Patents by Inventor Mitsujiro Konnno

Mitsujiro Konnno 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).

  • IMAGE PICKUP MODULE, MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLING METHODS OF THE SAME, ENDOSCOPE AND CAPSULE TYPE ENDOSCOPE USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090225157
    Abstract: An image pickup module comprises a lens assembly including a lens having a flange part, and a frame component for shading a circumferential surface excluding a neighborhood of a top portion of the flange part in the lens; an image pickup element which the top portion of the flange part touches; and an illumination element arranged around said lens assembly and said image pickup element. It is constituted so that exit light from a luminescence surface of said illumination element may not reach directly to an exposed portion which is not shaded by said frame component of the flange part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Orihara, Mitsujiro Konnno, Hitoshi Fukuhori