Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Kobayashi

Yoshikazu 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: 20230008395
    Abstract: Each storage controller comprises a first storage unit, an interface unit, and a processing unit which sends, to the interface unit, a parameter which instructs n-fold write of writing data in each of n-number of (n is a natural number of 2 or more) other storage controllers. When the interface unit receives the parameter, the interface unit executes each processing of acquiring the data from the first storage unit and storing the data in the second storage unit, generating n-number of requests of writing the data in each of n-number of the other storage controllers, storing each of the generated requests in n-number of the queues corresponding to each of n-number of the other storage controllers, and processing each request stored in each queue and transferring the data stored in the second storage unit to each of n-number of the other storage controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaro KOBAYASHI, Katsuya TANAKA, Hideaki FUKUDA, Yoshikazu MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11467219
    Abstract: A battery monitoring device includes a first reference resistor disposed in a path different from a path of current flowing from a battery to a load; a transistor for passing current from the battery to the first reference resistor; and an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes: a current measurement unit that measures a first current flowing through the first reference resistor; a voltage measurement unit that measures a first voltage of the battery; and a first calculation unit that calculates an AC impedance of the battery based on the first current measured and the first voltage measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsukawa, Yu Okada, Yoshikazu Makabe, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Misaku, Keiichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20220302469
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro SATO, Yuji KUBOTA, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Kumi NARIZUKA, Koji KAMATA, Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220302467
    Abstract: A metal-supported catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery, each having both excellent catalytic activity and durability. The metal-supported catalyst includes: a carbon carrier; and platinum particles serving as catalyst metal particles supported on the carbon carrier, wherein the platinum particles contain pure platinum particles and platinum alloy particles, wherein a proportion of a weight of the pure platinum particles to a sum of the weight of the pure platinum particles and a weight of the platinum alloy particles is 15% or more and 61% or less, and wherein a ratio of a proportion of a nitrogen atom content to a carbon atom content measured by elemental analysis using a combustion method, to a proportion of a nitrogen atom content to a carbon atom content measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is 1.05 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Takuya ISHIZUKA, Takuya ISAKA, Miki MEGURO
  • Publication number: 20220293968
    Abstract: A cathode of a battery including an electrolyte membrane, containing a first layer which contains 0.3 mg/cm2 or more and 9.0 mg/cm2 or less of a carbon catalyst; and a second layer which is arranged between the electrolyte membrane and the first layer in the battery, and which contains 0.002 mg/cm2 or more and 0.190 mg/cm2 or less of platinum. The carbon catalyst has a ratio of a mesopore volume to a total pore volume of 30% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Takeaki Kishimoto, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Chihiro Fujii, Siyu Ye, Dustin William H Banham
  • Publication number: 20220263100
    Abstract: A metal-supported catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery, each having both excellent catalytic activity and durability. The metal-supported catalyst includes: a carbon carrier; and catalyst metal particles each containing a noble metal supported on the carbon carrier, wherein a volume of first pores each having a diameter of 0.5 nm or more and 2.0 nm or less per unit weight of the carbon carrier is 0.20 (cm3/g-carrier) or more, wherein a volume of second pores each having a diameter of more than 2.0 nm and 4.0 nm or less per unit weight of the carbon carrier is 0.20 (cm3/g-carrier) or more, and wherein a ratio of a content (wt %) of the noble metal measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, to a content (wt %) of the noble metal measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, is 0.35 or more and 0.75 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro SATO, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Takuya ISHIZUKA, Takuya ISAKA, Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Miki MEGURO
  • Patent number: 11387465
    Abstract: A cathode, a membrane electrode assembly, and a battery, each has excellent durability. The cathode is a cathode of a battery including an electrolyte membrane, the cathode including: a first layer which contains 0.3 mg/cm2 or more and 9.0 mg/cm2 or less of a carbon catalyst; and a second layer which is arranged between the electrolyte membrane and the first layer in the battery, and which contains 0.002 mg/cm2 or more and 0.190 mg/cm2 or less of platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Takeaki Kishimoto, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Chihiro Fujii, Siyu Ye, Dustin William H Banham
  • Patent number: 11387466
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro Sato, Yuji Kubota, Takeaki Kishimoto, Kumi Narizuka, Koji Kamata, Yoshikazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220072486
    Abstract: An ultrafine bubble water manufacturing device includes a whirlpool pump, an ejector, a cascade pump, a branch portion on the downstream side of the cascade pump, a return path which communicates from the branch portion between the ejector and the cascade pump, a flow rate adjusting valve and a first ultrafine bubble manufacturing unit interposed in the return path, an emission path which communicates with the branch portion, a second ultrafine bubble manufacturing unit interposed in the emission path and a control device. The control device controls an air amount adjusting valve, the whirlpool pump, the cascade pump and the flow rate adjusting valve based on the measurement values of a concentration meter for the emission path and first and second pressure gauges and on the downstream and upstream sides of the cascade pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: MIIKE TEKKOU KABUSHIKIGAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Hidemasa KOBAYASHI, Masahide HAYASHI, Koji FUJIWARA, Etsuo ISHII
  • Patent number: 11253801
    Abstract: The prevent invention addresses the problem of providing a filter cloth for a bag filter, which has excellent collection efficiency, has excellent collection efficiency, provides low pressure drop and is resistant to clogging, and also has excellent dust-off ability; a method for producing the same; and a bag filter. As a means for resolution, a nonwoven fabric containing an ultrafine fiber having a fiber diameter D of 200 to 2,000 nm is laminated on a base material to form a filter cloth for a bag filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mie Kamiyama, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Kazuyoshi Sakita
  • Publication number: 20210408521
    Abstract: Resin-adhered graphite particles are obtained by causing a modified novolac-type phenolic resin to adhere to graphite particles. At least part of surfaces of the graphite particles is coated with a carbonaceous coating by heating the resin-adhered graphite particles in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at 900 to 1,500° C. to carbonize the modified novolac-type phenolic resin. Arylene groups having hydroxy groups account for 5 to 95 mol % of arylene groups constituting the modified novolac-type phenolic resin. The obtained carbonaceous substance-coated graphite particles exhibit excellent battery properties when used as a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: JFE CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Haga, Motoharu Obika, Kunihiko Eguchi, Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Masakatsu Asami
  • Patent number: 11145876
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery each having excellent catalytic activity and excellent durability. The carbon catalyst includes iron, exhibits a weight reduction ratio in the temperature range from 200° C. to 1,200° C. of 12.0 wt % or less measured by thermogravimetric analysis in a nitrogen atmosphere, and has a carbon structure that exhibits, in X-ray absorption fine structure analysis of a K absorption edge of the iron, the following (a) and/or (b): (a) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,130 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more; and (b) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,135 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Yuji Kubota, Tetsutaro Sato, Takeaki Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11114672
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery, each exhibits excellent catalytic performance. A carbon catalyst contains two kinds of transition metals and has such a carbon structure that an interplanar spacing d002, which is determined from a Bragg angle of one of three diffraction peaks fbroad, fmiddle, and fnarrow obtained by separating a diffraction peak around a diffraction angle (2?) of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern of powder X-ray diffraction with a CuK? ray, the one diffraction peak being the diffraction peak fbroad, is 0.374 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Yuji Kubota, Jun-ichi Ozaki, Takafumi Ishii, Takuya Maie
  • Publication number: 20210175515
    Abstract: A cathode, a membrane electrode assembly, and a battery, each has excellent durability. The cathode is a cathode of a battery including an electrolyte membrane, the cathode including: a first layer which contains 0.3 mg/cm2 or more and 9.0 mg/cm2 or less of a carbon catalyst; and a second layer which is arranged between the electrolyte membrane and the first layer in the battery, and which contains 0.002 mg/cm2 or more and 0.190 mg/cm2 or less of platinum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Chihiro FUJII, Siyu YE, Dustin William H BANHAM
  • Publication number: 20200243873
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery each having excellent catalytic activity and excellent durability. The carbon catalyst includes iron, exhibits a weight reduction ratio in the temperature range from 200° C. to 1,200° C. of 12.0 wt % or less measured by thermogravimetric analysis in a nitrogen atmosphere, and has a carbon structure that exhibits, in X-ray absorption fine structure analysis of a K absorption edge of the iron, the following (a) and/or (b): (a) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,130 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more; and (b) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,135 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Yuji KUBOTA, Tetsutaro SATO, Takeaki KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200127301
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro SATO, Yuji KUBOTA, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Kumi NARIZUKA, Koji KAMATA, Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10554348
    Abstract: This information processing system inputs/outputs data normally, even when a serial communication bus is extended by network communication. The information processing system is provided with: a device; a device control unit for controlling the device; a device interface unit which interfaces with the device control unit; an information processing device provided with an application interface unit which interfaces with an application; a channel establishment unit which connects, via a communication unit, the application interface unit and the device interface unit, and establishes a control channel and a data channel between the application and the device; and an error suppression unit which suppresses the occurrence of error in data transfer over the channel established by the channel establishment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10395547
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that readily supports to provide hardware resources for implementing ICT education in the field of education. The information processing apparatus includes a device information receiver that receives, via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to a portable terminal, an education application selector that selects, based on the device information, an education application to be provided to the device, and an education application provider that provides the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10372632
    Abstract: The information processing system includes: a plurality of operation devices respectively connected to a plurality of communication terminals; operation integration means that inputs information about an operation on the plurality of operation devices; a display device that has a communication function; control means that controls generation of a screen related to information about an operation from the plurality of operation devices; and display control means that causes the display device to display the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190190034
    Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery, each exhibits excellent catalytic performance. A carbon catalyst contains two kinds of transition metals and has such a carbon structure that an interplanar spacing d002, which is determined from a Bragg angle of one of three diffraction peaks fbroad, fmiddle, and fnarrow obtained by separating a diffraction peak around a diffraction angle (2?) of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern of powder X-ray diffraction with a CuK? ray, the one diffraction peak being the diffraction peak fbroad, is 0.374 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicants: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Yuji KUBOTA, Jun-ichi OZAKI, Takafumi ISHII, Takuya MAIE