Patents by Inventor Keiichi Motoi

Keiichi Motoi 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: 20240106099
    Abstract: A filter according to the present disclosure includes input means for inputting a first polarization signal and a second polarization signal that are input from an antenna. The filter includes output means for outputting a first output signal corresponding to the first polarization signal and a second output signal corresponding to the second polarization signal, the first and the second output signals having been subjected to filter processing for making a desired frequency electric signal of each of the first and the second polarization signals pass through the first and the second output signals, respectively. The filter includes a resonator group that excites a first excitation mode and a second excitation mode perpendicular to each other by the input first and second polarization signals, whereby the output means outputs the first and the second output signals corresponding to the first and second polarization signals, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Motoi
  • Publication number: 20240085848
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing a recycled developer from a waste developer generated by development of a water-developable flexographic printing original plate that has a photosensitive resin layer made from a photosensitive resin composition containing a water-dispersible resin. The method includes: leaving the waste developer to stand still in a tank so as to emerge and flocculate the photosensitive resin composition dispersed in the waste developer and thus form a solid-liquid mixed phase containing a resin flocculate beneath a liquid surface of the waste developer; and discharging the solid-liquid mixed phase containing the resin flocculate from an outlet formed on a side surface of the tank and obtaining, as a recycled developer, a liquid left in the tank, characterized in that a level of the waste developer in the tank at the time of starting the discharge is higher than the lowest position of an aperture of the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOBO MC Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Motoi, Daiki Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11862862
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a 180-degree hybrid circuit having a first port configured to generate a sum signal from multiple input signals and a second port configured to generate a difference signal from multiple input signals, a first phase shifter coupled with the 180-degree hybrid circuit to carry out a phase shift by a first phase value, and a second phase shifter coupled with the 180-degree hybrid circuit to carry out a phase shift by a second phase value. The first antenna element is connected to the first port of the 180-degree hybrid circuit while the second antenna element is connected to the second port of the 180-degree hybrid circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi Motoi
  • Patent number: 11469524
    Abstract: A polarized wave shared array antenna 10A includes: planar antennas 11a and 11b, each of which generating two polarized waves of first and second polarized waves orthogonal to each other; feeding points 12a and 12b for generating the first polarized wave, which are provided in the planar antenna 11a, and feeding points 14a and 14b for generating the second polarized wave, which are provided in the planar antenna 11b; and an integrated circuit 20 including transmission and reception units 21a, 21b, 22a, and 22b connected to the respective feeding points 12a, 12b, 14a, and 14b via wirings, in which in a plan view, with respect to an axis A1, the feeding points 12a and 14a, respectively, are disposed symmetrical to the feeding points 12b and 14b, and the transmission and reception units 21a and 22a, respectively, are disposed symmetrical to the transmission and reception units 21b and 22b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Oshima, Keiichi Motoi
  • Patent number: 11411663
    Abstract: In order to enable a reduction in the time required to calibrate the amplitude phase of an antenna device, this processing device is provided with: a setting unit group which performs setting from a predetermined three or more-valued phase value regarding the phase value of a signal received by each of a plurality of antenna elements or a signal transmitted from each of the antenna elements with respect to a calibration signal, on the basis of information extracted from one control information, and derives set signals that are signals on which the setting has been performed; and a computing unit which outputs a correlation value that is a value indicating a correlation between the sum of the set signals and the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Motoi, Naoki Oshima
  • Publication number: 20210344124
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a 180-degree hybrid circuit having a first port configured to generate a sum signal from multiple input signals and a second port configured to generate a difference signal from multiple input signals, a first phase shifter coupled with the 180-degree hybrid circuit to carry out a phase shift by a first phase value, and a second phase shifter coupled with the 180-degree hybrid circuit to carry out a phase shift by a second phase value. The first antenna element is connected to the first port of the 180-degree hybrid circuit while the second antenna element is connected to the second port of the 180-degree hybrid circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi MOTOI
  • Patent number: 10998627
    Abstract: A phase adjustment circuit includes: a local frequency band phase shifter that adjusts a phase of a signal in a local signal frequency band and that outputs the adjusted signal; a frequency-converting mixer that receives the adjusted signal and another signal different from the adjusted signal, and that mixes the adjusted signal with the other signal; and a buffer amplifier that is provided between the local frequency band phase shifter and the frequency-converting mixer, and that is capable of amplifying an input power that is to be input to the frequency-converting mixer so that the input power is up to be in an input power range in which an input-output characteristic of power of the frequency-converting mixer is out of a linear region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kenichi Okada, Keiichi Motoi, Naoki Oshima, Rui Wu, Jian Pang
  • Publication number: 20210098895
    Abstract: A polarized wave shared array antenna 10A includes: planar antennas 11a and 11b, each of which generating two polarized waves of first and second polarized waves orthogonal to each other; feeding points 12a and 12b for generating the first polarized wave, which are provided in the planar antenna 11a, and feeding points 14a and 14b for generating the second polarized wave, which are provided in the planar antenna 11b; and an integrated circuit 20 including transmission and reception units 21a, 21b, 22a, and 22b connected to the respective feeding points 12a, 12b, 14a, and 14b via wirings, in which in a plan view, with respect to an axis A1, the feeding points 12a and 14a, respectively, are disposed symmetrical to the feeding points 12b and 14b, and the transmission and reception units 21a and 22a, respectively, are disposed symmetrical to the transmission and reception units 21b and 22b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki OSHIMA, Keiichi MOTOI
  • Publication number: 20200274627
    Abstract: In order to enable a reduction in the time required to calibrate the amplitude phase of an antenna device, this processing device is provided with: a setting unit group which performs setting from a predetermined three or more-valued phase value regarding the phase value of a signal received by each of a plurality of antenna elements or a signal transmitted from each of the antenna elements with respect to a calibration signal, on the basis of information extracted from one control information, and derives set signals that are signals on which the setting has been performed; and a computing unit which outputs a correlation value that is a value indicating a correlation between the sum of the set signals and the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi MOTOI, Naoki OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200266538
    Abstract: A phase adjustment circuit includes: a local frequency band phase shifter that adjusts a phase of a signal in a local signal frequency band and that outputs the adjusted signal; a frequency-converting mixer that receives the adjusted signal and another signal different from the adjusted signal, and that mixes the adjusted signal with the other signal; and a buffer amplifier that is provided between the local frequency band phase shifter and the frequency-converting mixer, and that is capable of amplifying an input power that is to be input to the frequency-converting mixer so that the input power is up to be in an input power range in which an input-output characteristic of power of the frequency-converting mixer is out of a linear region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kenichi OKADA, Keiichi MOTOI, Naoki OSHIMA, Rui WU, Jian PANG
  • Patent number: 10629977
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a filter circuit by which radio wave interference can be avoided through a simple configuration and a frequency band can be effectively used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi Motoi
  • Patent number: 10381701
    Abstract: A first switch is configured to open and close connection between an end part of a first transmission line and ground, and a second switch is configured to open and close connection between an end part of a third transmission line and ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi Motoi
  • Publication number: 20190020092
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a filter circuit by which radio wave interference can be avoided through a simple configuration and a frequency band can be effectively used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi MOTOI
  • Patent number: 10044379
    Abstract: A multi-bit digital signal that is generated by modulating a baseband signal by a modulation circuit and includes components in a radio frequency band is amplified by switch-mode amplifiers (100-1, 100-2) on a bit-by-bit basis, amplified signals are band-limited by frequency-variable variable band limiting units (201-1, 201-2) and thereafter subjected to voltage-to-current conversion by voltage/current source conversion units (202-1, 202-2) provided with variable capacitances, the signals converted to current are synthesized at a synthesis point X, and a resultant signal is impedance-corrected by an impedance correction unit (203) and output as a transmission signal to an antenna of a load (300). Consequently, the present invention provides a transmitter capable of synthesizing output signals from a plurality of switch-mode amplifiers and transmitting a resultant signal while maintaining an impedance characteristic with respect to a plurality of transmit frequencies without increasing a circuit size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Motoi
  • Publication number: 20180115033
    Abstract: A first switch is configured to open and close connection between an end part of a first transmission line and ground, and a second switch is configured to open and close connection between an end part of a third transmission line and ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi MOTOI
  • Patent number: 9937524
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a flexographic printing plate with which it is possible to prevent plate surface contamination even in the printing for long time. A method for manufacturing a flexographic printing plate, characterized in that, a liquid containing an amino-modified silicone compound is made to contact with a flexographic printing plate containing a latex having gelation degree of not less than 50% by mass. Said latex occupies preferably not less than 30% by mass of the printing resin plate, and amino group equivalent of the amino-modified silicone compound is preferably not less than 500 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoshimoto, Keiichi Motoi
  • Publication number: 20170317697
    Abstract: A multi-bit digital signal that is generated by modulating a baseband signal by a modulation circuit and includes components in a radio frequency band is amplified by switch-mode amplifiers (100-1, 100-2) on a bit-by-bit basis, amplified signals are band-limited by frequency-variable variable band limiting units (201-1, 201-2) and thereafter subjected to voltage-to-current conversion by voltage/current source conversion units (202-1, 202-2) provided with variable capacitances, the signals converted to current are synthesized at a synthesis point X, and a resultant signal is impedance-corrected by an impedance correction unit (203) and output as a transmission signal to an antenna of a load (300). Consequently, the present invention provides a transmitter capable of synthesizing output signals from a plurality of switch-mode amplifiers and transmitting a resultant signal while maintaining an impedance characteristic with respect to a plurality of transmit frequencies without increasing a circuit size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi MOTOI
  • Patent number: 9793862
    Abstract: A transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: a modulation circuit configured to modulate a baseband signal into a multi-bit digital signal including a component in a radio-frequency band; a plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers corresponding to each bit of the multi-bit digital signal output from the modulation circuit; and a signal synthesis circuit including a band limiting unit configured to perform a band limitation on output signals from the plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers, and a plurality of voltage-to-current converting units configured to perform a voltage-to-current conversion on respective output signals from the plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers, the signal synthesis circuit configured to makes a synthesized signal connecting the band limiting unit and the plurality of voltage-to-current converting units, wherein, depending on an output power at a synthesis point where the synthesized signal is made, a switch-mode power amplifier is selecte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Motoi, Kazumi Shiikuma, Shinichi Hori
  • Publication number: 20170104456
    Abstract: A transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: a modulation circuit configured to modulate a baseband signal into a multi-bit digital signal including a component in a radio-frequency band; a plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers corresponding to each bit of the multi-bit digital signal output from the modulation circuit; and a signal synthesis circuit including a band limiting unit configured to perform a band limitation on output signals from the plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers, and a plurality of voltage-to-current converting units configured to perform a voltage-to-current conversion on respective output signals from the plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers, the signal synthesis circuit configured to makes a synthesized signal connecting the band limiting unit and the plurality of voltage-to-current converting units, wherein, depending on an output power at a synthesis point where the synthesized signal is made, a switch-mode power amplifier is selecte
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi MOTOI, Kazumi SHIIKUMA, Shinichi HORI
  • Patent number: 9319255
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a modulation circuit for modulating a baseband signal into a multi-bit digital signal containing a radio frequency band component; a plurality of switch mode amplifiers each provided corresponding to a respective bit of the multi-bit digital signal supplied from the modulation circuit; and a signal-synthesizing circuit. The signal-synthesizing circuit connects a band-restricting unit that restricts the band of the output signals of the plurality of switch mode amplifiers and a voltage-current conversion unit that converts output signals of the switch mode amplifiers from voltage into current to perform signal synthesizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Motoi, Shinichi Hori, Kazumi Shiikuma