Patents by Inventor Hisao Fukaya

Hisao Fukaya 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: 10739569
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power and a second lens group having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, and a sixth lens. The third lens has a concave surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The sixth lens has a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis thereof. The fifth lens has a specific Abbe's number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10739568
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens having negative refractive power. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, and a sixth lens. The third lens has a concave surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The fourth lens has a specific Abbe's number. The fifth lens has a specific Abbe's number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10739567
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a front side lens group and a rear side lens group. The front side lens group includes a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The rear side lens group includes a sixth lens having two aspheric surfaces and a seventh lens having two aspheric surfaces. The imaging lens has a total of seven single lenses. The first to seventh lenses are arranged respectively with a space in between. The third and fourth lenses have convex surfaces on the image plane side. The fifth lens has a convex surface on the object side. The rear side lens group has a specific focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Publication number: 20200233181
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with small telephoto ratio and excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of the downsizing, the low-profileness and the low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having a convex surface facing the image side, and a below conditional expression is satisfied: 0.60<TTL/f<1.00 where TTL: a total track length, and f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Hisao FUKAYA
  • Patent number: 10698176
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group; and a second lens group, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having negative refractive power and a second lens. The second lens group includes a third lens having positive refractive power and a fourth lens having negative refractive power. The fourth lens is formed in a shape so that a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the image plane side is positive. The first lens, the second lens and the third lens have specific Abbe's numbers, the first lens is arranged to be away from the second lens, the second lens is arranged to be away from the third lens, and the third lens is arranged to be away from the fourth lens by specific distances on an optical axis so that the specific conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10678020
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which realizes reducing size, the low-profileness, low F-number and small telephoto ratio. An imaging lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens having the positive refractive power, and a sixth lens, wherein a below conditional expression is satisfied: 0.6<TTL/f<1.0 where TTL: total track length, and f: focal length of the overall optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10656388
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a front side lens group and a rear side lens group. The front side lens group includes a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The rear side lens group includes a sixth lens and a seventh lens both having two aspheric surfaces. The imaging lens has a total of seven single lenses. The first to seventh lenses are arranged respectively with a space in between. The third lens has convex surfaces on both sides. The fourth lens has a concave surface on the object side. The fifth lens has a concave surface on the image plane side. The rear side lens group has a specific focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10656387
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, a sixth lens having two aspheric surfaces, and a seventh lens having two aspheric surfaces. The imaging lens has a total of seven single lenses. The first to seventh lenses are arranged respectively with a space in between. The third lens is formed in a shape so that a surface on the object side is convex. The fourth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface on the object side is concave. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface on the image plane side is concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Publication number: 20200150396
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which realizes the low-profileness, wide field of view and low F-value well balance. An imaging lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having the concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said sixth lens is an aspheric surface which changes to the convex surface at a peripheral portion, and a total track length is 6.0 mm or less and below conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 20<?d3<32??(2) 20<?d5<32??(3) where ?d3: abbe number at d-ray of the third lens ?d5: abbe number at d-ray of the fifth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hisao FUKAYA, Kenichi KAMADA, Shingo YUZA
  • Publication number: 20200150397
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which realizes the low-profileness, wide field of view and low F-value well balance. An imaging lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having the concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said sixth lens is an aspheric surface which changes to the convex surface at a peripheral portion, and a total track length is 6.0 mm or less and below conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 20<vd3<32??(2) 20<vd5<32??(3) where vd3: abbe number at d-ray of the third lens vd5: abbe number at d-ray of the fifth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hisao FUKAYA, Kenichi KAMADA, Shingo YUZA
  • Publication number: 20200150392
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number, and has excellent optical characteristics. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis and positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens having a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis and negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of said seventh lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis, said second lens has positive refractive power near the optical axis, and said sixth lens has plane surfaces both on the object side and the image side and is formed as a double-sided aspheric lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Hisao FUKAYA
  • Patent number: 10641991
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The second lens is formed in a shape so that surfaces on the both sides have positive curvature radii. The sixth lens is formed in a shape so that surfaces on the both sides have negative curvature radii. The fourth lens is arranged to be away from the fifth lens by a specific distance on an optical axis, and the imaging lens has a specific angle of view so that specific conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10634875
    Abstract: It is possible to (i) cause a sixth lens to more effectively correct various aberrations and (ii) make an optical overall length shorter. A first lens (L1) has positive refractive power. A fifth lens (L5) and a sixth lens (L6) each have negative refractive power. An object-side surface (L1F) of the first lens (L1) is a convex surface. At least one of an object-side surface and an image plane-side surface of each of a second lens (L2), a third lens (L3), a fourth lens (L4), and the fifth lens (L5) is an aspheric surface. An object-side surface (L6F) of the sixth lens (L6) is a concave surface and is an aspheric surface. An image plane-side surface (L6R) of the sixth lens (L6) is an optically planar surface throughout a region corresponding to an effective diameter of the image plane-side surface (L6R) of the sixth lens (L6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KANTATSU Co., LTD
    Inventors: Norimichi Shigemitsu, Yoshihito Ishizue, Hisao Fukaya, Kaoru Yamazaki, Shingo Yuza
  • Patent number: 10627604
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens and a fifth lens having negative refractive power. The first lens is formed in a shape so that a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the image plane side is positive. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side is aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Publication number: 20200103617
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens having small ratio of the total track length to the focal length of an overall optical system, reducing telephoto ratio, properly correcting aberrations and having the high resolution. An imaging lens comprises five optical elements, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising, a first lens as a first optical element having positive refractive power, a second lens as a second optical element having negative refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a third lens as a third optical element having the refractive power, and a fourth lens as a fourth optical element having refractive power and the convex surface facing the object surface near the optical axis, wherein and an aberration correction optical element as a fifth optical element are arranged between said third lens and said fourth lens, said aberration correction optical element has both flat surfaces near the optical axis and aspheric surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Hisao FUKAYA
  • Patent number: 10598903
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The second lens is formed so that surfaces have positive paraxial curvature radii. The fourth lens is formed so that a surface on the image plane side has a negative paraxial curvature radius. The sixth lens is formed so that surfaces are aspherical, and the surface on the image plane side has a negative paraxial curvature radius. The first lens is arranged so that a surface on the object side is away from an image plane by a specific distance on an optical axis, and the imaging lens has a specific angle of view so that specific conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10598905
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The second lens has a convex surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The fifth lens has a concave surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The sixth lens has a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis thereof. The fifth lens has refractive power weaker than those of the fourth lens and the sixth lens. The second lens has a specific Abbe's number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10545318
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens is formed so that a surface on the object side has a positive paraxial curvature radius. The second lens is formed so that a surface on the image plane side has a positive paraxial curvature radius. The sixth lens is formed so that surfaces are aspherical and have specific paraxial curvature radii. The first lens is arranged so that a surface on the object side is away from an image plane by a specific distance on an optical axis. The imaging lens has a specific angle of view. The fourth lens is arranged away from the fifth lens by a specific distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10534159
    Abstract: An imaging lens including order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having the concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said sixth lens is an aspheric surface which changes to the convex surface at a peripheral portion, and a total track length is 6.0 mm or less and below conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 20<?d 3<32??(2) 20<?d 5<32??(3) where ?d3: abbe number at d-ray of the third lens ?d5: abbe number at d-ray of the fifth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao Fukaya, Kenichi Kamada, Shingo Yuza
  • Publication number: 20190361197
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The second lens has a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis thereof. The fifth lens has a convex surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The sixth lens has a convex surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The first lens is arranged so that a surface thereof on the object side is away from an image plane by a specific distance on an optical axis thereof. The second lens is arranged to be away from the third lens by a specific distance on the optical axis thereof. The third lens has a specific Abbe's number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Yoji KUBOTA, Kenichi KUBOTA, Hitoshi HIRANO, Hisao FUKAYA