Patents by Inventor Akitoshi Usui

Akitoshi Usui has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220107484
    Abstract: A projection zoom lens is configured by a first group having a negative refractive force, a second group having a positive refractive force, a third group having a positive refractive force, an aperture diaphragm, a fourth group having a positive refractive force, and a fifth group having a positive refractive force. The groups are arranged in aforementioned order from an enlarged-side to a reduced-side in the projection zoom lens, wherein the reduced-side is telecentric, wherein the first group is configured by a first sub-lens group having a positive or a negative refractive force, a second sub-lens group having a negative refractive force, and a third sub-lens group having a negative refractive force, wherein the sub-lens groups are arranged sequentially from the enlarged-side to form a focusing group, wherein the second group to the fifth group constitute a zooming group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: RICOH INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Akitoshi USUI
  • Patent number: 10209494
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes a positive or negative first lens group including a negative lens element closest to the object, a diaphragm, and a positive second lens group. The negative lens element closest to the object has an object-side aspherical surface including a paraxial convex surface, a paraxial curvature that is the greatest within the effective aperture, and a portion within the effective aperture having a curvature less than ½ of the paraxial curvature. These conditions are satisfied: R1/f<1.35 D1/f>0.4 ?2.5<f1/f<?1.3 V>56 “f” designates the overall focal length; f1, R1 and D1 respectively designate the focal length, paraxial radius of curvature of an object-side surface, and thickness, of the negative lens element closest to the object; and V designates the Abbe number regarding the d-line of a lens element, within the second lens group, closest to the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Usui, Yutaka Takakubo
  • Publication number: 20180364452
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes a positive or negative first lens group including a negative lens element closest to the object, a diaphragm, and a positive second lens group. The negative lens element closest to the object has an object-side aspherical surface including a paraxial convex surface, a paraxial curvature that is the greatest within the effective aperture, and a portion within the effective aperture having a curvature less than ½ of the paraxial curvature. These conditions are satisfied: R1/f<1.35 D1/f>0.4 ?2.5<f1/f<?1.3 V>56 “f” designates the overall focal length; f1, R1 and D1 respectively designate the focal length, paraxial radius of curvature of an object-side surface, and thickness, of the negative lens element closest to the object; and V designates the Abbe number regarding the d-line of a lens element, within the second lens group, closest to the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi USUI, Yutaka TAKAKUBO
  • Patent number: 10082648
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes a positive or negative first lens group including a negative lens element closest to the object, a diaphragm, and a positive second lens group. The negative lens element closest to the object has an object-side aspherical surface including a paraxial convex surface, a paraxial curvature that is the greatest within the effective aperture, and a portion within the effective aperture having a curvature less than ½ of the paraxial curvature. These conditions are satisfied: R1/f<1.35 D1/f>0.4 ?2.5<f1/f<?1.3 V>56 “f” designates the overall focal length; f1, R1 and D1 respectively designate the focal length, paraxial radius of curvature of an object-side surface, and thickness, of the negative lens element closest to the object; and V designates the Abbe number regarding the d-line of a lens element, within the second lens group, closest to the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Usui, Yutaka Takakubo
  • Publication number: 20170269334
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes a positive or negative first lens group including a negative lens element closest to the object, a diaphragm, and a positive second lens group. The negative lens element closest to the object has an object-side aspherical surface including a paraxial convex surface, a paraxial curvature that is the greatest within the effective aperture, and a portion within the effective aperture having a curvature less than ½ of the paraxial curvature. These conditions are satisfied: R1/f<1.35 D1/f>0.4 ?2.5<f1/f<?1.3 V>56 “f” designates the overall focal length; f1, R1 and D1 respectively designate the focal length, paraxial radius of curvature of an object-side surface, and thickness, of the negative lens element closest to the object; and V designates the Abbe number regarding the d-line of a lens element, within the second lens group, closest to the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi USUI, Yutaka TAKAKUBO
  • Publication number: 20160209624
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, at the vicinity of the optical axis, a positive first lens element having an object-side convex surface, a negative second lens element having an object-side concave surface, a positive third lens element having an image-side convex surface, and a fourth lens element having an image-side concave surface. The fourth lens element is provided with aspherical surfaces on both sides such that a combined refractive power thereof has an increasingly weaker negative refractive power toward the outer periphery thereof. The following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 38<?d1??d2<80??(1), and ?1.2<r3/f<?0.6??(2), wherein ?d1 and ?d2 designate the Abbe numbers at the d-line of the first and second lens elements, respectively, r3 designates the radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the second lens element, and f designates the focal length of the imaging optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akitoshi USUI
  • Publication number: 20080027865
    Abstract: An individual identifying/attribute authenticating system includes a portable terminal possessed by a buyer of a good or service and an authenticating terminal set at a seller of the good or service. The portable terminal includes at least a component that generates an electronic signature by using a signature key and a component that transmits an electronic certificate and the electronic signature to the authenticating terminal. The authenticating terminal includes at least a component that judges whether or not the electronic signature is legitimate, a component that acquires an attribute information listed in the electronic certificate, in a case in which the electronic signature is legitimate, and a component that judges whether or not the attribute information satisfies a sales restricting condition of the good or service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicants: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD., EBANK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Usui, Daisuke Ogawa, Masahiro Sato, Taiichi Matsuo, Yoshiharu Araki, Toshiyuki Maeda