Patents by Inventor Wataru Noguchi

Wataru Noguchi 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: 20220320757
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: a first ground member; one or more first antennas which are connected to the first ground member and resonate in a first frequency band; a second ground member; one or more second antennas which are connected to the second ground member and resonate in a second frequency band; one or more first filters which connect the first and second ground members and attenuate a signal in the first frequency band; and one or more second filters which connect the first and second ground members at a position different from a position where the one or more first filters connect the first and second ground members and attenuate the signal in the first frequency band less than the one or more first filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Wataru NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11165130
    Abstract: Three-way divider includes first transmission line, second transmission line, and third transmission line. First transmission line includes first input-side line and first output-side line, which are connected at first connection point. Second transmission line includes second input-side line and second output-side line, which are connected at second connection point. Third transmission line includes third input-side line and third output-side line, which are connected at third connection point. Each of first transmission line, second transmission line, and third transmission line has an electrical length that is ¼ a wavelength of a second frequency. The first connection point and the second connection point, the third connection point and the second connection point, the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and the third output terminal and the second output terminal are respectively connected via corresponding resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wataru Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20210218121
    Abstract: Three-way divider includes first transmission line, second transmission line, and third transmission line. First transmission line includes first input-side line and first output-side line, which are connected at first connection point. Second transmission line includes second input-side line and second output-side line, which are connected at second connection point. Third transmission line includes third input-side line and third output-side line, which are connected at third connection point. Each of first transmission line, second transmission line, and third transmission line has an electrical length that is ¼ a wavelength of a second frequency. The first connection point and the second connection point, the third connection point and the second connection point, the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and the third output terminal and the second output terminal are respectively connected via corresponding resistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wataru NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10889194
    Abstract: During travel of the electric vehicle, the charging arm is extended in the vehicle width direction, a positive electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a positive electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact at the same time that a negative electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a negative electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact, and a power storage device for driving the electric vehicle is charged. A charging head that is the tip section of the charging arm is held within a V-shaped groove to which the positive electrode overhead line and the negative electrode overhead line are attached, thereby minimizing the loss of contact even if the charging arm shakes in the vertical direction as a result of the condition of the road surface, brake operation, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190152338
    Abstract: During travel of the electric vehicle, the charging arm is extended in the vehicle width direction, a positive electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a positive electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact at the same time that a negative electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a negative electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact, and a power storage device for driving the electric vehicle is charged. A charging head that is the tip section of the charging arm is held within a V-shaped groove to which the positive electrode overhead line and the negative electrode overhead line are attached, thereby minimizing the loss of contact even if the charging arm shakes in the vertical direction as a result of the condition of the road surface, brake operation, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190152337
    Abstract: During travel of the electric vehicle, the charging arm is extended in the vehicle width direction, a positive electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a positive electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact at the same time that a negative electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a negative electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact, and a power storage device for driving the electric vehicle is charged. A charging head that is the tip section of the charging arm is held within a V-shaped groove to which the positive electrode overhead line and the negative electrode overhead line are attached, thereby minimizing the loss of contact even if the charging arm shakes in the vertical direction as a result of the condition of the road surface, brake operation, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190152336
    Abstract: During travel of the electric vehicle, the charging arm is extended in the vehicle width direction, a positive electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a positive electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact at the same time that a negative electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a negative electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact, and a power storage device for driving the electric vehicle is charged. A charging head that is the tip section of the charging arm is held within a V-shaped groove to which the positive electrode overhead line and the negative electrode overhead line are attached, thereby minimizing the loss of contact even if the charging arm shakes in the vertical direction as a result of the condition of the road surface, brake operation, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10252639
    Abstract: Provided are an external power supply apparatus and a vehicle power supply method, whereby a power reception circuit of an electric vehicle can be projected or a configuration of the electric vehicle can be simplified. An external power supply apparatus is provided with: a power supply unit, which is provided along a traveling path, and which supplies power to a power reception unit of an electric vehicle while the vehicle is traveling; and a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the power supply unit. The power supply unit includes a plurality of divided power supply units that are divided along the traveling path. The voltage applying unit applies the voltage such that the voltage to be applied to the divided power supply units becomes higher in the traveling direction of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi, Tomohisa Aruga
  • Patent number: 10227013
    Abstract: During travel of the electric vehicle, the charging arm is extended in the vehicle width direction, a positive electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a positive electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact at the same time that a negative electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a negative electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact, and a power storage device for driving the electric vehicle is charged. A charging head that is the tip section of the charging arm is held within a V-shaped groove to which the positive electrode overhead line and the negative electrode overhead line are attached, thereby minimizing the loss of contact even if the charging arm shakes in the vertical direction as a result of the condition of the road surface, brake operation, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi, Kotaro Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20170166071
    Abstract: An electric vehicle charges an electricity storage device by allowing the power receiving portions of a charging arm to make contact with an aerial wire. In the electric vehicle, the charging arm is equipped with an arm portion that is expanded from a side portion of the electric vehicle toward the outside of the vehicle width by rotationally moving about a rotationally moving shaft. The power receiving portions are provided on a charging head positioned at the top of the arm portion. The charging head is set so as to face the aerial wire in such a direction that the longitudinal direction of the charging head becomes orthogonal to the aerial wire when the arm portion is expanded to a predetermined rotational movement angle. The arm portion is expanded up to a first rotational movement angle larger than the predetermined rotational movement angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Wataru Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170106767
    Abstract: Provided are an external power supply apparatus and a vehicle power supply method, whereby a power reception circuit of an electric vehicle can be projected or a configuration of the electric vehicle can be simplified. An external power supply apparatus is provided with a power supply unit, which is provided along a traveling path, and which supplies power to a power reception unit of an electric vehicle while the vehicle is traveling; and a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the power supply unit. The power supply unit includes a plurality of divided power supply units that are divided along the traveling path. The voltage applying unit applies the voltage such that the voltage to be applied to the divided power supply units becomes higher in the traveling direction of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tajima, Yasuji Shibahata, Wataru Noguchi, Tomohisa Aruga
  • Patent number: 9461356
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes first and second antenna elements. The first antenna element operates as a loop antenna that resonates at a first wavelength, and the antenna apparatus operates as an inverted-F antenna that resonates at a second wavelength. The first antenna elements includes a first element portion formed to have a predetermined height from a surface of a dielectric substrate, and the second antenna element includes a second element portion which is formed to be substantially parallel to the first element portion at least at a predetermined distance apart from the first antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yurugi, Wataru Noguchi, Masahiko Nagoshi
  • Publication number: 20160280087
    Abstract: During travel of the electric vehicle, the charging arm is extended in the vehicle width direction, a positive electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a positive electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact at the same time that a negative electrode overhead line of the power supply device and a negative electrode power reception unit of the charging arm are brought into contact, and a power storage device for driving the electric vehicle is charged. A charging head that is the tip section of the charging arm is held within a V-shaped groove to which the positive electrode overhead line and the negative electrode overhead line are attached, thereby minimizing the loss of contact even if the charging arm shakes in the vertical direction as a result of the condition of the road surface, brake operation, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu TAJIMA, Yasuji SHIBAHATA, Wataru NOGUCHI, Kotaro SHIGENO
  • Patent number: 9443549
    Abstract: A control unit refers to a logical library information storage unit in response to a reception of an export process command from an external device, identifies one of the logical library units which is correlated with a physical recording medium in a physical library unit which has been ordered by the export process command to been ejected from an ejection slot, and correlates, in the identified logical library unit, the ejection slot to a logical recording medium which is correlated to the physical recording medium which has been ordered to been ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ichimura, Shigeyoshi Hashi, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Wataru Noguchi, Yuuki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8843067
    Abstract: A wireless communications apparatus (1) in the present invention transmits, via wireless communications, data recorded on a memory unit (13) to a recording apparatus (2). The wireless communications apparatus (1) includes: a communication area determining unit (19) determining whether or not the wireless communications apparatus (1) is in a communication area having a threshold value equal to MIDDLE or higher; a stillness detecting unit (15) detecting whether or not the wireless communications apparatus (1) remains still; and a wireless communications unit (17) starting to transmit, via the wireless communications, the data recorded on the memory unit (13) to the recording apparatus (2) in the case where (i) the communication area determining unit (19) determines that the wireless communications apparatus (1) is in the communication area having the threshold value equal to MIDDLE or higher, and (ii) the stillness detecting unit (15) detects that the wireless communications apparatus (1) remains still.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Nagoshi, Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Yurugi, Sotaro Shinkai, Akihiko Shiotsuki, Osamu Tanaka, Toyoshi Yamada, Nobuhiko Arashin
  • Patent number: 8797224
    Abstract: An antenna unit is provided with: steerable antennas, each having one active antenna element and two parasitic antenna element; and metal blocks. Each of the active antenna elements is associated with at least one of the metal blocks such that the metal block is disposed remote from the active antenna element by a predetermined distance and operates as a reflector for the active antenna element. Each of the parasitic antenna elements is provided with a switching circuit for changing an electrical length of the parasitic antenna element, and the parasitic antenna element operates as a reflector for an active antenna element of the same steerable antenna as the parasitic antenna element by changing the electrical length using the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sotaro Shinkai, Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Yurugi, Masahiko Nagoshi, Akihiko Shiotsuki, Osamu Tanaka, Toyoshi Yamada, Nobuhiko Arashin
  • Publication number: 20140195039
    Abstract: A control unit refers to a logical library information storage unit in response to a reception of an export process command from an external device, identifies one of the logical library units which is correlated with a physical recording medium in a physical library unit which has been ordered by the export process command to been ejected from an ejection slot, and correlates, in the identified logical library unit, the ejection slot to a logical recording medium which is correlated to the physical recording medium which has been ordered to been ejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO ICHIMURA, SHIGEYOSHI HASHI, YOSHIYUKI ISHII, WATARU NOGUCHI, YUUKI HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 8717249
    Abstract: A feed element is configured to include a first antenna element having a first width, a dual-band forming inductor, and a second antenna element having a second width wider than the first width, where the first antenna element, the dual-band forming inductor, and a second antenna element are connected in series. The inductor is formed in a meander shape which has a trapezoidal envelope external shape to have a width formed to widen from the first width of a portion connected to the first antenna element toward a portion connected to the second antenna element. Cut portions each having a rectangular shape are further formed at corner portions of another ends of the parasitic elements, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Yurugi
  • Publication number: 20140089583
    Abstract: Disclosed is a library apparatus and the like capable of correlating a slot to be shared into which a recording medium has been thrown to an appropriate logical library easily. In case that import processing to take the recording medium 5 into an external apparatus 7 is directed, a control unit 2 of a library apparatus 1 identifies, by referring to the logical library information 3, the logical library 6 connected to the external apparatus 7 which directed the import processing and correlates the slot 4 have been thrown the recording medium 5 to the identified logical library 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: YUUKI HAYAKAWA, SHIGEYOSHI HASHI, YOSHIYUKI ISHII, WATARU NOGUCHI, TAKAHIRO ICHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8681053
    Abstract: In an inverted F pattern antenna apparatus having a first antenna element and an electrical length of a quarter wavelength of a first resonance frequency, the inverted F pattern antenna apparatus having two resonance frequencies is configured to include a third antenna element and a second antenna element at an end portion of the first antenna element, and setting a length having an electrical length obtained by adding the electrical length of a further provided antenna element to the electrical length of the inverted F pattern antenna apparatus to the electrical length of a quarter wavelength of a second resonance frequency to achieve resonance at the second resonance frequency. In addition, a loop antenna is configured to include the first, third and second antenna elements and the grounding antenna element by capacitively coupling another end of the third antenna element to the grounding antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Nagoshi, Wataru Noguchi, Hiroyuki Yurugi