Patents Examined by John Curtis Sipes
  • Patent number: 12265280
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field of optical lenses, and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes seven lenses. An order of the seven lenses is sequentially from an object side to an image side, which is shown as follows: a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a refractive power, a fourth lens having a refractive power, a fifth lens having a refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. While the camera optical lens has good optical performance, the camera optical lens further meets design requirements of large aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thinness. In addition, on-axis and off-axis chromatic aberrations are fully corrected and the camera optical lens has excellent optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Liu
  • Patent number: 12259529
    Abstract: A lens assembly comprises a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eighth lens which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a meniscus lens with negative refractive power and comprises a convex surface facing an object side and a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is with negative refractive power. The third lens is with refractive power. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with positive refractive power and comprises a convex surface facing the image side. The sixth lens is with refractive power. The seventh lens is with positive refractive power. The eighth lens is with refractive negative power and comprises a concave surface facing the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASI OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: An-Kai Chang
  • Patent number: 12248122
    Abstract: A shortwave to midwave infrared (SWIR-MWIR) optical window includes a substrate formed from a nanocomposite optical ceramic material and a coating disposed on the substrate to provide electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection. The coating is electrically conductive and SWIR-MWIR transparent and comprises a doped zinc oxide material. A method of protecting an EO/IR sensor from electromagnetic interference (EMI) includes depositing a thin film electrically conductive and SWIR-MWIR transparent coating over a surface an optical window of the EO/IR sensor. The optical window is formed from a nanocomposite optical ceramic material and has a curved surface. The thin film electrically conductive and SWIR-MWIR transparent coating comprises an electrically conductive zinc oxide material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Eric Riedel, Ralph Korenstein
  • Patent number: 12242089
    Abstract: A color filter module is provided. The color filter module is arranged on a display panel. The color filter module includes a transparent substrate and a color resist layer. The transparent substrate includes multiple sub-pixel regions arranged in an array. The color resist layer is arranged on the transparent substrate. The color resist layer includes multiple color resist units. The color resist units are respectively arranged across at least two sub-pixel regions, and the color resist units form a staggered array on the transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Ian French, Po-Yuan Lo, Liang-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 12235484
    Abstract: The present application can provide a thin polarizing plate having excellent antireflection performance in all directions including the side as well as the front, and having excellent folding durability and durability against short wavelengths. In addition, the present application can provide an organic light-emitting display device to which the polarizing plate is applied and a display device comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Je Kim, Je Hyuk Yoo, Woo Yong Cho, Yun Ki Park, Byeong Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12235561
    Abstract: A light ray direction control element includes a first light transmitting substrate, a second light transmitting substrate facing the first light transmitting substrate, a first light transmitting region provided on a first main surface of the first light transmitting substrate, a second light transmitting region provided on a first main surface of the second light transmitting substrate, first light absorbing regions positioned among the first light transmitting region, and second light absorbing regions positioned among the second light transmitting region. The light ray direction control element further includes a light transmitting dispersion medium enclosed in the first light absorbing regions and the second light absorbing regions, and charged electrophoretic particles dispersed in the light transmitting dispersion medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Shiota, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 12235571
    Abstract: To solve the problems of the prior art, an optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed part, a movable part, and a driving assembly. The movable part is movable relative to the fixed part. The driving assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the fixed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Wei-Jhe Shen, Yi-Ho Chen, Kai-Po Fan
  • Patent number: 12210141
    Abstract: The optical system includes, a first lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex near an optical axis, and an image side surface thereof being concave near the optical axis; a second lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex near the optical axis, and an image side surface thereof being concave near the optical axis; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex near the optical axis; a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex near the optical axis, and an image side surface thereof being concave near the optical axis; the optical system satisfies the following condition: 1?TTL/ImgH?1.12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Yang, Lu Hua, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 12210213
    Abstract: A camera lens group sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens (E1) with a refractive power, wherein an object-side surface (S1) thereof is a concave surface, while an image-side surface (S2) is a convex surface; a second lens (E2) with a refractive power, wherein an object-side surface (S3) is a convex surface, while an image-side surface (S4) is a concave surface; a third lens (E3) with a positive refractive power; a fourth lens (E4) with a refractive power; a fifth lens (E5) with a positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface (S9) thereof is a concave surface, while an image-side surface (S10) is a convex surface; and a sixth lens (E6) with a negative refractive power, wherein an object-side surface (S11) thereof is a convex surface, while an image-side surface (S12) is a concave surface. A half ImgH of a diagonal length of an effective pixel region on an imaging surface (S15) of the camera lens group meets ImgH>4.60 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Li, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12189113
    Abstract: Provided is a monitor device used with a Fabry-Perot interference filter having a pair of mirror parts and a pair of driving electrodes, and having a distance between the mirror parts changed in accordance with charges stored between the driving electrodes. The monitor device includes: a current application unit that applies an AC current having a frequency higher than a resonant frequency of the mirror parts across the driving electrodes; a voltage detection unit that detects a temporal development of a voltage generated between the driving electrodes during application of the AC current; a control unit that controls the AC current across the driving electrodes, based on an evaluation of a DC component of the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit; and a monitor unit that monitors the distance between the mirror parts based on an AC component of the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Andreas Durandi, Helmut Teichmann
  • Patent number: 12055689
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with negative refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, a fourth lens with negative refractive power, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, wherein said fourth lens has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Tokuno, Zhiyu Huang
  • Patent number: 12038564
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a sixth lens element from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. An optical axis region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is concave, a periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is convex, a periphery region of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex. Lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only six lens elements described above. ImgH is an image height of the optical imaging lens and AAG is a sum of five air gaps from the first lens element to the sixth lens element along the optical axis to satisfy ImgH/AAG?3.200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingzhi Zhu, Lanlan Zhang, Hai Lin, Hung-Chien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 12032175
    Abstract: An imaging correction unit and an imaging module are provided. The imaging correction unit has an optical axis, and includes an optical turning element and two wedge-shaped optical elements. The optical turning element has a light emitting surface, and the light emitting surface has a first included angle with respect to the optical axis. Each of the two wedge-shaped optical elements has an inclined optical surface, and the inclined optical surface has a second included angle with respect to the optical axis. The light emitting surface of the optical turning element faces one of the two wedge-shaped optical elements, and the two wedge-shaped optical elements are rotatable relative to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU LUXVISIONS INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Chuan-Hui Liu