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HOYA LENS CORP

Overview
  • Total Patents
    170
About

HOYA LENS CORP has a total of 170 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1976. It filed its patents most often in Australia, Germany and United Kingdom. Its main competitors in its focus markets optics, machines and macromolecular chemistry and polymers are SOLA INT HOLDINGS, OPHTHONIX INC and ESSILOR INT.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing HOYA LENS CORPs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Tarumi Niro 29
#2 Tsuchiya Makoto 27
#3 Kitani Akira 17
#4 Akaba Hayao 13
#5 Tsukamoto Akimichi 11
#6 Komiya Shigeo 11
#7 Yokoyama Yuichi 11
#8 Sugimura Mitsuo 11
#9 Masuhara Eiichi 9
#10 Yamashita Shinichi 8

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
AU547128B1 Screw-on nose pad for spectacles
GB8405051D0 Instrument for Discriminating Central Thicknesses of Lenses
AU2486184A Discriminating central thicknesses of lenses
AU2420484A Instrument for measuring edge thickness of lenses
AU1180283A Ophthalmic lens having a progressively variable focal power
EP0100381A1 Soft contact lens
BR8204395A Soft contact lens
NZ201382A Soft contact lens from methacrylate copolymer comprising at least one fluorine-containing monomer
CA1214899A Soft contact lens
AU530687B2 Soft contact lens
US4373076A Terpolymer with a high refractive index
AU7672181A Bisallyl carbonate terpolymer
CA1159194A Terpolymer with a high refractive index
DE3105100A1 Device for plunge-cutting an edge groove in a spectacle lens
NL8100609A Groove cutter for lens - has rotary diamond cutter with rotating lens holder holding lens at centre
GB2092489A Apparatus for cutting peripheral groove on spectacle lens
CA1155304A Apparatus for cutting peripheral groove on spectacle lens
AU522048B2 Electronic control fuel injection system
SE8100479L Device for cutting a peripheral groove in spectacle lenses
CA1141351A Calculating rule useful for making eyeglasses