Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Betsui

Hiroshi Betsui 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: 20170010413
    Abstract: The optical waveguide includes: a lower clad layer, a core layer, an upper clad layer, a substrate, and a mirror, the lower clad layer, the core layer, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated to the substrate, the mirror being formed on the core layer, in which the substrate has an opening, the maximum diameter of the opening is larger than that of luminous flux reflected by the mirror, and the maximum diameter of the opening is 240 ?m or less. The optical waveguide is capable of transmitting a light signal regardless of the type of the substrate, suppressing the spread of a light signal reflected from the mirror, and transmitting a light signal with a low optical transmission loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Daichi SAKAI, Toshihiro KURODA, Hiroshi BETSUI, Kouta SEGAWA, Masao UCHIGASAKI
  • Patent number: 9513434
    Abstract: The optical waveguide includes: a lower clad layer, a core layer, an upper clad layer, a substrate, and a mirror, the lower clad layer, the core layer, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated to the substrate, the mirror being formed on the core layer, in which the substrate has an opening, the maximum diameter of the opening is larger than that of luminous flux reflected by the mirror, and the maximum diameter of the opening is 240 ?m or less. The optical waveguide is capable of transmitting a light signal regardless of the type of the substrate, suppressing the spread of a light signal reflected from the mirror, and transmitting a light signal with a low optical transmission loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Toshihiro Kuroda, Hiroshi Betsui, Kouta Segawa, Masao Uchigasaki
  • Patent number: 9442251
    Abstract: The optical waveguide with mirror 10 of the present invention includes: a lower clad layer 22; a core pattern 24 formed above the lower clad layer 22; a mirror 30 formed on the inclined surface 31 of the core pattern 24; an upper clad layer 26 covering the part other than the mirror 30 on the core pattern 24; and an opening 26a with an approximate pillar shape, the opening being formed on the upper clad layer 26, wherein the mirror 30 is formed in the opening 26a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Hiroshi Betsui, Toshihiro Kuroda, Kouta Segawa, Masao Uchigasaki
  • Publication number: 20160252675
    Abstract: An optical waveguide is provided with a substrate 1, a lower cladding layer 2 that is formed on the substrate 1, an optical signal transmitting core pattern 31 and a protruding pattern 32 that are disposed on the lower cladding layer 2, and an upper cladding layer 4 that is disposed in a manner that it covers the optical signal transmitting core pattern 31 in association with the lower cladding layer 2. The protruding pattern 32 has an outer peripheral wall 33 that protrudes out of the substrate 1, the lower cladding layer 2, and the upper cladding layer 4 in an outer peripheral direction of the substrate 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Yoshiaki Tsubomatsu, Toshihiro Kuroda, Kazushi Minakawa, Hiroshi Betsui
  • Publication number: 20150139589
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector in which: an optical fiber guide member includes a fiber guide side substrate portion forming part of a substrate, a fiber guide pattern, and a lid member; and an optical waveguide includes an optical waveguide side substrate portion adjacent to the fiber guide side substrate portion, an optical waveguide side first lower clad layer, an optical signal transmission core pattern, and an optical waveguide side upper clad layer. The fiber guide pattern is formed of a plurality of guide members aligned parallel to one another at intervals. A space defined by every two adjacent guide members, the fiber guide side substrate portion, and a fiber guide side lid member portion forms a fiber guide groove. The fiber guide groove is present on an extension of the optical signal transmission core pattern in an optical path direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Toshihiro Kuroda, Kazushi Minakawa, Hiromichi Aoki, Hiroshi Betsui, Kouta Segawa, Masao Uchigasaki, Shigeyuki Yagi, Tomoaki Shibata
  • Publication number: 20150016773
    Abstract: The optical waveguide includes: a lower clad layer, a core layer, an upper clad layer, a substrate, and a mirror, the lower clad layer, the core layer, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated to the substrate, the mirror being formed on the core layer, in which the substrate has an opening, the maximum diameter of the opening is larger than that of luminous flux reflected by the mirror, and the maximum diameter of the opening is 240 ?m or less. The optical waveguide is capable of transmitting a light signal regardless of the type of the substrate, suppressing the spread of a light signal reflected from the mirror, and transmitting a light signal with a low optical transmission loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Toshihiro Kuroda, Hiroshi Betsui, Kouta Segawa, Masao Uchigasaki
  • Publication number: 20140321807
    Abstract: The optical waveguide with mirror 10 of the present invention includes: a lower clad layer 22; a core pattern 24 formed above the lower clad layer 22; a mirror 30 formed on the inclined surface 31 of the core pattern 24; an upper clad layer 26 covering the part other than the mirror 30 on the core pattern 24; and an opening 26a with an approximate pillar shape, the opening being formed on the upper clad layer 26, wherein the mirror 30 is formed in the opening 26a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Hiroshi Betsui, Toshihiro Kuroda, Kouta Segawa, Masao Uchigasaki
  • Patent number: D768787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Betsui, Nakayuki Sato
  • Patent number: D769983
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Betsui, Yuzo Shimomura