Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Kobayashi

Toshiyuki 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: 20130206227
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a transparent conductive film that has sufficiently low sheet resistance and a sufficiently high visible light transmittance, is capable of securing high conductivity on an entire surface thereof, and has excellent corrosion resistance to an electrolyte solution, a method of producing the transparent conductive film, and a photoelectric conversion apparatus and an electronic apparatus using the transparent conductive film. [Solving Means] A transparent conductive film includes a metal fine line network layer 12 and one or more layers of graphene layers 13 provided on at least one surface of the metal fine line network layer 12. The metal fine line network layer 12 includes at least one metal selected from a group consisting of copper, silver, aluminum, gold, iron, nickel, titanium, and platinum. The metal fine line network layer 12 is provided on a transparent substrate 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130202957
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of achieving a longer-life lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a cathode including a cathode active material containing Mn, an anode including an anode active material containing graphite and non-aqueous electrolytic solution including electrolyte, and LiBF4 and LiPF6 are allowed to coexist in the non-aqueous electrolytic solution. Especially preferably LiPF6 is contained more than LiBF4 in the electrolytic solution. Preferably the electrolytic solution further includes iodide salt. As a result, an oxide of phosphor and boron is deposited on the cathode, thus preventing elution of Mn included in the cathode. The amount of these electrolytes is preferably in the decreasing order of phosphor, boron and then iodine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Shin-Kobe Electrdic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunori Nishimura, Yoshiaki Kumashiro, Kazushige Kohno, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130189591
    Abstract: The present invention aims to improve the fire resistance of an electrolytic solution used for a lithium-ion battery and improve the life characteristics of the lithium-ion battery. In the lithium ion battery of the present invention, specific amounts of ethylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate are used for a non-aqueous electrolytic solution, and trimethyl phosphate is added thereto. Specifically, the non-aqueous electrolytic solution contains 60 vol % or more of ethylene carbonate (EC) and dimethyl carbonate (DMC). The volume ratio of DMC to the sum of EC and DMC is 0.3 to 0.6, and the non-aqueous electrolytic solution contains 3 to 5 wt % of trimethyl phosphate (TMP) with respect to the total weight of the non-aqueous electrolytic solution. Such a non-aqueous electrolytic solution has an effect of improving the self-fire extinguishing property, and thus improves the safety of the lithium-ion battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Shin-Kobe Ekectric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunori Nishimura, Yoshiaki Kumashiro, Kazushige Kohno, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8419382
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a cam, a cylinder block, pistons, a thrust bearing, a rotary valve, and an oil passage. The rotary shaft has an in-shaft passage formed therein. The in-shaft passage has an outlet open to the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. The cam rotates integrally with the rotary shaft. The pistons are coupled to the rotary shaft through the cam. The thrust bearing is provided between the cam and the cylinder block. The thrust bearing includes a first race in contact with the cam, a second race in contact with the cylinder block, and rolling elements retained between the first and second races to form a gap therebetween. The oil passage is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft so as to extend from the gap to the outlet of the in-shaft passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinichi Sato, Manabu Sugiura, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130040146
    Abstract: A graphene structure includes a substrate and a graphene layer. The grapheme layer is laminated on the substrate, is formed of graphene doped with a dopant, and has a similar oxidation-reduction potential to that of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Kimura, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Daisuke Hobara, Masashi Bando, Keisuke Shimizu, Koji Kadono
  • Publication number: 20130032913
    Abstract: A graphene structure includes a conductive layer and a protective layer. The conductive layer is formed of graphene doped with a dopant, and the protective layer is laminated on the conductive layer and formed of a material having a higher oxidation-reduction potential than water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Kimura, Daisuke Hobara, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Masashi Bando, Keisuke Shimizu, Koji Kadono
  • Patent number: 8360562
    Abstract: A method is for heating a functional liquid of a droplet discharging device that has a storage which houses a container storing a functional liquid containing a functional material; a droplet discharge head discharging the functional liquid in a droplet; a cooling means included to the storage and cooling the functional liquid; and a supply tube supplying the functional liquid that is cooled in the storage to the droplet discharge head. The method includes: heating the functional liquid in the supply tube with waste heat that is generated correspondingly to cooling of the cooling means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotsuna Miura, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130011574
    Abstract: Provided is a graphene production method including: contacting a carbon source substance with a surface of a flexible film-forming target having electrical conductivity; and applying a current to the film-forming target and heating the film-forming target at a temperature exceeding a graphene production temperature to produce graphene from the carbon source substance on the surface of the film-forming target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Masashi Bando, Nozomi Kimura, Keisuke Shimizu, Koji Kadono
  • Patent number: 8344357
    Abstract: A 3-terminal electronic device includes: a control electrode; a first electrode and a second electrode; and an active layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and is provided to be opposed to the control electrode via an insulating layer. The active layer includes a collection of nanosheets. When it is assumed that the nanosheets have an average size LS and the first electrode and the second electrode have an interval D therebetween, LS/D?10 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120295082
    Abstract: The invention provides metal powder constituted from metal particles. Each of the metal particles comprises a base particle having a surface and a metal material constituting at least the surface of the base particle. The base particle is subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine type phosphoric acid ester. Further, the invention also provides an ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition to be ejected by using an ink jet method. The ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition comprises a polymerizable compound and metal powder constituted from metal particles. The metal particles of the metal powder are subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine type phosphoric acid ester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki TOYODA, Masaya SHIBATANI, Hidekazu MORIYAMA, Minoru YAMADA, Taketoshi KAGOSE, Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro OGAWA, Masaru TERADA, Homare KURIBAYASHI, Koki HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20120295076
    Abstract: An ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition of the present invention is characterized by being adapted to be ejected using an ink jet method and containing: a polymerizable compound; metal particles subjected to a surface treatment; and a substance A having a partial structure represented by the following formula (1), where R1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or an alkoxy silyl group, and each of R2, R3, R4 and R5 is independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki TOYODA, Minoru YAMADA, Masaya SHIBATANI, Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Hidekazu MORIYAMA, Taketoshi KAGOSE
  • Publication number: 20120251344
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor is provided with a front housing including a suction chamber, a rear housing, a cylinder block, a rotation shaft, and double-headed pistons. The cylinder block includes cylinder bores, a rotation shaft accommodation bore, a communication conduit that communicates the suction chamber with the rotation shaft accommodation bore, and suction passages communicating the rotation shaft accommodation bore to front compression chambers. The rotation shaft includes a groove passage that communicates with the suction passages. Further, the rotation shaft includes an annular groove that communicates the communication conduit with the groove passage. The annular groove includes a front side surface, which is spaced toward the rear housing from an opening of the rotary shaft accommodation bore that faces the front housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Mitsuyo ISHIKAWA, Jun KONDO
  • Publication number: 20120249829
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a substrate; a photoelectric conversion unit that is formed on the substrate and generates signal charge in correspondence with a light amount of incident light; and a transparent electrode that is formed in an upper portion of the substrate and includes a first area formed from a nano carbon material and a second area that is brought into contact with the first area and has light transmittance higher than that of the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Izuha, Keisuke Shimizu, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Nozomi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120237369
    Abstract: A cylinder block of a piston-type compressor includes a main cylinder block, a shaft hole formed through the main cylinder block, a plurality of cylinder bores formed in the main cylinder block around the shaft hole, a separation wall formed integrally with the main cylinder block and closing one end of the cylinder bore, a first hole formed through the separation wall and a second hole formed linearly and connecting the cylinder bore and the shaft hole. The first hole is formed so that the first hole is located on an extended line of axis Q of the second hole and the diameter of the first hole is equal to or more than that of the second hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Mitsuyo ISHIKAWA, Jun KONDO
  • Patent number: 8261866
    Abstract: A wheel assembly with an in-wheel motor in which a wheel driving apparatus formed of a motor or a combination of a motor and a reduction mechanism is provided in a wheel, includes an oil supply apparatus that is driven by rotational output of the motor, and an oil supply flow path that leads oil that has been drawn up by the oil supply apparatus to the wheel driving apparatus. The oil supply apparatus is structured so that oil can be supplied to the wheel driving apparatus via the oil supply flow path when the motor is rotating in the forward direction as well as when the motor is rotating in the reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishida, Fumito Kurata, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8226002
    Abstract: A conductive fixed static elimination member is provided in a before-magnetic head travel portion which guides a magnetic card to a magnetic card reader unit provided with a magnetic head, such that a protuberance portion thereof protrudes into a card travel groove through an opening formed in one of side walls, and has a conductive cleaning pad affixed to a surface thereof. The magnetic card inserted in the before-magnetic head travel portion is cleaned by the cleaning pad, and if the magnetic card has static electricity, it is possible to eliminate the static electricity by discharging the static electricity to the ground via the cleaning pad having conductivity, the fixed static elimination member, and a magnetic card reader fixing bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kasai, Noboru Ishii, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 8173050
    Abstract: A conductive pattern formation ink which can be stably ejected in the form of liquid droplets and form a conductive pattern having high reliability, a conductive pattern having high reliability, and a wiring substrate provided with the conductive pattern and having high reliability are provided. The conductive pattern formation ink is used for forming a conductive pattern by ejecting the ink in the form of liquid droplets on a surface of a ceramic molded body using a liquid droplet ejecting method, the ceramic molded body being made of a material containing ceramic particles and a binder. The ink contains a water-based dispersion medium, and metal particles dispersed in the water-based dispersion medium, wherein the water-based dispersion medium contains oxygen molecules and nitrogen molecules, and wherein when the water-based dispersion medium is analyzed using a gas chromatography method, a total amount of the oxygen and nitrogen molecules contained in the water-based dispersion medium is 12 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Toyoda, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Sachiko Endo, Noboru Uehara, Akihiko Tsunoya
  • Patent number: 8162217
    Abstract: A magnetic head is held by a side wall through a head fixing fitting so as to freely advance into and retreat from a card sliding groove. First and second head urging levers are swingably supported through a pin. In a standby state, the magnetic head is away from the card travel groove, and card engaging sections of the first and second head urging levers are staying in the card travel groove. When a magnetic card slides in a card sliding direction, the magnetic card makes contact with a card contact section to push the card contact section away from the card travel groove. This causes the first head urging lever to push out the magnetic head into the card travel groove so that the magnetic head makes contact with the magnetic card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kasai, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Ichikawa, Noboru Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120046774
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plurality of processing chambers, discharge systems each provided in conjunction with one of the processing chambers and a common discharge system connected with the discharge systems of at least two processing chambers among the discharge systems provided in conjunction with the individual processing chambers. The common discharge allows a switch-over between a scrubbing common discharge system that discharges discharge gas from each processing chamber after scrubbing the discharge gas at a scrubbing means and a non-scrubbing common discharge system that directly discharges the discharge gas from the discharge system of the processing chamber without scrubbing at the scrubbing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Shinichiro Hayasaka, Seiichi Kaise
  • Patent number: D672386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Matunuma, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Takizawa, Taku Ando