Patents by Inventor Akiyuki KADOYA

Akiyuki KADOYA 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: 11112614
    Abstract: A light-emitting device improves the beam quality of emission light from a single emitter light source in the slow-axis direction, and includes a light source 10 having a single emitter and a beam shaping module that splits the emission light from the light source into to a plurality of split-lights in the slow-axis direction, and shapes the split-lights as a shaped-beam arrayed in the fast-axis direction, and outputs the shaped-beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyuki Kadoya, Ichiro Fukushi, Koji Tojo
  • Patent number: 10727644
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of laser diodes; a plurality of optical elements installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a plurality of units formed by fixing the laser diodes and the optical elements per each laser diode and installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a converging element that converges laser beams emitted from the plurality of the laser diodes to a fiber; a housing element houses the plurality of the units and the converging element; and a thermal transfer plate performs heat dissipation of the plurality of the units. The heat resistance reducing element having a heat resistance value that is smaller than a predetermined value is installed between the thermal transfer plate and each unit or the processing for reducing the heat resistance is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Sakamoto, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe, Naoya Ishigaki, Jiro Saikawa, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo
  • Patent number: 10514486
    Abstract: The light emitting device is provided with a plurality of emitted elements 11, 12 to 1n; a light diffusion element 40 which diffuses emitted light L11, L12 to L1n respectively from the light emitting elements 11, 12 to 1n and outputs diffused light L21, L22 to L2n; and an optical coupling element 50 which receives the diffused light L21, L22 to L2n and outputs the output light L3 that is obtained by coupling the diffused light L21, L22 to L2n. The light diffusion element 40 diffuses the emitted light L11, L12 to L1n into a range that includes the direction of the optical axis of the optical coupling element 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyuki Kadoya, Ichiro Fukushi
  • Patent number: 10361535
    Abstract: The semiconductor laser driving circuit that controls an overshoot on modulation includes a semiconductor laser, of which anode is connected to a power source, that emits the laser light that is modulated by an external modulation input signal, an impedance element connected to a cathode of the laser device, an impedance element connected to the anode, and a collector of a transistor Q1, connected to the impedance element; a collector of a transistor Q2, connected to the other end of the impedance element, a differential pair circuit to which emitters of Q1, Q2 are connected; an electric current source iMOD connected to the emitters of Q1, Q2; and a differential driver that generates a differential voltage (vb1?vb2) that controls Q1, Q2 by driving Q1 by the external modulation input signal, wherein the differential driver controls the differential voltage so that the amplitude of the overshoot of the electric current, which flows in the laser when the output of the laser is at a high-level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190179092
    Abstract: A light-emitting device improves the beam quality of emission light from a single emitter light source in the slow-axis direction, and includes a light source 10 having a single emitter and a beam shaping module that splits the emission light from the light source into to a plurality of split-lights in the slow-axis direction, and shapes the split-lights as a shaped-beam arrayed in the fast-axis direction, and outputs the shaped-beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyuki KADOYA, lchiro FUKUSHI, Koji TOJO
  • Publication number: 20190179071
    Abstract: The light emitting device is provided with a plurality of emitted elements 11, 12 to 1n; a light diffusion element 40 which diffuses emitted light L11, L12 to L1n respectively from the light emitting elements 11, 12 to 1n and outputs diffused light L21, L22 to L2n; and an optical coupling element 50 which receives the diffused light L21, L22 to L2n and outputs the output light L3 that is obtained by coupling the diffused light L21, L22 to L2n. The light diffusion element 40 diffuses the emitted light L11, L12 to L1n into a range that includes the direction of the optical axis of the optical coupling element 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyuki KADOYA, Ichiro FUKUSHI
  • Patent number: 10230213
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser driving circuit that ensures the satisfied extinction ratio, the accuracy of the light output, and enables the light output dynamically to change based on a modulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190027893
    Abstract: The semiconductor laser driving circuit that controls an overshoot on modulation includes a semiconductor laser, of which anode is connected to a power source, that emits the laser light that is modulated by an external modulation input signal, an impedance element connected to a cathode of the laser device, an impedance element connected to the anode, and a collector of a transistor Q1, connected to the impedance element; a collector of a transistor Q2, connected to the other end of the impedance element, a differential pair circuit to which emitters of Q1, Q2 are connected; an electric current source iMOD connected to the emitters of Q1, Q2; and a differential driver that generates a differential voltage (vb1?vb2) that controls Q1, Q2 by driving Q1 by the external modulation input signal, wherein the differential driver controls the differential voltage so that the amplitude of the overshoot of the electric current, which flows in the laser when the output of the laser is at a high-level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190027894
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser driving circuit that ensures the satisfied extinction ratio, the accuracy of the light output, and enables the light output dynamically to change based on a modulation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20180013263
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of laser diodes; a plurality of optical elements installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a plurality of units formed by fixing the laser diodes and the optical elements per each laser diode and installed corresponding to the plurality of the laser diodes; a converging element that converges laser beams emitted from the plurality of the laser diodes to a fiber; a housing element houses the plurality of the units and the converging element; and a thermal transfer plate performs heat dissipation of the plurality of the units. The heat resistance reducing element having a heat resistance value that is smaller than a predetermined value is installed between the thermal transfer plate and each unit or the processing for reducing the heat resistance is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUNKI SAKAMOTO, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Jiro SAIKAWA, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO
  • Patent number: 9746615
    Abstract: The light-synthesizing laser device includes a plurality of collimating lenses that are arranged in a one-to-one relationship with a plurality of laser light sources which exhibit anisotropy in a laser light emission angle, and that convert laser light beams emitted from the laser light sources into parallel light; a condensing lens that condenses the laser light that has been converted into parallel light by the plurality of collimating lenses; and an optical fiber (5) having a square waveguide core (SC) which has a square shape, the fiber receiving and synthesizing the laser light condensed by the condensing lens. A longitudinal axis of a condensed beam condensed by the condensing lens is aligned with a diagonal axis of the square waveguide core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Junki Sakamoto, Koji Tojo, Kazuma Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9696501
    Abstract: A fiber coupling module comprises an optical fiber connector detachable from an optical fiber cable, wherein an end surface of the optical fiber cable is treated with an anti-reflection coat to set the reflectance lower than a predetermined value relative to the light of a first wavelength band and to set the reflectance higher than a predetermined value relative to the light of a second wavelength band excluding the first wavelength band, and the fiber coupling module connects to the optical fiber cable through said optical fiber connector. A main light source outputs the light of the first wavelength band to the optical fiber cable. An aiming light source outputs the light of the second wavelength band to the optical fiber cable. A detection element that detects the connection status of the optical fiber cable to the optical fiber connector based on the light of the second wavelength band reflected from the end surface of the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyuki Kadoya, Koji Tojo
  • Patent number: 9647422
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of semiconductor lasers, a driving device that supplies a driving electric current to the semiconductor laser, a trigger generation circuit that sends a trigger signal to the driving device in order to output the driving electric current, and a wave-combining device that wave-combines laser light emitted from the semiconductor lasers at the combined-wave end, and at least any one of a signal transmitting time, an electric current transmitting time and a light transmitting time is adjusted so as to be the time set respectively for transmitting paths; wherein the signal transmitting time in which the trigger signal transmits over the signal path, the electric current transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the electric current path, a light transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo, Kazuma Watanabe, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Junki Sakamoto, Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno
  • Publication number: 20170110849
    Abstract: A laser device has a plurality of semiconductor lasers, a driving device that supplies a driving electric current to the semiconductor laser, a trigger generation circuit that sends a trigger signal to the driving device in order to output the driving electric current, and a wave-combining device that wave-combines laser light emitted from the semiconductor lasers at the combined-wave end, and at least any one of a signal transmitting time, an electric current transmitting time and a light transmitting time is adjusted so as to be the time set respectively for transmitting paths; wherein the signal transmitting time in which the trigger signal transmits over the signal path, the electric current transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the electric current path, a light transmitting time in which the laser light transmits over the optical path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO, Kazuma WATANABE, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Junki SAKAMOTO, Jiro SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO
  • Publication number: 20170082805
    Abstract: The light-synthesizing laser device includes a plurality of collimating lenses that are arranged in a one-to-one relationship with a plurality of laser light sources which exhibit anisotropy in a laser light emission angle, and that convert laser light beams emitted from the laser light sources into parallel light; a condensing lens that condenses the laser light that has been converted into parallel light by the plurality of collimating lenses; and an optical fiber (5) having a square waveguide core (SC) which has a square shape, the fiber receiving and synthesizing the laser light condensed by the condensing lens. A longitudinal axis of a condensed beam condensed by the condensing lens is aligned with a diagonal axis of the square waveguide core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: JIRO SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Junki SAKAMOTO, Koji TOJO, Kazuma WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170082811
    Abstract: A fiber coupling module comprises an optical fiber connector detachable from an optical fiber cable, wherein an end surface of the optical fiber cable is treated with an anti-reflection coat to set the reflectance lower than a predetermined value relative to the light of a first wavelength band and to set the reflectance higher than a predetermined value relative to the light of a second wavelength band excluding the first wavelength band, and the fiber coupling module connects to the optical fiber cable through said optical fiber connector. A main light source 2 outputs the light of the first wavelength band to the optical fiber cable. An aiming light source outputs the light of the second wavelength band to the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyuki KADOYA, Koji TOJO