Patents by Inventor Nazuki HONDA
Nazuki HONDA 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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Publication number: 20240146413Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a Brillouin gain spectrum distribution measuring method and apparatus capable of measuring a BGS, having a line width narrower than usual, in a distributed manner in the longitudinal direction of an optical fiber under test. This measuring apparatus prepares pump light in which a pulse is added to continuous light and probe light of continuous light in which a frequency is shifted from the pump light, makes the probe light incident on one end of the FUT and the pump light incident on the other end, and obtains a time waveform of a component amplified by the pump light pulse of a probe light intensity amplified by the pump light. This measuring apparatus changes an optical frequency difference between the pump light and the probe light, and obtains a time waveform for each optical frequency difference. This measuring apparatus obtains a BGS distribution of the FUT from these time waveforms.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomokazu ODA, Daisuke IIDA, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20240118126Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for remotely identifying a utility pole position and estimating a state of an overhead optical fiber cable. The present disclosure is a method for identifying a utility pole position including identifying a boundary region of a vibration distribution as a utility pole position, from a vibration distribution pattern obtained by measuring strain amounts with respect to distances of an optical fiber by an optical fiber vibration distribution measuring method at each time and sequentially stacking the strain amounts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20240118127Abstract: The present disclosure is an optical line test system that detects a distribution of loss points of an optical line in a longitudinal direction, using a coherent light measurement device, applies vibration to facility disposed on a path of the optical line, detects a vibration point of the optical line in a longitudinal direction upon applying the vibration, using the coherent light measurement device, and identifies the loss point based on correspondence between the detected loss point and vibration point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke IIDA, Yoshitaka ENOMOTO, Chihiro KITO, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Yoshifumi WAKISAKA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20240060817Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a facility position specification system, a cover, and a facility position specification method capable of specifying a route of an overhead cable without directly giving disturbance to the overhead cable itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20240035808Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber strain measurement method including, in order: a strain amount measurement step S2 of measuring a strain amount ?n? of each core wire of an optical fiber ribbon F; a torsion angle calculation step S3 of calculating a torsion angle ? per unit length of the optical fiber ribbon F on the basis of a difference ?? in strain amount between an outer core wire and an inner core wire; a torsional strain amount calculation step S4 of calculating a strain amount ?n caused by torsion of each core wire of the optical fiber ribbon F on the basis of the torsion angle ?; and a tensile strain amount calculation step S5 of subtracting the strain amount ?n from the strain amount ?n?, and calculating a strain amount ??n caused by tension of each core wire of the optical fiber ribbon F.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20230400379Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frequency modulation amount measuring device that measures an optical spectral shift of scattered light at a position in an optical transmission line, and calculates a frequency modulation amount at the position, using the measured optical spectral shift.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20230358599Abstract: An object is to provide a vibration detection apparatus and a vibration detection method which can avoid occurrence of a point where detection sensitivity deteriorates in vibration detection of a scattered light intensity monitor according to optical frequency multiplexing. The present invention conceives a multi-dimensional space having as many dimensions as the number of frequencies to be used, causes scattered light intensity change at each optical frequency to correspond to each axis, plots a scattered light signal as a vector on the space, performs linear approximation passing through an origin on the space having a plurality of plotted vector points as original data, and performs vibration detection using a direction vector of an approximate straight line obtained as a result of the approximation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi WAKISAKA, Daisuke IIDA, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230332980Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber measurement system, an optical fiber measurement method, a control calculation device, and a program that are capable of measuring loss and XT occurring at a plurality of points of an optical fiber in which a plurality of modes propagate, for each point.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomokazu ODA, Atsushi NAKAMURA, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Patent number: 11754465Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical pulse test apparatus and an optical pulse test method that are capable of determining a change in state of an optical fiber connection portion without the need for reference and without being affected by changes in gap interval before and after the change in state. The optical pulse test apparatus according to the present invention is configured to perform an OTDR measurement by using test optical pulses having spectral widths of from several nm to several hundred nm arranged at intervals of several ten nm to several hundred nm, calculate a reflection peak value caused by the Fresnel reflection at the connection portion from the obtained OTDR waveform, and determine a state such as water immersion of the optical fiber connection portion based on the value.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Nazuki Honda, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida, Keiji Okamoto
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Patent number: 11747294Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka Noto, Nazuki Honda, Hiroyuki Oshida
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Patent number: 11750283Abstract: An object is to provide an optical fiber route search method, an optical fiber route search device, and a program that can efficiently confirm a path of an optical fiber that is installed over a long distance or across a large range. The optical fiber route search method according to the present invention carries out optical measurement that performs distributed measurement of the state of an optical fiber while applying a disturbance to the optical fiber in a portion in which wires of the optical fiber are parallel to each other, branch out, or intersect with each other (a proximity portion), and determines that the position in which the number of singularities (peaks or intensity fluctuations) fluctuates (becomes plural) is the position of the proximity portion from a distribution diagram obtained through the optical measurement.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Iida, Nazuki Honda, Tatsuya Okamoto, Yoshifumi Wakisaka, Hiroyuki Oshida
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Publication number: 20230221153Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2020Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka NOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230126470Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an immersion detection system and an immersion detection method capable of eliminating module replacement in the occurrence of immersion and simplifying system management. An immersion detection system according to the present invention includes: an immersion detection sensor having two optical fibers connected in series such that end faces of the two optical fibers abut on each other with a predetermined gap; an optical measurer that causes test light with a plurality of wavelengths to enter an optical transmission line having a plurality of the immersion detection sensors connected in series with optical fibers and measures a return loss of the test light at the immersion detection sensor for each of the wavelengths and for each of the immersion detection sensors; and a determiner that averages, for each of the immersion detection sensors, the return losses for the wavelengths and performs threshold determination on the presence or absence of immersion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230088679Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka NOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230085614Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka NOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20220299401Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Nazuki HONDA, Kazutaka NOTO, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20220120635Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical pulse test apparatus and an optical pulse test method that are capable of determining a change in state of an optical fiber connection portion without the need for reference and without being affected by changes in gap interval before and after the change in state. The optical pulse test apparatus according to the present invention is configured to perform an OTDR measurement by using test optical pulses having spectral widths of from several nm to several hundred nm arranged at intervals of several ten nm to several hundred nm, calculate a reflection peak value caused by the Fresnel reflection at the connection portion from the obtained OTDR waveform, and determine a state such as water immersion of the optical fiber connection portion based on the value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Nazuki HONDA, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Keiji OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220103252Abstract: An object is to provide an optical fiber route search method, an optical fiber route search device, and a program that can efficiently confirm a path of an optical fiber that is installed over a long distance or across a large range. The optical fiber route search method according to the present invention carries out optical measurement that performs distributed measurement of the state of an optical fiber while applying a disturbance to the optical fiber in a portion in which wires of the optical fiber are parallel to each other, branch out, or intersect with each other (a proximity portion), and determines that the position in which the number of singularities (peaks or intensity fluctuations) fluctuates (becomes plural) is the position of the proximity portion from a distribution diagram obtained through the optical measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke IIDA, Nazuki HONDA, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Yoshifumi WAKISAKA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA