Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Kakitsu

Haruhiko Kakitsu 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: 11836482
    Abstract: A center device is configured to: acquire behavior data indicating a behavior of a user; store the behavior data; acquire vehicle state data indicating a vehicle state; store the vehicle state data; create a distribution plan of reprogramming data to be distributed to vehicle devices of the vehicle by using the behavior data and the vehicle state data; and distribute the reprogramming data to the vehicle devices according to the created distribution plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Ogawa, Yoshitaka Ozaki, Yasufumi Iino, Haruhiko Kakitsu
  • Patent number: 11770690
    Abstract: The center device includes: a first wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a vehicle using a first communication method within a first communication range; a second wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with the vehicle using a second communication method having a higher communication speed than that of the first communication method within a second communication range which is smaller than the first communication range; a reception control unit configured to control a reception of vehicle information from the vehicle to the first wireless communication unit; and a distribution control unit configured to control distribution of content data from the second wireless communication unit to the vehicle according to the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Ogawa, Yoshitaka Ozaki, Yasufumi Iino, Haruhiko Kakitsu
  • Publication number: 20210219115
    Abstract: The center device includes: a first wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a vehicle using a first communication method within a first communication range; a second wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with the vehicle using a second communication method having a higher communication speed than that of the first communication method within a second communication range which is smaller than the first communication range; a reception control unit configured to control a reception of vehicle information from the vehicle to the first wireless communication unit; and a distribution control unit configured to control distribution of content data from the second wireless communication unit to the vehicle according to the vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoya OGAWA, Yoshitaka OZAKI, Yasufumi IINO, Haruhiko KAKITSU
  • Publication number: 20210191713
    Abstract: A center device is configured to: acquire behavior data indicating a behavior of a user; store the behavior data; acquire vehicle state data indicating a vehicle state; store the vehicle state data; create a distribution plan of reprogramming data to be distributed to vehicle devices of the vehicle by using the behavior data and the vehicle state data; and distribute the reprogramming data to the vehicle devices according to the created distribution plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoya OGAWA, Yoshitaka OZAKI, Yasufumi IINO, Haruhiko KAKITSU
  • Publication number: 20210082205
    Abstract: A vehicle communication device equipped to a vehicle receives parking space identification information from a parking lot communication device, transmits vehicle identification information of the vehicle to the parking lot communication device, and transmits, to an information processing device positioned outside of the vehicle, the received parking space identification information and the vehicle identification information. A parking lot communication device installed to each parking space of a parking lot: receives, from the vehicle communication device, the vehicle identification information; transmits, to the vehicle communication device, the parking space identification information used for identifying the parking space to which the parking lot communication device is installed; and transmits the received vehicle identification information and the parking space identification information to an information processing device positioned outside of the parking lot communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yukie TERAO, Motohiko WATANABE, Haruhiko KAKITSU
  • Patent number: 8301095
    Abstract: A portable wireless device that makes it possible to maintain any desired matching state and can suppress an increase in the loss accompanying matching if the impedance characteristic of an antenna changes with expansion/storage of the antenna, deformation of a housing, etc., is provided. Two channels of signal paths that can be selected by switch section 11, 15 are provided between an antenna 10 and a reception circuit 16; a first low noise amplifier 13 that can amplify a received high frequency signal is provided in one path and a second low noise amplifier 18 having an impedance characteristic different from the low noise amplifier 13 is provided in the other signal path. The form of the antenna 10 or the form of a housing is detected in a form change detection section 20 and the two channels of signal paths are automatically switched in a control section and two types of impedance matching states are used properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kanasaki, Haruhiko Kakitsu
  • Patent number: 8301192
    Abstract: A portable wireless device having a plurality of wireless sections capable of diversity operation which can reduce the size, thickness, weight and manufacturing cost by reducing the number of antennas. The portable wireless device (100) comprises first through third main antenna devices (101-103), first through third wireless sections (111-113) connected, respectively, with the first through third main antenna devices (101-103) and capable of diversity operation, a sub-antenna device (121) for diversity operation connected with any one of the first through third wireless sections (111-113) at the time of diversity operation, and a section (120) for switching connection of the sub-antenna device (121) with any one of the first through third wireless sections (111-113) at the time of diversity operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kakitsu, Takahiro Ochi
  • Patent number: 8180414
    Abstract: There is adopted an enclosure dipole antenna structure including antenna elements respectively provided in a lower enclosure and an upper enclosure. There is also adopted a structure in which the lower structure and the upper structure are rotatably joined together along two axes of hinges. The enclosures thereby become openable and closable in two directions including a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. There can be implemented high antenna performance without use of an external antenna even regardless of whether the enclosures are opened in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. A feeding section and a connection section are separated from each other by a distance of 1/20 or more of a wavelength corresponding to an operating frequency. Power can well be fed to the antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uejima, Shingo Sumi, Hideki Hayama, Haruhiko Kakitsu, Yukari Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8155716
    Abstract: A portable radio device of a type having two-direction openable and closable enclosures that can effectively lessen influence on an antenna exerted by a hinge section is provided. A horizontal hinge section 5 for rotatably joining an upper enclosure 1 to a hinge enclosure 3 around a first shaft center includes a horizontal hinge anchor 52 electrically connected to a first metal part 13 disposed in the upper enclosure 1, a horizontal hinge plate 53 that is placed in the hinge enclosure 3 and that contains a conductive material, and a first hinge shaft 51 that electrically connects the horizontal hinge anchor 52 to the horizontal hinge plate 53 and that contains a conductive material interposed between an area from a substantial center to an end of a long side of a face along which the upper enclosure 1 and the hinge enclosure 3 face a direction of second shaft center (X).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochi, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Haruhiko Kakitsu, Kouta Aoki, Shigeaki Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 8150457
    Abstract: A mobile radio apparatus wherein the degradation of communication performance caused by electromagnetic noise can be precluded with enhanced reliability. This mobile telephone unit (100) comprises a camera body (107); a circuit board (106) that includes partial board parts (104, 105) located on the two respective sides of the camera body (107); a camera shield (108) that is located close to and opposed to the back surface of the camera body (107) (which is opposite to the image pickup plane); a camera connection connector (110) that is connected to the camera body (107) and grounded in the partial board part (104); a frequency limiting part (111) that is connected to the camera shield (108) and grounded in the partial board part (105); a feeding part (117) that is located in the partial board part (105); and a matching circuit part (113) that is located and grounded in the partial board part (105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kobayashi, Haruhiko Kakitsu, Kouta Aoki, Shigeaki Sakurazawa, Takahiro Ochi
  • Patent number: 8090408
    Abstract: A portable wireless device has no externally projecting part even when a card type functional medium has been therein inserted, and allows downsizing and obtaining high antenna performance. The portable wireless device includes a card slot (12) in a substrate (11) of a lower housing (10), and includes a slot cover (13) that can block an opening portion of the card slot (12). The slot cover (13) is integrally provided with a parasitic element (14). The parasitic element (14) is, when an SDIO card (100) is inserted, arranged so as to be in proximity substantially parallel with the antenna element (102) of the SDIO card (100), has an electrical length which is approximately one-half wavelength of a driving frequency of an RF circuit (101) of the SDIO card (100), and electromagnetically couples with the antenna element (102) to operate as a parasitic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochi, Haruhiko Kakitsu
  • Publication number: 20110267240
    Abstract: A portable wireless device wherein antenna performance deterioration when using a slide mechanism having a metal member can be prevented. In this portable wireless device, a second housing (102) is slidably attached to a first housing (101). The circuit board (105) is provided in the first housing (101) and has a slit (110) which extends in a direction crossing the sliding direction of the first housing (101) and is located below a power feed unit (109) when the wireless device is opened. The circuit board (108) is provided in the second housing (102) and overlaps with the bottom side of the circuit board (105) as seen from a plan view when the first housing (101) is slid open. The antenna (107) is provided on the upper side of the second housing (102). The power feed unit (109) supplies power to the antenna (107) at a position close to the antenna (107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kakitsu, Toshihiro Asahina
  • Publication number: 20110260933
    Abstract: A mobile radio apparatus that can prevent degradation of the antenna characteristic if three or more antenna elements are included is provided. A mobile radio apparatus includes a housing; a circuit board 20 provided in the housing; and a first antenna 11, a second antenna 12, and a third antenna 13 placed in one end in the housing and operating in different operation frequency bands. The first antenna 11 operates in a first operation frequency band, the second antenna 12 operates in a second frequency band close to the first operation frequency band, and the third antenna 13 operates in a third operation frequency band not close to the first operation frequency band or the second operation frequency band and is placed between the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 in the one end in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa Takahashi, Haruhiko Kakitsu
  • Publication number: 20110250935
    Abstract: Provided is a portable wireless device wherein deterioration of antenna performance is eliminated, in the case where the portable wireless device is provided with a sliding mechanism wherein a metal member is used. A sliding unit (150) includes a first sliding member (103) and a second sliding member (104), and the first case (101) and the second case (102) are slidably connected. The first sliding member (103) is in a state of metal plate, and slides with the first case (103). The second sliding member (104) is in a state of metal plate and insulated from the first sliding member (103), and slides with the second case (102) on the first sliding member (103).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kakitsu, Hideo Nakanishi, Yuichiro Suzuki, Toshiaki Saitoh, Makoto Doi, Kanta Judai, Akinori Oohira
  • Publication number: 20110169712
    Abstract: When three or more antennas and a plurality of wireless circuits using wireless frequency bands near to each other are installed on a cabinet whose size is limited, degradation of characteristic caused by electromagnetic coupling between antennas is suppressed. When a first antenna 21 and a second antenna 22 are connected to a first wireless circuit 31, a third antenna 23 is connected to a second wireless circuit 32, and an operation frequency band of the second wireless circuit 32 is near in a higher band than an operation frequency band of the first wireless circuit 31, a feeding point 23a of the third antenna is placed at a position nearer to a feeding point 21a of the first antenna than the feeding point 22a of the second antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Sumi, Kenya Nagano, Haruhiko Kakitsu, Yukari Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Uejima, Hideki Hayama
  • Publication number: 20110080327
    Abstract: A decrease in antenna currents that are oriented in opposite directions and that flow through enclosures and enhancement of an antenna characteristic are accomplished without impairment of a design characteristic of the enclosures and while being made feasible to achieve a reduction in size and thickness. In a portable radio that has an upper enclosure 11, a lower enclosure 12, and an intermediate enclosure 13 and that can assume a portrait open state and a landscape open state, when the landscape open state is achieved as a result of turning action of a second hinge member 32, an antenna element 15 of the upper enclosure 11 is connected to a radio circuit 23 on a second circuit board 22 of the lower enclosure 12 by way of a connection line 25. A first hinge member 31 in the intermediate enclosure 13 is earthed to a ground of the second circuit board 22 of the lower enclosure 12 by way of a connection conductor 26 and a reactance element 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kobayashi, Haruhiko Kakitsu, Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110063779
    Abstract: A portable wireless device has no externally projecting part even when a card type functional medium has been therein inserted, and allows downsizing and obtaining high antenna performance. The portable wireless device includes a card slot (12) in a substrate (11) of a lower housing (10), and includes a slot cover (13) that can block an opening portion of the card slot (12). The slot cover (13) is integrally provided with a parasitic element (14). The parasitic element (14) is, when an SDIO card (100) is inserted, arranged so as to be in proximity substantially parallel with the antenna element (102) of the SDIO card (100), has an electrical length which is approximately one-half wavelength of a driving frequency of an RF circuit (101) of the SDIO card (100), and electromagnetically couples with the antenna element (102) to operate as a parasitic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochi, Haruhiko Kakitsu
  • Patent number: 7907094
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a portable terminal apparatus capable of reducing that antenna characteristics of respective antenna elements are deteriorated due to antenna coupling phenomena even when a plurality of wireless communication functions are carried out at the same time by utilizing a plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kakitsu, Hideo Nakanishi, Takahiro Ochi
  • Publication number: 20110059712
    Abstract: There is provided a portable radio that makes it possible to assure high receiving performance by improving deterioration of antenna gain attributable to electromagnetic field coupling between the plurality of antennas. A portable radio has a first antenna 11; a second antenna 13; a first low noise amplifier 12 connected to the first antenna 11; a second low noise amplifier 14 connected to the second antenna 13; and a DTV tuner module 15 that can perform diversity combination and that is connected to the first low noise amplifier 12 and the second low noise amplifier 14, wherein an input impedance of the first low noise amplifier 12 and an input impedance of the second low noise amplifier 14 entirely differ from each other at an operating frequency band of the DTV tuner module 15 capable of performing diversity combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kakitsu, Hideki Hayama, Yukari Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Uejima
  • Publication number: 20100267415
    Abstract: A portable wireless device having a plurality of wireless sections capable of diversity operation which can reduce the size, thickness, weight and manufacturing cost by reducing the number of antennas. The portable wireless device (100) comprises first through third main antenna devices (101-103), first through third wireless sections (111-113) connected, respectively, with the first through third main antenna devices (101-103) and capable of diversity operation, a sub-antenna device (121) for diversity operation connected with any one of the first through third wireless sections (111-113) at the time of diversity operation, and a section (120) for switching connection of the sub-antenna device (121) with any one of the first through third wireless sections (111-113) at the time of diversity operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kakitsu, Takahiro Ochi