Patents by Inventor Yasuki Sakurai

Yasuki Sakurai 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: 10409011
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting a power of an input light is provided with a light-receiving module that outputs an electrical signal according to a power of an input light received at a light-receiving surface and an optical system that collimates and guides to the light-receiving surface the input light from the outside. Moreover, this detection device is provided with a structure that decreases an incidence angle of the input light at an interface between the optical system and the light-receiving surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Shinichiro Asada
  • Patent number: 10401579
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting a power of an input light is provided with a light-receiving module that outputs an electrical signal according to a power of an input light received at a light-receiving surface and an optical system that collimates and guides to the light-receiving surface the input light from the outside. Moreover, this detection device is provided with a structure that decreases an incidence angle of the input light at an interface between the optical system and the light-receiving surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Shinichiro Asada
  • Patent number: 10321492
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication between wireless devices via a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication apparatus comprises: a packet processor for generating a first packet including first control information and discrimination information for discriminating between the first control information for connecting to the wireless communication network a set wireless device, which is a wireless device for which the setting of instrument information required for accessing the wireless communication network has been performed, and second control information for connecting to the wireless communication network a setting-required wireless device, which is a wireless device for which there is a need to set instrument information, and a second packet including the discrimination information and the second control information; and a wireless communication unit for transmitting the first packet and the second packet generated by the packet processor to th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiyo Akisada, Kazunori Miyazawa, Yasuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10305793
    Abstract: A communication device conforming with plural communication standards and having a storage storing a plurality of virtual stacks each having an application program and communication program that implements a protocol stack for communication by the application program. An executor executes the virtual stacks, and a switching controller switches the virtual stacks to be executed by performing a first processing in which at least one part of at least one of the virtual stacks is read from storage and stored into a memory of, and executed by, the executor. Then, in accordance with free capacity in the memory, at least one part of at least one of the virtual stacks executed in the first processing is deleted from memory. In a second processing at least one part of at least one of the virtual stacks is read from the storage and stored into the memory of, and executed by, the executor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Okabe, Yukiyo Akisada, Kazunori Miyazawa, Yasuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180356605
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting a power of an input light is provided with a light-receiving module that outputs an electrical signal according to a power of an input light received at a light-receiving surface and an optical system that collimates and guides to the light-receiving surface the input light from the outside. Moreover, this detection device is provided with a structure that decreases an incidence angle of the input light at an interface between the optical system and the light-receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Shinichiro Asada
  • Patent number: 10127891
    Abstract: A system includes a spatial light modulator and a controller. The spatial light modulator is configured to perform phase modulation of a light that passes through a liquid crystal by applying individual voltages to the liquid crystal from each of a plurality of electrodes. The controller is configured to control the voltages applied to the liquid crystal from each of the plurality of electrodes based on phase image data. The phase image data represents values of each pixel corresponding to each of the plurality of electrodes by predetermined gradations. The controller converts gradation values, which are the values of each pixel, into voltages input to the electrodes corresponding to each pixel. The controller is configured to change a fluctuation width from a minimum value to a maximum value of the input voltages corresponding to a fluctuation width from a minimum value to a maximum value of the gradation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10126510
    Abstract: A detection device is provided with a holding body that holds a light-receiving module, an optical fiber pigtail, and a lens. The light-receiving module is provided with a light-receiving element and a stem that supports the light-receiving element. The lens collimates an input light from one end of an input fiber and guides a portion of the input light to the light-receiving element. The lens separates the input light into a transmitted light and a reflected light, guiding the transmitted light to the light-receiving element and guiding the reflected light to an output fiber. The light-receiving element has a center of a light-receiving surface thereof disposed in a position away from an axis of the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180259713
    Abstract: An optical power attenuator includes: a MEMS package storing a MEMS element that can control a reflection angle of light by a mirror; a capillary member provided to one end of a two-core optical fiber that transmits the light and that has an end surface on a side that inputs/outputs the light to the two-core optical fiber tilted at a predetermined angle relative to an optical axis of the two-core optical fiber; and a lens that causes a light emitted from one of the optical fibers of the two-core optical fiber to become incident on the MEMS element via the capillary member and guides the reflected light reflected by the mirror of the MEMS element to the other optical fiber of the two-core optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10054838
    Abstract: A light control system is provided with a spatial light modulator of a liquid-crystal type, an input unit, and a controller. The input unit is configured to input a light to the spatial light modulator. The controller is configured to cause the spatial light modulator to function as a diffraction grating by electrically controlling the spatial light modulator. The controller is configured to change a path of a diffracted light from the spatial light modulator corresponding to the light input from the input unit by changing a shape of the diffraction grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10025034
    Abstract: An integrated optical device is mounted with two optical fibers that transmit a light and, as functional components in a space of a housing forming an optical path from one of the optical fibers to the other light, is provided with an optical power attenuator that attenuates, using vignetting, a light incident from the one optical fiber or a light emitted from the other optical fiber and a tunable filter that selects a light of a predetermined wavelength from among the light incident from the one optical fiber and emits this selected light from the other optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180039030
    Abstract: A detection device is provided with a holding body that holds a light-receiving module, an optical fiber pigtail, and a lens. The light-receiving module is provided with a light-receiving element and a stem that supports the light-receiving element. The lens collimates an input light from one end of an input fiber and guides a portion of the input light to the light-receiving element. The lens separates the input light into a transmitted light and a reflected light, guiding the transmitted light to the light-receiving element and guiding the reflected light to an output fiber. The light-receiving element has a center of a light-receiving surface thereof disposed in a position away from an axis of the stem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180041271
    Abstract: A detection device is provided with a light-receiving module configured to output an electrical signal according to a power of an input light received at a light-receiving surface, an optical lens configured to collimate and guide to the light-receiving surface the input light from the outside, and at least one condensing unit that is provided in a path of the input light between the optical lens and the light-receiving surface and configured to decrease a beam diameter of the input light at the light-receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Naoyuki Mekada
  • Publication number: 20180039031
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting a power of an input light is provided with a light-receiving module that outputs an electrical signal according to a power of an input light received at a light-receiving surface and an optical system that collimates and guides to the light-receiving surface the input light from the outside. Moreover, this detection device is provided with a structure that decreases an incidence angle of the input light at an interface between the optical system and the light-receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Shinichiro Asada
  • Publication number: 20170316756
    Abstract: A system includes a spatial light modulator and a controller. The spatial light modulator is configured to perform phase modulation of a light that passes through a liquid crystal by applying individual voltages to the liquid crystal from each of a plurality of electrodes. The controller is configured to control the voltages applied to the liquid crystal from each of the plurality of electrodes based on phase image data. The phase image data represents values of each pixel corresponding to each of the plurality of electrodes by predetermined gradations. The controller converts gradation values, which are the values of each pixel, into voltages input to the electrodes corresponding to each pixel. The controller is configured to change a fluctuation width from a minimum value to a maximum value of the input voltages corresponding to a fluctuation width from a minimum value to a maximum value of the gradation values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20170315422
    Abstract: A light control system is provided with a spatial light modulator of a liquid-crystal type, an input unit, and a controller. The input unit is configured to input a light to the spatial light modulator. The controller is configured to cause the spatial light modulator to function as a diffraction grating by electrically controlling the spatial light modulator. The controller is configured to change a path of a diffracted light from the spatial light modulator corresponding to the light input from the input unit by changing a shape of the diffraction grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20170277758
    Abstract: A maintenance information sharing device includes a maintenance record obtainer configured to obtain a maintenance record of a maintenance target, a maintenance record storage configured to associate the maintenance record obtained by the maintenance record obtainer with identification information for identifying the maintenance target, the maintenance record storage storing the maintenance record associated with the identification information, a maintenance information generator configured to generate maintenance information based on the maintenance record associated with the identification information and stored by the maintenance record storage, a maintenance information storage which stores the maintenance information generated by the maintenance information generator, a searcher configured to search the maintenance information stored by the maintenance information storage based on the identification information, and a maintenance information provider configured to provide the maintenance information sear
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke ISHII, Yasuki SAKURAI, Kenji OISHI
  • Patent number: 9733979
    Abstract: A communication device communicating in conformance with a prescribed communication standard. The device includes a storage storing at least a first virtual program that includes a program implementing a first function of the communication device and a second virtual program that includes a program implementing a second function of the communication device. It also includes an executor configured to successively execute the first and second virtual programs, and a switching controller configured to read at least a part of either one of the first and second virtual programs from the storage, to store the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs into a memory of the executor, to execute the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs in the executor, thereby, to switch the first and second virtual programs to be executed in the executor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Okabe, Yukiyo Akisada, Kazunori Miyazawa, Yasuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 9720168
    Abstract: A wavelength selective optical switch includes a light input/output unit having a plurality of input/output ports, a polarization plane-independent wavelength dispersion element that splits incident light input from the optical input/output unit into spatially different angles for each wavelength, and synthesizes emergent light from different directions and outputs the light to the optical input/output unit, a condenser element that condenses the light split by the wavelength splitting element, a polarization splitter that splits incident light incident via the condenser element according to a polarization component to result in first and second light beams, aligns a polarization direction by rotating a polarization direction of one of the beams, and synthesizes the incident light by rotating one polarization direction of the emergent light of the same wavelength among the first and second reflected light beams, and a space phase modulation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Santec Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 9704455
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an image pick-up unit configured to picking up an image, a display unit configured to display the image picked up by the image pick-up unit, a first correcting unit configured to correct the image picked up by the image pick-up unit to generate a first image, a second correcting unit configured to correct the image picked up by the image pick-up unit to generate a second image, a recognizing unit configured to recognize the second image generated by the second correcting unit, and a display control unit configured to display an additional information according to a result of the recognition performed by the recognizing unit with superimposing the additional information on the first image generated by the first correcting unit on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuki Sakurai, Yousuke Ishii, Kenji Oishi
  • Patent number: 9560637
    Abstract: A management apparatus, which manages a wireless network constituted by a plurality of wireless communication devices each capable of performing a wireless communication using TDMA system, is characterized by comprising an extended link management unit that manages an extended link obtained by setting, to a link for which a channel and time slots to be used for wireless communications using the TDMA system are specified and for which a communication direction is determined, attribute information that characterizes the wireless communications performed by the wireless communication devices by use of the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Miyazawa, Yukiyo Akisada, Yasuki Sakurai