Hoya Lens Thailand Ltd.

Hoya Corporation

Pentax Corporation

Prsym, Inc.

Prysm, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Shohei Matsuoka

Yuki Iguchi

Hiroyuki Mukaiyama

Takashi Iizuka

Masashi Nakamura

Shogo Okamoto

Tatsuro Hino

Shinichiro Yoshida

Kohei Egashira

Ken Agatsuma

Hironobu Ogura

Provided are a spectacle lens and a technique associated therewith, wherein, when λ is a wavelength, r is a ratio of a total area of defocus regions to an overall area in plan view of a portion in which a plurality of defocus regions are provided in the spectacle lens, w is an amount of progression of a wavefront in each of the defocus regions relative to a base region, an average value of cos (2πw/λ) in one defocus region is obtained in each of the plurality of defocus regions, c(λ) is a gross average of the plurality of average values, an average value of sin (2πw/λ) in one defocus region is obtained in each of the plurality of defocus regions, s(λ) is a gross average of the plurality of average values, and f(λ) is equal to {1−r+r·c(λ)}+{s(λ)}, a sign of {f(λ×1.01)−f(λ)} is inverted at least once when the wavelength λ is increased within a range of 0.45 μm≤λ≤0.65 μm.

Spectacle lens and design method thereof

Provided is an eyeglass lens including: a first region formed such that light transmitted therethrough is focused at a predetermined position in an eye; and a plurality of second regions formed such that light transmitted therethrough is focused at a position defocused from the predetermined position, wherein the plurality of second regions are formed to have a size and an arrangement interval such that light perceived in peripheral vision is perceived as pseudo-focusing at a position other than the predetermined position.

Eyeglass lens

Provided is an ophthalmological lens configured to provide a near-sightedness progression suppression effect using a monochromatic aberration of a pencil that is a bundle of rays passing through the ophthalmological lens and passing through a pupil, the ophthalmological lens including a wavelength filter for attenuating light of a long wavelength longer than a set dominant wavelength, and technology related thereto.

Ophthalmological lens

Provided are an ophthalmic lens and a technique related thereto, the ophthalmic lens including two lens elementsandhaving powers with different signs, in which when the Abbe number (e-line reference) of the lens elementhaving a power with a smaller absolute value is ν, and the Abbe number (e-line reference) of the other lens elementis ν, Formula 1 below is satisfied, andν<ν  (Formula 1)

Ophthalmic lens

A technology that makes a change in the amount of aberration in a spectacle lens worn by wearer relative to a change in at least one of the aberration in the eye or spectacle lens. A method for designing a spectacle lens wherein, when a degree of change caused by a physical feature of wearer in at least one of an aberration distribution of an eye of wearer and an aberration distribution of a spectacle lens worn by the wearer is large, a spectacle lens that has an aberration distribution of which rotational asymmetry is weak in a region having a predetermined width and a center at any point on a main meridian of the spectacle lens is obtained as a design solution, and when the degree of the change is small, a spectacle lens of which rotational asymmetry is strong in the region is obtained as a design solution.

Method for designing spectacle lens, method for manufacturing spectacle lens, and system for designing spectacle lens

A spectacle lens according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the arrangement of the dot portions is non-uniform. A spectacle lens according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a lens body; and a contrast adjustment section provided on or in the lens body and including a dot-portion group in which dot portions are arranged, wherein the dot-portion group includes dot portions each having an aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the length in the short-axis direction to the length in the long-axis direction in the plan-view shape, of less than 1.

Spectacle lens

In the rotating electric machine, a first terminal and a second terminal extend from two of the slots and a third terminal extends from one of the slots, which is located between the two slots. The first terminal and the second terminal are connected to each other with use of a bus bar. The bus bar has: a first end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the first terminal; a second end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the second terminal; and an interconnecting portion configured to couple the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, which is arranged in the circumferential direction on the stator core side of the first end portion and the second end portion so as to pass on the slot side of the third terminal.

Rotating electric machine

A two-dimensional scanning projector causing a light beam to scan in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, comprising: a first deflector which deflects the light beam in the first direction; and a scanning optical system arranged between the first deflector and a scanned surface, wherein the first deflector is arranged such that a rotation axis of the first deflector is inclined, in a plane including an optical axis of the scanning optical system and the second direction, by a first angle with respect to the second direction, and the light beam is incident on the first deflector such that, in the plane including the optical axis and the second direction, a chief ray of the light beam entering a center of a projected image is obliquely incident on the first deflector to form a second angle with respect to the optical axis.

Two-dimensional scanning projector

A multibeam scanning device, comprising: a plurality of first optical systems, each of the plurality of optical systems including a light source unit configured to emit a non-collimated light beam, and an optical element having a predetermined power and having an optical effect on the laser beam; a second optical system arranged on a downstream side of the plurality of first optical systems, including a first deflector on which light beams emitted by the plurality of first optical systems are incident, the first deflector being to deflect the laser beams, and a common optical system configured to change degree of divergence of each of the plurality of light beams; and an optical path shifting system configured to translate an incident optical path of the light beam which is emitted by the light source and incident on the optical element is provided.

Multibeam scanning device

A multibeam scanning device, comprising: a plurality of first optical systems, each of the plurality of optical systems including a light source unit configured to emit a non-collimated light beam, and an optical element having a predetermined power and having an optical effect on the laser beam; a second optical system arranged on a downstream side of the plurality of first optical systems, including a first deflector on which light beams emitted by the plurality of first optical systems are incident, the first deflector being to deflect the laser beams, and a common optical system configured to change degree of divergence of each of the plurality of light beams; and an optical path shifting system configured to translate an incident optical path of the light beam which is emitted by the light source and incident on the optical element, wherein all the light beams incident on the first deflector are incident on the first deflector at substantially the same position, and wherein the optical elements are arranged such that optical axes of the optical elements intersect at a position spaced from the optical element by a distance equal to a focal length of the optical element.

A scanning optical device includes at least one light source unit for emitting a light beam, a first deflector for deflecting the emitted light beam in an auxiliary scanning direction, a condensing optical system for generating an intermediate image of the light beam deflected by the first deflector, a collecting optical system for condensing a light beam diverged from the generated intermediate image, a second deflector for deflecting the condensed light beam in a main-scanning direction, and a scanning optical system for scanning the surface to be scanned with the light beam deflected by the second deflector. The condensing optical system has an f-&#x3b8; characteristic, the collecting optical system has an f-sin &#x3b8; characteristic, and the scanning optical system has an f-sin &#x3b8; characteristic.

Scanning optical device

A scanning optical device that scans a light beam through a relay optical system, the relay optical system comprising: front group lenses arranged at a light source side; rear group lenses arranged at a side of a surface to be scanned; and first and second mirrors arranged between the front group lenses and the rear group lenses and supported by a common supporting member, wherein a normal vector of a mirror surface of the first mirror makes an angle (180&#x2212;&#x3c9;) with an incident optical axis from the front group lenses, a normal vector of the second mirror makes an angle &#x3b1; (&#x3b1;&#x2260;180&#xd7;m) with the normal vector of the first mirror, and the supporting member includes a mechanism being linearly movable in a direction which makes an angle (&#x3c9;&#x2212;&#x3b1;+90) with the normal vector of the first mirror.

A multi-beam scanning optical system configured to scan a plurality of laser beams on a scanned surface in a predetermined scanning direction includes a light source emitting a plurality of laser beams from respective laser emitters spaced from each other in the predetermined scanning direction, a diverging property changing element changing a diverging property of each of the emitted laser beams, a deflector configured to be sine-functionally oscillated and to deflect each of the laser beams with the diverging property thereof as changed so as to scan each of the laser beams on the scanned surface in the predetermined scanning direction, and a scanning speed controlling element configured to control a scanning speed at which each of the laser beams deflected by the deflector is scanned on the scanned surface. The multi-beam scanning optical system is configured to satisfy a predetermined condition.

Multi-beam scanning optical system

A scanning optical system configured to scan laser light on a scanned surface in a scanning direction, includes a light source emitting the laser light, a converging element converging the emitted laser light in the predetermined scanning direction, a deflector deflecting the converged laser light to scan the laser light on the scanned surface, and a scanning speed controlling element controlling the deflected laser light to be scanned at a constant scanning speed. The scanning optical system is configured to satisfy predetermined conditions.

Scanning optical system

In a reflective scanning optical system employing an imaging optical system having a curved mirror with a rotationally symmetrical reflecting surface configuration, the change in magnification of the imaging optical system in the auxiliary scanning direction is reduced and thereby the beam spot diameter on the scan target surface is equalized, as well as equalizing the scan line interval on the scan target surface when the system is applied to a multibeam scanning optical system. The imaging optical system of the reflective scanning optical system includes a curved mirror with a rotationally symmetrical reflecting surface and a lens having an anamorphic lens surface configuration on its one side. In the anamorphic lens surface configuration, slope and curvature of the line of intersection of the lens surface and a plane parallel to the auxiliary scanning cross section change independently of each other as the position in the main scanning direction changes.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shohei Matsuoka