Patents by Inventor Kazutaka NOTO

Kazutaka NOTO 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).

  • Publication number: 20240031019
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring device and an optical fiber identification method capable of efficiently identifying an optical fiber at a construction site. The monitoring device 71 includes a light receiver 74 that receives an optical signal SL leaked from an optical fiber, a counter 75 that counts the number of unique numbers indicating transmission sources included in the optical signal SL, and a display unit 76 that displays the number of unique numbers. The monitoring device 71 further includes a control unit 77 that causes the display unit 76 to display that a portion where the optical signal SL has leaked is between the 8-branch splitter 51 and the OLT 11 when the number of unique numbers is two or more, and that causes the display unit 76 to display that it is unknown whether a portion where the optical signal SL has leaked is between the 8-branch splitter 51 and the OLT 11 or between the 8-branch splitter 51 and the ONU 21 when the number of unique numbers is one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenobu HIROTA, Takui UEMATSU, Hiroyuki IIDA, Kazutaka NOTO, Kenji INOUE
  • Patent number: 11747294
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to realize water immersion detection that does not require a replacement module, and does not cause any optical loss. The present disclosure relates to a device configured to measure guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a measurement target optical fiber, and detect water immersion of the measurement target optical fiber based on a characteristic around a peak of the guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Noto, Nazuki Honda, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Publication number: 20230221153
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling detection of microbending even in a case where a microbending loss varies. The present disclosure relates to a device that measures a transmission loss in a measured optical fiber to be targeted, and detects microbending in the measured optical fiber based on periodicity of the transmission loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka NOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230088679
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to detect a microbend in an optical fiber before the light-receiving intensity of a transmission device decreases. The present disclosure relates to a device configured to measure guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a measurement target optical fiber, and detect a microbend in the measurement target optical fiber based on a characteristic around a peak of the guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka NOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230085614
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to realize water immersion detection that does not require a replacement module, and does not cause any optical loss. The present disclosure relates to a device configured to measure guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a measurement target optical fiber, and detect water immersion of the measurement target optical fiber based on a characteristic around a peak of the guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka NOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220299401
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber test method, an optical fiber test apparatus, and a program, capable of detecting a boundary of an optical fiber line facility regardless of a change in a noise amount. A change amount (a differential value) of an OTDR waveform increases toward a distal end due to noise effects, making it difficult to determine a boundary of the optical fiber using the change amount. Therefore, in the present invention, a dispersion of the OTDR waveform, which increases toward a distal end due to noise effects, is also used to determine the boundary of the optical fiber. In other words, in the present invention, the noise amount is expressed by the dispersion, and the dispersion is compared with the change amount such as a differential value as a threshold, to determine the boundary of the optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nazuki HONDA, Kazutaka NOTO, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11112332
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical fiber cable monitoring method and an optical fiber cable monitoring system capable of linking information obtained from a measurement result with information stored in a DB and accurately specifying a loss occurrence location on an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable monitoring method according to the present disclosure uses two types of optical fiber measurement techniques having different sensitivities. Each of closure locations on the optical fiber cable is acquired with a high-sensitivity measurement technique, and geographical location information and the closure locations on the optical fiber are linked in an arrangement order of the closures. Thus, an operator can recognize an actual location (geographical location information) of a closure that is linked to a location of a point of abnormality on the optical fiber cable when an abnormality in the closure is detected with a low-sensitivity measurement technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Koshikiya, Atsushi Nakamura, Kazutaka Noto, Tetsuya Manabe
  • Publication number: 20210003474
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical fiber cable monitoring method and an optical fiber cable monitoring system capable of linking information obtained from a measurement result with information stored in a DB and accurately specifying a loss occurrence location on an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable monitoring method according to the present disclosure uses two types of optical fiber measurement techniques having different sensitivities. Each of closure locations on the optical fiber cable is acquired with a high-sensitivity measurement technique, and geographical location information and the closure locations on the optical fiber are linked in an arrangement order of the closures. Thus, an operator can recognize an actual location (geographical location information) of a closure that is linked to a location of a point of abnormality on the optical fiber cable when an abnormality in the closure is detected with a low-sensitivity measurement technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Kazutaka NOTO, Tetsuya MANABE