Patents by Inventor Taro Kuramochi

Taro Kuramochi 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: 20110115469
    Abstract: An optical fiber electric current sensor includes a polarization-splitter (13) that splits light outputted from a sensor fiber (11) into two polarization planes of which polarization directions are perpendicular to each other, a depolarizer (17) that depolarizes each of the polarization components from the polarization-splitter (13), light receiving element that converts the two lights that were depolarized by the depolarizer (17) to a first signal (S1) and a second signal (S2) respectively, and a signal processing unit (15) that, based on the first signal (S1) and the second signal (S2), determines the magnitude of a Faraday rotation applied to the linearly-polarized light, and thereby calculates a value of the current to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicants: THE TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED, TAKAOKA ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Reishi Kondo, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinsuke Nasukawa, Taro Kuramochi, Toshiharu Yamada, Eiji Itakura