Patents by Inventor Kenichi Mizugaki
Kenichi Mizugaki 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: 20240125886Abstract: Provided is an altitude calculation method for a flying body including calculating an altitude of the flying body by using information on horizontal coordinates of the flying body, a reception signal strength of a radio signal, and altitude calculation auxiliary information obtained in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Kenichi MIZUGAKI, Yuichi IGARASHI, Masanori ISHINO
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Patent number: 11778512Abstract: A wireless management system manages a wireless system including a base station and terminals. The wireless management system includes a computer that includes an arithmetic device that executes predetermined arithmetic processing, and a storage device connected to the arithmetic device. The arithmetic device calculates a usage rate of radio resources used by the terminal based on positional information of the terminals and the number of terminals communicating with the base station at the time of communication between the terminals and the base station.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Mizugaki
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Patent number: 11544111Abstract: A processor of a sensor device performs measurement processing by one or a plurality of sensors and transmission processing of sensor data generated by the measurement processing. The sensor device includes a processing routine table that stores a processing routine configured to include, corresponding to an identifier for identifying processing performed by a processor, a type of the processing, an execution trigger of the processing, and trigger information that prescribes a trigger for transmitting the sensor data. The processor controls processing in a processing routine of the processing routine table, based on trigger information, so that the sensor data subjected to measurement processing is immediately transmitted, or temporarily stored in a buffer and transmitted after a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Rintaro Katayama, Ryosuke Fujiwara, Kenichi Mizugaki
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Publication number: 20220322149Abstract: A wireless management system manages a wireless system including a base station and terminals. The wireless management system includes a computer that includes an arithmetic device that executes predetermined arithmetic processing, and a storage device connected to the arithmetic device. The arithmetic device calculates a usage rate of radio resources used by the terminal based on positional information of the terminals and the number of terminals communicating with the base station at the time of communication between the terminals and the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Mizugaki
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Publication number: 20210367689Abstract: A radio operation management system supporting operation management of a radio communication system including a base station and a terminal includes a calculator including: a calculation device; and a storage device capable of being accessed by the calculation device, the calculation device executing predetermined calculation processing to implement functional units including: a model creation unit that creates a three-dimensional model corresponding to an environment of a radio communication area; a propagation calculation unit that calculates, using the three-dimensional model, radio wave propagation evaluation only for a radio wave propagation path affected by a change in the environment; and a display unit that presents an influence of the change in the environment, based on the radio wave propagation evaluation calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventor: Kenichi MIZUGAKI
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Patent number: 11133900Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent wrong registration due to an operation error and an input error in installation work of a sensor device. A terminal acquires a first identifier which the sensor device has and further, acquires positional information using a positioning device. The terminal transmits the first identifier and the positional information respectively acquired to a management server. The sensor device transmits a second identifier held by itself to the management server. The management server correlates the second identifier and the positional information when the management server judges that the first identifier and the second identifier are located in predetermined relation, registers them in a storage, and the management server notifies the sensor device of a result of the judgment.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Rintaro Katayama, Kenichi Mizugaki, Ryosuke Fujiwara
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Patent number: 10996076Abstract: A management server 103 holds a parameter of a sensor device 101 and change management information related to a change in the parameter, and transmits the changed parameter and the change management information to the sensor device. The sensor device 101 holds the parameter and the change management information transmitted from the management server, and transmits the change management information to the management server together with measurement data. The management server collates the received change management information and preliminarily-held change management information to determine the change in the parameter on the basis of a result of the collation.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Rintaro Katayama, Kenichi Mizugaki, Ryosuke Fujiwara
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Patent number: 10923793Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve an antenna for IoT services intended for things that constitute an internal space. There is provided an antenna device including an antenna and a dielectric body. In an internal space which is constituted by plural faces including a first face which is an electrically conductive body, the antenna device is adapted to have a shape to be fit inside a hole in the first face. The antenna device is installed, not protruding from the hole to an outer space. The antenna and the dielectric body are placed in series between the internal space and the outer space.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Masami Oonishi, Kenichi Mizugaki, Ryosuke Fujiwara, Rintaro Katayama
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Publication number: 20210013616Abstract: An antenna device includes a conductive manhole cover for partitioning an internal space of a manhole and an external space, a wireless device installed in the internal space, and a base station that is installed in the external space and transfers a radio wave with respect to the wireless device. When a notch portion is formed on the edge of the manhole cover and the manhole cover is attached to an opening of the manhole, a slot-shaped void is formed. By using this void as a slot antenna, radio waves from the wireless device can be re-emitted to the external space. With such a configuration, it is not necessary to specially prepare a slot antenna, and a low-cost antenna device can be realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Masami OONISHI, Kenichi MIZUGAKI, Rintaro KATAYAMA, Ryosuke FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20200272516Abstract: A processor 204 of a sensor device performs measurement processing by one or a plurality of sensors 203 and transmission processing of sensor data generated by the measurement processing. The sensor device includes a processing routine table 211 that stores a processing routine configured to include, corresponding to an identifier for identifying processing performed by a processor, a type of the processing, an execution trigger of the processing, and trigger information that prescribes a trigger for transmitting the sensor data. The processor controls processing in a processing routine of the processing routine table, based on trigger information, so that the sensor data subjected to measurement processing is immediately transmitted, or temporarily stored in a buffer 212 and transmitted after a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Rintaro KATAYAMA, Ryosuke FUJIWARA, Kenichi MIZUGAKI
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Publication number: 20190368893Abstract: A management server 103 holds a parameter of a sensor device 101 and change management information related to a change in the parameter, and transmits the changed parameter and the change management information to the sensor device. The sensor device 101 holds the parameter and the change management information transmitted from the management server, and transmits the change management information to the management server together with measurement data. The management server collates the received change management information and preliminarily-held change management information to determine the change in the parameter on the basis of a result of the collation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Rintaro KATAYAMA, Kenichi MIZUGAKI, Ryosuke FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20190296866Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent wrong registration due to an operation error and an input error in installation work of a sensor device. A terminal acquires a first identifier which the sensor device has and further, acquires positional information using a positioning device. The terminal transmits the first identifier and the positional information respectively acquired to a management server. The sensor device transmits a second identifier held by itself to the management server. The management server correlates the second identifier and the positional information when the management server judges that the first identifier and the second identifier are located in predetermined relation, registers them in a storage, and the management server notifies the sensor device of a result of the judgment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Rintaro Katayama, Kenichi Mizugaki, Ryosuke Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20190267695Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve an antenna for IoT services intended for things that constitute an internal space. There is provided an antenna device including an antenna and a dielectric body. In an internal space which is constituted by plural faces including a first face which is an electrically conductive body, the antenna device is adapted to have a shape to be fit inside a hole in the first face. The antenna device is installed, not protruding from the hole to an outer space. The antenna and the dielectric body are placed in series between the internal space and the outer space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Masami OONISHI, Kenichi MIZUGAKI, Ryosuke FUJIWARA, Rintaro KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 9325368Abstract: A period is defined to execute the sequences (processes) of communication data acquisition, measuring communication quality, communication quality data acquisition, and channel change. Processing is controlled to execute each process within a time limit set for each process and execute all processes in one cycle. This avoids that a delayed sequence influences and delays other sequences and can suppress delays. If processing fails to finish a sequence, it will resume the same sequence in the next cycle. For communication stations sharing timeslots, there are provided offset periods differing in length before the start of carrier sense in the timeslots for these stations. Consequently, even under a condition in which packet collision may occur, the collision of packets can be avoided by detecting a packet sent to another station by carrier sense. Moreover, by controlling sending priority of packets in the send queue of the gateway, sending delay can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasutaka Serizawa, Takashi Yano, Masayuki Miyazaki, Kenichi Mizugaki
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Publication number: 20140293855Abstract: In an ad-hoc wireless communication system, when there occurs a disparity in the remaining amounts of the batteries of wireless routers, it is impossible for each wireless router to change a communication route by itself. As proposed herein, in an invented multi-hop wireless network for communication via a plurality of routers, a wireless router operating intermittently changes its intermittent operation interval depending on its circumstances by its own judgment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Yasutaka Serizawa, Kenichi Mizugaki, Masayuki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8755296Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a sensor processing unit that generates sensor data including a measurement result acquired by a sensor; a communication measurement unit that generates communication quality data including a communication state for transmitting a packet; a compression determination unit that determines compression rates of first sensor data and first communication quality data according to the contents of the first sensor data including the transmitted sensor data and the generated sensor data or the contents of the first communication quality data including the transmitted sensor data and the generated communication quality data; a compression unit that compresses the first sensor data and the first communication quality data according to the determined compression rates; and a wireless communication unit that transmits a packet including the compressed first sensor data and the compressed first communication quality data to another wireless communication device or the access point.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Miyazaki, Kenichi Mizugaki, Masaru Kokubo, Hideyuki Nagaishi, Nobuhisa Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20130235905Abstract: A period is defined to execute the sequences (processes) of communication data acquisition, measuring communication quality, communication quality data acquisition, and channel change. Processing is controlled to execute each process within a time limit set for each process and execute all processes in one cycle. This avoids that a delayed sequence influences and delays other sequences and can suppress delays. If processing fails to finish a sequence, it will resume the same sequence in the next cycle. For communication stations sharing timeslots, there are provided offset periods differing in length before the start of carrier sense in the timeslots for these stations. Consequently, even under a condition in which packet collision may occur, the collision of packets can be avoided by detecting a packet sent to another station by carrier sense. Moreover, by controlling sending priority of packets in the send queue of the gateway, sending delay can be avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Hitachi,Ltd.Inventors: YASUTAKA SERIZAWA, Takashi Yano, Masayuki Miyazaki, Kenichi Mizugaki
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Publication number: 20120155301Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a sensor processing unit that generates sensor data including a measurement result acquired by a sensor; a communication measurement unit that generates communication quality data including a communication state for transmitting a packet; a compression determination unit that determines compression rates of first sensor data and first communication quality data according to the contents of the first sensor data including the transmitted sensor data and the generated sensor data or the contents of the first communication quality data including the transmitted sensor data and the generated communication quality data; a compression unit that compresses the first sensor data and the first communication quality data according to the determined compression rates; and a wireless communication unit that transmits a packet including the compressed first sensor data and the compressed first communication quality data to another wireless communication device or the access point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki MIYAZAKI, Kenichi Mizugaki, Masaru Kokubo, Hideyuki Nagaishi, Nobuhisa Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20110310748Abstract: A wireless communication system provides high reliability wireless communications even when large scale interference affecting the entire system has occurred in ad hoc wireless communication systems. The node, access point, and intermediate nodes are each equipped with multiple wireless standards, and notify a wireless communication control device called a coordinator that sets the network communication paths with communication path information obtained by measuring the state of communication paths in the vicinity of their own respective nodes. The coordinator that now knows the communication status, issues instructions for setting plural routes using multiple wireless standards between the node and the access points as well as which wireless standard to use to implement communications between each intermediate zone, and each intermediate node conveys the measurement data while complying with those instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Kenichi MIZUGAKI, Masaru Kokubo, Masayuki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8073465Abstract: In a system for measuring a time difference of arrival of signals for positioning, an accurate time difference is measured by a receiver which is reduced in power consumption, size, and cost. The system comprises a node (under measurement) for transmitting a positioning signal, a reference station for transmitting a reference signal, and a plurality of access points for receiving the positioning signal and reference signal, and a server connected to the plurality of access points through a network. Each of the plurality of access points measures a time difference between the reception of the positioning signal and the reception of the reference signal, and a frequency deviation from the reference station, using a clock signal and a signal for shifting the clock signal, and the server calculates the position of the node based on the measured time difference and frequency deviation.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Nakagawa, Masayuki Miyazaki, Kenichi Mizugaki, Ryosuke Fujiwara