Patents by Inventor Michio Imai

Michio Imai 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: 20230332931
    Abstract: A distributed position detection rope includes: basic optical elements each including an optical fiber, tensile strength bodies, and a sheath material and the tensile strength bodies; a cylindrical inner sheath layer having a first optical element formed by arranging a plurality of the basic optical elements which are arranged at positions on the same circle and are helically wound at a predetermined pitch along the axial direction of the axis; and a cylindrical outer sheath layer on the outer side of the inner sheath layer and having a second optical element which are arranged at positions on the same circle and are helically wound along the axial direction so as to have a placement angle different from that of the basic optical elements of the first optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: NEUBREX CO., LTD., NISHI NIPPON ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kinzo KISHIDA, Yoshiaki YAMAUCHI, Junichi KAWABATA, Shoji SENO, Hideki NAGATANI, Michio IMAI, Yukihiro HAMADA, Kazumitu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230115205
    Abstract: An optical-fiber-embedding sheet which is a strip-shaped sheet material containing an optical fiber to be used as a sensor and is configured of a base material and an adhesive layer formed thereover which is to be bonded to a placement object where the optical fiber is to be placed, the optical fiber having been embedded in the adhesive layer. The optical fiber is placed by applying a primer, which is for curing the adhesive layer by a chemical reaction with the adhesive layer, to a placement object for the optical fiber and thereafter applying the optical-fiber-embedding sheet to the portion of the placement object to which the primer has been applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki SOGABE, Michio IMAI, Yohei TAIRA, Akiko TANAKA, Takehiko MISHIMA, Chie HAMADA
  • Patent number: 10815664
    Abstract: A coated PC steel stranded cable includes: a stranded cable in which a plurality of elemental wires each composed of steel are twisted together; an anti-corrosive coating having an outer circumferential portion that coats an outer circumference of the stranded cable; an outer coating that coats an outer circumference of the anti-corrosive coating; and an optical fiber provided at a position inwardly of an outer circumferential surface of the outer coating and corresponding to a strand groove in the stranded cable so as to follow expansion and contraction of the stranded cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Oikawa, Masato Yamada, Yoshiyuki Matsubara, Shinji Nakaue, Toru Yamamoto, Shinichi Yamanobe, Michio Imai, Naoki Sogabe, Kazumasa Okubo, Kazuyoshi Chikiri, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180274237
    Abstract: A coated PC steel stranded cable includes: a stranded cable in which a plurality of elemental wires each composed of steel are twisted together; an anti-corrosive coating having an outer circumferential portion that coats an outer circumference of the stranded cable; an outer coating that coats an outer circumference of the anti-corrosive coating; and an optical fiber provided at a position inwardly of an outer circumferential surface of the outer coating and corresponding to a strand groove in the stranded cable so as to follow expansion and contraction of the stranded cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Masashi Oikawa, Masato Yamada, Yoshiyuki Matsubara, Shinji Nakaue, Toru Yamamoto, Shinichi Yamanobe, Michio Imai, Naoki Sogabe, Kazumasa Okubo, Kazuyoshi Chikiri, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20170184463
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processor and a data processing method which are capable of acquiring strain distribution data at the same time. The data processor having an acquirer for acquiring strain distribution data in which a distributed optical fiber sensor measures a strain at a set of positions of an optical fiber at different times; and an interpolator for calculating the strains at the set of positions of the optical fiber at the same time by interpolating positions and times of the strain distribution data acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michio IMAI, Satoru MIURA, Arinori NIMURA, Satoshi MATSUURA, Osamu FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 4675719
    Abstract: A thyristor device where the thyristor and protection device are formed flat with two surfaces thereof operating as a electrodes, and the conductive plate which electrically connects these electrodes is held between the thyristor and the protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Michio Imai