Patents by Inventor Yasuhiko Fukuoka
Yasuhiko Fukuoka 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).
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Patent number: 11764479Abstract: Provided are a new antenna, a bicycle including the new antenna, a display apparatus including the new antenna, and an unmanned aircraft including the new antenna. An antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor facing the first conductor in a first direction, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line electromagnetically connected to the third conductor. The third conductor is located between the first conductor and the second conductor, apart from the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first direction. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively connected via the third conductor. The antenna is disposed in a bicycle component of a bicycle such that the fourth conductor faces the bicycle component.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Sunao Hashimoto, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Masato Fujishiro, Toi Kanda
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Patent number: 11509063Abstract: There is provided a new type of structure that resonates at a predetermined frequency, an antenna, a wireless communication module, and a wireless communication device. The structure includes a first conductor that extends in a second direction, a second conductor, a third conductor, a fourth conductor. The second conductor faces the first conductor in a first direction and that extends along the second direction. The third conductor is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is configured to be electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends along a first plane. Each of the first conductor and the second conductor includes a portion that extends along the second direction and that is exposed to an exterior space.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Uchimura, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Hikaru Nekozuka, Fangwei Tong, Masamichi Yonehara
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Patent number: 11509068Abstract: A structure includes first to a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, and a fourth conductor. The first conductor extends along a second plane including a second direction and a third direction intersecting with the second direction. The second conductor faces the first conductor along a first direction intersecting with the second plane and extends along the second plane. The third conductor capacitively connects the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends along a first plane including the first direction and the third direction. The third conductor faces the fourth conductor via a base. The base includes a plurality of first fiber components and a first resin component that holds the first fiber components. Part of the first fiber components extends along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Hiramatsu, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Tetsuya Yuda, Hiroshi Uchimura, Fangwei Tong, Masamichi Yonehara, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11509055Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an antenna and is used for storage as an electrical conductive body. The antenna includes a first conductor and a second conductor, one or more third conductors, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The first conductor and the second conductor face each other in a first axis. The one or more third conductors are located between the first conductor and the second conductor and extend in the first axis. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first axis. The feeding line is connected to any one of the third conductors. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively coupled to each other via the third conductor. The fourth conductor faces a conductor part of the storage.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Fujishiro, Sunao Hashimoto, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Jun Kitakado, Hiroshi Uchimura, Shinji Isoyama, Susumu Kashiwase, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Masamichi Yonehara, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Takanori Ikuta, Toi Kanda
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Patent number: 11483029Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device installed on an installation surface of a vehicle and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device includes an antenna and a sensor. The antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor, one or more third conductors, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The first wireless communication device transmits a signal from the antenna to the second wireless communication device, based on information detected by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Uchimura, Takanori Ikuta, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Susumu Kashiwase, Katsuro Nakamata, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Sunao Hashimoto, Yasuhiko Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20210194154Abstract: A structure includes first to a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, and a fourth conductor. The first conductor extends along a second plane including a second direction and a third direction intersecting with the second direction. The second conductor faces the first conductor along a first direction intersecting with the second plane and extends along the second plane. The third conductor capacitively connects the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends along a first plane including the first direction and the third direction. The third conductor faces the fourth conductor via a base. The base includes a plurality of first fiber components and a first resin component that holds the first fiber components. Part of the first fiber components extends along the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Nobuki HIRAMATSU, Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Tetsuya YUDA, Hiroshi UCHIMURA, Fangwei TONG, Masamichi YONEHARA, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210194149Abstract: There is provided a new type of structure that resonates at a predetermined frequency, an antenna, a wireless communication module, and a wireless communication device. The structure includes a first conductor that extends in a second direction, a second conductor, a third conductor, a fourth conductor. The second conductor faces the first conductor in a first direction and that extends along the second direction. The third conductor is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is configured to be electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends along a first plane. Each of the first conductor and the second conductor includes a portion that extends along the second direction and that is exposed to an exterior space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Nobuki HIRAMATSU, Hiroshi UCHIMURA, Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Hikaru NEKOZUKA, Fangwei TONG, Masamichi YONEHARA
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Publication number: 20210036400Abstract: Provided are a new antenna, a bicycle including the new antenna, a display apparatus including the new antenna, and an unmanned aircraft including the new antenna. An antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor facing the first conductor in a first direction, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line electromagnetically connected to the third conductor. The third conductor is located between the first conductor and the second conductor, apart from the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first direction. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively connected via the third conductor. The antenna is disposed in a bicycle component of a bicycle such that the fourth conductor faces the bicycle component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Sunao HASHIMOTO, Nobuki HIRAMATSU, Hiroshi UCHIMURA, Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Masato FUJISHIRO, Toi KANDA
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Publication number: 20210036736Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device installed on an installation surface of a vehicle and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device includes an antenna and a sensor. The antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor, one or more third conductors, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The first wireless communication device transmits a signal from the antenna to the second wireless communication device, based on information detected by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi UCHIMURA, Takanori IKUTA, Nobuki HIRAMATSU, Susumu KASHIWASE, Katsuro NAKAMATA, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Sunao HASHIMOTO, Yasuhiko FUKUOKA
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Publication number: 20200350687Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an antenna and is used for storage as an electrical conductive body. The antenna includes a first conductor and a second conductor, one or more third conductors, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The first conductor and the second conductor face each other in a first axis. The one or more third conductors are located between the first conductor and the second conductor and extend in the first axis. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first axis. The feeding line is connected to any one of the third conductors. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively coupled to each other via the third conductor. The fourth conductor faces a conductor part of the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Masato FUJISHIRO, Sunao HASHIMOTO, Nobuki HIRAMATSU, Jun KITAKADO, Hiroshi UCHIMURA, Shinji ISOYAMA, Susumu KASHIWASE, Hiroshi YAMASAKI, Masamichi YONEHARA, Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Takanori IKUTA, Toi KANDA
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Patent number: 10712192Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives, from a sensor container, information indicating an orientation of the sensor container. The controller, based on the information indicating the orientation of the sensor container, calculates a calculated value indicating a remaining amount of contents of the sensor container. The controller determines an estimated value of the remaining amount on the basis of the calculated value. The communication interface transmits the estimated value indicating the remaining amount to an external device. When the calculated value indicating the remaining amount decreases by a first predetermined value or more within a predetermined time period, the controller does not perform the determination of the estimated value on the basis of the calculated value.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Takahisa Yamamoto, Djuniadi Arifin Sagala, Katsuro Nakamata, Takanori Ikuta, Shinji Isoyama, Jun Kitakado, Takahiro Saiwai, Atsuhisa Inakoshi, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Takuya Kuribayashi, Sunao Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20190273304Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an antenna, a wireless module that supplies power to the antenna to cause the antenna to emit electromagnetic waves having a predetermined frequency band, a structural member having a conductor surface on at least a portion thereof, and at least one resonator including a plurality of unit conductors and having a resonance frequency band that includes a resonance frequency. The at least one resonator is positioned between the conductor surface and the antenna. The predetermined frequency band is included in the resonance frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Shinji ISOYAMA, Nobuki HIRAMATSU
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Patent number: 10388628Abstract: An electronic component package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first substrate, a sealing member, a second substrate, and connectors. The first substrate has a first top surface on which a first electronic component is mounted. The sealing member is positioned on the first top surface and configured to seal the first electronic component and a second electronic component. The second substrate has a second top surface on which the second electronic component is mounted, and is positioned within the sealing member. The connectors electrically couple the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Tadao Yamasako, Masashi Hirooka
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Publication number: 20180331068Abstract: An electronic component package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first substrate, a sealing member, a second substrate, and connectors. The first substrate has a first top surface on which a first electronic component is mounted. The sealing member is positioned on the first top surface and configured to seal the first electronic component and a second electronic component. The second substrate has a second top surface on which the second electronic component is mounted, and is positioned within the sealing member. The connectors electrically couple the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Tadao YAMASAKO, Masashi HIROOKA
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Publication number: 20180113019Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives, from a sensor container, information indicating an orientation of the sensor container. The controller, based on the information indicating the orientation of the sensor container, calculates a calculated value indicating a remaining amount of contents of the sensor container. The controller determines an estimated value of the remaining amount on the basis of the calculated value. The communication interface transmits the estimated value indicating the remaining amount to an external device. When the calculated value indicating the remaining amount decreases by a first predetermined value or more within a predetermined time period, the controller does not perform the determination of the estimated value on the basis of the calculated value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Yasuhiko FUKUOKA, Takahisa YAMAMOTO, Djuniadi Arifin SAGALA, Katsuro NAKAMATA, Takanori IKUTA, Shinji ISOYAMA, Jun KITAKADO, Takahiro SAIWAI, Atsuhisa INAKOSHI, Nobuki HIRAMATSU, Takuya KURIBAYASHI, Sunao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20130076444Abstract: Provided are an amplification circuit capable of amplifying an input signal having a changing duty ratio with high efficiency, and a transmission device and a communication device using the amplification circuit. The amplification circuit includes: a transistor circuit (10) having a pulse wave first signal having a changing duty ratio input, and a second signal obtained by amplifying the pulse wave first signal output; and a matching circuit (20) having the second signal input and a third signal having a fundamental frequency of the pulse wave first signal output. An impedance of the matching circuit (20) as seen from the transistor circuit side changes in accordance with the duty ratio of the pulse wave first signal. The transmission device and the communication device each use the amplification circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Aikawa, Akira Nagayama, Yasuhiko Fukuoka
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Patent number: 8396435Abstract: To provide an adder capable of obtaining an addition signal of a plurality of high frequency signals, and also a power combiner, a quadrature modulator, a quadrature demodulator, a power amplifier, a transmitter, and a wireless communicator, each of which uses the adder. Impedances (Zg, Zh) seen from a common output point (P3) of a plurality of first impedance circuits (110a, 110b) toward respective input terminals (102a, 102b) are set so that high frequency currents (Ig, Ih) are approximately zero. An impedance (Zs) seen from a first connection point (P1) toward the input terminals (102a, 102b) is set so that a high frequency current (Is) is approximately zero. An impedance (Zc) seen from the first connection point (P1) toward a circuit (150) is set so that a high frequency current (Ic) is approximately zero. An impedance (Zm) seen from a second connection point (P2) toward a power supply is set so that a high frequency current (Im) is approximately zero.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Akira Nagayama, Yasuhiko Fukuoka
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Patent number: 8351881Abstract: Disclosed are an addition circuit that makes it possible to add two vector signals in a high-frequency region, a power amplifier circuit using the same, and a transmission device and communication device using the power amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Akira Nagayama
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Patent number: 8344781Abstract: To provide a power amplification device that can amplify an input signal having an envelope variation with high power-added efficiency in a wide frequency range, and a transmission device and a communication device using the power amplification device. A first orthogonal signal (Sd1) is generated by performing vector subtraction between first and second fundamental signals (Su1 and Su2) having the same amplitude and a phase difference ?? (0 degrees<??<180 degrees) therebetween. First and second fundamental signals are generated based on an input signal (Sin). A second orthogonal signal (Sd2) is generated by performing vector addition between the first and second fundamental signals (Su1 and Su2). First and second constant envelope signals (S1 and S2) are generated by performing vector addition between the second fundamental signal (Su2) and first and second constant envelope vector generation signals (e and ?e) obtained based on the first fundamental signal (Su1).Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Akira Nagayama, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Kouichi Maruta
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Publication number: 20120270512Abstract: Provided are a transfer gate circuit that has reduced disturbance in an output waveform thereof, a power combining circuit using the transfer gate circuit, and a transmission device and a communication device that use the power combining circuit. The transfer gate circuit includes: output terminals (3, 4); a transistor (5) including a drain connected to the output terminal (3); a transistor (6) including a drain connected to the output terminal (4); transistors (7, 8) each including a drain connected to the output terminal (3) and each including a source connected to a ground potential; and transistors (9, 10) each including a drain connected to the output terminal (4) and each including a source connected to the ground potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Nagayama, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, Sadao Igarashi, Shinji Isoyama