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: 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
  • Patent number: 9191933
    Abstract: A mobile communication system having a user equipment that performs transmission process having transmission timing adjustment information and a base station that receives a signal sent from the user equipment, the mobile communication system includes, if a timer controlling a term of application of first transmission timing adjustment information expires before transmission of a signal including identification information of the user equipment is performed during a connection process including reception of second transmission timing adjustment information while the user equipment has the first transmission timing adjustment information and performing the connection process to the base station, the user equipment does not transmit the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshiharu Tajima, Yutaka Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Obuchi
  • Publication number: 20150306882
    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: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    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: 20150274535
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi SATO, Katsuko YAMAMOTO, Naohiro TODA, Hitoshi SUMIYA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150281982
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ishihata, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, TAKAYUKI OHTSUKA, Masaya Isobe, Hiroyasu Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20150258913
    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: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9079413
    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: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    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: 20150191850
    Abstract: A single crystal diamond (10) is provided as a single crystal diamond into which a defect portion (11) is introduced. The defect portion (11) can be detected by a phase difference occurring when the single crystal diamond (10) is irradiated with circularly polarized light. In the single crystal diamond (10), a maximum value of average values of the phase differences measured within a measurement region (M) formed in a shape of a square having a side length of 1 mm is 30 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Akihiko Ueda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Yutaka Kobayashi, Yuichiro Seki, Toshiya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150176156
    Abstract: A single crystal diamond has a surface. In the single crystal diamond, a measurement region is defined in the surface, the measurement region includes a portion exhibiting a transmittance that is highest in the single crystal diamond and a portion exhibiting a transmittance that is lowest in the single crystal diamond, the measurement region has a plurality of square regions that are continuously arranged and each have a side having a length of 0.2 mm, and an average value of transmittances in each of the plurality of square regions is measured, wherein assuming that the average value of the transmittances in one square region is defined as T1 and the average value of the transmittances in another square region adjacent to the one square region is defined as T2, a relation of ((T1?T2)/((T1+T2)/2)Ă—100)/0.2?20 (%/mm) is satisfied throughout the measurement region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Akihiko Ueda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Yutaka Kobayashi, Yuichiro Seki, Toshiya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9055575
    Abstract: A base station in a mobile communication system containing a user equipment and the base station that includes an uplink (UL) resource management unit that allocates a plurality of parameters related to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used for transmission processing, between the user equipment and the base station; a reception processing unit that receives a signal sent from the user equipment including a transmission processing unit that performs transmission processing based on transmission timing adjustment information; and a control unit that, if a valid term of first transmission timing adjustment information expires before transmission processing of a signal including identification information of the user equipment is performed during connection processing while performing the connection processing to the base station based on the first transmission timing adjustment information, aborts the connection processing and releases at least one of the allocated plurality of parameters rela
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshiharu Tajima, Yutaka Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Obuchi
  • Patent number: 9037177
    Abstract: A timing adjustment method in a mobile communication system that performs an adjustment of uplink transmission timing by random access between a user equipment and a base station, the timing adjustment method that includes performing transmission having transmission timing adjustment information in the user equipment; allocating a plurality of parameters related to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used for communications, between the user equipment and the base station; and if a timer controlling a term of uplink transmission timing adjustment information expires during uplink communications to the base station having the uplink transmission timing adjustment information in the user equipment, releasing only a part of the allocated plurality of parameters related to the PUCCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta, Yoshiharu Tajima, Yutaka Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Obuchi
  • Patent number: 9018550
    Abstract: A service plug includes a lever (30) supported on a cover (20) for movement between full and partial locking positions. A housing (90) is connectable to and separable from the cover (20) as the lever (30) is moved. Heavy current terminals (50) are disconnected from a power supply circuit in a separating process of the cover (20). A detection terminal (60) is switched from an ON-state to an OFF-state in the separating process of the cover (20). A stopper (40) contacts restricting walls (25) on the cover (20) to stop a movement of the lever (30) from the full locking position toward the partial locking position until the heavy current terminals (50) are disconnected from the power supply circuit after the detection terminal (60) is switched from the ON-state to the OFF-state in the separating process of the cover (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kobayashi, Masaki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20140378835
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit and a detecting unit. The acquiring unit acquires fluid volume data representing fluid information related to a fluid flowing through a scan region that is a region three-dimensionally scanned by ultrasonic. The detecting unit detects a region that is a fluid existing region in the scanned region using the fluid information, and detects an inner cavity region of a lumen in volume data to be applied with image processing using the region thus detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke SATOH, Yutaka Kobayashi, Tomokazu Fujii, Masaru Ogasawara, Shogo Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140362004
    Abstract: An input processing apparatus for communicating with an information processing apparatus, includes an input detection section configured to detect a proximity and a contact of an object as input, an event type distinguishing section configured to distinguish a type of an input event on the basis of coordinates of the input detected by the input detection section, a mode information acquiring section configured to acquire information of a processing mode for an application to be processed by the information processing apparatus, and a transmission section configured to transmit data including the information of the type of the event distinguished by the event type distinguishing section and the information of the processing mode acquired by the mode information acquiring section to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji DOI, Natsuki USHIGOME, Yutaka KOBAYASHI