Patents Examined by Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11953657
    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: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng, Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 11947188
    Abstract: A camera optical lens includes, 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, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. At least one of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens, or the eighth lens has a free-form surface. The first lens has a negative refractive power, and the third lens has a positive refractive power, an object-side surface of the second lens is convex at a paraxial position, and an image-side surface of the eighth lens is concave at the paraxial position. The camera optical lens has a wide angle and ultra-thinness, as well as excellent optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen Sun, Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 11947138
    Abstract: Broadband visible reflectors are disclosed. In particular, broadband visible reflectors with reduced on-axis blue reflectivity are described. Broadband visible reflectors that appear yellow in reflection are described. Such broadband visible reflectors may be used in backlights and displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Edward J. Kivel, Ryan T. Fabick, Timothy J. Nevitt
  • Patent number: 11947197
    Abstract: A wearable optical device increases a Resolvable Object Distance Range (RODR) thereby reducing focusing demands of a plurality of objects located along a visual angle distance for a user with presbyopia or myopia. The devise includes a negative refractive element and a positive refractive element located along an optical axis. The negative refractive element and the positive refractive element are separated from each other by a separation space and at a separation distance suitable for mounting on a spectacle. A surface of a non-central zone of the negative refractive element or the positive refractive element is a Fresnel surface. The separation space is filled by an intermediate media with a refractive index lower than that of the negative refractive element or the positive refractive element. In one embodiment, the intermediate media is an optical grade resin or polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: REOPIA OPTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Barry J. Linder
  • Patent number: 11947088
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes nine 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, an eighth lens element and a ninth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The eighth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The ninth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the ninth lens element has at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11947081
    Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.60?f1/f?1.50; and 2.50?d7/d8?12.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens, and d8 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure satisfies design requirements for large-aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin lenses while achieving good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Changzhou Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yanan Wang
  • Patent number: 11947087
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a convex surface facing the object side and positive refractive power near an optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a third lens having aspheric surfaces on both sides, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens having a concave surface facing the image side and the negative refractive power near the optical axis, wherein an image-side surface of said fifth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huang Yunbai
  • Patent number: 11940666
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having positive refractive power, and an F No. of the optical imaging system is equal to or less than 1.0. The optical imaging system is capable of achieving miniaturization while capturing an image at low illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hag Chul Kim, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11933983
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to a virtual reality display device. The virtual reality display device includes a left lens barrel and a right lens barrel; the left lens barrel includes: a left lens barrel housing, a left display screen, and a left lens; the right lens barrel includes: a right lens barrel housing, a right display screen, and a right lens; an inner side of an opening portion of the left lens barrel housing includes a left lens holder; an inner side of an opening portion of the right lens barrel housing includes a right lens holder; a left fill layer is provided between the left lens holder and the left lens; and a right fill layer is provided between the right lens holder and the right lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mingtian Lin, Chihwei Tsai, Zhixiong Yu
  • Patent number: 11927828
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens having a convex image-side surface, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens disposed in order from an object side, and a distance from the image-side surface of the fifth lens to an object-side surface of the sixth lens is shorter than a distance from an image-side surface of the sixth lens to an object-side surface of the seventh lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyu Min Chae
  • Patent number: 11921260
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens, wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lenses are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a meniscus lens with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing the image side. The second, third, and fourth lenses are with refractive power. The fifth lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The sixth lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the image side. The lens assembly satisfies: 3<D1/T6<9; wherein D1 is an effective optical diameter of the convex surface of the first lens and T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Hung Chen, Hsi-Ling Chang
  • Patent number: 11921265
    Abstract: An optical lens comprises: a first lens (L1) having a negative focal power; a second lens (L2); a third lens (L3); a fourth lens (L4); a fifth lens (L5), wherein the fourth lens (L4) and the fifth lens (L5) forms an achromatic lens group; and a sixth lens (L6), wherein the first lens (L1), the second lens (L2), the third lens (L3), the fourth lens (L4), the fifth lens (L5), and the sixth lens (L6) are sequentially disposed along a direction from an object side to an image side, wherein the first lens (L1) has at least one object surface (S1) facing the object side, and the object surface (S1) of the first lens (L1) is convex, and wherein the second lens (L2) has at least one image surface (S4) facing the image side, and the image surface (S4) of the second lens (L2) is convex so as to facilitate forming a concentric circle structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ningbo Sunny Automotive Optech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Yao, Qiansen Xie, Dongfang Wang
  • Patent number: 11914114
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies 0.35<R1/f<0.40; N2+N3+N4>4.8; and TTL/(2*IMG HT) <0.70, where R1 is a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the first lens, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system including the first to sixth lenses, N2 is a refractive index of the second lens, N3 is a refractive index of the third lens, N4 is a refractive index of the fourth lens, TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to an image capturing surface of an image sensor, and IMG HT is half of a diagonal length of the image capturing surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11914109
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens group including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens having positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens having negative refractive power, a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a fifth lens having refractive power; and a sixth lens having refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. An F number Fno of the camera lens group satisfies: Fno?1.45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Long Li, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11914117
    Abstract: Folded digital cameras comprising a lens system with a lens and an image sensor, the lens having N?6 lens elements Li, an effective focal length (EFL) and a total track length (TTL), wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fi and wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side, and an optical path folding element (OPFE) for providing a folded optical path between an object and the lens. In some embodiments, the lens system has a focusing range that covers object-lens distances from infinity to a minimal object distance (MIOD), wherein MIOD/EFL is smaller than 20 or even 7. In some embodiments, the ratio of a maximal chief ray angle to a field of view of the folded camera Max CRA/FOV is smaller than 0.25 or even 0.15 when the camera is focused at infinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Noy Cohen, Roy Rudnick, Michael Dror, Nadav Goulinski, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 11906707
    Abstract: An imaging lens 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 at intervals from an object side of the imaging lens system. The imaging lens system satisfies 1.5<Nd5<1.6, 30<V5<50, and TTL/2IH<0.730, where Nd5 is a refractive index of the fifth lens, V5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens, TTL is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, and 21H is a diagonal length of the imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kil Soo Shin, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11899170
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens having a diffractive optical surface and a negative refractive power, and a third lens with a positive refractive power arranged in order from a magnified side to a minified side. A total number of lenses with refractive powers in the optical lens is smaller than six, and the first lens, the second lens and the third lens are made of plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: YOUNG OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Chen Lin, Chun-Tung Wu
  • Patent number: 11899178
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with a positive refractive power and a sixth lens with a negative refractive power, wherein a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter (EPD) of the optical imaging lens assembly meet f/EPD<1.35; and an effective focal length f3 of the third lens, an effective focal length f5 of the fifth lens and an effective focal length f1 of the first lens meet 0.9<(f3+f5)/f1<1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nian Chen, Qi Wu, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11899182
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle-mounted wide-angle lens that simultaneously achieves a high resolution necessary for sensing, a size small enough to be mounted on a vehicle, and a low price. An imaging lens includes, sequentially from the object side, a first lens having a negative power and being concave on the image side, a second lens having a negative power and being concave on the image side, a third lens having a positive power and being convex on the object side, an aperture stop, a fourth lens having a positive power and being convex on the image side, a fifth lens, a sixth lens whose object side is bonded to the image side of the fifth lens and a seventh lens having a negative power and being convex on the image side, and the fourth lens is an aspheric glass lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Shimoeda
  • Patent number: 11899172
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes five 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 and a fifth lens element. Each of the five lens elements has an object-side surface towards the object side and an image-side surface towards the image side. The third lens element has positive refractive power. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of at least one of the five lens elements includes at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung-Yu Wei, Wen-Yao Yang, Yi-Hsiang Chuang, Tzu-Chieh Kuo