Patents by Inventor Masashi Mashige

Masashi Mashige 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: 6003338
    Abstract: A molding method for optical element is disclosed in which a glass material prepared for weight is introduced into a mold and then heated to soften, and subsequently pressed with the mold to mold an optical element. The glass material is heated to have a viscosity of 10.sup.5 to 10.sup.7 dPaS and press-molded with the mold having a temperature equivalent to a viscosity of 10.sup.9 to 10.sup.11 dPaS of the glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Nomura, Sunao Miyazaki, Masashi Mashige
  • Patent number: 5976425
    Abstract: Lens surfaces are transferred by press-molding a glass material (16) by an upper mold (1) and a lower mold (2). After the lens surfaces are transferred, the outer circumferential portions of the upper and lower molds (1, 2) are clamped and pressed sideways to correct a shift between the optical axes of the transfer molding surfaces of the upper and lower molds (1, 2) and an inclination of the optical axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Nomura, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Masashi Mashige
  • Patent number: 5822134
    Abstract: An optical lens press-molded so that within at least the optically effective diameter thereof, the thickness thereof may become greater from the center of the optical axis thereof toward the marginal portion of the lens, characterized in that at least one of the both lens surfaces thereof is a spherical or aspherical concave lens continuous from a transferred surface formed so that in the area outside the optically effective diameter thereof, the thickness of the lens may be limited away from the extension of a curved surface of a radius of curvature setting the optically effective diameter toward the outer diameter of the lens, and forming the transferred surface up to at least the required outer diameter of the lens, and a free surface portion is left outside the outer diameter of the lens during molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Nomura, Masaki Ohmori, Masashi Mashige
  • Patent number: 5735920
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an optical glass element having a refractive index equal to a design value after press-molding. A glass material of specified composition is melted and press-molded while it is in the molten state. The refractive index of the glass material is calculated by substracting a change in the refractive index of the glass material resulting from the press-molding from a required refractive index for a molded glass element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Omori, Hiroe Tanaka, Takeshi Nomura, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Masayuki Tomida, Masashi Mashige, Shizuo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 5604549
    Abstract: A method of molding an optical element numerically analyzes the thermal stress produced on a molded optical element product within a mold in a visco-elastic temperature range or elastic temperature range of an optical element material in a cooling step of the molding process on the basis of a visco-elastic characteristic of the optical element material. A correction for the molding face of the mold is made on the basis of the value obtained by the numerical analysis so that any error between the optical functional face of optical element molded by the mold at room temperature and the optical functional face set on design may fall within a tolerance, thereby determining the molding face adapted to the shape of the optical functional face set on design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Mashige, Masaki Omori, Masayuki Tomida, Takeshi Nomura, Kiyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5601627
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for molding an optical element, by preparing an upper mold member and a lower mold member for press molding a glass material, heating the mold members together or individually to a predetermined temperature, deforming the glass material according to molding faces of the mold members by a pressing force applied to the mold members, then transferring the mold members and the molded glass to a cooling step and subsequently taking out the molded glass by opening the mold members, thereby transferring the optically functional faces corresponding to the molding faces of the mold members, to the glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Mashige
  • Patent number: 5435818
    Abstract: A method of molding an optical element numerically analyzes the thermal stress produced on a molded optical element product within a mold in a visco-elastic temperature range or elastic temperature range of an optical element material in a cooling step of the molding process is on the basis of a visco-elastic characteristic of the optical element material. A correction for the molding face of the mold is made on the basis of the value obtained by the numerical analysis so that any error between the optical functional face of optical element molded by the mold at room temperature and the optical functional face set on design may fall within a tolerance, thereby determining the molding face adapted to the shape of the optical functional face set on design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Mashige, Masaki Omori, Masayuki Tomida, Takeshi Nomura, Kiyoshi Yamamoto