Patents by Inventor Kenzo Wada

Kenzo Wada 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: 11966034
    Abstract: A body tissue observation lens includes a lens base having an integral polarizing filter. The body tissue observation lens has a 40% or higher average transmittance in a visible light wavelength range of 380 to 780 nm. The body tissue observation lens contains a specific wavelength light absorbing pigment such that the ratio of the minimum transmittance in a wavelength range of 580 to 600 nm to the average transmittance in the visible light wavelength range of 380 to 780 nm is 18 to 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TALEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinzo Tamura, Kenzo Wada
  • Publication number: 20230168420
    Abstract: A functional polarizing element for insert molding is provided which is constituted by a polarizing film; a cured coating film formed on a concave surface of the polarizing film by applying and drying a coating material containing 100 parts by mass of a transparent adhesive and 4 to 20 parts by mass of a functional dye; and a cured coating film of a transparent adhesive, and coating a convex surface of the polarizing film. Also, a functional polarizing lens is provided which is obtained by insert molding using the functional polarizing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroo TAMURA, Kenzo WADA
  • Patent number: 11543684
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-corrective spectacle lens which is a molded plastic lens used by a person having normal eyesight, or a polarizing lens constituted by the molded plastic lens and a polarizing film integrally superposed on the molded plastic lens. In order to moderately reduce the movement of the muscle necessary for focus adjustment, the non-corrective spectacle lens has a spherical power S within the range of ?1.0 D?S<?0.1 D, where D is diopter as a unit of the spherical power S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TALEX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinzo Tamura, Kenzo Wada
  • Publication number: 20210247599
    Abstract: A body tissue observing lens includes a lens base having an integral polarizing filter, and having a 40% or higher average transmittance in a visible light wavelength range of 380 to 780 nm. The lens contains a specific wavelength light absorbing pigment such that the ratio of the minimum transmittance in a wavelength range of 580 to 600 nm to the above-mentioned average transmittance is 18 to 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Shinzo TAMURA, Kenzo WADA
  • Patent number: 10823984
    Abstract: A polarizing element is superposed upon a lens base material. The polarizing element has an average light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 400 to 760 nm in a visible region is 30% or more. A light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 410 to 700 nm in a near infrared region is 0 to 2% when the polarizing element and an identical polarizing element are superposed one upon the other with their polarization axes perpendicular to each other. One of a film integral with the polarizing lens and the lens base material contains a near infrared ray absorption dye such that a light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 700 to 800 nm in a near infrared region is 0 to 2% when the polarizing lens and an identical polarizing lens are superposed one upon the other with their polarization axes perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroo Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada, Ryogo Nitta
  • Patent number: 10444547
    Abstract: A functional laminated spectacle lens is provided which includes, as constituent layers, an outer lens, a polarizing film, and an inner lens. A functional layer is formed on at least one of the constituent layers. Another constituent layer is laminated on and joined to the functional layer through an adhesive layer. The functional layer is formed using a spin coating material which is obtained by incorporating a functional pigment into an acrylic urethane resin containing, as a main component, an acrylic polyol containing 4-hydroxybutyl acrylate, and, as a curable component, a polyisocyanate. Once the spin coating material cures, the required functional pigment is reliably maintained in the functional layer by a three-dimensional network structure, the migration of the functional pigment into an adjacent resin monomer-containing layer is prevented, and the functional pigment is made less susceptible to the effect of an organic peroxide contained in the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroo Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada, Ryogo Nitta
  • Publication number: 20190293966
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-corrective spectacle lens which is a molded plastic lens used by a person having normal eyesight, or a polarizing lens constituted by the molded plastic lens and a polarizing film integrally superposed on the molded plastic lens. In order to moderately reduce the movement of the muscle necessary for focus adjustment, the non-corrective spectacle lens has a spherical power S within the range of ?1.0 D?S<?0.1 D, where D is diopter as a unit of the spherical power S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shinzo TAMURA, Kenzo WADA
  • Patent number: 10267966
    Abstract: A composite functional polarized lens is a polarized lens in which lens substrate layers made of, for example, an allyl diglycol carbonate resin (produced by PPG Industries: CR-39), an urethane resin or other predetermined resin are integrally formed on both front and back surfaces of a polarizing film by way of insert molding, wherein a first lens substrate layer formed on the front surface of both the front and back surfaces of the polarizing film contains a light absorber which is an ultraviolet absorber, an infrared absorber, photochromic light absorber or a thermochromic light absorber as an additional component, and a second lens substrate layer formed on the back surface does not contain the light absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada, Ryogo Nitta
  • Publication number: 20190004337
    Abstract: A polarizing lens for spectacles is provided including a polarizing element superposed upon a lens base material. The polarizing element has an average light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 400 to 760 nm in a visible region is 30% or more. A light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 410 to 700 nm in a near infrared region is 0 to 2% if two of the polarizing elements are superposed one upon the other with their polarization axes perpendicular to each other. A film integral with the lens base material or the polarizing lens contains a near infrared ray absorption dye such that a light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 700 to 800 rim in a near infrared region is 0 to 2% if two of the polarizing lenses are superposed one upon the other with their polarization axes perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroo TAMURA, Shoichi MITSUUCHI, Kenzo WADA, Ryogo NITTA
  • Patent number: 10168554
    Abstract: A photochromic lens is proposed which can lose its color in a shorter period of time, and which is less likely to deteriorate when exposed to ultraviolet radiation. The photochromic lens is formed by dissolving 0.03 to 0.2 parts by mass of a spirooxazine photochromic compound in tetrahydrofuran, mixing the solution thus obtained into 100 parts by mass of a lens resin material so that the photochromic compound is uniformly dispersed in the resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada, Atsushi Takata
  • Publication number: 20170299782
    Abstract: A composite functional polarized lens is a polarized lens in which lens substrate layers made of, for example, an allyl diglycol carbonate resin (produced by PPG Industries: CR-39), an urethane resin or other predetermined resin are integrally formed on both front and back surfaces of a polarizing film by way of insert molding, wherein a first lens substrate layer formed on the front surface of both the front and back surfaces of the polarizing film contains a light absorber which is an ultraviolet absorber, an infrared absorber, photochromic light absorber or a thermochromic light absorber as an additional component, and a second lens substrate layer formed on the back surface does not contain the light absorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kanichi TAMURA, Shoichi MITSUUCHI, Kenzo WADA, Ryogo NITTA
  • Publication number: 20170153464
    Abstract: A functional laminated spectacle lens is provided which includes, as constituent layers, an outer lens, a polarizing film, and an inner lens. A functional layer is formed on at least one of the constituent layers. Another constituent layer is laminated on and joined to the functional layer through an adhesive layer. The functional layer is formed using a spin coating material which is obtained by incorporating a functional pigment into an acrylic urethane resin containing, as a main component, an acrylic polyol containing 4-hydroxybutyl acrylate, and, as a curable component, a polyisocyanate. Once the spin coating material cures, the required functional pigment is reliably maintained in the functional layer by a three-dimensional network structure, the migration of the functional pigment into an adjacent resin monomer-containing layer is prevented, and the functional pigment is made less susceptible to the effect of an organic peroxide contained in the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroo TAMURA, Shoichi MITSUUCHI, Kenzo WADA, Ryogo NITTA
  • Publication number: 20150362948
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel and a film body, which ensure that a region where the touch panel and a display section are in contact with each other is hard to be conspicuous and that an apparatus formed by the touch panel and a display device can be made thinner. The touch panel is a transparent touch panel which is disposed with air gaps provided at predetermined intervals between the transparent touch panel and a surface of a display section of a display device, wherein a back surface of the transparent touch panel facing the surface of the display section is provided with a projection formation layer on which a plurality of fine projections protruding toward the surface side of the display section are dispersively formed, the surface of the projection formation layer is configured to have an average irregularity height (Ra) of equal to or more than 0.01 ?m and equal to or less than 0.06 ?m and a maximum irregularity height (Ry) of equal to or more than 0.15 ?m and equal to or less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenzo WADA, Haruya KAKUTA
  • Patent number: 9213362
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel and a film body, which ensure that a region where the touch panel and a display section are in contact with each other is hard to be conspicuous and that an apparatus formed by the touch panel and a display device can be made thinner. The touch panel is a transparent touch panel which is disposed with air gaps provided at predetermined intervals between the transparent touch panel and a surface of a display section of a display device, wherein a back surface of the transparent touch panel facing the surface of the display section is provided with a projection formation layer on which a plurality of fine projections protruding toward the surface side of the display section are dispersively formed, the surface of the projection formation layer is configured to have an average irregularity height (Ra) of equal to or more than 0.01 ?m and equal to or less than 0.06 ?m and a maximum irregularity height (Ry) of equal to or more than 0.15 ?m and equal to or less than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GUNZE LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenzo Wada, Haruya Kakuta
  • Patent number: 9207368
    Abstract: A light-shielding lens which can cut ultraviolet or visible radiation having wavelengths of 430 nm and shorter or of 500 nm and shorter and which can sufficiently satisfy users' demand for its color. The lens contains 0.01 to 2 parts by mass of an indole-based ultraviolet absorbing dye having a melting point of 140 to 150° C., based on 100 parts by mass of a synthetic resin forming the lens, and preferably further contains an oil-soluble dye, whereby the lens can cut ultraviolet and visible radiation having wavelengths of 430 nm and shorter. Since the predetermined amount of the indole-based ultraviolet absorbing dye is sufficiently dissolved in the synthetic resin, it efficiently reveals its expected function. The lens can thus cut ultraviolet and visible radiation having wavelengths of 430 nm and shorter, or even 500 nm and shorter, while keeping highly transparent light color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada
  • Patent number: 9175128
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a spectacle lens which contains an infrared absorbing agent, and which shows excellent infrared absorbing properties by minimizing deterioration and decomposition of the infrared absorbing agent, and as well as a method of producing such an optical lens. This infrared absorbing spectacle lens is formed by adding an infrared absorbing dye to a polyurethane resin obtained by addition polymerization of a prepolymer produced by reacting a polyisocyanate with a polyhydroxy compound, and an aromatic polyamine. The lens shows excellent infrared absorbing properties with no deterioration or decomposition of the infrared absorbing agent. It is possible to prevent deterioration of the infrared absorbing agent due to additives such as peroxides (including polymerization catalysts and initiators such as benzoyl peroxide), as well as increased absorption of visible light, which was difficult with conventional resin materials for molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada
  • Patent number: 9017820
    Abstract: In a laminated glass lens for spectacles, first and second glass lens substrates (each about 1 mm thick) are bonded together with an adhesive agent layer therebetween. A liquid substance of a solventless adhesive to which a pigment containing a tetraazaporphyrin compound is added together with an organic solvent is dropped onto the first glass lens substrate in the form of a droplet, and the second glass lens substrate is pressed against the first glass lens substrate with a relatively light load to spread the droplet into a layer having a thickness of 5 to 150 micrometers, and allowing the thus spread layer to be cured as the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Talex Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada
  • Publication number: 20140036227
    Abstract: A photochromic lens is proposed which can lose its color in a shorter period of time, and which is less likely to deteriorate when exposed to ultraviolet radiation. The photochromic lens is formed by dissolving 0.03 to 0.2 parts by mass of a spirooxazine photochromic compound in tetrahydrofuran, mixing the solution thus obtained into 100 parts by mass of a lens resin material so that the photochromic compound is uniformly dispersed in the resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: TALEX OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanichi TAMURA, Shoichi MITSUUCHI, Kenzo WADA, Atsushi TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20130194658
    Abstract: A light-shielding lens which can cut ultraviolet or visible radiation having wavelengths of 430 nm and shorter or of 500 nm and shorter and which can sufficiently satisfy users' demand for its color. The lens contains 0.01 to 2 parts by mass of an indole-based ultraviolet absorbing dye having a melting point of 140 to 150° C., based on 100 parts by mass of a synthetic resin forming the lens, and preferably further contains an oil-soluble dye, whereby the lens can cut ultraviolet and visible radiation having wavelengths of 430 nm and shorter. Since the predetermined amount of the indole-based ultraviolet absorbing dye is sufficiently dissolved in the synthetic resin, it efficiently reveals its expected function. The lens can thus cut ultraviolet and visible radiation having wavelengths of 430 nm and shorter, or even 500 nm and shorter, while keeping highly transparent light color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Talex Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanichi TAMURA, Shoichi MITSUUCHI, Kenzo WADA
  • Patent number: 8474973
    Abstract: An infrared absorbing polarized eyeglass lens substrate includes a polarizing element including a polarizing film and a polyurethane resin material containing an infrared absorbing agent and covering both surfaces of the polarizing film, and an eyeglass lens substrate made of a polyurethane resin not containing an infrared absorbing agent and configured to be ground for adjusting lens power. The polarizing element is superposed on one side of the eyeglass lens substrate and integrated therewith by insert molding which accompanies polymerization reaction of the polyurethane resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Talex Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Kenzo Wada