Patents Examined by Evelyn A. Lester
  • Patent number: 11668901
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with high resolution which satisfies in well balance the low-profileness and the low F-number and properly corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having the positive refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens being double-sided aspheric lens and having a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of the sixth lens is an aspheric surface changing to the convex surface at a peripheral area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Koji Nitta, Yukio Sekine, Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11662551
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an imaging optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Jui Wang, Kuan Chun Wang, Hung-Shuo Chen, Jin Sen Wang, Syuan Ruei Lai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11650396
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group in order from an object side. All distances between adjacent lens groups change during zooming. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. Only the fourth lens group moves to an image side during focusing from a long range to a short range. Conditional Expression related to a distance from a lens surface of the first lens group closest to the object side to an image plane and a distance from a lens surface of the second lens group closest to the object side to the image plane is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Taiga Noda
  • Patent number: 11650395
    Abstract: A fixed focal imaging lens includes two lens sets and an aperture stop. One of the two lens sets is disposed between a magnified side and the aperture stop. The other one of the two lens sets is disposed between the aperture stop and a minified side. The lens set disposed between the magnified side and the aperture stop includes an aspheric lens and a compound lens, wherein the aspheric lens is a lens closest to the magnified side in the lens set, and the compound lens includes a plurality of lenses combined together. The lens set disposed between the aperture stop and the minified side includes a compound lens and an aspheric lens, wherein the compound lens includes a plurality of lenses combined together, and the aspheric lens is a lens closest to the minified side in the lens set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chia Lu, Ju-Hsin Yang
  • Patent number: 11640049
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a subsequent lens group in order from an object side. A focusing lens group closer to an image side than the first lens group moves during focusing. The first lens group consists of a first-a lens group and a first-b lens group in order from the object side. Assuming that an average of refractive indices of the negative lenses of the first-a lens group is Nd1ave, a focal length of the focusing lens group is ff, and a focal length of the first lens group is f1, Conditional Expression (1) of 1.73<Nd1ave<1.95 and Conditional Expression (2) of 1<|ff/f1|<3 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Daiki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11630283
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens is provided. The optical imaging lens includes sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a positive refractive power; a second lens with a negative refractive power; a third lens with a refractive power, an object side surface of the third lens being a convex surface, an image side surface of the third lens being a concave surface; a fourth lens with refractive power, an object side surface of the fourth lens being a convex surface, an image side surface of the fourth lens being a concave surface a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, an object side surface of the fifth lens being a convex surface, an image side surface of the fifth lens being a concave surface; and a sixth lens with a refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Weng, Mengna Tang, Jianke Wenren, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11604334
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a front lens group and a rear lens group. The front lens group includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a second lens having negative refractive power. The rear lens group includes a third lens having positive refractive power and a fourth lens having negative refractive power, wherein the third lens includes a convex surface facing an object side and another convex surface facing an image side and the fourth lens includes a concave surface facing the image side. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens are arranged in order from the object side to the image side along an optical axis. The lens assembly satisfies: 13.5 mm<f+f1<20 mm; wherein f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly and f1 is an effective focal length of the first lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Rong-Shun Syu
  • Patent number: 11592647
    Abstract: The application discloses an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens having a focal power; a diaphragm; a second lens having a focal power; a third lens having a focal power, and provided with an object-side surface and an image-side surface, the object-side surface is convex surface, the image-side surface is a concave surface; a fourth lens having a positive focal power, and provided with an object-side surface and an image-side surface, the object-side surface is a concave surface, the image-side surface is a convex surface; and a fifth lens having a negative focal power; at least one aspherical mirror surface is included in an object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the fifth lens; the optical imaging lens meets the following relational expressions: f/EPD<1.5, and 2 mm<ImgH*EPD/f<3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Qiqi Lou, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11586011
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and an eighth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the eight lens elements, the improved optical imaging lens may provide better imaging quality while the system length may be shortened, the F-number may be reduced, the field of view may be extended, and the image height may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chien Hsieh, Hai Lin, Qingzhi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11586012
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and an eighth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the eight lens elements, the improved optical imaging lens may provide better imaging quality while the system length of the lens may be shortened, the F-number may be reduced, the field of view may be extended, and the image height may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiayuan Zhang, Lanlan Zhang, Ou Zhou, Hung-Chien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11586022
    Abstract: A converter lens has negative refractive power, and is disposed on an image side of a master lens so that a focal length of an entire system becomes greater than a focal length of the master lens alone. The converter lens includes a first lens element closest to an object and a second lens element next to an image side of the first lens element with a space between the first lens element and the second lens element. A focal length of the converter lens, a focal length of an air lens formed by the first lens element and the second lens element, the shape of an image-side lens surface of the first lens element, and the shape of an object-side lens surface of the second lens element are determined as appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saito, Hiroki Ebe
  • Patent number: 11579420
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens includes a front group, an aperture, a rear group, and an infrared cut filter. The front group includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in order from a side closest to an object to an image side. In the wide-angle lens, an anti-reflection layer having a reflectance of 1.5% or less in a wavelength range from nm to 850 nm is provided on a lens surface of the first lens on the image side to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by light passing through a peripheral portion of the lens surface. Therefore, even if a film forming the anti-reflection layer is thinner than an appropriate value at the peripheral portion of the lens surface, the anti-reflection layer appropriately prevents reflection of light in a long wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11579406
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power and a convex object-side surface; a fifth lens having refractive power and a concave object-side surface; a sixth lens having refractive power; a seventh lens having refractive power; and an eighth lens having refractive power. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and half of a maximal field-of-view Semi-FOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: f*tan(Semi-FOV)>5.5 mm. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and an effective focal length f1 of the first lens satisfy: 0.5<f/f1<1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Nian Chen, Kaiyuan Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11579405
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens group including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens having reactive power. The first lens has positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface, and a concave image-side surface. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens group and half of a maximal field-of-view Semi-FOV of the optical imaging lens group satisfy: f*tan(Semi-FOV)>7.5 mm. A distance TTL along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of the optical imaging lens group and half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on the imaging plane of the optical imaging lens group satisfy: TTL/ImgH<1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventors: Fenglong Lu, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11579404
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth and six lens elements arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each of the lens element has a thickness along the optical axis. Two of thicknesses of the first to the fourth lens elements along the optical axis are the thickest and the second thickest among the abovementioned six lens elements, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingzhi Zhu, Jiali Lian, Chuanbo Dong
  • Patent number: 11579415
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly, including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element sequentially along an optical axis from a first side to a second side, is provided. The optical lens assembly satisfies the conditional expression of D34/D12?2.600. Furthermore, other optical lens assemblies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huabin Liao, Qingzhi Zhu, Jiayuan Zhang, Hung-Chien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11573398
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens group including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having positive refractive power with a convex object-side surface; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens group, an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical imaging lens group and half of a maximal field-of-view Semi-FOV of the optical imaging lens group satisfy: f/EPD<2, and f*tan(Semi-FOV)>4.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Biao Xu, Kaiyuan Zhang, Xiaofang Wang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11567294
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of a front group and a rear group in order from the object side to the image side. The front group includes, as lenses, in order from the object side to the image side, only a positive meniscus lens having a surface convex toward the object side, a first cemented lens having a negative power as a whole, and a second cemented lens having a positive power as a whole. In the first cemented lens, a positive lens and a negative lens are cemented in order from the object side, with a surface convex toward the object side and a surface concave toward the image side. The rear group includes a negative most image side lens having a surface concave toward the object side at a position closest to the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Akiko Nagahara
  • Patent number: 11550121
    Abstract: The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11550197
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for mitigating pinhole defects in optical devices such as electrochromic windows. One method mitigates a pinhole defect in an electrochromic device by identifying the site of the pinhole defect and obscuring the pinhole to make it less visually discernible. In some cases, the pinhole defect may be the result of mitigating a short-related defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin Friedman, Sridhar K. Kailasam, Rao Mulpuri, Ronald M. Parker, Ronald A. Powell, Anshu A. Pradhan, Robert T. Rozbicki, Vinod Khosla