Patents Assigned to Communication Networks, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5412342
    Abstract: For supply to first and second feedforward distortion compensating circuits 33(1), 33(2) connected in parallel, a two-divider 31 divides into signals of a common phase and a common amplitude an input or composite radio frequency signal supplied to an input terminal 11. The composite radio frequency signal collectively has a plurality of radio frequency signals of different frequencies. A two-combiner 35 combines component outputs of the feedforward circuits in inphase as an amplified output signal which is supplied to an output terminal 13. In general, N feedforward circuits (N being an integer not less than two) are connected in parallel and are supplied with the input radio frequency signal through an N-divider. Component outputs of the feedforward circuits are combined in inphase as the output signal by an N-combiner. Alternatively, the input radio frequency signal is divided into signals of a predetermined phase difference and of a common amplitude by the N-divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignees: Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Nippon Telephone & Telephone Corporation, NTT Mobile Communication Network Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Sakamoto, Akira Ito, Toshio Nojima
  • Patent number: 5408684
    Abstract: In the selection of a control channel of a mobile station in a radio zone to which some control channels are assigned as communication channels, the receiving levels of the control channels are sequentially measured and control channel candidates are selected. A check is made to see if a control signal can correctly be received in each of the selected control channel candidates, and if not, the number of signal reception failures in that channel is incremented by 1 in a memory used by the mobile rotation. A channel in which the number of signal reception failures has reached a predetermined value M (an integer equal to or greater than 1) is excluded from the group of control channel candidates, and the other selected control channel candidates are similarly checked to determine whether or not the reception of the control signal is possible in each of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazufumi Yunoki, Katsumi Kobayashi, Kiyohito Nagata
  • Patent number: 5408514
    Abstract: A method of handover and route diversity in a mobile radio communication which is less time consuming and capable of improving the frequency spectrum utilization efficiency and securing the high quality of service regardless of the moving speed of the mobile station. In the method, a loop transmission line by which each base station is connected with neighboring base stations is provided; a handover information is transmitted through the loop transmission line, where the handover information is relayed by each base station from one of the neighboring base stations to another one of the neighboring base station; and the handover of a communication of a mobile station from one traffic channel of one base station to an idle traffic channel of another base station is carried out by using the handover information transmitted through the loop transmission line. The method can also be applied to a route diversity reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakamoto, Masaharu Hata
  • Patent number: 5394120
    Abstract: A device for testing an amplifier. A plurality of PN modulators are provided corresponding to a plurality of oscillators at stages preceding or following them, or fluctuation is given to division ratios at the oscillators. Since each of n carriers combined by a combiner contains phase fluctuation, the possibility that the peaks will overlap each other or that the carriers having opposite phases will negate each other is very low. The peak power in signals supplied to the amplifier to be tested is unlikely to vary, enabling accurate evaluation or testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignees: Japan Radio Co., Ltd., NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Sakamoto, Akira Ito, Masaaki Fujiwara, Toshio Nojima
  • Patent number: 5363072
    Abstract: In a power amplifying apparatus which has a high-frequency power divider and combiner and two to four parallel-operated power amplifiers, in which a change is made in the number of the parallel-operated power amplifiers so as to adjust output power, there are provided a power dividing circuit D.sub.1 having a transmission line Wd.sub.51 serving as an impedance transformer set in such a manner that the power loss is minimized by assigning an intermediate number 3 between 2 and 4 both of which indicate the number of divisions, and having four output terminals, and a power combining circuit S.sub.1 having a transmission line Ws.sub.51 serving as an impedance transformer set in such a manner that the power loss is minimized by assigning the intermediate number 3 indicative of the number of combinations, and having four input terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignees: Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Nippon Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, NTT Mobile Communication Network Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Sakamoto, Akira Ito, Toshio Nojima
  • Patent number: 5361396
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system in which the service area is covered with a plurality of location registration areas each having a plurality of cells each relating to a specific base station, each location registration area has a plurality of groups so that the cells belonging to any group overlaps partly with the cells of other groups, but do not completely coincide with cells of other groups, and each mobile station belongs to one of said groups. When a mobile station moves beyond the border of location registration areas, the location updating for the mobile station is carried out at the cell in which the mobile station stays. In that case, as the mobile stations are classified into a plurality of groups, the traffic in each cell for location updating is dispersed to many cells, and the maximum traffic density for location updating per cell is reduced. So, the number of control channels in the system for location updating may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Seizo Onoe, Narumi Umeda, Hidemi Yamaguti, Syuji Yasuda
  • Patent number: 5327096
    Abstract: A control circuit for an automatically controlled feed forward nonlinear distortion compensation amplifier. The control circuit controls a distortion detection loop and a distortion removal loop. The distortion detection loop is a loop for feeding forward input to a main amplifier into a first directional coupler. The distortion removal loop is a loop for feeding forward distortion elements into a second directional coupler. The main amplifier is preceded by a variable attenuator and a variable phase shifter. A variable attenuator and a variable phase shifter are also located in a feed forward path to the second directional coupler. The control circuit controls the variable attenuator and the variable phase shifter preceding the main amplifier for detecting the distortion elements. The control circuit controls the variable attenuator and the variable phase shifter located in the feed forward path to the second directional coupler for removing the distortion elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignees: Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, NTT Mobile Communication Network Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Sakamoto, Akira Ito, Toshio Nojima
  • Patent number: 5313657
    Abstract: In a receiver comprising a receiver filter (12) with a frequency attenuation band and a pilot oscillator (25) for generating a pilot oscillation signal with a pilot frequency in the frequency attenuation band, a coupler (26) couples the pilot oscillation signal and a filtered receiver signal of the receiver filter to form a coupled signal. A low noise amplifier (13) amplifies the coupled signal into an amplified signal which comprises an amplified receiver signal component derived from the filtered receiver signal and an amplified pilot oscillation signal component derived from the pilot oscillation signal. A branching filter (27) branches the amplified signal into the amplified receiver signal component and the amplified pilot oscillation signal. A pilot signal component detector unit (28) detects the amplified pilot oscillation signal component to produce a direct pilot signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignees: Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, NTT Mobile Communication Network Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Sakamoto, Satoru Ohara, Toshio Nojima, Shoichi Narahashi, Makoto Maeta
  • Patent number: 5302908
    Abstract: A modulus counter counts first clock pulses to modulus M and outputs the count value as an m-bit reference signal, M being an integer. A latch circuit samples and holds the reference signal in response to a trigger signal generated by a trigger signal generator in synchronism with an input signal. A high-speed counter is supplied with second clock pulses of a frequency higher than that of the first clock pulses and starts counting the second clock pulses in response to the trigger signal and stops the counting in response to a first one of the first clock pulses immediately thereafter. A data processor converts the n-bit count value of the high-speed counter to n-bit data corresponding to a phase fraction of a phase quantization step in the latch, combines the n-bit data as low-order bits with m-bit data from the latch and outputs the combined data as phase difference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignees: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tarusawa, Toshio Nojima, Kazuaki Murota
  • Patent number: 5293406
    Abstract: A quadrature amplitude modulator capable of avoiding compensating the linear distortions completely and accurately by a simple configuration. The modulator includes a level signal generation unit for generating level signal for the modulated wave, and a parameter generation unit for determining appropriate values of linear transformation parameters of the linear transformation to be applied to the in-phase and quadrature amplitude input signals according to the level signal. In this modulator, the linear transformation parameters are determined sequentially in such an order that the linear transformation parameters for a DC off-set are determined first, then the linear transformation parameter for an amplitude balance is determined next while compensating distortion due to the DC off-set, and then the linear transformation parameter for an orthogonal phase relationship is determined while compensating distortions due to the DC off-set and the amplitude balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5146561
    Abstract: The communication network data manager system according to the invention provides remotely located host processors with the capability of moving sequential datasets, partitioned datasets, or members of partitioned datasets between them. Data is read directly from the source dataset, which may be on a tape or disk, and is written directly to the target dataset which also may be on a tape or disk. No intermediate storage is required for queuing or spooling the data being transferred. A data transfer request may be entered by the user through a user console operating under a menu driven display format. Alternatively, the data set transfer request may be generated by continuously running job applications through a batch interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Sears Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Carey, Thomas R. Imburgia, John L. Edgar, Denis C. McHugh, Lan P. Tam, Douglas Chieng, Mark Williamson