Patents by Inventor Minoru Kubota

Minoru Kubota 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: 20150282144
    Abstract: Degradation in transmission performance due to a feedback error is lessened in a wireless communication system that performs non-linear pre-coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150270884
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system that performs non-linear pre-coding, degradation in transmission performance due to a feedback error is improved. The terminal device according to the present invention is a terminal device which receives radio signals that are space-multiplexed and on which non-linear pre-coding is performed, from a base station device including multiple antennas, the terminal device including: a channel state estimator 53 that estimates channel state information on a channel between the terminal device and the base station device; a terminal antenna module 51 that acquires a linear filter that is calculated in the base station device; and a channel equalization module 57 that performs channel equalization processing on the radio signals that are received at a first point in time, based on the channel state information at a second point in time that precedes the first point in time and on the linear filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 9144152
    Abstract: A cover lay film includes an electromagnetic wave shielding layer formed of a conductive material, a resistor layer having a greater surface resistance than the electromagnetic wave shielding layer, and an insulating resin layer provided between the electromagnetic wave shielding layer and the resistor layer, wherein a plurality of openings penetrating in a thickness direction of the electromagnetic wave shielding layer are provided in the electromagnetic wave shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kawaguchi, Kazutoki Tahara, Tsutomu Saga, Minoru Kubota, Masashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20150258570
    Abstract: A coating apparatus includes: a rotation holding unit configured to hold and rotate a substrate; a coating liquid supply unit configured to supply a coating liquid onto a surface of the substrate; and a control unit configured to control the rotation holding unit and the coating liquid supply unit. The control unit performs: controlling the coating liquid supply unit to supply the coating liquid onto an encircling line surrounding a rotational center of the substrate while controlling the rotation holding unit to rotate the substrate; followed by controlling the coating liquid supply unit to supply the coating liquid onto a central area; and followed by controlling the rotation holding unit to rotate the substrate at an angular velocity greater than that when the coating liquid is supplied onto the encircling line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20150165458
    Abstract: An embodiment of a liquid supplying apparatus for supplying a processing liquid to a process object includes: a processing liquid cartridge including: a reservoir chamber for storing the processing liquid; an ejecting port for ejecting the processing liquid stored in the reservoir chamber; a pusher unit for pushing the processing liquid stored in the reservoir chamber outward through the ejecting port; and a replenishing port for replenishing the processing liquid into the reservoir chamber; a standby unit having a standby area where the processing liquid cartridge is standing-by; a transport mechanism that transports the processing liquid cartridge between the standby unit and a location where the processing liquid cartridge supplies the processing liquid to the process object; and an actuating mechanism provided in the transport mechanism that drives the pusher unit to push the processing liquid stored in the reservoir chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Hideo FUNAKOSHI, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20150171941
    Abstract: A high degree of interference suppression effect is attained in a communication system in which communication is performed among base station devices in a coordinated manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Kozue Yokomakura, Takashi Yoshimoto, Ryota Yamada, Katsuya Kato, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150139106
    Abstract: MU-MIMO is implemented with little changes in the mechanism of the DCF. There is provided a wireless terminal station apparatus that is used in a wireless communication system formed of one wireless base station apparatus and a plurality of wireless terminal station apparatus, in which grouping is performed on the wireless terminal station apparatus in such a way that the wireless terminal station apparatus belongs to any one of a plurality of groups, and the wireless terminal station apparatus includes a backoff controlling portion that performs control such that a backoff value at the time of random backoff, the backoff value of the wireless terminal station apparatus belonging to at least one group, is selected from a set of candidates for a backoff value which is a set of values formed of predetermined limited numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Yoko Masuda, Hideo Namba, Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 9019919
    Abstract: When signals received by receiving antennas included in each terminal are subjected to MMSE combining, it is configured that each terminal is able to grasp position of desired signal in signal vector obtained after combining. A base station 100 receives by a receiving antenna 23 from the terminal apparatus channel state information between a transmitting antenna 16 and spatial multiplexing object antennas included in each terminal apparatus. A transmit weight calculation unit 19 calculates a transmit weight for performing spatial multiplexing transmission to the terminal apparatus based on the channel state information. Transmit weight multiplication unit s 12 and 18 multiplies an information signal addressed to each terminal apparatus to be performed spatial multiplexing by the transmit weight. A signal multiplexing unit 13 multiplexes the information signal multiplied by the transmit weight and an information to specify the information signal that needs to be demodulated by each terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150103742
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that sets an offset value with respect to a received power of a reference signal from each of base station apparatuses, taking into consideration a difference between precoding schemes, in a wireless communication system that supports multiple different precoding schemes. The base station apparatus according to the present invention communicates with at least one of terminal apparatuses using the multiple different precoding schemes. The base station apparatus according to the present invention includes a transmission unit that transmits to the terminal apparatus multiple offset values that are to be added by the terminal apparatus to the received power of the reference signal from the base station apparatus, in which the multiple offset values correspond to the multiple precoding schemes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Publication number: 20150098402
    Abstract: A wireless reception device of the invention is a wireless reception device that includes a terminal antenna unit 401 having a plurality of antennas and that receives wireless signals having undergone nonlinear precoding and spatial multiplexing from a wireless transmission device and includes a channel estimation unit 403 that is configured to estimate a channel state to and from the wireless transmission device and to output channel state information, based on first reference signals, and to estimate the channel state to and from the wireless transmission device and to output specific equivalent channel state information, based on second reference signals having undergone the nonlinear precoding, and a spatial demultiplexing processing unit 415 that is configured to demodulate desired signals from the received wireless signals, based on the specific equivalent channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 8995540
    Abstract: To provide a system that can accommodate a greater number of terminals within a limited band and can obtain a higher transmission rate. While the number of frequency signals (spectrums) output in parallel by performing a spread spectrum from the DFT unit of each terminal is 12, the number of sub-carriers constituting one sub-channel is set at 10 or 11. In this case, the users (users A and G) allocated to the sub-channels at both ends of the band will not perform transmission of one frequency signal at the end (one sub-carrier) of all the frequency signals output from the DFT unit, whereas the users (users B to F) allocated to the other sub-channels will not perform transmission of the frequency signals at the ends (two sub-carriers). This transmission can be realized by deleting (clipping) the associated number of signals from both ends or from one end of the frequency signals output from the DFT unit of each terminal and allocating the frequency signals after clipping, to individual sub-channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Minoru Kubota, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Kazunari Yokomakura, Seiichi Sampei, Shinichi Miyamoto, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Patent number: 8995920
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a channel information acquiring unit that, acquires a transmitted signal channel matrix that is channel information as a transmitted signal of a pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group and an interference signal channel matrix that is channel information as an interference signal of the non-interference-removed transmitted signal group; an interference signal calculating unit that generates an interference signal group at the time of reception by the non-interference-removed transmitted signal group with respect to the pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group, based on the pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group, the non-interference-removed transmitted signal group, the transmitted signal channel matrix, and the interference signal channel matrix; a subtracting unit that subtracts the interference signal group from the pre-interference-removal transmitted signal group to generate a post-interference-removal transmitted signal group; an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kozue Hirata, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Minoru Kubota, Naoki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150029979
    Abstract: A radio receiving apparatus is notified of whether a multi-user multiplexing transmission signal that is transmitted from a radio transmitting apparatus is the multi-user MIMO or the OFDMA without increasing a control information amount. The radio transmitting apparatus includes a scheduling section 115 that selects any one group from a plural groups that represent combinations of the plural radio receiving apparatuses, and a transmit symbol generating section 125 that generates a transmit signal by multiplexing data to be transmitted to the plural radio receiving apparatuses belonging to the selected group by the multiplexing method in advance determined corresponding to an identification number added to the selected group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20150023279
    Abstract: A terminal device knows which kind of pre-coding has been applied without increasing overhead in a wireless communication system in which plural kinds of pre-coding are selectively or simultaneously used. A pre-coding device that is applied to a wireless communication device that performs wireless communication with a wireless receiving device applies, based on control information obtained from the wireless receiving device, the pre-coding to a data signal and plural kinds of specific reference signals, provides phase rotation to the plural kinds of specific reference signals, and associates phase rotation amounts of the phase rotation with information that is notified to the wireless receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20140293926
    Abstract: A communication terminal performing Fourier transform to convert a first time-domain signal into frequency-domain signals, allocating the frequency-domain signals to one or more first block is composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a first allocation unit, performing inverse Fourier transform to convert the allocated frequency-domain signals into a second time-domain signal, and transmitting, to a BS, the second time-domain signal simultaneously with another communication terminal, in case that the other communication apparatus performs communication with the BS using one or more second block composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a second allocation unit wherein the second block, wherein the number of subcarriers of the second block is equal to a value of x multiplied by the number of subcarriers of the first block, and x is equal to a value of 2 or a value greater than 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Shimpei TO, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Hideo NAMBA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20140286461
    Abstract: A communication device receives a reception signal including at least a first reception signal and a second reception signal, where the first reception signal is a signal to be transmitted using a first set of subcarriers and the second reception signal is a signal to be transmitted using a second set of subcarriers which overlaps with at least one end of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame. The communication device also demodulates information indicating data included in the first reception signal after reducing the second reception signal transmitted by using one or more overlapping subcarriers of the second set of subcarriers from the reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Shimpei TO, Minoru KUBOTA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI, Hideo NAMBA, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA
  • Patent number: 8843149
    Abstract: Consecutive subcarriers are reserved, and the reserved consecutive subcarriers are properly allocated to a terminal. The invention is a scheduling method that allocates, within an available band, a block composed of one or more subcarriers and used for signal transmission by a communication terminal being a destination of communication, and the method includes the steps of selecting (S208), with a higher priority, communication terminals having different number of the subcarriers composing the block as simultaneously communicating terminals that perform signal transmission simultaneously, and allocating (S214) the block for use by the simultaneously communicating terminals within the available band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20140262451
    Abstract: Disclosed is wiring substrate and method of manufacturing thereof, the wiring substrate including a substrate having a high thermal conductive layer, in which at least one of a front surface and a rear surface of the substrate is a mounting surface for a variety of components; a window section formed in the substrate; and a connection terminal extended from an inside surface portion of the window section and bending in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira HARAO, Mototatsu MATSUNAGA, Yasuhiro SUGIURA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20140268581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wiring substrate and method of manufacturing thereof, the wiring substrate including: a substrate having a high thermal conductive layer, in which at least one of a front surface and a rear surface of the substrate is a mounting surface for a variety of components; a connection terminal extended from the substrate and bending in a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of the substrate; and a heat radiation piece section integrally installed to the connection terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira HARAO, Mototatsu MATSUNAGA, Yasuhiro SUGIURA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20140204841
    Abstract: A wireless reception device is notified of whether a multi-user MIMO signal transmitted from a wireless transmission device has undergone linear precoding or non-linear precoding without increasing the amount of control information. A wireless transmission device having a plurality of transmit antennas 303, for transmitting spatially multiplexed signals to a plurality of wireless reception devices includes a group construction unit 307 configured to classify the wireless reception devices into a plurality of groups and to determine a precoding scheme for each of the groups, a selection unit 315 configured to select one group from among the groups, and a precoding unit 323 configured to precode transmit data addressed to each of wireless reception devices belonging to the selected group, using a precoding scheme determined for the selected group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Hiroshi Nakano, Minoru Kubota