Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Kobayashi

Yoshitaka 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).

  • Patent number: 11649000
    Abstract: A saddled electric vehicle (1) having a battery (100) that is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle (1) includes a vehicle electronic lock (220) which enables the vehicle (1) to be locked and unlocked, a lock control unit (320) which controls the vehicle electronic lock (220), and a sub battery (327) which supplies electric power to the lock control unit (320), in which the lock control unit (320) enables the vehicle to be unlocked in a state in which the battery (100) is removed from the vehicle (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kuramochi, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Kazuo Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11634189
    Abstract: Various battery arrangement structures are presented for a saddle-riding type vehicle. An arrangement can be configured to protect a battery from external impact, and can include a pair of left and right rear frames disposed at the rear section of the vehicle with a battery disposed between the pair of left and right rear frames. The pair of left and right rear frames include a pair of left and right first rear frames and a pair of left and right second rear frames. A power unit-supporting portion which swingably supports a power unit is provided at rear portions of the pair of left and right rear extension portions, and the battery is disposed between the pair of left and right second rear frames and above the power unit-supporting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Okubo, Akira Kuramochi, Kazuo Tsuji, Toshifumi Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20220414298
    Abstract: Provided is a simulation method that represents an elastic analysis object as an aggregate of a plurality of virtual particles, and the method includes, when solving the equation of motion for each particle, regarding the analysis object as a rigid body, and calculating a force acting on the analysis object and a velocity of the analysis object, based on the force acting on each particle obtained at each time step and the velocity and the position of each particle, applying FIRE to a motion of the analysis object to calculate a force to be applied to the analysis object, obtaining a force to be additionally applied to each particle, by distributing the force to be applied to the analysis object to the plurality of particles, and solving the equation of motion, by adding the force to be additionally applied, to the force acting on each particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11332212
    Abstract: A saddle-type electric vehicle (1, 1A, or 1B) includes an electric motor (30) for vehicle traveling, a battery (100) which supplies electric power to the electric motor (30), a power control unit (320) which controls the electric motor (30), step floors (9) on which a rider places his/her feet, a center tunnel (CT) which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a left-right center portion of the step floors (9), and a charger (325) mounted on the vehicle body and configured to charge the battery (100), in which the power control unit (320) is disposed inside the center tunnel (CT), and the charger (325) is disposed to overlap the power control unit (320) in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa, Kazuo Tsuji, Katsuyuki Okubo, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Akira Kuramochi, Toshifumi Shimamura
  • Patent number: 11292546
    Abstract: A saddled electric vehicle (1, 1A, or 1B) includes an electric motor (30) for vehicle traveling, a battery (100) which supplies electric power to the electric motor (30), a power control unit (320) which controls the electric motor (30), a vehicle body frame (11) which supports the battery (100) and the power control unit (320), step floors (9) on which a rider places his/her feet, and a center tunnel (CT) which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a left-right center portion of the step floors (9), in which the power control unit (320) is disposed inside the center tunnel (CT), and the vehicle body frame (11) includes a pair of left and right frame members (13, 14a, and 17), and the power control unit (320) is disposed on an inward side in a left-right direction of the pair of left and right frame members (13, 14a, and 17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Okubo, Akira Kuramochi, Kazuo Tsuji, Toshifumi Shimamura, Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11164662
    Abstract: A simulation method includes: a process of performing a renormalization transformation process with respect to a granular system S that is a simulation target that includes a plurality of polymers that are respectively formed of a plurality of monomer grains that are connected to each other in one dimension, on the basis of a renormalization factor ? depending on the number of times of renormalization; and a process of calculating a position vector and a momentum vector of a monomer grain in a renormalized granular system S? by executing molecular dynamics calculation with respect to the renormalized granular system S?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Daiji Ichishima
  • Publication number: 20210224442
    Abstract: In a simulation apparatus, simulation conditions including information defining a shape of a flow path wall surface, information defining an interaction potential that a fluid particle receives from the wall surface, and physical properties of a fluid are input. A processing unit solves a motion equation for the fluid particle based on the simulation conditions to temporally develop a position of the fluid particle. The processing unit measures the fluid particle having a predetermined distance or shorter to the wall surface as a wall surface proximity particle, and generates plural virtual particles at positions for interaction with the wall surface proximity particle. The positions of the virtual particles are fixed, and an interaction potential preventing parallel movement of the wall surface proximity particle to the wall surface is applied between the wall surface proximity particle and the virtual particles, to solve the motion equation for the wall surface proximity particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11065972
    Abstract: A saddle type electric vehicle (1) includes a charging cord (245) that is connectable to an external power supply, a cord accommodating section (230) configured to accommodate a charging cord (245), and a vehicle body cover (5) on which a cord accommodating section (230) provided, a vehicle body cover (5) includes a cover inclined surface (CS) inclined with respect to a ground plane, the cover inclined surface (CS) includes an inclined surface upper section (CS1) located on an upper section of the cover inclined surface (CS), and in the cord accommodating section (230), a cord drawing section (236) disposed in the vicinity of the inclined surface upper section (CS1) and configured to draw the charging cord (245) into the cord accommodating section (230) and an accommodating space (230s) configured to accommodate the charging cord (245) drawn from the cord drawing section (236) from the vicinity of the inclined surface upper section (CS1) to a lower section of the cord accommodating section (230) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Shimamura, Takeo Numata, Yoshitaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10908082
    Abstract: A gas analyzer includes an optical emitter that irradiates measurement light into a measurement region including a measured-gas, a first optical receiver that receives the measurement light passing through the measurement region, a splitting unit between the optical emitter and the measurement region that splits off a portion of the measurement light irradiated from the optical emitter to yield reference light, a reference unit, and an optical component. The reference unit holds a gas containing a measurement target component identical with the measured-gas but at a known concentration and a second optical receiver that receives the reference light passing through the region including the gas. The optical component is disposed between the splitting unit and the region and expands the beam diameter of the reference light to be larger at the second optical receiver than the receiving diameter of the second optical receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Junichi Matsuo, Naoyuki Fujimura
  • Patent number: 10871398
    Abstract: A gas analyzer includes an optical emitter that irradiates measurement light into a measurement region including a gas to be measured; a reflector that reflects the measurement light irradiated from the optical emitter; an optical receiver that receives the measurement light reflected by the reflector; and an aligner that expands a beam diameter of the measurement light at the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Junichi Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20200339207
    Abstract: In a battery arrangement structure (100A) including a pair of left and right rear frames (140) disposed in a rear section of a vehicle (1), and a battery (102) disposed between the pair of left and right rear frames (140), the pair of left and right rear frames (140) include a pair of left and right first rear frames (145) extending upward from a lower portion of the vehicle (1), and a pair of left and right second rear frames (15) extending rearward from upper end portions of the pair of left and right first rear frames (145), the battery arrangement structure (100A) further includes a pair of left and right rear extension portions (172) extending rearward from lower sides of the pair of left and right first rear frames (145), and an accommodating section (103) disposed between the pair of left and right first rear frames (145), a power unit-supporting portion (173) which swingably supports a power unit (10) is provided at rear portions of the pair of left and right rear extension portions (172), and the bat
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Okubo, Akira Kuramochi, Kazuo Tsuji, Toshifumi Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20200282850
    Abstract: A saddle type electric vehicle (1) includes a charging cord (245) that is connectable to an external power supply, a cord accommodating section (230) configured to accommodate a charging cord (245), and a vehicle body cover (5) on which a cord accommodating section (230) provided, a vehicle body cover (5) includes a cover inclined surface (CS) inclined with respect to a ground plane, the cover inclined surface (CS) includes an inclined surface upper section (CS1) located on an upper section of the cover inclined surface (CS), and in the cord accommodating section (230), a cord drawing section (236) disposed in the vicinity of the inclined surface upper section (CS1) and configured to draw the charging cord (245) into the cord accommodating section (230) and an accommodating space (230s) configured to accommodate the charging cord (245) drawn from the cord drawing section (236) from the vicinity of the inclined surface upper section (CS1) to a lower section of the cord accommodating section (230) are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Toshifumi Shimamura, Takeo Numata, Yoshitaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200277016
    Abstract: A saddled electric vehicle (1, 1A, or 1B) includes an electric motor (30) for vehicle traveling, a battery (100) which supplies electric power to the electric motor (30), a power control unit (320) which controls the electric motor (30), a vehicle body frame (11) which supports the battery (100) and the power control unit (320), step floors (9) on which a rider places his/her feet, and a center tunnel (CT) which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a left-right center portion of the step floors (9), in which the power control unit (320) is disposed inside the center tunnel (CT), and the vehicle body frame (11) includes a pair of left and right frame members (13, 14a, and 17), and the power control unit (320) is disposed on an inward side in a left-right direction of the pair of left and right frame members (13, 14a, and 17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Katsuyuki Okubo, Akira Kuramochi, Kazuo Tsuji, Toshifumi Shimamura, Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200247491
    Abstract: A saddled electric vehicle (1) having a battery (100) that is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle (1) includes a vehicle electronic lock (220) which enables the vehicle (1) to be locked and unlocked, a lock control unit (320) which controls the vehicle electronic lock (220), and a sub battery (327) which supplies electric power to the lock control unit (320), in which the lock control unit (320) enables the vehicle to be unlocked in a state in which the battery (100) is removed from the vehicle (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Akira Kuramochi, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Kazuo Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20200239097
    Abstract: A saddle-type electric vehicle (1, 1A, or 1B) includes an electric motor (30) for vehicle traveling, a battery (100) which supplies electric power to the electric motor (30), a power control unit (320) which controls the electric motor (30), step floors (9) on which a rider places his/her feet, a center tunnel (CT) which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a left-right center portion of the step floors (9), and a charger (325) mounted on the vehicle body and configured to charge the battery (100), in which the power control unit (320) is disposed inside the center tunnel (CT), and the charger (325) is disposed to overlap the power control unit (320) in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Ichikawa, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Jun Ishikawa, Kazuo Tsuji, Katsuyuki Okubo, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Akira Kuramochi, Toshifumi Shimamura
  • Patent number: 10691147
    Abstract: In simulating a behavior of a particle system including a plurality of particles disposed in an analysis region, by using a molecular dynamics method, centroid velocities of the particles present in a local region including a particle of interest are converted on the basis of the number of particles present in the local region for each of the particles, and thus a conversion value of a centroid velocity of the local region is calculated. Temperature control of maintaining the temperature of the particle system to be a target temperature is performed by using a difference between a velocity of the particle and the conversion value of the centroid velocity of the local region including the particle as a velocity of the particle which is a basis for calculating the temperature of the particle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Daiji Ichishima
  • Publication number: 20190316965
    Abstract: A gas analyzer includes an optical emitter that irradiates measurement light into a measurement region including a gas to be measured; a reflector that reflects the measurement light irradiated from the optical emitter; an optical receiver that receives the measurement light reflected by the reflector; and an aligner that expands a beam diameter of the measurement light at the reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Junichi Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20190317018
    Abstract: A gas analyzer includes an optical emitter that irradiates measurement light into a measurement region including a measured-gas, a first optical receiver that receives the measurement light passing through the measurement region, a splitting unit between the optical emitter and the measurement region that splits off a portion of the measurement light irradiated from the optical emitter to yield reference light, a reference unit, and an optical component. The reference unit holds a gas containing a measurement target component identical with the measured-gas but at a known concentration and a second optical receiver that receives the reference light passing through the region including the gas. The optical component is disposed between the splitting unit and the region and expands the beam diameter of the reference light to be larger at the second optical receiver than the receiving diameter of the second optical receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Junichi Matsuo, Naoyuki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20190311786
    Abstract: A simulation method includes: a process of performing a renormalization transformation process with respect to a granular system S that is a simulation target that includes a plurality of polymers that are respectively formed of a plurality of monomer grains that are connected to each other in one dimension, on the basis of a renormalization factor ? depending on the number of times of renormalization; and a process of calculating a position vector and a momentum vector of a monomer grain in a renormalized granular system S? by executing molecular dynamics calculation with respect to the renormalized granular system S?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Daiji Ichishima
  • Patent number: 10355915
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes control apparatus and server. Control apparatus includes collector, transmitter, receiver and main controller. Collector collects sensing data concerning control targets in social infrastructure. Transmitter transmits collected sensing data to server. Receiver receives control instruction from server. Main controller controls control targets based on control instruction. Server includes acquisition unit, database, generator and instructor. Acquisition unit acquires sensing data from control apparatus. Database stores sensing data. Generator generates control instruction by processing sensing data. Instructor transmits generated control instruction to control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsuda, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Makoto Ochiai