Patents by Inventor Takashi Urano

Takashi Urano 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).

  • Publication number: 20120049641
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil to a receiving coil by magnetic resonance. A drive circuit outputs an IN signal generated by an oscillator as a DR signal to alternately turn ON/OFF switching transistors at a resonance frequency, whereby AC current is fed to the feeding coil, and then the AC current is fed from the feeding coil to the receiving coil. An enable signal generation circuit generates an EN signal at a frequency lower than the resonance frequency. The drive circuit outputs the DR signal only while the EN signal assumes a high level. Transmission power from a wireless feeder to a wireless receiver is controlled by adjusting the duty ratio of the EN signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20120043825
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 at a drive frequency fo, whereby AC power is fed to the feeding coil L2, and then the AC power is fed from the feeding coil L2 to the receiving coil L3. A phase detection circuit 114 detects a phase difference between the current phase and voltage phase, and the VCO 202 adjusts the drive frequency fo such that the phase difference becomes zero. When load voltage is changed, the detected current phase value is adjusted with the result that the drive frequency fo is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20120019076
    Abstract: A resonance circuit is a circuit in which capacitors, a load, and coils are connected. AC power is fed by wireless from feeding electrodes of the capacitors to receiving electrodes thereof. The oscillator alternately turns on/off switching transistors to thereby supply AC power to the resonance circuit. An AC magnetic field generated by AC current flowing in the resonance circuit causes inductive current to flow in a detection coil. A phase detection circuit compares the phase of AC voltage generated by the oscillator and phase of the inductive current to thereby detect the phase difference between the voltage phase and current phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20120007519
    Abstract: A feeding body 106 has a cylindrical part capable of housing a light source cartridge 104. A feeding coil L2 for supplying AC power to the light source cartridge 104 is buried in the bottom surface of the cylindrical part of the feeding body 106. A power transmission control circuit 108 supplies AC power to the feeding coil L2. The feeding body 106 can change the insertion depth of the light source cartridge 104 and has, in the inner wall, a screw groove for stabilizing the position of the light source cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20120001494
    Abstract: Power is transmitted from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 to feed AC current to the feeding coil L2, whereby the AC power is fed from the feeding coil L2 to the receiving coil L3. An AC magnetic field generated by AC current IS flowing in the feeding coil L2 causes inductive current ISS to flow in a detection coil LSS. A phase detection circuit 150 compares the phase of AC voltage generated by the VCO 202 and phase of the inductive current ISS to detect the phase difference between voltage and current phases and generates phase difference indicating voltage indicating the magnitude of the phase difference. The reset circuit 102 forcibly reduces the phase difference indicating voltage when the phase difference indicating voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20120001495
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. An oscillator 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 to cause AC current IS of drive frequency fo to flow in a transformer T2 primary coil Lb. The AC current IS causes AC current I1 to flow in an exciting coil L1 and causes AC current I2 to flow in the feeding coil L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110260548
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 at a drive frequency fo, whereby AC current is fed to the feeding coil L2, and then the AC current is fed from the feeding coil L2 to the receiving coil L3. A phase detection circuit detects a phase difference between the current phase and voltage phase, and the VCO adjusts the drive frequency fo such that the phase difference becomes zero. In a current phase detection circuit and a voltage phase detection circuit, detection values of the current and voltage phases can be changed, respectively and intentionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110241439
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3. In a wireless power receiver 118, capacitors CA and CB are each charged by received power and function as a DC power source. Meanwhile, a reference signal and an input signal are supplied to a control signal generation circuit 108. Based on the reference signal and input signal, the control signal generation circuit 108 generates a control signal representing the signal level of the input signal by a duty ratio. A voltage waveform of an output voltage V5 at a load LD is controlled by the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110227420
    Abstract: Power is fed from a power feeding coil L2 to a power receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 at a drive frequency fo, whereby AC power is supplied to the power feeding coil L2, and then the AC power is supplied from the power feeding coil L2 to the power receiving coil L3. A phase detection circuit 114 detects a phase difference between current and voltage phases, and the VCO 202 adjusts the drive frequency fo such that the phase difference becomes zero. When load voltage is changed, the detected voltage phase value is adjusted with the result that the drive frequency fo is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110198940
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil to a receiving coil using magnetic resonance. The feeding coil is wound in a first layer substrate 144 of a multilayer substrate 116 with a space provided between the coil conductor thereof and further wound in a second later substrate 146 with a space provided between the coil conductor thereof. The feeding coil is wound such that a coil conductor 106a in the first layer and a coil conductive wire 106b in the second layer do not overlap each other as viewed in the axial direction (z-axis direction).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi Urano
  • Publication number: 20110193421
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 using magnetic resonance. The receiving coil L3 is connected in series to a capacitor C3 to constitute a receiving coil circuit 130. The receiving coil L3 is further connected to an adjustment coil L5. By adjusting the inductance of the adjustment coil L5, the resonance frequency of the receiving coil circuit 130 can be adjusted. Since the axial direction of the adjustment coil L5 is at right angles to the power feeding direction, an electromotive force does not occur in the adjustment coil L5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi Urano
  • Publication number: 20110127846
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 at a drive frequency fo, whereby AC power is fed to the feeding coil L2, and then the AC power is fed from the feeding coil L2 to the receiving coil L3. A phase detection circuit 114 detects a phase difference between the current phase and voltage phase, and the VCO 202 adjusts the drive frequency fo such that the phase difference becomes zero. When load voltage is changed, the detected current phase value is adjusted with the result that the drive frequency fo is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110101791
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 at a drive frequency fo, whereby AC current is fed to the feeding coil L2, and then the AC current is fed from the feeding coil L2 to the receiving coil L3. A phase detection circuit detects a phase difference between the current phase and voltage phase, and the VCO adjusts the drive frequency fo such that the phase difference becomes zero. In a current phase detection circuit and a voltage phase detection circuit, detection values of the current and voltage phases can be changed, respectively and intentionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110095619
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil to a receiving coil by magnetic resonance. A drive circuit outputs an IN signal generated by an oscillator as a DR signal to alternately turn ON/OFF switching transistors at a resonance frequency, whereby AC current is fed to the feeding coil, and then the AC current is fed from the feeding coil to the receiving coil. An enable signal generation circuit generates an EN signal at a frequency lower than the resonance frequency. The drive circuit outputs the DR signal only while the EN signal assumes a high level. Transmission power from a wireless feeder to a wireless receiver is controlled by adjusting the duty ratio of the EN signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110080054
    Abstract: Power is fed from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. An oscillator 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 to cause AC current IS of drive frequency fo to flow in a transformer T2 primary coil Lb. The AC current IS causes AC current I1 to flow in an exciting coil L1 and causes AC current I2 to flow in the feeding coil L2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110080053
    Abstract: Power is transmitted from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L3 by magnetic resonance. A VCO 202 alternately turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 to feed AC current to the feeding coil L2, whereby the AC power is fed from the feeding coil L2 to the receiving coil L3. An AC magnetic field generated by AC current IS flowing in the feeding coil L2 causes inductive current ISS to flow in a detection coil LSS. A phase detection circuit 150 compares the phase of AC voltage generated by the VCO 202 and phase of the inductive current ISS to detect the phase difference between voltage and current phases and generates phase difference indicating voltage indicating the magnitude of the phase difference. The reset circuit 102 forcibly reduces the phase difference indicating voltage when the phase difference indicating voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20110049997
    Abstract: Power is transmitted from a feeding coil L2 to a receiving coil L2 by magnetic resonance. A power circuit 200 turns ON/OFF switching transistors Q1 and Q2 to feed AC current to an exciting circuit 110, whereby the AC power is fed from an exciting coil L1 to a feeding coil L2. A phase detection circuit 150 sets the switching transistor Q2 of the power circuit 200 as a measurement target and detects the phase difference between source-drain current IDS2 and source-drain voltage VDS2 from the current phase and voltage phase thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: Takashi URANO
  • Publication number: 20050280721
    Abstract: A method for providing combined gain compensation and error correction for a camera pickup array includes assigning and storing. The act of assigning assigns a memory location that accommodates for storing a representation of a multibit gain value to each relevant pixel in the array, assigns a first value range in the location to a range of feasible pixel gain values, and assigns at least one second value in the location to a faulty gain value. The act of storing includes storing pixel values for a multi-pixel image and reading out the multi-pixel image while compensating to a standardized image value for feasible gain values but accessing a correction algorithm for a faulty pixel gain value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Auke van der Heide, Takashi Urano
  • Patent number: 6657434
    Abstract: A surface potential detection apparatus in which surface potential sensors are provided independently of one another. A switching circuit individually selects and outputs signals provided from the surface potential sensors with varied timing for individual surface potential sensors. A single signal processing circuit connected to the surface potential sensors via the switching circuit is shared by the surface potential sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Urano, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20020063564
    Abstract: Surface potential sensors are provided independently of one another. A switching circuit individually selects and outputs signals provided from the surface potential sensors with varied timing for individual surface potential sensors. A single signal processing circuit connected with the surface potential sensors via the switching circuit is shared by the surface potential sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Urano, Takashi Yamamoto