Patents by Inventor Michio Endo

Michio Endo 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: 11840480
    Abstract: Provided is an optical glass containing glass-forming cations, the optical glass satisfying, expressed in cation percent, 10 cat %?B3+?50 cat %, 15 cat %?La3+?35 cat %, 20 cat %?Nb5+?50 cat %, and 15 cat %?Ti4+?25 cat %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Patent number: 11254602
    Abstract: An optical glass includes La3+, Zn2+, Nb5+, and Ti4+ as a cation configuring glass. La3+, Zn2+, Nb5+, and Ti4+ which satisfy 10 cat %?La3+?20 cat %, 10 cat %?Zn2+?60 cat %, 20 cat %?Nb5+?60 cat %, and 0 cat %?Ti4+?40 cat % expressed by cation %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20210047231
    Abstract: Provided is an optical glass containing glass-forming cations, the optical glass satisfying, expressed in cation percent, 10 cat %?B3+?50 cat %, 15 cat %?La3+?35 cat %, 20 cat %?Nb5+?50 cat %, and 15 cat %?Ti4+?25 cat %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20190119147
    Abstract: An optical glass includes La3+, Zn2+, Nb5+, and Ti4+ as a cation configuring glass. La3+, Zn2+, Nb5+, and Ti4+ which satisfy 10 cat %?La3+?20 cat %, 10 cat %?Zn2+?60 cat %, 20 cat %?Nb5+?60 cat %, and 0 cat %?Ti4+?40 cat % expressed by cation %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20180025658
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an online learning system in which learning outcome content output by learners is used without modification as teaching content for other learners, and teaching content is developed and improved in an autonomous manner without management by a system administrator. [Solution] In this invention, video/audio content materials (referred to herein as “video/audio clips”) of small units having a certain significance and typically having a length from several seconds to several tens of seconds are used as learning/teaching content, and video/audio clips of images and recordings of learners themselves implementing learning content are collected. The video/audio clips are used not only as material for measuring the degree of learning achieved, but also as learning/teaching content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: HAYATO TAKAHASHI, YOSHIHITO KANEDA, NOBUYUKI TANAKA, MICHIO ENDO
  • Patent number: 9040439
    Abstract: An optical glass including B3+, La3+ and Nb5+ as cationic components constituting the glass, wherein the optical glass satisfies the following expressions represented in cation percentages: 10 cat. %?B3+?50 cat. %; 40 cat. %?La3+?65 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Nb5+?40 cat. %; 80 cat. %?(total amount of B3++La3++Nb5+)?100 cat. %; and 0 cat. %?Si4+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ge4+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Mg2+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ba2+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ca2+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Sr2+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Zn2+?20 cat. %; 0 cat. %?W6+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Zr4+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ti4+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Bi3+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ta5+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?(total amount of Y3++Gd3+)?20 cat. %; and 0 cat. %?(total amount of Yb3++Lu3+)?10 cat. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Michio Endo, Shingo Eguchi, Hiroyuki Inoue, Atsunobu Masuno
  • Publication number: 20140256531
    Abstract: An optical glass including B3+, La3+ and Nb5+ as cationic components constituting the glass, wherein the optical glass satisfies the following expressions represented in cation percentages: 10 cat. %?B3+?50 cat. %; 40 cat. %?La3+?65 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Nb5+?40 cat. %; 80 cat. %?(total amount of B3++La3++Nb5+)?100 cat. %; and 0 cat. %?Si4+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ge4+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Mg2+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ba2+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ca2+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Sr2+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Zn2+?20 cat. %; 0 cat. %?W6+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Zr4+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ti4+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Bi3+?5 cat. %; 0 cat. %?Ta5+?10 cat. %; 0 cat. %?(total amount of Y3++Gd3+)?20 cat. %; and 0 cat. %?(total amount of Yb3++Lu3+)?10 cat. %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Michio Endo, Shingo Eguchi, Hiroyuki Inoue, Atsunobu Masuno
  • Patent number: 8492298
    Abstract: Provided is an optical glass having homogeneous optical characteristics such that striae and devitrification hardly occur at the time of producing a gob. The optical glass includes cationic components having the following composition, provided that a total of the cationic components is 95 cat %, and has a refractive index (nd) of 1.6 or more and less than 1.7 and an Abbe number (vd) of 50 or more and 56 or less, Si4+ 3 cat % or more and 13 cat % or less B3+ 40 cat % or more and 55 cat % or less La3+ 4 cat % or more and 9 cat % or less Ca2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Li+ 11 cat % or more and 18 cat % or less Zn2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Zr4+ 1 cat % or more and 4 cat % or less provided that Si4+/B3+ is 0.05 or more and 0.3 or less, and Li+/Zn2+ is 1.3 or more and 2.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Michio Endo
  • Patent number: 8338003
    Abstract: An optical element comprising a vacuum-sintered body comprising a plurality of particles each having a two-layer structure comprising a ceramic particle and a coating layer, wherein the ceramic particle comprises LnxAlyO[x+y]×1.5, where Ln represents a rare-earth element, x represents 1?x?10, and y represents 1?y?5, and has an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, and wherein the coating layer comprises a ceramic having a lower sintering temperature than a sintering temperature of the ceramic particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Michio Endo, Kentaro Doguchi, Shigeru Fujino
  • Patent number: 8202813
    Abstract: An optical element is formed by vacuum-sintering a molded body of ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less and including LnxAlyO[x+y]×1.5 (Ln represents a rare-earth element, 1?x?10, and 1?y?5). Ln preferably includes at least one kind selected from La, Gd, Yb, and Lu. The optical element preferably has a refractive index of 1.85 or more and 2.06 or less, and an Abbe number of 48 or more and 65 or less. The obtained optical element has optical properties of high refractive index and low dispersibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Michio Endo, Kentaro Doguchi, Shigeru Fujino
  • Publication number: 20120126437
    Abstract: An optical element is formed by vacuum-sintering a molded body of ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less and including LnxAlyO[x+y]×1.5 (Ln represents a rare-earth element, 1?x?10, and 1?y?5). Ln preferably includes at least one kind selected from La, Gd, Yb, and Lu. The optical element preferably has a refractive index of 1.85 or more and 2.06 ?m or less, and an Abbe number of 48 or more and 65 or less. The obtained optical element has optical properties of high refractive index and low dispersibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Michio Endo, Kentaro Doguchi, Shigeru Fujino
  • Publication number: 20110177323
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element, which is formed by vacuum-sintering a molded body of ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less and including LnxAlyO|x+y|×1.5 (Ln represents a rare-earth element, x represents 1?x?10, and y represents 1?y?5). Ln preferably includes at least one kind selected from La, Gd, Yb, and Lu. The optical element preferably has a refractive index of 1.85 or more and 2.06 ?m or less, and an Abbe number of 48 or more and 65 or less. The optical element having optical properties of high refractive index and low dispersibility is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Michio Endo, Kentaro Doguchi, Shigeru Fujino
  • Publication number: 20110143909
    Abstract: Provided is an optical glass having homogeneous optical characteristics such that striae and devitrification hardly occur at the time of producing a gob. The optical glass includes cationic components having the following composition, provided that a total of the cationic components is 95 cat %, and has a refractive index (nd) of 1.6 or more and less than 1.7 and an Abbe number (vd) of 50 or more and 56 or less, Si4+ 3 cat % or more and 13 cat % or less B3+ 40 cat % or more and 55 cat % or less La3+ 4 cat % or more and 9 cat % or less Ca2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Li+ 11 cat % or more and 18 cat % or less Zn2+ 6 cat % or more and 12 cat % or less Zr4+ 1 cat % or more and 4 cat % or less provided that Si4+/B3+ is 0.05 or more and 0.3 or less, and Li+/Zn2+ is 1.3 or more and 2.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20100081561
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element, which is formed by vacuum-sintering a molded body of ceramic particles having an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less and including LnxAlyO[x+y]×1.5 (Ln represents a rare-earth element, x represents 1?x?10, and y represents 1?y?5). Ln preferably includes at least one kind selected from La, Gd, Yb, and Lu. The optical element preferably has a refractive index of 1.85 or more and 2.06 ?m or less, and an Abbe number of 48 or more and 65 or less. The optical element having optical properties of high refractive index and low dispersibility is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Michio Endo, Kentaro Doguchi, Shigeru Fujino
  • Patent number: 7615507
    Abstract: An optical glass having a remarkably high refractive index and excellent stability can be give without being based on PbO, and the optical glass contains, as essential components, at least one oxide selected from La2O3, Gd2O3, Y2O3, Yb2O3, TiO2, Nb2O5 or WO3, at least one oxide selected from MgO, CaO, SrO or BaO and B2O3 and optionally containing SiO2, wherein on the basis of mass, the total content of B2O3 and SiO2 is from 1 to 25%, the ratio of (B2O3+SiO2)/(La2O3+Gd2O3+Y2O3+Yb2O3+TiO2+Nb2O5+WO3) is from 0.05 to 0.3 and the ratio of (MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO)/(La2O3+Gd2O3+Y2O3+Yb2O3+TiO2+Nb2O5+WO3) is from 0.1 to 0.4, the optical glass having a refractive index (nd) of 2.000 or more and an Abbe's number (vd) of 27 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Patent number: 7598193
    Abstract: An optical glass having a high light transmittance, a high refractive index and excellent production stability, which contains at least one of CaO and SrO together with SiO2, B2O3, La2O3, Nb2O5, TiO2 and BaO, having a composition that substantially contains, by weight %, 1 to 18% of SiO2, 3 to 24% of B2O3, provided that the ratio of content of B2O3 to the content of SiO2 (B2O3/SiO2) is over 1, 10 to 50% of La2O3, 1 to 30% of Nb2O5, 1 to 30% of TiO2, over 6% but not more than 25% of BaO, less than 7% of CaO, 6% or less of SrO, 0 to 13% of MgO, provided that the total content of BaO, CaO, SrO and MgO is 40% or less, 0 to 15% of ZnO, 0 to 15% of ZrO2, 0 to 10% of Al2O3, 0 to 20% of Gd2O3, 0% or more but less than 2% of Y2O3, 0 to 5% of Yb2O3, 0 to 18% of Ta2O5, 0 to 20% of Bi2O3, 0 to 10% of GeO2, 0% or more but less than 2% of Sb2O3, and 0% or more but less than 2% of SnO2, and having a refractive index (nd) of over 1.8, Abbe's number (?d) of 28 to 40 and a density of 4.2 g/cm3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Patent number: 7490485
    Abstract: An optical glass whose refractive index is high and whose coloring is decreased comprising, by weight %, 2 to 45% of B2O3, 0 to 30% of SiO2 provided that the content of B2O3>the content of SiO2, 10 to 50% of La2O3, 0 to 30% of TiO2, 0 to 15% of ZnO, 0 to 15% of ZrO2, 0 to 35% of Nb2O5, 0 to 35% of BaO, 0 to 5% of SrO, 0% or more but less than 8% of CaO, 0% or more but less than 13% of MgO, provided that the total content of BaO, SrO, CaO and MgO is 0 to 40%, 0 to 20% of Gd2O3, 0 to 15% of Y2O3, 0 to 18% of Ta2O5, 0% or more but less than 0.5% of WO3, 0% or more but less than 1.5% of a total of Na2O, K2O and Li2O, 0 to 10% of GeO2, 0 to 20% of Bi2O3, 0 to 10% of Yb2O3, 0 to 10% of Al2O3, 0% or more but less than 2% of Sb2O3 and 0 to 1% of SnO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20080194395
    Abstract: An optical glass whose refractive index is high and whose coloring is decreased comprising, by weight %, 2 to 45% of B2O3, 0 to 30% of SiO2 provided that the content of B2O3>the content of SiO2, 10 to 50% of La2O3, 0 to 30 % of TiO2, 0 to 15% of ZnO, 0 to 15% of ZrO2, 0 to 35% of Nb2O5, 0 to 35% of BaO, 0 to 5% of SrO, 0% or more but less than 8% of CaO, 0% or more but less than 13% of MgO, provided that the total content of BaO, SrO, CaO and MgO is 0 to 40%, 0 to 20% of Gd2O3, 0 to 15% of Y2O3, 0 to 18% of Ta2O5, 0% or more but less than 0.5% of WO3, 0% or more but less than 1.5% of a total of Na2O, K2O and Li2O, 0 to 10% of GeO2, 0 to 20% of Bi2O3, 0 to 10% of Yb2O3, 0 to 10% of Al2O3, 0% or more but less than 2% of Sb2O3 and 0 to 1% of SnO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20070015651
    Abstract: An optical glass having a remarkably high refractive index and excellent stability can be give without being based on PbO, and the optical glass contains, as essential components, at least one oxide selected from La2O3, Gd2O3, Y2O3, Yb2O3, TiO2, Nb2O5 or WO3, at least one oxide selected from MgO, CaO, SrO or BaO and B2O3 and optionally containing SiO2, wherein on the basis of mass, the total content of B2O3 and SiO2 is from 1 to 25%, the ratio of (B2O3+SiO2)/(La2O3+Gd2O3+Y2O3+Yb2O3+TiO2+Nb2O5+WO3) is from 0.05 to 0.3 and the ratio of (MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO)/(La2O3+Gd2O3+Y2O3+Yb2O3+TiO2+Nb2O5+WO3) is from 0.1 to 0.4, the optical glass having a refractive index (nd) of 2.000 or more and an Abbe's number (vd) of 27 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michio Endo
  • Publication number: 20060189473
    Abstract: An optical glass having a high light transmittance, a high refractive index and excellent production stability, which contains at least one of CaO and SrO together with SiO2, B2O3, La2O3, Nb2O5, TiO2 and BaO, having a composition that substantially contains, by weight %, 1 to 18% of SiO2, 3 to 24% of B2O3, provided that the ratio of content of B2O3 to the content of SiO2 (B2O3/SiO2) is over 1, 10 to 50% of La2O3, 1 to 30% of Nb2O5, 1 to 30% of TiO2, over 6% but not more than 25% of BaO, less than 7% of CaO, 6% or less of SrO, 0 to 13% of MgO, provided that the total content of BaO, CaO, SrO and MgO is 40% or less, 0 to 15% of ZnO, 0 to 15% of ZrO2, 0 to 10% of Al2O3, 0 to 20% of Gd2O3, 0% or more but less than 2% of Y2O3, 0 to 5% of Yb2O3, 0 to 18% of Ta2O5, 0 to 20% of Bi2O3, 0 to 10% of GeO2, 0% or more but less than 2% of Sb2O3, and 0% or more but less than 2% of SnO2, and having a refractive index (nd) of over 1.8, Abbe's number (?d) of 28 to 40 and a density of 4.2 g/cm3 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michio Endo