Patents Examined by Daniel Jeffery Jordan
  • Patent number: 12360358
    Abstract: A steerable laser transmitter pairs a MEMS MMA with an optical amplifier to provide a high-power steered laser beam over a wide FOR. A single MEMS MMA may be positioned downstream of the optical amplifier. In a two-stage architecture, a MEMS MMA provides continuous fine steer upstream of the optical amplifier and a beam steerer, another MEMS MMA or a QWP and stack of switchable PGs, provides discrete coarse steering downstream. In the two-stage architecture, the upstream MEMS MMA is configured to limit its steering range to the acceptance angle of the optical amplifier, at most ±2°×±2°. The MEMS MMA may include piston capability to shape the wavefront of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Benn H. Gleason, Gerald P. Uyeno, Sean D. Keller
  • Patent number: 12352929
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eighth lens. The first and seventh lens have a positive refractive power. The maximum semi-field of view Semi-FOV and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens satisfy f×tan(Semi-FOV)>4.5 mm. A radius of curvature R13 of an object side surface of the seventh lens, a radius of curvature R15 of an object side surface of the eighth lens, and a separation distance T78 between the seventh lens and the eighth lens on the optical axis satisfy ?7.0<(R13+R15)/T78<?3.0. A combined focal length f12 of the first and second lens and an effective focal length f3 of the third lens satisfy 2.0<f3/f12<6.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12313863
    Abstract: An image sensor includes an optical system including a liquid lens, a nonvolatile memory that stores property information about an amount of change in a refractive power of the liquid lens in response to an application voltage, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, and a body module. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from the body module that includes a controller that performs image processing on image data received from a imaging device and performs liquid lens control for determining the application voltage to be applied to the liquid lens based on the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, the temperature of the liquid lens detected by the temperature sensor, and a target value for the refractive power of the liquid lens and applying the application voltage to the liquid lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Watanabe, Yasuhito Uetsuji
  • Patent number: 12242045
    Abstract: An optical lens sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a negative focal power, a second lens having a negative focal power; a third lens having a positive focal power, a fourth lens having a negative focal power, a fifth lens having a negative focal power, a sixth lens having a positive focal power, and a seventh lens having a negative focal power. The optical lens satisfies the following relation: ?5<f2/f1<15, maximum optical distortion ?10%. Where, f1 is a focal length of the first lens, and f2 is a focal length of the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: OFILM GROUP CO., LTD., JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhua Zou, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 12228698
    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 having negative refractive power; a first prism including an incident surface, a reflecting surface, and an exit surface, and an angle between the reflecting surface of the first prism and the optical axis being 45°; a stop; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; and a second prism including an incident surface, a reflecting surface, and an exit surface, and an angle between the reflecting surface of the second prism and the optical axis being 45°. A total effective focal length f and a maximum field-of-view FOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: 2.50 mm<f*tan2(FOV/2)<4.00 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Li, Jianke Wenren, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12210140
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of optical lenses, and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes six lenses. An order of the six lenses is sequentially from an object side to an image side, which is shown as follows: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens provided by the present disclosure has excellent optical characteristics, and further has characteristics of large aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin, especially suitable for mobile phone camera lens assemblies and WEB camera lenses, which are composed of camera components having high pixels, such as CCD and CMOS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sakaguchi, Li Xu
  • Patent number: 12197100
    Abstract: Electro-optical devices and methods for constructing electro-optical devices such as a switch or phase shifter. An electrode layer is deposited on a substrate layer, a waveguide structure is deposited on the electrode layer, a first cladding layer is deposited on the waveguide structure, and the first cladding layer is planarized and bonded to a wafer. The substrate layer is removed and the electrode layer is etched to split the electrode layer into a first electrode separated from a second electrode. A second cladding layer is deposited on the etched electrode layer. The first and second electrodes may be composed of a material with a large dielectric constant, or they may be composed of a material with a large electron mobility. The device may exhibit a sandwich waveguide architecture where an electro-optic layer is disposed between two strip waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PsiQuantum, Corp.
    Inventor: Nikhil Kumar
  • Patent number: 12181727
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lens assembly and a mobile terminal. The lens assembly includes a lens and a protective casing. The lens and the protective casing are fixedly connected to the mobile terminal separately. The lens is sheathed in the protective casing. A spacing exists between the protective casing and the lens. In the lens assembly and the mobile terminal provided in this embodiment, when the lens assembly is impacted, the protective casing receives the impact first and is deformed. Without direct connection or contact between the lens and the protective casing, a force received by the protective casing will not be directly transmitted to the lens, and the lens will not be pressed to deform by the protective casing, thereby avoiding a circumstance in which the deformation of the lens makes the mobile terminal unable to accurately recognize an obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Yu, Wenchao Zhang
  • Patent number: 12181647
    Abstract: A first lens unit and a third lens unit are constituted by a lens which is rotationally symmetrical with respect to an optical axis and are disposed on the same optical axis, a first freeform-curved surface lens and a second freeform-curved surface lens have the same shape and are disposed to be rotated at 180 degrees with respect to the optical axis. Further, a refractive power of a second lens unit is variable due to the first freeform-curved surface lens and the second freeform-curved surface lens moving in opposite directions. The first freeform-curved surface lens and the second freeform-curved surface lens are moved in the Y-axis direction in association with movement of some of lens groups constituting the first lens unit and the third lens unit when positional states of the lenses are changed from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoyuki Otake, Takumi Matsui, Manabu Ishioka, Christin Weichelt, Hiroshi Ushida, Markus Kamm
  • Patent number: 12174506
    Abstract: A transparent display structure and a transparent window having a display function are provided. The transparent display structure includes a first transparent base layer, a transparent display component layer, a first electrode layer, an electrochromic layer, a second electrode layer, and a semiconductor layer which are sequentially stacked. The semiconductor layer is configured to generate current under irradiation of light, the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are configured to generate an electric field between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer under an effect of the current, the electrochromic layer is configured that a color of the electrochromic layer changes under a control of the electric field, and the transparent display component layer has a function of displaying image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobao Li, Wei Tian, Kui Gong
  • Patent number: 12124023
    Abstract: The eyepiece lens consists of, in order from an observation object side to an eye point side, a positive first lens, a negative second lens, a positive third lens, and a positive fourth lens. All lenses are single lenses. The second lens has a biconcave shape. An observation object-side surface of the fourth lens has a convex shape. In a case where a refractive index of the third lens with respect to d line is N3, the eyepiece lens satisfies the following conditional expression. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Saito
  • Patent number: 12117594
    Abstract: An optical system, a lens module, and an electronic device are provided. The optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens with, and a seventh lens. The first lens has an object-side surface which is convex at an optical axis and an image-side surface which is concave at the optical axis and at a circumference. The second lens has an object-side surface which is convex at the optical axis and an image-side surface which is concave at the optical axis and at a circumference. The seventh lens has an image-side surface, which is concave at the optical axis and has at least one inflection point. The optical system satisfies the following expression: f/EPD<1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Liu, Ming Li, Hairong Zou
  • Patent number: 12105257
    Abstract: A camera optical lens includes first to eighth lenses that are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. At least one of the first lens to the eighth lens has a free-form surface, and the camera optical lens satisfies: 1.30?f4/f?5.00; and 0?(R9+R10)/(R9?R10)?4.50, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens, R9 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fifth lens, and R10 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens has a wide angle and is ultra-thin, as well as having excellent optical performance, and can effectively correct aberration and improve the performance of the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia Chen, Wen Sun
  • Patent number: 12105256
    Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided, including from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens, wherein the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 2.00?f1/f?5.50; and 1.50?d15/d16?9.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; d15 denotes an on-axis thickness of the eighth lens; and d16 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the eighth lens to an object side surface of the ninth lens. The above camera optical lens can meet design requirements for large aperture, wide-angle and ultra-thinness, while maintaining good imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qing Zhao
  • Patent number: 12061320
    Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.00?f1/f?5.00; and 2.00?d11/d12?9.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d11 denotes an on-axis thickness of the sixth lens, and d12 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the sixth lens to an object side surface of the seventh lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure satisfies design requirements for large-aperture and ultra-thin lenses while achieving good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU RAYTECH OPTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Meng
  • Patent number: 12019211
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens, a third lens element and a fourth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis. An optical axis region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is convex, and an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is concave. The lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only the four lens elements described above. Tavg is an average of four thicknesses from the first lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis, an Abbe number of the first lens element is ?1, and an Abbe number of the second lens element is ?2 so that the optical imaging lens satisfies: Tavg?300 ?m, and |?1??2|?30.000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huabin Liao, Hai Lin, Wei-Jeh Kao, Chuanbo Dong, Hung-Chien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11947078
    Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 0.90?f1/f?2.00; and 2.50?d13/d14?12.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d13 denotes an on-axis thickness of the seventh lens, and d14 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the seventh lens to an object side surface of the eighth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present invention has better optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tiantian Hu
  • Patent number: 11892605
    Abstract: A camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.25?d10/TTL?0.50 and 0.55?f1/f?1.00, here f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d10 denotes an on-axis thickness from an image-side surface of the fifth lens to an object-side surface of the sixth lens, and TTL denotes a total optical length from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image surface of the camera optical lens along an optical axis. The camera optical lens has excellent optical performances such as a large aperture, a wide angle and ultra-thin etc..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rongbao Shi
  • Patent number: 11885935
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: eight lenses which are, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, and an eighth lens having a positive refractive power; and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95?f/TTL; 2.00?f2/f?5.00; and 2.50?(R15+R16)/(R15?R16)?15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for ultra-thinness and long focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Raytech Optical (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 11835690
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens including: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive power; a sixth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein the camera optical lens satisfies conditions: ?10.00?f6/f5??2.50; 3.00?d8/d10?10.00; where f5 and f6 respectively denotes a focal length of the fifth lens and the sixth lens, d8 denotes an on-axis distance from the image-side surface of the fourth lens to the object-side surface of the fifth lens, d10 denotes an on-axis distance from the image-side surface of the fifth lens to the object-side surface of the sixth lens. The camera optical lens in the present disclosure satisfies a design requirement of large aperture, long focal length and ultra-thinness while having good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Raytech Optical (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guobing Tian