Abstract: A cornea shape measurement apparatus outputs data useful for prescription as well as injection and installation of a TORIC-IOL. This apparatus includes: a projecting optical system projecting an index for measurement onto a cornea; an illuminating optical system illuminating an anterior segment on which a reference mark is placed; an imaging optical system capturing an anterior segment image containing the reference mark and an image of the index reflected from the cornea; an image processor overlaying an astigmatic axis mark indicating a direction of an astigmatic axis of the cornea, which is calculated based on the index image, on the anterior segment image; and a controller displaying the anterior segment image, which contains the astigmatic axis mark, on a display.

Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an imaging optical system for imaging an anterior segment image including a pupil of an examinee's eye, a pupil detection unit for detecting a size of the pupil of the examinee's eye based on the imaged result by the imaging optical system, and an output unit configured to obtain size information of a far vision zone and a near vision zone for a multifocal intraocular lens and output the obtained size information and the size of the pupil detected by the pupil detection unit to be comparable. Accordingly, applicability of the multifocal intraocular lens can be determined accurately and easily.

Abstract: An object of one aspect of the present invention is to obtain a measurement value in accordance with the condition of a crystalline lens of an examinee's eye. An apparatus for measuring ocular axial length includes: a measuring unit which irradiates measurement waves toward a fundus of the examinee's eye, and calculates the ocular axial length of the examinee's eye based on detection signals obtained from reflected waves including waves reflected from the fundus; and a determining unit which acquires reflection information related to an anterior segment of the examinee's eye, extracts reflection signals corresponding to a reflection object between a cornea and a posterior capsule of a crystalline lens based on the acquired reflection information, and determines whether the examinee's eye is a phakic eye or an IOL eye based on the extracted reflection signals.

Abstract: An eye distance measurement apparatus according to one aspect of the invention includes an interfering optical system that projects at least one piece of split light toward an examinee's eye, combines the split light, guides the combined light to a light receiving device and moves an optical member in order to adjust an optical path difference between the two pieces of split light, a mode switching unit that issues a mode switching signal for switching between a first measurement mode for moving the optical member at a first scanning rate and a second measurement mode for moving the optical member at a second scanning rate slower than the first scanning rate, and a calculation and control unit that measures an eye distance, based on an output signal of the light receiving device, obtained in the measurement mode corresponding to the mode switching signal.

Abstract: A cornea shape measurement apparatus outputs data useful for prescription as well as injection and installation of a TORIC-IOL. This apparatus includes: a projecting optical system projecting an index for measurement onto a cornea; an illuminating optical system illuminating an anterior segment on which a reference mark is placed; an imaging optical system capturing an anterior segment image containing the reference mark and an image of the index reflected from the cornea; an image processor overlaying an astigmatic axis mark indicating a direction of an astigmatic axis of the cornea, which is calculated based on the index image, on the anterior segment image; and a controller displaying the anterior segment image, which contains the astigmatic axis mark, on a display.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device for a vehicle seat that has a function enabling the accurate detection and immediate countermeasures even when a foreign object is sandwiched between the soft portions of the seats. According to a method of the present invention for detecting the insertion of a foreign object in a vehicle seat having a power slide mechanism, the foreign object insertion detection is performed by measuring a fluctuation AF of a seat drive force for each predetermined movement distance ?x and comparing the fluctuation quantity with a threshold Z. The threshold Z in this case is a fluctuation region value determined by subtracting, from a set threshold width h, a value [?Ki(?F/?x)i] obtained by successively adding up the products of the fluctuation quantity of the seat drive force for each predetermined movement distance and a coefficient Ki.

Abstract: In a manufacturing apparatus for flat cable adapted for allowing plural conductive wires arranged on the same plane to be put between a first insulating tape on which first peeling sheets are stuck at predetermined intervals and a second insulating tape on which second peeling sheets are stuck at predetermined intervals to stick the first insulating tape, the conductive wires and the second insulating tape in order recited, such an approach is employed to respectively adjust tensions applied to the first and second insulating tapes to thereby respectively independently change expansions/contractions of the first and second insulating tapes. Thus, it is possible to correct sticking errors of the first peeling sheets and the second peeling sheets.