Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Fuminori Nakamura

Toru Tanizaki

Hideaki Yamada

Yohei Ishikawa

Ikuo Takakuwa

Taiyo Nishiyama

Koichi Sakamoto

Hiroaki Tanaka

Toru Ishii

Takatoshi Kato

Nobumasa Kitamori

Yukio Takimoto

A high-frequency oscillation apparatus wherein an oscillation signal output from a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is transferred through a transfer line to a resonator and the resonator is excited. The resonator is coupled with a second transfer line and an RF signal having a level corresponding to the frequency of the oscillation signal is transferred through the second transfer line. When the resonant frequency of the resonator is set to a frequency higher than the oscillation-frequency modulation range of the VCO, the oscillation frequency and the RF-signal level have one-to-one correspondence. A detector detects the RF signal and outputs to a control section. The control section compensates a control voltage signal applied to the VCO according to the detected-signal level, and outputs the control voltage signal to the VCO to compensate the oscillation signal of the VCO.

High-frequency oscillation apparatus, radio apparatus, and radar

A guide marker includes a substrate and a radio-wave reflecting unit for reflecting radio waves at certain intensity in all directions in a virtual plane, including the incident direction of the radio waves, the radio-wave reflecting unit being provided in the surface of the substrate. The radio-wave reflecting unit includes a concave and convex portions provided in the substrate or radio-wave reflectors which resonate at the frequency of incident radio waves and which reflect the radio waves in the incident direction. The radio-wave reflectors are mounted on the substrate. A visual guide marker device includes one of a light-reflecting component having a reflection characteristic and a light-generating component which self-generates light, and a guide marker including a dielectric material.

Guide marker and visual guide marker device

An antenna device capable of increasing the speed of scanning as well as extending the scanning angular range of a beam to obtain a high gain. A radar module and a communication apparatus having enhanced detection capabilities obtainable by using the antenna device. In the antenna device, electromagnetic waves radiated from a primary radiator are transmitted to a plurality of openings, e.g., dielectric lenses and/or reflectors or optical transmitters. The dielectric openings are arranged on a fixed portion and the primary radiator is arranged on a moving portion. The moving portion is displaced relatively with respect to the fixed portion. This arrangement enables the selection of an opening used for receiving each of the electromagnetic waves from the primary radiator to change the direction of the beam.

Antenna device, communication apparatus and radar module

An antenna apparatus such that a dielectric strip and a dielectric resonator are provided to form a primary vertical radiator, another dielectric strip is provided which is coupled to the dielectric strip to form a directional coupler, and a radiation beam is tilted by changing the relative position of the primary radiator with respect to the dielectric lens by displacing the primary vertical radiator in the directional coupler.

Antenna apparatus and transmission and receiving apparatus using same

Antenna apparatus and transmission and receiving apparatus using the same

A dielectric lens antenna includes a dielectric lens, a primary radiator and a dielectric member provided between the dielectric lens and the primary radiator. The dielectric member is formed into a substantially circular cone shape, and the dielectric constant of the dielectric member is reduced continuously in the radial direction of the dielectric lens from the center line passing through the center of the dielectric lens and the primary radiator.

Dielectric lens antenna and radio device including the same

An antenna device has less change in gain during beam scanning, caused by the displacement of a primary radiator with respect to a dielectric lens, and scanning can be carried out over a large angular range at uniform gain. A primary radiator has a focal plane in a position deviating from the optical axis of a dielectric lens, and when the primary radiator intersects the optical axis, the primary radiator leaves the focal plane. As a consequence, by moving the primary radiator away from the optical axis to other positions, change in the gain caused by change in the open efficiency and aberration can be reduced.

Antenna device and transmit-receive unit using the same

The invention provides a dielectric lens, wherein the dielectric lens is rotation-symmetrically shaped, and a flat end is disposed at a part of the edge the dielectric lens. By the above described structure and arrangement, it become possible to widen a half-value angle in the direction which the flat ends of the lens are disposed without reducing a gain significantly.

Dielectric lens, dielectric lens antenna including the same, and wireless device using the same

A dielectric lens antenna having a lens comprising a dielectric material and a heating body disposed on a surface of the lens. The dielectric lens antenna has a snow-melting function, which prevents degradation in lens-efficiency.

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Fuminori Nakamura