Patents Examined by Kuei-Jen L Edenfield
  • Patent number: 11994793
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera having one or more end stop bumpers. In some embodiments, the end stop bumper(s) may be at least partially disposed between a suspension platform of a camera and a lateral end stop defined by a stationary structure of the camera. The end stop bumper(s) may be configured to cushion movement of the suspension platform as the suspension platform approaches the lateral end stop. In some embodiments, the end stop bumper(s) may be part of a suspension spring structure coupled to the suspension platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Brad V. Johnson, Nicholas D. Smyth
  • Patent number: 11988812
    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, a seventh lens and an eighth lens, each of which has refractive power. Each of the first lens and the fourth lens has positive refractive power. The eighth lens has negative refractive power. An object-side surface of the third lens is a convex surface, and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface. An object-side surface of the fourth lens is a concave surface, and an image-side surface thereof is a convex surface. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens group, an effective focal length f2 of the second lens, and an effective focal length f3 of the third lens satisfy |f/f2|+|f/f3|<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Long Li, Saifeng Lyu
  • Patent number: 11982800
    Abstract: An optical system internally has an intermediate imaging position that is conjugated to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively. The optical system includes a magnification optical system having a first lens element and a second lens element positioned on the magnification side with respect to the intermediate imaging position; and a relay optical system having a plurality of lens elements, positioned on the reduction side with respect to the intermediate imaging position. The first lens element and the second lens element are positioned in this order from the magnification side, and the second lens element has a positive power. The optical system satisfies: 23<|f2/fw|<1000, wherein f2 is a focal length of the second lens element, and fw is a focal length of an entirety of the optical system at a wide-angle end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Qinghua Zhao
  • Patent number: 11960067
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a zoom lens group. The zoom lens group sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens group having a negative refractive power, the first lens group including a first lens and a second lens which are sequentially arranged along the optical axis; a second lens group having a positive refractive power, the second lens group including a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens which are sequentially arranged along the optical axis; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, a separation distance between the first lens group and the second lens group on the optical axis and a separation distance between the second lens group and the third lens group on the optical axis are adjusted, so as to switch the zoom lens group from a wide-angle state to a long-focus state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Gao, Kaiyuan Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11933952
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side, a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, and a positive fifth lens group. The first lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a first A lens group that does not move during focusing, a first B lens group that moves during focusing, and a first C lens group that does not move during focusing. During zooming, the first lens group and the fifth lens group do not move, and the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move. The fourth lens group includes a stop. The zoom lens satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Kawana
  • Patent number: 11914124
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical lens, and provides a zoom lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power; distances between adjacent lenses of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens or between the fourth lens and the fifth lens group vary in the direction of the optical axis; the fifth lens group including a fifth lens having a positive refractive power and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein the zoom lens satisfies conditions of: f_Tele/f_Wide>1.8; 10.00?D12_Wide/D12_Tele?20.00; and 15.00?d9_Wide/d9_Tele?22.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 11914123
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of optical lenses, and discloses a zoom lens. The zoom lens, being sequentially from an object side to an image side, includes a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power, when zooming, among the first lens, the second lens group, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens, a spacing in an optical axis direction of adjacent lenses or lens groups changes, the second lens group includes a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens having a negative positive power. During photographing, when an F number (FNO) of a wide-angle end is less than or equal to 2.0, the zoom lens becomes bright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 11867973
    Abstract: A varifocal lens includes a substrate having an inclined region, a primary electrode disposed over the inclined region of the substrate, a dielectric layer disposed over the primary electrode, a deformable membrane disposed over and at least partially spaced away from the dielectric layer, a secondary electrode disposed over a surface of the deformable membrane facing toward or away from the dielectric layer and overlying at least a portion of the primary electrode, and a fluid between the membrane and the substrate, wherein a surface of the dielectric layer facing the secondary electrode comprises a textured surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Renate Eva Klementine Landig, Christopher Stipe, Kenneth Diest, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Maik Andre Scheller, Sheng Ye, John Cooke, Yigit Menguc, Nagi Elabbasi, James Ransley
  • Patent number: 11841486
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a positive first lens group and a second lens group, which are continuous in order from the position closest to the object side, as lens groups. During focusing, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group changes. A stop is disposed closer to the image side than a lens which is second from the object side. A combined refractive power of all lenses closer to the object side than the stop is positive. The imaging lens includes an LA positive lens and an LB positive lens that satisfy a predetermined conditional expression at a position closer to the object side than the stop. An Abbe number of the LB positive lens is the maximum among Abbe numbers of all positive lenses closer to the object side than the stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Kawamura, Michio Cho
  • 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: 11635601
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group in order from an object side. In a case of magnification, the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group move. The third lens group consists of a third a lens group that does not move in a case of image shake correction, a third b lens group that moves in the case of the image shake correction, and a third c lens group that does not move in the case of the image shake correction in order from the object side. The third b lens group consists of a positive lens and a negative lens. A predetermined conditional expression related to the third b lens group is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoko Tomioka
  • Patent number: 11609365
    Abstract: A method of fabricating non-uniform gratings includes implanting different densities of ions into corresponding areas of a substrate, patterning, e.g., by lithography, a resist layer on the substrate, etching the substrate with the patterned resist layer, and then removing the resist layer from the substrate, leaving the substrate with at least one grating having non-uniform characteristics associated with the different densities of ions implanted in the areas. The method can further include using the substrate having the grating as a mold to fabricate a corresponding grating having corresponding non-uniform characteristics, e.g., by nanoimprint lithography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauro Melli, Christophe Peroz
  • Patent number: 11422329
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, sequentially from an object side toward an image side, a first lens group; an aperture stop; and a second lens group. The first lens group includes a negative lens; and a positive lens formed of a plastic lens. The second lens group includes a plastic lens and satisfies Conditional Expressions (1) and (2) as follows: c31a>c32a, and??(1) c31b<c32b,??(2) where c31a is an on-axis curvature of an object-side surface of the plastic lens of the second lens group, c32a is an on-axis curvature of an image-side surface of the plastic lens of the second lens group, c31b is an off-axis curvature of the object-side surface of the plastic lens of the second lens group, and c32b is an off-axis curvature of the image-side surface of the plastic lens of the second lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yukihisa Yokoyama