Patents by Inventor Shigeru Yagi

Shigeru Yagi 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: 9837700
    Abstract: An antenna device of the present invention includes, in one aspect: a patch antenna having a resonant frequency at a first frequency; and a loop antenna having a resonant frequency at a second frequency that is different from the first frequency. A loop length of the loop antenna is such that standing waves are generated in the loop antenna when the loop antenna receives radio waves of the first frequency, and the patch antenna is disposed so as to magnetically couple with the loop antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Youichi Ushigome
  • Publication number: 20170229764
    Abstract: An antenna device including an antenna element which transmits or receives an electromagnetic wave having a specific frequency by being supplied with electric power; a conductive element which is a parasitic element; and a square-shaped housing which includes a wall-thickness portion having a predetermined wall thickness. The antenna element is provided inside the square-shaped housing. The conductive element is provided only inside the wall-thickness portion which is included in any one side of the square-shaped housing, is electromagnetically coupled to the antenna element without being galvanically connected with other components, resonates with the specific frequency, and transmits or receives the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka AOKI, Shigeru YAGI, Kaoru YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9680204
    Abstract: An antenna device of the present invention includes an antenna element which transmits or receives an electromagnetic wave having a specific frequency by being supplied with electric power, a conductive element which is formed of a conductive material, arranged so as to be spaced apart from and face the antenna element, and serves as a parasitic element, and a housing having a sealed space therein. The antenna element is provided inside the housing, and the conductive element is provided on outer surface of the housing, or in inner part of the housing, or in a mount member by which the housing is worn on a human body, or in a holding member for holding the housing; the conductive element is electromagnetically coupled to the antenna element, resonates with the specific frequency; and transmits or receives the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Aoki, Shigeru Yagi, Kaoru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160276741
    Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna element including a conductor; and a dielectric component. The antenna element includes a conductor. The dielectric component has a dielectric loss of 0.002 or greater. The dielectric component is attached to the antenna element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAGI, Youichi USHIGOME
  • Publication number: 20150263437
    Abstract: An antenna device of the present invention includes, in one aspect: a patch antenna having a resonant frequency at a first frequency; and a loop antenna having a resonant frequency at a second frequency that is different from the first frequency. A loop length of the loop antenna is such that standing waves are generated in the loop antenna when the loop antenna receives radio waves of the first frequency, and the patch antenna is disposed so as to magnetically couple with the loop antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAGI, Youichi USHIGOME
  • Publication number: 20140285385
    Abstract: An antenna device of the present invention includes an antenna element which transmits or receives an electromagnetic wave having a specific frequency by being supplied with electric power, a conductive element which is formed of a conductive material, arranged so as to be spaced apart from and face the antenna element, and serves as a parasitic element, and a housing having a sealed space therein. The antenna element is provided inside the housing, and the conductive element is provided on outer surface of the housing, or in inner part of the housing, or in a mount member by which the housing is worn on a human body, or in a holding member for holding the housing; the conductive element is electromagnetically coupled to the antenna element, resonates with the specific frequency; and transmits or receives the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka AOKI, Shigeru YAGI, Kaoru YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8709688
    Abstract: An oxide material including gallium, zinc and oxygen, a ratio of the number of atoms of zinc to the number of atoms of gallium (number of atoms of zinc/number of atoms of gallium) being from about 0.01 to about 0.6 and a ratio of the number of atoms of oxygen to the sum of the number of atoms of gallium and the number of atoms of zinc (number of atoms of oxygen/(number of atoms of gallium+number of atoms of zinc)) being from about 1.0 to about 1.6, is disclosed. An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a layer which includes the oxide material is also disclosed. An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a substrate; and a photosensitive layer including gallium, oxygen and zinc is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Takeshi Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 8692719
    Abstract: A multiband antenna includes a conductive antenna element portion and a conductive ground element portion which are provided on an insulating film. The antenna element portion includes a first antenna element having a length corresponding to a first resonance frequency, and a second antenna element having a length corresponding to a second resonance frequency. The ground element portion includes a first side having a length to resonate at the first resonance frequency, and a second side having a length to resonate at the second resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Yuki Kotaka
  • Patent number: 8673525
    Abstract: There is provided an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising, in this order a substrate; a photosensitive layer; and a protective layer including oxygen and gallium, the protective layer including a first region and a second region that is present closer to the substrate than the first region and has a ratio of the number of atoms of oxygen to the number of atoms of gallium (oxygen/gallium) larger than that in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Yagi
  • Patent number: 8655290
    Abstract: An antenna with a built-in filter for use in an electronic device includes: an antenna element; and a circuit board unit connected to the antenna element, wherein the circuit board unit includes: a filter circuit that filters input and output signals of the antenna element; and a matching circuit that performs impedance matching of the antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Youichi Ushigome
  • Patent number: 8574798
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoreceptor having at least a photosensitive layer and a surface layer provided at a surface of the photosensitive layer. The surface layer contains a first layer which is provided at the photosensitive layer side and has a refractive index of n1 and a second layer which is provided at the opposite side of the first layer to the photosensitive layer and has a refractive index of n2. The refractive index of the photosensitive layer, the refractive index of the first layer, the refractive index of the second layer, the film thickness of the first layer, an integer of 0 or more, and the wavelength of light with which the surface of the photoreceptor is irradiated when an electrostatic latent image is formed satisfy specific relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwanaga, Masayuki Nishikawa, Shigeru Yagi, Nobuyuki Torigoe
  • Publication number: 20130236212
    Abstract: An oxide material including gallium, zinc and oxygen, a ratio of the number of atoms of zinc to the number of atoms of gallium (number of atoms of zinc/number of atoms of gallium) being from about 0.01 to about 0.6 and a ratio of the number of atoms of oxygen to the sum of the number of atoms of gallium and the number of atoms of zinc (number of atoms of oxygen/(number of atoms of gallium+number of atoms of zinc)) being from about 1.0 to about 1.6, is disclosed. An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a layer which includes the oxide material is also disclosed. An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a substrate; and a photosensitive layer including gallium, oxygen and zinc is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAGI, Takeshi IWANAGA
  • Patent number: 8460452
    Abstract: An oxide material including gallium, zinc and oxygen, a ratio of the number of atoms of zinc to the number of atoms of gallium (number of atoms of zinc/number of atoms of gallium) being from about 0.01 to about 0.6 and a ratio of the number of atoms of oxygen to the sum of the number of atoms of gallium and the number of atoms of zinc (number of atoms of oxygen/(number of atoms of gallium+number of atoms of zinc)) being from about 1.0 to about 1.6, is disclosed. An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a layer which includes the oxide material is also disclosed. An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a substrate; and a photosensitive layer including gallium, oxygen and zinc is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Takeshi Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 8404415
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor including: an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer arranged on or above the electroconductive substrate; and a surface layer arranged on or above the photosensitive layer, and containing about 90% or more by atom of gallium (Ga), oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H), and having an atomic number density of about 7.8×1022 cm?3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwanaga, Shigeru Yagi, Nobuyuki Torigoe
  • Patent number: 8400364
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multiband planar antenna including: an insulating film, a first antenna section and a second antenna section facing to the first antenna section across a feeding point on a film, wherein the first antenna section includes: a first antenna element including a side having a length in an extending direction corresponds to a first resonance frequency; a shorter second antenna element at a predetermined distance from and in parallel with the first antenna element; and a first coupling section to couple the first and second antenna elements, wherein a length in the extending direction of a first clearance corresponds to a resonance frequency higher than the first resonance frequency, and wherein the second antenna section includes: third and fourth antenna elements; a second coupling section; and a second clearance similar to the above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Kotaka, Shigeru Yagi
  • Patent number: 8357478
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a base, a photosensitive layer formed on the base, and an overcoat layer formed on the photosensitive layer, wherein the overcoat layer includes gallium, oxygen, and hydrogen, and the intensity ratio (IO-H/IGa-O) of a signal IO-H of an O—H bond to a signal IGa-O of a Ga—O bond in an infrared absorption spectrum is about 0.1 or more and 0.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideya Katsuhara, Shigeru Yagi, Takashi Imai, Nobuyuki Torigoe, Takeshi Iwanaga
  • Publication number: 20120218162
    Abstract: The multifrequency antenna comprises a substrate, antenna elements, shunt inductor conductors, series capacitor conductors, series inductor conductors, a connection point, and input/output terminals. The antenna elements are provided on the substrate and electrically connected to the connection point via the shunt inductor conductors. The antenna elements form capacitors together with the parts facing the series capacitor conductors and are electrically connected to the input/output terminals via these capacitors and series inductor conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicants: The University fo Electro-Communications, Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Aoki, Shigeru Yagi, Akira Saitou, Kazuhiko Honjo
  • Patent number: 8158316
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an electrically conductive substrate, an organic photosensitive layer and a surface layer laminated in this order. The surface layer includes at least gallium (Ga) and oxygen (O) as constituent elements thereof, and has a thickness of 0.2 ?m to 1.5 ?m, and a microhardness of 2 GPa to 15 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwanaga, Shigeru Yagi, Nobuyuki Torigoe
  • Publication number: 20120077448
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna with a built-in filter, the antenna being implemented in an electronic device, comprising: an antenna element; and a circuit board unit connected to the antenna element, wherein the circuit board unit includes: a filter circuit that filters input and output signals of the antenna element; and a matching circuit that performs impedance matching of the antenna element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Youichi Ushigome
  • Patent number: 8111200
    Abstract: Disclosed is a planar antenna, including: a film formed of a planar insulating material; an antenna portion which is a planar conductor on the film; and a ground portion which is a conductor to be grounded, wherein the antenna portion comprises: at least one first short stub; a first antenna element which is connected to the ground portion through the at least one first short stub and whose shape has such an angle that a distance between the first antenna element and the ground portion increases with increasing distance from a feeding point along the ground portion, the feeding point being provided between the first antenna element and the ground portion; a second short stub; and a second antenna element which is connected to the first antenna element through the second short stub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yagi, Yuki Kotaka, Fuminori Sano