Patents by Inventor Hidefumi Iwasa

Hidefumi Iwasa 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: 9422414
    Abstract: An organic-inorganic composite material contains a cured material of an organic-inorganic composition containing a resin component, fine particles of a transparent conductive substance, and a polymerization initiator. Refractive properties of the Abbe number ?d and anomalous dispersion ?g, F of the organic-inorganic composite material are within a range surrounded by (?d, ?g, F)=(16, 0.50), (16, 0.40), (23, 0.50), (23, 0.47). The content of the fine particles of the transparent conductive substance in the organic-inorganic composite material is from 7.7% to 20.0% by volume. The resin component contains a compound represented by the following formula: where R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or a moiety containing a polymerizable functional group such as an acrylic group, a methacrylic group, an allyl group, a vinyl group, or an epoxy group or one or both of R1 and R2 represent the moiety containing the polymerizable functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 9383487
    Abstract: A laminated diffractive optical element including a colorant-containing first layer having a diffraction grating surface with a grating height X and a second layer closely stacked on the diffraction grating surface of the first layer, wherein the relation of internal transmittances T?, a and T?, b of a material (a) for forming the first layer and a material (b) for forming the second layer satisfies the following (Formula 1) and the relation of the maximum and minimum internal transmittances T?, MAX and T?, MIN of the laminated diffractive optical element satisfies the following Formula (2): 2.0%?|T?,a?T?,b|??(Formula 1) T?,MAX?T?,MIN?8.0%??(Formula 2) This reduces shading on the image surface resulting from the difference in transmittance of the optical element to provide a laminated diffractive optical element having reduced variation in transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Hideo Ukuda
  • Publication number: 20150268391
    Abstract: A laminated diffractive optical element including a colorant-containing first layer having a diffraction grating surface with a grating height X and a second layer closely stacked on the diffraction grating surface of the first layer, wherein the relation of internal transmittances T?, a and T?, b of a material (a) for forming the first layer and a material (b) for forming the second layer satisfies the following (Formula 1) and the relation of the maximum and minimum internal transmittances T?, MAX and T?, MIN of the laminated diffractive optical element satisfies the following Formula (2): 2.0%?|T?,a?T?,b|??(Formula 1) T?,MAX?T?,MIN?8.0%??(Formula 2) This reduces shading on the image surface resulting from the difference in transmittance of the optical element to provide a laminated diffractive optical element having reduced variation in transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Hideo Ukuda
  • Patent number: 9086537
    Abstract: A laminated diffractive optical element including a colorant-containing first layer having a diffraction grating surface with a grating height X and a second layer closely stacked on the diffraction grating surface of the first layer, wherein the relation of internal transmittances T?, a and T?, b of a material (a) for forming the first layer and a material (b) for forming the second layer satisfies the following (Formula 1) and the relation of the maximum and minimum internal transmittances T?, MAX and T?, MIN of the laminated diffractive optical element satisfies the following Formula (2): 2.0%?|T?, a?T?, b|??(Formula 1) T?, MAX?T?, MIN?8.0% ??(Formula 2) This reduces shading on the image surface resulting from the difference in transmittance of the optical element to provide a laminated diffractive optical element having reduced variation in transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Hideo Ukuda
  • Patent number: 8804245
    Abstract: Provided are an organic-inorganic composite resin composition and an organic-inorganic composite resin material made of a cured product thereof, containing at least an organic compound having a polymerizable functional group, metal oxide fine particles, and a polymerization initiator. The cured product obtained by curing the organic-inorganic composite resin composition through application of an active energy has a refractive index nd of 1.61 or more and 1.65 or less, Abbe's number ?d of 13 or more and 20 or less, and an anomalous dispersion characteristic ?g,F of 0.42 or more and 0.54 or less. Further provided is an optical element comprising a transparent substrate and the organic-inorganic composite resin material formed on the transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Hideo Ukuda
  • Patent number: 8697791
    Abstract: An optical material including a polymer of a mixture which contains a sulfur-containing compound, a fluorene compound with a fluorene skeleton, and an energy polymerization initiator. The sulfur-containing compound contains, in a molecule, at least one kind of group selected from the group consisting of a sulfide group, a sulphone group, a sulfoxide group, a thiol group, and a thioester group. A refractive index of the polymer of the mixture is 1.65 or more to less than 1.92, an Abbe constant thereof is 15 or more to less than 22, and a difference ??g,F between a secondary dispersion property ?g,F thereof and a secondary dispersion property ?g,F of a normal optical material which is expressed by ?g,F=0.6438?0.001682?d is 0.05 or more to less than 0.13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 8614013
    Abstract: Provided are an organic solvent dispersion of titanium oxide containing at least titanium oxide fine particles each having an average primary particle diameter of 3 nm or more to 50 nm or less; a titanate-based surface treatment agent formed of a compound represented by the following general formula (1): (R1O)m—Ti—Xn??(1) where R1 represents a methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl group; X represents —O—SO2—R2 or —O—P(OH)O—O—PHO—O—R2; R2 represents an alkyl or aryl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms; m represents a numerical value of 1 or more to 3 or less, and n represents a numerical value of 1 or more to 3 or less, provided that m+n=4; a polyether-based dispersant; and an alcohol-based solvent, and an optical material containing the organic solvent dispersion of titanium oxide and a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Shigeo Kiso, Terunobu Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20130235460
    Abstract: A laminated diffractive optical element including a colorant-containing first layer having a diffraction grating surface with a grating height X and a second layer closely stacked on the diffraction grating surface of the first layer, wherein the relation of internal transmittances T?, a and T?, b of a material (a) for forming the first layer and a material (b) for forming the second layer satisfies the following (Formula 1) and the relation of the maximum and minimum internal transmittances T?, MAX and T?, MIN of the laminated diffractive optical element satisfies the following Formula (2): 2.0%?|T?, a?T?, b|??(Formula 1) T?, MAX?T?, MIN?8.0% ??(Formula 2) This reduces shading on the image surface resulting from the difference in transmittance of the optical element to provide a laminated diffractive optical element having reduced variation in transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Hideo Ukuda
  • Publication number: 20130057956
    Abstract: An organic-inorganic composite material contains a cured material of an organic-inorganic composition containing a resin component, fine particles of a transparent conductive substance, and a polymerization initiator. Refractive properties of the Abbe number ?d and anomalous dispersion ?g, F of the organic-inorganic composite material are within a range surrounded by (?d, ?g, F)=(16, 0.50), (16, 0.40), (23, 0.50), (23, 0.47). The content of the fine particles of the transparent conductive substance in the organic-inorganic composite material is from 7.7% to 20.0% by volume. The resin component contains a compound represented by the following formula: where R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or a moiety containing a polymerizable functional group such as an acrylic group, a methacrylic group, an allyl group, a vinyl group, or an epoxy group or one or both of R1 and R2 represent the moiety containing the polymerizable functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 8344094
    Abstract: An optical material is provided that has a high transmittance, a high refractive index, a low Abbe constant, a high secondary dispersion property, and a low water absorption rate. The optical material includes a polymer of a mixture which contains: a sulfur-containing compound represented by the following general formula (1): a sulfur-containing compound represented by the following general formula (2): and an energy polymerization initiator, in which a content of the sulfur-containing compound represented by the chemical formula (2) is 10% by weight or more to 60% by weight or less, an Abbe constant (?d) of the polymer of the mixture satisfies 18<?d<23, and a secondary dispersion property (?g,F) thereof satisfies 0.68<?g,F<0.69.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Shigeo Kiso, Terunobu Saitoh, Toshiji Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20120200925
    Abstract: Provided are an organic-inorganic composite resin composition and an organic-inorganic composite resin material made of a cured product thereof, containing at least an organic compound having a polymerizable functional group, metal oxide fine particles, and a polymerization initiator. The cured product obtained by curing the organic-inorganic composite resin composition through application of an active energy has a refractive index nd of 1.61 or more and 1.65 or less, Abbe's number ?d of 13 or more and 20 or less, and an anomalous dispersion characteristic ?g,F of 0.42 or more and 0.54 or less. Further provided is an optical element comprising a transparent substrate and the organic-inorganic composite resin material formed on the transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Hideo Ukuda
  • Patent number: 8124324
    Abstract: A resin composition includes a binder component having at least one of a monomer and an oligomer of one or more of a fluorine system and a silicone system having a polymerizable functional group in a molecule. The resin composition also includes fine metal oxide particles, and a polymerization initiator. The fine metal oxide particles include particles selected from the group of zinc oxide, indium oxide, tin oxide, antimony oxide, tin-doped indium oxide (ITO), antimony-doped tin oxide (ATO), zinc-doped indium oxide (IZO), aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO), and fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Patent number: 8120851
    Abstract: Use of an organic optical material whose Abbe's number (?d) and secondary dispersion (?g,F) satisfy the relationship ?g,F??2?d×10?3+0.59 provides an optical material which causes reduced optical scattering, the optical material having excellent optical scattering characteristics and secondary dispersion characteristics equivalent to those of a compound in which fine particles of conductive metal oxides such as ITO are dispersed in an organic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20120003502
    Abstract: Provided are an organic solvent dispersion of titanium oxide containing at least titanium oxide fine particles each having an average primary particle diameter of 3 nm or more to 50 nm or less; a titanate-based surface treatment agent formed of a compound represented by the following general formula (1): (R1O)m—Ti—Xn ??(1) where R1 represents a methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl group; X represents —O—SO2—R2 or —O—P(OH)O—O—PHO—O—R2; R2 represents an alkyl or aryl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms; m represents a numerical value of 1 or more to 3 or less, and n represents a numerical value of 1 or more to 3 or less, provided that m+n=4; a polyether-based dispersant; and an alcohol-based solvent, and an optical material containing the organic solvent dispersion of titanium oxide and a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Shigeo Kiso, Terunobu Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20100076138
    Abstract: Provided is an optical material including a polymer of a mixture which contains a sulfur-containing compound, a fluorene compound with a fluorene skeleton, and an energy polymerization initiator. The sulfur-containing compound contains, in a molecule, at least one kind of group selected from the group consisting of a sulfide group, a sulphone group, a sulfoxide group, a thiol group, and a thioester group. A refractive index of the polymer of the mixture is 1.65 or more to less than 1.92, an Abbe constant thereof is 15 or more to less than 22, and a difference ??g,F between a secondary dispersion property ?g,F thereof and a secondary dispersion property ?g,F of a normal optical material which is expressed by ?g,F=0.6438?0.001682?d is 0.05 or more to less than 0.13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20100076106
    Abstract: Provided is an optical material which has a high transmittance, a high refractive index, a low Abbe constant, a high secondary dispersion property, and a low water absorption rate. The optical material includes a polymer of a mixture which contains: a sulfur-containing compound represented by the following general formula (1): a sulfur-containing compound represented by the following general formula (2): and an energy polymerization initiator, in which a content of the sulfur-containing compound represented by the chemical formula-2 is 10% by weight or more to 60% by weight or less, an Abbe constant (?d) of the polymer of the mixture satisfies 18<?d<23, and a secondary dispersion property (?g,F) thereof satisfies 0.68<?g,F<0.69.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidefumi Iwasa, Shigeo Kiso, Terunobu Saitoh, Toshiji Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20090190224
    Abstract: A resin composition includes a binder component having at least one of a monomer and an oligomer of one or more of a fluorine system and a silicone system having a polymerizable functional group in a molecule. The resin composition also includes fine metal oxide particles, and a polymerization initiator. The fine metal oxide particles include particles selected from the group of zinc oxide, indium oxide, tin oxide, antimony oxide, tin-doped indium oxide (ITO), antimony-doped tin oxide (ATO), zinc-doped indium oxide (IZO), aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO), and fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20080170295
    Abstract: Use of an organic optical material whose Abbe's number (vd) and secondary dispersion (?g,F) satisfy the relationship ?g,F??2vd×10?3+0.59 provides an optical material which causes reduced optical scattering, the optical material having excellent optical scattering characteristics and secondary dispersion characteristics equivalent to those of a compound in which fine particles of conductive metal oxides such as ITO are dispersed in an organic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidefumi Iwasa