Patents by Inventor Sachio Iida
Sachio Iida 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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Publication number: 20240085348Abstract: Provided are a measurement device and a measurement method that enable calibration in the event of error variations. A measurement device configured to measure an amount of moisture contained in a medium, the measurement device including: a first probe in which a first cable electrically connectable to a first connection cable is embedded; a second probe in which a second cable electrically connectable to a second connection cable is embedded; and a standard that is fixed at a predetermined positional relationship with the first probe and the second probe even during the measurement, is electrically connectable to the first connection cable and the second connection cable when the measurement is not conducted, and is used for calibration of the measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Patent number: 11888243Abstract: An antenna (1) according to the present disclosure includes a plate-shaped transparent dielectric member (10), a patch antenna (20), a ground plane (30), and a transparent conductive film (40). The patch antenna (20) is disposed on a front face (11) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes holes portions (22) inside the patch antenna (20). The ground plane (30) is disposed on a back face (12) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes hole portions (32) inside the ground plane (30). The transparent conductive film (40) is disposed at the hole portions (22) of the patch antenna (20).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Okada, Kenichi Kawasaki, Sachio Iida
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Publication number: 20240019383Abstract: A sensor device is disclosed for measuring an amount of moisture in a medium that includes: a transmission antenna; a reception antenna to receive electromagnetic waves transmitted from the transmission antenna and through a medium; a measurement unit to measure the electromagnetic waves propagating to the reception antenna; and a sensor casing and further includes a transmission substrate including a plurality of wiring layers and a reception substrate including a plurality of wiring layers, and a measurement unit substrate including a plurality of wiring layers and includes the measurement unit or a first coating layer that, in a part of the transmission substrate, coats an outer circumference of the substrate and is formed from an electromagnetic wave absorbent material and a second coating layer that, in a part of the reception substrate, coats an outer circumference of the substrate and is formed from an electromagnetic wave absorbent material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Norihito MIHOTA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20240019382Abstract: In a device measuring an amount of moisture in a medium, the performance of the device is improved. The sensor device includes a transmission probe, a reception probe, and a measurement circuit. The transmission probe includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and the reception probe includes a plurality of reception antennas. In this sensor device, the measurement circuit performs time-divisional control in which control of selecting one transmission antenna among the plurality of transmission antennas each time and radiating electromagnetic waves is repeatedly performed until performance of radiation ends in all the antennas set in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro OISHI, Norihito MIHOTA, Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Minoru ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20240011924Abstract: A device for measuring the amount of moisture in a medium that includes a transmission antenna that sends a signal as an electromagnetic wave, a reception antenna that receives the electromagnetic wave sent from the transmission antenna and transmitted through a medium, a measurement section that measures the electromagnetic wave propagated to the reception antenna, and a sensor casing. The sensor device further includes a transmission substrate that includes a plurality of wiring layers and a reception substrate that includes a plurality of wiring layers, or a first covering layer that partially covers an outer periphery of the transmission substrate and a second covering layer that partially covers an outer periphery of the reception substrate The coverings are formed of an electromagnetic wave absorption material. The sensor casing includes a transmission probe casing that accommodates the transmission substrate and a reception probe casing that accommodates the reception substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya ICHIHARA, Norihito MIHOTA, Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20240004030Abstract: In a device that measures an amount of moisture in a medium, performance of the device is improved. A sensor device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a sensor control unit. In this sensor device, a transmitter supplies a transmission signal to a transmission antenna. In addition, in the sensor device, a receiver receives a reception signal corresponding to the transmission signal through a reception antenna. In the sensor device, before measuring a predetermined parameter on the basis of the reception signal, the sensor control unit adjusts electric power of the transmission signal on the basis the reception signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Norihito MIHOTA, Sachio IIDA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20230417686Abstract: Measurement accuracy of the amount of moisture is improved by a device that measures the amount of moisture in a medium. The sensor device includes a pair of antennas, a measurement circuit, a transmission path, and a radio wave absorption section. In the sensor device which includes the pair of antennas, the measurement circuit, the transmission path, and the radio wave absorption section, the measurement circuit measures the amount of moisture in a medium between the pair of antennas. Also, the transmission path connects the pair of antennas to the measurement circuit in the sensor device. The radio wave absorption section is formed in the surroundings of the transmission path in the sensor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Norihito MIHOTA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Takahiro OISHI, Minoru ISHIDA
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Patent number: 11852712Abstract: To provide a radar device capable of improving azimuth estimation accuracy by compensating the Doppler phase shift of a moving target in a TDMA FMCW MIMO radar device. Provided is a radar device that allows transmitting antennas to perform transmission by performing sequential switching such that antenna element numbers are anterior-posterior symmetrical centering on a reference time and synthesizes a beat signal at the reference time from a first beat signal received by a receiving antenna before the reference time and a second beat signal received after the reference time.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Sachio Iida, Kenichi Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20230194440Abstract: An inspection device and method suppressing measurement time and power consumption. A detection device according to the present disclosure includes a first probe with a first antenna unit for transmission, a second probe with a second antenna unit for reception, the second probe being opposed to the first probe at a predetermined distance, a measurement unit that measures a measurement signal including a propagation characteristic of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna units, and a calculation unit that calculates characteristics information of the medium based on the measurement signal. In a first mode, the measurement unit measures the measurement signal in a first frequency band for the electromagnetic wave propagating in the medium, and in a second mode, the measurement unit measures the measurement signal in a second frequency band, which is a part of the first frequency band for the electromagnetic wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Norihito MIHOTA, Sachio IIDA
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Publication number: 20230003668Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe. The first probe includes a first tiny antenna section for transmission and a second tiny antenna section for transmission. The second probe is arranged at a predetermined distance from the first probe, and includes a first tiny antenna section for reception and a second tiny antenna section for reception. The measurement unit generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first tiny antenna section for transmission and the first tiny antenna section for reception, and information regarding characteristics of the propagation of the electromagnetic wave in the medium between the second tiny antenna section for transmission and the second tiny antenna section for reception.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Sachio IIDA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Patent number: 11428714Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Atsushi Yamada, Kyohei Yoshimitsu, Hiroyuki Mita, Sachio Iida, Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi
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Publication number: 20220205931Abstract: A measurement device that measures an amount of moisture in a medium. The device includes a transmitter that transmits an electrical signal including an incident wave to one of a pair of probes in which a cable has been embedded through the cable. A receiver receives a reflected wave obtained from reflection of the incident wave by the one of the pairs of probes and a transmitted wave that has been transmitted through a medium between the pair of probes through the cable. A processing unit obtains a reciprocating delay time corresponding to a time over which the electrical signal reciprocates through the cable and measures an amount of moisture contained in the medium on the basis of the reciprocating delay time and a propagation transmission time corresponding to a time over which electromagnetic waves propagate and the electrical signal is transmitted through the medium and the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Sachio IIDA, Atsushi YAMADA, Takuya ICHIHARA, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Publication number: 20220109239Abstract: An antenna (1) according to the present disclosure includes a plate-shaped transparent dielectric member (10), a patch antenna (20), a ground plane (30), and a transparent conductive film (40). The patch antenna (20) is disposed on a front face (11) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes holes portions (22) inside the patch antenna (20). The ground plane (30) is disposed on a back face (12) of the transparent dielectric member (10) and includes hole portions (32) inside the ground plane (30). The transparent conductive film (40) is disposed at the hole portions (22) of the patch antenna (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: YASUHIRO OKADA, KENICHI KAWASAKI, SACHIO IIDA
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Patent number: 11296747Abstract: An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Sachio Iida, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoki
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Publication number: 20220057435Abstract: A sensor device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor head and a measurement unit. The sensor head includes a first probe and a second probe, the first probe including a first antenna section used for transmission, the second probe including a second antenna section used for reception, the second probe being situated at a specified distance from the first probe and facing the first probe. The measurement unit includes a signal generator that generates a measurement signal that includes information regarding characteristics of a propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium between the first and second antenna sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi YAMADA, Kyohei YOSHIMITSU, Hiroyuki MITA, Sachio IIDA, Seiji KOBAYASHI, Toshiyuki HIROI
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Publication number: 20210356579Abstract: To provide a radar device capable of improving azimuth estimation accuracy by compensating the Doppler phase shift of a moving target in a TDMA FMCW MIMO radar device. Provided is a radar device that allows transmitting antennas to perform transmission by performing sequential switching such that antenna element numbers are anterior-posterior symmetrical centering on a reference time and synthesizes a beat signal at the reference time from a first beat signal received by a receiving antenna before the reference time and a second beat signal received after the reference time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Sachio IIDA, Kenichi KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 11119203Abstract: To provide a radar device capable of improving azimuth estimation accuracy by compensating the Doppler phase shift of a moving target in a TDMA FMCW MIMO radar device. Provided is a radar device that allows transmitting antennas to perform transmission by performing sequential switching such that antenna element numbers are anterior-posterior symmetrical centering on a reference time and synthesizes a beat signal at the reference time from a first beat signal received by a receiving antenna before the reference time and a second beat signal received after the reference time.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Sachio Iida, Kenichi Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20210223360Abstract: To provide a radar device, capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device. There is provided a radar device including: an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal; a transmitting antenna configured to emit a transmission signal based on the local signal; a receiving antenna configured to receive a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target; a mixer configured to multiply the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and a first shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Sachio IIDA, Kenichi KAWASAKI
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Patent number: 11002830Abstract: To provide a radar device, capable of eliminating the influence based on the local feedthrough in the FMCW radar device. There is provided a radar device including: an oscillator configured to oscillate a local signal; a transmitting antenna configured to emit a transmission signal based on the local signal; a receiving antenna configured to receive a reflected wave in which the transmission signal is reflected from a target; a mixer configured to multiply the reflected wave and the local signal by each other to produce a multiplied signal; and a first shifter provided between the oscillator and the mixer and configured to shift a phase of the local signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Sachio Iida, Kenichi Kawasaki
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Patent number: 10942268Abstract: There is provided a MIMO radar device including: a first array antenna configured to have L (L?2) antenna elements disposed in one direction under a first rule; and a second array antenna configured to have M (M?2) antenna elements disposed in a same direction as the one direction of the first array antenna under a second rule, and to have at least two of the M antenna elements provided across the first array antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Sachio Iida, Kenichi Kawasaki, Kenichi Fujimaki