Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tochigi Canon Co., Inc.

Susumu Itoh

Osamu Kamiya

Nozomu Kitagishi

Nobuyuki Sekimura

Keiji Hirabayashi

Mitsuharu Sawamura

Shoichi Shimura

Hideo Ukuda

Noriko Kurihara

Takuo Okuno

Hideyuki Hatakeyama

Keiko Ikoma

Sayoko Amano

Keijiro Nishida

Keiziro Nishida

Kathuhiro Konno

Disclosed herein is an anti-fogging coating formed on the surface of an optical substrate, wherein the anti-fogging coating comprises a water-absorbing film and a porous film in the order near to the surface of the substrate.

Anti-fogging coating and optical part using the same

A cardlike optical recording medium comprises a substrate, a recording layer and a protective layer, wherein an ultra-hard film containing a carbon atom is provided at least on the side of said optical recording medium on which a laser beam for writing-reproducing is irradiated.

Cardlike optical recording medium

A vibration wave motor including a vibration member having electro-mechanico-converting elements and generating a vibration wave in response to an electric field being applied to the electro-mechanico-converting elements. Also provided is a moving member contacting the vibration member and frictionally driven by the vibration wave generated in the vibratory member. The materials of the portions of the vibratory member and the moving member that contact each other are selected from combinations of hard alumite material and super-hard material.

Vibration wave motor

An ink jet recording head comprises a photosensitive hardened resin film formed on a substrate to form at least portions of an ink path and an ink reservoir and a cover for the ink path and the ink reservoir. The cover has a recess formed in a portion thereof facing the ink reservoir.

Ink jet recording head

In the single lens reflex camera whose movable mirror for reflecting light from the photographic lens to the finder is made partly half-mirrored to give a portion of the light to the photosensitive element, the finder is provided with a focusing screen of high diffusing property, the movable mirror having a half-mirrored portion at the center of the entire area with the surrounding area being made perfectly reflective is provided with a pattern of finely divided areas some of which are half-mirrored and the others of which are perfectly reflective in gradually varying area ratios in a boundary area between the central and surrounding areas, and a mask is provided on the back surface of the movable mirror for shutting off the passed light through the finely divided area pattern.

Single lens reflex camera

An achromatized beam splitter of a low polarization comprising a transparent first prism, a transparent second prism and a thin film group provided between the first prism and the second prism. The thin film group comprises, in succession from the first prism to the second prism, a first dielectric material thin film layer provided on the inclined surface of the first prism which first layer is a mixture of titanium oxide and zirconium oxide, a metal thin film layer provided on the first dielectric material thin film layer which metal layer consists of silver, and a second dielectric material thin film layer provided on the metal thin film layer which second layer is a mixture of titanium oxide and zirconium oxide. The second dielectric material thin film layer has a film thickness substantially equal to that of the first dielectric material thin film layer.

Achromatized beam splitter of low polarization

A reflecting mirror which is composed of a reflecting silver layer formed on a surface of a glass base body and a protective layer being made of alloy consisting of copper and tin being formed on said reflecting silver layer. Since the reflecting layer is protected by a protective layer, this reflecting mirror has corrosion resistance.

Reflecting mirror

A coating for reducing unwanted reflection off a surface of a substrate. The coating is made up of an inner layer, and outer layer subsequently deposited in that order from the substrate, at least one of these layers being an inhomogeneous layer having a moderate distribution of refractive index in the direction of thickness. Desired different gradients of the refractive index distribution are effected by the superposition of sublayers of materials having a high index of refraction and a low index of refraction deposited by vacuum evaporation one upon the other and having different combinations of thicknesses thereof.

Anti-reflection coating having pseudo-inhomogeneous layers

Three-layer anti-reflection coatings consisting of first, second and third layers, respectively positioned from a glass base plate. The optical film thickness of the first layer and the second layer is one-half of a designed wavelength while that of the third layer is one-fourth of the same. And the relationship among the refractive index of each layer is second layer (n.sub.2) glass (n.sub.g) first layer (n.sub.1) third layer (n.sub.3). The first layer is made of a mixture of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and ZrO.sub.2.

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Tokyo, Japan

Susumu Itoh