Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
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Patent number: 11833965Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Donnelly CorporationInventors: Keith D. Foote, Kevin P. Benthem, Niall R. Lynam
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Patent number: 11837852Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBHInventor: Daniel Konig
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Patent number: 11828971Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Toru Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11824417Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: JAHWA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Je Seung Yeon, Jung Min Son, Hyo Jo Jeong, Min Gyu Suh, Myung Gyun Son
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Patent number: 11822056Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng, Yu-Chun Ke, Kuo-Jui Wang, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
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Patent number: 11808928Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi Zhang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
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Patent number: 11803031Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wen Sun, Jia Chen
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Patent number: 11796776Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Kosuke Machida
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Patent number: 11789249Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Hori, Kazuya Shimomura
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Patent number: 11782191Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) LimitedInventors: Qiming Li, Yuankun Zhu, Shuang Zhao
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Patent number: 11782193Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Tristan Thomas Trutna
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Patent number: 11782189Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: WuHan TianMa Micro-electronics CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiwei He, Yangzhao Ma, Zhiqiang Xia, Ruiyuan Zhou
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Patent number: 11774715Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.Inventor: Rong-Shun Syu
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Patent number: 11774733Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Daiki Kawamura, Taiga Noda
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Patent number: 11768349Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
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Patent number: 11762130Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Katherine Marie Smyth, John M. Cooke, Andrew John Ouderkirk
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Patent number: 11762177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenta Sudo
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Patent number: 11754800Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Ji Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11747605Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Molecular Devices, LLCInventors: Matthew Chan, Steven Luke
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Patent number: 11740426Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Koji Miyasaka, Jin Uemura, Gousuke Yoshida, Kosuke Takayama