Patents by Inventor Hiromichi Yoshikawa

Hiromichi Yoshikawa 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: 12111522
    Abstract: An isolator includes a first waveguide with a linear shape and a second waveguide with an annular shape on a substrate including a substrate surface, the first waveguide being positioned along the substrate surface. The first waveguide and the second waveguide each include a core and a cladding. The first waveguide includes a first end, a second end, and a port at each of the first end and the second end for input and output of electromagnetic waves. The core of the second waveguide includes a non-reciprocal member in at least a portion of a cross-section intersecting a direction in which the second waveguide extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Matsui, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Tomoya Sugita
  • Publication number: 20240219486
    Abstract: A detection substrate includes a diamond crystal in which an NV center is arranged, and an antenna conductor provided on the diamond crystal. The diamond crystal can be provided with both the NV center and the antenna conductor. A microwave having a sufficient intensity can therefore effectively be applied to the NV center at a specific region with a small amount of power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji KISHIDA, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240213648
    Abstract: A composite resonator includes a first resonator extending in a first plane direction, a second resonator spaced apart from the first resonator in a first direction and extending in the first plane direction, a third resonator located between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction and configured to magnetically or capacitively connect to or electrically connect to each of the first resonator and the second resonator, and a reference conductor extending in the first plane direction, located between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction, and serving as a potential reference of the first resonator and the second resonator. The reference conductor surrounds at least a part of the third resonator in the first plane direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240213640
    Abstract: A composite resonator includes a first resonator extending in a first plane direction, a second resonator spaced apart from the first resonator in a first direction and extending in the first plane direction, a third resonator located between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction and configured to be magnetically or capacitively connected to or electrically connected to each of the first resonator and the second resonator, and a reference conductor extending in the first plane direction, located between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction and serving as a potential reference of the first resonator and the second resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240195078
    Abstract: A radio wave absorbing element includes a first resonator extending in a first plane direction, a second resonator spaced apart from the first resonator in a first direction and extending in the first plane direction, a third resonator located between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction and configured to magnetically or capacitively connect to or electrically connect to each of the first resonator and the second resonator, a reference conductor extending in the first plane direction, located between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction, and serving as a potential reference of the first resonator and the second resonator, and a shielding conductor spaced apart from the second resonator in the first direction and extending in the first plane direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 12007632
    Abstract: An optical isolator 10 according to the present disclosure includes a substrate 11 and an optical waveguide 12 provided on the substrate 11. The optical waveguide 12 includes a first end part 13, a plurality of second end parts 14 arranged in an array, and at least one branching part 18 located between the first end part 13 and the plurality of second end parts 14. The optical waveguide 12 has a portion having non-reciprocity and gives different non-reciprocal phase shift amounts between the first end part 13 and at least two of the second end parts 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Naoki Matsui, Tomoya Sugita
  • Publication number: 20240168323
    Abstract: An isolator comprises a substrate having a substrate surface; and first and second waveguides that are positioned at least partially side by side along the substrate surface. The first waveguide includes a first core, the second waveguide includes a second core, and the first and second cores are surrounded by a dielectric. The first waveguide includes first and second ends, and includes a port through which an electromagnetic wave is input and output at each of the first and second ends. The second waveguide includes a first portion extending along the first waveguide and a second portion that is not included in the first portion. The second waveguide includes a nonreciprocal member that is in contact with at least a part of the second core of the first portion, and the nonreciprocal member is in contact with at least a part of the second core of the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Naoki MATSUI, Tomoya SUGITA
  • Patent number: 11970242
    Abstract: A brake lever and a transmission with a novel antenna are provided. The brake lever is attachable to the handlebar. The brake lever includes a long portion configured as including an electrically conductive material and an antenna located on the long portion. The antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor facing the first conductor in a first direction, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a power supply line configured to be electromagnetically connected to the third conductor. The third conductor is located between the first conductor and the second conductor, is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor faces the long portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Nekozuka, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Sunao Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11955736
    Abstract: An antenna includes a housing, a first conductor group, and a power supply line. The housing includes a first surface including at least three first corner portions, a second surface including at least three second corner portions and facing the first surface, and a side surface connecting the first and second surfaces. A housing portion is surrounded by the first, second and side surfaces. The first conductor group includes a first conductor extending along the first surface, at least three second conductors separated from one another, and a second conductor group. The second conductors extend along the side surface from the first corner portions to the second corner portions and are electrically connected to the first conductor. The second conductor group extends along the second surface and capacitively couples the at least three second conductors. The power supply line is connected to any one portion of the second conductor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
  • Publication number: 20240113434
    Abstract: An antenna includes a first resonator extending in a first plane direction; a second resonator spaced apart from the first resonator in a first direction and extending in the first plane direction; a third resonator positioned between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction and magnetically or capacitively connected to or electrically connected to each of the first resonator and the second resonator; a reference conductor extending in the first plane direction, positioned between the first resonator and the second resonator in the first direction, and serving as a potential reference of the first resonator and the second resonator; and a feeder line connected to the first resonator. The reference conductor surrounds at least a part of the third resonator in the first plane direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11942691
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel antenna. An antenna according to an example of a plurality of embodiments of the present disclosure includes a radiation conductor, a ground conductor, a first feeding line, a second feeding line, and a connecting conductor. The first feeding line is electromagnetically connected to the radiation conductor and configured to excite the radiation conductor in a first direction. The second feeding line is electromagnetically connected to the radiation conductor and configured to excite the radiation conductor in a second direction. The connecting conductor is positioned apart from the center of the radiation conductor. The connecting conductor is spaced apart from the first feeding line by a first distance. The connecting conductor is spaced apart from the second feeding line by a second distance. The first distance is substantially equal to the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
  • Publication number: 20240089744
    Abstract: A communication control method used in a mobile communication system including a gNB and a UE performing wireless communication with the gNB, the communication control method including: establishing, by an RIS-UE, a wireless connection with the gNB, the RIS-UE controlling an RIS device that changes a propagation direction of a radio wave incident from the gNB; and transmitting, by the gNB to the RIS-UE through the wireless communication, one or more pieces of RIS control information used to control the RIS device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato FUJISHIRO, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Chiharu YAMAZAKI, Nobuki HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240090050
    Abstract: A communication control method used in a mobile communication system including a gNB 200 and a UE performing wireless communication with the gNB 200, the communication control method including: establishing, by an RIS-UE 100B, a wireless connection with the gNB 200, the RIS-UE 100B controlling an RIS device 500 that changes a propagation direction of a radio wave incident from the gNB 200; and transmitting, by the RIS-UE 100B to the gNB 200 through wireless communication, RIS device information indicating at least one of a capability of the RIS device 500 and a control state of the RIS device 500.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato FUJISHIRO, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Chiharu YAMAZAKI, Nobuki HIRAMATSU
  • Patent number: 11921365
    Abstract: An isolator includes a first core, a second core, a nonreciprocal member, and a magnetic body. The first core and the second core extend in a first direction and are positioned side by side with a cladding therebetween in a second direction that intersects the first direction. The nonreciprocal member is in contact with at least a part of the second core while being positioned side by side with the second core in the second direction. In a magnetic field generated by the magnetic body in a portion where the nonreciprocal member is positioned, a component in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction is greater than any component other than the component in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Naoki Matsui, Tomoya Sugita
  • Patent number: 11916294
    Abstract: In an antenna, a first antenna element includes a first radiation conductor and a first feeder line. A second antenna element includes a second radiation conductor and a second feeder line. A second feeder line is coupled to the first feeder line such that a first component, which is a capacitance component or an inductance component, is dominant. A first coupler couples the first and second feeder lines such that a second component different from the first component is dominant. The first and second radiation conductors are arranged at interval of ½ or less of resonance wavelength. The second feeder line is coupled to the first radiation conductor such that a third component, which is the capacitance component or the inductance component, is dominant. The first coupling portion couples the first radiation conductor and the second feeder line such that a fourth component different from the third component is dominant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromichi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11909131
    Abstract: A resonance structure includes a first conductor; a second conductor that faces the first conductor in a first direction; one or more third conductors that are positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor, and that extend along a first plane including the first direction; and a fourth conductor that is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and that extends along the first plane. The first conductor and the second conductor extend along a second direction that intersects with the first plane. The first conductor and the second conductor are configured to be capacitively coupled via the one or more third conductors. The one or more third conductors have asymmetry with respect to a third direction that intersects with the first direction in the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 11888231
    Abstract: An antenna includes a housing of a resin, a first conductor group, and a power supply line. The housing includes first and second surfaces opposite in a first direction, third and fourth surfaces opposite in a second direction, and a housing portion surrounded by the first-fourth surfaces. The third surface connects the first and second surfaces. The first conductor group includes a first conductor, a second conductor, a second conductor group, and a third conductor. The first conductor is closer to the first surface than the second surface. The second conductor is closer to the second surface than the first surface. The second conductor group extends along the third surface and capacitively couples the first and second conductors. The third conductor extends along the fourth surface and electrically connects the first and second conductors. The power supply line is connected to any one portion of the second conductor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
  • Patent number: 11862878
    Abstract: An antenna includes a radiation conductor, a ground conductor, first-fourth feeding lines, a first feeding circuit, and a second feeding circuit. The first feeding line to the fourth feeding line are configured to be electromagnetically connected to the radiation conductor. The first feeding circuit is configured to feed reversed-phased signals, which have mutually opposite phases, to the first feeding line and the third feeding line. The second feeding circuit is configured to feed reversed-phased signals, which have mutually opposite phases, to the second feeding line and the fourth feeding line. The radiation conductor is configured to be excited in a first direction due to the feed from the first feeding line and the third feeding line. The radiation conductor is configured to be excited in a second direction due to the feed from the second feeding line and the fourth feeding line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
  • Publication number: 20230411848
    Abstract: An antenna includes a base, a patch conductor, a peripheral conductor surrounding the patch conductor, a first predetermined number of coupling conductors capacitively connecting the patch conductor and the peripheral conductor, the first predetermined number being at least three, and a first power feed line connected to the patch conductor. Among the first predetermined number of coupling conductors, any two form a first coupling pair composing a part of a first coupling group aligned in a first direction along a first plane, and any two form a second coupling pair composing a part of a second coupling group arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction along the first plane. The antenna is configured to resonate in a first frequency band along a first electrical current path, and is configured to resonate in a second frequency band along a second electrical current path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11831076
    Abstract: An antenna includes first and second antenna elements and first and second couplers. The first antenna element includes a first radiation conductor and a first feeder line. The second antenna element includes a second radiation conductor and a second feeder line. The second feeder line is coupled to the first feeder line such that a first component, which is a capacitance component or an inductance component, is dominant. The first coupler couples the first and second feeder lines such that a second component is dominant. The first radiation conductor and the second radiation conductor are arranged at an interval of ½ or less of a resonance wavelength. The second radiation conductor is coupled to the first radiation conductor with a first coupling method in which a capacitive coupling or a magnetic field coupling is dominant. The second coupler couples the first and second radiation conductors with a second coupling method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromichi Yoshikawa