Patents Examined by Darryl J. Collins
  • Patent number: 11803033
    Abstract: Disclosed is a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; the camera optical lens satisfies: ?5.00?f1/f??3.00; ?1.50?f5/f??1.00; 1.20?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8)?3.00; and 8.00?d7/d8?14.00; where, f denotes a focus length of the camera optical lens; f1 and f5 denotes focus length of the first and fifth lens respectively; R7 and R 8 denote central curvature radii of an object side surface and an image side surface of the fourth lens respectively; d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens; and d8 denotes an on-axis distance from the image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Raytech Optical (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenxiyang Chen, Wen Sun
  • Patent number: 11803032
    Abstract: A camera optical lens includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, which are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side. 0.90?f1/f?1.20, 5.00?(R3+R4)/(R3?R4)?30.00, 3.00?d5/d6?10.00, and ?15.00?(R5+R6)/(R5?R6)??3.00. f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, R3 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the second lens, R4 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the second lens, and R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the third lens. The camera optical lens has good optical performance and meets the design requirements of a large aperture, a wide angle, and ultra-thinness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Yu
  • Patent number: 11796760
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens disposed from an object side. In the optical imaging system, 0.2<(D23+D34+D45)/BFL<0.95 and 0.8<TTL/f<0.95, where D23 is a distance from an image-side surface of the second lens to an object-side surface of the third lens, D34 is a distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to an object-side surface of the fourth lens, D45 is a distance from an image-side surface of the fourth lens to an object-side surface of the fifth lens, BFL is a distance from an image-side surface of the fifth lens to an imaging plane, TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and f is a focal length of the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Byung Hyun Kim, So Mi Yang, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11796834
    Abstract: The present invention includes an apparatus and a method for retaining eyeglasses on a remote panel with a holding element positioned on the remote panel and a temple element positioned on the eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Gregory W. Carr
  • Patent number: 11796775
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a zoom lens assembly, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens group; a second lens group with a positive refractive power, spaced from the first lens group by a first air space and movable on the optical axis; a third lens group with a positive refractive power, spaced from the second lens group by a second air space and movable on the optical axis; and a fourth lens group, spaced from the third lens group by a third air space; wherein a Total Track Length (TTL) of the zoom lens assembly and a difference ?f between an effective focal length of the zoom lens assembly at a wide end and an effective focal length of the zoom lens assembly at a tele end satisfy 2.5<TTL/|?f|<4.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yabin Hu, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11796758
    Abstract: Provided is a driving device including: a lens holder configured to hold an optical lens; a vibration wave motor including a movable-side rail member; a spherical member configured to connect the movable-side rail member and the lens holder to each other and transmit power; and a lens-barrel urging spring configured to urge the lens holder toward the movable-side rail member, wherein the spherical member and the lens-barrel urging spring are arranged at different positions when seen from an optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nagaoka, Kazuhiro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11796839
    Abstract: A contact lens and a method for treating an eye with myopia is described. The contact lens includes an inner optic zone and an outer optic zone. The outer optic zone includes at least a portion with a first power, selected to correct distance vision. The inner optic zone has a relatively more positive power (an add power). In some embodiments the add power is substantially constant across the inner optic zone. In other embodiments the add power is variable across the inner optic zone. While in some embodiments the inner optic zone has a power designed to substantially eliminate lag of accommodation in the eye with myopia, in other embodiments, the add power may be higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited
    Inventors: Brien Anthony Holden, Gregor Schmid, Padmaja Rajagopal Sankaridurg, Arthur Ho, Aldo Abraham Martinez Magos, Percy Fabian Lazon, Earl Leo Smith, III
  • Patent number: 11796762
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex object-side surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power, a convex object-side surface, and a concave image-side surface; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and are the only lenses having a refractive power in the optical imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Youn Lee, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11789235
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes lenses sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane and including a refractive power in paraxial regions or edges of the paraxial regions. An object-side surface of a fifth lens of the lenses is planar in a paraxial region and the fifth lens includes a refractive power at an edge of the paraxial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Phil Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11789184
    Abstract: A lens module is provided. The lens module includes at least one refractive index distribution lens; and a lens barrel configured to accommodate the at least one refractive index distribution lens, wherein the at least one refractive index distribution lens is composed of a single layer, and includes a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Chan Park, Eun Jung Lim
  • Patent number: 11789245
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group having negative refractive power; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a tele photo end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group being varied, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied, and a distance between the third lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the third lens group or the rear lens group comprising a focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expression(s) being satisfied, thereby various aberrations being corrected superbly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 11789236
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven 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, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Chun-Yen Chen, Hung-Shuo Chen, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11782251
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a subsequent unit having a positive refractive power as a whole. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes a single lens, and the subsequent unit includes a third lens unit having a positive refractive power closest to the object side in the subsequent unit and a lens unit LP having a positive refractive power closest to the image side among the zoom lenses. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens unit moves toward the object side. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Hatada
  • Patent number: 11782238
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element having negative refractive power; a second lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element having positive refractive power; a fifth lens element having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens element; wherein the optical imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements. With such configuration, the optical imaging lens assembly of the present disclosure is characterized by a wide field of view, a compact size and high image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Shu-Yun Yang
  • Patent number: 11782235
    Abstract: A lens driving device, a camera module and a camera-mounted device that can improve the stability the moving operation of AF movable part are provided. A lens driving device includes a base; a lens holder disposed apart from the base in a light axis direction, and configured to hold a lens part; and an autofocus driving part including an auto-focusing coil and an auto-focusing magnet, and configured to move the lens holder in the light axis direction with respect to the base. The auto-focusing coil is disposed at the lens holder. The auto-focusing magnet is disposed at the base. The base includes a magnet holding part provided to protrude to a light reception side in the light axis direction, the magnet holding part being configured to hold the auto-focusing magnet while positioning the auto-focusing magnet. A damper is disposed between the magnet holding part and the lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kasahara, Norikazu Kudo
  • Patent number: 11774710
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, all of which are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens has negative refractive power. The second lens has positive refractive power. The third lens has positive refractive power. The fourth lens has negative refractive power including a convex surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing the image side. The fifth lens has negative refractive power including a concave surface facing the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Li-Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 11774650
    Abstract: A display body includes a display surface including a plurality of display region groups. Each display region includes at least one reflection surface that is configured to reflect light incident on the display surface toward an area including a corresponding one of reflection directions that are associated with the respective display region groups. Each display region group is configured to form an image unique to the display region group in a corresponding one of the reflection directions through reflection of light on the reflection surfaces in the display region group. The display region groups are configured to form, in two adjacent ones of the reflection directions, different images that have a interrelation between each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko Tashiro, Keitaro Sugihara, Toshiki Toda
  • Patent number: 11774775
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a bobbin provided at an outer circumferential surface thereof with a first coil, a first position sensor disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the bobbin and spaced apart from the first coil, a first magnet disposed so as to be opposite to the first position sensor, a second magnet disposed so as to be opposite to the first coil, the second magnet being configured to move the bobbin in a direction parallel to an optical axis via electromagnetic interaction with the first coil, a housing configured to support the first magnet and the second magnet; and upper and lower elastic members coupled to the bobbin and the housing, wherein the first position sensor is moved along with the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Tae Jin Jung, Hyune O Yoo
  • Patent number: 11774781
    Abstract: A meniscus shaped lens module comprises one or more structures that decrease an amount of pressure or force to move one or more surfaces of the lens module and increase a separation distance of anterior and posterior surfaces of the module in order to provide an increase in optical power. A lens structure of the module comprises one or more of a pattern of a surface of a central chamber, a meniscus, a reduced diameter or a soft material in order to provide increased amounts of curvature of an outer contact lens surface with decreased amounts of pressure. The pattern can be formed in one or more of many ways, and may comprise one or more of folds, patterning, bellows or concertinaed surface of an optically transmissive material having a substantially uniform thickness such as a sheet of a membrane material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: OneFocus Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven B. Waite, Amitava Gupta, Urban Schnell, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Michel Saint-Ghislain, Stefan Troller
  • Patent number: 11774711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a camera optical lens, comprising from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; the camera optical lens satisfies: 1.20?f1/f?4.00; 1.80?d5/d3?3.50; and 1.50?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8); where, f denotes a focus length of camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focus length of the first lens; d3 denotes an on-axis thickness of second lens; d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the third lens; R7 and R8 denote central curvature radii of object and image side surfaces of the fourth lens respectively; and R8 denotes a central curvature radius of an image side surface of the fourth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Raytech Optical (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Sun