Patents by Inventor Shoma Kuga

Shoma Kuga 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: 11060917
    Abstract: Provided are a multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device, a confocal measurement device, an interference measurement device, and a color measurement device capable of measuring the characteristic amount of a measurement object such as the thickness, distance, displacement, or color with high accuracy using multi-wavelength light such as white light. The multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device includes a laser light source, a light source optical member for concentrating light from the laser light source, a phosphor excited by light concentrated by the light source optical member, an optical fiber unit that includes one or a plurality of optical fibers and the phosphor disposed on a first end, receives light emitted by the phosphor from the first end, and transmits the received light toward a second end, and a head optical member that concentrates light emitted from the second end of the optical fiber unit toward a measurement object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Patent number: 10591280
    Abstract: Optical axes of lens units of measurement heads are adjusted so as to be parallel to each other. The lens unit includes a diffraction lens. When adjusting the optical axis, in a state where the measurement heads face each other with a reference member interposed therebetween, light having a plurality of wavelengths are emitted from the measurement heads to one surface and the other surface of the reference member, respectively. Intensities of primary light having one wavelength, which are reflected by one surface and the other surface of the reference member respectively, and incident on the measurement heads through each of a path of a multi-order light having other wavelengths are displayed on a main display unit as information indicating a degree of orthogonality of the optical axes of the measurement heads with respect to the one surface and the other surface of the reference member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Suketaka Fujimoto, Hideto Takei, Yohei Masuguchi, Shoma Kuga
  • Patent number: 10591278
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of easily and accurately measuring displacement of a measurement object. Light having a chromatic aberration is converged by a lens unit 220 and irradiated on a measurement object S from a measurement head 200. Light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through the optical fiber 314 in the measurement head 200. The light passed through the optical fiber 314 is guided to a spectral section 130 in a processing device 100 and spectrally dispersed. In the processing device 100, the light spectrally dispersed by the spectral section 130 is received by a light receiving section 140. A light reception signal output from the light receiving section 140 is acquired by a control section 152. The control section 152 measures displacement on the basis of the acquired light reception signal and gives the light reception signal to a PC 600 on the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20190360796
    Abstract: Optical axes of lens units of measurement heads are adjusted so as to be parallel to each other. The lens unit includes a diffraction lens. When adjusting the optical axis, in a state where the measurement heads face each other with a reference member interposed therebetween, light having a plurality of wavelengths are emitted from the measurement heads to one surface and the other surface of the reference member, respectively. Intensities of primary light having one wavelength, which are reflected by one surface and the other surface of the reference member respectively, and incident on the measurement heads through each of a path of a multi-order light having other wavelengths are displayed on a main display unit as information indicating a degree of orthogonality of the optical axes of the measurement heads with respect to the one surface and the other surface of the reference member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Suketaka Fujimoto, Hideto Takei, Yohei Masuguchi, Shoma Kuga
  • Patent number: 10473455
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of reducing a measurement error. Light having a plurality of wavelengths is emitted by a light processing section 120. A chromatic aberration along an optical axis direction is caused by a lens unit 220 in the light emitted by the light projecting section 120. The light having the chromatic aberration converged and irradiated on a measurement object S by the lens unit 220. In the light irradiated on the measurement object S by the lens unit 220, light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through a plurality of pinholes. Displacement of the measurement object S is calculated by an arithmetic processing section 150 on the basis of signal intensity for each wavelength of an average signal corresponding to an average of intensities for each wavelength concerning a plurality of lights passed through the plurality of pinholes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20190204071
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of easily and accurately measuring displacement of a measurement object. Light having a chromatic aberration is converged by a lens unit 220 and irradiated on a measurement object S from a measurement head 200. Light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through the optical fiber 314 in the measurement head 200. The light passed through the optical fiber 314 is guided to a spectral section 130 in a processing device 100 and spectrally dispersed. In the processing device 100, the light spectrally dispersed by the spectral section 130 is received by a light receiving section 140. A light reception signal output from the light receiving section 140 is acquired by a control section 152. The control section 152 measures displacement on the basis of the acquired light reception signal and gives the light reception signal to a PC 600 on the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20190186896
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of reducing a measurement error. Light having a plurality of wavelengths is emitted by a light processing section 120. A chromatic aberration along an optical axis direction is caused by a lens unit 220 in the light emitted by the light projecting section 120. The light having the chromatic aberration converged and irradiated on a measurement object S by the lens unit 220. In the light irradiated on the measurement object S by the lens unit 220, light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through a plurality of pinholes. Displacement of the measurement object S is calculated by an arithmetic processing section 150 on the basis of signal intensity for each wavelength of an average signal corresponding to an average of intensities for each wavelength concerning a plurality of lights passed through the plurality of pinholes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Patent number: 10267621
    Abstract: The confocal displacement sensor includes a light source for light projection configured to generate light having a plurality of wavelengths, a plurality of pinholes, an optical member configured to cause an axial chromatic aberration in the plurality of detection lights respectively emitted via the plurality of pinholes and converge the plurality of detection lights toward the measurement object, a spectroscope configured to respectively spectrally disperse, in the detection lights irradiated on the measurement object via the optical member, a plurality of detection lights respectively passed through the plurality of pinholes by being reflected while focusing on the measurement object and generate a plurality of light reception waveforms representing light reception intensities for each wavelength, and a measurement control section configured to statistically process the plurality of light reception waveforms and generate a representative light reception waveform from the plurality of light reception wavefor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Shoma Kuga, Suketaka Fujimoto, Hideto Takei, Yusuke Suemura, Tomikazu Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10267622
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of easily and accurately measuring displacement of a measurement object. Light having a chromatic aberration is converged by a lens unit 220 and irradiated on a measurement object S from a measurement head 200. Light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through the optical fiber 314 in the measurement head 200. The light passed through the optical fiber 314 is guided to a spectral section 130 in a processing device 100 and spectrally dispersed. In the processing device 100, the light spectrally dispersed by the spectral section 130 is received by a light receiving section 140. A light reception signal output from the light receiving section 140 is acquired by a control section 152. The control section 152 measures displacement on the basis of the acquired light reception signal and gives the light reception signal to a PC 600 on the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Patent number: 10260859
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of reducing a measurement error. Light having a plurality of wavelengths is emitted by a light processing section 120. A chromatic aberration along an optical axis direction is caused by a lens unit 220 in the light emitted by the light projecting section 120. The light having the chromatic aberration converged and irradiated on a measurement object S by the lens unit 220. In the light irradiated on the measurement object S by the lens unit 220, light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through a plurality of pinholes. Displacement of the measurement object S is calculated by an arithmetic processing section 150 on the basis of signal intensity for each wavelength of an average signal corresponding to an average of intensities for each wavelength concerning a plurality of lights passed through the plurality of pinholes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20190094074
    Abstract: Provided are a multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device, a confocal measurement device, an interference measurement device, and a color measurement device capable of measuring the characteristic amount of a measurement object such as the thickness, distance, displacement, or color with high accuracy using multi-wavelength light such as white light. The multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device includes a laser light source, a light source optical member for concentrating light from the laser light source, a phosphor excited by light concentrated by the light source optical member, an optical fiber unit that includes one or a plurality of optical fibers and the phosphor disposed on a first end, receives light emitted by the phosphor from the first end, and transmits the received light toward a second end, and a head optical member that concentrates light emitted from the second end of the optical fiber unit toward a measurement object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Patent number: 10180355
    Abstract: Provided are a multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device, a confocal measurement device, an interference measurement device, and a color measurement device capable of measuring the characteristic amount of a measurement object such as the thickness, distance, displacement, or color with high accuracy using multi-wavelength light such as white light. The multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device includes a laser light source, a light source optical member for concentrating light from the laser light source, a phosphor excited by light concentrated by the light source optical member, an optical fiber unit that includes one or a plurality of optical fibers and the phosphor disposed on a first end, receives light emitted by the phosphor from the first end, and transmits the received light toward a second end, and a head optical member that concentrates light emitted from the second end of the optical fiber unit toward a measurement object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20180356208
    Abstract: The confocal displacement sensor includes a light source for light projection configured to generate light having a plurality of wavelengths, a plurality of pinholes, an optical member configured to cause an axial chromatic aberration in the plurality of detection lights respectively emitted via the plurality of pinholes and converge the plurality of detection lights toward the measurement object, a spectroscope configured to respectively spectrally disperse, in the detection lights irradiated on the measurement object via the optical member, a plurality of detection lights respectively passed through the plurality of pinholes by being reflected while focusing on the measurement object and generate a plurality of light reception waveforms representing light reception intensities for each wavelength, and a measurement control section configured to statistically process the plurality of light reception waveforms and generate a representative light reception waveform from the plurality of light reception wavefor
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Shoma Kuga, Suketaka Fujimoto, Hideto Takei, Yusuke Suemura, Tomikazu Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180274903
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of easily and accurately measuring displacement of a measurement object. Light having a chromatic aberration is converged by a lens unit 220 and irradiated on a measurement object S from a measurement head 200. Light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through the optical fiber 314 in the measurement head 200. The light passed through the optical fiber 314 is guided to a spectral section 130 in a processing device 100 and spectrally dispersed. In the processing device 100, the light spectrally dispersed by the spectral section 130 is received by a light receiving section 140. A light reception signal output from the light receiving section 140 is acquired by a control section 152. The control section 152 measures displacement on the basis of the acquired light reception signal and gives the light reception signal to a PC 600 on the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20180274902
    Abstract: To provide a confocal displacement sensor capable of reducing a measurement error. Light having a plurality of wavelengths is emitted by a light processing section 120. A chromatic aberration along an optical axis direction is caused by a lens unit 220 in the light emitted by the light projecting section 120. The light having the chromatic aberration converged and irradiated on a measurement object S by the lens unit 220. In the light irradiated on the measurement object S by the lens unit 220, light having a wavelength reflected while focusing on the surface of the measurement object S passes through a plurality of pinholes. Displacement of the measurement object S is calculated by an arithmetic processing section 150 on the basis of signal intensity for each wavelength of an average signal corresponding to an average of intensities for each wavelength concerning a plurality of lights passed through the plurality of pinholes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga
  • Publication number: 20170122808
    Abstract: Provided are a multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device, a confocal measurement device, an interference measurement device, and a color measurement device capable of measuring the characteristic amount of a measurement object such as the thickness, distance, displacement, or color with high accuracy using multi-wavelength light such as white light. The multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device includes a laser light source, a light source optical member for concentrating light from the laser light source, a phosphor excited by light concentrated by the light source optical member, an optical fiber unit that includes one or a plurality of optical fibers and the phosphor disposed on a first end, receives light emitted by the phosphor from the first end, and transmits the received light toward a second end, and a head optical member that concentrates light emitted from the second end of the optical fiber unit toward a measurement object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Shoma Kuga