Patents by Inventor Naoki Fujimura

Naoki Fujimura 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: 11968545
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that receives a reference signal from a secondary cell; a transmitting unit that transmits a result of a measurement of the reference signal; and a control unit that selects, when the secondary cell is deactivated after the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement and the secondary cell is reactivated, and when a time interval from a timing at which the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement until a timing at which the secondary cell is reactivated is within a predetermined time interval, a receiving beam that is applied to the secondary cell upon transmitting the result of the measurement by the transmitting unit, as a receiving beam to be applied to the reactivated secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11930553
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives an instruction for a quality measurement of a cell in Dual Connectivity (DC), the cell being in an unconnected state; and a processor that performs the quality measurement in accordance with the instruction, wherein the processor performs the quality measurement in a measurement period based on a discontinuous reception configuration in a Secondary Cell Group (SCG). In other aspects, a measurement method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11917438
    Abstract: A user device includes a receiving unit that receives from a base station device a measurement configuration including a condition for triggering a measurement report; a control unit that executes a measurement based on the measurement configuration; and a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement report to the base station device in response to the condition for triggering a measurement report being met, wherein the control unit modifies the measurement configuration based on a parameter indicating mobility capability or based on a type of user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20240035515
    Abstract: A bearing part (10) is composed of a steel, and has a quench-hardened layer (11) in a surface of the bearing part. The quench-hardened layer includes a plurality of martensite crystal grains. The plurality of martensite crystal grains are classified into a first group and a second group. A minimum value of crystal grain sizes of the martensite crystal grains belonging to the first group is larger than a maximum value of crystal grain sizes of the martensite crystal grains belonging to the second group. A value obtained by dividing a total area of the martensite crystal grains belonging to the first group by the total area of the plurality of martensite crystal grains is more than or equal to 0.3. A value obtained by dividing, by the total area of the plurality of martensite crystal grains, a total area of the martensite crystal grains belonging to the first group except for a martensite crystal grain that has a minimum crystal grain size and that belongs to the first group is less than 0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki FUJIMURA, Masahiro YAMADA, Chikara OHKI
  • Patent number: 11546871
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that scales a delay requirement of an intra-frequency measurement based on a synchronization signal block by a scaling factor corresponding to each of a plurality of carriers; and a receiver that receives the synchronization signal block in each of the plurality of carriers, wherein a specified carrier out of the plurality of carriers satisfies a condition, wherein a first scaling factor for an unspecified carrier out of the plurality of carriers is based on a number of the plurality of carriers, and wherein a second scaling factor for the specified carrier is not based on the number of the plurality of carriers. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220329380
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmission unit that transmits a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) and a control unit that switches a carrier so as to transmit the SRS. The control unit determines a period during which no signal transmission is performed in radio frames used in a serving cell, based on a subcarrier spacing of a cell corresponding to a switching destination carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220322122
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a configuration related to at least one of measurement and reporting, a control unit that performs the measurement based on the configuration related to the at least one of the measurement and the reporting, and a transmission unit that transmits a measurement report to the base station based on the result of the performed measurement. The control unit limits a period related to the measurement or changes the number of times an operation related to the measurement is performed based on whether the terminal is in a specific environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220303811
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement result of a secondary cell; a receiving unit that receives a signal to activate the secondary cell; and a control unit that uses previously obtained information of the secondary cell to activate the secondary cell when a predetermined condition associated with a power class of the user equipment is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada, Naoki Fujimura, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11419085
    Abstract: A user apparatus for communicating with a first base station apparatus using a first RAT (Radio Access Technology) and a second base station apparatus using a second RAT includes a reception unit configured to receive, from the first base station apparatus, a configuration for measuring a timing difference between a cell of the first base station apparatus and a cell of the second base station apparatus; a control unit configured to perform measurement with respect to a cell of the second RAT based on the configuration for measuring the timing difference; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the first base station apparatus, a result of the performed measurement, wherein the configuration for measuring the timing difference includes information indicating an upper limit of a number of cells of the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220239432
    Abstract: A user device includes a receiver configured to receive, from a base station, a signal containing one or more transmission configuration indication information items; and a controller configured to determine whether an assumption of a QCL (Quasi-Co-Location) relationship between a first signal and a second signal is valid, based on the one or more transmission configuration indication information items, wherein the controller performs an operation with respect to the first signal in accordance with a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220201504
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a reception unit that performs a measurement for determining an optimum beam from among a plurality of reception beams that is usable in the user equipment; and a control unit that selects, based on information of a past measurement by the reception unit, a reception beam to be used in the user equipment, upon receiving, by the reception unit, a signal including information indicating to update a configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Publication number: 20220174529
    Abstract: Provided is a user equipment including: a receiving unit that receives at least one of configuration information of inter-radio access technology (RAT) measurement in a frequency range (FR ) 2, configuration information of inter-RAT measurement other than the FR2, and configuration information of a measurement gap for each user equipment from a base station apparatus; and a control unit that performs the inter-RAT measurement other than the FR2 within the measurement gap for each user equipment and performs the inter-RAT measurement in the FR2 outside the measurement gap for each user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220174507
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that receives a reference signal from a secondary cell; a transmitting unit that transmits a result of a measurement of the reference signal; and a control unit that selects, when the secondary cell is deactivated after the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement and the secondary cell is reactivated, and when a time interval from a timing at which the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement until a timing at which the secondary cell is reactivated is within a predetermined time interval, a receiving beam that is applied to the secondary cell upon transmitting the result of the measurement by the transmitting unit, as a receiving beam to be applied to the reactivated secondary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220123878
    Abstract: A user equipment executes carrier aggregation using a plurality of component carriers allocated in a predetermined band in a predetermined frequency range (FR2). In a case where only a plurality of secondary component carriers is allocated in the predetermined band, the user equipment selects a secondary component carrier that is a reception quality measurement target among the plurality of secondary component carriers. In addition, the user equipment transmits a reception quality measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220117029
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives an instruction for a quality measurement of a cell in Dual Connectivity (DC), the cell being in an unconnected state; and a processor that performs the quality measurement in accordance with the instruction, wherein the processor performs the quality measurement in a measurement period based on a discontinuous reception configuration in a Secondary Cell Group (SCG). In other aspects, a measurement method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220039043
    Abstract: UE (200) includes a receiving unit (220) that receives a predetermined reference signal and a control unit (230) that performs quality monitoring of a radio link based on the reference signal. The control unit (230) determines a synchronous state of the radio link based on a first error rate threshold value or a second error rate threshold value, and even if the first error rate threshold value is changed to the second error rate threshold value at a predetermined timing, applies an evaluation period corresponding to the first error rate threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Publication number: 20210390646
    Abstract: A procedure reporting system (1) includes a receiving section (2) that receives newly arrived data from a primary reporter system, a case identifying section (3) that identifies an intermediate agent case number, a client ID, and a client case number associated with the newly arrived data, an event ID assigning section (4) that assigns an event ID to the newly arrived data, a reporting item identifying section (5) that identifies a reporting item for the newly arrived data based on the client ID, the event ID, and a reporting item database defining, for each of different client systems, a reporting item to be reported to the client system upon assigning the event ID, and a reporting data generating section (6) that acquires data of the reporting item to be reported to the client and generates reporting data including the acquired data and the client case number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NGB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji FUKAI, Naoki FUJIMURA, Shingo UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210392536
    Abstract: A user device includes a receiving unit that receives from a base station device a measurement configuration including a condition for triggering a measurement report; a control unit that executes a measurement based on the measurement configuration; and a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement report to the base station device in response to the condition for triggering a measurement report being met, wherein the control unit modifies the measurement configuration based on a parameter indicating mobility capability or based on a type of user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20210258812
    Abstract: Measurement periods for quality measurement are specified for a first signal and a second signal. A user terminal includes: a reception section that receives the first signal based on first radio communication and the second signal based on second radio communication; and a control section that controls priority levels for quality measurements of the first radio communication and the second radio communication. The quality measurements are performed using the measurement periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20210168745
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that scales a delay requirement of an intra-frequency measurement based on a synchronization signal block by a scaling factor corresponding to each of a plurality of carriers; and a receiver that receives the synchronization signal block in each of the plurality of carriers, wherein a specified carrier out of the plurality of carriers satisfies a condition, wherein a first scaling factor for an unspecified carrier out of the plurality of carriers is based on a number of the plurality of carriers, and wherein a second scaling factor for the specified carrier is not based on the number of the plurality of carriers. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada