Patents by Inventor Naofumi Yoneda
Naofumi Yoneda 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: 10581136Abstract: An input waveguide (6) having one end connected between an L-shaped waveguide (1a) and an L-shaped waveguide (1f) and another end connected to the PORT (1); an output waveguide (7) having one end connected between the L-shaped waveguide (1a) and a flat waveguide (1b) and another end connected to the PORT (2); an output waveguide (8) having one end connected between the flat waveguide (1b) and an L-shaped waveguide (1c) and another end connected to the PORT (3); an output waveguide (9) having one end connected between the L-shaped waveguide (1c) and an L-shaped waveguide (1d) and another end connected to the PORT (4); and a plurality of branching waveguides (10) each having one end connected to the output waveguide (7) and another end connected to the output waveguide (8) are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Ushijima, Hidenori Yukawa, Motomi Watanabe, Naofumi Yoneda
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Publication number: 20200028228Abstract: Provided is a structure configured to electrically connect multi-layer dielectric waveguides, each including a dielectric waveguide formed of conductor patterns and vias in a laminating direction of the multi-layer dielectric substrate, in which the vias for forming part of a waveguide wall of each of the dielectric waveguides are arranged in a staggered pattern in the multi-layer dielectric substrate side having choke structures formed so as to electrically connect the waveguides to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideharu YOSHIOKA, Yasuo MORIMOTO, Naofumi YONEDA, Akimichi HIROTA, Tomokazu HAMADA, Tsuyoshi HATATE
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Patent number: 10511102Abstract: A feeder circuit includes: a first line 103 having first and second ends; a second line 104 having first and second ends; a third line 105 having first and second ends; a first combiner 101 configured to combine signals output from the second ends of the first and second lines 103 and 104; a first coupling portion 115 configured to electrically couple portions of the first and third lines to each other; and a second coupling portion 116 configured to electrically couple portions of the second and third lines to each other in a manner that allows a signal reaching the first combiner from the first end of the third line through the first coupling portion and a signal reaching the first combiner from the first end of the third line through the second coupling portion, to be cancelled out.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akimichi Hirota, Naofumi Yoneda, Shigeo Udagawa, Mitsuru Kirita
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Patent number: 10502902Abstract: An optical communication connector, an optical communication cable, and an electronic device that have excellent maintenance properties and can prevent parallel light (collimated light) from being directly emitted to the outside of an optical connector during non-optical coupling. There is provided an optical communication connector device that includes a collimating lens configured to collimate light from an optical transmission path; a refracting section arranged on a leading end side with respect to the collimating lens, and configured to refract and eject light from the optical transmission path ejected from the collimating lens; and a scattering section configured to scatter at least a part of the light ejected from the refracting section.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki Toba, Masanari Yamamoto, Ryohei Takahashi, Satoshi Muto, Tatsushi Nashida, Shinpei Hirano, Naofumi Yoneda
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Patent number: 10438862Abstract: A recess in a metal housing accommodating a high frequency package includes a first space and a second space and has a winners podium shape in cross-sectional view. A thermally conductive material is sandwiched between the metal housing having heat dissipating fins and the high frequency package.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuo Morimoto, Hideharu Yoshioka, Akimichi Hirota, Naofumi Yoneda, Takuma Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20190306969Abstract: Lossy members, which are disposed to overlap with a part of branch conductors in a signal conductor, respectively, and cause a loss of the power of signals flowing in the branch conductors, and via holes connecting each of the output terminals of the signal conductor and the ground conductor are included. The branch conductor includes a delay circuit having an electrical length of 90 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2016Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori ISHIBASHI, Yukinobu TARUI, Yuko ONODERA, Hiroyuki AOYAMA, Naofumi YONEDA
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Patent number: 10317631Abstract: [Object] To have excellent maintenance properties and restrain parallel light (collimated light) from being directly emitted to the outside of an optical connector during non-optical coupling. [Solution] An optical communication connector according to the present disclosure includes: a collimating lens configured to collimate light from an optical transmission path; and a diffusion section arranged on a leading end side with respect to the collimating lens, and configured to diffuse the light from the optical transmission path output from the collimating lens. According to this configuration, in the optical communication in which insertion and removal are frequently performed, it is possible to achieve their safety during non-fitting at the same time while having an advantage because of a collimating signal since light from an optical transmission path is diffused.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki Toba, Masanari Yamamoto, Satoshi Muto, Takeo Arai, Tatsushi Nashida, Shinpei Hirano, Naofumi Yoneda
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Publication number: 20190148808Abstract: A hollow-waveguide-to-planar-waveguide transition circuit includes: a dielectric substrate; strip conductors formed on a first main surface of the dielectric substrate; a ground conductor formed on a second main surface of the dielectric substrate, facing the strip conductors in the thickness direction; a slot formed in the ground conductor; a coupling conductor formed at a position to be electrically coupled with the strip conductors on the first main surface; and branch conductor lines formed on the first main surface. Each of the branch conductor lines includes a base portion branching from the coupling conductor and a tip portion that is electrically open.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiromasa NAKAJIMA, Akimichi HIROTA, Naofumi YONEDA, Takeshi OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20190123414Abstract: An input waveguide (6) having one end connected between an L-shaped waveguide (1a) and an L-shaped waveguide (1f) and another end connected to the PORT (1); an output waveguide (7) having one end connected between the L-shaped waveguide (1a) and a flat waveguide (1b) and another end connected to the PORT (2); an output waveguide (8) having one end connected between the flat waveguide (1b) and an L-shaped waveguide (1c) and another end connected to the PORT (3); an output waveguide (9) having one end connected between the L-shaped waveguide (1c) and an L-shaped waveguide (1d) and another end connected to the PORT (4); and a plurality of branching waveguides (10) each having one end connected to the output waveguide (7) and another end connected to the output waveguide (8) are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yu USHIJIMA, Hidenori YUKAWA, Motomi WATANABE, Naofumi YONEDA
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Publication number: 20190058233Abstract: A waveguide circuit (1) includes a first waveguide tube (10), a second waveguide tube (20), and a third waveguide tube (30). The first waveguide tube (10), the second waveguide tube (20), and the third waveguide tube (30) have cross-sectional shapes to allow propagation of TE modes. The tube axis of the second waveguide tube (20) is parallel to the tube axis of the first waveguide tube (10). One of the narrow sidewalls of the second waveguide tube (20) faces a narrow sidewall (10s) of the first waveguide tube (10). The third waveguide tube (30) includes a coupler that connects a hollow guide of the third waveguide tube (30) to a hollow guide of the first waveguide tube (10) and a hollow guide of the second waveguide tube (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2016Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akimichi HIROTA, Takeshi OSHIMA, Naofumi YONEDA, Jun NISHIHARA, Hiroyuki NONOMURA
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Publication number: 20180366826Abstract: To achieve a phase shift circuit capable of obtaining good reflection characteristics and a desired phase shift amount at the center frequency without increasing the length in the propagating direction, the phase shift circuit includes: an input waveguide having an input terminal at one end; an output waveguide having an output terminal at one end; a middle waveguide whose thickness is thinner than a thickness of the input waveguide or the output waveguide and whose central position in a thickness direction different from a central position in the thickness direction of the input waveguide or the output waveguide; a first tapered waveguide which connects another end of the input waveguide with one end of the middle waveguide; and a second tapered waveguide which connects another end of the output waveguide with another end of the middle waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori YUKAWA, Yu USHIJIMA, Motomi WATANABE, Naofumi YONEDA
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Publication number: 20180358679Abstract: A third coupler (3c) outputs a signal outputted from a first coupler (3a) to an input terminal (8-1) of a second septum polarizer (8b), and outputs a signal outputted from a second coupler (3b) to an input terminal (8-2) of a first septum polarizer (8a).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori YUKAWA, Yu USHIJIMA, Motomi WATANABE, Naofumi YONEDA
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Publication number: 20180308776Abstract: A recess in a metal housing accommodating a high frequency package includes a first space and a second space and has a winners podium shape in cross-sectional view. A thermally conductive material is sandwiched between the metal housing having heat dissipating fins and the high frequency package.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2015Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuo MORIMOTO, Hideharu YOSHIOKA, Akimichi HIROTA, Naofumi YONEDA, Takuma ISHIBASHI
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Patent number: 10095090Abstract: A duct 45 is tubular and has one opening 451 that is mounted in a position to face an inlet port provided in one side of an apparatus body and the other opening 452 that is mounted in a position to face an exhaust port provided in the other side of the apparatus body. In a tubular interior of the duct 45, a fan 43 and a radiating fin 42 are provided. The fan 43 causes outside air to flow in from the inlet port for discharge from the exhaust port, and heat caused inside the apparatus body is transmitted by a heat transfer unit to the radiating fin 42. The outside air is applied to the radiating fin 42 by the fan 43, whereby the heat caused inside the apparatus body can be discharged efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Tatsuya Nishiyama, Yoshimasa Sakishita, Tadashi Isoda, Kenji Himeno
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Publication number: 20180259715Abstract: [Object] To propose an optical communication connector, an optical communication cable, and an electronic device being novel and improved that have excellent maintenance properties and can prevent parallel light (collimated light) from being directly emitted to the outside of an optical connector during non-optical coupling. [Solution] There is provided an optical communication connector device including: a collimating lens configured to collimate light from an optical transmission path; a refracting section arranged on a leading end side with respect to the collimating lens, and configured to refract and eject light from the optical transmission path ejected from the collimating lens; and a scattering section configured to scatter at least a part of the light ejected from the refracting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: KAZUAKI TOBA, MASANARI YAMAMOTO, RYOHEI TAKAHASHI, SATOSHI MUTO, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, SHINPEI HIRANO, NAOFUMI YONEDA
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Publication number: 20180259724Abstract: [Object] To have excellent maintenance properties and restrain parallel light (collimated light) from being directly emitted to the outside of an optical connector during non-optical coupling. [Solution] An optical communication connector according to the present disclosure includes: a collimating lens configured to collimate light from an optical transmission path; and a diffusion section arranged on a leading end side with respect to the collimating lens, and configured to diffuse the light from the optical transmission path output from the collimating lens. According to this configuration, in the optical communication in which insertion and removal are frequently performed, it is possible to achieve their safety during non-fitting at the same time while having an advantage because of a collimating signal since light from an optical transmission path is diffused.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: KAZUAKI TOBA, MASANARI YAMAMOTO, SATOSHI MUTO, TAKEO ARAI, TATSUSHI NASHIDA, SHINPEI HIRANO, NAOFUMI YONEDA
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Publication number: 20180145423Abstract: A feeder circuit includes: a first line 103 having first and second ends; a second line 104 having first and second ends; a third line 105 having first and second ends; a first combiner 101 configured to combine signals output from the second ends of the first and second lines 103 and 104; a first coupling portion 115 configured to electrically couple portions of the first and third lines to each other; and a second coupling portion 116 configured to electrically couple portions of the second and third lines to each other in a manner that allows a signal reaching the first combiner from the first end of the third line through the first coupling portion and a signal reaching the first combiner from the first end of the third line through the second coupling portion, to be cancelled out.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akimichi HIROTA, Naofumi YONEDA, Shigeo UDAGAWA, Mitsuru KIRITA
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Publication number: 20170261840Abstract: A duct 45 is tubular and has one opening 451 that is mounted in a position to face an inlet port provided in one side of an apparatus body and the other opening 452 that is mounted in a position to face an exhaust port provided in the other side of the apparatus body. In a tubular interior of the duct 45, a fan 43 and a radiating fin 42 are provided. The fan 43 causes outside air to flow in from the inlet port for discharge from the exhaust port, and heat caused inside the apparatus body is transmitted by a heat transfer unit to the radiating fin 42. The outside air is applied to the radiating fin 42 by the fan 43, whereby the heat caused inside the apparatus body can be discharged efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: NAOFUMI YONEDA, TATSUYA NISHIYAMA, YOSHIMASA SAKISHITA, TADASHI ISODA, KENJI HIMENO
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Publication number: 20170255084Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a main unit, a grip, and an arm. The main unit includes an imaging device and imaging lens. The grip is configured to be gripped by a user. The arm includes a first attaching portion and a second attaching portion. The grip is attached to the first attaching portion, and the second attaching portion is attached to the main unit of the imaging apparatus. A position of the grip is adjustable, with respect to the main unit, about the second attaching portion. Further, an orientation of the grip is adjustable, with respect to the main unit, about the first attaching portion of the arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: NAOFUMI YONEDA, TATSUYA NISHIYAMA, KENJI HIMENO, JUN ISHIDA, AKIHIRO MIYAZAKI
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Waveguide-microstrip line converter having connection conductors spaced apart by different distances
Patent number: 8723616Abstract: Provided is a waveguide-microstrip line converter, including: a waveguide; a dielectric substrate that is connected to cover one end of the waveguide; a strip conductor that is disposed on a front surface of the dielectric substrate; a conductor plate that is disposed the front surface of the dielectric substrate, and connected to the strip conductor; a ground conductor that is disposed on a rear surface of the dielectric substrate; and a plurality of connection conductors that connect a periphery of the conductor plate and the ground conductor, in which: the ground conductor has an opening formed therein in a connection region; the strip conductor and the ground conductor form a microstrip line; and the plurality of connection conductors are arranged so that a distance between two lines of the plurality of connection conductors that are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the microstrip line, and disposed on both opposing sides of the conductor plate in a vicinity of a connection portion is narrower thanType: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akimichi Hirota, Yukihiro Tahara, Naofumi Yoneda