Abstract: In order to realize a device and a method each capable of forming a lens with high accuracy and low costs, a lens forming device of the present invention includes a metal mold, an insulating substrate, a stage, a power source, a switch, and a UV radiating device. Dielectric resin is supplied onto the insulating substrate and a transfer surface of the metal mold is pressed to the dielectric resin so as to transfer a lens shape to the dielectric resin. At that time, the power source applies a voltage on the metal mold to generate an electric field between the metal mold and the insulating substrate so that an electrostatic attraction causes the dielectric resin to be attracted toward the transfer surface of the metal mold while the top of the dielectric resin has a sharp cuspate shape. Consequently, bubbles are less likely to be invade between the transfer surface and the dielectric resin, allowing transferring a highly accurate lens shape to the dielectric resin.

Abstract: A lens molding apparatus (100) of the present invention includes: a mold (1) having a transfer surface (1a); a mold (2) having a transfer surface (2a); heating devices (3a and 3b) for curing, by heating, a resin material which is supplied to the transfer surface (1a) and against which the transfer surface (2a) is pressed; a pressure control section (6) for controlling a support device (4) so that the support device (4) applies a pressure on the resin material; and a DC power source (7) for forming an electric field by applying a voltage between the molds (1 and 2).

Abstract: A lens molding apparatus of the present invention includes: a mold having a transfer surface for transferring a predetermined lens shape to a dielectric resin; a mold having a transfer surface for transferring a predetermined lens shape to the dielectric resin; a support device moving the mold; a heating device heating the dielectric resin so as to form a resin molded product, the dielectric resin having been supplied on the transfer surface; a DC power source forming an electric field by application of direct-current voltage between the mold and the mold; and switches switching a direction of the electric field between a direction from the mold to the mold and a direction from the mold to the mold.

Abstract: A lens molding apparatus (100) of the present invention includes: a mold (1) having a transfer surface (1a) for transferring a predetermined lens shape to a resin material; a mold (2) having a transfer surface (2a) for transferring a predetermined lens shape to the resin material; a support device (3) for moving the mold (1); a heating device (4) curing the resin material so as to form a lens, the resin material having been supplied between the transfer surface (1a) and the transfer surface (2a); and an ultrasonic vibrator (5) applying vibration from a side surface of the mold (1 or 2) so as to form a gap at least at a part between the transfer surface (1a or 2a) and the lens.

Abstract: A liquid discharging nozzle of the present invention includes (i) a liquid reservoir for reserving a discharging liquid and (ii) a discharging tube connected to a bottom part of the liquid reservoir. A water-repellent layer is provided on an inner surface of the discharging tube, on an inner surface of the discharging tube, and on an inner surface of the liquid reservoir, and is a fluorinated water-repellent layer. An aluminum oxide layer and a silicon oxide layer are used as foundation layers of the fluorinated water-repellent layer. The aluminum oxide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the fluorinated water-repellent layer, which are stacked together, have a combined thickness of not more than 25 nm. The fluorinated water-repellent layer alone has a thickness of 1 nm to 4 nm.

Abstract: In order that an image pickup lens, an image pickup module, a method for manufacturing an image pickup lens, and a method for manufacturing an image pickup module may be realized each of which makes it possible to realize a higher resolution of a periphery of a formed image, an image pickup lens of the present invention satisfies the following formulas (1) and (2): 0.080<d1/d2<0.22??(1); and d1?/d1<1.00??(2) where: d1 is a center thickness of the single lens; d1? is a thickness of a lateral side of the single lens; and d2 is a length in air between the image surface and a center of that surface of the single lens which faces the image surface.

Abstract: In order to produce, for example, an image sensing module which has a resolving power enough to meet required specifications for both photographing a close object and photograph a far object, and which has a simple structure, an image sensing module includes: an imaging lens having an increased depth of field and a decreased curvature of field; and a sensor provided between (i) a location of a best image surface of the imaging lens with respect to white light from a sunflower and (ii) a location of a best image surface of the imaging lens with respect to white light from a tree.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup lens including first and second lenses each of which has an Abbe number of greater than 45, which image pickup lens is configured to satisfy the following inequalities (1) and (2): ?0.62<f/f2<?0.55??(1) f/EPD<3.6??(2) where f is the focal length of an entire image pickup lens system, f2 is the focal length of the second lens, and EPD is entrance pupil diameter of the entire image pickup lens system.

Abstract: In order to attain an imaging lens whose resolution performance is totally excellent, the imaging lens is in a shape of rotation symmetry in an optical effective aperture, and an image height-MTF property of the imaging lens is designed such that a maximum MTF value of a peripheral region where the image height is greater than zero is greater than an MTF value of a center region where the image height is zero in at least one of a sagittal direction and a tangential direction. This makes it possible to totally maintain an excellent resolution performance of a product even in a case where the performance of the product becomes unstable due to a tolerance that occurs at the time of manufacturing the product.

Abstract: To provide an image sensing lens and an image sensing module each of which includes four lenses and each of which corrects aberrations well and has a great resolving power and a reduced height, an image sensing lens includes (i) a third lens which has a surface facing an image surface, the surface being an aspheric surface and (ii) a fourth lens which has a surface facing an object and a surface facing the image surface, the surfaces being each an aspheric surface. The image sensing lens satisfies the following Formulae (1) through (3): 0.51<f1/f<0.78??(1) ?1.63<f2/f<?0.97??(2) v1?v2>20??(3).

Abstract: A liquid discharging nozzle of the present invention includes (i) a liquid reservoir for reserving a discharging liquid and (ii) a discharging tube connected to a bottom part of the liquid reservoir. A water-repellent layer is provided on an inner surface of the discharging tube, on an inner surface of the discharging tube, and on an inner surface of the liquid reservoir, and is a fluorinated water-repellent layer. An aluminum oxide layer and a silicon oxide layer are used as foundation layers of the fluorinated water-repellent layer. The aluminum oxide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the fluorinated water-repellent layer, which are stacked together, have a combined thickness of not more than 25 nm. The fluorinated water-repellent layer alone has a thickness of 1 nm to 4 nm.

Abstract: A wafer-level lens of the present invention is produced by cutting out one of a plurality of lenses from at least one lens array having a wafer on which the plurality of lenses are provided, the wafer-level lens being cut out from the at least one lens array so as to have a cross section which is perpendicular to an optical axis of the wafer-level lens and is a hexagon.

Abstract: A lens aligning device includes: a decentering detection mechanism for measuring a first lens decentering amount; a aligning position calculation control mechanism for calculating a target inter-lens decentering amount by using Formula (1); an adjustment mechanism for moving at least one of a first lens and a second lens so that the inter-lens decentering amount matches the target inter-lens decentering amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup lens including first and second lenses each of which has an Abbe number of greater than 45, which image pickup lens is configured to satisfy the following inequalities (1) and (2): ?0.62<f/f2<?0.55??(1) f/EPD<3.6??(2) where f is the focal length of an entire image pickup lens system, f2 is the focal length of the second lens, and EPD is entrance pupil diameter of the entire image pickup lens system.

Abstract: In order to provide (i) a simple-structured imaging module that is arranged to have resolution good enough to satisfy required specifications both in photographing a near-by object and in photographing a distant object, (ii) a lens element constituting the imaging module, and (iii) an imaging lens constituting the imaging module, at least one lens surface of a first lens is constituted by a plurality of regions having different refractive power so that a range of an allowable object distance is increased.

Abstract: To provide an image sensing lens and an image sensing module each of which includes four lenses and each of which corrects aberrations well and has a great resolving power and a reduced height, an image sensing lens includes (i) a third lens which has a surface facing an image surface, the surface being an aspheric surface and (ii) a fourth lens which has a surface facing an object and a surface facing the image surface, the surfaces being each an aspheric surface. The image sensing lens satisfies the following Formulae (1) through (3): 0.51<f1/f<0.78??(1) ?1.63<f2/f<?0.97??(2) v1?v2>20??(3).

Abstract: In order to attain an imaging lens whose resolution performance is totally excellent, the imaging lens of the present invention is in a shape of rotation symmetry in an optical effective aperture, and an image height-MTF property of the imaging lens is designed such that a maximum MTF value of a peripheral region where the image height is greater than zero is greater than an MTF value of a center region where the image height is zero in at least one of a sagittal direction and a tangential direction. This makes it possible to totally maintain an excellent resolution performance of a product even in a case where the performance of the product becomes unstable due to a tolerance that occurs at the time of manufacturing the product.

Abstract: In order to provide an image pickup lens, an image pickup module, and a portable information device that make it possible to reduce the risk of deterioration in optical characteristic by achieving satisfactory resolving performance in an area surrounding a shot image, an image pickup lens includes a first lens having an Abbe number of greater than 45 and second lens having an Abbe number of greater than 45 and satisfies mathematical expression (1): ?3.6<f2/f1<?2.5??(1) where f1 is the focal length of the first lens and f2 is the focal length of the second lens.

Abstract: In order that an image pickup lens, an image pickup module, a method for manufacturing an image pickup lens, and a method for manufacturing an image pickup module may be realized each of which makes it possible to realize a higher resolution of a periphery of a formed image, an image pickup lens of the present invention satisfies the following formulas (1)and (2): 0.080<d1/d2<0.22??(1); and d1?/d1<1.00??(2) where: d1 is a center thickness of the single lens; d1 is a thickness of a lateral side of the single lens; and d2 is a length in air between the image surface and a center of that surface of the single lens which faces the image surface.

Abstract: In order to realize a device and a method each capable of forming a lens with high accuracy and low costs, a lens forming device of the present invention includes a metal mold, an insulating substrate, a stage, a power source, a switch, and a UV radiating device. Dielectric resin is supplied onto the insulating substrate and a transfer surface of the metal mold is pressed to the dielectric resin so as to transfer a lens shape to the dielectric resin. At that time, the power source applies a voltage on the metal mold to generate an electric field between the metal mold and the insulating substrate so that an electrostatic attraction causes the dielectric resin to be attracted toward the transfer surface of the metal mold while the top of the dielectric resin has a sharp cuspate shape. Consequently, bubbles are less likely to be invade between the transfer surface and the dielectric resin, allowing transferring a highly accurate lens shape to the dielectric resin.