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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 11/00 (2006.01); C03B 23/00 (2006.01); C03B 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 11/005 (2013.01); C03B 2215/66 (2013.01); C03B 2215/86 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for manufacturing a glass optical element includes: a heating unit that heats a glass material; a pressurizing unit that pressurizes the glass material; a cooling unit that cools the glass material; a molding room in which the heating unit, the pressurizing unit, and the cooling unit are located; an inert-gas supplying unit that forms a plurality of flows of an inert gas within the molding room by blowing the inert gas in a plurality of directions crossing each other; and an inert-gas emitting unit that emits, from within the molding room, the inert gas supplied into the molding room by the inert-gas supplying unit.