Patents Examined by Cara E Rakowski
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Patent number: 10877200Abstract: A beam steering method and device are provided. The beam steering method includes outputting, from a hologram recording medium on which a plurality of signal light beams having different steering information are recorded, signal light beam having specific steering information, by making reference light having a specific characteristic incident on the hologram recording medium. The method further includes o obtaining information about an object existing in the external environment based on the output signal light.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Wonjae Joo, Mark L. Brongersma, Junghyun Park
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Patent number: 10877256Abstract: An observation device includes an illuminating optical system that emits illuminating light obliquely upward from below a sample; and an objective optical system that images transmitted light, which is the illuminating light emitted from the illuminating optical system, reflected above the sample, and passed through the sample, the objective optical system imaging the transmitted light below the sample and via a different path from that of the illuminating optical system. The illuminating optical system includes a light source, a mask that restricts light, which is emitted from the light source, to a particular emission region, and a collimating optical system that converts the light restricted by the mask into substantially parallel light, and the illuminating optical system is arranged so that when the region is projected onto a pupil plane of the objective optical system, a projected image of the region partially overlaps a peripheral portion of the pupil.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Hirata, Shintaro Takahashi
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Patent number: 10874158Abstract: Provided is a light attached to a helmet where the light does not move when a face shield of the helmet is rotated up or down.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Nishank Patel, Eric Sommers
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Patent number: 10868400Abstract: A light bulb having a tapering base with a circumferential clip providing the electrical and mechanical attachment to a conventional socket. The clip includes a circumferential band and a pair of diametrically opposing spring clips that, when simultaneously pressed inward, serve to compress the circumferential band, thereby enabling removal of the light bulb from the socket.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Inventor: Shirley Brannon
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Patent number: 10866431Abstract: A device is provided that may be operated when implanted within a body, when mounted to a surface of an eye, or when immersed in a fluid or otherwise exposed to a humid environment. The device includes at least one conductor that includes a valve metal. The valve metal is disposed on an external surface of the conductor such that, when the conductor exhibits a positive voltage relative to its environment, the valve metal forms or maintains a self-limiting oxide layer. The device is operated such that the mean voltage of the conductor is positive or zero relative to the environment, e.g., relative to another electrode or other conductor of the device that is in contact with fluid in the environment. Such a device can be operated for a protracted period of time in a humid environment without a hermetic seal disposed between the conductor and the humid environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Stein Kuiper, Daniel Otts
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Patent number: 10859253Abstract: A door for a dishwasher appliance is provided herein. The dishwasher door may include an internal panel, an external panel, and a light source. The internal panel may define an inner face and an outer face. The internal panel may define a light channel from the inner face to the outer face. The external panel may extend across the internal panel in front of the light channel. The external panel may define an inner face directed toward the outer face of the planner internal panel. The light source may be positioned behind the internal panel. The light source may be directed at the light channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Brittany Benton, Andrew Spanyer, Neil Vincenti
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Patent number: 10855961Abstract: A projection device includes: a plate shaped member that is thermally conductive; a light emitting element that is disposed upon the plate shaped member and emits light; a bending member that bends light from the light emitting element into an orientation parallel to the plate shaped member; a modulation element that modulates light bent by the bending member; and a polarized light separation element that bends light modulated by the modulation element into an orientation going away from the plate shaped member.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Hirotake Nozaki, Nobuhiro Fujinawa
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Patent number: 10856381Abstract: A light tower includes a generator assembly including a prime mover, an alternator operably connected to the prime mover, the alternator configured to produce alternating current electrical energy, and a rectifier operably connected to the alternator and configured to convert alternating current electrical energy produced by the alternator to direct current electrical energy. At least one light emitting diode matrix is electrically connected to the generator assembly by an electrical connection, and a regulator is operably connected to the alternator and configured to detect a current of the direct current electrical energy in the electrical connection. In response to a detected current of the direct current electrical energy in the electrical connection, the regulator controls the alternator to adjust the current supplied to the at least one light emitting diode matrix.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Clark Equipment CompanyInventors: Nicholas Harknett, Robert Ranker
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Patent number: 10849492Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile device and method which include acquiring, by an image acquisition unit installed in a mobile device, an image of eyes of a patient while light provided by a light source reflects from an optical surface of the eyes of the patient; and obtaining, by a processor installed in the mobile device, ocular misalignment measurements, including a magnitude and a direction of ocular misalignment in the eyes of the patient, using the acquired image or set of images.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Massachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryInventors: Matteo Tomasi, Shrinivas Pundlik, Kevin Edward Houston, Gang Luo
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Patent number: 10849498Abstract: The present application describes the addition of various feedback mechanisms including visual and audio feedback mechanisms to an ophthalmic diagnostic device to assist a subject to self-align to the device. The device may use the visual and non-visual feedback mechanisms independently or in combination with one another. The device may provide a means for a subject to provide feedback to the device to confirm that an alignment condition has been met. Alternatively, the device may have a means for sensing when acceptable alignment has been achieved. The device may capture diagnostic information during the alignment process or may capture after the alignment condition has been met.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITECH AGInventors: Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Keith O'Hara, Angelo Rago
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Patent number: 10845517Abstract: A method of forming a filter, comprising the steps of: —selecting at least a first wavelength corresponding to a predetermined laser threat and having a first colour in the visible spectrum; —providing a generally transparent substrate and forming a first notch filter region therein configured to substantially block incident radiation thereon of wavelengths within a first predetermined wavelength band including said first wavelength; —selecting a second wavelength having a second colour in the visible spectrum and forming a colour balancing notch filter region in said substrate configured to block incident radiation thereon of wavelengths within a wavelength band including said second wavelength, thereby to balance or neutralise any colour distortion of said substrate caused by said first notch filter region.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: BAE Systems plcInventors: Daniel Benjamin Black, Leslie Charles Laycock
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Patent number: 10845531Abstract: An apparatus includes a first display, an indicium, and a second display. The second display can include a light-generating source deposited on a substrate. The second display illuminates the indicium and the second display has a thickness of less than 0.25 millimeters. The apparatus also includes one or more controllers communicatively coupled to the first display and the second display and configured to control states of the first display and the second display.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Rohinni, LLCInventors: Cody Peterson, Andrew Huska
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Patent number: 10842360Abstract: An objective optical system consists of, in order from an object side, a front group, an intermediate group, and a rear group, wherein focusing is carried out from a far-point observation state to a near-point observation state by varying a focal length by moving the intermediate group along an optical axis, and the front group includes a first negative lens, and the first negative lens has a meniscus shape having an aspheric surface, and in any of the far-point observation state and the near-point observation state, the objective optical system satisfies the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) |(½)×?f×?t×((1/?f)?1)|?0.055??(1) 0.12?Sa/FL?0.44??(2).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Sayaka Nishimura
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Patent number: 10838234Abstract: A soft contact lens designed to improve visual performance with reduced pupil edge wavefront aberration, reduced halo and reduced light scattering. The soft contact lens is designed with pupil apodization for modulating the lens amplitude transmission profile.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventor: Minghan Chen
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Patent number: 10837625Abstract: A light fixture can include a housing having at least one housing wall having an inner surface that forms a cavity, where the inner surface of the at least one housing wall has at least one baffle coupling feature disposed thereon. The light fixture can also include a baffle removably coupled to the housing, where the baffle includes at least one baffle wall having an outer surface, where the outer surface of the at least one baffle wall has at least one housing coupling feature disposed thereon. The baffle can be coupled to the housing and decoupled from the housing without use of tools.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventor: John Bowen
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Patent number: 10838182Abstract: In an example, apparatus includes a first radiation source to output radiation at a first waveband and a second radiation source to output radiation at a second waveband, which is different from the first waveband. The apparatus may receive a medium having marked thereon a first colorant and a second colorant and the first and second wavebands may be selected such that an energy absorbance efficiency of the first colorant is higher than that of the second colorant at the first waveband and an energy absorbance efficiency of the second colorant is higher than that of the first colorant at the second waveband.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: HP SCITEX LTD.Inventors: Alex Veis, Ronald Albert Askeland
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Patent number: 10831036Abstract: A zoom function system is disclosed. The zoom function system includes an upper lens assembly, a lower lens assembly, an upper actuator, and a lower actuator. The upper and the lower actuators have stationary elements and movable elements. The upper lens assembly is attached to one of the movable elements of the upper actuator. The lower lens assembly is attached to one of the movable elements of the lower actuator. The zoom function system allows three degrees of freedoms of translational adjustments of lens assemblies and is capable of realigning the lens assemblies to improve the qualities of images.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Inventors: Forster Shih, Yee-Chung Fu
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Patent number: 10830984Abstract: Disclosed are a lens driving device, a camera device and an electronic apparatus. The lens driving device has a stator and a mover moving relative to the stator. The stator has a non-conductive base and a non-conductive housing assembled on the base. The stator is quadrilateral observed from the optical axial direction of the lens. The stator has one of a pair of magnets or a pair of coils disposed respectively on two opposite edges of the quadrilateral. The mover has the other of the pair of magnets or the pair of coils. The pair of coils are respectively opposed to the pair of magnets. The other two opposite edges or the quadrilateral are not provided with the magnets and the coils or a conductive component limning at least one kind of the base, the housing, the magnets or the coils.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wei Sun
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Patent number: 10830982Abstract: An autofocus system is disclosed. The autofocus system includes a lens assembly, an upper actuator, and a lower actuator. The upper and the lower actuators have stationary elements and movable elements. The lens assembly is attached to the movable elements of the upper and the lower actuators. The autofocus system allows three degrees of freedoms of translational adjustments and two degrees of freedoms of rotational adjustments.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Inventors: Forster Shih, Yee-Chung Fu
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Patent number: 10823366Abstract: The present technology is a luminaire lens and housing system for mechanically fastening of a light strip to a luminaire housing via a lens body. The system can include a luminaire housing formed from extruded modular luminaire housing sections assembled together, a mounting bracket mountable to the housing sections, and a lens body mountable to the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket includes a generally U-shape configuration capable of receiving the light strip and the lens body. The lens body can be a flexible polymeric lens of continuous length for the entire length of the luminaire housing. An interior section of the lens body includes legs receivable in depressions defined in the mounting bracket for retention thereof. The lens body is configured to contact and apply mechanical pressure to the light strip thereby securing the light strip in the mounting bracket or in the luminaire housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Optic Arts, LLCInventors: David Hawks, Mason Barker