Patents by Inventor Toshinori UEMURA

Toshinori UEMURA 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).

  • Patent number: 9817192
    Abstract: An optical module includes a housing including an internal space that has an opening in a substrate mounting surface, an element mounting surface that forms a portion of an inner surface of the internal space, and a waveguide introduction opening that is formed in a side surface intersecting the substrate mounting surface and is opened to the opening of the substrate mounting surface and communicated with the internal space, an optical element that is mounted on the element mounting surface, and an electronic element that is mounted on the element mounting surface and is connected to the optical element. When the substrate mounting surface is mounted on a circuit substrate, an optical waveguide that protrudes from a surface of the circuit substrate is introduced into the internal space through the waveguide introduction opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Nekado, Yozo Ishikawa, Naoya Nishimura, Toshinori Uemura, Hideyuki Nasu
  • Publication number: 20170192177
    Abstract: An optical module includes a housing including an internal space that has an opening in a substrate mounting surface, an element mounting surface that forms a portion of an inner surface of the internal space, and a waveguide introduction opening that is formed in a side surface intersecting the substrate mounting surface and is opened to the opening of the substrate mounting surface and communicated with the internal space, an optical element that is mounted on the element mounting surface, and an electronic element that is mounted on the element mounting surface and is connected to the optical element. When the substrate mounting surface is mounted on a circuit substrate, an optical waveguide that protrudes from a surface of the circuit substrate is introduced into the internal space through the waveguide introduction opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu NEKADO, Yozo ISHIKAWA, Naoya NISHIMURA, Toshinori UEMURA, Hideyuki NASU
  • Patent number: 9632265
    Abstract: An optical module includes a housing including an internal space that has an opening in a substrate mounting surface, an element mounting surface that forms a portion of an inner surface of the internal space, and a waveguide introduction opening that is formed in a side surface intersecting the substrate mounting surface and is opened to the opening of the substrate mounting surface and communicated with the internal space, an optical element that is mounted on the element mounting surface, and an electronic element that is mounted on the element mounting surface and is connected to the optical element. When the substrate mounting surface is mounted on a circuit substrate, an optical waveguide that protrudes from a surface of the circuit substrate is introduced into the internal space through the waveguide introduction opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Nekado, Yozo Ishikawa, Naoya Nishimura, Toshinori Uemura, Hideyuki Nasu
  • Patent number: 9541718
    Abstract: A photoelectric hybrid device includes an optical connector on a flat optical surface at one end of vertical optical waveguides for inputting and outputting an optical signal. Integration of the photoelectric hybrid device into an interposer or the like is standardized. The photoelectric hybrid device includes: conductive pins connected to an electric signal pathway for a photoelectric hybrid substrate; a translucent member having a flat optical surface and a translucent part; and self-organizing optical waveguides that form an optical path between the translucent part and an optical waveguide. The flat optical surface is not lower than the tops of the electrical connection parts on the conductive pins. Collision of the optical connector and the tops of the electrical connection parts can be avoided when an optical connector on which an optical waveguide that transmits an optical signal among the optical waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: PHOTONICS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Ogura, Koichi Takemura, Mitsuru Kurihara, Toshinori Uemura, Akio Ukita, Kazuhiko Kurata
  • Publication number: 20160116695
    Abstract: An optical module includes a housing including an internal space that has an opening in a substrate mounting surface, an element mounting surface that forms a portion of an inner surface of the internal space, and a waveguide introduction opening that is formed in a side surface intersecting the substrate mounting surface and is opened to the opening of the substrate mounting surface and communicated with the internal space, an optical element that is mounted on the element mounting surface, and an electronic element that is mounted on the element mounting surface and is connected to the optical element. When the substrate mounting surface is mounted on a circuit substrate, an optical waveguide that protrudes from a surface of the circuit substrate is introduced into the internal space through the waveguide introduction opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu NEKADO, Yozo ISHIKAWA, Naoya NISHIMURA, Toshinori UEMURA, Hideyuki NASU
  • Publication number: 20160062063
    Abstract: In a photoelectric hybrid device, an optical connector is mounted on a flat optical surface provided on one end of vertical optical waveguides for inputting and outputting an optical signal, and along with making integration of the photoelectric hybrid device into an interposer or the like easy, integration is standardized. The photoelectric hybrid device is provided with: conductive pins (108) that are connected to an electric signal pathway for a photoelectric hybrid substrate; a translucent member (116) that has a flat optical surface and also has a translucent part (118); and a plurality of self organizing optical waveguides (122) that form an optical path between the translucent part (118) and an optical waveguide of the photoelectric hybrid substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Ichiro Ogura, Koichi Takemura, Mitsuru Kurihara, Toshinori Uemura, Akio Ukita, Kazuhiko Kurata
  • Patent number: 9033593
    Abstract: An optical module which includes a housing having a placing portion and an optical input-output portion facing an optical input-output surface of a ferrule; a first fixing portion for fixing the ferrule to the housing in the direction of the Z-axis perpendicular to the placing portion; and a second fixing portion for fixing the ferrule to the housing in the direction of the Y-axis perpendicular to the optical input-output surface, wherein the second fixing portion can change states from the first state to the second state; the first fixing portion fixes the ferrule in the direction of the Z-axis, and does not fix the ferrule in the Z-axis direction when the first fixing portion is at a second position; and the first fixing portion moves from the second position to the first position when the second fixing portion changes its state to a specific state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yozo Ishikawa, Hideyuki Nasu, Toshinori Uemura
  • Publication number: 20130321662
    Abstract: A gesture recognition system includes an image capturing device, a memory unit and a processing unit. The image capturing device includes a zoom lens and captures an image frame with a focus length. The memory unit previously saves a lookup table of depths versus sharpness associated with at least one the focus length of the zoom lens. The processing unit is configured to calculate a current sharpness value of at least one object image in the image frame and to obtain a current depth of the object image according to the lookup table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yozo ISHIKAWA, Hideyuki NASU, Toshinori UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20130322834
    Abstract: An optical module which includes a housing having a placing portion and an optical input-output portion facing an optical input-output surface of a ferrule; a first fixing portion for fixing the ferrule to the housing in the direction of the Z-axis perpendicular to the placing portion; and a second fixing portion for fixing the ferrule to the housing in the direction of the Y-axis perpendicular to the optical input-output surface, wherein the second fixing portion can change states from the first state to the second state; the first fixing portion fixes the ferrule in the direction of the Z-axis, and does not fix the ferrule in the Z-axis direction when the first fixing portion is at a second position; and the first fixing portion moves from the second position to the first position when the second fixing portion changes its state to a specific state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yozo ISHIKAWA, Hideyuki NASU, Toshinori UEMURA