Patents by Inventor Hideaki Nakakubo

Hideaki Nakakubo 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: 8451073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resonator device having a stacked arrangement of laminated layers including a plurality of dielectric layers, and at least one resonator comprising a short-circuit electrode, a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode. Each electrode comprises at least a portion of a layer of electrically conductive material provided on a surface of one of the dielectric layers. The second capacitor electrode is disposed spaced, in the stacking direction, from the short-circuit electrode and the first capacitor electrode. The short-circuit electrode and the second capacitor electrode are electrically interconnected by a first electrical connection comprising at least one via hole penetrating one or more of the dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hoeft, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Patent number: 7904030
    Abstract: For example, in a conventional high frequency switch used for a mobile phone and so on, high frequency distortion is caused by a diode which is turned off upon transmission. A high frequency switch includes a switch circuit for switching transmission and reception performed via a transmitting terminal and receiving terminals, said switch circuit having a diode turned off upon transmission, and a low-pass filter for suppressing high frequency distortion caused by the diode upon transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhide Uriu, Toru Yamada, Hideaki Nakakubo, Masaharu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100265015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resonator device having a stacked arrangement of laminated layers including a plurality of dielectric layers, and at least one resonator comprising a short-circuit electrode, a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode. Each electrode comprises at least a portion of a layer of electrically conductive material provided on a surface of one of the dielectric layers. The second capacitor electrode is disposed spaced, in the stacking direction, from the short-circuit electrode and the first capacitor electrode. The short-circuit electrode and the second capacitor electrode are electrically interconnected by a first electrical connection comprising at least one via hole penetrating one or more of the dielectric layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Hoeft, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Patent number: 7123884
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) switch which is used in an RF unit of a communication apparatus and which has less of an insertion loss during a transmission. A strip line disposed in the RF switch is formed by combining first and second strip lines having different values of characteristic impedance from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakakubo, Tomoyuki Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 7116188
    Abstract: A laminated dielectric filter is formed by coupling a plurality of resonators to one another by electromagnetic-field coupling. In the laminated dielectric filter, a bypass circuit formed of a series circuit including bypass capacitors and transmission lines is provided in parallel to a magnetic-field bypass coupling between non-adjacent resonators. Thus, capacitance of the bypass capacitors can be regulated without being affected by the magnetic-field bypass coupling between the non-adjacent resonators. As a result, attenuation poles outside a passband can be controlled freely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Emiko Kawahara, Toru Yamada, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Patent number: 7027777
    Abstract: A high frequency switch having a plurality of signal paths for four frequency bands, the high frequency switch, has branching means, first and second transmission reception changeover means connected to the branching means, and a plurality of filters placed in the plurality of signal paths, the first transmission reception changeover means has a first common transmitting end for transmission signals of the first frequency band and the second frequency band, a first receiving end for a reception signal of the first frequency band, and a second receiving end for a reception signal of the second frequency band, and the second transmission reception changeover means has a second common transmitting end for transmission signals of the third frequency band and the fourth frequency band, a third receiving end for a reception signal of the third frequency band, and a fourth receiving end for a reception signal of the fourth frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Uriu, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo, Toru Yamada
  • Patent number: 6941650
    Abstract: By using a method for manufacturing a dielectric laminated device, an opening is formed on a first dielectric sheet, a strip line and an input and output line including an input and output electrode are formed by burying electrode materials in said opening, the first dielectric sheet is laminated with the second and third dielectric sheets disposed above and below respectively to form a laminate, a first and second shield electrodes and a ground electrode are formed, an end of the strip line is connected to the ground electrode, the first shield electrode and the second shield electrode are mutually connected through the ground electrode, and the input and output electrode is exposed along the line direction of the strip line. By this constitution of the above dielectric laminated device, the mounting reliability of the dielectric laminated device can be further increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakakubo, Toshio Ishizaki, Toru Yamada, Hiroshi Kagata, Tatsuya Inoue, Shoichi Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 6847829
    Abstract: A multiband high-frequency switch that is mainly used for mobile phones, comprising a strip line formed of the series connection of first and second strip lines. A second transmitting port is connected to the connection point of the strip lines connected in series via a third diode, and a second control port is connected between the second transmitting port and the third diode. In addition, first and second receiving ports are connected to the receiving-side port of the high-frequency switch via a diplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Tanaka, Hideaki Nakakubo, Yasushi Nagata
  • Patent number: 6788164
    Abstract: The present invention comprises baluns 2a, 2b which convert balanced line signals and unbalanced line signals mutually, and filters 3a, 3b which are electrically connected to the baluns 2a, 2b and pass or attenuate the predetermined frequency bands. Electrode layers 15a-22a, 25a, 41, 42, 43 which compose the electrode patterns of the baluns 2a, 2b and the filters 3a, 3b, and the dielectric layers 30-39 are integrally stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Shigemura, Hideaki Nakakubo, Emiko Kawahara, Toru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20040171356
    Abstract: For example, in a conventional high frequency switch used for a mobile phone and so on, high frequency distortion is caused by a diode which is turned off upon transmission. A high frequency switch includes a switch circuit 2 for switching transmission and reception performed via a transmitting terminal Tx2 and receiving terminals Rx2 and Rx3, said switch circuit having a diode D1 turned off upon transmission, and a low-pass filter 11 for suppressing high frequency distortion caused by the diode D1 upon transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Kazuhide Uriu, Toru Yamada, Hideaki Nakakubo, Masaharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6765460
    Abstract: By using a method for manufacturing a dielectric laminated device, an opening is formed on a first dielectric sheet, a strip line and an input and output line including an input and output electrode are formed by burying electrode materials in said opening, the first dielectric sheet is laminated with the second and third dielectric sheets disposed above and below respectively to form a laminate, a first and second shield electrodes and a ground electrode are formed, an end of the strip line is connected to the ground electrode, the first shield electrode and the second shield electrode are mutually connected through the ground electrode, and the input and output electrode is exposed along the line direction of the strip line. By this constitution of the above dielectric laminated device, the mounting reliability of the dielectric laminated device can be further increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakakubo, Toshio Ishizaki, Toru Yamada, Hiroshi Kagata, Tatsuya Inoue, Shoichi Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 6747528
    Abstract: A dielectric filter including a plurality of resonators, and at least one transmissions line provided among said plurality of resonators. A band rejection characteristic is formed around a resonance frequency of said resonator, and a line length of said transmission line is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength corresponding to the resonance frequency of said resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hiroshi Shigemura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Publication number: 20040041660
    Abstract: A laminated dielectric filter is formed by coupling a plurality of resonators to one another by electromagnetic-field coupling. In the laminated dielectric filter, a bypass circuit formed of a series circuit including bypass capacitors and transmission lines is provided in parallel to a magnetic-field bypass coupling between non-adjacent resonators. Thus, capacitance of the bypass capacitors can be regulated without being affected by the magnetic-field bypass coupling between the non-adjacent resonators. As a result, attenuation poles outside a passband can be controlled freely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Emiko Kawahara, Toru Yamada, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Patent number: 6696903
    Abstract: A laminated dielectric filter is formed by coupling a plurality of resonators to one another by electromagnetic-field coupling. In the laminated dielectric filter, a bypass circuit formed of a series circuit including bypass capacitors and transmission lines is provided in parallel to a magnetic-field bypass coupling between non-adjacent resonators. Thus, capacitance of the bypass capacitors can be regulated without being affected by the magnetic-field bypass coupling between the non-adjacent resonators. As a result, attenuation poles outside a passband can be controlled freely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Emiko Kawahara, Toru Yamada, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Patent number: 6608534
    Abstract: The present matching circuit chip has an integrated shape comprising a first transmission line, a second transmission line and a third transmission line, wherein one end of the first transmission line, one end of the second transmission line and one end of the third transmission line are connected to one another, a first filter connection terminal is connected to the other end of the first transmission line, an antenna terminal is connected to the other end of the second transmission line, and a second filter connection terminal is connected to the other end of the third transmission line, whereby the second transmission line converts the characteristic impedances of the first and third transmission lines so that the impedance matching between the antenna terminal and the first filter connection terminal can be attained, and so that the impedance matching between the antenna terminal and the second filter connection terminal can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kushitani, Toru Yamada, Naoki Yuda, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo, Makoto Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 6608533
    Abstract: The present matching circuit chip has an integrated shape comprising a first transmission line, a second transmission line and a third transmission line, wherein one end of the first transmission line, one end of the second transmission line and one end of the third transmission line are connected to one another, a first filter connection terminal is connected to the other end of the first transmission line, an antenna terminal is connected to the other end of the second transmission line, and a second filter connection terminal is connected to the other end of the third transmission line, whereby the second transmission line converts the characteristic impedances of the first and third transmission lines so that the impedance matching between the antenna terminal and the first filter connection terminal can be attained, and so that the impedance matching between the antenna terminal and the second filter connection terminal can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kushitani, Toru Yamada, Naoki Yuda, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo, Makoto Fujikawa
  • Publication number: 20030141943
    Abstract: A dielectric filter, has
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hiroshi Shigemura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Publication number: 20030117242
    Abstract: By using a method for manufacturing a dielectric laminated device, an opening is formed on a first dielectric sheet, a strip line and an input and output line including an input and output electrode are formed by burying electrode materials in said opening, the first dielectric sheet is laminated with the second and third dielectric sheets disposed above and below respectively to form a laminate, a first and second shield electrodes and a ground electrode are formed, an end of the strip line is connected to the ground electrode, the first shield electrode and the second shield electrode are mutually connected through the ground electrode, and the input and output electrode is exposed along the line direction of the strip line. By this constitution of the above dielectric laminated device, the mounting reliability of the dielectric laminated device can be further increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakakubo, Toshio Ishizaki, Toru Yamada, Hiroshi Kagata, Tatsuya Inoue, Shoichi Kitazawa
  • Publication number: 20030092398
    Abstract: A high frequency switch having a plurality of signal paths for four frequency bands, the high frequency switch, has
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Kazuhide Uriu, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo, Toru Yamada
  • Patent number: 6529096
    Abstract: A dielectric filter including a plurality of resonators, and at least one transmission line provided among said plurality of resonators. A band rejection characteristic is formed around a resonance frequency of the resonator, and a line length of the transmission line is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength corresponding to the resonance frequency of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hiroshi Shigemura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo