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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160139341 | OPTICAL FIBER SPLICING UNIT, OPTICAL FIBER SPLICING METHOD, AND HOLDING MEMBER FOR OPTICAL FIBER SPLICING UNIT - An optical fiber splicing unit includes: a mechanical splice which aligns optical fibers and puts the optical fibers between half-split elements to splice the optical fibers to each other; a splice holder portion which holds the mechanical splice; fixing member guide portions which respectively guide anchoring fixation members that are respectively fixed to the optical fibers at two sides of the held mechanical splice; anchoring portions which respectively anchor the anchoring fixation members, the anchoring fixation members being respectively guided by the fixing member guide portions and advancing; and a first spacer which abuts one anchoring fixation member and is disposed to be retracted to restrict the advancement of said one anchoring fixation member, said one anchoring fixation member being guided by one fixing member guide portion and advancing. | 05-19-2016 |
20160134028 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE FOR COVERED ELECTRIC WIRE - The present invention provides a terminal structure for a covered electric wire, including: a terminal portion including a tip of a covered electric wire; a connection terminal having a crimp portion crimped to the terminal portion; and a mold resin of a hygroscopic reactive type covering the terminal portion of the covered electric wire and the crimp portion of the connection terminal. The crimp portion includes a conductive crimp portion crimped to the tip of the covered electric wire. The mold resin includes a first portion covering the conductive crimp portion and the tip of the covered electric wire; a second portion covering a part of the connection terminal which is further toward a tip than the tip of the covered electric wire, the part having a thickness smaller than the thickness of the conductive crimp portion; and a first step formed between the first portion and the second portion such that the height of the mold resin decreases from the first portion to the second portion. A first recess formed on the second portion in the vicinity of the first step so as to recess toward the connection terminal. | 05-12-2016 |
20160131840 | OPTICAL-FIBER-SPLICED PORTION REINFORCING HEATING DEVICE - An optical-fiber-spliced portion reinforcing heating device of the invention includes: a pair of clamps that respectively grasp a coated portion of an optical fiber, the optical fiber including a fusion-spliced portion, the fusion-spliced portion being coated with a sleeve, the coated portion being exposed from the sleeve; at least two or more heaters that are arranged to face each other so as to sandwich the sleeve; a first force-applying member that presses at least one of the paired clamps so as to apply a tension to the optical fiber; and a second force-applying member that applies a pressing force to at least one or more of the heaters via the sleeve by use of one of an elastic member and a magnetic member in accordance with control of a drive source, the heaters being arranged to face each other with the sleeve interposed therebetween. | 05-12-2016 |
20160126637 | SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAY ANTENNA AND SLOTTED ARRAY ANTENNA MODULE - A slotted waveguide array antenna having a smaller reflection coefficient and a larger gain than conventional one is realized. In a slotted waveguide array antenna ( | 05-05-2016 |
20160126636 | ANTENNA MODULE AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING THE SAME - An antenna module of the present invention is an antenna module | 05-05-2016 |
20160125977 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An oxide superconductor includes: a substrate made of a metal; an insulating intermediate layer provided on the substrate; an oxide superconducting layer provided on the intermediate layer; a metal stabilizing layer provided on the oxide superconducting layer; and a plurality of dividing grooves which divide the metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, reach the inside of the intermediate layer through the oxide superconducting layer from the metal stabilizing layer, and do not reach the substrate. The metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer are divided to form a plurality of filament conductors by the plurality of dividing grooves, and in each dividing groove of the plurality of dividing grooves, a width of a groove opening portion of the dividing groove is equal to or greater than a width of a groove bottom portion of the dividing groove. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124171 | HOUSING CASE FOR OPTICAL FIBER - Technical Problem In the case where an optical fiber is wound around several times and housed, it is difficult to take out a terminal end of the optical fiber at a side wound around before. | 05-05-2016 |
20160116675 | OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICER AND OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - An optical fiber fusion splicer includes: a pair of right and left V-grooved stands having V-grooves for butting tips of a pair of optical fibers each other while positioning the tips of a pair of optical fibers; a pair of elastic members respectively supporting the pair of V-grooved stands and formed into the form of an elastically deformable plate; a fixed base on which the pair of elastic members is mounted, whereby the pair of V-grooved stands is fixed thereto through the pair of elastic members, and which is long in a right-left direction; and a pair of micrometers aligning the tips of the pair of optical fibers by finely moving the pair of V-grooved stands with respect to each other while elastically deforming the pair of elastic members by pressing the pair of V-grooved stands from forward and backward directions. | 04-28-2016 |
20160109533 | INSPECTION CIRCUIT FOR MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTOR, AND INSPECTION METHOD FOR THE SAME - An inspection circuit serves as a pseudo circuit of a flux gate-type magnetic element having an excitation coil and a detection coil and inspects a magnetic field detector that detects a magnetic field based on an output of the magnetic element when detecting an intensity of a stationary magnetic field applied to the magnetic element based on a time-resolved magnetic balance type. The magnetic field detector includes: an excitation signal generation unit, a detection signal comparison unit, a feedback signal conversion unit, a feedback signal adjustment unit, a data signal conversion unit, and an excitation signal adjustment unit. | 04-21-2016 |
20160105005 | WIRE SPLICING DEVICE, WIRE SPLICING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SPLICE STRUCTURE - A wire connection device includes: a holding base which is provided with a wire accommodation groove having a width, the wire accommodation groove being configured to accommodate a plurality of wires; a pressing plate which is positioned above the holding base; a heating body which is positioned above the pressing plate and includes a heating member; a first driver which drives the holding base and the pressing plate away from or toward one another; and a second driver which drives the holding base and the heating body toward or away from one another, in which the pressing plate which is driven toward the holding base by the first driver presses together the plurality of wires accommodated in the wire accommodation groove with solder interposed therebetween. | 04-14-2016 |
20160091258 | HEAT PIPE - A heat pipe for improving heat transport performance by reducing heat resistance in an evaporating section is provided. The heat pipe comprises a groove wick extending in the longitudinal direction from the evaporating section to the condensing section through the insulated section in the container. A metal powder layer formed of metal powder adhering to the inner wall of the groove wick is arranged in the evaporating section. The metal powder layer is formed into the groove wick having a predetermined thickness. | 03-31-2016 |
20160087327 | WINDOW FRAME - A main body ( | 03-24-2016 |
20160085036 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - A plug-side optical connector, including: a plug-side coupling mechanism and a ferrule. The plug-side coupling mechanism is to be coupled to a coupling mechanism of another optical connector, the other optical connector being on receptacle side and being for being coupled with the plug-side optical connector. The plug-side coupling mechanism includes: a reference section to which the coupling mechanism of the other receptacle-side optical connector is to be hooked; and an inserted section that is to be inserted into a cylindrical main body of the coupling mechanism on the receptacle side. The ferrule is accommodated inside the inserted section. When a direction in which the optical connector is attached or detached is defined as a front-rear direction and a side of the receptacle-side optical connector is defined as front, a distance in the front-rear direction from the reference section to a front edge of the inserted section is 7.0 mm or more. | 03-24-2016 |
20160083293 | BARE OPTICAL FIBER COATING DEVICE AND BARE OPTICAL FIBER COATING METHOD - A bare optical fiber coating device includes: a nipple having a nipple hole through which a bare optical fiber is inserted vertically from above; an intermediate die that has an intermediate die hole through which the bare optical fiber passing through the nipple hole is inserted and that is disposed vertically below the nipple; a first coating die that has a first coating die hole through which the bare optical fiber passing through the intermediate die hole is inserted and that is provided vertically below the intermediate die; and a first resin circulation chamber that is formed by the nipple and the intermediate die, is formed between the nipple hole and the intermediate die hole in an annular shape surrounding the bare optical fiber passing through the nipple hole, and is configured to circulate liquid resin. | 03-24-2016 |
20160077286 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR - An optical fiber connection structure is provided, in which a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber, which is optically connected to the first optical fiber via a solid refractive index-matching material which is provided on a tip surface of the first optical fiber, are held and fixed between a base member and a cover member, a tip of the second optical fiber is disposed so as to come into contact with the solid refractive index matching material or separated from the solid refractive index-matching material, and the entire solid refractive index matching material and the tip of the second optical fiber are disposed in a liquid refractive index matching agent which is provided between the base member and the cover member. | 03-17-2016 |
20160062038 | PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, DUAL POLARIZATION QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING MODULATOR, COHERENT RECEIVER, AND POLARIZATION DIVERSITY - A planar optical waveguide element includes: a substrate; and an optical waveguide comprising a core and a cladding, the core being provided on the substrate so as to include first and second core regions arranged in parallel, the cladding having a smaller refractive index than the core. Also, the core forms a preceding-stage mode conversion portion that converts a mode of input light and a subsequent-stage mode conversion portion that converts a mode of light output from the preceding-stage mode conversion portion, and the first and second core regions are spaced apart from each other at an input end of the subsequent-stage mode conversion portion, and a gap between the first and second core regions is continuously decreased along the light waveguide direction such that the first and second core regions are in contact with each other at an output end of the subsequent-stage mode conversion portion. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062035 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - An optical fiber cable includes a tubular sheath and a plurality of optical fibers disposed in the space of the sheath as the optical fibers are bent. In the plurality of optical fibers, at least one optical fiber is a multicore fiber. The multicore fiber satisfies an expression R | 03-03-2016 |
20160055982 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL ELEMENT - A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) element includes at least one DSC, and the DSC includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the first electrode. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a light absorbing layer provided on the first electrode and a reflecting layer as a layer contacting a portion of a first surface of a side opposite to the first electrode among surfaces of the light absorbing layer and being arranged at a position farthest from the first electrode. The first surface of the light absorbing layer includes a second surface contacting the reflecting layer, and a surface area S | 02-25-2016 |
20160048039 | CRYSTAL BODY, OPTICAL DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CRYSTAL BODY - The present invention is a crystal body configured with a crystal and having a pair of light passing surfaces which face each other and pass light and at least one side surface which connects the pair of the light passing surfaces. In the crystal body according to the present invention, a ratio B/A of a dislocation density A (number/cm | 02-18-2016 |
20160047763 | METHOD FOR DETECTING NON-SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION OF SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE - A method for detecting a non-superconducting transition of a superconducting wire including a substrate, a superconducting layer having a critical temperature of 77 K or more, and a metal stabilization layer includes, adhesively attaching an optical fiber where a plurality of fiber Bragg gratings are formed in a core along a longitudinal direction thereof to the superconducting wire; measuring in advance a Bragg wavelength shift of the fiber Bragg gratings for a temperature variation of the superconducting wire, and determining a relational expression based on the shift for a temperature calculation of the superconducting wire; determining temperature variations of the fiber Bragg gratings before and after the non-superconducting transition of the superconducting wire using the relational expression; and calculating a propagation rate of the non-superconducting transition based on both a time difference of temperature increases of the fiber Bragg gratings, and an interval between each of the fiber Bragg gratings. | 02-18-2016 |
20160045101 | GUIDEWIRE - [Problem] To provide a guidewire that has good operability and that can perform procedures efficiently. | 02-18-2016 |
20160043525 | AMPLIFICATION OPTICAL FIBER AND FIBER LASER DEVICE USING THE SAME - The refractive index of the first core portion | 02-11-2016 |
20160038006 | ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope which is capable of backward viewing and the structure of whose tip section is reduced in size. The endoscope includes: an insertion unit; a tip section; and a connecting part. The insertion unit is inserted into a subject. The tip section includes a first illumination optical system for illuminating the inside of the subject, a first imaging device that captures an image of the interior of the subject, and a first imaging optical system having a first objective lens provided in front of the first imaging device. The connecting part connects the tip section to the insertion unit. The first imaging device is placed so that an imaging surface thereof faces the insertion unit. | 02-11-2016 |
20160037630 | MULTI-LAYER WIRING BOARD - A multi-layer wiring board that has stacked therein a first printed wiring bases on at least one surface of which a wiring pattern is formed and in which a conductive paste via is formed, that includes an electronic component terminal and a board terminal whose terminal pitch differs from that of the electronic component terminal, and that has an electronic component installed thereon via the electronic component terminal, wherein a second wiring base whose wiring pitch is smaller than that of the first wiring base is built in to a lower portion of an installing portion of the electronic component via the first wiring base, and the second wiring base is connected to the electronic component terminal via the conductive paste via of the first wiring base, has formed on both surfaces thereof a pattern that enlarges the terminal pitch from the electronic component terminal to the board terminal, and includes a via that connects the pattern of the both surfaces. | 02-04-2016 |
20160030693 | TRACHEAL TUBE - Provided is a tracheal tube that can be easily inserted into the inside of a subject and enables real-time observation of a state after tracheal intubation. The tracheal tube ( | 02-04-2016 |
20160019990 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR STORED NUCLEAR FUEL - A cooling system for cooling nuclear fuel stored in a pool that can prevent a lowering of water level resulting from evaporation is provided. The cooling system cools the nuclear fuels 3 stored in a bottom of the pool 2 filled with cooling water 4. The cooling water 4 comprises an upper layer formed in a water surface as side in which a density of the cooling water 4 is low, a lower layer formed in the bottom side of the pool 2 in which a density of the cooling water 4 is high, and an intermediate layer in which a density of the cooling water 4 is in between those of the cooling waters 4 in the upper layer and the lower layer. A lower end 5 | 01-21-2016 |
20160018166 | FLAT HEAT PIPE - A heat pipe a flat heat pipe having enhanced heat transport capacity is provided. The flat heat pipe | 01-21-2016 |
20160018165 | HEAT PIPE - A heat pipe having enhanced heat transport capacity that can be manufactured easily is provided. The heat pipe | 01-21-2016 |
20160006559 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - A transmission apparatus transmits a data signal to a reception apparatus with use of a first clock generated on the basis of a clock signal given to the transmission apparatus. The transmission apparatus changes an operation band of a PLL section to an operation band including a frequency of the clock signal which frequency has been measured with use of a second clock independent of the first clock. The transmission apparatus provides the reception apparatus with band information indicative of the operation band to which the operation band of the PLL section has been changed. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006205 | PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER AND FIBER LASER DEVICE USING SAME - There is provided a photonic bandgap fiber used in a state in which at least a part of the photonic bandgap fiber is bent at radii of 15 cm or greater and 25 cm or less. A large number of high refractive index portions | 01-07-2016 |
20160005518 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING COIL AND SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICE - A high-temperature superconducting coil according to the invention includes an oxide superconducting wire including a tape-shaped substrate, an intermediate layer being stacked on the substrate, an oxide superconducting layer being stacked on the intermediate layer, and a metal stabilized layer being stacked on the oxide superconducting layer; a coil main body being formed by winding the oxide superconducting wire in a coil shape; and an impregnated resin layer being formed of an impregnated resin of which a thermal shrinkage rate indicating a rate of change of a length when cooling is performed from 293 K to 140 K is greater than or equal to −0.517%, the impregnated resin layer covering the coil main body. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004009 | MULTI-CORE FIBER - A multi-core fiber ( | 01-07-2016 |
20160002105 | METHOD OF PROCESSING OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING THEREFOR - A method of processing an optical fiber of the invention includes: a determination step of determining at least an ambient temperature of conditions of a diffusion treatment that causing an optical fiber to be subjected to an non-oxygen bridging atmosphere; an exposure step of exposing the optical fiber to a gas including an oxygen bridging element that is capable of processing the Non-Bridging Oxygen Hole Centers by being bonded to a non-bridging oxygen in the optical fiber, and causing the oxygen bridging element to infiltrate into the optical fiber; and a diffusion step of subsequently causing the optical fiber to be subjected to the non-oxygen bridging atmosphere in the exposure ambient temperature which is determined by the determination step and at which the optical fiber is subjected to the non-oxygen bridging atmosphere, and thereby diffusing the oxygen bridging element into the optical fiber. | 01-07-2016 |
20160002089 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PREFORM FOR PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBER, PREFORM FOR PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBER, AND PHOTONIC BAND GAP FIBER - A photonic band gap fiber | 01-07-2016 |
20150380896 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The semiconductor laser module | 12-31-2015 |
20150378483 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRESSURE DETECTION DEVICE, PRESSURE DETECTION DEVICE, PRESSURE-SENSITIVE SENSOR, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for producing a pressure detection device ( | 12-31-2015 |
20150378238 | HIGH-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL MODULATOR - A high-frequency circuit 10 includes: a termination resistor 12 | 12-31-2015 |
20150372248 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL ELEMENT - Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell element including: a dye-sensitized solar cell; and a back sheet facing the solar cell, the solar cell including a conductive substrate, a current collector disposed on the conductive substrate, a counter substrate facing the conductive substrate, a power generation layer disposed on the conductive substrate, an electrolyte disposed between the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and an annular sealing portion enclosing the power generation layer and the electrolyte together with the conductive substrate and the counter substrate and joining the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and the solar cell element further including: an adhesive part adhering the back sheet and the conductive substrate in an annular region surrounding the solar cell, in which the current collector is provided only at an outer side of the sealing portion and only at the inner side of an outer peripheral surface of the adhesive part. | 12-24-2015 |
20150369633 | ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE SENSOR AND STEERING - An electrostatic capacitance sensor is mounted in a steering and is an electrostatic capacitance sensor that detects whether a hand of an occupant is touching a wheel of the steering or not. Moreover, an electrostatic capacitance sensor according to one mode of the present invention comprises: a flexible substrate having an insulating property; and an electrostatic capacitance detecting electrode provided on a surface of the flexible substrate, includes: a first portion following an extension direction of a steering wheel; and a second portion extending out from the first portion in a direction intersecting the extension direction of the wheel of the steering, and is formed so as to completely cover a steering core. | 12-24-2015 |
20150365571 | IMAGING MODULE, INSULATING-TUBE-ATTACHED IMAGING MODULE, LENS-ATTACHED IMAGING MODULE, AND ENDOSCOPE - An imaging module of the invention includes: an electrical cable; a solid-state image sensing device; and a three-dimensional wiring base in which a mount surface is provided on a molded product. The mount surface has two opposed apexes which sandwich a central portion therebetween and is molded so that the distance between the two apexes is the longest in distances between two points on sides of the mount surface, a cross section parallel to the mount surface of the three-dimensional wiring base is equal to the mount surface or smaller than the mount surface, and the distance between two points that is the longest in distances on sides of a shape in a plan view of the solid-state image sensing device is equal to or shorter than the distance between the two apexes. | 12-17-2015 |
20150362680 | CLEANING TOOL OF OPTICAL CONNECTOR - A cleaning tool for cleaning an optical connector including a plurality of ferrules, including: a plurality of heads whose pressing surfaces are spanned by a cleaner, each of the pressing surfaces being for pressing the cleaner against the ferrules; a guide member that is placed sandwiched between the heads, and that guides the heads in such a manner that the heads can move rearward; and a cover that accommodates the plurality of heads and the guide member and that exposes the cleaner. | 12-17-2015 |
20150359103 | COMPONENT-EMBEDDED BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided is a component-embedded board which includes: a first board including a first insulation layer, a first conductive layer formed on a second face of the first insulation layer, and an interlayer conductive portion penetrating the first insulation layer to be connected to the first conductive layer and protruding from a first face of the first insulation layer; an electric component connected to the interlayer conductive portion; and a second board including a second insulation layer having an opening portion incorporating the electric component, and a second conductive layer formed on at least either one of a first face and a second face of the second insulation layer. The second conductive layer includes a frame portion. The opening portion is formed so as to penetrate the second insulation layer in a thickness direction thereof over the entirety of the inner region of the frame portion. | 12-10-2015 |
20150357092 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE - An oxide superconducting wire wherein an outer periphery of an oxide superconductor is covered with a plating layer (stabilizing layer). In addition, the oxide superconductor includes: an oxide superconducting laminate that is formed by a tape-shaped substrate, an interlayer, and an oxide superconducting layer, in which the interlayer and the oxide superconducting layer are laminated on a main surface of the substrate; and an undercoat stabilizing layer that is laminated on an outer periphery of the oxide superconducting laminate. The undercoat stabilizing layer includes: a first undercoat stabilizing layer formed of Ag or an Ag alloy; and a second undercoat stabilizing layer formed of one of Cu, Ni, Pb, Bi, and an alloy containing Cu, Ni, Pb or Bi as a major component. But | 12-10-2015 |
20150357091 | RE123-BASED SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An RE123-based superconducting wire of the invention includes: a substrate; an intermediate layer provided above the substrate; and an oxide superconducting layer that is provided above the intermediate layer and is made of an oxide superconductor expressed by a composition formula of RE | 12-10-2015 |
20150352861 | PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD, OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - A printer for printing on an optical fiber includes an ink tray storing an ink; a drawing roll configured to draw the ink from the ink tray; a printing roll, having a print pattern which is capable of filling the ink transferred from the drawing roll, configured to transfer the ink filled in the print pattern to a surface of the running optical fiber, the print pattern being a mesh pattern having a mesh size in a range of 75-mesh to 150-mesh; and a doctor blade configured to press the ink into the print pattern and to scrape the excess ink deposited on a surface of the printing roll. | 12-10-2015 |
20150351230 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MOUNTING BODY - A component built-in board comprises a multi-layer structure comprising a plurality of unit boards stacked therein a plurality of electronic components built in thereto in a stacking direction. The plurality of unit boards include: a first board having a first insulating layer and comprising an opening in which the electronic component is housed; and an intermediate board adjacent to the first board and comprising a first adhesive layer provided on at least a side of the first board of a second insulating layer. The intermediate board includes a first wiring layer formed at a position overlapping in the stacking direction a gap between an inner periphery of the opening and an outer periphery of the electronic component of the first board on a surface on the first board side of the second insulating layer. | 12-03-2015 |
20150351218 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MOUNTING BODY - A component built-in board comprises a multi-layer structure comprising a plurality of unit boards stacked therein a plurality of electronic components built in thereto in a stacking direction, the plurality of electronic components include a first electronic component, and the plurality of unit boards including: a first board having a first insulating layer and comprising an opening in which the first electronic component is housed; and an intermediate board adjacent to the first board and comprising: a second insulating layer; a first wiring layer formed on a surface on a side of the first board of the second insulating layer; a first adhesive layer provided on at least the side of the first board of the second insulating layer; and a first thermal via that penetrates the first adhesive layer above the first wiring layer and is connected to the first wiring layer, and the first wiring layer of the intermediate board being connected to the first electronic component via the first thermal via. | 12-03-2015 |
20150349488 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor laser module | 12-03-2015 |
20150349398 | MODE CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a mode converter including a substrate that is a single member and includes a first main surface, a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and a micro hole which is formed in the first main surface, grounding conductor layers that are formed on the first main surface and the second main surface, a plane circuit that is formed on the first main surface, and a pin that is formed so as to cover an inner surface of the micro hole and is electrically connected to the plane circuit, the method includes: irradiating the substrate with laser light to form a first modified portion to a desired depth from one main surface of the substrate; removing the first modified portion to form the micro hole; and filling the micro hole with a conductive material to form the pin. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346438 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector includes a first housing, a first ferrule which is embedded in the first housing, a second housing which is detachably fitted to the first housing; and a second ferrule which is embedded in the second housing and is butt-jointed to the first ferrule when the second housing is fitted to the first housing, and the first housing includes a tubular outer housing, and a tubular inner housing which is accommodated in the outer housing to be movable in a center axis direction of the outer housing and which accommodates the first ferrule. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346435 | CONNECTOR ATTACHED OPTICAL FIBER UNIT AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR BOOT - A connector attached optical fiber unit includes: an MT optical connector which includes a joining end surface formed at a front end of the MT optical connector and a hollow portion opened to a rear end surface opposite to the joining end surface; a tubular boot which includes a front end insertion portion inserted and fixed into to the hollow portion and a tube attachment portion formed at a rear end portion of the tubular boot, the tubular boot extending to a rear side from the MT optical connector; a protection tube into which the tube attachment portion is inserted and to which the tube attachment portion is fixed; and a plurality of optical fibers which include tip portions inserted and fixed into the MT optical connector and are accommodated inside the boot and the protection tube. | 12-03-2015 |
20150342030 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD - To suppress occurrence of a difference in transmission time due to a difference in length between signal lines, there is provided a printed wiring board having: an insulating substrate ( | 11-26-2015 |
20150340751 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD - To suppress occurrence of a difference in transmission time due to a difference in length between signal lines, there is provided a printed wiring board having: an insulating substrate ( | 11-26-2015 |
20150332812 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE, CONNECTION STRUCTURE THEREOF, AND SUPERCONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT - An oxide superconductor wire including: a superconductor laminate including a tape-shaped substrate, an interlayer, an oxide superconductor layer, and a protection layer which are formed on the substrate; a metal stabilization layer covering the periphery of the superconductor laminate; a first electrically conductive joint material arranged between the superconductor laminate and the metal stabilization layer; and a sealing member formed from a metal foil, connected to a terminal of the superconductor laminate, and extending in the longitudinal direction of the superconductor laminate, wherein the metal stabilization layer includes an extension part formed so as to cover the periphery of the sealing member, and wherein the first electrically conductive joint material includes an extension part arranged between the extension part of the metal stabilization layer and the sealing member and formed so as to cover the periphery of the sealing member. | 11-19-2015 |
20150323736 | MULTICORE FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A multicore fiber according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of cores and a cladding that encloses the plurality of the cores. The external form of the cladding in a cross section is formed of an arc portion that is formed in an arc shape relative to the center axis of the cladding and a non-arc portion that is pinched between two ends of the arc portion and not formed in an arc shape relative to the center axis of the cladding. The non-arc portion is formed with a pair of projections projecting from two ends of the arc portion on the opposite side of the center axis relative to a straight line connecting the both ends of the arc portion and one or more of recesses pinched between the pair of the projections. | 11-12-2015 |
20150323735 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber according to the present invention includes a plurality of cores and a cladding enclosing the plurality of the cores. The plurality of the cores has two cores or greater forming a first plurality of cores linearly arranged to form a first row on one side based on a plane passed through the center axis of the cladding and three cores or greater forming a second plurality of cores arranged in parallel with the first plurality of the cores to form a second row on the other side based on the plane. The cores configuring the first plurality of the cores and the cores configuring the second plurality of the cores are disposed on lines orthogonal to the plane. | 11-12-2015 |
20150321945 | OPTICAL FIBER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An optical fiber manufacturing apparatus includes: a cylindrical shield pipe that is provided above a drawing furnace, and forms a space continuous with the heating space in a vertical direction; a sending rod that has a lower end attached to an optical fiber preform and a lower portion disposed inside the shield pipe, and is configured to insert the optical fiber preform into a heating space of the drawing furnace in the vertical direction; an alignment mechanism that is configured to move the sending rod in a horizontal direction; an inner sealing body that is attached to the lower portion of the sending rod; and an outer sealing body that is mounted on the inner sealing body, is configured to move in the horizontal direction with respect to the inner sealing body, and is spaced apart from the sending rod. | 11-12-2015 |
20150320297 | IMAGING MODULE AND IMAGING SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME - An imaging module is capable of being used a two or more limited number of times. The imaging module includes: a CMOS imaging sensor; and a counter memory in which the number of use times is stored, the number of use times being the number of times the imaging sensor is used. | 11-12-2015 |
20150318660 | FIBER LASER DEVICE - In a case where the period from the input of the output suspension instruction to the next output instruction is shorter than the fixed period of time, the seed laser light source and the pumping light source are in a pre-pumped state during the period from the end of the output state to the start of the next output state. In a case where the period from the input of the output suspension instruction to the next output instruction is longer than the fixed period of time, the seed laser light source and the pumping light source are in the pre-pumped state only for the fixed period of time from the input of the output instruction. | 11-05-2015 |
20150318083 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE - An oxide superconductor wire including: an oxide superconductor laminate comprising: a tape-shaped substrate, an interlayer laminated on the substrate, an oxide superconductor layer laminated on the interlayer, and a protection layer which is formed of Ag or an Ag alloy and laminated on the oxide superconductor layer; and a stabilization layer which is formed of a metal tape and formed on the protection layer of the superconductor laminate via a low melting point metal layer, wherein the thickness of the protection layer is 5 μM or less, and wherein a volume resistivity of the stabilization layer at room temperature is no less than 3.8 μΩ·cm and no more than 15 μΩ·cm. | 11-05-2015 |
20150318076 | FLAME RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION AND CABLE USING SAME - Provided is a flame retardant resin composition which contains a base resin, calcium carbonate particles which are blended at a proportion of 10 to 150 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the base resin, a silicone-based compound which is blended at a proportion of 0.5 to 10 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the base resin, and a fatty acid-containing compound which is blended at a proportion of 1 to 20 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the base resin. In this flame retardant resin composition, the calcium carbonate particles have an average particle diameter of less than 0.7 μm. | 11-05-2015 |
20150305136 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - Provided is a printed circuit board which is used in a bent state, including: a substrate; a first conductive layer which is formed on the substrate; a first insulation layer which is formed on the substrate so as to cover the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer which is formed on the first insulation layer, wherein on the assumption that the Youngs modulus of the first insulation layer is indicated by Ei1 and the fracture elongation of the second conductive layer is indicated by Bc2, the following equations (I) and (II) are satisfied. | 10-22-2015 |
20150303643 | LASER MODULE - A light incidence plane of the core | 10-22-2015 |
20150295295 | MODE CONVERTER - A mode converter includes a substrate including a first main surface aid a second main surface, a first ground conductor layer formed on the first main surface, a second ground conductor layer formed on the second main surface, a plane circuit that is formed on the first main surface and propagates a high frequency, a pin that is connected to the plane-circuit, is formed inside a through-hole which penetrate from the first main surface to the second main surface, and communicates with the first main face and the second main surface, and an anti-pad that is formed between an end portion of the pin exposed in the second main surface and the second ground conductor layer. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293427 | OPTICAL MODULATION DEVICE - An optical modulation device configured of a planar optical waveguide, includes: a light incidence unit which allows light to be incident on the planar optical waveguide; a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which includes a first optical splitter section branching the light incident on the light incidence unit, two arm portions guiding the light branched by the first optical splitter section, a phase modulation unit linearly disposed on each of the two arm portions, and a first optical coupler section combining the light guided from the two arm portions; a light launching unit which launches the light combined by the first optical coupler section from the planar optical waveguide; and a traveling-wave electrode which includes an input unit and an output unit, and applies a voltage to the phase modulation unit. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293384 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT AND OPTICAL MODULATOR - An optical waveguide element includes: a rib waveguide and a pair of slab portions including a first slab portion and a second slab portion connected to both sides of the rib portion so as to sandwich the rib portion. The rib portion has a cross-sectional dimension which allows the propagation of a fundamental mode and a higher order mode in a predetermined single polarization state, and has a first P-type semiconductor and a first N-type semiconductor forming a PN junction, the first slab portion has a second P-type semiconductor and a P-type conductor connected to each other, the second P-type semiconductor is connected to the first P-type semiconductor of the rib portion, the second slab portion has a second N-type semiconductor and an N-type conductor connected to each other, and the second N-type semiconductor is connected to the first N-type semiconductor of the rib portion. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293310 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector, including: a coupling device that is made of metal, and that is to be coupled to a coupling mechanism of another optical connector that is to be coupled with the optical connector; a ferrule; a housing that is made of resin and that is accommodated by the coupling device while accommodating the ferrule in such a manner that the ferrule can move rearward; and a metal member that is affixed to the coupling device while holding the housing between the metal member and the coupling device. | 10-15-2015 |
20150286026 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - There is provided an optical fiber cable having a configuration in which a strand core of optical fibers is housed in a sheath and capable of fulfilling sufficient mechanical characteristics and ensuring a predetermined watertight property. The optical fiber cable includes a strand core | 10-08-2015 |
20150285994 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF OPTICAL FIBER - A manufacturing method of an optical fiber includes: heating and melting an optical fiber preform; drawing a bare optical fiber from a heated and melted portion of the optical fiber preform; cooling the bare optical fiber drawn from the optical fiber preform; forming a coating layer on a surface of the cooled bare optical fiber; obtaining an optical fiber by curing the coating layer; adding torsion to the optical fiber by transmitting the torsion up to the heated and melted portion through the bare optical fiber from the optical fiber so that spin is applied to the bare optical fiber; and winding the optical fiber. | 10-08-2015 |
20150285991 | COATED POLYMER CLAD OPTICAL FIBER - A coated polymer clad optical fiber of the invention includes: a polymer cladding layer that is formed around an optical fiber made of silica-based glass and has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the silica-based glass; and a protective coating layer formed around the polymer cladding layer. The thickness of the polymer cladding layer is 3.0 or more times the thickness of the protective coating layer. | 10-08-2015 |
20150280404 | MULTIPLEXER, MULTIPLEXING METHOD, AND LD MODULE - A multiplexer includes: an output section outputting a beam bundle made of a plurality of laser beams whose F-axis directions are aligned; and an F-axis converging lens causing the beam bundle outputted from the output section to be converged in the F-axis direction. Optical axes of the plurality of laser beams constituting the beam bundle outputted from the output section intersect with each other at a single point without relying on the F-axis converging lens. | 10-01-2015 |
20150280389 | BRIDGE FIBER, COMBINER, AND FIBER LASER DEVICE - A bridge fiber includes a core layer and an outer layer which has an index of refraction higher than that of the core layer and covers the outer peripheral surface of the core layer. The outer layer is surrounded by a substance such as the atmosphere having an index of refraction lower than an index of refraction n | 10-01-2015 |
20150280388 | OPTICAL FIBER AND FIBER LASER APPARATUS USING SAME - An optical fiber propagates a light beam at a predetermined wavelength at least in an LP01 mode and an LP02 mode. A dopant that changes a Young's modulus is doped to at least a part of a waveguide region | 10-01-2015 |
20150276163 | DEFROST STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS - The defrost structure for a vehicle headlight is provided. In the defrost structure, an LED | 10-01-2015 |
20150268432 | OPTICAL FIBER ASSEMBLY - An optical fiber assembly of the present invention is configured such that an optical fiber fixing section (i) is fixed to an SUS tube and (ii) sandwiches an optical fiber between a first member and a second member at an end part of the SUS tube, so that the optical fiber is fixed while being spaced from the SUS tube. This makes it possible to provide an optical fiber assembly having a structure that prevents an optical fiber from coming into contact with an edge part of a metal tube on the premise that the optical fiber is covered with the metal tube. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268422 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF PREVENTING PROTECTION TUBE FROM COMING OFF FROM OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector of an embodiment of the present invention includes a fixing member made up of two half sprit members engaged with each other, the fixing member applying external pressure, toward an optical fiber combining section of a spring push, to a protection tube which covers a stair part of an outer circumferential surface of the optical fiber combining section. The fixing member securely fixes the protection tube to the optical fiber combining section. As such, it is possible to provide a general-purpose optical connector having a high reliability that an optical fiber cord is unlikely to come off from the optical connector. | 09-24-2015 |
20150268413 | POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING OPTICAL FIBER - A polarization-maintaining optical fiber of the invention includes: a core; a pair of stress-applying parts disposed at both sides of the core at a distance; and a cladding coat that surrounds the core and the paired stress-applying parts. The maximum refractive index of the core is greater than each of maximum refractive indexes of a first cladding coat, a second cladding coat, and a third cladding coat. The maximum refractive index of the second cladding coat is lower than each of maximum refractive indexes of the first cladding coat and the third cladding coat. The coefficient of thermal expansion of each of stress-applying parts is greater than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the cladding coat. Each stress-applying part is provided to cut the second cladding coat at a position in a circumferential direction. | 09-24-2015 |
20150260929 | OPTICAL MODULE | 09-17-2015 |
20150257273 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT BUILT-IN MULTI-LAYER WIRING BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board that is configured by collectively stacking a plurality of printed wiring boards therein by thermal compression bonding and that has a plurality of electronic components built in thereto, wherein the electronic components include a first electronic component and a second electronic component having a thickness which is greater than that of the first electronic component, the first electronic component is built in to an embedding-dedicated board set to a thickness which is 80% to 125% of the thickness of the second electronic component, and the embedding-dedicated board and the second electronic component are then mounted on the printed wiring board and thereby built in to the electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board, and the embedding-dedicated board is formed by an identical material to that of the printed wiring board. | 09-10-2015 |
20150253497 | OPTICAL FIBER AND FIBER LASER DEVICE USING SAME - An optical fiber | 09-10-2015 |
20150243448 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL ELEMENT FOR LOW ILLUMINANCE - The dye-sensitized solar cell element includes at least one dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC), a first current extracting portion and a second current extracting portion for extracting current from the at least one DSC. The DSC comprises a first electrode having a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive layer provided on the surface of the substrate, a second electrode facing the first electrode and having a metal substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the first electrode, and an annular sealing portion bonding the first electrode with the second electrode. The first current extracting portion is included in the conductive film of one DSC of the at least one DSC, the second current extracting portion is connected with the metal substrate of the second electrode of one DSC of the at least one DSC, and the first and second current extracting portions are disposed next to each other. | 08-27-2015 |
20150243447 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL ELEMENT - A dye-sensitized solar cell element has at least one dye-sensitized solar cell, the dye-sensitized solar cell is equipped with a conductive substrate having a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive layer provided on one surface of the transparent substrate, a counter substrate facing the conductive substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the conductive substrate or the counter substrate, and an annular sealing portion bonding the conductive substrate and the counter substrate. The transparent conductive layer has a main body portion disposed on an inner side of the sealing portion, a groove is formed in the transparent conductive layer, and at least a part of the groove has a first groove formed along an external shape of the sealing portion, and an insulating material also continuously covers an edge portion of the main body portion as well as enters into at least a part of the first groove. | 08-27-2015 |
20150241633 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE - An optical waveguide device includes: a mode splitter including a main waveguide in which lights can be propagated in at least two propagation modes with different propagation orders and a subsidiary waveguide which includes a coupling section disposed in parallel with the main waveguide at a certain distance away from the main waveguide so as to constitute a directional coupler and is capable of splitting at least one propagation mode out of the two or more propagation modes from the main waveguide. Also, n | 08-27-2015 |
20150234139 | ROUND AND SMALL DIAMETER OPTICAL CABLES WITH A RIBBON-LIKE OPTICAL FIBER STRUCTURE - An optical fiber cable including an optical fiber ribbon in a pipe, wherein the ribbon includes at least two optical fibers arranged side by side, and wherein at least two of the optical fibers are bonded intermittently along a length of the fibers. | 08-20-2015 |
20150234121 | SUBSTRATE-TYPE WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT AND OPTICAL MODULATOR - Since a cross section of at least a partial segment of a first core has a step-like shape including a quadrilateral shape of a main part and a quadrilateral shape of a protruding part protruding from the main part, respective effective refractive indices of TE polarized waves in the first core and in the second core differ from each other. | 08-20-2015 |
20150234120 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes: multiple cores each including an inner core and an outer core surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the inner core without any gap therebetween; and cladding surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the cores without any gap therebetween and having a refractive index lower than that of the outer core, wherein each of the cores has a tapered portion that is tapered from one side toward the other side thereof in a longitudinal direction, each of the inner cores includes a low-refractive-index portion, and a high-refractive-index portion surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the low-refractive-index portion without any gap therebetween and having a refractive index higher than that of the low-refractive-index portion, and the outer core has a refractive index lower than that of the high-refractive-index portion. | 08-20-2015 |
20150229097 | FIBER LASER DEVICE - A fiber laser device ( | 08-13-2015 |
20150222074 | FIBER LASER DEVICE - A fiber laser device includes: a pumping light source that emits pumping light; an amplification optical fiber that amplifies signal light using the pumping light and emits the signal light; a first FBG that is provided on one side of the amplification optical fiber and reflects the signal light; a second FBG that is provided on the other side of the amplification optical fiber and reflects the signal light at a reflectance lower than a reflectance of the first FBG; a detecting unit that detects with priority to light in a wavelength range between a wavelength 15 nm below and above the maximum reflection wavelength range, in which the reflectance of the first FBG is at the maximum, among lights at the other wavelengths in the light passed through the first FBG from the amplification optical fiber side. | 08-06-2015 |
20150219890 | LIGHT GUIDING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND LD MODULE - A light-guiding device that converts an input beam bundle made of a plurality of laser beams that have respectively been emitted from a plurality of LD elements, to an output beam bundle made of a plurality of output beams, includes a plurality of double mirrors each corresponding to a corresponding one of the LD elements LDi, the double mirrors being separated from one another. The double mirrors Mi each are made of a first mirror Mi | 08-06-2015 |
20150212265 | OPTICAL FIBER AND LIGHT TRANSMISSION PATH - Optical fibers Fp, Fn, included in a light transmission path, are two-mode optical fibers for propagating an LP01 mode component and an LP11 mode component contained in signal light, and a gradient dΔτ/dλ of a mode dispersion Δτ with respect to a wavelength λ in a wavelength band of 1530 nm to 1625 nm is |0.5| ps/km/nm or less. Symbols of mode dispersions Δτ of the optical fibers Fp, Fn are opposite to each other. The light transmission path can satisfactorily compensate the mode dispersion in a wide wavelength band. | 07-30-2015 |
20150204617 | HEAT PIPE - A heat pipe having a wick structure for efficiently returning working fluid to an evaporating portion is provided. The heat pipe comprises a container | 07-23-2015 |
20150203326 | OPTICAL FIBER WINDING REEL AND REEL-WOUND OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber winding reel of the invention includes: a cylindrical main winding body; main flanges provided at both respective ends of the main winding body in an axis direction thereof; and an auxiliary winding body provided outside at least one of the main flanges, wherein a slit that extends toward a central axis line of a reel is formed at part in a circumferential direction of the main flange at which the auxiliary winding body is provided, and both side portions of a position of the main flange at which the slit is formed are a low rigidity region, the low rigidity region has a rigidity locally lower than that of the other portions in a direction orthogonal to a plate surface of the main flange. | 07-23-2015 |
20150198773 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR FERRULE - An optical connector comprises a housing, a regulating portion which is protrudes toward an inner surface of the housing, a ferrule which is secured to an optical fiber and which is accommodated inside the housing so as to be movable. The ferrule includes a base portion and a thinned portion that has a thickness smaller than that of the base portion. If the ferrule moves forward in the butt-connection direction, the regulating portion and the base portion approach each other, so that the regulating portion regulates the movement of the ferrule in the thickness direction. If the ferrule moves backward in the butt-connection direction, the ferrule reaches a position where the thinned portion faces the regulating portion, so that the movement of the ferrule in the thickness direction is not regulated by the regulating portion. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198772 | OPTICAL FERRULE AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical ferrule and an optical connector are provided, which make it possible to reduce the labor required for an adhesive wiping operation even when the optical ferrule is small-sized. A first adhesive filling recess | 07-16-2015 |
20150198771 | FERRULE AND FERRULE WITH OPTICAL FIBER - A ferrule of the present invention includes a positioning mechanism for positioning an optical fiber, and a recess having at least a first inner wall for allowing a front end of the optical fiber portion positioned by the positioning mechanism to protrude, and a second inner wall opposite to the first inner wall. A distance between the first inner wall and the second inner wall is less than or equal to four times the outer diameter of the optical fiber. Adhesive is filled into the recess and cured in a state in which the optical fiber protrudes from the first inner wall and substantially contacts the second inner wall to fix the optical fiber. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198766 | OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR, OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLING METHOD, OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLING TOOL, AND OPTICAL FIBER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLING SET - An optical fiber connector of the present invention includes: a ferrule; an inserted optical fiber of which one end portion is fixed to the ferrule and of which the other end portion protrudes from the ferrule; an external optical fiber of which a front end portion is fusion-spliced to the other end portion of the inserted optical fiber; and one or more reinforcing members configured to reinforce the fusion-spliced portion of the other end portion of the inserted optical fiber and the front end portion of the external optical fiber, wherein the ferrule comprises a lens located on an extension line of the inserted optical fiber. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198765 | OPTICAL-FIBER-SPLICED PORTION REINFORCING HEATING DEVICE - In an optical-fiber-spliced portion reinforcing heating device of the invention, a pressing force that is applied to a sleeve by a second force-applying member is greater than a tension that is applied to an optical fiber by a first force-applying member; in a state in which a tension is applied to the optical fiber by the first force-applying member, a backward movable range of one clamp that applies a tension is ensured in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber and in a direction away from heater; and as a result of ensuring a forward movable range in which it can move toward the heater, one clamp moves in a direction in which a tension that is applied to the optical fiber as a result of pressing the sleeve by the heaters and by the second force-applying member is diminished. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198375 | VAPOR CHAMBER - A vapor chamber having improved heat transfer capacity by efficiently returning the working fluid to the evaporating portion is provided. A hollow flat container | 07-16-2015 |
20150185428 | BINDER FIBER FOR OPTICAL FIBER UNIT - Provided is a binder fiber for an optical fiber unit including a flat sea-island color composite fiber, in which the flat sea-island color composite fiber satisfies the following (1) to (3): (1) a sea component of the flat sea-island color composite fiber has a melting start temperature of 100° C. or higher and a melting peak temperature of 120° C. to 150° C.; (2) the flat sea-island color composite fiber has a width of 0.5 to 3.0 mm and a thickness of 0.15 mm or less; and (3) the flat sea-island color composite fiber has a thermal shrinkage rate of 1.0% or lower after being heated at 100° C. for 3 hours. With the binder fiber, the color developing properties are improved, the shape retaining properties of optical fiber cores are maintained, the optical fiber cores are not compressed, and there is no adhesion with another adjacent binder fiber or the optical fiber cores. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185419 | OPTICAL-FIBER-SPLICED PORTION REINFORCING HEATING DEVICE - An optical-fiber-spliced portion reinforcing heating device of the invention includes: clamps, a fifth force-applying member that sandwiches an optical fiber and applies a pressing force thereto; a first cam mechanism; a mechanism in which displacement of first cam mechanism controls to grasp the optical fiber by the clamps; heaters; a second force-applying member that sandwiches the sleeve and applies a pressing force thereto; a third cam mechanism; and a mechanism in which displacement of the third cam mechanism control to press the sleeve by the heaters. The same motor controls a force of each force-applying member of the clamps and the heaters by the first and third cam mechanism. | 07-02-2015 |
20150180195 | OPTICAL FIBER COUPLER AND OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER - An optical fiber coupler in which damage to a pumping light source can be suppressed even if signal light leaks and an optical fiber amplifier using the optical fiber coupler are provided. An optical fiber coupler includes: a first optical fiber having a core and a clad coating the core; a second optical fiber having a core; and a fusion-drawn portion formed by arranging the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber so that their longitudinal directions are in the same direction and fusing the clad of the first optical fiber and the core of the second optical fiber. The clad of the first optical fiber has a larger refractive index than the core of the second optical fiber. | 06-25-2015 |
20150180171 | CAGE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION MODULE AND CONNECTING METHOD - A cage that a communication module having a module-side connector arranged two-dimensionally with connecting terminals is insertable to/removable from, the cage includes: a movable cage rotatable about a rotation axis, the movable cage having an insertion opening to which the communication module is inserted and a window provided in a position of the module-side connector during inserting of the communication module, the movable cage switching between a first position and a second position by rotating, in the first position, an insertion direction of the communication module to the movable cage being slanted, with respect to a board arranged with a fixed-side connector having connecting terminals arranged two-dimensionally, the communication module being insertable to/removable from the movable cage, in the case that the movable cage is made to be from the first position to the second position in a state where the communication module is inserted, the module-side connector and the fixed-side connector being connected through the window. | 06-25-2015 |
20150147040 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber includes a plurality of cores, a cladding that encloses the plurality of the cores, and a marker disposed in the cladding. The plurality of the cores is arranged and disposed on a linear line passed through the center of the cladding. The marker is disposed along the length direction of the cladding on a portion on which the marker does not overlap the cores in a first direction in which the plurality of the cores is arranged on the linear line and does not overlap the core in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. | 05-28-2015 |
20150147039 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of cores and a cladding surrounding the plurality of the cores. In this multicore fiber, a pair of cores is arranged and disposed on a linear line passed through the center of the cladding, the pair of the cores being adjacent to each other and having refractive indexes varied differently from the cladding to the cores. | 05-28-2015 |
20150139600 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PREFORM FOR COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER, AND COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER - Provided is a method of producing a preform | 05-21-2015 |
20150139597 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber includes a plurality of cores and a cladding surrounding the plurality of cores. The plurality of cores is arranged and disposed on a linear line passed through the center of the cladding. A pair of cores is included. The pair of the cores is located adjacent to each other, and has different core diameters in a first direction in which the plurality of cores is arranged on the linear line. A ratio of a core diameter in the first direction to a core diameter in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is different between the pair of the cores. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139596 | MULTICORE FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF THE SAME - A multicore fiber includes a plurality of cores and a cladding that encloses the plurality of the cores. The plurality of the cores is arranged and disposed on a linear line passed through the center of the cladding. A difference in the cutoff wavelength between an outer core located at the outermost position and an inner core located next to the outer core is set at a wavelength of 100 nm or less. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139593 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE - An optical fiber cable includes an optical fiber core wire; a pair of tension members extending parallel to each other in an extension direction of the optical fiber core wire, sandwiching the optical fiber core wire; and a rectangular jacket covering the optical fiber core wire and the pair of tension members, and in a cross-section orthogonal to the extension direction, having a major axis in a facing direction of the tension members and a minor axis in a direction orthogonal to the facing direction, wherein each of the tension members is glass fiber reinforced plastic having a diameter in a range of 0.7 mm or more and 1 mm or less, and the jacket has a friction coefficient of 0.3 or less, the major axis of 4 mm or less, and the minor axis of 2.8 mm or less. | 05-21-2015 |
20150107888 | INTERCONNECTION SUBSTRATE - An interconnection substrate includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a transmission line including two parallel through-hole interconnections that are exposed to the first and second surfaces and are formed inside the substrate. Also, at least one of the two through-hole interconnections includes a narrow portion having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the through-hole interconnection in the first surface and a diameter of the through-hole interconnection in the second surface. | 04-23-2015 |
20150104128 | PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND DP-QPSK MODULATOR - A planar optical waveguide device, includes: two input portions that are waveguides that have the same width, are parallel to each other, and have rectangular cross-sections; a wide portion that is a linear waveguide and is connected after the two input portions; a tapered portion that is connected after the wide portion and that is a multi-mode waveguide which has a tapered shape having a width decreasing gradually and through which at least TE1 propagates; and an output portion that is connected after the tapered portion and that is a multi-mode waveguide which has a rectangular cross-section and through which at least TE1 propagates. The planar optical waveguide device forms a high-order mode conversion combining element that outputs the TE0, which is input to the two input portions, as the TE1 from the output portion. | 04-16-2015 |
20150098235 | COOLING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS - A cooling device for cooling an LED of vehicle headlight without restricting a design of a housing is provided. The cooling device is comprised of an LED held in a housing sealed with a lens, a reflector that reflects a light emitted from the light source, a heat collector on which the LED is mounted, a heat sink disposed behind the reflector, and a pair of heat pipes thermally connecting the heat collector and the heat sink. The heat sink is arranged inside of the housing. | 04-09-2015 |
20150096721 | EMERGENCY COOLING SYSTEM USING A LOOP THERMOSYPHON - An emergency cooling system for cooling an object certainly and rapidly in case a temperature of the object is accidentally raised abnormally. A loop thermosyphon is formed by connecting an evaporating portion with a condensing portion through a vapor pipe and a return pipe in a manner to form a cyclic conduit. A condensable working fluid circulates within the loop thermosyphon to be evaporated by a heat of the cooling object at the evaporating portion, and to be condensed at the condensing portion to radiate the heat conducted from the cooling object. A switching valve is disposed on the return pipe to selectively allow the working fluid in a liquid phase to be returned from the condensing portion to the evaporating portion. Heat transfer pipes to which the heat of the cooling object is conducted are arranged in the evaporating portion. Heat transfer protrusions are formed on an inner wall of the heat transfer pipe to penetrate through dews of the working fluid, and a preheating portion to which the heat of the cooling object is conducted is formed within a portion of the return pipe connected to the heat transfer pipe. | 04-09-2015 |
20150090579 | INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes an insulation substrate, a switch element, and a detection portion. The switch element includes a fixed electrode portion that is provided on the substrate, and a movable electrode portion that is provided on a main surface side of the substrate, at least part of the movable electrode portion being elastically displaceable toward a direction approaching and leaving the fixed electrode portion. The movable electrode portion is displaceable toward a direction approaching the fixed electrode portion due to pressure from an object to be detected that is an electric conductor. The detection portion is capable of detecting a capacitance change caused by the object to be detected approaching and leaving the movable electrode portion and a capacitance change between the movable electrode portion and the fixed electrode portion produced by displacement of the movable electrode portion due to pressing. | 04-02-2015 |
20150086164 | APPARATUS HAVING HOUSING IN WHICH OPTICAL FIBER IS PROVIDED - According to an aspect of the apparatus of the present invention, wind generated by a cooling fan blows in a housing, and a port is optically connected with an optical module via an optical fiber. Further, a shielding wall is provided to an optical fiber arranging member, which supports and guides the optical fiber, so as to prevent the optical fiber from being exposed to the wind. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085419 | MAGNETIC ELEMENT CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC ELEMENT CONTROL METHOD AND MAGNETIC DETECTION DEVICE - A magnetic element control device of the present invention includes an excitation signal generation unit that generates an alternating signal, an excitation signal adjustment unit that generates an alternating voltage signal from the alternating signal, and generates an excitation signal which is applied to an exciting coil on the basis of the alternating voltage signal, a detection signal comparison unit that detects a detection signal of a positive voltage or a negative voltage which is generated by an induced electromotive force when a current direction of the excitation signal switches, and a feedback signal adjustment unit that generates a feedback signal for applying a magnetic field, cancelling a stationary magnetic field which is applied to a magnetic element from voltage information, to a feedback coil. | 03-26-2015 |
20150084317 | OCCUPANT POSITION DETECTION DEVICE AND AIRBAG DEPLOYMENT CONTROL SYSTEM - An occupant position detection device is an occupant position detection device disposed inside a vehicle to detect a position of an occupant, and includes: a detector comprising two or more sensor electrodes disposed forward of a seat and at least one sensor electrode disposed at a position more rearward and higher than these sensor electrodes, the detector respectively outputting a detection signal based on a distance between each of the sensor electrodes and the occupant; and a computation unit inputted with the detection signal to compute an occupant position. The computation unit selects from the detection signals outputted from the detector three or more types of combinations configured from two of the detection signals, calculates a ratio or difference for each of these combinations of detection signals, and computes the occupant position based on the three or more calculated ratios or differences of the detection signals. | 03-26-2015 |
20150083219 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - Disclosed is a dye-sensitized solar cell which includes a working electrode having a porous titanium oxide layer on a conductive substrate capable of transmitting light, a counter electrode disposed so as to face the working electrode, a photosensitizing dye supported on the porous titanium oxide layer of the working electrode, and an electrolyte disposed between the working electrode and the counter electrode. The porous titanium oxide layer includes a rutile crystal-containing layer containing an anatase crystal-type titanium oxide composed of an anatase crystal and a spherical rutile crystal-type titanium oxide composed of a rutile crystal, and a content of the rutile crystal-type titanium oxide in the rutile crystal-containing layer is from 3 to 15% by mass. | 03-26-2015 |
20150083218 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL - Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell which includes a working electrode having a porous titanium oxide layer on a conductive substrate, and a photosensitizing dye supported on the porous titanium oxide layer, in which the porous titanium oxide layer contains an anatase crystal-type TiO | 03-26-2015 |
20150078719 | OPTICAL CONNECTION BOX - An optical connection box includes, a plurality of first optical connectors to which a plurality of first optical paths are respectively connected, a plurality of second optical connectors that respectively include an operation unit protruding from a peripheral edge side position further from a position of the plurality of first optical connectors on a first surface of the optical connection box, and that are respectively connected to a plurality of receptacle optical connectors which are disposed in the plurality of second optical paths, a plurality of relay optical fibers in which any one of the plurality of first optical connectors is disposed in the first terminal and any one of the plurality of second optical connectors is disposed in the second terminal, and a fitting structure with respect to a substrate in which the receptacle optical connectors are disposed. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077101 | MAGNETIC ELEMENT CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC ELEMENT CONTROL METHOD AND MAGNETIC DETECTION DEVICE - A magnetic element control device of the present invention includes an excitation signal generation unit that generates an alternating signal, a feedback signal conversion unit that converts a time width between detection signals of a positive voltage and a negative voltage into voltage information, an adjustment signal generation unit that generates an offset signal that cancels an offset component which is superimposed on a data signal indicating a magnetic field intensity, and an excitation signal adjustment unit that generates an alternating current, a feedback current, and an offset current from the alternating signal, the feedback signal, and the offset signal, respectively, superimposes the feedback current and the offset current on the alternating current, and generates an excitation current which is applied to an exciting coil. | 03-19-2015 |
20150075618 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a dye-sensitized solar cell which includes a conductive substrate, a counter substrate facing the conductive substrate, an electrolyte disposed between the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and an annular sealing portion surrounding the electrolyte together with the conductive substrate and the counter substrate and connecting the conductive substrate and the counter substrate. The sealing portion has an inorganic sealing portion fixed to the conductive substrate and a resin sealing portion fixed to the counter substrate. The inorganic sealing portion has a main body portion provided on the conductive substrate and a protruding portion extending from the main body portion toward a side opposite to the conductive substrate, and the resin sealing portion has an adhesive portion adhering the main body portion to the counter substrate and adhered to a side surface along an extending direction of the protruding portion. | 03-19-2015 |
20150070010 | MAGNETIC ELEMENT CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC DEVICE CONTROLMETHOD, AND MAGNETIC DETECTING DEVICE - A magnetic element control device controls a magnetic element during detection of an intensity of a stationary magnetic field by a time-resolved magnetic balance system where the magnetic field is applied to a flux-gate magnetic element that is constituted of an excitation coil and a detecting coil. The magnetic element control device includes: an excitation signal generator; an excitation signal adjuster; a detection signal comparator; a feedback signal converter; a feedback signal adjuster; and a data signal converter. The excitation signal adjuster superimposes a feedback signal on an alternating voltage signal and thereby generates an excitation signal, and applies the generated excitation signal to the excitation coil. | 03-12-2015 |
20150055916 | OPTICAL COMBINER AND LASER DEVICE USING THE SAME - An optical combiner includes a plurality of input optical fibers, an output optical fiber, and a bridge fiber optically coupled to the plurality of input optical fibers and the output optical fiber. The bridge fiber includes a tapered portion whose outer diameter is reduced toward the emission end, and the outer diameter of the emission end face of the bridge fiber is smaller than the cladding outer diameter of the incident end face of the output optical fiber. | 02-26-2015 |
20150052952 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS PREFORM - An apparatus for manufacturing a glass perform, includes: a dummy tube section, a reservoir portion, and a cooling portion; and a glass tube section in which particles of an alkali metal compound or an alkaline earth metal compound which have flowed into the glass tube section from the dummy tube section are heated by a second heat source which performs traverse, and oxides of the particles being deposited on an inner wall and dispersed in the glass tube section. In the cooling portion of the dummy tube section, vapor of the alkali metal compound or the alkaline earth metal compound generated by heating of a first heat source is cooled and condensed by a dry gas flowing into the dummy tube section, and thereby the particles are generated. | 02-26-2015 |
20150049997 | OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE HOUSING THE OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON - Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of concurrently ensuring mid-span access performance and cable production performance. The optical fiber ribbon | 02-19-2015 |
20150049991 | OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICER - An optical fiber fusion splicer includes: a windshield cover that is formed so as to be openable and closable and that includes one or more cover members that cover a heat fusion portion in a closed state; a pair of fiber mounting portions that are provided on left and right sides of the heat fusion portion; a pair of fiber mounting detectors that are provided in the fiber mounting portions and that detect that an optical fiber has been mounted. Also, when both the fiber mounting detectors detect that the optical fibers have been mounted in a state where the cover member is open, an operation to close the cover member is performed, the fusion splice is performed, connection portion inspection is performed, and an operation to open the windshield cover is performed after the connection portion inspection is completed. | 02-19-2015 |
20150036305 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT BUILT-IN MULTI-LAYER WIRING BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board that comprises collectively stacked therein a plurality of first printed wiring boards by thermal compression bonding, and that comprises an electronic component package built in thereto, wherein the electronic component package comprises a first electronic component built in thereto and a plurality of second printed wiring boards stacked to have electrodes on an outermost surface of the package at a pitch that is wider than the electrode pitch of the first electronic component and that is matched to the wiring pitch of the first printed wiring boards, the electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board includes a second electronic component having a thickness which is greater than that of the first electronic component, and the electronic component package having a thickness which is 80% to 125% of the thickness of the second electronic component. | 02-05-2015 |
20150029580 | FIBER-OPTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In a fiber amplifier including a third optical fiber made of a double clad fiber for amplifying light and a fifth optical fiber made of a single clad fiber for transmitting the light amplified by the double clad fiber, a fourth optical fiber made of a triple clad fiber is inserted between the third optical fiber and the fifth optical fiber. | 01-29-2015 |
20150017829 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF BRAIDED-SHIELD-TYPE ELECTRIC WIRE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHIELD ELECTRIC WIRE HARNESS - A connection structure of a braided-shield-type electric wire for connecting the braided-shield-type electric wire including a plurality of sheathed electric wires and a braided shield member surrounding the sheathed electric wires to a connector and for electrically connecting the braided shield member to a shield shell in a connector housing, the connection structure comprising: a retainer that is arranged inside the braided shield member to hold the sheathed electric wires in a slidable state; a first annular conductive member that is fitted to an outer peripheral side of the retainer in a state where the braided shield member is sandwiched therebetween; and a second annular conductive member that is fitted to an outer peripheral side of the first annular conductive member in a state where the braided shield member is sandwiched therebetween. | 01-15-2015 |
20150013153 | HIGH FREQUENCY CABLE, HIGH FREQUENCY COIL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH FREQUENCY CABLE - A high frequency cable includes: a central conductor made from aluminum or an aluminum alloy; a covering layer made from copper covering the central conductor, and having a fiber-like structure in a longitudinal direction; and an intermetallic compound layer formed between the central conductor and the covering layer and having greater volume resistivity than the covering layer, wherein a cross-sectional area of the covering layer is 15% or less of an entire cross-sectional area including the central conductor, the intermetallic compound layer and the covering layer. | 01-15-2015 |
20150010277 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND FIBER LASER DEVICE - An optical device includes a first medium which (i) has a refractive index lower than (a) a refractive index of an outermost shell part in a first outer shell removed area of a first optical fiber and (b) a refractive index of an outermost shell part in a second outer shell removed area of a second optical fiber and (ii) surrounds an entire side surface of the first outer shell removed area. Moreover, the optical device includes a second medium which (i) has a refractive index higher than a refractive index of an outermost shell part in the second outer shell removed area and (ii) surrounds at least a part of a side surface in the second outer shell removed area. The second outer shell removed area has a diameter larger than a diameter in the first outer shell removed area. | 01-08-2015 |
20150008275 | OPTICAL FIBER TERMINAL FIXING TOOL FOR WINDING OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER WINDING METHOD - An optical fiber terminal fixing tool includes: a disc-shaped substrate having a plate surface; a holding surface which is provided on the plate surface and interposes the terminal portion of the optical fiber between the holding surface and the first flange portion; and a protrusion which continues in a circumferential direction with a larger diameter than an outer diameter of the first flange portion in an outer circumferential portion on the plate surface while protruding toward the bobbin in a state where the fixing tool is mounted on the rotating shaft of the optical fiber winding machine. | 01-08-2015 |
20140374468 | WATER REMOVING METHOD, OPTICAL FIBER SOLDERING METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A moisture removing method disclosed removes moisture contained in a dielectric film provided on one end surface of an optical fiber. This moisture removing method causes near infrared light to enter the optical fiber through the other end surface to heat moisture in the dielectric film with use of the near infrared light. | 12-25-2014 |
20140369659 | FAN-IN/FAN-OUT DEVICE FOR MULTICORE FIBER - A fan-in/fan-out device includes a plurality of single-core fibers which are connected to a plurality of first cores of a multicore fiber and which include an elongated portion extending in a longitudinal direction so as to reduce a diameter and being connected to a first end portion of the multicore fiber at a second end portion in an extending direction of the elongated portion, where a refractive index distribution of each of the single-core fibers has a single peak, a relative refractive index difference of a second core with respect to a second cladding in each of the single-core fibers is 0.8% or more; and a second mode field diameter of the second end portion of the elongated portion is greater than a first mode field diameter of the first end portion of the multicore fiber. | 12-18-2014 |
20140357495 | SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE AND SUPERCONDUCTING COIL - A superconductor wire includes: a superconducting laminate that includes: a substrate and an intermediate layer; a superconductor layer, and a metal stabilization layer which are laminated on the substrate; and an insulation coating layer that covers an outer surface of the superconducting laminate and is formed by baking a resin material. Further, a maximum height Rz of at least a part of the outer surface of the superconducting laminate covered with the insulation coating layer is 890 nm or less. | 12-04-2014 |
20140357492 | SUPERCONDUCTING COIL AND SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICE - A superconducting coil includes: first and second pancake coils that are formed by winding a superconducting wire, are stacked in a thickness direction, and are adjacent to each other; and a cooling substrate that is provided in contact with an end surface of the first pancake coil and is separable into a plurality of cooling plates. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354509 | LOOP ANTENNA - A loop antenna in accordance with the present invention has an antenna element having a shape that traces a closed curve, the antenna element including (i) a first projection section which projects from one of two end sections of the antenna element toward an inside of the closed curve and (ii) a second projection section which projects from the other of the two end sections of the antenna element toward the inside of the closed curve, each of the first projection section and the second projection section including a feed point. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354500 | DIPOLE ANTENNA - A dipole antenna in accordance with the present invention includes a first antenna element provided in a two-dimensional surface and having a linear shape and a second antenna element provided in the two-dimensional surface and having a spiral shape that circles around the first antenna element. | 12-04-2014 |
20140341238 | FIBER LASER - A fiber laser includes: an amplification optical fiber; a pumping light source configured to emit pumping light to pump the active element of the amplification optical fiber; a first mirror provided on one side of the amplification optical fiber; and a second mirror provided on the other side of the amplification optical fiber. When an optical loss between the first mirror and the second mirror is equal to an optical gain in the amplification optical fiber, a difference between a gain of light having a wavelength at which a gain becomes maximum and a gain of light having a wavelength reflected off the first mirror and the second mirror is 35 dB or less in the amplification optical fiber. | 11-20-2014 |
20140334789 | MULTI-CORE FIBER - A multi-core fiber includes an even number of six or more of cores and a clad that surrounds the outer circumferential surfaces of the cores. The cores are formed of two types of cores and in which an effective refractive index difference in a fundamental mode is 0.002 or less in a predetermined range or more that the effective refractive index difference in the fundamental mode is varied according to a core pitch. Two types of the cores are alternately and annularly disposed at regular spacings. A difference in the mode field diameter of light propagating through the cores is 1 μm or less. | 11-13-2014 |
20140331777 | PRESSURE SENSOR MODULE AND LID - A pressure sensor module of the invention includes: a substrate; a lid connected to the substrate; a semiconductor pressure sensing device and an integrated circuit device functionally connected to the semiconductor pressure sensing device, which are accommodated in an internal space surrounded by the substrate and the lid; a pressure introducing hole that communicates the internal space to an external space; and a light shield that is provided between the external space and the internal space and is formed so that a hole axis of the pressure introducing hole is bent. | 11-13-2014 |
20140328561 | OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module includes: a transparent substrate through which light can pass; a photoelectric conversion element mounted on the transparent substrate and emitting light toward the transparent substrate or receiving light having passed through the transparent substrate; and a support member supporting an optical fiber for transmitting light, the support member and the transparent substrate forming an optical path between the photoelectric conversion element and the optical fiber. A positioning hole is formed in the transparent substrate. A positioning pin having a tapered surface is formed on the support member. The transparent substrate and the support member are positioned with respect to one another by inserting the positioning pin into the positioning hole along the optical axis direction of light between the transparent substrate and the support member and by making the tapered surface of the positioning pin contact the edge of the positioning hole without leaving any space therebetween. | 11-06-2014 |
20140326702 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BASE BODY HAVING MICROSCOPIC HOLE, AND BASE BODY - A method of manufacturing a base body having a microscopic hole, includes: forming at least one of a first modified region and a second modified region by scanning inside of a base body with a focal point of a first laser light having a pulse duration on order of picoseconds or less; forming a periodic modified group formed of a plurality of third modified regions and fourth modified regions by scanning an inside of the base body with a focal point of a second laser light having a pulse duration on order of picoseconds or less; obtaining the base body which is formed so that the first modified region and the second modified region overlap or come into contact with the modified group; and forming a microscopic hole by removing the first modified region and the third modified regions by etching. | 11-06-2014 |
20140323314 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE - An oxide superconductor wire includes: a tape-shaped oxide superconductor laminate that is formed by providing an intermediate layer on a front surface side of a metal tape-shaped substrate, providing an oxide superconductor layer on the intermediate layer, and providing a protective layer on the oxide superconductor layer; and a coating member that includes a metal tape and a low melting point metal layer, in which the metal tape has a wider width than that of the oxide superconductor laminate and covers the protective layer surface of the oxide superconductor laminate, both side surfaces of the oxide superconductor laminate, and both end portions of a substrate back surface side in a width direction thereof, and both end portions of the metal tape in a width direction thereof are provided to cover both the end portions of the substrate back surface. | 10-30-2014 |
20140311773 | MULTI-LAYER WIRING BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A multi-layer wiring board is configured having stacked therein, in a stacking direction, via an adhesive layer, a plurality of printed wiring bases in each of which a wiring pattern and a via are formed on/in a resin base. A multi-layer wiring board includes a movable portion configured from an elastic member and a void portion, the movable portion being formed in the printed wiring bases and adhesive layer in a periphery of a matrix-shaped plurality of multi-layer wiring portions disposed at a certain interval as viewed in a planar manner, and the movable portion joining the plurality of multi-layer wiring portions such that each of the multi-layer wiring portions is displaceable in the stacking direction and a direction of surfaces of the printed wiring bases. | 10-23-2014 |
20140288371 | SUCTION CATHETER - A suction catheter of the invention includes: a catheter main body that includes a suction passage along a longitudinal direction thereof; a control unit that is attached to an end portion of the catheter main body which is opposite to an operation portion; and an imaging unit that is attachable to and detachable from the control unit. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286363 | LASER MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A laser module includes: a bottom plate of a box; the frame member being fixed to the bottom plate; a pipe member including a hollow portion PH communicating with the through hole OP of a box, the pipe member being fixed to the outer wall of the frame member; an optical fiber held on the hollow portion PH of the pipe member; and a laser element accommodated in the internal space of the box, the optical axis of the laser element being aligned with the optical axis of the optical fiber. When the bottom plate is placed on a plane, the bottom face of the pipe member is on the same face as a bottom plate portion contacting the plane. | 09-25-2014 |
20140272452 | ELECTRIC WIRE AND COIL - A electric wire includes a central conductor | 09-18-2014 |
20140268574 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD MOUNTING BODY - A component built-in board comprises stacked therein a plurality of printed wiring bases having a wiring pattern and a via formed on/in a resin base thereof, and comprises an electronic component built in thereto, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of printed wiring bases include a thermal wiring in the wiring pattern and include a thermal via in the via, at least one of the plurality of printed wiring bases has formed therein an opening where the electronic component is built, and has formed therein a heat-conducting layer and closely attached to a surface on an opposite side to an electrode formation surface of the electronic component built in to the opening, and the electronic component is fixed in the opening by an adhesive layer stacked on the heat-conducting layer, via a hole formed in a region facing onto the opening of the heat-conducting layer. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268313 | HIGH POWER PULSED LIGHT GENERATION DEVICE - A high power pulsed light generation device includes: a master clock generator that generates a master signal; an optical oscillator that generates a pulsed light synchronized with the master clock signal; an optical amplifier that amplifies the pulsed light emitted from the optical oscillator to output a high power pulsed light; a pump semiconductor laser that generates a pulsed light for pumping the optical amplifier; a driving unit that drives the pump semiconductor laser by a pulsed driving current synchronized with the master clock signal; and a control unit which controls the driving unit and controls a gain of the optical amplifier for each pulse by changing a pulse width of the pulsed drive current from driving unit so as to change the pulse width of the pumping pulsed light. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268130 | METHOD FOR DETECTING NON-SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION OF SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE - A method for detecting a non-superconducting transition of a superconducting wire including a substrate, a superconducting layer that has a critical temperature of 77 K or more, and a metal stabilization layer, the method includes arranging an optical fiber on the superconducting wire, injecting a measurement light into the optical fiber, measuring an intensity of anti-Stokes Raman scattering light of the measurement light, and detecting an occurrence of a non-superconducting transition in the superconducting wire based on an intensity variation of the anti-Stokes Raman scattering light. | 09-18-2014 |
20140265713 | ELECTRIC WIRE, COIL, DEVICE FOR DESIGNING ELECTRIC WIRE, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric wire includes a conductive portion | 09-18-2014 |
20140259481 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR CLEANING TOOL - An optical connector cleaning tool includes a cleaning body that is fed and moved, a feeding mechanism that performs supply and take-up of the cleaning body, a housing body that houses the feeding mechanism, an extension portion that extends from the housing body, comprising a plurality of distal end tube portions, and an outer tube body through which the plurality of distal end tube portions pass, including a plurality of distal end openings from which the plurality of distal end tube portions are extended; and a head member that is passed through each of the plurality of distal end tube portions and that presses the cleaning body against the joining end face at the distal end of the extension portion. | 09-18-2014 |
20140254989 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE HAVING CONNECTOR AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREOF - An optical fiber cable having an optical connector, includes: an optical connector assembled on a tip portion of an optical fiber cable, including a ferrule in which an optical fiber protruding from a terminal of the optical fiber cable is inserted and fixed; and a reinforced portion formed by heating and shrinking a heat-shrinkable tube and by solidifying a hot-melt adhesive of an inner portion of the heat-shrinkable tube after melting the hot-melt adhesive so as to integrate a rear end portion of the ferrule, the tip portion of the optical fiber cable which is disposed so as to be separated in a rear side of the ferrule, and the heat-shrinkable tube which accommodates the rear end portion of the ferrule and the tip portion of the optical fiber cable and in which the hot-melt adhesive is disposed in the inner portion of the heat-shrinkable tube. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254120 | DEVICE PACKAGING STRUCTURE AND DEVICE PACKAGING METHOD - Provided is a device packaging structure including: an interposer substrate including a substrate, and a plurality of through-hole interconnections formed inside a plurality of through-holes passing through the substrate from a first main surface toward a second main surface, the first main surface being one main surface of the substrate, the second main surface being the other main surface thereof; a first device which includes a plurality of electrodes and is arranged so that these electrodes face the first main surface; and a second device which includes a plurality of electrodes of which an arrangement is different from an arrangement of each of the electrodes of the first device, and is arranged so that these electrodes face the second main surface. | 09-11-2014 |
20140252154 | OPTICAL FIBER SCREENING TEST METHOD AND OPTICAL FIBER SCREENING TEST APPARATUS - An optical fiber screening test method in which while continuously travelling, an optical fiber passes a tension applying section which applies tension and the optical fiber which has passed the tension applying section is continuously wound by a winding bobbin is provided. The method includes running the optical fiber to which the tension has been applied along a first pulley and a second pulley sequentially, winding the optical fiber by the winding bobbin, and stopping rotation of the winding bobbin when the optical fiber is broken by applying the tension, and performing an adjustment so that an already-wound outer circumferential surface of the winding bobbin on which the optical fiber is already wound is not positioned on an extension line of a linear optical fiber travelling path from the first pulley to the second pulley at a time when the rotation of the winding bobbin is stopped. | 09-11-2014 |
20140249368 | METHOD OF PACKAGING IMAGING DEVICE CHIP, METHOD OF ASSEMBLING ENDOSCOPE, IMAGING MODULE, AND ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope includes: an imaging device chip having a chip connection portion; a tubular housing tube used to a scope tip portion of an endoscope; a substrate to which the imaging device chip is fixed, the substrate having a substrate connection portion, the substrate being capable of bending at near the substrate connection portion when the substrate is inserted into the housing tube; a lead wire connecting the substrate connection portion and the chip connection portion; flexible and non-conductive resin covering an entirety of the lead wire; and an imaging module including the substrate provided with the imaging device chip thereon, the imaging module inserted into the housing tube. | 09-04-2014 |
20140241686 | OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical fiber is provided. The optical fiber has a refractive index profile that includes a central core, an inner cladding layer, a trench layer, and an outer cladding layer. A trench layer is provided with a reduced refractive index. The optical fiber has a large effective area without having an increase of a cutoff wavelength, and exhibits low macrobending loss. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240818 | OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION COMPONENT AND FIBER LASER DEVICE - An optical amplification component | 08-28-2014 |
20140239685 | HEAD RESTRAINT POSITION ADJUSTING DEVICE AND HEAD RESTRAINT POSITION ADJUSTING METHOD - A head rest position adjusting device has a capacitance sensor unit and a drive motor unit, and the capacitance sensor unit has plural detection electrodes which are arranged in such a way that the long sides are aligned along the height direction. A detection circuit has plural capacitance detection circuits connected to the detection electrodes, respectively, and an arithmetic processing circuit, and the drive motor unit has a motor drive circuit and a drive motor. Even if the head restraint is in an initial condition, the detection circuit detects an estimated center position of a head in the height direction or a detection electrode having the highest output as a reference position from detection signals from individual detection electrodes, and adjusts a position of the head restraint relative to a seat with reference to the reference position. | 08-28-2014 |
20140234621 | FLAME RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION AND CABLE USING SAME - Provided is a flame retardant resin composition including a base resin, calcium carbonate particles that are incorporated at a proportion of 10 parts by mass or more relative to 100 parts by mass of the base resin, a silicone-based compound that is incorporated at a proportion of more than 1 part by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the base resin, and a fatty acid-containing compound that is incorporated at a proportion of more than 3 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the base resin. The average particle size of the calcium carbonate particles is 0.7 μm or larger. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233878 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT - Provided is an optical element including an optical waveguide including a core formed from: a rib part; and a first and second slab parts sandwiching the rib part. The first slab part includes a P-type region, the second slab part includes an N-type region, the rib part includes a P-type region which is in contact with the P-type region provided in the first slab part, and an N-type region which is in contact with the N-type region provided in the second slab part. The rib part includes a top portion which is located above the first and second slab parts and includes an undoped region formed from at least one of an intrinsic region and a low-concentration doping region which is doped at a dopant concentration 1/10 or less of a dopant concentration in at least one of the adjacent P-type region and the adjacent N-type region. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233594 | DC-COUPLED LASER DRIVE CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LASER DIODE DEVICE - A DC-coupled laser drive circuit ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140233348 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND FLUID MIXER - A fluid control device for mixing liquids, includes at least: a monolithic base body; and a plurality of micro holes disposed in the base body. Also, the micro holes in a flow channel group α that configures a specific group have opening portions in a region A and a region B on surfaces being outer surfaces of the base body, the micro holes in a flow channel group β (n) that configures the other specific group have opening portions in the region A and a region C (n) on the surfaces being outer surfaces of the base body, and in the base body, the micro holes are disposed apart from the micro holes belonging to the different flow channel group throughout entire lengths. Here, the n refers to a natural number. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233199 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MOUNTING BODY - A component built-in board of multi-layer structure that has a plurality of unit boards stacked therein and is configured having a plurality of electronic components built in thereto in a stacking direction, wherein the plurality of unit boards include: a double-sided board that includes a first insulating layer, a first wiring layer formed on both surfaces of the first insulating layer, and a first interlayer conductive layer that penetrates the first insulating layer and is connected to the first wiring layer, and that comprises an opening in which the electronic component is housed; and an intermediate board that includes a second insulating layer, a first adhesive layer provided on both surfaces of the second insulating layer, and a second interlayer conductive layer that penetrates the second insulating layer along with the first adhesive layer, and the double-sided board is disposed above and below the intermediate board. | 08-21-2014 |
20140231390 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE INCLUDING MICRO HOLE - A method of manufacturing a substrate including a micro hole, includes: setting a scanning rate (μm/sec) of pulsed laser light to 1×10 | 08-21-2014 |
20140216109 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PREFORM FOR MULTICORE FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MULTICORE FIBER - A plurality of clad rods, and a clad tube, an arrangement process for arranging the plurality of core rods and the plurality of clad rods in a tube of the clad tube, in a state in which distances between center axes of the adjacent core rods become equal to each other and a state in which parts of outer circumferential surfaces in the adjacent rods contact, and an integration process for integrating the clad tube and the plurality of core rods and the plurality of clad rods arranged in the tube, wherein a ratio of a total cross-sectional area of a direction orthogonal to a length direction in the plurality of core rods and the plurality of clad rods with respect to an internal cross-sectional area of the tube of a direction orthogonal to a length direction in the clad tube is 0.84 or more. | 08-07-2014 |
20140212097 | CONNECTORED CABLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONNECTORED CABLE - A connectored cable including a cable having an optical fiber for transmitting an optical signal; and a connector that accommodates a substrate on which a photoelectric conversion portion that is optically coupled to an end face of the optical fiber is installed, and in which the optical fiber is wired so that at least three bent portions are formed, the orientation of the optical fiber in a front-rear direction being changed, the optical fiber being bent into a U shape at each of the bent portions, and so that one of two bent portions on a front side is located on a down side of the substrate and the other bent portion on the front side is located on an up side of the substrate. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211437 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD MOUNTING BODY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD - A component built-in board mounting body has a component built-in board mounted on a mounting board, the component built-in board being configured having stacked therein a plurality of printed wiring bases that each have a wiring pattern and a via formed on/in a resin base thereof, and having an electronic component built in thereto, wherein the component built-in board has at least a portion of the plurality of printed wiring bases including thermal wiring in the wiring pattern and including a thermal via in the via, and is mounted on the mounting board via a bump formed on a surface layer of the component built-in board, and a surface on an opposite side to an electrode formation surface of the built in electronic component is connected to the bump via the thermal via and the thermal wiring, and is thermally connected to the mounting board via the bump. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211300 | OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION COMPONENT AND FIBER LASER DEVICE - An optical amplification component | 07-31-2014 |
20140205236 | OPTICAL FIBER COMBINER, AND LASER SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An optical fiber combiner | 07-24-2014 |
20140202741 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A component built-in board, wherein at least two layers of a plurality of printed wiring bases are disposed on a rear surface side of an electronic component; the at least two layers of the printed wiring bases include a heat radiation-dedicated wiring pattern that is disposed above the rear surface of the electronic component; the heat radiation-dedicated wiring pattern is formed such that a heat radiation-dedicated wiring line and a signal-dedicated wiring line are continuous; a via includes a plurality of heat radiation-dedicated vias which connects the rear surface of the electronic component and the heat radiation-dedicated wiring pattern; and the heat radiation-dedicated wiring pattern is continuous from a place where connected to the heat radiation-dedicated via to be connected also to another via disposed at an outer peripheral side of the electronic component. | 07-24-2014 |
20140193573 | APPARATUS OF FORMING ELECTROCONDUCTIVE SUBSTANCE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - An apparatus forms an electroconductive substance in micro holes, the apparatus introduces a fluid, that includes at least a metal complex dissolved in a supercritical fluid or a subcritical fluid, into a reaction chamber including a first space and a second space, allows a planar substrate to be disposed in the fluid that continuously moves in a specific direction in the reaction chamber. A second surface of the substrate is vertical to the specific direction in which the fluid that is introduced into the first space moves; the substrate is supported throughout the entire first surface so that the fluid travels in the micro holes of the substrate from the second surface toward the first space of the substrate; and a support member including a fine communication hole through which the fluid passes toward the second space is disposed. | 07-10-2014 |
20140191829 | COIL WIRING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COIL WIRING ELEMENT - A coil wiring element includes: a plurality of first wirings that are formed above a substrate and have a center portion and both end portions; a second resin portion that is formed above the substrate and support both end portions of each of the first wirings; a first resin portion that covers the center portion of each of the first wirings; a plurality of second wirings that are formed above the first resin portion and have both end portions; connecting portions that connect the first wirings to the second wirings and are supported by the second resin portion; and a coil wiring in which both end portions of the first wirings are connected to both end portions of the second wirings in series, the coil wiring being wound around the first resin portion in a spiral shape. | 07-10-2014 |
20140178024 | MULTICORE FIBER FOR COMMUNICATION - A multicore fiber for communication | 06-26-2014 |
20140178021 | BRIDGE FIBER, COMBINER, AND FIBER LASER DEVICE - A bridge fiber includes a core layer | 06-26-2014 |
20140178018 | MULTICORE FIBER - A multicore fiber includes a first multicore fiber member and a second multicore fiber member, one end face of the first multicore fiber member being spliced to one end face of the second multicore fiber member, wherein at least two core end faces of multiple cores in the first multicore fiber member are spliced one-to-one to core end faces of multiple cores in the second multicore fiber member, and, among the cores in the first multicore fiber member and the cores in the second multicore fiber member spliced one-to-one at the core end faces, at least one core in the first multicore fiber member and one core in the second multicore fiber member spliced thereto have different effective core areas, and an open end face of the core having the larger effective core area is a face which light enters. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178007 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR PROTECTING CAP, OPTICAL FIBER CABLE WITH CONNECTOR CAP, AND CAP REMOVAL TOOL - An optical connector protecting cap includes a projecting pulling piece to which a drawing out force is applied to pull out a cap from an optical connector, the projecting pulling piece protruding from a front end wall that covers in one end in an axis line of a cylindrical body placed on the outside of the optical connector. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176391 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND ANTENNA MOUNTING METHOD - An antenna device ( | 06-26-2014 |
20140168920 | COMPONENT-MOUNTING PRINTED BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A component-mounting printed board comprises: a resin base; an electronic component mounted on at least one of surfaces of the resin base; a through-hole electrode formed penetrating the resin base at a position corresponding to an electrode of the electronic component; the electrode of the electronic component and the through-hole electrode being directly joined, and an electrode pad of the through-hole electrode being formed in a surface on an opposite side to a side of a mounting surface on which the electronic component is mounted of the resin base. | 06-19-2014 |
20140166104 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT - A dye-sensitized solar cell comprises a pair of electrodes that face each other; an electrolyte that is disposed between the pair of electrodes; and a sealing section that connects the pair of electrodes and is provided around the electrolyte. In the dye-sensitized solar cell, the sealing section comprises at least one corner section when the sealing section is viewed in planar view from the electrode side, and a first contact surface at the corner section with at least one of the pair of electrodes comprises a first curve line-containing surface containing a curved curve line on the electrolyte side. | 06-19-2014 |
20140158408 | MULTI-LAYER WIRING BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A multi-layer wiring board comprises: a plurality of multi-layer wiring units each having a plurality of printed wiring boards stacked therein via an adhesive layer, the printed wiring board having a wiring layer formed on an insulating base therein and having flexibility, and the wiring layers being connected to each other via a via that penetrates in a stacking direction; and a cable unit connecting between the plurality of multi-layer wiring units and having flexibility, the cable unit configured having a lower insulating base, the wiring layer formed on the lower insulating base and an upper insulating base disposed above the lower insulating base via the adhesive layer, the lower insulating base and the wiring layer correspond to one-layer of the printed wiring board, and the lower and upper insulating bases and the wiring layer being led out from the multi-layer wiring units. | 06-12-2014 |
20140157830 | OPTICAL FIBER FUSION SPLICE SYSTEM - An optical fiber fusion splice system includes a working table and a storage box which stores the working table. The working table includes a fusion splicing machine installation portion accommodating a fusion splicing machine to be stored in the storage box and a working surface on which preparation work for an optical fiber is configured to be performed. The fusion splicing machine installation portion includes a fusion splicing machine restriction portion being configured to restrict the fusion splicing machine without the fusion splicing machine moving in a horizontal direction with respect to the working table. The working surface includes a protrusion provided on an outer circumference of the working surface, the protrusion being configured to prevent a tool used in the preparation work from falling from the working surface. The storage box includes a box main body and a cover which covers an upper portion of the box main body. | 06-12-2014 |
20140155269 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRE AND SUPERCONDUCTING COIL - An oxide superconductor wire includes: a superconductor laminate that comprises a substrate which is formed in a tape shape and an intermediate layer, an oxide superconductor layer, and a metal stabilizing layer which are laminated on the substrate; and an insulating coating layer that covers an outside surface of the superconductor laminate, Also, either the entire outside surface or the entire inside surface of the insulating coating layer is coated with a coating layer formed of a fluororesin. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153595 | LASER DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide a laser device having high optical amplification efficiency. A laser device includes: an optical fiber which includes a core and a clad and through which seed light and pumping light propagate; and a glass rod which is doped with rare earth elements, has a diameter larger than that of the core, wherein the seed light and the pumping light output from the optical fiber are input to the glass rod to have increased diameters, and output light including at least the amplified seed light is output from the glass rod. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152789 | OPTICAL FIBER STRUCTURE, ILLUMINATION UNIT, ENDOSCOPE, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL FIBER STRUCTURE - An optical fiber structure according to the present application includes a cylindrical resin body, and a plurality of circumferential arrays of optical fiber bare wires disposed within the resin body and extending along a longitudinal direction of the resin body. The resin body includes a linear slit provided at a location intermediate the length of the resin body. The linear slit extends from an outer surface to an inner bore of the resin body and extending substantially parallel to the bare wires. | 06-05-2014 |
20140148343 | RE123-BASED SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An RE123-based superconducting wire includes a base material, an intermediate layer formed on the base material, and an oxide superconducting layer which is formed on the intermediate layer and includes an oxide superconductor having a composition formula represented by RE | 05-29-2014 |
20140144468 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR CLEANING TOOL AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR CLEANING METHOD - Disclosed is an optical connector cleaning tool including: a tool body; and an extended part that extends from the tool body and that has a head for pressing a cleaning element against an optical connector, the extended part being provided so as to be movable with respect to the tool body. The optical connector is cleaned with the cleaning element by moving the tool body toward the extended part in a state where the cleaning element is pressed against the optical connector with the head. The tool body includes: a take-up reel that, in accordance with the movement of the tool body with respect to the extended part, takes up the cleaning element which has been sent out from the head; and a take-up amount adjustment mechanism that makes constant the take-up amount of the take-up reel per single cleaning operation. | 05-29-2014 |
20140140668 | MECHANICAL SPLICE UNIT, MECHANICAL SPLICING TOOL, AND OPTICAL FIBER SPLICING METHOD - A mechanical splice unit of the invention includes: a mechanical splice having an optical fiber guide groove that is formed at matching surfaces of both a base and a lid in a two-part-divided structure, the mechanical splice being capable of grasping a first optical fiber at one end side of the lid; and an optical fiber splice auxiliary tool used for splice of the first optical fiber that is grasped by the mechanical splice, wherein the optical fiber splice auxiliary tool includes: a mechanical splice grasping portion that holds the mechanical splice; and a guided portion that is slidable along a guide portion formed at a splicing tool to which a second optical fiber to be spliced to the first optical fiber is fixed. | 05-22-2014 |
20140133807 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR RECEPTACLE, RECEPTACLE HOUSING, OPTICAL CONNECTOR ADAPTER, AND ADAPTER HOUSING - An optical connector receptacle of the invention includes: a receptacle housing holding a ferrule; a flange protruding from an external surface of the receptacle housing; an elastic deformation portion extending from the flange along the external surface of the receptacle housing; and a locking protruding portion protruding from the elastic deformation portion to the opposite side of the external surface of the receptacle housing. The optical connector receptacle is attachable to an attachment wall by sandwiching a peripheral edge of an attachment hole of the attachment wall between the flange and the locking protruding portion. A state where the locking protruding portion is locked by the peripheral edge of the attachment hole of the attachment wall is releasable as a result of elastically deforming the elastic deformation portion to be directed to the external surface of the receptacle housing. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133118 | COMPONENT-EMBEDDED BOARD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided is a component-embedded board. The board includes: a first base including first substrate incorporating a first electric component and first electrode provided on a first face of the substrate and electrically connected to the electric component; a second electronic component fixed on the first face with a first adhesion portion therebetween; a second base including second substrate in which the second electronic component is embedded and second electrode exposed at a first face of the second substrate; a second adhesion portion arranged between the first and second bases; a third base including third substrate and third electrode exposed at a first face of the third substrate; and a third adhesion portion arranged between the second and third bases. The first, second and third electrodes are electrically connected to the second electronic component, and the second electronic component is surrounded, at least, by the first and third adhesion portions. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132474 | ANTENNA - An antenna ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140132471 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND ANTENNA MOUNTING METHOD - An antenna device ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140131456 | ANTENNA AND WIRELESS TAG - A notch antenna ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140131455 | ANTENNA AND WIRELESS TAG - An antenna ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140131073 | MULTI-LAYER WIRING BOARD - A multi-layer wiring board includes a resin base, a wiring pattern, an adhesive layer, and a via. The wiring pattern includes a land provided on the resin base. The adhesive layer is stacked on the resin base. The via is formed in the adhesive layer and has an end connected to the land. At least a portion of a side surface of the land contacts the via. | 05-15-2014 |
20140112631 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON, AND OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON MANUFACTURED BY THE MANUFACTURING METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to suppress a coating resin from being shaved off in an event where optical fibers are sent out from a coating dice. When a Young's modulus of ultraviolet curable resins | 04-24-2014 |
20140110165 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE OF BRAIDED WIRE AND TERMINAL PROCESSING METHOD FOR BRAIDED WIRE - In a terminal structure of a braided wire, in which a terminal of the braided wire ( | 04-24-2014 |
20140109969 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first electrode; a second electrode that faces the first electrode; an electrolyte that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an annular encapsulation unit that surrounds the electrolyte together with the first electrode and the second electrode, and connects the first electrode and the second electrode. In the dye-sensitized solar cell, the sealing portion has a resin sealing section formed of a resin. At least one interface of a first interface between the first electrode and the sealing portion, and a second interface between the second electrode and the sealing portion, constitutes a wide width section having the broadest sealing width among the sealing widths of the sealing portion, and the sealing portion has a narrow width section having a narrower sealing width than the wide width section. | 04-24-2014 |
20140107421 | LIGHTING STRUCTURE AND ENDOSCOPE - A lighting structure includes: an optical transmission medium that transmits pumping light and image light; an objective optical system that is disposed at a distal-end portion of the optical transmission medium; a wavelength conversion unit comprising a fluorescent body that receives the pumping light transmitted through the optical transmission medium and irradiates an object with illuminating light; and a wavelength-selective reflective unit that selectively reflects one of a wavelength of the pumping light and a wavelength of the image light, thereby emits pumping light that is incident thereto through the optical transmission medium into the fluorescent body and emits image light that is incident from the object into the optical transmission medium through the objective optical system. | 04-17-2014 |