Patents by Inventor Kiyono Tateyama
Kiyono Tateyama 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).
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Patent number: 8873166Abstract: An objective lens for an optical pickup device is characterized in that compatibility of three types of optical discs, which are a BD, a DVD, and a CD, may be realized by a common objective lens, and a flare can be created by providing an over-spherical aberration when a third optical disc is used from a size relationship between a pitch on a central region side and a pitch on an intermediate region side across a boundary and a relationship of a direction of a step in the base structures superimposed in a central region and an intermediate region of the objective lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.Inventor: Kiyono Tateyama
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Patent number: 8760990Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus including an objective lens capable of enhancing temperature characteristics and wavelength characteristics, and which enables compatibility for three types of optical discs of BDs, DVDs, and CDs by using the objective lens in common, an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus, and an objective lens suitable for it. In a first optical path difference providing structure in which at least a first basic structure and a second basic structure are superimposed on each other, an amount of a level difference in an optical axis direction can be reduced, whereby it becomes possible to suppress the lowering of a diffraction efficiency when wavelength changes. Further, in the first basic structure and the second basic structure deterioration of the spherical aberration due to the change of the refractive index of the objective lens can be corrected by utilizing a phenomenon that the wavelength of the light source rises similarly due to a rise in the environmental temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Kentarou Nakamura, Kiyono Tateyama
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Publication number: 20130229902Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus including an objective lens capable of enhancing temperature characteristics and wavelength characteristics, and which enables compatibility for three types of optical discs of BDs, DVDs, and CDs by using the objective lens in common, an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus, and an objective lens suitable for it. In a first optical path difference providing structure in which at least a first basic structure and a second basic structure are superimposed on each other, an amount of a level difference in an optical axis direction can be reduced, whereby it becomes possible to suppress the lowering of a diffraction efficiency when wavelength changes. Further, in the first basic structure and the second basic structure deterioration of the spherical aberration due to the change of the refractive index of the objective lens can be corrected by utilizing a phenomenon that the wavelength of the light source rises similarly due to a rise in the environmental temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Kentarou Nakamura, Kiyono Tateyama
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Publication number: 20130182337Abstract: An objective lens for an optical pickup device is characterized in that compatibility of three types of optical discs, which are a BD, a DVD, and a CD, may be realized by a common objective lens, and a flare can be created by providing an over-spherical aberration when a third optical disc is used from a size relationship between a pitch on a central region side and a pitch on an intermediate region side across a boundary and a relationship of a direction of a step in the base structures superimposed in a central region and an intermediate region of the objective lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2011Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.Inventor: Kiyono Tateyama
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Patent number: 8406111Abstract: Provided are an objective lens with enhanced transmittance and an optical pickup apparatus which can record and/or reproduce information properly for three kinds of discs with different recording densities, even if a single lens is used as the objective lens. When all the expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied, excellent aberration characteristics can be obtained for the three kinds of discs: ?0.02?m1?0.02 (1); 0?(WD1?WD2)?1.57 m2+0.123 or 1.57 m2+0.24?(WD1?WD2)?0.7 (2); and 0?(WD1?WD3)?1.79 m3+0.333 or 1.66 m3+0.508?(WD1?WD3)?0.7 (3).Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Optp, Inc.Inventors: Kiyono Tateyama, Kentarou Nakamura
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Patent number: 8111602Abstract: Provided are an optical pickup apparatus and an objective lens which can record and/or reproduce information for discs with different recording densities and can realize simplification of the structure of themselves and reducing cost. When the expression (1) is satisfied, step differences of a step structure can be further reduced than those in the case that d1=?1(n?1) holds, and fine grooves corresponding to a steps structure, formed on an optical-surface transfer surface of a mold for molding the objective lens become shallow, to be easily processed. In addition, the moldability is enhanced because the material of the objective lens easily enters the inner portion of the grooves. Further, a fluctuation of a diffraction efficiency caused when wavelength of a light flux changes or temperature changes is reduced so that information can be recorded and/or reduced stably.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Kyu Takada, Kiyono Tateyama, Kentarou Nakamura
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Patent number: 7969852Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes: a first light source; a second light source; a light-converging optical system including a coupling lens and an objective lens; and a photodetector. The optical pickup apparatus is capable of recording and/or reproducing information by converging a light flux from each of the first and second light sources with the light-converging optical system on an information recording surface of each of first and second optical information recording media through a protective layer, and by detecting the light flux reflected from the information recording surface and passing through the light-converging optical system again, on the photodetector. The optical pickup apparatus satisfies predetermined conditions according to an optical path length from each of first and second light sources and the information recording medium, a magnification of the objective lens, and a magnification of the light-converging optical system.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventor: Kiyono Tateyama
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Publication number: 20110122755Abstract: Provided are an objective lens with enhanced transmittance and an optical pickup apparatus which can record and/or reproduce information properly for three kinds of discs with different recording densities, even if a single lens is used as the objective lens. When all the expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied, excellent aberration characteristics can be obtained for the three kinds of discs: ?0.02?m1?0.02 (1); 0?(WD1?WD2)?1.57 m2+0.123 or 1.57 m2+0.24?(WD1?WD2)?0.7 (2); and 0?(WD1?WD3)?1.79 m3+0.333 or 1.66 m3+0.508?(WD1?WD3)?0.7 (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Kiyono Tateyama, Kentarou Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110085433Abstract: Provided are an optical pickup apparatus and an objective lens which can record and/or reproduce information for discs with different recording densities and can realize simplification of the structure of themselves and reducing cost. When the expression (1) is satisfied, step differences of a step structure can be further reduced than those in the case that d1=?1(n?1) holds, and fine grooves corresponding to a steps structure, formed on an optical-surface transfer surface of a mold for molding the objective lens become shallow, to be easily processed. In addition, the moldability is enhanced because the material of the objective lens easily enters the inner portion of the grooves. Further, a fluctuation of a diffraction efficiency caused when wavelength of a light flux changes or temperature changes is reduced so that information can be recorded and/or reduced stably.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Kyu Takada, Kiyono Tateyama, Kentarou Nakamura
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Patent number: 7646696Abstract: An objective optical element for use in an optical pickup apparatus, includes two or more optical elements having a first surface having a first phase difference providing structure and a second surface having a second phase difference providing structure, wherein each of the first and second phase difference providing structures emit a diffracted light flux corresponding to each of the entering first-third light fluxes, or emit a transmitting light flux which is not applied a diffractive action corresponding to each of the entering first-third light fluxes, and the first-third light fluxes enter into the objective optical element as an almost infinite parallel light flux for information reproducing and/or recording on the first-third optical information recording media respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventor: Kiyono Tateyama
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Publication number: 20090207716Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes: a first light source; a second light source; a light-converging optical system including a coupling lens and an objective lens; and a photodetector. The optical pickup apparatus is capable of recording and/or reproducing information by converging a light flux from each of the first and second light sources with the light-converging optical system on an information recording surface of each of first and second optical information recording media through a protective layer, and by detecting the light flux reflected from the information recording surface and passing through the light-converging optical system again, on the photodetector. The optical pickup apparatus satisfies predetermined conditions according to an optical path length from each of first and second light sources and the information recording medium, a magnification of the objective lens, and a magnification of the light-converging optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: August 20, 2009Inventor: Kiyono Tateyama