Patents Assigned to Moritex Corporation
  • Patent number: 7808541
    Abstract: To enable to display a scale indicative of a reference length on a screen of a display at an accurate length even when exchanging the lens in an image pickup apparatus to any lens. In a case of mounting an exchange lens (4F, 4Z) to an image pickup apparatus main body (3) and displaying an image of an object picked up by an image sensor (2) and a scale (5) indicative of a reference length in juxtaposition on a screen of a display (6), a previously measured optical magnification or an actual magnification is outputted from optical magnification outputting means (8) provided to the exchange lens (4F, 4Z) is outputted, an actual magnification on the screen of the display (6) is calculated based on the optical magnification, the size for the image sensor and the screen size, and the size of the scale on the screen is set based on the actual magnification and the reference length of the scale by a scale setting means (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Shikano, Naohiro Tsuda, Tatsuo Seki, Yasuhiko Fukunaga, Tomoki Nishiyama, Makoto Toyota
  • Publication number: 20080230479
    Abstract: A liquid chromatograph control apparatus for controlling the solvent mixing ratios of liquid chromatography, comprising a storage means for storing the correspondence relationship between the plural discrete Rf values obtained by thin layer chromatography performed on respective samples at a preset solvent mixing ratio and the appropriate sequences of solvent mixing ratios of liquid chromatography for the respective samples; an arithmetic means for obtaining, by interpolation, the appropriate sequence of solvent mixing ratios corresponding to any Rf value falling between the stored Rf values adjacent to each other; and an image processing means for imaging the thin layer plates obtained by performing thin layer chromatography, to obtain Rf values from the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: MORITEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Suzuki, Keisuke Abe
  • Publication number: 20080218604
    Abstract: To enable to display a scale indicative of a reference length on a screen of a display at an accurate length even when exchanging the lens in an image pickup apparatus to any lens. In a case of mounting an exchange lens (4F, 4Z) to an image pickup apparatus main body (3) and displaying an image of an object picked up by an image sensor (2) and a scale (5) indicative of a reference length in juxtaposition on a screen of a display (6), a previously measured optical magnification or an actual magnification is outputted from optical magnification outputting means (8) provided to the exchange lens (4F, 4Z) is outputted, an actual magnification on the screen of the display (6) is calculated based on the optical magnification, the size for the image sensor and the screen size, and the size of the scale on the screen is set based on the actual magnification and the reference length of the scale by a scale setting means (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: MORITEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Shikano, Naohiro Tsuda, Tatsuo Seki, Yasuhiko Fukunaga, Tomoki Nishiyama, Makoto Toyota
  • Patent number: 7369692
    Abstract: A skin observing apparatus capable of observing the skin texture, blotches caused from subcutaneous pigmentation and skin roughness caused from keratin abrasion by a single unit of image pick-up device without using a polarization plate for observing blotches or consumption articles such as a keratin sampling seal, the apparatus including an image pick-up head having an view hole to be in contact with a skin and, provided inside the image pick-up device, an image pick-up device for picking-up images of the skin through the view hole, and an illumination system comprising three systems, that is, a texture observing illumination system for irradiating a white light to the view hole along the image pick-up light axis (X), a keratin abrasion observing illumination system for irradiating a white light to the view hole from the lateral direction thereof, and a subcutaneous pigment observing illumination system for irradiating a UV-light to the view hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Shirai, Hiroshi Misawa, Tsuyoshi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20080055897
    Abstract: In a lighting apparatus for conducting product inspection by irradiation of LED light at an improved inspection accuracy, an LED light source device for scattering lights of a plurality types of LEDs of different emission wavelengths by a light guiding member and irradiating them from a light emitting surface in the direction of the lighting optical axis is attached to a casing having a light transmitting imaging section through which an imaging optical axis extends, the light guiding member has a plurality of light guiding plates with the light emitting surface being directed to the lighting optical axis, each of the light guiding plates is mounted with LEDs at a predetermined pitch on the plane perpendicular to the light emitting surface, such that the combination of the emission wavelengths is identical for each of the rows in the direction of the lighting optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: MORITEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yoshida, Masayuki Shimizu, Takashi Kusuhara
  • Patent number: 7332875
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus used by connecting an illumination head to a power source device, capable of supplying a rated current to individual light emitting devices of the illumination head by using a power source device of an identical rating irrespective of the specification of the illumination head, wherein the illumination head has a current detection resistor for detecting current flowing through the power supply circuit, and the resistance value of the resistor is selected so as to cause a voltage drop equal with a predetermined reference potential when a rated current is supplied to each of the light emitting devices, and the power source device is provided with a current controller for controlling the supplied current such that the potential for the voltage drop caused by the current detection resistor is equal with the reference potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Toyota, Shin Toyoda, Hitoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7284870
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus in which plural light emitting devices for illuminating light to an object to be illuminated from the periphery thereof are put to light control, and a control device is provided for controlling light to the light emitting devices on every segment divided isogonally with respect to the lighting center at which the light is focused by a control device, wherein the control device 6 comprises an illuminance distribution setter 7 that sets the illuminance on every segments S1 to S4 individually in accordance with the start position of a vector that represents the lighting direction to the lighting center F on the XY coordinate plane D with the lighting center F being as an origin P0, and a light controller 9 that reads out the illuminance on every segment from the illuminance distribution setter 7 in accordance with the input data from a two dimensional data input device 8 that sets the start position and controls the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Toyota, Tatsuo Seki, Yasuhiko Fukunaga, Shuji Shikano
  • Publication number: 20070212038
    Abstract: A face imaging device having an illumination light source for illuminating a visible light to a face is disposed in a casing having an opening formed at the front thereof for inserting the face as an object to be imaged. A light diffusion plate is disposed between the opening and the illumination light source for diffusing a light illuminated from the illumination light source to the front side of the face, and an imaging camera for imaging the face through a permeation hole formed in the light diffusion plate is located at the back thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: MORITEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Asai, Naoji Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 7259522
    Abstract: A current to light emitting devices when an application voltage is at or higher than the lower limit voltage for lighting determined by the arrangement of the light emitting devices, and an identification circuit that outputs a current identification signal in accordance with an appropriate current for the lighting circuit when the application voltage is lower than the lower limit value for lighting, and the power supply comprises a driving power supply that applies a lighting voltage at or higher than the lower limit voltage for lighting, an identification power supply that applies an identification voltage at or lower than the lower limit voltage for lighting, a current setter that sets an appropriate current to be supplied to the lighting circuit based on the current identification signal outputted from the identification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Toyota, Tatsuo Seki, Yasuhiko Fukunaga, Shuji Shikano
  • Patent number: 7221839
    Abstract: An optical fiber with a lens, obtained by fusion-coupling a multi-mode optical fiber to a tip of a single-mode optical fiber or polarization maintaining optical fiber, and working the tip of the multi-mode optical fiber, to form a spherical portion at the tip. In this case, the radius of curvature of the spherical portion is set to be larger than the maximum value of the expanded spot size. Furthermore, the length of the multi-mode optical fiber is set based on the correlation depending on said length and said radius of curvature for obtaining the minimum spot size at the focal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ohta, Tomotake Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7179227
    Abstract: A skin condition observation apparatus having a sebum amount measuring device adapted for bringing a sebum sampling surface into contact with skins and optically measuring the amount of deposited sebum, wherein the sebum amount measuring device comprises an orthogonal prism having two reflection surfaces orthogonal with each other in which one reflection surface is exposed as the sebum sampling surface, and a light emitting element for illuminating a light to one of the reflection surfaces and a photoreceiving element for detecting the intensity of a reflection light reflected on the two reflection surfaces and returned therefrom are located being opposed to the hypotenuse surface at the back of the orthogonal prism, with their optical axes being in parallel with each other, whereby the sebum amount measuring device of the skin condition observation apparatus can be manufactured with no requirement for glass fabrication at high accuracy, troublesome and delicate alignment for optical axes with respect to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Shirai
  • Patent number: 7151956
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus in which an imaging head having an observation hole for intaking images of an object to be observed formed at a top end is exchangeably mounted to a main body having an imaging device and an illumination light source wherein the imaging head is provided with a plurality of optical fibers for guiding a light from the illumination light source and illuminating the same to the object, light incident ends of respective optical fibers are disposed at positions opposing to emission ends of the illumination light source, and the light emission ends are circularly disposed around the image pick-up optical axis, whereby an appropriate illumination light in accordance with a magnifying ratio can be illuminated without disposing an illumination light source such as of LEDs to an imaging head such as an exchangeable lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Satoh, Makoto Toyota, Yasuo Shirai
  • Patent number: 7144130
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for illumination of light by emitting light from LED for each of RGB colors capable of optionally setting a color temperature and controlling the brightness after the setting while maintaining the color temperature as it is, in which a light control circuit supplies a light control voltage for variably controlling the light quantity of the illumination light equally to each color setting circuit connected with LED of each color which is lit by a light quantity in proportion with a driving current and a color temperature setter of the color temperature setting circuit adjusts the light control voltage by a predetermined ratio to a control voltage, and a constant current circuit outputs a driving current in accordance with the control voltage to each LED for each of RGB colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Toyota, Hitoshi Nakao, Yasuhiko Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20060251363
    Abstract: A lens cap having a lens formed in the window at its top portion, used for a semiconductor laser, etc., using an aspherical lens instead of a spherical lens with large aberration. This invention proposes a lens cap having an aperture formed at its top portion, comprising a lens formed to fill the aperture in such a manner as to bulge on both sides of the aperture and further to extend beyond the circumferential edge defining the aperture along the top portion on both sides of the top portion or under the top portion only, wherein the outer circumference of the portion extended under the top portion contacts the lateral inside wall and top inside wall of the cap member. So, this invention can provide a cheap lens cap with high performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: MORITEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Shikano, Takeshi Masujima, Hideyuki Takeda, Yoshio Tetsuka
  • Publication number: 20060240545
    Abstract: A flow cell having a first plate having a continuous groove formed as a passage on one surface of the plate and having gas/liquid inlet/outlet portions at both the ends of the continuous groove, and a second plate to be kept in contact with said one surface of the first plate, wherein at least either of the first and second plates allows light transmission; fixable reacting substances are fixed on the surface of the second plate, to be kept in contact with the first plate, at plural places corresponding to the continuous groove; and the first and second plates are kept in contact with each other to support each other, for establishing the passage of any one of liquid reacting substances common to the plural fixed reacting substances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: MORITEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maiko Tomida, Toru Myogadani
  • Patent number: D547437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Asai
  • Patent number: D548326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Asai
  • Patent number: D549186
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Yuzawa
  • Patent number: D557403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Asai
  • Patent number: D577855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Yoshida