Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Yokoyama

Hitoshi Yokoyama 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).

  • Patent number: 11916194
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte represented by the following formula (1): Li7?x+y(La3?yBay)(Zr2?xMx)O12(1), wherein 0.20?x<1.50, 0.00<y<0.30, and M is two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, and Sb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Teraoka, Tomofumi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200045591
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes a radio transceiver configured to transmit or receive a radio signal, a storage configured to store first connection identification information about a communication connection between a core network and a first base station of a plurality of base stations and base station identification information identifying the first base station, a controller configured to perform control to transmit the first connection identification information and the base station identification information via the radio transceiver to a second base station when changing a serving cell or a central unit, and perform control to store, in the storage, second connection identification information for identifying the connection setting information received from the second base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10271216
    Abstract: A wireless access system in which a first operator and a second operator share a predetermined band, includes a first base station belonging to the first operator, the first base station configured to transmit broadcast information indicating a priority of the first operator in the predetermined band; and a second base station belonging to the second operator, the second base station configured to perform wireless communication using a band configured based on a priority of the second operator in the predetermined band and the broadcast information transmitted by the first base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Nitta, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Hiroki Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20180092097
    Abstract: A radio relay device that performs wireless communication with a communication device and a base station device using at least one carrier, the radio relay device includes, an acquisition unit that acquires inter-communication-device information on the wireless communication between the radio relay device and the communication device, and a determination unit that determines the number of carriers between the radio relay device and the communication device on the basis of the inter-communication-device information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20180092096
    Abstract: A relay device configured to perform wireless communication with a base station device and a terminal device, and to relay data transmission between the base station device and the terminal device, the relay device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to obtain first information indicating a first communication speed in the wireless communication between the base station device and the relay device and a second communication speed in the wireless communication between the relay device and the terminal device, and control a number of carriers to be used in the wireless communication between the relay device and the terminal device based on the first information so that the number of carriers is increased when the first communication speed is greater than the second communication speed, and the number of carriers is decreased when the second communication speed is greater than the first communication speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170215077
    Abstract: A wireless access system in which a first operator and a second operator share a predetermined band, includes a first base station belonging to the first operator, the first base station configured to transmit broadcast information indicating a priority of the first operator in the predetermined band; and a second base station belonging to the second operator, the second base station configured to perform wireless communication using a band configured based on a priority of the second operator in the predetermined band and the broadcast information transmitted by the first base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Daisuke NITTA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hitoshi YOKOYAMA, Hiroki AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170201998
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio communication system including a radio communication apparatus that can wirelessly communicate at frequencies in a predetermined licensed band and an unlicensed band, and a base station. The base station includes a first processor configure to manage operating states of frequencies in the unlicensed band and notify the radio communication apparatus of operating states of frequencies in the unlicensed band at a frequency in the predetermined licensed band. The radio communication apparatus includes a second processor configured to receive operating states of frequencies in the unlicensed band from the base station at a frequency in a predetermined licensed band, select an unused frequency in the unlicensed band as an operation candidate frequency and transmit a transmission request to the base station at the operation candidate frequency in the unlicensed band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki AKIYAMA, Hitoshi YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9642092
    Abstract: A base station performs wireless communication with a first apparatus, and performs wired communication with a second apparatus. When a first communication speed corresponding to a wireless quality of the wireless communication is higher than a second communication speed of the wired communication, the base station changes a currently set modulation and coding scheme to a modulation and coding scheme corresponding to the second communication speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9577739
    Abstract: A communication device that is capable of communicating with a mobile terminal in cooperation with another communication device, and is capable of communicating with the mobile terminal via the other communication device. This communication device characteristically includes: a mode selecting unit configured to select one of a cooperative communication mode and a relayed communication mode, the cooperative communication mode being for transmitting notification information to the mobile terminal, the notification information being for causing the other communication device to perform a cooperative communication, the relayed communication mode being for causing the other communication device to relay notification information to the mobile terminal; and a mode information transmitting unit configured to transmit mode information to the other communication device, the mode information indicating a result from the mode selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9538466
    Abstract: A communication system includes a base station and a mobile terminal device. The base station includes a detection information notifying unit. The detection information notifying unit notifies, using a predetermined control channel, the mobile terminal device of detection information that includes a power-saving time that indicates a time that elapses before the base station enters a power-saving state. The mobile terminal device includes a detecting unit and a region information notifying unit. The detecting unit, when being notified of the detection information by the detection information notifying unit, detects a region in which a mobile terminal device is not capable of communicating with any base station based on the power-saving time included in the detection information. The region information notifying unit notifies a given base station of information on the region detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9313671
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including: a terminal, and a base station including an antenna configured to perform wireless communication with the terminal, and a processor configured to perform, when a difference between a first throughput at a radio layer for the wireless communication and a second throughput at an upper layer to the radio layer for the wireless communication is larger than a given value, a processing to decrease errors at a radio layer for the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9198012
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiving unit, an extracting unit, a generating unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives a signal from a first network using a first communication method. The extracting unit extracts, from a signal received via a control channel of the first network, notification information that is broadcast to be notified to a communication apparatus belonging to the first network and also used by a communication apparatus belonging to a second network. Here, the second network uses a second communication method different from the first communication method. The generating unit generates a notification frame used to notify the communication apparatus belonging to the second network of the notification information. The transmitting unit transmits the notification frame to the communication apparatus belonging to the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9191091
    Abstract: A transmitting station in the radio system performing scheduled transmission to a plurality of user terminals including: a plurality of antennas and a reception unit configured to obtain reception quality information estimated from a pilot channel among information fed back from each of the plurality of user terminals, to determine based on the obtained reception quality information, a transmission system for the plurality of antennas and a transmission unit configured to add a specific bit which identifies the determined transmission system to a scheduler management channel, and to vary contents of the other bit area in the scheduler management channel, as corresponding to the specific bit, and further transmit the scheduler management channel to the plurality of user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9125155
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including: a plurality of antennas configured to perform a plurality of wireless communication protocols simultaneously, and a processor configured to obtain each of a plurality of power consumptions for each of the plurality of the wireless communication protocols, to obtain each of a plurality of communication throughput for each of the plurality of the wireless communication protocols, to calculate an aggregated communication efficiency of the wireless communication using the plurality of wireless communication protocols simultaneously based on the plurality of the power consumptions and the plurality of the communication throughput, and to control the plurality of the antennas, when the aggregated communication efficiency exceeds a given value, as to perform the plurality of wireless communication protocols simultaneously, and, when the aggregated communication efficiency is equal to or less than the given value, as to stop one of the plurality of wireless communication pro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9084168
    Abstract: A relay station capable of communicating with a first base station, a second base station, and a mobile station, includes a relay unit configured to relay communication between the first base station and the mobile station; a receiving unit configured to receive load information concerning the second base station; and a changeover unit configured to change, from the first base station over to the second base station, a communication counterpart of the mobile station, communicating with the mobile station via the relay unit, the communication counterpart being changed based on the received load information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koji Tsubouchi, Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9049604
    Abstract: A method of detecting a hole area to be generated in a cover area of a communication system which includes a plurality of base station apparatuses and mobile station apparatuses, includes: measuring received powers from the plurality of base station apparatuses at the mobile station apparatuses, and, based on the received power from the other base station apparatus among a plurality of base station apparatuses other than the base station apparatus which covers a cell in which the mobile station apparatuses are positioned, detecting a hole area to be generated when a signal output from the base station apparatus is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9014709
    Abstract: A management device includes a managing unit that manages whether a dedicated access slot different from an access slot is assigned to the mobile terminal unit, the access slot being arbitrarily used by a mobile terminal unit when the mobile terminal unit gets random access to a base station unit, a selecting unit that selects a dedicated access slot which has not been assigned among dedicated access slots managed by the managing unit when having received a priority notification indicating that a mobile terminal unit being a communicating destination of the base station unit is a priority terminal given priority for performing communication, and an instructing unit that instructs the base station unit managed by the management device to reserve the dedicated access slot selected by the selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8938028
    Abstract: A radio communications apparatus transmitting data using multiple antennas is disclosed that includes a data link layer control information generation part configured to generate multiple data link layer control information items from generated data link layer control information; a data unit generation part configured to generate multiple data units to be transmitted through the corresponding antennas, based on the data link layer control information items generated by the data link layer control information generation part, so that the data units include the data link layer control information items; and a physical layer processing part configured to perform adaptive modulation and coding on the data units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Suda, Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8929337
    Abstract: A wireless base station includes a first receiving section which receives data from a plurality of terminals positioned within a wireless area in which data communication with a processing section on a network is performed by the wireless base station via a core network, a multiplexing controller which shares, with the processing section, first identification information allocated to a group and second identification information allocated to each of a plurality of member terminals constituting the group, and controls to determine whether a terminal serving as a source of the received data is a member terminal belonging to the group, based on the second identification information, and to multiplex, of the received data from the plurality of terminals, data from the terminal determined to be the member terminal belonging to the group, based on the first identification information, and a first sending section sends the multiplexed data to the core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8917712
    Abstract: In a communication terminal that performs bidirectional communication using different frequencies for transmission and reception, a receiving unit receives reception signals transmitted from the base station, a detecting unit detects the timing of DL when the receiving unit receives the reception signals, an adjusting unit adjusts the timing of UL to transmit the transmission signals so as to synchronize the timing of the DL 101 and the timing of the UL, and a transmitting unit transmits transmission signals to the base station based on the timing of UL adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yokoyama