Patents by Inventor Toshio Abiko

Toshio Abiko 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: 5321411
    Abstract: A planar antenna for linearly polarized waves includes a grounding conductor plate, a power supply circuit plate having a pattern of power supplying circuit of conductor strips each including power supply terminals, and a radiation plate having apertures forming radiation elements, the respective plates being arranged sequentially with an insulating layer interposed between adjacent ones of the plates to separate them to be independent of one another through a predetermined interval, while arranging the power supplying terminals of the power supplying circuit pattern as well as the apertures in the radiation plate so that the respective power supply terminals terminate to be within a contour of the apertures, in a top plan view, whereby the planar antenna makes it possible to receive at a high gain the linearly polarized waves over a wide band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Hirowo Inoue, Kaname Okuno, Toshio Abiko
  • Patent number: 5270721
    Abstract: A planar antenna includes a grounding conductor plate, a power supply plate having a pattern of power supplying conductor strips each including power supply terminals, and a radiation plate having apertures forming radiation elements, the respective plates being arranged sequentially with an insulating layer interposed between adjacent ones of the plates to separate them to be independent of one another through a predetermined interval, while coupling electromagnetically the respective power supplying terminals of the power supplying conductor pattern on the power supply plate to the radiation elements provided as the apertures in the radiation plate. With this simplified arrangement, the planar antenna makes it possible to receive at a high gain circularly polarized waves over a wide range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Toshio Abiko, Hiroo Inoue, Kaname Okuno
  • Patent number: 5243357
    Abstract: A waveguide feeding array antenna is provided to be capable of separating and taking up each of the polarization components of the horizontal and vertical polarized waves received concurrently at an opening of each of a plurality of waveguides arranged to form a network, by means of a taking-up equipment disposed in the waveguide circuit. The both polarization components can be made thereby to be effectively separated from and composed with each other while realizing the simplification and economization of the waveguide network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Koike, Toshio Abiko, Yasuhiro Fujii, Hiroo Inoue, Katsuya Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 5083132
    Abstract: A planar antenna has an active circuit block, the whole or part of which is internally mounted to a planar antenna body so that connecting terminal of the block will be connected to a feeding point on power supply plate of the antenna body. Dimensional minimization of the entire antenna can be thereby attained and noise figure of the active circuit can be simultaneously reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Kanda, Mikio Komatsu, Hidetsugu Nunoya, Yasuhiro Fujii, Toshio Abiko
  • Patent number: 4999592
    Abstract: A converter for use with planar antennas has a probe projected into an input part of waveguide structure as extended along a plane including a circuit board in a body of the converter, an opening of which input part being disposed in parallel to the plane, whereby the converter input part is allowed to have a thickness limited within the thickness of the converter body to remarkably reduce the entire thickness for effectively realizing a minimization in the thickness of the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Kanda, Mikio Komatsu, Yasuhiro Fujii, Toshio Abiko, Kyoji Masamoto, Yasumasa Ogawa, Tuyoshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 4977406
    Abstract: A planar antenna is provided, at optional power-supply terminals in power-supply circuit pattern provided in parallel with radiation circuit pattern and ground conductor layer, with additional power-supply terminals having a phase difference of an integer multiple of wavelength .lambda.g, while the radiation circuit pattern is provided with additional radiation elements respectively corresponding to each of the additional power-supply terminals, whereby the planar antenna can be made to attain a high gain with the minimum dimension in accordance with the field strength of satellite broadcasting electric waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Toshio Abiko
  • Patent number: 4963892
    Abstract: A microwave plane antenna including rows comprising pairs of parallel conductive line antenna elements configured as a pair of out-of-phase square waves and a signal feed circuit of strip lines arranged as a corporate feed network. The respective conducting paths which run from a main feed inlet end of the circuit to each signal receiving end of the respective elements being varied in length, so that the main beam direction can be set in a plane including that of the antenna and normal to lengthwise axis of the antenna elements for a remarkable increase in the reception gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Matsuo, Toshio Abiko, Yoshiaki Ueno, Minoru Kanda
  • Patent number: 4857938
    Abstract: A planar antenna is formed by providing a radiation circuit with a plurality of pairs of radiation elements respectively formed by a slot made in a conductive layer and having a patch element disposed in the slot, the radiation elements in each pair being in mutually positional relationship rotated by 90 degrees and different dimensional relationship, and electromagnetically coupling the respective radiation elements through power supply terminals with a power-supply circuit mutually with a phase difference of 90 degrees in each pair for a power supply between the both circuits, whereby the antenna is expanded in service band and increased in the cross polarization characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Tsukamoto, Yasuhiro Fujii, Toshio Abiko
  • Patent number: 4816835
    Abstract: A plane antenna comprises a stack of a radiator circuit, first and second power supply circuits and earthing conductor member which are disposed independent of one another with dielectric layers respectively interposed between them, wherein patch elements of the radiator circuit which are respectively disposed in each of slots made in the circuit are electromagnetically coupled to power supplying terminals of the both power supplying circuits rather than directly connecting them, whereby the radiator circuit and power supply terminals are freed from the necessity of direct connection between them as well as the impedance matching between them, so as to eventually improve the assembling ability to a large extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Abiko, Katsuya Tsukamoto, Hiroo Inoue, Yasuhiro Fujii, Minoru Kanda, Nobuaki Miyachi
  • Patent number: 4801943
    Abstract: A plane antenna assembly comprises a plurality of antenna bases and a signal composing means including amplifiers each connected to output part of each antenna base for composing respective outputs of the antenna bases amplified through the amplifiers, whereby a composite antenna output is obtained in correspondence to the number of the antenna bases and in an excellent S/N ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yabu, Kazuhisa Akiyama, Toshio Abiko, Minoru Kanda, Mikio Komatsu, Hirohumi Ishizaki, Hidetsugu Nunoya, Yasumasa Ogawa, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 4728962
    Abstract: A microwave plane antenna comprising antenna body including a plurality of conductive microstrip lines covered with a plastic film and a polyolefin series dielectric layer provided along the microstrip lines for lowering SHF band transmission loss while elevating reception gain. The antenna is enclosed in a plastic cover which includes portions constructed to permit the passage of microwaves while imparting appreciable strength to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kitsuda, Toshio Abiko, Kyoji Masamoto, Katsuya Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 4713670
    Abstract: A microwave plane antenna comprises a plurality of pairs of antenna elements connected at their one end to a power supply circuit and respectively including at the other terminating end an impedance-matched patch antenna means, whereby signal energy remaining at the terminating ends of the antenna elements is caused to be effectively utilized as radiation energy, and any power loss is restrained for a high antenna gain and improved aperture efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignees: Toshio Makimoto, Sadahiko Nishimura, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Makimoto, Sadahiko Nishimura, Masayuki Matsuo, Toshio Abiko, Hirohumi Ishizaki, Minoru Kanda, Hidetsugu Nunoya, Mikio Komatsu
  • Patent number: 4679051
    Abstract: A microwave plane antenna in which antenna bodies carrying thereon respectively at least a pair of microstrip lines are mounted to a supporting frame through means for movably positioning the antenna bodies along a plane including an axis perpendicular to the plane of the antenna body and another axis in the width direction of each pair of the microstrip lines, whereby the main beam direction of the plane antenna is made settable optionally in three-dimensional zone to be in the optimum direction with respect to a geostationary broadcasting satellite for remarkably improving the reception gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yabu, Toshio Abiko, Masayuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 4393514
    Abstract: A superregenerative receiver includes a quenching oscillator for converting a received signal into a low frequency signal. The quenching oscillator comprises a transistor, a positive feedback circuit and an RC time constant circuit. A circuit is provided for modifying oscillation conditions including the base voltage of the transistor, a power supply voltage and the RC time constant of the RC circuit. In response to the output of the quenching oscillator whose oscillation condition or conditions have been modified, the quenching oscillator is placed into its optimum operating state in order that the receiver assumes substantially the maximum sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Minakuchi, Toshio Abiko, Hiromitsu Inoue
  • Patent number: 4389644
    Abstract: An asynchronous multichannel signal processing system comprises a transmitter and a receiver. A transmitter is adapted to transmit a signal converted from data being transmitted including address data and control data such that one information unit comprises a plurality of units each including one frequency signal. The receiver is adapted to reproduce the received data by discriminating the frequency component included in the received signal. At that time, a plurality of readings of received data are reproduced in one unit time period of the transmitted signal. If and when the address data included in at least one of the plurality of readings of received data coincides with its own address data of the receiver, the control data is extracted from the received data including the coincided address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Abiko, Masayuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 4180811
    Abstract: A detecting device for destructive vibration of structures wherein detected vibration is converted into electric signal and an alarm is actuated when signal amount reaches at least one of a predetermined counting value and integration value is provided. The converted vibration signals are amplified, a high level signal in such amplified signals is detected and amplified by a high level detector, a high level output of this detector is counted by a counter to generate a counter output when the predetermined counting value is reached, a low level signal in the amplified signals is detected and amplified by a low level detector, a low level output of this detector is integrated by an integrating circuit to generate an integration output when the predetermined integration value is reached, and the alarm is actuated whenever at least one of the counter output and integration output is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoshimura, Tohru Hanahara, Toshio Abiko, Kazuhiro Matsuoka