Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Tomoshige Furuhi

Saneaki Ariumi

Yohei Ishikawa

Yasutaka Sugimoto

Hisao Hayafuji

Tomoki Kato

Sho Suzuki

Koji Kawano

Nobuyuki Nozawa

Manabu Inoue

Takehiko Iizuka

Jun Makino

Takashi Watanabe

Kenta Ago

A grip force estimation device includes a sensor that is attached to sports equipment including a columnar portion having a grip portion at one end and a hitting portion connected to the columnar portion and is attached not at the grip portion but at the columnar portion, and that is configured to detect at least one of bending and twisting of the sports equipment and output detected bending and/or twisting as a sensor signal, a feature data extraction unit configured to extract feature data including a feature when a waveform generated by the hitting portion being externally applied with pressure is attenuated by using the sensor signal, and a grip force estimation unit configured to estimate pressure applied to the grip portion by using the feature data.

Grip force estimation device and grip force estimation method

An antenna module () includes a dielectric substrate () having a multilayer structure, a first radiation electrode (), a second radiation electrode (), and a ground electrode (GND). The second radiation electrode () is arranged between the first radiation electrode () and the ground electrode (GND) in a lamination direction of the dielectric substrate (). In the dielectric substrate (), a hollow portion () is disposed in at least a portion between the first radiation electrode () and the second radiation electrode ().

Antenna module, communication device, and array antenna

An antenna module is an array antenna in which an array of antenna elements extends in at least a first direction. The array of antenna elements in the first direction includes a first antenna group in a middle portion and a second antenna group in two end portions adjacent to the middle portion. The antenna elements in the first antenna group are unequally spaced. The spacing between adjacent antenna elements in the second antenna group is greater than the maximum spacing between adjacent elements in the first antenna group. The amplitude distribution in the antenna module as a whole in the first direction is in a unimodal form in which the amplitude of a radio-frequency signal fed to the antenna elements in the second antenna group is smaller than the amplitude of a radio-frequency signal fed to the antenna elements in the first antenna group.

Antenna module and communication device in which antenna module is incorporated

The insertion loss of a multilayer substrate and an antenna element is reduced. A multilayer substrate according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a multilayer body, a wire conductor, and a first ground electrode. The multilayer body is formed by dielectric layers being layered. The wire conductor is formed in the multilayer body, and a radio frequency signal passes through the wire conductor. The first ground electrode is formed in or on the multilayer body and includes a first surface that faces the wire conductor. The first surface includes a first region and a second region. The surface roughness of the first region is lower than the surface roughness of the second region. The first region overlaps at least part of the wire conductor in plan view in a direction normal to the first ground electrode.

Multilayer substrate and antenna element

A scent delivery device includes two substrate units and a drive voltage power supply unit. A gap is provided between the two substrate units. The substrate units are placed so that the principal surfaces of their respective substrates face the gap. Each of the substrate units includes a plurality of linear electrodes. The linear electrodes are formed and arranged in the width direction on the principal surface of each of the substrates, and are electrically connected every predetermined period in their arrangement order. The drive voltage power supply unit applies drive voltages having the same repeating pattern to each set of electrically connected linear electrodes, with a predetermined phase difference. This configuration causes the frequencies of drive voltages applied to the respective substrate units to differ from each other, thereby setting the blowing direction to an arbitrary direction.

Gas delivery device and vehicle

A resonance element arrayis disposed between a primary radiatorand a lens. In the resonance element array, resonance elements of linear conductors and variable reactance circuits are arranged on a dielectric substrate. A control voltage is applied to a fixed variable reactance circuit by a control portion so that a fixed resonance element is excited by an electromagnetic wave from the primary radiatorand the direction of optical path to be collimated by the lensis electronically changed. Thus, an antenna device, in which a beam scanning is speeded, power consumption for the beam scanning is reduced, operation noise in the beam scanning is eliminated, the reliability is increased, and, when required, the beam direction can be directed to any direction, can be obtained. Furthermore, when necessary, the beam radiation pattern can be changed.

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Tomoshige Furuhi