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Natsume Optical Corp. Company Profile

Location

Iida city, Nagano, Japan

188 employees

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Natsume Optical Corporation

Head Office, Plants

Head Office

Head Office

Plant 2 Plant 6 3

Technology Center

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In August 2005, we established our new Technology Center.

The state of the art facility was designed and constructed to accommodate the unique

Requirements of the breakthrough technology. Our Technology Center has been actively

conducting high-tech research and development.

Technology Center

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The Center daily tackles new technology challenges such as the research and

development of freeform optical elements with nano-level precision, as well as

the latest in other optical technology development.

(Environmental conditions: Temperature 23℃± 1℃, Humidity 50% ±10 %)

Zygo: VeriFire Asphere

History

Apr. 1947 Tetsuzo Natsume, honorary chairman, founded plating company, Iida Works, Ltd.

Mar. 1956 Iida Works changed company name to Natsume Optical Works.

Oct. 1967 NOW founded Tokyo Sales Office for metropolitan area.

May 1998 NOC established Tack Coat Corporation through joint investment with Sigma Koki.

Sep. 1999 Osaka Sales Branch was founded. The West Plant1 was built.

Dec. 2002 NOC established FLC through joint investment with three companies.

Jul. 2005 NOC founded new Technology Center.

Dec. 2005 NOC received ISO-9001: 2000

Jan. 2006 NOC received ISO-14001: 2004

Apr. 2009 Yoshiharu Natsume was designated as President.

Tadahisa Miyashita was appointed as Chairman.

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Organization

President

Yoshiharu Natsume

R ＆D Dept.

Kunihiko Hosoe

QA and Business

Planning Dept.

Kunihiko Hosoe

Manufacturing

Dept.

Kunihiko Hosoe

Sales Dept.

Syoji Hirasawa

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Ball Lens Team Cylindrical / Rod

Lens Team

Spherical Lens

Team

Prism / Cone

Lens Team

Technology Evolution

1950 1963 1970 1997 1999 2005 1975

Technology Center

・Started ultra-precision

processing

・Started processing

crystal glass (CaF2)

Business Domain Changed.

Plating → Lens

Development started.

1963: Spherical Lens

1970: Ball Lens

1975: Rod Lens

1976: Cylindrical Lens

1977: Cone Lens

Ball Lens Rod Lens

Cylindrical

Cone Lens

2005: TC was

founded.

Established Tack

Coat Corp.

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Quality

Zygo: VeriFire Asphere

Trioptics: OptiCentric

Panasonic: UA3P-5

Zygo: New View

Natsume has installed the world standard measurement

apparatuses, and quality assurance system for high-

precision products is well established.

3D Measuring Machines

Centering Microscope

Autocollimator (Nikon)

Spectrometer (Nikon)

Spherometer

Interferometer

Non-contact Measuring System (OGP)

Centering Measurement (Trioptics)

Ultra Accuracy 3-D Profilometer (Panasonic)

Form Talysurf （Taylor Hobson)

3D surface profiler (Zygo)

OptiCentric Cementing Station (Trioptics)

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Products

Mf Lens

Ball Lens

Spherical Lens

Aspherical Lens

Rod Lens

Cylindrical Lens

Drum Lens

Prism Lens

Axicon Lens

Window / Filter

Coating

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Micro Optics

Micro half-cut ball lens

Material : Ordinary glasses, silica

Standard: R 0.6 ～ 3mm

Micro Prism

Material : Ordinary glasses, silica

Standard: 0.5mm

Micro spherical lens

Material : Ordinary glasses, silica

Minimum Dia. Φ0.6,

Minimum radius 0.45mm

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OptiCentric Cementing Station

High Precision Lens

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PV 50nm

X axis

Tactile measurement

PV 40nm

Aspherical Lens Mechanical Parts

Homogenizer Micro Cylindrical

Lens Array

Axicon

NOC offers axicons

with a wide variety of angles and diameters.

Measuring machine:

3D Measuring

machine(Mitutoyo)

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Fly-eye Lens

NOC also provides

high-accuracy integrated micro

cylindrical lens arrays.

Measuring machine:

UA3P(Panasonic)

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A-Cylinder

You can purchase

lenses from 1 pc which

will be produced by

MRF(Magnetorheologi

cal Finishing).

Aspherical lenses are

also available.

Measuring machine:

VeriFire, New View

(Zygo)

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Microlenses

Micro lenses for the

endoscopes and

MEMS technologies.

Measuring machine:

OptiCentric,

Prism Master

(TriOptics)

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