Patents by Inventor Tadashi Eguchi

Tadashi Eguchi 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: 11722180
    Abstract: A second transmission path coupler has such a size that a signal width of a first signal that is generated by the second transmission path coupler at timings corresponding to a rising edge and a falling edge of an input signal to be input to a first transmission path coupler in a case where the input signal is transmitted to a position at which the first transmission path coupler and the second transmission path coupler perform an electric field and/or magnetic field coupling is substantially equal to or greater than a difference in a transmission delay amount corresponding to a gap of the first transmission path coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20230170741
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system includes a first power transmission circuit configured to output first power to be transmitted, a second power transmission circuit configured to output second power to be transmitted, a plurality of power transmission coils, a first power reception coil configured to be movable relative to the plurality of power transmission coils and wirelessly receive the first power from one of the power transmission coils, a second power reception coil configured to be movable relative to the plurality of power transmission coils and wirelessly receive the second power from one of the power transmission coils, and a first switch configured to connect a power transmission coil opposed to the first power reception coil among the plurality of power transmission coils to the first power transmission circuit, and connect a power transmission coil opposed to the second power reception coil to the second power transmission circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11575368
    Abstract: A communication system includes a transmission line and a reception coupler that couples to the transmission line in an electromagnetic field and moves along the transmission line, wherein the reception coupler has end parts narrower than other parts with respect to a transmission direction of the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11533083
    Abstract: A second transmission path coupler has such a size that a signal width of a first signal that is generated by the second transmission path coupler at timings corresponding to a rising edge and a falling edge of an input signal to be input to a first transmission path coupler in a case where the input signal is transmitted to a position at which the first transmission path coupler and the second transmission path coupler perform an electric field and/or magnetic field coupling is substantially equal to or greater than a difference in a transmission delay amount corresponding to a gap of the first transmission path coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 11528057
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a first transmission line coupler including a pair of signal lines for differential signal transmission with a first end of each signal line connected to a reception unit and another end of each signal line connected to a termination resistor; a second transmission line coupler being shorter than the first transmission line coupler and contactlessly facing the first transmission line coupler to communicate an electric signal with the first transmission line coupler using electric field and/or magnetic field coupling; and a metal plate covering at least a part of a portion of the first transmission line coupler that does not face the second transmission line coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20220158691
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a first transmission line coupler including a pair of signal lines for differential signal transmission with a first end of each signal line connected to a reception unit and another end of each signal line connected to a termination resistor; a second transmission line coupler being shorter than the first transmission line coupler and contactlessly facing the first transmission line coupler to communicate an electric signal with the first transmission line coupler using electric field and/or magnetic field coupling; and a metal plate covering at least a part of a portion of the first transmission line coupler that does not face the second transmission line coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20220116078
    Abstract: A second transmission path coupler has such a size that a signal width of a first signal that is generated by the second transmission path coupler at timings corresponding to a rising edge and a falling edge of an input signal to be input to a first transmission path coupler in a case where the input signal is transmitted to a position at which the first transmission path coupler and the second transmission path coupler perform an electric field and/or magnetic field coupling is substantially equal to or greater than a difference in a transmission delay amount corresponding to a gap of the first transmission path coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20210409013
    Abstract: A communication system includes a transmission line and a reception coupler that couples to the transmission line in an electromagnetic field and moves along the transmission line, wherein the reception coupler has end parts narrower than other parts with respect to a transmission direction of the transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10897141
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that transmits power to a power receiving apparatus executes intermittent wireless transmission of power. The power transmitting apparatus operates according to one of a first power transmitting method including detecting a signal load-modulated by the power receiving apparatus using an ID in response to the transmitted power during the intermittent transmission and a second power transmitting method including transmitting the power having modulated the power according to an ID determined in advance so that the power receiving apparatus detects the ID determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Takahashi, Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10862345
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer device includes a wireless power transfer unit that wirelessly transfers power to a plurality of other devices and a notification unit that provides notification that wireless power transfer to a third wireless power transfer device different from a second wireless power transfer device is not available or provides notification that the wireless power transfer to the third wireless power transfer device is available in the case where wireless power transfer to the second wireless power transfer device is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20200185962
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that transmits power to a power receiving apparatus executes intermittent wireless transmission of power. The power transmitting apparatus operates according to one of a first power transmitting method including detecting a signal load-modulated by the power receiving apparatus using an ID in response to the transmitted power during the intermittent transmission and a second power transmitting method including transmitting the power having modulated the power according to an ID determined in advance so that the power receiving apparatus detects the ID determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: NAOTO TAKAHASHI, Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10601229
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that transmits power to a power receiving apparatus executes intermittent wireless transmission of power. The power transmitting apparatus operates according to one of a first power transmitting method including detecting a signal load-modulated by the power receiving apparatus using an ID in response to the transmitted power during the intermittent transmission and a second power transmitting method including transmitting the power having modulated the power according to an ID determined in advance so that the power receiving apparatus detects the ID determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Takahashi, Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10560157
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication apparatus including a first antenna and a second antenna, a second communication apparatus including a third antenna and a fourth antenna, a first communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the first antenna and the third antenna, and a second communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the second antenna and the fourth antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Yukimasa, Tadashi Eguchi, Hitoshi Asai
  • Publication number: 20190260423
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication apparatus including a first antenna and a second antenna, a second communication apparatus including a third antenna and a fourth antenna, a first communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the first antenna and the third antenna, and a second communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the second antenna and the fourth antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Yukimasa, Tadashi Eguchi, Hitoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 10326499
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication apparatus including a first antenna and a second antenna, a second communication apparatus including a third antenna and a fourth antenna, a first communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the first antenna and the third antenna, and a second communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling between the second antenna and the fourth antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Yukimasa, Tadashi Eguchi, Hitoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 10291070
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to transmit a request for a setting of power transmission in accordance with change of power consumption to a power transmission apparatus. A power reception apparatus according to the present invention includes a power reception unit which wirelessly receives electric power from a power transmission apparatus, a detection unit which detects an instruction for controlling a load unit which operates using the electric power received by the power reception unit, and a transmission unit which transmits, to the power transmission apparatus, a request for changing an amount of reception power in accordance with change of an amount of power consumption of the load unit caused when the load unit is operated in response to the instruction detected by the detection unit while the power reception unit receives the electric power, before the load unit is operated in response to the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10243403
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that wirelessly transmits power to one or more power receiving apparatuses determines whether each of the one or more power receiving apparatuses has a function for internally lowering a voltage obtained through power reception, and controls the transmitted power so that, in a case where at least one of the one or more power receiving apparatuses does not have the function, overvoltage is not applied to the power receiving apparatus that does not have the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Shichino, Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10205352
    Abstract: A power receiving apparatus, that complies with at least two power transfer methods and receives power wirelessly from a power transmitting apparatus, detects unexpected power which is not power transmitted from the power transmitting apparatus while a first power transfer method is used out of the at least two power transfer methods. When the unexpected power is detected, the power receiving apparatus controls the power transmitting apparatus and the power receiving apparatus so that a second power transfer method which is different from the first power transfer method out of the at least two power transfer methods is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadashi Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20190027940
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that transmits power to a power receiving apparatus executes intermittent wireless transmission of power. The power transmitting apparatus operates according to one of a first power transmitting method including detecting a signal load-modulated by the power receiving apparatus using an ID in response to the transmitted power during the intermittent transmission and a second power transmitting method including transmitting the power having modulated the power according to an ID determined in advance so that the power receiving apparatus detects the ID determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Naoto Takahashi, Tadashi Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10135261
    Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus that transmits power to a power receiving apparatus executes intermittent wireless transmission of power. The power transmitting apparatus operates according to one of a first power transmitting method including detecting a signal load-modulated by the power receiving apparatus using an ID in response to the transmitted power during the intermittent transmission and a second power transmitting method including transmitting the power having modulated the power according to an ID determined in advance so that the power receiving apparatus detects the ID determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Takahashi, Tadashi Eguchi