Patents by Inventor Fumiaki Sato
Fumiaki Sato 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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Patent number: 11953116Abstract: A valve body has an inflow passage for a working fluid, an outflow passage for the working fluid, and a pressure relief passage, which connects the inflow passage and the outflow passage by bypassing a normally close valve seat. A pressure relief valve is located in the pressure relief passage. The pressure relief valve closes the pressure relief passage, if a pressure of the working fluid in the outflow passage is lower than, is equal to, and is higher by a pressure difference less than a predetermined relief pressure than a pressure of the working fluid in the inflow passage. The pressure relief valve opens the pressure relief passage, if the pressure of the working fluid in the outflow passage is higher by a pressure difference equal to or higher than the relief pressure than a pressure of the working fluid in the inflow passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: HAMANAKODENSO CO., LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Kaneko, Masashi Sugano, Yutaka Sato, Masahiro Hisada
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Patent number: 11953744Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel and a connecting resin layer containing a ribbon resin for coating and connecting the plurality of optical fibers, wherein each of the plurality of optical fibers has an outer diameter of 220 ?m or less; and the ribbon resin contains a cured product of urethane (meth)acrylate, and an amount of silicon is 5 ppm or more and 80000 ppm or less and an amount of tin is 5 ppm or more and 30000 ppm or less at the surface of the connecting resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki Iwaguchi, Takashi Fujii, Fumiaki Sato
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Publication number: 20240094493Abstract: An optical cable according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is an optical cable for installation in a microduct, the optical cable including one or more optical-fiber core wires, and a sheath layer covering an outer peripheral side of the one or more optical-fiber core wires. The sheath layer has a density of 2.0 g/cm3 or less. The sheath layer contains an olefin-based resin, a silicone, and a non-halogen flame retardant. A mass ratio of the non-halogen flame retardant to the olefin-based resin is 0.90 to 2.00. A mass ratio of the silicone to the olefin-based resin is 0.005 to 0.100. The olefin-based resin contains a polyethylene, and an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or an ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer. The silicone has a weight-average molecular weight of 50,000 to 1,000,000.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Nayu YANAGAWA, Ryota FUKUMOTO, Taro FUJITA, Fumiaki SATO, Toyoaki KIMURA, Yohei SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240069297Abstract: In an optical fiber cable in which an optical fiber ribbon formed by parallelly arranging a plurality of optical fibers is packaged in an internal space, a core portion of each optical fiber is made of pure quartz and an effective cross-sectional area of the core portion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is 110 ?m2 or more and 150 ?m2 or less. The optical fiber ribbon is an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers are connected by continuously applying an adhesive resin between adjacent optical fibers. An occupation ratio of the optical fiber ribbon to the internal space calculated from a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the internal space to a cross-sectional area of the packaged optical fiber ribbon is 25% or more and 55% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Yutaka HASHIMOTO, Fumiaki SATO, Masashi KIKUCHI, Akira SAKURAI, Yusuke YAMADA
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Patent number: 11892700Abstract: An optical fiber unit includes: an optical fiber ribbon in which a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel and connected to each other; a colored bundle tape longitudinally wrapped around an optical fiber ribbon bundle in which a plurality of the optical fiber ribbons are stranded together; and a colored bundle yarn spirally wound around the optical fiber ribbon bundle and the bundle tape.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akihisa Watanabe, Masakazu Takami, Fumiaki Sato
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Patent number: 11886026Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon that includes 16-48 parallel optical fiber core wires and a connecting resin that connects adjacent optical fiber core wires. The outer diameter D of the optical fiber core wires is 160-220 ?m, and when N is the number of optical fiber core wires and S is the bending strain of the optical fiber core wires, S=0.167×N/2(%) or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Kenta Tsuchiya, Masakazu Takami, Tsuguo Amano
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Publication number: 20240027715Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical fibers, and a collective coating covering outer peripheries of the plurality of optical fibers. The collective coating includes a connected portion at which the optical fibers adjacent to each other are connected in at least a part of the plurality of optical fibers. An outer diameter of each of the plurality of optical fibers is 215 ?m or less, and a dynamic friction force of the collective coating is 0.3 N or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Noriaki IWAGUCHI, Takashi FUJII, Fumiaki SATO
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Publication number: 20240019652Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes a central tensile strength member, a plurality of optical fibers disposed around the central tensile strength member, a set of tensile strength members arranged outside the plurality of optical fibers, and a sheath disposed outside the plurality of optical fibers, in which at least four sets of the tensile strength member are spaced apart from one another and embedded in the sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Akihisa WATANABE, Yuuki SHIMODA, Fumiaki SATO
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Patent number: 11860438Abstract: A method for manufacturing an intermittently coupled-type optical fiber ribbon includes arranging a plurality of optical fibers in parallel in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the plurality of optical fibers, coating all of the plurality of optical fibers with a coupling resin, intermittently inserting a cleaving blade into the coupling resin between some adjacent optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers to form slits. An outer diameter of each of the optical fibers is 220 ?m or less. A distance between the optical fibers into which the cleaving blade is inserted among the adjacent optical fibers is 10 ?m or more and 100 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Keigo Yamamoto, Fumikazu Yoshizawa, Ken Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230400653Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon includes optical fibers arranged in parallel in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical fibers, and a collective coating layer covering an outer periphery of each of the plurality of optical fibers. The collective coating layer includes a connected portion at which the optical fibers adjacent to each other are connected. An outer diameter of each of the plurality of optical fibers is 215 ?m or less. In a cross-sectional view of each of the optical fibers, the collective coating layer includes a thick portion and at least two thin portions. A difference between the thickness of the collective coating layer in the thick portion and the thickness of the collective coating layer in the thin portion is 5 ?m or more and 19 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Noriaki IWAGUCHI, Takashi FUJII, Fumiaki SATO
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Publication number: 20230393350Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel, a coupling resin for coupling the plurality of optical fibers to each other; and a bridge portion formed of the coupling resin, in which the optical fibers are arranged such that a side surface of one optical fiber is spaced apart from or brought into contact with a side surface of another optical fiber adjacent thereto, the bridge portion is provided between the optical fibers arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other, an outer diameter of the optical fibers is 185 ?m or more and 195 ?m or less, and an average distance between centers of the optical fibers is 220 ?m or more and 280 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Akihisa WATANABE, Fumiaki SATO
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Patent number: 11836960Abstract: An object detection device (1) includes an object detection unit (2) that detects an object from an image including the object by neural computation using a CNN. The object detection unit (2) includes: a feature amount extraction unit (2a) that extracts a feature amount of the object from the image; an information acquisition unit (2b) that obtains a plurality of object rectangles indicating candidates for the position of the object on the basis of the feature amount and obtains information and a certainty factor of a category of the object for each of the object rectangles; and an object tag calculation unit (2c) that calculates, for each of the object rectangles, an object tag indicating which object in the image the object rectangle is linked to, on the basis of the feature amount.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Fumiaki Sato
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Patent number: 11828996Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel and a connecting resin layer containing a ribbon resin for coating and connecting the plurality of optical fibers, wherein each of the plurality of optical fibers has an outer diameter of 220 ?m or less; each of the plurality of optical fibers includes a glass fiber, a primary resin layer, and a colored secondary resin layer; the colored secondary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenylphosphine oxide; and a content of phosphorus in the colored secondary resin layer is 0.03 mass % or more and 0.30 mass % or less, and an amount of a phosphorus-tin complex at the surface of the colored secondary resin layer is 300 ppm or more and 7000 ppm or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriaki Iwaguchi, Takashi Fujii, Fumiaki Sato
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Patent number: 11809148Abstract: A feedback gain and a speed feed-forward gain are adjusted. A method for adjusting control parameters for a control device that performs servo control on a control target includes calculating an upper limit of a feedback gain of a feedback signal within a range in which a predetermined index for the feedback gain satisfies a predetermined target value with a speed feed-forward gain for speed feed-forward control set at a predetermined reference value, setting the feedback gain at an adjustment initial value lower than the upper limit, setting the speed feed-forward gain at the highest value within a settable range, and increasing the feedback gain from the adjustment initial value within a range in which the feedback gain does not exceed the upper limit with at least the speed feed-forward gain set at a predetermined increased value.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Maki Nishimura, Mamoru Egi, Yasushi Ono, Kenji Nakajima, Fumiaki Sato
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Publication number: 20230324642Abstract: A method for laying an optical fiber cable including a cable core, a cable sheath that includes an inner jacket and an outer jacket, and a tensile strength member, a first kinetic friction coefficient of the outer jacket being smaller than a second kinetic friction coefficient of the inner jacket to the duct, first flame retardance of the inner jacket being higher than the second flame retardance of the outer jacket. The method includes wiring the optical fiber cable in an outdoor side via the duct, drawing the optical fiber cable from the outdoor side to an indoor side, making a part of the optical fiber cable as an optical fiber cable for indoor wiring by removing the outer jacket after the drawing of the optical fiber, and wiring the optical fiber cable for indoor wiring in the indoor side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Fumiaki SATO, Yuuki SHIMODA, Toyoaki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230305251Abstract: An optical fiber cable provided with a plurality of optical fiber cores and a sheath coating the periphery of the plurality of optical fiber cores. The number of optical fiber cores per unit area of the optical fiber cable in a cross-section of the optical fiber cable perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is larger than 6.3 cores/mm2 and smaller than or equal to 12.6 cores/mm2. The optical fiber cores each have an outer diameter of 175-185 ?m inclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Fumiaki SATO, Noriaki IWAGUCHI, Kenta TSUCHIYA
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Patent number: 11762161Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: a plurality of optical fibers or a plurality of optical fiber ribbons; a cable sheath inside which a plurality of the optical fibers or a plurality of the optical fiber ribbons are housed; and four or more tensile strength member units which are provided so as to be embedded inside the cable sheath, and in which two or more tensile strength members are paired with each other, in which the four or more tensile strength member units are respectively provided at locations facing each other with a center of the optical fiber cable interposed therebetween in a cross section in a radial direction of the optical fiber cable, and in which a cable outer diameter of the optical fiber cable is 6 mm or more and 16 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Masakazu Takami, Tsuguo Amano, Yohei Suzuki, Yutaka Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Nagao, Naomichi Osada
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Publication number: 20230273382Abstract: An optical cable according to an embodiment of present disclosure includes following features. Asheath layer contains a liquid crystal polymer forming a liquid crystal phase and an olefin resin serving as a principal component, a content of the liquid crystal polymer is 2 mass% to 30 mass% relative to the sheath layer, a major axis of the liquid crystal phase is oriented in a longitudinal direction of the sheath layer, and in a region from a surface of the sheath layer to a depth of 5% of a thickness of the sheath layer, an average ratio of a length of the liquid crystal phase in a major axis direction to a length of the liquid crystal phase in a minor axis direction is 2.0 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Ryota FUKUMOTO, Nayu YANAGAWA, Taro FUJITA, Yohei SUZUKI, Fumiaki SATO
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Publication number: 20230251445Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes a plurality of optical fibers, a plurality of water-absorbent fibers, and a sheath covering a periphery of the plurality of optical fibers and the plurality of water-absorbent fibers. A ratio of areas of the water-absorbent fibers to an area of an accommodating portion in an inner side of the sheath in a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cable is 1% or more and 5% or less, and a maximum value of an area of a gap portion surrounded by the optical fibers in the cross section is 1.0 mm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Fumiaki SATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Yuuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230244050Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes optical fiber ribbons and a sheath covering a periphery of the plurality of optical fiber ribbons. Each of the optical fiber ribbon includes optical fibers, and a connected portion and a non-connected portion are intermittently provided in the longitudinal direction. Each optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating portion. A ratio of an inner diameter to an outer diameter of the sheath is 0.75 or more. A ratio of a total area of glasses in an optical fiber ribbon accommodating portion to an area of the optical fiber ribbon accommodating portion is 15% or more and 25% or less, the number of the optical fibers in the optical fiber cable is 3000 or more, and the outer diameter of the sheath is 50 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Fumiaki SATO, Yuuki SHIMODA, Yohei SUZUKI, Hiroki ISHIKAWA