Patents Issued in January 12, 2016
  • Patent number: 9235004
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for cleaving an optical fiber are provided. The process includes window stripping the optical fiber using a laser source to create a window strip. The window stripped optical fiber is then scribed at a position within the window strip and tension is applied to the optical fiber. The cleaved optical fiber can be chamfered by applying a heat source to the cleaved end face. The above process and apparatus provide a high precision and inexpensive system for fiber cleaving and chamfering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLC
    Inventors: Lalitkumar Bansal, John Sugrim, Daiichiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9235005
    Abstract: A method of fusion-splicing includes attaching a stab to a stub cap having a non-axisymmetric structure, positioning an embedded optical fiber to a fusion splicing working part by fixing the stub cap thereto; positioning an outside optical fiber to the fusion splicing working part; fusion-splicing the embedded optical fiber and the outside optical fiber; repositioning the embedded optical fiber to a reinforcing working part by fixing the stub cap thereto and repositioning the outside optical fiber to the reinforcing working part such that a relative positional relationship between the embedded optical fiber and the outside optical fiber becomes the same as that at the fusion splicing working part; and reinforcing a spliced portion between the embedded optical fiber and the outside optical fiber while a tension is applied to the embedded optical fiber and the outside optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SEI OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Sato, Hiroyasu Toyooka, Hiroshi Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 9235006
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical channel monitor (100), including a plurality of input ports in the form of optical fibers (102) disposed in a vertical “port displacement” dimension. Each fiber (102) inputs a respective optical beam (103) having a plurality of individual wavelength channels. A lens (104) collimates each beam and converges the beams in the port displacement dimension to a focal plane (105). The collimated and converged beams are incident onto a rotatable micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) mirror (106), which selectively directs each optical beam onto a wavelength dispersion element in the form of a grism (108) at a predetermined angle (denoted by ?) in a horizontal “dispersion” plane. The grism (108) spatially separates, in the dispersion plane, the wavelength channels contained within each optical beam (103) by diffraction. The angle at which each channel is diffracted is controlled by the angle ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Steven James Frisken, Dmitri Abakoumov
  • Patent number: 9235007
    Abstract: An optical lens of an optical connector includes alignment features for passive connection alignment. Fiber inserted into the lens is aligned with a fiber groove that restricts motion in at least one direction to align the fiber. The lens includes an alignment feature to passively align the lens with a mating alignment feature of a mating connector. The groove may, for example, be L-, V-, or U-shaped. The alignment feature can be a post with corresponding recess. Alignment can further be secured with a tab that constrains pivoting of the connectors when engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Jamyuen Ko
  • Patent number: 9235008
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical module including: an optical element mounted on a substrate; and an optical connector mounted corresponding to the optical element so as to change a path of an optical signal of the optical element and transfer the optical signal having the changed path. The optical module may provide various communication performances using an optical connector in which first and second connector parts are optically coupled stably to each other. Particularly, the optical module does not have a silicon optical bench (SiOB) as a medium, thereby making it possible to reduce a thickness of a product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Park, Christian Romero, Young Do Kweon, Chang Bae Lee
  • Patent number: 9235009
    Abstract: An optical connector of an embodiment of the present invention includes a fixing member made up of two half sprit members engaged with each other, the fixing member applying external pressure, toward an optical fiber combining section of a spring push, to a protection tube which covers a stair part of an outer circumferential surface of the optical fiber combining section. The fixing member securely fixes the protection tube to the optical fiber combining section. As such, it is possible to provide a general-purpose optical connector having a high reliability that an optical fiber cord is unlikely to come off from the optical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji Kato
  • Patent number: 9235010
    Abstract: An optical connector with a cable gland dimensioned for coupling with a body includes a crimp seat with a shoulder dimensioned larger than a bore of the cable gland. A duplex shell is dimensioned to retain a pair of optical connectors; the duplex shell provided with a crimp support. The crimp seat and the crimp support are dimensioned to receive a crimp ferrule and a connect crimp ferrule, respectively, thereover, for securing yarns of an armored cable within the optical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Nahid Islam
  • Patent number: 9235011
    Abstract: A light emitting device and a light receiving device are in a bare chip form and are a light emitting device of surface emitting type and a light receiving device of surface receiving type having an electrode on an opposite surface of a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion respectively, the light emitting device, the light receiving device, and an optical waveguide are mounted on one surface of a flexible printed wiring board body, the light emitting portion of the light emitting device, an optical waveguide core, and the light receiving portion of the light receiving device are arranged substantially coaxially, and the light emitting device and the light receiving device are mounted in such a way that a light emitting/receiving direction is substantially 90° with respect to an orthogonal direction of a surface of the flexible printed wiring board body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Takano, Fumihiko Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9235012
    Abstract: An optical communication module includes an optical transmitter, an optical coupling lens, and an optical fiber. The optical coupling lens includes a first surface, a second surface, a reflection surface, a first lens unit, and a second lens unit. An included angle between the first surface and the second surface is 82 degrees. An included angle between the first surface and the reflection surface is 45 degrees. The first lens unit is positioned on the first surface. The second lens unit is positioned on the second surface. The optical transmitter is positioned towards the first surface and aligned with the first lens unit. An optical fiber is positioned towards the second surface and aligned with the second lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Hung, I-Thun Lin
  • Patent number: 9235013
    Abstract: An optical communications module includes a receptacle with a stop member. The receptacle has a keyway and a latchway. The keyway is configured to receive and guide a body of the connector plug in a direction along a keyway axis. The latchway is defined by a total flexure range of the flexible latch arm between a fully flexed state and a fully relaxed state. The latchway is configured to receive and guide the flexible latch arm through a range of movement having a directional component perpendicular to the keyway axis. The stop member extends from a wall of the receptacle into the latchway. The stop member is configured to restrain the flexible latch arm in a latched state between the fully flexed state and the fully relaxed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Seng-Kum Chan, Chaitanya Arekar
  • Patent number: 9235014
    Abstract: An optics system module for use in an optical communications module is provided that can be more easily aligned with the module during the mounting process, that reduces the possibility of the fiber ends being damaged when they are connected to the respective optical ports of the optics system, and that eliminates or reduces the occurrence of Fresnel losses at the interfaces between the fiber end faces and the optical ports. The optical ports have non-round shapes that are symmetrical to the shapes of the fibers in the transverse direction, i.e., in the direction that is transverse to the optical axes of the fibers. The non-round, symmetrical shape of the optical ports reduces the amount of force that the optical ports exert on the respective optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tak K. Wang, Chung-Yi Su, Frank Yashar
  • Patent number: 9235015
    Abstract: A heat dissipation system and method are embodied in an optical subassembly (OSA) that mechanically couples with an electrical subassembly (ESA) of an optical communications module. When the OSA is coupled with the ESA, a heat dissipation block that is embedded in the OSA is spaced apart from components of the ESA by a small air gap. At least a portion of the heat that is generated by one or more of these components passes into the heat dissipation block, which extends through top and bottom surfaces of the OSA. Because the heat dissipation block never makes physical contact with the ESA or with components of the ESA, there is no risk of the block damaging the ESA or detrimentally affecting the electrical performance of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Seng-Kum Chan
  • Patent number: 9235016
    Abstract: The electronic device with cable includes a circuit substrate provided with a heat generating element mounted thereon, an electrical connector connected to one end of the circuit substrate, a cable that is connected to the other end of the circuit substrate, heat conducting sheets and disposed in the circuit substrate, a first metal housing including an accommodation portion accommodating the electrical connector and a pair of wall portions communicating with the accommodation portion, a second metal housing fitted to the first metal housing so as to cover a one-side opening of the pair of wall portions, and a third metal housing fitted to the second metal housing so as to cover the other-side opening of the pair of wall portions. The cable and the first metal housing are thermally connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Arao, Toshihisa Yokochi
  • Patent number: 9235017
    Abstract: A fiber optic transceiver comprising a substrate, a heat dissipating structure, a receptacle and a light source is disclosed. The substrate may have a hole extending therethrough. The heat dissipating structure may be coupled to the substrate and may comprise a major surface, a plurality of fins, a projecting member, and a plurality of insulating protrusions. The plurality of fins may project from the major surface of the heat dissipating structure away from the substrate. The projecting member may extend partially or completely through the hole of the substrate. The plurality of insulating protrusions may extend substantially perpendicularly from the major surface of the heat dissipating structure and coupled to the substrate. The plurality of insulating protrusions may be configured to separate the major surface of the heat dissipating structure with the substrate so as to reduce heat transfer between the substrate and the heat dissipating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: David Meadowcroft, Seng-Kum Chan
  • Patent number: 9235018
    Abstract: An optical communications card is provided that has multiple parallel optical communications modules mounted on one or both sides of the card. A plurality of the optical communications cards can be edge-mounted and/or mid-plane mounted in an optical communications system such that the cards are electrically connected to a motherboard PCB. Because the spacing, or pitch, between the edge-mounted or mid-plane mounted cards can be very small, the cards can be mounted with very high density to provide the optical communications system with very high bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Laurence R. McColloch
  • Patent number: 9235019
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing self-aligned optical coupling between an opto-electronic substrate and a fiber array, where the substrate is enclosed by a transparent lid such that the associated optical signals enter and exit the arrangement through the transparent lid. The apparatus takes the form of a two-part connectorized fiber array assembly where the two pieces uniquely mate to form a self-aligned configuration. A first part, in the form of a plate, is attached to the transparent lid in the area where the optical signals pass through. The first plate includes a central opening with inwardly-tapering sidewalls surrounding its periphery. A second plate is also formed to include a central opening and has a lower protrusion with inwardly-tapering sidewalls that mate with the inwardly-tapering sidewalls of the first plate to form the self-aligned connectorized fiber array assembly. The fiber array is then attached to the second plate in a self-aligned fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kalpendu Shastri, Soham Pathak, Utpal Chakrabarti, Vipulkumar Patel, Bipin Dama, Ravinder Kachru, Kishor Desai
  • Patent number: 9235020
    Abstract: An electro-optical connector assembly includes a first data connector for arrangement on a first device and a second data connector for arrangement on a second device, the first and second data connectors being for communicating data through free space between the first device and the second device and, a first power connector for arrangement on the first device and a second power connector for arrangement on the second device, the first and second power connectors being for providing wireless power transfer between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Richard Charles Alexander Pitwon
  • Patent number: 9235021
    Abstract: A cable breakout kit has a cable portion, an inner wall portion and a furcation portion with at least one fiber port. The cable portion and the furcation portion are dimensioned to couple with one another, enclosing a furcation area. The inner wall portion is coupled to the furcation portion and a fiber bundle of the cable, enclosing a fiber area within the furcation area; the fiber area is coupled to the at least one fiber port. An assembly including a cable with a fiber and an electrical conductor utilizes a transition housing to pass the fiber and conductor to respective furcation tubes, isolated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Nahid Islam
  • Patent number: 9235022
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for thermally managing electronic devices using dynamic optical components are provided. At least one of the reflectance and the transmittance of incident electromagnetic radiation of a dynamic optical component on an electronic device may be adjusted based on a detected variable device characteristic of the device, such as a temperature of a device component. By adjusting the reflectance and/or the transmittance of the dynamic optical component, different portions of the incident electromagnetic radiation may be directed from the dynamic optical component for changing the variable device characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon Cameron, Ryan Joseph Garrone
  • Patent number: 9235023
    Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed for providing systems and methods for orienting one or more lenses or other optical elements in a lens sleeve. For example, a system may include a lens sleeve defining an interior lens cavity. A plurality of lens positioning features extend from the lens sleeve adjacent the interior lens cavity. A first lens is secured in the lens cavity at a first position relative to the lens sleeve. A first set of the lens positioning features are located at a second position relative to the lens sleeve, and a second set of the lens positioning features are located at a third position relative to the lens sleeve. A second lens engages either the first set or the second set of the plurality of lens positioning features depending on a desired distance between the first lens and the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FLIR Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Warn Burt, Theodore R. Hoelter, Kevin Birch
  • Patent number: 9235024
    Abstract: A lens barrel comprises an outer frame and an inner frame. The lens barrel has a first state, a second state, and a third state during operation in which the outer frame and the inner frame rotate relatively. In the first state, a first cam follower is guided by a first cam. In the second state, the first cam follower is guided by the first cam, and a second cam follower is guided by a second cam. In the third state, the second cam follower is guided by the second cam. In the third state, at least part of the first cam follower enters a space formed by a recess portion or a hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Uno, Hiroyasu Fujinaka
  • Patent number: 9235025
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. The second lens unit moves toward the image side during focusing from a far object to a near object. The third lens unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, two lenses having concave surfaces that face each other with a largest air gap in the third lens unit provided therebetween, and a positive lens. A focal length of the entire imaging optical system and a focal length of the second lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9235026
    Abstract: An optical instrument comprises a ring member which is arranged to be rotatable with respect to a lens barrel, and also to slide in an optical axis direction, a movement mechanism for slide movement of the ring member to a first position or a second position in the optical axis direction, an encoder that generates signals in accordance with a rotation operation of the ring member, a slide position determination section for determining positional change accompanying slide movement to the first position or the second position by the movement mechanism, and a control section for performing determination of the signals from the encoder to switch the display operation, and prohibiting switching of the display operation when the slide position determination section has determined a positional change accompanying the slide operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzuru Taguchi, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9235027
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, 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 and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element and the third lens element have refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface, wherein at least one inflection point is on at least one surface thereof. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface. The surfaces of the fifth and the sixth lens elements are aspheric. The optical image capturing system has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Chun-Che Hsueh
  • Patent number: 9235028
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consists of, in order from an object side, five lenses of a first lens that has a positive refractive power and is convex toward the object side, a second lens that has a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens that has a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens that has a negative refractive power and has an object side surface and an image side surface which have aspheric shapes. Further, the imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoneyama, Michio Cho, Kazumi Koike
  • Patent number: 9235029
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consists of, in order from an object side, five lenses of a first lens that has a positive refractive power and has a meniscus shape which is convex toward the object side, a second lens that has a negative refractive power and has a meniscus shape which is concave toward the object side, a third lens that has a meniscus shape which is convex toward the image side, a fourth lens that has a positive refractive power and is convex toward the object side, and a fifth lens that has a negative refractive power and has at least one inflection point on an image side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Noda, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 9235030
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consists, in order from an object side, five lenses of a first lens that has a positive refractive power and has a meniscus shape which is convex toward the object side, a second lens that has a negative refractive power, a third lens that has a negative refractive power, a fourth lens that has a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens that has a negative refractive power and has an object side surface and an image side surface which have aspheric shapes. Further, the imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Yoneyama, Kazumi Koike
  • Patent number: 9235031
    Abstract: A wide-angle image taking lens system includes an aperture stop and an optical assembly including: in order from an object side to an image side: first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements, the system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power, wherein Abbe numbers of the first and fifth lens element are V1, V5, a distance along an optical axis between the first and second lens element is T12, a central thickness of the first lens element is CT1, focal lengths of the system, second and third lens elements are f, f2, f3, maximum effective diameters of an object-side surface of the first lens element and an image-side surface of the fifth lens element are CA11, CA52, satisfying: 1.5<V1/V5<3; 1.1<T12/CT1<2.5; 0.2<|f/f3|+|f/f2|<1.5; 0.2<CA11/CA52<0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Glory Science Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng-Chao Chung, Kun-Ti Liu
  • Patent number: 9235032
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens includes, 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 and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element, the third lens element, and the fourth lens element have refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an aspheric object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an aspheric image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point. The photographing optical lens further includes a stop located between an object and the second lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9235033
    Abstract: An image lens assembly system includes, 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. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element has refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power made of plastic material has a concave image-side surface changing from concave in a paraxial region to convex in a peripheral region, and at least one surface thereof is aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 9235034
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system substantially consists of a first lens-group having positive refractive-power, and which is fixed during magnification change, a second lens-group having negative refractive-power, a third lens-group having negative refractive-power, a fourth lens-group having negative refractive-power, an aperture stop, which is fixed during magnification change, and a fifth lens-group having positive refractive-power, and which is fixed during magnification change, in this order from an object-side along an optical-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinkichi Ikeda, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 9235035
    Abstract: A zoom lens substantially consists of a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group which moves from the object side to the image side while changing magnification from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, a negative third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group having an aperture stop St, wherein the first lens group includes a negative meniscus lens on the most-object side; the second lens group is composed of a negative second-a lens group having at least one aspheric surface and a positive second-b lens group, and the distance therebetween changes while changing magnification; a third lens group moves such that the distance between the third lens group and a fourth lens group at the telephoto end becomes narrower than at the wide angle end; and conditional expression (1) below is satisfied: 1.89<N1a1??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasutaka Shimada
  • Patent number: 9235036
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group which has negative refractive power and is configured with only a single lens, and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power, which are arranged in order from an object side to an image side. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group are movable in an optical axis direction. Focusing from infinity to a close range is performed by the fourth lens group being moved in the optical axis direction. At least one of following conditional expressions (1) and (2) is satisfied. ?11.0<Fno—w×Y/{(1??4—w2)×?5—w2}<?7.0 and??(1) ?11.0<Fno—t×Y/{(1??4—t2)×?5—t2}<?7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Kato, Atsushi Oohata, Hiroki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 9235037
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9235038
    Abstract: A tube lens includes a singlet and a doublet with a long front tube length between a lens stop and the tube lens. The front tube length is 1.0 to 1.5 times an effective focal length of the tube lens. The front tube length provides sufficient space for an optical platform, a folding mirror, and a telescope. The telescope rotates between a 2× mode with front and back doublets and a 1× mode with a clear aperture. The field angle of the tube lens is 4.0 degrees. Specific glass types correct the lateral color in a system for digital pathology with a white LED and a color CCD sensor. The system for digital pathology further includes an objective lens with a numerical aperture at 0.50-0.55, and a Kohler illumination system with a numerical aperture of critical illumination at 0.75-0.85 times the numerical aperture of the objective lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Inventor: George H. Seward
  • Patent number: 9235039
    Abstract: A broad-spectrum, multiple wavelength illuminator comprises a luminescent body, and a plurality of semiconductor chips spaced apart from the luminescent body emitting light within one or more wavelength ranges towards the luminescent body, causing the luminescent body to emit light of one or more wavelength ranges. An optical element adjacent to the luminescent body collects light emitted by the luminescent body. An optical device collects light collected by the optical element. An aperture located between the optical element and the optical device passes the light emitted by the luminescent body along an optical axis, wherein light collected by the optical element and the optical device and passed by the aperture forms a beam of light illuminating a target. Alternatively, instead of being spaced apart from the chips, the luminescent body may be a layer adjacent to the chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: DiCon Fiberoptics Inc.
    Inventor: Ho-Shang Lee
  • Patent number: 9235040
    Abstract: A biological sample image acquiring apparatus includes: an objective lens magnifying a region of a biological sample; an imaging device imaging the region magnified by the objective lens; a movement controller moving the focus of the objective lens in the thickness direction of the target region of the biological sample and moving the image of the region, which magnified by the objective lens to be imaged onto an imaging device, in an in-plane direction; and a biological sample image acquiring unit acquiring a biological sample image of the region by exposing the imaging device to light while the movement controller is moving the image of the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koichiro Kishima
  • Patent number: 9235041
    Abstract: Systems and methods for microscope slide scanning using multiple sensor arrays that receive imagery data from a single optical axis are provided. A single, high quality, easily obtained microscope objective lens is used to project an image onto two or more sensor arrays. The sensor arrays can be linear or two dimensional and imaging takes place along a single optical axis. Simultaneous sensor acquisition and parallel data processing reduce the image acquisition time by a factor of N, where N represents the number of sensors employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: LEICA BIOSYSTEMS IMAGING, INC.
    Inventor: Greg Crandall
  • Patent number: 9235042
    Abstract: An eyepiece optical system substantially composed of a first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface on the eye point side, a second lens having a negative refractive power with a concave surface on the object side, and a third lens having a positive refractive power with an absolute value of radius of curvature of the eye point side surface being smaller than an absolute value of radius of curvature of the object side surface, disposed in order from the object side. The first lens to the third lens are all single lenses and, when the average refractive index of the first lens to the third lens is taken as NdH, the eyepiece optical system satisfies a conditional expression (1): 1.80<NdH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Sato
  • Patent number: 9235043
    Abstract: Controllable Fabry-Perot interferometers include two mirrors with a space between them. The mirrors are such that at least one layer is made of silicon-rich silicon nitride. Additionally, the mirrors' surfaces are formed to be of a roughness which reduces the risk of the mirrors sticking to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
    Inventor: Martti Blomberg
  • Patent number: 9235044
    Abstract: A light activated power indicator includes an indicator and a receptor circuit with a light sensitive device electrically connected to the indicator. The light activated power indicator further includes a first terminal electrically coupled to a first end of the receptor circuit and a second terminal electrically coupled to a second end of the receptor circuit wherein the indicator indicates a state of charge of an electrical storage device when the light sensitive device is exposed to one or more wavelengths lying within a response spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Steven Jeffrey Specht, Jordan Todorov Bourilkov
  • Patent number: 9235045
    Abstract: Image projection illumination apparatus and methods are provided. A color wheel has a blue laser light reflecting region and other regions respectively coated with different color light emitting phosphors. Blue laser light of a given polarization is directed by reflection or transmission by a blue laser light polarization selective filter through a polarization changing element with changed polarization onto the color wheel. When the color wheel reflecting region is aligned with the incident light, incident light is reflected back through the polarization changing element with further changed polarization by the other of reflection or transmission by the filter for image projection. When the other regions are respectively aligned with the incident light, the different color light is emitted by the phosphors along the light path for image projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sajjad Ali Khan
  • Patent number: 9235046
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for providing relatively thinner and less stiff compliant beams for a shutter assembly. A protective coating is deposited and patterned over the shutter assembly before it is released from a sacrificial mold over which the shutter assembly is formed. Because some primary surfaces of the compliant beams are in contact with the sacrificial mold, these primary surfaces are not coated with the protective coating. Therefore, when the shutter assembly is finally released, the resulting compliant beams are relatively thinner and less stiff providing a reduction in an actuation voltage used to operate the shutter assembly. In some instances, the protective coating is patterned into discontinuous segments before release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Villarreal, Timothy J. Brosnihan, Jasper L. Steyn, Richard S. Payne, Stephen R. Lewis
  • Patent number: 9235047
    Abstract: This disclosure provides novel latching circuits, and pixel circuits and display devices that include such latching circuits. The latches herein include a switch positioned on an inverter coupling interconnect which couples two cross-coupled inverters of the latch. The switch is configured to control a passage of a current between the first and second inverters. By switching the switch OFF at a time a data voltage is transferred to the inverters, any leak current between the inverters can be interrupted. As a result, a malfunctioning of the data latch is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuhide Miyamoto, Katsumi Matsumoto, Takahide Kuranaga
  • Patent number: 9235048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for reducing fouling of a surface of an optically transparent element with a light source. According to one aspect, the invention is a system including an LED for emitting UV-C radiation, a mount for directing emitted UV-C radiation toward the optically transparent element, and control circuitry for driving the LED. The system may be used to remove a desired amount of biofilm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    Inventors: Norman Erwin Farr, Clifford Thomas Pontbriand, Timothy Goodwin Peters
  • Patent number: 9235049
    Abstract: A lens includes a depth of field (“DOF”) range and a macro range. The macro range is distinct and separate from the DOF range. The macro range is a near field relative to the DOF range. The DOF range provides a first field of view (“FOV”) while the macro range provides a second FOV that is smaller than the first FOV within the DOF range. The lens transfers sharpness from a peripheral viewing region within the macro range into a central viewing region within the macro range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Miao, Hayes S. Raffle
  • Patent number: 9235050
    Abstract: A light guide plate receives light emitted from the light source, and emits the light from a light emitting surface. A prism sheet reflects light at a predetermined angle among the light emitted from the light emitting surface, allows the reflected light to enter the light guide plate, and transmits light at another angle. A polarization control element is provided between a 1/4 wavelength plate and a reflection-type liquid crystal display element so as to be parallel to the light emitting surface. The polarization control element splits the light emitted from the 1/4 wavelength plate into first polarized light allowed to transmit as illumination light that enters the reflection-type liquid crystal display element and second polarized light reflected so as to enter the light guide plate, and reflects the light modulated and emitted by the reflection-type liquid crystal display element toward an imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9235051
    Abstract: A see-through head mounted display apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor determines geo-located positions of points of interest within a field of view and generates markers indicating information regarding an associated real world object is available to the user. Markers are rendered in the display relative to the geo-located position and the field of view of the user. When a user selects a marker though a user gesture, the device displays a near-field virtual object having a visual tether to the marker simultaneously with the marker. The user may interact with the marker to view, add or delete information associated with the point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tom G. Salter, Ben J. Sugden, Daniel Deptford, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Laura K. Massey, Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda
  • Patent number: 9235052
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laser frequency adjustment method and a laser frequency adjustment system. The laser frequency adjustment method includes: (1) providing a primitive laser pulse (10); (2) using a beam splitter (20) to split the primitive laser pulse (10) into a first sub-laser pulse (11) and a second sub-laser pulse (12); (3) using a plurality of reflectors (30) to reflect the first sub-laser pulse (11) to a location where the second sub-laser pulse (12) exits the beam splitter (20) and making the first sub-laser pulse (11) passing through an optical length extension device (40) during the transmission of the first sub-laser pulse (11); and (4) superimposing the first sub-laser pulse (11) and the second sub-laser pulse (12) and using a compensator sheet (50) to adjust the transmission direction of the superimposed laser pulse (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9235053
    Abstract: A device for beam shaping includes a heat dissipation body having an upper side with a planar section and a plurality of laser elements next to one another on the planar section of the upper side that respectively emit a ray bundle having a fast-axis divergence and, perpendicular thereto, a slow-axis divergence. A reflection element is arranged such that the ray bundles of the individual laser elements extend parallel to one another and at an elevation angle of greater than 0° and less than 90° with respect to the planar section after exactly one reflection at the associated reflection element. The reflected ray bundles are stacked in the optical path downstream of the reflection elements in a first plane perpendicular to the beam direction and a connecting line, lying in the first plane, of the centers of the reflected ray bundles extends perpendicular to the direction of the slow axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: JENOPTIK Laser GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Wolf, Steffen Wagner