Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Yosui

Kuniaki Yosui 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: 9935352
    Abstract: A composite transmission line includes a laminated insulator including insulator layers, signal transmission lines including first and second signal transmission lines and a power transmission line. The power transmission line includes a power transmission conductor pattern along the insulator layers, and an interlayer connection conductor that interlayer-connects power transmission conductor patterns. The first signal conductor pattern of the first signal transmission line, the second signal conductor pattern of the second signal transmission line, and the power transmission conductor pattern are parallel or substantially parallel to each other on the insulator layers that are mutually different from each other. The first and second signal conductor patterns interpose a first ground conductor in the laminating direction of the insulator layers. The power transmission line is in a side portion of the first signal conductor pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Naoki Gouchi, Nobuo Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 9917367
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a power supply coil including wire patterns provided on or in magnetic layers and antenna coils including wire patterns provided on or in the magnetic layers. The power supply coil and the antenna coils include coil winding axes thereof coinciding with a lamination direction of the magnetic layers and generate magnetic field coupling to each other. The power supply coil is located on an inner side portion relative to the antenna coils when seen in the lamination direction. At least portions of the antenna coils are located on outer side portions relative to the power supply coil in the lamination direction. With this, an antenna device and a communication apparatus capable of communicating with a communication party reliably without forming an unnecessary communication path with a party-side coil are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Hirokazu Yazaki
  • Publication number: 20180069325
    Abstract: A square bracket-shaped radiation element is in a non-ground region of a board. A first reactance element that equivalently enters a short-circuited state in a second frequency band is connected between a second end of the radiation element and a ground conductor. A second reactance element that equivalently enters a short-circuited state in a first frequency band s connected between a first end of the radiation element and the ground conductor. In the UHF band, the radiation element and the ground conductor function as an inverted F antenna that contributes to field emission. In the HF band, a loop including the radiation element and the ground conductor functions as a loop antenna that contributes to magnetic field emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventor: Kuniaki YOSUI
  • Patent number: 9899719
    Abstract: A signal transmission cable as a signal transmission component includes a laminate including a first thin portion on one of the opposite ends in a first direction and a second thin portion on the other end in the first direction. A portion between the first thin portion and the second thin portion in the laminate is a main line portion. The thickness of the first and second thin portions is thinner than the thickness of the main line portion. The surface on one end in the thickness direction of the laminate defined by the main line portion and the first and second thin portions is a continuous flat surface. A connector for external connection is arranged on the surfaces of the first and second thin portions, on the sides in which each of the thin portions and the main line portion have a difference in level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 9899715
    Abstract: A transmission line member includes a dielectric base body. At an intermediate point in a thickness direction of the dielectric base body, first and second signal conductors are disposed. A reference ground conductor is disposed at one side of the first and second signal conductors in the thickness direction, and an auxiliary ground conductor is disposed at the other side. At intermediate points of the first signal conductor, a coil conductor and a capacitor-defining plate conductor are disposed. The capacitor-defining plate conductor faces the reference ground conductor and the auxiliary ground conductor to connect a low pass filter and the first transmission line. A coil conductor is disposed between the second signal conductor and the reference ground conductor, and connected to the second signal conductor and the reference ground conductor to connect a high pass filter and the second transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Takahiro Baba, Kosuke Nishino
  • Patent number: 9900034
    Abstract: A branch circuit includes a common antenna port and separates a first communication signal including a signal in a low band and a signal in a high band and a second communication signal that is a signal in a frequency band between the low band and the high band. The branch circuit includes a first-communication-signal-line-side band elimination filter and a second-communication-signal-line-side band elimination filter and SAW filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Noboru Kato
  • Publication number: 20180049325
    Abstract: A resin substrate includes a base portion including one first resin sheet made of a thermoplastic resin as a main material or a stack of two or more first resin sheets each made of a thermoplastic resin as a main material, the base portion including a main surface, and first and second connecting conductors provided on the main surface of the base portion and spaced away from each other. The base portion includes a convex portion separating the first and second connecting conductors on the main surface by a second resin sheet disposed at a position on a surface of the base portion or inside the base portion. The second resin sheet is made of the same material as the first resin sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventor: Kuniaki YOSUI
  • Patent number: 9893419
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a first insulating base portion including a spiral antenna pattern, and a second insulating base portion including at least two conductor wires. An insulating layer configured to insulate the conductor wires from the antenna pattern is provided between a first end and a second end of the antenna pattern in a planar view. The insulating layer includes a cut or an opening allowing at least one of the first end and the second end of the antenna pattern to be exposed toward the conductor wires. Electrode portions of the conductor wires are electrically and mechanically connected to the first end and the second end, respectively, of the antenna pattern by a conductive material in the cut or the opening of the insulating layer. The second insulating base portion is more flexible than the first insulating base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Naoki Gouchi, Naoto Ikeda, Hiroyuki Irikawa
  • Publication number: 20180042107
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a substrate body defined by a laminate of flexible insulating base materials, a short component, and tall components. The substrate body includes a first region and a second region. The first region is surrounded by the second region in plan view, and is shorter than the second region. The short component is mounted on a bottom surface of a recess defined by the first region and the second region. The tall components are embedded in the second region of the substrate body and are disposed at positions including the position of a mounting surface for the short component in the height direction of the substrate body and on both sides of the first region when the substrate body is viewed in plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventor: Kuniaki YOSUI
  • Patent number: 9887446
    Abstract: A signal transmission cable including a high-Q value band-elimination filter includes a first signal line conductor pattern including a first capacitor conductor portion and an inductor conductor portion on a first base layer. The first capacitor conductor portion includes a flat conductor, and the inductor conductor portion has a spiral shape. A second signal line conductor pattern including a second capacitor conductor portion is provided on a second base layer. The inductor conductor portion constitutes an inductor, and the first and second capacitor conductor portions and the first base layer constitute a capacitor. The inductor and the capacitor are connected in parallel by transmission conductor portions on the first and second base layers and an interlayer-connector conductor on the first base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 9882267
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a first conductor plane and a second conductor plane that face each other. The first conductor plane and the second conductor plane are electrically continuous through a first connection conductor, a second connection conductor, and a chip capacitor. A power feed coil is disposed between the first conductor plane and the second conductor plane. The power feed coil includes a magnetic core and a coil conductor. The coil conductor defines a pattern such that the coil conductor winds around the magnetic core. The power feed coil is disposed at a position closer to the first connection conductor and magnetically couples with the first connection conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakano, Kuniaki Yosui, Noboru Kato
  • Patent number: 9865923
    Abstract: An antenna includes antenna coil having a magnetic-material core and a coil conductor. The antenna coil is arranged toward a side of a planar conductor, such as a circuit board. Of the coil conductor, a first conductor part close to a first main face of the magnetic-material core and a second conductor part close to a second main face of the magnetic-material core are provided such that the first conductor part is not over the second conductor part in view from a line in a direction normal to the first main face or the second main face of the magnetic-material core. In addition, a coil axis of the coil conductor is orthogonal to the side of the planar conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Hiroyuki Kubo, Hiromitsu Ito
  • Patent number: 9854682
    Abstract: A laminated body of a component incorporating substrate includes insulating base members. First and second mounting terminals of a first electronic component abut on a conductor-less surface of a first insulating base member. A first interlayer connection conductor in the first insulating base member connects the first mounting terminal to a conductor pattern. Third and fourth mounting terminals of a second electronic component abut on a conductor-less surface of a second insulating base member. A second interlayer connection conductor in the second insulating base member connects the third mounting terminal to a conductor pattern that abuts a conductor pattern of the first insulating base member which faces toward the second insulating base member, and the conductor pattern of the second insulating base member faces toward the first insulating base member in a lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20170365389
    Abstract: A coil-incorporated multilayer substrate includes base materials and a coil portion including conductor patterns that are wound a plurality of times on at least one of the base materials, and, in a predetermined direction along the surface of the base material of the coil portion, the width of outermost conductor patterns is larger than the widths of the conductor patterns between an innermost conductor pattern and an outermost conductor pattern, the width of the innermost conductor pattern is larger than the widths of the conductor patterns between the outermost conductor pattern and the innermost conductor pattern, and the width of the innermost conductor pattern is larger than the distance between the innermost conductor pattern and the conductor pattern adjacent to the innermost conductor pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Kuniaki YOSUI, Shingo ITO
  • Patent number: 9847585
    Abstract: A square bracket-shaped radiation element is in a non-ground region of a board. A first reactance element that equivalently enters a short-circuited state in a second frequency band is connected between a second end of the radiation element and a ground conductor. A second reactance element that equivalently enters a short-circuited state in a first frequency band s connected between a first end of the radiation element and the ground conductor. In the UHF band, the radiation element and the ground conductor function as an inverted F antenna that contributes to field emission. In the HF band, a loop including the radiation element and the ground conductor functions as a loop antenna that contributes to magnetic field emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 9847579
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a feed coil and a sheet conductor. The feed coil includes a magnetic core and a coil-shaped conductor, which is provided around the magnetic core. An RFIC is connected to the feed coil. The sheet conductor has a larger area than the feed coil. A slit that extends from a portion of the edge of the sheet conductor toward the inner side of the sheet conductor is provided in the sheet conductor. The feed coil is arranged such that the direction of the axis around which the feed coil is disposed is parallel or substantially parallel to the directions in which the sheet conductor extends. The feed coil is arranged such that the feed coil is close to the slit and one of coil openings at the ends of the feed coil faces the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakano, Kuniaki Yosui, Noboru Kato
  • Patent number: 9847578
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a feed coil connected to a feed circuit, and a coil antenna disposed near the feed coil. A ferrite sheet, in which a magnetic loss term in a usable frequency band is relatively large, is provided between the feed coil and the coil antenna. The feed coil and the coil antenna are magnetically coupled to each other via the ferrite sheet. With this configuration, signal transmission efficiency between the feed coil and the coil antenna is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakano, Noboru Kato, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20170352957
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a feed coil and a sheet conductor. The feed coil includes a magnetic core and a coil-shaped conductor, which is provided around the magnetic core. An RFIC is connected to the feed coil. The sheet conductor has a larger area than the feed coil. A slit that extends from a portion of the edge of the sheet conductor toward the inner side of the sheet conductor is provided in the sheet conductor. The feed coil is arranged such that the direction of the axis around which the feed coil is disposed is parallel or substantially parallel to the directions in which the sheet conductor extends. The feed coil is arranged such that the feed coil is close to the slit and one of coil openings at the ends of the feed coil faces the slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Shinichi NAKANO, Kuniaki YOSUI, Noboru KATO
  • Patent number: 9837195
    Abstract: A flexible inductor includes a first input/output terminal, a second input/output terminal, and a sheet-shaped and coil-shaped conductive pattern that includes a first end, which is connected to the first input/output terminal, and a second end, which is connected to the second input/output terminal, the first input/output terminal, the second input/output terminal, and the coil-shaped conductive pattern being provided on a flexible base member. The flexible inductor is positioned in the vicinity of a metallic part, which is disposed in a housing, or a metallic portion of the housing. The flexible inductor is bent and mounted in the housing in such a manner that one side of the coil-shaped conductive pattern that is close to the metallic part or the metallic portion is the inner side of the bent flexible inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 9832889
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a main portion and at least one uneven portion. The main portion is obtained by stacking a plurality of base sheets made of a flexible material in a predetermined direction and subjecting the stacked base sheets to compression bonding. The at least one uneven portion is provided on one of the base sheets. The uneven portion includes a concave portion and a convex portion extending in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the predetermined direction. The concave portion is sunken in the predetermined direction. The convex portion protrudes in an opposite direction to the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui