Patents by Inventor Fumio Nitanda

Fumio Nitanda 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: 20050063640
    Abstract: An optical switching device comprising a plurality of mechanical optical switching structures having one to several movable optical fibers and one to several fixed optical fibers installed in a housing in which a refractive index matching oil is filled up and immerses the structures. Each of the structures has an electromagnetic actuator to reciprocate open ends of the movable optical fibers relatively to open ends of the fixed optical fibers and to connect/disconnect optical paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Fumio Nitanda, Tomoki Soutome, Shinji Furuichi
  • Patent number: 6870984
    Abstract: An optical switching device comprising a plurality of mechanical optical switching structures having one to several movable optical fibers and one to several fixed optical fibers installed in a housing in which a refractive index matching oil is filled up and immerses the structures. Each of the structures has an electromagnetic actuator to reciprocate open ends of the movable optical fibers relatively to open ends of the fixed optical fibers and to connect/disconnect optical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Uchida, Fumio Nitanda, Tomoki Soutome, Shinji Furuichi
  • Patent number: 6549689
    Abstract: An optical switch comprising a fixed optical-fiber holder for holding either of input/output optical fibers, a movable optical-fiber holder for holding the other of the input/output optical fibers, which faces the fixed optical-fiber holder and is movable with respect to the fixed optical-fiber holder, and a driver for moving the movable optical-fiber holder with respect to the fixed optical-fiber holder immersed in the refractive index matching material, such as silicone oil. Inside the housing provided are a heater for heating the refractive index matching material, a means for sensing temperature inside the housing, and a controller for turning on the power to the heater when the measured value of the temperature sensing means is lower than a first predetermined value, and turning off the power to the heater when the measured value of the temperature sensing means is higher than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Furuichi, Fumio Nitanda
  • Publication number: 20020097949
    Abstract: An optical switch comprising a fixed optical-fiber holder for holding either of input/output optical fibers, a movable optical-fiber holder for holding the other of the input/output optical fibers, which faces the fixed optical-fiber holder and is movable with respect to the fixed optical-fiber holder, and a driver for moving the movable optical-fiber holder with respect to the fixed optical-fiber holder immersed in the refractive index matching material, such as silicone oil. Inside the housing provided are a heater for heating the refractive index matching material, a means for sensing temperature inside the housing, and a controller for turning on the power to the heater when the measured value of the temperature sensing means is lower than a first predetermined value, and turning off the power to the heater when the measured value of the temperature sensing means is higher than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Shinji Furuichi, Fumio Nitanda
  • Patent number: 5854870
    Abstract: There is disclosed a harmonic modulation device of waveguide type including a semiconductor laser, a waveguide for generating a nonlinear optical harmonic of the semiconductor laser by keeping phase matching, means for leading an optical beam of the semiconductor laser to the waveguide, electrodes disposed on the waveguide, and means for modulating a refractive index of the waveguide electro-optically to modulate a phase matching condition and thereby modulate an intensity of the harmonic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sten Helmfrid, Kenchi Ito, Kimio Tatsuno, Kazumi Kawamoto, Tetsuo Andou, Hiroshi Momiji, Osamu Komoda, Hisao Kurosawa, Masayoshi Sato, Fumio Nitanda, Kohei Ito
  • Patent number: 5771133
    Abstract: Two floating rails are provided on a slider of a floating magnetic head. Rear portions, in the advancing direction of a floating magnetic head with respect to a magnetic recording medium, of the respective floating rails are cut out. That is, the floating rails exist only in front of the cut-out portions. An auxiliary rail is formed in the rear of one of the floating rails. The auxiliary rail is narrower than the floating rail, wider than the track width of an electromagnetic conversion element, and approximately as high as the floating rail. The electromagnetic conversion element is provided at a rear portion of the auxiliary rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Goto, Masahiro Ao, Fumio Nitanda
  • Patent number: 5412502
    Abstract: Using an LiTaO.sub.3 or LiNbO.sub.3 substrate, a proton exchange layer in a grid pattern, namely sprout areas of polarization inversion, is firstly, formed on the surface of said substrate and, after formation of the pattern, heat treatment is executed at a temperature of 200.degree. C. or more and for a holding time of 10 minutes or less. By maintaining the temperature gradient up to said heat treatment point at 50.degree. C./min. or steeper and by maintaining the temperature decrease rate from said heat treatment point at 50.degree. C./min. or faster, polarization inverted areas are formed downwards from the proton exchanged areas, while in addition to making the top ends of said polarization inverted areas into an acute angle, the depth/weight ratio of the polarization inverted grids being formed is made to exceed 1, thus enabling the production of a high-efficiency SHG element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignees: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Makio, Fumio Nitanda, Yasuhiro Furukawa, Kohei Ito, Masazumi Sato, Kazutami Kawamoto, Kenchi Ito
  • Patent number: 5359452
    Abstract: 0.1% or more of Mg by weight is added to lithium tantalate monocrystal materials wherein the amount of Fe is restricted to 10 ppm by weight or less to improve light transmittance in the short wavelength range of blue light and to shift the fundamental absorption edge to the shorter wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Nitanda, Yasunori Furukawa, Masayoshi Sato, Kohei Ito, Satoshi Makio
  • Patent number: 5086553
    Abstract: A flying-type composite magnetic head includes (a) a magnetic core constituted by a pair of core pieces bonded together by a first glass portion, at least one of opposing surfaces of the core pieces being formed with a thin magnetic metal layer; (b) a non-magnetic slider having a slit for receiving the magnetic core; and (c) a second glass portion for fixing the magnetic core in the slit; the first glass portion having a softening point lower than a first bonding temperature by 70.degree. C. or more and a yielding temperature higher than a second bonding temperature, and the second glass portion having a softening point lower than a second bonding temperature by 70.degree. C. or more. The first bonding temperature T.sub.1 (.degree.C.) for forming the first glass portion satisfies the following relation:T.sub.1 .ltoreq.aW+b,wherein W is a thickness (.mu.m) of the thin magnetic metal layer, a is between -25 and -15 and b is between 720 and 770, and a second bonding temperature T.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Goto, Tadafumi Tomitani, Fumio Nitanda, Masanobu Yamazaki, Manabu Toyoda, Makoto Ushijima
  • Patent number: 5016129
    Abstract: A flying-type composite magnetic head includes (a) a magnetic core constituted by a pair of core pieces bonded together by a first glass portion, at least one of opposing surfaces of the core pieces being formed with a thin magnetic metal layer; (b) a non-magnetic slider having a slit for receiving the magnetic core; and (c) a second glass portion for fixing the magnetic core in the slit; the first glass portion having a softening point lower than a first bonding temperature by 70.degree. C. or more and a yielding temperature higher than a second bonding temperature, and the second glass portion having a softening point lower than a second bonding temperature by 70.degree. C. or more. The first bonding temperature T.sub.1 .degree.C.) for forming the first glass portion satisfies the following relation:T.sub.1 .ltoreq.aW+b,wherein W is a thickness (.mu.m) of the thin magnetic metal layer, a is between -25 and -15 and b is between 720 and 770, and a second bonding temperature T.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Goto, Tadafumi Tomitani, Fumio Nitanda, Masanobu Yamazaki, Manabu Toyoda, Makoto Ushijima
  • Patent number: 4999726
    Abstract: A magnetic core for a flying-type composite magnetic head, including a pair of core pieces, a glass portion for bonding the core pieces, and a thin magnetic metal layer of Fe-Al-Si alloys formed on at least one of opposing surfaces of the core pieces. The thin magnetic metal layer extends by 10 .mu.m or more from an apex of a magnetic gap defined by the core pieces and has an inner end existing by 15 .mu.m or more inside an inner end of the bonding glass portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Goto, Tadafumi Tomitani, Fumio Nitanda, Manabu Toyoda, Makoto Ushijima