Patents by Inventor Masaki Nishikawa
Masaki Nishikawa 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).
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Patent number: 11979122Abstract: An isolation amplifier of an embodiment includes: a primary circuit including an encoder configured to encode an input signal and output the encoded input signal and an anomaly detection circuit configured to detect anomaly having occurred to the input signal and generate a detection signal; an isolation unit configured to insulate the primary circuit from a secondary circuit; an output circuit configured to generate an output signal corresponding to the input signal; and an anomaly-input sensing-output circuit configured to generate an output signal from the secondary circuit by changing the output signal from the output circuit based on the detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Arai, Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka, Tadashi Arai, Manabu Yamada, Shigeyasu Iwata, Takeshi Murasaki
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Patent number: 11965817Abstract: Disclosed is a cell classification method, to be executed by an analyzer, for classifying cells contained in a specimen, including: preparing a first measurement sample by treating a specimen under a first preparation condition; obtaining a first signal from the prepared first measurement sample; classifying, by using the first signal, cells contained in the first measurement sample; preparing a second measurement sample by treating the specimen under a second preparation condition different from the first preparation condition; obtaining a second signal from the prepared second measurement sample; classifying, by using the second signal, cells contained in the second measurement sample; and comparing a result of the cell classification performed by using the first signal and a result of the cell classification performed by using the second signal, with each other, and outputting an analysis result including a number of cells on the basis of a result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Shida, Yukiko Nakamura, Ken Nishikawa, Kota Misawa, Hikaru Onoue, Takaaki Nagai, Masaki Abe, Takahito Mihara, Masaharu Shibata, Konobu Kimura
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Publication number: 20240072797Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a noise measurement circuitry that measures electromagnetic noise in a surrounding environment, and a controller that controls timing of turning on or off a switching circuit based on the electromagnetic noise measured by the noise measurement circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori OKUNI, Takafumi SAKAMOTO, Masaki NISHIKAWA, Koji AKITA
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Publication number: 20240072793Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate first control information about timing with which a first switching control device performs switching control and second control information about timing with which a second switching control device performs switching control based on location information on the first switching control device and location information on the second switching control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori OKUNI, Takafumi SAKAMOTO, Masaki NISHIKAWA, Koji AKITA
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Patent number: 11899097Abstract: A distance measurement device of an embodiment includes a first device including a first reference signal source and a first transmitter-receiver, a second device including a second reference signal source and a second transmitter-receiver, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance between the first device and the second device. One of a first distance measurement signal and a second distance measurement signal is transmitted once or more, and another is transmitted twice or more. The calculation unit calculates the distance based on a total of three or more pieces of first phase information and second phase information acquired through transmission of the distance measurement signals three times or more in total, a first sampling period based on a first reference signal, and a second sampling period based on a second reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Ootaka, Masaki Nishikawa, Katsuya Nonin, Hiroshi Yoshida, Masayoshi Oshiro
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Patent number: 11860264Abstract: A ranging apparatus of an embodiment is a ranging apparatus adopting communication type ranging by a phase detection scheme. The ranging apparatus including: a transmitting circuit configured to be able to transmit by a plurality of channels used for data communication and configured to transmit a transmission signal obtained by modulating transmission data; and a control circuit configured to control the transmission circuit to cause a plurality of continuous waves having mutually different frequencies to be generated in a same channel as continuous waves used for ranging by the phase detection scheme.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka, Katsuya Nonin, Masayoshi Oshiro
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Patent number: 11855659Abstract: An isolator of embodiments includes a ?? analog-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal into a digital signal of one bit and transmit the digital signal of one bit as normal data, a time direction multiplexing circuit configured to perform time direction multiplexing of alternately performing conversion of the normal data into a digital differential signal and transmission of the digital differential signal, and transmission of a special signal different from the normal data, and an insulated transmission circuit configured to transmit the digital differential signal and the special signal transmitted from the time direction multiplexing circuit via an insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka
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Patent number: 11747427Abstract: A distance measuring device according to an embodiment includes a first device including a first transceiver configured to transmit a first known signal and a second known signal and receive a third known signal corresponding to the first known signal and a fourth known signal corresponding to the second known signal, a second device including a second transceiver configured to transmit the third known signal and the fourth known signal and receive the first and second known signals and a calculating section configured to calculate a distance between the first device and the second device on a basis of phases of the first to fourth known signals, and the first transceiver and the second transceiver transmit/receive the first and third known signals one time each and transmit/receive the second and fourth known signals one time each, performing transmission/reception a total of four times.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventor: Masaki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11664807Abstract: A phase correcting device includes a local oscillator that includes an all digital phase-locked loop configured to output a local oscillation signal, a first phase detector configured to detect a phase of the local oscillation signal to output the phase of the local oscillation signal, a reference phase device configured to generate a quasi-reference phase corresponding to a reference phase of the local oscillation signal to output the quasi-reference phase, based on a reference clock, a second phase detector configured to detect a fluctuation amount of a phase of the local oscillator, based on the phase detected by the first phase detector and the quasi-reference phase, and a correction circuit configured to correct the phase of the inputted signal by using a detection result of the second phase detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230090444Abstract: An isolator of embodiments includes a ?? analog-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal into a digital signal of one bit and transmit the digital signal of one bit as normal data, a time direction multiplexing circuit configured to perform time direction multiplexing of alternately performing conversion of the normal data into a digital differential signal and transmission of the digital differential signal, and transmission of a special signal different from the normal data, and an insulated transmission circuit configured to transmit the digital differential signal and the special signal transmitted from the time direction multiplexing circuit via an insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka
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Patent number: 11573315Abstract: According to an embodiment, a first device includes: a first transceiver configured to transmit two or more first carrier signals using an output of a first reference signal source and to receive two or more second carrier signals; and a calculation unit, and a second device includes: a second transceiver configured to transmit the two or more second carrier signals using an output of a second reference signal source that operates independently of the first reference signal source and to receive the two or more first carrier signals. A frequency group of the two or more first carrier signals and a frequency group of the two or more second carrier signals are identical or substantially identical to each other, and the calculation unit calculates the distance between the first device and the second device based on a phase detection result obtained by receiving the first and second carrier signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Ootaka, Takayuki Kato, Masaki Nishikawa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Katsuya Nonin, Yoshiharu Nito, Masayoshi Oshiro
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Patent number: 11569825Abstract: A phase correcting device includes a local oscillator configured to give a local oscillation signal to a device configured to detect a phase of an inputted signal, a first phase detector configured to detect a phase of the local oscillation signal to output the phase of the local oscillation signal, a reference phase device configured to generate a quasi-reference phase corresponding to a reference phase of the local oscillation signal at a time of an initial setting of the local oscillator to output the quasi-reference phase, based on a reference clock, a second phase detector configured to detect, a fluctuation amount of a phase of the local oscillator, based on the phase detected by the first phase detector and the quasi-reference phase, and a correction circuit configured to correct the phase of the inputted signal by using a detection result of the second phase detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka
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Patent number: 11560121Abstract: A first device includes: a first reference signal source; a first transmitting/receiving unit which transmits two or more first carrier signals and receives two or more second carrier signals using an output of the first reference signal source; and a calculating unit. A second device includes: a second reference signal source configured to be operated independently from the first reference signal source; and a second transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit two or more second carrier signals and receive two or more first carrier signals using an output of the second reference signal source. A frequency group of two or more first carrier signals and a frequency group of two or more second carrier signals differ from each other. The calculating unit calculates a distance between the first device and the second device based on a phase detection result obtained by receiving the first and second carrier signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Ootaka, Tsuneo Suzuki, Hiroshi Yoshida, Masaki Nishikawa, Katsuya Nonin, Takayuki Kato, Yoshiharu Nito, Masayoshi Oshiro
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Patent number: 11536824Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus according to an embodiment includes, a filter section configured to perform band limitation on a transmission signal and output the transmission signal, and to perform band limitation on a reception signal from an antenna section and output the reception signal, a distance measuring section configured to perform a distance measurement computation based on the transmission signal and the reception signal, and to obtain a delay of a signal passing through the filter section and perform calibration of the distance measurement computation, a signal interruption section configured to interrupt transmission of a signal between the filter section and the antenna section, and a control section configured to control the signal interruption section to interrupt the transmission of the signal during a period of the calibration.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kato, Shoji Ootaka, Tsuneo Suzuki, Masaki Nishikawa, Katsuya Nonin, Hiroshi Yoshida, Yoshiharu Nito, Masayoshi Oshiro
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Patent number: 11539376Abstract: An isolator of embodiments includes a ?? analog-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal into a digital signal of one bit and transmit the digital signal of one bit as normal data, a time direction multiplexing circuit configured to perform time direction multiplexing of alternately performing conversion of the normal data into a digital differential signal and transmission of the digital differential signal, and transmission of a special signal different from the normal data, and an insulated transmission circuit configured to transmit the digital differential signal and the special signal transmitted from the time direction multiplexing circuit via an insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka
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Patent number: 11462064Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate, based on phase information acquired by two distance measurement units at least one of which is movable, a distance between the two distance measurement units. One of the two distance measurement units includes an RSSI estimation unit configured to estimate, from respective three receiving signal intensities of three first carrier signals or respective three receiving signal intensities of three second carrier signals, the receiving signal intensity of a frequency having an average value, and a fading correction value calculation unit configured to calculate a fading correction value for the distance from the receiving signal intensity of a lowest frequency and the receiving signal intensity of a highest frequency. The calculation unit calculates the distance using a phase detection result obtained by receiving the three first carrier signals and the three second carrier signals and the fading correction value.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nonin, Masaki Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20220311451Abstract: An isolator of embodiments includes a ?? analog-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal into a digital signal of one bit and transmit the digital signal of one bit as normal data, a time direction multiplexing circuit configured to perform time direction multiplexing of alternately performing conversion of the normal data into a digital differential signal and transmission of the digital differential signal, and transmission of a special signal different from the normal data, and an insulated transmission circuit configured to transmit the digital differential signal and the special signal transmitted from the time direction multiplexing circuit via an insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Masaki Nishikawa, Shoji Ootaka
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Publication number: 20220311398Abstract: An isolation amplifier of an embodiment includes: a primary circuit including an encoder configured to encode an input signal and output the encoded input signal and an anomaly detection circuit configured to detect anomaly having occurred to the input signal and generate a detection signal; an isolation unit configured to insulate the primary circuit from a secondary circuit; an output circuit configured to generate an output signal corresponding to the input signal; and an anomaly-input sensing-output circuit configured to generate an output signal from the secondary circuit by changing the output signal from the output circuit based on the detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Makoto ARAI, Masaki NISHIKAWA, Shoji OOTAKA, Tadashi ARAI, Manabu YAMADA, Shigeyasu IWATA, Takeshi MURASAKI
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Publication number: 20220263513Abstract: A phase correcting device includes a local oscillator configured to give a local oscillation signal to a device configured to detect a phase of an inputted signal, a first phase detector configured to detect a phase of the local oscillation signal to output the phase of the local oscillation signal, a reference phase device configured to generate a quasi-reference phase corresponding to a reference phase of the local oscillation signal at a time of an initial setting of the local oscillator to output the quasi-reference phase, based on a reference clock, a second phase detector configured to detect, a fluctuation amount of a phase of the local oscillator, based on the phase detected by the first phase detector and the quasi-reference phase, and a correction circuit configured to correct the phase of the inputted signal by using a detection result of the second phase detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Masaki NISHIKAWA, Shoji Ootaka
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Publication number: 20220166437Abstract: A phase correcting device includes a local oscillator that includes an all digital phase-locked loop configured to output a local oscillation signal, a first phase detector configured to detect a phase of the local oscillation signal to output the phase of the local oscillation signal, a reference phase device configured to generate a quasi-reference phase corresponding to a reference phase of the local oscillation signal to output the quasi-reference phase, based on a reference clock, a second phase detector configured to detect a fluctuation amount of a phase of the local oscillator, based on the phase detected by the first phase detector and the quasi-reference phase, and a correction circuit configured to correct the phase of the inputted signal by using a detection result of the second phase detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventor: Masaki Nishikawa