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).
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Publication number: 20140213811Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of acrolein, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid by dehydration reaction of renewable raw material such as glycerin or hydroxycarboxylic acids, in the presence of a novel catalyst system supported on a carrier having a bimodal structure and a high pore volume and distribution. The dehydration reactions can be carried out for longer operation duration, so that acrolein, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid can be produced at higher productivity and for longer running time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventors: Jean-Luc Dubois, Kimito Okumura, Yasushi Kobayashi, Ryota Hiraoka
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Patent number: 8791561Abstract: A support substrate includes a first surface and a second surface located above the level of the first surface. Chips are mounted on the first surface. A first insulating film is disposed over each chip. First conductive plugs are connected to the chip extending through each first insulating film. Filler material made of resin filling a space between chips. Wirings are disposed over the first insulating film and the filler material for interconnecting different chips. The second surface, an upper surface of the first insulating film and an upper surface of the filler material are located at the same level.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadahiro Kishii, Tsuyoshi Kanki, Yoshihiro Nakata, Yasushi Kobayashi, Masato Tanaka, Akio Rokugawa
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Publication number: 20140206527Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst for glycerin dehydration reaction for producing unsaturated aldehyde and unsaturated carboxylic acid at higher yield by a dehydration reaction of glycerin, and that can reduce a decrease in time of the conversion ratio of glycerin and the yields of unsaturated aldehyde and of unsaturated carboxylic acid. Another object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst for glycerin dehydration reaction that can produce acrolein and acrylic acid at higher yield by the dehydration reaction of glycerin, and the catalyst has a longer life. Still another object of the present invention is to provide a method for preparing the catalysts above.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kimito Okumura, Yasushi Kobayashi, Ryota Hiraoka, Jean-Luc Dubois
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Publication number: 20140204435Abstract: An image formation apparatus, for forming an image using color developers and a transparent developer, includes: a color developer threshold memory unit configured to store a color developer maximum threshold for each point of interest; a transparent developer threshold memory unit configured to store a transparent developer threshold for each point of interest; and an image signal converter configured to make color correction of the color developers in received image data when the image data contains a portion where a total amount of the color developers exceeds a color developer maximum threshold, and issue an instruction to apply the transparent toner to a portion where the total amount is not more than the transparent developer threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Yasushi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8775484Abstract: The present invention, an apparatus includes a data management apparatus comprising, a determination unit configured to determine whether an analyzing apparatus is in a communicable state when a configuration information data indicating a status of a server apparatus is received from a data collection apparatus, the data analyzing apparatus analyzing the configuration information data, an unprocessed information storage unit configured to store the received configuration information data once it is determined that data analyzing apparatus is in an incommunicable state, an integrating unit configured to integrate a plurality of configuration information data stored in the storage unit in accordance with a predetermined condition; and a notifying unit configured to send, to the analyzing apparatus, a message indicating that the data management apparatus is storing the configuration information data integrated by the integrating unit once it is determined that the data analyzing apparatus is in a communicable stType: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kazuyuki Sakai, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yuuki Tada, Tomoyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8769069Abstract: A data collection apparatus includes an information storing unit which stores application information collected from a server providing a service by running an application and includes detail information indicating a detail of the application, an information collecting unit which collects the application information from the server, an information identifying unit which identifies application information in which an abnormality has occurred and application information, affected by the abnormality, a first comparing unit which compares, as to the application information identified by the information identifying unit, all application information including the detail information and all application information including the detail information collected in the previous point, and extracts application information different from the application information collected in a previous point, and an information sending unit which sends the application information, extracted by the first comparing unit, to a data managemeType: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kazuyuki Sakai, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yuuki Tada, Tomoyuki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20140135075Abstract: A portable device includes plural parametric speakers that each output a sound having directivity in an individual specific direction; an attitude detecting unit that detects an attitude of the portable device; and a selecting unit that selects, from among the plural parametric speakers, a parametric speaker that outputs a sound having directivity whose direction falls within a predetermined range of an angle relative to a predetermined direction, on the basis of information on the attitude detected by the attitude detecting unit, and causes only the selected parametric speaker to output a predetermined notification sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8716209Abstract: The invention provides an agent for post-etch treating a silicon dielectric film, including: at least one nitrogen-containing substance selected from the group consisting of ammonium bases and amine compounds; an acid; and at least one silicon-containing compound containing silicon, carbon and hydrogen. According to the present invention, it becomes possible to suppress an increase in the dielectric constant of a silicon dielectric film caused by etching.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Kouta Yoshikawa, Yoshihiro Nakata, Tadahiro Imada, Shirou Ozaki
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Publication number: 20140024861Abstract: [Problem] Catalyst for use in selective reduction of propionaldehyde in acrolein and/or acrylic acid and/or acrylonitrile containing propionaldehyde and/or propionic acid and/or propionitrile at low concentration. In particular, a novel catalyst for selectively reducing propionaldehyde from acrolein containing the propionaldehyde. [Solution] Catalyst for use in selective reduction of propionaldehyde in acrolein containing the propionaldehyde, characterized in that the catalyst contains Mo as an indispensable component, and at least one element selected from a group comprising P, Si, W, Ti, Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, In, Tl, Sn, Ag, As, Ge, B, Bi, La, Ba, Sb, Te, Ce, Pb, Mg, K, Rb, Cs and Al.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kimito Okumura, Toru Kawaguchi, Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8580907Abstract: An insulating film material, which contains a polycarbosilane compound expressed by the following structural formula 1: where R1 may be the same or different to each other in the unit repeated “n” times, and each represents C1-4 hydrocarbon or aromatic hydrocarbon; R2 may be the same or different to each other in the unit repeated “n” times, and each represents C1-4 hydrocarbon or aromatic hydrocarbon; n is an integer of 5 to 5,000.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Nakata, Shirou Ozaki
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Patent number: 8554908Abstract: A configuration information collection unit 1502 and a transaction collection unit 1503 collect a transaction as the configuration information about an IT system and communication data, and stores them in a CMDB 1504. A multiplexed application detection unit 1501 detects as a candidate for a multiplexed application the software of applications multiplexed by evaluating whether or not the application names of the software of applications deployed to a target to be monitored on the IT system match each other. Then, it detects a multiplexed application by evaluating whether or not one or more of evaluation items of a subnet in which a candidate for a multiplexed application is performed, transaction context as the data relating to the names of an applications performed before and after the candidate for a multiplexed application, and transaction information as the transmission/reception data of the candidate for a multiplexed application match each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yuuki Tada, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Sakai, Kazuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20130236762Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cover that is made less prone to be removed even if receiving an impact due to falling or the like, and an operation for removing the cover is made easy. An engaging piece position regulating member made of a viscoelastic body such as an urethane-based resin is provided on a left side of an elastically-deformable engaging piece of a cover, which allows an engaging projection of the engaging piece to leave from an engaging hole when the cover is removed from a device casing by manual operation and inhibits the engaging projection of the engaging piece from leaving from the engaging hole when a rate of deformation larger than a rate of deformation by manual operation is provided to the engaging piece by an impact due to falling or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8475016Abstract: The present invention provides an optical device including: a light source; an optical element to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source; and a supporting member for supporting the optical element through a cured product of an adhesive. This cured product of the adhesive contains a thermoplastic elastic material. The present invention also provides an optical device including: a light source; an optical element to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source; and a supporting member for supporting the optical element through a cured product of an adhesive. This cured product of the adhesive has a Young's modulus of at least 1.0E+5 Pa but less than 1.0E+7 Pa in an exponential expression, in a temperature range that the cured product of the adhesive reaches due to heat generation during operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Yajima, Tomoaki Tojo, Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8468238Abstract: Computer product for generating configuration-information that performs obtaining a first process information operating on a server from each of a plurality of servers constituting an IT system prior to a start of processes in any of the servers, the processes including a process corresponding to an application for an IT service; repeatedly obtaining a second process information from each of the servers through the start to end of the processes performing the application; specifying third process information corresponding to the application by removing the first process information from the second process information; and generating configuration information for monitoring a process condition of the processes, from the third process information, a process name corresponding to the application and identification information of the server where the process corresponds to the process name of the application, the extracted process name being associated with the identification information.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kazuyuki Sakai, Akira Ide, Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8461041Abstract: The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating film of a silicon compound-group insulation film; forming an opening in the insulation film, applying an active energy beam in an atmosphere containing hydrocarbon gas to form a barrier layer of a crystalline SiC, and forming an interconnection structure of copper in the opening with the barrier layer formed in.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shirou Ozaki, Yoshihiro Nakata, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yuichi Minoura
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Patent number: 8451700Abstract: In one embodiment, the optical pickup device includes: a light source that emits a light beam; a diffractive element that diffracts the light beam and generates a zero-order and ±first-order diffracted light beams; an objective lens that converges the diffracted light beams onto the same track on the storage medium; and a photodetector that receives the diffracted light beams reflected from the storage medium. If a distance from a light beam spot left by the zero-order diffracted light beam on the track to light beam spots left by the ±first-order diffracted light beams on that track is d [?m], the scanning linear velocity of the storage medium is v [m/s], and a time it takes for a phase-change material of the storage medium that has once been melted by the zero-order diffracted light beam to solidify is T [?s], vT?d is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Yohichi Saitoh, Kazuo Momoo
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Patent number: 8447460Abstract: A control state of the vehicle is switched upon operation of a control switch. Besides, a mode of travel for a travel of a vehicle is selected by operation of a travel mode selection portion. Then, it is determined whether the recommended control state recommended for the selected mode of travel and the actual control state are the same. If it is determined that they are not the same, that is, that there is a deviation between the recommended control state and the actual control state, an operation method for a control switch for realizing the control state recommended for the selected mode of travel is presented to a driver.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihisa Nihei, Yasushi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8431464Abstract: A silicic coating of 2.4 g/cm3 or higher density, obtained by forming a silicic coating precursor with the use of at least one type of silane compound having a photosensitive functional group and thereafter irradiating the silicic coating precursor with at least one type of light. This silicic coating can be used as a novel barrier film or stopper film for semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Kouta Yoshikawa, Yoshihiro Nakata, Tadahiro Imada, Shirou Ozaki
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Publication number: 20130083641Abstract: In one embodiment, the optical pickup device includes: a light source that emits a light beam; a diffractive element that diffracts the light beam and generates a zero-order and ±first-order diffracted light beams; an objective lens that converges the diffracted light beams onto the same track on the storage medium; and a photodetector that receives the diffracted light beams reflected from the storage medium. If a distance from a light beam spot left by the zero-order diffracted light beam on the track to light beam spots left by the ±first-order diffracted light beams on that track is d [?m], the scanning linear velocity of the storage medium is v [m/s], and a time it takes for a phase-change material of the storage medium that has once been melted by the zero-order diffracted light beam to solidify is T [?s], vT?d is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi KOBAYASHI, Yohichi SAITOH, Kazuo MOMOO
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Patent number: 8399295Abstract: A support substrate includes a first surface and a second surface located above the level of the first surface. Chips are mounted on the first surface. A first insulating film is disposed over each chip. First conductive plugs are connected to the chip extending through each first insulating film. Filler material made of resin filling a space between chips. Wirings are disposed over the first insulating film and the filler material for interconnecting different chips. The second surface, an upper surface of the first insulating film and an upper surface of the filler material are located at the same level.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadahiro Kishii, Tsuyoshi Kanki, Yoshihiro Nakata, Yasushi Kobayashi, Masato Tanaka, Akio Rokugawa