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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129084 | PHOTOMASK BLANK AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AND PHOTOMASK PRODUCTION METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PRODUCTION METHOD A photomask blank which is capable of preventing static buildup caused by electron beam pattern drawing for forming a resist pattern. The photomask blank provides a good pattern accuracy through optimization of the dry etching rate along the depth direction of the shiel... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120107647 | GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM An aspect of the present invention relates to a glass substrate for a magnetic recording medium, which is comprised of glass comprising, denoted as molar percentages, 56 to 75 percent of SiO2, 1 to 11 percent of Al2O3, more than 0 percen... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105801 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING EYEGLASS LENS, METHOD FOR DESIGNING EYEGLASS LENS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EYEGLASS LENS An optical system is configured using a coordinate system such that an origin 1 is placed at a middle point of centers of rotations 1L and 1R of both eyeballs 10L and 10R, and an object is specified in a viewing direction from the orig... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105609 | BINOCULAR VISUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURING METHOD, BINOCULAR VISUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURING PROGRAM, EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN METHOD AND EYEGLASS LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD A binocular visual performance measuring method including: a parallax image displaying step of displaying left and right parallax images at a predetermined measurement start position on a display screen when a measurement item is designated; a parallax image changing st... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083401 | COVER GLASS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COVER GLASS The disclosed cover glass is produced by etching a glass substrate that has been formed by a down-drawing process, and chemically strengthening the glass substrate to provide the glass substrate with a compressive-stress layer on the principal surfaces thereof. The glas... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082924 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TRANSFER MASK, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A mask blank for use in the manufacture of a binary mask adapted to be applied with ArF excimer laser exposure light has, on a transparent substrate, a light-shielding film for forming a transfer pattern. The light-shielding film has a laminated structure of a lower lay... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081797 | IMAGING DEVICE An imaging device is provided with an imaging sensor having a rectangular imaging surface, an image-forming optical system for forming an image onto the imaging surface, and a prism disposed between the image-forming optical system and the imaging sensor for bending an ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081661 | EYEGLASS LENS EVALUATION METHOD, EYEGLASS LENS DESIGN METHOD, EYEGLASS LENS MANUFACTURING METHOD, EYEGLASS LENS MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, AND EYEGLASS LENS With respect to the evaluation of custom-made eyeglass lenses using a binocular visual acuity function, a measumrnet value including essentially at least one of or both of a positive relative convergence or a negative relative convergence of the positive relative conver... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071680 | SURFACE-MODIFIED ZIRCONIA NANOCRYSTAL PARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME The invention provides a surface-modified zirconia nanocrystal particle, wherein the surface of the zirconia nanoparticle is modified by organic sulfonyloxy groups, and a method of producing a zirconia nanocrystal particle whose surface is modified by carbonyloxy groups... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070381 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC COMPOSITION HAVING GELATION ABILITY Disclosed is a material for use in ophthalmologic organ replacement, which is transparent, has controllable physical properties, and can have physical properties suitable for use as an ophthalmic tissue when the hardness of a gel produced from the material or the fluida... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069451 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC IMAGING APPARATUS A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group and a positive third lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the distance between the first and second len... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053405 | FORCEPS TOOL FOR ENDOSCOPE A forceps tool for an endoscope is provided with a tube member, a support member secured to a distal end of the tube member, a support pin provided to the support member, a pair of forceps rotatably supported by the support pin, the pair of forceps being rotated about t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052275 | GLASS SUBSTRATE, CHEMICALLY STRENGTHENED GLASS SUBSTRATE AND COVER GLASS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTRUING THE SAME Provided is a cover glass having a down-drawable composition including, in mass percent: 50%-70% SiO2, 5%-20% Al2O3, 6%-20% Na2O, 0%-10% K2O, 0%-10% MgO, above 2%-20% CaO, and 0%-4.8% ZrO2 wherein, (i) 46... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050885 | MACRO LENS SYSTEM A macro lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a negative fourth lens group, in that order from the object. Upon focusing from an infinite photographic distance to a ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050864 | HIGH ZOOM-RATIO ZOOM LENS SYSTEM A high zoom-ratio zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group and a positive fourth lens group, in that order from the object side. Upon zooming from the short focal length extremity to the long focal ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050497 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR SHADING CORRECTION, AND IMAGING APPARATUS A shading correction apparatus, which includes a reception unit which receives left and right parallax images shot through a single imaging optical system, and a shading correction unit configured to execute different types of shading corrections respectively for the le... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044575 | RETROFOCUS WIDE-ANGLE LENS SYSTEM AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT PROVIDED WITH THE SAME A retrofocus wide-angle lens system is provided, wherein the entire the wide-angle lens system is divided at a position that satisfies the following condition (1) between a theoretical front lens group having a negative refractive power, and a theoretical rear lens grou... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044405 | FOCUSING IMAGE VERIFYING DEVICE An autofocus system is provided that includes a focus-verification image-recapturing processor and a focus-verification image display processor. The focus-verification image-recapturing processor sets ISO sensitivity to a value lower than a predetermined value and incre... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120037800 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD WITH X-RAY AND ITS USAGE An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of evaluating performance of a film-forming material for forming a functional film on an eyeglass lens substrate or a functional film formed by the use of the film-forming material. The performance to be evaluated i... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035044 | Optical glass, preform for precision press molding, optical element and method of manufacturing thereof An optical glass having a refractive index nd of 1.70 or greater and an Abbé number of 50 or greater. Given as mole percentages, it comprises: B2O3 (20 to 80 percent), SiO2 (0 to 30 percent), Li2O (1 to 25 percent)... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034434 | MASK BLANK, TRANSFER MASK, AND FILM DENSITY EVALUATION METHOD A relative density of a light-shielding film made of MoSi, which is given by relative density=(actual density/theoretical density)×100, is obtained using a density (actual density) calculated by an XRR method and a theoretical density obtained from a material compositi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120031305 | CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CEMENT COMPOSITION AND ITS KIT FOR BONE PROSTHESIS A calcium phosphate cement composition kit comprising (A) a powdery agent comprising 100 parts by mass of calcium phosphate powder, and 5-50 parts by mass of a powdery apatite/collagen composite, and (B) an aqueous blending liquid; a paste-like mixture being obtained by... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026183 | VISUAL FIELD IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR EYEGLASSES AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING VISUAL FIELD IMAGE FOR EYEGLASSES A visual field image display device for spectacles capable of displaying a retinal image by simulation corresponding to change even in visual line direction. A visual field image display device for spectacles adapted to display a retinal image seen when wearing a progre... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024195 | CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CEMENT COMPOSITION AND ITS KIT FOR BONE PROSTHESIS A calcium phosphate cement composition kit comprising (A) a powdery agent comprising (a) 100 parts by mass of calcium phosphate powder, and (b) 10-50 parts by mass of a powdery foaming agent comprising carbonate or hydrogen carbonate and a solid organic acid or its salt... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021892 | GLASS FOR USE AS SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND THEIR PRODUCTION METHODS According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is glass for use in substrate for information recording medium, which comprises, denoted as molar percentages, a total of 70 to 85 percent of SiO2 and Al2O3, where SiO2 01/26/2012 | |
| 20120021677 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC DISK, AND POLISHING APPARATUS OF GLASS SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK A method of manufacturing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk having polishing accuracy on an inner circumferential end face of the substrate, and reduced thermal asperities. An inner circumferential end face of a cylindrical polishing object 12, comprising a p... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110280115 | TILT ANGLE ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS A method for adjusting a tilt angle of an objective lens with respect to one of a multilayer optical disc having a plurality of recording layers and an optical axis of an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, wherein a use wavelength λ and a numerical ap... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120021135 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING EYEGLASS LENS An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an eyeglass lens comprising a primer layer and a hardcoat layer in this order on a substrate, which comprises coating a waterborne resin composition in which a resin component is dispersed or dissol... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020198 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for an optical disc using a light beam having a wavelength of λ including: an objective lens that converges the light beam onto a recording surface of the optical disc and satisfies a condition: | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110277508 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF GLASS BLANK FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING GLASS SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC RECORDING GLASS SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM Provided is a method of manufacturing a glass blank for a magnetic recording medium glass substrate, including: manufacturing a glass blank by at least press molding a falling molten glass gob with a pair of press molds both so as to face each other in a direction perpe... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274826 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZING MEMBER An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing member comprising forming a polarizing film by coating a dichroic dye-containing solution on an orienting layer, preparing an epoxy group-containing silane coupling agent solution b... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110268874 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POLARIZING MEMBER An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing member comprising: forming a polarizing film by coating a dichroic dye-containing solution on a substrate; subjecting the polarizing film that has been formed to a treatment to immobili... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262847 | MASK BLANK PROVIDING SYSTEM, MASK BLANK PROVIDING METHOD, MASK BLANK TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING METHOD, MASK BLANK MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND MASK MANUFACTURING METHOD A mask blank manufacturing department manufactures a mask blank by forming a thin film to be a mask pattern on a mask blank transparent substrate. When providing the mask blank to a mask manufacturing department, the mask blank manufacturing department provides optical ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120015286 | MASK BLANK SUBSTRATE, MASK BLANK, PHOTOMASK, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A mask blank substrate for a photomask is chucked on a mask stage of an exposure apparatus. A main surface, on the side where a thin film for a transfer pattern is to be formed, of the mask blank substrate has a flatness of 0.3 μm or less in a 142 mm square area includ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015111 | DYED PLASTIC LENS FABRICATION METHOD Provided is a process for producing a dyed plastic lens in accordance with which in accordance with which deformation and change in the color of the plastic lens can be suppressed and a plastic lens having a refractive index of 1.7 or greater and, in particular, a refra... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013030 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROGRESSIVE POWER EYEGLASS LENS The present invention provides a method for producing a progressive-addition plastic lens having a prism thinning applied thereto without cutting and polishing. The method comprises: a lens molding die forming step of forming a lens molding... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008089 | METHOD OF COMPILING SHAPE DATA OF A SPECTACLE LENS, SPECTACLE LENS SHAPE DATA COMPILING DEVICE AND SPECTACLE LENS A spectacle lens capable of obtaining a good vision without feeling of discomfort, even being fitted into a frame having a large front angle, and a method of creating the shape data of the spectacle lens having dioptric power to be fitted into a frame having a lens fron... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008040 | EXPOSURE CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC CAMERA HAVING THE SAME An exposure control device including a control unit configured to set a shutter speed and an aperture using a predetermined program chart based an exposure value calculated through photometry, an ISO sensitivity setting unit configured to set at least one of an upper li... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007261 | MOLD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLASTIC LENS A mold 1 includes a mold assembly 2 and an injection aid member 3 attached to the mold assembly. The mold assembly 2 includes a first mold 21 and a second mold 22 which are opposed to each other, a tape member 23 connecti... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002306 | SCREW-MOUNT LENS BARREL A screw-mount lens barrel includes a screw mount cylinder which is screw-engaged with a screw mount of a camera body, a shift ring which is rotatably supported by the screw mount cylinder to be coaxial therewith, a lens barrel body which supports an optical system and i... | 01/05/2012 |
