Patents by Inventor Kazunori Kagei

Kazunori Kagei 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: 20040188873
    Abstract: A method for producing a resin lens having a refractive index of 1.45 or more by the use of at least two materials for resins, which comprises preparing a formed body having no fluidity from at least one of the materials forming a cavity on the face to be adhered of the formed body, injecting material for a resin into the cavity, polymerizing the another material in the cavity, to thereby prepare a formed resin article having at least two resin materials air tightly integrated with each other and converted into a single structure, and producing a lens in which properties of the at least two resin materials are complemented by one another from the resin articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Kazunori Kagei
  • Publication number: 20040178525
    Abstract: A liquid resin material is charged into the cavity of a shell Sa for molding a resin lens in an amount of 50 to 90% of the volume of the cavity, holding the shell in nearly horizontal position, to generate a rising part owing to surface tension and form a resin pool 7a, effecting a polymerization through heating while maintaining the horizontal position, and releasing a mold for the shell, to provide a molded resin article 8c. The resin article 8c has a lens part 9c located in the central portion and a brim part 10c being molded integrally. The half-finished resin lens can be used for producing lens having and desired diameter smaller than that of the mold by cutting off the brim, and thus allows the savings of a resin for optical use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Kazunori Kagei, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20010001246
    Abstract: Lenses are provided in an assortment of frequently used prescriptions and are preground to a desired final contour. The lenses are optionally provided with a lug, temple and modern and with a split bridge member attached thereto to provided a half eyeglass assembly. Alternately, the parts may be provided unassembled. Proper lenses are selected on the basis of a prescription by a consumer and are assembled by the consumer to form a completed pair of eyeglasses. A bridge assembled from the split bridge members is adjustable to set a desired interpupillary distance. The positions of holes for attaching the bridge and lug to the lenses are line-symmetrical with respect to a vertical axis of each lens so as to allow the lens to be used as either a right or left lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: May 17, 2001
    Applicant: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Kazunori Kagei, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 6183081
    Abstract: Lenses are provided in an assortment of frequently used prescriptions and are preground to a desired final contour. The lenses are optionally provided with a lug, temple and modern and with a split bridge member attached thereto to provided a half eyeglass assembly. Alternately, the parts may be provided unassembled. Proper lenses are selected on the basis of a prescription by a consumer and are assembled by the consumer to form a completed pair of eyeglasses. A bridge assembled from the split bridge members is adjustable to set a desired interpupillary distance. The positions of holes for attaching the bridge and lug to the lenses are line-symmetrical with respect to a vertical axis of each lens so as to allow the lens to be used as either a right or left lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Kazunori Kagei, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 6070979
    Abstract: A base lens of a polyurethane resin comprising a polyisocyanate compound and a polythiol, a sulfur-containing polyol or the like is coated with a primer layer having a thickness sufficient for shock absorption, an organosiloxane-type, hard coat layer having a refractive index of 1.47 or more, and optionally a thin metal layer in that order. As having this constitution, the plastic lens has a mechanical strength resistant to striking energy of not smaller than 4 times the striking energy value of the FDA Standard, 0.204 joules, when the center thickness of the lens is from 0.7 mm to less than 1.2 mm. Since the latitude in the acceptable range for the conditions for the processing of the lens (relative to the thickness of each constitutive layer) is large, the producibility of the lens is high. An inhomogeneous layer may be formed between the adjacent layers, which reduces the reflectivity of the lens for transmitting light and prevents the formation of interference fringes in the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Asahi Lite Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kagei, Tadashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5709922
    Abstract: A transparent article made of a resin and having on its surface the fine unevenness formed by direct transfer of ultrafine particles. An unevenness transfer substrate having the ultrafine particles deposited thereon as a monolayer by using a binder, with a water/oil repellent film formed on the ultrafine particle layer, is placed in a mold, then a sufficiently deaerated fluid plastic resin is cast into the mold and heated to cause curing, then the mold is removed, and the unevenness transfer substrate and the cured resin are separated from each other. Consequently, the fine unevenness formed by the ultrafine particles is transferred to the resin surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Washi Kosan Company,Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Ono, Yoshishige Endo, Kazunori Kagei, Kenji Sumida
  • Patent number: 5137344
    Abstract: A semi-finished lens of plastic material which will be ground on the basis of a spectacles prescription to be completed as a myopia correcting single-focus lens is molded such that the convex surface is a spherical nonprocessed surface and the concave surface is a nonspherical molded surface which requires no grinding. Thus, a completed lens can be easily obtained by simply grinding the spherical convex surface. Further, the concave surface which is a nonspherical molded surface is formed as an ellipsoidal surface of revolution, hyperboloidal surface of revolution or other nonspherical surface which has a curvature providing spherical power or a combination of spherical power and astimgatic power and whose curvature decreases from the optical center toward the periphery, whereby the difficulty of grinding can be decreased and the completed lens is free from the warping of images due to spherical aberration and has an edge which is thin and makes a better appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Asahi Optical
    Inventor: Kazunori Kagei
  • Patent number: 4590248
    Abstract: A plastic lens which has high hardness and excellent scratch resistance and can form a transparent and uniform reflection preventing film through vacuum deposition, is produced by mixing(a) diethylene glycol bis(allyl carbonate) with(b) at least one of organic peroxides having a decomposition temperature at selected half-life value for ten hours of not higher than 80.degree. C. and(c) at least one of specifically limited peroxycarbonates having a radical copolymerizability to the diethylene glycol bis(allyl carbonate) (a), as a polymerization initiator, and polymerizing and casting the resulting mixture in a desired lens-forming mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignees: Nippon Oil and Fats Co., Ltd., Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Moriya, Kazunori Kagei
  • Patent number: RE39343
    Abstract: A base lens of a polyurethane resin comprising a polyisocyanate compound and a polythiol, a sulfur-containing polyol or the like is coated with a primer layer having a thickness sufficient for shock absorption, an organosiloxane-type, hard coat layer having a refractive index of 1.47 or more, and optionally a thin metal layer in that order. As having this constitution, the plastic lens has a mechanical strength resistant to striking energy of not smaller than 4 times the striking energy value of the FDA Standard, 0.204 joules, when the center thickness of the lens is from 0.7 mm to less than 1.2 mm. Since the latitude in the acceptable range for the conditions for the processing of the lens (relative to the thickness of each constitutive layer) is large, the producibility of the lens is high. An inhomogeneous layer may be formed between the adjacent layers, which reduces the reflectivity of the lens for transmitting light and prevents the formation of interference fringes in the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Asahi Lite Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kagei, Tadashi Kobayashi