Patents by Inventor Jiro Hirokawa

Jiro Hirokawa 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: 11309623
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: an antenna panel; one input terminal through which a high-frequency signal is input; and a feeding circuit which distributes the high-frequency signal input to the input terminal to a plurality of antenna elements provided on the antenna panel. The feeding circuit includes: at least one first-stage branch circuit which includes one input and two outputs; at least two second-stage branch circuits which receive outputs of the first-stage branch circuit and include one input and two outputs; and a combining circuit which includes two inputs and one output and receives two outputs selected from the outputs of the first-stage branch circuit and outputs of the second-stage branch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hirobumi Saito, Budhaditya Pyne, Jiro Hirokawa
  • Publication number: 20200303811
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: an antenna panel; one input terminal through which a high-frequency signal is input; and a feeding circuit which distributes the high-frequency signal input to the input terminal to a plurality of antenna elements provided on the antenna panel. The feeding circuit includes: at least one first-stage branch circuit which includes one input and two outputs; at least two second-stage branch circuits which receive outputs of the first-stage branch circuit and include one input and two outputs; and a combining circuit which includes two inputs and one output and receives two outputs selected from the outputs of the first-stage branch circuit and outputs of the second-stage branch circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hirobumi SAITO, Budhaditya PYNE, Jiro HIROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160072191
    Abstract: An array antenna device includes a plurality of slot array antennas which are arranged and each of which includes a plurality of slot antennas and a radiation surface, which is formed to be conformal, and a plurality of waveguides each of which supplies respective power to each of the slot array antennas. After bodies of the waveguides are formed by a resin molding method, surface treatment is performed with respect to inner surfaces of the waveguides with plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: HIROSHI IWAI, JUNJI SATO, RYOSUKE SHIOZAKI, JIRO HIROKAWA, MIAO ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7091921
    Abstract: A traveling-wave combining array antenna apparatus includes first and second traveling-wave array antennas. The first traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a first feeder line, and has a radiating directivity characteristic. The second traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a second feeder line, and has a main beam of a half-value width and a radiating directivity characteristic of a side lobe level lower than that of the first traveling-wave array antenna. A transmitting signal is split into two signals, feeding the signals to the first and second traveling-wave array antennas, which are provided so that a variation of main-beam radiating angle of electromagnetic wave of transmitting signal radiated from the first traveling-wave array antenna corresponding to a frequency change, and that of the second traveling-wave array antenna are substantially canceled by each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohno, Toshihiro Teraoka, Koichi Ogawa, Jiro Hirokawa
  • Publication number: 20050140556
    Abstract: A traveling-wave combining array antenna apparatus includes first and second traveling-wave array antennas. The first traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a first feeder line, and has a radiating directivity characteristic. The second traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a second feeder line, and has a main beam of a half-value width and a radiating directivity characteristic of a side lobe level lower than that of the first traveling-wave array antenna. A transmitting signal is split into two signals, feeding the signals to the first and second traveling-wave array antennas, which are provided so that a variation of main-beam radiating angle of electromagnetic wave of transmitting signal radiated from the first traveling-wave array antenna corresponding to a frequency change, and that of the second traveling-wave array antenna are substantially canceled by each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohno, Toshihiro Teraoka, Koichi Ogawa, Jiro Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 5579019
    Abstract: A slotted leaky waveguide array antenna of a one-axis tracking type wherein a feed section including a feed probe is kept in a stationary state to thereby keep a converter in a stationary state and a desired beam width is set in a tilt direction, includes a plurality of radiation waveguides arranged adjacent and parallel to each other, each of which has a plurality of slots arranged in a waveguide axial direction, and a feed waveguide for distributing to the respective radiation waveguides electromagnetic waves received through a feed section from a converter, and the antenna rotates in a substantially horizontal plane to track an azimuth direction, wherein the feed waveguide has a first section extended along one ends of the radiation waveguides and a second section extended from the feed section provided in the rotary center of the slotted leaky waveguide array antenna to the center of the first section, and wherein the radiation waveguides are formed with crossed slots having an identical offset, and the n
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Naohisa Goto
    Inventors: Masahiro Uematsu, Takashi Ojima, Nobuharu Takahashi, Naohisa Goto, Jiro Hirokawa, Makoto Ando