Patents by Inventor Masahiro Narita

Masahiro Narita 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: 7373126
    Abstract: The gain control signal generating unit generates a gain control signal, using a signal yielding the greatest level among signals of the respective signal processing units. The gain standardizing unit stores, in the offset storage units, offsets corresponding to gain deviations occurring in the respective signal processing units when gains of the variable gain amplifiers are uniformly controlled using the gain control signal. The offsets are added to the gain control signal for each signal processing unit, and the variable gain amplifiers are controlled, using the respective offset-added gain control signals. Under the control of the calibration control unit, the calibration signal supply unit and offset determining unit supply a calibration signal and a gain control signal for calibration, respectively. The offset determining unit determines offsets to standardize the levels of signals of the signal processing units, and updates the offsets storage units with the determined offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20080105161
    Abstract: To provide an active energy beam-curable ink for screen printing, having at least monomer components and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerization initiator has an absorbance in terms of the concentration thereof of 100 or less at 365 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: Tohoku Ricoh Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Asada, Fuchio Takeda, Masahiro Narita, Koji Nagai
  • Patent number: 7203468
    Abstract: An RF circuit (131–138) satisfies Pnoise+NF+G?Plim+sW (0?s?4) at an edge of a guard band with respect to a required transmission level PAll, an upper tolerance level of out-of-band noise Plim, a guard bandwidth W, and a noise level Pnoise, where NF is a noise figure and G is a gain. An IF circuit (121–123) satisfies PAll?Pin+G, where PIF is an output level of a BPF (123). Out-of-band noise levels are reduced to Pnoise by the steep BPF (123). The RF circuit (131–138) is structured so that noise from a local oscillator circuit (134) does not surpass noise from the IF circuit (121–123). Reductions in power consumption are thus realized in addition to guard bandwidth reductions, because of being able to eliminate out-of-band noise from an amplifier (138) using a low-loss filter (140) having an attenuation slope s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignees: Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Narita, Yasunori Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 7200421
    Abstract: A base station device provided with a plurality of antennas has a mode, in which all the antennas are used, and a mode, in which the plurality of antennas are divided into a plurality of groups each including two or more antennas to be used independently. An array antenna pattern is formed selectively in these modes. When the array antenna pattern is to be formed in the mode of using all the antennas, a signal of one synthesizer is applied to transmission/reception circuits of all the antennas. In the mode of using antennas divided into the plurality of groups, signals of different synthesizers are supplied to the transmission/reception circuits of the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20070004353
    Abstract: The gain control signal generating unit generates a gain control signal, using a signal yielding the greatest level among signals of the respective signal processing units. The gain standardizing unit stores, in the offset storage units, offsets corresponding to gain deviations occurring in the respective signal processing units when gains of the variable gain amplifiers are uniformly controlled using the gain control signal. The offsets are added to the gain control signal for each signal processing unit, and the variable gain amplifiers are controlled, using the respective offset-added gain control signals. Under the control of the calibration control unit, the calibration signal supply unit and offset determining unit supply a calibration signal and a gain control signal for calibration, respectively. The offset determining unit determines offsets to standardize the levels of signals of the signal processing units, and updates the offsets storage units with the determined offsets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventor: Masahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20060222103
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit receives an output of a modulation circuit to perform amplification, filtering and mixing on the output so as to generate a signal having a selected frequency bandwidth. A modulation signal output control circuit refers to a table to specify the level of the signal output from the modulation circuit that corresponds to the selected frequency bandwidth of the transmission signal, and instructs the modulation circuit to set, to the specified level, the modulated signal that is to be output. An AGC amplifier amplifies the output of the signal processing circuit to a reference level. Here, the table defines the correspondence in such a manner that, as the frequency bandwidth of the transmission signal is larger, the level of the signal to be output from the modulation circuit decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Chikako Kobayashi, Masahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20050085266
    Abstract: A base station device provided with a plurality of antennas has a mode, in which all the antennas are used, and a mode, in which the plurality of antennas are divided into a plurality of groups each including two or more antennas to be used independently. An array antenna pattern is formed selectively in these modes. When the array antenna pattern is to be formed in the mode of using all the antennas, a signal of one synthesizer is applied to transmission/reception circuits of all the antennas. In the mode of using antennas divided into the plurality of groups, signals of different synthesizers are supplied to the transmission/reception circuits of the antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventor: Masahiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20040248526
    Abstract: An RF circuit (131-138) satisfies Pnoise+NF+G≦Plim+sW (0≦s≦4) at an edge of a guard band with respect to a required transmission level PAll, an upper tolerance level of out-of-band noise Plim, a guard bandwidth W, and a noise level Pnoise, where NF is a noise figure and G is a gain. An IF circuit (121-123) satisfies PAll≦Pin+G, where PIF is an output level of a BPF (123). Out-of-band noise levels are reduced to Pnoise by the steep BPF (123). The RF circuit (131-138) is structured so that noise from a local oscillator circuit (134) does not surpass noise from the IF circuit (121-123). Reductions in power consumption are thus realized in addition to guard bandwidth reductions, because of being able to eliminate out-of-band noise from an amplifier (138) using a low-loss filter (140) having an attenuation slope s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Masahiro Narita, Yasunori Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 6385464
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed at providing a base station for mobile communication systems which is capable of communicating with more mobile station than in the prior art while keeping high communication quality and restraining a rise in production cost. The base station of the present invention is used in mobile communication systems in which diversity is conducted. Such a base station includes an RF unit for generating a plurality of high-frequency transmission signals, an antenna selecting unit for switching connection of the transmission signal output of the RF unit from one antenna to another, a cross switch 460 for switching the data transmission route between straight connection and cross connection by inputting transmission data from TDMA processing units 471 and 472 interchangeably to transmitting units 433 and 434 of the RF unit, and a control unit 446 for controlling the antenna selecting unit so that the transmission signals will be connected to different antennas, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Narita, Yasunori Akatsuka, Yasukazu Kamei
  • Patent number: 5490183
    Abstract: Base station equipment of a digital mobile communication system includes a digital audio signal processing apparatus provided for each message channel for low bit rate coding and decoding a digital audio signal. Each digital audio signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of memories that store a plurality of low bit rate coding/decoding programs differing from each other to comply with different low bit rate coding/decoding methods. A system control circuit determines the low bit rate coding/decoding method of an applied digital signal for controlling a selector to select a memory that stores corresponding low bit rate coding/decoding program. As a result, the digital audio signal processing apparatus performs digital to digital conversion of the applied digital signal according to the low bit rate coding/decoding program stored in the selected memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Nishimura, Niro Imaoka, Masahiro Narita
  • Patent number: 5431995
    Abstract: A light weight molding compound comprises an inner layer constituted by a thermosetting resin including a hollow filler, cloth layers constituted by woven or non-woven fabric adhered on the both surfaces of the inner layer, and surface layers constituted by a thermosetting resin including reinforcing fiber and integrally connected to the both surfaces of the inner layer by way of the cloth layers. The light weight sheet molding compound has superior surface quality to be painted after molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Narita, Kiyotaka Nakai, Masamichi Togo
  • Patent number: 5400024
    Abstract: Base station equipment of a digital mobile communication system includes a digital audio signal processing apparatus provided for each message channel for low bit rate coding and decoding a digital audio signal. Each digital audio signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of memories that store a plurality of low bit rate coding/decoding programs differing from each other to comply with different low bit rate coding/decoding methods. A system control circuit determines the low bit rate coding/decoding method of an applied digital signal for controlling a selector to select a memory that stores the corresponding low bit rate coding/decoding program. As a result, the digital audio signal processing apparatus perform digital to digital conversion of the applied digital signal according to the low bit rate coding/decoding program stored in the selected memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Nishimura, Niro Imaoka, Masahiro Narita
  • Patent number: 5355092
    Abstract: Apparatus for demodulating an incoming digitally phase modulated analog signal to reproduce symbol data carried by the signal. Specifically, the demodulator relies on first counting, on a free-running and modulo basis, pulses of a fixed-frequency reference clock signal to form a counted value. The incoming signal is converted to a one-bit phase modulated digital signal. At the occurrence of a pre-defined point in the one-bit phase modulated signal, typically a rising edge occurring at the symbol rate, the counted value is stored as phase information. Within each symbol period, a difference between current and immediately prior counted values, i.e. the latter being a current value but delayed by one symbol period, is determined. This difference, i.e. phase change data, is subsequently sampled and decoded to yield reproduced symbol data, as well as, used, through a phase locked loop, to generate a data clock and the symbol clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Tottori Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Kosaka, Toshinori Iinuma, Masahiro Narita
  • Patent number: 5283103
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced plastic product comprises a first member which is formed by pressing from a sheet molding compound made of an unsaturated polyester resin and having a first portion which should be reinforced and a second portion having an area adjacent to the first portion, a second member made of a uni directional sheet molding compound made of the unsaturated polyester resin, including a bundle of glass fibers which is continuously formed so as to be arranged in the same direction, and overlayed on the first portion by the press formation, and a concave portion formed in the area. Thereby, the second member is prevented from expanding along the first member during the press formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Nakai, Masahiro Narita