Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Yoshiyuki 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: 11199255
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft, a pump part located on a front side of the motor part and driven via the shaft, and a control part controlling the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing accommodating the rotor and the stator. The pump part includes a pump rotor mounted on the shaft protruding from the motor part, and a pump housing accommodating the pump rotor. The control part includes a substrate having a surface on which a plurality of electronic components are mounted. The surface of the substrate is disposed to face the cylindrical portion of the motor housing and extends in the axial direction. The substrate has an axial length shorter than an axial length of an assembly of the motor part and the pump part and is disposed within an axial range of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigehiro Kataoka, Yutaka Omori
  • Publication number: 20210371964
    Abstract: A powder feeder according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a powder feeding device that feeds powder from a feeder to a nozzle. The powder feeding device includes a cartridge configured to store the powder in an airtight condition, and includes the feeder. The cartridge includes a port from which the powder is stored and withdrawn, and an open/close valve for opening and closing the port. The feeder includes a connection portion to which the cartridge is removably connected, a supply port configured to supply the powder in the cartridge connected to the connection portion into the feeder, and an opening/closing valve for opening and closing the supply port. The feeder is configured to insert the powder supplied from the supply port to the feeder into the nozzle, and the cartridge and the feeder are configured to form an enclosed space between the port and the supply port in response to the cartridge being connected to the connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi ITAFUJI
  • Patent number: 11188140
    Abstract: An information processing system includes multiple processing units the number of which is at least three and multiple communication paths that allow the multiple processing units to mutually communicate information. When at least one of the multiple processing units is brought into a power-off state, multiple processing units that are included in the multiple processing units and that are other than the processing unit brought into the power-off state perform processing for changing one of the communication paths used by the multiple processing units other than the processing unit brought into the power-off state to a different one of the communication paths that has low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sho Nagase, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shotaro Miyamoto, Hirohito Otake, Tatsutoshi Suwa, Hidenori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11155525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel azole derivative as an apelin receptor agonist and a method for treating cardiovascular disease, diabetic disease, renal disease, hypertension, and arteriosclerosis, etc., using the same. The present invention provides a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof wherein X1 represents —N? or —CH?, X2 represents —CH? or —N?, R1 and R2 each represent a C1 to C6 alkoxy group or the like, R3 represents a heteroaryl group (the heteroaryl group is optionally substituted by a methyl group or the like) or the like, and R4 represents a C1 to C6 alkylthio group or a C2 to C6 alkenyl group (the C1 to C6 alkylthio group and the C2 to C6 alkenyl group are each optionally substituted by one carboxy group or the like) or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Takuya Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Naoki Miyoshi, Osamu Suzuki, Takahiro Nagayama, Takashi Tsuji, Layton H. Smith, Anthony B. Pinkerton
  • Publication number: 20210328074
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of one embodiment of the present invention includes a semiconductor, an insulator, a first conductor, and a second conductor. In the semiconductor device, a top surface of the semiconductor has a region in contact with the insulator; a side surface of the semiconductor has a region in contact with the insulator; the first conductor has a first region overlapping with the semiconductor with the insulator positioned therebetween; the first region has a region in contact with the top surface of the semiconductor and a region in contact with the side surface of the semiconductor; the second conductor has a second region in contact with the semiconductor; and the first region and the second region do not overlap with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Daisuke MATSUBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11142195
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of providing more useful information to a driver. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a prediction section configured to predict accident probability of a vehicle driven by a user; and an output control section configured to cause information to be output to the user, the information corresponding to a factor that increases the accident probability predicted by the prediction section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Takamatsu, Kenta Kawamoto, Naoki Ide, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11143507
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an estimation unit that estimates, based on sensing data provided by a plurality of sensors carried or worn by a user, a type of a moving body on which the user is riding. The information processing apparatus further includes a selection unit that selects information to be used for processing for obtaining a position of the user in the moving body using the type of the moving body estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa Takaoka, Masatomo Kurata, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11123810
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a cutting edge portion, and the cutting edge portion includes a bottom cutting edge forming an arc shape that protrudes toward a front end side in a central axis direction, an outer peripheral cutting edge forming an arc shape that protrudes toward an outside in a radial direction, and a cutting edge of corner that connects an outer end of the bottom cutting edge in the radial direction and a front end of the outer peripheral cutting edge in the central axis direction and forms an arc shape that protrudes toward a front end outer circumferential side. The bottom cutting edge and the outer peripheral cutting edge are formed so as to form a linearly symmetric shape together with respect to an imaginary straight line that passes through an arc central point of the cutting edge of corner and intersects the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MOLDINO TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hayato Takahashi, Syoujirou Touma
  • Patent number: 11095183
    Abstract: A motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing accommodating the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump section driven by the motor are included. The inverter substrate is disposed on one side of the motor. The pump section is disposed on the other side of the motor. The housing has a motor housing section accommodating the motor, an inverter housing section accommodating the inverter substrate, and a breather section establishing communication between inside and outside of the housing. The motor housing section has an accommodation tubular section accommodating the motor and a brim section spreading outward in a radial direction from an end of the accommodation tubular section. The inverter housing section is disposed on one side of the brim section and overlaps the brim section when seen in the axial direction. The breather section is disposed at the brim section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Tatsuo Abe, Hitoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11086678
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device capable of intuitively adding a hardware resource intended to execute the learning, the information processing device including: a display control unit configured to control display of information indicating progress of a learning process and an addition button used to add dynamically a second hardware resource intended to execute the learning process to a first hardware resource on which the learning process is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Akira Fukui, Naoki Ide, Yukio Oobuchi, Shingo Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20210243485
    Abstract: To enable a plurality of pieces of stream data to be switched more flexibly. There is provided a receiving apparatus including a receiving unit that receives second stream data that are object data corresponding to first stream data that are bit stream data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, MITSURU KATSUMATA, TOSHIYA HAMADA
  • Patent number: 11070106
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction of the shaft and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of the motor unit, is driven by the motor unit, and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor that is fixed on a rear side of the shaft, a stator that is disposed outside the rotor in a radial direction, a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a connector assembly that is disposed outside the resin housing in the radial direction. The connector assembly is integrally molded with the resin housing. The pump unit includes a pump rotor installed to the shaft that protrudes from the motor unit and a pump housing in which the pump rotor is housed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Noriyuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11070111
    Abstract: An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Tomohiro Sakata, Chisato Sekiguchi, Hirotaka Kanamono
  • Patent number: 11059111
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a rake face, a seating face facing an opposite side to the rake face and seated on an insert mounting seat, and a flank face extending around the rake face and the seating face, in which two cutting edges each having an arcuate cutting edge portion extending in an arc shape and a linear cutting edge portion which is in contact with the arcuate cutting edge portion are formed on an intersecting ridgeline portion between the rake face and the flank face, a groove portion having a wall surface coming into contact with a projection portion protruding from a bottom surface of the insert mounting seat is formed on the seating face, and the groove portion has a narrow width portion in which a groove width decreases from one end side toward the other end side in a direction in which the groove portion extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagafuchi, Yasuhiro Kiuchi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210204520
    Abstract: [Object] To perform prediction in accordance with actual situations of livestock farms and the like and present users with the prediction result at optimum timings. [Solution] According to the present embodiment, an information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of livestock-farming-related information related to livestock farming; a prediction unit configured to predict a future value of an arbitrary parameter related to livestock farming on a basis of a prediction model generated on a basis of the livestock-farming-related information; and a prediction result presentation unit configured to present a prediction result obtained by the prediction unit at a predetermined timing related to livestock farming. According to this configuration, it is possible to perform prediction in accordance with actual situations of livestock farms and the like and present users with the prediction result at optimum timings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: MASANORI KATSU, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, BUNICHI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210207598
    Abstract: The pump device includes a motor portion that includes a shaft rotating about a central axis and a pump portion that is driven by a motor portion via the shaft. The pump portion includes a pump rotor that rotates along with the shaft and a pump housing that includes an accommodation portion that accommodates the pump rotor. The pump housing includes a pump body that includes a first bearing portion that supports the shaft and a pump cover with an accommodation portion disposed between the pump cover and the pump body. The pump cover includes a flow path through which oil is discharged and suctioned, and includes a second bearing portion that rotatably supports the shaft and that communicates with the flow path. An end portion of the shaft on one side in the axial direction is disposed at the second bearing portion or inside the flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Takamitsu ETO, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Yutaka HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11035747
    Abstract: A pressure detection apparatus includes a base plate including a first surface, a second surface, and an opening, a pressure sensor disposed on the first surface so as to cover the opening of the base plate and outputting an electric signal according to a pressure of measured fluid inside the opening, a lead terminal electrically connected to the pressure sensor, a housing holding the base plate and the lead terminal and including an exposed portion in which a portion of the lead terminal is exposed, and a capacitor protecting the pressure sensor. The housing includes a capacitor housing portion, the capacitor being electrically connected to the lead terminal inside the exposed portion, and a positioning portion that positions, inside the capacitor housing portion, the capacitor that has been mounted in the capacitor housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Nidec Tosok Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshihiro Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20210156380
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor including a shaft, a pump driven via the shaft, and an inverter assembly located on a rear side of the motor and secured to the motor. The motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing that houses the rotor and the stator. The pump includes a pump rotor and a pump housing. The motor housing has a bottomed tubular shape that includes a bottom portion on a side of the inverter assembly, and the inverter assembly includes an inverter housing including a circuit board housing that houses a circuit board and a busbar holder. The busbar holder is on a side opposite to a terminal that is electrically connected to the circuit board with respect to the shaft in the circuit board housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11018544
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction, a stator which is disposed to face the rotor and includes a plurality of coils, a housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a bus bar assembly that is disposed on one side of the shaft in the axial direction, wherein the bus bar assembly includes a plurality of bus bars that are electrically connected to the plurality of coils of the stator and a bus bar holder that holds the plurality of bus bars, and wherein at least one bus bar among the plurality of bus bars is placed on a disposition surface part provided on the bus bar holder and extends in a direction crossing the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Kazuhiro Homma, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hideaki Uchise, Masato Aono, Akihiro Okita
  • Publication number: 20210124956
    Abstract: The object is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of appropriately handling a difference between detection results of sensors. The solution is an information processing apparatus including: a detection section configured to detect first information regarding a mobile object; an acquisition section configured to acquire second information regarding the mobile object, the second information being detected by an external apparatus; and a control section configured to control processing based on a comparison result of the first information and the second information detected for the same mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo TAKAMATSU, Kenta KAWAMOTO, Naoki IDE, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI