Patents by Inventor Noboru Matsuoka

Noboru Matsuoka 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: 7439926
    Abstract: A planar antenna fitted with a reflector of small shape and small depth. A reflector 21 of planar shape is provided at the rear face of a radiator 20 of planar shape made of a triangular loop element. The side sections 21b on both sides of the reflector 21 are bent towards the radiator 20 and the separation .alpha.2 between the leading edges of the side sections 21b and the side edges of the radiator 20 is thereby reduced. In this way, an excellent electrical characteristic of the planar antenna 2 fitted with a reflector and can be achieved by reducing the separation D2 of the radiator 20 and reflector 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Antena Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Mikami, Noboru Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20060238432
    Abstract: A planar antenna fitted with a reflector of small shape and small depth. A reflector 21 of planar shape is provided at the rear face of a radiator 20 of planar shape made of a triangular loop element. The side sections 21b on both sides of the reflector 21 are bent towards the radiator 20 and the separation ?2 between the leading edges of the side sections 21b and the side edges of the radiator 20 is thereby reduced. In this way, an excellent electrical characteristic of the planar antenna 2 fitted with a reflector and can be achieved by reducing the separation D2 of the radiator 20 and reflector 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Koichi Mikami, Noboru Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 4109387
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the position of the center of rotation of a hub of each wheel of a vehicle, the hub having secured thereto a plurality of laterally extending hub bolts. The apparatus comprises a position-correcting member movable toward and away from the hub bolts so as to be capable of coming into engagement with a first one of the hub bolts and to rotate the hub until a second one of the hub bolts adjacent to the one hub bolt comes into engagement with the position-correcting member, thereby to adjust the angular position of the hub bolts to a desired orientation. There is further provided a position detector movable along the correcting member toward the first and second hub bolts in engagement with the correcting member until it comes into engagement with one of these hub bolts, thereby to detect the position of the contacted hub bolt. The position of the center of rotation of the hub is calculated on the basis of the amounts of displacements of the correcting member and the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1978
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Matsuoka, Kengo Sugiyama