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公开(公告)号:US20240181099A1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-06
申请号:US18279424
申请日:2021-03-03
Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Inventor: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Satoshi Narikawa , Ayako IWAKI , Takahito KIRIHARA , Kazuhide Nakajima , Takashi Matsui , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato Fukai
CPC classification number: A61L2/10 , A61L2/26 , G02B6/4204 , G02B6/4249 , A61L2202/11
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and an ultraviolet light irradiation method, each of which is capable of reducing deterioration over time of transmission loss characteristics of an optical fiber due to ultraviolet rays and preventing a decrease in ultraviolet ray irradiation power.
An ultraviolet light irradiation system 301 according to the present invention includes: an ultraviolet light source unit 11 configured to generate ultraviolet rays; and N irradiation units 13 each configured to irradiate a desired location Ar with ultraviolet rays, N being a natural number, wherein a propagation section 50 and a supply section 51 are provided between the ultraviolet light source unit 11 and the irradiation units 13, the ultraviolet ray generated by the ultraviolet light source unit 11 is propagated by space-division multiplexing in the propagation section 50, and the ultraviolet rays subjected to space-division multiplexing in the propagation section 50 are multiplexed and propagated to the irradiation units 13 through a single-core optical fiber in the supply section 51.-
公开(公告)号:US20230324604A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-12
申请号:US18024559
申请日:2020-09-09
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Ryota IMADA , Yoko YAMASHITA , Takashi MATSUI , Taiji SAKAMOTO , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Noriyuki ARAKI , Shinichi AOZASA , Yuto SAGAE , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA
IPC: G02B6/02
CPC classification number: G02B6/02095
Abstract: Provided are an LPFG and an optical transmission system in which a mode conversion amount does not depend on a polarization state and an electric field distribution. The LPFG according to the present invention includes cavity rows (25-1 and 25-2) of cavities 15 periodically arranged in a core region 11 of the few-mode fiber 10 at a position away from a central axis z of the core region 11 in parallel with the central axis z. Each of the cavity rows (25-1 and 25-2) is located at a different position in a longitudinal direction of the few-mode fiber 10 (where the position in a z direction is different), and the cavity rows (25-1 and 25-2) are located at positions shifted by 90° on a cross section of the core region 11 with the center of the cross section of the core region 11 (the intersection of an x-axis and a y-axis) as an origin.
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公开(公告)号:US20230310674A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-05
申请号:US18015685
申请日:2020-11-02
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Ayako IWAKI , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Takashi MATSUI , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI , Kazutaka HARA , Atsuko KAWAKITA
CPC classification number: A61L2/10 , A61L2/24 , G02F1/37 , A61L2202/11
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light irradiation system capable of securing economic efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and safety, and further capable of reducing a transmission loss between a center side and a remote side.
The present light irradiation system can secure economic efficiency by sharing a single light source installed on the center side with a plurality of irradiation places. The present light irradiation system can irradiate a place to be sterilized with ultraviolet light output by moving the optical fiber tip end on the remote side in a pinpoint manner, and can also secure flexibility. In addition, the present light irradiation system can secure reliability and safety by performing output control of the light source on the center side. Furthermore, in the present light irradiation system, light in a low-loss wavelength region is transmitted from the center side through the optical fiber, wavelength conversion is performed on the remote side, and thus the transmission loss between the center side and the remote side can be reduced.-
公开(公告)号:US20220334307A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-20
申请号:US17641061
申请日:2019-09-18
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Saki NOZOE , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Yuto SAGAE , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Kyozo TSUJIKAWA
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an HAF having a structure in which the number of air holes is decreased to be smaller than that of a PCF and Rayleigh scattering loss may be more reduced than that in the existing HAF. The HAF according to the present invention includes a core portion having a uniform optical refractive index; a cladding portion having a uniform optical refractive index and surrounding the core portion; and a plurality of air holes arranged in two layers at positions configuring hexagonal closest packing excluding the core portion within the cladding portion along a longitudinal direction of the hole-assisted fiber, wherein a center-to-center spacing of the air holes is a sum of a radius Rin of an inscribed circle inscribed in the air holes in an inner layer and a radius d/2 of the air hole, and a radius “a” of the core portion and a relative refractive index difference Δ between the core portion and the cladding portion are present within a range where Rn, which is a ratio of a Rayleigh scattering coefficient Rsmf of a single mode optical fiber and an effective Rayleigh scattering coefficient Reff of the hole-assisted fiber, is equal to or less than 0.92.
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公开(公告)号:US20240390535A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-28
申请号:US18695575
申请日:2021-09-30
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Asuka MIYAKE , Hitoshi SESHIMO , Ryuji YAMAMOTO , Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Ayako IWAKI , Satoshi NARIKAWA , Takahito KIRIHARA , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Takashi MATSUI , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI , Nobutomo HANZAWA
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation sheet that can be decontaminated regardless of a shape of an object to be decontaminated. An ultraviolet light irradiation sheet (50) includes an optical fiber (20) which emits a part of propagating light from a side surface or an end surface; and a deformable sheet (10) which incorporates the optical fiber (20). The ultraviolet light irradiation sheet uniformly or partially irradiates ultraviolet light from a sheet surface. Therefore, by covering the object to be sterilized with the ultraviolet light irradiation sheet, a material having a complicated shape or an amorphous shape can be irradiated with the ultraviolet light without making a shade. Since the ultraviolet light irradiation sheet does not diffuse bacteria and viruses by wind, the sterilization of the object to be sterilized can be performed without forming a closed space.
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公开(公告)号:US20240378937A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-14
申请号:US18689034
申请日:2021-09-24
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Asuka MIYAKE , Hitoshi SESHIMO , Ryuji YAMAMOTO , Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Ayako IWAKI , Satoshi NARIKAWA , Takahito KIRIHARA , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Takashi MATSUI , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI , Nobutomo HANZAWA
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote disinfection system configured to disinfect banknotes in a general-purpose banknote handling device without making a significant change in the structure of the general-purpose device.
The banknote disinfection system 300 includes a conveyance mechanism configured to convey a banknote 50 using a plurality of rollers 12 and an optical fiber 20 configured to emit ultraviolet light to a surface of the banknote 50 conveyed by the conveyance mechanism. An optical fiber is thin, has many length options, and is flexible. With these features of the optical fiber, the optical fiber can be routed inside of, for example, an automatic teller machine to irradiate the banknotes moving inside the device with ultraviolet light.-
公开(公告)号:US20240216559A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-04
申请号:US18562769
申请日:2021-06-04
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Satoshi NARIKAWA , Ayako IWAKI , Takahito KIRIHARA , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Takashi MATSUI , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI
CPC classification number: A61L2/10 , A61L2/26 , A61L9/20 , A61L2202/11
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and an ultraviolet light irradiation method having a P-MP configuration capable of obtaining a predetermined effect such as sterilization.
An ultraviolet light irradiation system 301 according to the present invention includes an ultraviolet light source unit 11 that generates ultraviolet light, N (N is a natural number) irradiation units 13 that irradiate a desired site (irradiation target region ste) with the ultraviolet light, an optical switch 12 that switches the ultraviolet light to each of paths 14 to the irradiation units 13, and a switching control unit 15 that controls a switching operation of the optical switch 12 so as to give an opportunity to be supplied with an integrated light amount per unit time equal for each of the paths 14 on the basis of a transmission loss of the ultraviolet light for each of the paths 14 and an irradiation area where the irradiation unit 13 irradiates the ultraviolet light.-
公开(公告)号:US20240157003A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-16
申请号:US18282197
申请日:2021-04-05
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Ayako IWAKI , Takahito KIRIHARA , Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Satoshi NARIKAWA , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Takashi MATSUI , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI
CPC classification number: A61L2/10 , A61L2/24 , A61L2/26 , A61L2202/11 , A61L2202/14
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and an ultraviolet light irradiation method which can perceive a state of a region where ultraviolet light is irradiated to output/block the ultraviolet light.
An ultraviolet light irradiation system 301 according to the present invention includes an ultraviolet light source unit 11 that produces ultraviolet light,
an N (N is a natural number) irradiation unit 13 that irradiates an irradiation target region Ar with the ultraviolet light, a sensor unit 31 that detects whether or not an object that should avoid exposure is present in the irradiation target region Ar, and a blocking unit 30 that stops, in a case where the object that should avoid exposure is present in the irradiation target region Ar, irradiation of the ultraviolet light from the irradiation unit 13 to the irradiation target region Ar.-
公开(公告)号:US20230408761A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-21
申请号:US18032767
申请日:2020-10-22
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Ayako IWAKI , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Takashi MATSUI , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI
CPC classification number: G02B6/04 , A61L2202/11 , A61L2/10
Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to alleviate deterioration of transmission characteristics of a fiber due to transmission of ultraviolet light, and to eliminate complication of operation due to frequent replacement of an optical fiber in which deterioration has occurred.
The present disclosure is an ultraviolet light irradiation system including: an optical transmission unit that propagates ultraviolet light using a plurality of optical transmission lines; an ultraviolet light source unit that inputs ultraviolet light to each of the optical transmission lines with arbitrary power; and an irradiation unit that irradiates a target location with the ultraviolet light propagated through the plurality of optical transmission lines.-
公开(公告)号:US20230336338A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US18009399
申请日:2020-06-11
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Yuto SAGAE , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Taiji SAKAMOTO , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Takashi MATSUI , Noriyuki ARAKI , Shinichi AOZASA , Ryota IMADA , Yoko YAMASHITA
Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to reduce the risk of information exploitation by a malicious third party while allowing communication data to be demodulated in real time. An optical transmission system according to the present disclosure includes a transmitter which transmits an optical signal representing a cryptographic key and an optical signal representing communication data individually, an optical transmission path including a heterogeneous multi-core optical fiber having multiple cores, at least one of which has a different propagation delay time, the optical transmission path transmitting the optical signal representing the cryptographic key using a first core with a smaller delay among the multiple cores and the optical signal representing the communication data using a second core with a greater delay than the first core, and a receiver which individually receives the optical signals representing the cryptographic key and the communication data output from the individual cores of the optical transmission path and demodulates the received communication data on the basis of the received cryptographic key information.
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