Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Kobayashi

Yoshihiro 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: 20180171839
    Abstract: A lubrication structure of the present invention is applied to a multi-link piston crank mechanism that has a upper link (3), a lower link (6) and a control link (7). Lubricating oil is supplied in an oil storing portion (21) formed between a pair of upper-pin pin boss portions (12) by a plate member (22) through an oil supply hole (19). By oscillating rotary motion of the upper link side pin boss portion (25) that is provided with an oil groove (29) on an end surface of the upper link side pin boss portion (25), the lubricating oil in the oil storing portion (21) is supplied to an upper pin (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke WATANABE, Shigeru NAKAJIMA, Kazuto WAKI, Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180154658
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28° C. is 8 mPa·s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28° C. to 40° C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa·s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Yusuke Mizutaki, Toshio Kumagai, Masaaki Ando, Hiroaki Kida, Kaoru Koike, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9983004
    Abstract: A temperature characteristic correction device corrects a temperature characteristic of an electronic device. The temperature characteristic correction device calculates a peak correction characteristic approximating a peak waveform having a peak value in a second range included in a first range of the temperature characteristic using a first formula, and a correction characteristic approximating a waveform continuing in the first range of the temperature characteristic using a second formula. The temperature characteristic correction device calculates a total correction amount from the peak correction characteristic and the correction characteristic, and then corrects the temperature characteristic using the total correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9884487
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28° C. is 8 mPa·s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28° C. to 40° C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa·s or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Yusuke Mizutaki, Toshio Kumagai, Masaaki Ando, Hiroaki Kida, Kaoru Koike, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9871970
    Abstract: The present invention is provided to maintain a photographable display state so as not to miss a photo opportunity when a photographer performs preparation work before shooting or confirmation work after shooting, and also smoothly switch to a display state in which the photographer can perform the confirmation work after shooting whenever necessary. A live view image is displayed on a first display screen when an eye contact state is detected at the eyepiece viewfinder, and a captured image is displayed on a second display screen when a non-eye-contact state is detected after receiving an image shooting instruction. When the eye contact state is not detected within a first period from detecting the non-eye-contact state, displaying the live view image on the first display screen is stopped. The live view image is displayed on the first display screen during the first period after detecting the non-eye-contact state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170350856
    Abstract: A field effect transistor and a sensor using the field effect transistor is provided. The field effect transistor can be manufactured so as to have uniform properties by simple steps at low costs, and can stably detect, when used as a sensor, a very small amount of analyte with a high sensitivity while the properties are hardly deteriorated. A channel of the field effect transistor is constituted by a single-walled carbon nanotube thin film that is grown, by a chemical vapor deposition method, using particles of a nonmetallic material as growth nuclei, the nonmetallic material containing 500 mass ppm or less metallic impurities that contain a metal and its compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicants: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI, Ryota NEGISHI, Hiroto KASE, Michiharu ARIFUKU, Noriko KIYOYANAGI, Tomio MORINO
  • Patent number: 9827769
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge device including: a wiping member that performs wiping on a nozzle forming surface by being caused to perform relative movement on the nozzle forming surface while coming into contact with the nozzle forming surface; a cleaning liquid supply section that supplies cleaning liquid to at least one of a head and the wiping member; and a circulation speed adjustment section that is capable of adjusting a circulation speed of the liquid, which is circulated between a liquid storage section and the head, to a second speed which is faster than the first speed. In addition, the circulation speed during the wiping is the second speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9724930
    Abstract: A liquid storage unit for collecting a liquid supplied to an ejecting head is provided. The liquid is supplied to a plurality of ejecting heads via a pressure regulating valve, and the liquid is suctioned from the plurality of ejecting heads by a circulation pump, and then is discharged to the liquid storage unit. In this way, since the liquid is suctioned from each of the ejecting heads, the passage resistance is decreased, so that the ink can be appropriately circulated. In addition, since the ejecting head is supplied with the liquid at an appropriate pressure from the liquid storage unit via the pressure adjusting valve, the liquid can be appropriately ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Enomoto, Toshio Arimura, Yoshihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170184471
    Abstract: A detecting element unit of a physical quantity detection apparatus includes a detection part and a supporting part. The detection part has a base part, a movable part coupled to the base part via a joint part, and a vibrator provided over the base part and the movable part, and the supporting part includes a fixing portion to be fixed to a base for supporting the base part. A processing unit of the physical quantity detection apparatus extracts vibration response signals at a resonance frequency of the detecting element unit from output of the vibrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170184550
    Abstract: A conversion section converts a change in signal information outputted from a vibration detector provided on a structural body from the change in the function of time into the change in the function of the distance between a moving object that moves on the structural body and the vibration detector. An attenuation characteristic calculation section calculates an attenuation characteristic of the structural body based on the signal information so converted as to represent the change in the function of the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170098127
    Abstract: A measuring device includes a data acquisition unit that acquires measurement data, including width direction acceleration of a road surface on which a moving object moves, from an acceleration sensor provided on a structure having the road surface, and a moving object information acquisition unit that acquires information relating to the moving object moving on the road surface, on the basis of the width direction acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170097277
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires the width-direction acceleration and the vertical-direction acceleration of a surface of a structure on which a moving object moves from an acceleration sensor provided in the structure on which the moving object moves. A displacement computation unit computes the vertical-direction displacement of the structure on the basis of the vertical-direction acceleration. A correlation determination unit determines the correlation between the width-direction acceleration and the vertical-direction displacement. A movement detection unit detects the movement of the moving object on the structure on the basis of the correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170097278
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires at least one of the vertical-direction acceleration and the width-direction acceleration of a surface of a structure on which a moving object moves from an acceleration sensor provided in the structure on which the moving object moves. An analysis unit analyzes the motion of the moving object moving on the structure on the basis of at least one of the vertical-direction acceleration and the width-direction acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9541397
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a mounting board having a first rigid board on which an angular velocity sensor is mounted and a third rigid board on which an angular velocity sensor is mounted, and a pedestal for fixing the mounting board. Further, the pedestal includes a base section having a first fixation surface along an x axis and a y axis, and projecting sections disposed on the base section, and having a second fixation surface along the x axis and a z axis, and a third fixation surface along the y axis and the z axis, each of the rigid boards is supported by at least two of the first fixation surface, the second fixation surface, and the third fixation surface, and the angular velocity sensors have respective detection axes intersecting with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masayasu Sakuma, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Shojiro Kitamura, Taketo Chino, Nobuyuki Imai
  • Publication number: 20160375695
    Abstract: A liquid storage unit for collecting a liquid supplied to an ejecting head is provided. The liquid is supplied to a plurality of ejecting heads via a pressure regulating valve, and the liquid is suctioned from the plurality of ejecting heads by a circulation pump, and then is discharged to the liquid storage unit. In this way, since the liquid is suctioned from each of the ejecting heads, the passage resistance is decreased, so that the ink can be appropriately circulated. In addition, since the ejecting head is supplied with the liquid at an appropriate pressure from the liquid storage unit via the pressure adjusting valve, the liquid can be appropriately ejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Katsumi ENOMOTO, Toshio ARIMURA, Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9523702
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes sensors. Each of the sensors provides a measurement axis. A connector is electrically connected with the sensors. The position of the connector is fixed relative to the sensors. A memory unit stores calibration information which specifies the respective directions of the measurement axes with respect to a reference plane established for the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinoshita, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Yoshikuni Saito
  • Patent number: 9468994
    Abstract: A sensor unit is provided with a sensor device. The sensor device has a first electrode disposed on an outer surface. A board is provided with a first surface and a second surface in an obverse-reverse relationship with each other, and a side surface. A first conductive terminal is disposed along a contour of the first surface. The sensor device has the outer surface disposed along the side surface of the board, and has the first electrode connected to the first conductive terminal with a first conductive body, and a first projection length of the outer surface projecting on the first surface side is smaller than a second projection length of the outer surface projecting on the second surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kinoshita, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Yoshikuni Saito, Masayasu Sakuma
  • Patent number: 9463635
    Abstract: A liquid storage unit for collecting a liquid supplied to an ejecting head is provided. The liquid is supplied to a plurality of ejecting heads via a pressure regulating valve, and the liquid is suctioned from the plurality of ejecting heads by a circulation pump, and then is discharged to the liquid storage unit. In this way, since the liquid is suctioned from each of the ejecting heads, the passage resistance is decreased, so that the ink can be appropriately circulated. In addition, since the ejecting head is supplied with the liquid at an appropriate pressure from the liquid storage unit via the pressure adjusting valve, the liquid can be appropriately ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Enomoto, Toshio Arimura, Yoshihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160263898
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge device including: a wiping member that performs wiping on a nozzle forming surface by being caused to perform relative movement on the nozzle forming surface while coming into contact with the nozzle forming surface; a cleaning liquid supply section that supplies cleaning liquid to at least one of a head and the wiping member; and a circulation speed adjustment section that is capable of adjusting a circulation speed of the liquid, which is circulated between a liquid storage section and the head, to a second speed which is faster than the first speed. In addition, the circulation speed during the wiping is the second speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9440855
    Abstract: Problem To provide a process for producing single-walled carbon nanotubes with which highly pure, high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes can be produced with high efficiency, and to provide a transparent conductive film using the single-walled carbon nanotubes obtained by that production method. Solution A process for producing single-walled carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), wherein particles of a nonmetallic material containing 500 ppm or lower of metallic impurities including metals and compounds thereof are used as growth nuclei; and after a growth gas is introduced into a furnace used for growing carbon nanotubes, the growth gas used in an initial stage of growth of carbon nanotubes and the growth gas used in a stage of growth of regular carbon nanotubes (stationary growth stage) thereafter are prepared to different compositions and different partial pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignees: Osaka University, Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Ryota Negishi, Shoji Koriyama, Shogo Agata, Kazuki Fujimoto, Michiharu Arifuku, Masaki Shinmoto, Masahiro Imaizumi, Noriko Kiyoyanagi