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).

  • Patent number: 6664866
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a circular waveguide polarizer with high performance and low cost. The circular waveguide polarizer is realized by arranging a plurality of side grooves 12 in a side wall of a circular waveguide 11 along the direction of a pipe axis C1 and by appropriately designing the number, spacing, radial depth, circumferential width, length in the pipe axis direction, and the like. According to this circular waveguide polarizer, disturbance is imparted to a section with a coarse electromagnetic field distribution in a transmission mode to create a phase delay, so that the amount of phase delay does not vary largely with a delicate change in width, depth and length of the side grooves 12. That is, there is little deterioration in characteristics caused by a machining error or the like, and hence it becomes possible to effect mass production and cost reductions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Moriyasu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 6624728
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to realize a low-pass filter that has an increased number of stages of filter elements and can obtain a large combined capacitance with a simple configuration of a plane circuit, can set an attenuation pole in the vicinity of a pass band and has a steep out-of band attenuation characteristic. In order to attain such an object, three or more top end open stubs, which are set to have a large electric length in a range in which a length of is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength of a pass frequency, are disposed substantially in parallel so that their respective open ends face an identical direction to thereby form a combined line, and a high impedance line that is shorter than the wavelength of the pass frequency is connected to at least one part among parts between neighboring ends on the opposite side of open ends of the top end open stubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Moriyasu Miyazaki, Naofumi Yoneda, Tetsu Ohwada, Hiromasa Nakaguro, Shiroh Kitao
  • Publication number: 20030151558
    Abstract: In order to provide a reflector antenna apparatus which can be installed within a small space, which has adequate practicality, and which can perform scanning by pivoting about two axes which are perpendicular to each other, in a reflector antenna apparatus having a Cassegrain reflector and a rotating mechanism which rotates the reflector about an azimuth axis and an elevation axis, a reflector with a substantially rectangular aperture has its elevation axis passing through substantially the central portion of the height dimension of the reflector, and reflector surface adjustment is carried out such that substantially all of the electromagnetic waves which are supplied are received and reflected, whereby the antenna height does not become large when the reflector rotates about the elevation axis. The reflector may be an array of a plurality of reflector elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshio Inasawa, Izuru Naito, Shigeru Makino, Naofumi Yoneda, Moriyasu Miyazaki, Yoshihiko Konishi, Shuji Urasaki
  • Publication number: 20030137466
    Abstract: For the purpose of obtaining a mechanical drive reflecting mirror antenna device which is downsized and low in attitude, enables wide-angle scanning, and is high in performance, there are provided a main reflection mirror 1, a sub-reflection mirror 2, a primary radiator 3, a first circular waveguide 4 which is connected to the primary radiator and has a plurality of bend portions, a first circular waveguide rotary joint 5 which is connected to the first circular waveguide, a second circular waveguide 7 which is connected to the first circular waveguide rotary joint and has a plurality of bend portions, and a second circular waveguide rotary joint 8 which is connected to the second circular waveguide and is different in a direction of a rotary axis from the first circular waveguide rotary joint by substantially 90 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Moriyasu Miyazaki, Izuru Naitoh, Yoshio Inasawa, shigeru Makino, Shuji Urasaki, Yoshihiko Konishi
  • Publication number: 20030006866
    Abstract: The waveguide group branching filter according to the present invention is formed by boring out of two metal blocks constituent circuits including a circular-to-square waveguide multistage transformer 1, the branch waveguide polarizer/branching filter 4, a rectangular waveguide multistage transform 9, the rectangular waveguide H-plane T-branch circuit 10, and waveguide band-pass filters 8, 14 and 18; radio waves V1 and H1, which have their polarization planes vertical and horizontal, respectively, to the branching plane of the branch waveguide polarizer/branching filter 4 in a certain frequency band f1, and a radio wave V2 of the same polarization plane as that of the radio wave V1 in a frequency band f2 higher than the frequency band f1 are incident to an input port P1, and the radio wave V1 is emitted from an output port P2, the radio wave H1 from an output port P3 and the radio wave V2 from an output port P4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Moriyasu Miyazaki, Kousaku Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20020163405
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to realize a low-pass filter that has an increased number of stages of filter elements and can obtain a large combined capacitance with a simple configuration of a plane circuit, can set an attenuation pole in the vicinity of a pass band and has a steep out-of band attenuation characteristic. In order to attain such an object, three or more top end open stubs, which are set to have a large electric length in a range in which a length of is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength of a pass frequency, are disposed substantially in parallel so that their respective open ends face an identical direction to thereby form a combined line, and a high impedance line that is shorter than the wavelength of the pass frequency is connected to at least one part among parts between neighboring ends on the opposite side of open ends of the top end open stubs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Moriyasu Miyazaki, Naofumi Yoneda, Tetsu Ohwada, Hiromasa Nakaguro, Shiroh Kitao
  • Publication number: 20020125968
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a circular waveguide polarizer with high performance and low cost. The circular waveguide polarizer is realized by arranging a plurality of side grooves 12 in a side wall of a circular waveguide 11 along the direction of a pipe axis C1 and by appropriately designing the number, spacing, radial depth, circumferential width, length in the pipe axis direction, and the like. According to this circular waveguide polarizer, disturbance is imparted to a section with a coarse electromagnetic field distribution in a transmission mode to create a phase delay, so that the amount of phase delay does not vary largely with a delicate change in width, depth and length of the side grooves 12. That is, there is little deterioration in characteristics caused by a machining error or the like, and hence it becomes possible to effect mass production and cost reductions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Moriyasu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 5896073
    Abstract: A high frequency filter includes a dielectric plate 8, an outer conductor 9 formed on the one surface of the dielectric plate 8, a plurality of strip conductors 10a-10d formed approximately in parallel on the other surface of the dielectric plate 8, a strip conductor 15 formed in a direction crossing the strip conductors 10a-10d, short-circuiting portions 11 and 16 connecting the one ends of the strip conductors 10a-10d and the strip conductor to the outer conductor 9, respectively, and further comprises a plurality of resonators 110a-110d constructed by the strip conductors 10, a plurality of capacitors (gaps) 12 coupling the resonators to each other to be connected in series, capacitors 13 connecting the strip conductors 10a, 10d to an input terminal and an outer conductor, respectively, a resonator 200 constructed by the strip conductor 15, and a plurality of capacitors (gaps) 33 connecting the strip conductors 10a, 10d to the resonator 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Moriyasu Miyazaki, Naofumi Yoneda, Tamotsu Nishino
  • Patent number: D438190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D441736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D456351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D457512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D457874
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D475360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corpration
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Shuji Ogata
  • Patent number: D475361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoneda, Shuji Ogata
  • Patent number: D477827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D482029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D420000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D426224
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: D431550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naofumi Yoneda