Patents by Inventor Akira Noguchi

Akira 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).

  • Patent number: 12154258
    Abstract: There is provided a surface abnormality detection device, and a system, capable of detecting an abnormal portion having a displacement below the distance measurement accuracy when detecting the abnormal portion on the surface of a structure. A surface abnormality detection device includes a classification means for classifying an object under measurement into one or more clusters having the same structure, based on position information at a plurality of points on a surface of the object under measurement; a determination means for determining a reflection brightness normal value of the cluster based on a distribution of reflection brightness values at a plurality of points on a surface of the cluster; and an identification means for identifying an abnormal portion on the surface of the cluster based on a difference between the reflection brightness normal value and the reflection brightness value at each of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ono, Akira Tsuji, Hidemi Noguchi, Junichi Abe
  • Patent number: 12146959
    Abstract: A monitoring control device (1) according to the present embodiment is, for example, a monitoring control device used in a monitoring system that monitors a monitoring target facility by using a distance measurement sensor (5). The monitoring control device (1) includes: a sensing region acquisition unit (3) configured to acquire measurement data indicating a sensing region of the distance measurement sensor (5) provided in order to monitor a monitoring target facility; and a management unit (4) configured to identify a non-monitoring region of the monitoring target facility, based on the sensing region and position data of the distance measurement sensor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Hidemi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20240348233
    Abstract: In a plan view in a thickness direction of a piezoelectric substrate, each of acoustic wave resonators includes a central region, a first region having a lower acoustic wave velocity than that of the central region, and a second region having a lower acoustic wave velocity than that of the central region. A first acoustic wave resonator includes a third region having a gap of about 0.3? or longer in a predetermined direction outside of the first region and having a higher acoustic velocity of the acoustic wave than that of the central region, and a fourth region having a gap of about 0.3? or longer in the predetermined direction outside of the second region and having a higher acoustic velocity of the acoustic wave than that of the central region. A second acoustic wave resonator does not include the third and fourth regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240337221
    Abstract: An electricity generation system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an engine, an electric generator, a detector, and a control device. The engine has a compressor including a rotating shaft. The electric generator is connected to the rotating shaft and generates electricity with rotational force of the rotating shaft. The detector detects shaft torque of the electric generator. The control device controls an operational status of the engine or the electric generator on the basis of the shaft torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Ryuji IIJIMA, Shunsuke NOGUCHI, Akira NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240333261
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes first, second, and third filter circuits, and an additional circuit, at least a portion of which is connected in parallel to each of the first, second, and third filter circuits. The additional circuit includes first, second, and third IDTs and two reflectors. The first IDT is connected to a path connecting a first terminal and the first filter circuit or a path extending through an inside of the first filter circuit. The third IDT is connected to a path connecting a third terminal and the third filter circuit or a path extending through an inside of the third filter circuit. The second IDT is connected to a path connecting the first filter circuit and a common terminal, a path connecting the third filter circuit and the common terminal, or a path connecting the second filter circuit and the common terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12107563
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a longitudinally coupled resonator including IDT electrodes and a reflector. A standard deviation of a pitch deviation rate of at least one of the reflector and the IDT electrodes is greater than or equal to about 1.4%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20240284677
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes electrode layers and first insulating films alternately stacked on top of one another; a second insulating film extending along an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface of one of electrode layers; a charge storage layer extending along a side surface of the second insulating film with a third insulating film interposed therebetween; and a semiconductor layer extending along a side surface of the charge storage layer with a fourth insulating film interposed therebetween. A hydrogen concentration in the fourth insulating film is equal to or higher than a hydrogen concentration in the charge storage layer, which is equal to or higher than a hydrogen concentration in the third insulating film, which is equal to or higher than a hydrogen concentration in the second insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Chihiro UMEDA, Yuta KAMIYA, Tomohisa IINO, Masaki NOGUCHI, Akira TAKASHIMA, Yusuke NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 12038275
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes: a magnetic member configured to cause a large Barkhausen effect; a power generation coil disposed so as to be wound around the magnetic member; and soft magnetic members formed at both end portions of the magnetic member so as to be in contact with the magnetic member and so as to press the magnetic member. Consequently, evenness of a magnetic flux density inside the magnetic member is increased, and the large Barkhausen effect is stably caused, whereby a highly stable power generation element is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Nakamura, Shinichiro Yoshida, Hisanori Torii, Masanori Nimura, Shizuka Ueda, Yuji Kubo, Takuya Noguchi, Akira Yokoyama, Takeshi Musha, Yoshinori Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240195390
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, a functional electrode, a first wiring portion, a mounting substrate, and a second wiring portion. The functional electrode and the first wiring portion are located at a first major surface of the piezoelectric substrate. The first wiring portion is connected to the functional electrode. The second wiring portion is located at a third major surface of the mounting substrate. The second wiring portion is connected to ground. The first major surface of the piezoelectric substrate, and the third major surface of the mounting substrate are opposite to each other. An inter-wiring distance is less than a wiring width of the first wiring portion. The inter-wiring distance is a distance between the first wiring portion, and a portion of the second wiring portion that overlaps the first wiring portion in plan view seen in the direction of thickness of the mounting substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240195383
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a mounting substrate including a multilayer body that includes a first layer including first and second signal wiring lines at least partially facing each other, and a second layer including a ground electrode, and an acoustic wave filter on the mounting substrate and electrically connected to the first signal wiring line, the second signal wiring line, and the ground electrode. The ground electrode overlaps the first and second signal wiring lines, and a region between the first and second signal wiring lines in plan view. A portion of the second layer overlapping the inter-wiring-line region in plan view includes a ground electrode missing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240106465
    Abstract: A first receiving band and a first transmission band in band A and a second transmission band and a second receiving band in band B are listed in frequency order. A radio frequency module includes: first and second boards; a first filter having a passband that is the first transmission band; second and sixth filters each having a passband that is the first receiving band; third and fifth filters each having a passband that is the second receiving band; a first power amplifier connected to the first filter; a fourth filter having a passband that is the second transmission band; and a second power amplifier connected to the fourth filter. The first to third filters and the first power amplifier are disposed on the first board, and the fourth to sixth filters and the second power amplifier are disposed on the second board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Hirotsugu MORI, Yoshiki YAGURA, Kiwamu SAKANO, Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240088872
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a first filter circuit with a predetermined frequency band as a pass band and provided on a first path connecting first and second signal terminals, and an additional resonant circuit connected in parallel with at least a portion of the first filter circuit. The additional resonant circuit includes an IDT electrode group including IDT electrodes positioned along an acoustic wave propagation direction. At least one resonant frequency of one or more resonant frequencies of the additional resonant circuit is included within the pass band of the first filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230402992
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a filter circuit and an additional circuit that includes IDTs and reflectors. The IDTs each include comb-shaped electrode fingers. The reflectors each include reflector electrode fingers. A relationship of about 0.60+n?G/(Pi+Pr)?0.93+n is satisfied, where n is an integer of 0 or more, Pi is an array pitch of the comb-shaped electrode fingers arranged along a second direction, Pr is an array pitch of the reflector electrode fingers arranged along the second direction, and G denotes, in boundary regions between the IDTs and the reflectors, an IDT-reflector gap, which is a center-to-center distance between a comb-shaped electrode finger closest to the reflectors and a reflector electrode finger closest to the IDTs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Akira NOGUCHI, Yasunori KISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230387886
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a filter circuit connected to input-and-output terminals, and a canceling circuit connected in parallel to at least a portion of a first path connecting the input-and-output terminals. The filter circuit includes one or more series-arm resonators on the first path, and one or more parallel-arm resonators between the first path and a ground. The canceling circuit includes acoustic wave resonators in parallel or substantially in parallel in a propagation direction of an acoustic wave. At least one of the acoustic wave resonators is connected to the ground, and an anti-resonant frequency of the at least one of the acoustic wave resonators is in a pass band of the filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230246628
    Abstract: A longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter includes first and second IDT electrodes on a piezoelectric substrate. A direction in which electrode fingers of the IDT electrodes extend is a first direction, a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction is a second direction, a ground-side busbar of the first IDT electrode and a hot-side busbar of the second IDT electrode face each other in the second direction, and the longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter includes a projecting portion, connected to the ground-side busbar of the first IDT electrode, that extends in the second direction toward the second IDT electrode beyond an interdigitated region of the first IDT electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230223921
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a first reflector and a second reflector. The first interdigital transducer electrode, the first reflector, and the second reflector each include a plurality of electrode fingers. At least one of the first interdigital transducer electrode, the first reflector, and the second reflector has a nonuniform duty ratio area where three successive electrode fingers in an acoustic wave propagation direction all have different duty ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230198502
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a first filter circuit on a first path and an additional circuit connected to the first path. The first filter circuit includes a series arm resonator and a longitudinally coupled resonator. The longitudinally coupled resonator includes a first acoustic wave resonator and a first reflector. The additional circuit includes a second acoustic wave resonator on the opposite side of the first acoustic wave resonator with respect to the first reflector. The second acoustic wave resonator includes a first end connected to the first path through a second path and a second end connected to ground. The series arm resonator is connected to a portion of the first path between a connection node at which the second acoustic wave resonator is connected to the first path and the longitudinally coupled resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11558028
    Abstract: A filter module includes an inductor, a filter including first wiring, and second wiring between the inductor and the first wiring and being a direct-current floating potential. The inductor and the first wiring are magnetically coupled, the inductor and the second wiring are magnetically coupled, and the first wiring and the second wiring are capacitively coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220416762
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave resonator includes one IDT electrode and reflectors. When a distance between an electrode finger Fe(k) and an electrode finger Fe(k+1) is defined as a k-th electrode finger pitch, in an electrode finger Fe(k?1), the electrode finger Fe(k), and the electrode finger Fe(k+1), a value obtained by dividing a difference between the electrode finger pitch and a section average electrode finger pitch, which is an average of the electrode finger pitch and the electrode finger pitch, by an overall average electrode finger pitch is defined as a pitch deviation ratio, and a distribution obtained by calculating the pitch deviation ratio for all electrode fingers of the IDT electrode or the reflectors is defined as a histogram of the pitch deviation ratio, the IDT electrode or the reflectors have a standard deviation of the pitch deviation ratio in the histogram larger than or equal to about 0.2%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220140809
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a longitudinally coupled resonator including IDT electrodes and a reflector. A standard deviation of a pitch deviation rate of at least one of the reflector and the IDT electrodes is greater than or equal to about 1.4%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Akira NOGUCHI