Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Funada

Kiyoshi Funada 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: 10225490
    Abstract: A mobile studio and a method for using the mobile studio are disclosed. The mobile studio is provided with lower and upper frameworks. A lower framework includes a planar upper-tier frame and a planar lower-tier frame, the planar upper-tier frame has a connecting tab to secure the mobile studio to a vehicle. An upper framework is secured to the lower framework. The upper framework supports at least a production area. Preferably, the upper framework supports a storage area including a rack assembly. Preferably, the rack assembly faces a rear door, at least part of the rack assembly having a sound insulating material. The method for using the mobile studio is provided with securing a bracket onto the chassis of the vehicle, loading the mobile studio onto the bracket, and securing the mobile studio to the vehicle using the connecting tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Ahmet Üstün, Kiyoshi Funada, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20170339350
    Abstract: A mobile studio and a method for using the mobile studio are disclosed. The mobile studio is provided with lower and upper frameworks. A lower framework includes a planar upper-tier frame and a planar lower-tier frame, the planar upper-tier frame has a connecting tab to secure the mobile studio to a vehicle. An upper framework is secured to the lower framework. The upper framework supports at least a production area. Preferably, the upper framework supports a storage area including a rack assembly. Preferably, the rack assembly faces a rear door, at least part of the rack assembly having a sound insulating material. The method for using the mobile studio is provided with securing a bracket onto the chassis of the vehicle, loading the mobile studio onto the bracket, and securing the mobile studio to the vehicle using the connecting tab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Ahmet ÜSTÜN, Kiyoshi FUNADA, Shinichi MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 6968210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an economical and highly reliable receiving apparatus for receiving radio signals transmitted from a mobile communication terminal within radio zone. The receiving apparatus has antenna sections that receive radio signals transmitted from the mobile communication terminal and are provided in each of a plurality of sectors divided from the radio zone, and receiving units that are provided in each of the antenna sections and that perform a predetermined process to the radio signals received by the antenna section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Masaki Suto, Noriyuki Kagaya, Takashi Uchida, Kiyoshi Funada, Kotaro Takenaga
  • Patent number: 6856196
    Abstract: A distortion compensator that compensates for distortion arising in a main amplifier 10 that amplifies a signal effectively compensates for third order distortion which is unbalanced between the higher frequency band and lower frequency band. An amplitude detector 3 detects the level of a signal subject to amplification and a signal level change direction detection means 7 detects the direction of change in the level of the signal. A signal level change control means 4-8 stores the correspondence between the signal level and the mode of changing the signal in order to compensate for distortion for when the direction of change in the signal level is positive and when it is negative, and controls a signal change means 9 so that the amplitude and phase of the signal is changed in a mode of changing the signal corresponding to the detected direction of change in the signal level and the detected signal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Kiyoshi Funada, Yasuo Sera, Masaki Suto, Masato Horaguchi, Kazuyoshi Sato, Toshio Takada, Tetsuhiko Miyatani, Naoki Hongo
  • Patent number: 6753728
    Abstract: A distortion reducing circuit compensates an upper side third-order distortion and a lower side third-order distortion produced by an amplifier for amplifying a fundamental signal including multiple frequency components. The distortion reducing circuit includes a second harmonic reflection coefficient regulation circuit, installed at an output side of the amplifier, for regulating reflection coefficients for multiple frequency components included in a second harmonic signal to have a constant value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Kiyoshi Funada, Masaki Suto, Masato Horaguchi, Toshio Takada, Naoki Hongo
  • Patent number: 6741128
    Abstract: There is provided a distortion canceling circuit for reducing an unbalance between a higher and a lower 3rd order distortion at frequencies of (2·f2−f1) and (2·f1−f2), respectively, the distortions being generated by an amplifier which amplifies an input signal having at least two frequency components, i.e., f1 and f2. Phase modulation control means supply a control signal, which has a difference frequency of (f2−f1), to phase modulation means, the control signal being generated based on the amplified input signal outputted from the amplifier. The phase modulation means performs phase modulation on the amplified input signal based on the supplied control signal to thereby generate a higher and a lower side-band signal having frequencies of (2·f2−f1) and (2·f1−f2), respectively, each of which has an identical amplitude and a phase difference of 180° with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Kiyoshi Funada, Masaki Suto, Masato Horaguchi, Toshio Takada, Naoki Hongo
  • Patent number: 6727751
    Abstract: A distortion compensation amplifier has a distortion detection loop that divides an input signal, amplifies one divided signal with an amplifier and uses the amplified signal and another divided signal to detect a distortion component generated and introduced into the amplified signal in the amplifier. The amplifier additionally has a distortion removal loop that removes the detected distortion component from the amplified signal produced by the amplifier. The distortion detection loop comprises a filter for reducing the distortion component of the amplified signal output by the amplifier that was generated and introduced into the amplified signal in the amplifier and detects the distortion component reduced by the filter. The distortion removal loop removes from the amplified signal the detected distortion component that was produced by the amplifier and reduced by the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroichi Yonenaga, Kiyoshi Funada, Kotaro Takenaga
  • Publication number: 20040041628
    Abstract: A distortion compensator that compensates for distortion arising in a main amplifier 10 that amplifies a signal effectively compensates for third order distortion which is unbalanced between the higher frequency band and lower frequency band. An amplitude detector 3 detects the level of a signal subject to amplification and a signal level change direction detection means 7 detects the direction of change in the level of the signal. A signal level change control means 4-8 stores the correspondence between the signal level and the mode of changing the signal in order to compensate for distortion for when the direction of change in the signal level is positive and when it is negative, and controls a signal change means 9 so that the amplitude and phase of the signal is changed in a mode of changing the signal corresponding to the detected direction of change in the signal level and the detected signal level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Kiyoshi Funada, Yasuo Sera, Masaki Suto, Masato Horaguchi, Kazuyoshi Sato, Toshio Takada, Tetsuhiko Miyatani, Naoki Hongo
  • Publication number: 20030085761
    Abstract: A distortion reducing circuit compensates an upper side third-order distortion and a lower side third-order distortion produced by an amplifier for amplifying a fundamental signal including multiple frequency components. The distortion reducing circuit includes a second harmonic reflection coefficient regulation circuit, installed at an output side of the amplifier, for regulating reflection coefficients for multiple frequency components included in a second harmonic signal to have a constant value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Kiyoshi Funada, Masaki Suto, Masato Horaguchi, Toshio Takada, Naoki Hongo
  • Publication number: 20030058043
    Abstract: A distortion compensation amplifier has a distortion detection loop that divides an input signal, amplifies one divided signal with an amplifier and uses the amplified signal and another divided signal to detect a distortion component generated and introduced into the amplified signal in the amplifier and a distortion removal loop that removes the detected distortion component from the amplified signal produced by the amplifier. The distortion detection loop comprises filter means for reducing the distortion component of the amplified signal output by the amplifier that was generated and introduced into the amplified signal in the amplifier and detects the distortion component reduced by the filter means. The distortion removal loop removes from the amplified signal the detected distortion component that was produced by the amplifier and reduced by the filter means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroichi Yonenaga, Kiyoshi Funada, Kotaro Takenaga
  • Publication number: 20030027596
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an economical and highly reliable receiving apparatus for receiving radio signal transmitted from a mobile communication terminal within radio zone. The receiving apparatus has antenna sections that receive radio signal transmitted from the mobile communication terminal and are provided in each of a plurality of sectors divided from the radio zone, and receiving units that are provided in each of the antenna sections and that perform a predetermined process to the radio signal received by the antenna section. Further, receiving apparatus has four cooling sections for receipt filter and LNA within two receiving units. Each of the cooling sections cools the same number of receipt filter and LNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Masaki Suto, Noriyuki Kagaya, Takashi Uchida, Kiyoshi Funada, Kotaro Takenaga
  • Publication number: 20020180523
    Abstract: There is provided a distortion canceling circuit for reducing an unbalance between a higher and a lower 3rd order distortion at frequencies of (2·f2−f1) and (2·f1−f2), respectively, the distortions being generated by an amplifier which amplifies an input signal having at least two frequency components, i.e., f1 and f2. Phase modulation control means supply a control signal, which has a difference frequency of (f2−f1), to phase modulation means, the control signal being generated based on the amplified input signal outputted from the amplifier. The phase modulation means performs phase modulation on the amplified input signal based on the supplied control signal to thereby generate a higher and a lower side-band signal having frequencies of (2·f2−f1) and (2·f1−f2), respectively, each of which has an identical amplitude and a phase difference of 180° with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Okubo, Kiyoshi Funada, Masaki Suto, Masato Horaguchi, Toshio Takada, Naoki Hongo
  • Patent number: 6417731
    Abstract: Excellent compensation of the distortion is realized with a distortion-compensated amplifier device that compensates a distortion that is generated in a main amplifier, through the respective operations of a circuit comprised of a distortion-detecting loop and a distortion-compensating loop and a pre-distortor. In a distortion-detecting loop, the signal is distributed. With respect to one distribution signal, a vector adjuster (2) performs vector adjustment of it and the pre-distortor (3) generates a distortion. A main amplifier (4) amplifies this signal. The resulting amplification signal and the other distribution are composed, whereby a distortion component is detected. In a distortion-compensating loop, that amplification signal and this distortion component are composed to thereby eliminate the distortion component from the amplification signal. In a control part, a distortion component level detecting means (12) detects the levels of the distortion component that is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Funada, Junichiro Yamakawa, Junya Dosaka, Yasuo Sera
  • Patent number: 6326840
    Abstract: In a distortion detecting loop, an inputted RF signal is branched into two input signals by a distributor, one of the branched input signals is amplified by a main amplifier whose output signal is branched by a directional coupler, the branched output signal from the amplifier and the other branched input signal are inverted relatively to each other and combined together to extract a distortion component signal produced by the main amplifier with a detector. If the amplitude of the distortion component signal is greater than a predetermined threshold, then a control circuit changes the distortion component signal to a substitute signal having an amplitude smaller than the predetermined threshold, and controls a vector adjuster based on the amplitudes of the detected distortion component signal and the substitute signal in order to reduce the amplitude of the detected distortion component signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Kokusai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Funada, Nobuyasu Shimada