Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kaga

Tadashi Kaga 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).

  • Publication number: 20170351116
    Abstract: A technology concerns a spectacle lens to suppress unnecessary convergence. In the spectacle lens, when an inner horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lens, and an outer horizontal direction of the spectacle lens is a direction toward an ear of the user, a shape of a base in prism is formed in a portion in which power continuously changes and through which a main line of sight, influenced by convergence of the user of the spectacle lens, passes such that at least a part of a base out prism, which may be generated in the portion, is cancelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Ayumu ITO, Kazuma KOZU
  • Patent number: 9746694
    Abstract: There is provided a progressive addition lens for spectacles including a distance portion and a near portion having different powers, wherein an equivalent spherical power of the distance portion is plus; and a first lens and a second lens having different addition powers from each other, and a difference between vertical surface power in the distance portion and vertical surface power in the near portion on an object-side surface of the first lens, and a difference between vertical surface power in the distance portion and vertical surface power in the near portion on an object-side surface of the second lens are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: EHS LENS PHILIPPINES, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Takateru Mori
  • Publication number: 20170115510
    Abstract: Progressive addition lens includes a near portion having a power for viewing a near field, a distance portion having a power for viewing a distance field further than the near field, and an intermediate portion connecting the distance portion and the near portion. The progressive addition lens includes an aspherical object-side surface and an aspherical eyeball-side surface and is formed in rotational symmetry with respect to a center of design of the progressive addition lens. The object-side surface includes a first stable region formed in rotational symmetry with respect to the center of design and including the center of design, and an aspherical region arranged outside of the first stable region to contact the first stable region and formed in rotational symmetry with respect to the center of design. A Peak to Valley value of a mean surface refractive power in the first stable region is 0.12 D or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Ayumu ITO, Hiroshi ASAMI
  • Publication number: 20170082870
    Abstract: A progressive addition lens includes a portion having a power for viewing a near field, a portion having a power for viewing a distance field further than the near field, and an portion connecting the distance portion and the near portion. The progressive addition lens includes an aspherical object-side surface and an aspherical eyeball-side surface and is formed in rotational symmetry with respect to a center of design of the progressive addition lens. The object-side surface includes a first stable region formed in rotational symmetry with respect to the center of design and including the center of design, and an aspherical region arranged outside of the first stable region to contact the first stable region and formed in rotational symmetry with respect to the center of design. A PV value (Peak to Valley) of a mean surface refractive power in the first stable region is 0.12 D or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Ayumu ITO, Hiroshi ASAMI
  • Patent number: 9581831
    Abstract: An optical lens including, an object-side surface including an atoric surface element and an eyeball-side surface including an element that cancels a surface power shift produced by the atoric surface element, wherein the atoric surface element causes horizontal surface power at a fitting point to be greater than vertical surface power at the fitting point and causes a difference between the horizontal surface power and the vertical surface power to decrease along a horizontal reference line passing through the fitting point in a direction from the fitting point toward a periphery of the optical lens or causes a sign of the difference between the horizontal surface power and the vertical surface power to change along the horizontal reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: EHS LENS PHILIPPINES, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Takateru Mori
  • Publication number: 20150077703
    Abstract: There is provided a progressive addition lens for spectacles including a distance portion and a near portion having different powers, wherein an equivalent spherical power of the distance portion is plus; and a first lens and a second lens having different addition powers from each other, and a difference between vertical surface power in the distance portion and vertical surface power in the near portion on an object-side surface of the first lens, and a difference between vertical surface power in the distance portion and vertical surface power in the near portion on an object-side surface of the second lens are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Takateru Mori
  • Publication number: 20150055083
    Abstract: There is provided a progressive addition lens, including: a distance portion and a near portion; an object side surface including a first toric surface element; and an eyeball side surface including a second toric surface element that cancels the first toric surface element, wherein the first toric surface element is the element in which a vertical surface power OVPf1 at a distance reference point which is previously defined in the distance portion on the object side surface, is larger than a horizontal surface power OHPf1 at the distance reference point, and OVPf1 is not less than a vertical surface power OVPn1 at a near reference point which is previously defined in the near potion on the object side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Takateru Mori, Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga
  • Patent number: 8960900
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens has one surface which satisfies the following expressions CY(DP)=CT(DP) CY(P)>CT(P) where CT(DP) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the distance reference point, CY(DP) denotes a horizontal direction curvature, CY(P) denotes a horizontal direction curvature at a point on the principal meridian which is located further on the near portion than the progressive start point, and CT(P) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kato, Yohei Suzuki, Ayumu Ito, Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga
  • Patent number: 8833938
    Abstract: A progressive-power spectacle lens design method, the progressive-power spectacle lens including a distance portion, a near portion, and a progressive portion provided between the distance portion and the near portion, the method comprising: decreasing a distance along a principal meridian from a fitting point to a progression start point and increasing a length of a progressive corridor defined by the progression start point and a progression end point when addition power is large, whereas increasing the distance along the principal meridian from the fitting point to the progression start point and decreasing the length of the progressive corridor when the addition power is small, wherein the distance from the fitting point to the progression end point is fixed irrespective of the addition power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Wada, Tadashi Kaga
  • Publication number: 20140146283
    Abstract: A progressive power lens including a far vision part and a near vision part (wherein an average power of a far vision measurement reference point is minus) including: an object side surface including a first element, and an eyeball side surface including a second element cancelling the first element. The first element includes an element of a tonic surface or an element of an atoric surface by which horizontal surface power is larger than vertical surface power at a fitting point positioned at a lower end of the far vision part. The far vision part includes an element by which the vertical surface power in a first coordinate of a principal sight line intersecting the fitting point is smaller than the vertical surface power in a second coordinate of the principal sight line whose distance from the fitting point surpasses the distance between the first coordinate and the fitting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
  • Patent number: 8684523
    Abstract: A spectacle lens includes a first region which is located in at least part of a portion of a lens where a pivotal angle of an eyeball of a wearer ranges from 20 to 60 degrees and in which correcting astigmatism has priority over correcting average power based on prescribed power, and a second region which is formed inside the first region and in which correcting the average power has priority over correcting the astigmatism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Wada, Tadashi Kaga, Hiroshi Asami
  • Patent number: 8678585
    Abstract: An eye-side refractive surface 11 of a distance portion is concave and at least part of an eye-side refractive surface 3 of a near portion is a convex region 31 where one or both of principal meridians of the surface are convex. This provides a back surface progressive-power lens capable of solving disadvantages in terms of lens thickness, external appearance and the like in a back surface progressive-power lens in which the eye-side refractive surface is formed of a progressive-power surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Toshihide Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20130083288
    Abstract: optical lens including, an object-side surface including an atoric surface element and an eyeball-side surface including an element that cancels a surface power shift produced by the atoric surface element, wherein the atoric surface element causes horizontal surface power at a fitting point to be greater than vertical surface power at the fitting point and causes a difference between the horizontal surface power and the vertical surface power to decrease along a horizontal reference line passing through the fitting point in a direction from the fitting point toward a periphery of the optical lens or causes a sign of the difference between the horizontal surface power and the vertical surface power to change along the horizontal reference line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA, Takateru MORI
  • Publication number: 20120274893
    Abstract: A spectacle lens includes a first region which is located in at least part of a portion of a lens where a pivotal angle of an eyeball of a wearer ranges from 20 to 60 degrees and in which correcting astigmatism has priority over correcting average power based on prescribed power, and a second region which is formed inside the first region and in which correcting the average power has priority over correcting the astigmatism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu WADA, Tadashi KAGA, Hiroshi ASAMI
  • Publication number: 20120229756
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens has one surface which satisifies the following expressions CY(DP)=CT(DP) CY(P)>CT(P) where CT(DP) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the distance reference point, CY(DP) denotes a horizontal direction curvature, CY(P) denotes a horizontal direction curvature at a point on the principal meridian which is located further on the near portion than the progressive start point, and CT(P) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Ayumu ITO, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
  • Publication number: 20120229755
    Abstract: A progressive-power lens has one surface which satisfies the following expressions CY(DP)=CT(DP) CY(P)<CT(P) where CT(DP) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the distance reference point, CY(DP) denotes a horizontal direction curvature, CY(P) denotes a horizontal direction curvature at a point on the principal meridian which is located further on the near portion than the progressive start point, and CT(P) denotes a vertical direction curvature at the point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Ayumu ITO, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
  • Publication number: 20120200822
    Abstract: An eye-side refractive surface 11 of a distance portion is concave and at least part of an eye-side refractive surface 3 of a near portion is a convex region 31 where one or both of principal meridians of the surface are convex. This provides a back surface progressive-power lens capable of solving disadvantages in terms of lens thickness, external appearance and the like in a back surface progressive-power lens in which the eye-side refractive surface is formed of a progressive-power surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 8147062
    Abstract: An eye-side refractive surface 11 of a distance portion is concave and at least part of an eye-side refractive surface 3 of a near portion is a convex region 31 where one or both of principal meridians of the surface are convex. This provides a back surface progressive-power lens capable of solving disadvantages in terms of lens thickness, external appearance and the like in a back surface progressive-power lens in which the eye-side refractive surface is formed of a progressive-power surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Toshihide Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20120062837
    Abstract: A progressive-power spectacle lens design method, the progressive-power spectacle lens including a distance portion, a near portion, and a progressive portion provided between the distance portion and the near portion, the method comprising: decreasing a distance along a principal meridian from a fitting point to a progression start point and increasing a length of a progressive corridor defined by the progression start point and a progression end point when addition power is large, whereas increasing the distance along the principal meridian from the fitting point to the progression start point and decreasing the length of the progressive corridor when the addition power is small, wherein the distance from the fitting point to the progression end point is fixed irrespective of the addition power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu WADA, Tadashi KAGA
  • Patent number: 8090628
    Abstract: A lens order system, includes: a server unit, including: a data recognizer that recognizes lens design detail data relating to design details of a lens; an image storage that stores object image data relating to an image of an object; an image recognizer that recognizes the object image data based on the lens design detail data; and an order reception section that recognizes order data relating to an order for a designed lens and generates order reception data, and a terminal unit connected with the server unit in a data transmittable manner, the terminal unit including: a data acquiring section that acquires the lens design detail data; a lens design section that designs the lens based on the lens design detail data; an image processor that superposes lens image data relating to an image of the designed lens designed by the lens design section on the object image data sent from the server unit and generates processed image data in which a superposing portion of the object image data and the lens image data i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito