Patents by Inventor Katsumi Hirata
Katsumi Hirata 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: 6954264Abstract: In order to improve a measuring precision in case of measuring properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other, detection is carried out with respect to the returned lights of the wavelengths different from each other, at a timing based on difference of propagation rates between the returned lights in the optical fiber to be measured, and error between the returning points is compensated with respect to each returned light, in the optical pulse testing device for inputting the optical pulse to the optical fiber to be measured, to detect returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other and which are returned back from passing points in the optical fiber to be measured, respectively, in order to measure the properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with detection results of the returned lights.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2004Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Araki, Makoto Kuratsu, Katsumi Hirata
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Patent number: 6839130Abstract: An optical pulse ?0 from a light source section 10 is incident upon an optical fiber 1 through an optical demultiplexer section 20, and its return light is supplied to an optical/electrical processing section 30 as the light of a plurality of different wavelengths ?1 to ?n by the optical demultiplexer section 20, and is respectively converted into electrical signals. Signals of the converted return light are respectively sampled and are averaged by respective processing circuits 402 to 40n of a signal processing section 40 so as to be formed as desired measurement waveforms. In the measurement waveforms, which are the results, data for corresponding sampling points are expressed as measurement data at an identical distance in the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2002Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignees: Ando Electric Co., Ltd., Kyusyu Ando Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Araki, Katsumi Hirata
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Publication number: 20040223136Abstract: In order to improve a measuring precision in case of measuring properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other, detection is carried out with respect to the returned lights of the wavelengths different from each other, at a timing based on difference of propagation rates between the returned lights in the optical fiber to be measured, and error between the returning points is compensated with respect to each returned light, in the optical pulse testing device for inputting the optical pulse to the optical fiber to be measured, to detect returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other and which are returned back from passing points in the optical fiber to be measured, respectively, in order to measure the properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with detection results of the returned lights.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Applicants: Kyusyu Ando Electric Company Limited, Ando Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Araki, Makoto Kuratsu, Katsumi Hirata
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Patent number: 6771361Abstract: In order to improve a measuring precision in case of measuring properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other, detection is carried out with respect to the returned lights of the wavelengths different from each other, at a timing based on difference of propagation rates between the returned lights in the optical fiber to be measured, and error between the returning points is compensated with respect to each returned light, in the optical pulse testing device for inputting the optical pulse to the optical fiber to be measured, to detect returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other and which are returned back from passing points in the optical fiber to be measured, respectively, in order to measure the properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with detection results of the returned lights.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignees: Kyusyo Ando Electric Company Limited, Ando Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Araki, Makoto Kuratsu, Katsumi Hirata
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Publication number: 20030160952Abstract: In order to improve a measuring precision in case of measuring properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other, detection is carried out with respect to the returned lights of the wavelengths different from each other, at a timing based on difference of propagation rates between the returned lights in the optical fiber to be measured, and error between the returning points is compensated with respect to each returned light, in the optical pulse testing device for inputting the optical pulse to the optical fiber to be measured, to detect returned lights which have wavelengths different from each other and which are returned back from passing points in the optical fiber to be measured, respectively, in order to measure the properties of the optical fiber to be measured, in accordance with detection results of the returned lights.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Tetsuya Araki, Makoto Kuratsu, Katsumi Hirata
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Publication number: 20030025900Abstract: An optical pulse &lgr;0 from a light source section 10 is incident upon an optical fiber 1 through an optical demultiplexer section 20, and its return light is supplied to an optical/electrical processing section 30 as the light of a plurality of different wavelengths &lgr;1 to &lgr;n by the optical demultiplexer section 20, and is respectively converted into electrical signals. Signals of the converted return light are respectively sampled and are averaged by respective processing circuits 402 to 40n of a signal processing section 40 so as to be formed as desired measurement waveforms. In the measurement waveforms, which are the results, data for corresponding sampling points are expressed as measurement data at an identical distance in the optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Tetsuya Araki, Katsumi Hirata
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Publication number: 20020138575Abstract: A client, when desiring to multicast the data, transmits the data and destination information on a plurality of transmission destinations to a center system. The center system generates a multicast group containing the plurality of transmission destinations on the basis of the destination information, and multicasts the data to the generated multicast group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventor: Katsumi Hirata
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Patent number: 6144854Abstract: A satellite communication system capable of notifying an user in speaking that a connection request is transmitted and capable of being implemented at low cost. A satellite communication system in accordance with the SCPC method using a voice activation is structured with a center station. The center station, when receiving a connection request to an user in speaking, measures a level of a carrier assigned to a reception line for the user with a demodulator. In this center station, when the level is not more than a predetermined level, the modulator transmits a signal notifying the user that the connection request is received.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1998Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Noboru Matsubara, Katsumi Hirata, Kouichi Yamakawa
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Patent number: 5058804Abstract: An automatic hot water supply apparatus produces and supplies hot water by mixing, with a hot water/cold water mixing valve, hot water supplied from an instantaneous water heater unit through a hot water supply pipe and cold water supplied through a cold water supply pipe. The automatic hot water supply apparatus includes a flow rate control valve actuatable by an electric actuator, and a flow rate limiting unit responsive to a hot water temperature setting, or a season setting, or a detected hot water temperature, for varying the flow rate of mixed hot water. The electric actuator is controlled by a signal from the flow rate limiting unit to operate the flow rate control valve in order to solve the problems of a low water temperature during the winter, an excessive hot water flow rate, and a low instantaneous water heater unit capability, so that the automatic hot water supply apparatus can supply hot water at a desired temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1989Date of Patent: October 22, 1991Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Yonekubo, Risho Miyoshi, Katsumi Hirata, Munehiko Tokumoto, Takashi Iwasa