Patents by Inventor Daisuke Nishikawa

Daisuke Nishikawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20130201849
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a reference signal transmitting method, a mobile terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus capable of reducing influences on a PDCCH even when performing transmission control over an aperiodic reference signal for measuring channel quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Kazuaki Takeda, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki
  • Patent number: 8478279
    Abstract: To set an optimal transmission power control interval such that a base station apparatus properly receives signals from a mobile station, while exploiting fast scheduling and fast AMC, in this closed-loop transmission power control method, reception SINR and average interference level are measured in a signal received in uplink, a time period for averaging reception quality is determined corresponding to an overlapped size of a dynamic range of a base station apparatus that is a region of overlapping a first reception-allowable range depend on reception capability of the base station apparatus, with a second reception-allowable range, varying corresponding to the interference level, depend on the number of a modulation and coding scheme set, each set achieving required throughput, the reception SINR is averaged using the determined time period, and a TPC command indicative of uplink transmission power to be controlled in a terminal apparatus is generated using a difference value between the averaged reception
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130148599
    Abstract: In a radio communication system including a mobile station and a base station apparatus for communicating with the mobile station according to a SC-FDMA scheme in uplink, the mobile station includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit at least one of a first signal and a second signal; and a Sounding RS transmitting unit configured to determine a transmission band for a Sounding Reference Signal (Sounding RS) based on mapping information of at least one of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20130100842
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a transmission power control method, mobile terminal apparatus and radio base station apparatus for enabling a mobile terminal apparatus that performs radio communications in a system band including a plurality of component carriers to suitably control uplink transmission power in each component carrier, and a transmission power control method of controlling uplink transmission power of a mobile terminal apparatus that performs radio communications in a system band including a plurality of component carriers is provided with the steps of receiving a transmission power control command generated in a radio base station apparatus, and applying the received transmission power control command to a plurality of component carriers in common and setting transmission power of each component carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Publication number: 20130100828
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a transmission power control method and a mobile station apparatus that can adequately control the transmission power of a mobile station apparatus having a plurality of transmitting antennas. Uplink transmission power control for a mobile station apparatus having a plurality of transmitting antennas provides a step of measuring the path loss (PL) of at least one transmitting antenna in a plurality of transmitting antennas, a step of setting representative value path loss (PL?) based on the measured path loss values, a step of determining the total transmission power (PTX) of the mobile station apparatus based on the representative value path loss (PL?), and a step of determining the transmission power (PTXn) of each transmitting antenna by distributing the total transmission power (PTX) to the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Daisuke Nishikawa, Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20130090127
    Abstract: A telecommunication control method for a heterogeneous network is provided. Uplink interference created by first user equipment (MUE) connected to a first-type cell (MeNB) is detected at the second-type cell (HeNB). The second-type cell reports the interference pattern of the detected interference to the first-type cell. The first-type cell identifies the interfering first user equipment based upon the interference pattern. The first-type cell notifies the second-type cell of the scheduling information of the interfering first user equipment. The second-type cell determines scheduling for second user equipment (HeUE) connected to the second-type cell based upon the scheduling information of the first user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicants: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Tetsushi Abe, Motohiro Tanno, Zhongding Lei, Sai Ho Wong, Francois Po Shin Chin
  • Publication number: 20130058293
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio base station apparatus and a transmission power control method that do not deteriorate the uplink reception quality of cell-edge users when uplink MU-MIMO transmission is applied. The transmission power control method of the present invention includes the steps of: in a radio base station apparatus that performs space division multiplexing between users by uplink MU-MIMO transmission: controlling transmission power according to a number of MU-MIMO multiplexed users; and transmitting transmission power information to match the number of MU-MIMO multiplexed users; and in a mobile terminal apparatus: setting transmission power using the transmission power information; and transmitting an uplink signal by the transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8385277
    Abstract: In a radio communication system including a mobile station and a base station apparatus for communicating with the mobile station according to a SC-FDMA scheme in uplink, the mobile station includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit at least one of a first signal and a second signal; and a Sounding RS transmitting unit configured to determine a transmission band for a Sounding Reference Signal (Sounding RS) based on mapping information of at least one of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20130039305
    Abstract: To efficiently use radio resources used in transmission of SRS, a base station apparatus (eNode B) transmits a scheduling grant including an instruction for transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), and a mobile station apparatus (UE) transmits the SRS in response to the scheduling grant. The SRS is transmitted in the same subframe, another subframe or a previous subframe by the predetermined number of subframes as, immediately before, or before a subframe of a PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) that the scheduling grant instructs to transmit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130034056
    Abstract: The present invention is provided to, when there is a PUSCH signal to transmit in the same subframe as a UCI signal, make the method of transmitting uplink control information in the LTE system adaptable to a broader system band and increase in transmission layers only by minor changes. A UCI signal is generated to a base station apparatus (20) of a mobile communication system having a system band composed of plural component carriers. The UCI signal is multiplexed to a PUSCH signal in each of component carriers where the PUSCH signal is transmitted in the same subframe as the UCI signal. The PUSCH signal to which the UCI signal is multiplexed is transmitted to the base station apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130032753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to positive electrode active substance particles comprising a compound having a spinel type structure comprising at least Li, Ni and Mn, and having an Li content which is controlled such that a molar ratio of Li(Ni+Mn) therein is 0.3 to 0.65, an Ni content of 5 to 25% by weight, an Na content of 0.05 to 1.9% by weight and an S content of 0.0005 to 0.16% by weight, a sum of the Na content and the S content being 0.09 to 1.9005% by weight. The positive electrode active substance particles according to the present invention can be suitably used as positive electrode active substance particles for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which can exhibit a high discharge voltage and an excellent discharge capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Manabu Yamamoto, Daisuke Nishikawa, Kazutoshi Ishizaki, Osamu Sasaki, Hideaki Sadamura
  • Publication number: 20130028209
    Abstract: To suppress and minimize changes from the method of transmitting an uplink control information in the LTE system, while supporting increases in the system band and increases in the transmission layer when there is a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe, provided is a configuration for generating a UCI signal for a base station apparatus (20) in a mobile communication system having a system band comprised of a plurality of component carriers, multiplexing the UCI signal into a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe as the UCI signal in a user specific component carrier used in transmission of a PUCCH signal, and transmitting the PUSCH signal into which the UCI signal is multiplexed to the base station apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8335168
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a measurement unit, a scheduling unit, and a transmission unit. The measurement unit measures received quality of a reference signal. The scheduling unit provides scheduling information indicating allocation of a radio resource in uplink. The transmission unit transmits a control signal including the scheduling information. After a first packet is transmitted using a first frequency band, a retransmission packet of the first packet is transmitted using a second frequency band other than the first frequency band. The control signal further includes information indicating a difference between received quality in the first frequency band and that in the second frequency band. The retransmission packet is transmitted at a transmission power level determined by adding a transmission power level of the first packet to that corresponding to the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20120234755
    Abstract: To promote mixture of fluids on a plurality of stages, flow channels include a plurality of merging portions which penetrate from a top surface to a back surface of a substrate. An end of each of the sub channels is disposed so as to overlap the main channel at each of positions separated along the direction in which the main channel extends, and each of the merging portions communicates the main channels and the ends of the sub channels with each other, thereby changing a flow direction of the second fluid flowing through the sub channels to the thickness direction of the substrate, and merges the second fluid with the first fluid flowing through the main channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji NOISHIKI, Makoto Nishimura, Takeshi Yamashita, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120217435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to positive electrode active substance particles comprising a compound having at least a crystal system belonging to a space group of R?3m and a crystal system belonging to a space group of C2/m, and boron, wherein the compound is a composite oxide comprising at least Li, Mn, and Co and/or Ni; a relative intensity ratio [(a)/(b)] of a maximum diffraction peak intensity (a) observed at 2?=20.8±1° in a powder X-ray diffraction pattern of the positive electrode active substance as measured using a Cu-Ka ray to a maximum diffraction peak intensity (b) observed at 2?=18.6±1° in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern, is 0.02 to 0.5; a content of Mn in the positive electrode active substance particles is controlled such that a molar ratio of Mn/(Ni+Co+Mn) therein is not less than 0.55; and the positive electrode active substance particles comprise the boron in an amount of 0.001 to 3% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Manabu Yamamoto, Daisuke Nishikawa, Kazutoshi Ishizaki, Kazuhiko Kikuya, Teruaki Santoki, Osamu Sasaki, Hideaki Sadamura
  • Publication number: 20120147778
    Abstract: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel includes a radio resource allocation unit configured to decrease frequency resources allocated to the shared channel, when transmission power of the user equipment terminal is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120147836
    Abstract: A base station apparatus capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal using an uplink shared channel includes a radio resource allocation unit configured to decrease frequency resources allocated to the shared channel, when transmission power of the user equipment terminal is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120138176
    Abstract: A flow channel structure that includes a first inlet path for a first fluid, a second inlet path for a second fluid, a merging portion that merges, in the thickness direction of a substrate, the first fluid and the second fluid, a first merged fluid channel in which both fluids merged in the merging portion flow along a top surface of the substrate, a flow direction altering portion that causes the flow direction of the fluid flowing through the first merged fluid channel to change from the top surface side of the substrate towards the back surface side thereof, and a second merged fluid channel for changing the flow direction of this fluid to flow to the downstream side so that the fluid flowing from the first merged fluid channel through the flow direction altering portion flows along the back surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji NOISHIKI, Makoto NISHIMURA, Takeshi YAMASHITA, Daisuke NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120127911
    Abstract: To provide a radio base station apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and transmission power control method for enabling conventional inter-cell interference reduction techniques and ULCoMP to be used together, a radio base station apparatus of the invention is characterized by having a ULCoMP processing section (2085) that applies ULCoMP to a mobile terminal (1001) when a difference (PL2?PL1) between a pass loss PL1 between the mobile terminal (1001) and a base station apparatus (2001) connected to the mobile terminal (1001) and a pass loss PL2 between the mobile terminal (1001) and a base station apparatus (2002) with the lowest pass loss for the mobile terminal (1001) is within a predetermined range, and a transmission power control section (2089) that performs transmission power control for application of ULCoMP when the ULCoMP is applied, while performing transmission power control for non-application of the ULCoMP when the ULCoMP is not applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Publication number: 20120008489
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system, comprising: an acquisition unit configured to receive an uplink signal from a user equipment and acquire channel condition information and an average value of the channel condition information for each of one or more frequency resource blocks; a reference metric calculation unit configured to calculate a reference metric indicative of priority of assignment of the frequency resource blocks to the user equipment based on the channel condition information and the average value of the channel condition information acquired by the acquisition unit; a modification unit configured to modify the reference metric calculated by the reference metric calculation unit with a first parameter to generate a modified metric; a scheduler configured to compare the modified metrics of the individual frequency resource blocks generated by the modification unit and determine an assignment plan of radio resources; and a transm
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Daisuke Nishikawa