Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Yoshiaki 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: 20090023303Abstract: A sealed type container accommodating a semiconductor substrate is positioned to a load port of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor substrate is taken out of the container. An ionizer is used for static-charge-eliminating the semiconductor substrates before and after process treatment in a transport area between the load port and a treatment section. The static-charge-eliminated semiconductor substrate is accommodated in the container positioned to the load port. Thus, it is possible to decrease foreign materials adhering to the semiconductor substrate and errors in handling the semiconductor substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventor: Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7478130Abstract: A message processing apparatus and a message processing method are disclosed. The apparatus and the method performs managing process requestor search information, accepting agent activating event, determining the process requestor, setting a plurality of agents, determining process priority, determining compound process priority, and instructing an agent in cache memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2003Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Junichi Aoki, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyajima, Hideki Tai, Gaku Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080304869Abstract: A toner bottle containing a cylindrical toner container having therein a toner comprising at least a resin, a colorant and an external additive, the toner container having a toner discharge port on an end thereof and a rotation axis along the cylindrical toner container, and the toner container being installable in an image forming apparatus, wherein the toner container has plural protrusions which are intermittently provided in an interior of the cylindrical container, the protrusions having a function to convey the toner toward the toner discharge port when the toner container is rotated around the rotation axis; an X-ray intensity ratio of titanium to silicon (Ti/Si) determined via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry of the toner is 1.0 to 3.0; and a conveyance index of the toner is 2.0 to 10.0 mg/sec.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Mikihiko SUKENO, Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Michiaki ISHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI
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Publication number: 20080263567Abstract: This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a message, by determining a priority level of the agent based on a message inserted into the agent; means for assigning a thread to the agent if the agent is in the memory and for assigning a thread to the agent after calling the agent to the memory if the agent is not in the memory, on condition that the agent having a highest priority level has been detected; and message processing means for repeating message processing until a predetermined criterion is satisfied, in relation to the agent to which a thread has been assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Gaku Yamamoto, Teruo Koyanagi, Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080261138Abstract: An objective is to provide an electrostatic latent image developing toner exhibiting ultra-low temperature fixability together with high resolution, excellent fluidity and anti-blocking property, and excellent aging stability in a toner vessel, in which the toner is supplied into an image forming apparatus. Also disclosed is an electrostatic latent image developing toner stored in a vessel possessing an ejecting outlet, capable of fitting into an image forming apparatus, wherein the vessel has a cross-sectional area of the outlet of 0.07-2.00 cm2; the toner possesses a resin, a colorant and an external additive; the toner has a Tg of 16-44° C.; an X-ray intensity ratio of Ti/Si via fluorescent X-ray analysis of toner, is 1.0-2.5; and toner particles, and having a ratio of 2nd short axis to 1st short axis being 1.1-1.6 have an amount of 5-50% in terms of the number of particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Mikihiko SUKENO, Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Michiaki ISHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi UCHIDA, Masaharu SHIRAISHI
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Patent number: 7421703Abstract: This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a message, by determining a priority level of the agent based on a message inserted into the agent; means for assigning a thread to the agent if the agent is in the memory and for assigning a thread to the agent after calling the agent to the memory if the agent is not in the memory, on condition that the agent having a highest priority level has been detected; and message processing means for repeating message processing until a predetermined criterion is satisfied, in relation to the agent to which a thread has been assigned.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gaku Yamamoto, Teruo Koyanagi, Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7390758Abstract: A sealed type container accommodating a semiconductor substrate is positioned to a load port of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor substrate is taken out of the container. An ionizer is used for static-eliminating the semiconductor substrates before and after process treatment in a transport area between the load port and a treatment section. The static-eliminated semiconductor substrate is accommodated in the container positioned to the load port. Thus, it is possible to decrease foreign materials adhering to the semiconductor substrate and errors in handling the semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.Inventor: Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080070150Abstract: An objective is to provide a carrier exhibiting stable charge providing ability in which sufficient charge can be provided to toner having a small particle diameter, and no image contamination such as fog caused by toner scattering via lack of electrification is generated. Another objective is to provide a carrier capable of maintaining a charging level of no interference for image formation even under the image forming condition at which a charging level for printing a number of prints continuously is difficult to be maintained. Disclosed is a carrier comprising a core particle made of ferrite possessing Mg and coated thereon, a resin, wherein the core particle has a ratio of the number of irregular-shaped core particles of at most 5%, based on the total number of core particles, and a surface of the core particle has grains having a maximum grain diameter of 2-5 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20080065462Abstract: A number of potential customers for a product or service are segmented into a number of clusters organized over a number of dimensions by one or more attributes of the potential customers. Each potential customer is segmented into no more than one cluster. No data exists regarding the potential customers as to purchase of the product or service. A number of initial clusters are selected. The success factor of each of these initial clusters is determined. For the initial cluster having the highest success factor, one or more subsequent clusters are selected that are located near this initial cluster. The success factor of each of these subsequent clusters is then determined. For the subsequent cluster having the highest success factor, the potential customers segmented into this cluster are solicited as the most likely customers of the product or service in question.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2006Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Masaru Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyajima, Yoshiaki Sawano
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Publication number: 20080007554Abstract: Multiple two dimensional graphs are combined into a single two dimensional graph wherein correlations between dimensions are maintained. Dimensions in the graph can be superimposed on each other and displayed while maintaining the two dimensional format. This enables the two dimensional graph to be converted to three or more dimensions while maintaining the format and presentation in a two dimensional visual display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2006Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyajima, Masaru Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Sawano
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Publication number: 20080003512Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed, comprising forming a toner image, transferring the toner image onto a recording medium and fixing the transferred toner image in a fixing device comprising a heating roller, an endless belt pressed into contact with the heating roller, a pressing member pressing the inner side of the endless belt and an end pressing member to locally elastically deform the heating roller and provided downstream from the pressing member, wherein the toner comprises toner particles comprising a core containing a resin, a colorant and a releasing agent and a shell on, and the toner particles exhibiting an average of eight-point mean thickness of the shell of 100 to 300 nm and meeting a requirement of an average of Hmax/Hmin being less than 1.50, wherein Hmax is a maximum thickness of the shell and Hmin is a minimum thickness of the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Asao MATSUSHIMA, Noboru UEDA
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Patent number: 7314345Abstract: When a conventional semiconductor container opening/closing apparatus opens a lid of a semiconductor container, foreign particles enter into the container from outside through a gap between the container and a wall surface of the container opening/closing apparatus and adhere to a wafer in the container. An apparatus is provided to reduce the number of foreign particles adhering to the wafer by preventing foreign particles from entering into the container at the time of opening the container by the opening/closing apparatus. To achieve this, a velocity-differential pressure ratio obtained by dividing the maximum velocity at the time of opening the lid of the container in a vertical direction to an opening of the container, by the differential pressure between the inside pressure and the outside pressure of said semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, is set to be 0.06 ((m/s) Pa) or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignees: Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Shigeru Kobayashi, Kenji Tokunaga, Koji Kato, Teruo Minami
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Publication number: 20070298339Abstract: An objective is to provide a highly durable carrier for a developer which is capable of forming a high-definition image stably with no deterioration of a developing property since the carrier resistance and the charging ability remain stable even though the developer is used for a long duration; a method of manufacturing the carrier; and an image forming method employing the same. Disclosed is an electrophotographic carrier comprising a carrier core material and provided thereon, a resin-coated layer comprising charge control particles and low-resistive particles, wherein an initial carrier resistance is 5×108-3×1010 ?cm; a concentration of the low-resistive particles grows higher toward a surface of the layer from an inner part of the layer; and a concentration of the charge control particles grows lower toward a surface of the layer from an inner part of the layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki KOZURU, Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Tatsuya NAGASE
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Publication number: 20070123063Abstract: Decreasing foreign materials adhering to a semiconductor substrate to improve a yield and decreasing handling errors for the semiconductor substrate to improve an operating ratio of the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. A sealed type container accommodating a semiconductor substrate is positioned to a load port of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor substrate is taken out of the container. An ionizer is used for static-eliminating the semiconductor substrates before and after process treatment in a transport area between the load port and a treatment section. The static-eliminated semiconductor substrate is accommodated in the container positioned to the load port. Thus, it is possible to decrease foreign materials adhering to the semiconductor substrate and errors in handling the semiconductor substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2007Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventor: Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7177599Abstract: A line quality characteristic evaluation system for estimating a line quality characteristic under an interference environment including nonlinear interference for a wireless communication system including at least one interfering wireless line, including a line quality estimating unit estimating the line quality of a wireless communication line under a nonlinear interference wireless line in an area in which wireless communication lines and interfering wireless lines are present together based on nonlinear distortion included by all wireless lines and expressed by an intercept point input level (IIP), a reception equivalent band limitation expressed by attenuation of the intercept point input level (IIP), reception side thermal noise of the wireless communication lines, and leakage power from other interfering wireless lines leaking into the reception equivalent band.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2003Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, KDDI CorporationInventors: Isao Nakazawa, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Ryoichi Shimada, Toshikazu Youkai, Tatsuaki Hamai, Kaoru Murakami, Hiroyo Ogawa
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Patent number: 7172981Abstract: A sealed type container accommodating a semiconductor substrate is positioned to a load port of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor substrate is taken out of the container. An ionizer is used for static-charge-eliminating the semiconductor substrates before and after process treatment in a transport area between the load port and a treatment section. The static-charge-eliminated semiconductor substrate is accommodated in the container positioned to the load port. Thus, it is possible to decrease foreign materials adhering to the semiconductor substrate and errors in handling the semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.Inventor: Yoshiaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7107011Abstract: An interference measurement and evaluation system for accurately estimating an interference characteristic of a receiving side including nonlinear interference for a wireless communications system, having a transmission signal for wireless communication and an interference signal between an interfered side and the receiving side, provided with a nonlinear interfering side giving an interference signal having a level unable to be neglected compared with the level of the modulated carrier transmitted from the interfered side, and provided with an interference characteristic estimating means for estimating an interference characteristic including a nonlinear interference characteristic possessed by the receiving side in accordance with a received signal level and a received level when a nonlinear interference theoretical curve given in relation with the line quality satisfies a predetermined line quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, KDDI CorporationInventors: Isao Nakazawa, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Ryoichi Shimada, Toshikazu Youkai, Tatsuaki Hamai, Kaoru Murakami, Hiroyo Ogawa
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Patent number: 7094985Abstract: A switch integrated type housing includes a housing body, a switch button sheet, a conductor and a cover sheet. The housing body is provided with a plurality of concave sections on an outer surface of the housing body. The switch button sheet is provided on the outer surface to cover the plurality of concave sections. The conductor has a dome shape downwardly projecting and is provided in each of the plurality of concave sections to contact the switch button sheet. The cover sheet is provided between the switch button sheet and the outer surface of the housing body in a portion of the outer surface of the housing body other than the plurality of concave sections and to cover a lower surface of the conductor in each of the plurality of concave sections.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2003Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Takaaki Yoshihiro, Nobuhiro Mikami
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Publication number: 20060182541Abstract: When a conventional semiconductor container opening/closing apparatus opens a lid of a semiconductor container, foreign particles enter into the container from outside through a gap between the container and a wall surface of the container opening/closing apparatus and adhere to a wafer in the container. An apparatus is provided to reduce the number of foreign particles adhering to the wafer by preventing foreign particles from entering into the container at the time of opening the container by the opening/closing apparatus. To achieve this, a velocity-differential pressure ratio obtained by dividing the maximum velocity at the time of opening the lid of the container in a vertical direction to an opening of the container, by the differential pressure between the inside pressure and the outside pressure of said semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, is set to be 0.06 ((m/s) Pa) or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Shigeru Kobayashi, Kenji Tokunaga, Koji Kato, Teruo Minami
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Publication number: 20060140388Abstract: This invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for processing a message of a large number of agents. An example of an apparatus includes: a memory; means for managing a state of an agent based on whether the agent is in the memory and whether there is a message, by determining a priority level of the agent based on a message inserted into the agent; means for assigning a thread to the agent if the agent is in the memory and for assigning a thread to the agent after calling the agent to the memory if the agent is not in the memory, on condition that the agent having a highest priority level has been detected; and message processing means for repeating message processing until a predetermined criterion is satisfied, in relation to the agent to which a thread has been assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2005Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gaku Yamamoto, Teruo Koyanagi, Yoshiaki Kobayashi