Patents by Inventor Osamu Kagaya

Osamu Kagaya 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: 9703053
    Abstract: An optical transceiver is configured to use, as an electric signal, a digital modulation signal having a predetermined bit rate. The optical transceiver includes a case having a space for storing a component therein and a resistor being arranged between upper and lower surfaces of the space and having conductance of from 1 S/m to 1,000 S/m. The space has a height equal to or less than a wavelength in a free space of an electromagnetic wave of a frequency corresponding to the predetermined bit rate. At least a part of the height of the space is larger than a half of the wavelength. The height of the space is smaller than a width of the space. The width of the space is smaller than a depth of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: OCLARO JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Osamu Kagaya, Fumihide Maeda, Hiroyoshi Ishii, Koichi Omori, Koji Takeguchi
  • Publication number: 20170036646
    Abstract: A plate for an electro-thermal window includes a heatable transparent conductive film, and bus bars that feed power to the transparent conductive film. The bus bars include a left bus bar connected to a left side edge and a right bus bar connected to a right side edge of the transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film is divided into regions by a slit continuously or discontinuously formed from the left bus bar to the right bus bar. The regions include first and second regions. A distance between the left bus bar and the right bus bar of the first region is shorter than a distance between the left bus bar and the right bus bar of the second region. A width of the first region in a direction orthogonal to the slit is shorter than a width of the second region in the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Hiromasa TOMINAGA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9553359
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a glass plate that is fixed to a flange of a vehicle body at a window opening portion of the vehicle body; a dielectric material; a conductive film provided between the glass plate and the dielectric material; and a monopolar feeding portion provided on the dielectric material at a surface opposite to a glass plate side and at a position capable of being capacitively coupled to the conductive film, the antenna apparatus being configured such that a clearance between an end portion of the flange of the vehicle body and an outer edge of the conductive film functions as a slot antenna, the conductive film being provided with a notch having one end as an open end at the outer edge of the conductive film in the vicinity of the feeding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Osamu Kagaya
  • Patent number: 9509038
    Abstract: Vehicle window glass include a glass plate, a dielectric, a conductive film, placed between the glass plate and the dielectric, and an antenna including a pair of electrodes. The conductive film, includes a pair of facing parts that faces the electrodes across the dielectric, a main slot, and a pair of sub slots. The main slot has, at one end, an open end open at an outer edge of the conductive film, and is formed between the facing parts. Each sub slot has, at one end, an open end open at the outer edge of the conductive film. One of the sub slots connects, at the other end, to the main slot so as to surround one of the facing parts. The other of the sub slots connects, at the other end, to the main slot so as to surround the other of the facing parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu Kagaya, Koji Ikawa, Kotaro Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20160134013
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a first antenna conductor having a first feeding point provided on windshield glass, a second antenna conductor having a second feeding point, a passive conductor, and an auxiliary conductor, wherein the first antenna conductor and the second antenna conductor are arranged in a vicinity of the auxiliary conductor with a predetermined gap therebetween, the passive conductor includes a first passive element extending in a direction away from the auxiliary conductor, and a second passive element connected to one end of the first passive element on a side of the auxiliary conductor and extending along the auxiliary conductor, and an open end of the second passive element is arranged at a position on a side of the first antenna conductor, and adjacent to the auxiliary conductor between the first antenna conductor and the second antenna conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kotaro SUENAGA, Osamu KAGAYA, Koji IKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160118708
    Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna conductor on windshield glass, a feeding point having adjacent first and second feeding parts on the antenna conductor, and an auxiliary conductor including electrically connected horizontal and vertical conductors. The antenna conductor is adjacent to a connecting part between the horizontal and vertical conductors, and has a semi-loop shape with a cutout part in a loop-shape. The feeding point is located along the horizontal conductor, and the cutout part is located opposite from the horizontal conductor with respect to a horizontal line passing through a center point of a region surrounded by a semi-loop element, and opposite from the vertical conductor with respect to a vertical line passing through the center point. A length of a first element forming a part of the antenna conductor is 0.2?g or greater and 0.35?g or less, where ?g denotes a wavelength on the windshield glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kotaro Suenaga, Osamu Kagaya, Koji Ikawa
  • Publication number: 20160006112
    Abstract: A windshield includes a glass plate; a dielectric; an electrothermal layer that is disposed between the glass plate and the dielectric, and includes a conductive layer and strip electrodes having a resistance lower than a resistance of the conductive layer; and an antenna including a pair of electrodes disposed to face the electrothermal layer across the dielectric, and a slot at least a part of which is formed in one of the strip electrodes such that the slot is disposed between the pair of electrodes in plan view. The strip electrodes are disposed along at least two opposing outer edges of the conductive layer and are DC-coupled to the conductive layer such that the conductive layer is energized via the strip electrodes. One end of the slot is an open end that is open at an outer edge of the electrothermal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Koji IKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150372760
    Abstract: An optical transceiver is configured to use, as an electric signal, a digital modulation signal having a predetermined bit rate. The optical transceiver includes a case having a space for storing a component therein and a resistor being arranged between upper and lower surfaces of the space and having conductance of from 1 S/m to 1,000 S/m. The space has a height equal to or less than a wavelength in a free space of an electromagnetic wave of a frequency corresponding to the predetermined bit rate. At least a part of the height of the space is larger than a half of the wavelength. The height of the space is smaller than a width of the space. The width of the space is smaller than a depth of the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Fumihide MAEDA, Hiroyoshi ISHII, Koichi OMORI, Koji TAKEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150357700
    Abstract: Vehicle window glass include a glass plate, a dielectric, a conductive film, placed between the glass plate and the dielectric, and an antenna including a pair of electrodes. The conductive film, includes a pair of facing parts that faces the electrodes across the dielectric, a main slot, and a pair of sub slots. The main slot has, at one end, an open end open at an outer edge of the conductive film, and is formed between the facing parts. Each sub slot has, at one end, an open end open at the outer edge of the conductive film. One of the sub slots connects, at the other end, to the main slot so as to surround one of the facing parts. The other of the sub slots connects, at the other end, to the main slot so as to surround the other of the facing parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Koji Ikawa, Kotaro Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20150349411
    Abstract: Window glass for vehicle includes a glass plate, and a conductive film provided on the glass plate, and a linear conductor antenna provided within a region between a glass edge at an outer edge of the glass plate and a film edge at an outer edge or the conductive film. The conductive film includes a slot having an open end that opens at an opposing outer edge part of the conductive film, opposing the linear conductor antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20150319808
    Abstract: An electrically-heated window sheet material includes a heatable transparent conductive film, and bus bars for supplying electricity to the transparent conductive film. The bus bars includes left and right bus bars connected to left and right edges of the transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film includes a band-shaped first region interposed between the left and right bus bars, a band-shaped second region interposed between the left and right bus bars, and openings provided in the first region. A distance between the left and right bus bars is shorter in the first region than in the second region. The openings are arranged so that a current flowing in the first region from one of the left and right bus bars to the other of the left and right bus bars is bypassed at least once by the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Hiromasa TOMINAGA, Tomohiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20150319809
    Abstract: A sheet includes a conductive film, and bus bars including an upper and lower bus bars connected to upper and lower sides of the conductive film. The conductive film includes a recess, a first region between the upper bus bar and the lower bus bar, a second region that is another region between the upper and lower bus bars, and openings in the first region. The upper or lower bus bar is formed along a side of the conductive film including the recess. The first region is between a bus bar at which the recess is positioned and another bus bar facing the recess. A distance between the upper and lower bus bars is shorter in the first region than in the second region. The openings are formed in an upper or a lower part of the first region on a side of the another bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Hiromasa Tominaga, Tomohiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150282300
    Abstract: A differential transmission circuit includes: a dielectric layer for embedding a plurality of first strip conductor pairs arranged side by side in the same layer above a ground conductor layer, each of the plurality of first strip conductor pairs including a first right strip conductor and a first left strip conductor, the dielectric layer being formed from an upper side of the ground conductor layer up to a region above the plurality of first strip conductor pairs, the dielectric layer having a flat upper surface. A region between adjacent two of the plurality of first strip conductor pairs is embedded in the dielectric layer without arranging a conductor in the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu KAGAYA, Koyu TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9118114
    Abstract: Window glass for vehicle may include an antenna conductor having electrodes provided on a surface of a dielectric on a side opposite from a conductive film. The conductive film may include a slot with a first end part that opens at a peripheral edge part of the conductive film. The antenna conductor may include a loop-shaped antenna element which electrodes serve as a feeding point, and projections of the electrodes onto a glass plate are located at positions not overlapping the conductive film, and a projection of the loop-shaped antenna element onto the glass plate forms a crossover part that crosses the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu Kagaya, Kotaro Suenaga, Koji Ikawa
  • Patent number: 9112252
    Abstract: A differential transmission circuit includes a pair of transmission line conductors and a ground conductor layer, wherein the pair of transmission line conductors include a first straight line region where both the pair of transmission line conductors extend in parallel to each other in a first direction with a first width in a first layer, a first cross region where one of the pair of transmission line conductors is formed in the first layer, the other thereof is formed in a second layer, and the pair of transmission line conductors cross the each other in a three-dimensional manner, the first cross region being disposed on the front side of the first straight line region, and wherein each of the widths of the pair of transmission line conductors in the first cross region is smaller than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Oclaro Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Kagaya
  • Patent number: 8941545
    Abstract: A vehicle window glass has a glass plate, a conductive film laminated on the glass plate and an antenna structured with a feeding structure placed on the conductive film, and is characterized in that the feeding structure has a dielectric and a pair of electrodes, that the conductive film has a slot one end of which makes an upper edge of the conductive film an open end, and is disposed between the glass plate and the dielectric, and that the pair of electrodes are disposed on the opposite side of the side of the conductive film with the dielectric in between so that the slot is sandwiched between the pair of electrodes when the pair of electrodes are projected onto the conductive film, and are capacitively coupled to the conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Kagaya, Koji Ikawa, Koutarou Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20140133108
    Abstract: A differential transmission circuit includes a pair of transmission line conductors and a ground conductor layer, wherein the pair of transmission line conductors include a first straight line region where both the pair of transmission line conductors extend in parallel to each other in a first direction with a first width in a first layer, a first cross region where one of the pair of transmission line conductors is formed in the first layer, the other thereof is formed in a second layer, and the pair of transmission line conductors cross the each other in a three-dimensional manner, the first cross region being disposed on the front side of the first straight line region, and wherein each of the widths of the pair of transmission line conductors in the first cross region is smaller than the first width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: OCLARO JAPAN, INC.
    Inventor: Osamu KAGAYA
  • Patent number: 8676058
    Abstract: A differential transmission circuit includes a grounded conductive layer, a pair of transmission line conductors, a conductive film and a via hole which connects the grounded conductive layer to the conductive film. The differential transmission circuit further includes a straight-line region which is present in the differential transmission circuit through which a differential transmission signal output by a driving circuit is transmitted and in which the pair of transmission line conductors extends parallel so as to have a first width, and a band rejection filter region in which the pair of transmission line conductors planarly overlaps the conductive film and extends parallel so as to have a second width narrower than the first width and a common mode of the differential transmission signal is attenuated at one of the frequencies which are natural number multiples of a frequency corresponding to the predetermined bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Oclaro Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Osamu Kagaya
  • Patent number: 8660434
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a substrate, a signal output circuit formed on the substrate for outputting a clock signal, a shield for covering the signal output circuit, a power supply wiring for connecting the signal output circuit and a power source, and a trap filter provided to the power supply wiring and provided inside the shield, for attenuating a frequency component corresponding to a frequency of clock signal. The trap filter includes a resonance circuit having one portion of the power supply wiring, an inner-layer wiring of the substrate located below the one portion of the power supply wiring, an inner-layer ground wiring of the substrate located below the inner-layer wiring, and a via hole for connecting the one portion of the power supply wiring and the inner-layer wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Oclaro Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Kagaya, Koyu Takahashi, Taichi Kogure
  • Publication number: 20140022734
    Abstract: An optical module includes: an optical receiving module 101 provided with a plurality of leads 105 for transmitting an electrical signal at 15 Gbit/s or more; a printed circuit board 103 provided with a pad 106 that is connected with the plurality of leads 105 by solder; and a metal thin plate 102 that is provided between the printed circuit board 103 and the optical receiving module 101 when the optical receiving module 101 is mounted on the printed circuit board 103. The thickness of the metal thin plate 102 is defined in such a manner that a distance between the plurality of leads 105 and the pad 106 is in the range of 50 to 500 ?m after the optical receiving module. 101 is mounted on the printed circuit board 103.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Osamu YAMADA, Mitsuo AKASHI, Shinichi OKAYAMA, Osamu KAGAYA, Hiroyoshi ISHII