Patents by Inventor Yutaka Kobayashi
Yutaka 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).
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Patent number: 11960221Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a belt, a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller and an upstream roller, an outer member, an urging member, a first position changing mechanism, a storing portion, a controller, and an operating portion. The controller controls the first position changing mechanism on the basis of a kind of a recording material on which an image is formed, first set information stored in the storing portion, and first input information for changing setting of a position of the urging member inputted to the controller through the operating portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryosuke Tsuruga, Yutaka Kakehi, Tatsuya Kohno, Manato Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11955777Abstract: An optical combiner includes: a plurality of first input optical fibers that each include a core; a bridge fiber that includes a bridge input surface connected to the cores of the plurality of first input optical fibers, a diameter reduction portion having a diameter that decreases away from the bridge input surface along an optical axis of the optical combiner, and a bridge output surface located opposite to the bridge input surface along the optical axis; an intermediate optical fiber that includes a core connected to the bridge output surface of the bridge fiber; a second input optical fiber that includes a core; and an output optical fiber that includes a first optical waveguide connected to the core of the intermediate optical fiber, and a second optical waveguide connected to the core of the second input optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki Fujita, Ryokichi Matsumoto, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Takuya Kobayashi, Kiwamu Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240113810Abstract: A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts that encode transport data; a mapping part that performs such a mapping that encoded data sequentially formed by the encoding parts are not successively included in the same symbol, thereby forming data symbols; and a symbol interleaver that interleaves the data symbols. In this way, a low computational complexity can be used to perform an interleaving process equivalent to a bit interleaving process to effectively improve the reception quality at a receiving end.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Shutai OKAMURA, Kiyotaka KOBAYASHI, Masayuki ORIHASHI, Kazuaki TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11947285Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a rotatable endless belt, a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller and an upstream roller, an outer member, a guiding member, a sheet-like pressing member, and a coating member. The coating member is disposed on the pressing member so as not to contact the belt and is electrically grounded or electrically conducted to the guiding member. The coating member is formed of a material lower in surface resistivity than the pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryosuke Tsuruga, Manato Kobayashi, Yutaka Kakehi
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Patent number: 11938547Abstract: A turning tool includes: a holder portion; and a cutting edge portion fixed to the holder portion, wherein the cutting edge portion is composed of a synthetic single-crystal diamond, and the cutting edge portion has a nose curvature having a curvature radius of more than or equal to 0.1 mm and less than or equal to 1.2 mm, and the nose curvature satisfies at least one of a condition that a direction of a line of intersection between the rake face and a bisecting cross section of a vertex angle of the nose curvature is within ±10° relative to a <110> direction of the synthetic single-crystal diamond, and a condition that the direction of the line of intersection between the rake face and the bisecting cross section of the vertex angle of the nose curvature is within ±10° relative to a <100> direction of the synthetic single-crystal diamond.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Akihiko Ueda, Takuya Nohara, Yutaka Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11942495Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a circuit board, a heat releasing plate, an adhesive member, and a conductive member. The circuit board transmits a signal of the semiconductor chip. The heat releasing plate has the semiconductor chip disposed thereon, and has an opening in a region on the outer side of a semiconductor chip placement region that is a region in which the semiconductor chip is disposed. The adhesive member is disposed in a region on the outer side of the opening on a different surface of the heat releasing plate from the surface on which the semiconductor chip is disposed, and bonds the circuit board and the heat releasing plate to each other. The conductive member connects the semiconductor chip and the circuit board to each other via the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Chino, Hiroyuki Shigeta, Shigekazu Ishii, Koyo Hosokawa, Hirohisa Yasukawa, Mitsuhito Kanatake, Kosuke Hareyama, Yutaka Ootaki, Kiyohisa Sakai, Atsushi Tsukada, Hirotaka Kobayashi, Ninao Sato, Yuki Yamane
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Publication number: 20240088607Abstract: A connector (10) is provided with a housing (11) and a terminal fitting (12) to be accommodated into the housing (11). The housing (11) includes a housing body (20), a pair of side walls (21), a lock arm (23) and a projection (24). The housing body (20) accommodates the terminal fitting (12). The pair of side walls (21) project from an outer surface of the housing body (20) and are arranged side by side in a width direction of the housing (11). The lock arm (23) is arranged between the pair of side walls (21) and supported on the pair of side walls (21) displaceably like a seesaw. The projection (24) is provided on a facing surface of the housing body (20) and the lock arm (23) and serves as a fulcrum of a seesaw movement of the lock arm (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Shinji TANAKA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240082812Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous body having excellent adsorption performance, an adsorbent including the porous body, and a method of removing a metal and/or a metal ion from a liquid to be treated, with the adsorbent, and, in order to achieve the object, the present invention provides a porous body having a co-continuous structure formed by: a ceramic skeleton including mesopores; and macropores, wherein a surface of the ceramic skeleton is modified by a metal- and/or metal ion-adsorbable nitrogen atom-containing group, wherein the nitrogen atom-containing group is at least one selected from a primary amino group, a secondary amino group, a tertiary amino group, a quaternary ammonium group, an imino group, a nitrilo group and a nitrogen atom-containing heterocyclic group, and wherein an amount of the nitrogen atom-containing group contained in the porous body is 1.5 mmol/g or more and 5.4 mmol/g or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takao OSAKO, Kazuhiko KATO, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11929784Abstract: A wavelength dispersion compensating apparatus, including: a signal light generating unit which generates, from predetermined signal light, signal light having a phase correlation centered on a degenerate frequency of a phase sensitive amplifier; a dispersion compensation transmission path which compensates for a wavelength dispersion of the predetermined signal light included in the signal light; a filter which compensates for a residual wavelength dispersion after compensation by the dispersion compensation transmission path of the predetermined signal light included in the signal light; a phase sensitive amplifier which amplifies the signal light input via the dispersion compensation transmission path and the filter; a residual wavelength dispersion calculating unit which calculates a residual wavelength dispersion amount based on a measurement result of output light amplified by the phase sensitive amplifier; and a filter control unit which controls the filter so as to add a wavelength dispersion that canType: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei Shimizu, Takushi Kazama, Takayuki Kobayashi, Yutaka Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11927516Abstract: A sample scraping method and a sample scraping device capable of efficiently scraping and collecting a biological tissue section without waste while suppressing contamination is provided. In a sample scraping method for scraping and collecting a biological tissue section held on a slide, the FFPE section held on the slide is heated, and the heated FFPE section is scraped by a blade such that the FFPE section that has been scraped off and remains on the blade is collected in a container.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Soichi Oue, Yutaka Maeda, Junyi Ding, Takayuki Koshihara, Hironori Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Kouchi
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Patent number: 11915951Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage disposed in a processing chamber for mounting a wafer, a plasma generation chamber disposed above the processing chamber for plasma generation using process gas, a plate member having multiple introduction holes, made of a dielectric material, disposed above the stage and between the processing chamber and the plasma generation chamber, and a lamp disposed around the plate member for heating the wafer. The plasma processing apparatus further includes an external IR light source, an emission fiber arranged in the stage, that outputs IR light from the external IR light source toward a wafer bottom, and a light collection fiber for collecting IR light from the wafer. Data obtained using only IR light from the lamp is subtracted from data obtained also using IR light from the external IR light source during heating of the wafer. Thus, a wafer temperature is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Nobuya Miyoshi, Kazunori Shinoda, Tatehito Usui, Naoyuki Kofuji, Yutaka Kouzuma, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Kenetsu Yokogawa, Satoshi Sakai, Masaru Izawa
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Publication number: 20240004380Abstract: A data analysis unit includes a validity determination unit that calculates a determination factor for determining the validity of a data analysis process to determine the validity of the data analysis process, and displays the validity determination result on a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Masayoshi OJIMA, Masahiro YAMAZAKI, Kenji SATO, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Hideyuki GOTOU
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Publication number: 20230414201Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires position information relating to an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic image. The processing circuitry acquires ultrasonic image data which is obtained by transmission and reception of ultrasonic from the ultrasonic probe at a position where the position information is acquired, the ultrasonic image data being associated with the position information. The processing circuitry executes associating between a first coordinate system relating to the position information and a second coordinate system relating to medical image data. The processing circuitry executes image alignment between an ultrasonic image based on the associated ultrasonic image data and a medical image based on the medical image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MINE, Satoshi MATSUNAGA, Yukifumi KOBAYASHI, Kazuo TEZUKA, Jiro HIGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAI, Shigemitsu NAKAYA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11848519Abstract: It is aimed to reduce cost. A female connector (F) includes a female housing (30) to be connected to a male housing (10), a lock functioning portion (57) provided on the female housing (30) and configured to lock the female housing (30) and the male housing (10) in a connected state by being locked to the male housing (10), and a releasing member (63) attachable to and detachable to the female housing (30), the releasing member being a component separate from the female housing (30). The releasing member (63) can displace the lock functioning portion (57) to disengage the lock functioning portion (57) from the male housing (10) while being mounted on the female housing (30).Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Yutaka Kobayashi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Teruo Hara
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Patent number: 11832990Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire at least one of optical image data and sound data as data related to a confirmation item corresponding to a disorder name of a subject or an examination type for an ultrasonic scan; associate the ultrasonic image data acquired by the ultrasonic scan with the data related to the confirmation item; and store the association in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemitsu Nakaya, Jiro Higuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi, Atsushi Nakai, Kazuo Tezuka, Yoshitaka Mine, Shunsuke Satoh
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Publication number: 20230379063Abstract: An underwater optical wireless communication device (first communication device) is an underwater optical wireless communication device for underwater optical wireless communication. It includes a first light emitter for emitting first light having a first wavelength included in a blue wavelength band as a center wavelength, a first light receiver for receiving second light having a second wavelength included in a green wavelength band as a center wavelength, and a noise suppression unit for suppressing noise caused by green light generated due to the first light.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Shunji MURAKAWA, Keita NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11795068Abstract: A water purification apparatus and a water purification method capable of effectively using a layered double hydroxide and easily being applied are described. A water purification apparatus for removing a polluted substance from polluted water includes a solid-liquid separator that separates the polluted water and a solid material from each other, and a polluted substance remover that removes, by a layered double hydroxide, the polluted substance contained in the polluted water separated by the solid-liquid separator.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: JDC CorporationInventors: Mutsuhiro Ohno, Yutaka Kobayashi, Takeo Asakura
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Publication number: 20230321704Abstract: A wire drawing die 1 includes a non-diamond material, is provided with a die hole 1h, and has a reduction 1c and a bearing 1d that is positioned downstream of the reduction 1c. A reduction angle ? which is an opening angle of the die hole 1h at the reduction 1c is less than or equal to 17°, and a surface roughness Ra of the die hole 1h within ±20 ?m from a specific position inside the bearing 1d in a circumferential direction of the die hole 1h that is perpendicular to a wire drawing direction is less than or equal to 0.025 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicants: A.L.M.T. Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kohei KURAMOTO, Takuya KINOSHITA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Makoto YUKAWA, Kohichiroh KIMURA, Kentaro SHIRO
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Publication number: 20230312479Abstract: A novel amino acid derivative is provided, wherein the amino acid derivative is expected to improve binding affinity of polypeptides comprising the derivative therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Haruaki Kurasaki, Masatoshi Matsumoto, Ayumu Matsuda, Yutaka Kobayashi, Masahiko Kinebuchi, Tomoko Ashizawa, Katsuma Matsui, Motoki Murai, Masami Yamada
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Publication number: 20230291149Abstract: It is aimed for miniaturization. A connector device is provided with a first connector, a second connector provided to face the first connector, an adapter for connecting the first and second connectors, posture holding portions provided on the first connector and the adapter and configured to hold the adapter in a constant posture with respect to the first connector by coming into contact with each other, a resilient holding portion provided on the adapter and configured to hold the first posture holding portion of the first connector and the movable posture holding portion of the adapter in a state in contact with each other by a resilient force, and a first guide portion and a second guide portion for correcting position shifts of the second connector and the adapter by inclining the adapter while resiliently deforming the resilient holding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Shinji TANAKA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI