Patents by Inventor Toshihide Shinohara
Toshihide Shinohara 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).
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Patent number: 10642070Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Toshihide Shinohara, Ayumu Ito, Hiroshi Asami
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Patent number: 10288903Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Toshihide Shinohara, Ayumu Ito, Hiroshi Asami
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Patent number: 9746694Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: EHS LENS PHILIPPINES, INC.Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Takateru Mori
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Publication number: 20170115510Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Ayumu ITO, Hiroshi ASAMI
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Publication number: 20170082870Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Ayumu ITO, Hiroshi ASAMI
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Patent number: 9581831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: EHS LENS PHILIPPINES, INC.Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Takateru Mori
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Patent number: 9417462Abstract: A method of designing a progressive power lens with less image sway includes preferentially selecting a spectacle specification including a first condition if an average prescription power of a distance portion is equal to or greater than +3.0 D, and preferentially selecting a spectacle specification including a second condition if the average prescription power is equal to or smaller than ?3.0 D. At least a surface power OHPf in a horizontal direction of a distance portion on an object-side surface is greater than a surface power OVPf in a vertical direction, or a surface power OHPn in a horizontal direction of a near portion is greater than a surface power OVPn in a vertical direction. The first condition includes a condition that the OVPf is greater than the OVPn, and the second condition includes a condition that the OVPf is smaller than the OVPn.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: EHS LENS PHILIPPINES, INC.Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Takateru Mori
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Patent number: 9010932Abstract: A progressive power lens 10 for spectacles has a distance portion 11 and a near portion 12 of different powers. A surface power OMHP in a horizontal direction on an object-side surface along a principal meridian 14 or a vertical reference line passing through a fitting point Pe, a surface power OMVP(y) in a vertical direction of the object-side surface, the absolute value IMHP of a surface power on an eye-side surface, and the absolute value IMVP of a surface power in a vertical direction on the eye-side surface satisfy the following condition. OMHP(y)>OMVP(y) IMHP(y)>IMVP(y) OMHP(y)?OMVP(y)=IMHP(y)?IMVP(y) In the conditions, y is a coordinate along the principal meridian or the vertical reference line.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Takateru Mori
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Publication number: 20150077703Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga, Ayumu Ito, Takateru Mori
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Publication number: 20150055083Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Takateru Mori, Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga
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Patent number: 8960900Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.Inventors: Kazutoshi Kato, Yohei Suzuki, Ayumu Ito, Toshihide Shinohara, Tadashi Kaga
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Publication number: 20140146283Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Inventors: Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
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Patent number: 8678585Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Toshihide Shinohara
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Publication number: 20140055742Abstract: A progressive power lens 10 for spectacles has a distance portion 11 and a near portion 12 of different powers. A surface power OMHP in a horizontal direction on an object-side surface along a principal meridian 14 or a vertical reference line passing through a fitting point Pe, a surface power OMVP(y) in a vertical direction of the object-side surface, the absolute value IMHP of a surface power on an eye-side surface, and the absolute value IMVP of a surface power in a vertical direction on the eye-side surface satisfy the following condition. OMHP(y)>OMVP(y) IMHP(y)>IMVP(y) OMHP(y)?OMVP(y)=IMHP(y)?IMVP(y) In the conditions, y is a coordinate along the principal meridian or the vertical reference line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: HOYA LENS MANUFACTURING PHILIPPINES INC.Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Takateru Mori
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Patent number: 8583406Abstract: A visual simulator designs a spectacle lens based on acquired lens design data. Original image data representing an image viewed through the lens and frame data including shape data and layout information of a spectacle frame to which the spectacle lens is fitted are acquired. Image data is generated from the original image data and frame data and displayed on a screen. In an entire display mode, a visual field based on the shape data is entirely displayed on the screen. In a partial display mode, a part of the visual field determined by a distance from the spectacle wearer to the screen and a dimension of the screen is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.Inventors: Toshihide Shinohara, Masanori Kakimoto, Tomoaki Tatsukawa
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Publication number: 20130083288Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA, Takateru MORI
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Publication number: 20120259596Abstract: A method of designing a progressive power lens with less image sway includes preferentially selecting a spectacle specification including a first condition if an average prescription power of a distance portion is equal to or greater than +3.0 D, and preferentially selecting a spectacle specification including a second condition if the average prescription power is equal to or smaller than ?3.0 D. At least a surface power OHPf in a horizontal direction of a distance portion on an object-side surface is greater than a surface power OVPf in a vertical direction, or a surface power OHPn in a horizontal direction of a near portion is greater than a surface power OVPn in a vertical direction. The first condition includes a condition that the OVPf is greater than the OVPn, and the second condition includes a condition that the OVPf is smaller than the OVPn.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihide SHINOHARA, Takateru MORI
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Publication number: 20120229756Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Ayumu ITO, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
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Publication number: 20120229755Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutoshi KATO, Yohei SUZUKI, Ayumu ITO, Toshihide SHINOHARA, Tadashi KAGA
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Publication number: 20120200822Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi KAGA, Toshihide SHINOHARA