Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Shoji
Noriyuki Shoji 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).
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Publication number: 20210033718Abstract: To detect an object present in the vicinity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI, Taishi KAGIMOTO, Tadataka WAKABISHI, Sadao MATSUSHIMA, Hajime NAMIKI, Jun MIURA, Tomoki KAWAMURA, Noriyuki SHOJI
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Patent number: 9730787Abstract: An intraocular lens of the present invention has a substantially circular or elliptical optical lens portion made of a soft material, and an arm-shaped support arm portion attached to outer peripheral edges of this optical lens portion, and out of the peripheral edges of the optical lens portion that are contiguous to both sides in a width direction of a root of the support arm portion, at least one outer peripheral edge has a portion recessed inward from the convex curve. Thus, there is provided a soft intraocular lens that can be inserted into an eye from a further smaller incision, without damaging an optical function as much as possible.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 9107747Abstract: There is provided a soft intraocular lens, comprising: an optical lens section 10 made of a foldable soft material; and a support arm section 20 formed so as to protrude outward from an outer peripheral edge of the optical lens section 10 for holding the optical lens section 10 in an eye, wherein a tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is made of a different kind of material which is harder than a soft material of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1, and adhesiveness of the tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is set to be lower than the adhesiveness of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Kikuo Mitomo
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Patent number: 8702795Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device (1) includes a main body (2), an operational portion (3) provided on an end (2a) of the main body (2), a knock mechanism (4) for moving the operational portion (3) forward and backward with respect to the main body (2), and a cartridge (5) attached to the other end (2b) of the main body (2) and serving as an insertion tube. The device is constructed, as a whole, such that the knock mechanism (4) moves the operational portion (3) repeatedly forward and backward so that an intraocular lens (6) placed in the cartridge (5) can be pushed out stepwise. The knock mechanism (4) is structured so as to move the operational portion (3) pushed forward toward a backward direction and automatically return it to an original position prior to the same being pushed forward.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 8623084Abstract: A soft intraocular lens is provided, with IRHD hardness thereof being 40 to 60, wherein distance L is in a range of 3.75 mm-4.50 mm, which is a distance from an optical central axis of the optical part to a reference point of a supporting part side edge of the transition part, and an angle ? is in a range of 35°-50°, which is formed by a surface including the optical central axis and a reference point of the supporting part side edge of the transition part, and a surface including the optical central axis and in contact with a tip of the supporting part, with a width of the transition part being larger than a width of the supporting part, and a width Wm of the transition part in a middle of the optical part side edge and the supporting part side edge of the transition part being 1.5 times to 3 times of a width Ws of the supporting part.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 8470032Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of more easily inserting an intraocular lens into an eye. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises a main body 2, an operation portion 5 and a cartridge 4 attached to the main body 2. The operation portion 5 has a plunger 6 integrally provided thereon and serving as a transmitting member, and a rod 7 provided on a distal end of the plunger 6 and serving to push out the intraocular lens. The intraocular lens insertion device 1 further comprises a restraint portion 10, and thus allows the rod 7 to first push an intraocular lens 8 by a predetermined distance and then be temporarily stopped before the intraocular lens 8 is released from the cartridge 4 toward the outside.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Masanobu Inoue, Noriyuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20110313520Abstract: There is provided a soft intraocular lens, comprising: an optical lens section 10 made of a foldable soft material; and a support arm section 20 formed so as to protrude outward from an outer peripheral edge of the optical lens section 10 for holding the optical lens section 10 in an eye, wherein a tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is made of a different kind of material which is harder than a soft material of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1, and adhesiveness of the tip end part 22 of the support arm section 20 is set to be lower than the adhesiveness of other portion of the soft intraocular lens 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Kikuo Mitomo
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Publication number: 20110270264Abstract: An intraocular lens insertion device for more easily inserting an intraocular lens into the eye. The intraocular lens insertion device (1) includes a main body (2), an operational portion (3) provided on an end (2a) of the main body (2), a knock mechanism (4) for moving the operational portion (3) forward and backward with respect to the main body (2), and a cartridge (5) attached to the other end (2b) of the main body (2) and serving as an insertion tube. The device is constructed, as a whole, such that the knock mechanism (4) moves the operational portion (3) repeatedly forward and backward so that an intraocular lens (6) placed in the cartridge (5) can be pushed out stepwise. The knock mechanism (4) is structured so as to move the operational portion (3) pushed forward toward a backward direction and automatically return it to an original position prior to the same being pushed forward.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20110264101Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of more easily inserting an intraocular lens into an eye. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises a main body 2, an operation portion 5 and a cartridge 4 attached to the main body 2. The operation portion 5 has a plunger 6 integrally provided thereon and serving as a transmitting member, and a rod 7 provided on a distal end of the plunger 6 and serving to push out the intraocular lens. The intraocular lens insertion device 1 further comprises a restraint portion 10, and thus allows the rod 7 to first push an intraocular lens 8 by a predetermined distance and then be temporarily stopped before the intraocular lens 8 is released from the cartridge 4 toward the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu Inoue, Noriyuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20110130832Abstract: A soft intraocular lens is provided, with IRHD hardness thereof being 40 to 60, wherein distance L is in a range of 3.75 mm-4.50 mm, which is a distance from an optical central axis of the optical part to a reference point of a supporting part side edge of the transition part, and an angle ? is in a range of 35°-50°, which is formed by a surface including the optical central axis and a reference point of the supporting part side edge of the transition part, and a surface including the optical central axis and in contact with a tip of the supporting part, with a width of the transition part being larger than a width of the supporting part, and a width Wm of the transition part in a middle of the optical part side edge and the supporting part side edge of the transition part being 1.5 times to 3 times of a width Ws of the supporting part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2008Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Publication number: 20110037184Abstract: To provide a manufacturing method of an intraocular lens wherein by using a mold having an optical part molding part for forming a member becoming the optical part by molding, and a support part molding part for forming a member becoming the support part by molding, in which the front optical surface and the rear optical surface can be directly obtained by molding the optical molding part, and the support part can be obtained by applying a additional machining to the member obtained by molding, the method comprises the steps of: injecting a raw material of an intraocular lens into the mold, then polymerizing and hardening the raw material, then machining the member becoming the support part into a shape of the support part in a state that at least the front optical surface and the rear optical surface in the polymerized or hardened members are covered with the optical part molding part of the mold, and releasing the optical part molding part from the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue, Hirofumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100145446Abstract: An intraocular lens of the present invention has a substantially circular or elliptical optical lens portion made of a soft material, and an arm-shaped support arm portion attached to outer peripheral edges of this optical lens portion, and out of the peripheral edges of the optical lens portion that are contiguous to both sides in a width direction of a root of the support arm portion, at least one outer peripheral edge has a portion recessed inward from the convex curve. Thus, there is provided a soft intraocular lens that can be inserted into an eye from a further smaller incision, without damaging an optical function as much as possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masanobu Inoue
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Patent number: 7126482Abstract: An RFID tag which is provided with a coil-shaped antenna such that a conductor is placed on the periphery of a magnetic core, the RFID comprising: the magnetic core, an FPC wound on the periphery of the magnetic core, two or more linear conductor patterns formed in parallel with one another on the FPC, an IC that is connected to the linear conductor patterns and disposed on the FPC, a crossover pattern that electrically connects one end and the other end of outermost linear conductor patterns among the linear conductor patterns formed in parallel with one another, where in the two or more linear conductor patterns, adjacent linear conductor patterns in a joint portion in the wound FPC are electrically connected in respective start edges and end edges.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Koichi Maeno, Masataka Iegaki
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Publication number: 20050179552Abstract: An RFID tag which is provided with a coil-shaped antenna such that a conductor is placed on the periphery of a magnetic core, the RFID comprising: the magnetic core, an FPC wound on the periphery of the magnetic core, two or more linear conductor patterns formed in parallel with one another on the FPC, an IC that is connected to the linear conductor patterns and disposed on the FPC, a crossover pattern that electrically connects one end and the other end of outermost linear conductor patterns among the linear conductor patterns formed in parallel with one another, where in the two or more linear conductor patterns, adjacent linear conductor patterns in a joint portion in the wound FPC are electrically connected in respective start edges and end edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: The FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Koichi Maeno, Masataka Iegaki
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Patent number: 5905124Abstract: A method for producing 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate polymers comprising polymerizing 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate or a monomer mixture thereof containing a halogen compound thorough radical polymerization; method for producing hydrogels comprising subjecting the polymers to a water-imparting treatment; method for producing water-containing soft contact lenses comprising molding the polymers into a shape of contact lens and subjecting them to a water-imparting treatment and method for producing polymers comprising treating at least molding surfaces of molds, which form a cavity of contact lens shape, with a halogen compound and polymerizing 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate or a monomer mixture thereof in the cavity through radical polymerization are disclosed. According to the present invention, water-containing soft contact lenses with high heat resistance and intermediates therefor are obtained from 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate of high purity.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1997Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Shoji, Masashi Nomura, Yuichi Yokoyama