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).
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Patent number: 11112614Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki Kadoya, Ichiro Fukushi, Koji Tojo
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Patent number: 10727644Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Junki Sakamoto, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe, Naoya Ishigaki, Jiro Saikawa, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo
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Patent number: 10514486Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki Kadoya, Ichiro Fukushi
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Patent number: 10361535Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190179092Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki KADOYA, lchiro FUKUSHI, Koji TOJO
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Publication number: 20190179071Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki KADOYA, Ichiro FUKUSHI
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Patent number: 10230213Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Kazuma Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190027893Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE
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Publication number: 20190027894Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE
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Publication number: 20180013263Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2015Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: JUNKI SAKAMOTO, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Kazuma WATANABE, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Jiro SAIKAWA, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO
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Patent number: 9746615Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno, Tomoyuki Hiroki, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Junki Sakamoto, Koji Tojo, Kazuma Watanabe
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Patent number: 9696501Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki Kadoya, Koji Tojo
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Patent number: 9647422Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Hiroki, Koji Tojo, Kazuma Watanabe, Ichiro Fukushi, Akiyuki Kadoya, Junki Sakamoto, Jiro Saikawa, Naoya Ishigaki, Shingo Uno
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Publication number: 20170110849Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki HIROKI, Koji TOJO, Kazuma WATANABE, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Junki SAKAMOTO, Jiro SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO
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Publication number: 20170082805Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: JIRO SAIKAWA, Naoya ISHIGAKI, Shingo UNO, Tomoyuki HIROKI, Ichiro FUKUSHI, Akiyuki KADOYA, Junki SAKAMOTO, Koji TOJO, Kazuma WATANABE
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Publication number: 20170082811Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2014Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyuki KADOYA, Koji TOJO