Patents Examined by Daniele Manikeu
  • Patent number: 8894199
    Abstract: A pair of spectacles is provided, wherein a temple main body includes a plate spring section formed to a side of the front frame; and a highly rigid section formed to a rear side of the plate spring section with the ear suspension section inclusive and having bending rigidity higher than that of the plate spring section while the plate spring section is formed in such a manner that its vertical width is rendered constant or tapered with narrowed by a predetermined ratio from its frontal side to its rear side as well as such that a thickness of the plate spring section satisfies the predetermined equation in relation with vertical widths of the plate spring section, positions in a longitudinal direction thereof and an abutment position with the lateral side of the head at the highly rigid section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Masunaga Optical Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Masunaga
  • Patent number: 8891175
    Abstract: A lens-frame moving mechanism includes a lens frame guided to move between a ready-to-photograph position and a retracted position, the lens frame being biased forwardly by a biaser; an intermediate linearly movable member, wherein the lens frame contacts the intermediate linearly movable member; a leading screw formed on the drive shaft of a motor; a nut member screw-engaged onto the leading screw, wherein the nut member does not rotate relative to the lens frame and moves the intermediate linearly movable member in the optical axis direction; and a rearwardly-movable member which rearwardly moves the lens frame against the biasing force such that the lens frame moves away from the intermediate linearly movable member in the optical axis direction while the lens frame is moved from the ready-to-photograph position to the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 8876289
    Abstract: The invention relates to an instrument for simulation of multifocal ophthalmic corrections, comprising two optical channels with different optical power values in the beams coming from the object observed, wherein at least one channel comprises a Badal system. This instrument simultaneously provides images of objects near and far focused. The system provides the same optical magnifications for each channel, regardless of the optical power thereof, and produces superimposed retinal images with different degrees of focus which, unlike other devices, are all of the same size. The instrument allows simulating different optical powers for near vision and different refractive corrections for distant vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
    Inventors: Carlos Dorronsoro Díaz, Susana Marcos Celestino
  • Patent number: 8867118
    Abstract: A lens module includes an infrared absorbing filter. The infrared absorbing filter includes an electrochromic substrate. The electrochromic substrate changes from colorlessness to blue when a preset voltage is applied on the electrochromic substrate. The electrochromic substrate is configured for absorbing the infrared constituent of incoming light rays when the color is changed to blue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
  • Patent number: 8767306
    Abstract: An optical system has an aperture through which virtual and real-world images are viewable along a viewing axis. The optical system may be incorporated into a head-mounted display (HMD). By illuminating a viewing location with an infrared light source, an eye pupil may be illuminated. Infrared light is reflected from the viewing location and is collected with a proximal beam splitter. An image former is configured to reflect at least a portion of the visible light pattern generated by the display panel to form the virtual image and transmit at least a portion of the collected infrared light. The transmitted infrared light may be imaged by a camera. The HMD may use images from the camera to provide, for example, context-sensitive virtual images to a wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Miao, Adrian Wong, Babak Amirparviz, Mark Spitzer
  • Patent number: 8767319
    Abstract: The disclosed internal focusing large-aperture medium telephoto lens has as lens groups a positive first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a third lens group, in that order from the object side. When focusing on nearby objects, the first lens group and the third lens group have a fixed position relative to the image surface, and the second lens group displaces toward the object side. The second lens group has only one negative lens, and, in order from the object side, has at least a positive lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens. The following expression is fulfilled: ?0.5<(R1+R2)(R1?R2)<?0.1 (wherein, R1: radius of curvature of the object side surface of the negative lens in the second lens group; R2: radius of curvature of the image side surface of the negative lens in the second lens group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc., Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Souma, Satoru Shibata
  • Patent number: 8752957
    Abstract: A detachable eyeglass frame includes a lens frame, a pair of hollow temples, a pair of temple inserts and a pair of hinges. The temple insert resembles a stick ending with a blade having a pocket for receiving the asymmetrical V-shaped hinge. The hinge has a column at one tip and a screw receiving column at the other. The temple insert is received by a sleeve formed within the temple and furthermore the hinge is inserted to the pocket of the temple insert for connecting the temple to the lens frame through a screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Dongguan Action Optic Resources Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Choon Kheang Ng
  • Patent number: 8743472
    Abstract: An adjustment jig is inserted into an opening and an opening, and a screw provided on an inner lens frame holding a correcting lens is rotated. With the rotation of the screw, a front end of the inner lens frame moves in a direction toward an optical axis or radially outside the correcting lens. With this, the inner lens frame is moved in a direction toward the optical axis or radially outside the correcting lens, and the tilt of the correcting lens is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 8736966
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source main unit made of a combination of a plurality of semiconductor laser devices, a plurality of collimator lens respectively capable of converting light beams emitted by the respective semiconductor laser devices of the light source main unit to respective approximately parallel light beam fluxes, and a condenser lens capable of condensing light beam fluxes emitted by the plurality of collimator lenses. The light source main unit has the plurality of semiconductor laser devices arranged, when viewed from the condenser lens, so that the stems of the adjacent semiconductor laser devices are seemingly continuous in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the condenser lens, and the stems of the adjacent semiconductor laser devices are overlapped in a second direction perpendicular to both the direction of optical axis and the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sasamuro, Yukitoshi Marutani
  • Patent number: 8736988
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to an imaging device including an epoxy reservoir and a number of features to facilitate alignment of components during assembly of the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwok Sing Cheng, Chuen Kuen Yeung
  • Patent number: 8736963
    Abstract: A near-eye display system includes an image former and first and second series of mutually parallel beamsplitters. The image former is configured to form a display image and to release the display image through an exit pupil. The first series of mutually parallel beamsplitters is arranged to receive the display image from the image former. The second series of mutually parallel beamsplitters is arranged to receive the display image from the first series of beamsplitters, and to release the display image through an exit pupil longer and wider than that of the image former. The second series of beamsplitters has a different alignment and a different orientation than the first series of beamsplitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Robbins, David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 8717691
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes a lens group including a fixed lens including one or more lenses and an adjustment lens including one or more lenses, and a lens frame to hold the lens group, including an adjustment lens frame to hold the adjustment lens and an aligning mechanism to hold the adjustment lens frame movably in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens group relative to the lens frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Terahara, Takehide Ohno
  • Patent number: 8711496
    Abstract: A magnetic levitation motor includes a fastening unit and a moving unit. The fastening unit includes a fixing frame and a first magnet assembly. The fixing frame includes a lower plate and four guiding poles extending upward from corners of the lower plate. The first magnet assembly includes four first magnets supported on the lower plate. Each first magnet is positioned between two adjacent guiding poles. The moving unit includes a moving frame and a second magnet assembly. The moving frame includes an outer surface and defines a receiving recess on the outer surface. The second magnet assembly includes four second magnets received in the receiving recess. The first magnets are positioned above the second magnets along an optical axis of the magnetic levitation motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shang-Feng Wu
  • Patent number: 8702232
    Abstract: An assembly for glasses includes a frame having a top rod. A seat is formed on a bottom of the top rod. The seat includes a first engagement hole having first and second wider portions and a narrower portion located between the first and second wider portions. A first connecting rod extends from a top of a bridge and has a protrusion received in one of the first and second wider portions. The first protrusion is forcibly passable through the narrower portion into the other of the first and second wider portions, allowing adjustment in a spacing between the bridge and the top rod. Two grooves are defined in the bottom of the top rod. An abutment portion is formed in each groove. Two lenses are respectively received in the grooves. Each lens includes a protruded portion abutting the abutment portion of one of the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventor: Lin Yun Chen
  • Patent number: 8705164
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including first and second substrates, at least one of which has a light transmitting characteristic, as well as first and second electrodes provided on the two mutually facing surfaces of the first and second substrates respectively; and an electrophoretic device provided between the first and second substrates, wherein the first substrate and the first electrode each have an external edge folded back so as to cover at least a portion of a terminal surface of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hironobu Abe, Nobuhide Yoneya
  • Patent number: 8702231
    Abstract: Sunglasses replaceably attached to conventional spectacles. The sunglasses include a frame, a pair of tinted lenses, and two pair of attachments. The frame replaceably attaches to a frame of the conventional spectacles. The pair of tinted lenses are attached in the frame. The two pair of attachments extend from the frame and replaceably snap the sunglasses onto the frame of the conventional spectacles to eliminate inadvertent movement of the sunglasses relative to the conventional spectacles during use without impinging upon hinges of the frame of the conventional spectacles so as to allow the sunglasses to fold with the conventional spectacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventors: George Blackham, Nancy M. Blackham
  • Patent number: 8696111
    Abstract: Provided are spectacle frames and a manufacturing method thereof, in which a front of the spectacle frames is formed by processing a celluloid plate of plastic, and temples are mounted on the front of the spectacle frames, thereby manufacturing the spectacle frames using the celluloid plate. The present invention does not require injection molding and an injection mold, and by processing both a hinge part and the front of the spectacle frames, the spectacle frames that can be applied to various wearers' face sizes can be manufactured with only the front of the frames having a single size. Also, by merely changing a design, various designs of the spectacle frames can be realized with only the front of the frames having a single size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Inventor: Jung Tae Chang
  • Patent number: 8696124
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus for obtaining a tomographic image of an object based on light obtained by combining returning light from the object, which is irradiated with measurement light, and reference light corresponding to that measurement light, the imaging apparatus comprising: a reference light splitting unit adapted to split the reference light into a plurality of reference light beams of different wavelength ranges, and a plurality of dispersion compensation units adapted to compensate dispersion in accordance with wavelength ranges of the plurality of reference light beams, the dispersion compensation units being provided in respective light paths of the plurality of reference light beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryoji Kurosaka
  • Patent number: 8693101
    Abstract: A lens sheet having one or more lens arrays positioned in selected discrete areas. Each lens array includes a plurality of lenses, each having a width, a height, and a lens peak. The lens array is set below the planar surface of the lens sheet, such that lens array does not extend above the lens sheet. Furthermore, the lens array is completely bordered by or contained within planar portions of the lens sheet. One or more dimensional images are printed below each of the lens arrays, and/or one or more static images can be printed on the planar portions of the lens sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Travel Tags, Inc.
    Inventors: John Tomczyk, Jonathan Van Loon, David E. Corey
  • Patent number: 8690318
    Abstract: The present application provides glasses including a frame, temple bars and hinges connecting the temple bars with the frame. One end of each of the hinges is provided with a snap-in spring bow and the other end thereof is provided with a connecting hole hinged to the frame. Accordingly, each of the temple bars is provided with a snap groove cooperated with the snap-in spring bow of the hinge. When mounting the hinge, it only needs to insert the hinge into the temple bar such that the snap-in spring bow of the hinge is cooperated with the snap groove of the temple bar. Thus, in the glasses according to the present application, the hinge and the temple bar may be connected by a snap-fit connection instead of a soldering process or a screw connection, the connecting process is simple since neither a soldering process nor an additional screw is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Inventor: Zhidong Tian