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).

  • Publication number: 20170203670
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus including a motor 1, a transmission 5 disposed adjacent to the motor 1 or in the vicinity of the motor 1, an oil temperature sensor 5 that detects temperature of lubricating oil of the transmission 5, a cooling mechanism that cools a motor with a refrigerant, a refrigerant sensor that detects temperature of the refrigerant, and a controller that controls torque of the motor 1. Further, the controller selects either the lubricating oil temperature detected by the oil temperature sensor 5 or the refrigerant temperature detected by the refrigerant sensor as detected temperature and applies limitation to torque based on the detected temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hatsuki MORINAGA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170151649
    Abstract: An apparatus for replacing a polishing table, which is used in a polishing apparatus for polishing a substrate such as wafer, is disclosed. The polishing table replacement apparatus (10) is used for removing a polishing table (3) from a polishing apparatus (1). This polishing table replacement apparatus (10) includes a crane (10) configured to move the polishing table (3) vertically and horizontally, a table stage (14) on which the polishing table (3) can be placed, and a table-stage tilting mechanism (15) configured to tilt the table stage (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi SUEMASA, Hiroyuki SHINOZAKI, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170130362
    Abstract: Single crystal diamond of which hardness and chipping resistance have been improved in a balanced manner, a method for manufacturing the single crystal diamond, and a tool containing the diamond are provided. Single crystal diamond contains nitrogen atoms, and a ratio of the number of isolated substitutional nitrogen atoms in the single crystal diamond to the total number of nitrogen atoms in the single crystal diamond is not lower than 0.02% and lower than 40%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Natsuo Tatsumi, Hitoshi Sumiya, Akihiko Ueda, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9630853
    Abstract: An object is to provide polycrystalline diamond applicable to diverse applications; and a water jet orifice, a stylus for gravure printing, a scriber, a diamond cutting tool, and a scribing wheel that include such polycrystalline diamond. This object is achieved by polycrystalline diamond obtained by converting and sintering non-diamond carbon under an ultrahigh pressure and at a high temperature without addition of a sintering aid or a catalyst, wherein sintered diamond grains constituting the polycrystalline diamond have an average grain diameter of more than 50 nm and less than 2500 nm and a purity of 99% or more, and the diamond has a D90 grain diameter of (average grain diameter+average grain diameterĂ—0.9) or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sato, Katsuko Yamamoto, Naohiro Toda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9627718
    Abstract: A parallel-connected electricity storage system in which a plurality of chargeable and dischargeable electricity storage elements are connected in series as an electricity storage element row and a plurality of the electricity storage element rows are connected in parallel includes an electricity-storage-element-voltage measuring device that measures an electricity storage element voltage of each of the electricity storage elements, an electricity-storage-element-state estimating device that estimates an electricity storage element state of each of the electricity storage elements, an electricity-storage-element-current measuring device that measures an electricity storage element current of each of the electricity storage element rows, a parallel-connected switch that performs connection and disconnection to and from the parallel-connected electricity storage system for each of the electricity storage element rows, and a parallel-connected-switch control means for turning on the parallel-connected switch on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoh Inaba, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9609790
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle has an internal combustion engine and a motor as a driving source, a transmission that changes a speed of rotation of the internal combustion engine or motor and transmits the rotation to driving wheels of the vehicle, a high-voltage battery that supplies power to the motor through an inverter, a cooling mechanism equipped with a pump to circulate a coolant and thereby cool the inverter, a coolant temperature measurement device that detects or estimates a temperature of the coolant, a low-voltage battery that supplies power to the pump, and a converter through which power is supplied from the high-voltage battery to the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Ikeda, Yoshinori Sugita, Yutaka Kobayashi, Mikio Nozaki, Shigeyuki Kiyota
  • Patent number: 9578525
    Abstract: A base station includes a monitoring unit that monitors whether a supply of electrical power to a first other base station that forms another communication area that is overlapped with a communication area formed by the own station is stopped, and a wireless communication unit that sends, when the supply of the electrical power to the first other base station is stopped, first key data by using a first channel and that sends, after sending the first key data, second key data that is the same as the first key data and a transmission regulation notification indicating that call regulation is performed on the own station by using a second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ishihata, Yutaka Kobayashi, Takayuki Ohtsuka, Masaya Isobe, Hiroyasu Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20170007201
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to extract a cardiac valve from three-dimensional images of frames generated by controlling an ultrasonic probe to perform transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate, as a prolapse gap, a gap between valve leaflets of the cardiac valve in a three-dimensional image of a specific frame among the frames. The processing circuitry is configured to display the prolapse gap on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Kazutoshi SADAMITSU, Jiro HIGUCHI, Masatoshi NISHINO, Norihisa KIKUCHI, Atsushi SUMI, Naoyuki NAKAZAWA, Atsushi NAKAI, Cong YAO, Naoki YONEYAMA, Kazuo TEZUKA, Yoshitaka MINE, Masami TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9498963
    Abstract: A flow path member includes a liquid flow path which includes a flow path inlet portion which has a first inlet port and a second inlet port, and a flow path outlet portion which has a first outlet port communicating with the first inlet port and a second outlet port communicating with the second inlet port, in which, in the flow path inlet portion, the first inlet port and the second inlet port are aligned in a reference direction, and in which, in a flow path extending from the first inlet port to the first outlet port and a flow path extending from the second inlet port to the second outlet port, at least parts of the flow paths, in terms of the lengths of the respective flow paths, are disposed in a direction different from the reference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Yamasaki, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160298497
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat energy recovery system including: a heat energy recovery circuit that causes a working medium to circulate by means of a circulation pump to exchange heat with supercharged air from a supercharger via a first heater and exchange heat with steam from an exhaust-gas economizer via a second heater, in order to integrally drive a turbine and a generator; and a controller that performs stop control to stop the circulation pump based on the flow state of the steam in a first steam flow path that causes the steam to flow from the exhaust-gas economizer to a soot blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD., TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd., MIURA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeto ADACHI, Yutaka NARUKAWA, Tetsuro FUJII, Kazuya ARAHIRA, Masakazu YAMAMOTO, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Toshio SAGESHIMA
  • Patent number: 9415466
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for manufacturing cutting tools that is capable of providing cutting tools that have a cut surface whose surface is uniformly smooth and that have a stable performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamae, Hiroyuki Murase, Katsuko Yamamoto, Mamoru Ono, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Toshimitsu Sakata, Teruhiro Enami, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9409495
    Abstract: An inverter attachment unit including an inverter is attached to a vehicle body. In addition, an auxiliary battery attachment unit including an auxiliary battery is attached to the vehicle body so that the auxiliary battery attachment unit may be adjacent to the inverter attachment unit. When the auxiliary battery attachment unit is attached to the vehicle body, attachment portions by which the inverter attachment unit is attached to the vehicle body are covered with the auxiliary battery attachment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160212885
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle has an internal combustion engine and a motor as a driving source, a transmission that changes a speed of rotation of the internal combustion engine or motor and transmits the rotation to driving wheels of the vehicle, a high-voltage battery that supplies power to the motor through an inverter, a cooling mechanism equipped with a pump to circulate a coolant and thereby cool the inverter, a coolant temperature measurement device that detects or estimates a temperature of the coolant, a low-voltage battery that supplies power to the pump, and a converter through which power is supplied from the high-voltage battery to the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Ikeda, Yoshinori Sugita, Yutaka Kobayashi, Mikio Nozaki, Shigeyuki Kiyota
  • Publication number: 20160159099
    Abstract: A liquid jet apparatus comprises a liquid jet head, a carriage carrying the liquid jet head in a side-to-side direction, a liquid flow channel, and a liquid container in fluid communication with the liquid jet head through the liquid flow channel. The liquid container includes a liquid containing chamber arranged along a front/back direction orthogonal to the side-to-side direction; a liquid outlet port, from which the liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber flows to the liquid flow channel; and a liquid inlet port, through which the liquid is injected into the liquid containing chamber. The liquid inlet port has an end surface that does not face in a vertical direction relative to a normal posture of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Shoma Kudo, Takashi Koase, Toshiya Okada, Yasunori Koike, Tetsuya Takamoto, Nobutaka Suzuki, Satoshi Tamai, Toru Nakazawa, Katsutomo Tsukahara, Masayuki Kanazawa, Naofumi Mimura, Keigo Iizawa, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160143628
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the embodiment includes a memory, a display, an input interface unit and a control unit. The memory stores a plurality of body marks that are classified for each region of a subject. The display displays the plurality of body marks stored in the memory. The input interface unit instructs selection of any one of the plurality of body marks displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa KIKUCHI, Kazutoshi SADAMITSU, Naoyuki NAKAZAWA, Fumiyasu SAKAGUCHI, Masatoshi NISHINO, Jiro HIGUCHI, Atsushi SUMI, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Cong YAO, Masami TAKAHASHI, Atsushi NAKAI
  • Patent number: 9290001
    Abstract: A liquid container includes an ink chamber containing an ink to be supplied via a tube to a liquid ejecting head consuming the ink; an outlet port from which the ink contained in the ink chamber flows to the tube side; an injection port through which the ink can be injected into the ink chamber; and an air intake port taking air into the ink chamber from a further vertically upper position than a liquid level of the ink when the ink is contained in the ink chamber. If the ink equal to 5% of containing capacity containable in the ink chamber flows from the outlet port, the liquid container has an area where a fluctuation range of the liquid level of the ink inside the ink chamber becomes 5% or less of the cubic root of the containing capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shoma Kudo, Takashi Koase, Toshiya Okada, Yasunori Koike, Tetsuya Takamoto, Nobutaka Suzuki, Satoshi Tamai, Toru Nakazawa, Katsutomo Tsukahara, Masayuki Kanazawa, Naofumi Mimura, Keigo Iizawa, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160075141
    Abstract: A flow path member includes a liquid flow path which includes a flow path inlet portion which has a first inlet port and a second inlet port, and a flow path outlet portion which has a first outlet port communicating with the first inlet port and a second outlet port communicating with the second inlet port, in which, in the flow path inlet portion, the first inlet port and the second inlet port are aligned in a reference direction, and in which, in a flow path extending from the first inlet port to the first outlet port and a flow path extending from the second inlet port to the second outlet port, at least parts of the flow paths, in terms of the lengths of the respective flow paths, are disposed in a direction different from the reference direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Keigo YAMASAKI, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9246337
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery units mutually connected in parallel, each including a cell group in which one or two or more secondary cells are connected in series, and a first current control element that is connected in series with this cell group, a first control means that controls the charging/discharging current for each battery unit by controlling the operation of the first current control element included in each of the battery unit; a voltage measurement means that measures the voltage of the cell group or cells included in each of the battery unit, and a diagnosis means that diagnoses a deterioration level or a fault of each battery unit on the basis of the voltage of the cell group or cells measured by the voltage measurement means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwasawa, Akihiko Emori, Yutaka Kobayashi, Ko Takahashi, Akihiko Kanouda
  • Publication number: 20150364797
    Abstract: A parallel-connected electricity storage system in which a plurality of chargeable and dischargeable electricity storage elements are connected in series as an electricity storage element row and a plurality of the electricity storage element rows are connected in parallel includes an electricity-storage-element-voltage measuring device that measures an electricity storage element voltage of each of the electricity storage elements, an electricity-storage-element-state estimating device that estimates an electricity storage element state of each of the electricity storage elements, an electricity-storage-element-current measuring device that measures an electricity storage element current of each of the electricity storage element rows, a parallel-connected switch that performs connection and disconnection to and from the parallel-connected electricity storage system for each of the electricity storage element rows, and a parallel-connected-switch control means for turning on the parallel-connected switch on
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoh INABA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150349387
    Abstract: A power source device includes a first current control switch, where the operation is controlled by a first controller and which limits a current flowing in a direction toward each of a plurality of first power storage device groups, for each of the plurality of first power storage device groups in which a plurality of power storage devices are electrically connected to each other in series or in parallel, or in series and parallel, and which are electrically connected to each other in parallel. A second current control switch is controlled by a second controller and limits a current flowing in a direction opposite to the direction toward the plurality of first power storage device groups, for a power storage device group including the second power storage device group, and has a greater number of the power storage devices than the first power storage device group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Ryoh INABA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI