The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Other

Katsuki Suematsu

Masao Shinoda

Mitsuhiro Iwaya

Takashi Shigenaga

Hideki Miyazaki

Hiroshi Matsuura

Masato Shiino

Kengo Watanabe

Kazutaka Nara

Tsuyoshi Aoki

Takashi Shigematsu

Shigenori Aoki

Tsunetoshi Saito

Yasushi Kihara

Koichi Maeno

Kohei Kawasaki

Hidenobu Muranaka

Renichi Yuguchi

Kenji Suzuki

Takeshi Yagi

Hiroyuki Yamada

Takashi Watanabe

Yusuke Hirakawa

Takeo Shimizu

Takahiro Ueno

Shinji Nagasawa

Masaaki Takaya

Masahito Morimoto

Masayoshi Tsukamoto

Jun Yamakawa

Masayuki Ishiwa

Kouji Shibata

Kazuyou Mizuno

Takeshi Akutsu

Hiroshi Tajima

Mieko Konishi

Junya Hirano

Takuya Kido

Jun Hori

Atsushi Himura

The present disclosure relates to an optical connector includes at least one optical fiber; and a lens element including at least one lens that couples light to an end face of the optical fiber. The distance FLh between the end face of the optical fiber and a vertex of the lens is expressed by the sum of the distance FL from the vertex of the lens to the focal point F positioned in a back face direction of the lens and the length δ between the end face of the optical fiber and the focal point F, and the length δ is longer than 10 μm.

Optical connector and optical connector connection structure

A support information generating device includes a processor configured to: obtain first related information including a plurality of first captured images sequentially captured in chronological order, the plurality of first captured images being associated respectively with first captured position information indicating captured positions at which the first captured images are captured; analyze the plurality of first captured images; recognize a specific facility captured in at least one first captured image of the plurality of first captured images; determine a classification of the specific facility captured in the first captured image; generate first facility classification information indicating the classification; and generate support information including the first facility classification information and first facility position information associated with each other, the first facility position information indicating a position of the specific facility based on the first captured position information associated with the first captured image in which the specific facility is captured.

Support information generating device, support information generating system, support information generating method, and computer readable recording medium

A power transmission unit includes a second coil which contactlessly transmits power, a power reception unit includes a first coil that receives the power transmitted from the power transmission unit, and a medical instrument includes the power reception unit and is embedded in a body. The medical instrument includes a notification unit that is composed of a plurality of light emitting units that provides notification that a relative positional relationship between the power transmission unit and the power reception unit has reached a predetermined state by emitting light using the power received at the power reception unit when the predetermined state is reached by the movement of the power transmission unit. A soft unit into which an injection needle is inserted, the plurality of light emitting units being arranged so as to extend along an outer edge of the soft unit.

Medical device, extracorporeal unit, power transmission sheet, and medical instrument

An optical fiber is contacted by a first guide part on the inside of a bend. The first guide part is disposed apart from a region of a fixing member from which the optical fiber is drawn out. Specifically, a first non-contact part in which the optical fiber does not contact a guide member is provided between the first guide part and the drawn out part of the optical fiber from the fixing member. The optical fiber also contacts a second guide part on the outside of the bend. The second guide part is disposed apart from the first guide part, and a second non-contact part in which the optical fiber does not contact the guide member is also provided between the first guide part and the second guide part.

Optical-path-bending connector and optical-path-bending connector assembly

A return loss in an optical connector connection structure according to a lens scheme is reduced. An optical connector () according to this disclosure, includes: a plurality of optical fibers () arranged in an array; and a lens array plate () that includes a first principal surface () with a plurality of lenses () corresponding to the respective optical fibers being formed on this surface, and a second principal surface () joined to end faces () of the optical fibers so as to be opposed to the first principal surface and optically coupled to the optical fibers to which the respective lenses correspond, wherein at least one of the end faces of the optical fibers and the second principal surface is inclined from a plane () perpendicular to optical axes () of the optical fibers.

Optical connector, and optical connector connection structure

An optical fiber array according to one embodiment includes: an optical fiber; and a support member that supports the optical fiber. The support member comprises a mixture material of a base material and a solid material made of a material different from the base material, in which the base material contains at least either of thermoplastic resin or thermosetting resin, a light transmittance for at least one wavelength within a UV light wavelength range greater than or equal to 300 nm and less than or equal to 450 nm with respect to the support member having a thickness of 3 mm is 30% or greater, and an average light transmittance for a wavelength within a visible light wavelength range greater than or equal to 380 nm and less than or equal to 780 nm with respect to the support member having a thickness of 3 mm is 70% or less.

Optical fiber array

A plurality of holes are formed in a ferrule. The holes are at sites penetrated by the tips of optical fibers. An opening is formed in the upper surface of the ferrule and an internal housing section is exposed from the opening. The housing section is at a site at which an optical fiber holding member is housed. The optical fibers are held by the optical fiber holding member. The optical fibers are multi-core fibers. In other words, the optical fibers have a specified axis of symmetry in a cross-section vertical to the longitudinal direction of the optical fibers and have orientation relative to a rotation direction having the longitudinal direction as the axis thereof.

Multi-core connector, connector, and connector connection mechanism

A connector with built-in bent optical fibers includes an optical fiber array including a plurality of bent optical fibers each having a bent portion and a linear portion formed integrally with the bent portion, a ferrule having a plurality of positioning mechanisms that align end portions of the plurality of bent optical fibers, and a resin portion disposed at an outer periphery of the bent portion. The resin portion is filled in the ferrule. The bent portion has a bending angle of 85&#xb0;-150&#xb0;. When the bent portion of one bent optical fiber is divided into a plurality of regions along a longitudinal direction at 10&#xb0;, a variation in bend radius among the plurality of regions excluding regions corresponding to 10&#xb0; at both ends is 0.3 mm or less, an outer diameter of the bent portion of the bent optical fiber is smaller than an outer diameter of the linear portion.

Connector with built-in bent optical fibers and method for producing bent optical fibers

An optical connector includes an optical fiber, and a ferrule configured to hold the optical fiber, wherein the ferrule has a front part, a rear part, a deformable mechanism to connect between the front part and the rear part, and an opening to allow the optical fiber to bend along with displacement of the deformable mechanism, and wherein the deformable mechanism has a restrictor to restrict the displacement or deformation of the deformable mechanism, the restrictor being provided at least between the deformable mechanism and the front part or between the deformable mechanism and the rear part.

Optical connector

An optical connector includes a fiber holder with guide holes for guiding optical fibers, a space communicating with the guide holes and to accommodate the optical fibers, and a deformable member that forms at least a part of the fiber holder and causes the space to deform or displace to allow a part or all of the optical fibers to bend in the space.

Optical connector, optical fiber incorporating method, and electronic information equipment

A component for peeling the coating and breaking the optical fiber, which comprises the first member made of resin material including a groove portion enabling to receive a coated optical fiber, an optical fiber cutting blade and a coat removing blade integrally formed within the groove portion, and a breaking portion in an intermediate portion, and the second member made of resin material including a groove portion corresponding to the groove portion in the first member enabling to receive a coated optical fiber, a coat removing blade corresponding to the coat removing blade in the first member, and a breaking portion in an intermediate portion corresponding to the breaking portion in the first member.

Optical fiber cutting blade, optical fiber cutting device and method of cutting off the optical fiber, as well as component for peeling the coating and breaking the optical fiber and method of peeling the coating and breaking the optical fiber

Optical connector ferrule

An optical module including first and second lens housings that individually receive first and second lenses; first and second optical fiber housings that individually receive end portions of optical fibers; first and second guide pins for positioning the first and second lens housings and the first and second optical fiber housings, with the first and second lens housings abutted against each other at their inner end faces and disposed between the first and second optical fiber units so as to be abutted thereto; two first positioning members provided between the first optical fiber housing and the first lens and between the second optical fiber housing and the second lens, respectively; and a second positioning member disposed between the first and second lenses.

Optical module

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Tokyo, Japan

Katsuki Suematsu