Patents Assigned to Fujikura Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240250401
    Abstract: A wireless module includes: a first substrate including an antenna that transmits and receives high-frequency signals in a millimeter-wave band, a first high-temperature element that supplies high-frequency signals to the antenna being mounted on the first substrate; and a housing including a cover and a case combined with each other and housing the first substrate, the first substrate is in contact with the cover in an opposing direction in which the case and the cover oppose each other, the case includes a first heat dissipation part protruding toward the first high-temperature element, a first heat dissipation sheet is provided between the first heat dissipation part and the first high-temperature element in the opposing direction, and the cover and the first heat dissipation part compress the first heat dissipation sheet and the first substrate in the opposing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Shigematsu, Masao Mori, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yuki Suto
  • Publication number: 20240248270
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes optical fibers, a wrapping tube that wraps around the optical fibers and contacts outermost ones of the optical fibers, and a sheath that covers the wrapping tube and has recesses on an inner circumferential surface of the sheath. The recesses are recessed toward a radially outer side of the optical fiber cable such that a space exists between the wrapping tube and the sheath in each of the recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Okimi Mukai, Ken Osato, Akira Namazue
  • Publication number: 20240250052
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes an RFIC chip, a mold resin that surrounds the RFIC chip in a planar view, a plurality of solder bumps, and a plurality of redistributors that connect the RFIC chip to the plurality of solder bumps, wherein a first bump group disposed in a position that overlaps with the RFIC chip in the planar view, and a second bump group disposed in a position that overlaps with the mold resin in the planar view are included in the plurality of solder bumps, in the second bump group, at least a high frequency bump connected to a high frequency terminal of the RFIC chip, and a GND bump connected to a GND terminal of the RFIC chip are included, and a minimum pitch in the second bump group is larger than a minimum pitch in the first bump group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Michikazu Tomita
  • Publication number: 20240250405
    Abstract: A wireless module includes a first board having an antenna, the antenna transmitting and receiving a high frequency signal in a millimeter wave band, a second board handling a baseband signal with a lower frequency than the high frequency signal, and a housing including a cover and a case combined with each other and accommodating the first board and the second board, in which a passage portion that allows electromagnetic waves transmitted and received by the antenna to pass through is provided in the cover, and the first board is fixed to the cover while being in contact with the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Shigematsu, Masao Mori, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Yuki Suto
  • Publication number: 20240250703
    Abstract: An output control method for adjusting an output of a radio communication module includes a temperature adjustment step, a transmission step, a feedback control step, a measurement step, and an output control step. The temperature adjustment step sets a temperature of the radio communication module to a predetermined set temperature by a temperature adjusting mechanism. The transmission step has a first antenna transmit a radio signal by sending a transmission signal of a predetermined frequency to the radio communication module. The feedback control step controls an output of the transmission signal based on a comparative result between a power value obtained by detecting the transmission signal and a predetermined threshold value of power. The measurement step receives the radio signal by a second antenna, and measures an equivalent isotropic radiated power of the radio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Uchida, Yuki Suto
  • Publication number: 20240250665
    Abstract: A digital phase shifter includes: a plurality of digital phase shift circuits connected in a cascade manner, wherein each of the plurality of digital phase shift circuits includes a signal line, two inner lines provided on two sides of the signal line, two outer lines provided on outer sides of the inner lines, a first grounding conductor connected to one end of each of the inner lines and the outer lines, a second grounding conductor connected to other ends of the outer lines, and two electronic switches provided between other ends of the inner lines and the second grounding conductor, and is set to a low-delay mode in which return currents flow in the inner lines or a high-delay mode in which return currents flow in the outer lines, and wherein the digital phase shifter includes: a phase shift quantity moderator that moderates unevenness of a phase shift quantity of an uneven digital phase shift circuit of the plurality of digital phase shift circuits, of which the phase shift quantity is uneven with respec
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Uemichi
  • Patent number: 12044885
    Abstract: A jig for a fusion splicer mountable on a heater of the fusion splicer includes: a plate part configured to face a heating part of the heater; a first retainer, configured to face a first clamp of the fusion splicer that is disposed outside of the heating part along a longitudinal direction of an object to be heated, and further configured to retain a first member extending from a first end of the object along the longitudinal direction; and a second retainer, configured to face a second clamp disposed on a side of the heating part opposite to the first clamp along the longitudinal direction, and further configured to retain a second member extending from a second end of the object along the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Nishiguchi, Ririka Seino
  • Publication number: 20240241336
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing an optical fiber ribbon, the manufacturing method includes intermittently forming, with a connecting device, connection parts between optical fibers measuring a load of the connecting device during the intermittent forming of the connection parts, and detecting an abnormality based on the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Sato, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Itaru Ishida, Ken Osato
  • Patent number: 12040765
    Abstract: A digital phase shifter includes: a plurality of digital phase shift circuits connected in a cascade manner, wherein each of the plurality of digital phase shift circuits includes a signal line, two inner lines provided on two sides of the signal line, two outer lines provided on outer sides of the inner lines, a first grounding conductor connected to one end of each of the inner lines and the outer lines, a second grounding conductor connected to other ends of the outer lines, and two electronic switches provided between other ends of the inner lines and the second grounding conductor, and is set to a low-delay mode in which return currents flow in the inner lines or a high-delay mode in which return currents flow in the outer lines, and wherein the digital phase shifter includes: a phase shift quantity moderator that moderates unevenness of a phase shift quantity of an uneven digital phase shift circuit of the plurality of digital phase shift circuits, of which the phase shift quantity is uneven with respec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Uemichi
  • Publication number: 20240236513
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an optical computing section that receives a first optical signal and generates a second optical signal including a feature amount extracted from the first optical signal; an image sensor that converts the second optical signal into a first electric signal including a piece of image information; and a computer that receives the first electric signal and generates second electric signals using machine learning models, each of the second electric signals corresponding to a respective one of the machine learning models, wherein: each of the second electric signals, generated from the first electric signal including the same piece of image information, includes different image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Masahiro Kashiwagi, Yuichiro Kunai
  • Publication number: 20240231029
    Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon includes: optical fibers disposed side by side in a predetermined direction; and connecting portions that connect two adjacent ones of the optical fibers. A peripheral resin portion is formed on a periphery of the optical fibers. An arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a surface of the peripheral resin portion is 0.41 ?m or lower. A ten-point mean roughness Rz of a surface of the peripheral resin portion is 1.4 ?m or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshie Murakoshi, Akira Namazue, Ken Osato
  • Publication number: 20240228359
    Abstract: An optical fiber manufacturing method includes supplying power to a drawing furnace to cause T/V to decrease to Ttarget/Vtarget along a quadratic function having a value of the Ttarget/Vtarget at an apex with lapse of time, where T is a tension applied to an optical fiber when an optical fiber preform is heated by the drawing furnace and the optical fiber is drawn, V is speed of withdrawing the optical fiber when the optical fiber is heated by the drawing furnace and the optical fiber is drawn, Ttarget is a target value of the tension, and Vtarget is a target value of the speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyasu Honda
  • Patent number: 12030808
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical fiber, the method includes: exposing a bare fiber formed of glass and having a temperature of 500° C. to 1,500° C. to a gas in which a moisture content is controlled to 2 to 20 g/m3; applying an uncured resin to an outer periphery of the bare fiber; and curing the resin to form a coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamashiro, Miryo Kashiwazaki
  • Patent number: 12032207
    Abstract: A fusion splicer includes: a heater that heats a glass of an optical fiber; a pair of clamps that clamp a coated part of the optical fiber, wherein the pair of clamps is constituted by: a lower clamp on which a coated part of the optical fiber is disposed; and a coated part clamp that presses the coated part of the optical fiber against the lower clamp; a windproof cover that covers the heater and the coated part clamp; a retreat mechanism that causes the coated part clamp to retreat from the lower clamp; an opening/closing mechanism that opens and closes the windproof cover; and a pair of glass clamps attached to an inner surface of the windproof cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Hasegawa, Koichi Yokota, Noriyuki Kawanishi
  • Publication number: 20240222830
    Abstract: A connecting portion includes a first connection line configured to connect a signal line of a first digital phase shift circuit and a signal line of a second digital phase shift circuit, second connection lines configured to connect inner lines of the first digital phase shift circuit and inner lines of the second digital phase shift circuit, ground layers disposed above and below the first connection line and the second connection lines, and first via holes configured to connect at least the second connection lines and the ground layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Uemichi
  • Publication number: 20240222829
    Abstract: A digital phase shifter of the present invention is a digital phase shifter in which digital phase shift circuits are cascade-connected, each of the digital phase shift circuits including a signal line, a pair of inner lines provided on both sides of the signal line, a pair of outer lines provided on outer sides of the inner lines, a first ground conductor connected to one ends of the inner lines and one ends of the outer lines, a second ground conductor connected to the other ends of the outer lines, and a pair of electronic switches provided between the other ends of the inner lines and the second ground conductor. The digital phase shift circuits include a multi-row structure constituted by a front row and a rear row, the front row and the rear row are adjacent to each other, and the ground pattern is connected to the front row at one point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Uemichi
  • Publication number: 20240222837
    Abstract: A splitter-combiner includes a first quarter-wave line, a second quarter-wave line, an absorption resistance, a combining terminal, and a line bending circuit. The line bending circuit includes a line parallel region and a line bending region. The line parallel region has the first quarter-wave line and the second quarter-wave line. The first quarter-wave line and the second quarter-wave line are parallel to each other in the line parallel region. The line bending region has the first quarter-wave line and the second quarter-wave line. The first quarter-wave line and the second quarter-wave line are bent in the same direction as each other in the line bending region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicants: Fujikura Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Uemichi, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Jean-Olivier Plouchart
  • Publication number: 20240219665
    Abstract: A fixing structure includes: an optical fiber group constituted by a plurality of optical fibers; a tubular member through which the optical fiber group is passed; a reticulated tube, one end part of the reticulated tube being disposed on an outer periphery of the tubular member, the optical fiber group being inserted through an extended section of the reticulated tube extending out from the tubular member; and a fixing member that fixes the tubular member which has the reticulated tube disposed on the outer periphery thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Go Taki, Masayuki Ishioka, Mizuki Isaji, Tomoaki Kaji, Soichiro Kaneko, Koji Tomikawa, Akira Namazue, Ken Osato
  • Patent number: 12025844
    Abstract: A cable includes: a cable main body; a first adhesive layer in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cable main body; a protective member that covers an end part of the cable main body; an outer peripheral member that covers a part of the protective member; and a second adhesive layer on an inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral member and in contact with the protective member. Adhesive strength of the second adhesive layer is larger than adhesive strength of the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Mitobe, Shuhei Kanno
  • Patent number: 12021288
    Abstract: A filter circuit (1) includes a first transmission line (11), a second transmission line (12) which has an electrical length set to ½ of an electrical length of the first transmission line, a first capacitor (21), a second capacitor (22), and a third capacitor (23). Capacitances of the first capacitor, the second capacitor, and the third capacitor are set in such a manner that a circuit including the first transmission line, the second transmission line, and the first capacitor resonates in series at a predetermined fundamental frequency, a circuit including the first transmission line, the first capacitor, and the second capacitor resonates in parallel at a third harmonic frequency being a tripled frequency of the fundamental frequency, and a circuit including the second transmission line and the third capacitor resonates in series at the third harmonic frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Yo Yamaguchi