Patents by Inventor Yukio Sekine

Yukio Sekine 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: 9891413
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Publication number: 20180039048
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Patent number: 9810884
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 9804364
    Abstract: An imaging lens for a solid-state imaging sensor includes, in order from an object side to an image side of the imaging lens, a first through sixth lens. The first lens has positive refractive power. The second lens has positive refractive power. The third lens has negative refractive power. The fourth lens has positive or negative refractive power and aspheric surfaces facing the object side and the image side. The fifth lens has positive refractive power. The sixth lens has negative refractive power and aspheric surfaces facing the object side and the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Sekine, Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 9804366
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Publication number: 20170108667
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20170108663
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20170108668
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20170108664
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Patent number: 9599799
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Publication number: 20170059828
    Abstract: A compact imaging lens which meets the demands for low-profileness and a wide field of view and corrects various aberrations properly. The imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: an aperture stop; a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex surface on the object side; a second lens with negative refractive power as a meniscus lens having a concave surface on the image side; a third lens having a concave surface on the image side; a fourth lens; a fifth lens with positive refractive power having a convex surface on the image side; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power having a concave surface on each of the object side and the image side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio SEKINE, Masaya HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9581792
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 9575288
    Abstract: An imaging lens elements are arranged in order from an object side, an aperture stop, positive first lens having convex object-side and image-side surfaces, negative meniscus second lens having a concave image-side surface, positive third lens having at least one aspheric surface, positive double-sided aspheric fourth lens, and negative double-sided aspheric fifth lens having concave object-side and image-side surfaces with its image-side surface having a pole-change point off the axis. It satisfies conditional expressions below: 0.5<f1/f<1.0??(1) 10.0<f3/f??(2) 0.8<(r3+r4)/(r3?r4)<2.0??(3) where f: focal length of the imaging lens overall optical system f1: first lens focal length f3: third lens focal length r3: curvature radius of the second lens object-side surface r4: curvature radius of the second lens image-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Yonezawa, Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 9547159
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Publication number: 20160313539
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20160282588
    Abstract: To provide a compact and bright imaging lens achieving higher optical performance than conventional arts, having a wide field of view of about 80 degrees or more and enabling proper correction of aberrations even if application is made to a large imaging sensor. An imaging lens for a solid-state imaging sensor comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive or negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive or negative refractive power and an aspheric surface on the both sides, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative refractive power and an aspheric surface on the both sides, wherein a conditional expression (1) below is satisfied: (1) 0.84<|r1/f| where f: focal length of an overall optical system of the imaging lens, and r1: curvature radius of an object-side surface of the first lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Sekine, Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Publication number: 20160170183
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio SEKINE
  • Patent number: 9341857
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes, from the object side to the image side, an aperture stop, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface near an optical axis, a second lens with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface near the axis, a third lens with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface near the axis, and a fourth lens with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface near the axis, wherein all lens surfaces are aspheric, all lenses are made of plastic material, a diffractive optical surface is formed on at least one of the lens surfaces from the first lens image-side surface to the second lens image-side surface, and at least one of the three positive lenses satisfies 1.58<Ndi where Ndi is the refractive index of the i-th positive lens at the d-ray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisanori Suzuki, Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 9291798
    Abstract: A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Publication number: 20150316751
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine