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).

  • Publication number: 20230073043
    Abstract: An electronic component with a metal terminal includes an electronic component having an element body, and external electrodes respectively provided on end surfaces facing each other in an X direction in the element body; and plate-shaped metal terminals having joint portions joined to the external electrodes, and leg portions provided to protrude beyond the electronic component in a Z direction. The leg portion of the metal terminal has an extending part continuously extending in the Z direction from the joint portion, a first bent part bent from a tip of the extending part to the electronic component side at a first angle formed to be an acute angle with respect to the extending part, and a second bent part bent from a tip of the first bent part at a second angle larger than the first angle with respect to the extending part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi KOBAYASHI, Norihisa ANDO, Toshihiro IGUCHI, Kenya TAMAKI
  • Patent number: 11588160
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kajio, Toshihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230034900
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro IGUCHI, Norihisa ANDO, Kenya TAMAKI, Hisashi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230034573
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyasu MIZUNO, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yujiro TOCHIKUBO, Yuichi MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 11551350
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ishii, Toshihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220410733
    Abstract: A power transfer system includes: a compact mobility; a ground unit disposed on a second lane which is a driving lane for the compact mobility, the ground unit being capable of wireless power transfer; and a controller that controls the ground unit. The compact mobility has an amount of electric power that can be stored less than a predetermined amount, and travels at a speed dependent on electric power wirelessly received from the ground unit. When a pedestrian is sensed in the second lane, the controller forces the compact mobility to decelerate by reducing transmission power from the ground unit to the compact mobility, as compared to when the pedestrian is not sensed in the second lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamura, Katsuya Kobayashi, Hiroki Murata, Hiroshi Matsumori, Naohiro Seo, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220402383
    Abstract: A vehicle is capable of receiving electric power supplied from a charger and capable of receiving electric power supplied from a charging mat. The charging mat is movable and capable of wireless power transfer. A method for providing a vehicle charging service includes a first step and a second step. The first step is giving, by a server, an instruction for installing the charging mat on a lane at which charging congestion is detected or predicted to occur, the charging congestion being traffic congestion for charging the electric power supplied from the charger. The second step is transmitting the electric power from the charging mat when the vehicle is detected above the charging mat installed on the lane in accordance with the instruction, and transmitting no electric power from the charging mat when the vehicle is not detected above the charging mat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamura, Katsuya Kobayashi, Hiroki Murata, Hiroshi Matsumori, Naohiro Seo, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20220376132
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yutaka KUBA, Katsuaki MASAKI, Kentaro MURAKAWA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11486322
    Abstract: The exhaust purification device of an internal combustion engine comprises a catalyst 20 arranged in an exhaust passage and able to store oxygen; and an air-fuel ratio control device configured to control an air-fuel ratio of inflowing exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst. The air-fuel ratio control device is configured to perform a distribution forming control controlling the air-fuel ratio of the inflowing exhaust gas so that in the catalyst, a first region with an oxygen storage amount of equal to or greater than a predetermined value and a second region with an oxygen storage amount of less than the predetermined value are alternately formed along an axial direction of the catalyst. The total number of the first region and the second region formed by the distribution forming control is equal to or greater than three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Masubuchi, Toshihiro Mori, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220338452
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromitsu NAKAUCHI, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Younsu LEE, Joichi USUI, Tomoyuki YAMAGUCHI, Sanae HAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220342664
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki FUJITA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11471043
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yukito Hirayama, Ryoji Suzuki, Kazunori Shibata, Daisuke Baba
  • Patent number: 11470578
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, a reception method, and a communication method capable of shortening a pause time of data transmission. According to an aspect of the present technology, a transmission device classifies channels usable for data transmission into a plurality of groups, selects the channels that are used in transmission units and that continue on a time axis from the channels of the different groups in accordance with an identifier, and performs the data transmission of the transmission units by using the selected channels. It is possible to make application to a communication system transmitting data through one-way communication from a transmission device to a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshihiro Fujiki, Nobuo Kato, Yusuke Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 11446255
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet including a base material comprising a biocompatible material and having at least two independent holes, and a bioactive substance, wherein at least one of the independent holes is an independent hole A containing the bioactive substance, wherein at least one of the independent holes is an independent hole B containing no bioactive substance, wherein a maximum diameter of the independent holes is less than 0.2 mm. Also provided is a sheet laminate including sheets laminated with each other, wherein each of the sheets includes a base material comprising a biocompatible material and having at least two independent holes, and a bioactive substance, wherein at least one of the independent holes is an independent hole A containing the bioactive substance, wherein at least one of the independent holes is an independent hole B containing no bioactive substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Iwasaki, Toshihiro Kanematsu, Rie Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11452150
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a transmitter, a transmission method, a receiver, and a reception method which can provide setting information necessary for each receiver. An information processing device of one aspect of the present technology holds non-common setting information that is not common setting information among setting information used in transmitters for setting for transmitting information in association with identification information of the respective transmitters. In addition, the information processing device transmits, to a receiver that has received identification information transmitted from a predetermined transmitter using common setting information that is setting information common in the plurality of transmitters, the non-common setting information associated with the identification information received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okumura, Toshihiro Fujiki, Kentaro Nakahara, Seiji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220269502
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki SHIMA, Toshiki KITAJIMA, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yuki HIKAWA, Taishi AZUMA
  • Patent number: 11389486
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a mesenchymal stromal cell composition, comprising conveniently and aseptically separating high-purity amnion-derived MSCs by performing enzyme treatment only once. According to the present invention, the following are provided: a method for producing a mesenchymal stromal cell composition, comprising: performing enzyme treatment of an amnion with collagenase and thermolysin and/or dispase; and filtering the enzyme-treated amnion through a mesh; a method for producing a cryopreserved mesenchymal stromal cell composition; and a therapeutic agent comprising as an active ingredient the mesenchymal stromal cell composition for a disease selected from graft-versus-host disease, inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, liver cirrhosis, or radiation enteritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AT KOBE, HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamahara, Akihiko Taguchi, Toshihiro Soma, Shunsuke Ohnishi, Akira Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11379224
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsuko Fujii, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yuki Hikawa, Takahiro Akimoto, Satoshi Maekawa, Toshiki Kitajima
  • Publication number: 20220209799
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi KAGA, Toshihiro NAGAYAMA, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Yasunori KOMUKAI, Shinichi OKADA, Yasumichi TAKAI, Yoshinori HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220192164
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromitsu NAKAUCHI, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Tomoyuki YAMAGUCHI, Sanae HAMANAKA