Patents by Inventor Azuna NONAKA

Azuna NONAKA 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: 20230408804
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA
  • Patent number: 11782253
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Watanabe, Azuna Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20230012479
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system (ZL) comprises a preceding lens group (GA) having negative refractive power and a succeeding lens group (GB) having positive refractive power, which are arranged in order from the object side along an optical axis. The succeeding lens group (GB) has a focusing group (GF) and an image-side group (GC) disposed closer to the image side than the focusing group (GF), the focusing group (GF) moves to the image side along the optical axis from focusing on an object at infinity to focusing on a close-distance object, and the following conditional expression is satisfied. 1.80<fF/fBaw FNow<3.40 where fF is the focal length of the focusing group (GF), fBaw is the focal length in the wide-angle end state of an image-side lens group (GBa) composed of lenses disposed on the image side from the focusing group (GF), and FNow is the F-number of the variable magnification optical system (ZL) in the wide-angle end state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Fumiaki OHTAKE, Azuna NONAKA, Yoshiharu YUASA, Takeshi UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20220334365
    Abstract: An optical system (LS) has an aperture stop (S), and a positive lens (L4) disposed closer to the object side than the aperture stop (S). The positive lens (L4) satisfies the following conditional expressions. ?0.010<ndP1?(2.015?0.0068×?dP1) 50.00<?dP1<65.00 0.545<?gFP1 ?0.010<?gFP1?(0.6418?0.00168×?dP1) where ndP1 is the refractive index to the d line of the positive lens, ?dP1 is the Abbe number with respect to the d line of the positive lens, and ?gFP1 is the partial dispersion ratio of the positive lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Masashi YAMASHITA, Tomoki ITO, Tomonori KURIBAYASHI, Keigo KOIDA, Satoshi MIWA, Yoko KOMATSUBARA, Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA, Ayumu MAKIDA
  • Publication number: 20220291489
    Abstract: An optical system (LS) has an aperture stop (S), and a negative lens (L73) disposed closer to the image side than the aperture stop (S) and satisfying the following conditional expressions. ?0.010<ndN2?(2.015?0.0068×?dN2), 50.00<?dN2<65.00, 0.545<?gFN2, ?0.010<?gFN2?(0.6418?0.00168×?dN2) where ndN2 is the refractive index to the d line of the negative lens, ?dN2 is the Abbe number with respect to the d line of the negative lens, and ?gFN2 is the partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Masashi YAMASHITA, Tomoki ITO, Tomonori KURIBAYASHI, Keigo KOIDA, Satoshi MIWA, Yoko KOMATSUBARA, Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA, Ayumu MAKIDA
  • Publication number: 20220269056
    Abstract: This optical system (LS) has an aperture diaphragm (S) and a negative lens (L4) disposed closer to an object side than the aperture diaphragm (S) and satisfies the following conditional expression. ?0.010<ndN1?(2.015?0.0068×?dN1), 50.00<?dN1<65.00, 0.545<?gFN1, ?0.010<?gFN1?(0.6418?0.00168×?dN1). Where, ndN1 is a refractive index of the negative lens with respect to a d-line, vdN1 is an Abbe number of the negative lens based on the d-line, and ?gFN1 is a partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masashi YAMASHITA, Tomoki ITO, Tomonori KURIBAYASHI, Keigo KOIDA, Satoshi MIWA, Yoko KOMATSUBARA, Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA, Ayumu MAKIDA
  • Publication number: 20220269055
    Abstract: An optical system (LS) has a lens (L11) that satisfies the following conditional expressions. ?0.010<ndLZ?(2.015?0.0068×?dLZ) 50.00<?dLZ<65.00 0.545<?gFLZ ?0.010<?gFLZ?(0.6418?0.00168×?dLZ) where ndLZ is the refractive index to the d line of the lens, ?dLZ is the Abbe number with respect to the d line of the lens, and ?gFLZ is the partial dispersion ratio of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masashi YAMASHITA, Tomoki ITO, Tomonori KURIBAYASHI, Keigo KOIDA, Satoshi MIWA, Yoko KOMATSUBARA, Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA, Ayumu MAKIDA
  • Publication number: 20220146798
    Abstract: A magnification-variable optical system having a small size, a wide angle of view, and high optical performance, an optical apparatus including the magnification-variable optical system, and a method for manufacturing the magnification-variable optical system are provided. A magnification-variable optical system ZL used for an optical apparatus such as a camera 1 includes a first lens group G1 having a negative refractive power and including at least two lenses, and a rear group GR including at least one lens group disposed on an image side of the first lens group G1, and is configured so that a distance between lens groups adjacent to each other changes at magnification change and a condition expressed by predetermined condition expressions is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Fumiaki OHTAKE, Azuna NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20220137378
    Abstract: A magnification-variable optical system having a small size, a wide angle of view, and high optical performance, an optical apparatus including the magnification-variable optical system, and a method for manufacturing the magnification-variable optical system are provided. A magnification-variable optical system ZL used for an optical apparatus such as a camera 1 includes a first lens group G1 having a negative refractive power, and a rear group GR including at least one lens group disposed on an image side of the first lens group G1, and is configured so that a distance between lens groups adjacent to each other changes at magnification change and a condition expressed by predetermined condition expressions is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Fumiaki OHTAKE, Azuna NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20210093194
    Abstract: The ophthalmic optical system is configured to apply an angular scanning light ray to an eye. M=|?out/?in| is defined, where ?in represents an angle between an incident light ray to the ophthalmic optical system and an optical axis of the ophthalmic optical system, and ?out represents an angle between an exiting light ray exiting from the ophthalmic optical system toward the eye and the optical axis. The ophthalmic optical system satisfies a conditional expression Mpar<Mmax, where Mpar represents M in a case that the incident light ray is a paraxial ray, Mmax represents M in a case that the incident light ray is a ray of a maximum angle of win.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: NIKON CORPORATION, OPTOS PLC
    Inventors: Gonzalo MUYO, Alistair GORMAN, David M. WILLIAMSON, Makoto FUJIMOTO, Yasufumi NISHI, Azuna NONAKA, Katsuya WATANABE, Miwako YOSHIDA, Kyoya TOKUNAGA, Masahiro MIZUTA
  • Publication number: 20200033577
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya WATANABE, Azuna NONAKA