Patents Examined by Kristina Deherrera
  • Patent number: 9968487
    Abstract: A glasses structure comprises a main body and a sub-frame assembled at the rear of a lens of the main body. The inner surface of a frame body of the sub-frame is attached with a pad, which pad is formed with an upper contact portion and a central contact portion corresponding to the upper edge and the central shape of the frame body. Two nose pieces are formed at the both sides of the central contact portion of the pad, and the upper contact portion of the pad are respectively contacted with the user's nose and forehead to avoid pain when the user wears the glasses. Furthermore, the colored and patterned frame body of the sub-frame is shown from the transparent lens of the main body, whereby the glasses with suitable color and pattern being chosen to dress with the user's clothes and style, increasing the user's fashion and beauty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Hsien Chang Optical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-Hsiung Chou
  • Patent number: 9958642
    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: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Kuo-Yu Liao, Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9958661
    Abstract: An apparatus for structured illumination of a specimen comprises an illumination device for generating illumination beams. The illumination beams are incident on a mask device. Openings provided in the mask device serve for generating a mask image. The mask image is imaged within the specimen with the aid of an objective. Detection beams generated by the specimen are captured by a detection device. For increasing the intensity of the observation beams entering the specimen, those beams which do not pass through the openings, are collected with the aid of a beam collector and guided back to the mask device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Perkinelmer Cellular Technologies Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Stange, Stefan Lüpke
  • Patent number: 9939662
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrochromic nanocomposite film. In an exemplary embodiment, the electrochromic nanocomposite film, includes (1) a solid matrix of oxide based material and (2) transparent conducting oxide (TCO) nanostructures embedded in the matrix. In a further embodiment, the electrochromic nanocomposite film farther includes a substrate upon which the matrix is deposited. The present invention also provides a method of preparing an electrochromic nanocomposite film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Delia Milliron, Anna Llordes, Raffaella Buonsanti, Guillermo Garcia
  • Patent number: 9933591
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens barrel and a lens group accommodated in the lens barrel. The lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, each of the first lens and the second lens including an arc part and a peripheral part around the arc part. A matching structure is formed by the peripheral part of the second lens and the peripheral part of the first lens. By virtue of the matching structure, the lens module of the present disclosure has a high concentricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 9927681
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driving device which includes: a lens holder including a coil; a frame for receiving the lens holder; a driving circuit board disposed below the frame; a plurality of first conductive elastic bodies disposed in a manner to keep the lens holder moving in a Z-axis direction; and a plurality of second conductive elastic bodies disposed in a manner to keep the frame moving in a direction perpendicular to the Z-axis direction. The lens driving device further comprises a plurality of electrical contact-oriented Z-axis position sensor. The Z-axis position sensor senses the motion of the lens holder in the Z-axis direction. An electronic circuit between a portion of the plurality of electrical contacts and the coil of the lens holder comprises a Molded Interconnect Device and a portion of the first conductive elastic bodies. The Molded Interconnect Device is disposed on the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Shu-Shan Chen, Cheng-Kai Yu, Bing-Ru Song
  • Patent number: 9927631
    Abstract: An interchangeable frame for eyeglasses comprises an upper frame and a lower frame, which are respectively formed corresponding lens-assembling portions. The connection site between the upper frame and the lower frame has a connection block and a connection notch, corresponded to connect to each other, and the both sides of the connection block and the connection notch have a ditch and a flange, engaging upon each other, making the upper frame and the lower frame connect to form in one. Therefore, according to the required, the upper frame and the lower frame can be assembled and disassembled freely to form the semi-rim eyeglasses or the full-rim eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Prohero Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pen-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9918619
    Abstract: A highly corrected relay system for medical endoscopes or the like is provided. The system includes a plurality of bonded lenses that are selected to provide color correction from the blue region of the spectrum through to the near infrared region of the spectrum. The system allows co-located visible and near infrared images to be resolved on a single detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: NOVADAQ TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: John Tesar
  • Patent number: 9904036
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens includes 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 positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least two inequalities, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics, increases the effective focal length and narrows the angle of view while the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Chen, Feng Li, Zhenfeng Xie
  • Patent number: 9874761
    Abstract: An autostereoscopic display uses a light diffusing arrangement which provides a greater degree of light diffusion for ambient light passing into the display than for the light modulated by the display pixels and exiting the display after reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Eibert Gerjan Van Putten, Olexandr Valentynovych Vdovin, Mark Thomas Johnson
  • Patent number: 9864180
    Abstract: An asymmetric curved-surface prismatic image display optical system includes a first prism and second and third prisms respectively arranged in front of and behind the first prism. The first prism includes a light-exiting planar surface that is at an eye-adjacent side and is opposite to a light-entering planar surface of the second prism with an air gap therebetween and may serve as a reference for inspection of a free-form curved surface. The second prism has a light-exiting planar surface at the eye-adjacent side and parallel to a side planar surface of the third prism to allow an external-world image to be seen more clearly. Light from an image displaying panel first enters the first prism and is subjected to total internal reflection by the light-exiting planar surface toward the reflective curved surface to be reflected and re-directed to transmit through the second prism for image formation on a retina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MIN AIK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Po Yeh, Wei-Lung Lai, Hsin-I Chen
  • Patent number: 9846326
    Abstract: A light diffusion member includes a substrate that has optical transparency, a light diffusion portion that is formed with a prescribed height on one surface of the substrate, a light shielding layer that is formed with a thickness less than the height of the light diffusion portion in another region of the one surface of the substrate than the light diffusion portion, and an antiglare layer that is formed on the other surface of the substrate. The light diffusion portion includes a light emission end surface that contacts with the substrate, a light incident end surface that faces the light emission end surface and has a larger area than an area of the light emission end surface, and a side surface that is formed between the light emission end surface and the light incident end surface, and the antiglare layer includes a binder layer and plural light diffusion particles that are dispersedly arranged in the binder layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Katsuta, Yasushi Asaoka, Toru Kanno, Hideomi Yui, Emi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9835779
    Abstract: To provide a near infrared cutoff filter capable of suppressing an influence to a captured image when the incidence angle of light to the near infrared cutoff filter is large. The near infrared cutoff filter comprises a substrate to transmit at least light in the visible wavelength region and, on at least one side of the substrate, an infrared reflective layer constituted by a layered film having a high refractive index film H and a low refractive index film L repeatedly laminated, or a layered film having a high refractive index film H, an intermediate refractive index film M and a low refractive index film L? repeatedly laminated, and has light transmittance characteristics such that the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value among the decrease rates in average transmittance in region R, region G and region B, is at most 0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Mitsuyuki Tatemura
  • Patent number: 9835824
    Abstract: A camera lens system is disclosed. The camera lens system includes five lens groups lined up from the object side. The lens groups includes a first lens group having a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a third lens having a positive refractive power and the a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens group having a fifth lens having a convex image side surface and a positive refractive power; a fifth lens group having a sixth lens having a concave image side surface and a negative refractive power. An image side surface of the third lens is connected to an object side surface of the fourth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN)CO., LTD
    Inventors: Issac Jang, Jay Park
  • Patent number: 9834433
    Abstract: A piezoelectric optical micro-electro-mechanical systems (POMEMS) device includes a glass layer having a bottom surface and a top surface. The device may also include an upper moisture barrier layer having a top surface and a bottom surface in which the bottom surface of the top moisture barrier layer is substantially coextensive with and interfaces with the top surface of the glass layer. A piezo stack may be attached above the upper moisture barrier layer. The device may also include a lower moisture barrier layer having a bottom surface and a top surface. The top surface of the lower moisture barrier layer is substantially coextensive with and interfaces with the bottom surface of the glass layer. A semiconductor substrate may be attached below the bottom moisture barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: YungShan Chang, Ricky A. Jackson
  • Patent number: 9810885
    Abstract: A retro-focus type imaging-optical system is disclosed. The imaging-optical system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side a first lens group, an aperture stop, and a second lens group. The first lens group includes, in order from the object side, a positive first F lens group and a negative first R lens group. The first F lens group includes a positive meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side. The first R lens group includes a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side and a positive lens. The second lens group includes, in order from the object side, a positive second F lens group and a second R lens group, and the second F lens group includes a positive lens element having a convex meniscus shape on the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakayama, Hiroshi Nakanuma
  • Patent number: 9804375
    Abstract: An apparatus forming an area of minimum light intensity enclosed by high light intensity includes two objectives focusing light of opposite directions into a common focal area. Light intensities of a first pair of light beams extinguish each other in a first partial area of the focal area. Beam paths of the first pair of beams pass through the objectives in a first pair of partial areas of the pupils of the objectives. Light intensities of a second pair of light beams extinguish each other in a second partial area of the focal area. Beam paths of the second pair of light beams pass through the objectives in a second pair of partial areas which are offset with regard to the first pair of partial areas of the pupils; and the light of the second pair does not interfere with the light of the first pair of light beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM
    Inventor: Johann Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 9798059
    Abstract: A grid polarizing element has a structure that can prevent deteriorations due to an oxidization gas. The grid polarizing element is preferably used to polarize light in a ultraviolet light region. The grid polarizing element includes a transparent substrate and a grid layer disposed on the transparent substrate. The grid layer has a plurality of linear portions, and is shaped like a stripe. The grid layer is covered with a gas blocking layer to block the oxidization gas generated by the ultraviolet light such as ozone and active oxygen species. The gas blocking layer is transparent at a wavelength of the light to be polarized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsuruoka, Ryuhei Araki
  • Patent number: 9798157
    Abstract: An image stabilizing apparatus includes a movable member holding a lens, a moving unit configured to move the movable member in a predetermined plane, a tilting unit configured to tilt the movable member relative to predetermined plane, a detection unit configured to detect shake, and a control unit configured to control the moving unit and the tilting unit based on shake information obtained from the detection unit. The control unit sets a tilt target value of the tilting unit in accordance with a displacement target value of the moving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromu Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9778441
    Abstract: A camera lens includes, lined up from the object side to the image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, a fourth lens with positive refractive power, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, and a sixth lens with positive refractive power. The camera lens satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka