Mitutoyo Corporation

Kazuki Kitagawa

Tatsuya Nagahama

Kenji Okabe

Gyokubu Cho

Seiji Shimokawa

Takahisa Ootake

The present invention includes a plurality of lenses that are disposed such that optical axes are aligned in an axial direction, a first lens frame that holds a first lens of the plurality of lenses, and a second lens frame that holds a second lens of the plurality of lenses. The first lens frame comes into contact with the second lens frame and is disposed on one side of the second lens frame in the axial direction. The second lens frame includes a penetration hole penetrating the second lens frame from the other side in the axial direction to the one side in the axial direction. Air is suctioned and discharged via the penetration hole such that the first lens frame and the second lens frame are temporarily fixed through vacuum adsorption.

Lens apparatus

An imaging system includes: an image forming device that obtains image information of an object with the focal length to the object being changed by a variable focal length lens in an optical system, so as to form an all-focused image of the object; a sensor device that detects variations in the surface level of the object in a focus direction; and a position adjustment device that adjusts the position of the object in the focus direction in accordance with the surface level variations of the object detected by the sensor device. The position adjustment device adjusts the position of the object in the focus direction in such a manner that the surface level of the object becomes closer to the center of a variable focal length range of the variable focal length lens.

Imaging system and imaging method

An optical pickup device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a light source that outputs a light beam; an irradiation optical system that projects onto a measurement target the light beam outputted from the light source; an imaging optical system that converges and images the light beam reflected by the measurement target; a light receiving part that receives the light beam imaged by the imaging optical system; and a peak separation part that when the light beams reflected by a first surface and a second surface of the measurement target are assumed to be a first reflected beam and a second reflected beam, separates peaks of light intensity of the first and second reflected beams with respect to a distance between the irradiation optical system and the measurement target in the light receiving part.

Optical pickup device

An autofocus device including: an optical source; an optical unit that allows emitted light from the optical source and object light from a measurement target to pass through the same optical path, the optical unit being arranged between the optical source and the measurement target; and a detection unit that performs focus detection by using the object light passed through the optical unit. The optical unit includes: a tube lens that forms the emitted light into parallel light; an image forming unit that forms a continuous line image on a surface of the measurement target; and a rotation unit that rotates the continuous line.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kazuki Kitagawa