Patents Examined by David N. Spector
  • Patent number: 9229194
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consists of, in order from an object side, five lenses of a first lens that has a biconvex shape, a second lens that has a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens that has a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens that has a negative refractive power and has an object side surface and an image side surface which have aspheric shapes. Further, the imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoneyama, Kazumi Koike
  • Patent number: 9217846
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens maybe achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan-Bin Chen, Long Ye, Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 9217847
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a plurality of lens elements having a refracting power, an object-side surface facing toward the object-side, and an imaging-side surface facing toward the imaging-side. The plurality of lens elements include a first lens element closest to the object-side, a second lens element second closest to the object-side, and a third lens element third closest to the object-side. The plurality of lens elements also include a fourth lens element closest to the imaging-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Poche Lee, Kuo-Wen Chang, Long-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 9217849
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side where N represents an integer equal to or more than 5, a first lens unit, a second lens unit, an (N?2)-th lens unit, an (N?1)-th lens unit and an N-th lens unit respectively having positive, negative, positive, negative and positive refractive powers. The (N?1)-th lens unit includes an image stabilizing lens unit. The conditions of 0.01<BldN/TDw<0.09 and 2.0<fN/fw<8.0 are satisfied where BldN represents a length of the N-th lens unit on the optical axis, TDw represents a distance on the optical axis between a most object side lens surface and a most-image side lens surface at a wide-angle end, fw represents a focal length of the entire zoom lens at the wide-angle end, and fN represents a focal length of the N-th lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9217845
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first lens element has a positive refractive power, and a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface with a convex portion. The third lens element has an object-side surface with a concave portion. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex portion, and an image-side surface with a convex portion and a concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 9217851
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a front unit including one lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear unit including an aperture stop and one or more lens units and having a positive refractive power as a whole, and an interval between adjacent lens units changes during zooming such that an interval between the front unit and rear unit decreases at a telephoto end when compared to a wide angle end. The front unit includes a negative lens G11 in a position closest to the object side, and a lens surface of the negative lens G11 on the image side has an aspherical shape by which the positive refractive power increases from a center to an edge. Various parameters for the zoom lens according to the present invention are properly set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunji Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 9213180
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a first base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first base substrate and positioned to respectively correspond to positions of a plurality of pixels, a partition wall disposed on the first base substrate to partition the pixels, a second electrode disposed on the partition wall and including a plurality of openings, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, and an electrowetting layer disposed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate, the electrowetting layer respectively being moved by voltages respectively applied to the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Byungseok Choi, Seung-Jin Baek, Taimei Kodaira, JiEun Lee, Hyeon Gu Cho
  • Patent number: 9213167
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Chung-Chih Chang, Yita Chiang
  • Patent number: 9213166
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first lens element has a positive refractive power, and a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface with a convex portion. The third lens element has a convex image-side surface. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex portion, and a curved image-side surface with a concave portion and a convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 9213171
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit including a lens. The distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit changes during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens unit consists, in order from the object side, of a front sub lens unit having a negative refractive power, an optical path bending member, and a rear sub lens unit having a positive refractive power. The front sub lens unit includes a biconcave single lens, and the rear sub lens unit includes one or two single lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Katayose, Kenji Ono
  • Patent number: 9207437
    Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, an imaging lens includes, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having negative (?) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having positive (+) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein, a conditional expression of 0.5<Y6/Y10<0.55 is satisfied, where a height of a point 60% of a highest height of an image-forming surface is Y6, a full size of an opposite angle within an active area of an image sensor is Y10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghak Ryu, Jinyoung Park
  • Patent number: 9207456
    Abstract: In a virtual image display device, since the frame section has the support section for detachably fixing the auxiliary mounting member, which is disposed adjacent to the optical members, on the observer side of the optical members, by providing a variety of functions such as an optical function to the auxiliary mounting member, the usefulness of the virtual image display device can be enhanced. Specifically, in the case of, for example, providing the auxiliary mounting member with a diopter correction function, it is possible for any observers with a variety of levels of vision to observe the image obtained by the video display element in a good condition without blur without using eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Hiraide, Takeshi Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 9201216
    Abstract: An image capturing lens assembly includes, 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, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative 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 third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power, wherein both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image capturing lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 9195029
    Abstract: An optical system may include: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; a sixth lens having positive or negative refractive power, an image-side surface thereof being concave toward an imaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Sung Kim, Il Yong Park
  • Patent number: 9195033
    Abstract: There are provided an imaging optical system and imaging equipment, which are compatible with a solid-state imaging device having a size of ½ inches or less and which include an optical system having a small size and lightness in weight and also having an excellent mass productivity and a low cost while keeping optical performance at a wide field angle, for example, at a total angle of view of 80 degrees or more. When predetermined conditions are satisfied for a plurality of lenses constituting the imaging optical system, the absolute value of power of each lens group is suppressed to be small, and thus the generation of aberration is suppressed and a preferable aberration is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sasaya
  • Patent number: 9195055
    Abstract: An electronic component is provided that includes a spatial light modulator device, and a circuit board comprising a first major surface, at least one electrically conductive redistribution layer and a first cavity positioned in the first major surface. The spatial light modulator device is positioned within the cavity and is electrically connected to the redistribution layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Wieland Oberst, Guenther Kraft, Valod Noshadi, Michael Huonker, Kelei Shen
  • Patent number: 9193120
    Abstract: A device comprises at least one optics member (O) comprising at least one transparent portion (t) and at least one blocking portion (b). The at least one transparent portion (t) is made of one or more materials substantially transparent for light of at least a specific spectral range, referred to as transparent materials, and the at least one blocking portion (b) is made of one or more materials substantially non-transparent for light of the specific spectral range, referred to as non-transparent materials. The transparent portion (t) comprises at least one passive optical component (L). The at least one passive optical component (L) comprises a transparent element (6) having two opposing approximately flat surfaces substantially perpendicular to a vertical direction in a distance approximately equal to a thickness of the at least one blocking portion (b) measured along the vertical direction, and, attached to the transparent element (6), at least one optical structure (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hartmut Rudmann, Susanne Westenhöfer, Bojan Tesanovic
  • Patent number: 9195037
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes an image display element for displaying an image on a reduction side conjugate plane and a projection optical system for magnifying and projecting the image onto a screen which is a magnification side conjugate plane as a conjugate image. The projection optical system substantially consists of a dioptric system and a catoptrics system having a common axis. The center of a display surface of the image display element is disposed eccentrically with respect to the optical axis and, when a magnification side conjugate position of the center of the display surface is vertically above the optical axis, an intersection point between a lower light ray of a light flux focused on the bottom center of the conjugate image and an upper light ray of a light flux focused on the top center of the conjugate image falls within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masanao Kawana
  • Patent number: 9195030
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes, 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, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has refractive power. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. The imaging lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-Yao Liao, Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9194986
    Abstract: Optical filters, their production and their uses are provided. The optical filters have heat-resistant, mechanically stable absorption layers or filter layers. The optical filters can be absorption filters or ND filters. The filter layer includes filter particles dispersed in a matrix. The filter particles have a constant absorption over a wide wavelength range. The matrix includes a heat-resistant binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Matthias Bockmeyer, Ralf Biertuempfel