Patents by Inventor Takuya Imaoka

Takuya Imaoka 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: 20250138407
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system having a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side and a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side, the optical system comprising: a prism including a first transmission surface located on the magnification side, a second transmission surface located on the reduction side, and at least three reflection surfaces located on an optical path between the first and second transmission surfaces; wherein the at least three reflection surfaces include first and second reflection surfaces in order from the magnification side to the reduction side, and a most reduction-side reflection surface located closest to the reduction side, wherein an intermediate imaging position related with both the reduction and magnification conjugate points is positioned inside the prism, and wherein the first reflection surface is positioned in a region where a plurality of principal rays traveling inside the prism are converged on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Takuya IMAOKA, Hiroaki OKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 12287462
    Abstract: A lens system includes a plurality of lens elements arranged from an object side to an image plane side, and a diaphragm arranged between the plurality of lens elements. The plurality of lens elements include a plurality of freeform lenses each having a freeform surface that is asymmetrical with respect to a first direction and a second direction which cross with each other. At least one freeform lens is placed on the image plane side of the diaphragm. With a lens thickness T1 in the first direction at a maximum height of an axial ray and a lens thickness T2 in the second direction at the maximum height of the axial ray, at least one freeform lens satisfying 0.3<T1/T2<0.76 is placed on the object side of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shobayashi, Yoshio Matsumura, Takuya Imaoka, Tomoko Iiyama
  • Publication number: 20250102780
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugate with each of a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, the optical system comprising: a magnification optical system including a plurality of lens elements and positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system including a plurality of lens elements and positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; wherein a first lens element positioned closest to the magnification side of the magnification optical system has a positive power, and the optical system satisfies the following condition (1): 0.9?f1/f2?1.5 . . . (1), where f1 is a focal length of the magnification optical system, and f2 is a focal length of the relay optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventor: Takuya IMAOKA
  • Patent number: 12253659
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugated to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively, the optical system including: a magnification optical system having A (A is an integer of three or more) pieces of lens elements, positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system having B (B is an integer of two or more) pieces of lens elements, positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position. A first lens group composed of ? pieces (? is one or more and less than B) of lens elements positioned first from the magnification side in the relay optical system has a negative power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinghua Zhao, Takuya Imaoka
  • Publication number: 20250060262
    Abstract: An optical tactile sensor includes: an elastic member including a contact surface to be brought into contact with an object; a holding member including a window portion and contacting and holding the elastic member, the window portion being transparent; a light source; and a camera that photographs a shape of the contact surface through the window portion, wherein the elastic member includes: a first portion including the contact surface; and a second portion formed integrally with the first portion and disposed between the first portion and the window portion, the second portion being transparent, and the second portion has a hardness higher than a hardness of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroaki OKAYAMA, Yusuke Nakaguchi, Tetsuya Suzuki, Ryo Okumura, Hideo Onishi, Takuya Imaoka
  • Publication number: 20240329510
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system having a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side and a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side that are optically conjugate with each other, and includes a prism including a first transmission surface located on the reduction side, a second transmission surface located on the magnification side, and at least three reflection surfaces located on an optical path therebetween, wherein in the meridional plane, two light rays traveling in a direction perpendicular to the first rectangular region from two points on the first rectangular region intersect at two intersection positions after passing through the first transmission surface and then reflected by the at least three reflection surfaces and before passing through the second transmission surface, and the number of reflection of the two light rays intersecting at each intersection position before reaching the respective intersection positions is the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Takuya IMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240288755
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system having a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side and a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side that are optically conjugate with each other, the optical system including an imaging optical system having a plurality of lens elements that are rotationally symmetric with respect to an optical axis, and an aperture stop, wherein a first rectangular region at the reduction conjugate point and a second rectangular region at the magnification conjugate point have an optically conjugate image forming relation, a normal line of the second rectangular region is inclined at a tilt angle of 10 degrees or more with respect to the optical axis, and a tilt correction plate CP that corrects defocus in the first rectangular region or the second rectangular region is positioned on the reduction side of the aperture stop between the reduction conjugate point and the magnification conjugate point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventor: Takuya Imaoka
  • Patent number: 12072548
    Abstract: The present embodiment discloses an interchangeable lens that can be detachably attached to an apparatus body having an image forming surface on which an image is formed, and the interchangeable lens has a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side. The interchangeable lens includes a focus lens group that can move along an optical axis to adjust a focus at the magnification conjugate point and a flange back distance correction lens group that can move along the optical axis to correct an error in a flange back distance of the interchangeable lens with respect to the image forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Qinghua Zhao
  • Patent number: 12007539
    Abstract: A projection lens system is a projection lens system including a plurality of lens groups, the plurality of lens groups each including one or more lenses and moving such that an interval between the lens groups changes during a zooming action, the projection lens system including a first lens group disposed closest to a magnification side, the first lens group having positive power, wherein the first lens group includes one negative lens satisfying 0.0005<?pgfn<0.01 and 32<vdn<45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Imaoka
  • Patent number: 11982800
    Abstract: An optical system internally has an intermediate imaging position that is conjugated to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively. The optical system includes a magnification optical system having a first lens element and a second lens element positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position. The first lens element and the second lens element are positioned in this order from the magnification side, and the second lens element has a positive power. The optical system satisfies: 23<|f2/fw|<1000, wherein f2 is a focal length of the second lens element, and fw is a focal length of an entirety of the optical system at a wide-angle end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Qinghua Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240126157
    Abstract: An optical system includes lenses and a prism. The prism includes a first transmissive surface, a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface, and a second transmissive surface. A first rectangular region at a reduction conjugate point: has an imaging relationship in which the first rectangular region is conjugate to a second rectangular region at a magnification conjugate point; and does not intersect with an optical axis. When a space is divided into a first space and a second space, all principal rays passing through the first rectangular region pass through the first rectangular region, the first transmissive surface, and the first reflective surface in the first space, and pass through the second reflective surface and the second transmissive surface in the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Takuya Imaoka
  • Publication number: 20240045185
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position MI that is conjugate with both of a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, the optical system including: a first positive lens group GP1 including a plurality of lens elements and positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; a second positive lens group GP2 including a plurality of lens elements and positioned between the first positive lens group GP1 and the intermediate imaging position Ml; and a negative lens group GN including a plurality of lens elements and positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position MI, wherein, during focusing, the first positive lens group GP1 and the negative lens group GN move in an optical axis direction, and the second positive lens group GP2 is stationary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Takuya IMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230384571
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugate with both of a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on reduction side, including: a magnification optical system including a plurality of lens elements and positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system including a plurality of lens elements and positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position, wherein the relay optical system includes a plurality of moving lens groups which are independently movable in an optical axis direction during zooming, and wherein the reduction side-closest moving lens group that is positioned closest to the reduction side among the plurality of moving lens groups has a negative refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Qinghua ZHAO, Katsu YAMADA, Takuya IMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230288685
    Abstract: The optical system includes a first sub-optical system including an aperture stop and a second sub-optical system including a prism. The prism has a first transmission surface located on a reduction side, a second transmission surface located on a magnification side, and at least one reflection surface between the first transmission surface and the second transmission surface. The first sub-optical system includes a plurality of rotationally symmetric lens elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tsuneo UCHIDA, Takuya IMAOKA, Katsu YAMADA, Satoshi KUZUHARA
  • Publication number: 20220397749
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugated to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively, the optical system comprising: a magnification optical system positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; the relay optical system including: a first lens group positioned closest to the magnification side; two lens groups positioned on the reduction side with respect to the first lens group; and a negative lens group interposed between the two lens groups, wherein during zooming the negative lens is fixed, while the two lens groups are displaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Qinghua ZHAO, Katsu YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11520126
    Abstract: A projection lens system projects an image of a reduction side into a magnification side in an image projection device, a back glass being disposed on the reduction side. In the projection lens system, all of one or more negative lenses that satisfy, in a surface on the reduction side or a surface on the magnification side, condition |h/H|<2.0 defined by height h of a most off-axis principal ray and height H of an axial ray passing through a highest pupil position satisfy conditions Tn?98.5% and Dn/Db?0.05 defined by transmittance Tn, thickness Dn of the negative lens on an optical axis, and total thickness Db of the back glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Hideo Onishi, Kenji Ikeo, Katsu Yamada
  • Patent number: 11513325
    Abstract: A projection lens system that projects an image of a reduction side into a magnification side includes a diaphragm, a plurality of positive lenses, and a plurality of negative lenses. The plurality of positive lenses include a first positive lens closer to the magnification side than the diaphragm is and closest to the diaphragm, a second positive lens second closest to the diaphragm after the first positive lens on the magnification side, a third positive lens closer to the reduction side than the diaphragm is and closest to the diaphragm. The plurality of negative lenses include a first negative lens closer to the magnification side than the diaphragm is and closest to the diaphragm, and a second negative lens closer to the reduction side than the diaphragm is and closest to the diaphragm. The lenses have transmittances larger than threshold values, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Hideo Onishi, Kenji Ikeo, Katsu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220283412
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugate to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively, the optical system including: a magnification optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position, wherein a first lens element located closest to the magnification side among the plurality of lens elements in magnification optical system is an aspherical lens having a negative power, the optical system satisfies the conditions (1) to (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Qinghua ZHAO, Takuya IMAOKA, Katsu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220276475
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugate to magnification and reduction conjugate points, respectively, the optical system including: a magnification optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position, wherein there are a plurality of air distances among the lens elements, the magnification optical system includes a magnification optical system front group positioned on the magnification side with respect to the longest air distance in the magnification optical system and a magnification optical system rear group positioned on the reduction side with respect to the longest air distance, and the optical system satisfies the conditions (1) and (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya IMAOKA, Qinghua ZHAO, Katsu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220221694
    Abstract: A lens system includes a plurality of lens elements arranged from an object side to an image plane side, and a diaphragm arranged between the plurality of lens elements. The plurality of lens elements include a plurality of freeform lenses each having a freeform surface that is asymmetrical with respect to a first direction and a second direction which cross with each other. At least one freeform lens is placed on the image plane side of the diaphragm. With a lens thickness T1 in the first direction at a maximum height of an axial ray and a lens thickness T2 in the second direction at the maximum height of the axial ray, at least one freeform lens satisfying 0.3<T1/T2<0.76 is placed on the object side of the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SHOBAYASHI, Yoshio MATSUMURA, Takuya IMAOKA, Tomoko IIYAMA