Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Hosokawa
Yoshifumi Hosokawa 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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Publication number: 20120328819Abstract: A narrow prepreg sheet 20N is bonded along a ridge C, and wide prepreg sheet 20W is bonded to other portions, whereby the wide prepreg sheet 20W having no cut line is bonded to both side portions of the ridge C. In a portion in which a spar 10 is curved, the narrow prepreg sheet 20N is bonded in an axial direction of the spar 10 while divided into plural pieces, and a length of the narrow prepreg sheet 20N is adjusted according to a radius of curvature of the curved portion in the axial direction of the spar 10, whereby various radii of curvature are easily dealt with.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto Motohashi, Yoshifumi Hosokawa
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Patent number: 8340617Abstract: There are provided a sampling mixer, quadrature demodulator, and a wireless device capable of suppressing receiving sensitivity degradation caused by alias components or second-order distortion components. In the sampling mixer (101), a sampling switch (5) and another sampling switch (36) sample a reception signal based on a local signal with a predetermined frequency. A control signal generator (15) generates a control signal for controlling a filter operation. An in-phase mixer (2) and a reverse-phase mixer (3) perform, based on the control signal, filter processing on the sample signal obtained by the sampling switch (5). A delay controller (117) controls the phase difference between the local signal and the control signal according to a reception-desired frequency.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Yoshito Shimizu, Tadashi Morita, Atsushi Maruyama
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Publication number: 20120219818Abstract: There is provided a panel member capable of restraining an increase in weight of a wing panel while restraining wasteful work in the manufacturing process, an aircraft main wing, and a method for forming the panel member. A wing panel 10 is formed with ridges 20 each having a dimension larger than the machining tolerance in the boundary portions between areas A1, A2, . . . Therefore, the worker who handles the wing panel 10 can visually confirm the step portions of the areas A1, A2, . . . easily. Thereby, if a flaw or the like is found in the areas A1, A2, . . . , corrective actions can be properly taken on the actually existing flaw without mistaking the flaw for the step portion of the areas A1, A2, . . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto MOTOHASHI, Yoshifumi HOSOKAWA, Toshinari Fujii
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Publication number: 20120211603Abstract: There is provided a wing panel having improved formability at the time when the wing panel is curvedly formed by the peen forming method, and an aircraft main wing provided with the said wing panel. For a stringer member 20, a base part 21 is formed, and the neutral axis position N in the cross-sectional direction is located on the wing panel 11 side from the center position C in the height direction of a web part 22.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto MOTOHASHI, Yoshifumi HOSOKAWA, Toshinari FUJII
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Publication number: 20120187246Abstract: A vent stringer 20 is formed by a pair of ribs 21 rising in the direction perpendicular to an inner surface 11a of a wing panel 11, and a cover 22 provided in the tip end portions of the ribs 21. With rivets 23 unexposed to an outer surface 1 lb of the wing panel 11, a spark is prevented from occurring in a fuel tank 30, which is provided in a main wing 10, through the rivet 23 at the time of a lightning strike. Formed by being machined integrally with the wing panel 11, the rib 21 is formed with high accuracy so as to match the curved shape of the wing panel 11. The cover 22 has only to be formed by curving a strap member so as to match the shapes of the wing panel 11 and the ribs 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto MOTOHASHI, Yoshifumi HOSOKAWA, Toshinari FUJII, Toshiyasu FUKUOKA
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Patent number: 8229987Abstract: A direct sampling circuit and a receiver which carry out discrete time analog processing with a high degree of design freedom and are provided with a filter property which is achievable to comply with the receipt of a broad band signal. A plurality of discrete time analog processing circuits (101) are connected in parallel with each other, a gm value and a capacitance of a capacitor in each circuit system are set independently based on a prescribed condition, and an output signal obtained from each circuit system is synthesized by means of a buffer capacitor (102), so that an equivalently high-dimensional IIR filter can be put into practice.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Katsuaki Abe, Noriaki Saito, Kiyomichi Araki, Yohei Morishita
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Patent number: 8179185Abstract: A sampling mixer includes TAs (transconductance amplifiers), an in-phase mixer section connected to the TA and the TA, an opposite-phase mixer section connected in parallel with the in-phase mixer section, and a signal generator for generating a control signal for the in-phase mixer section and the opposite-phase mixer section respectively. The IIR filter using signals that underwent a current conversion by using the different transconductances is constructed, so that the filter characteristic can be designed by a weighting of the transconductance in addition to a capacitance ratio. As a result, the wide-band filter characteristic and the band-pass filter characteristic can be obtained, and deterioration of the receiving sensitivity can be suppressed by designing the filter characteristic suitable for the radio communication system.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Noriaki Saito, Katsuaki Abe, Kentaro Miyano, Yasuyuki Naito
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Patent number: 8164380Abstract: A sampling filter of such circuitry as not requiring a high frequency REF signal even if the number of decimation is decreased. In the sampling filter, the rotate capacitor in each switched capacitor circuit including Cr (7a-7d) arranged in four parallel arrays operates in four phases of integration, discharge, reset and feedback different from each other at the same timing. Consequently, a control signal for driving the switched capacitor circuit is used commonly. As a result, the circuit scale of a DCU (104) is reduced and the frequency of the REF signal can be lowered to the frequency of an LO signal even in operation without decimation.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Noriaki Saito, Kentaro Miyano, Katsuaki Abe
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Patent number: 8145175Abstract: The sampling filter apparatus 100 includes the first sampling switch 130, the second sampling switch 131, the first integrator 1500 for integrating the charge input from the first sampling switch, the second integrator 1501 for integrating the charge input from the second sampling switch, a plurality of integrators connected to both of the first integrator and the second integrator via a charging switch, respectively, the control section 140, a plurality of charging switches, and a plurality of discharge switches. A charge input from the sampling switch 130, a charge accumulated in the capacitor 1500 and a charge accumulated in a capacitor 1510 are shared by the capacitor 1500, the capacitor 1510 and the capacitor 1530, and the charge accumulated in the capacitor 1530 is output.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kentaro Miyano, Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Katsuaki Abe, Noriaki Saito, Kiyomichi Araki
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Patent number: 8145143Abstract: When a power supply switch is turned on and an RF signal and an LO signal are input to a bipolar transistor, a mixed signal of both signals is output as an IF signal. When the power supply switch is turned off, the bipolar transistor operates as two diodes connected between a base terminal and an emitter terminal and between the base terminal and a collector terminal. When the IF signal and the LO signal are input, the input signals are mixed with each other by the diodes and the RF signal is output. Accordingly, one frequency conversion is performed by the use of one frequency converter, an external circuit such as a signal path switching switch is not necessary.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Michiaki Matsuo, Noriaki Saito
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Publication number: 20120033766Abstract: In a receiver circuit, an analog signal processor frequency-converts an input high frequency signal into a baseband signal, and performs low pass filtering at a cutoff frequency below a desired-wave band. An ADC converts an output of the analog signal processor into a digital signal. A digital signal processor compensates an output of the ADC for a signal component in the desired-wave band which has been attenuated by the filtering operation of the analog signal processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi HOSOKAWA, George HAYASHI, Ippei KANNO
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Patent number: 8111741Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a sampling filter apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus, which are capable of changing a filter characteristic without employing complex waveforms as control signals, and also, capable of performing filtering process operations without performing a decimation, while utilizing a wide frequency space. A sampling filter apparatus 100 includes a controller 140, a plurality of integrators 150 to 154, a plurality of switches 130, 160 to 164, 170 to 174, 180 to 184, and a plurality of voltage/current converters 120 to 123. An inputted current is stored in four pieces of integrators selected among the plurality of integrators 150 to 154 by one clock, and electric charges which have been stored from four preceding clocks up to one preceding clock are added to each other so as to output the added electric charges from the remaining one integrator.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kentaro Miyano, Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Katsuaki Abe, Akihiko Matsuoka, Noriaki Saito
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Patent number: 8112057Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sampling mixer and a receiver, capable of optimizing a sampling rate of an output signal in response to a fractional band of a modulation band with respect to an RF frequency of the received signal. A sampling mixer of the present invention, includes a history capacitor 6 for integrating a received signal that is converted in terms of current in a continuous time, rotation capacitors 7 to 14 for repeating an integration and a discharge of an input signal, a digital controller 104 for controlling integration periods of the rotation capacitors 7 to 14, and a controlling portion 105 for controlling discharges of the rotation capacitors 7 to 14, wherein the number of the rotation capacitors 7 to 14 connected at a time to a buffer capacitor 15 is switched in answer to a fractional band of the modulation band with respect to a RF frequency.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Akihiko Matsuoka, Kentaro Miyano
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Patent number: 8045938Abstract: Provided is a discrete filter capable of increasing degree of freedom of design including a DC gain. A sampling mixer (100) includes: a control signal generation unit (104) which generates a control signal including an SO signal; a Ch (6) which successively integrates reception signals sampled by an LO signal frequency as discrete signals; a plurality of Cr (7, 8) which successively integrate discrete signals at a timing based on the control signal; Cb (15) which alternately integrates the discrete signals successively integrated by the respective Cr (7, 8); and a gain control capacitance unit (110) which has gain control capacitors (44, 45, 46) connected in parallel to the respective Cr (7, 8) and integrating the discrete signal and a reset switch (47) for resetting the discrete signal of the gain control capacitors (44, 45, 46) integrated in the past, upon connection between one end of Cr (7) and Cb (15).Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Noriaki Saito, Yoshito Shimizu, Katsuaki Abe
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Patent number: 8032094Abstract: Provided is a discrete filter capable of adjusting the number of notches and the notch frequency and easily eliminating a particular frequency component. In a sampling mixer (100), a control signal generation unit (104) generates a plurality of control signals having the same frequency and different phases. A convolution capacity unit (110) integrates the discrete signals obtained by sampling reception signals by using convolution capacitors at a timing based on the control signals. The signals integrated by the convolution capacitors are successively emitted at the timing based on a control signal other than the control signals used for the integration timing. Cb (15) integrates the emitted discrete signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Katsuaki Abe, Kentaro Miyano
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Publication number: 20110221507Abstract: A sampling mixer includes TAs (transconductance amplifiers), an in-phase mixer section connected to the TA and the TA, an opposite-phase mixer section connected in parallel with the in-phase mixer section, and a signal generator for generating a control signal for the in-phase mixer section and the opposite-phase mixer section respectively. The IIR filter using signals that underwent a current conversion by using the different transconductances is constructed, so that the filter characteristic can be designed by a weighting of the transconductance in addition to a capacitance ratio. As a result, the wide-band filter characteristic and the band-pass filter characteristic can be obtained, and deterioration of the receiving sensitivity can be suppressed by designing the filter characteristic suitable for the radio communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Noriaki Saito, Katsuaki Abe, Kentaro Miyano, Yasuyuki Naito
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Patent number: 7979047Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a sampling filter capable of changing a filtering characteristic without use of a complicate waveform as a control signal. A sampling filter 100 has a control section 140, a plurality of integrators, and a plurality of switches. An input current is accumulated in a plurality of capacitors in one clock; adds up electric charges accumulated in the integrators in several preceding clocks to one preceding clock; and outputs a result of addition. When electric charges are accumulated in the integrators in each clock, output electric charges can be subjected to, while being weighted, addition by switching an electric current to be input, so that the filtering characteristic is changed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kentaro Miyano, Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Katsuaki Abe, Akihiko Matsuoka
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Patent number: 7973586Abstract: A sampling mixer includes TAs (transconductance amplifiers), an in-phase mixer section connected to the TA and the TA, an opposite-phase mixer section connected in parallel with the in-phase mixer section, and a signal generator for generating a control signal for the in-phase mixer section and the opposite-phase mixer section respectively. The IIR filter using signals that underwent a current conversion by using the different transconductances is constructed, so that the filter characteristic can be designed by a weighting of the transconductance in addition to a capacitance ratio. As a result, the wide-band filter characteristic and the band-pass filter characteristic can be obtained, and deterioration of the receiving sensitivity can be suppressed by designing the filter characteristic suitable for the radio communication system.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Noriaki Saito, Katsuaki Abe, Kentaro Miyano, Yasuyuki Naito
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Patent number: 7969210Abstract: A master stage 101 comprises a differential circuit composed of transistors 1 and 2, a differential circuit composed of transistors 3 and 4, a differential circuit composed of transistors 5 and 6, a load circuit 7 (a first load circuit), a load circuit 8 (a second load circuit), and a current source transistor 9. The load circuit 7 (the first load circuit) is composed of an inductor 7A (a first inductor), an inductor 7B (a fifth inductor), and a capacity 7C (a first capacity). The inductor 7B and capacity 7C cooperates together in forming a parallel resonance circuit (a first LC parallel resonance circuit), while the parallel resonance circuit is connected in series to the inductor 7A.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Noriaki Saito, Yoshito Shimizu
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Publication number: 20110013736Abstract: A sampling filter device wherein the filter characteristic is variable without using a control signal of a complicated waveform is provided. A sampling filter device 105 has integration capacitors 130 and 131, an integration time adjustment section 180, and a plurality of switches 100, 101, 110, and 111. Input current is integrated in different time duration with one clock and is stored in the integration capacitors 130 and 131 and charges stored in the integration capacitor from several clocks before to one clock before are added and the result is output. When charge is stored in the integration capacitors 130 and 131 with each clock, the integration time duration is changed, whereby it is made possible to weight and add output charge and the filter characteristic changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Tsukamoto, Noriaki Saito, Katsuaki Abe, Kentaro Miyano, Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Yasuyuki Naito