Patents by Inventor Tomoya Maekawa

Tomoya Maekawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20030141948
    Abstract: A dielectric filter includes resonator electrodes, an inter-stage coupling capacitor electrode, and an input/output coupling capacitor electrode on dielectric substrates, respectively. The resonator electrodes are electro-magnetically coupled to each other to form a tri-plate structure, are made of a metallic foil embedded in a resonator dielectric substrate. Another dielectric filter includes an upper shield electrode dielectric substrate, an inter-stage coupling capacitor dielectric substrate, a resonator dielectric substrate, and an input/output coupling capacitor dielectric substrate which are made of a composite dielectric material including a high-dielectric-constant material and a low-dielectric-constant material. The above described arrangement provides the dielectric filter with an improved Q factor of a resonator, a low loss, and a high attenuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Yasuhiro Sugaya, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20030141943
    Abstract: A dielectric filter, has
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hiroshi Shigemura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Patent number: 6529096
    Abstract: A dielectric filter including a plurality of resonators, and at least one transmission line provided among said plurality of resonators. A band rejection characteristic is formed around a resonance frequency of the resonator, and a line length of the transmission line is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength corresponding to the resonance frequency of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hiroshi Shigemura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo
  • Publication number: 20030034124
    Abstract: There is provided a dielectric resonator including a pair of dielectric substrates opposed to each other and resonator electrodes disposed between the pair of dielectric substrate, wherein the resonator electrodes are disposed so as to be brought into contact with major surfaces of the pair of dielectric substrates, and a bonding layer is disposed around the resonator electrodes so as to bond the pair of dielectric substrates. The pair of dielectric substrates have been in advance sintered at sufficiently high temperature which is a dielectric having an fQ value at 1 GHz in the range of 3×103 to 1×105, then achieve a high Q value as a filter. The pair of the substrates are provided with the surface roughness of a range of 0.1 to 2.0 &mgr;m, and flatness of 10 &mgr;m or less between both ends thereof to bring the resonant electrodes in close contact with the surfaces of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sugaya, Tomoya Maekawa, Toru Yamada, Seiichi Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20030025571
    Abstract: The present invention comprises baluns 2a, 2b which convert balanced line signals and unbalanced line signals mutually, and filters 3a, 3b which are electrically connected to the baluns 2a, 2b and pass or attenuate the predetermined frequency bands. Electrode layers 15a-22a, 25a, 41, 42, 43 which compose the electrode patterns of the baluns 2a, 2b and the filters 3a, 3b, and the dielectric layers 30-39 are integrally stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Shigemura, Hideaki Nakakubo, Emiko Kawahara, Toru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030025572
    Abstract: An antenna duplexer has
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 6340953
    Abstract: An antenna device comprising a plurality of directional antennas which are aligned on the same axis in one direction and which are also arranged in a manner that the main radiation directions of the plurality of directional antennas deviate from each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction. Hence, a drop in directivity due to the array factor can be prevented and radiation characteristics in the plane orthogonal to the direction is expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Teraoka, Toshio Ishizaki, Koichi Ogawa, Tomoya Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20010050599
    Abstract: A dielectric filter, has
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Inventors: Tomoya Maekawa, Hiroshi Kushitani, Hiroshi Shigemura, Toru Yamada, Toshio Ishizaki, Hideaki Nakakubo