Patents Examined by Ryan S Dunning
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Patent number: 12044822Abstract: A cover window is provided, which is a flexible cover window, the cover window being a glass-based cover window for a flexible display and including: a folding part slimmed by corresponding to a folding area of the display, wherein a thickness (t2) of the cover window is 50 to 300 ?m and a thickness (t1) of the folding part is 20 to 100 ?m. The glass-based cover window has excellent strength and folding properties while maintaining the intrinsic texture of glass.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: UTI Inc.Inventors: Deok Young Park, Jae Young Hwang, Hak Chul Kim, Kukhyun Sunwoo, Tea Joo Ha
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Patent number: 12044826Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, which are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens has positive refractive power, and an object-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface. The second lens has refractive power, and an image-side surface of the second lens is a concave surface. The third lens has refractive power. The fourth lens has refractive power. The fifth lens has negative refractive power. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and a combined focal length f123 of the first lens, the second lens and the third lens satisfy 0.6<f/f123<1.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., LtdInventors: Jiaying Zhang, Biao Xu
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Patent number: 12019255Abstract: An optical filtering assembly comprises a first interference film and a second interference film. The first interference film comprises multiple first film layers and multiple second film layers. The first film layers and the second film layers are alternately stacked. The second interference film comprises multiple third film layers and multiple fourth film layers. The third film layers and the fourth film layers are alternately stacked. An optical constant of the first film layers is same as an optical constant of the third film layers, and an optical constant of the second film layers is same as an optical constant of the fourth film layers, and an Optical Path Difference (OPD) produced in the first interference film is different from an OPD produced in the second interference film.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: OTO PHOTONICS INC.Inventors: Chien-Hsiang Hung, Sheng Wang Lin
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Patent number: 12013517Abstract: There is provided an optical imaging system including a prism, a first fixed lens group, a first movable lens group, a second movable lens group, and a second fixed lens group. The prism is configured to refract light reflected from an object side toward an imaging plane and a reflecting member. The prism is disposed on the first fixed lens group and the first movable lens group is configured to change a position of the imaging plane so that an overall focal length is changed. The second movable lens group is configured to adjust a position of the imaging plane so that a focal length for an object is adjusted. The imaging plane is disposed on the second fixed lens group.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hag Chul Kim
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Patent number: 11987074Abstract: As described above, one or more aspects of the present disclosure provide articles having structural color, and methods of making articles having structural color. The article includes the optical element (e.g., a single layer reflector, a single layer filter, a multilayer reflector or a multilayer filter) including one or more layers (e.g., a reflective layer(s), a constituent layer(s), and the like). The surface of the article can include the optical element with regions that impart different structural colors. The different structural colors imparted are due at least in part to the different structure (e.g., cross-sectional structure) of the optical element in certain regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NIKE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Gantz, Kim Kovel, Yuanmin Wang
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Patent number: 11987073Abstract: As described above, one or more aspects of the present disclosure provide articles having structural color, and methods of making articles having structural color. The present disclosure provides for articles (e.g., structurally colored articles) that exhibit different structural colors in different regions of the article using an optical element, where the optical element has different structures (e.g., cross-sectional structures) in at least two of those regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NIKE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Gantz, Kim Kovel, Yuanmin Wang
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Patent number: 11960110Abstract: The disclosed optical filter is provided on a substrate. The optical filter includes a first layer, an absorption layer, and a second layer in order from a substrate side. The condition of |R1?R2|?10 is satisfied where R1 [%] represents a reflectance of the optical filter for light whose wavelength is 550 nm and that makes incident on the optical filter from a side opposite to the substrate, and R2 [%] represents a reflectance of the optical filter for light whose wavelength is 550 nm and that makes incident on the optical filter from the substrate side.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazue Uchida, Tomohiko Ishibashi
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Patent number: 11927722Abstract: A transparent article is described herein that includes: a glass-ceramic substrate comprising first and second primary surfaces opposing one another and a crystallinity of at least 40% by weight; and an optical film structure disposed on the first primary surface. The optical film structure comprises a plurality of alternating high refractive index (RI) and low RI layers and a scratch-resistant layer. The article also exhibits an average photopic transmittance of greater than 80% and a maximum hardness of greater than 10 GPa, as measured by a Berkovich Hardness Test over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm. The glass-ceramic substrate comprises an elastic modulus of greater than 85 GPa and a fracture toughness of greater than 0.8 MPa·?m. Further, the optical film structure exhibits a residual compressive stress of ?700 MPa and an elastic modulus of ?140 GPa.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Jaymin Amin, Jason Thomas Harris, Shandon Dee Hart, Chang-gyu Kim, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Dong-gun Moon, Jeonghong Oh, James Joseph Price, Charlene Marie Smith, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Tingge Xu
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Patent number: 11874436Abstract: The optical device 1 according to the present disclosure includes substrates 10 provided opposite to each other, a partition wall 20 formed between opposing faces of the substrates 10 and separating adjacent spaces, and a fluid 30 filled in each space 20b separated by the partition wall and containing an electric field control material, wherein the optical device further includes, between at least one of the substrates 10 and the partition wall 20, a fine uneven layer 40 having fine uneven shapes and a conductive layer 50 formed according to a shape of the fine uneven layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Tazawa, Kazuhiko Noda, Kyoko Sakurai, Shunichi Kajiya
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Patent number: 11874483Abstract: A polarization film includes: a base substrate in which a folding axis and a stretched axis are defined; and a deformation portion located at an edge of the base substrate. The stretched axis forms an angle of less than about 45° with respect to the folding axis. The display device, in which a folding area at which a folding axis is located and a non-folding area neighboring the folding area are defined, includes a display panel; a first adhesive layer on the display panel; and a polarization film on the first adhesive layer, where a stretched axis is defined in the polarization film. An angle between the folding axis and the stretched axis is less than about 45°.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuhyun Kang, Muhyun Kim, Geunwoo Yug, Seoin Han
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Patent number: 11867938Abstract: Provided is a polarizing plate having a wire grid structure, comprising a transparent substrate, a first antireflection film laminated on the first surface of the transparent substrate, a plurality of protrusions protruding from the first antireflection film, a second antireflection layer laminated on a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the plurality of protrusions are periodically arranged at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band, each of the protrusions extends in in a first direction and includes a reflective layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer in order from the first direction, and both the first antireflection layer and the second antireflection layer have high refractive index layers and low refractive index layers that are alternately laminated.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Tomu Takeda
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Patent number: 11867933Abstract: A display is provided with a periodic structure that is dielectric and includes a support and a plurality of periodic elements. A plurality of periodic elements is arranged on a reference plane in a two-dimensional lattice form having a sub-wavelength period and are either convexities projected or concavities recessed in the reference plane. A metal layer is disposed on a surface of the periodic structure. The surface corresponds to a plane including a region of the reference plane surrounding the individual periodic elements and surfaces of the periodic elements. The metal layer's profile conforms to a surface profile of the periodic structure. The plurality of periodic elements have an interval therebetween in a first direction in which the plurality of periodic elements are arranged in a two-dimensional lattice form. The interval is different from an interval between the periodic elements in a second direction intersecting the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidemitsu Hakii, Masashi Kawashita, Yukari Oda, Tomoya Uchida
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Patent number: 11867934Abstract: As described above, one or more aspects of the present disclosure provide articles having structural color, and methods of making articles having structural color. The present disclosure provides for articles that exhibit structural colors through the use of an optical element having one or more layers. The optical element includes at least a first section and a second section. The first section imparts a first structural color and the second section imparts a second structural color. The first structural color and the second structural color differ from each other when viewed from the same angle of observation.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NIKE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Gantz, Kim Kovel, Yuanmin Wang
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Patent number: 11860381Abstract: A camera module includes: an optical imaging system including a frontmost lens disposed closest to an object side, a rearmost lens disposed closest to an imaging plane, and at least one middle lens disposed between the frontmost lens and the rearmost lens. An image-side surface of the rearmost lens is concave and an inflection point is formed on the image-side surface of the rearmost lens. 0.2<D/TTL is satisfied, D being a shortest distance between the rearmost lens and the imaging plane, and TTL being a distance from an object-side surface of the frontmost lens to the imaging plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ju Hwa Son
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Patent number: 11855348Abstract: Cascaded metasurfaces can control the phase, amplitude and polarization of an electromagnetic beam, shaping it in three dimensional configuration not achievable with other methods. Each cascaded metasurface has dielectric or metallic scatterers arranged in a period array. The shape of the scatterers determines the three dimensional configuration of the output beam and is determined with iterative calculations through computational simulations.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Ehsan Arbabi, Andrei Faraon
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On-chip simultaneous full stokes polarization (linear + circular) and (multi/hyper) spectral imaging
Patent number: 11841522Abstract: An image sensor includes polarizing filters and spectral filters that provide on-chip simultaneous full Stokes polarization parameters (both linear and circular polarization) and multi/hyper spectral imaging. A polarizing filter polarizes incident light into a predetermined linear direction. The light-polarizing filter includes a wire grid and an array of phase-modulating nanostructures. The wire grid includes at least one wire that includes a series of metal-insulator-metal wire structures. The array of phase-modulating nanostructures is formed on the wire grid and changes a phase of the incident light a predetermined amount. A phase-modulating nanostructure is a high-dielectric-index nanostructure that changes of incident light based on a first width and a second width of the phase-modulating nanostructure in which the first width is perpendicular to the second width.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Inventors: Radwanul Hasan Siddique, Haeri Park Hanania -
Patent number: 11828962Abstract: Optical devices having multi-functional coatings.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: FLO OPTICS LTDInventors: Fernando De La Vega, Yinon Masad, Claudio Rottman
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Patent number: 11808958Abstract: A screen protector configured to be disposed on an attaching body on an electronic device in an attaching mode to correspondingly cover a display screen of the electronic device. The screen protector comprises a grating sheet and a first attaching member disposed vertically adjacent to each other side-by-side and coated between two outer cover films. The screen protector is disposed on the attaching body on the electronic device in an attaching mode through the attaching member, so that a viewing zone defined by the grating sheet correspondingly covers the display screen of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: RIGHT GROUP CENTRAL CO., LTD.Inventors: An-Fang Lee, Ming Kuei Chen
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Patent number: 11803001Abstract: The present invention relates to broadband and tunable infrared (IR)-blocking optical filters for millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy composed of small diffusely scattered particles embedded in an aerogel substrate. The size of the scattering particles included in the aerogel filters can be tuned to give variable cutoff frequencies. In one embodiment, the aerogel scattering optical filters of the present invention have ultra-low density and index of refraction (typically n<1.15), removing the need for anti-reflection coatings that limit bandwidth and increase filter complexity, and allowing for high transmission across an ultra-broad band from zero frequency to above 1 THz, and as much as 10 THz.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventors: Thomas M. Essinger-Hileman, Mary Ann Meador, Haiquan Guo, Tobias Marriage, Charles L. Bennett
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Patent number: 11802995Abstract: A membrane structure includes a plurality of first refraction films and a plurality of second refraction films. The second refraction films and the first refraction films are alternately stacked. A transparent substrate including the membrane structure is disclosed. The membrane structure can effectively reduce the reflectance of light.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TPK ADVANCED SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Yenhsiang Chang, Weibin Wu, Yungfeng Yeh, Xiangkang Wei