Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 11833965
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element assembly. The mirror reflective element assembly includes a main reflective element backing plate and a main reflective element. The main reflective element includes a glass substrate having a mirror reflector coated at a surface thereof. The mirror reflector-coated glass substrate of the main reflective element is attached at the main reflective element backing plate. The mirror reflective element assembly includes an auxiliary reflective element backing plate and an auxiliary wide angle reflective element. The auxiliary wide angle reflective element is positioned on the auxiliary reflective element backing plate. The auxiliary reflective element backing plate is attached to the main reflective element backing plate via an attachment mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Donnelly Corporation
    Inventors: Keith D. Foote, Kevin P. Benthem, Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 11837852
    Abstract: A spark plug electrode includes an electrode tip that is attached to or formed on an electrode base so that the electrode tip is directly thermally coupled to a heat dissipating core through an opening in the electrode base. This direct thermal coupling may take place on a side surface of a ground electrode or a center electrode and removes thermal energy away from the electrode tip in order to reduce thermal and/or other stresses. The heat dissipating core may have one or more core extensions that diverge or branch off of a core main body and extend into the opening in the electrode base for better thermal coupling to the electrode tip. The electrode tip can be attached to the electrode base via welding or it can be formed on the electrode base using a suitable additive manufacturing process, such as a powder bed fusion technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Daniel Konig
  • Patent number: 11828971
    Abstract: A light-emitting module includes first and second light sources, first and second light guide parts, and a first light-modulating member. The first light guide part includes a first A-major surface, a first B-major surface, a first side surface positioned between the first A-major surface and the first B-major surface, and a first hole portion in which the first light source is disposed. The second light guide part includes a second A-major surface, a second B-major surface, a second side surface positioned between the second A-major surface and the second B-major surface, the second side surface facing the first side surface, and a second hole portion in which the second light source is disposed. The first light-modulating member is positioned at an upper side of the first A-major surface. The first light-modulating member overlaps the first A-major surface and the first side surface when viewed in top-view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Toru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11824417
    Abstract: An actuator with a multipolar magnet structure includes a carrier configured so that a lens is loaded thereon, the carrier being configured to linearly move along an optical axis direction, a housing configured to accommodate the carrier, a coil unit provided in the housing and having an n number of coils arranged along the optical axis direction in the same side of the housing, where n is a natural number of 2 or above, and a magnet mounted to the same side of the carrier to face the coil unit, the magnet having an n+1 number of magnetic poles facing the coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: JAHWA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je Seung Yeon, Jung Min Son, Hyo Jo Jeong, Min Gyu Suh, Myung Gyun Son
  • Patent number: 11822056
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. Each of the four lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one of all lens surfaces of the four lens elements is aspheric and has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng, Yu-Chun Ke, Kuo-Jui Wang, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 11808928
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a combined zoom dual-camera lens assembly, which includes a first lens group and a second lens group, wherein a field of view of the second lens group is larger than a field of view of the first lens group, and a thickness of the second lens group is smaller than a thickness of the first lens group; and a total effective focal length fT of the first lens group and a total effective focal length fW of the second lens group meet fT/fW>9.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11803031
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of optical lenses, and provides a camera optical lens, including, from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens. At least one of the first lens to the fifth lens has a free-form surface, and the camera optical lens satisfies: 0?R7; and R10?0, where R7 denotes a central curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens, and R10 denotes a central curvature radius of an image side surface of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens provided by the present invention satisfies design requirements of a long focal length and ultra-thinness while having excellent optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen Sun, Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 11796776
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a first intermediate lens group having positive refractive power, a second intermediate lens group having negative refractive power and a rear lens group; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the first intermediate lens group being varied, a distance between the first intermediate lens group and the second intermediate lens group being varied, and a distance between the second intermediate lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the rear lens group comprising at least one focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expressions being satisfied, thereby the focusing lens group(s) being reduced in weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Machida
  • Patent number: 11789249
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a subsequent unit including a plurality of lens units, The first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming. A distance between each pair of adjacent lens units changes in zooming. The subsequent unit includes, in order from the image side to the object side, a lens having a positive refractive power and configured not to move for zooming, a moving positive lens unit consisting of one or two lenses, having a positive refractive power, and configured to move in zooming, and a diaphragm configured to move in zooming. The diaphragm is closer to the object side at the wide-angle end than at the telephoto end. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura
  • Patent number: 11782191
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a display panel with an integrated micro-lens array. The display panel typically includes an array of mesas which includes an array of pixel light sources (e.g., LEDs) electrically coupled to corresponding pixel driver circuits (e.g., FETs). The array of micro-lenses is aligned to the mesas including the pixel light sources, and positioned to reduce the divergence of light produced by the pixel light sources. In some embodiments, the array of micro-lenses formed from a micro-lens material layer is formed directly on top of the mesas. The display panel may also include an integrated optical spacer formed from the same micro-lens material layer to maintain the positioning between the micro-lenses and pixel driver circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) Limited
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Yuankun Zhu, Shuang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11782193
    Abstract: A liquid lens structure has an adjustable and continuous range of optical power. The liquid lens structure comprises a substrate layer and a deformable membrane which enclose a volume of liquid. The substrate layer is at least partially transparent in the optical band. The deformable membrane comprises a ground layer, two membrane layers, and two conductive layers. Each of the two conductive layers control electrical voltage applied to one of the membrane layers in reference to the ground layer, wherein each membrane layer deforms in response to applied electrical voltage. The deformation of the two membrane layers adjusts a curvature of the deformable membrane which provides the adjustable continuous range of optical power to the liquid lens structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Tristan Thomas Trutna
  • Patent number: 11782189
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device including the display panel. The display panel has a display region including a first display region and a second display region, and the first display region has a smaller sub-pixel density than the second display region. Light-shielding structures are arranged in the first display region, and one light-shielding structure overlaps a light-emitting region of at least one first sub-pixel. The light-shielding structure group constituted by the light-shielding structures includes main and auxiliary light-shielding structures having the same shape. When viewed from the top at the same viewing angle, the auxiliary light-shielding structure is equivalent to a structure obtained by rotating the main light-shielding structure by a certain angle in a plane where the main light-shielding structure is located. With this design, a light diffraction phenomenon is alleviated and the imaging quality of the under-screen optical device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WuHan TianMa Micro-electronics CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiwei He, Yangzhao Ma, Zhiqiang Xia, Ruiyuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11774715
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The third lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an object side. The first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are arranged in order from the object side to the image side along an optical axis. The lens assembly satisfies the following condition: 3.5?R21/?8; wherein R21 is a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the second lens and f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Rong-Shun Syu
  • Patent number: 11774733
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, as lens groups, in order from the object side, only a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group having a negative power, a third lens group having a positive power, a fourth lens group having a negative power, and a fifth lens group having a positive power. An aperture stop is disposed between a lens surface closest to the image side in the second lens group and a lens surface closest to the object side in the fourth lens group. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Kawamura, Taiga Noda
  • Patent number: 11768349
    Abstract: A four-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lenses are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11762130
    Abstract: The disclosed optical lens assemblies may include a deformable element, a structural support element, and a compliant interface material that is disposed between and couples at least a portion of the deformable element and the structural support element. The deformable element may, when deformed, alter an optical property of the optical lens assembly. The compliant interface material may be configured to compensate for a difference between a physical property of the deformable element and the structural support element. Related head-mounted displays and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Katherine Marie Smyth, John M. Cooke, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Patent number: 11762177
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side, a positive first lens unit, a negative second lens unit, a positive third lens unit, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit, in which intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least two negative lenses and at least three positive lenses. An average value of partial dispersion ratios of two negative lenses having strongest refractive powers of the at least two negative lenses, an average value of partial dispersion ratios of three positive lenses having strongest refractive powers of the at least three positive lenses, an average value of Abbe numbers of the two negative lenses, an average value of Abbe numbers of the three positive lenses, a back focus, and a focal length of zoom lens at wide angle end are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Sudo
  • Patent number: 11754800
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base, a yoke coupled to the base, having an upper surface formed with a hole, a closed side surface, and an opened bottom surface, a bobbin movably installed in an inner portion of the yoke, a lens module coupled to the bobbin to go in and out the hole according to movement of the bobbin, a magnet fixed to an inner portion of the yoke, a coil fixed to an outer portion of the bobbin while facing the magnets, and springs coupled to the bobbin to provide restoration force to the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11747605
    Abstract: Microscope imaging system and method for bolus formation and detection. In an exemplary method, immersion fluid may be delivered onto a front end of an objective of the imaging system to form one or more boluses. Each bolus may have a rounded outer surface intersected by an optical axis defined by the objective. At least a portion of each bolus may be illuminated. Light may be detected from each illuminated bolus to create detection data. A value representing a size of each bolus may be determined using the detection data. Delivery of the immersion fluid may be adjusted, if needed, based on the value(s) determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Molecular Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Chan, Steven Luke
  • Patent number: 11740426
    Abstract: An optical element includes: a glass substrate; an optical function portion made of a resin; and a bonding portion that bonds the glass substrate and the optical function portion to each other. The bonding portion has a glass transition point of 85° C. or lower. The glass transition point of the bonding portion may be 50° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Jin Uemura, Gousuke Yoshida, Kosuke Takayama