Back to results
US 2022/0026247 A1Published application
Optical fiber sensing expansion apparatus and optical fiber sensing system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsYukihide YODA, Yoshiaki AONO
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An optical fiber sensing expansion apparatus (30) according to the present disclosure includes a sensor unit (32) storing a sensing optical fiber (33), a fixing unit for fixing the sensor unit (32) to a monitoring object (40), and a fiber connection unit (31) that is capable of connecting the sensing optical fiber (33) to an optical fiber (10), wherein the fiber connection unit (31) superimposes a detection result of the sensor unit (32) on an optical signal to be transmitted by the optical fiber (10).
Claims20
An optical fiber sensing expansion apparatus, comprising:
- a sensor unit configured to store a sensing optical fiber;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the sensor unit to a monitoring object;
- and
- a fiber connection unit configured to be capable of connecting the sensing optical fiber to an optical fiber, wherein
- the fiber connection unit superimposes a detection result of the sensor unit on an optical signal transmitted by the optical fiber.
2 more elements
An optical fiber sensing system, comprising:
- an optical fiber;
- a sensor unit configured to store a sensing optical fiber;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the sensor unit to a monitoring object;
- a fiber connection unit configured to be capable of connecting the sensing optical fiber to the optical fiber;
- and
- a detection unit, wherein
- the fiber connection unit superimposes a detection result of the sensor unit on an optical signal to be transmitted by the optical fiber, and
- the detection unit detects a pattern corresponding to the monitoring object based on the detection result of the sensor unit which is superimposed on the optical signal.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.