Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Hiroyuki 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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Publication number: 20250149291Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing container, a substrate holder that is inserted into the processing container and holds a plurality of substrates in a plurality of tiers, a rotating shaft capable of rotating the substrate holder inside the processing container, a gas supply pipe that supplies a processing gas into the processing container, an exhaust unit that evacuates an inside of the processing container, a pair of electrodes arranged outside the processing container and positioned to face each other with respect to a center of the processing container, and a radio-frequency power supply that applies a radio-frequency power to the pair of the electrodes, thereby generating a capacitively-coupled plasma in the processing container. The substrate holder includes a ring member that holds a substrate, and surrounds a radial outer side of the substrate in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUURA, Takeshi KOBAYASHI, Takahiro SHINDO
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Publication number: 20250143671Abstract: An ultrasonic probe of an embodiment includes a transmission and reception unit, a movable unit, a pressure signal detection unit, and an amplification unit. The transmission and reception unit includes a plurality of transducers, transmits transmission acoustic signals generated by the transducers, and receives reflection acoustic signals of the transmitted acoustic signals. The movable unit includes an acoustic radiation surface provided on a surface of the transmission and reception unit and moves due to a pressure applied to the acoustic radiation surface pressed against an object. The pressure signal detection unit detects a pressure signal corresponding to an amount of movement of the movable unit. The amplification unit amplifies the amount of movement of the movable unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIKATA
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Patent number: 12293422Abstract: An information processing device calculates a rate related to growth of a plant from sensing data, and performs control to display a sample position image arranged according to a sensing position of each piece of the sensing data in a map region of a user interface screen in an image mode determined according to a rate calculated from each piece of the sensing data.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yoko Fukata, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12276464Abstract: A compressor module includes: a compressor; and a high-pressure gas cooler which cools gas discharged from the compressor, wherein the high-pressure gas cooler includes a plurality of gas cooler partial bodies, wherein each gas cooler partial body includes a high-pressure casing which is formed in a cylindrical container shape extending in a horizontal direction and to which the gas is introduced and a high-pressure heat exchange unit which is installed in the high-pressure casing and cools a gas passing in one direction orthogonal to a center axis of the high-pressure casing, and wherein the gas cooler partial bodies are arranged in parallel so that the center axes of the high-pressure casings are parallel to each other, the gas sequentially flows through the gas cooler partial bodies.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Yokoo
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Publication number: 20250113452Abstract: This composite molded component includes an internal component, a primary molded portion that covers the internal component, and a secondary molded portion that covers the primary molded portion. The primary molded portion of the composite molded component includes a through hole portion that penetrates to the internal component, and an annular rib portion that protrudes toward the secondary molded portion so as to surround a positioning portion of the primary molded portion. At least a portion of the through hole portion and at least a portion of the annular rib portion are overlapped with each other in the lengthwise direction of the secondary molded portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yukitoshi TERASAKA, Toshinari KOBAYASHI, Megumi YAMAO, Hiroyuki KOYANO
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Publication number: 20250102533Abstract: This composite molded component includes: an internal component that includes an electronic component body (element body portion) and at least one lead wire extending from the element body portion; a primary molded portion covering the internal component; and a secondary molded portion covering the primary molded portion. In this composite molded component, at least a portion of the lead wire is a soldering portion to be soldered to another component (conductor end portion). The primary molded portion includes, in at least a portion of the portion that faces the soldering portion, a recessed portion that forms a gap with the lead wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yukitoshi TERASAKA, Toshinari KOBAYASHI, Megumi YAMAO, Hiroyuki KOYANO
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Publication number: 20250102471Abstract: An ultrasonic phased array inspection device includes flexible plates, array probes, and a connection body. The flexible plates extend along an inner circumferential surface of a tube. The array probes are disposed on the flexible plates and send and receive an ultrasonic wave based on the phased array technique. The array probes have a set of a predetermined number of piezoelectric elements arranged in the inner circumferential direction of the tube. The connection body is connected to the flexible plates. The connection body has pulled parts that are pulled in the axial direction of the tube as force receiving parts that receive a force to make the connection body move in the axial direction of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Kaoru SHINODA, Yuichi KOBAYASHI, Takeru KATAYAMA, Masamitsu ABE, Joichi MURAKAMI, Naoto SHINMURA, Hiroyuki MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20250095419Abstract: A controller for a vehicle equipped with a motor for running includes one or more processors and one or more recording media storing a program to be executed by the one or more processors. The program includes one or more instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to perform a sweep driving process including sweeping an excitation frequency of vibration applied to a vehicle body of the vehicle by the motor while driving the motor during an inspection of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka MAEDA, Yoichi FURUYA, Hisao IMAIZUMI, Yuta SASAKI, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Yukio KOJIMA, Masayuki KANEKO, Naotoshi YOSHIKAWA, Katsuya SHINNO, Takafumi ITAGAKI, Shota KAWAMURA, Kazuyuki KONDO
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Publication number: 20250098542Abstract: A piezoelectric laminate comprise: a substrate; and a lower electrode layer, a seed layer, and a piezoelectric film, in which the piezoelectric film contains, as a main component, a first perovskite-type oxide containing Pb, Zr, Ti, and Nb, the seed layer contains, as a main component, a second perovskite-type oxide that is lattice-matched with the first perovskite-type oxide, and in a crystal grain size distribution acquired by an electron back scattered diffraction method, a proportion of crystal grains having a grain size of 100 nm or less is 15% or less in the piezoelectric film, and, the piezoelectric film satisfies the following expressions: |Ec++Ec? |<|Ec+?Ec?|, 55 kV/cm?Ec+?75 kV/cm, and 75 kV/cm?Ec+?Ec??100 kV/cm, wherein Ec+ is a positive-side coercive electric field and Ec? is a negative-side coercive electric field in polarization-electric field characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Seigo NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20250098540Abstract: A piezoelectric laminate comprise: a substrate, a lower electrode layer and a piezoelectric film, in which in a case where an upper electrode layer is formed on the piezoelectric film, and a voltage applied between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer is swept, in a current-voltage curve showing a change in a current with respect to a change in the voltage, which is obtained in a case where with the lower electrode layer being grounded and the upper electrode layer being used as a drive electrode, an applied voltage to the piezoelectric film is gradually increased from 0 V to a positive side and then gradually decreased from the positive side to a negative side via 0 V, the number of peaks during an increase of the voltage and the number of peaks during a decrease of the voltage are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Seigo NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 12249759Abstract: Disclosed is a radome 1 for vehicle-mounted radar devices including a base body 2 having an electromagnetic wave permeable substrate 3 and a heater wire 41 laminated on an inner surface side of the substrate 3 and wired in a surface direction of the substrate 3, in which linear portions 411 of the heater wire 41 are arranged side by side at intervals in the surface direction of the substrate 3 in an electromagnetic wave irradiation region R of the substrate 3, and a surface occupancy ratio of the linear portions 411 of the heater wire 41 in the electromagnetic wave irradiation region R of the substrate 3 is set to 1% or more and 24% or less. It is possible to exhibit a practical snow-melting function as a radome for vehicle-mounted radar devices while suppressing attenuation of electromagnetic waves irradiated by a vehicle-mounted radar device within an allowable range.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SANKEI GIKEN KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa Enomoto, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Ryuho Ikemasu, Shinpei Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12240400Abstract: The present invention is provided with an inflator arranged on the occupant side of the side frame positioned on the side portion inside the seatback that generates expansion gas and an airbag that is expanded by the expansion gas and protects an occupant seated on 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. In addition, an internal tether having a front end part connected to the front portion of the pre-chamber and a rear end part connected to the rear portion of the pre-chamber are provided inside the pre-chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Shima
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Patent number: 12230441Abstract: A transport device and a transport method efficiently increase a thrust to suppress power consumption. The transport device has a first magnetic body on a side of a to-be-transported object, a magnetic circuit with a core consisting of a second magnetic body, and a winding wound around an outside of the core, and a drive circuit supplying a current to the winding of the magnetic circuit. The magnetic circuit has first and second magnetic circuits, and in a case where the first magnetic body is located on a side of the second magnetic circuit relative to a first predetermined position between the first magnetic circuit and the second magnetic circuit, the drive circuit supplies a current to a winding of the first magnetic circuit in such a manner to cause an electromagnetic repulsive force to be generated between the first magnetic body and the first magnetic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Hoshi, Yasuaki Aoyama, Satoru Kaneko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tamakoshi, Katsuhiro Kambara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniaki Onizawa
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Publication number: 20250054706Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolytic capacitor including a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode body having a dielectric layer formed at a surface of the anode body, and an electrolyte layer disposed adjacent to the dielectric layer. The electrolyte layer contains a conductive polymer doped with a dopant, conductive particles, and a non-aqueous solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Hiroyuki ARIMA, Takehiro KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 12224107Abstract: First and second wires form a wire assembly by being wound around a winding core portion together. The wire assembly includes a twisted wire portion, an inner layer portion, an outer layer portion, a plurality of outward transition portions, and an inward transition portion. The outer layer portion includes a first outer layer portion which is connected to one of the outward transition portions extending from an intermediate position of the inner layer portion and connected to the inward transition portion. The inward transition portion extends to an intermediate position of the inner layer portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryota Hashimoto, Atsuyoshi Maeda, Chihiro Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Tei, Kohei Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12222690Abstract: To facilitate evaluation of a predicted process shape in process recipe development using machine learning, a process recipe search apparatus that searches for an etching recipe that is a parameter of a plasma processing apparatus set so as to etch a sample into a desired shape displays, on a display device, the predicted process shape of the sample by a candidate etching recipe predicted by using a machine leaning model, by highlighting a difference between the predicted process shape and a target shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Takashi Dobashi, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Takeshi Ohmori
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Publication number: 20250035616Abstract: Provided is a high-function organoid composition. Also provided is a method of producing the organoid composition. The organoid composition is characterized by including: an organoid including a cell cluster of endodermal cells; and an amphiphilic block polymer having a hydrophilic block chain having a sarcosine unit and a hydrophobic block chain having a lactic acid unit. The organoid composition may be produced by culturing the endodermal cells in a culture system containing the amphiphilic block polymer. The organoid composition thus obtained can evaluate pharmacokinetics and drug toxicity, and is hence suitable for drug screening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicants: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroyuki MIZUGUCHI, Yukiko UEYAMA-TOBA, Jumpei YOKOTA, Yanran TONG, Hayato MATSUI, Sachiko KOBAYASHI, Junko ENOMOTO
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Publication number: 20250036715Abstract: There is provided a data processing device 10 that performs a convolution operation of two pieces of input data of 2M×N bits (N is a positive integer and M is a natural number) width with a minimum accuracy of the convolution operation being N bits, and performs processing corresponding to a plurality of the consecutive M, the data processing device 10 including: a product-sum operation unit 101 that performs a product-sum operation according to the value of M; a shifter 102 that performs shift processing on a result of a product-sum operation of the product-sum operation unit 101 in a case where the value of M is not 0; an addition unit 103 that performs addition processing on each output of the shifter 102 or the product-sum operation unit 101 according to the value of M; a selector 105 that selects an output from the addition unit 103 according to the value of M; a cumulative addition unit 106 that cumulatively adds the outputs from the selector 105; and a cumulative addition memory 107 that stores outputsType: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Saki HATTA, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Shuhei YOSHIDA, Yuko IINUMA, Yuya OMORI, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Ken NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20250026628Abstract: A dental paste filling device for filling dental paste in a container without entraining air bubbles is disclosed. The dental paste filling device includes: a paste supply stage serving as a supply source of the dental paste; a paste filling stage where the dental paste is filled in the container; and a supply flow passage connecting the both stages. The paste supply stage comprises: a storage chamber for storing the dental paste; a storage chamber depressurizing and defoaming device for depressurizing the inside of the storage chamber to defoam the dental paste within the storage chamber; and a storage chamber extruding device for extruding the dental paste within the storage chamber towards the supply flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Akihiro KUSUNOKI, Motohiro TANAKA, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20250028523Abstract: A computer identifies an update job of updating a control software and two or more user jobs each with specification of the number of used nodes and an expected execution time. The computer plans a schedule of the update job and two or more user jobs so as to reduce the total waiting time of the two or more user jobs, on the basis of the number of used nodes and expected execution time in such a manner that each of the two or more user jobs is assigned to one or more nodes with the same version of the control software. The computer controls the order of execution of the update job and two or more user jobs according to the planned schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI