Patents Issued in May 2, 2017
  • Patent number: 9638897
    Abstract: A five-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, include a first lens with refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the five lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9638898
    Abstract: An image pickup lens includes a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second meniscus lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth meniscus lens having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens having both sides formed as aspheric surfaces with a positive refractive power, wherein an F-value is 2.41 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9638899
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens set includes a first lens element to a plastic fifth lens element from an object side toward an image side along an optical axis. The second lens element has an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Cheng Lin, Ta-Cheng Fan
  • Patent number: 9638900
    Abstract: An optical arrangement of lenses configured for use with an ultra wide band optical sensor is provided herein. The optical arrangement is associated with a back focal plane and further includes a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth lens ordered from first to sixth along a common optical axis such that the first lens is farthest from the back focal plane and the sixth lens is closest to the back focal plane, wherein the first and the second lenses are made of zinc sulfide, the third and the sixth lenses are made of barium fluoride, the fourth lens is made of magnesium oxide, and the fifth lens is made of calcium fluoride, and wherein the lenses are selected to transfer any light within a wavelength range that contains 0.42 ?m to 3.6 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OPGAL OPTRONIC INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Shimon Aburmad
  • Patent number: 9638901
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in the order starting from the object side to the side of an image plane, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having negative refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. The fourth lens group includes, in the order starting from the side closest to the image plane to the object side, a first positive lens, a first negative lens, a second negative lens and a second positive lens. The fourth lens group G4 has a configuration that satisfies the following conditional expression (1) when ?dP1 represents an Abbe number of the first positive lens L46 and ?dN1 represents an Abbe number of the first negative lens L45: ?40<?dP1??dN1<0??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyasu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9638902
    Abstract: The projection zoom lens essentially consists of a positive first lens group fixed while changing magnification and the second lens group through the fourth lens group which move while changing magnification, and a fifth lens group fixed while changing magnification; and an aperture stop positioned between adjacent moving lens groups or within one moving lens group, wherein the numerical number of the zoom lens is set to be constant over the entire zoom range, the reduction side is configured to be telecentric, and the projection zoom lens satisfies conditional formulas (4) and (5): 2.0<Bf/Im???(4) L/Im?<12??(5), where, Bf: the back focus (air converted length) at the reduction side of the entire system at the wide angle end, Im?: the maximum effective image circle diameter, and L: the distance between the most-magnification-side lens surface and the most-reduction-side lens surface along the optical axis when the projection distance is infinite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yukiko Nagatoshi
  • Patent number: 9638903
    Abstract: Disclosed is a projection zoom lens used in an image display device configured to project an image onto a target projection surface and display a magnified image of the image, in which the projection zoom lens has a five-lens-group configuration in which first to fifth lens groups G1 to G5 are arranged from the magnification side toward the reduction side, and each of the constituent lens groups or lenses included in the lens groups has a combination of negative and positive refractive powers, and in the lens configuration, focal lengths of the constituent lens groups, relative travel distances, lens distances to the image display element, and constituent lens shapes are properly selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kubota
  • Patent number: 9638904
    Abstract: In a zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a front group including at least one lens unit; a positive lens unit; and a negative lens unit, an interval between the lens units adjacent to each other is changed during zooming, a combined focal length of the front group is negative at a wide angle end, the positive lens unit moves toward the object side during zooming from the wide angle end to a telephoto end, the negative lens unit moves toward the image side during focusing from infinity to proximity at a first zoom position, and during focusing from infinity to proximity at a second zoom position, which is on a telephoto side of the first zoom position, the positive lens unit moves toward the image side, and the negative lens unit moves toward the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Patent number: 9638905
    Abstract: A light-redirecting optical film includes a continuous plurality of micro structures. The micro structures have a common bottom surface and each micro structure includes a first curved surface and a second curved surface. The first curved surface is convex towards the second curved surface. The second curved surface rises from the bottom surface. The first curved surface and the second curved surface meet along a top edge. The curvature of the top edges in the optical film is the same. The first curved surface is a total reflecting surface. A narrow frame display device is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng-Yuen Dai, Chau-Jin Hu, Yung-Lun Huang, Li-Ying Wang He
  • Patent number: 9638906
    Abstract: Projection optical system for forming an image on a substrate and including an illumination relay lens and a projection lens each of which is a catadioptric system. The projection lens may include two portions in optical communication with one another, the first of which is dioptric and the second of which is catadioptric. In a specific case, the projection optical system satisfies 4 < ? ? I ? ? ? T ? < 30 , where ?I and ?T are magnifications of the first portion and the overall projection lens. Optionally, the projection lens may be structured to additionally satisfy 6 < ? ? II ? ? ? T ? < 20 , where ?II is a magnification of the second portion. A digital scanner including such projection optical system and operating with UV light having a spectral bandwidth on the order of 1 picometer. Method for forming an image with such projection optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: David M. Williamson
  • Patent number: 9638907
    Abstract: Methods and devices for expanding a laser beam are provided. In one aspect, a device includes a telescope arrangement having two spherical folding mirrors for expanding an incident collimated laser beam with a lens arranged in the divergent beam path downstream of the telescopic arrangement. The two spherical folding mirrors in the beam path are a first, convex-curved spherical folding mirror and a second, concave-curved spherical folding mirror, respectively. The lens has a spherical lens face for collimating the expanded laser beam from the telescope arrangement. The laser beam can be an ultraviolet (UV) laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: TRUMPF LASER GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Wallmeroth, Christoph Tillkorn, Ivo Zawischa
  • Patent number: 9638908
    Abstract: The image measurement device includes: a side-emitting illumination device that has a light amount distribution sharply changing in a photographing axis direction of a camera, and irradiates a workpiece on a movable stage with illumination light from a side; a measurement target place specifying part that specifies a measurement target place on a workpiece image; an illumination position adjusting part that moves the side-emitting illumination device in the photographing axis direction, to adjust a relative position of the side-emitting illumination device to the movable stage; a relative position identifying part that obtains a change in luminance in the measurement target place with respect to two or more of the workpiece images photographed by making the relative position different, to identify a relative position; an imaging control part that controls the illumination position adjusting part based on the identified relative position and drives the side-emitting illumination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Oba, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9638909
    Abstract: A focusing apparatus for use with an optical system having a high NA objective lens includes an image forming and capturing mechanism for forming an image in an intermediate image zone and for capturing an image by receiving and refocusing light from a selected focal plane within the intermediate image zone, and a focus adjusting mechanism for adjusting the position of the selected focal plane within the intermediate image zone. The image forming and capturing mechanism includes at least one high NA lens. In use, spherical aberration introduced by the high NA objective lens is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ISIS INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tony Wilson, Rimvydas Juskaitis, Martin James Booth, Edward Botcherby
  • Patent number: 9638910
    Abstract: The image measurement device includes: a measurement target place specifying part that specifies a measurement target place on a workpiece image based on a user's operation; an illumination condition storage part that holds two or more illumination conditions; an imaging control part that controls a camera and an illumination device to acquire two or more of the workpiece images sequentially photographed while making the illumination condition different; a workpiece image display part that displays the acquired plurality of workpiece images; a workpiece image selecting part that selects any one of the displayed workpiece images; an illumination condition deciding part that decides the illumination condition based on the selected workpiece image; and a dimension calculating part that extracts an edge of the measurement target place based on the workpiece image photographed on the decided illumination condition, and obtains a dimension of the measurement target place based on the extracted edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Hayato Oba
  • Patent number: 9638911
    Abstract: An autofocus mechanism includes a light source emitting light through an objective lens at a work piece; a first detector detecting a portion of light reflected by the work piece and generating a first signal; a second detector detecting a portion of the reflected light and generating a second signal; a first amplifier amplifying the first signal and generating a first amplified signal; a second amplifier amplifying the second signal and generating a second amplified signal; an amplification rate definer defining an amplification rate of each of the first amplifier and the second amplifier based on the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal, respectively; and a calculator identifying a focal position of the objective lens based on the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei Udo
  • Patent number: 9638912
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for focusing a device for imaging a biologic sample is provided. A method aspect includes the steps of: disposing lenslets within a biologic sample, which lenslets have a height and a refractive index, which refractive index is different from that of the sample, wherein one or both of the imaging device and the sample are relatively locatable so a focal position of the imaging device can be moved along the height of the lenslets; imaging a portion of the sample including lenslets using transmittance at one or more wavelengths; determining an average light transmittance intensity of the sample at the wavelengths; determining an average light transmittance intensity of a region of each lenslet at the wavelengths; and determining the focal position of the imaging device using the average light transmittance intensity of the sample and the average light transmittance intensity of the region of the lenslets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Abbott Point of Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Wardlaw, Niten V. Lalpuria, Darryn W. Unfricht
  • Patent number: 9638913
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable gain medium with the use of micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) based Fabry-Perot (FP) filter cavity tuning is provided as a tunable laser. The system comprises a laser cavity and a filter cavity for wavelength selection. The laser cavity consists of a gain medium such as a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA), two collimating lenses and an end reflector. The MEMS-FP filter cavity comprises a fixed reflector and a moveable reflector, controllable by electrostatic force. By moving the MEMS reflector, the wavelength can be tuned by changing the FP filter cavity length. The MEMS FP filter cavity displacement can be tuned discretely with a step voltage, or continuously by using a continuous driving voltage. The driving frequency for continuous tuning can be a resonance frequency or any other frequency of the MEMS structure, and the tuning range can cover different tuning ranges such as 30 nm, 40 nm, and more than 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: InPhenix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Kamal, Tongning Li, David Eu, Qinian Qi
  • Patent number: 9638914
    Abstract: An electrooptical apparatus includes a torsion hinge (torsion hinge) that has a first opening portion. Around the first opening portion, the opposite side of the torsion hinge to a substrate is in contact with a first connecting portion of a mirror support post that has a tubular shape. A resin that constitutes a sacrificial layer does not remain within the mirror support post. A second end portion of the mirror support post which is at a side opposite the substrate forms a flat plate portion. The second end portion is in contact with a mirror. Therefore, the surface of the mirror does not have any dimple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 9638915
    Abstract: A projector includes a color wheel module and a processing unit. The color wheel module includes a color wheel including multiple color-filtering areas for providing multiple colors of light; a shaft connected to the color wheel for driving the color wheel to spin and including a reflecting surface and a mark; a fixing part disposed corresponding to the shaft; a light transceiver set on the fixing part for emitting light and receiving the light reflected by the shaft; and a vibrator set on the fixing part for vibrating when meeting a vibrating condition to shake off dust on the color wheel, the shaft and/or the light transceiver. The processing unit is coupled to the light transceiver for analyzing a spinning angle of the color wheel according to the light received by the light transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: QISDA OPTRONICS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD., QISDA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Chun Chang, Tsung-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 9638916
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a signal processing circuit, a chromatic aberration extraction circuit, and a diaphragm control circuit. The signal processing circuit generates image data by signal-processing output data generated by an image sensor in accordance with light passing through a diaphragm and a lens. The chromatic aberration extraction circuit extracts a chromatic aberration from the image data. The diaphragm control circuit changes an f-number of the diaphragm. The diaphragm control circuit sets the f-number of the diaphragm based on the chromatic aberration extracted by the chromatic aberration extraction circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Okudera
  • Patent number: 9638917
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes 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 at a wide angle end. An aperture stop is disposed on the image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on the object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit. The second lens unit includes two sub lens units. The object-side sub lens unit in the second lens unit includes one lens component. The following conditional expressions are satisfied. 3.0<?D12/ERS<4.5 1.05<|f3/fUN21|<2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9638918
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display surface, an infrared cut filter layer disposed at a display surface side of the display panel, and a polarization layer disposed at a position farther from the display surface than the infrared cut filter layer in such a manner that the polarization layer is in contact with the infrared cut filter layer, the polarization layer having a higher transmittance of infrared light than that of the infrared cut filter layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshinori Uehara
  • Patent number: 9638919
    Abstract: A method for reducing reflection when operating a head-up display of a motor vehicle. The head-up display includes a covering disk element and a dimming element for dimming a deflected light beam of ambient light. A control device determines a light beam path of the deflected light beam, determines a current position and orientation of the dimming element, and determines a region to be kept free of the deflected light beam around the eye point of a user. Based on this, the control device determines whether the deflected light beam passes through the area to be kept free. If so, the control device generates a control signal for adjusting a position of the dimming element to dim the deflected light beam with an adjustment device, and the adjustment device adjusts the position of the dimming element depending on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Matthias Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 9638920
    Abstract: A binocular head mounted display includes a first binocular eye piece including a first torsional brace and a second binocular eye piece including a second torsional brace configured to engage the first torsional brace. The binocular head mounted also includes a frame assembly holding the first binocular eye piece and the second binocular eye piece at an adjustable interpupillary distance. The frame assembly includes a torsional support to directly or indirectly engage the first torsional brace and the second torsional brace. Such engagement resists rotational movement of the first binocular eye piece relative to the second binocular eye piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 9638921
    Abstract: A strap system for a head-mounted display is disclosed. The strap system includes a rigid segment and a latching subsystem coupled to the rigid segment. The rigid segment has opposite first and second sides. The rigid segment couples to the head-mounted display from the first side. The latching subsystem couples to the second side of the rigid segment. The latching subsystem includes a plate including a pair of slots to respectively receive a pair of posts protruding from a detachable audio system. The latching subsystem also includes a pair of latches to latch to grooves in the pair of posts. Each latch of the pair of latches includes an opening that overlaps a respective slot of the pair of slots. The opening receives a respective post of the pair of posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OCULUS VR, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Michael Miller, Jared I. Drinkwater, Lesley Ribble Magrath, Peter Wesley Bristol, Joseph Patrick Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9638922
    Abstract: A line-forming optical system and method are disclosed that form a line image with high-efficiency. A method includes forming a laser beam having a first intensity profile with a Gaussian distribution in at least a first direction and passing at least 50% of the laser beam in the first direction to form a first transmitted light. The method also includes: focusing the first transmitted light at an intermediate image plane to define a second intensity profile having a central peak and first side peaks immediately adjacent the central peak; then truncating the second intensity profile within each of first side peaks to define a second transmitted light; and then forming the line image at an image plane from the second transmitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Ultratech, Inc.
    Inventor: Serguei Anikitchev
  • Patent number: 9638923
    Abstract: An optical element for terahertz waves that transmits terahertz-wave incident beams through itself after being compressed into half or less a wavelength of the beam, the optical element comprising: a substrate that allows terahertz waves to be transmitted through itself; and a conductive coat that covers a surface of the substrate and is capable of blocking the waves, wherein the coat has an aperture provided in a circular region and ring-shaped grooves, provided on a surface of the coat, having the same center as the circular region and having radii which increase every fixed length, and wherein in the circular region, four or more fan-shaped tips each having an arc with the same radius of curvature as the radius of the region, are arranged at equal distances toward the center of the circle without contacting each other as the arc contacts an outer periphery of the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Makoto Watanabe, Dmitry Bulgarevich, Mitsuharu Shiwa
  • Patent number: 9638924
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes: a display panel on which pixels each constituted with a plurality of sub-pixels formed with electro-optic elements by corresponding to parallax images are arranged in matrix; and an optical module which distributes light emitted from the pixels arranged in the first and second directions to different directions from each other along the first and second directions, respectively. The display panel includes first and second non-control regions which are the regions existing between boundaries of apertures of the sub-pixels where control of electric-optic conversion cannot be done. An intersection part of the first and second non-control regions is disposed on a lattice point that is an intersection point of segments in a unit lattice constituted with lattice lines, and the first or the second non-control region is bent at least once within the unit lattice with respect to the lattice lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Asai, Koji Shigemura
  • Patent number: 9638925
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a first panel (100) and a second panel (200) disposed in a spaced manner with the first panel (100). The first panel (100) comprises multiple first display groups and each first display group comprises multiple columns of sub pixels. The second panel (200) is a transparent panel and comprises multiple second display groups, and each second display group comprises multiple columns of sub pixels. Sub pixels in the first display groups are in a one-to-one correspondence with sub pixels in the second display groups. The display apparatus also comprises a multi-vision raster (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 9638926
    Abstract: A stereo projection apparatus includes a polarized beam splitter assembly for splitting a projecting light beam; a polarization state transforming assembly for adjusting the polarization state of the transmitted light beam or the polarization state of the first and second reflective beam; a light path direction adjustment assembly for adjusting a travel direction of the transmitted light beam or a travel direction of the first and the second reflective light beam; a light beam size adjustment assembly for adjusting a coverage range of the transmitted light beam or a coverage range of the first and the second reflective light beam; and a light modulator for modulating the adjusted transmitted light beam, first reflective light beam and second reflective light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen Time Waying Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanlong Li, Xianjun Deng, Yetong Wang
  • Patent number: 9638927
    Abstract: A polarization combiner includes: a base member that includes a body portion, an arm portion extending from the body portion, and a notch portion surrounded with the body portion and the arm portion; a polarization rotating element that is fixed to the arm portion of the base member and that rotates a polarization direction of a first polarized wave; and a polarization combining element that is fixed to the base member so as to face the notch portion of the base member and the polarization rotating element, the polarization combining element combining two polarized waves entering from a surface facing the notch portion and the polarization rotating element, the two polarized waves including the first polarized wave whose polarization direction is rotated by the polarization rotating element and a second polarized wave passing the notch portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Seimi Sasaki, Kohei Shibata, Teruhiro Kubo, Shinji Maruyama, Shintaro Takeuchi, Hiroshi Kato, Takehito Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9638928
    Abstract: An active diffuser for reducing a speckle in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an electroactive polymer film having at least one or more scattering patterns; a first transparent electrode coated on one surface of the electroactive polymer film; and a second transparent electrode coated on the other surface of the electroactive polymer film, and a shape of the scattering pattern of the electroactive polymer film is varied by voltage applied through the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUE
    Inventors: Sun-Tak Park, Bong-Je Park, Ki-Uk Kyung, Sung-Ryul Yun, Sae-Kwang Nam
  • Patent number: 9638929
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an electromagnetic driving device capable of efficiently driving swinging coils and being more miniaturized. A driving coil wound around the Z axis taken as a direction of the optical axis of a lens is mounted on a lens support. Magnets are mounted in an inner side box body for supporting the lens support to be capable of moving in the direction of Z axis. The swinging coils are mounted in an outer side box body for supporting the inner side box body to be capable of swinging in the direction orthogonal to the Z axis. The swinging coils includes a first to a fourth coils wound around axes orthogonal to the Z axis. The magnets include a plurality of magnet pieces configured opposite to the swinging coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: HUIZHOU DAYAWAN EVER BRIGHT ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CO, JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUIZHOU DAYA BAY JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kokichi Terajima
  • Patent number: 9638930
    Abstract: A lens driver with camera shake reducing function in which the suspension wire will not easily undergo a plastic bending and the camera shake reducing function will not be degraded and the photographed image will not be deformed when mounting the lens or impacting the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: HUIZHOU DAYAWAN EVER BRIGHT ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CO, JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUIZHOU DAYA BAY JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kokichi Terajima
  • Patent number: 9638931
    Abstract: A lens driver with camera shake reducing function, in which the spring member is easily mountable, and the spring member does not undergo a plastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: HUIZHOU DAYAWAN EVER BRIGHT ELECTRONIC INDUSTRY CO, JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUIZHOU DAYA BAY JSS OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY.CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kokichi Terajima
  • Patent number: 9638932
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for directly securing at least one temple (3.1, 3.2), end-piece (3.6, 3.7) and/or bridge (3.3) of a spectacle frame (3) to at least one spectacle lens (2, 2?) of rimless spectacles (1), wherein the at least one spectacle lens (2, 2?) has at least one edge recess (5, 5?, 5?, 5??) which extends along the transverse axis (QA) of the spectacle lens (2, 2?). Particularly advantageously, in the edge recess (5, 5?, 5?, 5??) a securing body (6, 6?, 6?, 6??) is accommodated in a positively fitting manner and is firmly connected to the spectacle lens (2, 2?), wherein the securing body (6, 6?, 6?, 6??) has a bush-like receiving channel (7) extending along the transverse axis (QA), and the temple (3.1, 3.2), the end-piece (3.6, 3.7) and/or the bridge (3.3) of the spectacle frame (3) have at least one plug-like connection section (8) which can be inserted into the bush-like receiving channels (7) to produce a detachable plug-type connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Inomitec GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Strenz
  • Patent number: 9638933
    Abstract: A nose support assembly for a spectacle frame, includes two nose support elements (3), known as nose pads, and, for each nose pad, a mounting element (2) for the nose pad, known as the nose pad holder. Each nose pad (3) and the corresponding nose pad holder (2) have connecting elements (1) for connecting one to the other, the connecting elements being designed to allow the nose pad (3) to move angularly with respect to the nose pad holder (2). A frame equipped with such a nose support assembly is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Berthelot
  • Patent number: 9638934
    Abstract: An eyewear hinge is provided for removably connecting an earpiece to a lens frame. A lens mount is attached to the lens frame and has one of a hinge receiver and a security slot or a hinge post and a security ledge. A hinge support is attached to the earpiece and has the other of the hinge receiver and the security slot or the hinge post and the security ledge. The hinge post is removably insertable into the hinge receiver and the security ledge is removably receivable in and engages with the security slot as the lens mount and hinge support pivot relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Armand Kidouchim
  • Patent number: 9638935
    Abstract: Method for optimization of a progressive spectacle lens, including: defining a starting nominal astigmatism distribution for the spectacle lens; determining a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution and optimizing the spectacle lens on the basis of the transformed nominal astigmatism distribution, wherein the determination of a transformed nominal astigmatism distribution comprises multiplication of the maximum temporal nominal astigmatism of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution by a factor k as a result of which a modified maximum temporal astigmatism is obtained, wherein k is a function of a prescription value, and/or at least of one parameter of the spectacle lens or of the arrangement thereof in front of the eyes, and transformation of the starting nominal astigmatism distribution on the basis of the modified maximum temporal astigmatism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Robert Kaster, Martin Zimmermann, Wolfgang Becken, Gregor Esser, Dietmar Uttenweiler, Andrea Welk
  • Patent number: 9638936
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate high plus or add power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression and minimize halo effect. The lens includes a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile that increases from an outer margin of the center zone to a positive power within the at least one treatment zone of greater than +5.00 D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, Michael J. Collins, Manwai Charis Lau, Eric R. Ritchey, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 9638937
    Abstract: There is provided a spectacle lens, including: specific first and second reference points, and eye point between the first and second reference points on a meridian, with each point defined on a meridian; and a power variation portion where power is continuously varied from the first reference point to the second reference point, wherein a variation rate of an addition power is substantially zero in a circle of radius 4 mm with the first reference point as a center, and/or in a circle of radius 4 mm with the eye point as a center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Odaira, Kazuma Kozu
  • Patent number: 9638938
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a polarizing lens, including conducting curved surface processing to change a shape of a polarizing film into a shape of a curved surface, conducting heat treatment by heating polarizing film that has been processed into a curved surface to a heating temperature of equal to or higher than 105° C. but less than 150° C., assembling an upper mold, a lower mold, and a seal member to provide a casting mold having a cavity within which the polarizing film following heating treatment is positioned, upper and lower molds being positioned opposite each other to sandwich the polarizing film at a space therebetween, and seal member sealing space between the upper and lower molds, casting a curable composition into the cavity, curing curable composition to provide a polarizing lens within which a polarizing film is positioned, and separating polarizing lens thus provided from casting mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: EHS LENS PHILIPPINES, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogaya, Toshihiko Shimizu, Kenichi Tonouchi, Akinori Yamamoto, Masaki Ihara
  • Patent number: 9638939
    Abstract: A removable layer is disclosed for covering an eyewear. The eyewear has an eyewear pigment. The removable layer comprises a scratch off layer covering the eyewear. The scratch off layer has a layer pigment. The scratch off layer is selectively removed from the eyewear for defining a visual image with the eyewear pigment relative to the layer pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Scratchy's LLC
    Inventor: Ryan R. Breheney
  • Patent number: 9638940
    Abstract: An optical modulator uses an optoelectronic phase comparator configured to provide, in the form of an electrical signal, a measure of a phase difference between two optical waves. The phase comparator includes an optical directional coupler having two coupled channels respectively defining two optical inputs for receiving the two optical waves to be compared. Two photodiodes are configured to respectively receive the optical output powers of the two channels of the directional coupler. An electrical circuit is configured to supply, as a measure of the optical phase shift, an electrical signal proportional to the difference between the electrical signals produced by the two photodiodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventor: Jean-Robert Manouvrier
  • Patent number: 9638941
    Abstract: A photonic crystal type light modulator is provided. The photonic crystal type light modulator includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an active layer disposed on the first electrode, where an optical characteristic of the active layer changes according to application of an electric field; a second electrode disposed on the active layer; and a photonic crystal layer disposed on the second electrode and comprising a 2D grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., INHA Industry Partnership Institute
    Inventors: Jang-woo You, Yong-hwa Park, Yong-ho Lee, Chang-kwon Hwangbo, Jin-joo Kim
  • Patent number: 9638942
    Abstract: A novel phase shifter design for carrier depletion based silicon modulators, based on an experimentally validated model, is described. It is believed that the heretofore neglected effect of incomplete ionization will have a significant impact on ultra-responsive phase shifters. A low V?L product of 0.3 V·cm associated with a low propagation loss of 20 dB/cm is expected to be observed. The phase shifter is based on overlapping implantation steps, where the doses and energies are carefully chosen to utilize counter-doping to produce an S-shaped junction. This junction has a particularly attractive V?L figure of merit, while simultaneously achieving attractively low capacitance and optical loss. This improvement will enable significantly smaller Mach-Zehnder modulators to be constructed that nonetheless would have low drive voltages, with substantial decreases in insertion loss. The described fabrication process is of minimal complexity; in particular, no high-resolution lithographic step is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Elenion Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baehr-Jones, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 9638943
    Abstract: An LCD panel, which includes liquid crystal cells, a TFT testing unit, and a gate, source, and drain electrode testing pad, is provided. The TFT testing unit includes three electrode testing wires, each of which has one end connected to a gate, source, or a drain electrode, and the other end connected to a corresponding one of the three electrode testing pads. A manufacture method for the LCD panel is also provided. Electrical measurements of the TFT in the liquid crystal cell is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanfeng Fu
  • Patent number: 9638944
    Abstract: A method for laminating substrates to form a laminated assembly includes positioning a first substrate and a second substrate within a lamination device having a first cavity and a second cavity; pressurizing the first cavity to a first pressure to move a flexible member into contact with one of the first and second substrate; depressurizing the first cavity to move the flexible member out of contact with the one of the first and second substrate; and pressurizing a second cavity to a second pressure higher than the first pressure to apply air pressure at the second pressure to the first and second substrate to form a laminated assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron T. McCalley, James D. Sampica, Brian K. Smith
  • Patent number: 9638945
    Abstract: The invention refers to a technical problem of display device, and discloses a display device. The display device includes a backlight source, a rubber frame provided on the backlight source, a LGP and an optical film layer provided in the rubber frame, and shading bars lapping over the rubber frame and the optical film layer respectively, and further includes a display panel, which contains a display panel border lapping over the rubber frame. In the above technical solution, the rubber frame is used for a supporter to support the display panel. Specifically, the display panel border exposed from the display panel laps over the rubber frame, so that the rubber frame is able to support the border as a supporter when the display panel is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Song
  • Patent number: 9638946
    Abstract: A multi-display device includes: a plurality of display devices disposed adjacent to each other; and a plurality of optical apparatuses disposed on at least a part of a display area and a non-display area of a respective one of the plurality of display devices, wherein each of the plurality of optical apparatuses comprises: a transparent body having a side surface substantially perpendicular to one surface of the display device and a first inclined surface disposed to face the non-display area; and a reflective member disposed on the side surface and the first inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Hui Lee, Gyu Su Lee, Seung Won Kuk