Patents by Inventor Yasuhiko Yamasa

Yasuhiko Yamasa 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: 5936591
    Abstract: A multi-beam feeding apparatus according to the present invention is a feeding apparatus for a multi-beam antenna comprising a reflector and a primary radiator comprising a plurality of element antennas, and the apparatus is provided with a plurality of beam forming networks for setting an excitation distribution relative to the element antenna necessary for every beam. Each beam forming network is connected via a combiner (a divider) disposed to every of all the element antennas. According to this construction, not only there is such an advantage that a variation of capacity of communication between the beams and the like can be flexibly responded, but also there are such effects that a beam forming network can be so simply constructed that the same systems are only combined, a power can be more effectively used, such a problem as a heat generation and the like can be reduced. Moreover, a plurality of missions can be easily fused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignees: Advanced Space Communications Research Laboratory (ASC), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yamasa, Hiroki Shoki, Minoru Okumura