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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Daigo Hirata, Otsuki, JP;
Koji Miyake, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Nakahama, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Seki, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing an optical element, the method including: heating an optical element material by suspending it in a gas; supplying the heated optical element material from a direction which intersects a central axis interconnecting centers of a first mold and a second mold to a space between molds in a non-contact state, the space between molds being a space between the first mold and the second mold; pressurizing the optical element material supplied to the space between molds by the first mold and the second mold; and cooling the pressurized optical element material.