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: 20040234413
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chemical decontamination liquid decomposing system having a catalyst tower which has a mesh filter capable of certainly preventing catalyst from flowing out and a mechanism of pushing-down the catalyst capable of preventing convection of the catalyst caused by decomposition gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: Renesas Technology Corp
    Inventors: Motoaki Sakashita, Katsuo Yokota, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazumi Anazawa
  • Patent number: 6767519
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chemical decontamination liquid decomposing system having a catalyst tower which has a mesh filter capable of certainly preventing catalyst from flowing out and a mechanism of pushing-down the catalyst capable of preventing convection of the catalyst caused by decomposition gas. The catalyst tower in accordance with the present invention used for decomposing a chemical decontamination liquid comprises an inlet pipe, a catalyst for decomposing the chemical decontamination liquid, an outlet mesh filter for preventing the catalyst from flowing out, an outlet pipe, a catalyst charging port for charging the catalyst, a catalyst pushing-down mechanism for preventing occurrence of convection of the catalyst caused by a decomposed gas and so on. The outlet mesh filter is arranged so as to closely attached to the inner surface of the catalyst tower and to the inner surface of the catalyst charging port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoaki Sakashita, Katsuo Yokota, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kazumi Anazawa
  • Publication number: 20040050875
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser for a cap which is fitted to a mouth of a container holding a liquid therein includes a liquid-lifting device supported on an upper wall of the cap as pierced therethrough and including a helical screw and a cylindrical tube encompassing the helical screw, both having upper terminal parts thrust upward individually from the upper wall and lower terminal parts inserted into the container when the cap is fitted to the mouth of the container; and a housing adapted to accommodate therein a helical screw-driving device for rotating the helical screw in the liquid-lifting device and furnished with a delivery nozzle for allowing a liquid lifted by the liquid-lifting device to flow out of the liquid dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6683726
    Abstract: An image display apparatus has a reflective display element for displaying a two-dimensional image on a display plane, a light source for emitting illuminating light for illuminating said display plane, a magnifier optical system for magnifying and projecting said two-dimensional image, and an optical member which is composed of a medium having a refractive index greater than or equal to unity and has at least three optical planes of a first plane, a second plane, and a third plane. The magnifier optical system is substantially in concentricity with said display plane; the illuminating light from said light source passes through said first plane and then through said second plane, thereby illuminating said display plane; and the reflected light from said display plane passes through said second plane and is then reflected in said first plane, thereby passing through said third plane and being incident on said magnifier optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yoshie Shimizu, Soh Ohzawa
  • Patent number: 6657602
    Abstract: An image display apparatus has a signal input portion for receiving an image signal, an image compensator for electrically compensating the image signal for distortion so that a left and a right image displayed in an observer's left and right eyes have identical distortion and then outputting a left and right image signal that correspond to the left and right images, a signal switcher for switching between the left and right image signals output from the image compensator so as to output the left and right images alternately chronologically, a single two-dimensional image display device for displaying a two-dimensional image in accordance with the image signal output from the signal switcher, a pair of left and right eyepiece optical systems for directing image light exiting from the two-dimensional image display device to the observer's left and right eyes so that the two-dimensional image is displayed as a virtual image in the observer's eyes, and an optical path switcher for time-divisionall
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Kobayashi, Ichiro Kasai, Hideki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20030179212
    Abstract: Parameters for mapping colors from an input system to an output system are determined by displaying a set of adjustment colors in the input system and outputting a reference color pattern in the output system. A human operator selects the reference colors most closely matching the adjustment colors. The mapping parameters are determined from the operator's selections, by table look-up or by use of a mathematical formula, for example. Accurate color mapping parameters can be generated in this way without the need for trial and error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Nobuhito Matsushiro, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6565945
    Abstract: A films composite useful for various printing methods, and particularly UV ray flexographic printing, includes a top layer formed on a substrate film made from a synthetic polymer, particularly polypropylene, containing a binder resin and having an arithmetical mean roughness Ra of 0.2 to 3.5 determined in accordance with JIS B 0601 and, optionally, an anchor layer formed between the substrate film and the top layer and containing an adhesive resin and an adhesive undercoat layer formed between the substrate film and the anchor layer and containing an adhesive resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Oji Paper Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nishikori, Hiroyuki Yamada, Koichi Katayama, Yasushi Kobayashi, Eiichi Mikami
  • Patent number: 6549641
    Abstract: A screen image observing device and method provides the sensations of virtual reality to the observer and reduces, to the extent possible, the discrepancy that is perceived by the observer between the movement of the observer's head and the displayed screen image. The device has a head tracking means, which detects the movement of the observer's head, and a screen image generating means, which generates image data based upon the result of the detection performed by the head tracking means. Image data is supplied to a display means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Ishikawa, Yasushi Kobayashi, Kenji Ishibashi, Hideki Nagata
  • Patent number: 6519090
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device and an eyepiece optical system suitable for use in the head-mounted display device is provided. The eyepiece optical system is capable of enlarging and displaying, to an eye of an observer, an image displayed on a two-dimensional display element. The eyepiece optical system includes, sequentially from the observer's eye, an aspherical resin lens, a spherical glass lens, and a polarization-conversion element disposed between the spherical glass lens and the two-dimensional display element. On a surface of the aspherical resin lens is provided a circularly-polarized-light-selective reflecting-transmitting surface for selectively reflecting and transmitting projection image light from the two-dimensional display element, depending on a rotation direction of circularly-polarized rays of the projection image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020135830
    Abstract: An image display apparatus has an image display device for displaying an image, an eyepiece optical system, including a holographic magnifying optical element, for magnifying and projecting the image, and a holographic filter, disposed either as part of the image display device or in the optical path between the image display device and the eyepiece optical system, for restricting the wavelength range of the image light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: MINOLTA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yasushi Tanijiri, Tetsuya Noda, Hiroaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 6447122
    Abstract: A compact, high resolution projection imaged display device using a reflective-type display element which uniformly illuminates the entirety of the display element without reducing illumination efficiency and ensures viewing conditions of excellent and uniform brightness extending to the fringe of the field of view is provided by an illumination optical system for redirecting illumination light from an illumination light source onto a reflective-type display element. The reflective-type display element reflects light into the viewing optical system wherein the illumination optical system is constructed so as to have an approximate conjugate relationship between the pupil of the user and the illumination light from the illumination light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Soh Ohzawa, Ichiro Kasai
  • Publication number: 20020057498
    Abstract: An image display apparatus forms illumination light from a light source into image light by using a reflective display device, and directs the image light through an eyepiece optical system to an eye to present a virtual image of the image carried by the image light. To realize an image display apparatus of this type that is compact, affords a sufficiently long eye relief, and offers wide-field, high-quality images, a combiner for making the optical path of the illumination light from the light source overlap with that of the image light is disposed inside the eyepiece optical system, a positive lens is provided in the rear potion of the eyepiece optical system between the display device and the combiner, a concave reflective surface is provided in the front portion of the eyepiece optical system between the combiner and the observation point, and the eyepiece optical system is designed to be overtelecentric as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Soh Ohzawa
  • Patent number: 6374869
    Abstract: A process for filling N2 gas into a tire assembled onto a rim to hold a recommended internal pressure comprises discharging air inside the tire prior to the filling of N2 gas to render the inside of the tire into a state lower than atmospheric pressure and filling N2 gas into such a tire. An apparatus for carrying out the above process comprises a single inlet path, at least two outlet paths and a membrane module for separating air introduced through the inlet path into O2 gas and N2 gas and feeding these gases into respective outlet paths, wherein an outlet path for feeding N2 gas in the outlet paths is connected at its top to a valve for inflating a tire assembled onto a rim under an internal pressure and a discharge path for discharging air inside the tire prior to the filling of N2 gas is provided on the way of such an outlet path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Makino, Yoshitomo Sakakibara, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020030773
    Abstract: An image display apparatus has a reflective display element for displaying a two-dimensional image on a display plane, a light source for emitting illuminating light for illuminating said display plane, a magnifier optical system for magnifying and projecting said two-dimensional image, and an optical member which is composed of a medium having a refractive index greater than or equal to unity and has at least three optical planes of a first plane, a second plane, and a third plane. The magnifier optical system is substantially in concentricity with said display plane; the illuminating light from said light source passes through said first plane and then through said second plane, thereby illuminating said display plane; and the reflected light from said display plane passes through said second plane and is then reflected in said first plane, thereby passing through said third plane and being incident on said magnifier optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: MINOLTA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Kobayashi, Yoshie Shimizu, Soh Ohzawa
  • Patent number: 6354411
    Abstract: A drum brake device in which the brake shoe return smoothly when releasing the parking brake on a slope. The points of the circumferential edges of the linings 6, 6 of the brake shoes 2, 3 at the service brake actuator side are located on the normal radial line B passed through the point of abutment of shoe clearance adjustment device 12 with the brake shoes 2, 3 and the brake center or are located closer to the anchor 9 than the line B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Seiji Asai, Takashi Ikeda, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6356364
    Abstract: A color correcting apparatus corrects color data according to second ambient light so that an output device outputting a color based on the color data calibrated in first specified ambient light can output almost the same color in the second light. The apparatus comprises a storing section used to store several main component data each representing a different component of light, which are combined to reproduce the second light, an input section used to input several weighing coefficients to assign weight to each of the several pieces of component data when they are combined and a correcting section used to correct color data based on correction parameters obtained using the several pieces of component data stored in the storing section and using the several weighing coefficients input through the input section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhito Matsushiro, Yasushi Kobayashi, Noriharu Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20020024743
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device and an eyepiece optical system suitable for use in the head-mounted display device is provided. The eyepiece optical system is capable of enlarging and displaying, to an eye of an observer, an image displayed on a two-dimensional display element. The eyepiece optical system includes, sequentially from the observer's eye, an aspherical resin lens, a spherical glass lens, and a polarization-conversion element disposed between the spherical glass lens and the two-dimensional display element. On a surface of the aspherical resin lens is provided a circularly-polarized-light-selective reflecting-transmitting surface for selectively reflecting and transmitting projection image light from the two-dimensional display element, depending on a rotation direction of circularly-polarized rays of the projection image light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Takeshi Endo, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020007651
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical head having a near-filed light generating element that condenses a luminous flux on an exit surface. The generating element has a reflecting or light intercepting film formed on the exit surface and is fixed to a holding member to form an optical head. A minute opening is then formed in the reflecting or light intercepting film by use of light emitted from a first or second light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Manami Kuiseko, Yasushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020001397
    Abstract: A screen image observing device and method provides the sensations of virtual reality to the observer and reduces, to the extent possible, the discrepancy that is perceived by the observer between the movement of the observer's head and the displayed screen image. The device has a head tracking means, which detects the movement of the observer's head, and a screen image generating means, which generates image data based upon the result of the detection performed by the head tracking means. Image data is supplied to a display means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: TAKATOSHI ISHIKAWA, YASUSHI KOBAYASHI, KENJI ISHIBASHI, HIDEKI NAGATA
  • Patent number: RE38323
    Abstract: A cell potential measurement apparatus, which uses a planar electrode enabling a multi-point simultaneous measurement of potential change arising from cell activities, is provided which can conduct measurements accurately and efficiently as well as can improve convenience of arranging measurement results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sugihara, Akihito Kamei, Yasushi Kobayashi, Makoto Taketani, Tadayasu Mitsumata