Patents by Inventor Kuo-Chuan Wang

Kuo-Chuan Wang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10962749
    Abstract: An optical lens includes, in order along a direction, an aperture stop and a lens group with a positive refractive power. The aperture stop is disposed at an outermost side of all lenses of the optical lens, and the lens group has at least four lenses. At least one of the four lenses is an aspheric lens, and each of the four lenses has a clear aperture of smaller than 14 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kai-Yun Chen, Pei-Ching Liu, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20210072523
    Abstract: A projection lens includes a first lens, a second lens, an aperture stop, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth, and a concave mirror sequentially arranged from a minified side to a magnified side. An outer diameter of the second lens is less than an outer diameter of the first lens. An outer diameter of the fifth lens is greater than that of the fourth lens. An outer diameter of the sixth lens is less than that of the fifth lens. The first lens, the second lens, the aperture stop, and the third lens are fixed relative to the concave mirror and the fourth lens is capable of moving along an optical axis relative to the concave mirror when the projection lens is in focusing. The projection lens includes 9 to 30 lenses with refractive power. A projector using said projection lens is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kai-Yun Chen, Hsin-Te Chen, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 10928612
    Abstract: A projection lens includes a first lens, a second lens, an aperture stop, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth, and a concave mirror sequentially arranged from a minified side to a magnified side. An outer diameter of the second lens is less than an outer diameter of the first lens. An outer diameter of the fifth lens is greater than that of the fourth lens. An outer diameter of the sixth lens is less than that of the fifth lens. The first lens, the second lens, the aperture stop, and the third lens are fixed relative to the concave mirror and the fourth lens is capable of moving along an optical axis relative to the concave mirror when the projection lens is in focusing. The projection lens includes 9 to 30 lenses with refractive power. A projector using said projection lens is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kai-Yun Chen, Hsin-Te Chen, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20210003822
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group and an aperture stop. The first lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, and the second lens group includes a third lens and a cemented lens. The aperture stop is disposed between the second lens and the cemented lens, a total number of lenses with refractive powers in the optical lens is less than eight, and the optical lens includes at most three aspheric lenses. The optical lens satisfies the condition 0.9<D1/IM<1.6, where IM denotes an image circle diameter measured on a visible-light focal plane of the optical lens, and D1 denotes a lens diameter of the first lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: CHING-SHENG CHANG, CHIA-CHEN KUNG, CHIU-JUNG LAI, KUO-CHUAN WANG
  • Patent number: 10845571
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group arranged in order from a first side to a second side, and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The optical lens satisfies the condition of LT/IMH<4.7, where IMH is semi-diagonal image height on an image plane, and LT is a distance along an optical axis between a surface of a first lens of the first lens group facing the first side and a surface of a last lens of the second lens group facing the second side. The first lens is closest to the first side among the first lens group, and the last lens is closest to the second side among the second lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: RAYS OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Ying-Hsiu Lin, Ching-Sheng Chang, Chen-Cheng Lee, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20200355895
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed in and movable with the second lens group. Each of the first lens group and the second lens group moves individually. The zoom lens further includes a doublet lens disposed on a first side of the aperture stop and between the first lens group and the aperture stop, and at most two lenses including at least one aspheric lens are disposed on a second side of the aperture stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Hung-You CHENG, Kuo-Chuan WANG, Yu-Hung CHOU
  • Publication number: 20200341240
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a positive refractive power, a third lens with a positive refractive power and a fourth lens with a refractive power arranged in order from a first side to a second side, and an aperture stop is disposed between the first lens and the third lens. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens are made from glass, a total number of lenses with refractive powers in the imaging lens is less than 5, the second lens and the third lens are aspheric glass lenses, and a full field of view of the imaging lens is greater than 120 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: CHING-SHENG CHANG, CHIA-CHEN KUNG, CHIU-JUNG LAI, KUO-CHUAN WANG
  • Patent number: 10809493
    Abstract: An optical lens includes two lens groups and an aperture stop. A total number of lenses with refractive power of the two lens groups is larger than three, and the two lens groups includes an aspheric lens with negative refractive power. The aperture stop is disposed between the two lens groups. The optical lens satisfies the following condition: 0.05>[y(?)?(EFL*sin ?)]/(EFL*sin ?)>?0.3, where ? denotes a half field of view, y(?) denotes an image height of an image plane for visible light with respect to the half field of view ?, and EFL denotes an effective focal length for visible light of the optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chuan Wang, Sheng-Tang Lai, Hsin-Te Chen, Chen-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 10732383
    Abstract: An optical lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is arranged between a magnified side and a minified side. The first lens group includes three lenses. A surface of a second lens facing to the minified side is a convex aspherical surface. The second lens group includes three lenses. Each of the first lens group and the second lens group includes at least one aspherical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Young Optics inc.
    Inventors: Ying-Hsiu Lin, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20200192062
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a first lens group, a second lens group and an aperture. The first lens group includes two lenses with refractive power. The second lens group with a positive refractive power includes at least two lenses with refractive power. The aperture is disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The lens assembly includes 5 to 8 lenses with refractive power. D1 is the diameter of the lens surface of the first lens group farthest from the second lens group. LT is the length on the optical axis of the lens from the lens surface farthest from the imaging plane of the lens assembly to the lens surface closest to the imaging plane of the lens assembly. IMH is the maximum imaging height of lens assembly on the imaging plane, wherein the lens assembly satisfies conditions: 3.5<LT/IMH<6, 0.65<D1/LT<0.98.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Ying-Hsiu LIN, Kuo-Chuan WANG
  • Patent number: 10684453
    Abstract: An optical lens includes five aspheric lenses and an aperture stop. The five aspheric lenses are, arranged in order from a first side to a second side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens, and the aperture stop is disposed between the first lens and the second lens. An image height at the image plane is denoted as H, the image height is equally divided into ten sections to from ten height positions 0.1H, 0.2H, 0.3H, 0.4H, 0.5H, 0.6H, 0.7H, 0.8H, 0.9H and 1H. Chief rays traveling through the optical lens and to the ten height positions respectively form ten angles with respect to a normal of an image plane, and each of the ten angles is smaller than 10 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: YOUNG OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Tang Lai, Kuo-Chuan Wang, Yuan-Hung Su
  • Patent number: 10670846
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group with negative refractive power, a second lens group with positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. A total number of lenses in the first lens group is less than three, and a total number of lenses in the second lens group is less than five. The second lens group includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens arranged in order in a direction away from the aperture stop. Each of the first lens and the second lens is an aspheric lens, and one of the first lens and the second lens has a diffractive optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: YOUNG OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Yuan-Hung Su, Sheng-Tang Lai, Kuo-Chuan Wang, Norihisa Sakagami
  • Patent number: 10606046
    Abstract: A zoom lens arranged along an optical axis includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The second lens group has at least one aspheric lens. The first lens group moves toward an image side and the second lens group moves away from the image side along the optical axis during zooming. The first lens group is moved for focusing, and the second lens group is moved for zooming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chuan Wang, Bing-Ju Chiang, Pin-Hsuan Hsieh, Kai-Yun Chen, Yu-Hung Chou
  • Publication number: 20200096748
    Abstract: A lens module for capturing an object light-beam from an object-side is provided. The lens module includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group and a fifth lens group sequentially-arranged from the object-side to an image-side. The five lens groups respectively have at least one lens with positive refractive-power and at least one lens with negative refractive-power. The first, third and fifth lens groups are fixed groups, while the second and fourth lens groups are movable groups. An image apparatus including the lens module is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chuan Wang, Sheng-Tang Lai
  • Patent number: 10598907
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. A total number of lenses of the two lens groups is less than 9. The first lens group has at least three lenses with refractive power and at least one aspheric lens. The second lens group has at least three lenses with refractive power and at least one aspheric lens. The first lens group includes a lens having positive refractive power and an Abbe number of smaller than 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: RAYS OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Bing-Ju Chiang, Yuan-Hung Su, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20200081229
    Abstract: A lens assembly including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, arranged from the magnification side to the reduction side, is provided. The fourth lens and the fifth lens are combined into a cemented lens having an aspherical surface. The lens assembly includes 5 to 6 lenses with a refractive power. The first lens is a glass lens, and the others are aspherical lenses. R1 is the radius of curvature of the lens surface of the first lens facing the magnification side, R2 is the radius of curvature of the lens surface of the first lens facing the reduction side, T is the thickness, on the optical axis of the lens assembly, of the first lens, wherein the refractive index of the first lens>1.55, the Abbe number of the first lens>55, and R1-R2-T<8.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng-Tang LAI, Ching-Sheng CHANG, Hsin-Te CHEN, Kuo-Chuan WANG
  • Patent number: 10564398
    Abstract: A lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is disposed between a magnified side and a minified side. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side. The lens includes six or less lens elements, and at least four of the six or less lens elements are aspheric lenses. A field of view of the lens is in a range between 100 degrees and 165 degrees, and the second lens group has at least one spherical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Bing-Ju Chiang, Hsin-Te Chen, Kuo-Chuan Wang, Sheng-Da Jiang
  • Patent number: 10558022
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the second side. The optical lens satisfies the conditions: 2.1<D1/D3<3.0 and 1.9<D1/DL<3.2, where D1 is a diameter of a surface of the first lens facing the first side, D3 is a diameter of a surface of the third lens facing the first side, DL is a diameter of a surface of a last lens facing the second side, and the last lens is nearest the second side as compared with any other lens of the optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: RAYS OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Da Jiang, Ching-Sheng Chang, Hsin-Te Chen, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 10551593
    Abstract: An optical lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is arranged between a magnified side and a minified side. The first lens group includes a lens closest to the magnified side. A refractive power of the lens is negative, and at least one surface of the lens is an aspherical surface. The second lens group is arranged between the first lens group and the minified side. A distance between the first lens group and the second lens group is smaller than 0.7 millimeter. The optical lens is complied with conditions of 0.53<EFL/IH<0.7, FOV?150 degrees, and F?2.8, where EFL is an effective focal length, IH is an image height on an imaging plane at the minified side, FOV is a maximum field of view, and F is f-number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chuan Wang, Chen-Cheng Liao
  • Publication number: 20200003986
    Abstract: A lens including 6˜11 lenses with a refractive power is provided. A spherical lens and an aspheric lens are disposed between the aperture and the image plane of the lens assembly. At least two lenses are disposed between the aperture and the object side of the lens assembly. EFL is the effective focal length of the lens. LT is the length on the optical axis of the lens from the lens surface farthest from the image plane of the lens assembly to the lens surface closest to the image plane of the lens assembly. The lens assembly satisfies the following conditions: 3 mm<EFL<5 mm, 0.1<EFULT<0.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Lung LAI, Hung-You CHENG, Kuo-Chuan WANG