Patents by Inventor Yuto KOBAYASHI

Yuto 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: 20240248419
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, at least one of a polyester resin or a polycarbonate resin that has a constitutional unit containing biphenyl represented by Formula (1), and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid represented by Formula (2), in Formula (1), j represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, j pieces of R11's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, k represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, and k pieces of R12's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, in Formula (2), p represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, p pieces of R21's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, q represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, q pieces of R22's each in
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJII, Tomoya Sasaki, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Patent number: 12030453
    Abstract: The present invention is a side airbag device stowed in a seatback of a vehicle seat, comprising: an inflator arranged on the occupant side of a side frame which is positioned on a side part inside the seatback, that generates expansion gas, and an airbag which expands due to said expansion gas and protects the occupant seated in the vehicle seat. The airbag includes a main chamber that deploys toward the front of the seatback, and a pre-chamber that houses the inflator inside and is connected to the occupant side of the main chamber. Furthermore, an integral joint without gaps is formed by sewing between at least the front edge part of the pre-chamber and the main chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB
    Inventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Shima
  • Publication number: 20240217472
    Abstract: The present invention is a side airbag device stowed in a side support part of a vehicle seat, which includes: an airbag capable of expanding and deploying toward a front side from the side support part; an inflator that supplies expansion gas to the airbag; and a bracket that retains the airbag in a compressed state. The inflator is secured to an inner side (occupant side) of a side frame of the vehicle seat. Furthermore, the bracket has a rear region that covers a rear side of the airbag in a compressed state and an inner region that extends continuously forward from the rear region between an inner side of the airbag and a seat pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Mitsuo NOGAMI
  • Publication number: 20240198951
    Abstract: A side airbag device comprising a bag-like cushion that is provided to a side section of a seat back of a vehicle seat and inflates and expands toward the side of a passenger in the vehicle seat using a gas. The cushion includes: a first part having four sides and including a first chamber; a second part that has four sides, is adjacent to the first part, and includes a second chamber; and a third part that has four sides, is adjacent to the first part and the second part, and does not inflate. When inflated and expanded, the cushion is a triangular column that is a columnar shape having a space E open on both the top and bottom and surrounded by the first part in which the first chamber is inflated and expanded, the second part in which the second chamber is inflated and expanded, and the non-inflated third part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Tsutomu SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20240196582
    Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable includes: an insulating layer that extends in a longitudinal direction of the differential signal transmission cable; a pair of signal lines that extend in the longitudinal direction and are embedded in the insulating layer; and a shield layer that covers an outer peripheral surface of the insulating layer. The shield layer includes an electroless plating layer containing copper and alloy elements. The types and contents of the alloy elements are selected such that a tensile stress acts on the shield layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo GOTO, Takayuki ONISHI, Koji KASUYA, Kei HIRAI, Takashi SEKIYA, Yuji OCHI, Yuto KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12005851
    Abstract: A vehicle airbag device and a method for manufacturing the same, in which stud bolts for securing the device to the vehicle body can be inserted avoiding the sewn sections, and in which unbalanced stresses are not generated in the panel parts during expansion and deployment. The device having a pair of panel parts, a pair of expansion parts integrally provided on the pair of panel parts, the expansion part of the first panel part overlapping the second panel part, and the expansion part of the second panel part overlapping the first panel part, forming an overlapping section by joining each expansion part to each panel part at a sewn section, and joining the overlapping section with a pair of panel part outer edges, the outer sewn section forming a hollow bag body, and providing inflator insertion holes and bolt insertion holes provided through the overlapping section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB
    Inventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Tsutomu Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20240169657
    Abstract: To render high-quality model data by ray tracing in a short time. An information processing apparatus includes: a pre-rendering unit that pre-renders model data by ray tracing and generates a pre-rendered image; a prediction unit that predicts a difficulty level of restoration in the pre-rendered image; a rendering condition determination unit that determines a rendering condition on the basis of the difficulty level of the restoration and generates an adaptive control signal for setting the rendering condition, the rendering condition specifying resolution and samples per pixel (SPP) for each of elements in the pre-rendered image; a rendering unit that generates an adaptively rendered image by rendering the model data by ray tracing in accordance with the rendering condition for each of the elements set to the adaptive control signal; and a rendered image restoration unit that restores the adaptively rendered image by super resolution and denoising and generates a final rendered image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: KOJI NISHIDA, NORIAKI TAKAHASHI, TAKAAKI SUZUKI, YUTO KOBAYASHI, DAISUKE IRIE
  • Publication number: 20240157905
    Abstract: A side airbag device stowed in a side part of a vehicle seat and includes: an airbag for restraining an occupant by expanding and deploying; and an inflator provided in a side wall part of a seat frame in the vehicle width direction extending in the vehicle traveling direction when a horizontal cross section of the vehicle seat is viewed from above, and that supplies expansion gas to the airbag. The airbag includes a main chamber that expands and deploys towards the front and a pre-push chamber that expands and deploys before the main chamber to the inside of the main chamber in the vehicle width direction. Furthermore, the pre-push chamber has a structure with an extension portion extending from the inflator towards the rear of the vehicle seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Takaki SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20240149168
    Abstract: An example of a game system sets appearable items from among a plurality of types of items causing effects in a game, based on selection by a user, and gives any item from among the appearable items to a game object based on first data that is set in correspondence with a game situation, when the game object satisfies a predetermined condition. When any item cannot be given from among the appearable items based on the first data, the game system gives any item from among the appearable items based on second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Shun UTSUGI, Yuto KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11958429
    Abstract: A side airbag device is provided with a frame side plate part, an airbag cushion embedded in a side support of a seat in a stowed state, and an inflator inserted into the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion in stowed state includes a cushion rear part assembled to a frame side plate part, a cushion extension part that extends along a seat pad of the side support, a cushion folding part folded rearward from the cushion extension part, and a cushion front part of the cushion folding part arranged rolled or folded toward the outside of the seatback. The cushion extension part expands toward the center of the seatback and presses on the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventor: Yuto Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240116471
    Abstract: The side airbag device is provided with a cushion, an inflator arranged on the occupant side of a side part of a seat frame, and a support plate, where the cushion in a folded state includes: a first portion positioned on the occupant side of the seat frame side part, and a second portion positioned on the side opposite the occupant side of the seat frame side part and wraps around the vehicle front side from the first portion to sandwich the seat frame side part together with the first portion; and the support plate includes: a main body part for supporting the second portion, and a rearward extending part, in which through-holes and are formed extending from the main body part toward the rear of the vehicle beyond the second portion for allowing stud bolts and of the inflator to pass through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Takaki SHIBUYA
  • Patent number: 11956936
    Abstract: A shielded cable includes a first insulated wire including a first central conductor, and a first insulating layer provided around the first central conductor, a second insulated wire including a second central conductor, and a second insulating layer provided around the second central conductor, the second insulated wire being disposed parallel to the first insulated wire, a third insulating layer provided around the first insulated wire and the second insulated wire, a shielding layer provided around the third insulating layer, a drain wire in contact with the shielding layer, and a fourth insulating layer provided around the shielding layer and the drain wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11938884
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an airbag cover which is formed by integrally joining a first base fabric and a second base fabric having mutually different characteristics, and has a joint portion that ensures high productivity in mass production; a method for manufacturing the airbag cover; and an airbag device. The present invention relates to an airbag cover for storing a bag-shaped cushion which is rolled up or folded before being inflated and deployed by a gas supplied from an inflater, and relates to a method for manufacturing the airbag cover. The airbag cover is characterized by comprising a first base fabric made of a plain-woven fabric or a non-woven fabric made from chemical fibers, and a second base fabric containing fibers different from the fibers constituting the first base fabric, and having an initial tensile resistance value higher than an initial tensile resistance value of the first base fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Asahi Kasei Advance Corporation, Autoliv Development AB, Asahi Kasei Advance (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Ishikawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Yuto Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240075899
    Abstract: To prevent outward gas leakage between the airbag cushion and inflator during expansion and deployment with a simple configuration. The present invention provides an airbag device including: an airbag cushion having at least two panels; an inflator that discharges gas inside the airbag cushion; a first piece extending from an edge of a first panel of the two panels that is folded in the middle into the airbag cushion; a second piece provided on a portion near the edge of a second panel facing the first piece inside the airbag cushion and sewn to the folded part of the folded first piece; and an insertion passage for the inflator formed from sewing the folded part and the second piece, and extending from inside the airbag cushion to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Tsutomu SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11912850
    Abstract: A resin composition for an insulating layer includes: an olefinic resin as a main component; and a metal deactivator, wherein the olefinic resin consists of block polypropylene and polyethylene, and wherein a content of the polyethylene in the olefinic resin is greater than or equal to 1% by mass and less than or equal to 10% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Syota Machinaka, Taro Fujita, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Nayu Yanagawa, Yuji Ochi, Satoshi Okano, Yuto Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240059245
    Abstract: The present invention is a side airbag device stowed in a seatback of a vehicle seat, comprising: an inflator arranged on the occupant side of a side frame which is positioned on a side part inside the seatback, that generates expansion gas, and an airbag which expands due to said expansion gas and protects the occupant seated in the vehicle seat. The airbag includes a main chamber that deploys toward the front of the seatback, and a pre-chamber that houses the inflator inside and is connected to the occupant side of the main chamber. Furthermore, an integral joint without gaps is formed by sewing between at least the front edge part of the pre-chamber and the main chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIMA
  • Patent number: 11878649
    Abstract: An improved modularization of an airbag cushion covered with a cover member and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. A first press is performed on the first portion of the cover member in a state where the folded airbag cushion 30 is not covered with the cover member. The first portion has at least a portion that includes a position corresponding to an inflator within the folded airbag cushion. Next, the folded airbag cushion is covered with the cover member, and in the covered state, a second press is applied to at least a part of the second portion of the cover member excluding the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Tsutomu Sakurai, Hideho Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11865988
    Abstract: PROBLEM: To provide a side airbag device that can be stored compactly. RESOLUTION MEANS The present invention is an airbag device to be stowed in a vehicle seat, comprising: an airbag cushion that restrains an occupant by expanding and deploying; an inflator arranged on the inner side of the seat frame which supplies expansion gas to the airbag cushion; and a cover member made of a ductile material that melts and shrinks under heat and pressure to retain the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion includes a rear chamber section where the inflator is stowed, and a front chamber section that extends forward from the rear chamber section that is arranged outside of the seat frame when stowed. The cover member is then configured to heat and pressurize the region corresponding to the front chamber section of the airbag cushion, thereby pressurizing and retaining the relevant section of the airbag cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Tsutomu Sakurai, Tomofumi Tochigi
  • Publication number: 20230406254
    Abstract: A side airbag device having an airbag cushion that restrains an occupant by expanding and deploying and an inflator disposed on an inner side of the seat frame that supplies expansion gas to the airbag cushion; and a holding part that holds the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion includes an inner expanding portion internally containing the inflator and an outer expanding portion connected to the inner expanding portion and is disposed on an outer side of the seat frame by being folded back at a front edge portion of the seat frame. The outer expanding portion includes a folded portion of the airbag cushion. A forward portion of the holding part contacts an outer surface of the folded portion of the outer expanding portion, and a rearward portion is connected to the seat frame. Furthermore, the holding part is configured to cover a part of the outer expanding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yuto KOBAYASHI, Takaki SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20230410261
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (1) includes a viewpoint position detection unit (15) and a correction processing unit (11). The viewpoint position detection unit (15) detects a viewpoint position (PS) of an observer. The correction processing unit (11) detects a gaze point (GP) on a viewpoint image (VPI) corresponding to the viewpoint position (PS). The correction processing unit (11) blurs an outer edge of the viewpoint image (VPI) away from the gaze point (GP) in a parallax direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: YUTO KOBAYASHI, NORIAKI TAKAHASHI