Patents by Inventor Yosuke Kanzaki

Yosuke Kanzaki 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).

  • Patent number: 11808921
    Abstract: Provided is a wide-angle lens, including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a diaphragm, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, sequentially arranged from an object side. An object-to-image distance of the wide-angle lens is set to d, an entrance pupil diameter of the wide-angle lens is set to HEP, and d/HEP<29.000 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Kanzaki, Tadashi Komiyama
  • Patent number: 11796767
    Abstract: Provided is a wide-angle lens, including a lens group and a diaphragm. Lenses in the lens group are sequentially arranged from an object side in a manner sandwiching the diaphragm. A maximum half field of view of the wide-angle lens as a whole is set to ?, 98°<?<120° is satisfied. An effective focal length and an entrance pupil diameter of the wide-angle lens as a whole are set to f and HEP respectively, f/HEP<2.3 is satisfied. The lens group includes a first lens that is located closest to the object side and that is a negative lens with a concave surface facing an image side. An effective radius and a radius of curvature of an image side lens surface of the first lens are set to sd12 and R12 respectively, 0.890<sd12/R12<0.970 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Komiyama, Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11789240
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens is provided. The wide-angle lens includes, sequentially arranged from an object side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a diaphragm, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an imaging element. The first lens is a negative lens with a convex spherical surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is a negative lens with a concave surface facing the image side. A combined effective focal length of the first lens and the second lens is set to f12 and a maximum image height is set to HOI, ?1.000<f12/HOI<?0.400 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Komiyama, Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11630286
    Abstract: A cemented lens may include a first lens and a second lens connected via an adhesive layer. The first lens may include a convex surface facing toward the second lens, and a first flange surrounding an outer circumference of the convex surface. The second lens may include a concave surface connected to the convex surface, and a second flange surrounding an outer circumference of the concave surface. One of the first and second flange may include a projection protruding toward an other of the first and second flange. The other of the first and second flange may include an opposed portion opposed to a side surface of the projection Ga is a distance between the convex surface and the concave surface, and Gb is a distance between the side surface and the opposed portion, and the following expression: Gb<Ga may be satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11579420
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens includes a front group, an aperture, a rear group, and an infrared cut filter. The front group includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in order from a side closest to an object to an image side. In the wide-angle lens, an anti-reflection layer having a reflectance of 1.5% or less in a wavelength range from nm to 850 nm is provided on a lens surface of the first lens on the image side to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by light passing through a peripheral portion of the lens surface. Therefore, even if a film forming the anti-reflection layer is thinner than an appropriate value at the peripheral portion of the lens surface, the anti-reflection layer appropriately prevents reflection of light in a long wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11567306
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens (100) includes a front group (110), an aperture (80), and a rear group (120). The front group (110) includes a first lens (10) and a second lens (20) arranged from a side (La) closest to an object to an image side (Lb). In such a wide-angle lens, to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by multiple reflection between a lens surface (102) of the first lens (10) on the image side (Lb) and a lens surface (21) of the second lens (20) on the object side (La), the sag amount Sag21 (mm) and the diameter D21 (mm) of the lens surface (21) satisfy the following conditional expression: 0<|Sag21/(D21/2)|<0.125.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11561380
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens (100) includes a front group (110), an aperture (80), and a rear group (120). The front group (110) includes a first lens (10), a second lens (20), and a third lens (30) arranged in order from a side (La) closest to an object to an image side (Lb). In such a wide-angle lens, to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by multiple reflection between a lens surface (22) of the second lens (20) on the image side (Lb) and a lens surface (31) of the third lens (30) on the object side (La), the sag amount Sag31 (mm) and the diameter D31 (mm) of the lens surface (31) satisfy the following conditional expression: 0<1Sag31/(D31/2)<0.125.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20220260812
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wide-angle lens capable of obtaining a suitable negative power even when a thickness of a first lens is increased in order to increase strength against impact. The wide-angle lens 100 has a front group 110, an aperture 80, and a rear group 120. Assuming that a central thickness in an optical axis direction of a first lens 10 is T1 (mm) and a focal length of the entire lens system is f0 (mm), the following conditional expression: 1.500?T1/f0?2.000??Conditional expression (1) is satisfied. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the first lens 10 from being damaged by impact. In addition, it is possible to prevent the first lens 10 from becoming too thick to obtain suitable negative power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Patent number: 11407188
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a plastic lens formed by using a metal mold having a fixed mold and a movable mold. The plastic lens comprises a flange part surrounding a lens face, and an image side face of the flange part comprises a black coating part and an outer peripheral part. The manufacturing method may include a molding process in which the plastic lens is molded by using the fixed mold for molding an object side lens face and the movable mold for molding an image side lens face and the flange part, a mold opening process in which the metal mold is opened by moving the movable mold, and a pushing-out process in which the outer peripheral part is pushed out by an ejector pin disposed in the movable mold when the mold opening process is performed or, after the mold opening process has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20220171151
    Abstract: Provided is a lens unit capable of maintaining suitable image formation characteristics even with changes in temperature. The fourth lens outer peripheral face of a fourth lens is not in contact with the inner peripheral face of a second accommodation part. A fifth lens is made of glass, is press fitted and fixed to a resin-made lens holder to form an integrated fifth lens body, and is housed in a lens-barrel. A stepped part formed to engage with a stepped part in the fourth lens is provided in the lens holder outside the fifth lens on the object side of the fifth lens body. A fifth lens body outer peripheral face that is an outermost peripheral face of the fifth lens body comes in contact with the inner peripheral face of the second accommodation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke KANZAKI, Toshio SHIROTORI, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11249274
    Abstract: Provided is a lens unit. A second lens is provided with a flange surface section that surrounds a lens surface. An image-side flange surface has an image-side flange surface inner-circumferential section which is shaped like a ring-shaped groove, and also has a ring-shaped image-side flange surface outer-circumferential section formed to the outside of the inner-circumferential section. The image-side flange surface inner-outer circumferential section is coated with black ink. The image-side flange surface outer-circumferential section is provided with boss-shaped positioning surface at six equidistant locations along the outer circumference. Ejector pin contact sections are formed between adjacent positioning surface, and said contact sections contact the ejector pins at the time of separation from the mold during resin molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11119293
    Abstract: An imaging lens system may include a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a diaphragm; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; and a seventh lens. The first lens may be a positive meniscus lens. The second lens may be a negative meniscus lens. The third lens may be a meniscus lens comprising. The fourth lens may be a positive lens. The fifth lens may be a positive lens. The sixth lens may be a negative lens comprising a sixth lens concave surface facing the image side. The seventh lens may be a positive lens comprising a seventh lens convex surface facing the object side. The fifth lens may be a glass lens. The second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh lenses may be plastic lenses. The sixth lens concave surface may be joined to the seventh lens convex surface with an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Komiyama, Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20210191088
    Abstract: Provided is a wide-angle lens, including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a diaphragm, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, sequentially arranged from an object side. An object-to-image distance of the wide-angle lens is set to d, an entrance pupil diameter of the wide-angle lens is set to HEP, and d/HEP<29.000 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke KANZAKI, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210191087
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens is provided. The wide-angle lens includes, sequentially arranged from an object side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a diaphragm, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an imaging element. The first lens is a negative lens with a convex spherical surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is a negative lens with a concave surface facing the image side. A combined effective focal length of the first lens and the second lens is set to f12 and a maximum image height is set to HOI, ?1.000<f12/HOI<?0.400 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi KOMIYAMA, Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210181485
    Abstract: Provided is a wide-angle lens, including a lens group and a diaphragm. Lenses in the lens group are sequentially arranged from an object side in a manner sandwiching the diaphragm. A maximum half field of view of the wide-angle lens as a whole is set to ?, 98°<?<120° is satisfied. An effective focal length and an entrance pupil diameter of the wide-angle lens as a whole are set to f and HEP respectively, f/HEP<2.3 is satisfied. The lens group includes a first lens that is located closest to the object side and that is a negative lens with a concave surface facing an image side. An effective radius and a radius of curvature of an image side lens surface of the first lens are set to sd12 and R12 respectively, 0.890<sd12/R12<0.970 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi KOMIYAMA, Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Patent number: 11016275
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens 100 includes a first lens 10, a second lens 20, a third lens 30, a diaphragm 72, a fourth lens 40, and a fifth lens 50. The first lens 10 is a negative meniscus lens whose lens surface on an image side Lb is a concave curved surface. The second lens 20 is a negative lens whose lens surface on the image side Lb is a concave curved surface and whose lens surface on the object side La is convex curved surface. The third lens 30 is a positive lens whose lens surface on the image side Lb is a convex curved surface. The fourth lens 40 is a negative lens whose lens surface on the image side Lb is a concave curved surface. The fifth lens 50 is a biconvex lens. A refractive index n1 of the first lens 10 satisfies a conditional expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20200371322
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens (100) includes a front group (110), an aperture (80), and a rear group (120). The front group (110) includes a first lens (10) and a second lens (20) arranged from a side (La) closest to an object to an image side (Lb). In such a wide-angle lens, to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by multiple reflection between a lens surface (102) of the first lens (10) on the image side (Lb) and a lens surface (21) of the second lens (20) on the object side (La), the sag amount Sag21 (mm) and the diameter D21 (mm) of the lens surface (21) satisfy the following conditional expression: 0<|Sag21/(D21/2)|<0.125.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200371321
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens includes a front group, an aperture, a rear group, and an infrared cut filter. The front group includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in order from a side closest to an object to an image side. In the wide-angle lens, an anti-reflection layer having a reflectance of 1.5% or less in a wavelength range from nm to 850 nm is provided on a lens surface of the first lens on the image side to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by light passing through a peripheral portion of the lens surface. Therefore, even if a film forming the anti-reflection layer is thinner than an appropriate value at the peripheral portion of the lens surface, the anti-reflection layer appropriately prevents reflection of light in a long wavelength range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200341244
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens (100) includes a front group (110), an aperture (80), and a rear group (120). The front group (110) includes a first lens (10), a second lens (20), and a third lens (30) arranged in order from a side (La) closest to an object to an image side (Lb). In such a wide-angle lens, to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by multiple reflection between a lens surface (22) of the second lens (20) on the image side (Lb) and a lens surface (31) of the third lens (30) on the object side (La), the sag amount Sag31 (mm) and the diameter D31 (mm) of the lens surface (31) satisfy the following conditional expression: 0<|Sag31/(D31/2)|<0.125.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200301092
    Abstract: A protrusion part which protrudes locally from the periphery of a fifth lens body toward an image side may be provided on an image side of the fifth lens body. On an object side of a cemented lens, a cemented lens upper surface abutting against the protrusion part on the outside of a lens surface may be provided. The protrusion part may be formed in number at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and the protrusion parts may be divided into seven protrusion part groups each including three protrusion parts in accordance with the protrusion amount to the image side. The protrusion part which actually abuts against the cemented lens upper surface may be selected from among the protrusion parts in accordance with the thickness of a fifth lens as actually measured, so that the interval between the fifth lens and the cemented lens may be of an appropriate value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Toshio SHIROTORI, Yosuke KANZAKI, Tadashi KOMIYAMA