Patents by Inventor Shinichi Sakamoto

Shinichi Sakamoto 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: 20240136906
    Abstract: A bearingless motor includes a rotor, a stator for applying support force and torque to the rotor, and a first displacement sensor and a second displacement sensor for detecting a radial position of the rotor. The stator includes a motor winding for generating a magnetic flux having p poles to produce the torque, and a support winding for generating a magnetic flux having p±2 poles or two poles to produce the support force. The first displacement sensor and the second displacement sensor are disposed at positions axially different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito MIYOSHI, Yusuke SAKAMOTO, Shinichi FURUTANI
  • Publication number: 20240136108
    Abstract: An electronic component comprises: a magnetic core having a flat base and a core, the flat base having a top, a bottom, and first and second opposite sides, the core is on the top; a winding having an edgewise coil including a wound flat wire and the core, the winding having two non-wound flat wires extending therefrom; and a magnetic exterior body covering the core and the edgewise coil. The two non-wound flat wires extend along the top, the first side, the bottom and then the second side, and the two non-wound flat wires are non-adhesively positioned around the flat base. The two non-wound flat wires on the bottom are externally exposed electrodes. The second side inclines towards the core. The two ends of the two non-wound flat wires are embedded into the magnetic exterior body to fix the two non-wound flat wires to the magnetic exterior body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Zhigang CHENG, Fernando CHAN MOCK, Mitsugu KAWARAI
  • Patent number: 11940321
    Abstract: A photodetection device including: first optical fibers; a second optical fiber; an optical combiner having: an end face connected to an end face of each of the first optical fibers; and another end face connected to an end face of the second optical fiber; a first photodetector that detects an intensity of light propagating through at least one of the first optical fibers; a second photodetector that detects Rayleigh scattering of light propagating through the second optical fiber; and a calculator that calculates the intensity of light propagating in a predetermined direction through the first optical fibers or the second optical fiber, from a result of detection by the first photodetector and a result of detection by the second photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Wataru Kiyoyama
  • Publication number: 20240072507
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber amplifier capable of seamlessly and collectively amplifying optical signals in a plurality of bands. In order to achieve the aforementioned purpose, the optical fiber amplifier according to the present invention is the optical fiber amplifier that amplifies multiple wavelength bands, and in cross-section, one signal light primary propagation region, and a doped region where rare-earth ions have been added, wherein the doped region includes the rare-earth-doped optical fiber existing other than the propagation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi AOZASA, Taiji SAKAMOTO, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI
  • Patent number: 11901690
    Abstract: A fiber laser device includes a pumping light source, an amplifying fiber, an input side fiber fusion-spliced on an input side of the amplifying fiber and formed with a HR-FBG, an output side fiber fusion-spliced on an output side of the amplifying fiber and formed with an OC-FBG having a reflectivity smaller than that of the HR-FBG, an output end, and a mode filter, wherein the input side fiber or an intermediate fiber disposed between the amplifying fiber and the input side fiber is fusion-spliced with the amplifying fiber via a fusion splice portion, and at least a portion of the mode filter is disposed in a region between the fusion splice portion and a position separated from the fusion splice portion by a coherence length of beating caused by mode interference of signal light propagating in the amplifying fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakanishi, Yasuhiro Mashiko, Shinichi Sakamoto, Kensuke Shima
  • Patent number: 11887771
    Abstract: An electronic component comprises: a magnetic core having a flat base and a core, the flat base having a top, a bottom, and first and second opposite sides, the core is on the top; a winding having an edgewise coil including a wound flat wire and the core, the winding having two non-wound flat wires extending therefrom; and a magnetic exterior body covering the core and the edgewise coil. The two non-wound flat wires extend along the top, the first side, the bottom and then the second side, and the two non-wound flat wires are non-adhesively positioned around the flat base. The two non-wound flat wires on the bottom are externally exposed electrodes. The second side inclines towards the core. The two ends of the two non-wound flat wires are embedded into the magnetic exterior body to fix the two non-wound flat wires to the magnetic exterior body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Zhigang Cheng, Fernando Chan Mock, Mitsugu Kawarai
  • Publication number: 20230361357
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a first electrode having a strip first current collector and a first active material layer carried on the first current collector, a second electrode having a strip second current collector and a second active material layer carried on the second current collector, and a separator interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator form a columnar wound body. The first current collector has a plurality of first tabs electrically connected to one end along the longitudinal direction of the first current collector and extending radially inward of the wound body. The first tab has a proximal end portion connected to the first current collector, and a first wide portion wider than the proximal end portion. The plurality of first tabs are overlapped and welded to each other at their first wide portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya GESHI, Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Kazumichi SHIMIZU, Kiyomi KOZUKI, Kazutoshi KOHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230344187
    Abstract: An optical device includes a first fiber including a first reflector, a second fiber including a second reflector, and an amplifying fiber that has a normalized frequency that is greater than or equal to 5.13 and is wound so as not to intersect on one plane. The amplifying fiber includes an outer section wound in a circular manner. The amplifying fiber includes an inner section having first arc portions and wound such that at least two of the first arc portions have a radius of curvature in which a higher-order mode that is higher than an LP11 mode has loss. The amplifying fiber includes a first end connected to the first fiber and disposed on an inside of the amplifying fiber. The amplifying fiber includes a second end connected to the second fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mashiko, Shinichi Sakamoto, Sho Namiki
  • Publication number: 20230335754
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a first electrode having a first current collector, a second electrode having a second current collector, and a separator, which form a columnar wound body. The power storage device includes a cylinder covering an outer periphery of the columnar wound body and having a first opening, a sealing body sealing the first opening, and at least one first tab, its one end connected to the first current collector and the other end connected to the sealing body. The sealing body has a first member including a first face facing away from the columnar wound body, and a second member including a second face facing the columnar wound body. The other end of the first tab is welded to the first face of the first member to form a first welding portion that is positioned between the first face and the second face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya GESHI, Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Kazumichi SHIMIZU, Kiyomi KOZUKI, Kazutoshi KOHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230327300
    Abstract: A power storage device has a columnar wound body in which a first and second electrode are placed on top of another with a separator interposed therebetween. The first electrode has a first portion, a second portion, and a first connection portion that connects the first and second portion, and the first and second portion face each other. The first connection portion is provided in a band region of the first current collector along the winding direction of the wound body, as a first exposed portion not having the first active material layer and exposing the first current collector. The first and second portions are portions each having the first active material layer at both sides of the first connection portion. The second electrode is sandwiched by the first portion and the second portion with the separator interposed therebetween, and wound along the winding direction to form the wound body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya GESHI, Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Kazumichi SHIMIZU, Kiyomi KOZUKI, Kazutoshi KOHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230327299
    Abstract: A power storage device includes a first electrode having an elongated sheet first current collector, and a first active material layer carried on the first current collector, an elongated sheet second electrode, a separator interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a first current collecting portion electrically connected to the first current collector, wherein the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator form a columnar wound body, one end portion along a longitudinal direction of the first current collector is a first exposed portion not having the first active material layer and projected from one end face of the wound body, the first current collecting portion has a porous metal portion, and one or more projected portions that are pressed into the porous metal portion, and the porous metal portion fills the gap of the first exposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya GESHI, Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Kazumichi SHIMIZU, Kiyomi KOZUKI, Kazutoshi KOHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230253151
    Abstract: An inductor includes an air-core coil assembled with a T-shaped core and a composite magnetic material and resin mixture embedding the T-shaped core and the air-core coil. The air-core coil has: a coil member having a coil axis and first and second sides opposite to each other; and first and second leads that are integrally connected to the coil member. The first and second leads respectively have: first and second bent members at the first side; first and second ends at the second side; and first and second bottom extensions respectively connected between the first and second bent members and the first and second ends. The first and second bent members extend in a first direction parallel to the coil axis, the first and second ends extend in a second direction parallel to the coil axis, and the first and second bottom extensions extend perpendicular to the coil axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Douglas James MALCOLM
  • Patent number: 11657962
    Abstract: An inductor includes an air-core coil assembled with a T-shaped core and a composite magnetic material and resin mixture embedding the T-shaped core and the air-core coil. The air-core coil has: a coil member having a coil axis and first and second sides opposite to each other; and first and second leads that are integrally connected to the coil member. The first and second leads respectively have: first and second bent members at the first side; first and second ends at the second side; and first and second bottom extensions respectively connected between the first and second bent members and the first and second ends. The first and second bent members extend in a first direction parallel to the coil axis, the first and second ends extend in a second direction parallel to the coil axis, and the first and second bottom extensions extend perpendicular to the coil axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Douglas James Malcolm
  • Patent number: 11609380
    Abstract: A laser device includes: a laser unit that outputs laser light; an output end that launches the laser light; a first fusion splice portion; and a second fusion splice portion. In each of the first fusion splice portion and the second fusion splice portion, two multi-mode fibers are fusion-spliced. Each of the two multi-mode fibers include a core through which the laser light propagates and a cladding that surrounds the core. The first fusion splice portion is disposed closer to the laser unit than is the second fusion splice portion. At least a part of the core in the first fusion splice portion contains a dopant that is the same type as a dopant contained in the cladding in the first fusion splice portion for decreasing a refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Yamaguchi, Shinichi Sakamoto, Yasuto Chiba, Tatsuya Kishi
  • Patent number: 11451006
    Abstract: A fiber laser device includes: an amplifying fiber; a delivery fiber in which laser light that has been outputted from the amplifying fiber is guided; and a Raman filter that reflects part of Raman scattered light that is generated by stimulated Raman scattering caused to the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11404842
    Abstract: A laser device includes: a light source including laser diodes; a processor that holds: a maximum current value of a driving current applied to the laser diodes, and a maximum power value of a power of light emitted from the light source; and a memory, coupled to the processor, that stores a relationship between a magnitude of the driving current, a magnitude of the power of the light, and a degree of deterioration of the light source. The processor further refers to the memory and estimates the degree of deterioration from the maximum current value and the maximum power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20220203582
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a coil component comprising the steps of: preparing a coil assembly body in which a coil is attached on a magnetic core and a mold body which is formed with a cavity portion in the inside thereof and which includes at least one opening portion, putting a viscous admixture including magnetic powders and thermosetting resin and the coil assembly body in the cavity portion, pushing the put-in viscous admixture in the mold body, and thermally-curing the pushed-in viscous admixture and forming a magnetic exterior body which covers the coil assembly body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Motomi TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro KAJIYAMA, Teruaki TANAKA, Shinichi SAKAMOTO, Juichi OKI, Mitsugu KAWARAI, Tsutomu OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11366009
    Abstract: A light detection device includes: a first optical fiber including a first core surrounded by a first cladding; a second optical fiber including a second core surrounded by a second cladding; a first cladding mode stripper provided outside the first cladding; a first light detector; and a second light detector. The second core has a diameter larger than a diameter of the first core and is connected to the first core. In a longitudinal direction of the first optical fiber, the first light detector is disposed on one side of the first cladding mode stripper and the second light detector is disposed on another side of the first cladding mode stripper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11312045
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a coil component comprising the steps of: preparing a coil assembly body in which a coil is attached on a magnetic core and a mold body which is formed with a cavity portion in the inside thereof and which includes at least one opening portion, putting a viscous admixture including magnetic powders and thermosetting resin and the coil assembly body in the cavity portion, pushing the put-in viscous admixture in the mold body, and thermally-curing the pushed-in viscous admixture and forming a magnetic exterior body which covers the coil assembly body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motomi Takahashi, Tomohiro Kajiyama, Teruaki Tanaka, Shinichi Sakamoto, Juichi Oki, Mitsugu Kawarai, Tsutomu Otsuka
  • Patent number: D1003720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KAWAKAMI SANGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Atsushi Yokoi