Patents by Inventor Minoru Taniyama

Minoru Taniyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20220244492
    Abstract: An imaging lens according to the present disclosure includes, in order from side of an object toward side of an image plane on which an imaging element is disposed: a front-group lens system having positive refractive power; and a rear-group lens system having, on side closest to the image plane, a lens surface that is concave to the image plane side in a vicinity of an optical axis and is convex to the image plane side in a peripheral part, and satisfies the following conditional expressions. 1.0<Gun2R2(sag6-sag10)/(TTL/2Y)<2.8??(1) 5.0(%)<ODMAX<20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: YOSHIO HOSONO, KENTA KAMEBUCHI, MINORU TANIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220019059
    Abstract: To achieve high performance. A first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface facing an object side, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power with a concave surface facing the object side, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power with a concave surface facing an image side, and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power in the vicinity of an optical axis, a surface on the image side of which is formed into an aspherical shape having an inflection point are provided in order from the object side to the image side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: KENTA KAMEBUCHI, MINORU TANIYAMA, YASUHIDE NIHEI
  • Patent number: 10447001
    Abstract: A laser unit may include a laser chamber including a pair of discharge electrodes that are opposed to each other in a first direction with an electrode gap interposed in between and are configured to provide a discharge width in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, smaller than the electrode gap; and an optical resonator including a first optical member and a second optical member that are opposed to each other in a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction with the discharge electrodes interposed in between, and configured to amplify laser light generated between the discharge electrodes and output amplified laser light, the optical resonator satisfying the following expression to configure a stable resonator in the second direction: 0<G1·G2<1 where G1 is a G parameter of the first optical member, and G2 is a G parameter of the second optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Minoru Taniyama, Hakaru Mizoguchi, Osamu Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 10092979
    Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus may include: an irradiation head section including first and second irradiation heads each configured to perform laser light irradiation on a workpiece; a laser unit section including first and second laser units configured to respectively output first laser light and second laser light; a beam delivery section provided in an optical path between the laser unit section and the irradiation head section, and configured to perform switching of optical paths between optical paths of the first laser light and the second laser light to cause the first or second laser light to enter the first or second irradiation head; a first beam property varying section provided in an optical path between the first laser unit and the irradiation head section; and a second beam property varying section provided in an optical path between the second laser unit and the irradiation head section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Suzuki, Minoru Taniyama, Osamu Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20180236602
    Abstract: A laser irradiation apparatus may include: an irradiation head section including first and second irradiation heads each configured to perform laser light irradiation on a workpiece; a laser unit section including first and second laser units configured to respectively output first laser light and second laser light; a beam delivery section provided in an optical path between the laser unit section and the irradiation head section, and configured to perform switching of optical paths between optical paths of the first laser light and the second laser light to cause the first or second laser light to enter the first or second irradiation head; a first beam property varying section provided in an optical path between the first laser unit and the irradiation head section; and a second beam property varying section provided in an optical path between the second laser unit and the irradiation head section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: GIGAPHOTON INC.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Suzuki, Minoru Taniyama, Osamu Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20180123308
    Abstract: A laser unit may include a laser chamber including a pair of discharge electrodes that are opposed to each other in a first direction with an electrode gap interposed in between and are configured to provide a discharge width in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, smaller than the electrode gap; and an optical resonator including a first optical member and a second optical member that are opposed to each other in a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction with the discharge electrodes interposed in between, and configured to amplify laser light generated between the discharge electrodes and output amplified laser light, the optical resonator satisfying the following expression to configure a stable resonator in the second direction: 0<G1·G2<1 where G1 is a G parameter of the first optical member, and G2 is a G parameter of the second optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: GIGAPHOTON INC.
    Inventors: Minoru TANIYAMA, Hakaru MIZOGUCHI, Osamu WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8514503
    Abstract: When an optical image is formed through an imaging lens on an imaging surface that is convex toward a light incident side, the imaging lens is constructed in such a manner that a defocus MTF peak position at an arbitrary image height in a range of from 70% to 100% of a maximum image height of the optical image is located further in a light-traveling direction than a same kind of defocus MTF peak position on an optical axis of the imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20120069449
    Abstract: When an optical image is formed through an imaging lens on an imaging surface that is convex toward a light incident side, the imaging lens is constructed in such a manner that a defocus MTF peak position at an arbitrary image height in a range of from 70% to 100% of a maximum image height of the optical image is located further in a light-traveling direction than a same kind of defocus MTF peak position on an optical axis of the imaging lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru TANIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8116014
    Abstract: Disclosed are an imaging lens having a small size and high imaging performance, a camera module that is provided with the imaging lens and can obtain a high-resolution image signal, and an imaging apparatus. An imaging lens includes a first lens having a positive power, a second lens having a negative power, a third lens that has a positive power and includes a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens that has a negative power and includes an object-side surface which is concave or flat near an optical axis. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in this order from an object side, and the imaging lens satisfies Conditional expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: 8111318
    Abstract: An imaging system is provided and includes an imaging lens and an imaging device such that the maximum diameter of an effective region of a point image covers three or more pixels of light receiving pixels, the point image being projected onto a light receiving surface through the imaging lens from an intended position. A signal processing unit executes restoration processing on first image data output from the imaging device, and the restoration processing is executed to generate second image data equivalent to the first image data output from the imaging device when the resolving power of the imaging lens is higher. The imaging lens has a first lens group having a positive power, and a second lens group having a positive power, in order from the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Taniyama, Kazuya Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 8102608
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a positive power; a second lens having a negative power; a third lens having a positive power and having a convex surface on an image side thereof; and a fourth lens having a negative power and having a concave surface or a flat surface on the object side and in a vicinity of an optical axis thereof, and the imaging lens satisfies conditional expression: 0.28<|f4/f|<0.60 ??(1) where f is a focal length of the imaging lens, and f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20110261471
    Abstract: An image pickup lens that includes the following disposed from an object side in the order listed below: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens having an object side surface which is concave or flat adjacent to an optical axis of the lens and a negative refractive power adjacent to the optical axis, and satisfies Conditional Expression (1) given below in order to realize total length reduction and high image forming performance. 0.3<|(R4+R3)/(R4?R3)|<1.5??(1) where, R3 is a paraxial radius of curvature of an object side surface of the second lens, and R4 is a paraxial radius of curvature of an image side surface of the second lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru TANIYAMA
  • Patent number: 7755853
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a convex surface on the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface on the object side; a third lens having a positive refractive power in the vicinity of an optical axis thereof; and a fourth lens of a meniscus lens having a negative refractive power and having a convex surface on the object side, the imaging lens satisfying the specific conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: 7742238
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape with a convex surface directed to the object side thereof, a second lens having a concave object-side surface and a third lens having a negative refractive power in a vicinity of an optical axis. Each of the second and third lenses has at least one aspheric surface. The following conditional expressions are satisfied: 0.8<f1/f<1.2??(1) 11<|f2/f|??(2) 0.04<SA/Y<0.09??(3) TL/2Y<0.9??(4) where SA denotes the amount of sag of the object-side surface of the second lens in a position where a principal ray passes the maximum image height, Y denotes the maximum image height, and TL denotes a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image formation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: 7715119
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a convex surface on the object side and having a positive power; a second lens having a concave surface on the object side and having a negative power; a third lens having a positive power; and a fourth lens having a convex surface on the object side near a paraxial axis and having a meniscus shape. The imaging lens satisfies conditional expressions as specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20100103533
    Abstract: Disclosed are an imaging lens having a small size and high imaging performance, a camera module that is provided with the imaging lens and can obtain a high-resolution image signal, and an imaging apparatus. An imaging lens includes a first lens having a positive power, a second lens having a negative power, a third lens that has a positive power and includes a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens that has a negative power and includes an object-side surface which is concave or flat near an optical axis. The first to fourth lenses are arranged in this order from an object side, and the imaging lens satisfies Conditional expression 1 given below: 0.5<(|R2|?R1)/(R1+|R2|)??[Conditional expression 1] (where R1 indicates the curvature radius of an object-side surface of the first lens and R2 indicates the curvature radius of an image-side surface of the second lens).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventor: Minoru TANIYAMA
  • Patent number: 7660050
    Abstract: An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a meniscus shape and having a convex surface directed to the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power in the vicinity of an optical axis of the imaging lens; and a third lens having a positive refractive power in the vicinity of the optical axis, wherein at least one surface of each of the second lens and the third lens is an aspheric surface; and the imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expression expressions: 0.7 <If1/fl <0.8 . . . (1) 0.3<1f2/fl <0.8 . . . (2) 7.5 <vd1<96 . . .(3) TL/2Y <0.9 . . . (4) where f: focal length of the imaging lens; f1: focal length of the first lens; f2: focal length of the second lens; vd1: Abbe number of the first lens for the d-line; TL: length between the object-side surface of the first lens to an image forming position of the imaging lens; and Y: maximum image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: 7599131
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, an aperture diaphragm; a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a convex surface on the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface on the object side; and a third lens having a meniscus shape having a convex surface on the object side in the vicinity of an optical axis thereof, each of the first lens, the second lens and the third lens having at least one aspherical surface, and the imaging lens satisfying the following conditional expressions. 0.9<|f2/f|<11??(1) 1.2<|f3/f|<100??(2) f represents a focal length of the imaging lens; f2 represents a focal length of the second lens; and f3 represents a focal length of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: 7595939
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to third lenses G1 to G3 arranged in order from a object side. The first lens has a biconvex shape in a vicinity of an optical axis Z1. The second lens has a concave surface facing a object side. The second lens has a negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive or negative refractive power and has a meniscus shape containing, in a vicinity of the optical axis, a convex surface facing the object side. The following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.7<f1/f<1.3 0.2?D2/f<0.5 where f denotes a focal length of the entire system of the imaging lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens G1 and D2 denotes an interval on the optical axis Z1 between the first lens G1 and the second lens G2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Minoru Taniyama
  • Patent number: RE42642
    Abstract: An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power whose concave surface faces to the object; and a third lens having a positive refractive power and having a meniscus form that has a convex surface, facing to the object, in a portion at and around an optical axis of the imaging lens; wherein the first, second and third lenses have at least one aspheric surface, and wherein the imaging lens satisfies conditional expressions given below: 0.7<f1/f<1.3 ??(1) 0.3<D2/f<0.5 ??(2) 1.0<|f2/f|<3.0 ??(3) 1.2<f3/f<4.0 ??(4) where f: a focal length of an overall system, f1: a focal length of the first lens, f2: a focal length of the second lens, f3: a focal length of the third lens, and D2: a spacing, on the optical axis, between the first lens and the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Minoru Taniyama