Patents Examined by Omar Z. Hindi
  • Patent number: 6493158
    Abstract: A lens driving apparatus of a disc player which can avoid the rolling of a movable portion without increasing a weight of a movable portion of an actuator and printed circuit board coils for the lens driving apparatus are provided. A center of gravity of a focusing coil is located on a lower side in the focusing direction than a plane including a distribution center line of a drive force which is generated from a pair of tracking coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Suzuki, Katsumi Ishii
  • Patent number: 6473240
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for illuminating a tiled projection display which includes a first polarizing beam splitting prism which separates incident light into two beams of orthogonally polarized light, where one of the beams is directed to a first LCD, and the other is caused to cross over to and illuminate an adjacent LCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins
    Inventor: Brian P. Dehmlow
  • Patent number: 6466359
    Abstract: The multi-beam exposure apparatus includes a light source for emitting a specified number of multi-beams spaced apart in a direction of auxiliary scanning, a deflecting unit for deflecting the specified number of multi-beams collectively on main scanning lines by a specified number of deflections such that a space between adjacent ones of the specified number of multi-beams is exposed and a main scanning unit for performing main scan of a recording material as it is exposed with the specified number of multi-beams, wherein the space between adjacent ones of the specified number of multi-beams is an integral multiple of (the specified number of deflections +1) multiplied by a pitch of pixels in the direction of auxiliary scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sunagawa