Patents Examined by Derek S. Chapel
  • Patent number: 11614571
    Abstract: Provided is a black light-shielding member, which has an excellent effect of anti-reflection that based on low glossiness and has a high blackness. A black light-shielding member including a substrate film, a resin-made light-shielding layer having a concave-convex shape formed on at least one surface of the substrate film, and a blackened layer formed on the resin-made light-shielding layer is produced. By adjusting an arithmetic mean surface roughness Ra of the surface on which the light-shielding layer and the blackened layer are formed to be 0.25 ?m or more, and the maximum thickness of the blackened layer is less than the said Ra, a blackness with an L value of 12 or less is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SOMAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hinoki Sakamura, Naoki Sakazume
  • Patent number: 11598592
    Abstract: A radiative cooling device and a radiative cooling method that effectively suppress ultraviolet light absorption. The radiative cooling device includes an ultraviolet reflection layer that reflects ultraviolet light UV, a light reflection layer that reflects visible light and infrared light, and an infrared radiative layer that radiates infrared light IR. Infrared light IR is radiated form a radiative surface. The ultraviolet reflection layer, the infrared radiative layer and the light reflection layer are laminated in this order as viewed from the side of the radiative surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Suemitsu, Tadashi Saito
  • Patent number: 11592603
    Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a UV-IR-absorbing layer and has the following characteristics (i) to (v) when light with wavelengths of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident at an incident angle of 0°: (i) an average transmittance of 78% or more in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 600 nm; (ii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 750 nm to 1080 nm; (iii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 350 nm; (iv) a decreasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 600 nm to 750 nm and a first IR cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 620 nm to 680 nm; and (v) an increasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 450 nm and a first UV cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 430 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuichiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 11579464
    Abstract: An optical unit is provided and includes: a movable body having an optical module; a fixed body; a rolling support mechanism which supports the movable body rotatably around the optical axis of the optical module with respect to the fixed body; and a rolling drive mechanism which turn the movable body around the optical axis. The rolling support mechanism includes: at least one pair of protruded parts which protrude from one of the movable body and the fixed body towards the other thereof and which are disposed at positions facing each other with the optical axis interposed therebetween in a direction intersecting the optical axis, and an elastic member whose one end part is attached to the protruded part and an other end part is attached to the other of the movable body and the fixed body, and which turnably support the movable body around the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Minamisawa
  • Patent number: 11579463
    Abstract: There are provided a reflecting module for optical image stabilization (OIS) and a camera module including the same. The reflecting module for OIS includes a housing to which a board is coupled and including a through-hole, a moving holder connected to the housing by an elastic member, a reflecting member provided on the moving holder, and a driving part providing driving force to the moving holder to move the moving holder relatively with respect to the housing, wherein the elastic member includes a housing fixing part fixed to the housing and a holder fixing part fixed to the moving holder, wherein the driving part includes a magnet provided on the moving holder and a coil provided on the board and opposing the magnet, and wherein the coil is disposed to oppose the magnet through the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong Won Jeong, Jae Kyung Kim, Young Bok Yoon, Hyun Kag Park
  • Patent number: 11579462
    Abstract: There are provided a reflecting module for optical image stabilization (OIS) and a camera module including the same. The reflecting module for OIS includes a housing to which a board is coupled, the housing including an opening, a moving holder disposed in an internal space of the housing, an elastic member fixedly coupled to the housing to support the moving holder so that the moving holder is movable, a reflecting member provided on the movable holder, and a driving part including a plurality of magnets provided on the moving holder, and a plurality of coils provided on the board and respectively opposing the plurality of magnets, wherein the plurality of coils are disposed to oppose the plurality of magnets through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong Won Jeong, Jae Kyung Kim, Young Bok Yoon, Hyun Kag Park
  • Patent number: 11567250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a near-infrared absorbing article and an optical filter utilizing the same, wherein the near-infrared absorbing article comprises a glass substrate including a compressive stress layer having a predetermined thickness, thus to provide a thin thickness and a certain level of strength or more. Therefore, it has an advantage that can be cut by using a blade or a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Chung, Seonho Yang, Taekwang Park, Namwoo Kang, Sunghwan Moon, Seungman Han, Hoseong Na
  • Patent number: 11567340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical unit with shake correction function capable of preventing a thrust receiving member, which fixes a sphere, from falling off from the movable body in an optical axis direction. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a thrust receiving member to which a first sphere is fixed is held by a holding portion formed of the cutout recess provided in a fixed body. A bottom wall surface of the holding portion makes contact with a bent plate portion of the thrust receiving member from ?Z direction side. Further, locked surface parts provided on a pair of side wall surfaces of a holding portion make contact, from +Z direction side, with a pair of locking plate portions protruding from a bent plate portion in circumferential direction in the thrust receiving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yanagisawa, Tadashi Takeda, Shinji Minamisawa, Jun Yamashita, Takeshi Sue, Chanyoung Moon, Hyungjin Rho, Doukyoung Song, Hongbum Park
  • Patent number: 11555948
    Abstract: An optical element comprising a window formed of synthetic diamond material and an optical surface pattern formed directly in a surface of the synthetic diamond material. The window of synthetic diamond material is in the form of a wedged diamond window with non-parallel major surfaces defining a wedge angle in a range (1) arcminute to 10° and the optical surface pattern is formed directly in one or both of the non-parallel major surfaces. There is also described a laser system comprising the optical element and a laser having a coherence length, wherein the coherence length of the laser is greater than twice a thickness of the wedged diamond window at its thickest point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Element Six Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Alexander Clark Muhr
  • Patent number: 11556046
    Abstract: A two-photon logic gate introduces a phase shift between two photons using a Q-switched cavity with some nonlinearity. The two-photon logic gate catches photons in and releases photons from de-coupled cavity modes in response to electronic or photonic control signals. This “catch-and-release” two-photon gate can be formed in semiconductor photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that operates at room temperature. When combined with sources, linear circuits, other logic gates, and detectors, it can be used to make a quantum computer with up to 1000 error-corrected logical qubits on a cm2 PIC, with full qubit connectivity to avoid overhead. Two-qubit gate fidelity exceeding 99% is possible with near-term technology, and scaling beyond 99.9% is possible. Two-photon logic gates are also suitable for gate-based quantum digital computing and for analog quantum computing schemes, such as adiabatic quantum computing or quantum annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, THE USA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SEC. OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: Mikkel Heuck, Dirk Robert Englund, Kurt Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11543640
    Abstract: A confocal optical system includes a light source and a spinning polarizer disposed in the optical pathway such the light emitted from the light source passes through the spinning polarizer. A first objective lens is disposed in the optical pathway to allow passage of light that passes through the spinning polarizer. A microlens array member is disposed adjacent the first objective lens to receive light. The microlens array member includes a plate having a plurality of holes arranged in an array pattern. A second objective lens is disposed in the optical pathway to receive and allow passage of light to a sample. The optical pathway is arranged such that, after reaching the sample, the light is directed back through the second objective lens, the microlens or microlens with filter array, and the first objective lens and a fluorescent filter cube as an emission beam to reach at least one camera which provides an image of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Laxco Incorporated
    Inventor: Congliang Chen
  • Patent number: 11543674
    Abstract: An optical unit with an image stabilization function includes a movable body having an annular holder for holding a camera module, a swing support mechanism for swingably supporting the movable body, and a fixing body for supporting the movable body with the swing support mechanism interposed between them. The holder includes three or more of a plurality of protrusions that project radially. The fixing body includes a plurality of arc surfaces that come into contact with each of the plurality of protrusions from the outer peripheral side. The swing support mechanism includes the plurality of protrusions and the plurality of arc surfaces. The arc surface is a concave curved surface obtained by transferring part of a virtual spherical surface centered on a preset swing center point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sazai, Tsutomu Arai, Tomohiro Egawa, Shinji Minamisawa, Takayuki Iwase, Takeshi Sue, Genki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11543569
    Abstract: Provided are an optical filter having excellent light fastness and moisture resistance and having excellent detection accuracy, a structure, and an optical sensor. An optical filter 10a includes a near infrared transmitting filter 1 and a dielectric multi-layer film 2. In this optical filter, the dielectric multi-layer film 2 and the near infrared transmitting filter 1 are in contact with each other, or an organic layer 3 is provided between the dielectric multi-layer film 2 and the near infrared transmitting filter 3. In the optical filter, at least two wavelengths at which a transmittance in a wavelength range of 600 nm or longer and shorter than 1050 nm is 50% are present, and in a case where a wavelength on a shortest wavelength side is represented by ?1 and a wavelength on a longest wavelength side is represented by ?2 among the wavelengths at which the transmittance is 50%, predetermined conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Mori
  • Patent number: 11536982
    Abstract: An anti-vibration optical device includes an objective lens group provided on one side of a housing, an eyepiece group provided on another side of the housing, an image blur corrector housed into the housing to be located between the objective lens group and the eyepiece group and including an erecting prism, a gimbal mechanism rotatably supporting the erecting prism and an actuator for rotating the erecting prism via the gimbal mechanism, a first angular velocity detection sensor configured to detect a first angular velocity, which is an angular velocity of the housing, a second angular velocity detection sensor configured to detect a second angular velocity, which is an angular velocity of the erecting prism, and a controller configured to control the actuator on the basis of the first angular velocity and the second angular velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KAMAKURA KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruo Itoh, Kazuya Miyaji
  • Patent number: 11536953
    Abstract: A confocal microscope device for scanning a two-dimensional array of illumination beams over a target surface and scanning a corresponding two-dimensional array of emission beams stimulated by the array of illumination beams on to a sensor of an imaging device. The device comprises first scanning optics operable to scan the array of illumination beams over the target surface along a first axis and scan the array of emission beams over the sensor along the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: VisiTech International Limited
    Inventors: Steven Coleman, Andrew Roberts, Jafer Sheblee
  • Patent number: 11520094
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a polarizing device and a method for preparing the same, a display substrate, and a display device. The polarizing device includes: a base substrate, a metal wire grid, and an anti-reflection layer, in which the metal wire grid is arranged on the base substrate, the anti-reflection layer is arranged on the surface of the metal wire grid away from the base substrate, and the anti-reflection layer is a carbon film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuilang Dong, Da Lu, Qingzhao Liu, Guoqiang Wang, Zhanfeng Cao, Jiushi Wang
  • Patent number: 11520162
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lens driving device, a camera, and an electronic apparatus with a small size, a large correction angle and an excellent hand vibration correction effect. The lens driving device includes a case having an accommodation space, which accommodates a lens module; support frames, support members, and an electromagnetic driving device, for freely rotating the lens module in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction; and a base for fixing a circuit board; the electromagnetic driving device is arranged at the support frames and at the base for fixing the circuit board, and is arranged adjacent to a level of a center of gravity of the lens module; and the support frames includes a first support frame and a second support frame, each of the first support frame and the second support frame has different movement axes in a plane and is rotatable freely relative to the base for fixing the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Chiu, Kazuo Shikama
  • Patent number: 11513364
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driver including a shake correction part, a lens module capable of driving in a direction horizontal to an optical axis of a reflected light, a shaft for supporting the lens module, an upper cover, a lower cover, a magnet, a coil, and a yoke. The shake correction part is provided with a prism, a prism cover, a second holding frame, a support part that performs double-shaft supporting, a shaft a of the shake correction part, and another shaft b of the shake correction part. The prism is rotatable in a direction a and a rotation direction b with respect to an optical axis of an incident light. The prism is mounted on the first holding frame on the fixture base. The lens driver provided can adjust movement of the optical axis, thereby achieving anti-dithering and thus obtaining good image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shikama Kazuo, Yoshifumi Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11513271
    Abstract: A reflective wire grid polarizer (WGP) can include an array of wires 12 on a face of a substrate 11, with channels 15 between adjacent wires 12. The wires 12 can have certain characteristics for WGP performance, such as index of refraction, alternating high/low index continuous thin films, thickness of layer(s), duty cycle, reflective rib shape, a curved side of transparent ribs 21 or 32, aspect ratio, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Moxtek, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bacon-Brown, Michael Black, R. Stewart Nielson, Bradley R. Williams, Benjamin Downard, Jeffrey H. Rice, Jim Pierce
  • Patent number: 11493673
    Abstract: Article (9,19) comprising a substrate (10, 20) comprising a polymer and having first (11,21) and second (12, 22) opposed major surfaces. The first major surface (11, 21) has first surface regions (13, 23) with first nanoparticles (14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 24a, 24b, 24c, 24d) partially embedded into the first major surface (11, 21), and one of •(a) second surface regions (15) free of nanoparticles; or •(b) second surface regions (25) with at least second nanoparticles (28) on the first major surface (11, 21) or partially embedded into the first major surface (11, 21). The first surface regions (13, 23) have a first average surface roughness, Ra1, of at least 20 nm, wherein the second surface regions (15, 25) have a second average surface roughness, Ra2, of less than 100 nm, wherein the first average surface roughness, Ra1, is greater than the second average surface roughness, Ra2, and wherein there is an absolute difference between the first and second average surface roughness of at least 10 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Matthew H. Frey, Megan A. Creighton, Morgan A. Priolo, Benjamin R. Coonce