Patents by Inventor Kouji Mochizuki

Kouji Mochizuki 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).

  • Patent number: 9025924
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which transmission loss is not easily increased when the optical fiber is dipped in water and then dried and also which has a solvent resistant property and a micro-bend resistant property. An optical fiber according to one embodiment of the present invention is an optical fiber in which at least two layers of coating resin coat the circumference of a glass optical fiber. When a Yang's modulus of the first coating layer of the coating resin is defined by PY (MPa) and an elution rate of the coating resin after dipping in 60° C. hot water for 168 hours is defined by E (mass·%), a formula of 1.8?E?8.61×PY+1.40 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Saito, Minoru Kasahara, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8731365
    Abstract: An optical fiber, which is less likely to increase its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water, is provided. The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer) coated at the circumference of the glass fiber, wherein the limit-adhesion strength between the glass fiber and the coating layer under a hot and humid environment is 0.5N/10 mm or more. Preferably, the glass-transition temperature of the hard layer is less than 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Kouji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8639077
    Abstract: The present invention provides a colored coated optical fiber which hardly has an increase in transmission loss even when immersed in water. A colored coated optical fiber according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a glass optical fiber, a primary coating layer covering the glass optical fiber, a secondary coating layer covering the primary coating layer, and a colored layer covering the secondary coating layer. A ratio of a thermal expansion coefficient of a laminate including the secondary coating layer and the colored layer covering the secondary coating layer to that of the secondary coating layer is 0.98 or more and 1.03 or less. A ratio of a glass transition temperature based on a dynamic viscoelasticity within a temperature range from ?100° C. to 150° C. of the laminate to that of the secondary coating layer is 0.96 or more and 1.03 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima, Kouji Mochizuki, Yoshihiro Arashitani
  • Publication number: 20130315545
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which transmission loss is not easily increased when the optical fiber is dipped in water and then dried and also which has a solvent resistant property and a micro-bend resistant property. An optical fiber according to one embodiment of the present invention is an optical fiber in which at least two layers of coating resin coat the circumference of a glass optical fiber. When a Yang's modulus of the first coating layer of the coating resin is defined by PY (MPa) and an elution rate of the coating resin after dipping in 60° C. hot water for 168 hours is defined by E (mass·%), a formula of 1.8?E?8.61×PY+1.40 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru SAITO, Minoru Kasahara, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8571372
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which the transmission loss increase is suppressed even under a high-humidity condition or under a water-immersed condition. A colored optical fiber (22) according to an embodiment of the present invention is a colored optical fiber (22) formed by applying a colored layer to an optical fiber (14) including a glass optical fiber coated with at least a double-layered coating layer of a soft layer and a hard layer, and the ratio of thermal expansion coefficient between the coating layer after the colored layer of the colored optical fiber (22) is applied and the coating layer of the optical fiber (14) before the colored layer is applied is 0.87 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Arashitani
  • Patent number: 8295666
    Abstract: A coated optical fiber of the present invention comprises a glass fiber coated by at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer), wherein the glass surface of the glass fiber, where the at least two coating layers of the optical fiber are removed, has a peak intensity ratio of 0.6 or more in C3H7O+ (m/z 59) or C4H9O+ (m/z 73) with respect to Si+ (m/z 28) peak in cation analysis of TOF-SIMS. The optical fiber suppresses increase in its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Kouji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8111964
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which composites constructing its coating are not complicated, so, there is also little constraint in view of production, and, moreover, delamination between a glass optical fiber and a primary layer, and a bubble in the primary layer hardly arise. The optical fiber of the present invention is an optical fiber which has a glass optical fiber which has a core 1, which passes an optical signal, in a center portion, and a cladding 2 surrounding this, a primary protective layer 3 made to coat the glass optical fiber, a secondary protective layer 4 applied on this primary protective layer 3, and a third protective layer 5 applied to an outer periphery of this secondary protective layer 4, wherein glass transition temperature of the primary protective layer 3 is made to be higher than ?20° C. and 10° C. or lower, glass transition temperature of the secondary protective layer 4 is made to be ?10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Arashitani, Kouji Mochizuki, Mitsunori Okada
  • Publication number: 20110274396
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which the transmission loss increase is suppressed even under a high-humidity condition or under a water-immersed condition. A colored optical fiber (22) according to an embodiment of the present invention is a colored optical fiber (22) formed by applying a colored layer to an optical fiber (14) including a glass optical fiber coated with at least a double-layered coating layer of a soft layer and a hard layer, and the ratio of thermal expansion coefficient between the coating layer after the colored layer of the colored optical fiber (22) is applied and the coating layer of the optical fiber (14) before the colored layer is applied is 0.87 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo NAKAJIMA, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Arashitani
  • Patent number: 7978948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical fiber accommodated in an optical fiber cable, and more particularly, to an optical fiber which optimizes optical fiber coating resin and color resin and restrains an increase in transmission loss of the optical fiber due to an operating environment and aged deterioration and provides an optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon without any increase of transmission loss irrespective of the operating environment and aged deterioration, and especially when exposed to water or high humidity. The optical fiber is an optical fiber coated with at least two layers of coating resin, wherein the outermost coated coating resin is a colored layer made of color resin and when the optical fiber is immersed in water which is heated to 60° C. for 168 hours, an extraction rate of the coating resin of the optical fiber is set to 1.5 mass percent or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Arashitani, Kouji Mochizuki, Mitsunori Okada
  • Patent number: 7876991
    Abstract: An optical fiber which reduces transmission loss increase even in a high humidity environment or under water is provided. To solve the above issue, an optical fiber according to the present invention comprises a glass optical fiber coated with at least two coating layers, soft and hard layers. The optical fiber is further coated by a colored resin to make a colored optical fiber. The hard layer and the color layer of the colored optical fiber have a free volume radius of at least 0.290 nm according to positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100266257
    Abstract: An optical fiber, which is less likely to increase its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water, is provided. The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer) coated at the circumference of the glass fiber, wherein the limit-adhesion strength between the glass fiber and the coating layer under a hot and humid environment is 0.50N/10 mm or more. Preferably, the glass-transition temperature of the hard layer is less than 90° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo NAKAJIMA, Hiroki Tanaka, Kouji Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20100119198
    Abstract: A coated optical fiber of the present invention comprises a glass fiber coated by at least two coating layers (a soft layer and a hard layer), wherein the glass surface of the glass fiber, where the at least two coating layers of the optical fiber are removed, has a peak intensity ratio of 0.6 or more in C3H7O+ (m/z 59) or C4H9O+ (m/z 73) with respect to Si+ (m/z 28) peak in cation analysis of TOF-SIMS. The optical fiber suppresses increase in its transmission loss even when it is exposed to a high-humidity environment or immersed in water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TANAKA, Kouji MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20100046900
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical fiber in which composites constructing its coating are not complicated, so, there is also little constraint in view of production, and, moreover, delamination between a glass optical fiber and a primary layer, and a bubble in the primary layer hardly arise. The optical fiber of the present invention is an optical fiber which has a glass optical fiber which has a core 1, which passes an optical signal, in a center portion, and a cladding 2 surrounding this, a primary protective layer 3 made to coat the glass optical fiber, a secondary protective layer 4 applied on this primary protective layer 3, and a third protective layer 5 applied to an outer periphery of this secondary protective layer 4, wherein glass transition temperature of the primary protective layer 3 is made to be higher than ?20° C. and 10° C. or lower, glass transition temperature of the secondary protective layer 4 is made to be ?10° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Arashitani, Kouji Mochizuki, Mitsunori Okada
  • Publication number: 20090232461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical fiber accommodated in an optical fiber cable, and more particularly, to an optical fiber which optimizes optical fiber coating resin and color resin and restrains an increase in transmission loss of the optical fiber due to an operating environment and aged deterioration and provides an optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon without any increase of transmission loss irrespective of the operating environment and aged deterioration, and especially when exposed to water or high humidity. The optical fiber is an optical fiber coated with at least two layers of coating resin, wherein the outermost coated coating resin is a colored layer made of color resin and when the optical fiber is immersed in water which is heated to 60° C. for 168 hours, an extraction rate of the coating resin of the optical fiber is set to 1.5 mass percent or below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Arashitani, Kouji Mochizuki, Mitsunori Okada
  • Patent number: 7551825
    Abstract: A colored optical fiber whose transmission loss hardly increases even in a high humidity condition or water-immersed condition is provided. The colored optical fiber according to the present invention is a colored optical fiber having a colored coating layer on a circumference of an optical fiber having at least two coating layers on a circumference of a glass optical fiber, characterized in that a difference in each amount of thermal expansion in an outer diameter direction between the optical fiber and a coating layer obtained by removing the glass optical fiber from the optical fiber in a temperature range from ?100° C. to 100° C. is 1.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Tetsuo Sato
  • Publication number: 20090022461
    Abstract: An optical fiber which reduces transmission loss increase even in a high humidity environment or under water is provided. To solve the above issue, an optical fiber according to the present invention comprises a glass optical fiber coated with at least two coating layers, soft and hard layers. The optical fiber is further coated by a colored resin to make a colored optical fiber. The hard layer and the color layer of the colored optical fiber have a free volume radius of at least 0.290 nm according to positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo NAKAJIMA, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20080129341
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus that is effective for problems of local characteristic variations and that enables higher speed and lower power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kouji MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20080112676
    Abstract: A colored optical fiber whose transmission loss hardly increases even in a high humidity condition or water-immersed condition is provided. The colored optical fiber according to the present invention is a colored optical fiber having a colored coating layer on a circumference of an optical fiber having at least two coating layers on a circumference of a glass optical fiber, characterized in that a difference in each amount of thermal expansion in an outer diameter direction between the optical fiber and a coating layer obtained by removing the glass optical fiber from the optical fiber in a temperature range from ?100° C. to 100° C. is 1.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: The Furukawa Electric Co, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakajima, Kouji Mochizuki, Hiroki Tanaka, Tetsuo Satou
  • Patent number: 7257801
    Abstract: In a cell library database, timing verification is conducted on an LSI which exists in a variable power supply system capable of changing the source voltage arbitrarily and which includes logic delay information associated with a plurality of source voltages. The database is configured, for example, so that the voltage information V of the source is represented in multiple bits V [1:0] and delay times Alh (Vlh) to Bhl (Vhh) between the time input signals A and B are each changed and the time the output signal Y changes are described for respective pieces of source voltage information LH (1.2 V), HL (1.5 V) and HH (1.8 V). This allows timing verification in the variable source system which operates with the source voltage changed dynamically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiro Sakiyama, Kouji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: D578975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Mochizuki, Takako Uchida