Patents Examined by Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 12292550
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis is provided. The first lens has a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface, and an image-side surface thereof is a convex surface; and the third lens has a negative refractive power. The distance TTL from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the optical imaging lens assembly on the optical axis and a half ImgH of the diagonal length of the effective pixel region on the imaging surface of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: TTL/ImgH?1.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Fujian Dai, Wuchao Xu, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12287524
    Abstract: A lens drive device is provided with a first fixed part, a first movable part, a first supporting part, and a Z-direction drive unit which moves the first movable section in an optical axis direction (the Z-direction) relative to the first fixed part and is constituted by an ultrasonic motor that converts vibration motion into rotational motion. The lens drive device further has a rotating body which rotates around the optical axis in response to rotational motion of the Z-direction drive unit, and a mechanical element which converts the rotational motion of the rotating body into linear motion in the optical axis direction, the first movable part being moved in the optical axis direction by rotation of the rotating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: Miniswys S.A., MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Suzuki, Yoichi Itagaki, Raphael Hoesli, Maxime Roten, Michael Brumann, Loann Baume
  • Patent number: 12270973
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in 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. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 12245814
    Abstract: A refraction measuring apparatus measures refractive properties of an eye by two light bundles respectively passing through two apertures, the apparatus including: a first rotational member, rotatably supported about a first rotational center, provided with the two apertures on either side of the first rotational center; a second rotational member, rotatably supported about a second rotational center, provided with a light-transmission portion(s) and a light-shielding portion at different rotational-direction positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Iizuka
  • Patent number: 12235417
    Abstract: An optical photographing lens assembly includes nine 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, a seventh lens element, an eighth lens element and a ninth lens element. Each of the nine lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens element of the optical photographing lens assembly has at least one aspheric lens surface having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 12228792
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens group, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a negative refractive power; a second lens with a refractive power; a third lens with a refractive power, an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; a fourth lens with a negative refractive power; a fifth lens with a refractive power; and a sixth lens with a refractive power. Semi-FOV is a half of a maximum field of view of the optical imaging lens group, and Semi-FOV satisfies 45°<Semi-FOV<55°. A curvature radius R1 of an object-side surface of the first lens, a curvature radius R2 of an image-side surface of the first lens, a curvature radius R3 of an object-side surface of the second lens and a curvature radius R4 of an image-side surface of the second lens satisfy 0.5<(R1+R2)/(R3?R4)<1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofang Wang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12228700
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens group. The optical imaging lens group sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis of the optical imaging lens group: a first lens with a positive refractive power; a second lens with a refractive power, an image-side surface of the second lens is a concave surface; a third lens with a refractive power; a fourth lens with a refractive power, an image-side surface of the fourth lens is a concave surface; a fifth lens with a refractive power; a sixth lens with a refractive power, an image-side surface of the sixth lens is a concave surface; and a seventh lens with a negative refractive power. A maximum field of view FOV of the optical imaging lens group and an effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens group satisfy tan(FOV/2)*f>5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Li, Lingbo He, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12222468
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a seventh lens element, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The second lens element has negative refracting power, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave, and an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the seventh lens element is convex. Lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only the seven lens elements described above, and the following relationships: V5+V6+V7?140.000, (ImgH+D61t72)/D11t42?2.400, V4?30.000 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Run Hu
  • Patent number: 12222473
    Abstract: Lens assemblies comprising from an object side to an image side, seven lens elements numbered L1-L7; an optical window; and an image sensor having a sensor diagonal length (SDL), wherein an exemplary lens assembly has a total track length TTL that includes the optical window an effective focal length EFL and a field of view (FOV), wherein TTL/EFL<1.100, wherein TTL/SDL<0.64, wherein FOV<90 degrees, wherein a normalized thickness standard deviation constant T_STD of at least four of the seven lens elements complies with T_STD<0.035, and wherein a focal length f1 of lens element L1 fulfills f1/EFL<0.95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Roy Rudnick, Michael Dror, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 12216255
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes eight lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. Each of the eight lens elements has an object-side surface towards the object side and an image-side surface towards the image side. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The object-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The object-side surface of the seventh lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the eighth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 12216249
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens, which sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having negative refractive power, wherein an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface, while an image-side surface is a convex surface; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power, wherein an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface. TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging surface of the optical imaging lens on the optical axis, ImgH is a half of a diagonal length of an effective pixel region on the imaging surface of the optical imaging lens, TTL and ImgH meet 4.0 mm<ImgH/(TTL/ImgH)<7.0 mm. Therefore, the optical imaging lens has high imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nian Chen, Kaiyuan Zhang, Xujiong Wu, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 12210215
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 1<|f123457?f|/f, where f123457 is a composite focal length of the first to seventh lenses calculated with an index of refraction of the sixth lens set to 1.0, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and f123457 and f are expressed in a same unit of measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Hwa Son, Min Hyuk Im, Yong Joo Jo, Ga Young An
  • Patent number: 12188606
    Abstract: The building of systems on breadboards such as optomechanical systems using reference stop assemblies is presented. Each reference stop assembly has a threaded base engageable with the breadboard to removably mount the reference stop assembly thereto, a support shaft connected to the threaded base and a reference ball. The reference ball is captively mounted to the support shaft and has a translational play in a plane perpendicular to the support shaft. The reference stop assembly also includes a clamping member mounted to the support shaft over the reference ball. The reference stop assembly is configured such that, when the reference stop assembly is mounted to said breadboard, the support shaft projects normally to the mounting surface of the breadboard and the clamping member cooperates with the breadboard so as to apply a clamping force to clamp the reference ball against a circular seat of a mounting hole on the breadboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Institut National D'Optique
    Inventors: Martin Grenier, Nichola Desnoyers, Frederic Lamontagne, Mathieu Legros
  • Patent number: 12189162
    Abstract: A wire-grid polarizer includes metal reflectors which are embedded in a large number of grooves formed in a one-dimensional grid pattern in the same direction and with the same period in the front surface of a transparent sheet, wherein the average width (a) of the metal reflectors is 200 nm or less, the ratio (b/a) of the average thickness (b) of the metal reflectors from the front side of the sheet to the tip in the backward direction to the above average width (a) is 4 to 25, in any cross-section perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, the shape of each of the metal reflectors in the vicinity of the tip in the thickness direction is such that it gradually becomes thinner in a linear or smoothly curved shape toward the tip, and the ratio of the average length (c) toward the tip of portions that gradually become thinner toward the tip to the above average width (a) is 1.2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Trading, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryohei Hokari, Kazuma Kurihara, Kyohei Takakuwa, Akitaka Yamamoto, Yusuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12189092
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens group including a first lens and a second lens, a second lens group including a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, and a third lens group including a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first to seventh lenses are arranged in order from an object side, at least one of the first lens group to the third lens group is moved on an optical axis to change a distance between the first lens group to the third lens group, and the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.2<BFL/(2*IMG HT)<2.0 where BFL is a distance on the optical axis from an image-side surface of the seventh lens to an imaging surface of an image sensor, and IMG HT is half a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Hwa Son, Hyo Jin Hwang, Yong Joo Jo, Sang Hyun Jang, Jong Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 12189093
    Abstract: An optical lens system comprising ten lens elements, the ten 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, a seventh lens element, an eighth lens element, a ninth lens element and a tenth lens element, and each of the ten lens elements having an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 12181731
    Abstract: There are provided an optical system and an imaging device including the same. The optical system includes: in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group having refractive power; and a second lens group having positive refractive power. A variable distance that varies during focusing between the first lens group and the second lens group is closer to an object than a variable distance that varies during focusing between other lenses. The first lens group includes a positive lens and at least one or more negative lenses in order from the image side. The second lens group includes a lens subgroup 2A having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a lens subgroup 2B having positive refractive power in order from the object side. The lens subgroup 2B includes a negative lens and a positive lens in order from the object side and satisfies a predetermined Conditional Expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Segawa, Yuki Mori, Hirofumi Tabata
  • Patent number: 12174447
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a lens device, which comprises a holder, a calibrated member, a lens module and a clamping member. The holder comprises a mounting plane and an accommodating portion. The calibrated member is disposed on the mounting plane of the holder. The calibrated member has a through hole and an internal thread. The lens module comprises an external thread. The lens module passes through the through hole of the calibrated member, the external thread and the internal thread fit each other, and part of the lens module is disposed in the accommodating portion. The clamping member comprises an engagement portion and an elastic arm. The engagement portion clamps the holder, and part of the elastic arm touches a surface of the calibrated member opposite to the mounting plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Kae Jang, Li-Hsing Tsai
  • Patent number: 12174349
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens system includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. 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 the image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Yeh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 12169265
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens system 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. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the first lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has negative refractive power. The object-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one of all lens surfaces of the seven lens elements is aspheric and has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu-Chieh Kuo, Wei-Yu Chen