Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Kobayashi
Yasuaki 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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Patent number: 12134420Abstract: A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel with either manual steering by the steering handle or automatic steering of the steering handle based on a traveling reference line, and a display including a line orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the traveling reference line, and a vehicle orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Miyashita, Yasuaki Morioka, Kunihiko Nishino, Kumiko Kobayashi, Misako Kawai
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Patent number: 12098039Abstract: The weight of a body-to-be-conveyed constituting a conveying device is reduced, and the friction force between the sliding surface of the body-to-be-conveyed and the conveyance path is reduced. A body-to-be-conveyed that is a component of a conveying device that uses electromagnetic force as thrust and can move in a horizontal direction includes a mover in which a bottom surface is arranged so that a predetermined gap is formed in a vertical direction with respect to the sliding surface thereof, in which the mover includes a permanent magnet and a cover, a gap facing surface of the permanent magnet facing the gap includes one magnetic pole, the cover is installed on a side of the permanent magnet opposite from the gap facing surface in the vertical direction, the horizontal outermost diameter of the cover is larger than the horizontal outermost diameter of the permanent magnet, and the cover is formed of a flat plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Katsuhiro Kambara, Kuniaki Onizawa
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Publication number: 20240256813Abstract: A service providing system includes a providing unit that delivers a dedicated ink cartridge to be installed in place of a non-dedicated ink cartridge that was installed in the multifunction machine 1 before subscribing to the service, a server memory that stores the amount of ink remaining in the non-dedicated ink cartridge, and a permission unit that permits printing using the dedicated ink cartridge according to the remaining amount of ink stored in the server memory when the user withdraws from the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Yasuaki HIRAI, Naoshi FURUTA, Tetsuya KOBAYASHI, Ayana KODAMA, Hiromi NISHIMURA, Tatsuo ASADA, Noriyuki NUKAGA, Satoshi JOBETTO, Fumika MATSUZAKI, Yoko CHINO
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Patent number: 11649979Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an outdoor unit of an air conditioner; an indoor unit of the air conditioner; and a remote controller that operates and monitors at least one of the outdoor unit or the indoor unit. The remote controller includes: a storage and a processor coupled to the storage. The processor of the remote controller: acquires operation data from at least one of the outdoor unit or the indoor unit; stores the operation data in the storage by overwriting pre-stored operation data already in the storage when a predetermined capacity of the storage is exceeded; saves, during a past predetermined period when an abnormal condition occurs at the air conditioner and in the storage, a copy of the operation data; and displays the copy of the operation data or sends the copy of the operation data externally.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryouji Inoue, Toshio Ii, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Higuchi, Masahiro Kaneko, Ryousuke Yamamoto, Youta Katou
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Patent number: 11201736Abstract: A management device installed in a vehicle includes a master key storing part configured to share the master key that is used to generate an initial key held by an ECU together with an identifier of the ECU; a communication part configured to communicate with the ECU; a key generation part configured to generate the initial key of the ECU by use of the master key stored on the master key storing part and the identifier of the ECU received from the ECU via the communication part; and an initial key storing part configured to store the initial key of the ECU that is generated by the key generation part in connection with the identifier of the ECU.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Takemori, Hideaki Kawabata, Yasuaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200370772Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: an outdoor unit of an air conditioner; an indoor unit of the air conditioner; and a remote controller that operates and monitors at least one of the outdoor unit or the indoor unit. The remote controller includes: a storage and a processor coupled to the storage. The processor of the remote controller: acquires operation data from at least one of the outdoor unit or the indoor unit; stores the operation data in the storage by overwriting pre-stored operation data already in the storage when a predetermined capacity of the storage is exceeded; saves, during a past predetermined period when an abnormal condition occurs at the air conditioner and in the storage, a copy of the operation data; and displays the copy of the operation data or sends the copy of the operation data externally.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryouji Inoue, Toshio Ii, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Higuchi, Masahiro Kaneko, Ryousuke Yamamoto, Youta Katou
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Patent number: 10520907Abstract: A remote control device includes a display unit, physical keys, and a control unit to control operations of the display unit and execute various processes in accordance with commands input via the physical keys. The display unit includes a setting item display area to display setting item information pertaining to configurable setting items, and a set state display area to display information pertaining to set state of the setting items. The physical keys include at least one function key and a separate set state change key. The control unit successively selects the setting items, causes the display unit to display the setting item information, and performs an increase or decrease of a numerical value, a stage change, or a mode change relating to the setting item. The number of function keys is smaller than the number of the setting item information displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryouji Inoue, Ryousuke Yamamoto, Yukio Inoue, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Youta Katou, Asuka Yagi, Tatsuya Higuchi
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Patent number: 10443878Abstract: An air conditioner is installed in a target space. An operating state is switched based on a command sent from a portable communication terminal. The air conditioner includes a specific information storage component, a specific information notification component that gives notification of the specific information to the communication terminal, a command receiving component that receives the command sent from the communication terminal, and an actuator drive component that executes a switching control that switches action of an actuator based on the command received. The specific information includes identification information and operable period information that designates an operable period during which the operating state is switchable by the communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryouji Inoue, Yukio Inoue, Ryousuke Yamamoto, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Asuka Yagi, Tatsuya Higuchi, Youta Katou
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Patent number: 10373036Abstract: A remote control for an air conditioner facilitates setting of various kinds of data without operation of a button. A remote control (30) includes an external communication unit (45) having an NFC circuit (42) and an NFC antenna (43). The external communication unit (45) is capable of wirelessly communicating with an external apparatus even when a microcomputer (36) in the remote control (30) is not supplied with power (i.e., in a non-operating state). Hence, through the wireless communication between the external communication unit (45) of the remote control (30) and the external apparatus, the various kinds of data is forwarded from the external device to the remote control (30), and stored in the remote control (30).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryousuke Yamamoto, Asuka Yagi, Yukio Inoue, Ryouji Inoue, Youta Katou, Tatsuya Higuchi, Takeshi Yoshimura, Yasuaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20190143002Abstract: A thick three-dimensional culture skin sheet is provided. The invention provides a three-dimensional culture skin sheet comprising at least epidermal cells and having concavoconvexities in at least one portion of the base section. The invention further provides a cell culturing vessel to be used for production of the three-dimensional culture skin sheet, having on at least one portion of the culture surface a porous film comprising convex sections for formation of concavoconvexities in the base section of the three-dimensional culture skin sheet. The invention still further provides a method for preparing a three-dimensional culture skin sheet using the cell culturing vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro DENDA, Sumiko DENDA, Junichi KUMAMOTO, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI, Masaharu NAGAYAMA
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Patent number: 10235869Abstract: A remote control device configured communicate with an air conditioner or a heat pump includes a touch panel having an electrode unit, a liquid crystal display, and a casing accommodating the touch panel and the liquid crystal display. The casing has a back surface part and a front surface part. The liquid crystal display is disposed to overlap the touch panel as seen from a front surface part side. The electrode unit has a first electrode section to detect a touched position, and a second electrode section that may function as an antenna to perform wireless communication with another communication device. The first and second electrode sections are configured and arranged to be nearer to the front surface part than to the back surface part inside the casing, and to be disposed so as not to overlap with each other as seen from the front surface part side.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Dalkin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryousuke Yamamoto, Mario Hayashi, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Higuchi, Ryouji Inoue, Yukio Inoue, Natsuko Kitagawa, Takeshi Yoshimura, Asuka Yagi, Youta Katou
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Publication number: 20190033807Abstract: A remote control device includes a display unit, physical keys, and a control unit to control operations of the display unit and execute various processes in accordance with commands input via the physical keys. The display unit includes a setting item display area to display setting item information pertaining to configurable setting items, and a set state display area to display information pertaining to set state of the setting items. The physical keys include at least one function key and a separate set state change key. The control unit successively selects the setting items, causes the display unit to display the setting item information, and performs an increase or decrease of a numerical value, a stage change, or a mode change relating to the setting item. The number of function keys is smaller than the number of the setting item information displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Ryouji INOUE, Ryousuke YAMAMOTO, Yukio INOUE, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI, Youta KATOU, Asuka YAGI, Tatsuya HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10164364Abstract: A connector may have a housing having a housing part housing a flat cable, and a mounting member mounted to the housing for locking the flat cable. The mounting member may have a mounting part mounted to at least one of the housing and a circuit board, an elastic part extending in a width direction of the flat cable, an extending part extending in the width direction of the flat cable, and an engaging part engaging with an engaged part formed on the flat cable. The mounting part may be connected to an end part in the width direction of the elastic part. An intermediate region of the extending part may be connected to an intermediate region in the width direction of the elastic part. The engaging part may be connected to an end part in the width direction of the extending part. The elastic part may be elastically deformable in a thickness direction of the flat cable.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Naoto Asanuma, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Akihiro Ishii, Akihiko Okajima
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Publication number: 20180363936Abstract: An air conditioner is installed in a target space. An operating state is switched based on a command sent from a portable communication terminal. The air conditioner includes a specific information storage component, a specific information notification component that gives notification of the specific information to the communication terminal, a command receiving component that receives the command sent from the communication terminal, and an actuator drive component that executes a switching control that switches action of an actuator based on the command received. The specific information includes identification information and operable period information that designates an operable period during which the operating state is switchable by the communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Ryouji INOUE, Yukio INOUE, Ryousuke YAMAMOTO, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI, Asuka YAGI, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Youta KATOU
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Publication number: 20180277974Abstract: A connector may have a housing having a housing part housing a flat cable, and a mounting member mounted to the housing for locking the flat cable. The mounting member may have a mounting part mounted to at least one of the housing and a circuit board, an elastic part extending in a width direction of the flat cable, an extending part extending in the width direction of the flat cable, and an engaging part engaging with an engaged part formed on the flat cable. The mounting part may be connected to an end part in the width direction of the elastic part. An intermediate region of the extending part may be connected to an intermediate region in the width direction of the elastic part. The engaging part may be connected to an end part in the width direction of the extending part. The elastic part may be elastically deformable in a thickness direction of the flat cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Molex, LLCInventors: Naoto ASANUMA, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Akihiro Ishii, Akihiko Okajima
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Publication number: 20180227120Abstract: A management device installed in a vehicle includes a master key storing part configured to share the master key that is used to generate an initial key held by an ECU together with an identifier of the ECU; a communication part configured to communicate with the ECU; a key generation part configured to generate the initial key of the ECU by use of the master key stored on the master key storing part and the identifier of the ECU received from the ECU via the communication part; and an initial key storing part configured to store the initial key of the ECU that is generated by the key generation part in connection with the identifier of the ECU.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke TAKEMORI, Hideaki KAWABATA, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20180080672Abstract: A remote control for an air conditioner facilitates setting of various kinds of data without operation of a button. A remote control (30) includes an external communication unit (45) having an NFC circuit (42) and an NFC antenna (43). The external communication unit (45) is capable of wirelessly communicating with an external apparatus even when a microcomputer (36) in the remote control (30) is not supplied with power (i.e., in a non-operating state). Hence, through the wireless communication between the external communication unit (45) of the remote control (30) and the external apparatus, the various kinds of data is forwarded from the external device to the remote control (30), and stored in the remote control (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryousuke YAMAMOTO, Asuka YAGI, Yukio INOUE, Ryouji INOUE, Youta KATOU, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Takeshi YOSHIMURA, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9742087Abstract: A connector is provided which has an actuator able to rotate around a pressure-applying portion arranged below upper beams between an open orientation and a closed orientation, and a stopping portion. The actuator is able to move with the actuator in the closed orientation between a first position where the stopped portion of the actuator comes into contact with the stopping portion to prevent rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation, and a second position where the stopped portion of the actuator has moved away from the stopping portion to allow rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Hideyo Tagami, Yasuaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170122618Abstract: A remote control device configured communicate with an air conditioner or a heat pump includes a touch panel having an electrode unit, a liquid crystal display, and a casing accommodating the touch panel and the liquid crystal display. The casing has a back surface part and a front surface part. The liquid crystal display is disposed to overlap the touch panel as seen from a front surface part side. The electrode unit has a first electrode section to detect a touched position, and a second electrode section that may function as an antenna to perform wireless communication with another communication device. The first and second electrode sections are configured and arranged to be nearer to the front surface part than to the back surface part inside the casing, and to be disposed so as not to overlap with each other as seen from the front surface part side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Ryousuke YAMAMOTO, Mario HAYASHI, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Ryouji INOUE, Yukio INOUE, Natsuko KITAGAWA, Takeshi YOSHIMURA, Asuka YAGI, Youta KATOU
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Publication number: 20170062963Abstract: A connector is provided which has an actuator able to rotate around a pressure-applying portion arranged below upper beams between an open orientation and a closed orientation, and a stopping portion. The actuator is able to move with the actuator in the closed orientation between a first position where the stopped portion of the actuator comes into contact with the stopping portion to prevent rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation, and a second position where the stopped portion of the actuator has moved away from the stopping portion to allow rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Molex, LLCInventors: Hideyo TAGAMI, Yasuaki KOBAYASHI