Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Fukui

Noriyuki Fukui 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: 20200213941
    Abstract: A communication system capable of preventing unnecessary switching of an energy saving cell between a normal operation state and an energy saving state. An energy saving cell (ES cell) is in a dormant state that is the energy saving state. In this case, when being notified of a wake-up request message from a communication terminal device (UE), the ES cell executes access restriction control to judge whether the UE can access its own cell. If judging that the UE can access its own cell, the ES cell switches on its own cell and shifts from the dormant state to an active state that is the normal operation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Noriyuki FUKUI, Haruka SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10701639
    Abstract: A mobile terminal 3 judges whether or not the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, and, when judging that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, notifies a base station 2 to that effect. If the base station 2 judges that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DRX period during Active when triggered by the notification from the mobile terminal 3, the base station temporarily stops supply of electric power to the data transmission processing units and the data reception processing units of the mobile terminal 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Tetsuya Mishuku, Masaaki Kusano, Ryoichi Fujie, Shigenori Tani, Keiko Tada, Noriyuki Fukui, Michiaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10687255
    Abstract: Provided is a beam transmission/reception method, which is executed in a wireless communication system in which a terminal and a base station are configured to use a beam to communicate to and from each other. The beam transmission/reception method includes a first step of setting, by the base station, when receiving a random access signal transmitted by the terminal as a connection request, a beam direction group at a time of reception of the random access signal by adding a further outer beam direction to beam directions used at a time of transmission of a notification signal for measuring a signal before the reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Keijiro Take, Atsushi Okamura
  • Publication number: 20200186312
    Abstract: A communication system that can reduce latency while preventing reduction in a transmission rate. An eNB communicates with a UE #1 using a self-contained subframe including a first downlink signal (DL #1) and a first uplink signal (UL #1), and with a UE #2 using a self-contained subframe including a second downlink signal (DL #2) and a second uplink signal (UL #2). The self-contained subframe for the UE #1 includes a first gap duration (Gap #1) during which neither the DL #1 nor the UL #1 is transmitted, between transmission durations of the DL #1 and the UL #1. The self-contained subframe for the UE #2 includes a second gap duration (Gap #2) during which neither the DL #2 nor the UL #2 is transmitted, between transmission durations of the DL #2 and the UL #2. The Gaps #1 and #2 are set to each UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Tadahiro SHIMODA, Noriyuki FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20200162975
    Abstract: A UE in an idle state selects any of a group A, to which a cell of which coverage its own device is in, belongs and a group different from the group A, for example, a group B, and then measures cells belonging to the selected group for selecting a cell being a re-selection destination. A UE in a connected state selects any of the group B to which a cell connected with the UE belongs and a group different from the group B, for example, the group A, and measures cells belonging to the selected group for handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Miho MAEDA, Shinsuke UGA, Noriyuki FUKUI
  • Patent number: 10652818
    Abstract: A communication system capable of preventing unnecessary switching of an energy saving cell between a normal operation state and an energy saving state. An energy saving cell (ES cell) is in a dormant state that is the energy saving state. In this case, when being notified of a wake-up request message from a communication terminal device (UE), the ES cell executes access restriction control to judge whether the UE can access its own cell. If judging that the UE can access its own cell, the ES cell switches on its own cell and shifts from the dormant state to an active state that is the normal operation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Noriyuki Fukui, Haruka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200120515
    Abstract: A communication system is provided that, if a large number of small cells are installed, is capable of configuring an operation suitable for small cells through simple operation and administration. If a small cell installed in Step ST1401 judges in Step ST1403 that a coverage macro cell, which includes the small cell in the coverage of the coverage macro cell, is present as a result of neighbor cell search in Step ST1402, notifies the coverage macro cell and another neighbor cell of its own capability in Steps ST1404 and 1405. The coverage macro cell selects a configuration parameter suitable for the capability of the small cell in Step ST1406 and notifies the small cell in Step ST1407. The small cell recognizes an operation mode configured by the coverage macro cell from the configuration parameter notified from the coverage macro cell, and then, starts operating in the operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Miho Maeda, Shinsuke Uga, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20200112347
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes: an antenna that receives a plurality of beams formed by a radio base station; and a power control unit that adjusts transmission power of an uplink signal transmitted from the antenna to the radio base station after beam switching, on the basis of a reception power difference between a downlink signal of a beam used before the beam switching and a downlink signal of a beam to be used after beam switching, the beam switching being switching of a beam used for communication with the radio base station among the beams formed by the radio base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Keijiro Take, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10616885
    Abstract: A PDSCH of a legacy UE is mapped to physical resources per subframe, whereas a PDSCH of an LR-UE is mapped, per physical resource block (PRB) included in the subframe, to a region of the physical resources to which the PDSCH of the legacy UE is mapped. The PDSCH of the legacy UE may be also mapped to the physical resources per PRB pair including two physical resource blocks, whereas the PDSCH of the LR-UE may be mapped to the remaining physical resources excluding the PRB pairs to which the PDSCH of the legacy UE is mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 10609602
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a movable user equipment device, a plurality of base station devices configured to perform radio communication with the user equipment device, and a relay device movably configured to relay radio communications between the user equipment device and the base station devices. In a handover process of switching a base station device to be connected with the relay device from a base station device being a moving source to a base station device being a moving destination along with moving of the relay device, the base station device being a moving source selects the base station device being a moving destination from base station devices other than a base station device that does not have a function supporting the relay device, and performs the handover process such that the relay device is connected to the selected base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Shinsuke Uga, Noriyuki Fukui, Yasushi Iwane
  • Patent number: 10588061
    Abstract: A UE in an idle state selects any of a group A, to which a cell of which coverage its own device is in, belongs and a group different from the group A, for example, a group B, and then measures cells belonging to the selected group for selecting a cell being a re-selection destination. A UE in a connected state selects any of the group B to which a cell connected with the UE belongs and a group different from the group B, for example, the group A, and measures cells belonging to the selected group for handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Miho Maeda, Shinsuke Uga, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20200045725
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system capable of suppressing increase in the power consumption of a communication terminal device, degradation in the communication quality, and reduction in the use efficiency of radio resources. A base station device (gNB) notifies a communication terminal device (UE) of information on the next reception timing. The UE receives, for example, a downlink control signal (902) in a subframe (901). The UE obtains, from the downlink control signal (902), information on a piece of user data (903) in the subframe (901), and the information (904) on the next reception timing. The UE transmits and receives the piece of user data (903) to and from the gNB. The information (904) on the next reception timing indicates a subframe (905) as the next reception timing of the UE. The UE receives a downlink control signal (906) in the subframe (905).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Tadahiro SHIMODA, Noriyuki FUKUI, Masaaki KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20200012255
    Abstract: A numerical control device of a machine tool recognizes a failure of a vibration detection unit in a relatively short time to minimize damage to functions achieved using the vibration detection unit. A program interpreting unit interprets an automatic tool exchange operation, and a storage unit is instructed to store vibration information V(x) from the vibration detection unit. After the automatic tool exchange operation is finished, the storage unit is instructed to stop storage. When none of the vibration information V(x) stored in the storage unit exceeds a prescribed vibration level, a vibration information analysis unit determines abnormality of the vibration detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: Noriyuki FUKUI
  • Patent number: 10530557
    Abstract: A radio base station of a communication system communicates with mobile stations by using a beam, the system employing a time division multiplex scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka Nozawa, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Publication number: 20190393999
    Abstract: A base station includes: a control unit that allocates one or more layers per terminal for transmission to one or more terminals, and configures positions in a frequency domain and a time domain of reference signals of each of the layers on the basis of at least one of information indicating a position of each of the terminals and information indicating condition of each of channel between the transmission device and the one or more terminals; a processing unit that arranges the reference signals of each of the layers in the frequency domain and the time domain on the basis of the positions in the frequency domain and the time domain configured by the control unit; and a precoding unit and a transmitting unit that perform space-division multiplexing on signals of one or more layers arranged by the processing unit, and transmit the multiplexed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiro HASEGAWA, Akinori TAIRA, Shigeru UCHIDA, Noriyuki FUKUI, Akihiro OKAZAKI, Hiroki IURA
  • Publication number: 20190334604
    Abstract: A base station that communicates with a mobile station that intermittently performs a receiving operation during a cyclic reception period includes: an assignor that assigns a preamble to the mobile station; a start request signal generator that generates a start request signal containing the preamble assigned to the mobile station and requesting the start of a synchronization process between the mobile station and the base station; and a beam controller that transmits start request signals in a plurality of directions within the reception period while switching directions of directional beams for transmitting start request signals, and determines the direction of the directional beam for communicating with the mobile station, in accordance with the direction of the directional beam at the time of reception of the preamble transmitted from the mobile station having received the start request signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki KUSANO, Noriyuki FUKUI, Keijiro TAKE
  • Publication number: 20190306791
    Abstract: A communication system includes a base station configuring an energy saving cell (ES cell) and a base station configuring a compensation cell (Comp cell). The ES cell is switchable between a switch-on state and a switch-off state. The Comp cell compensates for the coverage of the ES cell when the ES cell is in the switch-off state. Before the Comp cell starts compensating for the coverage, for example, before the ES cell decides to switch itself off in Step ST2101, in Step ST2201 for example, the base station configuring the ES cell notifies the UE being connected with the ES cell of the information about a Comp cell, for example, a Comp cell list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ONAKA, Miho MAEDA, Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Taisei SUEMITSU, Noriyuki FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20190286094
    Abstract: Respective amounts of movement of feed axes corresponding to first and second position controllers are determined, and if a value obtained by dividing a smaller amount of movement by a larger amount of movement, in the two amounts of movement, falls within a prescribed reference range, a position controller for the feed axis with the smaller amount of movement selects a detected motor position as a position feedback value and a position controller for the other feed axis selects a detected object position as a position feedback value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Noriyuki FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20190289663
    Abstract: A narrow-bandwidth terminal device performs radio communication at a bandwidth narrower than a system bandwidth. The narrow-bandwidth terminal device in an idle state camps on a cell, and performs discontinuous reception of a signal transmitted from the cell. The terminal device also determines a reception condition of the signal, for example, whether the signal can be received. When it is determined that the signal cannot be received, the narrow-bandwidth terminal device moves out of a coverage area of the cell while continuing to perform the discontinuous reception. When it is determined that a discontinuous reception timer has been completed, the narrow-bandwidth terminal device continues to perform the discontinuous reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Kuniyuki Suzuki, Masayuki Nakazawa, Noriyuki Fukui, Haruka Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20190261196
    Abstract: A communication system is provided that, if a large number of small cells are installed, is capable of configuring an operation suitable for small cells through simple operation and administration. If a small cell installed in Step ST1401 judges in Step ST1403 that a coverage macro cell, which includes the small cell in the coverage of the coverage macro cell, is present as a result of neighbor cell search in Step ST1402, notifies the coverage macro cell and another neighbor cell of its own capability in Steps ST1404 and 1405. The coverage macro cell selects a configuration parameter suitable for the capability of the small cell in Step ST1406 and notifies the small cell in Step ST1407. The small cell recognizes an operation mode configured by the coverage macro cell from the configuration parameter notified from the coverage macro cell, and then, starts operating in the operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Miho MAEDA, Shinsuke UGA, Noriyuki FUKUI