Patents by Inventor Kenji Nagai

Kenji Nagai 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: 6128238
    Abstract: A direct sensing type semiconductor memory device combines read and write data bus lines in order to conserve real estate. The memory device includes a bit line pair and a sense amplifier connected between the lines of the bit line pair, and a data line pair. A first transistor is connected between a first potential and one of the data lines of the data line pair, and a gate of the first transistor is connected to one of the bit lines of the bit line pair. A second transistor is connected between the first potential and the other one of the data lines, and its gate is connected to the other of the bit lines. A switch circuit is connected between the data line pair and the bit line pair and transfers data from the data line pair to the bit line pair in accordance with a potential difference between the data line pair and the bit line pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Nagai, Satoru Kawamoto, Takaaki Furuyama
  • Patent number: 5949823
    Abstract: An arrangement to realize the functions of a radio card system in which power is transmitted to perform data communication. According to such arrangement, a delay line and a clock regenerating circuit such as PLL circuit which are previously necessary for demodulation by PSK are not necessary, and thus functions of data communication are realized by minimum hardware construction, size, cost and power consumption. Further, in a data communication system in which electric power transmission using a signal of a frequency fp and digital data communication using a carrier wave of a frequency fs are performed by radio, fs and fp are in the relationship of fs=fp/N (where N is an integer) and a phase shift P when the phase of the carrier wave is modulated by PSK is (M.times.360.degree.)/N (where M, N are integers and P is preferably not equal to 180.degree.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Suga, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Ryouzou Yoshino, Kenji Nagai
  • Patent number: 5619465
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is disclosed, which is supplied with power from a power supply and which includes memory cells and a sense amplifier connected to the cells via bit lines. The memory device further includes a circuit for enabling the sense amplifier in response to a supplied enable signal, and for allowing the sense amplifier to rewrite cell data, read on the bit lines, into the memory cell again in self-refresh mode. The enabling circuit incorporates a noise suppression circuit which suppresses rapid changes in an operation current flowing between the power supply and the sense amplifier in order to minimize power supply related noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu VLSI Limited
    Inventors: Hidenori Nomura, Kenji Nagai, Masami Nakashima, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Isaya Sobue
  • Patent number: 5523622
    Abstract: For taking a characteristic impedance matching of signal transmission lines in a package which carries thereon a semiconductor chip with a very high-speed LSI formed thereon, there is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device wherein one ends of signal transmission lines formed on a main surface of a package substrate are extended up to the position just under pads formed on a main surface of the semiconductor chip and are connected to the pads on the chip electrically through bump electrodes, while opposite ends of the signal transmission lines are extended to the outer peripheral portion of the main surface of the package substrate and outer leads are bonded thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi ULSI Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Kazuhiro Yoshihara, Kazutaka Masuzawa, Kiyoshi Hayashi, Jun Kumazawa, Kenji Nagai, Masahiko Nishiuma, Chiyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 5508965
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is disclosed, which is supplied with power from a power supply and which includes memory cells and a sense amplifier connected to the cells via bit lines. The memory device further includes a circuit for enabling the sense amplifier in response to a supplied enable signal, and for allowing the sense amplifier to rewrite cell data, read on the bit lines, into the memory cell again in self-refresh mode. The enabling circuit incorporates a noise suppression circuit which suppresses rapid changes in an operation current flowing between the power supply and the sense amplifier in order to minimize power supply related noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu VLSI Limited
    Inventors: Hidenori Nomura, Kenji Nagai, Masami Nakashima, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Isaya Sobue
  • Patent number: 5426784
    Abstract: A shift register 10 receives serial data and outputs parallel data in synchronism with the timing of the serial data received. A shift register group 20, 21 receives bit outputs of the parallel data from the shift register 10. The number of bits of shift registers 20, 21 in the shift register group is set in a certain condition that corresponds to the bit outputs of the parallel data from the shift register 10. A plurality of coincidence circuits 107, 108 are provided, which detects agreement between a preset data starting pattern and the bit arrangement of the data in the shift register group. A selector 306 selects a set of parallel outputs from the shift register group according to the output signal from the coincidence circuits 107, 108.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsumi Kawata, Hirotoshi Tanaka, Hiroki Yamashita, Kenji Nagai, Minoru Yamada, Nobuhiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 5281865
    Abstract: A flip-flop circuit receives a pair of complementary data signals, then outputs complementary signals corresponding to the pair of complementary data signals. The pair of data signals are also supplied to a driving gate means which outputs a signal corresponding to at least one data signal of the pair of data signals supplied thereto. The driving gate means also comprises at least one try-state gate controlled by a clock signal. An output signal of the driving gate means is held by a memory means, and also outputted as complementary output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamashita, Hiroyuki Itoh, Hirotoshi Tanaka, Atsumi Kawata, Kenji Nagai, Kazuhiro Yoshihara, Ichiro Imaizumi
  • Patent number: 5143974
    Abstract: A low-profile unsaturated polyester resin composition, consisting essentially of (A) an unsaturated polyester, (B) a monomer copolymerizable with the unsaturated polyester, and (C) an A-B type block copolymer comprising an A segment which is a product using vinyl acetate and butyl acrylate as raw materials and a B segment which is a product solely of styrene or a product using styrene and a monomer copolymerizable with styrene as raw materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Nippon Oil and Fats Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagai, Kyosuke Fukushi, Kazuo Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 4833474
    Abstract: An A/D converter apparatus comprises: a sampling signal generating means to generate an oversampling signal and an internal sampling signal; a converter means to convert an input analog signal into a digital signal in synchronism with the oversampling signal; and a decimator means to perform a specified decimation on the digital signal in synchronism with the internal sampling signal; whereby the sampling signal generating means maintains the frequencies of the oversampling signal and the internal sampling signal in a specified relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignees: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi VLSI Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagai, Masayuki Yamashita, Masafumi Kanagawa, Mitsumasa Sato, Tsuneo Ito
  • Patent number: 4784113
    Abstract: The invention relates to heating containers and, more particularly, to a handy heating container in which food or drink, canned or otherwise, to be heated, such as "sake", coffee, soup, curry, or the like, is set ready for being heated. The heating container has a water discharge device provided on the underside of a solution package containing water or a solution consisting principally of water; and the solution package and a heat generating material are housed in a retainer portion. With this arrangement, exothermic reaction progresses upward from the bottom portion of the heat generating material so that the can is efficiently heated. Furthermore, any water vapor produced is absorbed by the upper portion of the heat generating material so that water vapor jetting through the gap between the can and the container or blowing out of the can is effectively prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Kita Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagai, Toshiaki Mizuhata, Tuneo Kita
  • Patent number: 4562408
    Abstract: An amplifier comprising a pair of differential input MISFETs, a current mirror circuit connected between the drains of the differential input MISFETs and a power source terminal, a phase compensation circuit connected to the drain of one of the differential input MISFETs, an output stage amplification circuit amplifying the signal produced at the drain of one of the differential input MISFETs, a phase regulation circuit such as a capacitor connected to the other of the differential input transistors, and a feedback circuit feeding back the output signal produced from the output stage amplification circuit to the other of the differential input MISFETs in order to apply negative feedback to the amplifier. Since the capacitor is provided, the phase of the power source noise can be made substantially equal to the phase of noise occurring at the drain of one of the differential input MISFETs due to the power source noise. Hence, hardly any noise is produced from the output stage amplification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagai, Fumiaki Fujii