Patents by Inventor Kenichi Ishizuka

Kenichi Ishizuka 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: 11646495
    Abstract: An antenna device includes first and second radiating elements, and an antenna coupling element. The antenna coupling element includes a primary coil electrically connected between the first radiating element and a feed circuit and a secondary coil inductively coupled to the primary coil and electrically connected between the second radiating element and a ground. A capacitor is provided between the primary coil and the secondary coil, thus causing current to flow from the primary coil to the secondary coil or the second radiating element via the capacitor even at an anti-resonant frequency of the first radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20230098392
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a circuit substrate, first and second radiators each including an open end, and a coupler to electromagnetically couple the first and second radiators, the antenna device being provided in a housing of an electronic apparatus. Shield cases each including a planar conductor portion parallel or substantially parallel to a first main surface are mounted on the circuit substrate, the first radiator, the second radiator, and the shield cases are located on a side of the first main surface of the circuit substrate, and the first radiator includes a portion overlapping a first region between the multiple shield cases in plan view of the circuit substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Takafumi NASU, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20220247081
    Abstract: An antenna device includes first and second radiating elements, and an antenna coupling element. The antenna coupling element includes a primary coil electrically connected between the first radiating element and a feed circuit and a secondary coil inductively coupled to the primary coil and electrically connected between the second radiating element and a ground. A capacitor is provided between the primary coil and the secondary coil, thus causing current to flow from the primary coil to the secondary coil or the second radiating element via the capacitor even at an anti-resonant frequency of the first radiating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 11387542
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes an antenna element, a switch with a common terminal that is electrically connected to the antenna element side, a first signal path provided between a first input/output terminal of the switch and a first communication circuit, and a second signal path provided between a second input/output terminal of the switch and a second communication circuit. The first signal path includes a radio-frequency circuit and a phase shifter, and the RF circuit has an impedance that is open or shorted in a second frequency band as seen from the antenna element side. In a state in which the first input/output terminal and the second input/output terminal are both electrically connected to the common terminal, the phase shifter provides a phase shift, and the impedance in the second frequency band of the first signal path as seen from the common terminal is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11289258
    Abstract: In a high-frequency transformer element includes a primary coil including first coil conductors and a secondary coil including second coil conductors are disposed in a multilayer body that includes a plurality of insulating layers. A magnetic-field cancellation conductor pattern is disposed in the multilayer body, is adjacent to some conductors of the first coil conductors in a lamination direction of the insulating layers, is arranged along a surface of the insulating layers, and allows a high-frequency current to flow in a direction opposite a high-frequency current flowing in the first coil conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Ochiai, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11271314
    Abstract: An antenna device includes first and second radiating elements, and an antenna coupling element. The antenna coupling element includes a primary coil electrically connected between the first radiating element and a feed circuit and a secondary coil inductively coupled to the primary coil and electrically connected between the second radiating element and a ground. A capacitor is provided between the primary coil and the secondary coil, thus causing current to flow from the primary coil to the secondary coil or the second radiating element via the capacitor even at an anti-resonant frequency of the first radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20220059278
    Abstract: A multi-terminal chip inductor includes coil conductors in base material layers, an interlayer connection conductor connecting the coil conductors across layers, and external electrodes each connected to portions of a series of coil conductors defined by the coil conductors and the interlayer connection conductor. The external electrodes include a common external electrode. A first of the coil conductors to which the common external electrode and a first external electrode adjacent to the common external electrode in a circuit are connected, includes first coil conductors connected to each other in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi SHIGEMATSU, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 11228295
    Abstract: A low pass filter includes a first inductor, a second inductor magnetic-field-coupled to the first inductor, a third inductor, and a first capacitor. The first inductor is electrically connected between a first port and an intermediate node, being a node to which the second inductor is electrically connected, between the first inductor and the second port. The second inductor is electrically connected between the intermediate node and a ground terminal. The third inductor is electrically connected between the intermediate node and the second port, and a first parallel resonant circuit is defined by the third inductor and the first capacitor. The first inductor and the second inductor are coupled to each other in such a relationship that a negative inductance is generated between the intermediate node and the third inductor due to magnetic field coupling between the first inductor and the second inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20210407721
    Abstract: A circuit element includes a multilayer body, internal elements inside the multilayer body, and first outer electrodes and second outer electrodes on outer surfaces of the multilayer body, and the multilayer body includes laminated base material layers. The internal elements include coil conductors connected to the second outer electrodes, the coil conductors have a winding axis in the laminating direction of the base material layers, the first outer electrodes are in contact with a mounting surface of the multilayer body, the second outer electrodes are in contact with side edges of the multilayer body and separated from the mounting surface, and maximum widths of the second outer electrodes are smaller than maximum widths of the first outer electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi SHIGEMATSU, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210376468
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a radiating element, a coupling circuit, and a non-radiating resonant circuit. The coupling circuit includes first and second coupling elements, the first coupling element being connected between a feeder circuit and the radiating element, the second coupling element being coupled to the first coupling element. An end of the second coupling element is grounded, and another end of the second coupling element is connected to the non-radiating resonant circuit. A frequency characteristic of a return loss of the radiating element when seen from the feeder circuit is adjusted by a resonant frequency characteristic of the non-radiating resonant circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro MIKAWA, Kenichi ISHIZUKA, Takafumi NASU
  • Publication number: 20210351757
    Abstract: An LC composite component includes a multilayer body including insulating base members that are laminated and include insulating base members on which conductor patterns are provided. Capacitor conductor patterns are provided on insulating base members different from an insulating base member on which a coil conductor pattern is provided, and each include an extending portion overlapping with a line segment connecting a center of a first terminal and a center of a second terminal in a shortest distance as viewed in the lamination direction and projecting portions projecting in directions different from the direction of the line segment, and the projecting portions overlap with linear portions of the coil conductor pattern without overlapping with bent portions thereof as viewed in the lamination direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hideaki KOBAYASHI, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210336648
    Abstract: A filter circuit module includes a filter circuit element, a circuit board with the filter circuit element mounted thereon, and a first inductor. The filter circuit element includes a resonant circuit capacitor defining a portion of an LC parallel resonant circuit, and a phase-shift circuit. The circuit board includes a second inductor. A primary coil and a secondary coil of the phase-shift circuit are overlapped with the second inductor, viewed in a direction of a winding axis. The resonant circuit capacitor is closer to a mounting surface on which the filter circuit element is mounted on the circuit board, compared with the primary coil and the secondary coil. The resonant circuit capacitor includes a capacitor electrode covering a coil opening of the primary coil and a coil opening of the secondary coil, viewed in the direction of the winding axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi SHIGEMATSU, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210320638
    Abstract: First and second coils have winding axes in a laminated direction of base material layers and are magnetically coupled to each other. First and second capacitors are positioned in the laminated direction on layers different from layers on which the first and second coils are provided. The first and second coils are connected so that the winding directions of the first and second coils are opposite. The second capacitor is connected in parallel to a series circuit of the first coil and the second coil. The first capacitor is connected between a position where the first coil is connected to the second coil and a reference potential electrode. Mutual inductance caused by coupling between the first and second coils and the first capacitor provides a first attenuation pole and a parallel connection circuit of the series circuit and the second capacitor provides a second attenuation pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi SHIGEMATSU, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210320397
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a first radiating element, a second radiating element having lower radiation efficiency than the first radiating element, a coupling element including first and second coils that are electromagnetically coupled to each other, and first and second phase adjusting elements. The first and second phase adjusting elements induce, at a resonant frequency of the second radiating element, a predetermined proportion of current flowing through the second radiating element to the first radiating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Takafumi NASU, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210297052
    Abstract: A matching circuit includes first and second input/output ports; first, second, and third coils; and a capacitor. The first coil is connected in series between the first and second input/output ports, and the second coil is connected in shunt between a ground and an input/output line between the first and second input/output ports. The first and second coils are magnetically coupled to each other, the third coil is magnetically coupled to at least one of the first and second coils, the capacitor is directly or indirectly connected to the third coil, and a closed circuit including the capacitor and the third coil is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Hisashi AKIYAMA, Kenichi ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 11128046
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a radiating element, a coupling circuit, and a non-radiating resonant circuit. The coupling circuit includes first and second coupling elements, the first coupling element being connected between a feeder circuit and the radiating element, the second coupling element being coupled to the first coupling element. An end of the second coupling element is grounded, and another end of the second coupling element is connected to the non-radiating resonant circuit. A frequency characteristic of a return loss of the radiating element when seen from the feeder circuit is adjusted by a resonant frequency characteristic of the non-radiating resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mikawa, Kenichi Ishizuka, Takafumi Nasu
  • Patent number: 10950381
    Abstract: A surface-mounted LC device that includes a substrate having a first surface, multiple inductors formed on the first surface and formed respectively by multiple coiled conductor patterns, a first insulating layer covering the multiple coiled conductor patterns, and a capacitor that is formed on the first insulating layer by a planar electrode. Moreover, the planar electrode covers first zones in which portions of the coiled conductor patterns are adjacent to each other and current directions are opposite to each other in a plan view of the surface-mounted LC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ishizuka, Hirokazu Yazaki
  • Patent number: 10903812
    Abstract: A trap filter includes a first inductor, a second inductor, and a capacitor. A first end of the first inductor extends to a first connection portion, a third end of the second inductor is connected to a second end of the first inductor, and a fourth end extends to a second connection portion. The capacitor is connected in parallel with the second inductor. The first inductor and the second inductor are subtractive-polarity coupled. An inductance value of the second inductor is less than an absolute value of mutual inductance generated by coupling of the first inductor and the second inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 10903571
    Abstract: A magnetic field coupling element includes conductor patterns stacked with insulating layers interposed therebetween, and interlayer connection conductors that inter-connect the conductor patterns at predetermined positions. The conductor patterns include first, second, third, and fourth conductor patterns, and the interlayer connection conductors include first and second interlayer connection conductors. The first conductor pattern, the second conductor pattern, and the first interlayer connection conductor define a first coil, and the third conductor pattern, the fourth conductor pattern, and the second interlayer connection conductor define a second coil. The first coil and the second coil are disposed in a region of less than about ? of a stacking height of a multi-layer body including the insulating layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mikawa, Kenichi Ishizuka, Takafumi Nasu
  • Patent number: 10886601
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an antenna, and a plate-shaped heat spreader including first and second metal layers that are stacked, a working fluid in an enclosed space interposed between the first and second metal layers, and a joint along which outer peripheral portions around the enclosed space are joined. The heat spreader includes an operational region in which the enclosed space is located and a quasi-operational region other than the enclosed space. The antenna is provided in the quasi-operational region in a plan view of the heat spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ishizuka, Takeaki Tamayama