Patents Examined by Alicia M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 11899169
    Abstract: Provided is a lens assembly including a first lens array including a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens array including a second lens having negative refractive power, and a third lens array including a third lens having negative refractive power, wherein the first lens array, the second lens array, and the third lens array are sequentially provided from an object side toward an image sensor side, wherein the first lens has a biconvex shape that is convex toward the object side and convex toward the image sensor side, and wherein each of the second lens and the third lens has a meniscus shape that is convex toward the image sensor side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11899177
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. One or more lenses among the first to fifth lenses are formed using a glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Hui Ko
  • Patent number: 11890983
    Abstract: An optical axis adjustment device for a headlamp unit to be mounted in a vehicle is configured to adjust an optical axis of the headlamp unit. The optical axis adjustment device includes an engine temperature acquirer, a displacement amount calculator, and an optical axis adjuster. The engine temperature acquirer is configured to acquire a temperature in an engine compartment of the vehicle. The displacement amount calculator is configured to calculate a displacement amount of the optical axis on a basis of the acquired temperature. The optical axis adjuster is configured to adjust the optical axis of the headlamp unit on a basis of the calculated displacement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentarou Yamasaki, Noriaki Asano
  • Patent number: 11884202
    Abstract: A laser-based fiber-coupled white light system is provided. The system includes a laser device comprising a gallium and nitrogen containing emitting region having an output facet configured to output a laser emission with a first wavelength ranging from 385 nm to 495 nm. The system further includes a phosphor member to receive the laser emission in a range of angles of incidence to a spot on a primary surface with a size greater than 5 ?m. The phosphor member converts the laser emission with the first wavelength to a phosphor emission with a second wavelength in either reflective or transmissive mode and mixed at least partially with laser emission to produce a white light emission. Additionally, the system includes a fiber coupled to the phosphor member to capture the white light emission to deliver the white light emission to a remote lighthead or distribute the white light emission directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Rudy, James W. Raring, Eric Goutain
  • Patent number: 11886040
    Abstract: The imaging lens includes only eight lenses consisting of, in order from an object side, a negative first lens, a negative second lens, a positive third lens convex toward an image side, a positive fourth lens convex toward an object side, a negative fifth lens, a positive sixth lens convex toward the image side, a positive seventh lens convex toward the object side, and a negative eighth lens, as lenses having refractive powers, in which predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Asami
  • Patent number: 11885997
    Abstract: A light guide for a virtual image device to guide and emit image light output from an image display element to display a virtual image. The light guide includes a light-guide member and an optical member. The light-guide member includes an incidence portion to receive the image light and an exit portion to emit the image light to an outside, and a reflective portion inclined relative to the incidence portion to guide the image light received by the incidence portion into the light guide. The light-guide member also includes an extraction portion including first planes each inclined relative to the exit portion and second planes each parallel with the exit portion, to guide the image light from each first plane to the exit portion and extract the image light. The optical member includes a parallel plane and an inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori Ohsugi, Takashi Kubota, Takanobu Osaka, Naoki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11885930
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and an IR band-pass filter, wherein half of a maximum view angle (field of view) of the optical lens assembly is HFOV, a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the third lens is R6, a focal length of the optical lens assembly is f, and following condition is satisfied: ?6.83<HFOV/(R6/f)<44.10, which is favorable to the thinning and large field of view of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Sheng Lee, Chi-Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 11885945
    Abstract: A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness using three interactions in a first portion of light and two interactions in a second portion of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Fangxu Dong
  • Patent number: 11885944
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a zoom lens group, sequentially including, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens group with positive refractive power, including a first lens with refractive power and a second lens with refractive power, which are sequentially arranged along the optical axis; a second lens group with negative refractive power, including a third lens with negative refractive power and a fourth lens with refractive power, which are sequentially arranged along the optical axis; and a third lens group with positive refractive power, including a fifth lens with positive refractive power, a sixth lens with refractive power, a seventh lens with negative refractive power and an eighth lens with refractive power, which are sequentially arranged along the optical axis, Positions of the second lens group and the third lens group on the optical axis are adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Wu, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11880021
    Abstract: An optical image capturing lenses includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front lens group, a stop, and a rear lens group. The front lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, at least a first lens element and a second lens element. The first lens element has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The rear lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, at least a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The sixth lens element is made of plastic material. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens are aspheric. The sixth lens element has at least one inflection point formed on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11873972
    Abstract: A solar coach light configured to be mounted to a wall comprises a bracket to be mounted to the wall and a light fixture. The bracket comprises a mounting plate and an arm extending therefrom. The light fixture comprises a plurality of top faces and a bottom face defining together an enclosure; a solar panel mounted to one of the top faces; a battery cell housed by the enclosure; a socket mounted to the bottom face to plug a light bulb therein; and a removable shade assembly mounted to the bottom face comprising a plurality of removable shades. The removable shade assembly defines a space surrounding the bottom face providing protection from the environment. The solar coach light comprises a hanging assembly connecting the light fixture to the arm distant from the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LES PRODUITS SUNFORCE INC.
    Inventor: Michael Dahan
  • Patent number: 11867879
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged from an object side to an imaging plane. An object-side surface of the fourth lens is convex, an object-side surface of the fifth lens is concave, and an angle of view of the optical imaging system is 100 degrees or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Phil Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11860447
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes five lens elements. The five lens elements in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path are a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. Each of the five lens elements has an object-side surface facing the object side and an image-side surface facing the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power, the second lens element has negative refractive power and the third lens element has negative refractive power. With specific conditions being satisfied, the imaging optical lens assembly can be miniaturized while providing good image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Yao Yang, Kuan-Chun Wang, Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Huan-Sheng Chang
  • Patent number: 11846757
    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, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power, both of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are convex surfaces; the second lens has a negative refractive power; the third lens has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the fourth lens has a refractive power; the fifth lens has a refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a convex surface; the sixth lens has a refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface. Half of a maximal field-of-view HFOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfies HFOV<30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lin Huang, Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11846760
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, disposed in order from an object side to an imaging plane. One or any combination of the first lens to the seventh lens are formed of glass. One or both surfaces of one or more of the first lens to the seventh lens are aspherical. A pair of lenses, among the first lens to the seventh lens, allows paraxial areas opposing each other to be bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuk Joo Kim, Jin Su Seok
  • Patent number: 11833965
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Donnelly Corporation
    Inventors: Keith D. Foote, Kevin P. Benthem, Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 11837852
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Daniel Konig
  • Patent number: 11828971
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Toru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11824417
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: JAHWA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je Seung Yeon, Jung Min Son, Hyo Jo Jeong, Min Gyu Suh, Myung Gyun Son
  • Patent number: 11822056
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng, Yu-Chun Ke, Kuo-Jui Wang, Tzu-Chieh Kuo