Patents Examined by Nicholas R Pasko
  • Patent number: 10663700
    Abstract: An anamorphic three-element objective lens projects a plurality of beams of different wavelengths and different diameters into an elongated focal spot in a working-plane. In one transverse direction of the lens, the beams are tightly focused with equal beam-waist widths in the working-plane, defining a height of the focal spot. In another transverse direction, the different beams are focused progressively beyond the working-plane such that the beams have a common beam-width in the working-plane, thereby defining a width of the focal spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Coherent, Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Wayne Winz, Lei Meng
  • Patent number: 10663693
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, the seventh lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having a critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The image-side surface and an object-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Chun-Che Hsueh, Chun-Yen Chen, Yu-Tai Tseng, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10649181
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10642070
    Abstract: Progressive addition lens includes a near portion having a power for viewing a near field, a distance portion having a power for viewing a distance field further than the near field, and an intermediate portion connecting the distance portion and the near portion. The progressive addition lens includes an aspherical object-side surface and an aspherical eyeball-side surface and is formed in rotational symmetry with respect to a center of design of the progressive addition lens. The object-side surface includes a first stable region formed in rotational symmetry with respect to the center of design and including the center of design, and an aspherical region arranged outside of the first stable region to contact the first stable region and formed in rotational symmetry with respect to the center of design. A Peak to Valley value of a mean surface refractive power in the first stable region is 0.12 D or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kaga, Toshihide Shinohara, Ayumu Ito, Hiroshi Asami
  • Patent number: 10643780
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for providing a flexible inductor. In an embodiment, the flexible inductor comprises a metal foil or other planar conductor, and inductive bodies disposed on opposite respective sides of the planar conductor. The inductive bodies each comprise a respective flexible suspension media and ferromagnetic particles disposed therein. A thickness of the planar conductor is in a range of 0.1 millimeters (mm) to 0.3 mm. In another embodiment, different layers of one inductive body vary from one another with respect to a thickness, a ferromagnetic material, a suspension media, an average size of ferromagnetic particles or a volume fraction of ferromagnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Arvind Sundaram
  • Patent number: 10620432
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a high contrast image on a display screen; and projecting the high contrast image through a Fresnel lens to provide a cue for adjusting a position of the Fresnel lens. Also disclosed is a device for determining and/or adjusting an offset of a Fresnel lens. The device includes a Fresnel lens and a display screen configured to project a high contrast image through the Fresnel lens. Further disclosed is a method for adjusting a position of a Fresnel lens. The method includes receiving a projection of a high contrast image transmitted through a Fresnel lens; and adjusting a position of the Fresnel lens based on the projection of the high contrast image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Melissa Geng
  • Patent number: 10606036
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth and six lens elements arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The image-side surface of the second lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The object-side surface of the third lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The object-side surface of the fifth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery. All lens elements of the imaging lens having the refractive power are only the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and six lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Ming Chen, Pei-Chi Wang
  • Patent number: 10598908
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens assembly comprises a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a meniscus lens with negative refractive power. The second lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an object side. The third lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an image side. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The sixth lens is with positive refractive power. The wide-angle lens assembly satisfies Vd4?Vd5?50, wherein Vd4 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens and Vd5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Wei-Ting Chiu
  • Patent number: 10598957
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a contact lens comprising a rounded, minus-carrier, lenticular-like curve over a central, upper portion of the lens that allows the contact lens to translate upwards in downgaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Melissa D. Bailey, Joseph T. Barr
  • Patent number: 10598894
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsu Sato, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang
  • Patent number: 10591643
    Abstract: Embodiments of 3D imaging systems that use a multifunctional, nano structured metalens to replace the conventional microlens array in light field imaging are disclosed. The optical focusing properties of the metalenses provided by gradient metasurface optical elements. The gradient metasurfaces allow the properties of the elements of the metalens array to be changed by tuning the gradient metasurfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Dianmin Lin, Mark L. Brongersma, Pieter G. Kik, Gordon Wetzstein
  • Patent number: 10585264
    Abstract: The present application discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yong Wei
  • Patent number: 10578836
    Abstract: The present invention includes to a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, the sixth lens is made of plastic material, and the seventh lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: ?10?f1/f??3.1; 1.7?n7?2.2; 1?f6/f7?10; ?10?(R1+R2)/(R1?R2)?10; 0.01?d13/TTL?0.2. The camera optical lens can obtain high imaging performance and a low TTL (Total Track Length).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsu Sato, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yuanshan Cui
  • Patent number: 10571657
    Abstract: Present embodiments relate to an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens may include a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through arrangement of convex or concave surfaces of the five lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing improved optical characteristics and imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Ruyou Tang, Huifeng Pan
  • Patent number: 10571659
    Abstract: A wide angle imaging lens assembly includes a first lens element, an aperture, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element to the fifth lens element each includes an object-side surface facing the object side and an image-side surface facing the image side. The wide angle imaging lens assembly satisfies 1.25?f/f2?2.1 and (R5+R6)/(R5?R6)>0.25, where f is the effective focal length of the wide angle imaging lens assembly, f2 is the focal length of the second lens element, R5 is the radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the third lens element, and R6 is the radius of curvature of the image-side surface of the third lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SENYUN PRECISION OPTICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tien-Liang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10571748
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical component including a resin part having translucency and a phase plate. The phase plate is configured to be disposed on an emitting direction side of a display part capable of emitting linearly polarized light. The resin part is uncontrolled in terms of phase difference. The phase plate is configured to be disposed between the display part and the resin part. The phase plate has three to five times as large retardation as the resin part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10564402
    Abstract: A image capturing lens assembly includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex and an image-side surface being convex thereof; and a sixth lens element having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, the image-side surface having at least one convex critical point in an off-axial region thereof, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10551589
    Abstract: Using drive force from a voice coil motor constituted of an autofocus coil unit and an autofocus magnet unit, a lens drive device automatically carries out focusing by moving an autofocus movable unit, which includes the autofocus coil unit, with respect to an autofocus fixed unit, which includes the autofocus magnet unit, in the direction of an optical axis. The autofocus movable unit has a lens holder that holds the autofocus coil unit. The lens holder has a cut-out part recessed on the inside in the radial direction from the outer periphery of the holder, and a binding part that protrudes to the outside in the radial direction from the cut-out part and binds an end part of the autofocus coil unit. The tip of the binding part is positioned to the inside of the outer periphery of the holder in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Honma, Noriyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10520699
    Abstract: A lens driving device is provided, including: a holder member; a first driving unit disposed at the holder member; a base disposed at a lower side of the holder member and spaced apart from the holder member; a first circuit board disposed at an upper surface of the base; a second circuit board including a second driving unit facing the first driving unit, and disposed at an upper surface of the first circuit board; a support member supporting the holder member with respect to the base; and a guide portion protruded from an upper surface of the base, wherein the guide portion supports the second circuit board. In an embodiment, a coil at the second circuit board and a magnet at the holder member may be assembled at a predetermined interval, such that reliability of the product with respect to performance of handshake compensation device can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Bong Park, Hee Se Lee, Jin Suk Han
  • Patent number: 10520729
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a high contrast image on a display screen; and projecting the high contrast image through a Fresnel lens to provide a cue for adjusting a position of the Fresnel lens. Also disclosed is a device for determining and/or adjusting an offset of a Fresnel lens. The device includes a Fresnel lens and a display screen configured to project a high contrast image through the Fresnel lens. Further disclosed is a method for adjusting a position of a Fresnel lens. The method includes receiving a projection of a high contrast image transmitted through a Fresnel lens; and adjusting a position of the Fresnel lens based on the projection of the high contrast image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng