Patents by Inventor Noriaki Oodachi

Noriaki Oodachi 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: 20130049481
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits both an electric power signal and an information signal. The electric power signal includes a first frequency. The information signal includes a second frequency different from the first frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroki KUDO, Noritaka Deguchi, Noriaki Oodachi, Kenichirou Ogawa, Tetsu Shijo, Akiko Yamada, Shuichi Obayashi, Hiroki Shoki
  • Publication number: 20130002035
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless power transmission system, includes a power transmission antenna and a power reception antenna. The power transmission antenna has a first resonance frequency and a first frequency bandwidth, and wirelessly transmits high-frequency energy having a first transmission frequency. The power reception antenna has a second resonance frequency and a second frequency bandwidth, and wirelessly receives the high-frequency energy. The second resonance frequency is higher than a highest frequency within the first frequency bandwidth. The first transmission frequency falls within the first frequency bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Noriaki OODACHI, Kenichirou Ogawa, Hiroki Kudo, Akiko Yamada, Tetsu Shijo, Hiroki Shoki, Shuichi Obayashi
  • Publication number: 20120223595
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless power transmission apparatus includes a housing and a plurality of transmitting coils. The housing is capable of containing one or more power receiving apparatuses includes one or more receiving coils which receive power. The plurality of transmitting coils are provided inside the housing and are configured to transmit the power to the power receiving apparatuses by making electromagnetic coupling with the receiving coils, at least two of the plurality of transmitting coils having orientations of axes different from each other, the axes each indicating a line perpendicular to a plane which is defined by windings of a coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Noriaki OODACHI, Hiroki Shoki, Kenichirou Ogawa, Hiroki Kudo, Shuichi Obayashi
  • Publication number: 20120161544
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission device that supplies power to a power receiving device including a second self-resonant coil having a winding structure in which a conductive wire is wound one turn or more perpendicularly to a second central axis, the wireless power transmission device comprising: a first self-resonant coil having the winding structure in which the conductive wire is wound one turn or more perpendicularly to a first central axis to supply the power to the second self-resonant coil that is not located on the first central axis; and a third self-resonant coil having the winding structure in which the conductive wire is wound one turn or more perpendicularly to a third central axis that is not perpendicular to the first central axis and arranged on the first central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ippei Kashiwagi, Noriaki Oodachi, Hiroki Shoki
  • Publication number: 20120161532
    Abstract: A loop antenna includes: a pair of first linear elements, a feed point connected with each of the first linear elements, a first variable impedance element, one end of which is connected with one end of the first linear elements, a second variable impedance element, one end and the other end of which are electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of the first linear elements, and a second linear element, one end and the other end of which are electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of the first linear elements. A self-resonance coil receives power fed to the feed point of the loop antenna and transmits the received power to a receiving self-resonance coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kenichirou OGAWA, Noriaki Oodachi, Hiroki Kudo, Hiroki Shoki
  • Publication number: 20120127042
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a substrate, an antenna disposed on the substrate, a first communication part transmitting or receiving a signal at a predetermined frequency via the antenna, a first conductor plate, a terminal disposed on the substrate and connected to the first conductor plate by a conductor line, a second communication part disposed on the substrate, connected electrically to the terminal, and communicating with a communication partner via the first conductor plate, and a second conductor plate connected electrically to the conductor line and having a length of substantially ΒΌ of the wavelength of the predetermined frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Takafumi Ohishi, Noriaki Oodachi, Shuichi Obayashi
  • Patent number: 8095159
    Abstract: A power-fed terminal includes a first reception unit receiving, from another terminal, first information containing at least one frequency candidate that fails to be used by any other communication system, the frequency candidate being used for transmitting a first microwave, a second reception unit receiving the first microwave transmitted by the another terminal using the frequency candidate, a conversion unit converts an energy of the first microwave into a first DC energy, a transmission unit transmitting, to the another terminal, second information containing an optimum frequency corresponding to a maximum energy of the first DC energy, wherein the second reception unit receives a second microwave transmitted based on the second information by the another terminal, the conversion unit converts an energy of the second microwave into a second DC energy, the terminal further includes a secondary cell acquiring the second DC energy at the optimum frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Noriaki Oodachi, Hiroki Inagaki, Shoji Ootaka
  • Publication number: 20120001493
    Abstract: A power transmission system includes a power transmission apparatus, a power receiving apparatus, and a foreign-substance detecting unit. The power transmission apparatus has a power transmission coil to wirelessly transmit electric power. The power receiving apparatus has a power receiving coil to wirelessly receive electric power from the power transmission apparatus. The foreign-substance detecting unit detects a foreign substance which is present between the power transmission coil and the power receiving coil. In addition, the power transmission apparatus includes a voltage supply, a power supply controller, the power transmission coil, and a first measurement unit. The power receiving apparatus includes the power receiving coil and a second measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kudo, Noriaki Oodachi, Kenichirou Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20100060534
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a reflector plate, plane conductors, an antenna element, variable impedance elements, control wires and linear conductors. The plane conductors are arranged regularly on a plane which is parallel to the reflector plate. The antenna element is set on the plane, to be parallel to the reflector plate. The variable impedance elements provide a directivity to the antenna element, the directivity is radiating a wave strongly to a particular direction. Each control wire supplies a control signal to each of the variable impedance elements. Each linear conductor connects each of some plane conductors with the reflector plate. Moreover, each of the other plane conductors is connected to the reflector plate through a portion of each control wire instead of the linear conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Noriaki Oodachi
  • Publication number: 20100001857
    Abstract: A situation recognizing apparatus has a situation change detecting unit, being provided with situation information, configured to detect a situation change on the basis of the situation information, a first storage which stores the detected situation change, an input unit which is provided with a user operation, and a second storage which combines the user operation provided to the input unit with the situation change stored in the first storage and stores the combined user operation and the situation change as a unique pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Miwako DOI, Toshiro Hiraoka, Hiroki Inagaki, Kazushige Ouchi, Noriaki Oodachi, Tatsuyuki Matsushita, Akihisa Moriya
  • Patent number: 7636065
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an antenna apparatus comprising: a substrate comprising an end portion; antenna elements connected to the end portion through a connecting portion; and a conductive line path provided between adjacent antenna elements, both ends of the conductive line path connected to the end portion. A distance between both ends of the conductive line path is shorter than a quarter wavelength of an operating frequency of the antenna elements. A path difference between a first path length from an connecting portion of one of the antenna elements to an connecting portion of the other of the antenna elements through both ends of the conductive line path and a second path length from the connecting portion of one of the antenna elements to the connecting portion of the other of the antenna elements through the conductive line path is a half wavelength of the operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takafumi Ohishi, Noriaki Oodachi
  • Publication number: 20090247199
    Abstract: A power-fed terminal includes a first reception unit receiving, from another terminal, first information containing at least one frequency candidate that fails to be used by any other communication system, the frequency candidate being used for transmitting a first microwave, a second reception unit receiving the first microwave transmitted by the another terminal using the frequency candidate, a conversion unit converts an energy of the first microwave into a first DC energy, a transmission unit transmitting, to the another terminal, second information containing an optimum frequency corresponding to a maximum energy of the first DC energy, wherein the second reception unit receives a second microwave transmitted based on the second information by the another terminal, the conversion unit converts an energy of the second microwave into a second DC energy, the terminal further includes a secondary cell acquiring the second DC energy at the optimum frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Noriaki OODACHI, Hirok Inagaki, Shoji Oataka
  • Patent number: 7511671
    Abstract: There is provided with a portable wireless apparatus including a first casing including a first conductor plate; a second casing including a second conductor plate, wherein the first casing and the second casing being capable to rotate around a feed point, a coupler which couples the first casing and the second casing and a feed point which feeds power to the first and second conductor, disposed in close vicinity to the coupler, wherein, when the first and second conductor plates are rotated in same direction by 90 degrees around the feed point taken as a fulcrum in a state in which the two casings are opened to each other, the first and second conductor plates substantially coincide with shapes of spaces sandwiched between the first and second conductor plates before the rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Noriaki Oodachi
  • Publication number: 20090027286
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an antenna apparatus comprising: a substrate comprising an end portion; antenna elements connected to the end portion through a connecting portion; and a conductive line path provided between adjacent antenna elements, both ends of the conductive line path connected to the end portion. A distance between both ends of the conductive line path is shorter than a quarter wavelength of an operating frequency of the antenna elements. A path difference between a first path length from an connecting portion of one of the antenna elements to an connecting portion of the other of the antenna elements through both ends of the conductive line path and a second path length from the connecting portion of one of the antenna elements to the connecting portion of the other of the antenna elements through the conductive line path is a half wavelength of the operating frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takafumi Ohishi, Noriaki Oodachi
  • Publication number: 20070057854
    Abstract: A mobile transceiver that can carry out a wireless communication includes a substrate including a wireless circuit; a built-in antenna disposed on a surface of the substrate; a first conductor disposed on the other surface of the substrate; and a second conductor having a ground side grounded to the first conductor, the second conductor being configured to improve the reduction of gain in the direction where the built-in antenna is not disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Noriaki Oodachi, Makoto Higaki
  • Publication number: 20060238425
    Abstract: There is provided with a portable wireless apparatus including a first casing including a first conductor plate; a second casing including a second conductor plate, wherein the first casing and the second casing being capable to rotate around a feed point, a coupler which couples the first casing and the second casing and a feed point which feeds power to the first and second conductor, disposed in close vicinity to the coupler, , wherein, when the first and second conductor plates are rotated in same direction by 90 degrees around the feed point taken as a fulcrum in a state in which the two casings are opened to each other, the first and second conductor plates substantially coincide with shapes of spaces sandwiched between the first and second conductor plates before the rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventor: Noriaki Oodachi