Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Fukunaga

Tatsuya Fukunaga 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: 8810338
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes substrates and resonance sections resonating at the predetermined resonance frequency. At least one of the substrates is formed with two or more resonators in the second direction, and the remaining one or two or more of the substrates are each formed with one or more resonators in the second direction, and at least one of the resonance sections is configured by a plurality of resonators opposing one another in the first direction between the substrates, the opposing resonators form a coupled resonator resonating as a whole at the predetermined resonance frequency through electromagnetic coupling in a hybrid resonance mode, and in a state that the substrates are separated away from one another to fail to establish electromagnetic coupling thereamong, the resonators forming the coupled resonator resonate at any other resonance frequency different from the predetermined resonance frequency on the substrate basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 8674791
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate; a first resonance section including a first resonator and a second resonator electromagnetically coupled to each other; a second resonance section disposed side-by-side relative to the first resonance section, and electromagnetically coupled to the first resonance section to perform a signal transmission between the first and second resonance sections; and a first shielding electrode disposed between the first resonator and the second substrate and partially covering the first resonator to allow at least an open end of the first resonator to be covered therewith, and a second shielding electrode disposed between the second resonator and the first substrate and partially covering the second resonator to allow at least an open end of the second resonator to be covered therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 8378917
    Abstract: A proximity antenna includes a wiring pattern wound in a predetermined direction in a horizontal plane from a signal end to a ground end and a wiring pattern wound in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction in a horizontal plane from a signal end to a ground end, in which the wiring pattern and the wiring pattern are apposed in a vertical direction. The characteristics of a spiral coil having several turns can be thus obtained by a one-turn wiring width, and an installation space for other components, larger than a conventional installation space, can be therefore secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Sadaharu Yoneda, Toshinori Matsuura, Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 8283995
    Abstract: A balanced-output triplexer includes: a first filter provided between an input terminal and a pair of first balanced output terminals; a second filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of second balanced output terminals; and a third filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of third balanced output terminals. All of the first to third filters are provided within a layered substrate. All of the balanced output terminals are disposed to be adjacent to one of the sides of the top surface of the layered substrate and one of the sides of the bottom surface of the layered substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Atsunori Okada, Tatsuya Fukunaga, Hideya Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8284000
    Abstract: A resonator includes: a dielectric block; first and second ground electrodes provided on or in the dielectric block, and disposed to oppose each other; a first via conductor provided in the dielectric block orthogonally to the first and second ground electrodes, and having a short-circuit end connected to the first ground electrode and an open end extending toward the second ground electrode; a second via conductor interdigitally-coupled with the first via conductor, and provided in the dielectric block orthogonally to the first and second ground electrodes, and having a short-circuit end connected to the second ground electrode and an open end extending toward the first ground electrode; a first capacitor electrode provided in the dielectric block, and connected to the first via conductor; and a second capacitor electrode provided in the dielectric block, and connected to the second via conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20120235773
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate; a first resonance section including a first resonator and a second resonator electromagnetically coupled to each other; a second resonance section disposed side-by-side relative to the first resonance section, and electromagnetically coupled to the first resonance section to perform a signal transmission between the first and second resonance sections; and a first shielding electrode disposed between the first resonator and the second substrate and partially covering the first resonator to allow at least an open end of the first resonator to be covered therewith, and a second shielding electrode disposed between the second resonator and the first substrate and partially covering the second resonator to allow at least an open end of the second resonator to be covered therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya FUKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20120162020
    Abstract: An antenna includes: a first resonator and a second resonator each having an open end, in which the first resonator and the second resonator are disposed side by side to allow the open ends thereof to be opposed to each other; and a first capacitor connected between the open ends which are opposed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya FUKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20120062343
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to oppose each other in a first direction; a first resonator including a plurality of first quarter wavelength resonators provided in a first region of the first substrate, and interdigitally coupled to one another in the first direction, and a single or the plurality of second quarter wavelength resonators provided in a region of the second substrate corresponding to the first region and interdigitally coupled to one another in the first direction; and a second resonator electromagnetically coupled to the first resonator, and performing a signal transmission between the second resonator and the first resonator. The first and the second quarter wavelength resonators located at positions nearest to one another in the first resonator, respectively have open ends which are disposed to oppose one another, and respectively have short-circuit ends which are disposed to oppose one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya FUKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 8130061
    Abstract: A filter being small and having a narrowband filter characteristic is achieved using interdigital-coupled resonators. A first resonator and a second resonator are configured using interdigital-coupled quarter-wavelength resonators respectively. In addition, the first resonator and the second resonator are disposed so as to extend along directions intersecting with each other at a predetermined angle ?. Thus, coupling between the resonators is reduced compared with, for example, a case that the first resonator and the second resonator are, as a whole, disposed in parallel to each other. The angle ?, with which the first resonator and the second resonator are disposed respectively, is adjusted, thereby coupling between the resonators may be made into a desired state. Thus, a desired narrowband filter characteristic is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20120049981
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes substrates and resonance sections resonating at the predetermined resonance frequency. At least one of the substrates is formed with two or more resonators in the second direction, and the remaining one or two or more of the substrates are each formed with one or more resonators in the second direction, and at least one of the resonance sections is configured by a plurality of resonators opposing one another in the first direction between the substrates, the opposing resonators form a coupled resonator resonating as a whole at the predetermined resonance frequency through electromagnetic coupling in a hybrid resonance mode, and in a state that the substrates are separated away from one another to fail to establish electromagnetic coupling thereamong, the resonators forming the coupled resonator resonate at any other resonance frequency different from the predetermined resonance frequency on the substrate basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya FUKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20120049649
    Abstract: In a signal transmission device, first open-ended resonators include a first first-open-ended resonator and a second first-open-ended resonator, in which open ends of the first first-open-ended resonator face a central portion of the second first-open-ended resonator, and a central portion of the first first-open-ended resonator faces open ends of the second first-open-ended resonator. When second open-ended resonators are employed, the second open-ended resonators include a first second-open-ended resonator and a second second-open-ended resonator, in which open ends of the first second-open-ended resonator face a central portion of the second second-open-ended resonator, and a central portion of the first second-open-ended resonator faces open ends of the second second-open-ended resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya FUKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 7973615
    Abstract: The present invention provides an RF module capable of converting electromagnetic waves in the TE mode to balanced electromagnetic waves in the TEM mode without adjustment and outputting the balanced electromagnetic waves while easily realizing miniaturization. The RF module includes: a waveguide in which a half-wavelength TE mode resonator is formed; an E plane coupling window formed in a wall portion orthogonal to an H plane out of wall portions constructing the TE mode resonator in the waveguide; an output line provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion parallel with the H plane on the E plane coupling window, and magnetically coupled to electromagnetic waves in the TE mode resonator; and another output line provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion parallel with the H plane in the E plane coupling window, and magnetically coupled to the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukunaga, Masaaki Ikeda, Kiyoshi Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 7902944
    Abstract: Provided are a stacked resonator capable of achieving miniaturization and minimum loss, and a stacked resonator capable of suppressing any unnecessary resonance mode due to interdigital-coupling. The stacked resonator includes a first conductor group having a plurality of conductor lines in a stacking arrangement, and a second conductor group having a plurality of other conductor lines in a stacking arrangement so as to be alternately provided opposing to the conductor lines in the first conductor group, thereby establishing an interdigital-coupling together with the first conductor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 7880562
    Abstract: A balanced-output triplexer includes: a first filter provided between an input terminal and a pair of first balanced output terminals; a second filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of second balanced output terminals; and a third filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of third balanced output terminals. Each of the first to third filters has a pair of output resonators that are interdigital-coupled to each other and connected to the corresponding pair of balanced output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Atsunori Okada, Tatsuya Fukunaga, Hideya Matsubara, Steve Plager
  • Publication number: 20100244995
    Abstract: The present invention provides an RF module capable of converting electromagnetic waves in the TE mode to balanced electromagnetic waves in the TEM mode without adjustment and outputting the balanced electromagnetic waves while easily realizing miniaturization. The RF module includes: a waveguide (3) in which a half-wavelength TE mode resonator (2) is formed; an E plane coupling window (4) formed in a wall portion (3a) orthogonal to an H plane out of wall portions (3a) to (3e) constructing the TE mode resonator (2) in the waveguide (3); an output line (5a) provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion (3d) parallel with the H plane on the E plane coupling window (4), and magnetically coupled to electromagnetic waves in the TE mode resonator (2); and another output line (5b) provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion (3e) parallel with the H plane in the E plane coupling window (4), and magnetically coupled to the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukunaga, Masaaki Ikeda, Kiyoshi Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20100244984
    Abstract: A resonator includes: a dielectric block; first and second ground electrodes provided on or in the dielectric block, and disposed to oppose each other; a first via conductor provided in the dielectric block orthogonally to the first and second ground electrodes, and having a short-circuit end connected to the first ground electrode and an open end extending toward the second ground electrode; a second via conductor interdigitally-coupled with the first via conductor, and provided in the dielectric block orthogonally to the first and second ground electrodes, and having a short-circuit end connected to the second ground electrode and an open end extending toward the first ground electrode; a first capacitor electrode provided in the dielectric block, and connected to the first via conductor; and a second capacitor electrode provided in the dielectric block, and connected to the second via conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20100194660
    Abstract: A proximity antenna includes a wiring pattern wound in a predetermined direction in a horizontal plane from a signal end to a ground end and a wiring pattern wound in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction in a horizontal plane from a signal end to a ground end, in which the wiring pattern and the wiring pattern are apposed in a vertical direction. The characteristics of a spiral coil having several turns can be thus obtained by a one-turn wiring width, and an installation space for other components, larger than a conventional installation space, can be therefore secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Sadaharu Yoneda, Toshinori Matsuura, Tatsuya Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 7750760
    Abstract: The present invention provides an RF module capable of converting electromagnetic waves in the TE mode to balanced electromagnetic waves in the TEM mode without adjustment and outputting the balanced electromagnetic waves while easily realizing miniaturization. The RF module includes: a waveguide (3) in which a half-wavelength TE mode resonator (2) is formed; an E plane coupling window (4) formed in a wall portion (3a) orthogonal to an H plane out of wall portions (3a) to (3e) constructing the TE mode resonator (2) in the waveguide (3); an output line (5a) provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion (3d) parallel with the H plane on the E plane coupling window (4), and magnetically coupled to electromagnetic waves in the TE mode resonator (2); and another output line (5b) provided at the edge on the side of the wall portion (3e) parallel with the H plane in the E plane coupling window (4), and magnetically coupled to the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukunaga, Masaaki Ikeda, Kiyoshi Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20100123526
    Abstract: A balanced-output triplexer includes: a first filter provided between an input terminal and a pair of first balanced output terminals; a second filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of second balanced output terminals; and a third filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of third balanced output terminals. All of the first to third filters are provided within a layered substrate. All of the balanced output terminals are disposed to be adjacent to one of the sides of the top surface of the layered substrate and one of the sides of the bottom surface of the layered substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori Okada, Tatsuya Fukunaga, Hideya Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20100123528
    Abstract: A balanced-output triplexer includes: a first filter provided between an input terminal and a pair of first balanced output terminals; a second filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of second balanced output terminals; and a third filter provided between the input terminal and a pair of third balanced output terminals. Each of the first to third filters has a pair of output resonators that are interdigital-coupled to each other and connected to the corresponding pair of balanced output terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori Okada, Tatsuya Fukunaga, Hideya Matsubara, Steve Plager