Patents Examined by Kristina M Deherrera
  • Electrical/optical multimodal sensor using multi-functional 3D nano-architecture materials and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 11719664
    Abstract: A multimodal sensor of high sensitivity and high selectivity using multifunctional three-dimensional nanostructure having electric and optical sensing ability and a method thereof are provided. The method includes forming multi-layered nanowires including a multifunctional material, transferring the nanowires to a plurality of layers onto a target substrate to form the three-dimensional nanostructure, heat-treating the three-dimensional nanostructure, and forming electrode layers at the three-dimensional nanostructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yeon Sik Jung, Hyeuk Jin Han, Seunghee Cho, Gyurac Lee
  • Gas exchange transient buffering systems and methods
    Patent number: 11719679
    Abstract: Gas exchange analysis methods and systems utilize a water vapor buffering component including a material configured to buffer water vapor in a flow of a gas, whereby fluctuations in the water vapor content in the flow of the gas are slowed for components downstream from the water vapor buffering component. Components downstream of the water vapor buffering component may include: a first water vapor sensor configured to receive the flow of the gas from the water vapor buffering component and configured to measure a first concentration of water vapor in the gas; a sample chamber configured to receive the gas exiting the water vapor buffering component or the first water vapor sensor and to hold a sample capable of adding or removing water vapor from the gas; and a second water vapor sensor configured to measure a second concentration of water vapor in the gas exiting the sample chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LI-COR, INC.
    Inventors: Mark A. Johnson, Robert D. Eckles, Douglas J. Lynch, Johnathan I. E. McCoy, Jason Hupp
  • Annular detachable rubber probe sidewall contact device
    Patent number: 11702934
    Abstract: An annular detachable rubber probe sidewall contact device includes: a body which is columnar, wherein a high-pressure output oil path and a high-pressure retracting oil path are arranged in the body; a sidewall contact arm comprising multiple polar plates which are symmetrically distributed on an external circumference of the body, wherein each of the polar plates is movably installed on the body through a piston rod, and the piston rod is perpendicular to the body; the body has a piston cavity for accommodating the piston rod, and the piston cavity communicates with both the high-pressure output oil path and the high-pressure retracting oil path; and a sampling pipe, wherein one end of the sampling pipe is connected to the polar plates, and the other end of the sampling pipe communicates with a sampling channel in the body through a sampling cavity in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Shaobin Wang
  • Imaging lens and imaging device
    Patent number: 11703666
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens and an imaging device with a wide angle of view capable of forming an image of an object near an optical axis with a high resolution while having a small size as a whole. The imaging lens is an imaging lens including a first lens G1 having a convex surface on an object side and having a negative refractive power, a second lens G2 having a concave surface on an object side, a third lens G3, a fourth lens G4, a fifth lens G5, and a sixth lens G6, which are sequentially arranged from the object side, and satisfies a predetermined condition. Further, an imaging device according to the present invention includes the imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hagiwara
  • Wide-angle lens assembly
    Patent number: 11698512
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens assembly includes a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth lenses. The first and second lenses are meniscus lenses with negative refractive power. The third and ninth lenses are with negative refractive power. The fourth lens is with refractive power and includes a concave surface facing an object side. The fifth, sixth, and eighth lenses are with positive refractive power. The seventh lens is with refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the object side. The tenth lens is with refractive power and includes a concave surface facing an image side. The wide-angle lens assembly satisfies: 6<f5/f<8.5; wherein f5 is an effective focal length in mm of the fifth lens and f is an effective focal length in mm of the wide-angle lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Jian-Wei Lee, Shu-Hung Lin
  • Extender lens, optical system, and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 11675173
    Abstract: An extender lens changes a focal length of an entire lens system after replacement to a longer focal length side than a focal length of a master lens by replacing a part of the master lens with the extender lens. The extender lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group, and a negative second lens group. The first lens group is a lens group that has a positive refractive power as a whole and has a shortest focal length among lens groups consisting of one lens component or a plurality of consecutively arranged lens components. The extender lens satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Daiki Komatsu
  • Zoom lens
    Patent number: 11668913
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical lens, and provides a zoom lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power; distances between adjacent two of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens and the fifth lens group are variable in the direction of the optical axis; the fifth lens group including a fifth lens having a positive refractive power and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein the zoom lens satisfies conditions of: f_Tele/f_Wide>1.8; ?1.85?f3/f2??1.20; and 2.00?f4/f2?3.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 11650401
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a positive fourth lens group, and a positive fifth lens group. During zooming, the first lens group and the fifth lens group are not moved, and the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are moved. The second lens group includes a negative lens closest to the object side. In a case where a focal length of the second lens group is denoted by f2 and a focal length of the negative lens of the second lens group closest to the object side is denoted by f21, the zoom lens satisfies 0.6<f2/f21<0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinkichi Ikeda
  • Image capturing lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device
    Patent number: 11630289
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes three lens groups including five lens elements. The three lens groups are, in order from an object side to an image side: first, second and third lens groups. The five lens elements are, in order from the object side to the image side: first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements. The first lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. At least one lens element has an inflection point. A focal length of the image capturing lens system is varied by changing axial distances between the three lens groups in a zooming process. The image capturing lens system has a long-focal-length end and a short-focal-length end. The second lens group is moved relative to the first lens group along an optical axis in the zooming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 11604339
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a positive fourth lens group, and a positive fifth lens group. During zooming, the first lens group and the fifth lens group are not moved, and the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are moved. The first lens group consists of one negative lens and five positive lenses in order from the object side to an image side. Predetermined conditional expressions related to a refractive index, an Abbe number, and a partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens of the first lens group are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Motoari Ota
  • Dark mirror optical stack and related systems
    Patent number: 11604307
    Abstract: A dark mirror optical stack, particularly a low emittance, high absorbance dark mirror optical stack is provided. The dark mirror optical stack includes a polyimide substrate containing carbon filler, an aluminum layer on the polyimide substrate, a first silicon oxide layer on the aluminum layer, a chromium layer on the first silicon oxide layer, and a second silicon oxide layer on the chromium layer. In a particularly exemplary embodiment, the aluminum layer has an average thickness of 600 to 2000 Angstroms, the first and second silicon oxide layers have average thicknesses of 500 to 1000 Angstroms, and the chromium layer has an average thickness of 40 to 100 Angstroms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Mark Hasegawa, George Harris, Nithin Abraham, Christine Cottingham
  • Camera lens
    Patent number: 11573403
    Abstract: The present invention provides a camera lens consisting of eight lenses and having a small height, a wide angle, and good optical properties. The camera lens includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; a seventh lens having a positive or negative refractive power; and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera lens satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Nitta, Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Optical lens set
    Patent number: 11567304
    Abstract: An optical-lens-set includes a first lens element of a concave image-side surface near its optical-axis, a sixth lens element of negative refractive power and of a concave image-side surface near its optical-axis to go with a fifth lens element of a concave object-side surface near its optical-axis or with a seventh lens element of negative refractive power. The Abbe number ?1 of the first lens element, the Abbe number ?3 of the third lens element, the Abbe number ?4 of the fourth lens element, the Abbe number ?5 of the fifth lens element, the Abbe number ?6 of the sixth lens element and the Abbe number ?7 of the seventh lens element together satisfy 5?5?1?(?3+?4+?5+?6+?7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ta-Cheng Fan, Zhenfeng Xie, Yanxuan Yin
  • Eyewear with printed circuit board supporting messages
    Patent number: 11513371
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a lens holder, a first temple with a first end close to the lens holder and a second end, a second temple, an electrical connector and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board with at least one electrical component can be in the first temple. The connector can be close to the first end of the first temple, facing downward, and electrically connected to the at least one electrical component. In another embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a first printed circuit board, with at least one electrical component. The first printed circuit board can be connected to an electrical component at the frame via a second printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: IngenioSpec, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Howell, David Chao, C. Douglass Thomas, Peter P. Tong
  • Near-eye display device
    Patent number: 11500215
    Abstract: A near-eye display device is provided, including a display light source, a rotation module and a refractive amplification component. The rotation module rotates around the rotation center axis. The rotation module is provided with a light source scanning component and a mirror group. The light source scanning component converts the light of some pixel points of the display light source into radial propagation, and then the light is emitted through the mirror group and the refractive amplification component. The light source scanning component turns the light of some pixel points of the display light source into radial propagation, so that the optical path becomes radial direction from axial direction, and increases the optical path distance without increasing the volume of the device, which is conducive to reducing the thickness and volume of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Yanzhao Zhang
  • Zoom lens and imaging device
    Patent number: 11487092
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group that is positive, a second lens group that is negative, a third lens group that is positive, and a fourth lens group that is positive. During zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, at least the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed and an interval on an optical axis of an adjacent lens group relative thereto is changed. In the zoom lens, the fourth lens group includes at least one positive lens and satisfies a predetermined conditional expression. In addition, an imaging device includes the zoom lens and an image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tabata, Takahiro Mitsuhashi, Toshiya Segawa
  • Contact lens product
    Patent number: 11467425
    Abstract: A contact lens product includes a multifocal contact lens and a buffer solution. The multifocal contact lens includes a central region and at least one annular region. The annular region concentrically surrounds the central region. A diopter of the annular region is different from a diopter of the central region. The multifocal contact lens is immersed in the buffer solution, and the buffer solution includes a cycloplegic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: En-Ping Lin, Wei-Yuan Chen, Chun-Hung Teng
  • Wearable electronic device on head
    Patent number: 11467405
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device according to the present disclosure. In the electronic device according to the present disclosure, a light source unit is disposed to be parallel to a first optical axis formed when eyes of the user look straight ahead; The electronic device according to the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changkyu Hwang, Sungchul Shin, Seungyong Shin, Dongyoung Lee
  • Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 11454789
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, a positive fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group in order from an object side. In a case of zooming, an interval with an adjacent lens group is changed. The third lens group includes two positive lenses consecutively arranged in order from a side closest to the object side to an image side. The fifth lens group consists of a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface toward the object side and a positive lens having a convex surface toward the object side in order from the object side to the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Taiga Noda, Michio Cho
  • Article including a non-light-emitting variable transmission device and a coating
    Patent number: 11442325
    Abstract: An article can include a non-light-emitting, variable transmission device and a coating disposed between the non-light-emitting, variable transmission device and an ambient outside the article. In an embodiment, the article has a ?E of at most 6.5. In another embodiment, the coating includes a plurality of layers including a first layer having a refractive index of at least 2.2 and a thickness of at least 10 nm. The coating can be used to help reduce color differences seen when the non-light-transmitting, variable transmission device is taken to different transmission states. In a particular embodiment, the coating can provide a good balance between color difference and luminous transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAGE ELECTROCHROMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Julien Orillard, Alexandre Richard, Paul Mogensen, Nicolas Antoine Mercadier, Henry Kelley, Mathew Bowser