Abstract: Provided is a low-dispersion optical glass that is formed of a fluorophosphate glass in which the molar ratio of the content of O2? to the content of P5+, O2?/P5+, is 3.5 or more and that has an Abbe's number (?d) of over 70 or has an F? content of 65 anionic % or more, and the optical glass enables the suppression of the volatilization of a glass component when an optical glass formed of a fluorophosphate glass is produced or when an obtained glass in a molten state is caused to flow out to shape it into a glass shaped material, so that the variation of properties such as a refractive index, etc., involved in the fluctuations of a glass composition and the variation of quality such as the occurrence of striae can be suppressed.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate, which comprises essential components in the form of SiO2, Li2O, Na2O, and one or more alkaline earth metal oxides selected from the group consisting of MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO wherein a molar ratio of a content of CaO to a combined content of MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO (CaO/(MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO)) is equal to or less than 0.20, and which has a glass transition temperature of equal to or higher than 650° C.

Abstract: An optical apparatus comprises: source, primary, and secondary waveguides formed in waveguide layers on a substrate; a light source; and an optical waveguide tap. The light source launches a source optical signal along the source waveguide. The tap divides the source optical signal into a primary optical signal in the primary waveguide and a secondary optical signal in the secondary waveguide. The secondary optical signal emerges from the secondary waveguide to exit the waveguide layers at the substrate edge or to propagate within the waveguide layers as a stray optical signal without confinement by any waveguide. The stray optical signal propagates thusly unconfined into the open mouth of an optical trap that comprises one or more lateral surfaces formed in the waveguide layers and an opaque coating on the lateral surfaces, and comprises a spiral region of the optical waveguide layers with an open mouth and closed end.

Abstract: It is provided that a simulation system for wearing spectacles, providing wearer with simulated-experience of an eye image capable of being observed in time of wearing a spectacle lens, comprising, a simulation image generating means of generating a simulation image reflected with a scaling of the eye image capable of being observed in time of wearing the spectacle lens, based on an aspherical component parameter being a basis of the scaling of the eye image capable of being observed in time of wearing spectacles with at least one of optical surfaces aspherical.

Abstract: In a mask blank substrate having two main surfaces and four end faces, a central point is set on the main surface, a first axis of symmetry that passes through the central point and that is parallel to one of the end faces and a second axis of symmetry that passes through the central point and that is perpendicular to the first axis are respectively set, measurement points are set in the form of a grid with respect to the first and the second axes so as to measure heights of the main surface from a reference plane at the measurement points, respectively, differences each between measured height values at those measurement points located at positions axisymmetric with respect to the first axis are calculated. Those differences corresponding to at least 95% of the total number of the calculated differences between the measured height values are within a predetermined value.

Abstract: An antireflection film including an optical element, formed on an optical surface of an optical member, and is configured to prevent a reflection of a light beam incident on the optical surface, wherein a maximum reflectance P1 in a first wavelength region and a maximum reflectance P2 in a second wavelength region at a wavelength side longer than the first wavelength region, satisfies a relation of P1>P2, as a spectral reflectance property when a light beam is incident on the optical surface at an incident angle of 0 degree; and by shifting a wavelength range where the reflectance is a specific value or less, to a wavelength side longer than the second wavelength region, the reflectance in the second wavelength region is decreased, and the reflectance in the first wavelength region is increased so that a luminance difference is small between a ghost in the first wavelength region and a ghost in the second wavelength region.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a polarizing lens, which comprises a polarizing layer comprising a dichroic dye and a functional film in this order on a lens substrate, and further comprises a waterborne resin layer between the polarizing layer and the functional film as a layer adjacent to both the polarizing layer and functional film, wherein the waterborne resin layer is greater than 0.50 ?m in thickness and has been formed by coating and drying a waterborne resin composition comprising a polyether polyurethane resin and a water-based solvent.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing lens, which comprises forming a polarizing layer by orienting and depositing a dichroic dye on a lens substrate; conducting an amino silane treatment by impregnating the polarizing layer with a solution of a silane coupling agent comprising an amino group; coating a waterborne resin composition comprising a polyether polyurethane resin and a water-based solvent on the polarizing layer following the amino silane treatment and then drying the waterborne resin composition to form a primer layer; and forming a cured coating by coating a curable composition on the primer layer that has been formed and then conducting a curing treatment.

Abstract: A zoom lens barrel includes front and rear lens group support frames, a first spring member provided to bias the front lens group support frame and a diaphragm in directions away from each other, and a second spring member provided to bias the diaphragm and the rear lens group support frame in directions away from each other. Spring loads of the first and second spring members are determined such that, when the front and rear lens group support frames approach each other during zooming, one and the other of the first and second spring members are compressed and not compressed, and the other of the first and second spring members is compressed after the one of the first and second spring members is fully compressed.

Abstract: A position controller for an optical element of a photographing optical system, includes an advancing/retracting ring, an anti-shake moving member supported by the advancing/retracting ring, an insertable/removable moving member which holds the optical element, a rear support member fixed to the advancing/retracting ring; a removal drive member supported by the rear support member to be movable between an insertion allowance position in which the removal drive member is in noncontact with the insertable/removable moving member in the insertion position, to thereby allow the anti-shake moving member to move in a moving range thereof, and a forced removing position in which the removal drive member comes in contact with and presses the insertable/removable moving member to move the insertable/removable moving member from the insertion position to the removed position; and an insertion/removal controller.

Abstract: An optical glass that is an oxide glass having a very high refractive index in spite of its low-dispersion property, having excellent glass stability and having less susceptibility to coloring.

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, positive second and third lens groups, wherein upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the distance between the first and second lens groups decreases and the distance between the second and third lens groups changes. The second lens group includes a biconvex positive lens element with an aspherical surface on each side, and a negative meniscus lens element with an aspherical surface, and a concave surface on the image side. Conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: ?d>80 ??(1), and Pg_F>0.53 ??(2), wherein ?d designates the Abbe number at the d-line of the biconvex positive lens element within the second lens group, and Pg_F designates the partial dispersion ratio of the biconvex positive lens element within the second lens group.

Abstract: For evaluating custom made eyeglass lenses using a visual fatigue function, the visual fatigue function includes at least one of or both of a positive relative convergence and a negative relative convergence of the positive relative convergence, the negative relative convergence, a positive relative accommodation, a negative relative accommodation and a vertical fusional vergence.

Abstract: A lens moving mechanism includes a guide shaft extending in an optical axis direction and a lens frame. The lens frame includes a transfer portion which follows movement of the nut member, which is screw-engaged with a lead screw of a motor. An effective length of the guide shaft is greater than that of the lead screw so that an end of the guide shaft and the motor overlap each other. Part of the fit-on portion of the lens frame is positioned where the end of the guide shaft and the motor overlap each other when the lens frame is at a lens-frame moving end, and is positioned to face the lead screw in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis when the lens frame is at the opposite lens-frame moving end.

Abstract: An optical glass, comprising, denoted as cation percentages: a content of Si4+ and B3+ (35 to 55); a combined content of La3+, Gd3+, and Y3+ (30 to 55), wherein Gd3+ is 5 to 20%; a content of Ti4+, Nb5+, Ta5+ and W6+ (7 to 20); Zr4+ (2 to 8); and Zn2+ (0 to 10); wherein a cation ratio of Zn2+ to Gd3+ is 0 to 0.80; a cation ratio of Gd3+ to Ti4+, Nb5+, Ta5+, and W6+ combined is 0.65 to 2.00; a cation ratio of Ta5+ to Ti4+, Nb5+, Ta5+, and W6+ combined is 0 to 0.30; a cation ratio of Ti4+ to Ti4+, Nb5+, Ta5+, and W6+ combined is 0.30 to 0.90; and a refractive index nd is 1.890 to 1.950, and an Abbé number ?d of equal to or lower than 39.0, the Abbé number ?d satisfying a relation of ?d?(2.334-nd)/0.012 relative to nd.

Abstract: An electronic endoscope system includes a light source that emits light including at least a visible light band; an optical filter that has a transmittance peak at a particular wavelength within a continuous wavelength band including at least the visible light band and that has a transmittance distribution which is larger than zero and is smaller than a half of the transmittance peak within an entire of the continuous wavelength band excepting the transmittance peak; an optical filter switching means that inserts the optical filter into an illumination optical path of the light source or retracts the optical filter from the illumination optical path; a color solid state image pick-up device that receives reflected light from a subject illuminated with illumination light which has passed through the optical filter or has not passed through the optical filter; and an image generating means that generates a color image which can be displayed on a monitor by processing an imaging signal output by the solid state

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, positive second and third lens groups, wherein upon zooming from the short to the long focal length extremities, the distance between the first and second lens groups decreases and the distance between the second and third lens groups changes. The second lens group includes a biconvex positive lens element with an aspherical surface on each side, and a negative meniscus lens element with an aspherical surface, and a concave surface on the image side. The following condition (1) is satisfied: 5<m2t/m2w<8??(1), wherein m2t and m2w designate the lateral magnifications of the second lens group at the long and short focal length extremities, respectively, when focused on an object at infinity.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of determining a manufacturing condition of a polythiourethane eyeglass lens obtained via a process of obtaining polythiourethane by polymerization reaction of an iso(thio)cyanate compound and a thiol compound, comprising determining a candidate composition for a starting material mixture and a candidate polymerization reaction condition employed in the polymerization reaction in actual manufacturing; polymerizing the starting material mixture of the candidate composition that has been determined under the candidate polymerization reaction condition to obtain a test sample; testing the obtained test sample by irradiation with a xenon lamp to determine whether or not change into red-like color is present following irradiation with the xenon lamp; and determining a starting material mixture composition and a polymerization reaction condition to be employed in the polymerization reaction in actual manufacturing with the use of a result of the determination a

Abstract: A motor support structure of a lens barrel in which a support member of the lens barrel supports a motor having a rotary shaft, includes a radial position limiter which limits a radial position of the motor with respect to the support member in radial directions orthogonal to the rotary shaft; an axial-position limiter which limits an axial position of the motor with respect to the support member in an axial direction of the rotary shaft when the motor is turned to a predetermined position about the rotary shaft with the radial position of the motor limited by the radial position limiter; and a rotation limiter which limits the turning of the motor about the rotary shaft at the predetermined position, at which the axial position of the motor is limited by the axial-position limiter.

Abstract: An artificial bone-cartilage composite comprising a first composite material layer comprising collagen, proteoglycan and hyaluronic acid, and a second composite material layer comprising collagen and calcium phosphate, which are bonded to each other via a bonding layer comprising collagen, proteoglycan, hyaluronic acid and calcium phosphate.