Patents by Inventor Tadashi Sawano

Tadashi Sawano 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: 6733124
    Abstract: Disclosed is a contact lens having a back surface to be placed on a cornea. The back surface includes a generally circular central zone whose radius of curvature gradually decrease from its center toward its periphery, and an peripheral zone disposed around the central zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyamura, Keiji Sugimoto, Tadashi Sawano
  • Patent number: 6726323
    Abstract: A contact lens wherein a dioptric power P is held within a range of −10-0 diopters, a back junction is located outward of a front junction in a diametric direction orthogonal to a center axis of the lens, a central lens thickness TC measures 0.03-0.50 mm along the center axis, a front junction lens thickness TFJ measures 0.05 mm or more, and a back-junction lens thickness TBJ is determined depending upon said dioptric power P so as to satisfy a following expression: &Sgr;(Ai·10−i·Pi)≦TBJ/TFJ≦&Sgr;(Bi·10−i·Pi) where, A0=+1.2382 A1=−0.1741 A2=−1.4711 A3=−0.9355 B0=+1.4699 B1=−0.2523 B2=−1.9897 B3=−1.2603.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyamura, Tadashi Sawano, Arata Kouzai, Kiyosei Kondo
  • Patent number: 6659607
    Abstract: Disclosed is a contact lens including an optical zone having a substantially circular shape; an peripheral zone having an annular shape and located around the optical zone; and an intermediate zone having an annular shape and located between the optical and peripheral zones. The intermediate zone including a convex portion formed in at least one radial position of a back surface thereof so as to extend in a circumferential direction thereof with an outwardly curved surface as seen in a diametrical cross-section of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyamura, Keiji Sugimoto, Tadashi Sawano, Shigeyasu Nagai, Asaki Suzaki, Hideaki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20030103187
    Abstract: A contact lens wherein a dioptric power P is held within a range of −10-0 diopters, a back junction is located outward of a front junction in a diametric direction orthogonal to a center axis of the lens, a central lens thickness TC measures 0.03-0.50 mm along the center axis, a front junction lens thickness TFJ measures 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyamura, Tadashi Sawano, Arata Kouzai, Kiyosei Kondo
  • Publication number: 20020163620
    Abstract: Disclosed is a contact lens having a back surface to be placed on a cornea. The back surface includes a generally circular central zone whose radius of curvature gradually decrease from its center toward its periphery, and an peripheral zone disposed around the central zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyamura, Keiji Sugimoto, Tadashi Sawano
  • Publication number: 20020101563
    Abstract: Disclosed is a contact lens including an optical zone having a substantially circular shape; an peripheral zone having an annular shape and located around the optical zone; and an intermediate zone having an annular shape and located between the optical and peripheral zones. The intermediate zone including a convex portion formed in at least one radial position of a back surface thereof so as to extend in a circumferential direction thereof with an outwardly curved surface as seen in a diametrical cross-section of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyamura, Keiji Sugimoto, Tadashi Sawano, Shigeyasu Nagai, Asaki Suzaki, Hideaki Kondo
  • Patent number: 6286956
    Abstract: Multifocal ocular lens including a central vision correction region having a first optical power value, an outer vision correction region spaced radially outwardly from the central vision correction region and having a second optical power value different from the first optical power value, and an intermediate vision correction region located radially intermediate between the central and outer vision correction regions and having a distribution of optical power between the first and second optical power values, and wherein the intermediate region has a first transition point and a second transition point which is not radially inwardly spaced from the first transition point, such that the distribution of the optical power of the intermediate region includes two optical power values which are defined by the first and second transition points, respectively, and which are determined such that the optical power value defined by the second transition point is closer to the first optical power value of the central r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Mencion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oyama, Tadashi Sawano, Kazuya Miyamura, Asaki Suzaki, Yukihisa Sakai
  • Patent number: 6260966
    Abstract: A multifocal ocular lens having a vision correction area which includes a central and outer vision correction region, an intermediate region located between the central and outer regions, and an intermediate-distance vision correction region located radially outwardly of and adjacent to the outer region, and which has an optical axis with which centers of these regions are aligned, the central and outer vision correction regions having respective different first and second optical power values, wherein the optical power of the intermediate region located between the central and outer regions is represented by a combination of two different quadratic curves connected to each other at a point of inflection which corresponds to a desired third optical power between the first and second values, and wherein the intermediate-distance vision correction region located radially outwardly of the outer region includes radially inner and outer varying-power zones, the optical power in the radially inner varying-power zon
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Menicon Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawano, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Kazuya Miyamura, Yuuzi Gotou, Hideaki Kondou
  • Patent number: 6199982
    Abstract: Presbyopia correction contact lens including an optical zone consisting of a substantially circular central optical portion and an annular peripheral optical portion outside the central optical portion, the central and peripheral optical portions having respective different optical power values, so that the central and peripheral optical portions provide one and the other of a near vision correction region and a distant vision correction region, respectively, wherein the central and peripheral optical portions provide the near and distant vision correction regions, respectively, and the optical zone includes a front surface having an arcuate configuration with a substantially constant curvature in cross section taken in a plane parallel to a diametric direction of the contact lens, and a back surface consisting of a central portion corresponding to the central optical portion and a peripheral portion corresponding to the peripheral optical portion, the central portion of the back surface having an arcuate con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oyama, Tadashi Sawano, Kazuya Miyamura, Asaki Suzaki
  • Patent number: 6142625
    Abstract: A toric multifocal lens including a plurality of vision correction regions having centers on a common optical center axis, the plurality of vision correction regions providing respective different values of a spherical optical power, each of the plurality of vision correction regions having an optical power for correction of astigmatism, wherein the improvement comprises: at least one of a cylindrical optical power and a cylindrical axis orientation which determine the optical power for correction of astigmatism being different in at least two different vision correction regions of the plurality of vision correction regions, so that the at least two different vision correction regions have respective different values of the optical power for correction of astigmatism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawano, Hiroyuki Oyama, Hideaki Kondou, Yuuzi Gotou
  • Patent number: 6093868
    Abstract: An eye bandage formed of a soft material and having a shape similar to a contact lens, the eye bandage being worn on an eye after an intraocular surgical operation of the eye, such that the eye bandage is held in contact with a cornea and a sclera of the eye so as to cover an incised portion of the sclera, the eye bandage comprising: a central portion which is to contact the cornea and which has a back surface having a profile following that of a front surface of the cornea; and a peripheral portion located radially outwardly of the central portion and having a thickness larger than that of the central portion and a diameter which is large enough to cover the incised portion of the sclera, the peripheral portion including at least a sclera-contacting portion that is to contact the sclera, the sclera-contacting portion having a back surface having a profile following a front surface of the sclera, so that the sclera-contacting portion is held in close contact with the sclera of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawano, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Yuuji Gotou
  • Patent number: 6030077
    Abstract: A multifocal ocular lens having a vision correction area which consists of a central, an intermediate, and an outer vision correction region having respective different values of an optical power, and which has an optical axis with which centers of the central and outer vision correction regions are aligned, the central and outer vision correction regions having respectively determined first and second mutually different values of the optical power, wherein the optical power of the intermediate region is represented by a combination of a first and a second quadratic curve connected to each other at a point of inflection which corresponds to a radial position of a boundary between the inner and outer sections, and which corresponds to a desired third value of the optical power between the first and second values, or the optical power of the intermediate region is represented by one polynomial equation whose degree is not smaller than 2 and continuously changes from the first value to the second value with an i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawano, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Kazuya Miyamura, Yuuzi Gotou
  • Patent number: 5686981
    Abstract: A device of the present invention includes: apparatus for photographing an anterior eye segment of a subject; a first display device for displaying an image of the anterior eye segment; a device for processing the displayed image to detect the relative positions of a pupil and a contact lens, respectively; a calculating apparatus for obtaining the relationship of relative positions between them by calculating; and a second display device for displaying the obtained relationship of the relative positions. The described arrangement is particularly useful for inspecting a condition for the putting on of the contact lens by measuring the relationship of the relative positions between the contact lens at the time of being put on and the pupil of the concerned eye segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Naoki Anan, Tadashi Sawano, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Shingo Hibino
  • Patent number: 5422687
    Abstract: A presbyopia correction contact lens to be used in contact with a cornea of an eye of a wearer, the contact lens having a substantially circular central correction region and an annular outer correction region which surrounds the central correction region, the central and outer correction regions providing one and the other of a near vision correction region and a distance vision correction region, respectively, wherein the central correction region has a center which is offset by a distance of 0.2 mm-2.4 mm from a geometric center of the contact lens toward a side portion of the lens, which side portion is to be located on the side of the nose of the wearer when the contact lens is used in contact with the cornea, and the central correction region has a diameter within a range of 0.8 mm-3.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Tanaka, Naoki Anan, Shingo Hibino, Yoshikazu Miura, Tadashi Sawano, Kenichi Ishihara, Hiroyuki Oyama