Patents by Inventor Masaaki Matsushima

Masaaki Matsushima 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: 10955690
    Abstract: To perform measurement in which a load on a subject is reduced. To provide a spectacle wearing parameter measurement system including: an information processing unit configured to associate a size of an appearance of at least a part of actual spectacles with a size of an appearance of at least a part of each of the spectacles in an imaging result of imaging a subject wearing the actual spectacles as an imaging target, and obtain a spectacle wearing parameter from the imaging result and the related art of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tadokoro, Naoya Hirono, Masaaki Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20200033634
    Abstract: A method, program, computer program, system for obtaining multiple lenses from one single semi-finished lens, and to corresponding lenses; steps are foreseen for obtaining lens specification information, and generating, on the basis of the lens specification information, integrated surface data including lens surface data and junction surface data. The lens surface data includes data representing at least one surface for each of the at least two lens units; the junction surface data includes data representing at least one junction surface joining respective surfaces of the at least two lens units. The integrated surface data represents a physical surface that is to be obtained by machining one single semi-finished lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Masaaki MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10156740
    Abstract: A spectacle wearing parameter measurement device used in measurement of a spectacle wearing parameter of a subject who is to wear a spectacle frame, the spectacle wearing parameter measurement device includes: an information processing unit that acquires each of a first image as a face image of the subject in a spectacle-frame wearing state and a second image as a face image in a spectacle-frame non-wearing state and prepares a third image obtained by associating the first image and the second image; a display screen unit that displays the third image prepared by the information processing unit; an operation unit that specifies a measurement reference point of the spectacle wearing parameter on the third image displayed on the display screen unit; and a measurement computation section that calculates the spectacle wearing parameter by using data of the specified measurement reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tadokoro, Naoya Hirono, Masaaki Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20180031868
    Abstract: To perform measurement in which a load on a subject is reduced. To provide a spectacle wearing parameter measurement system including: an information processing unit configured to associate a size of an appearance of at least a part of actual spectacles with a size of an appearance of at least a part of each of the spectacles in an imaging result of imaging a subject wearing the actual spectacles as an imaging target, and obtain a spectacle wearing parameter from the imaging result and the related art of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TADOKORO, Naoya HIRONO, Masaaki MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180024384
    Abstract: A spectacle wearing parameter measurement device used in measurement of a spectacle wearing parameter of a subject who is to wear a spectacle frame, the spectacle wearing parameter measurement device includes: an information processing unit that acquires each of a first image as a face image of the subject in a spectacle-frame wearing state and a second image as a face image in a spectacle-frame non-wearing state and prepares a third image obtained by associating the first image and the second image; a display screen unit that displays the third image prepared by the information processing unit; an operation unit that specifies a measurement reference point of the spectacle wearing parameter on the third image displayed on the display screen unit; and a measurement computation section that calculates the spectacle wearing parameter by using data of the specified measurement reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TADOKORO, Naoya HIRONO, Masaaki MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 9242889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article comprising forming an upper surface of a glass material that has been positioned on a forming surface of a mold to obtain the formed article by heating the glass material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring a lower surface of the glass material into tight contact with the forming surface. Glass having upper and lower surfaces being spherical in shape is employed as the glass material, a mold having a forming surface being a free-form surface other than a spherical surface is employed as the mold, the upper surface of the glass material is formed into a roughly offset surface relative to the forming surface of the mold. The present invention permits the manufacturing of formed articles of desired shape with high precision by hot sag molding method. The present invention also permits the easy and simple determination of the surface shapes of molds and glass materials employed in hot sag molding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuma Yamakaji, Mikio Chisha, Masaaki Matsushima, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8567861
    Abstract: A seat comprises a cushion member, a seat heater, and a skin material. The seat heater has a planar base member disposed on the cushion member, a heater wire fixed to the base member, and a temperature control that controls the temperature of the heater wire. The skin material covers both the cushion member and the seat heater. The cushion member includes a seat cushion surface portion for a sitting person and a recess formed in a surface located on the side opposite to the seat cushion surface portion. The base member includes a seat cushion surface-side portion disposed on the seat cushion surface portion. The heater wire includes a seat cushion surface-side heater wire disposed in the seat cushion surface-side portion and an insertion portion heater wire extended from the seat cushion side heater wire. At least a part of the temperature control is connected to the insertion portion heater wire and is disposed within the recess of the cushion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8277704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and heating the forming material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring a lower surface of the forming material into tight contact with the forming surface. As the mold, a mold having, on a forming surface thereof, a plurality of irregularities with a maximum height Rmax ranging from 0.1 to 100 micrometers and an average spacing S between local peaks ranging from 0.01 to 1.00 mm is employed. The present invention further relates to a mold and method of manufacturing the same. According to the present invention, a formed article with a desired shape can be manufactured with high precision and high productivity by hot sag forming method without the occurrence of the fusion between the forming material and the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsushima, Mikio Chisha, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8197727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and heating the forming material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring a lower surface of the forming material into tight contact with the forming surface. The forming is conducted while an exposed portion on the forming surface side of the mold upon which the forming material has been positioned is covered with a covering member. The present invention further relates to a covering member and a forming apparatus. According to the present invention, formed articles with a desired shape can be formed with high accuracy by preventing the contamination of upper surface of forming materials by foreign matter during forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Chisha, Masaaki Matsushima, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20110156453
    Abstract: A seat comprises a cushion member, a seat heater, and a skin material. The seat heater has a planar base member disposed on the cushion member, a heater wire fixed to the base member, and a temperature control that controls the temperature of the heater wire. The skin material covers both the cushion member and the seat heater. The cushion member includes a seat cushion surface portion for a sitting person and a recess formed in a surface located on the side opposite to the seat cushion surface portion. The base member includes a seat cushion surface-side portion disposed on the seat cushion surface portion. The heater wire includes a seat cushion surface-side heater wire disposed in the seat cushion surface-side portion and an insertion portion heater wire extended from the seat cushion side heater wire. At least a part of the temperature control is connected to the insertion portion heater wire and is disposed within the recess of the cushion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: Masaaki MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 7950252
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article comprising forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and heating the forming material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring an entire surface of a lower surface of the forming material into tight contact with the forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Chisha, Masaaki Matsushima, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20090295033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article comprising forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and heating the forming material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring an entire surface of a lower surface of the forming material into tight contact with the forming surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Mikio Chisha, Masaaki Matsushima, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20090289380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and heating the forming material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring a lower surface of the forming material into tight contact with the forming surface. The forming is conducted while an exposed portion on the forming surface side of the mold upon which the forming material has been positioned is covered with a covering member. The present invention further relates to a covering member and a forming apparatus. According to the present invention, formed articles with a desired shape can be formed with high accuracy by preventing the contamination of upper surface of forming materials by foreign matter during forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Chisha, Masaaki Matsushima, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20090127727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article forming an upper surface of a forming material comprised of a thermosoftening substance into a desired shape by positioning the forming material on a forming surface of a mold and heating the forming material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring a lower surface of the forming material into tight contact with the forming surface. As the mold, a mold having, on a forming surface thereof, a plurality of irregularities with a maximum height Rmax ranging from 0.1 to 100 micrometers and an average spacing S between local peaks ranging from 0.01 to 1.00 mm is employed. The present invention further relates to a mold and method of manufacturing the same. According to the present invention, a formed article with a desired shape can be manufactured with high precision and high productivity by hot sag forming method without the occurrence of the fusion between the forming material and the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsushima, Mikio Chisha, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20090108477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a formed article comprising forming an upper surface of a glass material that has been positioned on a forming surface of a mold to obtain the formed article by heating the glass material to a temperature permitting deformation to bring a lower surface of the glass material into tight contact with the forming surface. Glass having upper and lower surfaces being spherical in shape is employed as the glass material, a mold having a forming surface being a free-form surface other than a spherical surface is employed as the mold, the upper surface of the glass material is formed into a roughly offset surface relative to the forming surface of the mold. The present invention permits the manufacturing of formed articles of desired shape with high precision by hot sag molding method. The present invention also permits the easy and simple determination of the surface shapes of molds and glass materials employed in hot sag molding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuma Yamakaji, Mikio Chisha, Masaaki Matsushima, Noriaki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 7158222
    Abstract: A dioptric power distribution measuring device (1) measures the dioptric power distribution of a target lens. A computer (3) constructs a design lens spatial model in a virtual space, and calculates the dioptric power distribution of the design lens spatial model by performing simulation processing for incident/exit light for only the same point in the design lens spatial model as a measurement point on the target lens. The computer then compares the calculated dioptric power distribution with the dioptric power distribution of the target lens which is measured by the dioptric power distribution measuring device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Taguchi, Masaaki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 7041391
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a film of aluminum oxide in which a target containing aluminum is sputtered in a gas containing fluorine atoms. The thin film of aluminum oxide according to the present invention has little optical absorption and high refractive index in the ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Ando, Masaaki Matsushima, Minoru Otani, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Ryuji Biro, Hidehiro Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 6932474
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens can be properly evaluated based on optical performance values of which definition methods are not unified, such as progressive zone length and addition diopter. In addition to commodity product specifying information 11a which specifies a trade name of a lens 9, progressive zone length specifying information 11b which specifies length of a progressive zone of the lens, material refractive index specifying information 11c which specifies a material refractive index of the lens, and addition diopter specifying information 11d which specifies addition diopter of the lens, definition method specifying information 11e is inscribed on the progressive-power lens 9. The definition methods of the aforesaid progressive zone length and the addition diopter are specified by the definition method specifying information 11e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Masaaki Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20050179863
    Abstract: A dioptric power distribution measuring device (1) measures the dioptric power distribution of a target lens. A computer (3) constructs a design lens spatial model in a virtual space, and calculates the dioptric power distribution of the design lens spatial model by performing simulation processing for incident/exit light for only the same point in the design lens spatial model as a measurement point on the target lens. The computer then compares the calculated dioptric power distribution with the dioptric power distribution of the target lens which is measured by the dioptric power distribution measuring device (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Taguchi, Masaaki Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20040165145
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens can be properly evaluated based on optical performance values of which definition methods are not unified, such as progressive zone length and addition diopter. In addition to commodity product specifying information 11a which specifies a trade name of a lens 9, progressive zone length specifying information 11b which specifies length of a progressive zone of the lens, material refractive index specifying information 11c which specifies a material refractive index of the lens, and addition diopter specifying information 11d which specifies addition diopter of the lens, definition method specifying information 11e is inscribed on the progressive-power lens 9. The definition methods of the aforesaid progressive zone length and the addition diopter are specified by the definition method specifying information 11e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Hatanaka, Masaaki Matsushima