Patents Examined by Thong Q Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12372773
    Abstract: An endoscope illumination light switching device includes a rotation body in which a plurality of holes including a first hole are formed in a circumferential direction and that switches a hole on an irradiation optical path through rotation, a drive device configured to rotationally drive the rotation body, a sensor, and a processor configured to control a stop position of the rotation body based on a detection signal from the sensor. The rotation body includes a first detection target shape portion corresponding to the first hole, and another detection target shape portion. The sensor outputs a detection signal in response to detection of each shape portion when the rotation body rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Masaki, Yusuke Yoshida, Takeshi Ito
  • Patent number: 12366729
    Abstract: An optical system and an optical apparatus that have favorable imaging performance and a method for manufacturing the optical system are provided. An optical system OL includes, sequentially from an object side, a front group G1 having positive refractive power and a focusing group G2 that performs focusing by moving in an optical axis direction, the front group G1 includes, sequentially from the object side, a first lens L11, a second lens L12, and a third lens L13, and the optical system OL satisfies a condition expressed by an expression below, 0.10<D23/f1<0.75 in the expression, f1: focal length of the front group G1, and D23: distance on an optical axis between the second lens L12 and the third lens L13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Komatsubara, Toshinori Take, Masashi Yamashita, Satoshi Miwa
  • Patent number: 12352942
    Abstract: A confocal scanner includes a first disk which comprises a plurality of microlenses, a second disk which comprises a plurality of pinholes formed to be associated with the microlenses, wherein the second disk rotates together with the first disk, a light guider which guides a plurality of rays of split light split by the microlenses within the first region set in the first disk to a second region set in the first disk, and a beam splitter which is disposed between the one surface of the first disk and the another surface of the second disk, wherein light which has passed through the microlenses within the second region transmits through the beam splitter, and the beam splitter reflects light incident from the second disk toward an outward side of the first disk and the second disk in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kei, Naoki Andoh
  • Patent number: 12339426
    Abstract: An optical zoom camera module, including: at least two camera module components and a glue material; each of the at least two camera module components has at least one lens group, and each lens group includes at least one lens; all of the lens groups of the at least two camera module components together constitute an imageable optical system, wherein at least two of the lens groups are movable lens groups, and the at least two movable lens groups are respectively fixed with different motor carriers, so as to move separately under the driving of a motor; and the glue material, once cured, fixes and supports the at least two camera module components, so that relative positions of the at least two camera module components are maintained at relative positions determined by an active alignment. A method for assembling the optical zoom camera module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Takehiko Tanaka, Yinli Fang, Chunmei Liu
  • Patent number: 12339471
    Abstract: A composite cooling film comprises an ultraviolet-reflective multilayer optical film and a reflective microporous layer secured thereto. The ultraviolet-reflective multilayer optical film is at least 50 percent reflective of ultraviolet radiation over a majority of the wavelength range of at least 340 but less than 400 nanometers. The reflective microporous layer has a continuous phase comprising a nonfluorinated organic polymer and is diffusely reflective of solar radiation over a majority the wavelength range of 400 to 2500 nanometers, inclusive. The composite cooling film has an average absorbance over the wavelength range of 8 to 13 microns of at least 0.85. An article comprising the composite cooling film adhered to a substrate is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Timothy J. Hebrink, Michelle M. Mok, Derek J. Dehn, Mary E. Johansen, Lon R. Johnson, Todd G. Pett, Moses M. David, James P. Burke, Vivian W. Jones, Haiyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12339423
    Abstract: A small lens system for developing a close tolerance is proposed. The small lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens that are arranged in order along an optical axis from an object. Refractive power P1 of the first lens satisfies ?0.01 mm?1<P1<0.01 mm?1, the second lens is shaped with opposite convex surfaces, and refractive power P2 of the second lens satisfies P2>0.4 mm?1, the third lens has negative refractive power, and a rear surface curvature C6 of the third lens satisfies ?0.01 mm?1<C6<0.01 mm?1, refractive power P4 of the fourth lens satisfies ?0.1 mm?1<P4<0.1 mm?1, refractive power P5 of the fifth lens satisfies P5>0.7 mm?1, and refractive power P6 of the sixth lens satisfies P6<?0.7 mm?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SEKONIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Cheol Choi, Ki Youn Noh, Seong Jun Bae
  • Patent number: 12313563
    Abstract: This application relates to optical precision measurement and provides a dark-field confocal microscopy measurement apparatus based on vortex interference. A vortex light generation module is configured to generate vortex light with a predetermined order. A vortex light interference module is configured to: divide the vortex light into reference light and imaging light, direct the imaging light to irradiate a scanning position of a to-be-measured sample, to obtain sample reflection light of the scanning position, and enable the reference light and the sample reflection light to overlap and interfere with each other to obtain interference light. A rotation demodulation module is configured to perform rotation demodulation on the interference light, to obtain amplitude and phase information of the scanning position, so as to characterize the amplitude and phase information of defects and realize detection of phase-type defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Chenguang Liu, Zijie Hua, Xiaoyu You
  • Patent number: 12297528
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film (composite tungsten oxide film containing cesium, tungsten, and oxygen), a sputtering target, and a method of producing an optical film by which film formation conditions can be easily obtained. An optical film of the present invention has transmissivity in a visible wavelength band, has absorbance in a near-infrared wavelength band, and has radio wave transparency, characterized in that the optical film comprises cesium, tungsten, and oxygen, and a refractive index n and an extinction coefficient k of the optical film at each of wavelengths [300 nm, 350 nm, 400 nm, 450 nm, . . . , 1700 nm] specified at 50 nm intervals in a wavelength region from 300 nm to 1700 nm are set respectively within specified numerical ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideharu Okami
  • Patent number: 12292559
    Abstract: A system of automatic adjustment of a laser reflection path, comprising a central processing device, a driving device, a four-quadrant photodetector, a driving arm, a micro cantilever, a sample, a sample placing table, a light reflector, a laser, a CCD equipped with an optical microscope, a vibration sensor, a signal processing circuit, a display device, a storage device, and a control device; a system of automatic adjustment of the laser reflection path is controlled by the control device, wherein a laser beam is emitted by the laser, an image collected by the CCD equipped with the optical microscope is processed by the central processing device to identify the micro cantilever, and then a driving arm is driven by a driving device to drive the micro cantilever to move to the center of a laser spot, during which vibration signals of the driving arm are also under monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: North University of China
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Zongmin Ma, Jun Xu, Jun Tang, Yunbo Shi, Huanfei Wen, Cheng Dong, Huiyun Wang
  • Patent number: 12292560
    Abstract: A contactless visualization system for a microscope for eye surgery includes an ophthalmic loupe positionable in front of a patient's eye and supplies a real and vertically and laterally inverted image of the fundus in an intermediate image plane observable with the microscope. The loupe includes first and second lens elements. When positioned in front of the eye, the first lens element is closer to the eye than the second. A wall extending from the first to the second lens element has a free end in a form of a mount which holds the second lens element. The wall has a passage opening formed therein for removing liquid possibly present in an intermediate space between the first lens element and the second lens element. The first lens element has a boundary surface facing the second lens element. The passage opening includes a lower edge bordering on the boundary surface of the first lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Jonathan Essig, Andre Mueller, Christian Beder
  • Patent number: 12274421
    Abstract: A device for maintaining an optical path of an optical imaging system free of fog includes an elongated member having a distal end and a proximal end, a near-infrared (NIR) light-absorbing optical window disposed at the distal end, and an optical system disposed along the optical path. The device also includes a coupling module coupled to the elongated member at the proximal end and configured to transmit near-infrared light to the NIR light-absorbing optical window along the optical path and receive a light beam from an area of interest along the optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Novelbeam Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Rongzhuang Mao, Changming Gu, Mingzhi Li, James Zheng, Anmin Zheng, Daniel Cifelli
  • Patent number: 12271050
    Abstract: A projection lens, which is a projection lens to be attached to a projection apparatus body having an electro-optical device, includes: a first focus optical system; a first holding portion that has an attachment portion and on which light along a first optical axis extending in first directions is incident; and an adjustment frame that holds the first focus optical system. When one of the first directions is defined as a first A direction and the other of the first directions is defined as a first B direction, the first focus optical system is positioned further in the first A direction than the attachment portion, and light along the first optical axis travels in the first B direction. The adjustment frame is movable in the first directions relative to the first holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hironobu Kayano, Hitoshi Shimizu, Tetsuo Kamigaki, Yasuto Kuroda
  • Patent number: 12265210
    Abstract: A surgical microscope includes an optical assembly to image an object plane with a microscope main objective system, through which a first stereoscopic partial beam path with a first optical axis and a second stereoscopic partial beam path with a second optical axis pass. An illumination device includes a light source assembly to provide illumination light in a luminous plane, with a radiant field stop, and an illumination optical unit which at least partially images a luminous object arranged in the luminous plane in the illumination beam path into a luminous image plane located in the microscope main objective system or for the vertical distance z of which from the microscope main objective system on the side facing the object region or the side facing away from the object region, in relation to a focal length f of the microscope main objective system, the following applies: z/f<10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Daniel Kolster, Manuel Steidle, Peter Reimer, André Mueller, Franz Merz
  • Patent number: 12259537
    Abstract: A method for operating a microscopy system and to a microscopy system are provided. A pivot point is defined, wherein the microscopy system is operated such that a microscope of the microscopy system moves at a constant distance around the pivot point, wherein a reference surface is determined, wherein an intersection of an optical axis of the microscope and the reference surface is determined as the pivot point, wherein the pose of the reference surface is defined in a focal position-independent reference coordinate system and the pivot point is determined as the intersection of the optical axis with the thus defined reference surface in the reference coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Markus Philipp
  • Patent number: 12242028
    Abstract: An imaging lens system, from an object side to an imaging plane, sequentially includes: a flat glass; a first lens with a negative focal power, a convex object side surface and a concave image side surface; a second lens with a positive focal power, a convex object side surface and a concave image side surface; a stop; a third lens with a positive focal power and a convex image side surface. The imaging lens system meets expressions: f/EPD?1.64; 0<BFL/IH<0.2; where f represents an effective focal length of the imaging lens system, and EPD represents an entrance pupil diameter of the imaging lens system; BFL represents a distance from a vertex of the image side surface of the third lens to the imaging plane on the optical axis, and IH represents the maximum image height of the imaging lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: JIANGXI LIANYI OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haojie Zeng, Yilong Wang
  • Patent number: 12242037
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens having negative refractive power and having two concave surfaces, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, and a seventh lens having refractive power. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju Hwa Son
  • Patent number: 12242030
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens sequentially includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element along an optical axis from an object side to an image side. Each of the first lens element to the fourth lens element includes an object-side surface facing the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through, and an image-side surface facing the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through. The first lens element has negative refracting power, and a periphery region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is convex. At least one of an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the second lens element and an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is plane. The third lens element has negative refracting power or the fourth lens element has positive refracting power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Bone, Huabin Liao, Chuanbo Dong
  • Patent number: 12242095
    Abstract: Provided is an optical film that, when being incorporated into an image display device, can suppress the image display device from appearing pale. An optical film including a UV-absorbing layer containing a UV-absorbing agent B on a plastic film containing a UV-absorbing agent A, wherein fluorescence emission when the plastic film side is irradiated with excitation light having a wavelength of 365 nm and fluorescence emission when the UV-absorbing layer side is irradiated with excitation light having a wavelength of 365 nm satisfy a specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Isojima, Junya Eguchi, Takashi Kuroda, Hiroki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12235412
    Abstract: Disclosed is a small lens system including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens sequentially arranged from an object along an optical axis, wherein the thickness (ct1) of the first lens, the thickness (ct3) of the second lens, the thickness (ct5) of the third lens, and the thickness (ct7) of the fourth lens satisfy ct1+ct3>ct5+ct7, ct1>ct3, ct1>ct5, and ct1>ct7, the front surface of the first lens is convex toward the object while the sagittal amount of the first lens is increased depending on the height thereof, the refractive power (P2) of the second lens satisfies ?0.01 mm?1<P2<0.01 mm?1, the front curvature (C3) and the rear curvature (C4) of the second lens satisfy |C3|<0.1 mm?1 and |C4|<0.1 mm?1, and the f-number of the lens system is less than 1.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SEKONIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki Youn Noh, Soon Cheol Choi, Sung Nyun Kim, Seong Jun Bae
  • Patent number: 12235435
    Abstract: A focusing apparatus for telescope focusing includes a to-be-focused member, an on-off limiting member and a drive fixation apparatus, where the to-be-focused member includes a first gear for focusing, the drive fixation apparatus includes a rear sleeve, a drive structure and a second gear, the rear sleeve is connected with the on-off limiting member through a limiting assembly, the drive structure is connected with the second gear, the second gear and the first gear are eccentrically arranged, and under a limiting action of the limiting assembly, the rear sleeve rotates, in relative to the on-off limiting member, between a first position and a second position on the on-off limiting member, to drive the second gear to mesh with and separate from the first gear in respective, thus the to-be-focused member is switched for electric focusing and manual focusing. The focusing apparatus is additionally provided with an on-off structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Suzhou Astroasis Vision Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhiwei Chen