Patents by Inventor Toshiharu Kojima

Toshiharu Kojima 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: 8728229
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cement slurry composition, containing a hydraulic cement material, (A) a first water-soluble low molecular weight compound and (B) a second water-soluble low molecular weight compound differing from the compound (A), wherein a combination of the compounds (A) and (B) is (I) the compound (A) selected from cationic surfactants and the compound (B) selected from anionic aromatic compounds; or (II) the compound (A) selected from cationic surfactants and the compound (B) selected from brominated compounds, and in the compound (A), a ratio of compounds having a hydrocarbon group of 18 or more carbon atoms is not less than 45% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Koyanagi, Toshiharu Kojima, Hotaka Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 8648120
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid rheology modifier containing compounds (A) and (B) selected from combination (1) of compound (A) selected from cationic surfactants and compound (B) selected from anionic aromatic compounds and combination (2) of compound (A) from cationic surfactants and compound (B) selected from brominated compounds; and dicarboxylic acid (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Koyanagi, Hotaka Yamamuro, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Publication number: 20120000397
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cement slurry composition, containing a hydraulic cement material, (A) a first water-soluble low molecular weight compound and (B) a second water-soluble low molecular weight compound differing from the compound (A), wherein a combination of the compounds (A) and (B) is (I) the compound (A) selected from cationic surfactants and the compound (B) selected from anionic aromatic compounds; or (II) the compound (A) selected from cationic surfactants and the compound (B) selected from brominated compounds, and in the compound (A), a ratio of compounds having a hydrocarbon group of 18 or more carbon atoms is not less than 45% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Koji Koyanagi, Toshiharu Kojima, Hotaka Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 7501021
    Abstract: Disclosed is a powdery rheology modifier containing an anionic aromatic compound, a cationic surfactant, and an inorganic powder having a specific surface area of 5000 cm2/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Koyanagi, Fujio Yamato, Toshiharu Kojima, Hotaka Yamamuro
  • Publication number: 20080262129
    Abstract: The present invention provides production of a powder containing the cationic surfactant (b) by mixing an anionic aromatic compound (a), a cationic surfactant (b) and water to obtain a viscous material and feeding the viscous material heated at the specific temperature to the drying step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Hotaka YAMAMURO, Toshiharu KOJIMA, Yoshikazu MORII, Koji KOYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20080078814
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid rheology modifier containing compounds (A) and (B) selected from combination (1) of compound (A) selected from cationic surfactants and compound (B) selected from anionic aromatic compounds and combination (2) of compound (A) from cationic surfactants and compound (B) selected from brominated compounds; and dicarboxylic acid (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Koyanagi, Hotaka Yamamuro, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Publication number: 20070290160
    Abstract: Disclosed is a powdery rheology modifier containing an anionic aromatic compound, a cationic surfactant, and an inorganic powder having a specific surface area of 5000 cm2/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Koyanagi, Fujio Yamato, Toshiharu Kojima, Hotaka Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 7103107
    Abstract: A demodulator in a receiver has a multiple symbol differential phase detector which calculates phase differences between a received signal and received signals of 1, 2, . . . , N (Where N is an integer greater than 2) before so as to output the calculated results as N symbol differential phase detected signals. Further, a soft decision sequence estimating unit in this demodulator estimates a transmitted differential phase sequence according to the 1, 2, . . . , N symbol differential phase detected signals using a trellis diagram representing transitions of differential phase states of a transmitted signal and Viterbi algorithm and estimates soft decision demodulated data according to estimated transmitted differential phase sequence and the survival path metrics that transit into each state on the trellis diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mari Matsunaga, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 7095778
    Abstract: A spread spectrum transmitter provides delays having different magnitudes to spread spectrum (SS) signals for a plurality of channels, and multiplexes the SS signals to generate transmission multiplex SS signal. A spread spectrum receiver calculates a partial correlation value between the transmission multiplex SS signal and spreading codes multiplied to the SS signals, multiplies the partial correlation values by a prescribed matrix prepared based on each orthogonal code sequence to calculate a plurality of orthogonal correlation values. The receiver identifies for a respective channel each parallel data sequence related in advance to an orthogonal code sequence whose orthogonal correlation value is a maximum, corrects delay differences of the parallel data sequences, and then performs sampling and parallel-serial conversion to obtain a serial demodulated data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Okubo, Tatsuya Uchiki, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6983134
    Abstract: The demodulator of the invention includes a DSP. The DSP determines the distortion amount of the transmission channel based on known signals included in a radio receiving signal, and estimates the frequency of the direct wave based on the distortion amount. Furthermore, the DSP rotates the phase of the distortion amount based on the phase amount corresponding to the estimated frequency of the direct wave. Next, the DSP estimates the center frequency of the Doppler spread based on the distortion amount after the phase is rotated. Furthermore, the DSP synthesizes the phase amount corresponding to the estimated center frequency of the Doppler spread and the phase amount corresponding to the frequency of the direct wave to estimate the last frequency offset. Thereafter, the DSP eliminates frequency offset of the radio receiving signal based on the estimated frequency offset. Thereby, a sufficient frequency offset compensating range can be secured, and excellent BER characteristics can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Asahara, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6940892
    Abstract: A spread spectrum transmission apparatus includes, a chip clock generation section which outputs a chip clock in one frame formed of M+L?1 chips, a frame clock generation section which outputs a frame clock synchronized to frame occurrence timing, SS-PPM signal generation sections each of which inserts a pseudonoise code sequence corresponding to one period from some of M chips located at a head of a frame based on K-bit transmission data and generates an SS-PPM signal, delay sections which respectively delay N SS-PPM signals respectively by determined delay quantities, and a multiplexing section which adds up all of outputs respectively of the delay units and generates a multiplexed SS-PPM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Okubo, Tatsuya Uchiki, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6850576
    Abstract: A base band signal is sampled, based on an asynchronous sampling clocking, to output two sampled data series. A transmission side complex symbol frequency generator generates a complex transmission symbol frequency component combining an envelope value and an amplitude change amount value, which are each calculated from the two sampled data series. The transmission side complex symbol frequency component is provided to a correlation value calculator that outputs a correlation data series correlated to the complex symbol frequency and the symbol frequency generated by a cosine wave generator. The correlation data series is converted a timing error by an inverse tangent calculator. By the above configuration, a timing reproducing unit, which includes the above components, determines the timing error at a sampling speed of twice the symbol rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Fujimura, Seiji Okubo, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6728298
    Abstract: There are provided a spread code generating section generates a spread code list from the input parallel information, spread modulating sections generate a plurality of parallel spectrum spread signals corresponding to the parallel information list by multiplying each of the parallel information list and the spread code list respectively, phase shifting sections shift the phase of the parallel spectrum spread signals, delay sections delay the parallel spectrum spread signals. A multiplexing section generates a multiplexed spectrum spread signal by adding the delayed parallel spectrum spread signals. The multiplexed spectrum spread signal are converted into a radio frequency signal, amplified and then transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Okubo, Akinori Fujimura, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6683493
    Abstract: In-phase and orthogonal components of a base band signal having a preamble symbol are squared to obtain squared in-phase orthogonal components. Amount of correlation is obtained between the squared in-phase component and a ½ symbol frequency component output from a VCO or an oscillator, and amount of correlation is obtained between the squared orthogonal component and the ½ symbol frequency component. Finally, a phase control signal for carrying out a phase control is generated by using the obtained amount of correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Fujimora, Seiji Okubo, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6650718
    Abstract: A timing recovery device and demodulator. An adding device adds together an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a base band signal. A subtracting device subtracts the in-phase component and the quadrature component of the base band signal from each other. Then, the correlation between the added signal and a ½ symbol frequency component generated at the receiver side and the correlation between the subtracted value and the ½ symbol frequency component are calculated. A vector selector compares the added value correlation signal and the subtracted value correlation signal, and selects the larger one of the correlation signals. A timing phase difference calculator then calculates a timing phase difference, using the vector angle indicated by the selected correlation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Fujimura, Seiji Okubo, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6631174
    Abstract: A transmitting side periodically inserts a known signal consisting of successive NP symbols into an information signal consisting of (NF−NP) symbols and transmits the NF symbol signal. The receiving side receives the NF symbol signal, and automatically controls a frequency by estimating a frequency deviation from the incoming signal. More specifically, the receiving side outputs I and Q-channel analog baseband signals from the received incoming signal as well as from a sinusoidal signal outputted from an oscillator, and converts the analog baseband signals to the digital baseband signals. Then a phase difference for one symbol cycle is estimated from the digital baseband signals, integration processing is executed by iterative addition of the estimated values, and the frequency deviation is eliminated from the digital baseband signals using a result of the processing for integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Asahara, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6601213
    Abstract: A typical Viterbi decoder having a coherent detection function suffers from degraded performance under certain fading-induced phase shift conditions when used in a time diversity system. This problem is resolved by providing a demodulator for demodulating a data sequence multiplexed by multiplexing a plurality of data sequences of a same content with a time difference inserted therebetween for a time diversity system, which comprises: a phase correction unit 40 for phase correcting the multiplexed data sequence; a diversity combiner for demultiplexing the multiplexed data sequence output from the phase correction unit into a plurality of data sequences, removing the time difference inserted between data sequences, and combining the data sequences; and a Viterbi decoding unit for Viterbi decoding the diversity combined signal from the diversity combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Uchiki, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Publication number: 20030138031
    Abstract: A spread spectrum transmitter provides delays having different magnitudes to spread spectrum (SS) signals for a plurality of channels, and multiplexes the SS signals to generate transmission multiplex SS signal. A spread spectrum receiver calculates a partial correlation value between the transmission multiplex SS signal and spreading codes multiplied to the SS signals, multiplies the partial correlation values by a prescribed matrix prepared based on each orthogonal code sequence to calculate a plurality of orthogonal correlation values. The receiver identifies for a respective channel each parallel data sequence related in advance to an orthogonal code sequence whose orthogonal correlation value is a maximum, corrects delay differences of the parallel data sequences, and then performs sampling and parallel-serial conversion to obtain a serial demodulated data sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Seiji Okubo, Tatsuya Uchiki, Toshiharu Kojima
  • Patent number: 6522684
    Abstract: In a DLL, in-phase correlation signal and orthogonal correlation signal are squared and adder to generate correlation power. Delays are provided so that the peaks of N number of divided correlation power portions to have coincided timing with each other. Composite correlation power is generated from the respective correlation power portions. A composite error signal of a sample clock is generated by subtracting the composite correlation power from the composite correlation power that has been delayed. A data clock is generated by frequency-dividing the sample clock based upon an acquisition pulse. A sample clock is finally generated based upon the composite error signal that has been latched and noise-removed therefrom in synchronized timing with the data clock that has been delayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Okubo, Toshiharu Kojima, Akinori Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20020176486
    Abstract: A spread spectrum transmission apparatus includes, a chip clock generation section which outputs a chip clock in one frame formed of M+L−1 chips, a frame clock generation section which outputs a frame clock synchronized to frame occurrence timing, SS-PPM signal generation sections each of which inserts a pseudonoise code sequence corresponding to one period from some of M chips located at a head of a frame based on K-bit transmission data and generates an SS-PPM signal, delay sections which respectively delay N SS-PPM signals respectively by determined delay quantities, and a multiplexing section which adds up all of outputs respectively of the delay units and generates a multiplexed SS-PPM signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Seiji Okubo, Tatsuya Uchiki, Toshiharu Kojima