Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Kobayashi

Yukihiro 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: 11823507
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a recording device capable of acquiring information on behavior of a moving body with high accuracy by using a simple configuration. [Solution] Provided is the recording device including: a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing; a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body; a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Arashima, Hiroshi Okada, Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11440734
    Abstract: With a parts supply system in which a plurality of parts boxes is transported by a trolley while the parts boxes are unloaded from the trolley at respectively corresponding part-supply places provided on a parts transport route, progress status of supply of the parts boxes to respective unloading places is determined. Information of RFID tags T1 to T10 respectively applied to a plurality of parts boxes B1 to B10 is read by ID tag reading devices 4A, 4B and 4C respectively mounted on trolleys 21, 22 and 23. Thus, the respective parts boxes B1 to B10 that exist on the trolleys 21, 22 and 23 are identified, and information is generated on the progress status of supply of the respective parts boxes B1 to B10 to the part-supply places. Thus, the progress status of the supply of the parts boxes B1 to B10 to the part-supply places is recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200410789
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a recording device capable of acquiring information on behavior of a moving body with high accuracy by using a simple configuration. [Solution] Provided is the recording device including: a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing; a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body; a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: KENJI ARASHIMA, HIROSHI OKADA, YUKIHIRO KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10825271
    Abstract: To provide a recording device capable of acquiring information on behavior of a moving body with high accuracy by using a simple configuration. Provided is the recording device including: a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing; a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body; a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Arashima, Hiroshi Okada, Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200299064
    Abstract: With a parts supply system in which a plurality of parts boxes is transported by a trolley while the parts boxes are unloaded from the trolley at respectively corresponding part-supply places provided on a parts transport route, progress status of supply of the parts boxes to respective unloading places is grasped. Information of RFID tags T1 to T10 respectively applied to a plurality of parts boxes B1 to B10 is read by ID tag reading devices 4A, 4B and 4C respectively mounted on trolleys 21, 22 and 23. Thus, the respective parts boxes B1 to B10 that exist on the trolleys 21, 22 and 23 are identified, and information is generated on the progress status of supply of the respective parts boxes B1 to B10 to the part-supply places. Thus, the progress status of the supply of the parts boxes B1 to B10 to the part-supply places is recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukihiro KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180268626
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a recording device capable of acquiring information on behavior of a moving body with high accuracy by using a simple configuration. [Solution] Provided is the recording device including: a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing; a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body; a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: KENJI ARASHIMA, HIROSHI OKADA, YUKIHIRO KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8511834
    Abstract: A projection type display apparatus in accordance with the present invention is provided with a lamp unit including a light source, a cooling fan cooling the light source, and a cooling wind guide tube guiding a cooling wind generated by the cooling fan to the lamp unit, and the cooling wind guide tube is structured such as to have a movable type rectification plate which is movable by its own weight, and cools the light source without being affected by an installed direction of the projection type display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Katayama, Hiroyuki Inoue, Shigeki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8490742
    Abstract: A hydraulic power steering unit has an assist force generating unit that uses oil to generate assist force for steering by a steering device, a variable flow oil pump unit that supplies oil to the assist force generating unit, and a controller that controls the oil pump unit. The controller has a command flow setting device that sets a command flow rate Qc of the oil supplied from the oil pump unit to the assist force generating unit in accordance with a vehicle quantity of state such as a vehicle speed, steering angle or the like. The controller also has a flow correcting device that corrects the command flow rate Qc in accordance with the speed of the oil pump unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8206896
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for detecting the presence of uterine leiomyosarcoma using the transcription or expression level of LMP2 and/or cyclin E in uterine smooth muscle tissue as an indicator and a method for detecting uterine leiomyosarcoma using LMP2 and/or cyclin E as a marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Shinshu University
    Inventors: Takuma Hayashi, Yukihiro Kobayashi, Kenji Sano, Akiko Horiuchi, Ikuo Konishi
  • Patent number: 8147664
    Abstract: A sputtering apparatus includes a target holder which is placed in a vacuum vessel and can hold a target configured to deposit a film on a substrate, a substrate holder which can mount the substrate, a first shield member which is disposed in a vicinity of the substrate holder, and configured to form a closed state in which the substrate holder and the target holder are shielded from each other, or an open state in which the substrate holder and the target holder are opened to each other, a first opening/closing driving unit adapted to open/close the first shield member to enter the open state or the closed state, a second shield member, having an annular-shaped, disposed on the surface of the substrate holder and an outer peripheral portion of the substrate, and a driving unit adapted to move the substrate holder in order to bring the substrate holder, on which the second shield member is disposed, close to the first shield member in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Yamaguchi, Kazuaki Matsuo, Susumu Akiyama, Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7962262
    Abstract: A first computing section stores a plurality of types of variable transmission ratio characteristics prescribed in correspondence with different modes in the form of maps. With reference to one of the maps corresponding to a selected one of the modes, the first computing section computes a first command angle by which the variable transmission ratio characteristics prescribed by the map are brought about. In this manner, variable gear ratio control is carried out. After a subsequent mode has been selected, the first computing section does not switch the maps which are referred to in the variable gear ratio control if the steering wheel turning angle ?s is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Jtekt Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110051098
    Abstract: A projection type display apparatus in accordance with the present invention is provided with a lamp unit including a light source, a cooling fan cooling the light source, and a cooling wind guide tube guiding a cooling wind generated by the cooling fan to the lamp unit, and the cooling wind guide tube is structured such as to have a movable type rectification plate which is movable by its own weight, and cools the light source without being affected by an installed direction of the projection type display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Katayama, Hiroyuki Inoue, Shigeki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20110020792
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for detecting the presence of uterine leiomyosarcoma using the transcription or expression level of LMP2 and/or cyclin E in uterine smooth muscle tissue as an indicator and a method for detecting uterine leiomyosarcoma using LMP2 and/or cyclin E as a marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Shinshu University
    Inventors: Takuma Hayashi, Yukihiro Kobayashi, Kenji Sano, Akiko Horiuchi, Ikuo Konishi
  • Publication number: 20100243438
    Abstract: A sputtering apparatus includes a target holder which is placed in a vacuum vessel and can hold a target configured to deposit a film on a substrate, a substrate holder which can mount the substrate, a first shield member which is disposed in a vicinity of the substrate holder, and configured to form a closed state in which the substrate holder and the target holder are shielded from each other, or an open state in which the substrate holder and the target holder are opened to each other, a first opening/closing driving unit adapted to open/close the first shield member to enter the open state or the closed state, a second shield member, having an annular-shaped, disposed on the surface of the substrate holder and an outer peripheral portion of the substrate, and a driving unit adapted to move the substrate holder in order to bring the substrate holder, on which the second shield member is disposed, close to the first shield member in the closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Yamaguchi, Kazuaki Matsuo, Susumu Akiyama, Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090166195
    Abstract: A sputtering apparatus to form a film on a substrate includes an electrode arranged in a vacuum chamber and having a placing surface to place a target on it, a stationary portion provided on the peripheral portion of the placing surface, a shutter mechanism to shield in the vacuum chamber the target placed on the placing surface, and a moving mechanism which sets in the vacuum chamber the shutter mechanism at a predetermined position. Of the stationary portion and the movable portion of the shutter mechanism, one is provided with a recess and the other one is provided with a projection. When the moving mechanism sets the shutter mechanism at a position close to the stationary portion, the projection is inserted in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kobayashi, Koichi Yoshizuka, Toshiyuki Ota
  • Publication number: 20080004772
    Abstract: A first computing section stores a plurality of types of variable transmission ratio characteristics prescribed in correspondence with different modes in the form of maps. With reference to one of the maps corresponding to a selected one of the modes, the first computing section computes a first command angle by which the variable transmission ratio characteristics prescribed by the map are brought about. In this manner, variable gear ratio control is carried out. After a subsequent mode has been selected, the first computing section does not switch the maps which are referred to in the variable gear ratio control if the steering wheel turning angle ?s is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7306070
    Abstract: A variable gear ratio hydraulic power steering device 1 is provided with a variable ratio transmission mechanism 7 for varying the rotation transmission ratio between the rotational angle of a steering handle 31 and the rotational angle of a pinion shaft 33 and a flow volume control valve 40 for controlling the discharge flow volume of an oil pump 10 which circulates operating fluid. The variable ratio transmission mechanism 7 has a lock mechanism 75. A valve controlling controller 50 for controlling the flow volume control valve 40 switches main and secondary flow volume control maps for controlling the flow volume control valve 40, in dependence on the operational state of the lock mechanism 75. Thus, a failsafe function for the variable ratio transmission mechanism 7 is given to the variable gear ratio hydraulic power steering device 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070200647
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spherical crystal blank in which the crystal axis is determined by a simple work with a high degree of accuracy includes the steps of: cutting out a cube from a crystal blank provided with crystal axes including a Z axis, and X and Y axes orthogonal to the Z axis, the cube including the Z axis as a side and being of a size capable of including the spherical crystal blank to be manufactured; then forming a reference hole for Z axis extending along the Z axis direction in reference to the side of the cube in the cube; and thereafter, forming the cube into a sphere so as to include a portion of the reference hole for Z axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Koyama, Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20060243518
    Abstract: A hydraulic power steering unit has an assist force generating unit that uses oil to generate assist force for steering by a steering device, a variable flow oil pump unit that supplies oil to the assist force generating unit, and a controller that controls the oil pump unit. The controller has a command flow setting device that sets a command flow rate Qc of the oil supplied from the oil pump unit to the assist force generating unit in accordance with a vehicle quantity of state such as a vehicle speed, steering angle or the like. The controller also has a flow correcting device that corrects the command flow rate Qc in accordance with the speed of the oil pump unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050229592
    Abstract: A variable gear ratio hydraulic power steering device 1 is provided with a variable ratio transmission mechanism 7 for varying the rotation transmission ratio between the rotational angle of a steering handle 31 and the rotational angle of a pinion shaft 33 and a flow volume control valve 40 for controlling the discharge flow volume of an oil pump 10 which circulates operating fluid. The variable ratio transmission mechanism 7 has a lock mechanism 75. A valve controlling controller 50 for controlling the flow volume control valve 40 switches main and secondary flow volume control maps for controlling the flow volume control valve 40, in dependence on the operational state of the lock mechanism 75. Thus, a failsafe function for the variable ratio transmission mechanism 7 is given to the variable gear ratio hydraulic power steering device 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: TOYODA KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kobayashi