Patents Issued in April 24, 2018
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Patent number: 9952362Abstract: The present specification relates to a polarizing plate and a display device comprising the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Mi Rin Lee, Kwang Seung Park, Eunsoo Huh, Jun Wuk Park, Sung Hyun Jeon
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Patent number: 9952363Abstract: A reflection-type polarizer according to the present invention has an improved bright line visibility phenomenon and a wider viewing angle, compared with a conventional dispersion-type reflection polarizer, and can maximize luminance improvement while minimizing optical loss. In addition, in connection with implementing a reflection polarizer, a group dispersion body can be formed through simple control, making it possible to maximize productivity improvement through process simplification.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Toray Korea Chemical, Inc.Inventors: Sueng Jin Ko, Duk Jae Cho, Hwang Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 9952364Abstract: Disclosed therein are an optical film and a display device comprising the same, where the optical film comprises a first optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound and a second optically anisotropic layer including a photoreactive polymer, thereby securing improved photoreaction rate and excellent liquid crystal alignment.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Kyung Chang Seo, Sung-Ho Chun, Dai Seung Choi, Mi Ra Hong, Dong Woo Yoo
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Patent number: 9952365Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conversion film configured on the electronic device. The conversion film includes a first regionalized polarizing film having at least two different polarization directions, a second regionalized polarizing film configured on the first regionalized polarizing film having at least one polarization direction, and an adhesive layer configured between the first regionalized polarizing film and the second regionalized polarizing film to bond the first regionalized polarizing film and the second regionalized polarizing film together. One of the polarization directions of the second regionalized polarizing film is same as one of the polarization directions of the first regionalized polarizing film.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Ting Zhou, Poping Shen
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Patent number: 9952366Abstract: A patterning method includes forming guide layer patterns, which are separated from each other, on a top surface of a base substrate, forming a neutral layer, which includes a random copolymer comprising first blocks or second blocks, on an entirety of the top surface of the base substrate exposed between the guide layer patterns, forming hydrophobic layer patterns which extend from top surfaces of the guide layer patterns to side surfaces of the guide layer patterns and are separated from each other, coating a block copolymer, which comprises the first blocks and the second blocks, on a top surface of the neutral layer exposed between the hydrophobic layer patterns, alternately arranging the first blocks and the second blocks by heat-treating or solvent-annealing the block copolymer, and forming block copolymer patterns by removing the first blocks or the second blocks.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.Inventors: Min Hyuck Kang, Eun Ae Kwak, Lei Xie, Moon Gyu Lee, Hyeong Gyu Jang
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Patent number: 9952367Abstract: Disclosed are a wire grid polarizer and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, which relate to the display technical field. The manufacturing method of the wire grid polarizer includes: coating a polymer monomer on the surface of the base substrate; subjecting the polymer monomer at a position corresponding to the resin protrusions to a curing treatment; forming a pattern of the resin protrusions disposed on the surface of the base substrate with intervals being provided between the resin protrusions; forming a metal layer on the surface of the resin protrusions; and forming a pattern of wire grid formed of the metal wires disposed on the surface of the resin protrusions with intervals being provided between the metal wires by a single patterning process, such that each of the metal wires covers at least one surface for polarization of one resin protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yingyi Li, Yanbing Wu, Chunyan Ji
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Patent number: 9952368Abstract: This invention provides a polarization conversion element that is highly resistant to the heat and light that result from increased brightness levels. In said polarization conversion element, which is provided with a polarizing beam-splitter array in which polarizing beam splitters having polarization separation layers and reflecting prisms having reflective layers are bonded together in alternation, said polarizing beam splitters and reflecting prisms are bonded together by first adhesive layers each comprising a silicone adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sasaki, Masatoshi Sasaki, Nobuyuki Koike, Akio Takada
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Patent number: 9952369Abstract: A polarizer for a display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the polarizer includes a linear polarizer and a phase retardation layer on the linear polarizer and comprising a quarter-wave plate and a half-wave plate. The half-wave plate includes a refractive index anisotropic layer. The refractive index anisotropic layer has a refractive index Nx defined in a direction of an x axis, a refractive index Ny defined in a direction of a y axis, and a refractive index Nz defined in a direction of a z axis, wherein Nx=Nz>Ny.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junghee Son, Woosuk Jung, Hyejung Park, Dukjin Lee
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Patent number: 9952370Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stretched film for producing a long-length stretched film by stretching a long-length resin film while being conveyed so as to pass through an oven in a state in which the end portions of the resin film are held by first and second grippers, wherein the oven has a preliminary heating zone, a stretching zone, a thermal fixing zone, and a reheating zone in this order from an upstream side; the stretching zone includes a specific zone having a temperature gradient capable of setting a temperature of an end portion on a second gripper side is higher than a temperature of an end portion on a first gripper side by 5° C. or higher and 15° C. or lower; and the reheating zone has a temperature capable of heating the resin film to a temperature of Tg+5° C. or higher and Tg+20° C. or lower.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventor: Masaru Kikukawa
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Patent number: 9952371Abstract: A multilayer reflective polarizer substantially rotationally symmetric about an optical axis passing thorough an apex of the multilayer reflective polarizer and convex along orthogonal first and second axes orthogonal to the optical axis is described. The multilayer reflective polarizer has at least one first location having a radial distance r1 from the optical axis and a displacement s1 from a plane perpendicular to the optical axis at the apex, where s1/r1 is at least 0.1. The multilayer reflective polarizer may have at least one inner layer substantially optically uniaxial at at least one first location away from the apex. For an area of the reflective polarizer defined by s1 and r1, a maximum variation of a transmission axis of the reflective polarizer may be less than about 2 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Gregg A. Ambur, Timothy L. Wong, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Zhisheng Yun
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Patent number: 9952372Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing, an optical waveguide disposed in the housing comprising a plurality of light coupling cavities, and a plurality of LEDs disposed in the housing adjacent the plurality of coupling cavities. A mounting apparatus is adapted to mount the luminaire on a roadway stanchion.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: CREE, INC.Inventors: Kurt S. Wilcox, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr., Zongjie Yuan, Andrew Dan Bendtsen, Nathan Snell, Jeremy Sorenson, Brian Kinnune, Craig D. Raleigh
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Patent number: 9952373Abstract: A light source module including a light guide plate, a light source set and a light modulating device is provided. The light guide plate includes a light entering surface. The light source set is disposed beside the light entering surface. The light-source is adapted to emit a first light beam. The light modulating device is disposed between the light source set and the light guide plate. The light modulating device includes a light reflection portion. The first light enters the light entering surface through the light modulating device, and the light modulating device makes the divergence angle of the first light converge.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc.Inventors: Chin-Ku Liu, Jhong-Hao Wu
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Patent number: 9952374Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light guide plate disposed under the display panel, a light source which provides a side surface of the light guide plate with incident light, a reflective plate disposed under the light guide plate, a first optical adjustment member which includes first scattering particles which scatter a first color wavelength range of the incident light into a first value and scatter a second color wavelength range of the incident light into a second value, and a second optical adjustment member which includes second scattering particles which scatter the first color wavelength range of the incident light into a third value and scatter the second color wavelength range of the incident light into a fourth value.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-hwa Song, Chan-jae Park, Hayoung Lee, Seunghwan Chung
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Patent number: 9952375Abstract: A substrate with a textured surface is disclosed. The substrate may be, for example, a light emitter comprising a light guide, for example a backlight element for use in a display device, wherein a surface of the light guide, for example a glass substrate, is configured to have a textured surface with a predetermined RMS roughness and a predetermined correlation length of the texture. A plurality of light scatter suppressing features can be provided on the textured surface. Textured surfaces disclosed herein may be effective to reduce electrostatic charging of the substrate surface. Methods of producing the textured surface are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Vasudha Ravichandran, Ioannis Georgios Roudas, Christine Coulter Wolcott
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Patent number: 9952376Abstract: Provided is a lighting device capable of implementing optical images having desired shapes through a pattern design, the lighting device including: a light source portion having at least one light source; a light guide portion having a larger thickness than a height of a light emitting surface of the light source and irradiated by an incident beam from a side; and a three-dimensional effect forming portion provided inside the light guide portion, on a first surface, or on a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the three-dimensional effect forming portion includes multiple patterns sequentially arranged and having respective inclined surfaces with inclined angles with respect to the first surface, wherein the multiple patterns guide light passing along the light guide portion into a first surface direction or a second surface direction by refraction and reflection from the inclined surfaces, thereby implementing line shaped beams of a first path.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Su Kim, Seung Jong Baek, Dong Hyun Lee, Jae Hyuk Jang
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Patent number: 9952377Abstract: A light emitting device comprising at least one first light source (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 211) adapted for, in operation, emitting first light (13) with a first spectral distribution, a first light guide (3) comprising a first light input surface (31), a first light exit surface (32) and at least one first further surface (33, 34, 35, 36), the first light guide being adapted for receiving the first light with the first spectral distribution at the first light input surface, guiding the first light to the first light exit surface and coupling the first light with the first spectral distribution out of the first light exit surface, at least one luminescent element (90) arranged on the first light exit surface of the first light guide, the at least one luminescent element comprising a second light input surface (91), a second light exit surface (92) and at least one light exit surface (92) and at least one second further surface (93, 94, 95, 96), the luminescent element spectral distribution at the second light inType: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Ties Van Bommel, Dirk Kornelis Gerhardus De Boer
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Patent number: 9952378Abstract: A light guide plate for guiding of visible light for the backlighting of a liquid crystal display is provided. The light guide plate has two parallel lateral faces and at least one edge face, which serves preferably as a light input face. The light guide plate is a glass that contains B2O3 and SiO2 as components, wherein the total content of B2O3 and SiO2 is at least 70 weight percent and the B2O3 content is greater than 10%. The total content of metal oxide of divalent metals in the composition of the glass is less than 3 weight percent. Al2O3 is contained between 1 weight percent and 5 weight percent in the composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SCHOTT AGInventors: Gerhard Lautenschläger, Thomas Kloss, Jochen Alkemper, Matthias Schmidt, Andreas Voitsch
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Patent number: 9952379Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of liquid crystal display technology, discloses a backlight module and a display apparatus. The backlight module includes a back plate including a bottom plate and a side plate; a light bar including a body and a plurality of light emitting units arranged on the body. The body is fixed at an outer side of the side plate, the side plate is provided with holes at positions corresponding to the light emitting units. The light emitting units extend from the body to an inner side of the side plate through corresponding holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunpeng Zhu, Inho Park
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Patent number: 9952380Abstract: A backlight unit that allows a slimmer design for a display device is presented. The backlight unit includes: a bottom chassis; a bracket accommodated in the bottom chassis and positioned at an edge of the bottom chassis; a light source unit including a substrate fixedly positioned on the bracket and a light source mounted on the substrate, the light source protruding toward a bottom of the bottom chassis; and a light guide plate disposed in the bottom chassis and transmitting light from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chung Hui Lee
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Patent number: 9952381Abstract: A light source device according to the present invention includes a light guide plate, a light source opposed to one end face of the light guide plate, a casing with one face being open, which houses the light guide plate and the light source and a frame member fitted onto an edge of the casing, the casing includes a contact part directly or indirectly being in contact with the one end face of the light guide plate at a side of the light source, and the frame member includes an elastic contact part being in contact with the other end face of the light guide plate while being elastic, at a side opposite to the light source.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Sakai Display Products CorporationInventor: Takahiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 9952382Abstract: The present embodiment relates to an MCF in which the strength of mode coupling or power coupling between adjacent cores included in one coupled-core group is set to an appropriate level to reduce a DGD. The MCF includes at least one coupled-core group. A core interval ? between adjacent cores included in the coupled-core group is set such that a mode coupling coefficient between the adjacent cores at a wavelength of 1550 nm satisfies 2.6×100 [m?1] to 1.6×102 [m?1] or a power coupling coefficient between the adjacent cores at the wavelength of 1550 nm satisfies 1.3×10?3 [m?1] to 8.1×100 [m?1].Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Tetsuya Hayashi
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Patent number: 9952383Abstract: Graphene may support electromagnetic radiation and be able to support a variety of optical devices. In general, graphene may exhibit changeability in properties such as the conductivity and the like of graphene. Graphene may comprise carbon and be of a thickness of a single atomic layer. In another embodiment, Graphene may be thicker than a single atomic layer, but may be able to exhibit changeability in the properties noted above. Disclosed herein is the guiding and manipulating of optical signals on layers of graphene to create waveguides, ribbon waveguides, beamsplitters, lenses, attenuators, mirrors, scatterers, Fourier optics, Luneburg lenses, metamaterials and other optical devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: Nader Engheta, Ashkan Vakil
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Patent number: 9952384Abstract: An optical diode (1) comprising an optical wave guide for guiding light, preferably of a light mode, with a vacuum wavelength ?0, wherein the optical wave guide has a wave guide core (2, 3, 14) with a first index of refraction (n1), and the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) is surrounded by at least one second optical medium which has at least one second index of refraction (n2), wherein n1>n2 applies, wherein the wave guide core (2, 3, 14) has at least in sections a smallest lateral dimension (7) which is a smallest dimension of a cross section (6) perpendicular to a propagation direction (5) of the light in the wave guide core (2, 3, 14), wherein the smallest lateral dimension (7) is greater than or equal to ?0/(5*n1) and less than or equal to 20*?0/n1, wherein the optical diode (1) additionally comprises at least one absorber element (10, 11, 15, 16) which is arranged in a near field, wherein the near field consists of the electromagnetic field of the light of the vacuum wavelength ?0 in the wave guide core (2Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Technische Universität WienInventors: Jürgen Volz, Philipp Schneeweiss, Clement Sayrin, Arno Rauschenbeutel
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Patent number: 9952385Abstract: An arrangement to optically couple multiple waveguides to a few-mode fiber comprises an optical assembly to respectively deflect light beams impacting the optical assembly and an optical coupler being configured to convert a respective fundamental mode of a plurality of the light beams coupled out of a respective different one of a plurality of the multiple waveguides and impacting the optical coupler to a respective higher order mode of each of the plurality of the light beams. The optical assembly comprises a first optical device to deflect each of the light beams impacting the first optical device from the optical coupler to a core section of the few-mode fiber to transfer light within the few-mode fiber.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventor: Eric Stephan ten Have
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Patent number: 9952386Abstract: A multi-electrode system includes a fiber holder that holds at least one optical fiber, a plurality of electrodes arranged to generate a heated field to heat the at least one optical fiber, and a vibration mechanism that causes at least one of the electrodes from the plurality of electrodes to vibrate. The electrodes can be disposed in at least a partial vacuum. The system can be used for processing many types of fibers, such processing including, as examples, stripping, splicing, annealing, tapering, and so on. Corresponding fiber processing methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: 3SAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Robert G. Wiley, Brett Clark, Jared C. Meitzler, Clyde J. Troutman
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Patent number: 9952387Abstract: An optical fiber transmission system with a laser beam splitting and combining device includes a laser beam splitting and combining device receiving a laser beam from a laser device and projecting the laser beam onto a target through an objective lens. The laser beam splitting and combining device has a beam splitter, two transmitters, two receivers and a beam combiner. When the beam splitter divides the received laser beam and transmits the divided laser beams to the transmitters, the transmitters transmit the divided laser beams to the receivers through two optical fibers. The receivers send the divided laser beams to the beam combiner for the beam combiner to combine the divided laser beams into an output laser beam projected on the target through the objective lens. Given the optical transmission path of the laser beam splitting and combining device, the laser transmission distance can be extended.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: ACME MICROSYSTEM INC.Inventors: Hung-Chieh Yu, Bing-Cheng Lai
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Patent number: 9952388Abstract: A tapered core waveguide which may be configured as a spectral component splitter, a spectral component combiner, and various combinations thereof including a reflective mode of operation. The tapered core waveguide has an aperture and cladding, and is dimensioned such that radiant energy admitted into the core via the aperture and having at least two spectral components would be emitted via the cladding at a location dependent on its frequency and/or its polarization, and that a plurality of spectral components injected to the core via the cladding will be mixed and emitted via the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Inventor: Shalom Wertsberger
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Patent number: 9952389Abstract: To provide a multiplexer that makes it possible to achieve a reduction in size and that minimizes the influence of the expansion of laser light on a multiplexing unit. A multiplexer is provided with a plurality of waveguides, multiplexing units that are provided at an intermediate location within the waveguides, and laser light sources, wherein: the first multiplexing unit is arranged at a position that is closest to the laser light sources; and the laser light sources that have an optical axis at a position that is separated from the transmission axis of the visible light that is introduced into the first multiplexing unit are arranged so that the optical axis is inclined with respect to the transmission axis and the outer periphery of laser light that expands at a predetermined expansion angle passes in front of the first multiplexing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION UNIVERSITY OF FUKUIInventors: Toshio Katsuyama, Akira Nakao
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Patent number: 9952390Abstract: An optical element includes a distributed Bragg reflector, wherein the distributed Bragg reflector includes a first-order diffraction grating of a first-order period disposed in a central region, and second-order diffraction gratings of a second-order period having a coupling coefficient smaller than a coupling coefficient of the first-order diffraction grating and disposed in both end regions between which the central region is located.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Manabu Matsuda
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Patent number: 9952391Abstract: An optical transmission module includes a light emitting device for transmitting a first optical signal, a light receiving device for receiving a second optical signal, an optical fiber for guiding a third optical signal in which the first optical signal and the second optical signal are coupled, and an optical waveguide substrate having an optical waveguide made of first resin, wherein a groove formed on the optical waveguide substrate is provided with a prism having the optical fiber and a reflective face through which the first optical signal transmit, a first side face of the prism contacts a first wall face of the groove, and a second side face thereof contacts a second wall face of the groove.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Youhei Sakai, Yusuke Nakagawa
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Patent number: 9952392Abstract: An optical module includes: at least one optical waveguide provided on a surface of a substrate; a plurality of grooves provided in the optical waveguide on the surface of the substrate and having both a surface orthogonal to the surface of the substrate and an inclined surface; multiple pairs of light-emitting and light-receiving elements aligned with the plurality of grooves in the optical waveguide and provided so as to correspond to light of different wavelengths on the optical waveguide; and a plurality of light-selecting filters each provided on an inclined surface of the plurality of grooves in the optical waveguide and reflecting light of the wavelength corresponding to the light-emitting element in the respective pair of light-emitting and light-receiving elements towards the optical waveguide, and selectively reflecting light of the corresponding wavelength from the light propagating through the optical waveguide towards the corresponding pair of light-emitting and light-receiving elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shigeru Nakagawa, Yoichi Taira, Masao Tokunari
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Patent number: 9952393Abstract: A light guiding structure is provided. The structure includes an anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) layer and a fluoropolymer layer located immediately adjacent to a surface of the AAO layer. Light propagates through the AAO layer in a direction substantially parallel to the fluoropolymer layer. An optoelectronic device can be coupled to a surface of the AAO layer, and emit/sense light propagating through the AAO layer. Solutions for fabricating the light guiding structure are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Dobrinsky, Michael Shur, Remigijus Gaska
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Patent number: 9952394Abstract: An optical measurement apparatus (102) containing a bidirectional optical transceiver component (200), the bidirectonal optical transceiver component (200) comprising a source of optical electromagnetic radiation (208), an optical detector (214), a beamsplitter, and a combined input and output port (218). The port (218) is arranged to permit, when in use, propagation of optical electromagnetic radiation therethrough. The beamsplitter is aligned within a housing (206) with respect to the optical source (208), the optical detector (214) and the port (218) in order to direct optical electromagnetic radiation emitted by the optical source (214) to the port (214) and to direct optical electromagnetic radiation received from the port (214) to the optical detector (208).Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Lein Applied Diagnostics LimitedInventors: Robin Taylor, James Reynolds, Simon Meadowcroft
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Patent number: 9952395Abstract: An optical cable and method for forming an optical cable is provided. The cable includes a cable jacket including an inner surface defining a channel and an outer surface and also includes a plurality of optical fibers located within the channel. The cable includes a seam within the cable jacket that couples together opposing longitudinal edges of a wrapped thermoplastic sheet which forms the cable jacket and maintains the cable jacket in the wrapped configuration around the plurality of optical fibers. The method includes forming an outer cable jacket by wrapping a sheet of thermoplastic material around a plurality of optical core elements. The method includes melting together portions of thermoplastic material of opposing longitudinal edges of the wrapped sheet such that a seam is formed holding the sheet of thermoplastic material in the wrapped configuration around the core elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventor: Anthony Sebastian Bauco
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Patent number: 9952396Abstract: A closure (15) is installed at a network distribution point to facilitate upgrading a subscriber network (10) to extend optical fibers closer to the subscribers (18). The closure (15) may include active equipment to convert optical signals to electrical signals. The closure (15) enables a plug-and-play connection to the active equipment to facilitate installing and/or upgrading active equipment at the closure (15). The closure (15) also is expandable to enable drop cables (or other optical cable) to be routed from the closure (15) towards the subscribers (18).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBAInventors: Gerd Van Cauteren, Dirk Kempeneers
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Patent number: 9952397Abstract: An enclosable box for housing components from more than one telecommunication systems including a first housing portion, a second housing portion, a box mounting hinge that connects the first housing portion and the second housing portion, an internal telecommunication component compartment panel, a compartment panel mounting hinge that connects the internal telecommunication component compartment with one of the first and second housing portions. The box mounting hinge may be configured to allow the first housing portion and second housing portion to open and close in a clam like manner. The compartment panel mounting hinge may be configured to allow the compartment panel to open and close an internal compartment or cavity that is large enough to enclose at least a first telecommunications systems component.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: PPC BROADBAND INC.Inventors: Brian K. Hanson, Peter A. Carapella
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Patent number: 9952398Abstract: A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame defining a right vertical support and a left vertical support. A chassis is mounted to the right and left vertical supports, wherein the chassis is configured to pivot about a pivot axis that is defined by one of the right and left vertical supports. A plurality of modules are mounted on the chassis, each of the modules slidable on the chassis along a direction extending between the right and left vertical supports, wherein the chassis is configured to pivot about a plane parallel to the sliding direction of the modules, each module defining fiber optic connection locations.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventor: Michael James Ott
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Patent number: 9952399Abstract: A connector panel for plug-in units in a telecommunication system, the telecommunication system including a sub-rack or shelf having a backplane for power supply of a number of N plug-in units within the shelf and for enabling the N plug-in units within the shelf to communicate with each other; wherein the connector panel is an entity separate from the backplane and includes a number of m connectors providing an interface between n dedicated plug-in units among the N plug-in units within the shelf, with 2?n<N and m?n; and wherein the connector panel is configured to be removably attached at an interior wall of the shelf.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Xieon Networks S.a.r.l.Inventors: Siegwald Schuster, Christian Polacek-Attenberger
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Patent number: 9952400Abstract: A fiber optic cassette including a body defining a front and an opposite rear and an enclosed interior. A cable entry location is defined in the body for a cable to enter the interior of the cassette. The cable which enters at the cable entry location is attached to the cassette body and the fibers are extended into the cassette body and form terminations at connectors. The connectors are connected to adapters located at the front of the cassette. A front side of the adapters defines termination locations for cables to be connected to the fibers connected at the rear of the adapters. A cable including a jacket, a strength member, and fibers enters the cassette. The strength member is crimped to a crimp tube and is mounted to the cassette body, allowing the fibers to extend past the crimp tube into the interior of the cassette body. A strain relief boot is provided at the cable entry location.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Michael James Ott, David Patrick Murray, Patrick J. Thompson
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Patent number: 9952401Abstract: An inline splicing module for use in combination with one or more fiber subgroup cables each having a plurality of individual fibers includes a backplane component having top and bottom sides; at least one projection on the backplane component defining a cable slack storage component for securing the fiber subgroup cable in a storage position; at least one splice capturing component on the backplane component having a plurality of splice protector sleeves that are each sized and configured for securing therethrough a corresponding one of the plurality of individual fibers from one of the one or more fiber subgroup cables; and a plurality of fiber optic couplers each being structured and disposed for receipt of a corresponding one of the plurality of individual fibers.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Optical Cable CorporationInventors: Ian J. Timmins, Sumio Seo
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Patent number: 9952402Abstract: An adjusting mechanism is disclosed. The adjusting mechanism has a differential, first and second stepping motors engaging with the differential, a screw rod connected to the output shaft of the differential such that the screw rod rotates along with the rotation of the output shaft, and a moving block threadably connected to the screw rod to permit motion of the moving block along the longitudinal axis of the screw rod. The output shaft of the adjusting mechanism rotates according to the rotation of the first and second stepping motors, so as to drive the movement of the moving block along the screw rod.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Changzhou Huada Kejie Opto-Electro Instrument Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ou Zhang, Dongdong Peng
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Patent number: 9952403Abstract: A method for producing a mirror comprising a plurality of optical surfaces, the method comprises: a step of producing elements, step of assembling the elements with each other from the rear, a step of fixing the elements from the rear onto a supporting structure of the mirror, and a step of polishing subsequent to the step of fixing the elements in order to obtain the optical surfaces of the mirror and correct the residual positioning defects of the optical surfaces and polish them.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: THALESInventors: Frédéric Falzon, Christophe Devilliers, Cyrille Laborde
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Patent number: 9952404Abstract: An optical system includes: a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; and an image sensor configured to convert an image of a subject incident through the first to sixth lenses into electrical signals, wherein the first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side of the optical system, and wherein TTL/(ImgH*2)?0.75 is satisfied, with TTL being a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image plane of the image sensor and ImgH being half of a diagonal length of the image plane of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ju Hwa Son
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Patent number: 9952405Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group G1 having a positive power, a diaphragm, a second lens group G2 having a positive power, and a third lens group G3. Each of the lens groups includes three or more lenses. A positive lens is disposed on a most object side in the first lens group G1, and a meniscus lens, which is concave toward the object side, is disposed to be closest to the object side in the second lens group G2. During focusing from an infinite distance object to a close-range object, elements ranging from the first lens group G1 to the second lens group G2 integrally move toward the object side, and the third lens group G3 remains stationary. The imaging lens satisfies a conditional expression about a radius of curvature of an air lens of the first lens group G1.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masato Kondo
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Patent number: 9952406Abstract: There is provided an optical system including: a first lens having positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having refractive power; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power and having a concave image-side surface, wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side, whereby an aberration improvement effect may be increased and a high degree of resolution may be realized.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin Hwa Jung
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Patent number: 9952407Abstract: An optical imaging module used in portable devices is described. In order from an object side to an image side, the module comprises an aperture stop, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and a object-side surface being convex in a peripheral region; a third lens element with refractive power; a fourth lens element with refractive power having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and convex in a peripheral region; and wherein the optical imaging module used in the portable devices satisfies: 0.052 mm?D?0.082 mm, where D represents a maximum effective focus shifts range under all the defocus curves at 0.4 modulus of the OTF (optical transfer function).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Vista Optronics, Inc.Inventor: fengqing Sun
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Patent number: 9952408Abstract: An image-forming lens includes, from an object side to an image side in order: a first lens group; an aperture; and a second lens group with a positive refractive power, the first lens group including, from the object side in order: a first F lens group with a negative refractive power; and a first R lens group with a positive refractive power, the first F lens group including, from the object side in order: a first negative lens; and a second negative lens, and the first R lens group including: any one of a positive lens and a cemented lens with a positive refractive power as a whole, wherein a distance from a surface on a most object side of the first lens group to an image plane in a state of focusing on an object at infinity: L, and a maximum image height: Y? satisfy Conditional expression 1: 2.8<L/Y?<4.3.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyasu Ohashi, Takashi Kubota
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Patent number: 9952409Abstract: There is provided an optical imaging system including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens includes a negative refractive power and a concave object-side surface. The second lens includes a concave object-side surface. The fourth lens includes a negative refractive power. The sixth lens includes an inflection point formed on an image-side surface thereof. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tae Youn Lee
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Patent number: 9952410Abstract: An imaging optical lens 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 has negative refractive power. The second lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power. The imaging optical lens system has a total of six lens elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Yu-Tai Tseng, Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Shu-Yun Yang
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Patent number: 9952411Abstract: An optical image lens 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 and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element, the third lens element, and the fourth lens element have refractive power. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic, and has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic, and has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof changes from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Lin-Yao Liao, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou