Nikon Patent Applications
Nikon patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240053572Abstract: To provide a small-sized voice coil motor, the voice coil motor includes a first yoke and a second yoke each having a length in a first direction, a third yoke that has a length in the first direction and is disposed between the first yoke and the second yoke, a first magnet disposed on the first yoke, a second magnet disposed on the second yoke, and a coil that is penetrated by the third yoke and is movable in the first direction by magnetic forces of the first magnet and the second magnet, wherein the coil includes a first section in which a winding wire is linearly wound and a second section in which the wiring wire is wound in an arc shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Azusa MUTO, Kazutoshi USUI
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Publication number: 20240056681Abstract: A lens barrel of the invention includes: an imaging optical system including a focus adjustment lens; a driver that drives the focus adjustment lens in a direction of an optical axis; a transceiver that transmits and receives a signal to and from a camera body; and a controller that controls the transceiver to repeatedly transmit a first image plane transfer coefficient which is determined in correspondence with a position of the focus adjustment lens included in the imaging optical system and a second image plane transfer coefficient which does not depend on the position of the focus adjustment lens to the camera body at a predetermined interval, and, when the controller repeatedly transmits the second image plane transfer coefficient to the camera body, the controller varies the second image plane transfer coefficient over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki TOMITA
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Publication number: 20240046401Abstract: A robot system including a robot arm with a movable portion includes a first imaging device and a second imaging device attached to the robot arm, a control unit that controls the robot system, a distance information acquisition unit that acquires information on a distance to a target object, the control unit is capable of changing a baseline length that is a distance between the first imaging device and the second imaging device, and the distance information acquisition unit acquires the information on the distance to the target object on the basis of the baseline length.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoki MIYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20240045348Abstract: An analyzing method includes preparing measured position information that is position information of a plurality of measured-parts formed on a substrate, and fitting a reference function, which is a sum of at least one function obtained by multiplying a criterion function expressed using a first type Bessel function by a proportional coefficient, to the measured position information and calculating an optimum value of at least one of the proportional coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako SUGIMOTO, Ryugo IIDA, Shinji WAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240045192Abstract: This microscope objective lens (OL) is constituted by a first lens group (G1), a second lens group (G2) having a positive refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having a concave surface facing the image side, and a fourth lens group (G4) having a concave surface facing the object side. The first lens group (G1) is constituted by a plano-convex positive lens (L101) having a flat surface facing the object side, and a negative lens (L102). The first lens group satisfies the following conditional expressions. Conditional expressions 1.8<H1/H2<3.5 and 1.3<DLe/H2<3.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetsugu TAKAGI, Hitoshi HATADA
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Publication number: 20240037159Abstract: A portable information device includes: an image sensor used to pick up an image of a subject; a locator configured to acquire position information about an image pickup position for the subject; an orientation sensor configured to acquire an orientation information corresponding to an imaging direction at the image pickup position; a display configured to, while the subject is being imaged via the image sensor, display (a) an imaging data of the subject obtained via the image sensor and (b) related information on the subject obtained based on acquired data from the locator and from the orientation sensor; an input portion with which a user posts comment, while the subject is being imaged via the image sensor; and a controller configured to, while the subject is being imaged via the image sensor, control the display to display the posted comment and the related information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideya INOUE, Toru IWAOKA, Michiko NOBORISAKA, Masayuki HATORI, Tomohide HAMADA
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Publication number: 20240036221Abstract: A setting method for setting at least a part of a region in which a structure of a specimen exists as a target region, for an evaluation of an internal structure of the specimen includes setting an arbitrary position from the region in which the structure of the specimen exists, and setting the target region based on the set position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Fuminori HAYANO, Kazuyuki MIYASHITA, Nobukatsu MACHII, Hiroya OHKUMA
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Publication number: 20240033853Abstract: This shaping apparatus is equipped with: a movement system which moves a target surface; a measurement system for acquiring position information of the target surface in a state movable by the movement system, a beam shaping system that has a beam irradiation section and a material processing section which supplies a shaping material irradiated by a beam from beam irradiation section; and a controller. On the basis of 3D data of a three-dimensional shaped object to be formed on a target surface and position information of the target surface acquired using the measurement system, the controller controls the movement system and the beam shaping system such that a target portion on the target surface is shaped by supplying the shaping material while moving the target surface and the beam from beam irradiation section relative to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi SHIBAZAKI
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Publication number: 20240027917Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes: an exposure illumination optical system illuminating a spatial light modulator which has a plurality of spatial light modulation elements having a reflecting surface disposed on a disposition plane; a projection optical system projecting light from the spatial light modulator to an exposed substrate; a first detection unit detecting light from the reflecting surface; a second detection unit which is a detection unit detecting light from the reflecting surface and has a detection field of view larger than that of the first detection unit; and a position changing mechanism changing a positional relationship among the first detection unit, the second detection unit, and the spatial light modulator to either a first positional relationship in which the spatial light modulator faces the first detection unit and a second positional relationship in which the spatial light modulator faces the second detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoji WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240027898Abstract: An exposure apparatus that scans and exposes a substrate via an optical modulator in which a plurality of elements are controlled according to an image pattern, the exposure apparatus includes a first stage that supports a first substrate, a second stage that supports a second substrate different from the first substrate, a measurement part that measures information about the second substrate, and a generation part that generates control data, which controls the plurality of elements during scanning and exposing the second substrate, based on the information during an exposure process of the first substrate, wherein the measurement part measures the information about the second substrate during the exposure process of the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki KATO, Yasushi MIZUNO, Hitoshi MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20240031701Abstract: An imaging element comprising: an imaging unit that has: a plurality of groups each including at least one pixel; and a plurality of signal readout units that are each provided to each of the groups and read out a signal from the pixel; and a control unit that controls the signal readout unit in at least one group among the plurality of groups is provided. Each of the plurality of groups may include a plurality of the pixels. The control unit may select at least one group among the plurality of groups and control the signal readout unit by using a control parameter that is different from a control parameter that is used for another group among the plurality of groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KURIYAMA, Hironobu MURATA, Shiro TSUNAI, Tetsuya KONISHI, Masahiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240031582Abstract: A video compression apparatus is configured to compress a plurality of frames outputted from an imaging element having a plurality of imaging regions in which a subject is captured and that can set imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions, the video compression apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire data outputted from a first imaging region in which a first frame rate is set and data outputted from a second imaging region in which a second frame rate is set; a generation unit configured to generate a plurality of first frames on the basis of the data outputted from the first imaging region acquired and generate a plurality of second frames on the basis of the data outputted from the second imaging region; and a compression unit configured to compress the plurality of first frames generated and compress the plurality of second frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Masaya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240021447Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stacked substrate by bonding a first substrate and a second substrate, including a step of determining, based on information about curving of each of the first substrate and the second substrate, whether or not the first substrate and the second substrate satisfy a predetermined condition, and, a step of bonding the first substrate and the second substrate if the predetermined condition is satisfied. The stacked substrate manufacturing method described above includes a step of estimating, based on the information, an amount of misalignment which occurs after the first substrate is bonded to the second substrate and the predetermined condition may include that the amount of misalignment is equal to or less than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Isao SUGAYA, Hajime MITSUISHI
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Publication number: 20240019677Abstract: A microscope includes light-transmitting-optical-system that irradiates specimen with illumination-light, light-receiving-optical-system that receives signal-light emitted from the specimen, phase-modulation-element that adds predetermined phase distribution to the illumination-light or the signal-light, phase-distribution-measuring-unit that measures first phase distribution, which corresponds to specimen-induced aberration at sampling point of the specimen, at each of a plurality of the sampling points, phase-distribution-calculation-unit that creates phase-data-model showing an amount of phase change which the illumination-light or the signal-light receives when the illumination-light or the signal-light passes through predetermined position in the specimen based on the plurality of first phase distributions, and calculates a second phase distribution which is added to the illumination-light or the signal-light in order to detect detection point of the specimen in a state in which specimen-induced aberratiType: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yamato NIITANI
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Publication number: 20240019676Abstract: A microscope objective lens (OL) comprises a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having a concave surface facing the image side, and a third lens group (G3) having a concave surface facing the object side, which are arranged in order from the object side along an optical axis. The first lens group (G1) comprises one lens component having positive refractive power, the third lens group (G3) comprises three or more lenses including two negative lenses and one positive lens, and at least one predetermined negative lens in the two negative lenses satisfies the conditional expression “?dA<40”.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetsugu TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20240015406Abstract: An image sensor includes: a first and a second pixel, each of which includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light that has passed through a micro lens and generates a first charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light that has passed through the micro lens and generates a second charge, an accumulation unit that accumulates at least one of the first charge and the second charge, a first transfer unit that transfers the first charge to the accumulation unit, and a second transfer unit that transfers the second charge to the accumulation unit; and a control unit that outputs, to the first transfer unit of the first pixel and to the second transfer unit of the second pixel, a signal that causes the first charge of the first pixel and the second charge of the second pixel to be transferred to their accumulation units.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi SEO
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Publication number: 20240012268Abstract: An image display device includes: an input unit into which image signals are inputted, the image signals being outputted from image capturing pixels disposed in correspondence to image capturing micro-lenses, each of the image capturing pixels receiving light that has passed through a corresponding one of the image capturing micro-lenses; display micro-lenses; display pixels that emit light for forming a three-dimensional image to each of the display micro-lenses, the display pixels being disposed in correspondence to the display micro-lenses; and a generator that generates display image data that includes three-dimensional information, based upon the image signals inputted into the input unit. The generator allocates the image signals outputted from the image capturing pixels to the display pixels arranged at symmetrical positions in a predetermined direction, using a pseudo-optical axis of each of the display micro-lenses as a reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Toru IWANE
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Publication number: 20240014079Abstract: To improve the throughput of substrate bonding. A substrate bonding apparatus that bonds first and second substrates so that contact regions in which the first and second substrates contact are formed in parts of the first and second substrates and the contact regions enlarge from the parts, the apparatus including: a detecting unit detecting information about the contact regions; and a determining unit determining that the first and second substrates can be carried out based on the information detected at the detecting unit. In the substrate bonding apparatus, the information may be information, a value of which changes according to progress of enlargement of the contact regions, and the determining unit may determine that the first and second substrates can be carried out if the value becomes constant or if a rate of changes in the value becomes lower than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Isao SUGAYA, Eiji ARIIZUMI, Yoshiaki KITO, Mikio USHIJIMA, Masanori ARAMATA, Naoto KIRIBE, Hiroshi SHIRASU, Hajime MITSUISHI, Minoru FUKUDA, Masaki TSUNODA
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Publication number: 20240004176Abstract: A quantitative phase image generating method for a microscope, includes: irradiating an object with illumination light; disposing a focal point of an objective lens at each of a plurality of positions that are mutually separated by gaps ?z along an optical axis of the objective lens, and detecting light from the object; generating sets of light intensity distribution data corresponding to each of the plurality of positions based upon the detected light; and generating a quantitative phase image based upon the light intensity distribution data; wherein the gap ?z is set based upon setting information of the microscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shota TSUCHIDA, Satoshi IKEDA
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Publication number: 20240007749Abstract: A camera body with which it is possible to improve the effect of shake correction, a camera accessory, and an information transmission method wherein the camera body to which a camera accessory can be detachably mounted, and includes: a movable section which is movable to correct shaking of the camera body; a detection unit which detects the shake and outputs a detection signal; a calculation unit which, on the basis of the detection signal, calculates an amount of movement of the movable section; and a transmission unit which transmits, to the camera accessory, body-side information the calculation unit uses to calculate the amount of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Sueyuki OHISHI
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Publication number: 20240003814Abstract: A microscope includes: an illumination optical system which irradiates a specimen with excitation light; a detector which detects fluorescence emitted from the specimen; and an observation optical system which guides fluorescence to the detector and includes: a first optical filter having wavelength reflection and transmission characteristics that vary depending on where light enters; a second optical filter disposed in an optical path of light reflected by the first optical filter, having a boundary wavelength of transmission changing with respect to a position along a first direction, and transmitting light having a wavelength longer than a first boundary wavelength at where the reflected light enters; and a third optical filter disposed in the optical path and having a boundary wavelength of transmission changing with respect to a position along the first direction, and transmitting light having a wavelength shorter than a second boundary wavelength at where the reflected light enters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shota TSUCHIDA, Yasunori MORISHITA, Yuta OSHIDARI
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Publication number: 20230421911Abstract: An electronic device includes: an imaging unit including a region having a pixel group that has a plurality of first pixels, and second pixels that are fewer than the first pixels in the pixel group; and a control unit that reads out the signals based upon exposure of the second pixels during exposure of the plurality of first pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi GOHARA, Satoshi TSUCHIYA
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Publication number: 20230405709Abstract: A processing system includes: a processing apparatus configured to process an object; a measurement apparatus configured to measure a three-dimensional shape of a part of the object; and a control apparatus configured to control the processing apparatus, the control apparatus controls the processing based on three-dimensional shape information of a second area of a surface of the object, three-dimensional shape information is calculated based on a measured result obtained by measuring a first area of the surface of the object by using the measurement apparatus and model information representing a three-dimensional model of at least a part of the object, the three-dimensional shape information of the second area is calculated without performing a measurement of a three-dimensional shape of the second area by the measurement apparatus, at least a part of the second area is processed by the processing apparatus based on the three-dimensional shape information of the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Kaneyuki NAITO
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Publication number: 20230405729Abstract: An imaging head includes: a deflection optical system configured to deflect light from at least a part of a melt pool part, the melt pool part is formed on the object by an irradiation with a processing beam from the processing head; an imaging apparatus configured to optically receive the light deflected by the deflection optical system to capture an image of at least a part of the melt pool part; and a supply unit configured to supply gas from a gas supply apparatus to at least a part of an optical surface of the deflection optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshimitsu KURAMI, Koichi YASUBA
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Publication number: 20230411428Abstract: An element includes a plurality of light-receiving elements to photoelectrically convert light received from an object, a convolution processing unit to perform convolution operation on signals that are output from the plurality of light-receiving elements, and a pooling processing unit to sample a signal that is output from the convolution processing unit, based on a predetermined condition. The convolution operation of the convolution processing unit and the sampling of the pooling processing unit are repeated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Sota NAKANISHI, Tomohisa ISHIDA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Kiyoshi UCHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230408494Abstract: A method of analyzing neurons includes: identifying a cell region by identifying a region of a neurite or a region of a cell body of a neuron on the basis of time-series images obtained by imaging the neuron in time series; detecting aggregates by imaging, in time series, first fluorescent protein tagged to specific protein expressed in the neuron and detecting presence or absence of aggregates of the specific protein aggregated in the region of the neurite or the region of the cell body identified in the identifying the cell region on the basis of luminance of the first fluorescent protein included in the time-series images; and performing an analysis by classifying the neuron into a plurality of groups on the basis of a detection result of the detecting the aggregates and analyzing a survival state of the neuron for each of the groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru ICHIHASHI, Takahiko YOSHIDA, Moeka NOBUTA
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Publication number: 20230408804Abstract: An objective lens (OL) comprises, disposed in order from an object: a positive lens (L11); a negative meniscus lens (L12) cemented to the positive lens (L11) and having a concave surface facing the object; and a positive meniscus lens (L13) having a concave surface facing the object; wherein the objective lens satisfies following conditional expressions 2.03?n1m?2.30 and 20??1m, where, n1m: a refractive index of the negative meniscus lens (L12) with respect to a d-line, and ?1m: an Abbe number of the negative meniscus lens (L12).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA
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Publication number: 20230400773Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a spatial light modulator (SLM), a generation unit that acquires a measurement result from a measurement system measuring positions of semiconductor chips arranged on a first substrate, determines a wiring connecting the semiconductor chips based on the measurement result, generates control data used for control of the SLM in generating the determined wiring pattern, and stores the control data in a storage unit, and an exposure processing unit that controls the SLM using the control data stored in the storage unit and exposes the wiring pattern, wherein at least one of measurement of the positions of the semiconductor chips on the first substrate, acquisition of the measurement result, determination of the wiring pattern, generation of the control data, or storage of the control data is executed while the exposure processing unit is performing exposure processing on a second substrate different from the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki KATO, Yasushi MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20230403467Abstract: An image capturing apparatus including: an image capturing device that has a plurality of pixels outputting pixel signals according to incident light, the plurality of pixels being divided into a plurality of blocks each including at least two pixels, and an exposure condition being set for each block; an image capture control unit that changes a light receiving position on the image capturing device, based on an exposure condition set for an adjacent block; and an image processing unit that synthesizes a plurality of images which are generated at a plurality of the light receiving positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi OGATA, Shigeru DOIDA, Erika KOISHI
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Publication number: 20230392922Abstract: Detectors are situated along a tilted optical axis to receive optical radiation from a work surface. Variations in the received optical power are used to estimate a work surface positional along a work surface axis. The received optical power can be emitted from the work surface and an estimated temperature of the work surface used to adjust the received optical power. One or two single element detectors or a linear detector can be used. A position of a focused spot produced from the received optical power at the linear detector can be used to assess work surface axial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Peter GOODWIN, Zhi-Wei LIN
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Publication number: 20230390864Abstract: An optical processing apparatus includes: a split optical system configured to split a first light beam, which enters thereto, into a second light beam including a plurality of light beams; a magnification varying optical system that is disposed on at least one of an optical path of the first light beam entering the split optical system and an optical path of the plurality of light beams included in the second light beam emitted from the split optical system; and a condensing optical system configured to condenses the second light beam, wherein an object is processed by the second light beam from the condensing optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Kenta SUDO
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Publication number: 20230396894Abstract: An image sensor includes: a readout circuit that reads out a signal to a signal line, the signal being generated by an electric charge resulting from a photoelectric conversion; a holding circuit that holds a voltage based on an electric current from a power supply circuit; and an electric current source including a transistor having a drain part connected to the signal line and a gate part connected to the holding circuit and the drain part, the electric current source supplying the signal line with an electric current generated by the voltage held in the holding circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Wataru FUNAMIZU, Masahiro JUEN, Atsushi KOMAI
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Publication number: 20230393364Abstract: A lens barrel having good optical performance, the lens barrel includes a first lens holding frame that holds a first lens, a first guide bar that guides the first lens holding frame in an optical axis direction, a contact member that is in contact with the first guide bar, and a biasing member that is in contact with the first lens holding frame and biases the contact member toward the first guide bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji NAGAOKA, Takuji HAMASAKI
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Publication number: 20230388633Abstract: A camera accessory that is attachable to and detachable from a camera body, includes: a correction optical system that is movable in a direction intersecting an optical axis thereof; and a first communication unit that transmits to the camera body a first information regarding a position of the correction optical system and a second information regarding a vibration of the camera accessory.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Sueyuki OHISHI
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Publication number: 20230381877Abstract: A soldering apparatus that applies a processing light for melting a solder disposed on a circuit board, includes: a light irradiation apparatus that includes a Galvano mirror and that applies the processing light through the Galvano mirror; a detection apparatus that detects a light from the circuit board and that generates at least one of image data and shape data; a robot arm that is provided with the light irradiation apparatus and the detection apparatus and that includes a driver that moves the light irradiation apparatus and the detection apparatus; and a control apparatus that controls a direction of the Galvano mirror such that the processing light from the light irradiation apparatus that is displaced with the detection apparatus is applied to a same position, on the basis of at least one of the data that are changed in accordance with a displacement of the detection apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji HOSOMI, Shinji SATO, Tomoki MIYAKAWA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Kohei MIMURA, Junya HIRATA, Hayate SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230381978Abstract: A machine (10) for positioning an object (12) includes a movable part (16C) and a vibration reduction assembly (24) that couples the object (12) to the movable part (16C). Further, the vibration reduction assembly (24) reduces a magnitude of a vibration being transferred from the movable part (16C) to the object (12). The vibration reduction assembly (24) can include an actively controlled support system (30) and an actively controlled actuator system (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Birk BINNARD, Matthew Parker-McCormick BJORK, Yoon Jung JEONG
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Publication number: 20230388674Abstract: To divide an image capture region into multiple regions for which different image capture conditions are set and to generate multiple moving images corresponding to the multiple regions. An electronic apparatus includes an image sensor that captures first and second moving images in first and second regions of an image capture region on different image capture conditions, the second region differing from the first region, and a moving image generation unit that generates the first and second moving images captured in the first and second regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi TSUCHIYA
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Publication number: 20230375818Abstract: An infinity-corrected microscope objective lens has, arranged in order from the object side along an optical axis, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, an intermediate image forming plane in which light from an object forms an image being positioned between the first lens group and the second lens group, and the microscope objective lens satisfying the condition below. ?0.2<f×NA/TL <0.05, where f is the focal length of the microscope objective lens, NA is the object-side numerical aperture of the microscope objective lens, and TL is the distance on the optical axis from the lens surface of the microscope objective lens on the side thereof closest to the object to the lens surface of the microscope objective lens on the side thereof closest to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoya TOKUNAGA, Kei TOMIMATSU, Katsuya WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230379597Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixel blocks and a connection unit. The plurality of pixel blocks includes: a diffusion unit to which an electric charge resulting from photoelectric conversion is transferred; and a transistor containing a source electrically connected with the diffusion unit. The connection unit is electrically connected with a drain of the transistor included in each of the plurality of pixel blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi KOMAI, Yoshiyuki WATANABE, Osamu SARUWATARI
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Publication number: 20230369993Abstract: A lens barrel includes an element displaced by application of voltage; an elastic body having a contact surface coming into contact with the element, a drive surface to produce a vibration wave by displacement of the element, and a plurality of grooves; a moving element come into contact with the drive surface and rotated by the vibration wave; an annular ring rotated by rotating of the moving element; and a lens moved in an optical axis direction by rotating of the annular ring; wherein the element mainly contains a material having potassium sodium niobate, potassium niobate, sodium niobate, or barium titanate, wherein a value of [(T/B)÷W] is in a range of 0.84 to 1.94, where T represents a depth of the groove, B represents a distance from a bottom part of the groove to the contact surface, and W represents a radial width of the elastic body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takatoshi ASHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230365455Abstract: A glass composition includes, as main content components, by mass %, a TeO2 content percentage of 50% to 80%, a Bi2O3 content percentage of 0% to 30%, a WO3 content percentage of 0% to 30%, a ZnO content percentage of 0% to 30%, a BaO content percentage of 0% to 30%, a GeO2 content percentage of 0% to 30%, and a Ga2O3 content percentage of 0% to 30%, wherein at least any one of additive target elements is introduced, the additive target elements including, Si4+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, B3+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, P5+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, Li+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, Na+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, K+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, Mg2+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, Ca2+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, Al3+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg, and Sr2+ of 1 mg/kg to 1,500 mg/kg.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei YOSHIMOTO, Miki FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20230367230Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes: light source that emits exposure light; exposure pattern forming apparatus including a plurality of exposure elements and disposed on an optical path of at least part of exposure light; and control unit electrically connected to exposure pattern forming apparatus, in which control unit controls whether workpiece is irradiated with exposure light via each of exposure elements by switching each of exposure elements to a first or second state, and integrates exposure amount in predetermined region of scheduled exposure region by sequentially irradiating predetermined region with light of part of exposure light via a first exposure element in first state among plurality of exposure elements and light of part of exposure light via second exposure element in the first state different from the first exposure element among the plurality of exposure elements in accordance with a relative movement of the workpiece and the exposure pattern forming apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi MURAKAMI, Koutarou TAKIGAMI, Tetsuya ABE
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Publication number: 20230359066Abstract: An eyeglass lens design device designs a pair of aspherical lenses which have different strengths for the left and right lenses, and have rotational symmetry or axial symmetry around a component of a fixed focal length lens for a distance prescription comprising a fixed focal length lens or a progressive refractive lens, and includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire left prism amount information corresponding to a left-eye strength and right prism amount information corresponding to a right-eye strength, a calculation unit configured to calculate a computed value of a left prism amount and a right prism amount on the basis of the left prism amount information and the right prism amount information, and a change unit configured to calculate a design parameter change amount of the right-eye aspherical lens and/or the left-eye aspherical lens on the basis of the computed value of the left prism amount and the right prism amount, and to change a design parameter thereof on the basis of the calculated desType: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON-ESSILOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Sungjin CHO
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Publication number: 20230355089Abstract: An image signal output device including an acquisition section configured to acquire a fundus image, a selection section configured to select a projection for displaying the acquired fundus image from plural projections, a conversion section configured to convert the fundus image into the selected projection, and a processing section configured to output an image signal of the converted fundus image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi TANABE, Tomoharu FUJIWARA, Mariko HIROKAWA
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Publication number: 20230362512Abstract: An image sensor, includes: a plurality of pixels arranged along both of a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, each having a photoelectric conversion unit that generates an electric charge through photoelectric conversion of light; a plurality of signal lines disposed along the second direction, each connected to a plurality of pixels arranged along the first direction; and a control unit that executes control so as to output signals, each generated based upon the electric charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit, to the signal lines different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeru MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230362513Abstract: An imaging sensor including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units provided in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction and configured to generate electric charges through photoelectric conversion; signal lines each of which is wired in the second direction and to which signals based on the electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion units are output; and processing units configured to process the signals output to the signal lines, wherein, in a second region between a first region in which the plurality of photoelectric conversion units are provided in the first direction and the second direction and a plurality of the processing units, a plurality of the signal lines are adjacent to each other in at least one of the second direction and a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki HIRATA, Daiki OGURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Masahiro JUEN
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Publication number: 20230362504Abstract: When the amplification ratio is low and strong incident light causes a large charge, the signal retrieved from regions where the incident light is weak is also weak, but when the amplification ratio is high in regions where the incident light is weak, the signal retrieved from regions where the incident light is strong becomes saturated. Therefore, the dynamic range of the imaging unit is narrow. Provided is an imaging unit comprising an imaging section that includes a first group having one or more pixels and a second group having one or more pixels different from those of the first group; and a control section that, while a single charge accumulation is performed in the first group, causes pixel signals to be output by performing charge accumulation in the second group a number of times differing from a number of times charge accumulation is performed in the first group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Shiro TSUNAI
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Publication number: 20230362507Abstract: An image sensor includes: a plurality of microlenses arranged in a two-dimensional pattern; and a plurality of pixels that are provided in correspondence to each of the microlenses and receive lights of different color components, respectively. Pixels that are provided at adjacent microlenses among the microlenses and that receive lights of same color components, are adjacently arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hironobu MURATA
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Publication number: 20230358990Abstract: In order to reduce the noise of a lens barrel, the lens barrel includes a plurality of diaphragm blades, a driver driving the plurality of diaphragm blades, a first opening member that holds the driver, a second opening member including a plurality of facing portions opposed to the first opening member in an optical axis direction, and a plurality of buffer members disposed between the first opening member and the plurality of facing portions, respectively, wherein the plurality of buffer members position the first opening member with respect to the second opening member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Ichiro IMAEI
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Publication number: 20230359106Abstract: An image sensor includes: a first pixel having a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light having entered therein, and a first light blocking unit that blocks a part of light about to enter the first photoelectric conversion unit; and a second pixel having a second photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light having entered therein and a second light blocking unit that blocks a part of light about to enter the second photoelectric conversion unit, wherein: the first photoelectric conversion unit and the first light blocking unit are set apart from each other by a distance different from a distance setting apart the second photoelectric conversion unit and the second light blocking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki TAKAHARA