Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Teruhide Inoue

Koichi Sakaguchi

Kunihiro Nomiyama

Yukihito Nagashima

Junji Kurachi

Katsuhide Shimmo

Hirotaka Koyo

Yoshikazu Toshikiyo

Haruhiko Mamada

The present invention provides a glass composition that allows holes with a circular contour and a smooth inner wall to be formed by a collective micro-hole-forming process using a combination of modified portion formation by ultraviolet laser irradiation and etching, the glass composition being adapted for practical continuous production. The present invention relates to a glass for laser processing, the glass including a metal oxide serving as a coloring component, the glass having a glass composition including, in mol %: 45.0%&#x2264;SiO&#x2264;68.0%; 2.0%&#x2264;BO&#x2264;20.0%; 3.0%&#x2264;AlO&#x2264;20.0%; 0.1%&#x2264;TiO&#x2264;5.0%; and 0%&#x2264;ZnO&#x2264;9.0%, wherein a relationship of 0&#x2264;LiO+NaO+KO&#x3c;2.0% is satisfied.

Glass for laser processing and method for producing perforated glass using same

The present invention provides a glass composition that allows holes with a circular contour and a smooth inner wall to be formed by a collective micro-hole-forming process using a combination of modified portion formation by ultraviolet laser irradiation and etching, the glass composition being adapted for practical continuous production. The present invention relates to a glass for laser processing, the glass having a glass composition including, in mol %: 45.0%&#x2264;SiO&#x2264;70.0%; 2.0%&#x2264;BO&#x2264;20.0%; 3.0%&#x2264;AlO&#x2264;20.0%; 0.1%&#x2264;CuO&#x2264;2.0%; 0%&#x2264;TiO&#x2264;15.0%; and 0%&#x2264;ZnO&#x2264;9.0%, wherein a relationship of 0&#x2264;LiO+NaO+KO&#x3c;2.0% is satisfied.

An erecting equal-magnification lens array plate includes a stack of a first lens array plate provided with a plurality of first lenses arranged on a first surface and a plurality of second lenses arranged on a second surface, and a second lens array plate provided with a plurality of third lenses arranged on a third surface and a plurality of fourth lenses arranged on a fourth surface. The erecting equal-magnification lens array plate is provided with a first light shielding wall provided upright to surround the first lens, and a second light shielding wall provided upright to surround the fourth lens. An area on the first surface of the first lens array plate outside the effective region of the first lenses is roughened.

Erecting equal-magnification lens array plate, optical scanning unit, and image reading device

A clad glass composition that is excellent in devitrification resistance and that prevents the whole mother glass rod from devitrifying by preventing a core glass composition from devitrifying in forming a mother glass rod using a concentric crucible drawing method, is provided. The clad glass composition forms a clad of a mother glass rod for a gradient-index rod lens having a core/clad structure.

Clad glass composition and mother glass rod for gradient-index rod lens formed using the same, gradient-index rod lens and method of manufacturing the same, rod lens array, and image processor

A gradient-index rod lens is provided that is excellent in yield. The gradient-index rod lens has a core/clad structure and is obtained by providing a mother glass rod, which includes a core glass mother composition and a clad glass mother composition, with a refractive index distribution through ion exchange. The clad and the core each contains an alkali metal oxide but are substantially free from lead. The clad and the core each contains an alkali metal oxide and has a basic composition including components other than the alkali metal oxide, but they are different from each other in the basic composition. The clad glass mother composition has a higher thermal expansion coefficient and glass-transition temperature than those of the core glass mother composition. The difference of the thermal expansion coefficient between the clad glass mother composition and the core glass mother composition is larger than 2&#xd7;10/&#xb0; C. but smaller than 20&#xd7;10/&#xb0; C.

Gradient-index rod lens, and rod lens array and image processor using the same

It is an object of the present invention to provide a clad glass composition for graded-index rod lens for covering, during manufacturing, a preform glass composition lens of a graded-index rod lens that does not include PbO, in which the composition substantially does not include PbO, and expressed in mol % includes SiO: 45 to 65, NaO: 3 to 30, KO: 0 to 10, MgO: 0 to 15, BaO: 0 to 20, where NaO+KO: 3 to 35 and MgO+BaO: 0 to 25, and furthermore includes BO: 0 to 15, ZnO: 0 to 10, TiO: 0 to 10, YO: 0 to 7, ZrO: 0 to 7, NbO: 0 to 7, InO: 0 to 7, LaO: 0 to 7, TaO: 0 to 10, where BO+ZnO+TiO+YO+ZrO+NbO+InO+Lato 20, and a content of at least one of TiOand LaOis substantially 0 mol %.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Teruhide Inoue