Patents by Inventor Michio Arai

Michio Arai 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: 8480455
    Abstract: A lens machining apparatus is provided that can execute everything required in machining eyeglass lenses, from measurement to various kinds of machining, and still ensures high-precision machining. The apparatus includes a lens holding unit 12 which holds a lens 1 and causes the same to turn, a cutter 131 which cuts (edges) the circumferential surface of the lens in a prescribed cross-sectional shape, an end mill 141 which machines a groove in the circumferential surface of the lens whose circumferential surface has been cut (edged) and chamfers edges at the lens circumferential surface, and a lens measurement unit 15 which measures the shape and the position of the lens held by the lens holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Igarashi, Shuichi Sato, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Michio Arai, Satoshi Annaka
  • Patent number: 8387224
    Abstract: A mounting part for mounting spectacle frame components such as lugs can be machined after confirming that a lens thickness at a mounting part-machined portion where the mounting part is machined is equal to or larger than the specified value, and can be installed the spectacle lens components on the spectacle lens with a requested strength. The device, the method for the above, a spectacle lens manufacturing method, and a spectacles manufacturing method are given. The spectacle lens (1) is fed to a lens thickness measuring device (70) by a lens feeder. The fed amount of the spectacle lens in this feeding is based on the measured results of a distance between a frame center forming a block center by a lens holder in an edging for manufacturing the spectacle lens (1) from a raw material lens and the edge face of the spectacle lens (1) where the mounting part is to be machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Michio Arai, Masashi Nishioka
  • Patent number: 8375474
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for a helmet with a rotatable face shield includes an operating element that, when the shield is in a fully closed position, holds the shield from the outside against the outer wall of the helmet main body, and to open the shield, spreads out the shield and disengages a projection from a fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Publication number: 20130007950
    Abstract: A helmet includes a helmet shell configuring the outermost layer of the helmet, an impact absorbing liner provided on the inner side surface of the helmet shell, and a detachable cushion body provided inside the impact absorbing liner, wherein the cushion body includes a basic cushion member configuring a wearer side part and an adjusting cushion members detachably provided so as to overlap the basic cushion member, and a covers for preventing the shift between the adjusting cushion members and the basic cushion member are provided outside the cushion body such that the covers are located outside the portion where the adjusting cushion members overlap the basic cushion member, and an opening section for inserting or removing the adjusting cushion members is provided between the covers and the basic cushion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: MICHIO ARAI
  • Patent number: 8327465
    Abstract: A neck pad is pulled out with a smaller force in an easy manner while assuring a positive characteristic of attached state of the neck pad. An inserting plate that can be moved in a clearance S along a peripheral direction of a putting-on or taking-off opening is provided with a fitting part and in turn the fitting part is provided with an engaging part that is resiliently fitted in opposition to a pulling-out direction of the inserting plate through insertion of the inserting plate into the clearance S, the fitting part moves to a non-opposite position against the engaging part as the inserting plate moves in a peripheral direction to cause the fitted state of the engaging part to be released, thereby the inserting plate can be pulled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Patent number: 8256033
    Abstract: An open face helmet includes an outer shell and a shock-absorbing liner, as well as a fixing member on the front side of the inner surface of the right side of the outer shell for the attachment of a removable cheek pad. The cheek pad includes a shock-absorbing member and a cushioning member stacked thereon, as well as an engaging body to be removably engaged with the fixing member. The fixing member is opposed to the front edge of the shock-absorbing liner, having a slit to be engaged with or disengaged from the engaging body in a front-back direction. The cheek pad is supported on the inner surface of the right side of the helmet shell by an engagement of the engaging body with the slit and a face-to-face contact of the back edge of the cheek pad with the front edge of the shock-absorbing liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Publication number: 20120017357
    Abstract: There is provided a helmet with an improved cradling function and fitting comfort, while also making the helmet easier to put on or take off. The invention comprises an attaching member and a cushion member. The attaching member has a base member mounted in contact with a shell, and a form-maintaining member disposed at an inner lower section of the base member, there being a space left with respect to the base member. The form-maintaining member, while simultaneously keeping a surface corresponding to the cushion member in a profile following the cheek to the chin portion of a wearer, causes the space to contract as a result of being outwardly displaced in the thickness direction in response to greater-than-normal force applied when a helmet is put on and taken off; and, following the displacement that causes the space to contract, is restored so as to return to an original location under normal circumstances, and kept there.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Patent number: 7980920
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a spectacle lens improving a manufacturing yield and a production efficiency is provided. The manufacturing method of the spectacle lens in which necessary information for a frame machining of a spectacle lens (progressive-power lens 20) including spectacle rim related information is obtained, and both surfaces of a convex surface and a concave surface are edge/polish machined from a spectacle lens blanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Hisanori Akiyama, Masashi Nishioka, Michio Arai
  • Publication number: 20110088147
    Abstract: A cheek pad provided with shape-retaining properties is easily attached or removed, having light weight and effective shock-absorbing performance. A cheek pad includes a shock-absorbing member having shape-retaining properties and shock-absorbing properties and a cushioning member stacked on the shock-absorbing member in the thickness direction. A fixing member is provided on the front side of the inner surface of the right side of the helmet shell facing the cheek pad to removably fix the cheek pad, and an engaging body to be removably engaged with the fixing member is fixed on the shock-absorbing member. The fixing member is opposed to the front edge of the shock-absorbing liner, having a slit to be engaged with or disengaged from the engaging body in a front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Patent number: 7748059
    Abstract: A wind rectifying member positioned between two ventilation covers on the top of a helmet is adjustably supported by fitting members of support structures mounted within each ventilation cover. The fitting members adjust the forward and rearward positioning of the rectifying member and its angle of tilt relative to the wind direction. The fitting members extend through openings in facing side walls of the ventilation covers and into indentations in the ends of the rectifying member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Publication number: 20090222977
    Abstract: A neck pad is pulled out with a smaller force in an easy manner while assuring a positive characteristic of attached state of the neck pad. An inserting plate that can be moved in a clearance S along a peripheral direction of a putting-on or taking-off opening is provided with a fitting part and in turn the fitting part is provided with an engaging part that is resiliently fitted in opposition to a pulling-out direction of the inserting plate through insertion of the inserting plate into the clearance S, the fitting part moves to a non-opposite position against the engaging part as the inserting plate moves in a peripheral direction to cause the fitted state of the engaging part to be released, thereby the inserting plate can be pulled out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Patent number: 7578725
    Abstract: This apparatus includes a unit for adhering an elastic seal to a lens holder, a unit for causing the lens holder, to which the elastic seal is adhered, to hold a lens, a pivotal arm, an arm driving unit for pivoting the pivotal arm, a clamp unit attached to the pivotal arm to be vertically movable to hold the lens holder, and a clamp driving unit for vertically moving the clamp unit. The pivotal arm is pivoted to sequentially adhere the elastic seal to the lens holder and hold the lens by the lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Igarashi, Shinichi Yokoyama, Michio Arai, Masahiko Samukawa, Shuichi Sato
  • Patent number: 7574754
    Abstract: This invention is to obtain a targeted traveling-window channeling-off function irrelevant to respective intrinsic driving postures of a helmet wearer, a speed of vehicles and the like. Helmets A, B, C include straightening members which relate to the holding of the stability of the helmets during traveling. The straightening members are provided in a state that a position of the straightening members is adjustable in a fore-and-aft direction or an angle of straightening surfaces which face a traveling window in an opposed manner is adjustable corresponding to various intrinsic driving postures of a helmet wearer and a speed of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Publication number: 20090102827
    Abstract: A display apparatus is capable of performing a gradation display and a high-speed low-power-consumption display by controlling the colored state of each pixel to an appropriate state. A driving method for the display apparatus displays images through deposition and dissolution of a metal by impressing a predetermined voltage on each pixel. A voltage pulse or AC voltage having an amplitude of not more than a threshold for deposition of the metal is impressed, and a writing pulse or an erasing pulse is controlled according to the resultant current. Alternatively, an additional writing pulse is impressed when the current is lowered to or below a predetermined value, after the writing. Further, the state of the pixel is detected through the current, and a rewriting operation is selected according to the detected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michio Arai, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20090089918
    Abstract: To obtain a function of separating traveling wind while enhancing the reliability of angle maintenance of a rectifying body in a rectifying structure and can secure the ease of angle change operation of the rectifying body, regardless of a difference in unique driving posture of a helmet wearer or speed of a transportation means. A facing angle of a rectifying surface in a rectifying body 4 is adjusted in a multistage manner, and the adjusted facing angle is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventor: Michio Arai
  • Publication number: 20090067940
    Abstract: A mounting part for mounting spectacle frame components such as lugs can be machined after confirming that a lens thickness at a mounting part-machined portion where the mounting part is machined is equal to or larger than the specified value, and can be installed the spectacle lens components on the spectacle lens with a requested strength. The device, the method for the above, a spectacle lens manufacturing method, and a spectacles manufacturing method are given. The spectacle lens (1) is fed to a lens thickness measuring device (70) by a lens feeder. The fed amount of the spectacle lens in this feeding is based on the measured results of a distance between a frame center forming a block center by a lens holder in an edging for manufacturing the spectacle lens (1) from a raw material lens and the edge face of the spectacle lens (1) where the mounting part is to be machined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Michio Arai, Masashi Nishioka
  • Patent number: 7476900
    Abstract: An organic EL display device has a substrate, a plurality of organic EL elements formed on the substrate and a plurality of thin film transistors formed on the substrate. The transistors are connected to the respective EL elements for controlling current applied to the respective elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Yamauchi, Michio Arai
  • Patent number: 7474301
    Abstract: A display apparatus is capable of performing a gradation display and a high-speed low-power-consumption display by controlling the colored state of each pixel to an appropriate state. A driving method for the display apparatus displays images through deposition and dissolution of a metal by impressing a predetermined voltage on each pixel. A voltage pulse or AC voltage having an amplitude of not more than a threshold for deposition of the metal is impressed, and a writing pulse or an erasing pulse is controlled according to the resultant current. Alternatively, an additional writing pulse is impressed when the current is lowered to or below a predetermined value, after the writing. Further, the state of the pixel is detected through the current, and a rewriting operation is selected according to the detected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michio Arai, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7438775
    Abstract: A lens layout block device comprising a seal feeding device that supplies an elastic seal to a seal sticking position (A5). The elastic seal is loaded in a tape loading part in the form of a seal tape covered by a mount and a protective sheet and wound in a roll shape and fed by driving a motor. The protective sheet is separated by a protective sheet separating mechanism. At the seal sticking position (A5), a sensor detects the leading edge of a positioning hole in the mount and stops the conveyance of the seal tape after the seal tape is fed from the detection position for a specified time. The stop position is determined as the reference sticking position of the elastic seal and a lens holder is pressed against the elastic seal from above. The mount is pulled down by the seal separating mechanism to separate the mount from the elastic seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Michio Arai, Shuichi Sato
  • Patent number: D677434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Inventor: Michio Arai