Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Fukuda

Toshiaki Fukuda 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: 20240075383
    Abstract: At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshinori TSUCHIYAMA, Izumi FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10698161
    Abstract: An optical fiber with lens in which one end face of a first GRIN lens is connected to an end face of an optical fiber and one end face of a second GRIN lens is connected to another end face of the first GRIN lens, wherein the optical fiber and the first and second GRIN lenses are coaxially connected, a numerical aperture of the first GRIN lens is smaller than a numerical aperture of the second GRIN lens, and a position in a radial direction of a minimum distribution refractive index nt of the second GRIN lens is set on an inner side of an outer edge of the second GRIN lens and set at a same position as or on an outer side of an outermost periphery of light that is spread by the first GRIN lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fukuda, Yosuke Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190121026
    Abstract: An optical fiber with lens in which one end face of a first GRIN lens is connected to an end face of an optical fiber and one end face of a second GRIN lens is connected to another end face of the first GRIN lens, wherein the optical fiber and the first and second GRIN lenses are coaxially connected, a numerical aperture of the first GRIN lens is smaller than a numerical aperture of the second GRIN lens, and a position in a radial direction of a minimum distribution refractive index nt of the second GRIN lens is set on an inner side of an outer edge of the second GRIN lens and set at a same position as or on an outer side of an outermost periphery of light that is spread by the first GRIN lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki FUKUDA, Yosuke TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9919947
    Abstract: When a GRIN lens fiber is drawn from a preform, control of a fiber diameter is improved in order to increase a production yield of the GRIN lens fiber having a fiber diameter within a desired range. The problem is solved by controlling the drawing speed using a fiber diameter c, which is obtained by correcting a fiber diameter a using the fiber diameter b and a fiber diameter ?. The fiber diameter a is measured using a diameter measuring instrument A that measures an outer diameter of the GRIN lens fiber, which is being elongated inside a heating furnace, the fiber diameter b is measured using a diameter measuring instrument B that measures an outer diameter of the GRIN lens fiber outside the heating furnace, and the fiber diameter ? is a value of the fiber diameter a measured a specified period of time T earlier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9422186
    Abstract: When drawing of a GRIN lens from a preform is started, wastage of the preform is reduced and the amount of time taken from the start of elongation of the preform to the start of winding is reduced. A preform, to a lower end of which a weight formed of silica is fused, is set in a heating furnace, and drawing of the preform is started by heating a fused portion where the preform and the weight are fused to each other. This can reduce wastage of the preform. Since an elongation speed of the preform is increased by the weight of the weight, the amount of time taken from the start of the elongation of the preform to the start of winding can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9383495
    Abstract: To provide a lateral light emitting device that can prevent coupling efficiency in a fused portion of a rod lens and a prism from being deteriorated, can set an outside diameter extremely small, and set the distance to a beam waist long. A lateral light emitting device includes an optical fiber 2, a rod lens 3, one end of which is fused to the end surface of the optical fiber 3, and a prism 4 fused to the other end of the rod lens. The prism has a base shape obtained by cutting a part of the circumference of a cylinder and forming a flat emission surface 4c parallel to an axial line. In a fused portion of the rod lens and the prism, the outside diameter of a fused end surface of the rod lens is equal to or smaller than the smallest diameter of a fused end surface of the prism. The fused end surface of the rod lens does not protrude from the fused end surface of the prism. A center O1 of the fused end surface of the rod lens and a center O2 of a circular arc of the fused end surface of the prism are offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Maruyama, Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160018581
    Abstract: To provide a lateral light emitting device that can prevent coupling efficiency in a fused portion of a rod lens and a prism from being deteriorated, can set an outside diameter extremely small, and set the distance to a beam waist long. A lateral light emitting device includes an optical fiber 2, a rod lens 3, one end of which is fused to the end surface of the optical fiber 3, and a prism 4 fused to the other end of the rod lens. The prism has a base shape obtained by cutting a part of the circumference of a cylinder and forming a flat emission surface 4c parallel to an axial line. In a fused portion of the rod lens and the prism, the outside diameter of a fused end surface of the rod lens is equal to or smaller than the smallest diameter of a fused end surface of the prism. The fused end surface of the rod lens does not protrude from the fused end surface of the prism. A center O1 of the fused end surface of the rod lens and a center O2 of a circular arc of the fused end surface of the prism are offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Naofumi Maruyama, Toshiaki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20140007624
    Abstract: When a GRIN lens fiber is drawn from a preform, control of a fiber diameter is improved in order to increase a production yield of the GRIN lens fiber having a fiber diameter within a desired range. The problem is solved by controlling the drawing speed using a fiber diameter c, which is obtained by correcting a fiber diameter a using the fiber diameter b and a fiber diameter ?. The fiber diameter a is measured using a diameter measuring instrument A that measures an outer diameter of the GRIN lens fiber, which is being elongated inside a heating furnace, the fiber diameter b is measured using a diameter measuring instrument B that measures an outer diameter of the GRIN lens fiber outside the heating furnace, and the fiber diameter ? is a value of the fiber diameter a measured a specified period of time T earlier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 8545898
    Abstract: A composition for a broad-spectrum antiviral agent with excellent preservation stability, which comprises a pure chlorine dioxide solution comprising a chlorine dioxide gas dissolved therein, a chlorite, and a pH adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Taiko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fukuda, Koji Abe, Takashi Shibata
  • Patent number: 8380037
    Abstract: A lateral light emitting device is formed by fusing one end of a rod lens to an end surface of an optical fiber, and by fusing a prism to another end of the rod lens. The prism has a basic shape including a planar light emitting surface parallel to an axis formed by cutting part of a circumference of a cylinder and has a distal end inclined surface, a distal end portion of which is diagonally cut. Alternatively, a prism lens is fused to the end surface of the optical fiber. The prism lens has the same basic shape described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Maruyama, Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20120114285
    Abstract: When a GRIN lens fiber is drawn from a preform, control of a fiber diameter is improved in order to increase a production yield of the GRIN lens fiber having a fiber diameter within a desired range. The problem is solved by controlling the drawing speed using a fiber diameter c, which is obtained by correcting a fiber diameter a using the fiber diameter b and a fiber diameter ?. The fiber diameter a is measured using a diameter measuring instrument A that measures an outer diameter of the GRIN lens fiber, which is being elongated inside a heating furnace, the fiber diameter b is measured using a diameter measuring instrument B that measures an outer diameter of the GRIN lens fiber outside the heating furnace, and the fiber diameter ? is a value of the fiber diameter a measured a specified period of time T earlier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventor: Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20120017644
    Abstract: When drawing of a GRIN lens from a preform is started, wastage of the preform is reduced and the amount of time taken from the start of elongation of the preform to the start of winding is reduced. A preform, to a lower end of which a weight formed of silica is fused, is set in a heating furnace, and drawing of the preform is started by heating a fused portion where the preform and the weight are fused to each other. This can reduce wastage of the preform. Since an elongation speed of the preform is increased by the weight of the weight, the amount of time taken from the start of the elongation of the preform to the start of winding can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: TOYO GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20110316029
    Abstract: A lateral light emitting device that is free from variations and degradation in beam quality and reduction in reliability caused by adhesive, can be easily produced, and has a small diameter in order to be usable for a thin blood vessel and the like is developed. The problem is solved by fusing one end of a rod lens to an end surface of an optical fiber, and by fusing a prism to another end of the rod lens. The prism has a basic shape including a planar light emitting surface parallel to an axis formed by cutting part of a circumference of a cylinder and has a distal end inclined surface, a distal end portion of which is diagonally cut. Alternatively, the problem is solved by fusing a prism lens to the end surface of the optical fiber. The prism lens has a basic shape including a planar light emitting surface parallel to the axis formed by cutting part of a circumference of a cylinder and has a distal end inclined surface, a distal end portion of which is diagonally cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Naofumi Maruyama, Toshiaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20100028456
    Abstract: A composition for a broad-spectrum antiviral agent with excellent preservation stability, which comprises a pure chlorine dioxide solution comprising a chlorine dioxide gas dissolved therein, a chlorite, and a pH adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fukuda, Koji Abe, Takashi Shibata