Patents by Inventor Koichi Ogawa

Koichi Ogawa 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: 20060246953
    Abstract: An adaptive antenna apparatus includes two antenna elements and a parasitic element to which a variable reactance element is connected, and selects an adaptive control processing according to detected signal quality. A controller executes a first adaptive control processing for adaptively controlling respective received signals received by the respective antenna elements and outputting the respective received signals after the adaptive control as a combined received signal, and executes a second adaptive control processing for reactance controlling an element value of the variable reactance element. The controller executes the first adaptive control processing. The controller executes a communication processing when the detected signal quality is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold. The controller executes the second adaptive control processing when the detected signal quality is not equal to or larger than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Koichi Ogawa, Hiroshi Iwai, Yoshio Koyanagi, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 7130591
    Abstract: In a cellular phone terminal foldable by a hinge and including upper and lower split pieces, monopole antennas are formed on a flexible printed wiring board and a printed wiring board and a lower housing is formed with a finger grip portion such that not only deterioration of characteristics is prevented but the lower housing can be held easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Koichi Ogawa, Kenichi Yamada, Kazuhiko Ohta, Tsukasa Takahashi, Masayoshi Hirai
  • Publication number: 20060232483
    Abstract: An adaptive antenna apparatus includes antenna elements. One of the antenna elements has an electrical length L1 larger than ?/2, and equal to or smaller than a predetermined upper-limit wavelength, where ? is a wavelength of a radio signal. Another antenna element has an electrical length L2 equal to or larger than a predetermined lower-limit wavelength and equal to or smaller than ?/2. A controller adaptive-controls the adaptive antenna apparatus to form a radiation pattern of the adaptive antenna apparatus including a plurality of nulls substantively in a direction of an interference wave by adjusting at least one of an amplitude and a phase of each radio signal received by the first and second antenna elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Atsushi Yamamoto, Koichi Ogawa, Yoshio Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 7091921
    Abstract: A traveling-wave combining array antenna apparatus includes first and second traveling-wave array antennas. The first traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a first feeder line, and has a radiating directivity characteristic. The second traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a second feeder line, and has a main beam of a half-value width and a radiating directivity characteristic of a side lobe level lower than that of the first traveling-wave array antenna. A transmitting signal is split into two signals, feeding the signals to the first and second traveling-wave array antennas, which are provided so that a variation of main-beam radiating angle of electromagnetic wave of transmitting signal radiated from the first traveling-wave array antenna corresponding to a frequency change, and that of the second traveling-wave array antenna are substantially canceled by each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohno, Toshihiro Teraoka, Koichi Ogawa, Jiro Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 7088290
    Abstract: A dielectric loaded antenna apparatus has a column-shaped loaded dielectric which is loaded on an end portion of a feeding line of the dielectric loaded antenna apparatus. The loaded dielectric has an inclined radiation surface which is inclined from a surface perpendicular to an axial direction of the loaded dielectric. A cross section of the loaded dielectric perpendicular to the axial direction of the loaded dielectric has a shape of one of a circle, ellipse and polygon. The feeding line is a waveguide which includes a radiation waveguide and a feeding waveguide. The radiation waveguide has an axis parallel to the axial direction of the loaded dielectric and includes an opening for feeding an electromagnetic wave to the loaded dielectric. The feeding waveguide feeds the electromagnetic wave to the radiation waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohno, Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 7045789
    Abstract: In case of performing so-called “PET acquisition”, a nuclear medical diagnosis apparatus according to the present invention does not set only gamma rays which imparted predetermined energy values (for example, energy values of and above a Compton edge), as subjects for coincidental counting acquisition (coincidence acquisition), but it discriminates also further gamma rays which caused a photoelectric effect after having undergone Compton scattering once in a radiation detection unit, so as to set them as subjects for the coincidental counting acquisition. Concretely, if the added value of energy values observed in two detection elements is “near 511 keV”, the existence of the further gamma ray is presumed, and the acquisition thereof is possible. Besides, that one of the two detection elements as to which energy near the Compton edge is observed can be specified as the incident position of the gamma ray on the radiation detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Ogawa, Takuzo Takayama
  • Publication number: 20060010463
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an optical disc which solves the problem that search for data recorded on an exchange-type medium such as an optical disc and the like and which allows search for data recorded in an optical disc to be performed with a simple operation. A transmitting/receiving antenna 231 is provided in an inner peripheral portion of an optical disc. An IC module 201 connected with transmission/reception IC 230 including ID information is formed and embedded into a substrate the optical disc. Thus, an optical disc incorporating an IC module which can be produced on a mass-production basis can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Yoshihiro Mushika, Osamu Mizuno, Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6985113
    Abstract: A radio antenna apparatus is provided with an antenna connected with a radio communication circuit that transmits and receives a radio signal. A load impedance element is connected between a parasitic element of an electrical conductor plate and a ground of a housing of a radio communication apparatus including the radio communication circuit. A controller controls an element value of the load impedance element so as to set a current flowing on the housing to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined value when the radio communication apparatus transmits the radio signal, thereby controlling a specific absorption rate (SAR) to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Nishimura, Atsushi Yamamoto, Koichi Ogawa, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20050213484
    Abstract: The invention aims to reduce the size of a disk clamp mechanism to be built into a disk player. The clamp mechanism comprises: a disk clamp portion formed integrally with a turntable; a clamper; and a damper holder for holding the damper via a damper mounting shaft adapted to hold the damper in rotatable fashion, wherein a flange portion provided at an end of the damper mounting shaft is placed within a space formed inside the clamper. The damper comprises a peripheral portion and a chamber portion in which the space is formed, and the disk clamp portion has a recessed groove portion engageable with the chamber portion, the structure being such that, when the disk is clamped, the end portion of the chamber portion is accommodated into the disk clamp portion, thus achieving a size reduction by reducing the height in a direction perpendicular to the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: Fujitsu Ten Limited
    Inventors: Hisashi Hasegawa, Fumihiko Fujimoto, Tsutomu Goto, Tomohisa Koseki, Hideo Asami, Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6919845
    Abstract: In an apparatus for measuring a specific absorption rate (SAR) for use in a radio apparatus, a first near magnetic field of a radio wave radiated from a reference radio apparatus is measured in free space, and an SAR of the radio wave radiated from the reference radio apparatus by using a predetermined phantom according to a predetermined measurement method. A transformation factor ? is calculated by dividing the measured SAR by a square value of the measured first near magnetic field, and a second near magnetic field of a radio wave radiated from a radio apparatus to be measured is measured in free space. Then an SAR of the radio wave radiated from the radio apparatus to be measured is estimated and calculated by multiplying a square value of the measured second near magnetic field by the calculated transformation factor ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ozaki, Koichi Ogawa, Yoshio Koyanagi, Yutaka Saito, Shoichi Kajiwara, Yoshitaka Asayama, Atsushi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6917341
    Abstract: A top-loading monopole antenna apparatus having a feeding point is provided for use in a communication system such as a mobile communication system or the like. The top-loading monopole antenna apparatus includes a grounding conductor, a top-loading electrode, a linear conductor element, and a short-circuit conductor. The grounding conductor is provided so as to oppose the grounding conductor. The linear conductor element electrically connects the feeding point with the top-loading electrode, and the short-circuit conductor electrically connects the top-loading electrode through a reactive element. This antenna structure leads to a height which is lower than that of prior art, and easy impedance matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishihara, Koichi Ogawa, Susumu Inatsugu, Tomoyuki Maeda, Atsushi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20050140556
    Abstract: A traveling-wave combining array antenna apparatus includes first and second traveling-wave array antennas. The first traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a first feeder line, and has a radiating directivity characteristic. The second traveling-wave array antenna has a plurality of antenna elements provided at intervals along a second feeder line, and has a main beam of a half-value width and a radiating directivity characteristic of a side lobe level lower than that of the first traveling-wave array antenna. A transmitting signal is split into two signals, feeding the signals to the first and second traveling-wave array antennas, which are provided so that a variation of main-beam radiating angle of electromagnetic wave of transmitting signal radiated from the first traveling-wave array antenna corresponding to a frequency change, and that of the second traveling-wave array antenna are substantially canceled by each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohno, Toshihiro Teraoka, Koichi Ogawa, Jiro Hirokawa
  • Publication number: 20050136857
    Abstract: An adaptive antenna apparatus is provided with a total of four or more, even number N of antennas including a plurality of pairs of antennas each having a bidirectional characteristic. The N antennas are provided respectively at vertexes of a polygon of the same number as the number N of the antennas, so that each pair of antennas of the plurality of pairs of antennas opposes to each other. An adaptive control circuit takes an adaptive control over radio signals using one pair of antennas opposing to each other among the N antennas. In the adaptive antenna apparatus, the each pair of antennas is provided to oppose to each other so that axes of directions of main beams of the directional characteristics of the each pair of antennas substantially coincide with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Koichi Ogawa, Hirotaka Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20050136855
    Abstract: In a DSRC communications controller equipped with a plurality of reception means for DSRC communications according to the invention, a reception reservation storage section 104 comprises means for detecting a communications frame start signal (unique word 1) of DSRC communications by using reception means not engaged in communications among the plurality of reception means and means for storing the control information of DSRC communications where the communications frame start signal is detected. On completion of DSRC communications by way of reception means, a controller uses the control information stored in the reception reservation storage section to establish next communications. This allows continuous reception of information from a plurality of roadside machines to be made efficiently even in case a plurality of communications areas overlap one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventor: Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6906677
    Abstract: An antenna has a conductive bottom member; a conductive side member; and a conductive member arranged in a space surrounded by the bottom member and the side member, wherein the conductive member is connected to a signal line for transmission and/or reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Iwai, Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6897814
    Abstract: A small-sized mobile radio has a built-in antenna is high enough to enhance the antenna characteristics. In the mobile radio, a base plate is structured by a section (antenna-housing section) including a supply portion and a short-circuiting portion, for example, of an antenna element which affect the antenna characteristics, and a section (circuit-housing section) which is the rest of the base plate. The antenna-housing section is so positioned so as to keep the built-in antenna high enough, that is, to keep the space between the base plate and the antenna element large enough. On the other hand, the circuit-housing section is positioned toward the back of the cabinet to provide room for a display and a key section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Atsushi Yamamoto, Koichi Ogawa, Shinji Kamaeguchi, Tsukasa Takahashi, Kenichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 6882144
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave measuring apparatus includes a loop probe section having loop probes whose loop planes are placed so as to be perpendicular to each other, and each loop probe is placed so that its magnetic field detection space is not interfered with by other loop probes. If the loop probe section is placed at measurement position coordinates xi, yj, it detects a magnetic field component at the measurement position coordinates xi, yj, which is parallel to an XY plane, and a magnetic field component in a Z-axis direction at measurement position coordinates xi, yj?1, and repeats measurement by pitch p in a positive Y-axis direction. By calculating the root sum square of the detection results at each measurement position coordinate, a three-dimensional magnetic field level of an object to be measured can be obtained at each measurement position coordinate as electromagnetic field distribution with high-precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Kajiwara, Akihiro Ozaki, Koichi Ogawa, Yoshio Koyanagi, Yoshitaka Asayama, Yutaka Saito
  • Publication number: 20050057402
    Abstract: A dielectric antenna of the present invention includes a pillar-shaped dielectric section for radiating an electromagnetic wave being fed thereto. The dielectric section includes a depressed portion in an upper portion thereof. The vertical cross section of the depressed portion has such a shape that the height of the dielectric section gradually increases toward the side surface of the dielectric section. For example, the depressed portion is a notch having a V-shaped vertical cross section. Alternatively, the depressed portion includes a flat surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohno, Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: D501847
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Koichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: D502464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Koichi Ogawa