Patents Examined by James Jones
  • Patent number: 10073273
    Abstract: In a frame part, a center portion having a thick structure is provided between a first optical member as a first light guide unit and a second optical member as a second light guide unit to connect to both and fixes relative positions of the first optical member and the second optical member by the center portion, and thereby, reduction in weight and size of the frame part is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Miyao, Takahiro Totani, Masayuki Takagi, Takashi Takeda, Akira Komatsu, Kazuya Kamakura
  • Patent number: 10073317
    Abstract: A color reflective display includes a substrate, an electrode pattern layer formed on the substrate, a reflective display-material layer formed on the electrode pattern layer, a light-transmissive electrode layer formed on the reflective display-material layer, a transparent layer formed on the transmissive electrode layer, and a color filter layer formed on the transparent layer and including an array of colored pixels. The color reflective display satisfies a following first formula when (0.54×C)?15 ?m is zero or a positive value: (0.54×C)?15 ?m?D?(0.54×C), and the color reflective display satisfies a following second formula when (0.54×C)?15 ?m is a negative value: 0<D?(0.54×C), where C represents a distance from the reflective display-material layer to the color filter layer, and D represents a distance between adjacent colored pixels of the color filter layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Kobashi
  • Patent number: 10065572
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device (2) for a motor vehicle (1) having a mirror apparatus (13) which has a display element (7) with a semi-transparent mirror surface, and having a drive apparatus (15) by means of which the mirror apparatus (13) can be moved between a storage position and a position of use, wherein the mirror apparatus (13) has a sensor apparatus (22) which is configured to detect, in the position of use of the mirror apparatus (13), a force applied to the display element (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE
    Inventors: Daniel Kuntze, Lars Schoch, Karl Simonis
  • Patent number: 10067318
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, an object-side surface wherein an object-side surface of the first lens is convex and an image-side surface of the first lens is concave, a second lens having a negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of the second lens is concave, 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, wherein the first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 10054721
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes at least two lens elements and at least one light blocking sheet. Each of the lens elements includes a connecting structure for aligning the two lens elements. Each of the connecting structures includes a connecting surface and a circular conical surface, and a receiving space is formed between the two lens elements. A vertical distance between the receiving space and an optical axis is shorter than a vertical distance between each circular conical surface and the optical axis. The light blocking sheet is received in the receiving space and has a polygonal opening, and an outside diameter of the light blocking sheet is smaller than or equal to a minimum diameter of each circular conical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Hsu, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10054764
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system is provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Kuo-Yu Liao, Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10048467
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens elements arranged in order from the object side to the image side. The first lens element has an image-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of its periphery, the second lens element has an image-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis, the third lens element has positive refractive power, the fourth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex part in a vicinity of its periphery, the fifth lens element has an object-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis, the sixth lens element has an image-side surface with a concave part in a vicinity of the optical axis. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih Han Chen, Huabin Liao, Changlin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10048468
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10048409
    Abstract: An optical film includes a base film including a base and first and second lens pattern portions, where the first lens pattern portion includes a first surface, a first side surface, which extends from one side of the first surface to a surface of the base and a second side surface, which extends from the other side of the first surface and the surface of the base, the second lens pattern portion includes a second surface, a third side surface, which extends from one side of the second surface to the surface of the base, and a fourth side surface, which extends from the other side of the second surface and the surface of the base, and an angle between an imaginary line and the surface of the base is less than about 50 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Hwan Lee, Je Won Yoo, Seung In Baek, Ju Youn Son
  • Patent number: 10048464
    Abstract: The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 10042234
    Abstract: One embodiment of an iris recognition camera can comprise: a liquid lens capable of adjusting the curvature of a lens front surface; a first adjusting part for adjusting the curvature of the front surface, of the liquid lens, to which the light is incident; an angle changing part rotating so as to change the angle in the direction of an optical axis of the liquid lens; and a second adjusting part for adjusting the rotational angle of the angle changing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10035461
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first substrate, a first electrode, a second substrate, a second electrode, an electrochromic material layer, a sealant, and a light shielding pattern layer. The first electrode is disposed on the first substrate. The second electrode is disposed on the second substrate. The electrochromic material layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and surrounds the electrochromic material layer. The light shielding pattern layer is disposed on the first substrate. The light shielding pattern layer shields the sealant and a little portion of the electrochromic material layer near the sealant. The first electrode disposed on the first substrate and the second electrode disposed on the second substrate are not electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: UNIDISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Hsien Lin, Leng-Chieh Lin, Wei-Chieh Wang, Meng-Chia Chan, Ming-Yuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 10036873
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical imaging lens, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element; a third lens element having positive refractive power; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and both the object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric; and a sixth lens element having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, at least one convex shape in an off-axial region on the image-side surface, and both an object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric. There are a total of six lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yen Chen, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10031339
    Abstract: An optical combiner includes an off-axis spatially multiplexed lens optically coupled to receive image light and direct the image light in an eye-ward direction. The off-axis spatially multiplexed lens includes a first sub-lens multiplexed with a second sub-lens. The first sub-lens and the sub-lens are configured to direct the image light to designated eyeward-regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bernard C. Kress, Greg E. Priest-Dorman
  • Patent number: 10018806
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes an aperture stop, first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order along an optical axis. The first lens element has a positive refractive power. The image-side surface of the second lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The image-side surface of the third lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery. The image-side surface of the fourth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Sheng-Wei Hsu, Chih-Yang Yeh
  • Patent number: 10012835
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device with a see-through type display capable of inhibiting the reduction of the visibility of a background seen through a screen due to light emission from bright spots resulting from scratches and stains on a light guiding plate. In this image display device, a liquid crystal panel 30, a light guiding plate 45 with a light source 40 attached thereto, and a transparent plate 20 are disposed, from the display surface (front) side to the rear side, so as to be parallel to one another, and therefore, the surface of the light guiding plate 45 is inhibited from being scratched or stained by the transparent plate 20. Thus, the visibility of the image display device 100 is prevented from being reduced by bright spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10007082
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base formed at a center thereof with a first opening; a housing coupled with the base and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; a yoke installed on the base and including a horizontal plate having a third opening corresponding to the first opening and a vertical plate protruding upward from the horizontal plate; a bobbin movably installed in the yoke and coupled with a lens module; a coil fixedly disposed around the bobbin; a plurality of magnets provided at the vertical plate of the yoke to face the coil; and a spring installed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the yoke to return the bobbin, which has moved up due to interaction between the magnet and the coil, to its initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Sang Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 10008959
    Abstract: A driving apparatus has a vibration plate, a vibrator having a piezoelectric element that excites vibration of the vibration plate, and first and second contact parts, and a friction member being in contact with the contact parts. The vibrator and the friction member relatively move with respect to each other, and the contact parts are provided at positions with and interpose an odd number of antinodal lines of vibration generated in a first direction of the vibrator along with excitation, and provided at positions with and interpose an odd number of nodal lines of vibration generated in a second direction of the vibrator along with excitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hitoshi Nishitani
  • Patent number: 10001652
    Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus includes a case member that stores a image element and is provided with a first end connected to other members, an optical component holding member with which an optical component guiding image light from the image element is assembled and that is provided with a second end connected to the first end, three or more protruding portions that are provided at one of the first end and the second end, have protrusion shapes, and extend toward the other end, three or more grooves that are provided at the other end, have depression shapes corresponding to the three or more protruding portions, and extend, and adhesive portions that fix the three or more protruding portions to the three or more grooves in a state in which the case member is aligned with the optical component holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Takagi, Toshiaki Miyao, Takashi Takeda, Akira Komatsu, Takuya Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10001692
    Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle) that includes a first functional group, and a first compound and a second compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer that includes a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer that contributes to dispersibility and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer including a second functional group having reactivity to the first functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound has a lower molecular weight than the first compound, includes a non-polar group and the second functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Inoue, Shinobu Yokokawa, Kiyoshi Nakamura, Tomoyuki Ushiyama