Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Okamoto
Tatsuya Okamoto 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: 11920974Abstract: A vibration distribution measurement system includes a frequency sweep light source that outputs frequency sweep light, an optical splitter that splits the frequency sweep light into probe light and local light, an optical mixer that mixes backscattered light from the sensing fiber as signal light with the local light, the backscattered light being obtained by causing the probe light to be incident on the sensing fiber, and an analysis unit that analyzes a beat signal obtained from output light of the optical mixer. The analysis unit estimates a distance offset from a measurement result obtained by measuring a distribution waveform of the signal light by measuring the beat signal at a measurement time sufficiently shorter than a cycle of the vibration of the sensing fiber, and measures a distribution of a vibration at any position by compensating for the distance offset.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Kunihiro Toge, Tetsuya Manabe
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Patent number: 11906048Abstract: A sufficient sealing property of a through hole is ensured. A sealing structure includes a cylindrically-shaped body part inserted into the through hole, formed of a thin plate of a first thickness, one end of the body part being open and another end of the body part being closed, a tapered part connected to the opened one end of the body part and including a diameter gradually expanding outward as a distance from the body part increases, and a first bent part connected to the tapered part, formed of a thin plate thinner than the first thickness, and bent inward so that a protruding part protruding outward elastically abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Newfrey LLCInventors: Tomohiro Takenaga, Keisuke Uchida, Tatsuya Okamoto, Satoru Ando, Toshio Narita, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Naoki Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20230400379Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frequency modulation amount measuring device that measures an optical spectral shift of scattered light at a position in an optical transmission line, and calculates a frequency modulation amount at the position, using the measured optical spectral shift.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
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Publication number: 20230358599Abstract: An object is to provide a vibration detection apparatus and a vibration detection method which can avoid occurrence of a point where detection sensitivity deteriorates in vibration detection of a scattered light intensity monitor according to optical frequency multiplexing. The present invention conceives a multi-dimensional space having as many dimensions as the number of frequencies to be used, causes scattered light intensity change at each optical frequency to correspond to each axis, plots a scattered light signal as a vector on the space, performs linear approximation passing through an origin on the space having a plurality of plotted vector points as original data, and performs vibration detection using a direction vector of an approximate straight line obtained as a result of the approximation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshifumi WAKISAKA, Daisuke IIDA, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230341245Abstract: The present disclosure aims to enable measurement of a long distance exceeding 1 km with a spatial resolution of 100 ?m or lower, and diagnosis of health of an optical device installed at a long distance. An apparatus according to the present disclosure is an optical frequency domain reflectivity measuring apparatus that includes: a local light delay fiber that delays local light; an optical 90-degree hybrid that receives an input of the local light delayed by the local light delay fiber and backscattered light from the measurement target, causes the local light and the backscattered light to interfere with each other, and generates an in-phase component and an orthogonal component of a beat signal generated by the interference; and a balance photodetector that detects the in-phase component and the orthogonal component of the beat signal. In the apparatus, an optical frequency response of the measurement target is measured with respect to a relative distance based on the local light delay fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Patent number: 11788909Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and an apparatus for acquiring curvature and torsion using an inexpensive sensor medium. Disclosed is a measurement apparatus including a fiber ribbon including a plurality of coated fibers arranged in parallel, a strain measurement unit that measures strain amounts of the plurality of coated fibers, and an arithmetic processing unit that calculates curvature and torsion of the fiber ribbon using a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a middle portion of the plurality of coated fibers and a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a marginal portion of the plurality of coated fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida, Tatsuya Okamoto, Tomokazu Oda, Yoshifumi Wakisaka
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Publication number: 20230288231Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable vibration analysis using a spectral shift under appropriate conditions depending on a measurement object. According to the present disclosure, there is provided a vibration distribution measuring apparatus which measures backscattered light in an optical fiber to be measured a plurality of times at different times, extracts an optical spectrum of a window section determined from a plurality of backscattered light waveforms obtained by the measurement, and measures a vibration distribution in the optical fiber to be measured using optical spectra of the plurality of extracted backscattered light waveforms, in which the optical spectrum of the window section is calculated using the window section in which the vibration amplitude in the window section in the optical fiber to be measured is larger than a threshold value defined in the window section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Patent number: 11750283Abstract: An object is to provide an optical fiber route search method, an optical fiber route search device, and a program that can efficiently confirm a path of an optical fiber that is installed over a long distance or across a large range. The optical fiber route search method according to the present invention carries out optical measurement that performs distributed measurement of the state of an optical fiber while applying a disturbance to the optical fiber in a portion in which wires of the optical fiber are parallel to each other, branch out, or intersect with each other (a proximity portion), and determines that the position in which the number of singularities (peaks or intensity fluctuations) fluctuates (becomes plural) is the position of the proximity portion from a distribution diagram obtained through the optical measurement.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Iida, Nazuki Honda, Tatsuya Okamoto, Yoshifumi Wakisaka, Hiroyuki Oshida
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Publication number: 20230152170Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and an apparatus for acquiring curvature and torsion using an inexpensive sensor medium. Disclosed is a measurement apparatus including a fiber ribbon including a plurality of coated fibers arranged in parallel, a strain measurement unit that measures strain amounts of the plurality of coated fibers, and an arithmetic processing unit that calculates curvature and torsion of the fiber ribbon using a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a middle portion of the plurality of coated fibers and a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a marginal portion of the plurality of coated fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Tomokazu ODA, Yoshifumi WAKISAKA
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Patent number: 11644347Abstract: A manhole position identification method of the present invention includes: measuring, from an end of an optical fiber, a temporal variation in scattering light from the optical fiber when an impact blow is applied to a cover of a manhole located on a path of the optical fiber, so as to obtain temporal variations in a scattering light intensity distribution in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber; determining an occurrence of vibration due to the impact blow based on the temporal variations at positions in the scattering light intensity distribution, so as to identify an impact blow position on the optical fiber; and associating the impact blow position on the optical fiber with a map position of the manhole whose cover has received the impact blow, so as to identify a position of the manhole expressed in terms of optical fiber length from the end.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida, Tetsuya Manabe
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Publication number: 20220364644Abstract: A sufficient sealing property of a through hole is ensured. A sealing structure includes a cylindrically-shaped body part inserted into the through hole, formed of a thin plate of a first thickness, one end of the body part being open and another end of the body part being closed, a tapered part connected to the opened one end of the body part and including a diameter gradually expanding outward as a distance from the body part increases, and a first bent part connected to the tapered part, formed of a thin plate thinner than the first thickness, and bent inward so that a protruding part protruding outward elastically abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Newfrey LLCInventors: Tomohiro TAKENAGA, Keisuke Uchida, Tatsuya Okamoto, Satoru Ando, Toshio Narita, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Naoki Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220326005Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device that accurately measures vibration at a designated position of a sensing fiber without using digital signal processing to compensate for distance fluctuation. Digital signal processing for correcting fluctuation of a measurement distance due to a frequency offset of a beat signal due to vibration, which is a measurement target, is simplified. In the present disclosure, vibration at a designated position of the sensing fiber is accurately measured without using the digital signal processing to compensate for the distance fluctuation. A spectrum analysis length of an electrical field E(?n) of backscattered light is set to be larger than a delay deviation Nd due to frequency modulation caused by dynamic strain. An index of tolerance of vibration distribution measurement to the delay deviation Nd is also clarified.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida
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Patent number: 11463163Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device for optical frequency domain reflectometry and a method thereof that can measure a reflectance distribution with less spatial resolution degradation due to a phase noise, without using a wideband receiving system even when a long-distance measurement is performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida
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Publication number: 20220285380Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes two first electrode films, a first column and a second insulating film. The two first electrode films extend in a first direction and are separated from each other in a second direction. The first column is provided between the two first electrode films and has a plurality of first members and a plurality of insulating members. Each of the first members and each of the insulating members are arranged alternately in the first direction. One of the plurality of first members has a semiconductor pillar, a second electrode film and a first insulating film provided between the semiconductor pillar and the second electrode film. The semiconductor pillar, the first insulating film and the second electrode film are arranged in the second direction. The second insulating film is provided between the first column and one of the two first electrode films.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Wataru SAKAMOTO, Ryota SUZUKI, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Tatsuya KATO, Fumitaka ARAI
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Publication number: 20220251254Abstract: To provide a curable resin composition of which a cured product has excellent heat-resistance and dielectric properties, and a cured product thereof, and a prepreg, a circuit board, a build-up film, a semiconductor sealing material, and a semiconductor apparatus having both excellent heat resistance and dielectric properties. The invention has an indane scaffold represented by the following general formula (1): in formula (1), Ra's are each independently an alkyl group, an alkyloxy group or an alkylthio group, which has 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group, an aryloxy group or an arylthio group, which has 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group, or a mercapto group, and q represents an integer value of 0 to 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: DIC CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Shimono, Tatsuya Okamoto
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Publication number: 20220250481Abstract: A power cutoff device includes a relay unit including a switch having a connecting state to be electrically conductive and a cutoff state to be electrically non-conductive, a cutoff unit connected in series to the switch, a current detector configured to detect an object current flowing through the cutoff unit, and a controller configured to control the relay unit and the cutoff unit. The cutoff unit has a connecting state to be electrically conductive and an irreversible cutoff state to be electrically conductive. The controller is configured to obtain a changing rate of the object current with respect to time. The controller is configured to cause the switch to be in the connecting state and cause the cutoff unit to be in the connecting state if determining that the changing rate is not greater than a changing-rate threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: TAKASHI HIROBE, TATSUYA OKAMOTO, SHUN KAZAMA
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Patent number: 11374015Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes two first electrode films, a first column and a second insulating film. The two first electrode films extend in a first direction and are separated from each other in a second direction. The first column is provided between the two first electrode films and has a plurality of first members and a plurality of insulating members. Each of the first members and each of the insulating members are arranged alternately in the first direction. One of the plurality of first members has a semiconductor pillar, a second electrode film and a first insulating film provided between the semiconductor pillar and the second electrode film. The semiconductor pillar, the first insulating film and the second electrode film are arranged in the second direction. The second insulating film is provided between the first column and one of the two first electrode films.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Wataru Sakamoto, Ryota Suzuki, Tatsuya Okamoto, Tatsuya Kato, Fumitaka Arai
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Publication number: 20220149934Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device for optical frequency domain reflectometry and a method thereof that can measure a reflectance distribution with less spatial resolution degradation due to a phase noise, without using a wideband receiving system even when a long-distance measurement is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
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Patent number: 11299448Abstract: An active ester compound that can form a cured product having excellent dielectric properties and copper foil adhesion properties is provided, a curable composition including the active ester compound is provided, and a cured product of the curable composition is provided. Also provided are a semiconductor encapsulating material, a printed wiring board, and a build-up film formed by using the curable composition. Specifically, an active ester compound is provided which includes a fluorinated hydrocarbon structural moiety and a plurality of aromatic ester structural moieties in the structure of the molecule and includes an aryloxycarbonyl structure or an arylcarbonyloxy structure at an end of the molecule, a curable composition including the active ester compound, and a cured product of the curable composition, and also provided are a semiconductor encapsulation material, a printed wiring board, and a build-up film formed by using the curable composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: DIC CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Yutaka Satou
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Publication number: 20220107218Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an aerial optical fiber cable inspection method, an aerial optical fiber cable inspection device, and a program which can identify a cable sagging section from vibration sensing results. In the aerial optical fiber cable inspection method according to the present invention, a vibration distribution waveform along the longitudinal direction of an aerial optical fiber cable measured using an optical fiber vibration sensing device is received as an input, a standard deviation of the amplitude of vibration at each position in the vibration distribution waveform is calculated, and a section with a standard deviation larger than that of other sections is identified as a cable sagging section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA