Patents Issued in October 6, 2020
  • Patent number: 10795085
    Abstract: A tube jacket slitting tool including first and second opposite tool portions, each tool portion including a common hinged portion at a first end for engaging the opposite tool portion. The first and second opposite tool portions are foldable about the hinged portion between an open position and a closed position. The tool includes at least one concave surface extending across the width of forming an opening, when the first and second opposite tool portions are in the closed position, through which a tube may be slid. The tool includes a blade extending inward into the opening for slitting a depth of the tube jacket as it is moved with respect to the tool. The tool includes a hinge pivot axis in the hinged portion extending in a direction substantially in the direction of the width and at an acute angle to either the plane or to the longitudinal axis of the tube or cable in the opening formed by the at least one concave surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ripley Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Will Eisele
  • Patent number: 10795086
    Abstract: A photonic adaptor has a first face side to couple the photonic adaptor to an optical connector and a second face side to couple the photonic adaptor to an optoelectronic substrate. The photonic adaptor comprises a plurality of optical fibers being arranged between the first face side and the second face side of the photonic adaptor. The photonic adaptor comprises at least one alignment pin projecting out of at least the first face side of the photonic adaptor. The at least one alignment pin is configured to be inserted in the optical connector to align optical fibers of an optical cable to the optical fibers of the photonic adaptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Matiss, James Scott Sutherland
  • Patent number: 10795087
    Abstract: An ultra-small multi-channel optical module according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a base board, a glass substrate, a heat sink, optical elements, parallel light lenses, a first rectangular reflector, a glass cover, a second rectangular reflector, horizontal reflectors, and a light collecting lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dae Seon Kim, Jong Jin Lee, Eun Kyu Kang, Sang Jin Kwon, Jeong Eun Kim, Kwon Seob Lim, Eun Kyoung Jeon, Soo Yong Jung
  • Patent number: 10795088
    Abstract: In the examples provided herein, a system has a first racetrack resonant waveguide structure, positioned to enable an input light signal to couple from a first waveguide; and a second racetrack resonant waveguide structure, positioned to enable the input light signal to couple between the first racetrack resonant waveguide structure and the second racetrack resonant waveguide structure, and further positioned to enable an output light signal to couple from the second racetrack resonant waveguide structure to a second waveguide. The system also has a primary heating unit, positioned to heat a primary region including a first portion of the first racetrack resonant waveguide structure and a first portion of the second racetrack resonant waveguide structure, to change a central frequency and a passband width for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Mir Ashkan Seyedi, Chin-Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 10795089
    Abstract: According to one example, the present application discloses an optical circuit comprising a grating to receive input light of mixed polarizations and output light of a same polarization to a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The first waveguide and second waveguide are optically coupled to a plurality of resonators that are coupled to a plurality of gratings that are to output light of mixed polarizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Lars Helge Thylen, Joaquin Matres Abril, Michael Renne Ty Tan
  • Patent number: 10795090
    Abstract: A fiber optic adapter is disclosed. The fiber optic adapter includes a main body configured to receive a first fiber optic connector through a first end and a second fiber optic connector through a second end for mating with the first fiber optic connector. The adapter includes a ferrule alignment structure located within an axial cavity of the main body, the ferrule alignment structure including a sleeve mount and a ferrule sleeve, the sleeve mount including an axial bore and at least one latching hook extending from a center portion of the sleeve mount toward the first end of the main body and at least one latching hook extending from the center portion toward the second end of the main body, the latching hooks configured to flex for releasably latching the first and second fiber optic connectors to the fiber optic adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Keith Nelson
  • Patent number: 10795091
    Abstract: An example adaptor for passively aligning an optical component of an optical connector with a ferrule of the optical connector. The adaptor may include first alignment feature and second alignment features. The first alignment features may be to, when the adaptor is connected to the ferrule, cooperate with alignment features of the ferrule to passively force the adaptor into a first configuration relative to the ferrule. The second alignment features may be arranged such that, when the optical component is held in contact with the second alignment features and the adaptor is in the first configuration relative to the ferrule, the optical component is in an aligned position relative to the ferrule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Sagi Mathai, Michael Tan
  • Patent number: 10795092
    Abstract: An optical connector having a shutter is disclosed. The optical connector comprises an optical connection component configured to hold one or a plurality of optical fibers, and having a light incidence/emission end surface being movable in the connection direction with respect to the optical connection component; a second member having a shutter part that performs opening/closing of an opening, the second member being attached to the first member in a state of being rotatable around a rotation axis; a first sealing member contacting the first member over a whole circumference of the opening, the first sealing member also contacting the shutter part over the whole circumference of the opening when the shutter part is in a closed state; and a linkage mechanism that rotates the second member in conjunction with movement of the first member along the connection direction with respect to the optical connection component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro Watanabe, Dai Sasaki, Yoshikyo Tamekuni, Takako Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10795093
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector allowing more precise connection, having a front casing and an insertion core assembly; the front casing has an installation hole where the insertion core assembly is installed; the insertion core assembly has an insertion core and a tail rod; the tail rod has a tail rod head portion and a tail rod necking portion; the tail rod head portion fixedly sleeves one end of the insertion core; the tail rod head portion has a quadrilateral cross section; a cross section of the installation hole also has a quadrilateral shape that matches the quadrilateral cross section of the tail rod head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventor: Yaole Li
  • Patent number: 10795094
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector includes an optical fiber ferrule and a single-piece housing in which the ferrule is received. The housing can be installed in an adapter to make an optical connection. A rotational locking mechanism has a rotor mounted on the housing for rotation with respect the housing about a rotational axis. The rotor can be rotated between a locked position and an unlocked position. The rotational locking mechanism is configured to inhibit the housing from being withdrawn from the adapter in the locked position of the rotor and to permit the housing to be withdrawn from the adapter in the unlocked position, and further comprising a guide pin, wherein the housing comprises an integral guide pin retainer configured to hold the guide pin in place on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Lee, Jimmy Jun-Fu Chang, Kimman Wong, Kazuyoshi Takano
  • Patent number: 10795095
    Abstract: A multiple push-on (MPO) optical connector is provided having a ferrule configured to house multiple optical fibers and a housing having a distal end in a connection direction configured to hold the ferrule. The housing further includes a pair of proximal apertures and at least one proximal groove. A backpost has a distal end that urges the ferrule toward the distal end of the housing and a proximal end configured to receive a crimp ring. The backpost includes a pair of proximally extending latch arms that reverse latch in the proximal apertures of the housing. To strengthen the connector in side-loading environments, the backpost further includes a reinforcing rib that is received in the housing proximal groove. In a further aspect, the proximal end of the backpost may include a neck with an approximately curved side profile that, following crimping with a stepped crimp ring, results in an angled crimp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takano, Man Ming Ho, Siu Kei Ma
  • Patent number: 10795096
    Abstract: A line-card comprising: an optical blindmate connector to connect to the midplane of the switch sub-chassis; and a printed circuit board (PCB) including: an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); an electrical blindmate connector to connect to a midplane of a switch sub-chassis; and a liquid blindmate connector to connect to the switch sub-chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kevin B. Leigh, Everett Salinas
  • Patent number: 10795097
    Abstract: A hermaphroditic connector configured to mate with a mating hermaphroditic connector includes a latching mechanism configured to mechanically unlatch the connector and a mating connector. The latching mechanism of the connector, when actuated to unlatch the connector and the mating connector, disengages both a retention feature of the connector and a retention feature of the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Alexander R. Mathews
  • Patent number: 10795098
    Abstract: A VCSEL transmitter includes a first VCSEL terminal disposed on a substrate and a second VCSEL terminal adjacent thereto. The transmitter also includes a first diffraction element within a first optical path of the first VCSEL terminal which receives and changes a first direction of a first light transmission having a low-order Laguerre Gaussian mode emitted from the first VCSEL terminal. The transmitter further includes a second diffraction element within a second optical path of the second VCSEL terminal which receives the second light transmission and converts the received light into a high-order Laguerre Gaussian mode. The transmitter also includes a mode combiner to direct the first light transmission into a lens which directs the light into a multi-mode optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Binhao Wang, Wayne V. Sorin, Michael R. Tan, Stanley Cheung
  • Patent number: 10795099
    Abstract: An optical connecting device includes: a holder part having first and second holder members and a resin body therebetween; and multiple optical fibers each having first and second resin-uncoated fiber portions and the first and second resin-coated fiber portions. The first resin-uncoated fiber portion is disposed between first portions of the first and second holder members so as to extend in a direction of a first axis and be arranged along a first reference plane. The second resin-uncoated fiber portion and the first resin-coated fiber portion extend between second portions of the first and second holder members. One of the first and second holder members has a through-hole, extending along a second axis intersecting the first axis in the second portions thereof, receiving the resin body. The first and second holder members have first and second inner faces, separated away from the first reference plane, in the second portions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Hirano, Akira Furuya
  • Patent number: 10795100
    Abstract: Examples relate to a removable transceiver module that comprises a base frame installable in a rail-pair receptacle that surrounds a first connector in a system board. It further comprises a module base board, a second connector attached thereto and a lever handle pivotally attached to the base frame and coupled to the module base board. The transceiver module is installed in the rail-pair receptacle in response to a lateral movement of the base frame to the receptacle to align the first and second connectors. The lever handle is movable between a closed position to couple the second connector to the first connector and an open position to install the transceiver module into the receptacle. This lever handle determines a vertical move of the module base board between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kevin B. Leigh, Sunil Rao Ganta Papa Rao Bala, Arlen L Roesner
  • Patent number: 10795101
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to an optical module, including a bracket, and a handle and a plate both of which are connected to the bracket, where the plate is rotationally connected to the bracket, and a first end of the plate is provided with a buckle, and a second end of the plate abuts against a driving portion disposed on the handle, the driving portion is configured to: while the handle is moving along a length direction of the bracket, drive the second end of the plate that abuts against the driving portion to move, resulting in rotation of the buckle provided at the first end of the plate. On this basis, a lateral unlocking of the optical module is achieved along its length direction with a high unlocking reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Benzheng Dong, Jinlei Chen, Hongchao Pan
  • Patent number: 10795102
    Abstract: A interconnection system includes a panel side kit and a wall-mount kit coupled with each other and secured together via magnetic forces. The wall-mount kit includes a printed circuit board enclosed within a bracket and defining a center region for power transmission and a pair of side regions for high speed transmission. In the side regions, on the coupling side a plurality of wireless transmission units are located while on the back side a plurality of ROSA OE modules are provided to transfer the optical signal from optical fibers to the electronic signal for wireless transmission wherein the optical fibers are linked to a control box via a plurality of TOSA EO modules. The panel side kit includes wireless receiving units that interact with the wireless transmission units, and a plurality of connectors with the body of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: FUDING PRECISION COMPONENTS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD, FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Hsiao, Hsiu-Yuan Hsu, Wei-Chih Lin, Shuo-Hsiu Hsu, Yen-Hsu Ko, Chih-Chung Hsieh, Cheng-Kai Huang, Paul Chen, Genn-Sheng Lee, Jia-Hau Liu, Mao-Chun Weng, Wayne Chou
  • Patent number: 10795103
    Abstract: Optoelectronic devices with a support member and methods of manufacturing or assembling the same are provided. An example of an optoelectronic device according to the present disclosure includes a substrate and an optical component and an electronic component disposed thereon or therein. The optoelectronic device further includes a ferrule coupled to the optical fiber and an optical socket receiving the ferrule therein. The optoelectronic device includes a support member disposed between the substrate and the optical socket such that the optical socket is spaced from the substrate by the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Sagi Mathai, Michael Renne Ty Tan
  • Patent number: 10795104
    Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit package includes two arrays or sets of integrated comb laser modules that are bonded to a silicon interposer. Each comb laser of an array has a common or overlapping spectral range, with each laser in the array being optically coupled to a local optical bus. The effective spectral range of the lasers in each array are different, or distinct, as to each array. An optical coupler is disposed within the silicon interposer and is optically coupled to each of the local optical buses. An ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) is bonded to the silicon interposer and provides control and operation of the comb laser modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Develpment LP
    Inventors: Mir Ashkan Seyedi, Marco Fiorentino, Geza Kurczveil, Raymond G. Beausoleil
  • Patent number: 10795105
    Abstract: A high-density fiber distribution tray which includes a tray body is provided. The tray body provides a distribution area, a terminal area and a cover body. The distribution area includes an input mounting area, an output mounting area and a fiber storage area. The terminal area is arranged on a side surface of the output mounting area. The fiber storage area includes a removable welding socket which may be mounted from a plurality of directions. The high-density fiber distribution tray is small in size, thin in thickness with high adapter density and proper distribution. The welding socket may be removed and different welding sockets may be switched, which realizes a plurality of mode conversions between the input and the output. The tray body may be dragged within the slide rail by dragging a handle, and a baffle panel may be removed or mounted as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen Fibercan Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaole Li
  • Patent number: 10795106
    Abstract: A communication system may include a first chassis having first and second side walls and adapted to slidably receive therein a plurality of cassettes. A first cable hanger assembly may have a first side edge hingedly coupled to the first side wall of the first chassis, the first cable hanger assembly including a plurality of first hangers adapted to support cables thereon. An axis of rotation of the first cable hanger assembly may be substantially orthogonal to a direction in which the plurality of cassettes are slideable. The cable hanger assembly may be rotatable from a first position to a second position so that during rotation from the first position to the second position, the plurality of first hangers move toward front faces of the plurality of cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Takeuchi, Haiguang Lu, Alla Shtabnaya, Frank Rumore, Patrick Anderson
  • Patent number: 10795107
    Abstract: A modular fiber optic cassette system, method and cassette is disclosed. The system comprises a case defining a tray receiving space and an opening to a tray receiving space, at least one tray slideably received within the case for movement between a stored position wherein the tray is inside the case and an accessible position wherein a front end of the tray is in front of the opening and outside of the case, a plurality of fiber optic cassettes arrangeable side by side along the tray front end, a first of the cassettes comprising a first cassette width of one of one, two, three, four or six standard width units and a second of the cassettes comprising a second cassette width different from the first cassette width and one of one, two, three, four or six standard width units, and a fastener assembly for removeably securing each of the cassettes to the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventor: Vincent Pilon
  • Patent number: 10795108
    Abstract: A cable clamp for clamping drop cables to main span cables. The cable clamp has a body that includes an elongated drop cable guide, an elongated main span cable guide, and main body section between the drop cable guide and the main span cable guide. The body has a lower body half and an upper body half. The lower body half is movable relative to the upper body half between at least one open position and a clamping position. When the body is in a clamping position the lower body half and upper body half of the drop cable guide form a drop cable opening, and the lower body half and upper body half of the main span cable guide form a main span cable opening. A stem extends through the lower body half of the main body section and is releasably secured to the upper body half of the main body section such that rotational movement of the stem is translated to movement of the lower body half relative to the upper body half.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Rabih M. Al Ghossein, John Edward Sakmar
  • Patent number: 10795109
    Abstract: Various embodiments include methods and apparatus structured to increase efficiencies of a drilling operation. These efficiencies may be realized with a fiber cable located in a wellbore at a well site, where the fiber cable can include an optical fiber disposed as a single handed helix in the fiber cable, where the optical fiber is disposed in the cable without having helix hand reversal. Construction of such fiber cables may include applying a twist to the optical fiber during insertion of the optical fiber into the fiber cable in a tubing process in which control of an amount of the twist to form a portion of the optical fiber can control excess fiber length in the tube. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods can be implemented in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Seldon David Benjamin, Jason Edward Therrien, Mikko Jaaskelainen
  • Patent number: 10795110
    Abstract: A lens module is disclosed. The lens module includes a lens barrel having a first bonding face; a first lens; and a fixing component installed inside the lens barrel and including a second bonding face. At least one the first bonding face and the second bonding face is configured to be lumpy, and the first bonding face and the second bonding face are bonded by glue. The first bonding face, the second bonding face and the glue form a bonding structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 10795111
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a camera module comprising: a lens module which generates an optical image of an object; a circuit board unit which processes the optical image generated by the lens module and has elements mounted on first and second surfaces thereof; and a cable unit which supplies power to the circuit board unit, wherein the circuit board unit comprises a connector coupled to the cable unit, and wherein the camera module is arranged between the connector and the circuit board unit and fixes the connector on the circuit board unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Yeal Han, Jung Mi Kim
  • Patent number: 10795112
    Abstract: To compensate for this change in focal length due to a temperature change, an integrated image sensor and lens assembly includes a shift measurement module to measure a shift between optical elements to which the shift measurement module is coupled. The measured shift between optical elements is used to determine a shift of the focal plane in reference to the image plane. Optical aberration resulting from the shift of the focal plane in reference to the image plane may further be compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan C. Asuncion
  • Patent number: 10795113
    Abstract: An imaging device, an imaging apparatus, and an electronic device for imaging are disclosed. The imaging device includes an imaging sensor that operatively captures an image along an optical axis. The imaging device also includes a lens assembly, and the lens assembly includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens and the second lens at least partially overlap each other in a first direction parallel to the optical axis. The lens holder operatively adjusts a relative arrangement between the first and second lens to focus the image on the imaging sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Jiefeng Chen
  • Patent number: 10795114
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes: a base; a first supporting frame supported by the base body; a second supporting frame supported by the first supporting frame; a third supporting frame covering and fixed to the second supporting frame and enclosing an accommodating space together with the second supporting frame; a barrel accommodated in the accommodating space and elastic members made of memory alloys and configured to drive the first supporting frame to move in a first direction with respect to the base body, drive the third supporting frame and the second supporting frame to move in a second direction with respect to the first supporting frame and drive the barrel to move in a direction of its optical axis. Any two of the first direction, the second direction and the direction of the optical axis are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingke Zhu, Kaiyan Gao
  • Patent number: 10795115
    Abstract: A shooting apparatus comprising: a focusing lens provided within a lens barrel including a shooting lens, the focusing lens being movable in an optical axis direction; a ring disposed so as to be rotatable with respect to the lens barrel; a rotation detector configured to detect a rotation amount and rotation direction of the ring; a controller configured to calculate, based on the rotation amount detected by the rotation detector, a moving speed of the focusing lens to control a movement of the focusing lens at the calculated moving speed in a predetermined cycle period and in accordance with the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Okawa, Takeshi Kindaichi, Naoaki Tani
  • Patent number: 10795116
    Abstract: A moving mechanism for holding a lens is provided, including a carrier having an accommodating space, a coil, a sensing object, a base, at least one magnetic member, and a position detector, wherein the lens is disposed in the accommodating space. The coil and the sensing object are disposed on the carrier, and the coil surrounds the accommodating space. At least a portion of the coil is disposed between the sensing object and the accommodating space. The magnetic member and the position detector are disposed on the base, and the position detector is adjacent to the sensing object. When a current flows through the coil, the carrier moves relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.
    Inventor: Nai-Wen Hsu
  • Patent number: 10795117
    Abstract: A lens barrel is removeably attachable to an image pickup unit, wherein a large amount of shake can be corrected. This lens barrel includes a mounting part that is removeably attachable to an image pickup unit, including: an image forming optical system that forms a subject image for the image pickup unit; a support unit that supports at least a portion of the image forming optical system; and a fixed unit that is disposed outside of the support unit and that is fixed to the mounting unit. The support part is relatively rotatable and moveable with respect to the fixed unit, about at least two axes which are substantially orthogonal to the light axis of the image forming optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Nagaoka, Kunihiko Shimizu, Teppei Okuyama, Noriyasu Kotani, Hisanori Togawa
  • Patent number: 10795118
    Abstract: A focusing control device includes: an evaluation value calculation unit that causes an imaging element which images a subject through a focus lens to image the subject for each of positions of the focus lens while moving the focus lens movable in an optical axis direction, and calculates evaluation values for determining a focusing position of the focus lens based on signals acquired by performing any filtering process selected among a plurality of filtering processes in which passbands are different on captured image signals acquired through the imaging; a focusing position determination unit as defined herein; and a focusing control unit that performs focusing control to move the focus lens to the focusing position, and the focusing position determination unit increases number of the selected evaluation values as a lower frequency limit of the passband becomes lower, as the filtering process selected by the evaluation value calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10795119
    Abstract: An imaging optical lens assembly includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yen Chen, Po-Lun Hsu, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10795120
    Abstract: A miniature wide-angle imaging lens has a miniaturization ratio, of a total track length from the center of a first surface to a focal plane by an image circle diameter, with a value less than 3.0. The imaging lens includes, starting from an object side of the lens, a first group of at least three optical elements, a second group including an aperture stop and an optical element immediately in front of or behind the aperture stop, and a third group of at least two optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ImmerVision, Inc.
    Inventors: Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Patrice Roulet, Hu Zhang, Pascale Nini, Pierre Konen
  • Patent number: 10795121
    Abstract: An imaging lens is provided with: a first lens with negative power; a second lens with negative power; a third lens with positive power; and a fourth lens with positive power. The cemented fourth lens is formed from an object side lens with negative power and an image side lens with positive power. The thickness of a resin adhesive layer that bonds the object side lens and the image side lens is 20 ?m or greater on the optical axis, and when Sg1H is the amount of sag in the image side lens surface of the object side lens and Sg2H is the amount of sag in the object side lens surface of the image side lens. The bonding operation is easy without damage occurring to the cemented surfaces, with a design that takes into account thickness of the resin adhesive layer; therefore various forms of aberration can be corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamazaki, Takashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10795122
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens having an inflection point formed on an image-side surface thereof. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. The optical imaging system satisfies TTL/(ImgH*2)<0.65, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and ImgH*2 is a diagonal length of the imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju Hwa Son
  • Patent number: 10795123
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yuan Liao, Shu-Yun Yang, Kuo-Jui Wang
  • Patent number: 10795124
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens, including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10795125
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, the sixth lens is made of glass material, and the seventh lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Ptd. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaonan Zhao, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yi Ji
  • Patent number: 10795126
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Wenbo Hu
  • Patent number: 10795127
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of glass material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yuanshan Cui
  • Patent number: 10795128
    Abstract: An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has an object-side surface being convex. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface being convex. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power. A total number of the lens elements in the image capturing optical lens assembly is five.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Yi Hsieh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10795129
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10795130
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of glass material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yi Ji
  • Patent number: 10795131
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, an aperture stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Communication Technologies (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianming Wang
  • Patent number: 10795132
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, and the sixth lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yaqiong Guo
  • Patent number: 10795133
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side with spaces in between each of the lenses. The first lens is formed in a meniscus shape to have an object side convex surface. The third lens is formed in a meniscus shape. The fourth lens has an object side concave surface. The fifth lens has two aspheric surfaces. The sixth lens has two aspheric surfaces and the image plane side convex surface. The fifth lens has a specific thickness, and the sixth lens has a specific thickness. The fourth lens has a specific Abbe's number. The fifth lens has a specific Abbe's number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10795134
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFL<1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1<TTL/2, an air gap between first and second lens elements is smaller than half the second lens element thickness, an air gap between the third and fourth lens elements is greater than TTL/5 and an air gap between the fourth and fifth lens elements is smaller than about 1.5 times the fifth lens element thickness. All lens elements may be aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Dror, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gal Shabtay