HOYA CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160127002 | Cover Glass for Mobile Terminals, Manufacturing Method of the Same and Mobile Terminal Device - To provide cover glass for mobile terminals exhibiting high strength in a thin plate thickness state to enable reductions in thickness of apparatuses when inserted in the apparatuses, cover glass ( | 05-05-2016 |
20160124298 | CONDUCTIVE FILM COATED SUBSTRATE, MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM COATED SUBSTRATE, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Provided is a conductive film coated substrate, including a conductive film formed thereon. In a relationship between a bearing area (%) and a bearing depth (nm) that are obtained by measuring, with an atomic force microscope, a region of 1 μm×1 μm of a surface of the conductive film, the surface of the conductive film satisfies a relationship that (BA | 05-05-2016 |
20160124192 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM - An imaging optical system includes a positive first lens element having a convex surface on the object side, a negative second lens element having a concave surface on the image side, a third lens element, a positive fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a negative sixth lens element provided with at least one aspherical surface that has inflection points other than at an optical axis thereof. The following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: | 05-05-2016 |
20160120449 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING IMAGE SHOWING CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION OF BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE - Generating an image of a molar concentration ratio between a first and second biological substance, an absorption spectrum of the first and second biological substance within a predetermined wavelength range including a first, second, third, and fourth isosbestic point, acquiring first imaging data of the tissue using light extracted from white light using a first filter to collectively selectively extract light in a first wavelength range demarcated by the first and second isosbestic point, light in a second wavelength range demarcated by the second and third isosbestic point, and light in a third wavelength range demarcated by the third and fourth isosbestic point; acquiring second imaging data by taking an image of the tissue using light from the white light using a second optical filter to selectively extract light in the second wavelength range; and generating the distribution image on the basis of the first and second imaging data. | 05-05-2016 |
20160118073 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC DISK, AND POLISHING LIQUID COMPOSITION FOR GLASS SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk or the like according to which surface roughnesses of main surfaces of a glass substrate can be reduced more than with currently available methods. In the present invention, by mirror-polishing (final finishing-polishing) the main surfaces of the glass substrate used in a magnetic disk, for example, using a polishing liquid containing organic-based particles made of a styrene-based resin, an acrylic resin, or a urethane-based resin, as polishing abrasive particles, surface roughnesses of the main surfaces of the substrate can be reduced more than with currently available methods. | 04-28-2016 |
20160116758 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group, including a reflector element and a front lens element on the object side thereof, and a rear lens group; a support member, fixed to a fixed member that supports the reflector element, including a spherical-swinging operation support positioned behind the reflection surface of the reflector element and supporting a movable member supporting the front lens element to spherically swing about a predetermined point, a rotation preventer preventing the movable member from rotating about the optical axis of the front lens element, a detector supporter, and a mounting portion mounted to the fixed member; an actuator which drives the movable member to spherically swing the movable member in response to vibrations applied to the imaging optical system; a detector detecting positional variations of the movable member; and an adjuster which adjusts the position of the mounting portion relative to the fixed member. | 04-28-2016 |
20160112610 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - A bending imaging apparatus provided with an imaging optical system, a bending optical element, an image sensor positioned on a post-bending optical axis of the bending optical element, and a housing, includes an inclination adjusting body having a mounting plate portion, onto which the image sensor is mounted, and an inclination-adjusting bent plate portion extending toward an underside of the bending optical element from the mounting plate portion; a swing pivot portion formed between the inclination-adjusting bent plate portion and the housing to pivotally support the inclination adjusting body; and an inclination adjusting portion positioned between the inclination-adjusting bent plate portion and the housing to overlap the bending optical element with respect to the post-bending optical axis direction and swings the inclination adjusting body about the swing pivot portion to adjust an inclination of the inclination adjusting body. | 04-21-2016 |
20160109797 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided are a mask blank substrate which has effectively and extremely high principal surface flatness while a reduction in the manufacturing throughput of the mask blank substrate is suppressed, a mask blank, and a transfer mask. Also provided are manufacturing methods therefor. | 04-21-2016 |
20160077423 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REFLECTIVE MASK - Disclosed is a method for producing a substrate with a multilayer reflective film for EUV lithography including a multilayer reflective film disposed on a principal surface of a substrate, the method including a multilayer reflective film formation step of forming the multilayer reflective film on the principal surface of the substrate in such a manner that the multilayer reflective film has a slope region in which the film thickness is decreased in a direction from the inside to the outside of the substrate on a peripheral portion of the principal surface, and a fiducial mark formation step of forming fiducial marks in the slope region by removing at least a portion of the multilayer reflective film, the fiducial marks serving as references for a defective location indicated by defect information with respect to the surface of the substrate with the multilayer reflective film. | 03-17-2016 |
20160073856 | BENDING CONTROL MECHANISM FOR ENDOSCOPE - A bending control mechanism for an endoscope, provided with a control body and a bendable section including an insertion section, the bending control mechanism includes a pulley which is rotatably provided in the control body, and a wire connected between the pulley and the bendable section. An outer peripheral profile of the pulley, onto which the wire is wound, includes a non-circular section including a small-radius section having a small radius from a rotational axis of the pulley, and a large-radius section having a radius from the rotational axis that is larger than the small radius. The wire is wound onto the large-radius section at an initial winding stage at which the bendable section is at a non-bending position. The wire is wound onto the small-radius section at a stage where the bendable section is bent by a maximum amount. | 03-17-2016 |
20160070088 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - A bending imaging apparatus includes a movable lens group, a motor which drives the movable lens group and includes a lead screw extending parallel to the optical axis, a bending optical element at at least one end of the optical axis, a housing which supports the movable lens group and the bending optical element; a motor support bracket including a motor support portion, a screw support portion, and a planar portion between the motor support portion and the screw support portion and extends alongside the housing; a cover member including a planar portion facing the planar portion of the motor support bracket, and a fixer which fixes the cover member to the housing with a repulsive force generated between the planar portions of the motor support bracket and the cover member with the motor support bracket pressed against the housing. | 03-10-2016 |
20160062136 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group, which constitutes part of an imaging optical system, at a fixed position with respect to an optical axis direction, wherein the front lens group includes a front lens element and a reflector and the reflector reflects light rays exiting from the front lens element; a movable lens group provided closer to the image plane side than the front lens group and movable along the optical axis; a support which supports the reflector; a movable frame which supports the front lens element and is supported by the support to be movable along a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the front lens element; a front cover fixed to the support; and a driver which drives the movable frame in the plane, in accordance with vibrations applied to the photographing optical system, to reduce image shake. | 03-03-2016 |
20160058274 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An image capturing system, comprising: a light source device that emits illumination light containing wavelength regions; an image pickup device having an RGB filter; and an image processing unit to calculate a first index representing a molar concentration ratio of a first biological substance and a second biological substance contained in the living tissue, wherein the wavelength regions comprise: a first wavelength region corresponding to a B filter; and a second wavelength region corresponding to a G filter, wherein: in the first wavelength region, a value of image data B varies depending on the molar concentration ratio; the second wavelength region contains a plurality of isosbestic points of the living tissue, and, in the second wavelength region, a value of image data G takes a constant value without depending on the molar concentration ratio. | 03-03-2016 |
20160052201 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DECORATIVE LENS - A method for producing a decorative lens capable of effectively suppressing deformation of the lens in laminating a film material to the lens even when lenses vary widely in shape, in which support jigs or the like for suppressing deformation of lenses need not be provided for respective lenses having different shapes. A first compartment and a second compartment are separated hermetically by a film material, the second compartment and a third compartment are hermetically separated by an elastic film, the pressure inside the first compartment | 02-25-2016 |
20160041464 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK - Provided is a mask blank which enables EB defect correction to be suitably applied and which further enables a reduction in the thickness of a light-shielding film. A mask blank | 02-11-2016 |
20160041462 | MASK BLANK GLASS SUBSTRATE, MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM COATED SUBSTRATE, MASK BLANK, MASK, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a mask blank glass substrate that has high surface smoothness, that is formed with a fiducial mark capable of improving the detection accuracy of a defect position or the like, and that enables reuse or recycling of a glass substrate included therein. An underlayer is formed on a main surface, on the side where a transfer pattern is to be formed, of a glass substrate for a mask blank. The underlayer serves to reduce surface roughness of the main surface of the glass substrate or to reduce defects of the main surface of the glass substrate. A surface of the underlayer is a precision-polished surface. A fiducial mark which provides a reference for a defect position in defect information is formed on the underlayer. | 02-11-2016 |
20160039703 | GLASS LENS BLANK FOR POLISHING, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFORE, AND OPTICAL LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A glass lens blank for polishing in which a thickness of a defect-containing layer is suppressed to a minimum and thus it is possible to shorten the processing time required for grinding and polishing the glass lens blank for polishing after press-molding, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing an optical lens. A glass lens blank for polishing of which at least a main surface is a press-molding surface, wherein a defect-containing layer formed on the main surface has a thickness of 50 μm or less. | 02-11-2016 |
20160035064 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope system has an image sensor driver configured to read one line's worth of image-pixel signals in order; at least four line memories configured to store one line's worth of image-pixel signals, respectively; and an interpolation processor that interpolates image-pixel signals of interpolated scanning lines to generate an enlarged image. The interpolation processor generates one line's worth of interpolated image-pixel signals based on image-pixel signals that are stored in the line memories. The image sensor driver reading one line's worth of image-pixel signals intermittently, and the interpolation processor suspends a writing of image-pixel signals that are stored in the line memories in accordance to a suspension of the outputting of the one line's worth of image-pixel signals from the image sensor. | 02-04-2016 |
20160032109 | COATING COMPOSITION - Coating composition containing (A) an acrylate component and (B) zirconia, wherein a mass ratio (B)/(A) of (B) to (A) is from 0.1 to 2.0, (A) contains components (a-1), (a-2) and (a-3), and a content ratio X of component (a-1), a content ratio Y of component (a-2) and content ratio Z of component (a-3) satisfies conditions (1) and (2), and optical member having hard coat film obtained by using coating composition. | 02-04-2016 |
20160005431 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular center hole, a pair of main surfaces and an edge surface. The edge surface has a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces, and a roundness of an edge surface on an outer circumferential side is 1.5 μm or less. Also, a midpoint A between centers of two least square circle respectively derived from outlines in a circumferential direction respectively obtained at two positions spaced apart by 200 μm in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, and centers B and C respectively derived from a respective one of two chamfered surfaces on the outer circumferential side in the substrate thickness direction, are located such that a sum of respective distances between A and B, and A and C, is 1 μm or less. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004153 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK - A method of manufacturing a reflective mask blank comprising a multilayer reflective film formed on a substrate so as to reflect EUV light; and a laminated film formed on the multilayer reflective film. The method includes the steps of depositing the multilayer reflective film on the substrate to form a multilayer reflective film formed substrate; carrying out defect inspection for the multilayer reflective film formed substrate; depositing the laminated film on the multilayer reflective film of the multilayer reflective film formed substrate; forming a fiducial mark for an upper portion of the laminated film to thereby form a reflective mask blank comprising the fiducial mark, the fiducial mark serving as a reference for a defect position in defect information; and carrying out defect inspection of the reflective mask blank by using the fiducial mark as a reference. | 01-07-2016 |
20150380224 | ELECTRONIC AMPLIFYING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC AMPLIFYING SUBSTRATE - An electronic amplifying substrate, including: a glass base material having an insulating property; conductive layers formed on both main surfaces of the glass base material; and a plurality of through holes formed on a lamination body of the glass base material and the conductive layer, wherein an electric field is formed in the through hole by a potential difference between both conductive layers during application of a voltage to a surface of the conductive layer so that an electron avalanche amplification occurs in the through hole, and an insulation part is formed on at least one main surface of the glass base material, with one of the end portions of the insulation part formed to surround an opening part of the through hole of the glass base material, and the other end portion formed in contact with the end portions of the conductive layers. | 12-31-2015 |
20150371673 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular hole at a center, and includes a pair of main surfaces and a side wall surface orthogonal to the main surfaces. A roundness of the circular hole is 1.5 μm or less. A difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of radii of three inscribed circles that are respectively derived from outlines in the circumferential direction at three positions spaced apart by 200 μm in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface of the circular hole is 3.5 μm or less. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371415 | Simulation System, Simulation Device, and Product Explanation Assistance Method - In a simulation system in which a terminal device employed in a spectacle shop and a display device for visually recognizing by a prospective spectacle lens wearer, are connected to a server device so as to capable of communication: the server device includes an image generation unit that achieves a state in which a simulation image reflecting lens visual performance of a spectacle lens can be output for each of plural partial visual field areas, and an information storage unit that stores explanatory information regarding characteristics of the lens visual performance for each of the plural partial visual field areas; the display device includes a display screen unit that selectively displays the simulation images in the partial visual field areas; and the terminal device includes an information output unit that outputs the explanatory information corresponding to the partial visual field area being displayed on the display screen unit. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370160 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE PROCESSING DEVICE, MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE FABRICATION METHOD, MASK BLANK FABRICATION METHOD, AND TRANSFER MASK FABRICATION METHOD - Provided are a mask blank substrate processing device, a mask blank substrate processing method, a mask blank substrate fabrication method, a mask blank fabrication method, and a transfer mask fabrication method, for surface processing a mask blank substrate such that a high-level smoothness and a low-defect quality are satisfied. A mask blank substrate processing device ( | 12-24-2015 |
20150355537 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MASK BLANK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK - A method for manufacturing a low-defect and high-quality mask blank substrate with minimized transfer pattern defects and high mechanical strength, particularly such that the occurrence of a phenomenon where a portion of a transfer pattern and a principal surface of the substrate therebeneath are broken off together is minimized such that there is little pattern loss. The mask blank is manufactured by preparing a mask blank substrate (X) having a substrate principal surface (X | 12-10-2015 |
20150340054 | MAGNETIC DISK SUBSTRATE WITH OFFSET PORTION ON A MAIN SURFACE WITHIN A RANGE OF 92.0 to 97.0% IN A RADIAL DIRECTION FROM A CENTER, MAGNETIC DISK WITH SUBSTRATE AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - A magnetic disk substrate having a flat main surface, an end face, and a chamfered face formed between the main surface and the end face. The substrate has an offset portion, present on the main surface within a range of 92.0 to 97.0% in a radial direction from a center of the substrate. A distance from the center of the substrate to the end face of the substrate in a radial direction is 100%, the offset portion being raised or lowered with respect to a virtual straight line connecting two points on the main surface, set at positions of 92.0% and 97.0%. A maximum distance from the virtual straight line to the offset portion in a direction perpendicular to the virtual straight line is a “maximum offset value.” | 11-26-2015 |
20150338731 | MASK BLANK, PHASE-SHIFT MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a mask blank in which uniformity of the composition and optical characteristics of a phase-shift film in the in-plane direction and direction of film thickness is high, uniformity of the composition and optical characteristics of the phase-shift film between a plurality of substrates is also high, and defectivity is low even if a silicon-based material is applied to the material that forms the phase-shift film. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338554 | SPECTACLE LENS - An aspect of the present invention relates to an eyeglass lens comprising a lens substrate and a vapor-deposited film either directly or indirectly on the lens substrate, wherein the vapor-deposited film is an oxide film of metal selected from the group consisting of zirconium and tantalum, with a proportion accounted for by regions observed in a streaky shape, in a columnar shape, or in a lump shape in a cross-sectional image of the vapor-deposited film obtained by a transmission electron microscope of equal to or less than 20%. | 11-26-2015 |
20150337012 | EGFR-BINDING PEPTIDE - Provided are a substance capable of binding to EGFR specifically with a high affinity and a pharmaceutical agent containing the substance. A peptide which contains at least an amino acid sequence is represented by the formula (1), (2) or (3), as described in the specification, and is composed of 12 to 50 amino acids: | 11-26-2015 |
20150332722 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate capable of suppressing turbulence of air flow in a vicinity of an outer circumferential side edge portion of the magnetic disk and suppressing disk flutter is provided. This magnetic-disk glass substrate includes a pair of main surfaces, a side wall surface formed on an outer circumferential side edge surface, and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces, respectively. The side wall surface has a roundness of 1.5 μm or less. A difference in radius between an inscribed circle and a circumcircle of a plurality of outlines of the side wall surface at a plurality of positions that include a central position of the magnetic-disk glass substrate in a thickness direction and are different from each other in the thickness direction is 5 μm or less. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331312 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE WITH REFLECTIVE FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a mask blank substrate and the like that enables critical defects to be reliably detected as a result of reducing the number of detected defects, including pseudo defects, even when using highly sensitive defect inspection apparatuses that use light of various wavelengths. The present invention relates to a mask blank substrate that is used in lithography, wherein the power spectral density at a spatial frequency of 1×10 | 11-19-2015 |
20150331311 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MASK BLANK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK - Methods of manufacturing a mask blank and a transfer mask that reduce internal stress of a thin film. The methods include preparing a transparent substrate having a pair of opposing main surfaces and composed of a glass material having a hydrogen content of less than 7.4×1018 molecules/cm3, forming a thin film composed of a material containing silicon or metal on one of the main surfaces of the transparent substrate, and carrying out heating treatment or photo irradiation treatment on the transparent substrate with the thin film. The absolute value of a variation of flatness in a predetermined region, as calculated based on a difference in shape obtained from a shape of a main surface of the transparent substrate prior to forming the thin film and a shape of a main surface of the substrate exposed after removing the thin film, is not more than 100 nm. | 11-19-2015 |
20150316787 | SPECTACLE LENS, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SPECTACLE LENS - A spectacle lens is manufactured by measuring an optical surface of a semi-finished lens blank, making a calculation for a shape of a non-optical surface of the semi-finished lens blank based on a measurement result and a prescription, and processing the non-optical surface in accordance with a result of the calculation. | 11-05-2015 |
20150309328 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM - An imaging optical system includes a front lens group including a front lens element and a reflector element which reflects a light bundle that exits from the front lens element; and a rear lens group on the image side of the front lens group. The front lens element is a spherically-swingable lens group which suppresses image shake by spherically-swinging about a predetermined spherical-swing center in accordance with vibrations applied to the imaging optical system. The following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: | 10-29-2015 |
20150301441 | REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - This invention provides a reflective mask blank capable of preventing peeling-off of a multilayer reflective film due to cleaning or the like in a mask manufacturing process or during mask use. The reflective mask blank includes a multilayer reflective film, a protective film, an absorber film, and a resist film formed in this order on a substrate. Assuming that a distance from the center of the substrate to an outer peripheral end of the multilayer reflective film is L(ML), that a distance from the center of the substrate to an outer peripheral end of the protective film is L(Cap), that a distance from the center of the substrate to an outer peripheral end of the absorber film is L(Abs), and that a distance from the center of the substrate to an outer peripheral end of the resist film is L(Res), L(Abs)>L(Res)>L(Cap)≧L(ML) and the outer peripheral end of the resist film is located inward of an outer peripheral end of the substrate. | 10-22-2015 |
20150293441 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MASK BLANK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided are a mask blank for which worsening of flatness has been inhibited, a transfer mask, a method of manufacturing a mask blank, a method of manufacturing a transfer mask, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using this transfer mask. The mask blank is a mask blank provided with a thin film on a main surface of a glass substrate, wherein the glass substrate has a hydrogen content of less than 7.4×10 | 10-15-2015 |
20150286132 | MASK BLANK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a method of manufacturing a mask blank that is improved in cleaning resistance to ozone cleaning or the like, thus capable of preventing degradation of the mask performance due to the cleaning. The method is for manufacturing a mask blank having, on a substrate, a thin film which is formed at its surface with an antireflection layer made of a material containing a transition metal, and carries out a treatment of causing a highly concentrated ozone gas with a concentration of 50 to 100 vol % to act on the antireflection layer to thereby form a surface modified layer comprising a strong oxide film containing an oxide of the transition metal at a surface of the antireflection layer. | 10-08-2015 |
20150280550 | LOAD VOLTAGE CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A load voltage control device, comprising: a load disposed in a tip portion; a power supply circuit and a controller disposed in a proximal end portion; and a cable connecting the tip portion with the proximal end portion, the cable comprising a first and second power supply lines, the power supply circuit comprising at least one power supply, wherein the controller operates to: obtain a voltage applied to the load based on a voltage applied to an input point of the first power supply line, a current flowing through the first power supply line, a voltage applied to an input point of the second power supply line and a current flowing through the second power supply line; and adjust the power supply voltage by controlling the at least one power supply so that the voltage applied to the load becomes substantially equal to a predetermined reference voltage. | 10-01-2015 |
20150269961 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - With regard to a glass substrate | 09-24-2015 |
20150269960 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - With regard to a glass substrate | 09-24-2015 |
20150268384 | SPECTACLE LENS - An aspect of the present invention relates to an eyeglass lens comprising a lens substrate and a vapor-deposited film either directly or indirectly on the lens substrate, wherein the vapor-deposited film is an oxide film of metal selected from the group consisting of zirconium and tantalum, with an average grain size observed in a planar image obtained by a transmission electron microscope of equal to or greater than 3.5 nm and a proportion accounted for by grain boundaries, which are boundaries separating grains from regions outside of the grains, in a planar image obtained by a transmission electron microscope of less than 15%. | 09-24-2015 |
20150262605 | GLASS FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA SUBSTRATES, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA SUBSTRATES, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA AND METHOD FOR PREPARATION THEREOF - The provided are a glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate permitting the realization of a magnetic recording medium substrate affording good chemical durability and having an extremely flat surface, a magnetic recording medium substrate comprised of this glass, a magnetic recording medium equipped with this substrate, and methods of manufacturing the same. Glasses for a magnetic recording medium substrate are, glass I comprised of an oxide glass, comprising, denoted as mass percentages:
| 09-17-2015 |
20150262604 | MAGNETIC-DISK GLASS SUBSTRATE AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate according to the present invention is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-disk glass substrate having a circular hole provided in the center, a pair of main surfaces, and an outer circumferential end surface and an inner circumferential end surface each including a side wall surface and a chamfered surface that is formed between each main surface and the side wall surface. A measurement point is provided on the outer circumferential end surface every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction with reference to a center of the glass substrate, and when a curvature radius of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface is determined at each measurement point, the difference in the curvature radius between neighboring measurement points is 0.01 mm or less. | 09-17-2015 |
20150261083 | REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK - The present invention is a reflective mask blank used to fabricate a reflective mask, which has a laminated structure of a multilayer reflective film, an absorber film and an etching mask film in this order on a substrate, wherein the etching mask film comprises a material containing chromium, the absorber film comprises a material containing tantalum, a highly oxidized layer is formed on the surface layer of the absorber film on the opposite side from the substrate, and a Ta 4f narrow spectrum of the highly oxidized layer when analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has a maximum peak at a binding energy of more than 23 eV. | 09-17-2015 |
20150259509 | TRANSPARENT MOLDED ARTICLE, OPTICAL MEMBER, PLASTIC LENS, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A transparent molded article is comprised of a polymer of an isocyanate terminal prepolymer and one or more aromatic diamines, and the polymer further includes one or more phosphorous peroxide decomposing agents. The isocyanate terminal prepolymer is in the form of a reaction product of an aliphatic diisocyanate having an intramolecular cyclic structure and one of a polyether diol and a polyester diol, and the isocyanate group content of the prepolymer ranges from 10 to 20 weight percent. | 09-17-2015 |
20150255103 | MAGNETIC-DISK GLASS SUBSTRATE, MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC-DISK GLASS SUBSTRATE - A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention includes a pair of main surfaces, a side wall surface, and a chamfered surface between the main surfaces and the side wall surface. Regarding surface properties of at least one of the side wall surface and the chamfered surface of the glass substrate, an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.015 μm or less, and a bearing factor of a roughness cross-sectional area when a roughness percentage is 60% is 95% or more in a bearing curve of a roughness cross-sectional area. | 09-10-2015 |
20150248910 | MAGNETIC-DISK GLASS SUBSTRATE AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention has a pair of main surfaces, and an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) for wavelength components of 10 to 50 nm of the surface of the main surfaces is 0.15 nm or less. | 09-03-2015 |
20150227039 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A mask blank for use in the manufacture of a binary mask adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light has, on a transparent substrate, a light-shielding film for forming a transfer pattern. The light-shielding film has a laminated structure of a lower layer and an upper layer and has an optical density of 2.8 or more for exposure light and a thickness of 45 nm or less. The lower layer is made of a material in which the total content of a transition metal and silicon is 90 at % or more, and has a thickness of 30 nm or more. The upper layer has a thickness of 3 nm or more and 6 nm or less. The phase difference between exposure light transmitted through the light-shielding film and exposure light transmitted in air for a distance equal to the thickness of the light-shielding film is 30 degrees or less. | 08-13-2015 |
20150219802 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL LENS - Method for manufacturing an optical lens in which coating solution curing conditions are satisfied and a coating solution is cured. The coating solution curing conditions include the angle of the axis of an optical lens substrate with respect to the horizontal direction falls within a predetermined angle range, and a second condition that the optical lens substrate rotates around the axis at a predetermined rotational speed. The predetermined angle range is between a maximum inclination angle of the axis at which the peripheral edge of a lens surface is positioned at the highest position of the lens surface, and a maximum inclination angle of the axis at which the peripheral edge of the lens surface is positioned at the lowest position of the lens surface. The predetermined rotational speed is a speed at which the coating solution applied to the lens surface is held in a coating position. | 08-06-2015 |
20150218043 | GLASS MOLDED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, OPTICAL ELEMENT BLANK, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - [Problem] When heating a glass gob of glass which crystallizes easily to a temperature at which press-molding is possible, there are many cases in which the surface of the glass gob crystallizes and hardens. The problem of surface crystallization of glass gobs when press-molding is particularly prominent with glass to be polished and subjected to press-molding at a high temperature. [Solution] This method for producing a glass molded article includes a step (A) for covering the surface of a glass gob with a covering agent, and a step (B) for heating, softening and molding the glass gob covered by the covering agent. Therein, the covering agent contains components which melts at a temperature equal to or lower than the melting point of the glass configuring the glass gob. | 08-06-2015 |
20150218041 | GLASS AND OPTICAL ELEMENT PRODUCTION METHOD - [Problem] The transmittance of glass can be dramatically improved as a result of this glass production method. In addition, the amount of rare metal, such as platinum, that melts into glass can be greatly reduced. [Solution] A glass production method whereby the water content in molten glass is increased, in a melting step (i) in which a glass raw material including at least one type of component among TiO | 08-06-2015 |
20150215542 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a reflector; a rear lens group, the imaging apparatus performing an image-stabilizing operation by driving the front lens element; a support member supporting the reflector; a support mechanism which supports the movable frame to spherically swing about a spherical-swinging center, positioned on an extension of the optical axis of the front lens element extending behind an underside of a reflection surface of the reflector; and a rotation preventer which prevents rotation of the movable frame about the optical axis of the front lens element while allowing the movable frame to spherically swing about the spherical-swinging center. The rotation preventer includes a projection and a projection insertion portion provided on the movable frame and the support member, respectively, or vice versa, and are engaged with each other. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215541 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a reflector, in that order from an object side. The reflector includes a reflection surface which reflects light rays, from the front lens element, toward a different direction; a rear lens group positioned closer to an image plane than the front lens group, the imaging apparatus performs an image-stabilizing operation by driving the front lens element, a movable frame holding the front lens element; a support member supporting the reflector and is immovable relative to an optical axis of the front lens element, in a reference state; and a support mechanism which supports the movable frame to spherically swing about a spherical-swinging center, positioned on an extension of the optical axis of the front lens element extending behind an underside of the reflection surface of the reflector. | 07-30-2015 |
20150213826 | MAGNETIC-DISK GLASS SUBSTRATE AND MAGNETIC DISK - A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention has an average value of squares of inclinations of 0.0025 or less and a frequency at which squares of inclinations are 0.004 or more of 15% or less, in a case where samples of inclinations on a main surface are obtained at intervals of 10 nm. | 07-30-2015 |
20150212337 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a reflector; a support member supporting the reflector; a support mechanism supporting the movable frame, supporting the front lens element, to spherically swing about a center positioned on an extension of the front lens element optical axis behind a reflection surface of the reflector; and a permanent magnet and a coil as an actuator which performs image stabilization by driving the movable frame in response to vibrations to spherically swing the movable frame. The permanent magnet and the coil planarly extend parallel to tangent planes, tangent to imaginary spheres centered about the center, respectively. Any normal to the tangent plane of the permanent magnet is inclined to the optical axis of the front lens element such that a distance between the normal and the optical axis increases in a direction toward the object side. | 07-30-2015 |
20150205196 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE WITH A MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, SUBSTRATE WITH A MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate with a multilayer reflective film that enables the number of detected pseudo defects, to be reduced even when using highly sensitive defect inspection apparatuses using light of various wavelengths, and in particular, is capable of achieving a level of smoothness required of substrates with a multilayer reflective film while reliably detecting critical defects as a result of reducing the number of detected pseudo defects, as well as a method of manufacturing the same. | 07-23-2015 |
20150205068 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a first drive mechanism which rotates a cam ring to move a cam-driven lens frame, holding a lens group, in accordance with a cam groove; a second drive mechanism which screw-engages a nut with a feed screw, biases a nut-driven lens frame to abut the nut, and moves the nut-driven lens frame. The cam-driven lens frame is positioned adjacent to the nut-driven lens frame on a reverse side to the biasing direction, and driving ranges of these lens frames partially overlap each other. The first drive mechanism includes a cam-driven member, separate from the cam-driven lens frame, which is linearly guided and provided with a cam follower which engages with the cam groove of the cam ring; and a biasing member which biases the cam-driven lens frame to abut against the cam-drive member, so that the cam-driven lens frame moves with the cam-driven member. | 07-23-2015 |
20150203397 | GLASS, OPTICAL GLASS, GLASS RAW MATERIAL FOR PRESS MOLDING, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT - A glass including at least one type of oxide selected from TiO | 07-23-2015 |
20150199989 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a glass substrate for magnetic disk in which surface irregularity of a principal surface is suppressed and a method for efficiently manufacturing a glass substrate for magnetic disk. The method includes the steps of: forming a sheet glass material by performing press forming to molten glass, a principal surface of the sheet glass material having target flatness for the glass substrate for magnetic disk, the sheet glass material having a surface shape to be ground using a grinding abrasive grain; grinding the sheet glass material using a fixed abrasive grain; and polishing the sheet glass material using a loose abrasive grain, the sheet glass material having surface irregularity of the principal surface ground using the fixed abrasive grain. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198873 | MASK BLANK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHASE SHIFT MASK - A mask blank suitable for fabricating a phase shift mask having a thin film pattern composed of a material enabling dry etching with a fluorine-based gas and a substrate-engraved pattern. The mask blank | 07-16-2015 |
20150197446 | GLASS MOLDED ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, OPTICAL ELEMENT BLANK, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - When heating a glass gob including optical glass containing phosphorus, oxygen and fluorine to a temperature at which press-molding is possible, there are many cases in which the surface of the glass gob crystallizes and hardens. The problem of surface crystallization of glass gobs when press-molding is particularly prominent with glass to be polished and subjected to press-molding at a high temperature. This method for producing a glass molded article includes a step for covering the surface of a glass gob, which includes optical glass containing phosphorus, oxygen and fluorine, with a covering agent containing phosphorus, and a step for heating, softening and molding the glass gob covered by the covering agent. | 07-16-2015 |
20150193929 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE DEVICE - An image processing device, comprising an obtaining means that obtains color endoscopic image data, a color space conversion means that converts a color space of the color endoscopic image data to an HSI color space based on hue, saturation and intensity or an HSV color space based hue, saturation and a value, a lesion pixel judgment means that judges, for each of pixels constituting a color endoscopic image, whether or not each pixel is a lesion portion based on the hue and the saturation, an overlay processing means that executes an overlay process which changes a color of the pixel judged to be the lesion portion by the lesion pixel judgment means, and an overlay image display means that displays an overlay image obtained by subjecting the color endoscopic image to the overlay process. | 07-09-2015 |
20150191394 | COVER GLASS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COVER GLASS - The disclosed cover glass is produced by etching a glass substrate that has been formed by a down-drawing process, and chemically strengthening the glass substrate to provide the glass substrate with a compressive-stress layer on the principal surfaces thereof. The glass substrate contains, as components thereof, 50% to 70% by mass of SiO | 07-09-2015 |
20150181185 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE DEVICE - An image processing device, comprising an image obtaining means that obtains color endoscopic image data, a color space conversion means that converts a color space of the color endoscopic image data to an HSI color space based on hue, saturation and intensity or an HSV color space based hue, saturation and a value, a lesion pixel judgment means that judges, for each of pixels constituting a color endoscopic image, whether or not each pixel is a lesion portion based on the hue and the saturation, a lesion pixel counting means that counts a number of lesion pixels which is a number of pixels judged to be the lesion portion, a lesion index calculation means that calculates a lesion index based on the number of lesion pixels; and a lesion index display means that displays the lesion index. | 06-25-2015 |
20150175475 | OPTICAL GLASS AND USE THEREOF - An aspect of the present invention relates to optical glass, which is oxide glass including cation components in the form of 10 to 40 cation % of P | 06-25-2015 |
20150160438 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An imaging apparatus includes a bending optical element, a front lens group and a rear lens group. The front lens group and the rear lens group are provided on a pre-bending optical axis and a post-bending optical axis of the bending optical element, respectively. The front lens group includes a cut surface formed as an inclined flat surface on an outer edge of the front lens group on a side near the rear lens group, the inclined flat surface lying on a plane orthogonal to a first reference plane, which includes the pre-bending and post-bending optical axes. The inclined flat surface is inclined to a second reference plane, which is orthogonal to the first reference plane and includes the post-bending optical axis, to approach the second reference plane in a direction from an incident surface of the front lens group to an exit surface thereof. | 06-11-2015 |
20150158139 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK, MAGNETIC DISK, AND MAGNETIC DATA RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - A manufacturing method of a glass substrate for a magnetic disk is provided whereby nano pits and/or nano scratches cannot be easily produced in polishing a principal face of a glass substrate using a slurry containing zirconium oxide as an abrasive. The manufacturing method of a glass substrate for a magnetic disk includes, for instance, a polishing step of polishing a principal face of a glass substrate using a slurry containing, as an abrasive, zirconium oxide abrasive grains having monoclinic crystalline structures (M) and tetragonal crystalline structures (T). | 06-11-2015 |
20150146087 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a bending optical element and an image sensor; an inclination adjusting plate which mounts the image sensor onto a housing with a pair of opposed sides of the image sensor extending in a direction orthogonal to a pre-bending optical axis, of the imaging optical system; a pair of end portions formed on the inclination adjusting plate and positioned outside the pair of opposed sides of the image sensor; a swing fulcrum formed between an inner end portion, which is closest to the pre-bending optical axis, and the housing; and an inclination adjuster provided between an outer end portion, which is farthest from the pre-bending optical axis out, and the housing, to make the inclination adjustment plate swing about the swing fulcrum to adjust the inclination adjustment plate. | 05-28-2015 |
20150145978 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE DEVICE - The electronic endoscope device is provided with: a spectral image capturing means for capturing a spectral image of a predetermined wavelength range in a body cavity and obtaining spectral image data; a spectrum resolving means whereby the spectral data of each of the pixels included in the spectral image data is resolved into a plurality of predetermined component spectra by performing regression analysis; a spectrum compositing means for recomposing the predetermined plurality of component spectra, removing at least one of the plurality of component spectra, and thereby generating composited image data; and a display means for performing screen display on the basis of the composite image data. | 05-28-2015 |
20150144805 | OPTICAL COUPLER DEVICE AND CONFOCAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM - A fourth port of a first WDM-type optical coupler and a fifth port of a second WDM-type optical coupler are optically connected, and a second port of the first WDM-type optical coupler and an eighth port of the second WDM-type optical coupler are optically connected. A light source for emitting excitation light is connected to a first port of the first WDM-type optical coupler, and a light-receiving section (light detector) is connected to a sixth port of the second WDM-type optical coupler. Excitation light is emitted through a seventh port of the second WDM-type optical coupler toward an observed subject, fluorescence from the observed subject is acquired through the seventh port of the second WDM-type optical coupler, and input fluorescence is detected by the light-receiving section. | 05-28-2015 |
20150119228 | OPTICAL GLASS, PRECISION PRESS MOLDING PREFORM, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The optical glass is described that may be an oxide glass including, denoted as cation %, a total of 5 to 60% of B | 04-30-2015 |
20150116850 | LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A metal mold including: a first inner metal mold which forms a first lens surface and a first flat surface portion of a lens; a first outer metal mold which forms a second flat surface portion; a second inner metal mold which forms a second lens surface and a third flat surface portion; and a second outer metal mold which forms a fourth flat surface portion, and wherein a first protruded portion which forms a first concaved portion on the lens is formed all around an outer periphery of the first inner metal mold, the first concaved portion serving as clearance for a burr, and a second protruded portion which forms a second concaved portion on the lens is formed all around an outer periphery of the second inner metal mold, the second concaved portion serving as clearance for a burr. | 04-30-2015 |
20150111134 | MASK BLANK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK - Provided is a mask blank having a structure including a thin film on a substrate, wherein the thin film is made of a material containing one or more elements selected from tantalum, tungsten, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, nickel, titanium, palladium, molybdenum, and silicon, and wherein the normalized secondary ion intensity of at least one or more ions selected from a calcium fluoride ion, a magnesium fluoride ion, an aluminum fluoride ion, a calcium chloride ion, and a magnesium chloride ion is 2.0×10 | 04-23-2015 |
20150110482 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an anti-shake system provided with a guide portion which guides a movable frame, supporting a front lens element, to linearly move and rotate about a rotational axis, in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the front lens element, relative to a base member, which supports a reflector element; first and second actuators which generate driving forces to move the movable frame in two mutually-intersecting directions; and first and second sensors for detecting the position of the movable member in the two mutually-intersecting directions. The distance from the rotational axis of the guide portion to the point of intersection of first and second planes, which respectively pass through centers of the first and second sensors and extend in the two mutually-intersecting directions, is greater than a distance from the rotational axis of the guide portion to the optical axis of the front lens element. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110481 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an anti-shake system provided with a first guide portion supporting a movable frame, supporting a front lens element, at three support points to allow the movable frame to move relative to a base member, which supports a reflector element; a second guide portion which allows the movable frame to move, relative to the base member, in a linear direction and rotate; a limit portion defining a range of movement thereof; and two actuators. The rotational axis of the second guide portion is positioned outside a support intra-region defined by three sides connecting the three support points; a point of intersection between two planes passing through the centers of the actuators and extending in the intersecting driving-force directions of the actuators is positioned inside the support intra-region; and the limit portion and the center of gravity of the movable frame are positioned inside the support intra-region. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110480 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an anti-shake system provided with a guide portion which guides a movable frame, supporting a front lens element, to linearly move and rotate about a rotational axis, in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the front lens element, relative to a base member, which supports a reflector element; and first and second actuators which generate driving forces to move the movable frame in two mutually-intersecting directions. The distance from the rotational axis of the guide portion to the point of intersection of first and second planes, which respectively pass through centers of the first and second actuators and extend in the two mutually-intersecting directions, is greater than a distance from the rotational axis of the guide portion to the optical axis of the front lens element. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109703 | MAGNETIC DISK SUBSTRATE, MAGNETIC DISK, AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - A magnetic disk substrate highly reliable to prevent the occurrence of crash failure even if a magnetic disk is rotated at high speed, and suitable for a hard disk that starts and stops by the load/unload method, and a magnetic disk using such a substrate. The representative structure of the magnetic disk substrate is a disk-shaped glass substrate | 04-23-2015 |
20150104735 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a mask blank in which a thin film for transfer pattern formation is provided on a main surface of a transparent substrate. The thin film is made of a material containing a transition metal and silicon and further containing at least one of oxygen and nitrogen. The thin film has as its surface layer an oxide layer with an oxygen content higher than that of the thin film of a region other than the surface layer. The thin film is formed so that the thickness of its outer peripheral portion is greater than that of its central portion on the main surface side. The oxide layer is formed so that the thickness of its outer peripheral portion is greater than that of its central portion on the main surface side. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103417 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An imaging optical system includes a bending optical element which bends an object-emanating light bundle, a post-bending lens system on a post-bending optical axis defined by the bending optical element, and an image sensor. An effective optical surface of a large-diameter lens element, having a greatest axial light bundle effective radius, is formed into a non-circular shape by making a length of the effective optical surface from the post-bending optical axis toward a side opposite from the object side smaller than the axial light bundle effective radius, with reference to the axial light bundle effective radius lying on a plane which extends orthogonal to a plane including both the post-bending optical axis and a pre-bending optical axis of the imaging optical system and includes the post-bending optical axis. | 04-16-2015 |
20150079502 | MASK BLANK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK - Provided is a mask blank having a structure including a thin film on a substrate, wherein the thin film is made of a material containing one or more elements selected from tantalum, tungsten, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, nickel, titanium, palladium, molybdenum, and silicon, and wherein the normalized secondary ion intensity of at least one or more ions selected from a calcium ion, a magnesium ion, and an aluminum ion is 1.0×10 | 03-19-2015 |
20150079501 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REFLECTIVE MASK - Disclosed is a method for producing a substrate with a multilayer reflective film for EUV lithography including a multilayer reflective film disposed on a principal surface of a substrate, the method including a multilayer reflective film formation step of forming the multilayer reflective film on the principal surface of the substrate in such a manner that the multilayer reflective film has a slope region in which the film thickness is decreased in a direction from the inside to the outside of the substrate on a peripheral portion of the principal surface, and a fiducial mark formation step of forming fiducial marks in the slope region by removing at least a portion of the multilayer reflective film, the fiducial marks serving as references for a defective location indicated by defect information with respect to the surface of the substrate with the multilayer reflective film. | 03-19-2015 |
20150072273 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - This invention provides a mask blank in which a thin film for transfer pattern formation is provided on a main surface of a transparent substrate. The thin film is made of a material containing a transition metal and silicon and further containing at least one of oxygen and nitrogen. The thin film has as its surface layer an oxide layer with an oxygen content higher than that of a region, other than the surface layer, of the thin film. The thin film is formed so that the thickness of its central portion is greater than that of its outer peripheral portion on the main surface side. The oxide layer is formed so that the thickness of its central portion is greater than that of its outer peripheral portion on the main surface side. | 03-12-2015 |
20150056539 | PHASE SHIFT MASK BLANK AND PHASE SHIFT MASK - The present invention provides a photomask blank used for producing a photomask to which an ArF excimer laser light is applied, wherein: a light-shielding film is provided on a light transmissive substrate; the light-shielding film has a laminated structure in which a lower layer, an interlayer and an upper layer are laminated in this order from the side close to the light transmissive substrate; the thickness of the entire light-shielding film is 60 nm or less; the lower layer is made of a film containing a metal and has a first etching rate; the upper layer is made of a film containing a metal and has a third etching rate; the interlayer is made of a film containing the same metal as that contained in the lower layer or the upper layer and has a second etching rate that is lower than the first etching rate and the third etching rate; and the thickness of the interlayer is 30% or less of the thickness of the entire light-shielding film. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055080 | EYEGLASS LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An aspect of the present invention is a method of manufacturing an eyeglass lens comprising coating a coating liquid on a surface of a lens substrate being coated to form a coating layer, which further comprises conducting the coating by spraying a coating liquid, which has been atomized in an ultrasonic wave atomizing device disposed above the surface being coated of a curved shape, toward the surface being coated through a discharge outlet of the ultrasonic wave atomizing device, with the ultrasonic wave atomizing device comprising an ultrasonic wave atomization element atomizing a liquid by ultrasonic wave vibration, and an air flow blowing outlet for regulating a discharge width of an atomized liquid, and either not blowing an air flow from the air flow blowing outlet, or blowing an air flow from the air flow blowing outlet at an air speed generated by the air flow on the surface being coated of equal to or less than 0.8 m/s during discharging of the atomized coating liquid. | 02-26-2015 |
20150045204 | OPTICAL GLASS AND USE THEREOF - An aspect of the present invention relates to optical glass, which is oxide glass, having a refractive index nd ranging from 1.95 to 2.50 and an Abbé number νd ranging from 18 to 40, including essential components in the form of Si | 02-12-2015 |
20150044363 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZING LENS - An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing lens, which comprises forming a polarizing layer comprising a dichroic dye on a lens substrate, and conducting an epoxysilane treatment to impregnate the polarizing layer with an epoxy group-containing silane coupling agent such that a rate of increase in a film thickness of the polarizing layer by the epoxysilane treatment is equal to or greater than 8 percent. | 02-12-2015 |
20150031525 | OPTICAL GLASS AND USE THEREOF - An optical glass is oxide glass wherein Si | 01-29-2015 |
20150030230 | SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD, SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE INSPECTION DEVICE - A method for inspecting a substrate having a plurality of holes formed on a plate-shaped material so as to extend over front and rear surfaces thereof. The method comprises picking-up an image of a plurality of holes formed on the substrate by imaging from one surface side of the substrate and obtaining a hole image of each hole (S | 01-29-2015 |
20150029570 | OPTICAL SCANNING ENDOSCOPE - An optical scanning endoscope with an optical fiber, and a fiber driving unit with a plurality of actuators which bend side surfaces of the optical fiber by applying a pressing force. A mounting member is a substantially cylindrical MID component which supports the fiber driving unit. A control circuit supplies driving signals to each of the actuators to control the bending amount and direction of the optical fiber. A wiring member electrically connects wiring patterns on the mounting member with the control circuit. The mounting member has a planar surface section at one proximal-end-surface side of the cylindrical outer-peripheral surface. The wiring patterns include at least first patterns having one end portion disposed on the planar surface section to form soldering lands The other end portions are electrically connected to the actuators on the proximal-end surface of the mounting member. The wiring member is connected to the soldering lands. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029324 | SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD, SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE INSPECTION DEVICE - There is provided a substrate inspection method for inspecting a substrate having a plurality of holes formed on a plate-shaped material, including: an image acquisition step (S | 01-29-2015 |
20150017574 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTION FILM, TRANSMISSIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - Disclosed is a mask blank substrate for use in lithography, wherein the main surface on which the transfer pattern of the substrate is formed has a root mean square roughness (Rms) of not more than 0.15 nm obtained by measuring an area of 1 μm×1 μm with an atomic force microscope, and has a power spectrum density of not more than 10 nm | 01-15-2015 |
20140370424 | SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK FOR EUV LITHOGRAPHY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK FOR EUV LITHOGRAPHY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate with a multilayer reflective film and the like used in the manufacturing of a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography which is to be subjected to dry etching with a Cl-based gas, wherein in the substrate with the multilayer reflective film, the loss of protective films by the dry etching and subsequent wet cleaning is very limited. The present invention is a substrate with a multilayer reflective film used in the manufacturing of a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, comprising a substrate, a multilayer reflective film disposed on the substrate to reflect EUV light, and a protective film disposed on the multilayer reflective film to protect the multilayer reflective film, the protective film includes an alloy containing at least two metals, the alloy being an all-proportional solid solution. | 12-18-2014 |
20140362339 | SILICONE HYDROGEL SOFT CONTACT LENS HAVING WETTABLE SURFACE - Provided is a silicone hydrogel soft contact lens obtained by curing in a double-sided casting mold, a liquid mixture including glycerol mono(meth)acrylate and at least one type of silicone monomer having at least one hydroxyl group or polyethylene glycol group in the molecular structure thereof, the silicone hydrogel soft contact lens having a wettable surface without a polymerized lens-shaped material being subjected to post-processing to improve the water wetting properties of a surface thereof. | 12-11-2014 |
20140342030 | MOLD FOR IMPRINT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a mold for imprint having a leveling agent layer in which a desired uneven pattern is formed on an outermost surface by embedding unevenness on a main surface of a base body by coting this portion with a leveling agent. | 11-20-2014 |
20140334276 | GLASS FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM SUBSTRATE AND USAGE THEREOF - An aspect of the present invention relates to glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate, which includes essential components in the form of SiO | 11-13-2014 |
20140329174 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, SUBSTRATE WITH MULTILAYER REFLECTION FILM, TRANSMISSIVE MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, TRANSMISSIVE MASK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - Disclosed is a mask blank substrate for use in lithography, wherein a main surface of the substrate satisfies a relational equation of (BA | 11-06-2014 |
20140323652 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PLASTIC LENS - The present invention is a method for producing a plastic lens, containing polymerizing a monomer composition, at least one compound selected from a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2) being added in polymerization of the monomer composition: | 10-30-2014 |
20140322634 | MASK BLACK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A mask blank for manufacturing a transfer mask adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light that has a transparent substrate and a light-shielding film formed into a transfer pattern. The light-shielding film has at least two-layers, one a lower layer composed mainly of a first material containing a transition metal, silicon, and nitrogen, and the other an upper layer composed mainly of a second material containing a transition metal, silicon, and nitrogen. A ratio of a first etching rate of the lower layer to a second etching rate of the upper layer is 1.0 or more and 5.0 or less in etching carried out by supplying a fluorine-containing substance onto a target portion and irradiating charged particles to the target portion. Another ratio satisfies the following formula CN≧−0.00526CMo2−0.640CMo+26.624. | 10-30-2014 |
20140320620 | LESION EVALUATION INFORMATION GENERATOR, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A lesion evaluation information generator including a processor configured to, when executing processor-executable instructions stored in a memory, determine a hue value and a saturation value of each of pixels of an endoscopic image based on an acquired endoscopic color image data, determine, for at least a part of the pixels of the endoscopic image, a correlation value between color information of each individual pixel and reference color data, based on a hue correlation value between the hue value of each individual pixel and a reference hue value of the reference color data, and a saturation correlation value between the saturation value of each individual pixel and a reference saturation value of the reference color data, and generate an evaluation value for evaluating a severity of a lesion in the endoscopic image, by integrating the correlation value of each individual pixel. | 10-30-2014 |
20140313476 | METHOD OF COMPILING SHAPE DATA OF A SPECTACLE LENS, SPECTACLE LENS SHAPE DATA COMPILING DEVICE AND SPECTACLE LENS - A spectacle lens capable of obtaining a good vision without feeling of discomfort, even being fitted into a frame having a large front angle, and a method of creating the shape data of the spectacle lens having dioptric power to be fitted into a frame having a lens front angle. The method corrects the shape data of a lens back surface so that the prismatic effect undergone via the lens of initial lens shape by a plurality of rays passing through a rotation center of the eye in a case where a lens front angle is provided is identical or close to the prismatic effect undergone via the lens of initial lens shape by the plurality of rays passing through the rotation center of the eye in a case where no lens front angle is provided. | 10-23-2014 |
20140309736 | Intraocular Lens - An intraocular lens in which deterioration in contrast is suppressed even when the optical axis of the intraocular lens is decentred from the optical axis of the eyeball when the intraocular lens is inserted into the eye while the advantage of a conventional aberration reduction type intraocular lens that the image is seen clearly is sustained by employing such a power distribution as respectively having at least one positive power deviation region (E1) having a power larger than that represented by the reference power distribution and at least one negative power deviation region (E2) having a power smaller than that represented by the reference power distribution in the central region of the intraocular lens assuming that a power distribution being set to cancel the spherical aberration of cornea when the intraocular lens is inserted into the eye is the reference power distribution. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307227 | OPHTHALMIC OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An ophthalmic observation apparatus includes an illumination light supplier which supplies illumination light, of substantially parallel light rays, toward an examinee's eye including an eyeground and an anterior chamber angle, an imager which captures an image of the eye which is illuminated by the illumination light, a rotary driver which rotates the illumination light supplier and the imager about a specified center, a cornea curvature measurer which measures a curvature of a cornea of the examinee's eye, and a controller which sets a curvature center of the cornea as the specified center based on the measured curvature of the cornea. The controller drives the rotary driver to rotate the illumination light supplier and the imager about the specified rotational center and controls the imager to capture an image of the eyeground and the anterior chamber angle illuminated by the illumination light. | 10-16-2014 |
20140302429 | MULTILAYER REFLECTIVE FILM FORMED SUBSTRATE, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, MASK BLANK, METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND MASK - Provided is a multilayer reflective film formed substrate formed with a fiducial mark for accurately managing coordinates of defects. A multilayer reflective film formed substrate is formed with a multilayer reflective film, which is adapted to reflect EUV light, on a substrate and a fiducial mark which serves as a reference for a defect position in defect information is formed on the multilayer reflective film. The fiducial mark includes a main mark for determining a reference point for the defect position and auxiliary marks arranged around the main mark. The main mark has a point-symmetrical shape and has a portion with a width of 200 nm or more and 10 μm or less with respect to a scanning direction of an electron beam writing apparatus or defect inspection light. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302346 | GLASS FOR USE AS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, SUBSTRATEFOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, ANDTHEIR PRODUCTION METHODS - According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is glass for use in substrate for information recording medium, which comprises, denoted as molar percentages, a total of 70 to 85 percent of SiO | 10-09-2014 |
20140301050 | SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CHIP PACKAGE - A substrate assembly including a photosensitive etching glass substrate; and a first substrate and a second substrate for interposing both main surfaces of the photosensitive etching glass substrate between them. One of the main surfaces of the photosensitive etching glass substrate is thermally bonded to the first substrate, and the other main surface of the photosensitive etching glass substrate is bonded to the second substrate. When a thermal expansion coefficient of the photosensitive etching glass substrate is defined as C0, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the first substrate is defined as C1, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the second substrate is defined as C2, C1/C2 satisfies a relation of 0.7 or more and 1.3 or less, and at least one of a relation of C0/C1 satisfying less than 0.7 or larger than 1.3, and a relation of C0/C2 satisfying less than 0.7 or larger than 1.3 is satisfied. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300861 | EYE OBSERVATION APPARATUS - An eye observation apparatus includes a non-translucent peripheral frame member, a cylindrical light-transmitting member, and an imaging unit. The peripheral frame member includes a tight-fit inner cylindrical surface and a clearance-fit inner cylindrical surface. The cylindrical light-transmitting member includes a tight-fit outer cylindrical surface and a clearance-fit outer cylindrical surface, the tight-fit and clearance-fit outer cylindrical surfaces being coaxial with the tight-fit and clearance-fit inner cylindrical surfaces of the peripheral frame member. A radial clearance between the clearance-fit inner cylindrical surface of the peripheral frame member and the clearance-fit outer cylindrical surface of the cylindrical light-transmitting member is greater than a radial clearance between the tight-fit inner cylindrical surface of the peripheral frame member and the tight-fit outer cylindrical surface of the cylindrical light-transmitting member. | 10-09-2014 |
20140296431 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYURETHANE LENS - Provided is a method for producing a polyurethane lens by polymerizing a composition containing a polyisocyanate compound and a specific polythiol compound having high reactivity, in which the method suffers less increase in viscosity with the lapse of time and thus is excellent in workability. The method for producing a polyurethane lens, contains polymerizing a composition containing (A) a polyisocyanate compound, (B) a polythiol compound containing a polythiol compound that is obtained through esterification reaction of a polyol compound and thioglycolic acid, (C) a polymerization catalyst, and from 0.001 to 0.5 part by mass per 100 parts by mass in total of the components (A) and (B) of (D) an acidic phosphate ester compound represented by the following general formula (1), in which the method contains a step of preparing the composition by mixing the components (A) and (D), and then adding the components (B) and (C) thereto: | 10-02-2014 |
20140287269 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR A MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC DISK - Provided are a magnetic disk substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein the magnetic disk substrate has very few defects present on its surface with an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) at a level in the vicinity of 0.1 nm and thus is suitable as a substrate for a magnetic disk with high recording density. The magnetic disk glass substrate is such that the arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the main surface of the glass substrate measured using an atomic force microscope with a resolution of 256×256 pixels in a 2 μm×2 μm square is 0.12 nm or less and the number of defects detected to have a size of 0.1 μm to 0.6 μm in plan view and a depth of 0.5 nm to 2 nm is less than 10 per 24 cm | 09-25-2014 |
20140249376 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL USE - A medical-use light-source apparatus includes a light source lamp, a connector to which a body cavity endoscope and an ophthalmic observation apparatus can be selectively connected, a determiner which determines whether the body cavity endoscope or the ophthalmic observation apparatus is currently connected to the connector, and a lamp controller which sets a value of a maximum light amount of the illumination light to a first threshold value when the determiner determines that the body cavity endoscope is currently connected to the connector, and sets a value of a maximum light amount of the illumination light to a second threshold value that is smaller than the first threshold value when the determiner determines that the ophthalmic observation apparatus is currently connected to the connector. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC DISK - When mirror polishing is performed on a glass substrate by bringing a polishing pad into contact with the surface of the glass substrate while supplying a polishing liquid containing polishing grains to the substrate surface, the pH of the polishing liquid is maintained within a certain range or the agglomeration degree or dispersion degree of the polishing liquid is controlled. Consequently, an adequate mirror polishing rate can be maintained and there can be obtained a glass substrate having a good end shape. | 09-04-2014 |
20140243496 | URETHANE-BASED OPTICAL COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a urethane optical member containing at least one kind of structures represented by the following formulae (1) and (2) in a structure constituting the optical member, and a method for producing the same. | 08-28-2014 |
20140234755 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, REFLECTIVE MASK, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A mask blank substrate is provided with a substrate mark comprising an oblique section. The inclination angle of the substrate mark with respect to a main surface is greater than 45° and less than 90° and the distance from the boundary between the main surface and the substrate mark to the outer periphery of the mask blank substrate is less than 1.5 mm. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234667 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium having a high level of cleanness and superior smoothness. The manufacturing method includes a step for washing a disk-shaped glass plate with an acid washing liquid, a step for removing at least part of a surface layer, which is formed on the surface of the glass plate, by performing grinding with diamond abrasion grains, and a step for washing the surface with a neutral or alkaline washing liquid. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234468 | MOLD BLANK, MASTER MOLD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COPY MOLD AND MOLD BLANK - There is provided a mold blank comprising a hard mask, wherein the hard mask layer has a composition containing chromium, nitrogen, and oxygen and has a content variation structure in which content of the nitrogen is varied continuously or gradually in a layer thickness direction and content of the oxygen is varied in the layer thickness direction continuously or gradually substantially in an opposite direction to the nitrogen. | 08-21-2014 |
20140230848 | METHOD OF CLEANING SUBSTRATE - The present invention is a method of cleaning a substrate, comprising cleaning at least one surface of a substrate located in a liquid by injecting pressurized cleaning liquid containing bubbles or cleaning particles from a injection nozzle to at least one surface of the substrate. | 08-21-2014 |
20140220386 | SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND MAGNETIC DISK - The shape and number of surface defects are controlled so that the occurrence of failure is suppressed in an HDD device in which a magnetic head with a very small flying height, such as a DFH head, is mounted. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218799 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group having a front lens element and a prism, in that order from an object side, light rays exiting from the front lens element along a first optical axis being reflected by the prism to travel along a second optical axis nonparallel to the first optical axis, a rear lens group, and an anti-shake system. The anti-shake system includes a base member supporting the prism, a movable frame supporting the front lens element; and opposing guide members on opposite sides of the prism on both sides of a reference plane, respectively, in which the first and second optical axes lie, to support the movable frame to allow the movable frame to move along the plane orthogonal to the first optical axis relative to the base member. | 08-07-2014 |
20140218798 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a driver which drives a front lens element, on the object side of a reflector, to reduce image shake. The driver includes voice coil motors, each having a coil and a permanent magnet. A coil-and-magnet combination is positioned on each opposite side of a first reference plane. Centers of each permanent magnet and coil are positioned on one side of a second reference plane, including the first optical axis and orthogonal to the first reference plane, a second optical axis extending on the other side of the second reference plane. Magnetic pole boundary lines of the permanent magnets are inclined to approach the first reference plane away from the second reference plane. The magnetic sensors are positioned on opposite sides of the respective coils from the first lens element side. | 08-07-2014 |
20140212530 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IMPRINT MOLD AND RESIST DEVELOPING DEVICE - A resist developing device is provided, including: a storage part configured to store the developing solution, with a temperature controlled to a constant temperature; a holding part configured to hold the substrate to be processed; a supply pipe configured to form a flow passage for flowing the developing solution stored in the storage part, and having a discharging part for discharging the developing solution flowed through the flow passage, and configured to supply the developing solution to the substrate to be processed by discharging the developing solution from the discharging part toward the substrate to be processed which is held by the holding part; and a position-change part configured to perform the first position-change operation for varying a discharging direction of the discharging part in a non-reaching direction for not allowing the developing solution discharged from the discharging part of the supply pipe to reach the substrate to be processed, and a second position-change operation for varying the discharging direction of the discharging part in a reaching direction for allowing the developing solution discharged from the discharging part of the supply pipe to reach the substrate to be processed. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212119 | ELECTRICAL DRIVE DEVICE FOR BENDING PHOTOGRAPHING OPTICAL SYSTEM - An electrical drive device for a bending photographing optical system, the bending photographing optical system including a movable optical element that is movable in an optical axis direction and a reflection optical element positioned on the optical axis, the electrical drive device includes a motor provided with a leadscrew which extends therefrom in a direction parallel to the optical axis and drives the movable optical element to move in a direction of the optical axis. The leadscrew includes a threaded portion which screw-engages with a nut member provided on the movable optical element, and a small-diameter portion having a smaller diameter than that of the threaded portion, the small-diameter portion being positioned beside a side surface of the reflection optical element. | 07-31-2014 |
20140205937 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A mask blank is used for manufacturing a binary mask adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light and has a light-shielding film for forming a transfer pattern on a transparent substrate. The light-shielding film has a laminated structure of a lower layer and an upper layer and has an optical density of 2.8 or more for the exposure light. The lower layer is made of a material containing tantalum and nitrogen and has a thickness of 33 nm or more. The upper layer is made of a material containing tantalum and oxygen and has a thickness of 3 nm or more. The phase difference between the exposure light transmitted through the light-shielding film and the exposure light transmitted in air for a distance equal to the thickness of the light-shielding film is 60 degrees or less. | 07-24-2014 |
20140202985 | COVER GLASS FOR MOBILE TERMINALS, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - To provide cover glass for mobile terminals exhibiting high strength in a thin plate thickness state to enable reductions in thickness of apparatuses when inserted in the apparatuses, cover glass ( | 07-24-2014 |
20140200323 | PLASTIC LENS - A plastic lens having excellent weather resistance, formed by polymerization of a composition containing a polyisocyanate compound having an aromatic ring and a polythiol compound is provided. The plastic lens is formed by polymerization of a composition that contains 100 parts by mass in total of (A) a polyisocyanate compound containing a polyisocyanate compound having an aromatic ring and (B) a polythiol compound, from 0.5 to 5.0 parts by mass of (C) a benzophenone compound having a hydroxyl group on at least the ortho position, and from 0.5 to 5.0 parts by mass of (D) a phenol compound. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198296 | PHOTOCHROMIC LENS FOR EYE GLASSES - [Problem] To provide a photochromic lens for eye glasses, which has a high refractive index and excellent light-controlling properties and has such a constitution that the weight and thickness of the lens can be reduced. [Solution] Provided is a photochromic lens for eye glasses, which is produced by polymerizing a polymerizable composition prepared by dissolving a photochromic compound into a monomer mixture comprising a first radically polymerizable monomer represented by general formula (I), a second radically polymerizable monomer represented by general formula (II) and divinylbenzene that has a purity of 50% or more and contains a divinylbenzene component and an ethylvinylbenzene component at a total content of 90% or more. | 07-17-2014 |
20140187867 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope has a light source configured to emit normal light toward an object and a rotating filter configured to be positioned in the path of light that passes from the light source to an image sensor. The rotating filter has an optical band-pass filter and a ND filter. The electronic endoscope has further a rotation controller that synchronizes a light-path traverse-interval of the band-pass filter and a light-path traverse-interval of the ND filter with a field/frame interval; and an image generator that generates a normal image from broadband image-pixel signals and generates a spectral image from specific-band image-pixel signals. The image generator has a brightness adjuster that increases a brightness level of the spectral image. Then, the ND filter reduces an amount of light emitted from the light source to an amount of light that corresponds to an increased brightness of the spectral image. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185907 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A diagnostic system comprises a spectral image pickup means that picks up a spectral image in a predetermined wavelength region in a body cavity and obtains spectral image data, an image processing means that obtains, from the spectral image data, an index-value for discriminating between a diseased portion and a healthy portion, and generates and outputs an indicator image based on the index-value, and a monitor on which the indicator image is displayed, wherein, for each pixel of the spectral image, the image processing means defines β obtained by a predetermined expression as the index-value, while using the spectral image data P | 07-03-2014 |
20140180300 | Intraocular Lens Insertion Device - An instrument for inserting an intraocular lens capable of securely and safely pushing out the lens by a simple structure. An instrument ( | 06-26-2014 |
20140180299 | Intraocular Lens Insertion Device - An intraocular insertion device ( | 06-26-2014 |
20140176691 | ENDOSCOPE FOR OUTPUTTING SIGNAL - An endoscope is provided having an imager, an analog-digital converter, and a data converter. The imager comprises multiple pixels which output pixel signals, and that outputs an image signal comprising the pixel signals. The analog-digital converter converts the image signal to digital image data in parallel data format. The data converter converts the digital image data to transmission data. The data converter converts the pixel-generated digital image data based on a first rule, converts the converted digital image data to converted pixel data in serial data format, and adds a start bit and an end bit to the converted pixel data to convert the digital image data to the transmission data. | 06-26-2014 |
20140127614 | PHOTOMASK BLANK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PHOTOMASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A photomask blank for use in the manufacture of a photomask adapted to be applied with exposure light having a wavelength of 200 nm or less has a thin film on a transparent substrate. The thin film is made of a material containing a transition metal, silicon, and carbon and comprising silicon carbide and/or a transition metal carbide. | 05-08-2014 |
20140125947 | PLASTIC LENS - The present invention provides a plastic lens capable of suppressing deformation while having a photochromic film. A plastic lens according to the present invention is configured to include a plastic substrate formed in a meniscus shape with a concave surface and a convex surface, a photochromic film provided on the convex surface of the plastic substrate, and a stress compensation film provided on the concave surface of the plastic substrate. | 05-08-2014 |
20140113020 | MOLD MANUFACTURING MASK BLANKS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MOLD - A fine pattern is formed with high pattern precision, and a time required for fabricating a mold is considerably shortened. Provided are mask blanks used for manufacturing a sub-master mold by transferring the fine pattern provided on a surface of an original mold by imprint, having a hard mask layer including a chromium compound layer expressed by a chemical formula CrO | 04-24-2014 |
20140107660 | Instrument For Inserting Intraocular Lens - An intraocular lens insertion instrument capable of smoothly pushing out a preset lens is provided. An intraocular lens insertion instrument ( | 04-17-2014 |
20140106174 | OPTICAL GLASS, PRESS-MOLDING GLASS MATERIAL, OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND BONDED OPTICAL ELEMENT - An aspect of the present invention relates to an optical glass, which comprises, denoted as weight percent, 2 to 37 percent of SiO | 04-17-2014 |
20140099439 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL LENS - A method for producing an optical lens includes: forming a mark outside a lens region set in a lens substrate, the mark being adapted to perform position alignment; pattern-forming a masking layer above one principal surface of the lens substrate while controlling formation position of the masking layer with the mark as a reference, the masking layer having an aperture at a predetermined position in the lens region; performing a selective process with respect to a surface exposed from the bottom of the aperture of the masking layer by performing a process from above the masking layer; and removing the masking layer from above the lens substrate to form a processed pattern by the selective process on the side of the one principal surface of the lens substrate. | 04-10-2014 |
20140087292 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TRANSFER MASK - Provided is a mask blank which enables EB defect correction to be suitably applied and which further enables a reduction in the thickness of a light-shielding film. A mask blank | 03-27-2014 |
20140086569 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group including a front lens element and a reflector, a movable frame supporting the front lens element, and a driver driving the movable frame to reduce image shake. The driver includes first and second voice coil motors, each including a coil and a magnet. The magnets are positioned orthogonal to each other in a plane orthogonal to a first optical axis that passes through the front lens element. The first and second voice coil motors are positioned on opposite sides of a first plane, including the first optical axis and a second optical axis that extends from the reflector. Centers of each magnet and coil are on one side of a second plane, including the first optical axis and is orthogonal to the first plane. The magnets are inclined and approach the first plane in a direction away from the second plane. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086568 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group including a front lens element and a prism, a prism holder which supports the prism, a movable frame which supports the front lens element and is supported by the prism holder to be movable along a plane orthogonal to the optical axis, and a driver which drives the movable frame to reduce image shake. The driver includes a permanent magnet and a coil positioned in a magnetic field of the permanent magnet, wherein one of the permanent magnet and the coil is a movable element which is fixed to the movable frame to move with the movable frame, the other of the permanent magnet and the coil is a fixed element, which does not move with the movable frame, and a position of the fixed element is determined by the prism holder. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085750 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR A MAGNETIC DISK, MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A MAGNETIC DISK - A glass substrate for a magnetic disk, wherein, in regions with respect to two places arbitrarily selected on a surface of the glass substrate on its central portion side relative to its outer peripheral end, a surface shape with a shape wavelength in a band of 60 to 500 μm is extracted from surface shapes in each of the regions and, assuming that a root mean square roughness Rq of the surface shape is given as a microwaviness Rq, the difference between the microwavinesses Rq of the regions is 0.02 nm or less or the difference between standard deviations of the microwavinesses Rq of the regions is 0.04 nm or less. | 03-27-2014 |
20140081284 | Intraocular Lens Inserting Instrument - An intraocular lens inserting instrument ( | 03-20-2014 |
20140078593 | COATING COMPOSITION, PLASTIC LENS - There is provided a coating composition capable of realizing a coating layer having conductivity and sufficient transparency. The coating composition contains respective components of a component (a) and a component (b) below, Component (a): acrylic resin or methane resin, Component (b): conductive polymer. | 03-20-2014 |
20140065834 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MOLD FOR NANO-IMPRINT AND SUBSTRATE FABRICATING METHOD - Provided is a method of manufacturing a mold for nano-imprint, for forming a projection/recess pattern on a surface of a silicon substrate, including: etching a substrate to form the projection/recess pattern on the surface of the silicon substrate by applying dry-etching to the silicon substrate using a hard mask pattern as a mask, in a state of covering the surface of the silicon substrate with the hard mask pattern made of a chromium-based material; and applying dry-etching to the silicon substrate in etching the substrate using a fluorine-based gas as a reactive gas of an etching gas used for the dry-etching applied to the silicon substrate, and adding an inert gas to the etching gas. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063615 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes an outer barrel including a first cam follower, an internal movable member including a second cam follower, a cam ring, a first cam groove formed on a surface of the cam ring and engaged with the first cam follower, and a second cam groove formed on the surface of the cam ring and is open at a front end of the cam ring. When the outer barrel is positioned in front of a predetermined position, the second cam groove determines a position of the internal movable member in the outer barrel via a limit portion while the second cam groove is not engaged with the second cam follower, and when the outer barrel moves rearward beyond the predetermined position, the second cam groove engages with the second cam follower and moves the internal movable member rearward. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063608 | PLASTIC LENS - The disclosure includes producing a plastic lens with an antireflection film at a lower cost. The plastic lens is configured to include a plastic base material; and an antireflection film having an electrically conductive layer that is formed in contact with a surface of the plastic base material and that has colorless transparency, and an antireflection film main body that contains a metal oxide, formed on the electrically conductive layer. | 03-06-2014 |
20140060117 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK - A method for manufacturing a glass substrate for magnetic disk, the internal strain of which is reduced without performing annealing treatment, is provided. The method includes a forming process of forming a plate-shaped glass blank by pressing a lump of molten glass using a pair of dies, wherein the method includes: a removing process of removing at least a part of a residual stress layer formed on the principal face of the glass blank press-formed in the forming process; and a process of forming a donut-shaped glass substrate by subjecting the glass blank after the removing process to machining. | 03-06-2014 |
20140057199 | PHOTOMASK BLANK, PHOTOMASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOMASK BLANK - A photomask blank for producing a photomask to which an ArF excimer laser light is applied. The blank includes a light transmissive substrate on which a thin film having a multilayer structure is provided. The thin film has a light-shielding film in which a back-surface antireflection layer, a light-shielding layer and a front-surface antireflection layer are laminated in this order. The light-shielding layer comprises chromium and nitrogen, and the chromium content is more than 50 atomic %. The front-surface antireflection layer and the back-surface antireflection layer each has an amorphous structure made of a material comprising chromium, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon. The chromium content ratio of the front-surface antireflection layer and the back-surface antireflection layer is 40 atomic % or less. A first sum of nitrogen content and oxygen content of the back-surface antireflection layer is less than a second sum of nitrogen content and oxygen content of the front-surface antireflection layer. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055743 | OPTICAL LENS - Provided is an optical lens having a pattern formed therein to be used as a spectacle lens, wherein the pattern can be viewed from outside while the field of vision of the wearer can be ensured without discomfort. An optical lens includes a lens substrate, an antireflection film arranged to cover the side of one principal surface of the lens substrate, and a transparent pattern formed by a light transmissive material and arranged in a position where the transparent pattern is to be laminated to the antireflection film; wherein the transparent pattern is visible when viewed from the side of the one principal surface of the lens substrate. The antireflection film has a structure formed by alternately laminating a low refractive index film and a high refractive index film. The transparent pattern is arranged between the layers of the antireflection film, or above or below the antireflection film. | 02-27-2014 |
20140050912 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK - A method for manufacturing a glass substrate for magnetic disk is provided. The method includes a forming process of press-forming a lump of molten glass using a pair of dies, wherein in the forming process, the cooling rate of the molten glass during pressing is controlled so that a first compressive stress layer is formed on a pair of principal faces of a glass blank that is press formed, and the method includes a chemically strengthening process for forming a second compressive stress layer on a pair of principal faces of a glass substrate formed using the glass blank after the forming process. | 02-20-2014 |
20140049625 | ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND LIGHT SOURCE FOR ENDOSCOPE - An electronic endoscope system, including: a light source that emits light having a visible light wavelength region; an optical filter that has transmission peaks at least at two particular wavelengths in a continuous wavelength region including the visible light wavelength region and has a transmissivity higher than zero and lower than a half of each transmission peak between the transmission peaks of the at least two particular wavelengths, the optical filter having a transmissivity of zero at a wavelength region other than an interval between the transmission peaks of the at least two particular wavelengths; a solid-state image pick-up device that receives reflected light from an object which is irradiated with illumination light via the optical filter; and an image generation unit configured to generate a color image to be displayed on a monitor by processing an image signal outputted by the solid-state image pick-up device. | 02-20-2014 |
20140043455 | ENDOSCOPE FOR STORING IMAGES - An endoscope is provided having a video compiler and a recorder. The video compiler continuously receives image signals and creates a video file with the image signals. The recorder receives and stores the video file. The video compiler writes a flag into the video file when a first event occurs. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043453 | ENDOSCOPE FOR STORING IMAGES - An endoscope is provided having a video compiler, a still-image compiler, a monitor, and a recorder. The video compiler continuously receives image signals and creates a video file with the image signals. The still-image compiler receives the image signals, and creates a still image. The monitor receives the video file from the video compiler and continuously displays the video. The recorder receives the video file from the video compiler and receives the still image from the still-image compiler, and stores the video file and the still image. | 02-13-2014 |
20140036644 | GLASS FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM SUBSTRATE AND USAGE THEREOF - An aspect of the present invention relates to glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate, which includes essential components in the form of SiO | 02-06-2014 |
20140036334 | PHOTOCHROMIC LENS - The present invention relates to a photochromic lens, which comprises a photochromic layer comprising a photochromic dye and a resin component, and an organic hardcoat layer in this order, wherein the resin component is an acrylic resin, and the photochromic layer further comprises a piperidine ring-containing compound having a molecular weight of equal to or greater than 1,000. | 02-06-2014 |
20140033768 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS BLANK FOR MAGNETIC DISK, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK - A method for manufacturing a glass substrate for magnetic disk is provided in which a glass is kept from being fused to a mold during press forming and shape processing to achieve a good circularity is efficiently performed. The method includes: a forming process of forming a disk-shaped glass blank by direct-pressing a molten glass by a pair of dies; and a shape processing process of performing at least one of inner hole formation and outer shape formation for forming a disk-shaped glass substrate by forming a cutting line on the principal face of the glass blank, followed by growing the cutting line to perform cutting. In the forming process, press forming is performed while the temperature of the pair of dies, over a period of time until a molten glass is separated from the die after coming into contact with the die, is set at a temperature lower than a glass transition point (Tg) and a mold release material is not attached to the surfaces of the pair of dies. | 02-06-2014 |
20140031679 | OPTICAL SCANNING PROBE - An optical scanning probe comprising a flexible tube, an optical fiber for transmitting scanning light that is supported in the flexible tube to be able to freely rotate about an axis of the optical fiber, and an objective lens that has a positive optical power to convert the scanning light emerging from the optical fiber from a divergent beam to a collimated beam or a convergent beam and rotates integrally with the optical fiber, and wherein the objective lens is provided with a deflection surface that deflects the scanning light to irradiate an object. | 01-30-2014 |
20140030641 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A mask blank for use in the manufacture of a transfer mask adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light is disclosed. The mask blank has, on a transparent substrate, a light-shielding film for forming a transfer pattern. The light-shielding film has an at least two-layer structure including a lower layer and an upper layer from the transparent substrate side. The lower layer is made of a material composed of a transition metal, silicon, and nitrogen and having a nitrogen content of 21 at % or more and a refractive index n of 1.9 or less. The upper layer is made of a material composed of a transition metal, silicon, and nitrogen and having a refractive index n of 2.1 or less. A surface layer of the upper layer contains oxygen and has a nitrogen content of 14 at % or more. | 01-30-2014 |
20140016120 | PROGRESSIVE POWER LENS, METHOD OF DESIGNING PROGRESSIVE POWER LENS AND METHOD OF EVALUATING PROGRESSIVE POWER LENS - Improving the optical state of a progressive addition lens along a principal line of vision through which the line-of-sight of a wearer passes by making the displacement of a position at which an optical state becomes the best to be the same as the amount of inward movement of line-of-sight, when the wearer moves his line-of-sight from the front far distance to the front near distance. An expression OI01-16-2014 | |
20140005025 | OPTICAL GLASS, PREFORM FOR PRESS FORMING, OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THESE | 01-02-2014 |
20130343166 | GLASS FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM SUBSTRATE, GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND THEIR USE - An aspect of the present invention relates to glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate, which comprises essential components in the form of SiO | 12-26-2013 |
20130335700 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PROGRESSIVE-POWER LENS - Provided is a manufacturing method of a progressive refractive lens including a first surface being an object side surface; a second surface being an eyeball side surface; a far vision part for viewing a far vision; a near vision part for viewing a near vision; and a progressive part for viewing an intermediate vision provided between the far vision part and the near vision part, the method including: selecting a base curve according to a near vision power in the near vision part; selecting a semi-finish lens having the base curve; and forming a surface having a progressive refractive power by processing the semi-finish lens, wherein the near vision power is obtained by adding an addition power in the progressive refractive lens to a far vision power in the far vision part. | 12-19-2013 |
20130319330 | LIQUID FEEDING DEVICE AND RESIST DEVELOPING DEVICE - A liquid feeding device | 12-05-2013 |
20130317299 | ENDOSCOPE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope optical system, including a front group and a rear group arranged in this order from an object side such that an aperture stop is arranged between the front and rear groups, wherein the front group includes a negative lens and a positive lens arranged in this order from the object side, the rear group includes a positive lens and a cemented lens arranged in this order from the object side, and when f (unit: mm) denotes a focal length of an entire endoscope optical system, EX (unit: mm) denotes a distance (which takes a minus sign on the object side with respect to an image plane) from the image plane to an exit pupil, and f | 11-28-2013 |
20130316271 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a mask blank for manufacturing a transfer mask, the mask blank has a light-shielding film on a transparent substrate. The light-shielding film is made of a material containing tantalum as a main metal component and includes a highly oxidized layer which has an oxygen content of 60 at % or more and which is formed as a surface layer of the light-shielding film. The highly oxidized layer is placed on a side opposite to a transparent substrate side. | 11-28-2013 |
20130316194 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF GLASS BLANK FOR MAGNETIC DISK, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK, GLASS BLANK FOR MAGNETIC DISK, GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK, AND MAGNETIC DISK - To provide a method for manufacturing a glass blank for magnetic disk and a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for magnetic disk, which are capable of producing a glass blank for magnetic disk having a good surface waviness by press forming, and a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for magnetic disk. A method for manufacturing a glass blank for magnetic disk, which includes a forming process of press-forming a lump of molten glass using a pair of dies, wherein in the forming process, press forming is performed using thermally equalizing means for reducing a difference in temperature in the press forming surface of the die during pressing of the molten glass. | 11-28-2013 |
20130315047 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - An objective optical system for information recording/reproducing, at least one of optical surfaces of the objective optical system comprising a diffraction surface including a first region contributing to converging first, second and third beams and including a diffraction structure formed such that use diffraction orders for the first, second and third beams are 1st-orders and a condition 0.03<(λB | 11-28-2013 |
20130309602 | OPTICALLY SEMITRANSMISSIVE FILM, PHOTOMASK BLANK AND PHOTOMASK, AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING OPTICALLY SEMITRANSMISSIVE FILM - A photomask blank includes a transparent substrate and a film containing at least two layers formed on the transparent substrate, the two layers being a first layer with a phase difference Δθ | 11-21-2013 |
20130289396 | OCT PROBE - There is provided an OCT probe, comprising: a flexible tube; an optical fiber that transmits object light and is supported in the flexible tube to be able to freely rotate about an axis of the optical fiber; an objective optical system that is fixed to a tip of the optical fiber and includes a condensing optical system which condenses the object light emerging from the optical fiber, and a deflection optical element which irradiates a subject with the object light by deflecting the condensed object light; and a barycenter adjustment member that is fixed to the objective optical system and causes a combined barycenter of the objective optical system and the barycenter adjustment member to be situated on the axis of the optical fiber. | 10-31-2013 |
20130288878 | OPTICAL GLASS - A high-refractivity low-dispersion optical glass that can be stably supplied and has excellent glass stability and that has coloring reduced, composed of in mass %, 5 to 32% of total of SiO | 10-31-2013 |
20130287881 | IMPRINT MOLD FOR MANUFACTURING BIT-PATTERNED MEDIUM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - There is provided an imprint mold for manufacturing a bit-patterned medium with an imprint method, wherein dot-shaped protrusions are formed on a main surface of a substrate, so as to be a base of a magnetic material region in the bit-patterned medium, with the dot-shaped protrusions formed at a specific cycle in a specific direction on the main surface of the substrate, wherein the dot-shaped protrusions are formed by being surrounded by lattice-shaped grooves formed by shaving the main surface of the substrate and making a plurality of continuous planar view line-shaped grooves cross each other; and a width of each line-shaped groove is smaller than a width of each dot-shaped protrusion in the specific cycle. | 10-31-2013 |
20130280646 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A mask blank for use in the manufacture of a binary mask adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light has, on a transparent substrate, a light-shielding film for forming a transfer pattern. The light-shielding film has a laminated structure of a lower layer and an upper layer and has an optical density of 2.8 or more for exposure light and a thickness of 45 nm or less. The lower layer is made of a material in which the total content of a transition metal and silicon is 90 at % or more, and has a thickness of 30 nm or more. The upper layer has a thickness of 3 nm or more and 6 nm or less. The phase difference between exposure light transmitted through the light-shielding film and exposure light transmitted in air for a distance equal to the thickness of the light-shielding film is 30 degrees or less. | 10-24-2013 |
20130279018 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - A zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, and a positive fifth lens group. Upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the distance between the first and second lens groups increases, and the distance between the second and third lens groups decreases. The following conditions are satisfied: | 10-24-2013 |
20130278785 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group, which constitutes part of an imaging optical system, at a fixed position with respect to an optical axis direction, wherein the front lens group includes a front lens element and a reflector and the reflector reflects light rays exiting from the front lens element; a movable lens group provided closer to the image plane side than the front lens group and movable along the optical axis; a support member which supports the reflector; a movable frame which supports the front lens element and is supported by the support member to be movable along a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the front lens element; and a driver which drives the movable frame in the plane, in accordance with vibrations applied to the photographing optical system, to reduce image shake. | 10-24-2013 |
20130273738 | MASK BLANK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a method of manufacturing a mask blank that is improved in cleaning resistance to ozone cleaning or the like, thus capable of preventing degradation of the mask performance due to the cleaning. The method is for manufacturing a mask blank having, on a substrate, a thin film which is formed at its surface with an antireflection layer made of a material containing a transition metal, and carries out a treatment of causing a highly concentrated ozone gas with a concentration of 50 to 100 vol % to act on the antireflection layer to thereby form a surface modified layer comprising a strong oxide film containing an oxide of the transition metal at a surface of the antireflection layer. | 10-17-2013 |
20130267056 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRON MULTIPLIER SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRON MULTIPLIER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF RADIATION DETECTOR - An underlayer is formed on a side wall | 10-10-2013 |
20130260642 | METHOD OF EDGING A SPECTACLE LENS, SPECTACLE LENS EDGING SYSTEM AND SPECTACLE LENS EDGING PROGRAM - A controller | 10-03-2013 |
20130260641 | METHOD OF CALCULATING CIRCUMFERENCE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPECTACLE LENS, CIRCUMFERENCE CALCULATING DEVICE AND CIRCUMFERENCE CALCULATING PROGRAM - There is provided a circumference calculating device including an expected shape specifying part | 10-03-2013 |
20130260180 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium having a high level of cleanness and superior smoothness. The manufacturing method includes a step for washing a disk-shaped glass plate with an acid washing liquid, a step for removing at least part of a surface layer, which is formed on the surface of the glass plate, by performing grinding with diamond abrasion grains, and a step for washing the surface with a neutral or alkaline washing liquid. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260027 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC DISK - Provided are: a method for manufacturing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk by using an alternative abrasive having the same polishing performance as cerium oxide, which has conventionally been used as an abrasive for polishing principal faces of glass substrates for magnetic disks; and a method for manufacturing a magnetic disk. At the time of polishing a principal face of a magnetic disk glass substrate by using a slurry, the disclosure employs a slurry containing: an abrasive made of granular zirconia; a first additive including a phosphate and/or a sulfonate; and a second additive including a re-aggregation inhibitor. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258173 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF ROTATIONAL ANGLE POSITION OF POLARIZED LIGHT FILTER - A photographing device includes a photographing optical system having an image sensor, a polarizing filter which rotates about an optical axis of the photographing optical system and is positioned in an optical path thereof, a rotation driver which preliminarily rotates the polarizing filter at a predetermined cycle pattern, a detector which detects an object luminance signal of object-emanating light transmitting through the polarizing filter and captured by the image sensor when the polarizing filter preliminarily rotates the polarizing filter at the predetermined cycle pattern, a signal generator which generates a rotation control signal by eliminating any frequency component of a cycle pattern that is different from the predetermined cycle pattern from the object luminance signal, and a controller which controls a rotational angle position of the polarizing filter based on the rotation control signal generated by the signal generator. | 10-03-2013 |
20130253891 | SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION PROGRAM AND BINOCULAR VISION EXPERIENCING METHOD - A simulation is configured including: an image generation part configured to generate mutually different two images as an image which is viewed by right and left eyes respectively through a lens in a monovision prescription state, when a relation between a point spread function and a distance is set in a different state by wearing the lens in the monovision prescription state; and an image displayer configured to display the two different images generated by the image generation part individually for each of the right and left eyes of an examinee. | 09-26-2013 |
20130247619 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MOLD DIE, MOLD AND EYEGLASS LENS - A manufacturing method for a mold die comprising: making design data for a molding surface based on predetermined prescription information; creating the molding surface in accordance with the design data; specifying error amounts at first and second corresponding points defined on the created molding surface respectively corresponding first and second reference points; defining a first correction surface based on an error amount specified at the first corresponding point; of defining a second correction surface based on the first correction surface and an error amount specified at the second corresponding point, wherein the second correction surface has no power at the first corresponding point; combining a design surface by the design data, the first correction surface and the second correction surface, and corrects the design data based on combined data after the combining; and creating the molding surface in accordance with the corrected design data. | 09-26-2013 |
20130245635 | INTRAOCULAR LENS INSERTION INSTRUMENT - There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of easily positioning a circumference of an optical portion of an intraocular lens with respect to a distal end of a plunger. An intraocular lens insertion device | 09-19-2013 |
20130245554 | THERAPEUTIC INSTRUMENT AND ATTACHMENT THEREOF - There is provided a therapeutic instrument, for storing a sheet-type therapeutic substance to which a liquid is delivered, and delivering the stored therapeutic substance to an affected part, including: a nozzle member | 09-19-2013 |
20130242390 | DRIVE SYSTEM FOR ROTATABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT - A drive system includes a rotational driving member, a rotational driven member, to which a rotational resistance is applied, a holding member of a rotatable optical element supported by the rotational driving member and the rotational driven member, an insertion controller preventing the holding member from rotating when the holding member is in an inserted position, and a removal controller allowing the holding member to move to a fully removed position and prevents the holding member from rotating at a limited removed position. An insertion/removal operation of the holding member is performed by relative rotation between the rotational driving member and the rotational driven member, and when the holding member is prevented from rotating by the insertion controller and the removal controller, the rotational driven member and the holding member rotate with the rotational driving member about the optical axis. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242069 | SCANNING CONFOCAL ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A scanning confocal endoscope system is configured by: a point source that scans on a subject with excitation light by periodically moving in a two-dimensional plane; a point source control means that controls the point source so that irradiation density of the excitation light becomes smaller than or equal to predetermined density over a whole scanning area; a confocal pinhole arranged at a position conjugate with a converging point of the excitation light; an image signal detection means that detects an image signal by receiving fluorescence emitted from the subject being excited by the excitation light via the confocal pinhole; and an image generation means that generates a confocal image using the detected image signal. | 09-19-2013 |
20130236819 | THIN FILM EVALUATION METHOD, MASK BLANK, AND TRANSFER MASK - Provided is a thin film evaluation method for a transfer mask which is adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light and comprises a thin film formed with a pattern on a transparent substrate. The method includes intermittently irradiating pulsed laser light onto the thin film to thereby evaluate the irradiation durability of the thin film. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235336 | EYEGLASS LENS AND DESIGN METHOD, MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DESIGN SYSTEM FOR EYEGLASS LENS - An eyeglass lens, comprising: a hidden mark defining a predetermined reference point; and refractive portions arranged along a meridian extending substantially in a vertical direction via the predetermined reference point, and wherein the refractive portions comprises: a first refractive portion located on a lower side of the predetermined reference point and having a first refractive power; a second refractive portion located on an upper side of the predetermined reference point and having a second refractive power smaller than the first refractive power; and an intermediate refractive portion in which refractive power continuously decreases, and an aberration distribution in the first refractive portion is substantially symmetrical in a left and right direction with respect to the meridian extending in the vertical direction, and an aberration distribution in the second refractive portion is asymmetrical in the left and right direction with respect to the meridian shifted to an ear side. | 09-12-2013 |
20130234164 | SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE - There is provided a silicon carbide substrate composed of silicon carbide, including encapsulated regions inside, which form incoherent boundaries between the silicon carbide and the encapsulated regions, wherein propagation of stacking faults in the silicon carbide is blocked. | 09-12-2013 |
20130228797 | SILICON CARBIDE SUBSTRATE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide a silicon carbide substrate having at least one or more main surfaces, including: a plurality of encapsulated regions inside, wherein the plurality of encapsulated regions are distributed in a direction approximately parallel to one of the main surfaces, with each encapsulated region positioned at a distance of 100 nm or more and 100 μm or less from the main surfaces to inside a substrate, and each encapsulated region having a width of 100 nm or more and 100 μm or less in a direction parallel to the main surfaces. | 09-05-2013 |
20130226193 | OCULAR IMPLANT INSERTION APPARATUS AND METHODS - An exemplary ocular implant insertion system includes a case and a preloaded ocular implant insertion apparatus. The apparatus includes first and second movable structures that move the ocular implant in a predetermined sequence. The respective configurations of the case and the ocular implant insertion apparatus are such that the ocular implant insertion apparatus is not removable from the case when the ocular implant insertion apparatus is in the pre-use state and is removable after the first movable structure has moved at least a portion of the optical implant. | 08-29-2013 |
20130215382 | SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR WEARING SPECTACLES, A SIMULATION DEVICE FOR WEARING SPECTACLES AND A SIMULATION PROGRAM FOR WEARING SPECTACLES - It is provided that a simulation system for wearing spectacles, providing wearer with simulated-experience of an eye image capable of being observed in time of wearing a spectacle lens, comprising, a simulation image generating means of generating a simulation image reflected with a scaling of the eye image capable of being observed in time of wearing the spectacle lens, based on an aspherical component parameter being a basis of the scaling of the eye image capable of being observed in time of wearing spectacles with at least one of optical surfaces aspherical. | 08-22-2013 |
20130210604 | OPTICAL GLASS - An optical glass having high-refractivity and low-dispersion properties and containing, by mol %, 0.1 to 40% of SiO | 08-15-2013 |
20130209925 | MASK BLANK, REFLECTIVE MASK BLANK, PHOTOMASK, REFLECTIVE MASK, PHOTOMASK SET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a mask blank substrate having two main surfaces and four end faces, a central point is set on the main surface, a first axis of symmetry that passes through the central point and that is parallel to one of the end faces and a second axis of symmetry that passes through the central point and that is perpendicular to the first axis are respectively set, measurement points are set in the form of a grid with respect to the first and the second axes so as to measure heights of the main surface from a reference plane at the measurement points, respectively, differences each between measured height values at those measurement points located at positions axisymmetric with respect to the first axis are calculated. Those differences corresponding to at least 95% of the total number of the calculated differences between the measured height values are within a predetermined value. | 08-15-2013 |
20130207057 | FLUOROPHOSPHATE GLASS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND NEAR-INFRARED ABSORBING FILTER - To provide a fluorophosphates glass having a weather-resistant property and having an O | 08-15-2013 |
20130201562 | ANTIREFLECTIVE FILM AND OPTICAL ELEMENT - An antireflection film including an optical element, formed on an optical surface of an optical member, and is configured to prevent a reflection of a light beam incident on the optical surface, wherein a maximum reflectance P | 08-08-2013 |
20130197371 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A diagnostic system comprises a spectral image shooting means that shoots a spectral image within a predetermined wavelength range in a body cavity and obtains spectral image data, an image processing means that obtains the spectral image data and calculates an indicator indicating an area having a high possibility of a diseased portion from the spectral image data, and a monitor on which the indicator is displayed, and wherein the image processing means calculates, as the indicator, a ratio between an accumulated value of intensity values of all spectral images in the predetermined wavelength range and an intensity value of spectral images in a particular wavelength band, for each coordinate in the spectral image. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196077 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZING LENS - An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing lens, which comprises forming a polarizing layer by orienting and depositing a dichroic dye on a lens substrate; conducting an amino silane treatment by impregnating the polarizing layer with a solution of a silane coupling agent comprising an amino group; coating a waterborne resin composition comprising a polyether polyurethane resin and a water-based solvent on the polarizing layer following the amino silane treatment and then drying the waterborne resin composition to form a primer layer; and forming a cured coating by coating a curable composition on the primer layer that has been formed and then conducting a curing treatment. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194664 | POLARIZING LENS - An aspect of the present invention relates to a polarizing lens, which comprises a polarizing layer comprising a dichroic dye and a functional film in this order on a lens substrate, and further comprises a waterborne resin layer between the polarizing layer and the functional film as a layer adjacent to both the polarizing layer and functional film, wherein the waterborne resin layer is greater than 0.50 μm in thickness and has been formed by coating and drying a waterborne resin composition comprising a polyether polyurethane resin and a water-based solvent. | 08-01-2013 |
20130188262 | ZOOM LENS BARREL - A zoom lens barrel includes front and rear lens group support frames, a first spring member provided to bias the front lens group support frame and a diaphragm in directions away from each other, and a second spring member provided to bias the diaphragm and the rear lens group support frame in directions away from each other. Spring loads of the first and second spring members are determined such that, when the front and rear lens group support frames approach each other during zooming, one and the other of the first and second spring members are compressed and not compressed, and the other of the first and second spring members is compressed after the one of the first and second spring members is fully compressed. | 07-25-2013 |