Patents Assigned to TopRay Technologies, Inc.
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Publication number: 20150116828Abstract: An anti-shake lens driving apparatus is provided, including a lens carrier, for carrying at least a lens set; a magnet module, disposed on the outer surroundings of the lens carrier for pushing the lens carrier; a suspension part, further including an upper suspension resilient element and a lower suspension resilient element, the upper and lower suspension resilient elements respectively including a fixed part, a movable part and at least a suspension element; the at least a suspension element connecting the fixed part and the movable part; the fixed part being fixed to an upper cover and a base; the movable part being fixed to the upper and lower part of the lens carrier respectively; and the upper cover and the base being disposed respectively at the upper and lower part of the magnet module and the suspension part for providing protection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Yi-Jung CHEN
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Patent number: 8291442Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator is provided, including an object lens holder hanged by a set of wires forming suspended object. A focus coil set is fixed to object lens holder and placed surrounding focus and track shared magnet set. The focus coil located between object lens holder and focus and track shared magnet set is within magnetic field of focus and track shared magnet set. The focus coil located between tilt magnet set and magnetic field of focus and track shared magnet set is within the effective field of tilt magnet set and focus and track shared magnet set due to shielding effect of the yoke protruding plates. When a current runs through focus coil, a magnetic force in the focus direction is induced simultaneously within the range of tilt magnet set and focus and track shared magnet set so that object lens holder can focus.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Kai Chang, Ping-Ju Chang
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Publication number: 20120170440Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator is provided, including a movable part and a base part. The movable part further includes at least an object lens, an object lens holder, a wire set, a first focus coil set, a second focus coil, a tilt coil set, and a track coil set. The object lens is placed inside object lens holder. One end of the wire set is fixed to object lens holder, and the other end is fixed to the base part so that the wire set is like a suspending wire set for hanging the object lens holder. The base part further includes a focus magnet set, a track magnet set and a tilt and focus shared magnet. The first focus coil set is located to correspond to focus magnet set, and the track coil set is located to correspond to the track magnet set, a second focus coil and a tile coil set in side-by-side layout are located to correspond to the tilt and focus shared magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Kai Chang, Ping-Ju Chang
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Patent number: 7880869Abstract: A calibration apparatus and method for optical system assembly is provided, applicable to a finite conjugate optical system to determine the optimal image-forming positions of the light source and the focus object lens of the finite conjugate optical system. The apparatus includes an external light source, a low magnification image-forming optical system, an electrical control system and a monitor. When the parallel beam generated by the external light source is parallel to the optical axis of the finite conjugate optical system, the low magnification image-forming optical system is used to magnify the two focal spots formed by the external light source and the internal light source of the finite conjugate optical system to be calibrated. Finally, by adjusting the related position of the focus object lens or the internal light source of the finite conjugate optical system, the optimal relative positions between the light source and the focus object lens of the finite conjugate optical system can be found.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Min Yang, Wei-Chih Lu
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Patent number: 7872951Abstract: An actuator capable of providing movement forces in a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction is provided. The actuator includes two sets of repelling permanent magnets and yokes, a focusing coil, a tracking coil, and a tilting coil. The repelling and attractive fields generated by the permanent magnets enable the coils to generate independent movements in three axial directions. The two sets of permanent magnets are placed in a repelling position, with a small space between the two magnets to generate a field whose magnetic forces repel and attract within the surrounding range. The focusing, tilting and tracking coils are engaged with the lens holder whose movements in the first, second and third directions are determined by the amplitude and direction of the electric current in the focusing, tilting and tracking coils respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: TopRay Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chin-Sung Liu, Chang-Ming Tsai
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Patent number: 7519286Abstract: An apparatus of auto-focusing is provided, including an outer holder, a wire set, a magnet set and an inner-holder. The magnet set is fixed at the corners inside the outer-holder. The inner-holder is a hollow cylinder surrounded by a coil. The wire set is connected to the top and the bottom ends of the outer-holder. The other end of the wire set is connected to the outer circumference of the inner-holder. Therefore, the inner-holder is a hanging moveable component, which can move vertically when the electrical current flows through the coil to achieve the object of auto-focusing.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yu-Fen Chung, Tsung-Kai Chang, Chin-Sung Liu
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Patent number: 7492537Abstract: A focus driving apparatus with impact resistance is provided, including a lens carrier seat, a fixed base, a hanging element set, and a shake-resistant element set. The lens carrier seat is for carrying a lens. The hanging element set further includes a plurality of metal wires. The shake-resistant element set includes at least a soft resilient plate. One end of the metal wires of hanging element set is fixed to the lens carrier seat, and the other end penetrates the holes on the soft and resilient plate on the fixed base and is fixed to the shake-resistant element set. The shake-resistant element set can absorb the external impact force by deformation to provide protection to the hanging element set and lens carrier seat.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Kai Chang, Yi-Jung Chen, Chin-Sung Liu
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Patent number: 7486594Abstract: An adjustable optical actuator with tilting function is provided, including two focusing coils, a tilting coil, and two tracking coils. A lens holder is hanged on a yoke base. The focusing coils are placed on the two sides of the lens holder, and the current in the focusing coils is perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens. The tilting coil is placed on the lens holder, and the current in the tilting coil is perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens. The tracking coils are placed on the lens holder, and the current in the tracking coils is parallel to the optical axis of the lens. Four magnets are placed on the yoke base so that the four magnets are placed at the four corners of the lens holder to generate a closed magnetic-flux. The lens holder, focusing coils, tilting coil, and tracking coils are within the scope of the magnetic-flux generated by the four magnets so that the actuator has the functions of focusing, tracking and tilting for adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: TopRay Technologies Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Kai Chang, Chien-Kuo Chen, Pao-Heng Shen
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Patent number: 7457062Abstract: A driving apparatus for fine-tuning focus is provided, including a movable structure suspended inside an outer holder by a suspension set. The suspension set is connected to the movable structure and the outer holder respectively so that the movable structure is suspended inside the outer holder, and can move inside the outer holder. With a magnet force generated by the interaction of the magnetic field of said first magnet set and said second magnet set of said outer holder, and the electrical current in said first coils and said second coils of said movable structure, the magnet force is able to drive the movable structure upward and downward to adjust the focus.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Kai Chang, Wen-Sheng Tai, Chin-Sung Liu, Yi-Jung Chen
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Patent number: 7418721Abstract: An aligning and clipping apparatus for slot-in CD/DVD players/ROM to load different size discs is provided, including a base, a tray, at least two moveable clipping elements, at least two ejection elements, and an auxiliary clipping element. Two clipping elements are installed at the front end of the tray for loading and clipping the disc. The auxiliary clipping element is on the top of the base for improving the stability of the clipping. The ejection elements are at the two sides of the rear end of the tray for ejecting the clipping of the disc so that the disc is in the position for data reading and writing. To achieve the function for clipping different size discs, the moveable clipping elements are placed at a specific angle and a specific curvature. Therefore, the different size discs can be clipped and held.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: TopRay Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chin-Sung Liu, Chia-Hao Ou, Chun-Yao Wang
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Patent number: 7358470Abstract: An optical pickup with a reflective coating device is provided, including a laser diode (LD), an optical element, and a photo detector integrated circuit (PDIC). The LD emits 1-3 lights with different wavelengths but the same polarization orientation. The beam transmits through the optical element set and focus on a recording media for data reading and writing. The beams are reflected by the recording media, through the optical element set, and detected by the PDIC for signal detection. The optical element set further includes a grating, a reflective coating device, and an objective lens. By using the reflective coating device to change the linear polarization orientation of the emitting light and the feedback light for 90° angle, the relative intensity noise caused by the feedback light in LD can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jinn-Kang Wang, Tsung-Min Yang
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Patent number: 7325243Abstract: The present invention discloses an electromagnetic driving device for an object lens of an optical pickup. The electromagnetic driving device comprises an object lens, a lens bearing seat, a focusing coil, a tracking coil, an auxiliary magnetic device, a base, a plurality of elastomers, and a top cover. The object lens, focusing coil, and tracking coil are fixed to the lens-bearing seat. The auxiliary magnetic device comprises a plurality of magnets fixed to the base. Each of the elastomers is attached to the lens-bearing seat and has an end fixed to the base. By utilizing electromagnetic forces generated by the coils and the auxiliary magnetic device, the object lens is moved to correct tracking deviations and focusing aberrations. The present invention enhances a utilization of the coils, which in turn improves a response time, and sensitivity of the electromagnetic driving device so that the optical pickup can be used in a high-speed optical recording device.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: TopRay Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kirin Chang, Dop Chen