Patents by Inventor Akira Hirano

Akira Hirano 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: 20230207731
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor ultraviolet light-emitting element is provided. The element includes a light-emitting element structure part with an n-type layer, an active layer, and a p-type layer stacked vertically, which are made of AlGaN-based semiconductors with wurtzite structure. The n-type layer has an n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor, the active layer has well layers including an AlGaN based semiconductor, and the p-type layer has a p-type AlGaN-based semiconductor. Each semiconductor layer in the n-type and the active layers is an epitaxially grown layer having a surface on which multi-step terraces parallel to the (0001) plane are formed. The n-type layer has first Ga-rich regions which include n-type AlGaN regions in which an AlGaN composition ratio is an integer ratio of Al1Ga1N2. The well layer includes a second Ga-rich region, which includes an AlGaN region in which an AlGaN composition ratio is an integer ratio of Al1Ga2N3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira HIRANO, Yosuke NAGASAWA
  • Publication number: 20230197889
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor ultraviolet light-emitting element is provided. The element includes a light-emitting element structure part with an n-type layer, an active layer, and a p-type layer stacked vertically, which are made of AlGaN-based semiconductors with wurtzite structure. The n-type layer has an n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor, the active layer has well layers including an AlGaN based semiconductor, and the p-type layer has a p-type AlGaN-based semiconductor. Each semiconductor layer in the n-type and the active layers is an epitaxially grown layer having a surface on which multi-step terraces parallel to the (0001) plane are formed. The n-type layer has first Ga-rich regions which include n-type AlGaN regions in which an AlGaN composition ratio is an integer ratio of Al1Ga1N2. The well layer includes a second Ga-rich region, which includes an AlGaN region in which an AlGaN composition ratio is an integer ratio of Al1Ga2N3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira HIRANO, Yosuke NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 11581988
    Abstract: A transmission device includes a frame processing unit, a redundant channel processing unit, a transmission and reception unit, and a channel selection unit. The frame processing unit generates division frames, adds error detection signals to the division frames, and outputs the division frames to which the error detection signals are added to a plurality of data channels. The redundant channel processing unit generates, from the division frames, one or more redundant frames including restoration information that enables restoration of the division frames, and outputs the generated redundant frames to a data channel. The transmission and reception unit outputs the division frames and the redundant frames to a transmission line. The channel selection unit allocates the division frames and the redundant frames to allocable transmission and reception units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Tanaka, Tetsuro Inui, Akira Hirano, Yoshiaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11546064
    Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device that receives, via an optical transmission line, a signal transmitted from the optical transmission device, the optical transmission system including a transmission-mode selection unit that selects transmission mode information in descending order of priority out of transmission mode information, which is combinations of a plurality of parameters concerning transmission performance, the transmission mode information being a plurality of kinds of the transmission mode information common to the transmission performance of the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, a signal transmission unit that transmits, to the optical reception device, a signal modulated based on the selected transmission mode information, and a signal reception unit that receives the signal and modulates the received signal based on the transmission mode information selected by the transmission-mode selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Inui, Hideki Nishizawa, Seiji Okamoto, Akira Hirano, Shokei Kobayashi, Fumikazu Inuzuka, Seiki Kuwabara, Takafumi Tanaka, Kei Kitamura, Takuya Oda
  • Patent number: 11516073
    Abstract: A failure location estimation apparatus sets partial networks obtained by dividing a network into one or more networks, and verifies connectivity of a path for each of combinations of terminal nodes for each of the partial networks. The failure location estimation apparatus selects some or all combinations of the combinations of terminal nodes determined to have an abnormality in connectivity for each of the partial networks, and verifies connectivity of a path for each of combinations of nodes included in a selected node connection that is the selected combinations of terminal nodes. The failure location estimation apparatus estimates a failure location in the network based on a verification result of connectivity of each of the combinations of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Oda, Shokei Kobayashi, Akira Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220214889
    Abstract: An adapting device according to an embodiment includes: a first storage unit configured to store correspondence information representing a correspondence relation between processing requested by a higher-level system and a method for implementing the processing in a lower-level system; a conversion unit configured to convert a processing request from the higher-level system to the lower-level system into a processing procedure capable of being implemented in the lower-level system and supply the processing procedure to the lower-level system; and an additional information processing unit configured to generate additional information to be supplied to the lower-level system together with the processing procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ODA, Shokei KOBAYASHI, Akira HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11342990
    Abstract: A state estimating device includes a pre-processing unit and an estimating unit. The pre-processing unit acquires data representing at one or more of a phase of a signal transmitted from a transmission unit of a transmission device and received at a reception unit of another transmission device via a transmission path, a reception strength, a reception quality, a voltage after conversion into an electric signal, and a signal processing parameter used in reception processing, and processes the acquired data into feature data to be used for state estimation. The estimating unit estimates a state of the transmission path, an abnormal state of the transmission unit, or an abnormal state of the reception unit, on the basis of the feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiki Kuwabara, Wataru Kawakami, Hideki Nishizawa, Seiji Okamoto, Akira Hirano, Shokei Kobayashi, Tetsuro Inui, Takuya Oda, Fumikazu Inuzuka, Takafumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220109449
    Abstract: A first reception processing unit performs a process of receiving a first signal transmitted on a first transmission line, a second reception processing unit performs a process of receiving a second signal transmitted on a second transmission line, and an output speed control unit controls output speeds of the first signal and the second signal subjected to the reception process. A system switching unit selects and outputs the first signal or the second signal subjected to a reception process, and an output processing unit performs a process for output to another apparatus on the output from the system switching unit. A reception side clock output unit outputs a clock signal giving a processing timing of each process, and a clock frequency control unit adjusts a frequency of the clock signal giving the processing timing to the output processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumikazu INUZUKA, Kei KITAMURA, Akira HIRANO, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Takuya OHARA
  • Publication number: 20220045900
    Abstract: A failure location estimation apparatus sets partial networks obtained by dividing a network into one or more networks, and verifies connectivity of a path for each of combinations of terminal nodes for each of the partial networks. The failure location estimation apparatus selects some or all combinations of the combinations of terminal nodes determined to have an abnormality in connectivity for each of the partial networks, and verifies connectivity of a path for each of combinations of nodes included in a selected node connection that is the selected combinations of terminal nodes. The failure location estimation apparatus estimates a failure location in the network based on a verification result of connectivity of each of the combinations of nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ODA, Shokei KOBAYASHI, Akira HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20220006722
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus performs communication with a transmission side transmission apparatus via a transmission path of an active system and a transmission path of a standby system. The transmission apparatus includes: a memory configured to have a capacity that is as large as delay caused due to a maximum path difference between the transmission path of the active system and the transmission path of the standby system is allowable; and a memory connection control unit configured to switch connection of the memory and cause a signal of the transmission path of the active system or the transmission path of the standby system to be accumulated in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei KITAMURA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Akira HIRANO, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Takuya OHARA
  • Publication number: 20220006577
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes redundant first communication devices configured to communicate with a communication apparatus provided in a first network, and redundant second communication devices configured to communicate with a communication apparatus provided in a second network. The second communication devices include respective first ends that are ends of redundant communication paths of the first communication devices, and the first communication devices include respective second ends that are ends of redundant communication paths of the second communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kei Kitamura, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Akira Hirano, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Takuya OHARA
  • Patent number: 11217726
    Abstract: To improve a wall plug efficiency in a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element for extracting ultraviolet light emitted from an active layer toward an n-type nitride semiconductor layer side to outside of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SOKO KAGAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hirano, Yosuke Nagasawa, Shigefusa Chichibu, Kazunobu Kojima
  • Publication number: 20210385146
    Abstract: An estimation method includes: generating information regarding success or not success in a connectivity checking test between “N” nodes in a case in which a failure occurs in a verification target path including the nodes, the information being generated as pattern information for each failure location; selecting “M” network devices from among a plurality of network devices in accordance with occurrence of the failure; executing the connectivity checking test between the selected network devices; comparing a checking result of the connectivity checking test with pattern information that satisfies “N=M” in the pattern information; and estimating the failure location in the service path based on the failure location associated with the pattern information in a case in which the pattern information that satisfies “N=M” matches the checking result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ODA, Shokei KOBAYASHI, Akira HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11165002
    Abstract: A light-emitting device 1 comprises a base 30, a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element 10 flip-chip mounted on the base 30, and an amorphous fluororesin sealing the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element 10. The light-emitting device 1 comprises a deformation-prevention layer 60 for preventing a shape change of an amorphous fluororesin by heat treatment after shipment of the light-emitting device 1, and the deformation-prevention layer 60 is formed of a layer in which a thermosetting resin or an ultraviolet curing resin is cured, and the cured layer directly covers the surface of the amorphous fluororesin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: SOKO KAGAU CO., LTD., AGC INC.
    Inventors: Akira Hirano, Yosuke Nagasawa, Masamichi Ippommatsu, Ko Aosaki, Yuki Suehara, Yoshihiko Sakane
  • Patent number: 11165497
    Abstract: There is provided an optical transmission system in which a plurality of optical transmission and reception apparatuses perform 1-to-N transmission and reception of optical signals (N is an integer equal to or greater than 1), the optical transmission system being configured to select a communication condition that includes at least a modulation scheme or a baud rate and is a communication condition when each of the optical transmission and reception apparatuses performs transmission and reception in accordance with a transmission line condition that is between any one first optical transmission and reception apparatus and each of second optical transmission and reception apparatuses, which are N grounds, other than the first optical transmission and reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumikazu Inuzuka, Shokei Kobayashi, Akira Hirano, Wataru Kawakami, Tetsuro Inui, Seiki Kuwabara, Kei Kitamura, Takafumi Tanaka, Takuya Oda, Hideki Nishizawa, Seiji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11159242
    Abstract: An automatic bias control circuit for an optical modulator using nested MZIs includes: a parent MZI control bias voltage generator that generates a parent MZI control bias voltage; a photodetector that converts tapped output light from the optical modulator into an electrical signal; a low-frequency cut-off circuit that suppresses modulation components that are slower than a first frequency, included in the electrical signal; and a control unit that controls the parent MZI control bias voltage generator on the basis of an electrical signal in which the slower modulation components have been suppressed. The control unit controls the parent MZI control bias voltage generator so as to minimize the effective value or the peak value of the electrical signal in which the slower modulation components have been suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Kawakami, Akira Hirano
  • Publication number: 20210328861
    Abstract: A fault diagnosis unit (42) of a fault diagnosis apparatus (4) performs a fault diagnosis of a communication network (2) with a probabilistic inference algorithm using information on the communication network (2) having been gathered by an NW monitoring unit (41). A diagnosis result determining unit (43) determines test items for confirming and determining a diagnosis result of the fault diagnosis. A test performing unit (44) performs a confirmation test of the determined test items. The diagnosis result determining unit (43) determines a likelihood of the diagnosis result of the fault diagnosis based on a result of the confirmation test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ODA, Shokei KOBAYASHI, Akira HIRANO
  • Patent number: 11152543
    Abstract: The nitride semiconductor light-emitting element comprises a light-emitting element structure portion having a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers including at least an n-type layer, an active layer and a p-type layer. The active layer has a quantum well structure comprising at least one well layer composed of a GaN-based semiconductor. In the well layer, the shortest distance between a first surface on the n-type layer side and a second surface on the p-type layer side varies in an orthogonal plane to the layering direction of the nitride semiconductor layers, and the peak emission wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting element structure portion is shorter than 354 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SOKO KAGAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hirano, Yosuke Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20210314067
    Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device that receives, via an optical transmission line, a signal transmitted from the optical transmission device, the optical transmission system including a transmission-mode selection unit that selects transmission mode information in descending order of priority out of transmission mode information, which is combinations of a plurality of parameters concerning transmission performance, the transmission mode information being a plurality of kinds of the transmission mode information common to the transmission performance of the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, a signal transmission unit that transmits, to the optical reception device, a signal modulated based on the selected transmission mode information, and a signal reception unit that receives the signal and modulates the received signal based on the transmission mode information selected by the transmission-mode selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuro Inui, Hideki Nishizawa, Seiji Okamoto, Akira Hirano, Shokei Kobayashi, Fumikaza Inuzuka, Seiki Kuwabara, Takafumi Tanaka, Kei Kitamura, Takuya Oda
  • Patent number: D959685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Juta, Akira Hirano, Koudai Okada, Shuichi Hibi