Patents by Inventor Yuko Mikuni

Yuko Mikuni 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: 6400955
    Abstract: In a radio communication system repeatedly using the same frequency, each base station and terminal station have directional antennas respectively, and a base station has direction-determining patterns for setting a direction of an antenna according to a timing, the adjacent base stations each using the same frequency use different direction-determining. patterns from each other, and remote base stations repeatedly use the same direction-determining patterns. The direction-determining pattern has a correlation between a timing obtained by equally dividing a frame for a communication line by a number of direction-determining patterns and each antenna direction, and a communication slot is allocated based on a timing decided according to the table to a communication line with a terminal station positioned at a particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kawabata, Yuko Mikuni, Yoichi Moritani
  • Patent number: 6400704
    Abstract: A first sector cell is set as an object for measurement (S101). Reception levels in each time slot in the number of TDMA-TDD frames is measured for the object cell (S102) and for all the cells (S103 and S105). The results of the measurement of a specific sector cell are added to the results of the measurement of a sector cell opposite the specific sector cell, and time slots in which control channels can be placed are extracted for each sector cell (S106 to S108). TDMA-TDD frames are then allocated such that the control channels of each sector cell coincide with time slots in which control channels can be placed (S109). In this way, control channels are placed in time slots such that a base station having a sector cell structure avoids interference from the same frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuko Mikuni, Takashi Kawabata, Norihiko Toyota
  • Publication number: 20010001609
    Abstract: A first sector cell is set as the object for measurement (S101). Reception levels in each time slot in the number of TDMA-TDD frames corresponding to the number of sector cells within the base station is measured for the object cell (S102). This measurement is performed for all the cells (S103 and S105). The results of the measurement of the reception levels of a specific sector cell are added to the results of the measurement of the reception levels of a sector cell opposite the specific sector cell, and time slots in which control channels can be placed are extracted for each sector cell (S106 to S108). TDMA-TDD frames are then allocated such that the control channels of each sector cell coincide with time slots in which control channels can be placed (S109). As a result, a control channel placement method is provided in which a TDMA-TDD mode is employed and in which control channels are placed in time slots such that a base station having a sector cell structure avoids interference from the same frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuko Mikuni, Takashi Kawabata, Norihiko Toyota