Patents Examined by Vipin Patel
  • Patent number: 10996436
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10996425
    Abstract: A lens actuating unit is provided. The lens actuating unit includes: a bobbin configured to accommodate a lens module at an inner side of the bobbin; a first coil unit disposed at the bobbin; a housing disposed at an outer side of the bobbin; and a magnet unit configured to move the first coil unit through electromagnetic interaction with the first coil unit, wherein the housing includes a hole formed by being recessed from an inner side to an outer side to accommodate the magnet unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hong Cho, Sang Hee Lee, In Jae Yeo, Jin Suk Han
  • Patent number: 10989899
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first, a second, a third, and a fourth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the four lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide improved imaging quality and optical characteristics, and have the ability to cooperate the demand of present smaller-sized electronic product while the optical imaging lens may satisfy TTL/TL?1.700 and EFL/ImgH?2.500, wherein a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image plane along the optical axis is represented by TTL, a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the fourth lens element along the optical axis is represented by TL, an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens is represented by EFL, and an image height of the optical imaging lens is represented by ImgH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huabin Liao, Wenbin Lin, Hai Lin
  • Patent number: 10989895
    Abstract: A driving module is provided. The driving module includes a sensor module, a holder and at least three positioning components. The holder corresponds to the sensor module and is for holding an optical element. The positioning components are disposed between the sensor module and the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chih-Wei Weng, Shao-Kuang Huang
  • Patent number: 10983301
    Abstract: A lens driving device is provided, including: a holder member; a bobbin disposed at an inner side of the holder member; a magnet disposed at the holder member; a first coil unit disposed at the bobbin, and facing the magnet; a first support member coupled to the holder member and the bobbin; and a detection sensor disposed at the bobbin, and configured to detect magnetic force of the magnet, wherein the magnet includes a facing surface and an opposite surface disposed at an opposite side of the facing surface, wherein a polarity of the facing surface and a polarity of the opposite surface are different from each other, wherein a polarity of an upper portion of the facing surface and a polarity of a lower portion of the facing surface are different from each other. According to an embodiment, Hall output detected by the detection sensor can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 10983309
    Abstract: There is provided an optical system including: a first lens having positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface; 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 negative refractive power and having a concave image-side surface, wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side, whereby an aberration improvement effect may be increased and a high degree of resolution may be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin Hwa Jung
  • Patent number: 10985525
    Abstract: The transmitter module including a semiconductor laser chip, a first carrier, a second carrier, and a lens is disclosed. The first carrier mounts the semiconductor laser chip thereon. The second carrier includes a first surface, a second surface, and a connection surface connecting the first surface with the second surface. The first surface faces in a first direction intersecting an axis direction of the chip to mount the first carrier thereon. The second surface faces in the first direction and is provided at a position farther away from the axis of the chip than the first surface. The lens is fixed to the second surface by an adhesive resin. The connection surface is set back far from a front end of the first carrier adjacent to an emission end of the chip toward a back end of the first carrier opposite to the front end in the axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kihara
  • Patent number: 10976634
    Abstract: Electro-optic, especially electrophoretic, displays are used in variety of architectural and furniture applications, including a tile (100) comprising an electro-optic layer (110) capable of changing the color of the file, front and multiple rear electrodes and a light-transmissive polymeric layer (102), the exposed surface of which is textured to provide a plurality of facets inclined to the plane of the tile (100), the rear electrodes being aligned with the facets. A variable color writable board is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Michael D. McCreary, Carl Taussig, Paul Apen, George G. Harris, Sunil Krishna Sainis, Joseph Fillion
  • Patent number: 10955645
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, a ninth lens and a tenth lens arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens has negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing the image side. The second lens has negative refractive power. The third lens has refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The fourth lens has positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The fifth lens has refractive power. The sixth lens has refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the object side. The seventh lens has positive refractive power. The eighth lens is a biconvex lens with positive refractive power. The ninth lens has negative refractive power. The tenth lens has refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Po-Yuan Shih
  • Patent number: 10948691
    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 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 glass material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yuanshan Cui
  • Patent number: 10942332
    Abstract: Provided are a lens drive motor, a camera and a mobile terminal apparatus. The lens drive motor includes a housing, a lens support, a coil and a magnet component; the coil is wrapped around the lens support and is provided in the housing; the magnet component includes multiple sub-magnets; the multiple sub-magnets are sequentially arranged around a circumferential direction of the coil and are positioned in the housing, wherein each of at least two first sub-magnets of the multiple sub-magnets is of a bent type structure; multiple straight edge segments and multiple corner segments connecting the multiple straight edge segments are included at an outer periphery of the lens support; and outsides of the multiple straight edge segments are covered by the multiple sub-magnets. According to the lens drive motor, a problem of insufficient driving force of the lens drive motor in the related art is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai Billu Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhua Wang, Gaofeng Gong, Linjun Ma
  • Patent number: 10938291
    Abstract: An electromagnetic driving mechanism is provided, including a first member, a second member movably connected to the first member, an electromagnetic driving assembly, and a film. The electromagnetic driving assembly includes a magnet and a coil respectively disposed on the first and second members, so as to move the second member relative to the first member. The film is formed on the second member and has positive magnetic susceptibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Cheng-Kai Yu, Liang-Ting Ho, Shu-Shan Chen, Chao-Chang Hu
  • Patent number: 10908379
    Abstract: An imaging device is provided that includes: a lens barrel, an element holder adhesively secured to one end of the lens barrel while holding an imaging element; and an elastic body disposed between the lens barrel and the element holder. The lens barrel has formed thereon a projection projecting toward the element holder. The element holder has formed therein an insertion hole into which the projection is inserted. The elastic body is fitted to the projection with the projection inserted into an insertion hole in the elastic body. In the imaging device, an outer peripheral surface of the projection and an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole are in contact with each other, and the element holder is in contact with the elastic body on the periphery of the insertion hole. An adhesive is filled between the projection and the insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: Kohei Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10901183
    Abstract: An optical photographing lens assembly includes seven lens elements which are, 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. At least one surface among object-side surfaces and image-side surfaces of the seven lens elements is aspheric. At least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shu-Yun Yang
  • Patent number: 10890741
    Abstract: A projection optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first optical system for forming an image displayed by image display elements as an intermediate image, a first optical path bending means that bends an optical path with a reflective surface, and a second optical system for forming the intermediate image on a magnification side conjugate plane. The second optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second optical path bending means that bends an optical path with a reflective surface, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power. Conditional Formulae (1) and (2) below are satisfied. 10.0<TL1/|f|<50.0??(1) 4.0<TL21/|f|<30.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru Amano
  • Patent number: 10890742
    Abstract: A projection optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first optical system for forming an image displayed by image display elements as an intermediate image, a first optical path bending means that bends an optical path with a reflective surface, and a second optical system for forming the intermediate image on a magnification side conjugate plane. The second optical system is constituted by, in order from the reduction side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second optical path bending means that bends an optical path with a reflective surface, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power. Conditional Formulae (1) and (2) below are satisfied. 10.0<TL1/|f|<50.0??(1) 4.0<TL21/|f|<30.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru Amano
  • Patent number: 10884219
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10877248
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with refractive power, and a sixth lens with refractive power. There is at least one lens with positive refractive power among the first lens to the fifth lens. The sixth lens may have negative refractive power. When meeting some certain conditions, the optical image capturing system may have outstanding light-gathering ability and an adjustment ability about the optical path in order to elevate the image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Ying-Jung Chen, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10866392
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10845580
    Abstract: A variable focal length lens device includes: a lens system whose refractive index changes depending on an inputted drive signal; an objective lens disposed in an optical axis common to the lens system; an image detector for detecting an image of a target object through the lens system and the objective lens; a resonance-lock controller for locking the frequency of the drive signal to a resonance frequency of the lens system; and a resonance-lock operation unit for switching enabling and suspending the resonance-lock controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiro Igasaki, Nobuo Ohba, Koji Kubo, Takahisa Ootake