Patents by Inventor Ryo Kikuta

Ryo Kikuta 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: 10715709
    Abstract: An imaging device has a lens holding member; a base member for holding the lens holding member; and a substrate to which the base member is secured. The lens holding member holds at least one lens. The base member has a contact surface that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, and contacts an end face of the lens holding member in a state wherein the lens holding member is held; and an opening portion through which passes the optical axis of the lens, provided in the contact surface. The substrate has an imaging element on which light that has passed through the lens and through the opening portion of the base member is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Ryo Kikuta
  • Patent number: 10511754
    Abstract: An imaging device having a lens group having lenses; a lens frame that holds said lens group; a base that holds said lens frame; an imaging element that has an imaging area; and a compression coil spring that prescribes the position of the lens frame relative to the imaging element so as to keep the optical axis of the lens group perpendicular to the imaging area of the imaging element. The imaging-element side of the lens frame has an orthogonal surface that is orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens group. The compression coil spring keeps said orthogonal surface in surface contact with an area that surrounds and is parallel to the imaging area of the imaging element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Ryo Kikuta
  • Patent number: 10472488
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent resin composition having a higher heat ray-shielding effect that can particularly effectively shield light of a wavelength of 1,450 nm to 1,750 nm while ensuring a high visible light transmittance. The transparent resin composition contains a transparent resin-forming component and inorganic particles, in which the inorganic particles contain indium tin oxide (ITO) and have a color having an L* value of 30 or more and 55 or less and a b* value of ?18 or more and ?10 or less in the Lab color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kikuta, Keisuke Maeda
  • Patent number: 10371918
    Abstract: An imaging device has a lens group; a lens barrel for holding the lens group; a base member for holding the lens barrel; an imaging element; a securing plate that faces at least a portion of the base member in a state wherein the imaging element is secured; and a coil spring for pressing the lens barrel to produce a state wherein a male threaded portion of the lens barrel is pressed against a female threaded portion of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Ryo Kikuta, Yuhei Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Toma
  • Publication number: 20190208094
    Abstract: An imaging device has a lens holding member; a base member for holding the lens holding member; and a substrate to which the base member is secured. The lens holding member holds at least one lens. The base member has a contact surface that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, and contacts an end face of the lens holding member in a state wherein the lens holding member is held; and an opening portion through which passes the optical axis of the lens, provided in the contact surface. The substrate has an imaging element on which light that has passed through the lens and through the opening portion of the base member is incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAMURA, Ryo KIKUTA
  • Patent number: 10288985
    Abstract: An imaging device having a lens group; a lens barrel holding the lens group; a base member holding the lens barrel; an imaging element; a fixed plate arranged facing at least part of the base member in a state in which the imaging element is fixed; and a pressing member for attaching, to the base member, the fixed plate in a state in which the fixed plate is temporarily fixed to the base member in a state in which fixed plate is movable in a direction intersecting the axial line of the lens group, relative to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Ryo Kikuta
  • Patent number: 10284757
    Abstract: An imaging device has a lens holding member; a base member for holding the lens holding member; and a substrate to which the base member is secured. The lens holding member holds at least one lens. The base member has a contact surface that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, and contacts an end face of the lens holding member in a state wherein the lens holding member is held; and an opening portion through which passes the optical axis of the lens, provided in the contact surface. The substrate has an imaging element on which light that has passed through the lens and through the opening portion of the base member is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Ryo Kikuta
  • Publication number: 20180057655
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent resin composition having a higher heat ray-shielding effect that can particularly effectively shield light of a wavelength of 1,450 nm to 1,750 nm while ensuring a high visible light transmittance. The transparent resin composition contains a transparent resin-forming component and inorganic particles, in which the inorganic particles contain indium tin oxide (ITO) and have a color having an L* value of 30 or more and 55 or less and a b* value of ?18 or more and ?10 or less in the Lab color space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo KIKUTA, Keisuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20180027155
    Abstract: An imaging device has a lens holding member; a base member for holding the lens holding member; and a substrate to which the base member is secured. The lens holding member holds at least one lens. The base member has a contact surface that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, and contacts an end face of the lens holding member in a state wherein the lens holding member is held; and an opening portion through which passes the optical axis of the lens, provided in the contact surface. The substrate has an imaging element on which light that has passed through the lens and through the opening portion of the base member is incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAMURA, Ryo KIKUTA
  • Publication number: 20170307841
    Abstract: An imaging device has a lens group; a lens barrel for holding the lens group; a base member for holding the lens barrel; an imaging element; a securing plate that faces at least a portion of the base member in a state wherein the imaging element is secured; and a coil spring for pressing the lens barrel to produce a state wherein a male threaded portion of the lens barrel is pressed against a female threaded portion of the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAMURA, Ryo KIKUTA, Yuhei KOBAYASHI, Kiyoshi TOMA
  • Publication number: 20170299947
    Abstract: An imaging device having a lens group; a lens barrel holding the lens group; a base member holding the lens barrel; an imaging element; a fixed plate arranged facing at least part of the base member in a state in which the imaging element is fixed; and a pressing member for attaching, to the base member, the fixed plate in a state in which the fixed plate is temporarily fixed to the base member in a state in which fixed plate is movable in a direction intersecting the axial line of the lens group, relative to the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAMURA, Ryo KIKUTA
  • Publication number: 20170223243
    Abstract: An imaging device having a lens group having lenses; a lens frame that holds said lens group; a base that holds said lens frame; an imaging element that has an imaging area; and a compression coil spring that prescribes the position of the lens frame relative to the imaging element so as to keep the optical axis of the lens group perpendicular to the imaging area of the imaging element. The imaging-element side of the lens frame has an orthogonal surface that is orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens group. The compression coil spring keeps said orthogonal surface in surface contact with an area that surrounds and is parallel to the imaging area of the imaging element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAMURA, Ryo KIKUTA
  • Publication number: 20100127609
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp includes a luminous tube, an outer bulb housing the luminous tube, and a diffusing film formed on at least one of inner and outer surfaces of the outer bulb, in which the diffusing film includes first silica particles having shapes different in surface curvature from each other and hollow second silica particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Watanabe, Sadao Sakaguchi, Kazuyoshi Okamura, Akihiro Kanda, Ryo Kikuta, Yasuhito Fujita