Patents Assigned to Sensor Systems (Jersey) Limited
  • Patent number: 12100570
    Abstract: In order to suppress the amount of time needed for the start-up of a microwave tube carried out when voltage fed from a power source has decreased, while avoiding increase in scale of a power storage unit, this power supply device includes: a power supply unit that supplies power fed from the power source to the microwave tube that is provided with a cathode, a heater for heating the cathode, an anode, and a collector; a power storage unit that stores the fed power and, if the voltage of the fed power decreases, supplies stored power that is power obtained by the power storing, to the microwave tube; and a power supply switching unit that, if the voltage of the fed power decreases, stops supplying the stored power to the anode and does not stop supplying the stored power to the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Iizuka, Yukihira Nakazato
  • Patent number: 12062517
    Abstract: A slow-wave circuit comprises: a waveguide comprising a meander-shaped part that transmits an electromagnetic wave and alternately repeats a first folded part and a second folded part folded onto the opposite side to the first folded part; and a beam hole that transmits an electron beam, extends in a predetermined direction, and penetrates the meander-shaped part, wherein the beam hole penetrates the meander-shaped part so that a part of the beam hole protrudes from the first folded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Nakano
  • Patent number: 11949140
    Abstract: A pillbox-type RF window having an input/output window in a microwave tube, the pillbox-type RF window includes a disc-shaped member having a metallization layer formed on an outer peripheral portion of a disc-shaped ceramic body; a pair of ring-shaped members constituted by metal bodies having substantially the same outer diameters as the disc-shaped member, arranged to sandwich the disc-shaped member from both sides, and integrated with the outer peripheral portion of the disc-shaped member; a tube-shaped member constituted by a metal body having an inner diameter substantially equal to the outer diameters of the pair of ring-shaped members and the disc-shaped member, for holding the pair of metal components and the disc-shaped member on an inside thereof; and a restriction member for suppressing rotation between the ring-shaped members and the tube-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Kosugi, Kenji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11798770
    Abstract: A microwave tube includes an electron gun that emits an electron beam; a magnetic circuit that focuses the electron beam emitted from the electron gun; a collector that captures the electron beam that has passed through the magnetic circuit; a high frequency circuit that is spirally arranged around the electron beam focused by the magnetic circuit and that transmits a high frequency; and a magnetic body part arranged around the electron gun so as to be movable in an emission direction of the electron beam. A high frequency output from the high frequency circuit is controlled to be constant by moving the magnetic body part in an emission direction of the electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Machida
  • Publication number: 20230207246
    Abstract: In order to suppress the amount of time needed for the start-up of a microwave tube carried out when voltage fed from a power source has decreased, while avoiding increase in scale of a power storage unit, this power supply device includes: a power supply unit that supplies power fed from the power source to the microwave tube that is provided with a cathode, a heater for heating the cathode, an anode, and a collector; a power storage unit that stores the fed power and, if the voltage of the fed power decreases, supplies stored power that is power obtained by the power storing, to the microwave tube; and a power supply switching unit that, if the voltage of the fed power decreases, stops supplying the stored power to the anode and does not stop supplying the stored power to the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki IIZUKA, Yukihira NAKAZATO
  • Publication number: 20230184682
    Abstract: Detection systems and methods of use thereof, and, in particular, hyperspectral fluorescence systems and methods for detecting aerosolized viral biologics and/or carcinogenic compounds or elements. The system utilizes, and the method is, a non-invasive, immediate, and non-biohazard byproduct method (with the actual imaging to determination generally occurring in less than 3 seconds) with a throughput of the station in around ten seconds (which is allowing for sanitization of the station before and after each individual is tested).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Enterprise Sensor Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Alfred W. League, Damien A. Kerr
  • Publication number: 20220384926
    Abstract: A pillbox-type RF window having an input/output window in a microwave tube, the pillbox-type RF window includes a disc-shaped member having a metallization layer formed on an outer peripheral portion of a disc-shaped ceramic body; a pair of ring-shaped members constituted by metal bodies having substantially the same outer diameters as the disc-shaped member, arranged to sandwich the disc-shaped member from both sides, and integrated with the outer peripheral portion of the disc-shaped member; a tube-shaped member constituted by a metal body having an inner diameter substantially equal to the outer diameters of the pair of ring-shaped members and the disc-shaped member, for holding the pair of metal components and the disc-shaped member on an inside thereof; and a restriction member for suppressing rotation between the ring-shaped members and the tube-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi KOSUGI, Kenji NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11411744
    Abstract: (A) An individual one of two or more terminals prepares a set of a first public key and a first private key. (B) One of the two or more terminals creates a set of a second public key and a second private key and distributes the second public key and the second private key to the other terminal(s). (C) One of the two or more terminals creates a shared key by using the corresponding first private key prepared in the (A) and the second public key shared in the (B). (D) A different terminal(s) of the two or more terminals creates a shared key used to communicate with the one terminal by using the second private key shared in the (B) and the first public key of the one terminal prepared in the (A). (E) The set of terminals performs an encryption communication(s) by using the shared keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuusuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11270863
    Abstract: The objective of the invention is to provide a microwave tube, or the like, wherein gas adsorption action of a getter may be satisfactorily performed independently from a microwave amplification operation. In order to solve this problem, this microwave electron tube comprises: a helix wherein a microwave may progress oriented from an input section to an output section within a helical tube; an electron gun emitting an electron flow oriented toward the helix; a focusing device causing the electron flow to traverse the vicinity of the helix in the direction of a collector; the collector absorbing the electron flow; and a getter having a heater insulated from the cathode provided in the electron gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taishi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11245164
    Abstract: An invention comprises: a circular waveguide that has a cylindrical section having a circular pipe conduit with a circular shaped cross section, and side wall sections joined to the both sides in an axial direction of the cylindrical section; a first rectangular waveguide that has a first rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to one of the side wall sections so that the first rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; a second rectangular waveguide that has a second rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to the other of the side wall sections so that the second rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; and a dielectric plate that is configured as a plate shape, is disposed in the circular pipe conduit, and is airtightly held to the cylindrical section, wherein the circular waveguide has a plastically deformable section that is plastically deformable so that at least
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kasahara, Takashi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200319288
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention is directed to a system of both atmospheric and underwater sensors for measuring pressure waves from a noise source. A system of pressure sensors can be formed to determine the location of an external noise source, whether in air or underwater. The system includes at least two arrays consisting of pressure sensors, including at least one atmospheric pressure sensor and at least one underwater pressure sensor, such as a hydrophone. Each sensor may be a seven-fiber intensity modulated fiber optic pressure sensor. The system includes an analog to digital converter for digitizing the pressure data received from each sensor and a processor which processes the received signals to calculate an approximate location of the noise source based upon the pressure signals received by the sensors at different times of arrival. The system can provide this capability in remote applications due to its low power requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Fiber Optic Sensor Systems Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Vizas, Nicholas Lagakos, Patrick Hernandez
  • Patent number: 10770775
    Abstract: Systems and methods of use for a radial combiner. The radial combiner is made of a radial cavity defined by a top plate, a bottom plate, an outside wall connecting the top plate and the bottom plate, and an interior of the radial waveguide cavity located between the top plate, the bottom plate, and the outside wall with a substantially uniform height throughout. Inside the radial cavity are multiple monopole radiators, while outside the radial cavity multiple coaxial ports are mounted on one of the top plate or the bottom plate. Each of the coaxial ports are electrically connected to a corresponding monopole radiator inside the cavity. The radial combiner also contains a center conductor which is located in the center of the radial cavity, and transitions to a coaxial waveguide which is exterior to the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAAB DEFENSE AND SECURITY USA LLC T/A SENSOR SYSTEM
    Inventor: Richard Kinsey
  • Publication number: 20200169418
    Abstract: (A) An individual one of two or more terminals prepares a set of a first public key and a first private key. (B) One of the two or more terminals creates a set of a second public key and a second private key and distributes the second public key and the second private key to the other terminal(s). (C) One of the two or more terminals creates a shared key by using the corresponding first private key prepared in the (A) and the second public key shared in the (B). (D) A different terminal(s) of the two or more terminals creates a shared key used to communicate with the one terminal by using the second private key shared in the (B) and the first public key of the one terminal prepared in the (A). (E) The set of terminals performs an encryption communication(s) by using the shared keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuusuke WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200060046
    Abstract: To provide an electronic component housing apparatus that is able to efficiently cool the heat of a first and second electronic component, a first electronic component housing chamber 5000 houses the high voltage power supply module 100 (the first electronic component). A second electronic component housing chamber 6000 houses the TWT 200 (the second electronic component). At least some of a first partition plate 2500 and a second partition plate 2600 are provided so as to face each other. A first gap part G1 is provided between the first partition plate 2500 and the second partition plate 2600.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro MURAKAMI, Norio MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200020999
    Abstract: An invention comprises: a circular waveguide that has a cylindrical section having a circular pipe conduit with a circular shaped cross section, and side wall sections joined to the both sides in an axial direction of the cylindrical section; a first rectangular waveguide that has a first rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to one of the side wall sections so that the first rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; a second rectangular waveguide that has a second rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to the other of the side wall sections so that the second rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; and a dielectric plate that is configured as a plate shape, is disposed in the circular pipe conduit, and is airtightly held to the cylindrical section, wherein the circular waveguide has a plastically deformable section that is plastically deformable so that at least
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko KASAHARA, Takashi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20190280653
    Abstract: Ringing of a signal after passing through a low pass filter in an LINC type linear amplifier is remedied. A linear amplifying device includes the linear amplifier including the low pass filter for removing high-frequency components; and an origin avoiding circuit which receives an original input signal and is provided upstream of the linear amplifier. If the original input signal is sampled in the vicinity of an origin, the origin avoiding circuit modifies a sampled value so at to replace the sampled value with a fixed value, and supplies the modified input signal to the linear amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka KURODA, Noriaki SUMITA, Takashi ISHIKAWA, Tomohiko OOHASHI, Kazuki KISHI
  • Publication number: 20190027335
    Abstract: To suppress both influence of electron emission from a cathode side surface and consumption of energy to be supplied to a heater, while being provided with a grid, an electron gun of the present invention includes: a cathode capable of emitting electrons by heating; a grid capable of controlling the electron emission; and a cathode shield which is an conductor including a material portion located in the vicinity of a side surface of the cathode and facing at least a portion of the side surface via a gap or a heat insulating material, and not being made in direct physical coupling nor in direct physical contact with the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Chiba
  • Publication number: 20180337016
    Abstract: Provided are a slow wave circuit and a traveling wave tube suitable for an increase in fineness with regard to processing beam holes, and suitable for higher frequencies. A slow wave circuit (10) includes a meandering waveguide (1) and a beam hole (2) that pierces the meandering waveguide (1), and the cross-section of the beam hole (2) in the direction orthogonal to the long direction is in the shape of a polygon having a larger number of sides than a quadrilateral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio MASUDA, Takashi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180324981
    Abstract: To provide an electronic component housing apparatus that is able to efficiently cool the heat of a first and second electronic component, a first electronic component housing chamber 5000 houses the high voltage power supply module 100 (the first electronic component). A second electronic component housing chamber 6000 houses the TWT 200 (the second electronic component). At least some of a first partition plate 2500 and a second partition plate 2600 are provided so as to face each other. A first gap part G1 is provided between the first partition plate 2500 and the second partition plate 2600.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro MURAKAMI, Norio MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10086958
    Abstract: A control moment gyroscope (CMG) module for use in a satellite comprising a CMG, the CMG comprising a flywheel assembly mounted on a gimbal assembly, the flywheel assembly comprising a flywheel rim, a flywheel spokes member and a flywheel shaft, the flywheel rim circumscribing the flywheel shaft, and the flywheel spokes member extending between the flywheel shaft and the flywheel rim. The gimbal assembly comprises at least one gimbal and a spin motor, the spin motor for rotating the flywheel assembly about a first axis. The CMG further comprises a torque shaft and a torque motor for rotating the at least one gimbal about a second axis. The CMG module further comprises a hermetic first shell housing; and a hermetic second shell housing; wherein the second shell housing is joined to the first shell housing by a hermetic seal to form an airtight interior of the CMG module, the interior of the CMG module containing the CMG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ST Electronics (Satcom & Sensor Systems) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Moses James Goh, Robert Devasahayam