Patents by Inventor Yuji Kobayashi

Yuji 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: 11398352
    Abstract: A capacitor component includes a laminate including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, first and second external electrodes respectively provided on first and second end surfaces of the laminate, and a third external electrode provided on at least one of first and second lateral surfaces of the laminate. The internal electrode layers include a first internal electrode layer connected to the first external electrode and not connected to either the second or the third external electrode; a second internal electrode layer connected to the second external electrode and not connected to either the first or the third external electrode; a third internal electrode layer not connected to any of the first, the second, or the third external electrode; and a fourth internal electrode layer connected to the third external electrode and not connected to either the first or the second external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yuji Kobayashi, Tomohiro Sasaki, Yuichiro Tanaka, Daisuke Oyama, Satoshi Ishitobi
  • Patent number: 11389930
    Abstract: A surface treatment processing method includes: a shot processing step of performing shot processing of shooting shot media at a treatment target; a first inspection step of nondestructively inspecting at least one of a surface side state and an external dimension of the treatment target subjected to the shot processing, evaluating that the treatment target is passed when an inspection result is within a first normal range set in advance, evaluating that the treatment target is failed when the inspection result is out of a first allowable range set in advance to include the first normal range, and evaluating that the treatment target is to be additionally processed when the inspection result is out of the first normal range but within the first allowable range; and an additional processing step of performing the shot processing again on the treatment target which is evaluated to be additionally processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Iwata, Takuya Koyama, Yuji Kobayashi, Akinori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11372839
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technology which assists a verifying party in ascertaining an anomaly in an event of which notification has been made. Provided is an assistance device, comprising: an acquisition unit which acquires as an associated event, from among events which take place among a plurality of elements, and with respect to elements which have been associated with an event which has been detected as an anomalous event, an event other than the anomalous event which has been associated with the elements; and a generating unit which, on the basis of the anomalous event and the associated event, generates a relational graph in which the elements are vertices, the relations among the elements are edges, the anomalous event and the associated event are respectively represented, and the associated event is displayed in a display screen in a different manner from the manner in which the anomalous event is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junpei Kamimura, Koji Kida, Kazuhiko Isoyama, Yuji Kobayashi, Hiroki Tagato, Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshiaki Sakae
  • Publication number: 20220172897
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrode layers. A difference of about 3 ?m or less exists between a maximum thickness of a center portion of the external electrode and a thickness of a peripheral portion of the external electrode, and in a range of a field of view of about 50 ?m square centered at a point located farther inward by about 15% than a peripheral end portion of the external electrode, an angle ? of about 4 degrees or less is defined by a straight line connecting two points of intersection of a surface of the external electrode and a sectional line defining the range of the field of view of about 50 ?m square and a perpendicular line to a vertical line passing through one of the two points of intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji KOBAYASHI, Toshiyuki HORITANI
  • Publication number: 20220084335
    Abstract: A method for early warning is provided. The method clusters normal historical data of normal cars into groups based on the car subsystem to which they belong. The method extracts (i) features based on group membership and (ii) feature correlations based on correlation graphs formed from the groups. The method trains an Auto-Encoder and Auto Decoder (AE&AD) model based on the features and the feature correlations to reconstruct the normal historical data with minimum reconstruction errors. The method reconstructs, using the trained AE&AD model, historical data of specific car fault types with reconstruction errors, normalizes the reconstruction errors, and selects features of the car faults with a top k large errors as fault signatures. The method reconstructs streaming data of monitored cars using the trained AE&AD model to determine streaming reconstruction errors, comparing the streaming reconstruction errors with the fault signatures to predict and provide alerts for impending known faults.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: LuAn Tang, Wei Cheng, Haifeng Chen, Yuji Kobayashi, Zhengzhang Chen
  • Publication number: 20220065718
    Abstract: A deterioration evaluation method includes a determination step of determining a shot peening condition for imparting a maximum residual stress to an object formed of a metal material; a first shot peening step of performing first shot peening on the object under the shot peening condition; a first measurement step of measuring a first residual stress of the object after the first shot peening step; a second shot peening step of performing second shot peening on the object after the first measurement step under the shot peening condition; a second measurement step of measuring a second residual stress of the object after the second shot peening step; and an evaluation step of evaluating deterioration of the object based on the first residual stress and the second residual stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji KOBAYASHI, Akinori MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20220067535
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training and deploying a neural network mode include training a modular encoder model using training data collected from heterogeneous system types. The modular encoder model includes layers of neural network blocks and a selectively enabled connections between neural network blocks of adjacent layers. Each neural network block includes neural network layers. The modular encoder model is deployed to a system corresponding to one of the heterogeneous system types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: LuAn Tang, Wei Cheng, Haifeng Chen, Yuji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11250029
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system for more appropriately classifying elements that constitute an information processing device or the like. This information processing system is provided with: a means that, on the basis of information indicating the relationship between a plurality of elements that constitute a system, acquires, for first elements to be classified, a set of second elements capable of arriving at the first elements via a relationship of arbitrary numbers; and a means that, on the basis of the set corresponding to the first elements, classifies each of the first elements in any of a plurality of roles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nomura, Koji Kida, Kazuhiko Isoyama, Junpei Kamimura, Yoshiaki Sakae, Yuji Kobayashi, Etsuko Ichihara
  • Patent number: 11233471
    Abstract: A control circuit of a motor control device estimates an initial magnetic pole position of a rotor using an inductive sensing scheme. When estimating the initial magnetic pole position, a drive circuit applies a voltage to a stator winding at each of L electrical angles (L?5) while changing the L electrical angles. An absolute value of an electrical angle difference of the voltage applied to the stator winding between an i-th time (2?i?L) and an i?1st time is 180?360/L degrees or more and 180+360/L degrees or less. An absolute value of an electrical angle difference of the voltage applied to the stator winding between a 1st time for initial position estimation and a last time before starting initial position estimation is 180?360/L degrees or more and 180+360/L degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazumichi Yoshida, Harumitsu Fujimori, Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11223309
    Abstract: In a motor control device that controls a sensorless-type motor, a controller estimates an initial magnetic pole position of a rotor of a motor by an inductive sensing scheme while sequentially setting a plurality of energization angles. At each of the set energization angles, the controller converts peak values of currents flowing through a plurality of phases of a stator winding into a first current component having an electrical angle that is equal to a corresponding one of the set energization angles and a second current component that is different in electrical angle by 90 degrees from the first current component, to correct the first current component based on the second current component. The controller estimates the initial magnetic pole position of the rotor based on the corrected first current component that is obtained at each of the set energization angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yuta Tachibana, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazumichi Yoshida, Daichi Suzuki, Harumitsu Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11218101
    Abstract: In a motor control device in one embodiment, an initial position estimation unit estimates an initial position of a magnetic pole of a rotor of a motor in an inductive sensing scheme. At each of energization angles, the initial position estimation unit multiplies a ?-axis current component I? corresponding to a peak value of a current flowing through a stator winding by each of a cosine value and a sine value of a correction angle obtained by correcting each of the energization angles. The initial position estimation unit estimates the initial position of the magnetic pole of the rotor based on a ratio between an integrated value of a multiplication result about the cosine value and an integrated value of a multiplication result about the sine value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazumichi Yoshida, Daichi Suzuki, Harumitsu Fujimori
  • Publication number: 20210404376
    Abstract: A variable capacity turbocharger includes a variable nozzle unit having a shroud-side ring in which a first bearing hole is provided, a hub-side ring in which a second bearing hole is provided, a nozzle flow path formed between the shroud-side ring and the hub-side ring, and a nozzle vane disposed in the nozzle flow path and supported by both the first bearing hole and the second bearing hole. A turbine housing having a scroll flow path is connected to the nozzle flow path, in which the first bearing hole penetrates the shroud-side ring and communicates with the scroll flow path through a gap between the shroud-side ring and the turbine housing. Additionally, an opening of the first bearing hole on the gap side is smaller than an opening of the first bearing hole on the nozzle flow path side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Katsunori HAYASHI, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Takafumi UEDA, Kazuhiro ONITSUKA, Fumihiko FUKUHARA
  • Patent number: 11201874
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires monitoring data. The monitoring data is data representing an event occurring in the monitoring target system. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not the event represented by the monitoring data is an event to be warned. This determination is made using the determination model. The determination model is a model for determining whether or not the event is a warning target. The information processing apparatus updates the determination model, based on the monitoring data and the result of determination on the monitoring data by using the determination model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11045922
    Abstract: A first inspection step nondestructively inspects a surface side state of a treatment target to be subjected to shot processing of shooting shot media at the treatment target and evaluates that the treatment target is failed when an inspection result deviates from a first allowable range predetermined. A condition setting step sets a shot processing condition in response to the inspection result of the first inspection step for the treatment target evaluated as not failed in the first inspection step. A shot processing step performs shot processing of shooting shot media at the treatment target evaluated as not failed in the first inspection step in the shot processing condition set in the condition setting step. A second inspection step after the shot processing step nondestructively inspects a surface side state of the treatment target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Iwata, Takuya Koyama, Yuji Kobayashi, Akinori Matsui
  • Publication number: 20210190678
    Abstract: One point on a surface of a qualified article is measured in advance by a color sensor without contact, and a qualification reference value is set based on an output value thereof. Thereafter, one point on a surface of an inspection target of same design specifications as the qualified article is measured by the color sensor without contact, and an output value thereof is compared with the qualification reference value, and qualification/failure is judged. Because qualification/failure can be carried out without contacting an inspection target in this way, application to a high-speed production line is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiya Tsuji, Shoichi Yamamoto, Yuji Kobayashi, Toshio Sugibayashi, Shun Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20210133068
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which is capable of suppressing a deterioration in accuracy of detecting an anomaly and accuracy of analyzing the anomaly, while suppressing an increase in an amount of data to be stored. The information processing system includes anomaly detection unit that collects event data indicating a predetermined event detected in a process of a device to be monitored, determines whether a predetermined index value related to the event exceeds a preset first threshold, and instructs enhanced monitoring of the device to be monitored and the process related to the event when the index value exceeds the first threshold, and collection instruction unit that determines an additional event being an event to be additionally monitored when the enhanced monitoring is instructed, and instructs the device to be monitored, which is subjected to the enhanced monitoring, to monitor the determined additional event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi KARINO, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Hiroki TAGATO, Masato YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20210109801
    Abstract: An anomaly assessment device includes: a storage storing a correspondence relation between a type of a device, and a transition state candidate group in a stable state of the device of the type; at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire event information of a monitoring target device; identify a transition state associated with the event information acquired of the monitoring target device; and assesse normality/anomaly of the monitoring target device, based on the transition state candidate group associated with a type of the monitoring target device in the stored correspondence relation, and the identified transition state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato YASUDA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Hiroki TAGATO, Shuichi KARINO, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Yuji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10949318
    Abstract: Provided is, for example, a display control apparatus that generates display information with which an event having occurred in an information processing system can be easily determined. This display control apparatus 101 comprises a display control unit 102 that, on the basis of device information indicating a device detected by a first information processing apparatus in an information processing system and communication information indicating communication executed between a second information processing apparatus in the information processing system and a third information processing apparatus in the information processing system: performs displaying on a display apparatus in a manner such that said device and said first information processing apparatus are associated with one another; and performs displaying on said display apparatus in a manner such that said second information processing apparatus and said third information processing apparatus are associated with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsuko Ichihara, Koji Kida, Yoshiaki Sakae, Kazuhiko Isoyama, Junpei Kamimura, Takashi Nomura, Yuji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210061603
    Abstract: An image forming device including an optical sensor, an ultrasound sensor, and a conveyance guide. The optical sensor and the ultrasound sensor are disposed alongside a conveyance path of a sheet and are used to determine sheet type. The conveyance guide guides the sheet along the conveyance path. The conveyance guide is structured such that, on the conveyance path between the optical sensor and the ultrasound sensor, the sheet is in contact with the conveyance guide while a portion of the sheet is in a light irradiation range of the optical sensor and a different portion of the sheet is in an ultrasound irradiation range of the ultrasound sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaka YAMAMOTO, Akinori KIMATA, Hiroshi EGUCHI, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Natsuyo IDA, Yasuhiro ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 10909014
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which is capable of suppressing a deterioration in accuracy of detecting an anomaly and accuracy of analyzing the anomaly, while suppressing an increase in an amount of data to be stored. The information processing system includes anomaly detection unit that collects event data indicating a predetermined event detected in a process of a device to be monitored, determines whether a predetermined index value related to the event exceeds a preset first threshold, and instructs enhanced monitoring of the device to be monitored and the process related to the event when the index value exceeds the first threshold, and collection instruction unit that determines an additional event being an event to be additionally monitored when the enhanced monitoring is instructed, and instructs the device to be monitored, which is subjected to the enhanced monitoring, to monitor the determined additional event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Karino, Kazuhiko Isoyama, Yuji Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Sakae, Hiroki Tagato, Masato Yasuda