Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nishikawa

Hiroshi 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: 20220148986
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first switch, a second switch, an amplifier electrically connected between the first switch and the second switch, and a base. The first switch, the second switch, and the amplifier are provided on the base. In a top view of the base, the amplifier is disposed between the first switch and the second switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220129970
    Abstract: A commodity data processing apparatus includes a communication interface connected to a network, and a processor that executes a program that includes an acquiring module that acquires order information relating to an ordered commodity, a specifying module that identifies a purchaser who comes to a store, and a notifying module that notifies the identified purchaser through the communication interface that the ordered commodity is in stock at the store if the ordered commodity is in stock at the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaozhou WANG, Takashi IKEUCHI, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Kentaro OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11270961
    Abstract: A switch IC includes first, second and third switch units, and an amplifier. The first switch unit and the third switch unit are adjacent to each other. The third switch unit and the amplifier are adjacent to each other. The amplifier and the second switch unit are adjacent to each other. The first, second and third switch units, and the amplifier are disposed on a straight line in an order in which a signal passes through the first switch unit, the second switch unit, the third switch unit, and the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20210337663
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring substrate according to the present invention includes a dielectric base body, a signal line in or on the dielectric base body, a ground conductor in the dielectric base body, and a graphite sheet in the dielectric base body. The dielectric base body is a laminate including dielectric sheets stacked on top of each other. The ground conductor and the signal line face each other in a stacking direction of the dielectric sheets. The ground conductor overlaps the signal line when viewed in plan in the stacking direction. The graphite sheet and the signal line face each other in the stacking direction without the signal line being located between the graphite sheet and the ground conductor. An upper surface of the graphite sheet is coplanar with an upper surface of the ground conductor or is located below the upper surface of the ground conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi KISHIMOTO, Masatoshi KAKUE, Shuichi KAWATA, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210266018
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to each other; a plurality of external-connection terminals (e.g., a plurality of post electrodes) disposed on the second principal surface; a semiconductor component disposed on the second principal surface and including a first low-noise amplifier and/or a second low-noise amplifier; and a metal member set at a ground potential and covering at least part of a surface of the semiconductor component, the surface being opposite to a surface that faces the module substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210136186
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module substrate that includes a principal surface on which external-connection terminals are disposed; a power amplifier that is disposed on the principal surface of the module substrate and amplifies a radio frequency transmission signal; and a heat dissipator that dissipates heat of the power amplifier. The heat dissipator includes: a heat dissipation plate that covers a surface of the power amplifier which is opposite to a surface that faces the module substrate; and at least a first leg that extends from the heat dissipation portion toward the principal surface of the module substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi SAWADA, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Yukiya YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10963896
    Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus configured to: store commodity information of a commodity to which a transaction processing is executed in a storage section; store, if a face from which attribute of a customer who purchases the commodity can be determined is detected from images captured by a camera, attribute information indicating the attribute determined according to face image information of the detected face in the storage section in association with the commodity information; send the stored commodity information to a server if the face from which the attribute of the customer who purchases the commodity can be determined is not detected according to the captured images; and store the attribute information indicating the attribute which is determined according to the face image information of a customer sent from the server which extracts the customer according to the sent commodity information in the storage section in association with the commodity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10921767
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an encoder system includes an encoder and an interface. The encoder detects the position and speed of a motor, and generates A-, B- and Z-phase signals. The interface includes an AB waveform recognition circuitry to recognize a waveform of an AB phase, a Z waveform recognition circuitry to recognize a period of an enable state of a Z phase, a starting point storage device to store a value of the AB phase when the Z phase changes and stores an AB-phase change pattern, a starting point recognition circuitry to generate an interrupt signal, and a rotation angle counter to start a new count of the rotation angle of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Makoto Kanda, Shigeru Itoh, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Wataru Furuichi, Kiyoshige Taga, Kazuma Takeda
  • Patent number: 10873352
    Abstract: A radio-frequency module (20) includes a module substrate (50) and a filter (21). The filter (21) has a sensitive GND electrode and a non-sensitive GND electrode that are connected to an external-connection ground terminal of the module substrate (50), and parallel-arm resonators. An inductance component generated by the sensitive GND electrode shifts, by a first shift amount, an attenuation pole that corresponds to a parallel-arm resonator and that is formed near a pass band. An inductance component generated by the non-sensitive GND electrode shifts, by a second shift amount, an attenuation pole that corresponds to a parallel-arm resonator and that is formed near the pass band. The first shift amount is larger than the second shift amount, and the distance between the sensitive GND electrode and the external-connection ground terminal is smaller than the distance between the non-sensitive GND electrode and the external-connection ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200389794
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a radio communication apparatus, a wireless LAN router, an unauthorized access prevention method, and a radio communication system that have security for protection against unauthorized access. A radio communication apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes: first radio communication means (10) for functioning as an access point for radio communication; second radio communication means (20) for functioning as an access point for radio communication; and storage means (21) for storing dummy information. The first radio communication means (10) has a security level higher than that of the second radio communication means (20), and the second radio communication means (20) is capable of transmitting the dummy information stored in the storage means (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10789144
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a supervisory circuit includes a trigger determination circuit and a trigger table. The trigger determination circuit receives signal processing signals outputted from a plurality of signal processing circuits as trigger signals, determines whether processing operations by the signal processing circuits are executed in a predetermined order, and outputs an interrupt signal when detecting a trigger signal out of setting. The trigger table is provided with trigger-specific tables corresponding to the respective signal processing circuits, reads a trigger setting to occur next based on a trigger determined as being correct by the trigger determination circuit, and outputs a table read signal to the trigger determination circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Makoto Kanda, Shigeru Itoh, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Wataru Furuichi, Kiyoshige Taga, Itsuro Nomura
  • Publication number: 20200226664
    Abstract: A commodity data processing apparatus includes a communication interface connected to a network, and a processor that executes a program that includes an acquiring module that acquires order information relating to an ordered commodity, a specifying module that identifies a purchaser who comes to a store, and a notifying module that notifies the identified purchaser through the communication interface that the ordered commodity is in stock at the store if the ordered commodity is in stock at the store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaozhou WANG, Takashi IKEUCHI, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Kentaro OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200228074
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes a substrate, a first terminal disposed on a first principal surface of the substrate, a second terminal disposed on the first principal surface, a first-surface mounted component disposed on the first principal surface or inside the substrate, and a second-surface mounted component disposed on a second principal surface of the substrate which is opposite the first principal surface. A radio-frequency signal, which is input to the first terminal, is transmitted, for output from the second terminal, so as to make at least one round trip between the first principal surface and the second-surface mounted component, which is disposed on the second principal surface, through wiring lines disposed in the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke NANIWA, Hideki MUTO, Hiroshi NISHIKAWA, Takashi WATANABE, Akiko ITABASHI
  • Publication number: 20200125049
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an encoder system includes an encoder and an interface. The encoder detects the position and speed of a motor, and generates A-, B- and Z-phase signals. The interface includes an AB waveform recognition circuitry to recognize a waveform of an AB phase, a Z waveform recognition circuitry to recognize a period of an enable state of a Z phase, a starting point storage device to store a value of the AB phase when the Z phase changes and stores an AB-phase change pattern, a starting point recognition circuitry to generate an interrupt signal, and a rotation angle counter to start a new count of the rotation angle of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Makoto Kanda, Shigeru Itoh, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Wataru Furuichi, Kiyoshige Taga, Kazuma Takeda
  • Patent number: 10595406
    Abstract: A module component includes a substrate; first, second, third and fourth main electrodes on or in a principal surface of the substrate; a sub-electrode located between two of the four main electrodes and connected to one of the four main electrodes by a solder; a first mount component mounted to the first and second main electrodes; and a second mount component mounted to the third and fourth main electrodes; wherein an area of the sub-electrode is smaller than an area of each of the first, second, third and fourth main electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200044393
    Abstract: A plug (102) for connection with a receptacle (200) via a front face thereof on which a display lamp (210, 211) is formed. The plug (102) is provided with a light guide unit (112, 113) with one end for the entry of light from the display lamp (210, 211), wherein the input light is guided to a position or in a direction that is unlikely to be blocked by the plug (102) connected to the receptacle (200) or by a cable connected to the plug (102) connected to the receptacle (200), and then output from the other end. In this way, the visibility of the display lamp (210, 211) with the plug (102) connected to the receptacle (200) is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200012594
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a shared FIFO device includes a write pointer control circuit, a read pointer control circuit, a write pointer selection circuit, a read pointer selection circuit, a selection circuit, and a memory array. The shared FIFO device performs FIFO access through n transfer routes (where n is an integer of 2 or greater).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru Furuichi, Makoto Kanda, Shigeru Itoh, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Akihiro Kobayashi, Kiyoshige Taga
  • Publication number: 20190355006
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a service provision determination unit (determination means) determines whether or not to provide a predetermined service based upon code information, which is acquired by an individual commodity code acquisition unit (acquisition means), attached to a commodity purchased by a customer and uniquely specifying the commodity, and a sales history including the code information and a sales date and time stored by a sales history storage unit (storage means). Further, a service provision instruction unit (provision means) provides the predetermined service to the customer based upon a determination result of the service provision determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190325461
    Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus configured to: store commodity information of a commodity to which a transaction processing is executed in a storage section; store, if a face from which attribute of a customer who purchases the commodity can be determined is detected from images captured by a camera, attribute information indicating the attribute determined according to face image information of the detected face in the storage section in association with the commodity information; send the stored commodity information to a server if the face from which the attribute of the customer who purchases the commodity can be determined is not detected according to the captured images; and store the attribute information indicating the attribute which is determined according to the face image information of a customer sent from the server which extracts the customer according to the sent commodity information in the storage section in association with the commodity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190273521
    Abstract: A radio-frequency module (20) includes a module substrate (50) and a filter (21). The filter (21) has a sensitive GND electrode and a non-sensitive GND electrode that are connected to an external-connection ground terminal of the module substrate (50), and parallel-arm resonators. An inductance component generated by the sensitive GND electrode shifts, by a first shift amount, an attenuation pole that corresponds to a parallel-arm resonator and that is formed near a pass band. An inductance component generated by the non-sensitive GND electrode shifts, by a second shift amount, an attenuation pole that corresponds to a parallel-arm resonator and that is formed near the pass band. The first shift amount is larger than the second shift amount, and the distance between the sensitive GND electrode and the external-connection ground terminal is smaller than the distance between the non-sensitive GND electrode and the external-connection ground terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroshi NISHIKAWA