Patents by Inventor Ippei Kashiwagi

Ippei Kashiwagi 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: 10418697
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes first line which has a feed end connected to a feed point and an open end, and is L-shaped, and second line which has a first end connected to a branch point between a bend portion of first line and the feed point and a second end connected to a first ground point, and is L-shaped. First line includes first portion which is elongated from the feed end to the bend portion, and second portion which is elongated from the bend portion to the open end. Second line includes third portion which is elongated from the branch point to a bend portion, and fourth portion which is elongated from the bend portion to the first ground point. The second portion and the third portion are opposed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 10090577
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data communication device includes a housing and an antenna. The housing includes a base formed of a carbon material and circumferential edges continuous with edges of the base and formed of a resin material. The antenna is accommodated in the housing and includes a conductive portion grounded via the base and an element portion arranged further away from the base than the conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Publication number: 20170250459
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes first line which has a feed end connected to a feed point and an open end, and is L-shaped, and second line which has a first end connected to a branch point between a bend portion of first line and the feed point and a second end connected to a first ground point, and is L-shaped. First line includes first portion which is elongated from the feed end to the bend portion, and second portion which is elongated from the bend portion to the open end. Second line includes third portion which is elongated from the branch point to a bend portion, and fourth portion which is elongated from the bend portion to the first ground point. The second portion and the third portion are opposed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Publication number: 20170149117
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data communication device includes a housing and an antenna. The housing includes a base formed of a carbon material and circumferential edges continuous with edges of the base and formed of a resin material. The antenna is accommodated in the housing and includes a conductive portion grounded via the base and an element portion arranged further away from the base than the conductive portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 9615150
    Abstract: One embodiment is a communication device in which different wireless systems whose frequency bands are close to each other are installed. For a first wireless system, a first antenna using a first frequency band is provided. For a second wireless system, a second antenna using a second frequency band is provided. The first frequency band is set in a range wider than the second frequency band. The second frequency band is included in a part of the range of the first frequency band. An imaginary surface extending along the first antenna and an imaginary surface extending along the second antenna cross each other on their extension lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Ko Katsurahara, Makoto Tabata
  • Publication number: 20170064416
    Abstract: One embodiment is a communication device in which different wireless systems whose frequency bands are close to each other are installed. For a first wireless system, a first antenna using a first frequency band is provided. For a second wireless system, a second antenna using a second frequency band is provided. The first frequency band is set in a range wider than the second frequency band. The second frequency band is included in a part of the range of the first frequency band. An imaginary surface extending along the first antenna and an imaginary surface extending along the second antenna cross each other on their extension lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Ko Katsurahara, Makoto Tabata
  • Patent number: 9577339
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, a capacitor element, a high-frequency cable, and a base member. The first antenna includes a folded-type monopole element. The second antenna includes a monopole element. The third antenna includes a passive element. The capacitor element is between a feeding point and a stub in a backward-path portion of the first antenna. The high-frequency cable is connected to the feeding point. The base member is formed of a dielectric material and has first, second, and third surfaces located to extend in different directions. The first, second, and third antenna are located at the first, second, and third surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Koichi Sato, Hiroyuki Hotta
  • Patent number: 9509048
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna includes a second element that has an end connected to a first point of a first element, and first and second ends kept open, and includes a first portion extending from a feed terminal to the first end, and a second portion extending from the feed terminal and bifurcated at a second point between the first point and the first end. The lengths of the first and second portions are set to substantially ¼ of a resonance frequency, and substantially ¾ of a resonance frequency, severally. The second portion includes a portion extending from the feed terminal to the second point, and a portion extending from the second point to the second end and interposed between the portion and a ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Publication number: 20160156756
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a touchpanel includng a rectangular area on which electrodes are arranged, a first corner, a second corner opposite to the first corner, a third corner, and a fourth corner opposite to the third corner, a plurality of control lines connected to the respective electrodes and arranged to circumvent the area, a controller provided in a position closest to the first corner among the first, second, third and fourth corners, and configured to receive input to the electrodes via the plurality of control lines, and an antenna provided in a position closest to the second corner among the first, second, third and fourth corners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ippei KASHIWAGI, lsao OHBA
  • Publication number: 20160064818
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna includes a second element that has an end connected to a first point of a first element, and first and second ends kept open, and includes a first portion extending from a feed terminal to the first end, and a second portion extending from the feed terminal and bifurcated at a second point between the first point and the first end. The lengths of the first and second portions are set to substantially ¼ of a resonance frequency, and substantially ¾ of a resonance frequency, severally. The second portion includes a portion extending from the feed terminal to the second point, and a portion extending from the second point to the second end and interposed between the portion and a ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Ippei KASHIWAGI
  • Publication number: 20160029507
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a circuit board in the housing, and an antenna. The housing includes a wearable surface to contact with a body part of a person. The antenna includes a feed portion and an element portion, the element portion having a shape of a plate raised with respect to the wearable surface, and extending from a distal end of the feeding portion along an end portion of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Shuichi Sekine
  • Patent number: 9196955
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna device including: a finite ground plane; a feeding point; feed antenna elements arranged in a radial fashion around the feeding point at a height from the finite ground plane; a selector switch to connect a first end of a feed antenna element selected from the feed antenna elements to the feeding point; and parasitic elements arranged correspondingly to the feed antenna elements, in which a first end thereof is connected to the finite ground plane and a portion including a second end thereof is capacitively coupled with the feed antenna element corresponding thereto, wherein a first length of the parasitic element is approximately a quarter of a wavelength of a radio frequency to be used, and a length from the second end of the feed antenna element to the feeding point is shorter than the first length of the parasitic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Makoto Higaki, Masaki Nishio, Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 9136590
    Abstract: In an electronic device, a first housing for receiving a wireless circuit unit and a ground part, a second housing in which a ground part, a hinge mechanism which connects the first and second housings to each other to allow the first and second housings to be rotated, and first and second antennas which resonate for the same frequency band. The first and second antennas are provided in an intermediate portion of the hinge mechanism, and arranged side by side and apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a longitudinal direction of the mechanism. In the mechanism, one of end portions of the mechanism is made electrically conductive, and the other end portion is decreased in electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hotta, Koichi Sato, Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Publication number: 20150171977
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an antenna module, a wireless communicator, an acquisition module and an adjuster. The wireless communicator is configured to wirelessly communicate via the antenna module. The acquisition module is configured to acquire signal strength of a radio signal received by the antenna module from the wireless communicator. The adjuster is configured to adjust a position of an antenna of the antenna module based on the signal strength of the radio signal acquired by the acquisition module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 9059499
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a third antenna element. The first antenna element has one end connected to a feed terminal, and other end open. The second antenna element has one end connected to a first position set on an element of the first antenna element, and other end open, with a portion between one end and the other end being disposed parallel to the first antenna element. The third antenna element has one end connected to a second position set between the other end and the first position on the element of the first antenna element, and other end open, with at least part of a portion between one end and the other end being disposed near the second antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hotta, Koichi Sato, Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 9054429
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna apparatus includes a first antenna unit disposed along a side of a ground pattern, a second antenna unit disposed along the side of the ground pattern so as to be juxtaposed with the first antenna unit, a first RF cable configured to connect the first antenna unit and the radio circuit unit, and a second RF cable configured to connect the second antenna unit and the radio circuit unit. The first RF cable and the second RF cable are routed from the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit in an arrangement direction of the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit so as to be parallel to each other, with the first RF cable being disposed so as to pass over the ground pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Hiroyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20150084816
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing, an antenna, a first shield member, and a first spacer. The housing includes a first wall. The first wall includes an electromagnetic wave-transmissive material. The antenna is configured to overlap, in part, with the electromagnetic wave-transmissive material. The first shield member is located at a side of the antenna opposite the electromagnetic wave-transmissive material. The first spacer is located between the antenna and the first shield member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kengo Kurose, Heiwa Matsuoka, Ippei Kashiwagi, Tomohiro Wada, Isao Okutsu
  • Patent number: 8941548
    Abstract: According to one embodiment; an antenna device according to this embodiment includes the first antenna element formed from a folded monopole element and a capacitor element. The first antenna element has a first end connected to a feeding terminal, a second end connected to the first ground terminal, and a middle portion folded, with a stub being provided between the forward portion and backward portion formed by this folding. The capacitor element is inserted between the stub and the above feeding terminal of the forward portion of the first antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Koichi Sato, Hiroyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20140354489
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a first electrode configured to detect biometric information, and a first antenna. The first electrode and the first antenna are along an edge of a housing of the electronic apparatus. A feeding point of the first antenna is closer to the first electrode than to a center of the first antenna in a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Ippei Kashiwagi
  • Publication number: 20140354484
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, a capacitor element, a high-frequency cable, and a base member. The first antenna includes a folded-type monopole element. The second antenna includes a monopole element. The third antenna includes a passive element. The capacitor element is between a feeding point and a stub in a backward-path portion of the first antenna. The high-frequency cable is connected to the feeding point. The base member is formed of a dielectric material and has first, second, and third surfaces located to extend in different directions. The first, second, and third antenna are located at the first, second, and third surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Koichi Sato, Hiroyuki Hotta