Patents by Inventor Yasushi Kobayashi

Yasushi 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: 20250087144
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a display apparatus that may reduce the effect of deterioration in element of a display panel. Provided is a signal processing apparatus including a signal processing unit configured to acquire, in changing a video signal from a low luminance display signal to a high luminance display signal by luminance enhancement, an accumulated load increase amount obtained by measuring and accumulating amounts of increase in load on a display panel caused by luminance enhancement, and adaptively control, in reference to the accumulated load increase amount acquired, a first gain for improving luminance of the video signal, according to a degree of effect of deterioration in element of the display panel. The present technology is applicable to self-luminous display apparatuses, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Masao ZEN, Syunsuke KIKUCHI, Daisuke MIKI, Kazuhiro NUKIYAMA, Kazutaka KOBAYASHI, Yasushi KONUMA, Kazuki UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 12236857
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a display apparatus that are able to provide suitable functionality according to applications. The signal processing apparatus provided by the present technology includes a signal processing section that acquires at least one of first information regarding a color of a video to be displayed on a panel section, second information regarding brightness of a screen of the panel section, and third information measured as a physical quantity related to the panel section, and that performs, on the basis of the acquired information, adaptive control of a voltage according to a load on and an application of the panel section. The voltage is used for driving the panel section. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a self-luminous display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Masao Zen, Tetsuo Ikeyama, Daisuke Miki, Syunsuke Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Yasushi Konuma, Kazuki Uchida, Masayoshi Sasaki, Masayuki Okochi
  • Patent number: 12221936
    Abstract: A diesel engine 30 includes an injector 4 that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel and an injector control device 2 that controls the driving by the injector 4. The injector control device 2 includes a charge voltage control circuit 22, a storage unit 25 that stores a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector 4, and an injector control circuit 24 that controls the driving by the injector 4 on the basis of each of a voltage supplied from the charge voltage control circuit 22 and the correction value stored in the storage unit 25. The correction value is set according to a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device 2 connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Hiroki Oso, Kiichi Suehiro, Yuki Tagashira, Koji Nakakita
  • Publication number: 20250020088
    Abstract: A diesel engine 1 includes: an injector 15; a control device which controls an injection timing of fuel 81 injected from the injector 15; and exhaust circulating means. The control device controls the injection timing of main injection and pre-injection performed prior to the main injection and executes control such that, by ensuring a premixing period of the pre-injection from start of the pre-injection until ignition of an air-fuel mixture of the fuel 81 injected by the pre-injection and the air AR, a homogenous and lean premixed air-fuel mixture is generated in the auxiliary combustion chamber 13 by the fuel 81 injected by the pre-injection and air AR, and the premixing period of the main injection from the start of the main injection until ignition of the air-fuel mixture of the fuel 81 injected by the main injection and the air AR is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Naotaro NAGAI, Rina KANEKO, Masanari TENNOMI, Naruhiro MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20240254940
    Abstract: A diesel engine 30 includes an injector 4 that uses a solenoid to directly drive a needle valve and inject a fuel and an injector control device 2 that controls the driving by the injector 4. The injector control device 2 includes a charge voltage control circuit 22, a storage unit 25 that stores a correction value related to an injection amount of the fuel injected from the injector 4, and an injector control circuit 24 that controls the driving by the injector 4 on the basis of each of a voltage supplied from the charge voltage control circuit 22 and the correction value stored in the storage unit 25. The correction value is set according to a voltage applied to a terminal of the injector control device 2 connected to a load when a current starts to flow in the load connected to the injector control device 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Hiroki OSO, Kiichi SUEHIRO, Yuki TAGASHIRA, Koji NAKAKITA
  • Patent number: 12012909
    Abstract: Provided is an injector control device which is capable of setting a preceding injection amount to a fuel injection amount that is less than a main injection amount, while suppressing situations where preceding injections executed prior to a main injection in multi-stage injection are eliminated. An injector control device 2 includes: an injection amount setting unit 211 that sets, as a total injection amount, a total of fuel injection amounts in multi-stage injection in a single cycle, and sets, as a preceding injection amount, a fuel injection amount in a preceding injection executed prior to a main injection in the multi-stage injection; an energization period setting unit 212 that sets an energization period of an injector 31 based on the fuel injection amounts set by the injection amount setting unit 211; and an injector driving unit 213 that controls driving of the injector 31 based on the energization period set by the energization period setting unit 212.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Shingo Matsunobu, Kiichi Suehiro, Naotaro Nagai
  • Publication number: 20240011449
    Abstract: Provided is an injector control device which is capable of setting a preceding injection amount to a fuel injection amount that is less than a main injection amount, while suppressing situations where preceding injections executed prior to a main injection in multi-stage injection are eliminated. An injector control device 2 includes: an injection amount setting unit 211 that sets, as a total injection amount, a total of fuel injection amounts in multi-stage injection in a single cycle, and sets, as a preceding injection amount, a fuel injection amount in a preceding injection executed prior to a main injection in the multi-stage injection; an energization period setting unit 212 that sets an energization period of an injector 31 based on the fuel injection amounts set by the injection amount setting unit 211; and an injector driving unit 213 that controls driving of the injector 31 based on the energization period set by the energization period setting unit 212.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Shingo MATSUNOBU, Kiichi SUEHIRO, Naotaro NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11781501
    Abstract: To provide an engine head structure for “omission or shortening a fuel pipe that withstands a high pressure”, “simplification or omission of a support bracket for a fuel accumulator and/or a fuel injection device”, “reduction of the number of parts” by devising a fuel accumulator and a support structure therefor, and the like. An engine head structure has a support bracket for mounting a fuel accumulator including a joining portion with a fuel injection device on a cylinder head, is disposed on a side of the fuel injection device or between adjacent fuel injection devices. The support bracket includes a member having a mounting portion on which the fuel accumulator is placed and mounted, a mounting leg portion extending from the mounting portion and mounted on the cylinder head, and an aligning leg portion extending from the mounting portion for positioning the support bracket with respect to the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tamura, Kensuke Fujita, Hiroki Oso, Yasushi Kobayashi, Shingo Matsunobu, Mitsugu Okuda
  • Publication number: 20230008602
    Abstract: To provide an engine head structure for “omission or shortening a fuel pipe that withstands a high pressure”, “simplification or omission of a support bracket for a fuel accumulator and/or a fuel injection device”, “reduction of the number of parts” by devising a fuel accumulator and a support structure therefor, and the like. An engine head structure has a support bracket for mounting a fuel accumulator including a joining portion with a fuel injection device on a cylinder head, is disposed on a side of the fuel injection device or between adjacent fuel injection devices. The support bracket includes a member having a mounting portion on which the fuel accumulator is placed and mounted, a mounting leg portion extending from the mounting portion and mounted on the cylinder head, and an aligning leg portion extending from the mounting portion for positioning the support bracket with respect to the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Akira TAMURA, Kensuke FUJITA, Hiroki OSO, Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Shingo MATSUNOBU, Mitsugu OKUDA
  • Patent number: 11475917
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA?0.91 and 1.61?n<1.72.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Komma, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Minami
  • Patent number: 11475918
    Abstract: A recording mark is formed on a recording medium by a predetermined recording signal, a playback signal of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is obtained, and an expected value signal of the playback signal based on the recording signal is generated. Based on an amplitude error between the playback signal and the expected value signal, and for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, a deviation amount of a mark shape of the recording mark from which the playback signal is obtained with respect to a mark shape of an ideal recording mark is calculated, and a mark shape of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is estimated. Based on the deviation amount of the mark shape of the recording mark, a correction amount is calculated for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, and a level of the recording signal is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Kohei Nakata, Yasumori Hino
  • Patent number: 11430479
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA?0.91 and 1.61?n<1.72.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Komma, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Minami
  • Patent number: 11295779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical disk device capable of reproducing data recorded on a high linear density optical disk stably. The optical disk device according to the disclosure is characterized by being equipped with a recording expected waveform generation circuit which generates, at the time of recording, an expected waveform that is expected to be obtained at the time of decoding; and a recording pulse generation circuit which generates a recording pulse for driving a laser with power and a time width suitable for an amplitude value of the recording expected waveform for each sampling point of the recording expected waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220020394
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical disk device capable of reproducing data recorded on a high linear density optical disk stably. The optical disk device according to the disclosure is characterized by being equipped with a recording expected waveform generation circuit which generates, at the time of recording, an expected waveform that is expected to be obtained at the time of decoding; and a recording pulse generation circuit which generates a recording pulse for driving a laser with power and a time width suitable for an amplitude value of the recording expected waveform for each sampling point of the recording expected waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kohei NAKATA, Yasushi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220013144
    Abstract: A recording mark is formed on a recording medium by a predetermined recording signal, a playback signal of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is obtained, and an expected value signal of the playback signal based on the recording signal is generated. Based on an amplitude error between the playback signal and the expected value signal, and for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, a deviation amount of a mark shape of the recording mark from which the playback signal is obtained with respect to a mark shape of an ideal recording mark is calculated, and a mark shape of the recording mark formed on the recording medium is estimated. Based on the deviation amount of the mark shape of the recording mark, a correction amount is calculated for each predetermined unit of the recording signal, and a level of the recording signal is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Kohei NAKATA, Yasumori HINO
  • Publication number: 20210304793
    Abstract: Provided is an objective lens which is used so that more information can be accumulated in a large-capacity optical disk and which has a further enhanced numerical aperture NA. The objective lens is a single lens having the numerical aperture NA and a refractive index n, and is configured so as to satisfy: NA?0.91 and 1.61?n<1.72.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KOMMA, Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro MINAMI
  • Patent number: 11091033
    Abstract: The vehicle control apparatus is provided with a vehicle body speed deriving portion that derives a vehicle body speed of a vehicle, a wheel speed difference deriving portion that derives a wheel speed difference which is a deviation between the maximum wheel speed and the minimum wheel speed of the wheels of the vehicle, a request drive amount deriving portion that derives a request drive amount for the drive source of the vehicle, a torque suppressing device that suppresses torque of a driving wheel, a traction control portion that controls the torque suppressing device and suppresses an acceleration slip of the driving wheel based on the wheel speed difference or a combination of the wheel speed difference and at least one of the vehicle body speed and the request drive amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Nonaka, Jun Mizuno, Daisuke Kohara, Yuji Yoshii, Gen Inoue, Yasushi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Omine
  • Patent number: 10920650
    Abstract: There is provided a vertical multicylinder straight engine in which the temperature distribution of a plurality of cylinder barrels is made close to an even state. A cylinder jacket includes: a jacket inlet; a separated channel; a plurality of separated outlets; and heat dissipater channels for dissipating heat of the respective cylinder barrels to engine cooling water introduced through the separated outlets. The plurality of separated outlets include: a front-side separated outlet to a front-end barrel; a rear-side separated outlet to a rear-end barrel; and middle separated outlets to middle barrels between the front-end barrel and the rear-end barrel, and the jacket inlet is disposed so as to be contained within an entire middle barrel side area that is lateral to the middle barrels and has a front-rear length as long as a length from a front-most end to a rear-most end of the middle barrels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Ichikawa, Mutsuhisa Ishihara, Shinya Asada, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10589682
    Abstract: This invention relates to a view angle adjustment mechanism that causes a view element tilting section holding a view element to be supported by a tilting support section via a forcible fitting-type pivot to perform view angle adjustment. A pivot is assembled by forcible fitting between a pivot convex and a pivot concave. The pivot convex includes a spherical surface. The pivot concave includes a surface formed by arranging two conical surfaces so as to face in respective directions opposite to each other along a center axis X of the pivot concave. The spherical surface of the pivot convex is inscribed in the two conical surfaces of the pivot concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naomi Sugimura, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10483195
    Abstract: A resin board includes: a resin layer and a through electrode buried in the resin layer, wherein the through electrode has an electrode surface exposed from a front surface or a back surface of the resin layer and a lateral surface, and the electrode surface and the lateral surface form an obtuse angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Nakata, Yoshikatsu Ishizuki, Daijiro Ishibashi, Shinya Sasaki