Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiko Nakada

Mitsuhiko Nakada 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: 10444542
    Abstract: A decentered type contact lens including: an optical zone provided in a center part of the contact lens; a peripheral zone provided on an outer circumference of the optical zone; an optical center of the optical zone being set to deviate from a lens geometric center; and a circumferential direction alignment mechanism for setting a lens circumferential direction position in a worn state, the contact lens being characterized in that: a center-of-gravity deviation in relation to the lens geometric center is set for the peripheral zone, and a center-of-gravity position shift accompanying deviation of the optical center of the optical zone in relation to the lens geometric center is corrected by offset using the center-of-gravity deviation of the peripheral zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Goto, Mitsuhiko Nakada
  • Publication number: 20170090216
    Abstract: A decentered type contact lens including: an optical zone provided in a center part of the contact lens; a peripheral zone provided on an outer circumference of the optical zone; an optical center of the optical zone being set to deviate from a lens geometric center; and a circumferential direction alignment mechanism for setting a lens circumferential direction position in a worn state, the contact lens being characterized in that: a center-of-gravity deviation in relation to the lens geometric center is set for the peripheral zone, and a center-of-gravity position shift accompanying deviation of the optical center of the optical zone in relation to the lens geometric center is corrected by offset using the center-of-gravity deviation of the peripheral zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji GOTO, Mitsuhiko NAKADA
  • Patent number: 9594258
    Abstract: The present invention provides a contact lens having novel myopia progression suppression capability, while enabling a good QOV to be obtained and ensuring myopia is kept from progressing. A contact lens having a refractive correction power for correcting myopia and myopic astigmatism set in a central region of an optical part, wherein a positive addition power in comparison with a power in the central region is set in a peripheral region of the optical part so that progression of the myopia or myopic astigmatism is suppressed, a positioning member is provided that specifies a circumferential position of the lens under a worn condition, and a lens optical axis of the optical part is set offset from a lens geometric center to align with a line of sight of a human eye under the worn condition produced by the positioning member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikado, Mitsuhiko Nakada, Asaki Suzaki, Yukihisa Sakai
  • Publication number: 20160370602
    Abstract: A designing method of a contact lens for myopia progression suppression including: providing a tonic accommodation relaxation region in which an additional power whose maximum value is from +0.25 to +0.75 diopters is set with respect to a correction power that is required for realizing a proper correction, the additional power being capable of relaxing a tonic accommodation without improving an aberration off an optical axis and an accommodation lag on the optical axis; and providing a proper correction region in which the additional power is not set at least on an optical center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIKADO, Asaki SUZAKI, Mitsuhiko NAKADA, Yukihisa SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20150219926
    Abstract: The present invention provides a contact lens having novel myopia progression suppression capability, while enabling a good QOV to be obtained and ensuring myopia is kept from progressing. A contact lens having a refractive correction power for correcting myopia and myopic astigmatism set in a central region of an optical part, wherein a positive addition power in comparison with a power in the central region is set in a peripheral region of the optical part so that progression of the myopia or myopic astigmatism is suppressed, a positioning member is provided that specifies a circumferential position of the lens under a worn condition, and a lens optical axis of the optical part is set offset from a lens geometric center to align with a line of sight of a human eye under the worn condition produced by the positioning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikado, Mitsuhiko Nakada, Asaki Suzaki, Yukihisa Sakai