Patents by Inventor Shoji Kogo
Shoji Kogo 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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Patent number: 10782392Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit having a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface which incline to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system having a light source. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit. The light flux emitted from the second mirror surface becomes a plurality of spot lights on the object side, and the plurality of spot lights are arranged along a direction intersecting with the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Ryouta Ishikawa, Shoji Kogo
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Patent number: 10649071Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit equipped with a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface each of which inclines to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system which includes at least one light source to emit a light flux toward the first mirror surface. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit, and in a case where a direction included in a main scanning plane is set to 0 degree, the light flux reflected on the second mirror surface is polarized in a range within an angle of ±30 degrees to the main scanning plane.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Ryouta Ishikawa, Shoji Kogo
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Publication number: 20190231625Abstract: A central processing device and a central processing method performs: storing a record format that is created in accordance with a type of nursing care, and is designed for inputting details of nursing care as a nursing care record; and, when receiving a type notifying communication signal for issuing a notification of a type of nursing care in a nursing care record from a terminal device, returning a format notifying communication signal containing the record format corresponding to the type of nursing care contained in the type notifying communication signal, to enable the terminal device to input the details of the nursing care for each of the monitored persons while changing the monitored persons. A monitored-person monitoring system according to the present invention includes the central processing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Masashi NISHIKADO, Shoji KOGO
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Patent number: 10162171Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit having a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface which incline to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system having a light source. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit. In the case where a virtual plane is set in a range including the object, a light flux reflected on the second mirror surface has, upon entering the virtual plane, a cross sectional shape in which a length in a direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction is longer than a length in the main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Ryouta Ishikawa, Shoji Kogo
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Patent number: 10048492Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit equipped with a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface each of which inclines to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system which includes at least one light source to emit a light flux toward the first mirror surface. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit, and the light flux reflected on the second mirror surface is polarized in a range within an angle of ±30 degrees to a direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction on the object side.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Ryouta Ishikawa, Shoji Kogo
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Publication number: 20170307737Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit having a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface which incline to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system having a light source. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit. The light flux emitted from the second mirror surface becomes a plurality of spot lights on the object side, and the plurality of spot lights are arranged along a direction intersecting with the main scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Ryouta ISHIKAWA, Shoji KOGO
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Publication number: 20170307874Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit equipped with a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface each of which inclines to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system which includes at least one light source to emit a light flux toward the first mirror surface. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit, and the light flux reflected on the second mirror surface is polarized in a range within an angle of ±30 degrees to a direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction on the object side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Ryouta ISHIKAWA, Shoji KOGO
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Publication number: 20170299701Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit equipped with a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface each of which inclines to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system which includes at least one light source to emit a light flux toward the first mirror surface. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit, and in a case where a direction included in a main scanning plane is set to 0 degree, the light flux reflected on the second mirror surface is polarized in a range within an angle of ±30 degrees to the main scanning plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Ryouta ISHIKAWA, Shoji KOGO
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Publication number: 20170293138Abstract: A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit having a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface which incline to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system having a light source. A light flux emitted from the light source is reflected on the first mirror surface of the mirror unit, thereafter, reflected on the second mirror surface, and then, projected so as to scan in a main scanning direction onto an object in accordance with rotation of the mirror unit. In the case where a virtual plane is set in a range including the object, a light flux reflected on the second mirror surface has, upon entering the virtual plane, a cross sectional shape in which a length in a direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction is longer than a length in the main scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Ryouta ISHIKAWA, Shoji KOGO
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Patent number: 9591241Abstract: A compound eye optical system forms a plurality of images with different fields of view for connecting the plurality of images with the different fields of view and outputting one composite image. The system includes: a plurality of individual eye optical systems forming the plurality of images with different fields of view on an imaging surface; and an overall optical system forming an image with a field of view incorporating the entire fields of view obtained by the plurality of individual eye optical systems on the imaging surface, wherein the individual eye optical systems and the overall optical system are configured by a lens array plate having a plurality of lenses integrally formed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Konno, Motohiro Asano, Jun Takayama, Makoto Jin, Shoji Kogo, Katsuya Yagi, Hiroshi Hatano
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Publication number: 20160041311Abstract: Provided is a compound optical system that can obtain high-resolution images by solving the problem of aberration in a field-of-view separation-type optical system, and that enables a super thin image pickup device to be achieved. Also provided is an image pickup device using the compound optical system. With respect to the image pickup range of a central individual-eye lens, by narrowing the image pickup range of a peripheral individual-eye lens, the field curvature amount at the image pickup region can be reduced, and therefore, the eccentricity amount of the lens surface (or the lens group) can be reduced. As a result, an individual-eye lens with little defocus and good image forming characteristics can be obtained, and a compound optical system with favorable image forming characteristics can be configured.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Shoji KOGO, Makoto JIN, Kenji KONNO, Takashi KAWASAKI
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Publication number: 20150312496Abstract: A compound eye optical system forms a plurality of images with different fields of view for connecting the plurality of images with the different fields of view and outputting one composite image. The system includes: a plurality of individual eye optical systems forming the plurality of images with different fields of view on an imaging surface; and an overall optical system forming an image with a field of view incorporating the entire fields of view obtained by the plurality of individual eye optical systems on the imaging surface, wherein the individual eye optical systems and the overall optical system are configured by a lens array plate having a plurality of lenses integrally formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Kenji KONNO, Motohiro ASANO, Jun TAKAYAMA, Makoto JIN, Shoji KOGO, Katsuya YAGI, Hiroshi HATANO
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Patent number: 9025035Abstract: Disclosed is a zoom lens that forms an optical image of an object on a light receiving surface of an imaging element converting the optical image to an electrical signal, having the diagonal length of 2Ymax, is constituted by a positive first group, a negative second group, a negative third group, an aperture, and a rear group having positive power as a whole, in order from an object side, and satisfies a conditional expression 1.5<frw/Ymax<2.1 (frw denotes the combined focal length of the rear group on a wide end, and Ymax denotes the maximum image height).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yasushi Yamamoto, Shoji Kogo
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Patent number: 8947791Abstract: A large aperture zoom optical system and an image pickup apparatus have a five-lens-group arrangement of positive-negative-positive-negative-positive refractive powers. At the time of zooming, the fifth lens group is fixed, and at least the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group are moved. The third lens group for use in focusing is composed of a single lens element.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kana Inoue
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Publication number: 20130342716Abstract: Disclosed is a zoom lens that forms an optical image of an object on a light receiving surface of an imaging element converting the optical image to an electrical signal, having the diagonal length of 2Y max, is constituted by a positive first group, a negative second group, a negative third group, an aperture, and a rear group having positive power as a whole, in order from an object side, and satisfies a conditional expression 1.5<frw/Ymax<2.1 (frw denotes the combined focal length of the rear group on a wide end, and Ymax denotes the maximum image height).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Yasushi Yamamoto, Shoji Kogo
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Publication number: 20120314291Abstract: A large aperture zoom optical system and an image pickup apparatus have a five-lens-group arrangement of positive-negative-positive-negative-positive refractive powers. At the time of zooming, the fifth lens group is fixed, and at least the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group are moved. The third lens group for use in focusing is composed of a single lens element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kana Inoue
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Patent number: 7907318Abstract: A scanning optical system includes: a light source for emitting a light flux with a wavelength ?; a polygon mirror comprising a plurality of reflection surfaces for deflecting the light flux emitted from the light source for scanning the scanning surface; a light-converging lens group in a two-element structure. The light-converging lens group is arranged between the polygon mirror and the scanning surface and forms a light spot on the scanning surface. In the scanning optical system, the wavelength ? is not larger than 600 nm, and the scanning optical system satisfies a conditional expression relating to a number of the reflection surfaces of the polygon mirror, a scanning width of the scanning optical system, and a focal length of the light-converging lens group in a main scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Daisuke Tanahashi
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Patent number: 7573648Abstract: In this invention, to provide a compact zoom lens having a small number of optical element groups to be driven and a simple moving mechanism, at least one of a plurality of optical element groups arranged in the lens system includes a refractive power variable element of a transmission type which has a compensation function to correct focus movement caused by zooming and a focus function to correct focus movement caused by a variation in inter-object distance. The refractive power variable element is a liquid optical element including a first liquid having a conductivity or a polarity and a second liquid which is not mixed with the first liquid, the first liquid and the second liquid being enclosed in a container fluid-tight so as to define an interface therebetween having a predetermined shape, the liquid optical element being arranged such that a refractive power thereof is adjusted by changing a curvature of the interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Masae Sato, Susumu Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Sato, Yuuichi Atarashi
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Publication number: 20090009844Abstract: A scanning optical system includes: a light source for emitting a light flux with a wavelength ?; a polygon mirror comprising a plurality of reflection surfaces for deflecting the light flux emitted from the light source for scanning the scanning surface; a light-converging lens group in a two-element structure. The light-converging lens group is arranged between the polygon mirror and the scanning surface and forms a light spot on the scanning surface. In the scanning optical system, the wavelength ? is not larger than 600 nm, and the scanning optical system satisfies a conditional expression relating to a number of the reflection surfaces of the polygon mirror, a scanning width of the scanning optical system, and a focal length of the light-converging lens group in a main scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Daisuke Tanahashi
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Publication number: 20080080064Abstract: In this invention, to provide a compact zoom lens having a small number of optical element groups to be driven and a simple moving mechanism, at least one of a plurality of optical element groups arranged in the lens system includes a refractive power variable element of a transmission type which has a compensation function to correct focus movement caused by zooming and a focus function to correct focus movement caused by a variation in inter-object distance. The refractive power variable element is a liquid optical element including a first liquid having a conductivity or a polarity and a second liquid which is not mixed with the first liquid, the first liquid and the second liquid being enclosed in a container fluid-tight so as to define an interface therebetween having a predetermined shape, the liquid optical element being arranged such that a refractive power thereof is adjusted by changing a curvature of the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Masae Sato, Susumu Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Sato, Yuuichi Atarashi