Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Tabata

Yoshinori Tabata 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: 7839488
    Abstract: In order to adjust the optical axis of a light beam L1 in an exposure apparatus, on a support body in an XYZ three-dimensional coordinate system are mounted: a first mirror 10 having a reflective surface M1 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XY plane around an axis 11 parallel to the Y axis by an angle of ?; and a second mirror 20 having a reflective surface M2 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XZ plane around an axis 21 parallel to the X axis by an angle of ?. There are provided: position adjustment means for moving the entire support body having the two mirrors parallel to the XY plane; and angle adjustment means for adjusting the angle of the second mirror 20. The incident light L1 is reflected on the reflective surfaces M1 and M2 to be output as an outgoing light L3, where it is possible to perform an optical axis adjustment concerning position and angle by controlling the position adjustment means and the angle adjustment means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tabata, Toshihide Ito, Takeshi Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Kashiwagi, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20080297750
    Abstract: In order to adjust the optical axis of a light beam L1 in an exposure apparatus, on a support body in an XYZ three-dimensional coordinate system are mounted: a first mirror 10 having a reflective surface M1 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XY plane around an axis 11 parallel to the Y axis by an angle of ?; and a second mirror 20 having a reflective surface M2 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XZ plane around an axis 21 parallel to the X axis by an angle of ?. There are provided: position adjustment means for moving the entire support body having the two mirrors parallel to the XY plane; and angle adjustment means for adjusting the angle of the second mirror 20. The incident light L1 is reflected on the reflective surfaces M1 and M2 to be output as an outgoing light L3, where it is possible to perform an optical axis adjustment concerning position and angle by controlling the position adjustment means and the angle adjustment means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tabata, Toshihide Ito, Takeshi Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Kashiwagi, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 7413503
    Abstract: An elastic polishing tool that comes into contact with a surface to be polished of a lens and rotates to polish the surface, includes: an elastic polishing body which has a cylindrical shape and whose shape can be changed according to the surface to be polished; and a polishing pad that is adhered to one surface of the elastic polishing body opposite to the surface to be polished of the lens, wherein the polishing pad has a diameter larger than the length of an arc of the elastic polishing body in a cross section including a rotation axis of the elastic polishing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tabata, Keiko Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7372546
    Abstract: In order to adjust the optical axis of a light beam L1 in an exposure apparatus, on a support body in an XYZ three-dimensional coordinate system are mounted: a first mirror 10 having a reflective surface M1 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XY plane around an axis 11 parallel to the Y axis by an angle of ?; and a second mirror 20 having a reflective surface M2 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XZ plane around an axis 21 parallel to the X axis by an angle of ?. There are provided: position adjustment means for moving the entire support body having the two mirrors parallel to the XY plane; and angle adjustment means for adjusting the angle of the second mirror 20. The incident light L1 is reflected on the reflective surfaces M1 and M2 to be output as an outgoing light L3, where it is possible to perform an optical axis adjustment concerning position and angle by controlling the position adjustment means and the angle adjustment means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tabata, Toshihide Ito, Takeshi Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Kashiwagi, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20060099889
    Abstract: An elastic polishing tool that comes into contact with a surface to be polished of a lens and rotates to polish the surface, includes: an elastic polishing body which has a cylindrical shape and whose shape can be changed according to the surface to be polished; and a polishing pad that is adhered to one surface of the elastic polishing body opposite to the surface to be polished of the lens, wherein the polishing pad has a diameter larger than the length of an arc of the elastic polishing body in a cross section including a rotation axis of the elastic polishing tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tabata, Keiko Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20060072092
    Abstract: In order to adjust the optical axis of a light beam L1 in an exposure apparatus, on a support body in an XYZ three-dimensional coordinate system are mounted: a first mirror 10 having a reflective surface M1 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XY plane around an axis 11 parallel to the Y axis by an angle of ?; and a second mirror 20 having a reflective surface M2 obtained by rotating a plane parallel to the XZ plane around an axis 21 parallel to the X axis by an angle of ?. There are provided: position adjustment means for moving the entire support body having the two mirrors parallel to the XY plane; and angle adjustment means for adjusting the angle of the second mirror 20. The incident light L1 is reflected on the reflective surfaces M1 and M2 to be output as an outgoing light L3, where it is possible to perform an optical axis adjustment concerning position and angle by controlling the position adjustment means and the angle adjustment means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tabata, Toshihide Ito, Takeshi Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Kashiwagi, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 6872120
    Abstract: A lens surface shape is created by a near-finish surface forming rough-cutting step of creating a near-finish surface shape analogous to a lens surface shape based on a prescription of a spectacle lens from a spectacle lens base material 11 by numerically controlled cutting, and a finish-cutting step of creating the lens surface shape based on the prescription of the spectacle lens from the near-finish surface shape by numerically controlled cutting. According to this method of producing a spectacle lens, all kinds of spectacle lenses including an inner surface progressive power lens can be produced with high productivity. A complex curved surface can be mirror-polished by a polishing tool, which includes an elastic sheet 41 having a curved surface, wherein a workpiece is polished by applying a pressure to the inner surface side of the elastic sheet 41, to stretch the elastic sheet 41 and bring the outer surface side of the elastic sheet 41 into contact with the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Miyazawa, Yoshinori Tabata, Takahiro Uchidani
  • Publication number: 20020160690
    Abstract: A lens surface shape is created by a near-finish surface forming rough-cutting step of creating a near-finish surface shape analogous to a lens surface shape based on a prescription of a spectacle lens from a spectacle lens base material 11 by numerically controlled cutting, and a finish-cutting step of creating the lens surface shape based on the prescription of the spectacle lens from the near-finish surface shape by numerically controlled cutting. According to this method of producing a spectacle lens, all kinds of spectacle lenses including an inner surface progressive power lens can be produced with high productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Makoto Miyazawa, Yoshinori Tabata, Takahiro Uchidani