Patents by Inventor Fumihiko Nishimura

Fumihiko Nishimura 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).

  • Endoscope imaging module
    Patent number: 10510918
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an imaging device chip having a chip connection portion; a tubular housing tube used to a scope tip portion of an endoscope; a substrate to which the imaging device chip is fixed, the substrate having a substrate connection portion, the substrate being capable of bending at near the substrate connection portion when the substrate is inserted into the housing tube; a lead wire connecting the substrate connection portion and the chip connection portion; flexible and non-conductive resin covering an entirety of the lead wire; and an imaging module including the substrate provided with the imaging device chip thereon, the imaging module inserted into the housing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Zhi Hu, Kenichi Nakatate, Takeshi Segi, Kenichi Ishibashi, Fumihiko Nishimura, Satoshi Hida, Hitoe Iikura, Hideo Shiratani
  • METHOD OF PACKAGING IMAGING DEVICE CHIP, METHOD OF ASSEMBLING ENDOSCOPE, IMAGING MODULE, AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20140249368
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an imaging device chip having a chip connection portion; a tubular housing tube used to a scope tip portion of an endoscope; a substrate to which the imaging device chip is fixed, the substrate having a substrate connection portion, the substrate being capable of bending at near the substrate connection portion when the substrate is inserted into the housing tube; a lead wire connecting the substrate connection portion and the chip connection portion; flexible and non-conductive resin covering an entirety of the lead wire; and an imaging module including the substrate provided with the imaging device chip thereon, the imaging module inserted into the housing tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Zhi HU, Kenichi NAKATATE, Takeshi SEGI, Kenichi ISHIBASHI, Fumihiko NISHIMURA, Satoshi HIDA, Hitoe IIKURA, Hideo SHIRATANI
  • Optical fiber for preserving plane of polarization
    Patent number: 6597847
    Abstract: An optical fiber for preserving plane of polarization including a core; and a clad disposed so as to surround the core, wherein the mode field diameter non-circularity ratio of the optical fiber which is calculated according to the equation: MFD ⁢   ⁢ non ⁢ - ⁢ circularity ⁢   ⁢ ratio ⁢   ⁢ ( % ) = Ma - Mb Ma 2 + Mb 2 2 × 100 (where MFD indicates a mode field diameter, and Ma is the maximum value and Mb is the minimum value of the mode field diameter, respectively, in a wavelength region of li
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Shamoto, Fumihiko Nishimura, Kuniharu Himeno
  • Optical fiber for preserving plane of polarization
    Publication number: 20030086669
    Abstract: An optical fiber (10) for preserving plane of polarization including a core (11); and a clad (12) disposed so as to surround the core, wherein the mode field diameter non-circularity ratio of the optical fiber which is calculated according to the equation: 1 MFD ⁢   ⁢ non ⁢ - ⁢ circularity ⁢   ⁢ ratio ⁢   ⁢ ( % ) = Ma - Mb Ma 2 + Mb 2 2 × 100
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Naoki Shamoto, Fumihiko Nishimura, Kuniharu Himeno