Patents Assigned to Icom Incorporated
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Patent number: 8654700Abstract: A frequency band of 12.5 kHz that two repeaters (2A), (2B) are allowed to utilize is divided into two frequency bands, divisional frequency bands of 6.25 kHz are allocated to respective repeaters (2A), (2B), the repeater (2A) which is one specific repeater suspends transmission of a signal at a certain time set beforehand, another repeater (2B) is instructed to suspend transmission of a signal, and after signal transmission at individual repeaters (2A), (2B) are suspended, the repeater (2A) transmits a defined CW-ID signal which is a call signal given to the whole two repeaters (2A), (2B).Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 8644780Abstract: The present invention provides a gain control circuit for an FM receiver that can reduce a reproduced audio output according to the magnitude of the noise component of an intended signal included in a received signal. The gain control circuit of the present invention is constituted by a noise level measurement circuit 26 and a preamplifier 25. The noise level measurement circuit 26 measures a noise level in an audio signal Sa1 output from an FM detector 4 and outputs a control signal Sc corresponding to the noise level. The preamplifier 25 reduces an output according a value of the control signal Sc. With the gain control circuit of the present invention, the volume of the speaker is reduced as the noise component in the audio signal Sa1 increases due to a decrease in received electric field strength, and therefore discomfort caused by unpleasant noise can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Tadayoshi Tohoku
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Patent number: 8581733Abstract: A drop detection part that detects drop of the device into the water, a light emitting body disposed in the housing, and a light-emission control circuit that makes the light emitting body emit light when the drop detection part detects the drop into the water are provided, and the rear face of the housing is made translucent, a lower part of a sealing member sealing the front housing and the rear housing is also made translucent, and a cover part covering the light emitting body is formed on this translucent part.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Kenichirou Ueda
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Patent number: 8583357Abstract: A target identification device in a user object includes: a user information obtaining part and a target information obtaining part obtaining a position, a speed over ground and a course over ground of the user object and a target object; a processor that calculates a CPA distance and a TCPA with respect to the target object relative and the user object, based on the positions, the speeds over ground and the courses over ground of the user object and the target object. The processor replaces the course over ground of the user object with a direction toward the target object and calculates the CPA and the TCPA when the speed over ground of the user object is a low speed determination value or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventors: Hitoshi Kita, Yukihiro Tokuyama
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Patent number: 8576764Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an input unit that inputs names of repeater stations to which the local communication apparatus and a communication counterpart belong respectively, a memory storing identification information of each repeater station, and information needed to set a communication path from the repeater station to another repeater station as communication path setting information associated with the name of the repeater station, an information retrieving section that retrieves identification information of the repeater station, and information needed to set a communication path to another repeater station from the associated information stored in the memory based on the input name of the repeater station, and a communication frame generating section that generates a communication frame including the identification information of the repeater station, and the information needed to set the communication path from the repeater station to which the local communication apparatus belongs to the reType: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventors: Makoto Nagao, Nami Takaoka, Yasutoyo Shimao, Masaaki Kitagawa, Shinichirou Adachi
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Publication number: 20130287213Abstract: An electronic device with a speaker, an amplifier for driving the speaker and a speaker grill provided on the front surface of the speaker includes a pickup detection unit for detecting that the electronic device has been picked up from water and a water discharge sound generation unit for generating a water discharge sound signal for discharging water having entered inside the speaker grill according to the detection of the pickup from the water and inputting the generated water discharge sound signal to the amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Yoshio SEKIYAMA
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Patent number: 8570931Abstract: The present invention provides a repeater, a wireless communication system, a control method and a recording medium that can transmit the same signal received by plural repeaters to the recipient wireless communication device without redundancy of the signal. A repeater connected to a network and relaying a communication of a wireless communication device comprises a packet reception unit receiving a packet transmitted from a sender wireless communication device to a recipient wireless communication device from the network or the sender wireless communication device, a transmission unit transmitting the packet received by the packet reception unit to the recipient wireless communication device, a packet storing unit storing the packet to be transmitted to the recipient wireless communication device as a first packet, and a packet selection unit comparing the first packet with a second packet other than the first packet, and discarding the second packet when both packets match under a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Kimitoshi Yoshino
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Patent number: 8554160Abstract: An AM (Amplitude-Modulated) transmitter capable of improving modulation distortion is provided. An adder adds a modulation signal to a pre-set power reference signal. An APC (Automatic Power Control) amplifier compares a level of a detecting signal outputted by the LPF (Low Pass Filter) with a level of an adder signal. The APC amplifier, based on the comparison result, generates a gain controlling signal that makes a difference between a level of the detecting signal and level of the signal approach zero and feeds the gain controlling signal to a power amplifier. The power amplifier modulates the signal outputted from the amplifier by the gain controlling signal and power-amplifies the modulated signal according to a level of the gain controlling signal. Since the APC amplifier feeds the gain controlling signal to the power amplifier, a modulation degree does not depend on a nonlinear distortion characteristic of the power amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: ICOM IncorporatedInventors: Shin-ichi Matsuo, Hirokazu Iwata, Fuminori Kinugawa
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Publication number: 20130223560Abstract: A modulator generates a modulation signal from an input signal, and a serial-parallel converter generates a subcarrier modulation signal from the modulation signal. An IFFT unit performs an inverse fast Fourier transformation on the subcarrier modulation signal, and a decomposer decomposes a calculation result into a real part data and an imaginary part data. A calculator applies a predetermined calculation with respect to each element the value of which is equal to or greater than a positive threshold value and each element the value of which is equal to or less than a negative threshold value among the real part data and the imaginary part data. A synthesizer synthesizes the real part data and the imaginary part data to generate a baseband signal, and a transmitter generates a transmission signal from the baseband signal, and transmits it to another apparatus via an antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Icom Incorporated
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Patent number: 8502664Abstract: A drop detection part that detects drop into the water, a light emission part, and a light-emission control circuit that makes the light emission part emit light when the drop detection part detects the drop into the water. Also, the light emission part may be disposed on the side to be turned up by buoyancy when the device is dropped into the water and the drop detection part may be disposed on the side to be turned down in the case of the drop into the water, for example.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: ICOM IncorporatedInventors: Akihide Yoshida, Yoshio Sekiyama, Shinji Sugino
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Patent number: 8489017Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system which causes a wireless terminal to select a relay device among plural relay devices connected together via a communication line when the wireless terminal attempts to communicate with another wireless terminal. The relay device has an information acquiring unit, a calling determining unit, and an information adding unit. The wireless terminal has an information analyzing unit which analyzes whether or not the own device is included in a communication counterparty of calling information when the calling information is included in communication information, a priority comparing unit which determines whether or not a priority level of the calling information is higher than that of a current communication when the own device is included, and a channel changing unit which changes a channel to that of another relay device of the calling information when the priority level of the calling information is higher.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20130084819Abstract: The present invention provides a gain control circuit for an FM receiver that can reduce a reproduced audio output according to the magnitude of the noise component of an intended signal included in a received signal. The gain control circuit of the present invention is constituted by a noise level measurement circuit 26 and a preamplifier 25. The noise level measurement circuit 26 measures a noise level in an audio signal Sa1 output from an FM detector 4 and outputs a control signal Sc corresponding to the noise level. The preamplifier 25 reduces an output according a value of the control signal Sc. With the gain control circuit of the present invention, the volume of the speaker is reduced as the noise component in the audio signal Sa1 increases due to a decrease in received electric field strength, and therefore discomfort caused by unpleasant noise can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Tadayoshi Tohoku
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Patent number: 8401494Abstract: At least two or more wireless communication apparatuses of the present invention are located adjacent or separately in a relatively confined area. The output portion of any one currently used wireless communication apparatus of the wireless communication apparatuses is connected to the input portion of each of the other standby wireless communication apparatus. While a radio signal is transmitted from the transmitter of the currently used wireless communication apparatus, a reception limit signal is transmitted from the output portion of the currently used apparatus to the respective input portion of each of the nearby standby apparatuses so that the reception ability of the receiver of the standby apparatus is effectively limited.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Hitoshi Kita
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Patent number: 8385495Abstract: A frame sync detecting circuit and FSK receiver sequentially derive a moving average value (?) from oversample values of a received word pattern, for given symbol periods, and a difference between the moving average value and an average value for the given symbol periods in a given sync word pattern is determined as DC offsets ?f. Subsequently, the DC offset ?f is subtracted from the received word pattern, and correlation processing with respect to the sync word pattern is performed to determine a correlation value (?). If the correlation value exceeds a predetermined threshold, it is determined that a sync word candidate has been received, and symbol values of the received word pattern after the DC offset correction are compared with respective symbol values of the sync word pattern. A sync word pattern detection is determined if errors in the symbols are within a given range.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: ICOM IncorporatedInventor: Kazunori Shibata
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Patent number: 8385251Abstract: A user location monitoring unit of a data communication control apparatus monitors a message sent from a wireless device via a repeater. Upon detection of a change in the location of the wireless device, the user location monitoring unit updates the location information in the database and notifies via the Internet a management server of the location change. Upon receipt of the message via the Internet, a destination address confirming and correcting unit of the data communication control apparatus uses the user ID of a destination wireless device as a search keyword to search the database. In turn, the destination address confirming and correcting unit corrects the destination address of the message to the latest address of the pertinent user ID and outputs the corrected message to a received message forwarding unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Takashi Aso
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Patent number: 8374093Abstract: A monitor terminal transmits a monitor request command to monitor a repeater station designated by an operator to a monitor server via the Internet. The monitor server detects a monitor station located in the communication range of the designated repeater station from the content of the received monitor request command, and transmits a monitor instruction command to the detected monitor station via the Internet. The monitor station intercepts a radio signal during transmission from the repeater station to a radio communication device or vice versa. Upon reception of the monitor instruction command, the monitor station transmits the intercepted radio signal as monitor data to the monitor server. The monitor server transfers the monitor data to the monitor terminal. Upon reception of the monitor data transferred from the monitor server, the monitor terminal radio-transmits the received monitor data using a radio wave format receivable by the radio communication device.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2009Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventors: Kiyoshi Sakurai, Kazuyuki Seri, Tatsuo Furukawa
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Patent number: 8334710Abstract: Circuit blocks and respectively convert high-voltage logic signals in which two logical values are expressed by a first signal potential and a second signal potential into low-voltage logic signals in which the two logical values are expressed by a third signal potential at least as large as the first signal potential and a fourth signal potential that is the third signal potential to which a positive voltage has been added and which is no greater than the second signal potential, and outputs the converted logic signals. The transistors in the circuit block are of the form of replacing the respective transistors of the circuit block with elements of opposite polarity, so that when the third signal potential is changed and operation of one of the circuit blocks and becomes difficult, the other operates normally. Consequently, stable level conversion can be accomplished.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Kouichiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8331515Abstract: Provided are a clock regeneration circuit and a receiver, wherein difference values (V1, V2, V3) from an ideal value can be obtained for respective three sample data (T1, T2, T3) which are obtained by oversampling a 4-level FSK demodulated signal at a higher frequency than that of a symbol clock and in which sample data (T2) at a symbol point (P) is included at a median, and a sampling timing of the symbol point (P) is shifted toward a point where the sample data (T3) having a smaller difference value is obtained, by a time corresponding to the difference value (V2) at the symbol point. Thus, the clock regeneration circuit and the receiver are capable of regenerating a stable clock from multi-level modulated waves in a small calculation amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Kazunori Shibata
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Patent number: 8305155Abstract: A PLL circuit comprises a phase detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and two variable voltage sources. The phase detector and the charge pump each comprises low-voltage transistors, and operates with a fixed supply voltage VCC1 (e.g., 5 V) which is a potential difference applied from the variable voltage source of a power-supply voltage VL and the variable voltage source of a power-supply voltage VDC (=VL+VCC1). A tuning control signal VC generated by integrating an output current signal of the charge pump using the loop filter is input to the VCO having an input voltage range of the tuning control signal from 0 V to VCC2 (e.g., 16 V).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Kouichiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8295796Abstract: A high frequency circuit includes an amplifier part that includes a plurality of amplifier circuits amplifying a high frequency signal and connected in parallel, that synthesizes outputs of the amplifier circuit and that supplies the outputs to an antenna; a controller that outputs a low power signal during a low power mode in which the amplifier part operates at low power; and an operation suppressing circuit that disables one of the plurality of amplifier circuits based on the low power signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Yoshio Sekiyama