Patents by Inventor Sotaro IDA

Sotaro IDA 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: 20220306515
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical fiber preform includes a deposition step and an introduction step. In the deposition step, glass fine particles are generated from a glass raw material gas in a flame obtained by burning a flammable gas supplied to a burner, and the glass fine particles are deposited to produce a hollow porous glass preform. In the introduction step, a first gas is introduced into an inside of a hollow of the porous glass preform, and a second gas is introduced to an outside of the porous glass preform. In the method, at least one of the first gas and the second gas is a gas containing halogen. In the gas introduction step, the gas containing halogen is introduced so that a first partial pressure of the first gas and a second partial pressure of the second gas are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro SAITO, Sotaro IDA, Hiroki INOUE
  • Patent number: 11022749
    Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating resin covering an outer periphery of the glass fiber. The glass fiber includes a core and a cladding. An outer diameter of the glass fiber is 99 ?m or larger and 101 ?m or smaller. The coating resin includes a cured material of an ultraviolet curing resin composition. An outer diameter of the coating resin is 160 ?m or larger and 170 ?m or smaller. A mode field diameter for light having a wavelength of 1310 nm is 7.2 ?m or larger and 8.2 ?m or smaller. Bending loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in a ring shape having a radius of 10 mm is 0.1 dB/turn or less. Bending loss at the wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in the ring shape having the radius of 7.5 mm is 0.5 dB/turn or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ishikawa, Keisei Morita, Sotaro Ida
  • Patent number: 10908354
    Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating resin covering an outer periphery of the glass fiber. The glass fiber includes a core, an inner cladding, a trench, and an outer cladding. An outer diameter of the glass fiber is 99 ?m or larger and 101 ?m or smaller. An outer diameter of the coating resin is 160 ?m or larger and 170 ?m or smaller. A mode field diameter for light having a wavelength of 1310 nm is 7.2 ?m or larger and 8.2 ?m or smaller. Bending loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in a ring shape having a radius of 10 mm is 0.1 dB/turn or less. Bending loss at the wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in the ring shape having the radius of 7.5 mm is 0.5 dB/turn or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisei Morita, Hiroki Ishikawa, Sotaro Ida
  • Publication number: 20200278493
    Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating resin covering an outer periphery of the glass fiber. The glass fiber includes a core and a cladding. An outer diameter of the glass fiber is 99 ?m or larger and 101 ?m or smaller. The coating resin includes a cured material of an ultraviolet curing resin composition. An outer diameter of the coating resin is 160 ?m or larger and 170 ?m or smaller. A mode field diameter for light having a wavelength of 1310 nm is 7.2 ?m or larger and 8.2 ?m or smaller. Bending loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in a ring shape having a radius of 10 mm is 0.1 dB/turn or less. Bending loss at the wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in the ring shape having the radius of 7.5 mm is 0.5 dB/turn or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Keisei MORITA, Sotaro IDA
  • Publication number: 20200278492
    Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating resin covering an outer periphery of the glass fiber. The glass fiber includes a core, an inner cladding, a trench, and an outer cladding. An outer diameter of the glass fiber is 99 ?m or larger and 101 ?m or smaller. An outer diameter of the coating resin is 160 ?m or larger and 170 ?m or smaller. A mode field diameter for light having a wavelength of 1310 nm is 7.2 ?m or larger and 8.2 ?M or smaller. Bending loss at a wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in a ring shape having a radius of 10 mm is 0.1 dB/turn or less. Bending loss at the wavelength of 1550 nm when wound in the ring shape having the radius of 7.5 mm is 0.5 dB/turn or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisei MORITA, Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Sotaro IDA
  • Publication number: 20200225432
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes: optical fiber units obtained by collecting a plurality of optical fiber ribbons in which a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel; and a slot rod including a plurality of slot grooves formed in a spiral shape in order to store the optical fiber units. The optical fiber units are stranded in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cable in a state in which the optical fiber ribbons are not twisted, and the optical fiber units are stored in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cable in a state of being untwisted stranding in the slot grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Fumiaki SATO, Ryoei OKA, Yuki KAWAGUCHI, Sotaro IDA
  • Patent number: 9575247
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to an MMF with a structure for reducing length dependence of optical characteristics while maintaining bend-insensitivity. The MMF has a trench portion provided between a core portion and a cladding portion and having a refractive index lower than that of the cladding portion. In a cross section of the MMF, the trench portion in at least a partial section of the MMF has a non-circularly symmetric shape with respect to an intersection between the optical axis and the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yonezawa, Sotaro Ida, Tadashi Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20160216439
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to an MMF with a structure for reducing length dependence of optical characteristics while maintaining bend-insensitivity. The MMF has a trench portion provided between a core portion and a cladding portion and having a refractive index lower than that of the cladding portion. In a cross section of the MMF, the trench portion in at least a partial section of the MMF has a non-circularly symmetric shape with respect to an intersection between the optical axis and the cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YONEZAWA, Sotaro IDA, Tadashi ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150226916
    Abstract: A multi mode optical fiber includes a core having a refractive index distribution of a curved form, a central part in a radial direction of which protrudes, a cladding provided in the periphery of the core and having a constant refractive index lower than a refractive index of the core and a trench layer provided between the core and the cladding and having a constant refractive index lower than that of the cladding. A width dimension of the trench layer in the radial direction is set to 2 ?m or smaller and a ratio of an absolute value of ? trench that is a refractive index difference between the cladding and the trench layer to an absolute value of ? core that is a maximum refractive index difference between the cladding and the core is set to 0.5 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Itaru SAKABE, Sotaro IDA, Tomoyuki HATTORI