Patents by Inventor Masataka Otsuka
Masataka Otsuka 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: 20230223694Abstract: An antenna device includes: a patch conductor provided on a substrate; a GND conductor provided in the substrate in such a manner as to face the patch conductor; GND pins that are provided in the substrate and that connect the patch conductor and the GND conductor; and an RF circuit provided on a first face of the patch conductor opposite to a second face of the patch conductor, the second face being attached to the substrate, the RF circuit being provided in such a manner as to be surrounded by the GND pins.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichi IKEDA, Kei YOKOKAWA, Narihiro NAKAMOTO, Akihito HIRAI, Toru FUKASAWA, Masataka OTSUKA
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Patent number: 11605903Abstract: Waveguide slot array antennas each having slots, that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves and that are formed in a front surface of a waveguide and waveguide slot array antennas each having slots that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves and that are formed in a front surface of a waveguide, and the waveguide slot array antennas and the waveguide slot array antennas are alternately arranged, the waveguide is a ridge waveguide having a ridge formed inside the waveguide, and the waveguide is a ridge waveguide having ridges, formed inside the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Takashi Maruyama, Masataka Otsuka, Yu Ushijima, Kazunari Kihira
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Patent number: 11183771Abstract: Included are: a first dielectric substrate provided with a first conductor ground plane on a front or back surface thereof; a plurality of patch antennas formed in the first conductor ground plane, a plurality of conductive members, ends of which connected to the first conductor ground plane to surround the patch antennas individually, and a second conductor ground plane connected to each of the other ends of the conductive members, and parts of the plurality of conductive members penetrate the first dielectric substrate, and the remaining parts of the conductive members function as spacers for providing an air layer between the first dielectric substrate and the second conductor ground plane, and the plurality of conductive members functions as spacers for providing an air layer between the first conductor ground plane and the second conductor ground plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Yokokawa, Narihiro Nakamoto, Toru Fukasawa, Tomohiro Takahashi, Masataka Otsuka
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Patent number: 11128053Abstract: Included are: a waveguide in which multiple probe inserting holes are provided in a first wall surface, and multiple connection shaft inserting holes are provided in a second wall surface; multiple feed probes each of which is inserted in one of the probe inserting holes, and to a first end of each of which one of multiple circularly polarized element antennas is connected; multiple connection shafts each of which is inserted in one of the connection shaft inserting holes, and a third end of each of which is connected to a second end of one of the feed probes; multiple rotation shafts, a fifth end of each of which is connected to a fourth end of one of the connection shafts; multiple rotation devices each of which rotates one of the rotation shafts; and a control device that individually controls rotation of the rotation devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Narihiro Nakamoto, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Toru Fukasawa, Masataka Otsuka, Hiroaki Miyashita
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Patent number: 10992039Abstract: An array antenna device, including: a waveguide (1) having a plurality of radiation units (2) arranged on one tube wall thereof, in which the waveguide (1) has a plurality of grooves (3) arranged on an inner side of a tube wall facing the tube wall, movable short-circuit surfaces (4) each electrically short-circuited to an inner wall of one of the grooves (3), and movable short-circuit surface controlling mechanisms (5) for changing positions of the movable short-circuit surfaces (4).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Yokokawa, Jun Goto, Kazunari Kihira, Tomohiro Takahashi, Masataka Otsuka, Narihiro Nakamoto, Toru Fukasawa, Takuro Sasaki, Tomohiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 10923813Abstract: A signal combiner (33) specifies a weighting coefficient w for suppressing a grating lobe included in a composite signal S3 obtained when combining a digital received signal S1 and digital received signal S2 stored by a signal calculation storage (31), from the gain in a grating lobe direction in a first radiation pattern and the gain in a grating lobe direction in a second radiation pattern, and combines the digital received signal S1 and digital received signal S2 stored by the signal calculation storage (31) using the weighting coefficient w.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Maruyama, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masataka Otsuka, Naoyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10873121Abstract: A ground conductor (1) having slots (2a to 2g) for radiating electromagnetic waves, a ground conductor (3) in which cavities (4) recessed in a direction away from the ground conductor (1) is formed in positions opposite to the slots (2a to 2g) of the grounding conductor (1), and central conductors (5a, 5b, 6a to 6c, 7a, and 7b) arranged in positions overlapping with the slots (2a to 2g), respectively, between the ground conductor (1) and the ground conductor (3) are provided. The central conductors (5a, 5b, 6a to 6c, 7a, and 7b) are arranged such that the ground conductor (1) is closer to them than the ground conductor (3).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Goto, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masataka Otsuka
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Publication number: 20200395676Abstract: Included are: a first dielectric substrate provided with a first conductor ground plane on a front or back surface thereof; a plurality of patch antennas formed in the first conductor ground plane, a plurality of conductive members, ends of which connected to the first conductor ground plane to surround the patch antennas individually, and a second conductor ground plane connected to each of the other ends of the conductive members, and parts of the plurality of conductive members penetrate the first dielectric substrate, and the remaining parts of the conductive members function as spacers for providing an air layer between the first dielectric substrate and the second conductor ground plane, and the plurality of conductive members functions as spacers for providing an air layer between the first conductor ground plane and the second conductor ground plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kei YOKOKAWA, Narihiro NAKAMOTO, Toru FUKASAWA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI, Masataka OTSUKA
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Patent number: 10615497Abstract: An object of the present invention is to vary the directivity of an antenna (100a) while reducing the signal loss by switching circuits (5a-5d) in a splitter circuit. The switching circuits (5a-5d) in the splitter circuit connect or disconnect n (n is an integer of 2 or more) second lines (12a) connected in parallel with a first line (10a) to/from output terminals (7) connected to n antenna elements (8) having different directivities of signals. If m (m is an integer ranging from 1 to n?1) switching circuits (5b, 5d) arbitrarily selected from the n switching circuits (5a-5d) are switched to on-states, the characteristic impedance of each of the n second lines (12a) is set to a product between the characteristic impedance of the first line (10a) and the number m of switching circuits (5b and 5d) switched to on-states.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Takashi Maruyama, Akimichi Hirota, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masataka Otsuka
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Publication number: 20200044358Abstract: Included are: a waveguide in which multiple probe inserting holes are provided in a first wall surface, and multiple connection shaft inserting holes are provided in a second wall surface; multiple feed probes each of which is inserted in one of the probe inserting holes, and to a first end of each of which one of multiple circularly polarized element antennas is connected; multiple connection shafts each of which is inserted in one of the connection shaft inserting holes, and a third end of each of which is connected to a second end of one of the feed probes; multiple rotation shafts, a fifth end of each of which is connected to a fourth end of one of the connection shafts; multiple rotation devices each of which rotates one of the rotation shafts; and a control device that individually controls rotation of the rotation devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Narihiro NAKAMOTO, Satoshi YAMAGUCHI, Toru FUKASAWA, Masataka OTSUKA, Hiroaki MIYASHITA
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Publication number: 20190260137Abstract: Waveguide slot array antennas each having slots, that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves and that are formed in a front surface of a waveguide and waveguide slot array antennas each having slots that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves and that are formed in a front surface of a waveguide, and the waveguide slot array antennas and the waveguide slot array antennas are alternately arranged, the waveguide is a ridge waveguide having a ridge formed inside the waveguide, and the waveguide is a ridge waveguide having ridges, formed inside the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2016Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hikaru WATANABE, Takashi MARUYAMA, Masataka OTSUKA, Yu USHIJIMA, Kazunari KIHIRA
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Publication number: 20190229418Abstract: An array antenna device, including: a waveguide (1) having a plurality of radiation units (2) arranged on one tube wall thereof, in which the waveguide (1) has a plurality of grooves (3) arranged on an inner side of a tube wall facing the tube wall, movable short-circuit surfaces (4) each electrically short-circuited to an inner wall of one of the grooves (3), and movable short-circuit surface controlling mechanisms (5) for changing positions of the movable short-circuit surfaces (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kei YOKOKAWA, Jun GOTO, Kazunari KIHIRA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI, Masataka OTSUKA, Narihiro NAKAMOTO, Toru FUKASAWA, Takuro SASAKI, Tomohiro MIZUNO
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Patent number: 10361483Abstract: The antenna device includes: an element part 100 having an excitation element 1, a first passive element 11 having first and second conductive parts 11a and 11b, a second passive element 21 having third and fourth conductive parts 21a and 21b, a first switch 12 controlling conduction between the first and second conductive parts, and a second switch 22 controlling conduction between the third and fourth conductive parts; and a controller 200 outputting an electric signal for controlling conduction of the first and second switches. The controller outputs identical DC signal to the first and second switches, and one of the first and second switches is brought into conduction while the other one is brought out of conduction.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takashi Maruyama, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masataka Otsuka, Masatake Hangai, Naoyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10355740Abstract: An array antenna device AAD including: a plurality of element antennas EAs; a transmission/reception module TRM, which is to be connected to one of the EAs, and includes a transmission circuit TC, a reception circuit RC, and a transmission/reception switch; a transmission/reception controller controlling by controlling an amplitude and phase of a signal passing through each TC and RC, and by switching transmission/reception; a distributor distributing a signal from a signal transmitter to each TC to transmit a distributed signal from the each TC; a combiner combining a signal from the each RC; and a receiver receiving the combined signal. A detection signal, which contains a detected amplitude and phase of the signal received by the receiver, is corrected with a piece of interconnection amplitude-phase information about the EAs to obtain a calibration value in calibration of each TRM, and calibration is conducted with the calibration value.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Yamaguchi, Hikaru Watanabe, Tasuku Kuriyama, Takashi Maruyama, Masataka Otsuka, Hideki Morishige
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Patent number: 10326201Abstract: There are provided a communication excitation distribution calculating unit (11) that calculates an excitation distribution W1(t) of a communication beam using an excitation phase distribution S that directs a main lobe of the communication beam in a communication direction; an interference excitation distribution calculating unit (14) that calculates an excitation distribution W2(t) of an interference beam using an excitation phase distribution D that forms a null of an antenna pattern in the communication direction; and an excitation distribution combining unit (20) that combines the excitation distribution W1(t) of the communication beam and the excitation distribution W2(t) of the interference beam. An amplitude/phase controlling unit (30) controls amplitudes and phases of carrier signals to be provided to element antennas (3-1) to (3-K), in accordance with the combined excitation distribution obtained by the excitation distribution combining unit (20).Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tasuku Kuriyama, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masataka Otsuka, Toru Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20190140724Abstract: An amplitude phase calculating unit (32) calculates information about a propagation path between a receiving station (2) and each of transmitting stations (1-1 to 1-N) at each communication point at each communication time, and calculates the amounts of amplitude phase adjustment to a communication symbol sequence. An amplitude phase adjusting unit (33) adjusts the amplitude and the phase of the communication symbol sequence by using the amounts of amplitude phase adjustment, and transmits this adjusted signal from each of the transmitting stations (1-1 to 1-N). A timing control unit (22) of the receiving station (2) controls the receiving timing on the basis of each communication time, and a reception RF unit (23) converts the signal from each of the transmitting stations (1-1 to 1-N) into a signal in a baseband at the controlled receiving timing, and calculates a reception symbol sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tasuku KURIYAMA, Takashi MARUYAMA, Satoshi YAMAGUCHI, Masataka OTSUKA
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Patent number: 10284239Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna device including element antennas for receiving signals, phase control units for controlling the phases of the signals received by the element antennas, a phase value series acquiring unit for acquiring phase value series in which phase values differing among the element antennas and changing with time are provided, a phase value setting unit for setting the phase values to the phase control units in accordance with the phase value series, a combining unit for combining the signals whose phases are controlled into a composite signal, an ADC for digitizing the composite signal, a frequency calculating unit for calculating frequency shift amounts from the phase value series, DDCs for performing frequency conversion on the digitized signal by using the frequency shift amounts, LPFs each for performing low-pass filtering on the signal on which the frequency conversion is performed, and a beam forming unit for forming one or more beam signals by using the signals on each of which the low-paType: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tasuku Kuriyama, Kazunari Kihira, Masataka Otsuka
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Publication number: 20190131701Abstract: A parallel line formed on the same plane as a patch element, close to the patch element, in a direction that is a magnetic field direction of a patch antenna and parallel to the polarization direction of the patch antenna, and a bent line shaped so as to be bent between adjacent patch elements and configured to connect their parallel lines to each other, form a coupling line, which couples part of an electromagnetic wave excited by one of the patch elements to its adjacent patch antenna, and, in the coupling line, a gap between the parallel line and the patch element and a length of the bent line are set so that an electromagnetic wave coupled from one patch antenna to its adjacent patch antenna via space and an electromagnetic wave coupled from the one patch antenna to the adjacent patch antenna via the coupling line cancel each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru WATANABE, Satoshi YAMAGUCHI, Masataka OTSUKA, Hideki MORISHIGE
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Publication number: 20190109377Abstract: An object of the present invention is to vary the directivity of an antenna (100a) while reducing the signal loss by switching circuits (5a-5d) in a splitter circuit. The switching circuits (5a-5d) in the splitter circuit connect or disconnect n (n is an integer of 2 or more) second lines (12a) connected in parallel with a first line (10a) to/from output terminals (7) connected to n antenna elements (8) having different directivities of signals. If m (m is an integer ranging from 1 to n?1) switching circuits (5b, 5d) arbitrarily selected from the n switching circuits (5a-5d) are switched to on-states, the characteristic impedance of each of the n second lines (12a) is set to a product between the characteristic impedance of the first line (10a) and the number m of switching circuits (5b and 5d) switched to on-states.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hikaru WATANABE, Takashi MARUYAMA, Akimichi HIROTA, Satoshi YAMAGUCHI, Masataka OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20190058262Abstract: A signal combiner (33) specifies a weighting coefficient w for suppressing a grating lobe included in a composite signal S3 obtained when combining a digital received signal S1 and digital received signal S2 stored by a signal calculation storage (31), from the gain in a grating lobe direction in a first radiation pattern and the gain in a grating lobe direction in a second radiation pattern, and combines the digital received signal S1 and digital received signal S2 stored by the signal calculation storage (31) using the weighting coefficient w.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi MARUYAMA, Satoshi YAMAGUCHI, Masataka OTSUKA, Naoyuki YAMAMOTO