Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Kobayashi
Toshihiro 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).
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Publication number: 20240087812Abstract: An electronic component includes a component body, a metal terminal, and a bonding material. The component body includes an element body and an external electrode. The metal terminal includes a first main surface and a second main surface, and a side surface. The bonding material electrically and physically connects the external electrode and the metal terminal. The metal terminal includes a first metal layer including the first main surface, a second metal layer including the second main surface, and a terminal body including the side surface. The terminal body is exposed at the side surface, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are separated from each other on the side surface. Each of the first metal layer and the second metal layer includes a Ni plated layer. The terminal body includes Cu. The bonding material includes solder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro IGUCHI, Hisashi KOBAYASHI, Norihisa ANDO, Kenya TAMAKI
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Patent number: 11929771Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kaga, Toshihiro Nagayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yasunori Komukai, Shinichi Okada, Yasumichi Takai, Yoshinori Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20240072198Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes a heterogeneous substrate, a mask layer having an opening portion and a mask portion, a seed portion overlapping the opening portion, and a semiconductor layer including a GaN-based semiconductor and disposed on the seed portion and the mask portion. An upper surface of an effective portion of the semiconductor layer includes at least one low-level defective region with a size of 10 ?m in a first direction along a width direction of the opening portion and 10 ?m in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a line defect is not measured by a CL method in the low-level defective region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takeshi KAMIKAWA, Katsuaki MASAKI, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yuichiro HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11915876Abstract: A ceramic electronic device comprises an element body including a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer, and an external electrode electrically connected to at least one end of the internal electrode layer. The element body includes an interface part at least at a part of a boundary between the external electrode and the ceramic layer. The interface part includes an oxide containing aluminium and an oxide containing boron.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Iguchi, Norihisa Ando, Kenya Tamaki, Hisashi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11907710Abstract: A time period required for analyzing a source code is reduced without reducing analysis accuracy in a source code analysis apparatus that analyzes a source code with a dynamic analysis method. An analysis processing unit extracts, from a post-change source code, an influence function to which an input is given by a change function. An analysis necessity determination processing unit determines whether or not the function is the analysis target function, based on a range of an input value input to the change function and a function included in the influence function. The analysis processing unit performs an analysis of the analysis target function, which is included in the change function and the influence function. An analysis result processing unit outputs an analysis result of the post-change source code, which includes an analysis result of the analysis target function.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Fujita, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11755318Abstract: Even when one refactoring operation cannot establish a target software structure, an appropriate refactoring operation establishes the target software structure. An improvement proposing device includes: a structure comparator to output, as an improvement object, a difference between a first software structure and a second software structure different in software structure from the first software structure; and an improvement plan examining unit to examine an improvement plan for each improvement portion in the improvement object, the improvement plan being a method for bringing the first software structure closer to the second software structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Shima, Toshiki Kitajima, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yuki Hikawa, Taishi Azuma
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Patent number: 11630662Abstract: A software analysis device being capable of analyzing dependency between software components more comprehensively and with higher accuracy than a conventional technology is provided. The software analysis device comprising: a first analyzing unit that statically analyzes a structure of a source code of software and analyzes dependency between objects of the software; and a second analyzing unit that executes a program indicated by the source code to acquire first information regarding an operation of the objects and analyzes dependency between the objects based on the first information. The software analysis device analyzes dependency between the objects based on an analysis result of the first analyzing unit and an analysis result of the second analyzing unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Taishi Azuma, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yuki Hikawa
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Publication number: 20230102455Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains a first image serving as a read image of an inspection target medium having undergone printing, and a second image serving as a read image of a reference medium representing a target print result. An inspection unit inspects a defect on the inspection target medium based on the first image and the second image by performing inspection at inspection settings different between a print region and a peripheral region of the inspection target medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishii, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11588160Abstract: A gas and liquid separator includes a first separating portion configured to separate a liquid droplet from a first exhaust gas discharged from a negative electrode of a fuel cell, a first container accommodating the first separating portion, a first storage reservoir storing water flowing down from the first separating portion, a second container provided at a lower side of the first storage reservoir, a second storage reservoir provided at a lower portion of the second container, and a valve apparatus including a valve discharging water stored in the first storage reservoir, wherein a second exhaust gas discharged from a positive electrode flows in the second container, and water discharged from the first storage reservoir is stored in the second storage reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiro Kajio, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230034573Abstract: An eyeglasses lens measurement device measures an eyeglasses lens of eyeglasses. The eyeglasses lens measurement device includes a light source that emits a measurement light flux toward the eyeglasses lens, a transmissive display that transmits the measurement light flux from the light source and displays an index pattern formed by arranging a plurality of indexes, a detector that detects the measurement light flux passing through the eyeglasses lens and the transmissive display, and a controller. The controller is configured to control a display of the index pattern, acquire an optical characteristic of the eyeglasses lens, based on a detection result of the detector, and acquire lens information different from the optical characteristic of the eyeglasses lens, based on a detection result of the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuyasu MIZUNO, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yujiro TOCHIKUBO, Yuichi MATSUBARA
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Patent number: 11551350Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains a first image serving as a read image of an inspection target medium having undergone printing, and a second image serving as a read image of a reference medium representing a target print result. An inspection unit inspects a defect on the inspection target medium based on the first image and the second image by performing inspection at inspection settings different between a print region and a peripheral region of the inspection target medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiyuki Ishii, Toshihiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220376132Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor element of the present disclosure includes: a step of preparing a substrate; a first element forming step of forming a first semiconductor layer in a first region on a surface of the substrate; a first element separating step of separating the first semiconductor layer from the substrate; and a second element forming step of forming a second semiconductor layer in a second region on the surface of the substrate from which the first semiconductor layer is separated. Additionally, in the method for manufacturing a semiconductor element of the present disclosure, at least a portion of the second region overlaps the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yutaka KUBA, Katsuaki MASAKI, Kentaro MURAKAWA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220338452Abstract: An object of the present invention is to produce a mammalian organ having a complicated cellular composition composed of multiple kinds of cells, such as kidney, pancreas, thymus and hair, in the living body of a non-human animal. The inventors of the present invention applied the chimeric animal assay described above, to a novel solid organ production method. More specifically, the inventors has shown that a model mouse which is deficient of kidney, pancreas, thymus or hair due to the dysfunction of the metanephric mesenchyme that is differentiated into most of an adult kidney, is rescued by blastocyst complementation by the chimeric animal assay, and whereby a kidney, a pancreas, thymus or hair can be newly produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Hiromitsu NAKAUCHI, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Younsu LEE, Joichi USUI, Tomoyuki YAMAGUCHI, Sanae HAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20220342664Abstract: A time period required for analyzing a source code is reduced without reducing analysis accuracy in a source code analysis apparatus that analyzes a source code with a dynamic analysis method. An analysis processing unit extracts, from a post-change source code, an influence function to which an input is given by a change function. An analysis necessity determination processing unit determines whether or not the function is the analysis target function, based on a range of an input value input to the change function and a function included in the influence function. The analysis processing unit performs an analysis of the analysis target function, which is included in the change function and the influence function. An analysis result processing unit outputs an analysis result of the post-change source code, which includes an analysis result of the analysis target function.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaki FUJITA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11471043Abstract: A subjective optometry apparatus has a projection optical system including a visual target presenting portion and an optical member to project a target light flux toward a subject eye, and causing the target light flux to be incident on the optical member with a deviation of the incident target light flux from an optical axis of the optical member, a housing accommodating the projection optical system, a presentation window for emitting the target light flux from the inside of the housing to the outside thereof, an eye refractive power measurement unit provided outside the housing, and holding means integrally connecting the housing to the eye refractive power measurement unit to hold the eye refractive power measuring unit. When using the eye refractive power measuring unit, a distance from the presentation window to the eye refractive power measurement unit in an optical path is equal to or less than 180 mm.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yukito Hirayama, Ryoji Suzuki, Kazunori Shibata, Daisuke Baba
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Publication number: 20220269502Abstract: Even when one refactoring operation cannot establish a target software structure, an appropriate refactoring operation establishes the target software structure. An improvement proposing device includes: a structure comparator to output, as an improvement object, a difference between a first software structure and a second software structure different in software structure from the first software structure; and an improvement plan examining unit to examine an improvement plan for each improvement portion in the improvement object, the improvement plan being a method for bringing the first software structure closer to the second software structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Daiki SHIMA, Toshiki KITAJIMA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yuki HIKAWA, Taishi AZUMA
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Patent number: 11379224Abstract: A source code analysis unit identifies dependency strengths of one or more functions included in a source code. An influence analysis unit identifies one or more transfer functions that will each move to a different subsystem due to refactoring and identifies a dependency strength to be influenced by the refactoring, based on the dependency strengths that have been identified by the source code analysis unit with respect to the one or more transfer functions. A scale calculation unit calculates the scale of the refactoring, based on the dependency strength to be influenced, which has been identified by the influence analysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Natsuko Fujii, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yuki Hikawa, Takahiro Akimoto, Satoshi Maekawa, Toshiki Kitajima
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Publication number: 20220192164Abstract: It is revealed that an organ such as pancreas can be regenerated by utilizing a fact that the deficiency of an organ is complemented by injecting an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) into a developed blastocyst in a blastocyst complementation method. Thus, the present invention has solved the above-described object. This provides a method for producing a target organ, using an iPS cell, in a living body of a non-human mammal having an abnormality associated with a lack of development of the target organ in a development stage, the target organ produced being derived from a different individual mammal that is an individual different from the non-human mammal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Hiromitsu NAKAUCHI, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki YAMAGUCHI, Sanae HAMANAKA
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Patent number: 11205272Abstract: An apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a captured image of a target, a generation unit configured to generate a plurality of conversion images based on the captured image, a detection unit configured to detect edges in the plurality of conversion images, a determination unit configured to determine reliability of the edges detected in corresponding regions in the conversion images and the captured image, and a selection unit configured to select one of the edges for each region in the captured image based on the determined reliability.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Tatsuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 11185977Abstract: It is an object to enable a grasping operation to be executed according to a state of an object. The invention provides an information processing apparatus which determines the grasping operation in a grasping unit for grasping the object. The information processing apparatus has: an obtaining unit for obtaining an image acquired by capturing the object; a recognizing unit for recognizing a state of the object from the image obtained by the obtaining unit; and a generating unit for generating information for allowing the grasping unit to execute the grasping operation on the basis of the object state recognized by the recognizing unit and conditions to execute the grasping operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masakazu Fujiki, Akihiro Katayama