Patents by Inventor Kenji Waku
Kenji Waku 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: 20240148676Abstract: The present invention provides a novel combination therapy with PD-1 blockade therapy. A pharmaceutical composition which comprises a substance capable of enhancing T cell receptor (TCR) signaling and is administered before, after or simultaneously with the administration of a PD-1 signaling inhibitor. A drug which enhances PD-1 signaling inhibitory activity, comprising a CD45 inhibitor and/or a cell. A TCR signaling enhancer comprising a CD45 inhibitor and/or a cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Kyoto UniversityInventors: Tasuku HONJO, Yuka WAKU, Kenji CHAMOTO
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Patent number: 10296189Abstract: There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryoji Amemiya, Nobutaka Yagi, Osamu Ishioka, Kenji Waku, Yohei Kuroda
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Publication number: 20150346979Abstract: There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryoji AMEMIYA, Nobutaka YAGI, Osamu ISHIOKA, Kenji WAKU, Yohei KURODA
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Patent number: 9128665Abstract: There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoji Amemiya, Nobutaka Yagi, Osamu Ishioka, Kenji Waku, Yohei Kuroda
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Patent number: 8963504Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a secondary battery, a charging section which charges the secondary battery with power supplied from an external power supply section with a set charging current, a measurement section which measures an amount of charge accumulated in the secondary battery, a time information acquisition section which acquires time information, a storage section which stores charging history information indicating a time period in which a user performs charging, and a control section which has a chargeable time estimation section that estimates chargeable time based on the charging history information and the time information, and a charging current setting section that calculates a restricted charging current which enables the secondary battery to be charged up to a charging capacity within the chargeable time, based on the amount of charge acquired from the measurement section, and sets the restricted charging current in the charging section.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yohei Kuroda, Osamu Ishioka, Nobutaka Yagi, Ryoji Amemiya, Kenji Waku
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Patent number: 8779982Abstract: A portable wireless device which effectively uses a space in a case while maintaining communication qualities by reducing antenna gain deterioration even when a plurality of antennas of different frequency bands are arranged adjacent to each other. The portable wireless device is provided with patterns for adding a band disturbing element, which is composed of beads and a parallel resonance circuit, to a part where one side of an antenna pattern of a magnetic field antenna is closed to between the main antenna and the magnetic field antenna is more easily generated. The band disturbing element may be composed of ferrite core or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kenji Waku, Kunihiko Watanabe, Shin Takahashi, Tadashi Koyama
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Patent number: 8611958Abstract: Provided is a portable wireless device having a plurality of antennas of different frequency bands. By positively using one antenna for improving gains of other antennas, the one antenna can be effectively used and the gains of other antennas can be improved. Patterns (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2 B3) for adding a band disturbing element (80) (high frequency blocking means), which is composed of beads and a parallel resonance circuit, are arranged at a prescribed position of a magnetic field antenna (50). The band disturbing element (80) may be composed of ferrite core or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Tadashi Koyama, Kunihiko Watanabe, Katsuji Morishita, Shin Takahashi, Kenji Waku
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Patent number: 8537055Abstract: A portable electronic device and a magnetic field antenna circuit are provided for making it possible to keep an antenna resonance frequency in a fixed range even if temperature changes. A mobile telephone device (1) is provided with a second communication unit driven by a chargeable battery (43) to execute a predetermined function and an RFID unit (41) accompanied with magnetic communication. The RFID unit (41) includes a magnetic antenna unit (50), which can transmit or receive a wireless signal by a magnetic field, and a capacitor (52), one terminal of which is connected with the magnetic antenna unit (50) to generate a predetermined resonance frequency. The capacitor (52) is characterized in having a temperature-reactance characteristic reverse to an amount of an inductance value that fluctuates as the magnetic antenna unit (50) changes in accordance with temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Kenji Waku, Tadashi Koyama, Masayuki Saito, Yasuhiro Katayama, Katsuji Morishita, Shinobu Kato
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Patent number: 8489109Abstract: A mobile wireless device enables effective use of space in a case while reducing degradation of antenna gain and maintaining communication quality even if a plurality of antennas having different frequency bands are arranged close to one another. A magnetic antenna has a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and a concentrated constant circuit which are added to a wiring pattern at the side near to a main antenna, so that a first path and a second path can be selected. Under a predetermined condition, a CPU controls the first switch and the second switch to electrically connect terminal (A1) to terminal (B1) and electrically connect terminal (A2) to terminal (B2), thereby forming the first path; and electrically connect terminal (A1) to terminal (C1) and electrically connect terminal (A2) to terminal (C2), thereby forming the second path connected via the concentrated constant circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kenji Waku, Tadashi Koyama, Kunihiko Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Nishizono, Katsuji Morishita, Takeshi Iwanaga, Daisuke Togashi
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Patent number: 8369814Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a mobile communication device and a reception suppressing method which can preferably perform communication even if a plurality of antennas is provided and a frequency bandwidth of a transmission signal or a reception signal of each antenna is in a close range with each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Ting Lu, Kenji Waku
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Patent number: 8364212Abstract: The present invention has an object of attaining further miniaturization and reducing the thickness of a portable wireless device with a built-in antenna. The cellular telephone device 1 according to the one embodiment of the present invention includes a case body 60 having a first case portion 62 which is arranged so as to cover the electronic components, along with being electrically conductive to the reference potential pattern, and a nonconductive second case portion 64 arranged to be continuous to the first case portion 62 along with being arranged in the outer periphery of the circuit substrate 70. In the portion that is arranged to be layered in the second case portion 64 in a flexible wiring substrate 50, an antenna element 66 is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Kenji Waku, Kunihiko Watanabe, Yasuhiro Abe, Tei Riku
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Patent number: 8249678Abstract: A wireless communication device having a configurable antenna, includes: a first antenna having a first resonant frequency; a first frequency modification unit for modifying the first resonant frequency of the antenna; a function operation unit activating a plurality of functions; and a control unit controlling the first frequency modification unit to modify the first resonant frequency in accordance with a function activated by the function operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Abe, Kenji Waku
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Patent number: 8219143Abstract: A portable wireless device includes a first communication unit having a loop antenna that communicates with external devices using a first usable frequency band, and an RFID chip that performs predetermined processing with respect to information communicated by the loop antenna. A second communication unit includes a main antenna that communicates by a second usable frequency band that is higher than the first usable frequency band, and a communication processing unit that performs predetermined processing with respect to information communicated by the main antenna. A reactance component of the loop antenna is adjusted such that a high-order secondary resonance point of the first usable frequency band does not overlap the second usable frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Kenji Waku, Tadeshi Koyama, Kunihiko Watanabe, Masato Harikae, Shin Takahashi, Daisuke Togashi, Yoshiaki Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20120126744Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a secondary battery, a charging section which charges the secondary battery with power supplied from an external power supply section with a set charging current, a measurement section which measures an amount of charge accumulated in the secondary battery, a time information acquisition section which acquires time information, a storage section which stores charging history information indicating a time period in which a user performs charging, and a control section which has a chargeable time estimation section that estimates chargeable time based on the charging history information and the time information, and a charging current setting section that calculates a restricted charging current which enables the secondary battery to be charged up to a charging capacity within the chargeable time, based on the amount of charge acquired from the measurement section, and sets the restricted charging current in the charging section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Kuroda, Osamu Ishioka, Nobutaka Yagi, Ryoji Amemiya, Kenji Waku
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Publication number: 20110183730Abstract: A portable wireless device which effectively uses a space in a case while maintaining communication qualities by reducing antenna gain deterioration even when a plurality of antennas of different frequency bands are arranged adjacent to each other. The portable wireless device is provided with patterns for adding a band disturbing element, which is composed of beads and a parallel resonance circuit, to a part where one side of an antenna pattern of a magnetic field antenna is closed to between the main antenna and the magnetic field antenna is more easily generated. The band disturbing element may be composed of ferrite core or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Waku, Kunihiko Watanabe, Shin Takahashi, Tadashi Koyama
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Publication number: 20110179374Abstract: A display apparatus includes a housing, an operation position specification section, and a display control section. The housing includes a touch panel, and is configured to display a predetermined software keyboard including keys on a display screen. The operation position specification section is configured to specify an operation position of each of the keys of the software keyboard; and a display control section is configured to automatically change display of the keys based on variations of the operation positions of the keys, the operation positions being specified by the operation position specification section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobutaka YAGI, Osamu ISHIOKA, Ryoji AMEMIYA, Yohei KURODA, Kenji WAKU
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Publication number: 20110169868Abstract: There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryoji AMEMIYA, Nobutaka Yagi, Osamu Ishioka, Kenji Waku, Yohei Kuroda
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Publication number: 20100304692Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a mobile communication device and a reception suppressing method which can preferably perform communication even if a plurality of antennas is provided and a frequency bandwidth of a transmission signal or a reception signal of each antenna is in a close range with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Ting Lu, Kenji Waku
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Publication number: 20100130140Abstract: A mobile wireless device enables effective use of space in a case while reducing degradation of ah antenna gain and maintaining communication quality even if a plurality of antennas having different frequency bands are arranged close to one another. A magnetic antenna has a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and a concentrated constant circuit which are added to a wiring pattern at the side near to a main antenna, so that a first path and a second path can be selected. Under a predetermined condition, a CPU controls the first switch and the second switch to electrically connect a terminal (A1) to a terminal (B1) and electrically connect terminal (A2) to terminal (B2), thereby forming the first path; and electrically connect terminal (A1) to a terminal (C1) and electrically connect terminal (A2) to a terminal (C2), thereby forming the second path connected via the concentrated constant circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Waku, Tadashi Koyama, Kunihiko Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Nishizono, Katsuji Morishita, Takeshi Iwanaga, Daisuke Togashi
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Publication number: 20100130273Abstract: Provided is a portable wireless device having a plurality of antennas of different frequency bands. By positively using one antenna for improving gains of other antennas, the one antenna can be effectively used and the gains of other antennas can be improved. Patterns (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2 B3) for adding a band disturbing element (80) (high frequency blocking means), which is composed of beads and a parallel resonance circuit, are arranged at a prescribed position of a magnetic field antenna (50). The band disturbing element (80) may be composed of ferrite core or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Koyama, Kunihiko Watanabe, Katsuji Morishita, Makoto Takahashi, Kenji Waku