Patents by Inventor Takaaki Tsushima

Takaaki Tsushima 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: 8917160
    Abstract: An RFID module including an antenna element forming an RFID antenna; an RFID circuit block to which the antenna element is connected; and a first resonance frequency adjustment circuit having an element that includes a drain terminal connected to the antenna element, a gate terminal that is grounded, and a source terminal that is grounded, wherein a pull-up resistor is connected between the drain terminal and a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki Tsushima, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Toshihiko Takeda, Zenkichi Mihara
  • Patent number: 8605816
    Abstract: A non-contact wireless communication apparatus that includes: an antenna section configured to receive a carrier wave; an envelope-curve shaping section configured to shape a falling waveform of an envelope curve of the carrier wave into a gradual falling waveform; and a demodulation section configured to extract the envelope curve shaped by the envelope-curve shaping section and perform envelope-curve detection by binarizing the envelope curve with a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Takaaki Tsushima
  • Patent number: 8567685
    Abstract: There is provided a short-range wireless communication apparatus and a cellular phone terminal that can surely and immediately notify a user of the optimum distance between a contactless IC card reader/writer and a contactless IC card not through an MPU or a CPU and if the contactless IC card function is locked, surely notify the user as such. In an RFID card, a magnetic field strength/brightness conversion section adjusts the brightness of two LEDs in accordance with the detected magnetic field strength of a carrier wave. A blink generation circuit detects whether the RFID card is in a communication state and blinks the LEDs if so. A function combining section combines the functions to indicate the magnetic field strength and the communication state with the brightness and blinking of the LEDs. An LED with another color illuminates only when an RFID function LSI is in a lock state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Sueoka, Takaaki Tsushima, Masayuki Chiba
  • Patent number: 8406686
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal apparatus includes a non-contact communication section configured to perform non-contact communication with an external terminal apparatus. The non-contact communication section includes a main unit having a controller configured to control communication with the external terminal apparatus and a main antenna, and a sub-unit having a sub-antenna having a coil whose number of windings is smaller than the number of windings of a coil of the main antenna and an adjuster configured to adjust a resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki Tsushima, Hideaki Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20120242456
    Abstract: An RFID module including an antenna element forming an RFID antenna; an RFID circuit block to which the antenna element is connected; and a first resonance frequency adjustment circuit having an element that includes a drain terminal connected to the antenna element, a gate terminal that is grounded, and a source terminal that is grounded, wherein a pull-up resistor is connected between the drain terminal and a power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Takaaki TSUSHIMA, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Toshihiko Takeda, Zenkichi Mihara
  • Publication number: 20110293039
    Abstract: A non-contact wireless communication apparatus that includes: an antenna section configured to receive a carrier wave; an envelope-curve shaping section configured to shape a falling waveform of an envelope curve of the carrier wave into a gradual falling waveform; and a demodulation section configured to extract the envelope curve shaped by the envelope-curve shaping section and perform envelope-curve detection by binarizing the envelope curve with a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventor: Takaaki TSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20100227558
    Abstract: There is provided a short-range wireless communication apparatus and a cellular phone terminal that can surely and immediately notify a user of the optimum distance between a contactless IC card reader/writer and a contactless IC card not through an MPU or a CPU and if the contactless IC card function is locked, surely notify the user as such. In an RFID card, a magnetic field strength/brightness conversion section adjusts the brightness of two LEDs in accordance with the detected magnetic field strength of a carrier wave. A blink generation circuit detects whether the RFID card is in a communication state and blinks the LEDs if so. A function combining section combines the functions to indicate the magnetic field strength and the communication state with the brightness and blinking of the LEDs. An LED with another color illuminates only when an RFID function LSI is in a lock state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicants: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi SUEOKA, Takaaki Tsushima, Masayuki Chiba
  • Patent number: 7762469
    Abstract: There is provided a short-range wireless communication apparatus and a cellular phone terminal that can surely and immediately notify a user of the optimum distance between a contactless IC card reader/writer and a contactless IC card not through an MPU or a CPU and if the contactless IC card function is locked, surely notify the user as such. In an RFID card, a magnetic field strength/brightness conversion section adjusts the brightness of two LEDs in accordance with the detected magnetic field strength of a carrier wave. A blink generation circuit detects whether the RFID card is in a communication state and blinks the LEDs if so. A function combining section combines the functions to indicate the magnetic field strength and the communication state with the brightness and blinking of the LEDs. An LED with another color illuminates only when an RFID function LSI is in a lock state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignees: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sueoka, Takaaki Tsushima, Masayuki Chiba
  • Patent number: 7688270
    Abstract: An NFC antenna (“NFC” stands for “near field communication”) includes a ferrite antenna including a primary antenna coil wound on a ferrite core of the ferrite antenna; a loop coil provided in a position where components of a magnetic flux on a non-communication direction side interlink, the magnetic flux being generated by the ferrite antenna; and a loop coil switching unit for switching between a mode for forming a loop of the loop coil and a mode for disconnecting the loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Takaaki Tsushima
  • Publication number: 20080238799
    Abstract: An NFC antenna (“NFC” stands for “near field communication”) includes a ferrite antenna including a primary antenna coil wound on a ferrite core of the ferrite antenna; a loop coil provided in a position where components of a magnetic flux on a non-communication direction side interlink, the magnetic flux being generated by the ferrite antenna; and a loop coil switching unit for switching between a mode for forming a loop of the loop coil and a mode for disconnecting the loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventor: Takaaki TSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20070285255
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal apparatus includes a non-contact communication section configured to perform non-contact communication with an external terminal apparatus. The non-contact communication section includes a main unit having a controller configured to control communication with the external terminal apparatus and a main antenna, and a sub-unit having a sub-antenna having a coil whose number of windings is smaller than the number of windings of a coil of the main antenna and an adjuster configured to adjust a resonance frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Takaaki TSUSHIMA, Hideaki Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20060160488
    Abstract: There is provided a short-range wireless communication apparatus and a cellular phone terminal that can surely and immediately notify a user of the optimum distance between a contactless IC card reader/writer and a contactless IC card not through an MPU or a CPU and if the contactless IC card function is locked, surely notify the user as such. In an RFID card, a magnetic field strength/brightness conversion section adjusts the brightness of two LEDs in accordance with the detected magnetic field strength of a carrier wave. A blink generation circuit detects whether the RFID card is in a communication state and blinks the LEDs if so. A function combining section combines the functions to indicate the magnetic field strength and the communication state with the brightness and blinking of the LEDs. An LED with another color illuminates only when an RFID function LSI is in a lock state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicants: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sueoka, Takaaki Tsushima, Masayuki Chiba