With Support Patents (Class 359/811)
  • Patent number: 11029481
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens barrel, and a lens group having a first and second lenses. An image side surface of a first barrel wall includes a first planar surface, a first oblique surface obliquely extending from the first planar surface, and a second planar surface extending from the first oblique surface. An object side surface of a peripheral portion of the first lens includes a second oblique surface attached to the first oblique surface and a fourth planar surface attached to the second planar surface. An image side surface of the peripheral portion of the first lens includes a fifth planar surface, a third oblique surface obliquely extending from the fifth planar surface, and a sixth planar surface extending from the third oblique surface towards the optical axis. An object side surface of the second lens includes a seventh planar surface and a fourth oblique surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hailong Wang
  • Patent number: 11029482
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pressing ring and a lens module. The pressing ring includes an annular body; and first and second sheared edges formed on the annular body. The body includes an inner side wall around an optical axis and forming a light through hole, an object-side wall extending from an edge of the inner side wall in a direction facing away from optical axis, an image-side wall opposite to the object-side wall and extending from an edge of the inner side wall in a direction facing away from the optical axis, and an outer side wall extending from an edge of the object-side wall facing away from the inner side wall to the image-side wall. The object-side wall includes an abutting surface surrounding the inner side wall and connected to the inner side wall, and a glue-dispensing groove surrounding and connected to the abutting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hailong Wang
  • Patent number: 11029500
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens barrel and a lens group having a first second lenses. An image side surface of a first barrel wall includes a first planar surface, a first oblique surface extending towards the optical axis and towards the image side, and a second planar surface. An object side surface of a peripheral portion of the first lens includes a third planar surface attached to the first planar surface and a second oblique surface attached to the first oblique surface. An image side surface of the peripheral portion of the first lens includes a fifth planar surface, a third oblique surface extending towards the optical axis and towards the image side, and a sixth planar surface. An object side surface of the second lens includes a seventh planar surface attached to the fifth planar surface and a fourth oblique surface paced apart from the third oblique surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hailong Wang
  • Patent number: 11022777
    Abstract: A lens arrangement of a camera device includes a lens holder and a lens member, the lens member being slidingly received by the cavity by axial insertion of the lens member into the cavity such that the longitudinal lens holder axis coincides with the longitudinal lens member axis, wherein a locking force is applied by the locking member in a direction from the first lens holder surface section, the locking force being perpendicular to the plane, wherein the lens holder protrusion and the lens member protrusion are such aligned that the locking force applied by the locking member in the direction from the first lens holder surface section is applied to the first lens member surface section. The second lens member surface section engage the second lens holder surface section in response to the locking force applied to the first lens member surface section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Malte Bokvist, Jöns Danelius
  • Patent number: 11022774
    Abstract: A plastic barrel includes an object-end portion, an image-end portion, an inner tube portion and a plurality of protrusions. The object-end portion includes an outer object-end surface, an object-end hole and an inner annular object-end surface. One side of the inner annular object-end surface is connected to the outer object-end surface and surrounds the object-end hole. The image-end portion includes an outer image-end surface, an image-end opening and an inner annular image-end surface. The inner annular image-end surface is connected to the outer image-end surface and surrounds the image-end opening. The inner tube portion connects the object-end portion and the image-end portion and includes a plurality of inclined surfaces. The protrusions are disposed at least on one of the inner annular object-end surface, the inner annular image-end surface and the inclined surfaces, wherein the protrusions are regularly arranged around the central axis of the plastic barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Lin, Wei-Hung Weng, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10996421
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a lens having an optical portion and a flange portion at a periphery of the optical portion, a spacer having an incident hole through which light passes, and a lens barrel accommodating the lens and the spacer. The lens includes a first D-cut portion and a second D-cut portion formed on a side surface and another side surface of the flange portion in a state of non-contact with the lens barrel, and circular arc portions connecting the first and second D-cut portions to each other. The spacer includes blocking portions having a shape corresponding to a shape of the first and second D-cut portions, and first curved portions having a shape corresponding to a shape of the circular arc portions on an inner side surface, and transmission portions formed in locations in which the blocking portions and the first curved portions are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Shin Yang, Hwan Soo Park, Ju Sung Park, Sot Eum Seo
  • Patent number: 10928605
    Abstract: An adjustable optical lens and camera module and manufacturing method thereof are provided, wherein the camera module includes an optical sensor and an adjustable optical lens. The adjustable optical lens, which is arranged in a photosensitive path of the optical sensor, includes an optical structural member and at least two lenses. Each of the lens is arranged in an internal space of the optical structural member along an axial direction of the optical structural member, wherein before packaging the adjustable optical lens and the optical sensor, at least one position of the lens in the internal space of the optical structural member is able to be adjusted, so that a central axis line of the adjustable optical lens and a central axis line of the optical sensor are coincided, so as to improve the image quality of the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Bojie Zhao, Liang Ding, Chunmei Liu, Feifan Chen, Nan Guo, Heng Jiang
  • Patent number: 10908380
    Abstract: An inclination adjusting mechanism includes a first member that is attachable to a connection portion of a lens unit that is connectable to a lens barrel; a second member that faces the first member and that is attachable to a connection portion of the lens barrel that is connectable to the lens unit; contact members that are fixed to the first member, that protrude from the first member toward the second member, and that contact the second member; and adjusting/fixing members that are capable of adjusting an inclination of the first member relative to the second member and capable of fixing the first member to the second member. The second member has an inclined surface that the contact members contact, and each of the contact members has a curved surface that contacts the inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Sano, Kenji Okabe
  • Patent number: 10908420
    Abstract: An electronic device including an optical driving unit, a display unit configured to display image light formed by the optical driving unit to a user, a front frame configured to mount the optical driving unit and the display unit, a head unit selectively coupled to the front frame to be seated on a head of the user, and configured to form an electronic part, and a fastening module configured to fasten the head unit and the front frame, in which the fastening module includes a receiving part provided in the front frame, an insert part provided in the head unit and configured to be inserted into the receiving part to be fastened, and an elastic locking member provided in the receiving part to hold the fastening with a restoring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minjong Lee, Sunggyu Koh, Jongkyu Ju, Sanghyuk Im
  • Patent number: 10871386
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to the art of sensing articles typically moving on a conveyor. An apparatus is disclosed, for the purpose of securely attaching a sensing device to a sub-structure such as a sidepan metal sheet that contains a hole through which the sensing/detection device passes its sensing beam. A primary novelty of the apparatus is that it enables secure mounting of various ‘through-hole’ devices without the need for attaching any additional bracketry and without creating obstructions to package movement. It is unique in that it utilizes the “through-hole” which is necessary to allow passage of the sensing beam through the side guards of the conveyor, with the below-surface attachment being made possible by means of a tapered, or ‘sloping’ surface that is created when the hole is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Buntain
  • Patent number: 10809484
    Abstract: A lens module includes a first lens barrel and a first element. The first lens barrel includes a first outer wall and a plurality of first lenses, wherein the first lenses have an optical axis formed from an object side to an image side. The first element is configured to carry the first lens barrel and includes an outer circumferential portion, wherein the outer circumferential portion surrounds the optical axis and includes at least four barriers. The barriers form an accommodating space in which the first lens barrel is disposed. At least one of the barriers has an opening portion to expose the first outer wall of the first lens barrel. The first outer wall of the first lens barrel is not protruded from the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Guo-Quan Lin, Ming-Wei Shih
  • Patent number: 10802240
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes a lens frame that holds a lens, a rack provided pivotally with respect to the lens frame around a pivot shaft along an optical axis of the lens, a lead screw provided along the optical axis, a spring that makes the rack pivot around the pivot shaft, pushes the rack against the lead screw, and engages a tooth of the rack with a tooth of the lead screw, a driving unit that rotates the lead screw, and a nut that includes an end surface facing the rack along the optical axis with a gap C being included therebetween, that engages with the lead screw with backlash being included therebetween, and that is provided un-rotatably with respect to the lens frame. In a case where a half pitch of the tooth of the lead screw is A and the backlash along the optical axis between the lead screw and the nut is B, A>B+C is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Harada
  • Patent number: 10768306
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lens apparatus (6) for an optoelectronic sensor (1) of a motor vehicle, comprising a reception lens (8), comprising a support device (9), on which a rear side (10) of the reception lens (8) rests in parts, and comprising a fastening device (12), by means of which the reception lens (8) is held on the support device (9) with a spring force that acts in a first direction (z), wherein the fastening device (12) has a holding frame (15), which surrounds the reception lens (8) at least in parts, and at least one spring element (16), which supports the reception lens (8) in relation to the holding frame (15) in at least one second direction (x, y) that differs from the first direction (z).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald List, Werner Hartmann, Peter Horvath
  • Patent number: 10746960
    Abstract: A method of making a lens assembly is provided, including: providing a first plurality of lenses; providing a lens barrel; receiving the first plurality of lenses in the lens barrel; fixedly aligning the first plurality of lenses in the lens barrel; providing at least one additional lens having at least one degree of freedom of movement with respect to the first plurality of lenses; and fixing the at least one additional lens in a desired alignment position with respect to the first plurality of lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MEMS START, LLC
    Inventor: Roman Carlos Gutierrez
  • Patent number: 10727803
    Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration member that includes a substrate having a main surface on or in which a piezoelectric vibration member is mounted, a lid having a recess that is open so as to face the main surface and which includes a flange portion that projects outward from an opening edge of the recess, and a bonding layer that bonds the substrate and the lid together so as to hermetically seal the piezoelectric vibrator in a space between the recess and the main surface. The surface roughness of a side surface of the flange portion is greater than the surface roughness of the surface of the recess, and the bonding layer extends from the main surface of the substrate to the side surface of the flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Noto
  • Patent number: 10698173
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base formed at a center thereof with a first opening; a housing coupled with the base and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; a yoke installed on the base and including a horizontal plate having a third opening corresponding to the first opening and a vertical plate protruding upward from the horizontal plate; a bobbin movably installed in the yoke and coupled with a lens module; a coil fixedly disposed around the bobbin; a plurality of magnets provided at the vertical plate of the yoke to face the coil; and a spring installed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the yoke to return the bobbin, which has moved up due to interaction between the magnet and the coil, to its initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Sang Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 10690877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an to an optical device comprising a micro-optical system and a retainer, and to a method for producing an optical device. In the case of the device according to the invention, the micro-optical system (10) is fastened in such a way that the micro-optical system is oriented in relation to a surface (50) of the retainer (60). The device is characterized in that the retainer (60) has a round, tapered recess (40) and the micro-optical system (10) is fastened on a spherical cap (20) and the spherical cap (20) is fastened to the retainer (60), wherein the spherical cap (20) at least partially protrudes into the recess (40) and lies against a partial surface (30) of the recess (40) or an edge (41) in the recess (40), wherein the spherical cap (20) is fastened to the retainer (60) in the recess (40), but is not fastened where the spherical cap lies in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V.
    Inventors: Ahmad Ibrahim Bawamia, Christian Kuerbis, Andreas Wicht
  • Patent number: 10686293
    Abstract: A system for self-aligning assembly and packaging of semiconductor lasers allows reduction of time, cost and testing expenses for high power density systems. A laser package mounting system, such as a modified TO-can (transistor outline can), has modifications that increase heat transfer from the active laser to a heat exchanger or other heat sink. A prefabricated heat exchanger assembly mounts both a laser package and one or more lenses. Direct mounting of a fan assembly to the package further minimizes assembly steps. Components may be physically and optically aligned during assembly by clocking and other indexing means, so that the entire system is self-aligned and focused by the assembly process without requiting post-assembly adjustment. This system can lower costs and thereby enable the use of high powered semiconductor lasers in low cost, high volume production, such as consumer items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Seminex Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Bean, John J. Callahan
  • Patent number: 10684442
    Abstract: A camera lens module is provided, including a holder, a circuit, and an optical lens. The holder is integrally formed in one piece and forms an accommodation space. The circuit is disposed on the holder. The optical lens is disposed in the accommodation space and in contact with an inner surface of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Weng, Chen-Hsien Fan, Cheng-Kai Yu
  • Patent number: 10677743
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an inspection apparatus includes an irradiation mechanism, an imaging device, a movable mechanism, and a control processor. The irradiation mechanism irradiates an inspection target with light. The imaging device captures an image of the inspection target through a lens. The movable mechanism changes, with respect to an axis extending in an inspection direction for the inspection target, an angle between the lens and a horizontal plane or an angle between the imaging device and the horizontal plane such that a sample surface of the inspection target, a principal face of the lens, and an imaging face of the imaging device conform to the Scheimpflug principle. The control processor adjusts sensitivities in an image of the sample surface captured by the imaging device at different levels in the image depending on a position in a perpendicular direction to the inspection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Keitarou Suzuki, Osamu Nagano, Kouta Kameishi
  • Patent number: 10672487
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cells, each of which includes a charge storage layer, a first bit line that is connected to the first memory cell, and a second bit line that is connected to the second memory cell. A writing operation includes multiple loops of a programming operation and a verification operation, and first data is written in the first memory cell, and second data different from the first data is written in the second memory cell through the writing operation. In a first loop of the writing operation, a first voltage is applied to the first bit line and the second bit line is maintained in an electrically floating state during the programming operation, and a verification operation relating to the second data is not performed and a verification operation relating to the first data is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maejima, Koji Hosono, Tadashi Yasufuku, Noboru Shibata
  • Patent number: 10649172
    Abstract: A lens driving module for holding and moving a lens is provided, including a lens holder, a first electromagnetic driving assembly disposed on the lens holder, a base, a second electromagnetic driving assembly disposed on the base, and a first elastic member. The lens holder has an accommodating space and a first surface, and the lens is disposed in the accommodating space. The base has a connecting surface and a first contacting surface. The connecting surface and the first contacting surface are coplanar. The second electromagnetic driving assembly is adjacent to the first electromagnetic driving assembly, and the first elastic member is connected to the connecting surface and the lens holder. When the lens holder contacts the base, the first surface contacts the first contacting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Shou-Jen Liu, Chia-Hsiu Liu
  • Patent number: 10613443
    Abstract: An optical system for a lithography apparatus, having a first component, a second component, and an optical element, which is held between the first component and the second component with force-fit engagement and for this purpose is subjected to a clamping force. At least one of the components includes a bearing portion which contacts the optical element and which has a shape-memory alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Hartjes
  • Patent number: 10606020
    Abstract: A lens module, including: a lens barrel, a first lens group having at least one lens and accommodated in the lens barrel, a spacer provided at an end of the lens barrel close to an image side, and a second lens group having at least one lens and accommodated in the spacer, the lens barrel includes a first barrel wall forming a light aperture, a second barrel wall bending and extending from the first barrel wall, the lens barrel further includes a first inner wall and a first outer wall corresponding to the first inner wall, the spacer includes a second inner wall and a second outer wall corresponding to the second inner wall, the lens barrel is fitted and fixed with the spacer. The lens module provided by the present disclosure can be assembled section by section, which is more convenient and makes the module structure more stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 10551589
    Abstract: Using drive force from a voice coil motor constituted of an autofocus coil unit and an autofocus magnet unit, a lens drive device automatically carries out focusing by moving an autofocus movable unit, which includes the autofocus coil unit, with respect to an autofocus fixed unit, which includes the autofocus magnet unit, in the direction of an optical axis. The autofocus movable unit has a lens holder that holds the autofocus coil unit. The lens holder has a cut-out part recessed on the inside in the radial direction from the outer periphery of the holder, and a binding part that protrudes to the outside in the radial direction from the cut-out part and binds an end part of the autofocus coil unit. The tip of the binding part is positioned to the inside of the outer periphery of the holder in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Honma, Noriyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10545309
    Abstract: A solid immersion lens holder includes a first member having a first opening disposing a spherical face portion therein so that a part of the spherical face portion protrudes toward an objective lens side and a second member having a second opening disposing a contact portion therein so that a contact face protrudes toward a side opposite to the objective lens side. The first member includes three plate members disposed on the objective lens side with respect to the first opening. Each of the three plate members is provided with a protrusion portion capable of contacting the spherical face portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Terada, Ikuo Arata, Masataka Ikesu
  • Patent number: 10502396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for projecting a collimated beam of light from one or more light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventor: Rongshen Huang
  • Patent number: 10495841
    Abstract: A number of lenses are provided in a lens barrel along the optical axis direction, and two lenses, among the multiple lenses, are structured so that their inclination can be adjusted independently. Tilt adjustments for a lens frame of one lens, which is arranged on the opening side of the lens barrel in the optical axis direction, can be made through an opening of the lens barrel. The other lens frame of the other lens, which is arranged in the middle of the multiple lenses, is structured so that inclination adjustments can be made through throughholes that are provided to penetrate the peripheral surface of the lens barrel in the diameter direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yohsuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10495845
    Abstract: An optical unit, in particular a facet mirror unit, includes an optical element and a supporting device. The optical element has an optical surface, in particular an elongate optical surface, which defines a plane of main extension and a direction of main extension in the plane of main extension. The supporting device includes a supporting unit and an actuator unit. The actuator unit is configured for tilting the optical surface, in that a tilting moment is exerted on the optical element by way of the actuator unit. The tilting moment runs in an inclined manner in relation to the plane of main extension. The supporting unit is configured to predefine a tilting axis for the optical surface that lies substantially in the plane of main extension of the optical surface when there is tilting of the optical surface by the tilting moment of the actuator unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventor: Boaz Pnini-Mittler
  • Patent number: 10488019
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable round light spot torch, comprising a shell (1), a light source (2), and a control optical path (3), both the light source (2) and the control optical path (3) are arranged in the shell (1), the centres of the light source (2) and the control optical path (3) are on the same straight line, the control optical path (3) comprises a first light condensing group (31) and a second light condensing group (32) that are arranged in sequence, and the first light condensing group (31) is located between the light source (2) and the second light condensing group (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Inventor: Rongshen Huang
  • Patent number: 10481303
    Abstract: A convex fitting portion 30 is provided on a center side to protrude from a support portion 20, and thus, in an assembling process of joining the lens array 100 to another lens array and the like, the lens array 100 can be precisely positioned by being supported from behind. Furthermore, a fitting portion transfer surface 83c forming the convex fitting portion 30 forms a concave portion on the center side of a die at the time of molding of the lens array 100, and thus a volume of a glass droplet, that is, heat capacity is increased, which is advantageous from a viewpoint of making molding of the optical surfaces 11a and 12a stable and highly precise, and the problems such as breakage are less likely to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Sannokyou
  • Patent number: 10481361
    Abstract: A system includes a dome-shaped optical component having a substantially circular edge and a mounting base for the optical component. A recess is in an outer surface of the optical component. A projection on an inner surface of the mounting base and is configured to engage the recess. An adhesive material is between the optical component and the mounting base. The adhesive material forms an upper band and a lower band with a void between the upper band and the lower band. The void is positioned relative to the recess in the outer surface of the optical component such that a bending stress in the optical component at the recess is less than what the bending stress would be without the void. A heater is inside and thermally coupled to the optical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Qioptiq Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth David Ball
  • Patent number: 10473879
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens and a lens barrel accommodating the lens. A distance between an internal surface of the lens barrel and an optical axis varies in a circumferential direction of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Su Choi, Jong Ho Ahn, Young Suk Kang, Jae Won Kwak, Min Su Hwang
  • Patent number: 10444494
    Abstract: A lens apparatus according to the present invention includes: an optical unit capable of decentering adjustment in a direction orthogonal to an optical-axis; a fixed exterior unit on the outer peripheral side of the optical unit; a decentering absorption member contacting the inner periphery of the fixed exterior unit and permitting movement of the optical unit in the direction orthogonal to the optical-axis; a hold member holding the optical unit; and an adhesive positioned between the hold member and the decentering absorption member in the direction orthogonal to the optical-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Jun Sugita
  • Patent number: 10422932
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dual-molded circular optical element including an outer plastic peripheral portion and an inner sheet portion. The outer plastic peripheral portion locates at an outer annular surface of the circular optical element. The inner sheet portion is enclosed in the outer plastic peripheral portion, and the inner sheet portion forms a minimal central opening of the circular optical element. Two sides of the outer plastic peripheral portion are disposed with a flat plane, and each of the flat planes is perpendicular to a central axis of the circular optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ta Chou, Cheng-Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 10423056
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a plurality of light sources that light source elements which emit laser beams and collimator lenses which collect the laser beams emitted from the light source elements are combined therein. Pencils of light emitted from the light source elements are made to be collected in different collecting degrees between the light sources respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 10425563
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a first magnet, a housing, a bobbin, around which a coil is wound and which moves in a first direction in the housing, an upper elastic member disposed on upper surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member disposed under lower surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, and a damping member disposed between the upper or lower elastic member and the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son
  • Patent number: 10409026
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes a movable part, a plate spring that movably supports the movable part, a coil provided on the movable part, and magnets facing the coil. An outer portion of the movable part includes protrusion opposing parts where first restricting protrusion and second restricting protrusions face each other in an optical axis direction and non-opposing parts where the first restricting protrusion and the second restricting protrusions do not face each other in the optical axis direction, the coil is formed by winding a conductor wire around the outer portion in a circumferential direction and includes first coil portions positioned in the protrusion opposing parts and second coil portions positioned in at least some of the non-opposing parts, and the width of the second coil portions in the optical axis direction is greater than the width of the first coil portions in the optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inagaki, Hiroshi Osada, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Ken Okochi, Akiyoshi Sarudate
  • Patent number: 10406993
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a vehicle in which a vehicle-mounted camera is attached to a glass surface on a vehicle interior side of a window glass of a vehicle body, and includes a seat fixed to the glass surface and including a seat surface extending along a predetermined direction and preferably formed by machining, includes determining the predetermined direction on the basis of an inclination angle of the glass surface to set an optical axis direction of the vehicle-mounted camera in any direction. The method of manufacturing provides a vehicle-mounted camera that is low in costs and includes an optical axis with an angle which is easy to adjust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yushi Takehara
  • Patent number: 10401591
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus includes a holder, a metal cover, a carrier, a sensing magnet, a printed circuit board, a position sensor, a coil and at least one driving magnet. The metal cover is coupled with the holder and has an opening. The carrier is assembled to a lens assembly having an optical axis, wherein the carrier is disposed in the metal cover and is movable along a direction parallel to the optical axis. The sensing magnet is coupled with the carrier. The printed circuit board is disposed near to one of the four lateral sides of the holder. The position sensor is disposed on the printed circuit board and corresponds to the sensing magnet. The coil is disposed on an outer surface of the carrier. One of the driving magnet is disposed in the metal cover and corresponds to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN DIGITAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Te-Sheng Tseng, Wen-Hung Hsu, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10386616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method of fabricating a wafer level optical lens assembly. The method includes providing a wafer substrate having a plurality of lens shapes arranged side by side, and providing a spacer substrate having a plurality of spacer posts. The method further includes applying a first polymer liquid on a specific location chosen from the group of: (1) positions located on the wafer substrate between the plurality of lens shapes; (2) positions located on the contact surface of the spacer posts; and (3) a combination thereof. The method further includes contacting the wafer substrate with the spacer substrate such that the spacer posts force the first polymer liquid to flow towards the lens shapes, followed by curing the first polymer liquid, and applying a second polymer liquid onto the lens shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Anteryon Wafer Optics B.V.
    Inventors: Antonius Adrianus Maria Mouws, Edwin Maria Wolterink, Koen Gerard Demeyer
  • Patent number: 10365542
    Abstract: A lens barrel is detachably attached to a camera body, and includes an exterior unit, a rear frame, a tripod mount, and a tripod lock screw. The exterior unit includes an optical system. The rear frame is mounted to the exterior unit so as to be rotatable around an optical axis. An outer peripheral surface of the lens barrel is configured with the exterior unit and the rear frame. The tripod mount is provided on the rear frame to be fixed to a tripod. The tripod lock screw fixes a rotational position around the optical axis of the rear frame to the camera body at a predetermined rotational position, in a state in which the lens barrel is mounted to the camera body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumio Shinano, Tetsuya Morita, Hideaki Kawane
  • Patent number: 10359597
    Abstract: An optical system is provided, including a base, a first lens driving module and a second lens driving module. The first lens driving module includes a first holder, a first magnet, and a first coil corresponding to the first magnet, wherein the first holder is used to hold a first optical element and has a first side. The second lens driving module includes a second holder, a second magnet, and a second coil corresponding to the second magnet, wherein the second holder is used to hold a second optical element and has a second side. The first side is adjacent and parallel to the second side, and no magnet is disposed on the first side or second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Fu-Yuan Wu, Kuo-Chun Kao, Sin-Jhong Song
  • Patent number: 10338339
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens module. The lens module includes a lens barrel including a first barrel wall forming an optical aperture and a second barrel bending and extending from the first barrel wall. The second barrel wall includes a first inner wall and a first outer wall opposite to the first inner wall. One lens is arranged in the lens barrel, and the lens includes a side wall connecting an object side and an image side, a part of the side wall from the lens attaching to the first inner wall. A gap is formed between another part of the side wall and the first inner wall. A size of the part forming the gap between the side wall and the first inner wall along a direction of an optical axis accounts for at least one second of a total height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Jia Wan
  • Patent number: 10330464
    Abstract: A contactlessly measuring measuring system having a contactlessly measuring measuring device with a light transmitter portion and a light receiver portion, for determining the position of a tool or for determining the longest cutting edge of a rotating tool, wherein an optical lens arrangement for shaping and focusing a light beam from the light transmitter portion to the light receiver portion is associated with the light transmitter portion and/or the light receiver portion, the optical lens arrangement being accommodated in a lens mount, and the lens mount having an inner and an outer sleeve which in each case is cylindrical, at least in sections, and the lens arrangement is inserted into the inner sleeve, which is at least partially enclosed by the outer sleeve, and the lens mount together with the lens arrangement is accommodated in a wall of the light transmitter portion and/or of the light receiver portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: BLUM-NOVOTEST GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Dilger, Norbert Moersch, Gregor Maier
  • Patent number: 10271718
    Abstract: An image pickup unit includes: a focus switching type observation optical system including fixed lenses and a moving lens; fixed frames that hold the fixed lenses; a moving frame that is arranged to be movable back and forth in a direction along a photographing optical axis of the observation optical system and holds the moving lens; and a correction frame fixed in the fixed frames, configured to house the moving frame such that the moving frame can advance and retract, including a stopper that abuts the moving frame to restrict movement in one direction of the photographing optical axis, and being slightly adjustable to realize one of focal lengths of the observation optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Wataya, Akira Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 10267956
    Abstract: Structures for scattering light at multiple wavelengths are disclosed. Scattering elements are fabricated with different geometric dimensions and arrangements, to scatter or focus light at the same focal distance for each wavelength, or at different focal distances according to the desired application. Scattering elements can be circular or elliptical posts, allowing polarization dependent scattering. The elements can have different orientations to scatter light from multiple wavelengths at the desired focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ehsan Arbabi, Amir Arbabi, Andrei Faraon
  • Patent number: 10261225
    Abstract: A filter assembly includes a filter defining a light transmissive region for light of a specific wavelength range to pass therethrough, and a non-light transmissive first sheet body preformed and adhered to a surface of the filter. The first sheet body has a first opening with a shape conforming to that of the light transmissive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Limited, Lite-On Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Lung Lin, Gaowei Xie, Haichao Du
  • Patent number: 10261283
    Abstract: An optical lens including a lens barrel, a fixing ring, and at least one lens element is provided. A bonding surface is provided on an inner side of a periphery of an end of the lens barrel, and a plurality of micro-structures are disposed on the bonding surface in a ring-shaped arrangement. The micro-structures protrude from the bonding surface. The fixing ring is disposed inside the bonding surface of the lens barrel. The lens element is disposed inside the lens barrel. The micro-structures on the bonding surface and the fixing ring are dissolved by a solvent, so as to fix the lens element inside the lens barrel. An assembling method of the optical lens and a lens barrel are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Ming Lin, Yu-Ming Chen, Chia-Wei Chuang
  • Patent number: 10215953
    Abstract: An optical unit, in particular a facet mirror unit, includes an optical element and a supporting device. The optical element has an optical surface, in particular an elongate optical surface, which defines a plane of main extension and a direction of main extension in the plane of main extension. The supporting device includes a supporting unit and an actuator unit. The actuator unit is configured for tilting the optical surface, in that a tilting moment is exerted on the optical element by way of the actuator unit. The tilting moment runs in an inclined manner in relation to the plane of main extension. The supporting unit is configured to predefine a tilting axis for the optical surface that lies substantially in the plane of main extension of the optical surface when there is tilting of the optical surface by the tilting moment of the actuator unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventor: Boaz Pnini-Mittler