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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:US20240369769A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-07
申请号:US18573170
申请日:2021-06-28
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Yoko YAMASHITA , Takayoshi MORI , Takashi MATSUI , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA
Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical side input/output circuit for allowing light for being input into or output from a side surface of an optical fiber with high efficiency.
The present disclosure is an optical side input/output circuit including: a tap unit in which a tap waveguide is formed for allowing light for propagation through a core of an optical fiber for being input into or output from a side surface of the optical fiber; and a refractive index matching unit, having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the tap waveguide, on the side surface of the optical fiber where the light is allowed for being input or output by the tap waveguide.-
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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公开(公告)号:US20230305223A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-28
申请号:US18019193
申请日:2020-08-05
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Yoko YAMASHITA , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Takashi MATSUI
CPC classification number: G02B6/0288 , G02B6/3825
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a simple method capable of reducing MDL after construction of a transmission path.
An optical connector 301 is an optical connector including a multimode optical fiber 11, in which a core 20 of the multimode optical fiber 11 includes a plurality of cavities 25 along a central axis. The optical connector 301 further includes a ferrule 12 surrounding the multimode optical fiber 11 and a connector plug 13 serving as a connection with another optical connector. The shape of the optical connector 13 is a shape of a generally used SC connector, FC connector, MT connector, or the like.-
公开(公告)号:US20230302173A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-28
申请号:US18032495
申请日:2020-10-21
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Ayako IWAKI , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Takashi MATSUI , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI
CPC classification number: A61L2/10 , A61L2/24 , A61L2202/11 , G02B6/4206
Abstract: In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and an ultraviolet light irradiation method with a few transmission losses in an optical fiber.
The ultraviolet light irradiation system 301 includes: a light source unit 11 for injecting transmission infrared light into an optical fiber 50, a wavelength conversion unit 12 for converting the transmission infrared light propagated through the optical fiber 50 into ultraviolet light, and an irradiation unit 13 for irradiating the ultraviolet light on a desired place. The light source unit 11 has a polarization scrambler 11b, and infrared light output from one infrared light source 11a is made to be transmission infrared light by the polarization scrambler 11b.-
公开(公告)号:US20230293741A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-21
申请号:US18018035
申请日:2020-10-21
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Takashi MATSUI , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA , Nobutomo HANZAWA , Yuto SAGAE , Chisato FUKAI , Ayako IWAKI , Tomohiro TANIGUCHI , Kazutaka HARA , Atsuko KAWAKITA
CPC classification number: A61L2/10 , A61L2/24 , A61L2/26 , G02B6/102 , A61L2202/11 , A61L2202/14
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and a decontamination method that are economical and easy to operate, and that can perform decontamination without any input from a user. In the present invention, an optical fiber or an optical waveguide that radiates ultraviolet light in a lateral direction, the optical fiber or the optical waveguide is built in a sheet shape, and irradiates a surface with the ultraviolet light. Specifically, a material in which a material having a high scattering coefficient is added to the optical fiber is used, a grating is formed in the optical fiber, the optical fiber is given a minute bending with a minute ruggedness, and an arbitrary bending is given on the optical fiber, or the like, thereby achieving side radiation. By such a feature, it has the effect that ultraviolet light decontamination can be performed at all times or at necessary timing for an object touched by an unspecified number of people.
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公开(公告)号:US20230176284A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-08
申请号:US17919327
申请日:2020-04-24
Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Inventor: Yoko YAMASHITA , Takashi MATSUI , Kazuhide NAKAJIMA
CPC classification number: G02B6/14 , G02B6/1228
Abstract: A mode loss difference compensator of the present disclosure includes a main waveguide configured to allow propagation of N or more modes (where N is an integer of 3 or more), a first auxiliary waveguide having, at one end thereof, a first coupling portion configured to mode-convert an LP0n mode (where n is an integer of 2 or more) propagating in the main waveguide into a fundamental mode in the first auxiliary waveguide and transfer the fundamental mode from the main waveguide to the first auxiliary waveguide and having, at the other end thereof, a second coupling portion configured to mode-convert the fundamental mode propagating in the first auxiliary waveguide into the LP0n mode (where n is an integer of 2 or more) in the main waveguide and transfer the LP0n mode from the first auxiliary waveguide to the main waveguide, and a second auxiliary waveguide having, at one end thereof, a third coupling portion configured to convert a higher-order mode, other than any LP0n mode (where n is an integer of 2 or more), propagating in the main waveguide into a fundamental mode in the second auxiliary waveguide and transfer the fundamental mode from the main waveguide to the second auxiliary waveguide and having, at the other end thereof, a terminal end portion configured to eliminate the fundamental mode propagating in the second auxiliary waveguide from the second auxiliary waveguide, wherein the main waveguide includes a loss imparting portion configured to impart a loss to a fundamental mode propagating in the main waveguide between the first and second coupling portions.
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