Patents by Inventor Toru Sahara

Toru Sahara 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: 11325758
    Abstract: A composite container lid includes an inner plug 1 with a flow-out port and an upper lid 3 detachably attached to a container mouth portion 80, wherein: the inner plug 1 includes an upper lid engaging cylinder 5, a container mouth portion-securing member 7 having a circumferential wall 9 that surrounds the upper lid engaging cylinder 5, and linking pieces 11 that link the inner surface of the circumferential wall 9 to the upper lid engaging cylinder 5 so as to form a flow-out port 13; the upper lid engaging cylinder 5 is provided, on the upper end portion of the outer surface thereof, with a circumferential protuberance 5a for temporary engagement; engaging pieces 37 are formed on the inner surface of a top plate 31 of the upper lid 3, the engaging pieces 37 having an undercut 37a for temporarily engaging with the circumferential protuberance 5a that temporary engages with the upper lid engaging cylinder; and a sound-suppressing protrusion 50 is provided in a region surrounded by the engaging pieces 37.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sahara, Takashi Sugiyama, Yuji Tomitaka, Miki Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 11273960
    Abstract: To provide a hinged cap is capable of preventing liquid content from squirting out and minimizing adhesion of the content on the top face of the cap or around an outer circumferential abutment part, with a simple structure. A hinged cap (100) includes a cap body (110) and an upper lid (130) connected by a hinge (150), with a tubular spout wall (112) provided on an upper surface side of the cap body (110), and a circular suspended part (132) provided on an upper lid top face (131). The circular suspended part (132) has an outer circumferential abutment part (133) that makes contact with an inner circumferential surface of the tubular spout wall (112). The hinged cap includes a liquid build-up prevention part (134) at least in a lower part of the circular suspended part (132) opposite to a part connected to the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sahara, Yuji Takayama
  • Patent number: 11180293
    Abstract: A synthetic resin container lid (2) has a shape including a body (4), which is mounted on a mouth-neck portion (56) of a container by locking a locking means (26) to a locked means (58) of the mouth-neck portion (56), and an upper lid (6) coupled to the body (4) via a hinge means (32). The synthetic resin container lid (2) is improved so that the entire container lid (2) is fully and easily detached from the mouth-neck portion of the container. The axial depth of an annular or arcuate groove (46) formed in a hanging wall (10) of the body (4) and extending in a circumferential direction is changed as required. At least in a second break region (B) and a third break region (C), a circumferential breakable line (53) extending continuously in the circumferential direction along an axially lower end part of the groove (46) is formed in the hanging wall (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Sahara, Satoru Shimada, Takashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20200071041
    Abstract: A composite container lid comprising an inner plug 1 with a flow-out port and an upper lid 3 detachably attached to a container mouth portion 80, wherein the inner plug 1 includes an upper lid engaging cylinder 5, a container mouth portion-securing member 7 having a circumferential wall 9 that surrounds the upper lid engaging cylinder 5, and linking pieces 11 that link the inner surface of the circumferential wall 9 to the upper lid engaging cylinder 5 so as to form a flow-out port 13; the upper lid engaging cylinder 5 is provided, on the upper end portion of the outer surface thereof, with a circumferential protuberance 5a for temporary engagement; engaging pieces 37 are formed on the inner surface of a top plate 31 of the upper lid 3, the engaging pieces 37 having an undercut 37a for temporarily engaging with the circumferential protuberance 5a that temporary engages with the upper lid engaging cylinder; and a sound-suppressing protrusion 50 is provided in a region surrounded by the engaging pieces 37.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru SAHARA, Takashi SUGIYAMA, Yuji TOMITAKA, Miki YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200039702
    Abstract: To provide a hinged cap is capable of preventing liquid content from squirting out and minimizing adhesion of the content on the top face of the cap or around an outer circumferential abutment part, with a simple structure. A hinged cap (100) includes a cap body (110) and an upper lid (130) connected by a hinge (150), with a tubular spout wall (112) provided on an upper surface side of the cap body (110), and a circular suspended part (132) provided on an upper lid top face (131). The circular suspended part (132) has an outer circumferential abutment part (133) that makes contact with an inner circumferential surface of the tubular spout wall (112). The hinged cap includes a liquid build-up prevention part (134) at least in a lower part of the circular suspended part (132) opposite to a part connected to the hinge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Nippon Closures Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Sahara, Yuji Takayama
  • Patent number: 10499395
    Abstract: A communication system having a plurality of base stations for carrying out radio communication by arranging a plurality of carriers each taking a first frequency bandwidth in a second frequency band that is predetermined and to be exceeded by the carriers arranged in succession, wherein the communication system arranges the carriers in the second frequency band in such a manner that each of the carriers has an overlapping portion overlapping with each other, and a first base station for using a carrier A, one of the carriers having the overlapping portion, preferentially uses, over a second base station for using a carrier B, a radio resource of a part of the overlapping portion in assigning user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Sahara, Toshinori Iinuma
  • Publication number: 20190185226
    Abstract: A synthetic resin container lid (2) has a shape including a body (4), which is mounted on a mouth-neck portion (56) of a container by locking a locking means (26) to a locked means (58) of the mouth-neck portion (56), and an upper lid (6) coupled to the body (4) via a hinge means (32). The synthetic resin container lid (2) is improved so that the entire container lid (2) is fully and easily detached from the mouth-neck portion of the container. The axial depth of an annular or arcuate groove (46) formed in a hanging wall (10) of the body (4) and extending in a circumferential direction is changed as required. At least in a second break region (B) and a third break region (C), a circumferential breakable line (53) extending continuously in the circumferential direction along an axially lower end part of the groove (46) is formed in the hanging wall (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru SAHARA, Satoru SHIMADA, Takashi SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9762307
    Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of communication terminals. The communication terminal calculates a desired channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the desired base station in communication therewith, also calculates an interference channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the strong interference base station having the strongest power of an interference wave affecting the communication terminal, and notifies the desired base station of the desired channel matrix and the interference channel matrix in an uplink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Sahara
  • Patent number: 9686794
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that, in using a communication scheme such as TD-LTE, may attain a high speed communication by securing a bandwidth of carriers and prevent radio interference with another system by keeping the carriers within a frequency band assigned to the communication scheme. Specifically, the communication system having a plurality of communication apparatuses for carrying out a radio communication by assigning the plurality of communication apparatuses to a second frequency band with a predetermined bandwidth to be exceeded by carriers serially assigned, assigns the carriers to the second frequency band in such a manner as to overlap a portion of each of the carriers, and a communication apparatus (10a) using one of the carriers and a communication apparatus (10b) using the other carrier carry out the radio communication by preferentially using respective ranges of the overlapping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Sahara, Toshinori Iinuma
  • Patent number: 9515718
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus 10 includes an adaptive array antenna 11, a reference signal synthesizer 15 that calculates a synthesized reference signal by multiplying a reference signal portion of each layer by an orthogonal signal to synthesize proximity reference signal portions of different resource elements and multiplies a known reference signal by the orthogonal signal, a weight calculator 16 that calculates an adaptive array weight from the synthesized reference signal and a known reference signal multiplied by the orthogonal signal, a weight synthesizer 17 that calculates a synthesized reception signal by multiplying the reference signal portion by the adaptive array weight to perform an antenna synthesis, a channel estimator 18 that estimates a propagation path from the synthesized reception signal and the known reference signal multiplied by the orthogonal signal, and a channel equalizer 19 that implements a channel equalization from the synthesized reception signal and the propagation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Sahara
  • Publication number: 20160119926
    Abstract: A communication system having a plurality of base stations for carrying out radio communication by arranging a plurality of carriers each taking a first frequency bandwidth in a second frequency band that is predetermined and to be exceeded by the carriers arranged in succession, wherein the communication system arranges the carriers in the second frequency band in such a manner that each of the carriers has an overlapping portion overlapping with each other, and a first base station for using a carrier A, one of the carriers having the overlapping portion, preferentially uses, over a second base station for using a carrier B, a radio resource of a part of the overlapping portion in assigning user data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Toru SAHARA, Toshinori IINUMA
  • Publication number: 20160080063
    Abstract: A method for a communication terminal to feed back, to a strong interference base station, information on a reference signal received from the strong interference base station will be provided. In particular, a communication system includes a plurality of base stations 100 (100a and 100b) and a plurality of communication terminals 200 (200a and 200b), wherein the communication terminal 200a calculates a desired channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the desired base station 100a in communication therewith, also calculates an interference channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the strong interference base station 100b having the strongest power of an interference wave affecting the communication terminal 200a, and notifies the desired base station 100a of the desired channel matrix and the interference channel matrix in an uplink message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventor: Toru SAHARA
  • Patent number: 9286565
    Abstract: A composite container lid which includes an inner cap fitted onto the container mouth portion by screw engagement, an over-cap fitted onto the inner cap, and an IC tag. The over-cap has a top panel and a skirt descending from the circumferential edge of the top panel. The inner cap has a top plate and a cylindrical wall descending from the circumferential edge of the top plate and has a thread formed in the inner surface thereof to come into screw engagement with the outer surface of the container mouth portion. An engaging means is provided between the inner surface of the skirt of the over-cap and the outer surface of the cylindrical wall of the inner cap to transmit the turn of the over-cap fitted onto the inner cap to the inner cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Arai, Takahiro Kurosawa, Takayuki Kikuchi, Toru Sahara, Mamiko Sugi
  • Patent number: 9277557
    Abstract: A radio base station (eNB1), when having received an upstream radio signal of a radio frequency band from a radio terminal (UE2), calculates, based on a demodulation reference signal included in the upstream radio signal, and stores reception weights of antennas (108A to 108D). The radio base station (eNB1) further sets, as the transmission weight of each of the antennas (108A to 108D), that one of the stored reception weights of the antennas (108A to 108D) which was calculated during a past given interval and which corresponds to a frequency band that is the nearest to the frequency band of a PDSCH that is a target for setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Sahara
  • Publication number: 20160050056
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus 10 includes an adaptive array antenna 11, a reference signal synthesizer 15 that calculates a synthesized reference signal by multiplying a reference signal portion of each layer by an orthogonal signal to synthesize proximity reference signal portions of different resource elements and multiplies a known reference signal by the orthogonal signal, a weight calculator 16 that calculates an adaptive array weight from the synthesized reference signal and a known reference signal multiplied by the orthogonal signal, a weight synthesizer 17 that calculates a synthesized reception signal by multiplying the reference signal portion by the adaptive array weight to perform an antenna synthesis, a channel estimator 18 that estimates a propagation path from the synthesized reception signal and the known reference signal multiplied by the orthogonal signal, and a channel equalizer 19 that implements a channel equalization from the synthesized reception signal and the propagation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru SAHARA
  • Publication number: 20150373718
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that, in using a communication scheme such as TD-LTE, may attain a high speed communication by securing a bandwidth of carriers and prevent radio interference with another system by keeping the carriers within a frequency band assigned to the communication scheme. Specifically, the communication system having a plurality of communication apparatuses for carrying out a radio communication by assigning the plurality of communication apparatuses to a second frequency band with a predetermined bandwidth to be exceeded by carriers serially assigned, assigns the carriers to the second frequency band in such a manner as to overlap a portion of each of the carriers, and a communication apparatus (10a) using one of the carriers and a communication apparatus (10b) using the other carrier carry out the radio communication by preferentially using respective ranges of the overlapping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru SAHARA, Toshinori IINUMA
  • Patent number: 9214994
    Abstract: A base station includes: a MIMO precoding section (32) for converting transmission data addressed to a mobile station to two data streams that respectively correspond to two reception antennas included in the mobile station, by performing MIMO precoding on the transmission data; a weight calculating section for calculating a transmission weight to be used for forming a directivity pattern directed toward each of the two reception antennas; and a weighting/combining section (34) for generating two combined data streams that are to be supplied to the respective antennas (20-1 and 20-2), by weighting each of the two data streams with the transmission weight calculated with respect to the reception antenna of the mobile station that corresponds to the data stream, and combining the two weighted data streams for each of the antennas (20). The two combined data streams are respectively transmitted from the antennas (20-1 and 20-2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Sahara
  • Patent number: 9160437
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a plurality of antennas receiving signals transmitted from one or more transmission antennas; a synthesis calculation unit performing a synthesis calculation of respective reception signals received by the plurality of antennas and reception weights corresponding to respective antenna ports; a channel estimation unit calculating respective estimated channel values from respective synthesized signals obtained by the synthesis calculation for the respective antenna ports, and a decoding unit performing decoding from the respective estimated channel values and the synthesized signals for the respective antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Ajima, Toru Sahara, Minako Kitahara, Tomohiro Suzuki, Keisuke Sanagi, Shunsaku Kikuchi, Takashi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 9136920
    Abstract: A reception apparatus obtains a first channel estimated value from a reference signal of each layer and a known reference signal that are received and multiplies the first channel estimated value by an orthogonal signal sequence in each layer. Subsequently, the reception apparatus synthesizes a signal in each layer and, from the orthogonal signal sequence and the synthesized signal, calculates an adaptive array antenna weight. Next, the reception apparatus carries out antenna synthesis of the data signal and the reference signal by using the above weight for each layer and obtains a second channel estimated value from the reference signal subjected to the synthesis. Then, the reception apparatus carries out MIMO demodulation from a result of the channel estimation for each layer described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Sahara
  • Publication number: 20150186770
    Abstract: A composite container lid for a packing container, which comprises an inner cap 30 fitted onto the container mouth portion 20, an over-cap 40 fitted onto the inner cap 30, and an IC tag 10, wherein an engaging means is provided between the inner surface of a skirt 42 of the over-cap 40 and the outer surface of a cylindrical wall 32 of the inner cap 30, the IC tag 10 comprises a resin film 1 that includes an IC chip 3, an antenna 5 and an unsealing detector circuit 9, and the IC tag 10 is attached to the inner cap 30 or to the over-cap 40 in a manner that the unsealing detector circuit 9 is broken by the motion of the over-cap 40 relative to the inner cap 30 caused in the step of unsealing the inner cap 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Arai, Takahiro Kurosawa, Takayuki Kikuchi, Toru Sahara, Mamiko Sugi