Patents by Inventor Kazuhide NAKAE

Kazuhide NAKAE 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: 20250130371
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical switch and an optical switch system capable of achieving optical path switching with less power. In order to achieve the above object, an optical switch according to the present disclosure includes a plate-shaped cladding provided with a trench in a thickness direction, opposing lenses exposed to the trench, two optical waveguides coaxially arranged inside the cladding, respective one ends of the optical waveguides being exposed to a surface of the cladding and respective other ends of the optical waveguides opposing each other in the trench via the opposing lenses, a movable transparent body that transmits light of the opposing lenses when the transparent body is sandwiched by the opposing lenses in the trench, and a movable double-sided mirror that reflects light incident from the opposing lenses in a direction opposite to an incident direction when the double-sided mirror is sandwiched between the opposing lenses in the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Tomohiro KAWANO, Kazuhide NAKAE, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kazunori KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250133315
    Abstract: The present disclosure is an optical line switching node device N which includes an optical switch part 2 which performs optical path switching between communication optical fibers F-0, F-1; a communication optical signal extraction part 5-0, 5-1 which extracts some of communication optical signals from one or both of the communication optical fibers F-0, F-1 and photoelectrically converts the extracted some of the communication optical signals; and a communication optical signal storage part 6 which stores some of communication optical signals photoelectrically converted in the communication optical signal extraction part 5-1, 5-1 and uses the stored energy to drive the optical switch part 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide NAKAE, Kazunori KATAYAMA, Ryo KOYAMA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Tomohiro KAWANO, Tatsuya FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250070868
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide an optical node, a remote control system, and a remote control method capable of improving a communication speed of an uplink signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro KAWANO, Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Kazuhide NAKAE, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kazunori KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240393540
    Abstract: An object of this disclosure is to enable space saving of an optical fiber connection unit such as an optical switch. According to this disclosure, there is provided an optical connection module that connects first and second multi-fiber connectors, in which the first and second multi-fiber connectors have optical fibers which are two-dimensionally arranged. In the first multi-fiber connector, optical fibers connected to a same optical switch are arranged in a vertical direction, and optical fibers connected to different optical switches are arranged in parallel in a horizontal direction. In the second multi-fiber connector, optical fibers connected to a same optical switch are arranged in a horizontal direction, and optical fibers connected to different optical switches are arranged in parallel in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Yoshiteru ABE, Ryo KOYAMA, Kazuhide NAKAE, Hiroshi WATANABE, Chisato FUKAI, Tomohiro KAWANO, Kazunori KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240329325
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical switch that does not require power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Kazunori KATAYAMA, Ryo KOYAMA, Kazuhide NAKAE, Hiroshi WATANABE, Yoshiteru ABE, Tomohiro KAWANO, Chisato FUKAI
  • Publication number: 20240280758
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical node capable of compensating for a rotation angle deviation of an optical fiber core of a ferrule rotation type optical switch and reducing a connection loss generated in the optical switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro KAWANO, Kazunori KATAYAMA, Kazuhide NAKAE, Hiroshi WATANABE, Tatsuya FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240264381
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical switch that does not require power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Chisato FUKAI, Tomohiro KAWANO, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kazuhide NAKAE, Kazunori KATAYAMA