Patents Issued in October 9, 2018
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Patent number: 10094984Abstract: A method of forming an optical fiber connector comprises preloading an adhesive plug into a ferrule bore of a ferrule. The ferrule bore extends between a first face and a second face of the ferrule and includes a large diameter bore section extending inwardly from the first face, a micro-hole section extending inwardly from the second face, and a transition section located between the large diameter bore section and the micro-hole section. The adhesive plug: a) is coupled to at least the transition section during the preloading, b) comprises an adhesive composition in a stable form, and c) blocks an entrance into the micro-hole section from the transition section. The method also comprises storing the adhesive plug in the ferrule bore for at least one day without coupling the optical connector to an optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Jeffrey Dean Danley, Robert Bruce Elkins, II, Darrin Max Miller, Dennis Craig Morrison
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Patent number: 10094985Abstract: A cleaning pad for cleaning fiber optic connectors includes: a main body; and cleaning locations located along the main body, each of the cleaning locations having a space in which a fiber optic connector is to be cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CommScope Connectivity UK LimitedInventors: David Patrick Murray, Karthik Kumar
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Patent number: 10094986Abstract: A fiber optic connector includes a ferrule having a mating end and an insertion end and a ferrule holder having a first end portion in which the ferrule is received and a second end portion opposite the first end portion. The first end portion defines a first bore having a first bore width for receiving the ferrule. Additionally, the first end portion defines a bore surface and at least one groove formed in the bore surface. The at least one groove extends from where the insertion end of the ferrule is located within the first bore to a front face of the ferrule holder. Ridges are formed around the first bore because the at least one groove also extends in a circumferential direction. The ridges contact the ferrule and are deflected by the ferrule in a direction toward the insertion end of the ferrule.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Robert Elvin Barnette, Jr., John Wayne Beatty, Hieu Vinh Tran
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Patent number: 10094987Abstract: A fiber optic connector having a radio frequency identification tag and an optical fiber connection device are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The fiber optic connector comprises: a housing (1); a tail sleeve (4) partly inserted in the housing from a first end of the housing and configured to fix an end of an optical fiber cable (20); a tag receiving portion (5) which is formed in a sidewall of the housing, on a radial outside of the tail sleeve and in which the radio frequency identification tag (10) is disposed; and an electromagnetism restriction part (15) disposed between the tag receiving portion and the tail sleeve to restrict an electromagnetic influence of the tail sleeve made of a metal material on the radio frequency identification tag.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: ADC Telecommunications (Shanghai) Distribution Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weili Zhang, Zhaoyang Tong
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Patent number: 10094988Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to an integrated circuit structure and methods of forming them in which photonic devices are formed on the back end of fabricating a CMOS semiconductor structure containing electronic devices. Doped regions associated with the photonic devices are formed using microwave annealing for dopant activation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Gurtej Sandhu
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Patent number: 10094989Abstract: An optical device includes one or more optical fibers and a holder having a supporting block, a reflecting plate, and an intermediate layer. The supporting block has a first to a third end surfaces at one end. The first end surface extends from a bottom surface of the holder to claddings of the optical fibers. The second end surface extends along a first axis intersecting the first end surface. The third end surface is oblique with respect to the first axis at an angle greater than zero degrees and less than 90 degrees. The optical fibers extend in the supporting block and is exposed to the third end surface. The reflecting plate is provided on the third end surface via the intermediate layer. Light from the optical fiber passes through the third end surface which has some roughness, and is reflected by a surface of the reflecting plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Murakami, Akira Furuya, Koichi Koyama
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Patent number: 10094990Abstract: An optical module includes a first optical block, a second optical block, and a metal part. In a state that the metal part is assembled with the first optical block, the second optical block is sandwiched between the first optical block and the metal part. The metal part includes two spring pieces. The two spring pieces are along both lateral surfaces of the first optical block. Locking parts which are formed on both lateral surfaces of the first optical block are hooked on the two spring pieces. The second optical block is pressed against the first optical block in a direction, in which the metal part is assembled with the first optical block, by a spring force which is generated when the two spring pieces are hooked on the locking parts.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
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Patent number: 10094991Abstract: The present invention provides a module structure, which is adapted for the optical-electric module field in the field of optical communication. The module structure comprises a torsional spring that is fixed to a bail; the torsional spring comprises a left torsional spring and a right torsional spring that are symmetrically provided on the bail; the left torsional spring comprises a first supporting rod, a first screw hole, a first connecting rod and a second screw hole that are sequentially connected; the second screw hole is nested outside a third rotation shaft of the bail, the first screw hole is nested outside the first rotation shaft after passing through the L-shaped-rod formed first connecting rod, and the direction of the first supporting rod is upwardly inclining and forms an angle of less than 90° with the plane where the bail is located. The module has good shielding effect.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: WUHAN TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES CO., LTD.Inventors: Beili Song, Benqing Quan, Yi Jiang, Fanrong Gao
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Patent number: 10094992Abstract: An optical module that communicates with a single optical fiber is disclosed. The optical module includes an optical transmitting unit (Tx unit), an optical receiving unit (Rx unit), a filter holder that mounts a wavelength splitting filter, and a housing that installs the Tx unit, the Rx unit and the filter holder. The housing and the filter holder each provide slopes rubbing to each other that automatically determine the angle of the wavelength splitting filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Takeshi Okada
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Patent number: 10094993Abstract: A connector and a connector set that can be fabricated by using a mold including a smaller number of components.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryo Watanabe
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Patent number: 10094994Abstract: An electrical/optical connector system can include a first circuit board with a floating optical connector and a first electrical contact and a second circuit board with a second optical connector to blind mate with the floating optical connector and a second electrical contact to blind mate with the first electrical contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Kevin B. Leigh, George D. Megason, Paul K. Rosenberg
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Patent number: 10094995Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a plurality of multi-fiber unit tubes. The multi-fiber unit tubes are substantially circular and dimensioned to receive a plurality of optical fibers. The optical fiber cable also includes a plurality of partially bonded optical fiber ribbons positioned within at least one of the multi-fiber tubes. The partially bonded optical fiber ribbons are partially bonded in such a way that each partially bonded optical fiber ribbon is formed in a random shape. The partially bonded optical fiber ribbons also are partially bonded in such a way that the plurality of partially bonded optical fiber ribbons are randomly positioned within the multi-fiber unit tube. The optical fiber cable also includes a jacket surrounding the plurality of multi-fiber unit tubes.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OFS FITEL, LLCInventors: Harold P Debban, Peter A Weimann, Timothy Goddard
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Patent number: 10094996Abstract: Fiber optic equipment that supports independently translatable fiber optic modules and/or fiber optic equipment trays containing one or more fiber optic modules is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more fiber optic modules are disposed in a plurality of independently translatable fiber optic equipment trays which are received in a tray guide system. In this manner, each fiber optic equipment tray is independently translatable within the guide system. One or more fiber optic modules may also be disposed in one or more module guides disposed in the fiber optic equipment trays to allow each fiber optic module to translate independently of other fiber optic modules in the same fiber optic equipment tray. In other embodiments, a plurality of fiber optic modules are disposed in a module guide system disposed in the fiber optic equipment that translate independently of other fiber optic modules disposed within the module guide system.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications, LLCInventors: Terry Lee Cooke, David Lee Dean, Jr., Tory Allen Klavuhn, Juan Garcia Martinez, Elmer Mariano Juarez, Manuel Alejandro Lopez Sanchez, Juan Miguel Gonzalez Covarrubias
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Patent number: 10094997Abstract: A cable spool includes first and second curved flanges extending radially outwardly from first and second axial ends of a drum. The flanges have outer edges that cooperate to define an annular slot providing access to a passageway surrounding the drum. The slot has a width that is less than half the height of the drum. A cable is wrapped around the drum. A closure having an environmentally sealed interior may receive an end of the cable. A second cable can be deployed from a second spool and coupled to the end of the cable within the closure. The second spool can be mounted with the cable spool. A cover can be placed over the spools for aesthetic or protection reasons.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Marcouiller, Oscar Fernando Bran De León, Erik J. Gronvall
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Patent number: 10094998Abstract: A structure for directly leading down the optical unit (OU) from the OPPC (optical phase conductor) cable, by the OU leading-down connector (2) invented recently, is used for separating the plastic-pipe OU from the OPPC cable installed on the tower, avoiding the splicing of fibers on the tower of the old technique. Therefore it is possible to assemble the OPPC cable (1), the OU leading-down connector (2), the preformed armor rod assembly (3), the first link fitting (4), the residual cable rack (5), the second link fitting (6), the insulator string (7) on the ground all together. Then the whole assemble can be erected on to the tower. Just as the conventional overhead power line construction. So it is simple and saving in work.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Inventor: Yang Lin
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Patent number: 10094999Abstract: A termination for a fiber optic cable, includes an optical connector for a fiber optic member, a collar having a hollow interior in which at least part of the optical connector is positionable, and a retaining clip positionable with respect to the collar at a location to block exiting of the optical connector from the collar. A stop in the collar limits insertion of the connector in the collar. The termination may be assembled and installed in the field. A method of assembling a cable termination assembly, includes positioning at least part of a cable and connector in a hollow collar, and inserting a retainer clip through an opening in a wall of the collar in position to block withdrawing of the connector from one end of the collar. Additionally, a resilient cover is positioned on the collar to provide a watertight connection with another device with which the cable termination assembly may be attached. The method may be carried out to assemble and install the cable termination assembly in the field.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Multilink Inc.Inventor: Steve E. Kaplan
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Patent number: 10095000Abstract: A single-mode optical fiber having an automatic control heat source specifically produced for hydraulic seepage measurement, sequentially includes a single-core optical fiber, an inner protective elastic layer, a heat insulation steel ring, an inner-layer filling protection ring, an elastic hard ring, and an anti-seepage heat insulation hard sleeve ring arranged from inside to outside.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: HOHAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Huaizhi Su, Meng Yang
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Patent number: 10095001Abstract: Cable clamps configured to be installed from the ground with an extendable reach tool, such as a hot stick, are provided. Initial spring tension temporarily holds a drop cable in a drop cable section of the clamp, and a main span cable can be guided into a main span section of the clamp and tightened.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventor: John Edward Sakmar
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Patent number: 10095002Abstract: A lens barrel includes a fixed frame, an annular operation ring rotatable with respect to the fixed frame, a drive frame rotatable together with the operation ring with respect to the fixed frame, a mobile frame movable together with lens held by the mobile frame along an optical axis direction based on a rotation of the drive frame, a coil array fixed to any one of the fixed frame and the drive frame and composed of a plurality of coils disposed alongside in a circumferential direction, and a magnet array fixed to the other of the fixed frame and the drive frame and composed of a plurality of magnets disposed alongside in the circumferential direction, in which the drive frame is rotated by electromagnetic force generated by supplying a current to the coil array, and the mobile frame is driven along the optical axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideo Onishi
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Patent number: 10095003Abstract: An autofocus apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with an image acquirer, a pattern controller, and a focus controller. The image acquirer includes an optical system which forms an image of an object at a predetermined magnification and an image capturer which photographs the image of the object formed by the optical system. The pattern controller includes a generator which generates a pattern in a size according to the predetermined magnification of the optical system and a projector which projects the pattern generated by the generator onto the object. In the focus controller, an image of the projected pattern formed by the optical system at the predetermined magnification controls a focus position of the optical system based on the image of the object photographed by the image capturer.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Usami
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Patent number: 10095004Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of performing AF with a high precision regardless of an object while realizing increase in AF speed. When there is an AF instruction, photographing is performed while a focus lens is moved. AF evaluated values are calculated at every position of the focus lens by a contrast AF processing unit. The contrast AF processing unit calculates a sharpness in the vicinity of the maximal point of an evaluated value curve from three AF evaluated values, including the maximum value among calculated AF evaluated values and AF evaluated values calculated at positions in front and rear of a focus lens position corresponding to the maximum value, and position information of the focus lens corresponding thereto, and calculates a focusing position by a calculation method selected from among plural kinds of methods according to the sharpness.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hitoshi Sakurabu
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Patent number: 10095005Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes two lenses having positive refractive power, one lens having negative refractive power and at least one aspheric surface, and an aperture stop disposed between the two positive lenses. The second lens group includes one lens having positive refractive power and at least one aspheric surface and two lenses having negative refractive power and two aspheric surfaces. The lens of the second lens group situated at a nearest position to the image plane side is formed so that a curvature radius of the surface on the object side and a curvature radius of the surface on the image plane side are negative near an optical axis thereof. The first lens group is arranged away from the second lens group by a specific distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
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Patent number: 10095006Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang
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Patent number: 10095007Abstract: Present embodiments provide for an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens includes 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 positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through arrangement of convex or concave surfaces of the six lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing better optical characteristics and imaging quality.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Baina Chen, Ruyou Tang
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Patent number: 10095008Abstract: A lens assembly includes a housing defining an interior volume having a substantially linear optical axis extending therethrough. A zoom group is disposed in the housing in an optical path segment on the optical path between a first lens and an aperture mechanism. The zoom group is movable between a plurality of field-of-view (FOV) positions along the optical path segment. An ultra-narrow field-of-view (UNFOV) lens group is movable between a first UNFOV position outside the optical path and a second UNFOV position in the optical path segment. The lens assembly has a plurality of FOV configurations with the UNFOV lens group in the first UNFOV position, and a UNFOV configuration with the UNFOV lens group in the second UNFOV position. The lens assembly accommodates a number of different FOVs within a limited volume with a small number of lenses, and without folding or otherwise redirecting the optical path.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Lockhead Martin CorporationInventor: James A. Fry
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Patent number: 10095009Abstract: A zoom lens is constituted essentially by six lens groups, in order from the object side to the image side: 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; a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power; and a sixth lens group having a positive refractive power. The distances between all pairs of adjacent lens groups change when changing magnification from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, and Conditional Formula (1) below is satisfied: ?5<f1/f2<?1.5??(1) wherein f1 is the focal length of the first lens group, and f2 is the focal length of the second lens group.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Ori, Michio Cho
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Patent number: 10095010Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from object-side, a fixed positive first group including three-or-more lenses, a negative second group including a unit moving toward image-side during zooming toward telephoto-end, a positive third group including a unit moving toward object-side during zooming from wide-end to telephoto-end, a negative fourth group moving during zooming and focusing, and a rear group. Focal lengths of the first group and the zoom lens at wide-end, a movement amount of a unit moving by largest amount during zooming toward telephoto-end in the second group, a largest value of position change between wide-end and telephoto-end of units moving toward an object side during zooming from wide-end to telephoto-end, refractive index for d-line of a positive lens closest to image-side in the first group, and average refractive index for d-line of positive lenses of the first group other than the positive lens are appropriately set.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shoichi Takemoto
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Patent number: 10095011Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group and a positive fourth lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein distances between adjacent lens groups thereof change during zooming. The third lens group includes a positive first sub-lens group, a positive second sub-lens group and a negative third sub-lens group. The third sub-lens group consists of a single negative lens element. The following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 6.0<f1Gp/fw<9.0??(1), and 1.3<f3Gp/f4Gp<2.0??(2), wherein fw designates the focal length of the entire zoom lens system at the short focal length extremity, f1Gp, f3Gp and f4Gp designate the focal lengths of the first, third and fourth lens groups, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Yoichi Nomura
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Patent number: 10095012Abstract: A zoom lens system comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1 having negative refractive power; and a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group varying upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, the first lens group G1 including, in order from the object side, a first lens component having negative refractive power, a second lens component having negative refractive power, a third lens component having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens component having positive refractive power, thereby providing a downsized zoom lens system having excellent optical performance, an optical apparatus equipped therewith and a method for manufacturing the zoom lens system.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Akira Yamagami
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Patent number: 10095013Abstract: An objective optical system includes in order from an object side a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein focusing is carried out by moving the second lens group with respect to a change in an object-point distance, and the following conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 3<|?|??(2), and 60°<???(3), where, ? denotes a lateral magnification of the overall objective optical system at the time of focusing to an object point at a close distance, and ? denotes the maximum half angle of view at the time of focusing to an object point at a long distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hideyasu Takato
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Patent number: 10095014Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical apparatus of collecting three-dimensional information of an object, which includes an optical apparatus of collecting three-dimensional information of an object, which includes an optical detector, a first omnidirectional mirror and a second omnidirectional mirror. The second omnidirectional mirror is disposed between the optical detector and the first omnidirectional mirror.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tzunghan Lin
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Patent number: 10095015Abstract: Telescope with optical resolution and continuity of the field of view comprising a spherical primary mirror, wherein: a) said telescope is equipped with a field of view and a system of repartitioning the field of view, b) said system of repartitioning the field of view is placed in proximity of die focus of the primary mirror, and is constituted by a secondary mirror composed of n planar reflective surfaces, c) said n planar reflective surfaces are contiguous sine to the other and form a continuous multifaceted prismatic reflector, so as to obtain continuity of the field of view over the whole field, d) said n planar reflective surfaces are followed by a corresponding number of optical cameras that form n portions of image in n distinct focal planes, and e) a collecting and recording element is positioned on each n-th focal plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OHB ITALIA S.P.A.Inventors: Marco Chiarini, Lorenzo Cibin, Roberto Ragazzoni
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Patent number: 10095016Abstract: A laser system capable of producing a stable and accurate high-power output beam from one or more input beams of corresponding laser sources comprises one or more optical elements configured to receive the input beams wherein at least one of said one or more optical elements is made of high purity fused silica.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: nLIGHT, Inc.Inventors: Scott R. Karlsen, Robert J. Martinsen, Keith W. Kennedy
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Patent number: 10095017Abstract: A microscope, preferably a laser scanning microscope, with at least one illuminating beam, which in a partial area along the cross-section thereof, is phase-modulated with a modulation frequency. A microscope objective is provided for focusing the illumination beam onto a sample. The microscope further has a detection beam path and at least one demodulation means, wherein a pulsed illumination beam is present. In the illumination beam path upstream of the microscope objective, a first polarization beam splitter is provided, which generates at least first and second partial beam paths that have differing, preferably adjustable, optical paths. A combination element, such as a second pole splitter, for rejoining the partial beams is provided. In one partial beam path, a phase element is provided, which has at least two areas having differing phase interferences.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Tiemo Anhut, Thomas Kalkbrenner, Ralf Netz
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Patent number: 10095018Abstract: An illumination optical system includes: a beam splitter located near a conjugate position of a specimen and configured to split beams from a light source into a plurality of groups of beams having different splitting directions around an optical axis; a beam selector configured to select and transmit one group of beams from the plurality of groups of beams and that is rotatable with respect to the optical axis; and a ½ wavelength plate located near the beam selector and rotatable about the optical axis. The rotation angles of the ½ wavelength plate and of the beam selector about the optical axis are respectively set so that the polarization direction of the beam which has passed through the ½ wavelength plate is perpendicular to the splitting direction of the one group of beams that has been selected by the beam selector and split by the beam splitter.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yumiko Ouchi
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Patent number: 10095019Abstract: An image scanning system for tissue slides comprises a microscope, an image capture element, a splitter module and a shading module, wherein the microscope is used for carrying a plurality of tissue slides. The light pass through each of the tissue slides is able to enter the splitter module selectively by the shading module, and the light is guided into the image capture element via a plurality of splitters of the splitter module to make each of the tissue slides be imaged on the image capture element respectively for image scanning.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTREInventors: Yu-Sung Hsieh, Yi-San Chang, Yu-Jen Lu
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Patent number: 10095020Abstract: A probe can be provided having a grating adapted for color spectrally encoded imaging. The probe can include a waveguide configuration, a light focusing configuration, and a grating configuration that can have a first grating pattern and a second grating pattern. The waveguide configuration can be configured and/or structured to cause to propagate a light having a first wavelength and a light having a second wavelength to propagate from the waveguide component, and the light focusing and waveguide configurations can provide the light to be incident on the grating configuration. The grating configuration can be configured and arranged such that the light having the first wavelength is diffracted by the first grating pattern to substantially the same location as the light having the second wavelength is diffracted by the second grating pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: Canon U.S.A., Inc., The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, Dongkyun Kang, Mitsuhiro Ikuta
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Patent number: 10095021Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion. First and second electronic instruments are located in the insertion portion and are supplied with drive power from different systems. A plurality of power limiting portions limit the drive power supplied to the first and second electronic instruments, respectively, via mutually different systems. First and second wirings, at least a portion of which are located inside the insertion portion, connect respective power limiting portions with the respective ones of the first and second electronic instruments. A ground conductor extends from one end of the insertion portion to the other end of the insertion portion and is connected between a first connection connecting the first electronic instrument and the first wiring and a second connection connecting the second electronic instrument and the second wiring.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Ichihashi
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Patent number: 10095022Abstract: An ocular optical system adapted for an imaging ray of a display image being entered an observer's eye through the ocular optical system to form an image is provided. The ocular optical system includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in order from an eye-side to a display-side along an optical axis. Each of the first lens and the second lens has an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. A maximum distance between the display-side surface of the first lens and the eye-side surface of the second lens parallel to a direction of the optical axis is less than 5 millimeters, and the ocular optical system satisfies: 6?DLD/EPD?20. DLD is a diagonal length of the displayed image corresponding to a single pupil of the observer, and EPD represents an exit pupil diameter of the ocular optical system.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Mao Zong Lin, Yan Xuan Yin
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Patent number: 10095023Abstract: Apparatuses with actuators having actuator-side attachment areas disposed thereon, an optical element having mirror-side attachment areas disposed thereon and springs are described, wherein an optical element is connected to actuators via two or four springs.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Shanshan Gu-Stoppel, Dirk Kaden, Christian Eisermann
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Patent number: 10095024Abstract: A method for determining an orientation of a photosensor of a controller with respect to a projector is described. The method includes generating, by a beam generator of the projector, a beam. The method further includes modifying a direction of travel of the beam using a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) mirror that moves in a pattern, detecting the beam, calculating a time at which the beam is detected, and determining based on the pattern and the time an orientation of the beam to determine the orientation of the photosensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Dominic Mallinson
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Patent number: 10095025Abstract: An optical unit includes: a cylindrical member whose thickness varies in a circumferential direction; a transparent member disposed at one end, in an axial direction, of the cylindrical member; and a joining member which joins the transparent member to the cylindrical member and thereby seals the cylindrical member at the one end in the axial direction, and a portion, joining a side surface of the transparent member to an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical member, of the joining member is thicker at a position where the cylindrical member is thick than at a position where the cylindrical member is thin.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Iwane
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Patent number: 10095026Abstract: A camera housing including a self-cleaning function is disclosed. More particularly, a self-cleaning camera module including a fluid based cleaning system is disclosed. A self-cleaning camera module including a fluid based cleaning system for providing accurate imaging in an uncontrolled environment is disclosed. A monitoring system including one or more self-cleaning camera modules is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: AGRICAM ABInventors: Ellinor Eineren, Joachim Tollstoy, Claes Nelsson, Landy Toth
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Patent number: 10095027Abstract: A method of designing an imaging system including an optical system having a longitudinal optical axis, an image sensor and a spatial filter, the imaging system being configured to form an image of a focusing plane on the image sensor. The optical transfer function of the optical system combined with the spatial filter is calculated as a function of the image spatial frequencies, and of the focusing defect (?), so as to determine a contrast map and a phase map of the optical system combined with the pupil function of the spatial filter, the contrast map and the phase map being a function, of the spatial frequency (f), and of the focusing defect (?), and it is determined, based on these maps, a value of longitudinal extension (|P|) of the imaging system focusing depth domain in the useful range of spatial frequencies ([?fc; fc]) and an average contrast C.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Pierre-Antoine Frugier, Patrick Mercier, Pierre Chavel, Francois Goudail
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Patent number: 10095028Abstract: There are provided a first optical member that is transparent and is formed in a thin plate shape; a Fresnel-shaped portion that is formed in a concentric form on one surface of the first optical member in the thickness direction; a half mirror layer that is formed on a surface of a Fresnel-shaped portion; a second optical member that is formed of a transparent filler for filling unevenness of a surface of the half mirror layer to form a flat surface; and a third optical member that has a transparent thin plate shape protecting an outside surface of the second optical member. A refractive index of the first optical member, a refractive index of the second optical member, and a refractive index of the third optical member are equal.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Junichi Matsushita
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Patent number: 10095029Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a controller, a display device coupled to the controller, and a detector coupled to the controller. The display device displays virtual environmental images. The detector detects a spatial parameter of a local space of the electronic apparatus in which the electronic apparatus is located. The controller receives the spatial parameter and controls the display device based on the spatial parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventor: Ben Xu
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Patent number: 10095030Abstract: Provided are a shape recognition device, a shape recognition program, and a shape recognition method capable of obtaining more accurate information for recognizing an outer shape of a target object. A shape recognition device according to the present invention includes: an outer shape detection unit that detects an outer shape of a hand; an extraction point setting unit that sets a plurality of points inside of the detected outer shape as extraction points; a depth level detection unit that measures respective spatial distances to points on a surface of the hand as depth levels, the points respectively corresponding to the plurality of extraction points; and a hand orientation recognition unit that determines which of a palmar side and a back side the hand shows, on the basis of a criterion for fluctuations in the measured depth levels.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: MIRAMA SERVICE INC.Inventor: Johannes Lundberg
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Patent number: 10095031Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) headset includes a first camera and a second camera capturing image data of an environment of the VR headset. Each camera has a field of view, and a portion of the fields of view of the first and second cameras overlap while a portion of the fields of view do not overlap. A processor receiving the image data from the first and second cameras is configured to identify a first observation of a position of the VR headset in the environment and positions of a plurality of features based on the image data captured by the first camera. The processor also identifies a second observation of the position of the VR headset in the environment and the positions of the features based on the image data captured by the second camera. Based on the first and second observations, the processor determines a model of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Oculus VR, LLCInventors: Dov Katz, Oskar Linde, Kjell Erik Alexander Sjoholm, Rasmus Karl Emil Simander
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Patent number: 10095032Abstract: A head mountable display (HMD) system in which the size and/or distance from the viewer of a virtual screen for display of video material depends upon one or more of the following: whether the video material is in a 2-D or a 3-D format; the image resolution of the video material; the compression quality and/or data rate of the video material; the aspect ratio of the video material; the origin of the video material; and metadata associated with the video material.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Ian Henry Bickerstaff, Simon Mark Benson
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Patent number: 10095033Abstract: The invention relates to a method, comprising tracking the gaze of an eye of a user by a first camera, wherein a position of the gaze determines a place for the cursor on the screen of a near-to-eye display (NED), wherein the movement of the gaze is configured to move the cursor on the screen and when the movement of the gaze is detected to be still or moving only slightly; observing a gesture of one hand of the user by a second camera, and executing a further operation if at least one gesture of the hand is detected. The invention further relates to an apparatus and a computer program product configured to perform the method.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Kongqiao Wang, Vuokko Lantz, Jiangwei Li, Lei Xu, Jyri Huopaniemi