Patents by Inventor Takahiro Amanai

Takahiro Amanai 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: 11079588
    Abstract: A relay optical system includes a cemented lens in which a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens having are cemented. The first lens is a meniscus lens which is adjacent to the third lens, and a dispersion and a partial dispersion ratio differ for the first lens and the third lens. In a rectangular coordinate system in which a horizontal axis is set to be ?dLA and a vertical axis is set to be ?gFLA, when a straight line expressed by ?gFLA=?×?dLA+?LA (where, ?=?0.00163) is set, ?gFLA and ?dLA of medium of the first lens are included in an area determined by the following conditional expression (1) and conditional expression (2), and the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied: 0.67??LA??(1) ?dLA<50??(2) ?1.4<mg<?0.6??(3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Amanai
  • Patent number: 11067788
    Abstract: A relay optical system includes an object-side lens which is disposed nearest to an object, an image-side lens which is disposed nearest to an image, and a cemented lens having a positive refractive power. The object-side lens has a positive refractive power and is disposed such that a convex surface is directed toward an object side. The image-side lens has a positive refractive power and is disposed such that a convex surface is directed toward an image side. A plurality of the cemented lenses is disposed between the object-side lens and the image side lens and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.04<Gce/Drel<0.4??(1) where, Gce denotes the smallest of intervals of adjacent cemented lenses, and Drel denotes a distance from an object plane up to an image plane of the relay optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Tsutomu Uzawa
  • Patent number: 10670836
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop that determines an axial light beam, and one cemented lens, and an image pickup section which is disposed on an image side of the image forming optical system, and which has a surface which is not flat and is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system, wherein the cemented lens includes in order from an object side, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens, and a third lens having a positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Kyoko Iijima
  • Patent number: 10620426
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop that sets an axial light beam, and a diffracting optical surface disposed at a position different from a position where the aperture stop is disposed, and an imager which is disposed on an image side of the image forming optical system, and has a light-receiving surface which is not flat and is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system, wherein the diffracting optical surface satisfies the following conditional expression (1). 0.1<|DSD/TL|?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Ayami Imamura
  • Patent number: 10578853
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system having lens components and an image pickup unit, and the lens component is a lens having an object-side surface and an image-side surface that are in contact with air in an effective optical path, and the image forming optical system includes in order from an object side to an image side, an object-side lens component and an image-side lens component, and the image pickup unit has an image pickup surface curved to be concave toward the object side, and a surface nearest to the object of the object-side lens component has a concave shape portion which is concave shape toward the object side in a meridional direction, in at least an off-axis effective surface, and a surface nearest to the image of the image-side lens component is a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Uemura, Takahiro Amanai, Kyoko Iijima
  • Patent number: 10551617
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system having an aperture stop, a first lens, and a second lens, and an imager having a light-receiving surface that is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system, and a relative partial dispersion for a medium of the first lens differs from a relative partial dispersion for a medium of the second lens, and when a straight line indicated by ?gFLA=?×?dLA+?LA (where ?=?0.00163) has been set, ?gFLA and ?dLA for the medium of the first lens are included in both of an area determined by the following conditional expression (1) and an area determined by the following conditional expression (2), and the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied: 0.68<?LA??(1), ?dLA<50??(2), and 0<|f/Rimg|?1.5??(3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Ayami Imamura, Shinichi Mihara
  • Patent number: 10488635
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop and a plurality of lens components, and an image pickup section which is disposed on an image side of the image forming optical system, and has a light-receiving surface which is not flat and is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system. The image forming optical system includes a first lens component having a negative refractive power, a second lens component having a positive refractive power, and a third lens component having a positive refractive power. A shape of the first lens component is a meniscus shape, and a shape of the third lens component is a biconvex shape, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 0.7<|PS×Rimg|<1.5??(1), and 0.7<|?out 90/?img 90|<1.5??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Kyoko Iijima
  • Patent number: 10295787
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop and a plurality of lens components, and an image pickup section which has a light-receiving surface which is not flat but is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system. The image forming optical system includes a first lens component having a negative refractive power, a second lens component having a positive refractive power, and a third lens component having a positive refractive power. In the first lens component, a lens surface on the object side is convex toward the object side, and in a lens surface on the object side of the second lens component, a part of an area is concave toward the object side. Moreover, the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.5<(R1L+R1R)/(R1L?R1R)<2.5??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Amanai, Keisuke Takada, Kyoko Iijima
  • Patent number: 10274708
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system is an optical system in which, a magnification ratio varies from a lower magnification end to a high magnification end, and includes at least a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, which is disposed nearest to an object, and a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, which is disposed on an image side of the first lens unit. At the time of varying magnification, a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit changes, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0<1/?HG1<1??(1), where, ?HG1 denotes an imaging magnification of the first lens unit at the high magnification end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Abe, Takahiro Amanai
  • Publication number: 20190121116
    Abstract: A relay optical system includes a cemented lens in which a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens having are cemented. The first lens is a meniscus lens which is adjacent to the third lens, and a dispersion and a partial dispersion ratio differ for the first lens and the third lens. In a rectangular coordinate system in which a horizontal axis is let to be ?dLA and a vertical axis is let to be ?gFLA, when a straight line expressed by ?gFLA=?×?dLA+?LA (where, ?=?0.00163) is set, ?gFLA and ?dLA of medium of the first lens are included in an area determined by the following conditional expression (1) and conditional expression (2), and the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied: 0.67??LA??(1) ?dLA<50??(2) ?1.4<mg<?0.6??(3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro AMANAI
  • Publication number: 20190121117
    Abstract: A relay optical system includes an object-side lens which is disposed nearest to an object, an image-side lens which is disposed nearest to an image, and a cemented lens having a positive refractive power. The object-side lens has a positive refractive power and is disposed such that a convex surface is directed toward an object side. The image-side lens has a positive refractive power and is disposed such that a convex surface is directed toward an image side. A plurality of the cemented lenses is disposed between the object-side lens and the image side lens and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.04<Gce/Drel<0.4??(1) where, Gce denotes the smallest of intervals of adjacent cemented lenses, and Drel denotes a distance from an object plane up to an image plane of the relay optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AMANAI, Tsutomu UZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180307010
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop and a plurality of lens components, and an image pickup section which is disposed on an image side of the image forming optical system, and has a light-receiving surface which is not flat and is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system. The image forming optical system includes a first lens component having a negative refractive power, a second lens component having a positive refractive power, and a third lens component having a positive refractive power. A shape of the first lens component is a meniscus shape, and a shape of the third lens component is a biconvex shape, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 0.7<|PS×Rimg|<1.5??(1), and 0.7<|?out 90/?img 90|<1.5??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AMANAI, Kyoko IIJIMA
  • Patent number: 10107993
    Abstract: A wide-angle optical system includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex toward the object side, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied. 1.0<(R1L+R1R)/(R1L?R1R)?2.0??(1) where, R1L denotes a paraxial radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the first lens, and R1R denotes a paraxial radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the first lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Amanai
  • Publication number: 20180246297
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop that determines an axial light beam, and one cemented lens, and an image pickup section which is disposed on an image side of the image forming optical system, and which has a surface which is not flat and is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system, wherein the cemented lens includes in order from an object side, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens, and a third lens having a positive refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AMANAI, Kyoko IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180095247
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop and a plurality of lens components, and an image pickup section which has a light-receiving surface which is not flat but is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system. The image forming optical system includes a first lens component having a negative refractive power, a second lens component having a positive refractive power, and a third lens component having a positive refractive power. In the first lens component, a lens surface on the object side is convex toward the object side, and in a lens surface on the object side of the second lens component, a part of an area is concave toward the object side. Moreover, the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.5<(R1L+R1R)/(R1L?R1R)<2.5 ??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AMANAI, Keisuke TAKADA, Kyoko IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170336625
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system having an aperture stop, a first lens, and a second lens, and an imager having a light-receiving surface that is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system, and a relative partial dispersion for a medium of the first lens differs from a relative partial dispersion for a medium of the second lens, and when a straight line indicated by ?gFLA=?×?dLA+?LA (where ?=?0.00163) has been set, ?gFLA and ?dLA for the medium of the first lens are included in both of an area determined by the following conditional expression (1) and an area determined by the following conditional expression (2), and the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied: 0.68<?LA ??(1), ?dLA<50 ??(2), and 0<|f/Rimg|?1.5 ??(3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AMANAI, Ayami IMAMURA, Shinichi MIHARA
  • Patent number: 9798120
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and includes an aperture stop which is disposed between the second lens unit and the fourth lens unit, and the first lens unit includes a negative lens and a plurality of positive lenses, and at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit widens, a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit narrows, and a distance between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit changes, and the zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Mimura, Masahiro Imamura, Takahiro Amanai
  • Publication number: 20170219813
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop that sets an axial light beam, and a diffracting optical surface disposed at a position different from a position where the aperture stop is disposed, and an imager which is disposed on an image side of the image forming optical system, and has a light-receiving surface which is not flat and is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system, wherein the diffracting optical surface satisfies the following conditional expression (1). 0.1<|DSD/TL|?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AMANAI, Ayami IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170097498
    Abstract: A wide-angle optical system includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex toward the object side, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied. 1.0<(R1L+R1R)/(R1L?R1R)?2.0??(1) where, R1L denotes a paraxial radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the first lens, and R1R denotes a paraxial radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the first lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro AMANAI
  • Publication number: 20170068087
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system having lens components and an image pickup unit, and the lens component is a lens having an object-side surface and an image-side surface that are in contact with air in an effective optical path, and the image forming optical system includes in order from an object side to an image side, an object-side lens component and an image-side lens component, and the image pickup unit has an image pickup surface curved to be concave toward the object side, and a surface nearest to the object of the object-side lens component has a concave shape portion which is concave shape toward the object side in a meridional direction, in at least an off-axis effective surface, and a surface nearest to the image of the image-side lens component is a curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke UEMURA, Takahiro AMANAI, Kyoko IIJIMA