Patents by Inventor Tohru Iwai

Tohru Iwai 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: 6521829
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet S is disclosed. The absorbing sheet S includes a laminated-structural layer of a nonwoven fabric sheet 10 and a metallic layer 22 such as iron, aluminums, copper or their alloy which is disposed on a bottom surface of the metallic layer 22. The nonwoven fabric sheet 10 includes non-metallic fibers 16 having no binding faculty, non-metallic binding fibers 14 having binding faculty which are melted by heat to bind neighboring fibers, and metallic fibers 12 having an irregular cross-section and being produced by shaving a metallic wire or rod, that are dispersed uniformly in the nonwoven fiber layer or layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Kanto Wire Products Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Matsumura, Kenichi Yoshida, Tohru Iwai, Hidekazu Nakata, Masato Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20020148626
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet S is disclosed. The absorbing sheet S comprises a laminated-structural layer of a nonwoven fabric sheet 10 and a metallic layer 22 such as iron, aluminums, copper or their alloy which is disposed on a bottom surface of the metallic layer 22. The nonwoven fabric sheet 10 includes non-metallic fibers 16 having no binding faculty, non-metallic binding fibers 14 having binding faculty which are melted by heat to bind neighboring fibers, and metallic fibers 12 having an irregular cross-section and being produced by shaving a metallic wire or rod, that are dispersed uniformly in the nonwoven fiber layer or layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Kazuhito Matsumura, Kenichi Yoshida, Tohru Iwai, Hidekazu Nakata, Masato Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 5815795
    Abstract: An oscillation detecting apparatus for detecting an oscillation of a wireless repeater intervening between a base station and a mobile station brought in communication with each other through a TDMA system. The wireless repeater produces an input signal based on a radio wave transmitted from one of the base station and the mobile stations, and amplifies the input signal to produce an output signal. The output signal is transmitted from the wireless repeater to the other of the base station and the mobile station. The oscillation detecting apparatus comprises producing apparatus for producing a power level signal varied in proportion with an amplitude of the output signal. The power level signal is formed by, for example, an envelope of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tohru Iwai
  • Patent number: 4983984
    Abstract: In a roadside beacon system for transmitting to vehicles moving along roads, signals on position and direction, linearly polarizing antennas mounted to be stationarey either beside or above the roads and other linearly polarizing antennas mounted to be mobile on the vehicles. The downwardly transmitting stationary and the upwardly receiving mobile antennas have matching linear polarizations when the vehicle is traveling on the road adjacent to the antenna but a mobile antenna will have reduced sensitivity when moving on a road at a different angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshizo Shibano, Haruo Suzuki, Tohru Iwai
  • Patent number: 4887090
    Abstract: An antenna for vehicle mounting in a roadside beacon system comprising a ground plane, a shorting board transverse to the grounding plane and two antenna boards attached to the top of the shorting boards in parallel to the ground plane. Two signal feeding points are symmetrically placed in the ground plane on either side of the shorting board. Depending on whether the two signals are phase shifted with respect to each other the antenna gain pattern is directed sidewardly with high gain or upwardly with low gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries
    Inventors: Yoshizo Shibano, Haruo Suzuki, Tohru Iwai
  • Patent number: 4833481
    Abstract: A roadside antenna system permitting the transmission of data to a vehicular navigation system and providing for the recalibration of positional data carried by the navigation system includes an antenna structure and transmitter system which permits the data transmission signal to be broadcast in a wide pattern. Meanwhile, the signal that provides for positional recalibration is broadcast in a high directivity signal or split beam. The positional accuracy of the navigator system is improved by performing the positional calibration only when intercepting the narrow beam pattern. Data transmission and reception can be carried out within a larger effective reception area without affecting the positional accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshizo Shibano, Haruo Suzuki, Tohru Iwai
  • Patent number: 4823138
    Abstract: A roadside beacon system having improved reliability in the face of multi-path fading and the presence of large vehicles or the like which shield or scatter the received signal. The roadside antenna is of the split beam type. In the navigation system on the vehicle, the received signal is divided into two parts. The first part is smoothed and its level detected to determine when the vehicle is approaching an antenna. The remaining signal is then employed directly to detect the null in the transmitted beam when the vehicle passes directly in front of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshizo Shibano, Haruo Suzuki, Tohru Iwai
  • Patent number: 4444462
    Abstract: A protective lid is provided in front of an image-forming lens mounted on the forward end of a picture image transmission line which comprises plural optical fibers bundled in alignment to be remotely controlled from the back end of the transmission line for opening/closing so that the image-forming lens may be protected from particles, vapor or poisonous gas when the transmission line is used in such atmosphere, thereby preventing deterioration of the quality of picture images to be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimizo Ono, Yoshikazu Nishiwaki, Koichi Tsuno, Tohru Iwai, Mitsuru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 4429392
    Abstract: Signals for controlling the discharge current and laser gas pressure are provided in predetermined combination in accordance with a selected laser output level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshida, Kimizo Ono, Katsuyoshi Sunago, Shinya Takenaka, Tohru Iwai