Patents Issued in December 13, 2016
  • Patent number: 9519080
    Abstract: A high-aspect-ratio imprinted structure includes a first layer of cured layer material having a plurality of micro-channels imprinted in the first layer. Each micro-channel has micro-channel walls and a micro-channel bottom, the micro-channel bottom having distinct first and second portions. Deposited material is located on the micro-channel walls and not on the second portion of the micro-channel bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald Steven Cok
  • Patent number: 9519081
    Abstract: Provided are an optical laminate film superior in film flexibility and film surface uniformity, has high light transmittance in a predetermined wavelength region, and is superior in light shielding properties in another predetermined wavelength region, an infrared shielding film, a method of manufacturing an infrared shielding film, and an infrared shielding body provided with the infrared shielding film. The optical laminate film has, on a substrate, at least one unit constituted of a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer containing metal oxide particles and silanol modified polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukako Taka, Takahiko Nojima
  • Patent number: 9519082
    Abstract: In a protective film affixed to a microscopic roughness structure having a microscopically rough structure on the surface, water contact angle of the surface of the microscopic roughness structure is 40° or less, compressive stress obtainable when the adhesive layer of the protective film is compressed to a compression ratio of 20% is 0.6 MPa to 3.0 MPa; in the infrared absorption spectrum of the surface on the microscopically rough structure side of the microscopic roughness structure, ratio (A1/A2) of peak area A1 having absorption maximum of 3700 cm?1 to 3100 cm?1, and peak area A2 having absorption maximum of 1730±10 cm?1, is 0.1 to 0.8; in the surface of adhesive layer of the protective film, ratio (B1/B2) of peak area B1 having absorption maximum of 3700 cm?1 to 3100 cm?1, and peak area B2 having absorption maximum of 1730±10 cm?1, is 0.6 to 1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takihara, Seiichiro Mori, Eiko Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9519083
    Abstract: Provided is a display window for a display apparatus, the display window including a base plate; a plurality of first coating patterns on an entire first surface of the base plate spaced from one another; and a plurality of second coating patterns on an entire second surface of the base plate spaced from one another and corresponding to the first coating patterns. A width of each of the first coating patterns is less than a width of a corresponding second coating pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Il Park, Hyun-Joon Oh, Hye-Jin Oh, Jeoung-Sub Lee, Min-Hoon Choi, In-Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 9519084
    Abstract: A headset for virtual reality applications includes an optical element configured to modify light from an electronic display in the headset and to direct the modified light to a user. The optical element may include a Fresnel lens secured to a lens by securing the Fresnel lens to a mold and inserting a casting material into the mold so the casting material forms the lens and a portion of the casting material exists on and past an edge of the Fresnel lens. This encases the edge of the Fresnel lens in the casting material, securing the Fresnel lens to the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: 9519085
    Abstract: A light diffusing sheet can include a diffusion layer. The diffusion layer has a surface profile that satisfies certain conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KIMOTO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yokota, Shingo Ohsaku
  • Patent number: 9519086
    Abstract: An anisotropic light diffusion film includes increased uniformity of the intensity of diffused light in the light diffusion angle region, and the light diffusion angle region has been effectively expanded. An anisotropic light diffusion film includes a first louver structure region and a second louver structure region, in which plural plate-shaped regions having different refractive indices are alternately arranged in parallel along any one direction along the film plane, sequentially from the lower side along the film thickness direction, and the anisotropic light diffusion film includes an overlapping louver structure region in which the upper end of the first louver structure region and the lower end of the second louver structure region overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LINTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Kusama, Tomoo Orui, Kenta Tomioka, Satoru Shoshi
  • Patent number: 9519087
    Abstract: The present application relates to retroreflective sheeting that is capable of use in a license plate and that can be accurately read and/or detected by an ALPR system. The retroreflective sheeting is a prismatic retroreflective sheeting that provides reduced retroreflectivity of infra-red light. The retroreflective sheeting can also be a prismatic retroreflective sheeting that exhibits reduced retroreflectivity of incident infra-red light and substantially unaffected retroreflectivity of incident visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Toshitaka Nakajima, Masami Yokoyama, Akira Muramoto
  • Patent number: 9519088
    Abstract: A micromirror array according to the present invention is a corner reflector type micromirror array capable of projecting a mirror image of an object to be projected sharply with high luminance. The micromirror array includes a substrate, and a plurality of unit optical elements (quadrangular prisms) formed in an array on the substrate. Each of the unit optical elements is of a protruding or recessed shape perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The unit optical elements has two side surfaces orthogonal to each other on opposite sides of a corner of the side surfaces, and the two side surfaces are light reflecting surfaces. Each of the light reflecting surfaces is of a rectangular shape such that the ratio of the vertical length thereof as measured in a substrate thickness direction to the horizontal width thereof as measured in a substrate surface direction is not less than 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Juni, Akiko Nagafuji
  • Patent number: 9519089
    Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is an apparatus, comprising: an optical substrate configured to manipulate light received from a light source; and at least one diffractive element in one layer in the optical substrate, each diffractive element comprising: a plurality of sub-substrate structures separated from one another by a plurality of valleys, the sub-substrate structures comprising a material having a first refractive index; and a filler material filling at least partially at least some of the plurality of valleys, the filler material having a second refractive index that is unequal to the first refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Brown, James H. Stanley
  • Patent number: 9519090
    Abstract: A uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film that exhibits a high polarization performance of 99.5% or more in a simpler configuration than before, a polarizing plate that is composed of the same, an optical member for a liquid crystal display device, and a liquid crystal display device are provided. Namely, in the uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately laminated, the uniaxially stretched multi-layer laminate film includes an intermediate layer that has a thickness of 2 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less; the first layer is composed of a polyester containing a naphthalene dicarboxylic acid ester; the second layer is composed of a copolymer polyester and is an optically isotropic layer that has an average refractive index of 1.50 or more and 1.60 or less; the first layer, the second layer, both first and second layers, or the intermediate layer contains a visible light absorbent, which has a weight loss of less than 10% when it is kept at 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Oya, Kana Tanabu, Takashi Nakahiro, Tetsuo Yoshida, Hiromi Shiroma, Tomoko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9519091
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device comprising a display panel and a conductive pattern, in which the conductive pattern comprises an irregular pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeon Choi, Sujin Kim, Ki-Hwan Kim, Young Jun Hong
  • Patent number: 9519092
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an illumination module, an end reflector, and a beam splitter. The illumination module launches display light along a forward propagating path within an eyepiece. The end reflector is disposed at an opposite end of the eyepiece from the illumination module and reflects back the display light traveling along a reverse propagating path. The beam splitter is disposed in the forward propagating path between the end reflector and the illumination module. The beam splitter directs a first portion of the display light traveling along the forward propagating path out a first side of the eyepiece. The beam splitter directs a second portion of the display light traveling along the reverse propagation path out a second side of the eyepiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Miao, Ehsan Saeedi
  • Patent number: 9519093
    Abstract: A rotatable compensator configured to transmit non-collimated light over a broad range of wavelengths, including ultraviolet, with a high degree of retardation uniformity across the aperture is presented. In one embodiment, a rotatable compensator includes a stack of four individual plates in optical contact. The two thin plates in the middle of the stack are made from a birefringent material and are arranged to form a compound, zeroth order bi-plate. The remaining two plates are relatively thick and are made from an optically isotropic material. These plates are disposed on either end of the compound, zeroth order bi-plate. The low order plates minimize the sensitivity of retardation across the aperture to non-collimated light. Materials are selected to ensure transmission of ultraviolet light. The optically isotropic end plates minimize coherence effects induced at the optical interfaces of the thin plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Rotter, Klaus Flock, Muzammil Arain, David Y. Wang
  • Patent number: 9519094
    Abstract: A backlight module is disclosed. The backlight module includes an ambient light collector for collecting ambient lights, at least one optical fiber connecting to the ambient light collector, a light emitting plate arranged closely to an optical plate, at least one fixing sleeve being received in the through hole, and at least one optical fiber sleeve. The light emitting plate includes a plurality of through holes. The optical fiber sleeve is fixed within the fixing sleeve and engages with the light emitting ends of the optical fibers to fix the optical fibers on the light emitting plate. The backlight module utilizes the ambient lights as light source. In addition, by cutting the light emitting end of the optical fibers, the light emitting angle of the lights are greatly enlarged. As such, the brightness difference is decreased and the display performance is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yongyuan Qiu, Yong Fan
  • Patent number: 9519095
    Abstract: An optical waveguide includes a coupling optic and a waveguide body. According to one embodiment, the body includes a first curved surface that extends between an input surface and an end surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The input surface has a first thickness disposed between the first and second surfaces and the end surface has a second thickness disposed between the first and second surfaces less than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt S. Wilcox, John W. Durkee, Craig D. Raleigh, Joseph P. Chobot
  • Patent number: 9519096
    Abstract: Optical devices include a light source and an optical article, where the optical article is an acid-free, non-yellowing pressure sensitive adhesive light guide. The light source is optically coupled to the light guide such that light emitted by the light source enters the light guide and is transported within the light guide by total internal reflection. The light guide includes a plurality of features oriented to extract light being transported within the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Audrey A. Sherman, Corinne E. Lipscomb, Steven D. Solomonson, Arlin L. Weikel, Maureen A. Kavanagh, Kevin R. Schaffer, Michael A. Meis
  • Patent number: 9519097
    Abstract: The lighting device contains a substrate and a plurality of lighting elements arranged in at least two parallel rows on a front side of the substrate. The lighting elements of the two rows neighbor on each other. The front side of the substrate is configured so that an included angle is formed between the lighting elements of the two rows. Their light therefore converges within a Quantum Dots (QD) tube before entering a light guide plate. A backlight module incorporating the lighting device as such not only provides high saturation and high chromaticity, but also achieves greater optical coupling efficiency, thinner light guide plate and QD tube, reduced material cost and dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shihhsiang Chen, Chengwen Que, Dehua Li
  • Patent number: 9519098
    Abstract: A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is capable of allowing a narrower bezel by reducing a size of a support main in the liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The backlight unit includes the support main in which an alignment hole is formed on at least one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YeounJei Jung, SeHwan Park
  • Patent number: 9519099
    Abstract: Disclosed are an illumination system and a display apparatus using the same. The illumination system includes a light guide plate; grooves disposed in the light guide plate, each of the grooves having at least one inclined surface; light source modules disposed within the grooves, wherein the light source modules comprise, substrates and light sources disposed on the substrates; and stoppers disposed between a first surface of each of the light sources and the at least one inclined surface of each of the grooves, the first surface of each of the light sources facing the at least one inclined surface. A cross-sectional area of the grooves is larger than that of the stoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Sang Kim, Moon Jeong Kim, Jeong Hwan Kim, Jung In Seo, Duk Hyun Yun, Sang Hyeok Jung
  • Patent number: 9519100
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. A display unit has a display region. A protecting cover has a patterned region, wherein the patterned region does not overlap the display region. A light guide plate is disposed between the display unit and the protecting cover and has a first light scattering region and a second light scattering region. The first light scattering region at least partially overlaps the display region, and the second light scattering region at least partially overlaps the patterned region. A light emitting unit emits a light beam to the light guide plate. After the light beam enters the light guide plate, a part of the light beam is scattered to the display region by the first light scattering region and another part of the light beam is scattered to the patterned region by the second light scattering region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: I-Jeng Chen, Sheng-Chieh Tai, Tsai-Wei Shei, Yao-Tsung Shih, Yu-Nan Pao
  • Patent number: 9519101
    Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosure relates to a few moded optical fiber comprises: a glass graded index core having alpha profile such that 2.0???2.15, a diameter D1 in the range of 13 microns to 40 microns, a maximum relative refractive index between 0.265 and 0.65 percent, core being structured to propagate more with X number of mode groups at a wavelength of 850 nm, wherein X is an integer greater than 1 and less than 8; and (b) a cladding including a depressed-index annular region surrounding the inner cladding. The fiber has an overfilled bandwidth greater than 2.0 GHz-km at 850 nm and relative microbending sensitivity ? such that ??1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 9519102
    Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosure relates to a system comprising: (i) at least light source transmitting at a bit rate of 10 Gb/s or higher at one or more wavelengths between 840 and 860 nm; (ii) at least one few moded optical fiber optically coupled to said light source, said fiber comprises a graded index a graded index glass core having a diameter D1, such that 12.5 microns?D1<40 microns, a maximum relative refractive index between 0.265 and 0.65 percent, the glass core diameter D1 and refractive index are selected such that the core is capable of supporting the propagation and transmission of an optical signal with X number of mode groups at a wavelength of 850 nm, wherein X is an integer greater than 1 and less than 8, and a cladding comprising a depressed index region and an outer cladding region, wherein said fiber has an overfilled bandwidth at an operating wavelength situated in 840 nm to 860 nm wavelength range greater than 4 GHz-km; an alpha being 2.05???2.15; and an attenuation less than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 9519103
    Abstract: Athermal arrayed waveguide grating wavelength division multiplexers applicable to a relatively wide temperature range. One athermal arrayed waveguide grating wavelength division multiplexer includes a base board including an arrayed waveguide grating chip, wherein the base board and the arrayed waveguide grating chip are divided into a first portion and a second portion through at least one division plane; and a sliding deflection component positioned on the base board including a first end and a second end which are respectively fixed on the first portion and the second portion, the sliding deflection component including: a telescopic rod having a length that changes with temperature variation, a first sidewall and a second sidewall positioned at two ends of the telescopic rod, respectively, and a first deflection limiting piece fixed on one side of the telescopic rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Zhuhai FTZ Oplink Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Taizhong Huang, Xiaoyuan Liu, Hai Zhang, Senming Gong, Anmin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9519104
    Abstract: An optical structure includes a Hyperuniform Disordered Solid (“HUDS”) structure, a photonic crystal waveguide, and a perforated resonant structure. The HUDS structure is formed by walled cells organized in a lattice. The photonic crystal waveguide is configured to guide an optical signal and includes an unperforated central strip extended lengthwise and three rows of circular perforations disposed on each side of the unperforated central strip. The perforated resonant structure is formed along a boundary of the photonic crystal waveguide. The perforated resonant structure is configured to be resonant at a frequency band that is a subset of a bandwidth of the optical signal. The perforated resonant structure includes an outer segment, a middle segment, and an inner segment of the circular perforations that are offset away from the unperforated central strip at a first, second, and third offset distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Etaphase, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruth Ann Mullen, Marian Florescu, Milan M. Milosevic, Timothy Amoah
  • Patent number: 9519105
    Abstract: A multi-chip module (MCM) is described. This MCM includes two substrates that are passively self-assembled on another substrate using hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials on facing surfaces of the substrates and liquid surface tension as the restoring force. In particular, regions with a hydrophilic material on the two substrates overlap regions with the hydrophilic material on the other substrate. These regions on the other substrate may be surrounded by a region with a hydrophobic material. In addition, spacers on a surface of at least one of the two substrates may align optical waveguides disposed on the two substrates, so that the optical waveguides are coplanar. This fabrication technique may allow low-loss hybrid optical sources to be fabricated by edge coupling the two substrates. For example, a first of the two substrates may be a III/V compound semiconductor and a second of the two substrates may be a silicon-on-insulator photonic chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ivan Shubin, Xuezhe Zheng, Jin Hyoung Lee, Kannan Raj, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 9519106
    Abstract: A fusion-splicing device is provided. The fusing-splicing device includes a fusion-splicing operation unit that fuses respective exposed ends of another optical fiber and a built-in optical fiber to form a spliced fiber. The fusion-splicing device further includes a fusion-spliced-portion reinforcement device that receives said spliced fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9519107
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an optical fiber made of a silica-based material. A proximal end portion of the optical fiber has an outer-layer portion. The proximal end portion can be included in at least a portion of a launch connector configured to receive electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus also includes a component that has a bore therethrough and can be made of a doped silica material. The bore can have an inner-layer portion heat-fused to the outer-layer portion of the optical fiber. The component can also have an index of refraction lower than an index of refraction associated with the outer-layer portion of the optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Zerfas, Paul Jortberg, Richard P. Tumminelli
  • Patent number: 9519108
    Abstract: Expanded beam fiber optic connectors for establishing an aligned connection between an end of an optical fiber and a ball lens. A housing includes a bore and is made of a compressible material for secure press fit of components within the bore, including the ball lens. A ferrule at the end of the optical fiber supports the optical fiber. In one embodiment, a section of optical fiber is coaxially centered within and supported by a single piece fiber stub with stepped outside diameters defining a press fit end and a secondary connection end, with a butt joint between the other end of the section of optical fiber and the end of the optical fiber being connected. In another embodiment, the ferrule is inserted within a longitudinally extending sleeve having an outside diameter sized for being press fit within the bore and an inside diameter sized for receiving the ferrule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Optical Cable Corporation
    Inventor: Nicolas P. Guiffault
  • Patent number: 9519109
    Abstract: Provided is a substrate with a lens, including: a substrate; a columnar member provided on one surface side of the substrate; and a lens member provided on the columnar member. While arbitrarily selecting the height of the lens, the lens is formed in a uniform and desired shape. Thus, the distance between the lens and another optical member can be reduced and the pitch of the lens can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Sakai, Toshihiro Kuroda, Masao Uchigasaki
  • Patent number: 9519110
    Abstract: A detector is provided for detecting the interruption of a light path, the detector comprising a light emitter, a light receiver, and a light guiding arrangement disposed opposite the light emitter and receiver. A gap is defined between the light guiding arrangement and at least one of the light emitter and receiver to receive a movable part capable of interrupting the light path there between. Also provided is a light guide for use with such a detector and a utility meter comprising such a detector. In one specific embodiment, an opto electronic detector for detecting rotation of a coding wheel in a utility meter is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Itron GmbH
    Inventor: Karsten Hugler
  • Patent number: 9519112
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector for positioning a number of optical fibers is provided. The optical fiber connector includes a main body and a pressing block. The main body defines an assembling recess and a number of positioning grooves defined in a bottom surface of the assembling recess. The positioning grooves each correspond to an optical fiber. An end of each optical fiber is received in a corresponding positioning groove, and the pressing block is received in the assembling recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 9519113
    Abstract: Debris-removing cap includes a cap body having a receiving cavity and an interior surface disposed within the receiving cavity. The cap body is configured to be attached to an optical device such that a mating face of the optical device is disposed within the receiving cavity. The interior surface is configured to face the mating face of the optical device. The debris-removing cap also includes a lens wiper that is coupled to the interior surface within the receiving cavity and extends away from the interior surface toward the mating face of the optical device. The lens wiper moves relative to the mating face when activated by a user of the debris-removing cap. The lens wiper engages a lens of the mating face when activated by the user to remove debris from the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: David D. Erdman, Tao Ling
  • Patent number: 9519114
    Abstract: Optical connector arrangements terminate at least seventy-two optical fibers. The optical connector arrangements include multiple optical ferrules that each terminates multiple optical fibers. Some example optical connectors can terminate about 144 optical fibers. Each optical connector includes a fiber take-up arrangement and a flange extending outwardly from a connector housing arrangement. The fiber take-up arrangement manages excess length of the optical fibers. A threadable coupling nut can be disposed on the connector housing arrangement to engage the outwardly extending flange. Certain types of optical connector arrangements include furcation cables spacing the connector housing arrangement form the fiber take-up arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Zimmel, Yu Lu, Gregory J. Schaible
  • Patent number: 9519115
    Abstract: An optical circuit, wherein the effects of reflected light generated by an optical component are reduced. The optical circuit (100) is provided with an optical branching (110) for branching light, an optical coupler (114) for coupling a first portion of branched light to an optical waveguide (118) for transmission, and an optical reflecting unit (116) for reflecting a second portion of the branched light, the phase difference between the reflected light from the optical coupler (114) and the reflected light from the optical reflecting unit (116) being (2m?1)? (where m is an integer) on an input side of the optical branching (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: PHOTONICS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yashiki, Masatoshi Tokushima
  • Patent number: 9519116
    Abstract: An optical coupling lens includes three main bodies, the main body further includes a bottom surface, a top surface opposite to the bottom surface, an alignment surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, and a fourth side surface. The alignment surface, the first side surface, the second side surface, the third side surface, and fourth side surface are interconnected between the top surface and the bottom surface, and are connected to each other end to end. The three main bodies connect to each other end to end, and the third side surface of one of the main bodies correctly aligns with the fourth side surface of another of the main bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Hung, Li-Ying Wang He
  • Patent number: 9519117
    Abstract: A track system comprises a track having a first end, a second end, and defining one or more first channels extending from the first to the second end of the track for accommodating one or more optical fibers therein. The track is attachable to a support and defines a first plane. The track system also comprises a ramp having a first end, a second end, and defining one or more second channels extending from the first end of the ramp to the second end of the ramp for accommodating the one or more optical fibers therein. The ramp is attachable to the support such that the first end of the ramp is adjacent to the second end of the track, the one or more first channels is aligned with the one or more second channels, and the second end of the ramp extends in a second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas George Macall
  • Patent number: 9519118
    Abstract: Removable fiber management sections for fiber optic housings, and related components and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fiber optic system is provided. The fiber optic system comprises a fiber optic housing defining at least one interior chamber configured to support fiber optic equipment. The fiber optic system also comprises a removable front section connected to the fiber optic housing and defining at least one front section interior chamber coupled to the at least one interior chamber of the fiber optic housing. The removable front section is configured to support at least one fiber management device to manage one or more fibers connected to fiber optic equipment disposed in the enclosure. In another embodiment, a method of managing optical fiber in a fiber optic system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: William J. Giraud, Brian D. Kingsbury, M. Heath Rasmussen, Diana Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 9519119
    Abstract: A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame and a fiber optic module including a rack mount portion, a center portion, and a main housing portion. The rack mount portion is stationarily coupled to the frame, the center portion is slidably coupled to the rack mount portion along a sliding direction, and the main housing portion is slidably coupled to the center portion along the sliding direction. The main housing portion of the fiber optic module includes fiber optic connection locations for connecting cables to be routed through the frame. The center portion of the fiber optic module includes a radius limiter for guiding cables between the main housing portion and the frame, the center portion also including a latch for unlatching the center portion for slidable movement. Slidable movement of the center portion with respect to the rack mount portion moves the main housing portion with respect to the frame along the sliding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: James J. Solheid, Thomas Marcouiller, Oscar Fernando Bran de León, Matthew Holmberg, Timothy Jon Haataja, Daniel Ray Mertesdorf, Soutsada Vongseng, Darren Chen, Patrick J. Thompson, John T. Pfarr, Kristofer Bolster, Brent Campbell, Raul Mario Saucedo, Gustavo Cano, Scott C. Sievers
  • Patent number: 9519120
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes a support frame and a retracting lens frame. The support frame includes a main body portion, a first linking portion and a second linking portion. The first region is configured to dispose the second lens in the imaging enabled state. The second region is formed continuously with the first region. The first linking portion links the second region on one side of the main body portion in the optical axis direction. The second linking portion links the second region on the other side of the main body portion in the optical axis direction. The retracting lens frame is disposed between the first linking portion and the second linking portion in a housed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Konishi, Tetsuya Uno, Fumio Shinano
  • Patent number: 9519121
    Abstract: The imaging lens consists essentially of a front group that consist essentially of a negative first lens having a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side, a negative second lens and a positive third lens; a stop; a positive rear group that includes a positive lens and a negative lens. When the focal length of the entire system is f, a half angle of view is ?, and the distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane along the optical axis is L, conditional formula (1) below is satisfied: 0.25<2*f*tan(?/2)/L<1.00??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 9519122
    Abstract: An optical imaging system for pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with refractive power, the fifth lens element with refractive power; the sixth lens element made of plastic, the sixth lens with refractive power having a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9519123
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of, in order from the object, a negative first lens, a positive second lens, a positive third lens, a negative fourth lens, a positive fifth lens, a positive sixth lens, and a negative seventh lens. When ?d7 is the Abbe's number of the material for the seventh lens, f is the focal length of the entire system, and f5 is the focal length of the fifth lens, the following conditional formulae are satisfied: ?d7<55??(2) 1.25<f5/f??(10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Taro Asami
  • Patent number: 9519124
    Abstract: A single focal length lens system includes a front lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens unit. The front lens unit includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and both the first lens unit and the second lens unit include a positive lens and a negative lens. The rear lens unit includes a focusing lens unit and a first predetermined lens unit. The first predetermined lens unit has a refractive power having a sign different from a refractive power of the focusing lens unit, and does not move at the time of focusing. The front lens unit does not include a lens which moves, and the rear lens unit does not include a lens which moves except at the time of focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Kazuteru Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9519125
    Abstract: A zoom lens and a photographing apparatus including the zoom lens are provided. The zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, all of which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. The second lens group may include a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a first positive lens. The second lens group may also satisfy 5.6?|fG2n2/fw|?10.0, where fG2n2 is a focal length of the second negative lens therein and fw is an overall focal length of the zoom lens at a wide-angle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwan-seon Lee, Jung-hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9519126
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group moved from the object side to the image plane side during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, a positive third lens group moved during zooming, and a positive fourth lens group, in order from the object side. The second and third lens groups each pass through a point where the imaging magnification of each corresponding lens group is ?1× at the same time during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The fourth lens group includes, on the most object side, a vibration-proof lens group, composed of a negative lens, a positive meniscus lens with a convex surface on the object side, and a negative lens, in order from the object side, and either one of the negative lenses satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinkichi Ikeda, Toshihiro Aoi
  • Patent number: 9519127
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit including one of an SLM or a VFL, a second lens unit being optically coupled between the first lens unit and a focal plane and including one of an SLM or a VFL, and a control unit controlling focal lengths of the first and second lens units. A distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit and a distance between the second lens unit and the focal plane are invariable. The control unit changes a magnification ratio of the zoom lens by changing the focal lengths of the first and second lens units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue, Yuu Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 9519128
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires image information representing a fluorescence observation image of a specimen stained with hematoxylin-eosin, a spectrum generation unit that generates a plurality of spectra each representing a wavelength distribution of fluorescence intensity in a plurality of pixels in the fluorescence observation image, a pixel extraction unit that extracts at least two pixel groups with a feature of a particular spectrum from the plurality of pixels, and an image generation unit that generates an image based on the extracted pixel groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshioki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9519129
    Abstract: A method for analyzing porosity of a particle and a medium disposed in the porosity of the particle. A video-holographic microscope is provided to analyze interference patterns produced by providing a laser source to output a collimated beam, scattering the collimated beam off a particle and interacting with an unscattered beam to generate the interference pattern for analyzation to determine the refractive index of the particle and a medium disposed in the porosity of the particle to measure porosity and the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Fook Chiong Cheong, Ke Xiao, David Pine, David G. Grier
  • Patent number: 9519130
    Abstract: A Fabry-Perot etalon is provided with first and second partially reflecting mirrors (12, 14) attached to a cuboidal spacer (16). The spacer (16) has a cylindrical bore (18) through its center and the mirrors (12, 14) are bonded, on axis, to opposite ends of this bore (18). Four support elements (22-28) are arranged symmetrically with respect to the axis in a tetrahedral configuration and constrain the cuboidal spacer (16) in all degrees of freedom. The cuboidal spacer (16) is flattened at its vertices, which results in modified distortion of the spacer (16) under the action of a compressive force acting through the supports. This structure of etalon provides insensitivity to inertial forces due to acceleration in all six degrees of freedom (three linear and three rotational) simultaneously with insensitivity to differential forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS OF HER MAJESTY'S BRITANNIC GOVERNMENT
    Inventor: Stephen Andrew Webster