Patents by Inventor Kaoru Sudo

Kaoru Sudo 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: 12218437
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a dielectric substrate having a multilayer structure, a power supply element and a ground electrode (GND) disposed in or on the dielectric substrate, a parasitic element, a power supply wiring line, and first and second stubs to be connected to the power supply wiring line. The parasitic element is disposed in a layer between the power supply element and the ground electrode (GND). The power supply wiring line passes through the parasitic element and supplies radio frequency power to the power supply element. The first stub is connected to a position different from a connection position of the second stub in the power supply wiring line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sudo, Kengo Onaka, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Publication number: 20250023243
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a dielectric substrate, loop antennas, and power feeding wires that transmit high-frequency signals to the antennas. One loop antenna is positioned inside the loop of another in plan view from the winding axis direction. Each power feeding wire has a flat electrode and a via extending along the winding axis. The flat electrodes partially overlap with their respective loop antennas but not with others. At least one via connects to its corresponding flat electrode at a position offset from the antenna in the polarization direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru SUDO
  • Patent number: 12191567
    Abstract: An antenna module includes radiating elements that radiate radio waves in a first polarization direction, and a feed conductor that supplies a common radio-frequency signal to the radiating elements. A first radiating element and a second radiating element are disposed adjacent to each other. The feed conductor includes a common conductor, and conductors branching off from the common conductor. The conductors are respectively coupled to the radiating elements. Frequency characteristics of an impedance of the radiating element are different from frequency characteristics of an impedance of the radiating element. Under another condition of a frequency band in which a return loss is less than or equal to a predetermined value is defined as an operable band width in each of the radiating elements, the operable band width of the radiating element partially overlaps the operable band width of the radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sudo, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Publication number: 20240405447
    Abstract: An antenna module includes: a substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface facing in opposite directions; a first radiating element that is disposed along the first main surface; an electronic component that is disposed on the second main surface side and is electrically connected to the first radiating element; and a molded body that is disposed on the second main surface side and covers the electronic component with a resin, and the first radiating element is disposed to straddle the substrate and the molded body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru SUDO, Natsumi MINAMITANI
  • Patent number: 12142816
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a base member, an antenna that includes a radiating element disposed in or on the base member, first and second feed lines each of which is connected to the radiating element, and a control circuit that is connected to the radiating element via the first feed line and the second feed line. The control circuit includes a signal processing circuit that is connected to the antenna via the first feed line and the second feed line and an antenna inspection circuit that checks an electrical conductivity of an electrical conduction path connecting the first feed line, the radiating element, and the second feed line to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Nemoto, Kaoru Sudo
  • Patent number: 12126089
    Abstract: The antenna device includes multiple first radiation plates and multiple second radiation plates. Each of the first radiation plates has a first feed point and a first ground end portion, and radiates a first radio wave. Each of the second radiation plates has a second feed point and a second ground end portion, and radiates a radio wave of a frequency different from the frequency of the first, radio wave. When the antenna device is viewed in a direction orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first radio wave, the first radiation plate and the second radiation plate are disposed so as not to overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaoru Sudo
  • Patent number: 12107345
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground electrode, a feed element, and a parasitic element. The ground electrode has a substantially non-square rectangular plane shape that includes a first side extending in a first direction and a second side extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The feed element has a substantially rectangular plane shape and is formed in such a way that each side of the feed element becomes parallel to the first direction or the second direction. The parasitic element is formed in such a manner as to face a side of the feed element parallel to the first side. The feed element is configured to radiate a first polarized wave that excites in the first direction and a second polarized wave that excites in the second direction. The length of the first side is longer than the length of the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sudo, Kengo Onaka
  • Patent number: 12095163
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a plurality of sub-arrays arranged in an array. A first sub-array and a second sub-array are disposed adjacent to each other in a first direction. The first sub-array includes a first radiating element and a second radiating element disposed adjacent to each other in a second direction. The second sub-array also includes first and second radiating elements disposed adjacent to each other in the second direction. The second direction is a direction in which the first radiating element of the second sub-array is viewed from the first radiating element of the first sub-array and is a direction in which the second radiating element of the first sub-array and the second radiating element of the second sub-array are viewed. An angle ? formed between the first direction and the second direction is larger than 0° and smaller than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sudo, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 12057633
    Abstract: The present disclosure reduces a loss of strength of a radio-frequency signal radiated from an antenna module covered with a housing. An antenna module (100) includes a dielectric substrate (130), a driven element (141), and a ground conductor (190). The dielectric substrate (130) has a multilayer structure. The driven element (141) is disposed in or on the dielectric substrate (130). The ground conductor (190) is disposed between the driven element (140) and a mounting surface (132) on which a power supply circuit is mountable. The power supply circuit supplies the driven element (140) with radio-frequency power. The dielectric substrate has at least one groove (150). The at least one groove (150) is separate from the driven element (140) when the antenna module (100) is viewed in plan. The at least one groove (150) extends toward the ground conductor (190) from a layer on which the driven element (140) is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sudo, Kengo Onaka, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 12057617
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a connection member connected between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an FEM disposed on the connection member. A radiating element is disposed on the first substrate. An RFIC for supplying a radio frequency signal to the radiating element is disposed on the second substrate. The connection member transmits radio frequency signals between the RFIC and the radiating element. The FEM amplifies radio frequency signals transmitted between the RFIC and the radiating element. The FEM is disposed at a position between a connecting point with the first substrate and a connecting point with the second substrate on the connection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Onaka, Hirotsugu Mori, Yoshiki Yamada, Kaoru Sudo, Hiroshi Izumitani
  • Publication number: 20240204412
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a dielectric substrate, a radiating element that is arranged in the dielectric substrate, ground electrodes that are arranged to be opposed to the radiating element, and a resonance circuit. The resonance circuit is arranged between the radiating element and the ground electrode and includes resonators. The radiating element and the resonance circuit constitute a filter device. The resonance circuit includes an input line that receives a radio frequency signal from an RFIC, a resonance portion that is coupled with the input line, and a resonance portion that is coupled with the input line and the radiating element. The ground electrode is arranged between the radiating element and the input line. The resonance portion functions as an extracted pole unit. The input line is arranged between the resonance portion and the resonance portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicants: National University Corporation Saitama University, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka OHIRA, Kaoru SUDO, Yoshinori TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240195075
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a dielectric substrate that has an upper surface and a lower surface; radiating elements that have a flat-plate shape; and dielectric layers. The radiating elements are arranged in the dielectric substrate and can radiate respective radio waves in mutually-different frequency bands. The dielectric layer is arranged in a manner to cover a first region in which the radiating element is arranged. The dielectric layer is arranged in a manner to cover a second region in which the radiating element is arranged. Dielectric constants of the dielectric layers are higher than a dielectric constant of the dielectric substrate. The first region and the second region are adjacent to each other. The radiating element overlaps with the radiating element or the radiating element in plan view in a normal direction of the dielectric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru SUDO
  • Publication number: 20240145926
    Abstract: A dielectric block includes a bottom surface that includes a conductive ground member including an antenna ground surface inclined with respect to the bottom surface. A feed element is disposed at a distance from the antenna ground surface, and constitutes a patch antenna together with the antenna ground surface. A feed line is connected to a feed point of the feed element, and a dielectric member that supports the feed element with respect to the ground member. The ground member is exposed to the bottom surface, on both a lower side and a higher side of a contour line passing through an intersection point of a perpendicular line from the feed point to a virtual plane including the bottom surface and a plane including the antenna ground surface, using the bottom surface as a height reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki UEDA, Kaoru SUDO, Natsumi MINAMITANI, Jun ADACHI, Shu HAMADA
  • Patent number: 11955737
    Abstract: An antenna module includes: a radiating element and a filter device including a plurality of resonators. The plurality of resonators include a first resonator and a second resonator, the second resonator being disposed at a final stage. The first resonator and the second resonator are each electrically coupled to the radiating element. A degree of a coupling of the resonator and the radiating element is weaker than a degree of a coupling of the resonator and the radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAITAMA UNIVERSITY, MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Ohira, Kaoru Sudo, Yoshinori Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11936125
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a ground electrode, a fed element, unfed elements, and feed lines. The unfed element is formed in a planar shape and disposed facing the ground electrode. The fed element is formed in a planar shape and disposed between the unfed element and the ground electrode. The unfed element is formed in a planar shape and disposed between the fed element and the ground electrode. The feed lines extend through the unfed element and are used to transfer radio-frequency signals to the fed element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaoru Sudo
  • Publication number: 20240055754
    Abstract: An antenna element includes an insulative substrate including first and second main surfaces arranged in an up-down direction. At least one antenna conductor layer is provided on the first main surface of the insulative substrate. At least one insulative substrate non-forming region is provided between the insulative substrate and the antenna conductor layer in the up-down direction. An insulator layer does not exist in the at least one insulative substrate non-forming region. When seen in the up-down direction, all of an outer boundary of at least one antenna conductor overlaps the at least one insulative substrate non-forming region and is not in contact with the insulative substrate. At least one of the at least one insulative substrate non-forming region includes a void.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo IKEMOTO, Kosuke NISHIO, Kaoru SUDO, Keiichi ICHIKAWA, Nobuyuki TENNO
  • Publication number: 20240047865
    Abstract: An antenna element includes a first opening including an annular outer boundary in an antenna conductor layer. A first insulative substrate non-forming region is provided between an insulative substrate and the antenna conductor layer in an up-down direction. The insulative substrate does not exist in the first insulative substrate non-forming region. The outer boundary of the first opening overlaps one or more first insulative substrate non-forming regions and is not in contact with the insulative substrate. The first insulative substrate non-forming region is a first void, and a low dielectric constant material having a lower dielectric constant than that of a material of the insulative substrate or a high dielectric constant material having a higher dielectric constant than that of the material of the insulative substrate is provided in the first insulative substrate non-forming region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo IKEMOTO, Kosuke NISHIO, Kaoru SUDO, Keiichi ICHIKAWA, Nobuyuki TENNO
  • Publication number: 20240030614
    Abstract: In a first region of a ground electrode, a width of a protrusion of the ground electrode in a first direction, in which a notch portion is formed, from a slot is different from a width of the ground electrode in a second direction opposite to the first direction from the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayato NAKAMURA, Kaoru SUDO, Kengo ONAKA
  • Patent number: 11881640
    Abstract: An antenna element includes a dielectric substrate, a first ground electrode, a second ground electrode, a via conductor, and a radiation electrode. The dielectric substrate includes a first portion shaped like a flat plate and a second portion thinner than the first portion. The first ground electrode is arranged in the first portion. The second ground electrode is arranged in the second portion. The via conductor couples the first ground electrode and the second ground electrode. A distance between the radiation electrode and the first ground electrode in a first thickness direction is more than a distance between the radiation electrode and the second ground electrode in a second thickness direction. Part of the radiation electrode lies opposite to the first ground electrode without lying opposite to the second ground electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Sudo, Hirotsugu Mori, Kengo Onaka
  • Publication number: 20240022005
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a mounting board with a flat plate shape, and a power supply circuit to supply a radio frequency signal. The power supply circuit is mounted on the mounting board, and a radiating electrode is arranged on the power supply circuit. A dielectric fills a region around the power supply circuit and the radiating electrode. A conductive layer covers at least part of the dielectric. In the dielectric, a lens part is formed at a position overlapping the radiating electrode in plan view of the mounting board. The dielectric includes a first region in which the lens part is formed and a second region other than the first region, and the conductive layer is formed in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru SUDO