Patents by Inventor Shinji Mino
Shinji Mino 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).
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Patent number: 8260139Abstract: Conventional dispersion compensators were not sufficient to satisfy a demand to set a different dispersion value for each WDM wavelength in a ring-mesh type network that utilizes wavelength selective switches or the like. The devices were insufficiently reduced in size and power consumption and used with difficulty to change dispersion characteristics for each wavelength flexibly in a simple manner. A dispersion compensator of the present invention uses general-purpose optical components including a spatial light modulator for providing discrete phases to set appropriately the relationship between the focusing beam radius and the spatial light modulator pixel, thereby providing various dispersion compensation characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.Inventors: Kenya Suzuki, Kazunori Seno, Naoki Ooba, Shinji Mino, Motohaya Ishii
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Publication number: 20120172735Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus includes a cuff which is attached to and around an external ear; a first pulse wave detector and a second pulse wave detector which detect a pulse wave in a part squeezed by the cuff and which are affected differently from each other by a characteristic of body movements; a body movement detecting means which detects the characteristic of body movements; a pulse wave selecting means which selects a pulse wave detected by one of the first pulse wave detector and the second pulse wave detector based on the characteristic of body movements detected by the body movement detecting means; and a blood pressure value deriving means which derives a blood pressure value based on the pulse wave selected by the pulse wave selecting means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyuki HABU, Kouji HAGI, Hitoshi OZAWA, Kimihisa AIHARA, Naoe TATARA, Shinji MINO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI
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Patent number: 8204347Abstract: In a conventional optical signal processing device, a confocal optical system is configured in which a focusing lens is positioned at a substantially-intermediate point of a free space optical path. Thus, the free space optical system had a long length. It has been difficult to reduce the size of the entire device. The optical signal processing device of the present invention uses a lens layout configuration different from the confocal optical system to thereby significantly reduce the length of the system. The optical signal processing device consists of the first focusing lens positioned in the close vicinity of a signal processing device, and the second focusing lens positioned in the vicinity of a dispersing element. A distance between the dispersing element and the signal processing device is approximately a focal length of the first focusing lens. Compared with the conventional technique, the length of the optical path can be halved.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Naoki Ooba, Kenya Suzuki, Motohaya Ishii, Shinji Mino, Atsushi Aratake
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Publication number: 20120106888Abstract: In a nest MZI modulator in which each arm includes a child MZI, the power consumption is reduced. The hybrid integrated-type nest MZI modulator of the embodiment 1a is configured so that, instead of placing a relative phase adjusting section in a parent MZI, a bias electrode Bias 90° in which an electric field is applied in the same direction to the polarization direction in both of the upper and lower arms is placed in each child MZI (see FIG. 4B). The bias electrode Bias 90° provided in each child MZI constitute the entirety of a relative phase adjusting section. The optical signals are subjected to a phase change after the output from the child MZI (see FIG. 1A), because such relative phase adjusting section can subject the optical signals of the upper and lower arms of the child MZI to a shift change in the same direction, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Goh, Yoshiyuki Doi, Shinji Mino, Ken Tsuzuki, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takashi Yamada
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ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME
Publication number: 20120027919Abstract: An electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a sheet-like current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector. The active material layer is capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium, and the active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles having at least one bend. An angle ?1 formed by a growth direction of the columnar particles from a bottom to a first bend of the columnar particles, and a direction normal to the current collector is preferably 10° or more and less than 90°. When ?n+1 is an angle formed by a growth direction of the columnar particles from an n-th bend counted from a bottom of the columnar particles to an (n+1)-th bend, and the direction normal to the current collector, and n is an integer of 1 or more, ?n+1 is preferably 0° or more and less than 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Masaya UGAJI, Yasutaka KOGETSU, Shinji MINO, Nobuaki NAGAO, Masaki HASEGAWA -
Publication number: 20120017430Abstract: In order to enhance charge and discharge efficiency and to improve cycle characteristics by increasing a facing area between a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode active material, in a negative electrode for lithium secondary battery having a current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector, the active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles. The columnar particles include an element of silicon, and are tilted toward the normal direction of the current collector. Angle ? formed between the columnar particles and the normal direction of the current collector is preferably 10°??<90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasutaka KOGETSU, Masaya UGAJI, Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Shinji MINO, Nobuaki NAGAO, Satoshi SHIBUTANI, Kazuyoshi HONDA
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Patent number: 8080334Abstract: In order to enhance charge and discharge efficiency and to improve cycle characteristics by increasing a facing area between a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode active material, in a negative electrode for lithium secondary battery having a current collector and an active material layer carried on the current collector, the active material layer includes a plurality of columnar particles. The columnar particles include an element of silicon, and are tilted toward the normal direction of the current collector. Angle ? formed between the columnar particles and the normal direction of the current collector is preferably 10°??<90°.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2006Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasutaka Kogetsu, Masaya Ugaji, Keiichi Takahashi, Shinji Mino, Nobuaki Nagao, Satoshi Shibutani, Kazuyoshi Honda
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Publication number: 20110295131Abstract: In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoe TATARA, Kimihisa AIHARA, Shinji MINO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Shoichi HAYASHIDA, Taisuke OGUCHI, Junichi SHIMADA, Shoichi SUDO, Osamu TOCHIKUBO, Hidetoshi MIURA
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Publication number: 20110295132Abstract: In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoe TATARA, Kimihisa AIHARA, Shinji MINO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Shoichi HAYASHIDA, Taisuke OGUCHI, Junichi SHIMADA, Shoichi SUDO, Osamu TOCHIKUBO, Hidetoshi MIURA
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Publication number: 20110295092Abstract: In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoe TATARA, Kimihisa AIHARA, Shinji MINO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Shoichi HAYASHIDA, Taisuke OGUCHI, Junichi SHIMADA, Shoichi SUDO, Osamu TOCHIKUBO, Hidetoshi MIURA
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Publication number: 20110295081Abstract: In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure bloodpressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoe TATARA, Kimihisa AIHARA, Shinji MINO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Shoichi HAYASHIDA, Taisuke OGUCHI, Junichi SHIMADA, Shoichi SUDO, Osamu TOCHIKUBO, Hidetoshi MIURA
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Publication number: 20110295133Abstract: In measurement requiring application of pressure to a tissue of a living body such as blood pressure measurement, noise due to vibration tends to occur. It is therefore difficult to accurately measure a pulse wave and a blood pressure value, and there is a problem of measuring blood pressure stably. It is also difficult to measure blood pressure in daily life activities or to measure blood pressure at predetermined intervals or continuously in a state where a tonometer is always attached. There is consequently a problem of providing a method of holding a biologic information detecting apparatus. The present invention has been achieved to solve the problems and an object of the invention is to provide an easy-to-wear biologic information detecting apparatus for stably detecting biologic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Naoe TATARA, Kimihisa AIHARA, Shinji MINO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Shoichi HAYASHIDA, Taisuke OGUCHI, Junichi SHIMADA, Shoichi SUDO, Osamu TOCHIKUBO, Hidetoshi MIURA
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Publication number: 20110228374Abstract: In a conventional optical signal processing device, a confocal optical system is configured in which a focusing lens is positioned at a substantially-intermediate point of a free space optical path. Thus, the free space optical system had a long length. It has been difficult to reduce the size of the entire device. The optical signal processing device of the present invention uses a lens layout configuration different from the confocal optical system to thereby significantly reduce the length of the system. The optical signal processing device consists of the first focusing lens positioned in the close vicinity of a signal processing device, and the second focusing lens positioned in the vicinity of a dispersing element. A distance between the dispersing element and the signal processing device is approximately a focal length of the first focusing lens. Compared with the conventional technique, the length of the optical path can be halved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2008Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Naoki Ooba, Kenya Suzuki, Motohaya Ishii, Shinji Mino, Atsushi Aratake
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Patent number: 7974502Abstract: An optical module controls its output characteristics electrically and an optical switch constitutes the optical module. An optical waveguide circuit (PLC) and an electronic circuit (IC) for driving the PLC are mounted on the same substrate. The IC is composed of a bare chip to be molded afterward. Wiring of the IC is grouped and integrated on the PLC substrate to achieve higher density and miniaturization of the optical module.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shinji Mino, Takeshi Kitagawa, Motohaya Ishii, Takashi Yamada, Akira Himeno, Masayuki Okuno, Shunichi Souma, Takashi Goh
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Patent number: 7963923Abstract: A blood-pressure meter having storing means for storing a blood pressure measurement result, and time measurement means for measuring a time is disclosed. The blood-pressure meter includes: input means for entering behavior history; means for storing the blood pressure measurement result into the storing means while associating the blood pressure measurement result with a time when blood pressure measurement is performed; and means for storing the entered behavior history into the storing means while associating the behavior history with a time corresponding to the behavior history.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kimihisa Aihara, Shoichi Hayashida, Shinji Mino, Hiroshi Koizumi, Naoe Tatara, Taisuke Oguchi, Junichi Shimada
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Publication number: 20110070359Abstract: A film formation method according to the present invention includes the step of forming a film of material powders 7 by introducing a carrier gas 5 to a first chamber 8 accommodating the material powders 7 intermittently and mixing the material powders 7 and the carrier gas 5 to generate a first aerosol, introducing the first aerosol to a second chamber 9 to generate a second aerosol, and jetting the second aerosol to a third chamber 13 to form a film of the material powders 7.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Keiichi Takahashi, Shinji Mino, Tsunenori Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100330410Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention includes: a negative-electrode current collector 16; a negative-electrode active material layer 15 provided on the negative-electrode current collector 16; a positive-electrode current collector 11; a positive-electrode active material layer 12 provided on a face of the positive-electrode current collector 11 opposing the negative-electrode active material layer 15; and at least one inorganic insulating layer 13 provided between the positive-electrode active material layer 12 and the negative-electrode active material layer 15, the at least one inorganic insulating layer 13 being composed of inorganic particles. The inorganic insulating layer 13 contains no binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi TAKAHASHI, Shinji Mino, Tsunenori Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100316385Abstract: A conventional optical signal processing device had a disadvantage where the temperature dependency of the spectroscopic characteristics of a spectroscopic element causes a deteriorated performance. In order to solve the temperature dependency, there has been a method to form a plurality of grooves for dividing a core on the array waveguide of the AWG. However, this method cannot avoid an excess loss and causes a high manufacture cost. By directly controlling the modulation characteristic profile formed by an element device of a spatial light modulator, athermalization can be achieved in a simpler and low-cost manner. This consequently provides a remarkable reduction of the light coupling loss in the spatial optical system of the optical signal processing device. More accurate temperature compensation can be realized that copes with an actual behavior of the device to a temperature fluctuation, including causing factors of a complicated temperature fluctuation of the optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kenya Suzuki, Naoki Ooba, Motohaya Ishii, Shinji Mino, Kazunori Seno
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Publication number: 20100298727Abstract: A cuff including a base composed of a non-elastic member. The cuff further including an elastic member provided on one surface of the base. The cuff also including an air supplying pipe, where a pressing surface of the elastic member swells only on the one surface by supplying air from the air supplying pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORP.Inventors: Yuji UENISHI, Eiji Higurashi, Kazunori Naganuma, Shouichi Sudo, Junichi Shimada, Kimihisa Aihara, Hiroshi Koizumi, Naoe Tatara, Shoichi Hayashida, Shinji Mino, Taisuke Oguchi, Osamu Tochikubo
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Publication number: 20100296776Abstract: Conventionally, there has been a problem that a structure in which optical signals outputting from a substrate facet in a PLC are optically coupled to a different bulk type optical device is so complicated that its assembly is laborious. There also has been a problem that a structure in which an output facet of a PLC is polished with an angle results in an increase in coupling loss in free space optics. With a lens bonded to an angled facet of a PLC, an optical circuit of the present invention achieves an optical coupling, with low loss, to a bulk-type optical device or another PLC with a simple structure. Moreover, a lens part and an optical fiber part are respectively bonded to different core apertures exposed on a single angled facet. Thereby, optical signals can be inputted to and outputted from the PLC through the single facet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Motohaya Ishii, Naoki Ooba, Kenya Suzuki, Shinji Mino