Patents by Inventor Takashi Hatanaka

Takashi Hatanaka 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: 20230341708
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD., THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chi Ho TO, Siu Yin LAM, Takashi HATANAKA, Yasutake MASUDA
  • Patent number: 11726348
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Ho To, Siu Yin Lam, Takashi Hatanaka, Yasutake Masuda
  • Publication number: 20220317477
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Chi Ho TO, Siu Yin LAM, Takashi HATANAKA, Yasutake MASUDA
  • Patent number: 11397335
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD., THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chi Ho To, Siu Yin Lam, Takashi Hatanaka, Yasutake Masuda
  • Patent number: 11391968
    Abstract: A spectacle lens including a prism prescription that has an eyeball-side optical surface. When one side is the same side as a prism base direction (nose side) and the other side is an opposite side of the prism base direction with a direction orthogonal to the prism base direction passing through a prism measurement reference point as a boundary, a minimum value of a curvature of the eyeball-side optical surface is on the same side as the prism base direction (nose side). Since a mean curvature becomes smaller in the prism base direction than a mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point and becomes larger in the opposite direction than the mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point across the prism measurement reference point, deviation in line of sight between right and left eyes is resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Patent number: 11391966
    Abstract: In a spectacle lens added with prism thinning, a spherical refractive power of a first refractive portion is positive, and a prism base direction of a prism provided at a prism measurement reference point is set toward a second refractive portion side; a mean value of a difference of a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction passing through a midpoint of a connecting line between two alignment reference marks and orthogonal to the connecting line with respect to a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction of a lens without prism is smaller in a first-refractive-portion-side region from a fitting point than that in a second-refractive-portion-side region from the fitting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Tomohiro Odaira
  • Patent number: 11320671
    Abstract: A method for designing, by means of a computer, at least one surface of a lens for a user. The method includes the steps of (i) obtaining displacement information on an amount of displacement between a user specific fitting position and a reference position, the reference position representing a primary fitting point of a lens surface on a reference line of sight of an eye of the user, and the user specific fitting position representing a user specific fitting point of the lens surface determined on the basis of the user; and (ii) causing calculating a design of the at least one surface of the lens on the basis of said displacement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Misaki Hatsuda, Naoya Hirono
  • Patent number: 11307437
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for customizing and personalizing eyewear. The methods and system consider optimal parameters for each wearer's personal visual situation and configures frames around them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Materialise NV
    Inventors: Alireza Parandian, Tom Cluckers, Jan Maes, Takashi Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 11029540
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD., THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chi Ho To, Siu Yin Lam, Takashi Hatanaka, Yasutake Masuda
  • Publication number: 20210138634
    Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a base having an axis, a movable portion movable along the axis so as to pick a workpiece in a first working region and place the workpiece in a second working region, and first, second and third arms arranged around the axis to form first, second, and third angles between the first, second and third arms. Each of the arms connects the base and the movable part to move the movable part along the axis. The third angle is less than 120 degrees. The first angle and the second angle are equal. The first and third arms are positioned on a side of the first working region with respect to the axis. The second arm is positioned on a side of the second working region with respect to the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Shigeo MATSUSHITA, Takashi HATANAKA
  • Patent number: 10919147
    Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a base, a movable part, link mechanisms, and actuators. The movable part is movable along a center axis. The first, second and third link mechanisms are provided around the center axis with angular intervals in a circumferential direction around the center axis to project outwardly along a radial direction with respect to the center axis. Each of the first, second and third link mechanisms connects the base and the movable part to move the movable part along the center axis. The angular intervals have an acute angular interval with an acute angle. The first, second and third actuators are provided at the base to be connected to the first, second and third link mechanisms respectively so as to drive the first, second and third link mechanisms respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Shigeo Matsushita, Takashi Hatanaka
  • Publication number: 20200159044
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Chi Ho TO, Siu Yin LAM, Takashi HATANAKA, Yasutake MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20190324291
    Abstract: A method for designing, by means of a computer, at least one surface of a lens for a user. The method includes the steps of (i) obtaining displacement information on an amount of displacement between a user specific fitting position and a reference position, the reference position representing a primary fitting point of a lens surface on a reference line of sight of an eye of the user, and the user specific fitting position representing a user specific fitting point of the lens surface determined on the basis of the user; and (ii) causing calculating a design of the at least one surface of the lens on the basis of said displacement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HATANAKA, Misaki HATSUDA, Naoya HIRONO
  • Publication number: 20190302483
    Abstract: A spectacle lens including a prism prescription that has an eyeball-side optical surface. When one side is the same side as a prism base direction (nose side) and the other side is an opposite side of the prism base direction with a direction orthogonal to the prism base direction passing through a prism measurement reference point as a boundary, a minimum value of a curvature of the eyeball-side optical surface is on the same side as the prism base direction (nose side). Since a mean curvature becomes smaller in the prism base direction than a mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point and becomes larger in the opposite direction than the mean curvature of the prism measurement reference point across the prism measurement reference point, deviation in line of sight between right and left eyes is resolved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HATANAKA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20190302480
    Abstract: In a spectacle lens added with prism thinning, a spherical refractive power of a first refractive portion is positive, and a prism base direction of a prism provided at a prism measurement reference point is set toward a second refractive portion side; a mean value of a difference of a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction passing through a midpoint of a connecting line between two alignment reference marks and orthogonal to the connecting line with respect to a mean curvature in a lens curved surface along a direction of a lens without prism is smaller in a first-refractive-portion-side region from a fitting point than that in a second-refractive-portion-side region from the fitting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HATANAKA, Tomohiro ODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20190275669
    Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a base, a movable part, link mechanisms, and actuators. The movable part is movable along a center axis. The first, second and third link mechanisms are provided around the center axis with angular intervals in a circumferential direction around the center axis to project outwardly along a radial direction with respect to the center axis. Each of the first, second and third link mechanisms connects the base and the movable part to move the movable part along the center axis. The angular intervals have an acute angular interval with an acute angle. The first, second and third actuators are provided at the base to be connected to the first, second and third link mechanisms respectively so as to drive the first, second and third link mechanisms respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Shigeo MATSUSHITA, Takashi HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190212580
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Chi Ho TO, Siu Yin LAM, Takashi HATANAKA, Yasutake MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20190146243
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for customizing and personalizing eyewear. The methods and system consider optimal parameters for each wearer's personal visual situation and configures frames around them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Alireza PARANDIAN, Tom CLUCKERS, Jan MAES, Takashi HATANAKA
  • Patent number: 10268050
    Abstract: A spectacle lens can inhibit ametropia of the eyes and ensure full visibility. The spectacle lens comprises: first refraction areas and second refraction areas. Each first refraction area has a first refraction force that may be based on a prescription for correcting the ametropia of the eyes. Each second refraction area has a refraction force different from the first refraction force and may function to focus images on the positions except the retina of the eyes, to inhibit the development of the ametropia. Near the central part of the lens, the second refraction areas form a plurality of independent island-shaped areas, and the first refraction areas form the areas beyond the areas of the second refraction areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD., THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chi Ho To, Siu Yin Lam, Takashi Hatanaka, Yasutake Masuda
  • Patent number: 9921418
    Abstract: An aligning prism amount determination device to determine an aligning prism amount for correcting fixation disparity of a spectacle wearer, having the fixation disparity, includes a determiner to determine an aligning prism amount to be uniformly included in the spectacle lens for correcting the fixation disparity, based on a first aligning prism amount obtained by measuring an aligning prism amount of the spectacle wearer at an eye examination distance corresponding to a first distance, a second aligning prism amount obtained by measurement at an eye examination distance corresponding to a second distance shorter than the first distance, and information used for allocation of the first aligning prism amount and the second aligning prism amount, within a prism prescription range between the first aligning prism amount and the second aligning prism amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: HOY A LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hatanaka