Patents Issued in March 21, 2019
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Publication number: 20190086581Abstract: An apparatus includes a center portion and a plurality of spoke portions that are in contact with the center portion and that extend to a perimeter region. The plurality of spoke portions include at least a first monolithic spoke portion extending from the center portion to the perimeter region, and the center portion and the plurality of spoke portions define a plurality of cavity regions among the plurality of spoke portions. The center portion, the plurality of spoke portions, and the plurality of cavity regions are included in a gradient index (GRIN) lens having a plurality of effective dielectric constants that are based on a radial distance from the center portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Colin Anthony Minor Diehl, Corey McKinney Thacker
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Publication number: 20190086582Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus including a display and a lens element is provided. The display has a light-exiting surface. The lens element is located in front of the light-exiting surface of the display and includes N ring-shaped lens arrays, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1, and the N ring-shaped lens arrays have a central axis. Each of the N ring-shaped lens arrays includes a plurality of lens units. No step difference exists between any two adjacent lens units in the same ring-shaped lens array. In an i-th ring-shaped lens array, the total number of the lens units is related to a location of at least one of the lens units and related to a pitch of the lens units, and i=1 to N. The near-eye display apparatus has good image quality, is easy to be assembled, and may be formed through a simplified manufacturing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Coretronic CorporationInventors: Hsin-Hsiang Lo, Fu-Ming Chuang
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Publication number: 20190086583Abstract: By providing a rib portion 40 having a constant height in the range from 50% to 120% of the height of the highest point of a split lens structure between a plurality of split lenses, even when roll forming is performed at a high speed, trapping of air bubbles can be inhibited, and resin flow can be promoted; therefore, an optical element 10 having a surface on which a lens shape is formed and having a special optical effect can be obtained with few structural defects and high productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventor: Koichi SHINODA
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Publication number: 20190086584Abstract: A near-eye display device includes a display panel and a plurality of light modulation units. The display panel includes a plurality of display pixel units configured to emit display light. The light modulation units are disposed on a light emitting surface of the display panel, and each of the light modulation units is disposed corresponding to one of the display pixel units. Each of the light modulation units is configured to direct the display light emitted from the corresponding display pixel unit to an eye of a user, and a width of the display light directed to the eye of the user is smaller than the pupil size of the eye. The user may still receive clear images when the near-eye display is out of focus because the display light directed to the eye has the width smaller than the pupil size.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Sung-Yang Wu
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Publication number: 20190086585Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of metal surface plasma and light emitting display, and provides an optical component for controlling a light emergent direction and a manufacturing method thereof. An optical component for controlling a light emergent direction includes: a transparent substrate; a plurality of metal film strips arranged in parallel at equal pitches on the surface of the transparent substrate along a first direction and extending in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction; and dielectric gratings formed respectively on the plurality of metal film strips, wherein slits of the dielectric gratings extend along the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Jinghai LIU
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Publication number: 20190086586Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a microstructure substrate and the manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The method includes coating an anti-fingerprint layer on a substrate, sputtering a SiO2 layer on the anti-fingerprint layer, and etching the SiO2 layer to form the SiO2 layer having a plurality of circular recessed microstructures. With such configuration, the impact caused by the circular depression microstructure to the high-resolution panel may be enhanced so as to reduce the degree of the blur with respect to the images. As such, the substrate may be adopted by high-resolution panels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., L td.Inventor: Yong YANG
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Publication number: 20190086587Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel unit, a display panel, and a display device, which relates to the field of display technology. The pixel unit includes: a base substrate; a reflective layer, disposed on a side of the base substrate; a resonant layer, disposed on a side of the reflective layer away from the base substrate; a transflective layer, disposed on a side of the resonant layer away from the base substrate; and a scattering layer, disposed on a side of the transflective layer away from the base substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Lianjie QU, Bingqiang GUI, Yonglian QI, Chengshao YANG
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Publication number: 20190086588Abstract: A counterfeit prevention structure including a concave/convex formation layer having a surface and including a first concave/convex structure in a first portion of the surface and a second concave/convex structure in a second portion of the surface, and a reflective layer formed on the second concave/convex structure in the second portion. The first and second concave/convex structures are formed such that the first concave/convex structure has a depth-to-width ratio greater than a depth-to*width ratio of the second concave/convex structure, and that a light transmittance is higher in the first portion than in the second portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiro YASHIKI
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Publication number: 20190086589Abstract: A process for manufacturing a mirror includes preparing a mirror core by successively depositing a plurality of layers of a core material to form a core structure; and bonding, using a bonding material, the mirror core to a front polishable faceplate and a back faceplate. A mirror includes a mirror core including a plurality of layers of a core material; a front polished faceplate; and a back faceplate. The front polished faceplate and the back faceplate are bonded to the mirror core with a bonding material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: JAMES TED MOONEY, TUKARAM K. HATWAR
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Publication number: 20190086590Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to retroreflective articles and methods of making such articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Kenneth L. Smith, Michael Benton Free, Bimal V. Thakkar, Raymond C. Chiu
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Publication number: 20190086591Abstract: A color filter substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a corresponding display panel. The manufacturing method of the color filter substrate includes: providing a substrate; forming an array of a plurality of pixel units on the substrate, wherein each pixel unit comprises a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and at least two third sub-pixels, the at least two third sub-pixels being made of an irreversible temperature-sensitive pigment; and performing a temperature-variation treatment on one third sub-pixel in each pixel unit such that the one third sub-pixel changes color and becomes a fourth sub-pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Xiongzhou WEI, Min LI, Chao LIU, Huaqing LIU
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Publication number: 20190086592Abstract: A COA substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. A pixel photoresist layer is arranged on a passivation layer of the COA substrate; an organic layer and a pixel electrode layer are sequentially arranged on the pixel photoresist layer; and each pixel electrode of the pixel electrode layer is configured to have a planar structure completely covering the organic layer; each planar pixel electrode is arranged with a through hole; and the through hole penetrates the pixel electrode layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hongwei DU, Haoyue DU, Xianghua JIN
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Publication number: 20190086593Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible color filter. More specifically, the present invention is characterized in that a separation layer, a protective layer, a black matrix layer and a pixel layer are sequentially laminated, wherein the protective layer comprises one or more polymers selected from polymers represented by chemical formula 1 or chemical formula 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Sung Hoon Cho, Sang Kook Kim, Seong Hwan Park, Seung June Park
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Publication number: 20190086594Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other and including a central region and a peripheral region; a plurality of data lines disposed on the first substrate and being spaced apart from each other by the same distance; a plurality of gate lines disposed on the first substrate and crossing the plurality of data lines; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; a common electrode on the first substrate or the second substrate; a plurality of black matrixes disposed on the second substrate, a distance between adjacent black matrixes in the central region being smaller than a distance between adjacent black matrixes in the peripheral region; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: In-Yeong KONG, Do-Sung KIM, Hee-Young CHAE, Se-Hong PARK, Jong-Sin PARK, Ja-Young PYUN, Dong-Yoon LEE, Jae-Woong YOUN
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Publication number: 20190086595Abstract: Optical products are disclosed that include a polymer substrate; a composite coating, deposited on the polymer substrate; a permeating adhesive, which permeates the composite coating and is in contact with the polymer substrate; and a protective layer, secured to the composite coating by the permeating adhesive. The composite coating includes at least a first layer and a second layer, each of which is provided with a binding group component which together form a complementary binding group pair. The optical products exhibit improved resistance to delamination during storage and use.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: SOUTHWALL TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: KEVIN C. KROGMAN, LEE CAMPBELL BOMAN, JULIUS GEORGE KOZAK, KAYUR ASHWIN PATEL, JEREMY B. STEGALL, ANTHONY BRIAN PORT
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Publication number: 20190086596Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Tsutomu NAGAHAMA, Hironori YOSHIDA, Masaharu SENOUE, Masashi ENOMOTO, Hiroyuki ITOU
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Publication number: 20190086597Abstract: To provide a volume-type optical element in which a self-cloning photonic crystal is used. An optical element is provided with half-wave plates of photonic crystals formed on the xy plane and laminated in the z-axis direction in a three-dimensional space x, y, z. The groove direction of the photonic crystals is a curved line, and the angle in relation to the y-axis direction changes continuously in the range of 0°-180°. Light entering the optical element in the axial direction is emitted from the optical element upon being divided and converted into clockwise circularly polarized light in the direction facing the x-axis by a given angle from the z-axis and anticlockwise circularly polarized light in the direction facing the ?x-axis by a given angle from the z-axis. Laminating or placing a quarter-wave plate comprising a photonic crystal on one or both surfaces makes it possible to divide light entering from the z-axis direction of the optical element into two orthogonal linearly polarized lights.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Shojiro KAWAKAMI, Takayuki KAWASHIMA, Takafumi CHIBA, Toshikazu IJIRO, Hiroyuki TSUDA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190086598Abstract: The invention refers to an apparatus for generating two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional objects. The apparatus comprises at least one spatial light modulator device for modulating incident light and an optical system. The optical system is designed and arranged such that a segmentation of wave fields is provided in a plane, where the plane in which the segmentation of the wave fields is provided differs with a plane that comprises object points. Adjacent segmented wave fields do have a mutual overlap. The apparatus also comprises a scanning device which couples light waves into a beam expanding waveguide with outcoupling gratings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Gerald FUTTERER
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Publication number: 20190086599Abstract: A backlight module includes: a light guide plate; a light source for emitting light rays towards a first region of the light guide plate; a first grating provided at the first region and configured to adjust propagation directions of the light rays such that the adjusted light rays travel towards a second region of the light guide plate, and the propagation directions make an included angle with a normal to the light guide plate which is greater than the critical angle of total reflection of the light guide plate; and a second grating provided at the second region and configured to collimate the adjusted light rays such that the collimated light rays travel in a direction perpendicular to the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Xiandong MENG, Wei WANG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Jian GAO, Jifeng TAN, Xianqin MENG
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Publication number: 20190086600Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) lightbar includes a flexible print circuit, an LED lamp arranged on the flexible print circuit, and a light guiding plate arranged on the flexible print circuit. The light guiding film is arranged on an emitting surface between two adjacent LEDs. The light guiding film includes an incident surface and an emitting surface. Two sides of the incident surface of the light guiding film are attached to the emitting surface of the two LEDs. Compared with the related art, a light guiding film is arranged on emitting surfaces of any two neighboring LEDs in the present disclosure. Light beams emitted by the LEDs enter the light guiding film partially. The light guiding film reflects the partial light beams are transferred to the gap between the LEDs. Therefore, the hotspot phenomenon is well curbed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chen XIE
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Publication number: 20190086601Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a light source, a light guide plate and a reflection sheet. A side of the light guide plate includes a light-incident surface perpendicular to a bottom surface, a first inclined plane, and a second inclined plane. An intersecting line between a plane in which the first inclined plane lies and a plane in which the second inclined plane lies is located outside of the light guide plate, and the intersecting line is parallel with the bottom surface. The first and second inclined planes are configured such that a total reflection occurs on at least a part of the light at the first and second inclined planes, and thus an incidence angle of light emitted towards the bottom surface is greater than or equal to a critical angle at the bottom surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: JIBING ZHANG, KEJIAN OU
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Publication number: 20190086602Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a light guide plate, a backlight module, a display device, a dotting machine and a control method thereof, related to the field of display technology, which can improve the brightness uniformity of the backlight module. The light guide plate includes a light exit surface, a bottom surface opposite to the light exit surface, and a light entrance surface intersecting with the light exit surface and the bottom surface. A plurality of dots are arranged at an outer side of the bottom surface; a shape of a cross section of each dot is an ellipse or a polygon, and the cross section is parallel to the bottom surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BOE OPTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE OPTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Nuowei GONG, Shanfei XU
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Publication number: 20190086603Abstract: A display device includes a polarizing layer having a polarizing function for reflecting or absorbing light polarized in a stretching direction of a pigment, a first display panel in which the polarizing function is disabled in a first region, a second display panel in which the polarizing function is disabled in a second region, and a light source that emits an illumination light having a polarization direction along the stretching direction or a direction perpendicular to the stretching direction. The first display panel and the second display panel are stacked together to form a display unit. Only the first region is displayed on the display unit by emitting illumination light having a polarization direction along the stretching direction of the first display panel. Only the second region is displayed on the display unit by emitting illumination light having a polarization direction along the stretching direction of the second display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Mitsuru NARUSE, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20190086604Abstract: A backlight unit includes an LED, a light guide plate, a light collecting portion, an opposite end portion, and a total reflection regulator. The light guide plate includes a light entering end surface opposed to the LED and a light exiting surface that is one of plate surfaces. The light collecting portion includes light collecting pieces extending on the light exiting surface in a normal direction to the light entering end surface and arrayed in an orthogonal direction perpendicular to the normal direction. The opposite end portion is on an opposite side from the light entering end surface. A section of the opposite end portion includes a curved end surface. The total reflection regulator is disposed on at least a portion of the curved end surface and configured to regulate the amount of light in the opposite end portion to be totally reflected by the curved end surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Hirotoshi YASUNAGA, Hisashi WATANABE, Youzou KYOUKANE
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Publication number: 20190086605Abstract: A backlight assembly includes a substantially planar light guide defining an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface. A first plurality of LEDs is positioned below the lower surface of the light guide and oriented to direct the light emitted therefrom into the lower surface. A NVIS filter is placed adjacent to the side surface and a second plurality of LEDs is positioned near the side surface. A separating element extends between the first and second plurality of LEDs. A directing element extends between the second plurality of LEDs and the NVIS filter to direct the emitted light from the second plurality of LEDs through the NVIS filter and into the light guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: William Dunn, Harry Presley, Chris Tran
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Publication number: 20190086606Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light guide plate, a backlight module assembly and a liquid crystal display device, which are of a liquid crystal display technical field. The light guide plate includes a plate body and a retaining wall. One surface of the plate body is a light-emitting surface of the light guide plate, and the retaining wall is an annular structure arranged along an edge of the plate body, and protrudes to the light-emitting surface. The plate body and the retaining wall together form a groove for receiving a display panel and an optical film. The present disclosure solves a problem of poor polarizer as a result that the plastic frame shrinks and presses the display panel at a low temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Dake WANG, Zheng WANG, Xiuyun CHEN
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Publication number: 20190086607Abstract: The present disclosure provides a housing structure of a backlight module, a backlight module and a display device. The housing structure of a backlight module includes a back plate and a plastic frame. The back plate includes a bottom plate, a first sidewall extending perpendicularly from one side of the bottom plate, and a first engaging portion disposed on the first sidewall. The plastic frame includes a second sidewall, a slot disposed on the second sidewall, and a second engaging portion disposed on a side surface of the slot. The slot is elastically deformable by a force. The first sidewall can be clamped in the slot. The first engaging portion can be engaged with the second engaging portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Chunsheng WU
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Publication number: 20190086608Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel; and a backlight configured to supply light to the display panel, wherein the backlight includes a light source configured to emit light; and a light guide plate provided on a rear side of the display panel and configured to guide the light emitted by the light source toward to the display panel; and a plurality of optical sheets provided between the light guide plate and the display panel, an optical sheet of the plurality of optical sheets being attached to a front surface of the light guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun-Mo YOO, Joon Seok AHN, Kye Hoon LEE
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Publication number: 20190086609Abstract: A method includes providing a semiconductor wafer that includes at least one optical waveguide extending in a longitudinal direction. Stealth dicing laser processing is applied to the semiconductor wafer by producing defect regions into the wafer along at least one cutting line. The cutting line is oblique to the longitudinal direction of the at least one optical waveguide. The wafer is expanded to induce fracture thereof at the at least one cutting line, thereby producing an end surface of the at least one optical waveguide. The end surface is oblique to the longitudinal direction of the at least one optical waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Mark Andrew Shaw
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Publication number: 20190086610Abstract: A universal interferometer (100) for coupling modes of electromagnetic radiation according to a transformation has N inputs and N outputs for inputting and outputting N modes of electromagnetic radiation into and from the interferometer. Waveguides (101, 102, 103, 104, 105) pass through the interferometer to connect the N inputs to the N outputs and to carry the N modes of electromagnetic radiation. The waveguides provide crossing points between pairs of waveguides and a reconfigurable beam splitter (107) implements a reconfigurable reflectivity and a reconfigurable phase shift at each crossing point. The waveguides and crossing points are arranged such that each of the N modes of electromagnetic radiation is capable of coupling with each of the other modes of electromagnetic radiation at respective reconfigurable beam splitters.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: William Clements, Peter Humphreys, Benjamin Metcalf, Steven Kolthammer, Ian Walmsley
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Publication number: 20190086611Abstract: A mode-converting optical coupler may include a secondary waveguide to guide light in one or more secondary optical modes, and a primary waveguide to guide light in one or more primary optical modes, each adiabatically coupled to a secondary optical mode of the secondary waveguide having a secondary mode index. Each primary optical mode of the primary waveguide may have a first primary mode index near a first end and a second primary mode index near a second end. The first primary mode index may be lower than the second primary mode index. The secondary mode index may be between the first primary mode index and the second primary mode index. The primary waveguide may include a plurality of silicon core structures including a central core structure arranged between a first neighboring core structure and a second neighboring core structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Brian Daniel
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Publication number: 20190086612Abstract: The optical fiber fusion splice structure has a fusion splice portion at which the bare fibers exposed from the coverings are connected to each other by fusion splicing, a fiber accommodation portion having a fiber accommodation groove formed along an axis of the optical fibers, and fixation resins for fixing a portion of the coverings on both sides of the fusion splice portion within the fiber accommodation groove. The fiber accommodation groove receives a portion of the optical fibers including the fusion splice portion. The fixation resins are formed so as to fill the fiber accommodation groove in a depth direction. A pipe member that allows an infrared ray to pass therethrough is attached around the fiber accommodation portion so as to surround a space between the fixation resins on both sides of the fusion splice portion within the fiber accommodation groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Kenji Kuniyasu, Ryokichi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20190086613Abstract: Embodiments of present invention provide a method of splicing optical fibers. The method includes holding a first and a second fiber respectively by a first and a second rotary clamp; aligning axes of the first and second fibers to a common reference; moving the first and second fibers that are being held by the first and second rotary clamps onto a splicing machine; and causing the first and second fibers being spliced together by the splicing machine. A fiber splicing apparatus or system is also provided for performing the method thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Comcore Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Yong Huang
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Publication number: 20190086614Abstract: An optical device comprises a fiber having a cladding and a core, and a target PIC waveguide having a cladding and a core. The cladding on one side of the input fiber is removed at the end of the fiber and a flat surface is created along the fiber core, close to the core, exposing the fiber core. A flat-bottomed channel having an in-plane angle with respect to the symmetric axis of the PIC waveguide is fabricated on the top layer of the PIC waveguide in the coupling area, exposing the upper surface of the tapered planar waveguide. The flat surface of the fiber and the top surface of the waveguide is contacting, so the core of the fiber is intersected at an angle with respect to the symmetric axis of the target waveguide and close together at the intersection as an interacting region to define a hybrid waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Liming Wang, Martin A. Kits van Heyningen
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Publication number: 20190086615Abstract: A fiber optic connector comprises a ferrule configured to receive an optical fiber, a ferrule holder configured to be secured to the ferrule, a housing body for receiving and retaining the ferrule holder, and a housing cap that includes an opening for accommodating the ferrule, at least one sidewall, and a latch arm extending from the at least one sidewall. The housing cap can be secured to the housing body in one of several possible orientations relative to a longitudinal axis of the housing body to allow the fiber optic connector to be tuned. Cable assemblies and methods including the fiber optic connector are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Joel Christopher Rosson
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Publication number: 20190086616Abstract: A method of tuning a fiber optic connector includes: assembling the fiber optic connector to a partially assembled state; tuning the fiber optic connector in the partially assembled state; assembling the fiber optic connector to an assembled state; and tuning the fiber optic connector in the assembled state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Steven C. Zimmel, Michael James Ott, Peter Viviane Leopold Bos, Christopher Stroth
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Publication number: 20190086617Abstract: A multi-tiered optical assembly includes a ferrule body having a mating face, a rear face, and a pair of spaced apart sidewalls, with the mating face, the rear face, and the sidewalls defining an opening. The ferrule body further includes a first support level, and a second support level, with the second support level being vertically spaced from the first support level. First and second flexible optical waveguide members each include at least one waveguide. The first waveguide member is disposed at the first support level and extends between the mating face and the rear face, and the second waveguide member is disposed at the second support level and extends between the mating face and the rear face.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Molex, LLCInventor: Malcolm H. HODGE
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Publication number: 20190086618Abstract: A high density interconnect arrangement takes the form of a backplane-pluggable card, with electrical connections formed along a single (pluggable) edge and all remaining connections provided via optical fibers. An exemplary interconnect arrangement also includes on-board optical sources and silicon photonic-based circuitry for providing optical transceiver functionality. Passively aligned fiber arrays are utilized to provide I/O connections to external elements, as well as between laser sources and on-board silicon photonics.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Aayuna Inc.Inventors: Kalpendu Shastri, Anujit Shastri, Soham Pathak, Bipin Dama, Alan Leonhartsberger, Rao Yelamarty
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Publication number: 20190086619Abstract: An optical communication module contains: a lens element, a fixer, and at least one optical fiber. The lens element includes a groove, a body, a top face, a light input face, at least one collimator lens, and a reflective bevel face. The at least one collimator lens is located within an orthographic projection range of a vertical viewing angle of the reflective bevel face, and the body has a light output face. The fixer is mounted beside the body and includes an accommodation recess and at least one focus face, wherein the at least one focus face corresponds to an orthographic projection range of a horizontal viewing angle of the light output face. The at least one optical fiber is inserted into the accommodation recess, and a glue is filled into the accommodation recess so that the at least one optical fiber is adhered in the lens element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Chun-Chieh CHEN, Chao-Hui KUO, Chun-Yi YEH, Guan-Fu LU
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Publication number: 20190086620Abstract: A coupling structure includes a single mode active device and a planar optical waveguide. Specifically, the planar optical waveguide includes a silica waveguide for transmitting an optical signal, where the silica waveguide includes a coupling section and a conduction section; the coupling section is of a regular trapezoidal structure or an inverted trapezoidal structure, where a surface of the coupling section coupled to the single mode active device is a trapezoid top, and a surface of the coupling section connected with the conduction section is a trapezoid bottom; and a coupling gap is preset between the single mode active device and the planar optical waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Ben Chen, Xuerui Liang, Baiquan Hu, Chenggang Liu, Di Zhang, Yongan Fu, Liping Sun, Weidong Ma, Xianghong Yu
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Publication number: 20190086621Abstract: An optical processing apparatus includes: a circuit board having first and second areas arranged in a direction of a first axis; a semiconductor device having an optical coupling element; an optical connector having an optical fiber and a holder with first and second holder parts, and the optical connector being supported by the second area and the semiconductor device disposed on the first area; and a supporting base having a thickness smaller than that of the semiconductor device. The supporting base is disposed between the second holder part and the second area. The optical fiber has a first optical fiber portion supported by the first holder part, and a second optical fiber portion held by the first and second holder parts. The first optical fiber portion has a tip end and a cladding face which is positioned to the optical coupling element and separated apart from the semiconductor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuharu HIRANO, Akira Furuya
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Publication number: 20190086622Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical module is disclosed. The method includes providing an optical coupling member and an optical device, arranging the optical coupling member and the optical device to face each other, and adjusting a position of at least one of the optical coupling member and the optical device. The optical coupling member includes a main body and a first electrode provided on a first face of the main body. The main body at least partially includes a transparent portion to visible light. The optical device includes a surface, a second electrode, and an optical region. The second electrode and the optical region are provided on the surface. The position is adjusted so that a positional relation between the first face and the surface is within a predetermined range, while recognizing at least part of the first face and the surface through the transparent portion from a second face opposite to the first face.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20190086623Abstract: The problem addressed by the present invention is to provide: an optical receptacle that can be easily positioned with a photoelectric converter having a light-emitting element and a detection element. In order to solve the problem, an optical receptacle is provided, said optical receptacle being positioned between a light transmission medium and a photoelectric converter having a substrate, a photoelectric conversion element and a detection element, and the purpose of the optical receptacle being to optically couple the photoelectric conversion element and the end surface of the light transmission medium. The optical receptacle comprises a filter, a holding member for holding the filter, and a receptacle body. In the optical receptacle the holding member and the receptacle body are separate bodies, and the filter reflects towards the detection element side, as monitor light, part of the light emitted from the photoelectric conversion element, and transmits the remainder as signal light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Shimpei MORIOKA, Ayano KON, Koki ONO
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Publication number: 20190086624Abstract: In submarine communications cables having a copper tube surrounding optical conductors, an armoring that surrounds the tube and is made of braided strands, a jacket layer made for example of a copper tube and external insulation, the jacket layer of copper or copper tube is complicated and expensive to produce and the copper jacket layer impairs the flexibility of the submarine communications cable. The invention provides for the copper jacket layer around the strands of the armoring to be replaced by a wrapped layer formed by at least one thin, flexible band that can be easily wrapped like a tape around the strands of the armoring, and the wrapped layer formed from the at least one thin, flexible band increases the flexibility of the submarine communications cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbHInventors: Patrick Schneider, Roland Grabhorn
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Publication number: 20190086625Abstract: A polyurethane composition is provided. The polyurethane composition includes a first part of a first polytetramethylene oxide, a second polytetramethylene oxide, and a castor oil based polyol. The second polytetramethylene oxide has a higher viscosity than the first polytetramethylene oxide. The polyurethane composition also includes a second part of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate. Also provided is a fiber optic cable assembly incorporating the polyurethane composition as an overmold. The overmold has a glass transition temperature of less than ?40° C. measured according to differential scanning calorimetry. Further provided is a method of applying an overmold to a fiber optic cable assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Anil Bastola, Wei Liu, Ziwei Liu
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Publication number: 20190086626Abstract: An optical fiber splice tray is described that has a base, a fiber management region, a first splicing zone on a first side of the fiber management region and separated from the fiber management region by a first containment wall, a second splicing zone on a second side of the fiber management region and separated from the fiber management region by a second containment wall, the second side opposite the first side, at least one first optical component location disposed adjacent to the first splicing zone opposite the fiber management region, the first splicing zone between the at least one first optical component location and the fiber management region, and at least one second optical component location disposed adjacent to the second splicing zone, the second splicing zone between the at least one second optical component location and the fiber management region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Nico Kubinski
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Publication number: 20190086627Abstract: A tray assembly for a fiber optic system to organize optical fibers. The tray assembly includes a backbone structure with a plurality of backbone segments that are connected together and are positioned along an expansion/contraction axis of the backbone structure. The tray assembly also includes a stack of fiber management trays that are connected to the backbone structure. Each of the fiber management trays are pivotally connected to the backbone segments at a pivot axis. The backbone segments are moveable relative to one another along the expansion/contraction axis to allow the backbone structure to be moved between an expanded state and a contracted state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Barry Wayne ALLEN
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Publication number: 20190086628Abstract: A fiber optic enclosure assembly includes a housing having an interior region and a bearing mount disposed in the interior region of the housing. A cable spool is connectedly engaged with the bearing mount such that the cable spool selectively rotates within the housing. A termination module disposed on the cable spool so that the termination module rotates in unison with the cable spool. A method of paying out a fiber optic cable from a fiber optic enclosure includes rotating a cable spool, which has a subscriber cable coiled around a spooling portion of the cable spool, about an axis of a housing of the fiber optic enclosure until a desired length of subscriber cable is paid out. A termination module is disposed on the cable spool.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Scott C. Kowalczyk, Jonathan Walter Coan, Jonathan R. Kaml
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Publication number: 20190086629Abstract: A fiber optic telecommunications device includes an enclosure defining an interior. A first fiber optic adapter is provided at the enclosure. A spool is provided at an exterior of the enclosure. A fiber optic cable, which includes a first optical fiber, is wrapped around the spool. A first fiber optic connector is mounted at a first end of the first optical fiber. The first end of the first optical fiber is positioned within the interior of the enclosure. The first fiber optic connector is inserted within the first fiber optic adapter. The enclosure and the spool are configured to rotate in unison about a common axis when the fiber optic cable is unwound from the spool.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Scott C. Kowalczyk, Trevor D. Smith, Jonathan R. Kaml, Thomas G. LeBlanc, Ronald A. Beck
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Publication number: 20190086630Abstract: The invention discloses a universal mobile phone lens. The universal mobile phone lens comprises an objective lens module, sleeves, a prism module, a housing module, adjustment grooves and an ocular lens module; the sleeves comprise a first sleeve and a second sleeve; both the first sleeve and the second sleeve are hinged outside the housing module; the objective lens module and the ocular lens module are both installed inside the housing module; the prism module is installed inside the housing module and located between the objective lens module and the ocular lens module; the adjustment grooves are set outside the housing module; a sleeve groove is respectively formed inside the first sleeve and the second sleeve and is functioning with the adjustment grooves; and a stopper nail is arranged on the ocular lens module.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: MINGJUN ZHONG