables a heat insulating block to be firmly fixed to a furnace wall but does not require much time and costs for making the heat insulating block, and which further offers good workability at a site. The method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell includes: inserting a beam of a fixture into a fold of an inorganic fiber aggregate mat that is folded up to form a heat insulating block; and fixing the fixture and a furnace shell to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MAFTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku HATA, Mitsuo SUZUKI, Tomoyuki KOBAYASHI, Yusuke KIMURA, Akihiro YANO, Masakuni TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11531140
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical laminate capable of reducing reflectance not only with respect to light incident vertically but also light incident obliquely, and further capable of obtaining a neutral reflected color tone even when light is incident obliquely. The optical laminate includes a base material, an antireflection film provided on one surface of the base material, and a light shielding film provided on the other surface of the base material. The optical laminate satisfies all of the following characteristics (i) to (iii): 0.5<R(?1a,?1a)/R(?1b,?1b)<1.5;??(i) Y(?2)?3%; and??(ii) Y(?3)?10%;??(iii) in which R (?, ?) designates reflectance when light of a wavelength of ? nm is incident at an angle of ?, provided that ?1a=380 nm, ?1a=60° and ?1b=650 nm, ?1b=60°; and Y (?) designates luminous reflectance at an incident angle of ?, provided that ?2=5° and ?3=60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Tachibana, Keisuke Matsuda, Takaaki Murakami, Toshinari Watanabe, Tomoyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220341667
    Abstract: A heat insulating protective member including an inorganic fiber formed body having a hollow cylindrical shape or a split hollow cylindrical shape, wherein the inorganic fiber formed body has an inner circumferential surface (c) facing a hollow and an outer circumferential surface (a) constituting an outer circumference, and the bulk density of the inorganic fiber formed body increases toward the outer circumferential surface (a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: MAFTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yano, Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Mitsuo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220203639
    Abstract: Provided is a tire molding apparatus capable of preventing a transfer device from continuing to swing after stop. The tire molding apparatus includes: a rail; and a transfer device configured to hold a tire member and move along the rail. The transfer device is configured to move along the rail and stop to receive or deliver the tire member. A positioning device is provided in the transfer device. The positioning device includes a concave portion and a convex portion. One of the concave portion and the convex portion is provided in the transfer device, and the other one of the concave portion and the convex portion is provided at a position facing the transfer device when the transfer device is stopped. The transfer device is stopped by fitting the concave portion to the convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Katsuji Niwa
  • Patent number: 11294746
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining whether an error log is included in an operation log over a terminal; when the error log is included in the operation log, specifying a start timing and a stop timing of a script including the error log stored in a memory based on the operation log; and extracting moving image data output to the terminal during execution of the script based on time information related to the specified start timing and stop timing of the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujishima, Susumu Koga, Masahiro Nakayama, Tomoyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210263204
    Abstract: A transparent substrate with a light-shielding layer, including: a transparent substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface; an infrared ray-transmitting layer that is disposed so as to be in contact with the first main surface of the transparent substrate, transmits an infrared ray, and shields a visible light; and a light-shielding layer that is disposed on the infrared ray-transmitting layer, includes an opening that exposes a part of the infrared ray-transmitting layer, and shields the visible light and the infrared ray, in which the light-shielding layer includes an end portion that projects from an end portion of the infrared ray-transmitting layer, that is closest to an outer circumference of the transparent substrate, and is in contact with an end face of the infrared ray-transmitting layer and the transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Toru IKEDA, Tomoyuki KOBAYASHI, Yosuke TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 11073644
    Abstract: A transparent substrate with a light-shielding layer, including: a transparent substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface; an infrared ray-transmitting layer that is disposed so as to be in contact with the first main surface of the transparent substrate, transmits an infrared ray, and shields a visible light; and a light-shielding layer that is disposed on the infrared ray-transmitting layer, includes an opening that exposes a part of the infrared ray-transmitting layer, and shields the visible light and the infrared ray, in which the light-shielding layer includes an end portion that projects from an end portion of the infrared ray-transmitting layer, that is closest to an outer circumference of the transparent substrate, and is in contact with an end face of the infrared ray-transmitting layer and the transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Ikeda, Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Yosuke Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210096940
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining whether an error log is included in an operation log over a terminal; when the error log is included in the operation log, specifying a start timing and a stop timing of a script including the error log stored in a memory based on the operation log; and extracting moving image data output to the terminal during execution of the script based on time information related to the specified start timing and stop timing of the script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujishima, Susumu Koga, Masahiro Nakayama, Tomoyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10940683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method for a bent plate with a printed layer including: holding the bent plate by bringing a second main surface of the bent plate into contact with a surface of a fixing jig in which the surface of the fixing jig has a shape corresponding to the second main surface; disposing a screen having a printing pattern portion above the bent plate; bringing a squeegee into contact with a printing start part of the bent plate via the screen; and causing the squeegee to relatively traverse the bent plate along the first main surface via the screen, in which an angle on a moving direction side of the squeegee is changed when the squeegee is caused to relatively traverse the bent plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Minamidate, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Tomoyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10656000
    Abstract: A shutoff valve adaptor and a measuring unit adaptor are resin members and each of them has an elastically deformable hooking claw. Each of sheet metal members has a hooking target portion. The shutoff valve adaptor is mounted to the sheet metal member by a snap-fit portion comprising the hooking target portion and the hooking claw hooked to the hooking target portion, and the measuring unit adaptor is mounted to the sheet metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kobayashi