Patents Issued in March 1, 2022
  • Patent number: 11262519
    Abstract: A cable storage device (100) includes a removal station (110) and a storage spool (120). Slack length of the cable (190) is advanced into the cable storage device. At least a jacket (195) of the cable (190) is removed at the removal station (110). At least a signal-carrying portion of the cable (190) is wound at the storage spool (120). The removed jacket (195) exits the cable storage device (100). The cable (190) can be axially secured at the cable storage device (100). Certain types of spools can index the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBA
    Inventors: Johan Geens, Jan Willem Rietveld, Bart Vos, Olivier Hubert Daniel Yves Rousseaux
  • Patent number: 11262520
    Abstract: Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to an enclosure (10) including a housing, a volume of sealant (66) that defines a port (28) in communication with an interior of the housing, and a fiber optic connection module (32) including a sleeve that mounts within the port with the volume of sealant forming a seal about an exterior of the sleeve. The sleeve includes an inner end (34) adjacent the interior of the housing and an outer end (36) outside the housing. The fiber optic connection module also includes a demateable fiber optic connection interface adjacent the outer end of the sleeve. The demateable fiber optic connection interface includes a fiber optic connector. Other aspects of the present disclosure relate to fiber optic connection modules having features that make such modules suitable to be mounted within a port defined by a volume of sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Johan Geens, Bart Vos
  • Patent number: 11262521
    Abstract: The disclosed fiber optic cable may include (1) a plurality of optical fibers, (2) a core tube surrounding the plurality of optical fibers, (3) a thixotropic gel filling an interstitial space among the optical fibers within the core tube, (4) an intermediate layer surrounding the core tube, where the intermediate layer includes a plurality of linear elements contra-helically wrapped about the core tube, and (5) an outer layer surrounding the intermediate layer, where the outer layer includes a combination of a moisture-cure cross-linked material and an activation catalyst, where the outer layer is formed by masticating and extruding the combination onto the intermediate layer. Various other cables, assemblies, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Michael Kachmar
  • Patent number: 11262522
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes at least one optical fiber ribbon stack. In addition, the at least one optical fiber ribbon stack includes a plurality of stacked ribbons. Further, each ribbon of the plurality of stacked ribbons includes a plurality of optical fibers. The plurality of optical fibers includes edge fibers. The edge fibers are defined as the at least one optical fiber having a mach number of at most 7.2 disposed at a first end and a second end of a first ribbon and a last ribbon of the plurality of stacked ribbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: STERLITE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Sravan Kumar, Kishore Sahoo, Kavya Chintada, Venkatesh Murthy, Atul Mishra, Pavan Moturu, kangabam tenzing
  • Patent number: 11262523
    Abstract: A method for adhering a tubular body onto a surface that includes smoothing a portion of the surface to create a smoothed segment of the surface and applying a tubular body directly onto the smoothed segment of the surface after the smoothing of the portion of the surface. The surface at the smoothed segment is smoother than the remainder of the surface. The method further includes applying an uncured protectant onto the tubular body while the tubular body is on the smoothed segment of the surface and curing the uncured protectant into a cured protectant while the uncured protectant is on the tubular body on the smoothed segment of the surface. The cured protectant protectively encases and adheres the tubular body to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TRAXYL, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel R. Turner
  • Patent number: 11262524
    Abstract: A lens structure includes a lens cone, at least one lens and an acrylate adhesive. The lens cone includes at least one contacting structure. The lens is disposed within the lens cone and abuts against the contacting structure. The acrylate adhesive covers an interface between the lens cone and the lens, wherein a coverage area of the acrylate adhesive accounts for more than 70% of a surface area of a side surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Cheng Lee, Yu-Hua Huang, Chih-Wei Chang, Tzu-Lun Wang
  • Patent number: 11262525
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a lens module. The lens module includes a lens barrel, a lens, and a pressing ring abutted against the lens from an image side. The pressing ring includes an upper surface, a lower surface, an inner connecting surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface, and an outer connecting surface opposite to the inner connecting surface, the outer connecting surface is abutted against the lens barrel. The lens includes an optical portion and a bearing portion. The bearing portion includes an image-side surface close to the image side. The lens module of the present disclosure can ensure the assembly precision of the pressing ring and improve the yield rate of the lens module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie Ma
  • Patent number: 11262526
    Abstract: Provided is a lens module including a lens, a lens barrel for accommodating the lens, a lens seat, and an optical filter disposed in the lens seat. The optical filter divides a space defined by the lens barrel and the lens seat into a first space and a second space. The first space is located at an object side of the optical filter, and the second space is located at the image side of the optical filter. The lens seat is provided with an exhaust channel communicating the first space with the outside. An air guiding groove is formed by recessing from installation surface towards the object side and communicates the second space with the exhaust channel. The air guiding groove includes a first groove close to the first space and a second groove extending from an end of the first groove while being bent towards the inner ring surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 11262527
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed part, a movable part and a driving assembly. The fixed part has a main axis, includes an outer frame and a base. The outer frame has a top surface and a sidewall. The top surface intersects the main axis. The sidewall extends from the edge of the top surface along the main axis. The base includes a base plate intersecting the main axis and securely connected to the outer frame. The movable part moves relative to the fixed part, and connects to an optical element having an optical axis. The driving assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The main axis is not parallel to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventor: Yung-Ping Yang
  • Patent number: 11262528
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism has a main axis, and includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a driving assembly. The fixed portion includes a housing, a base, and a frame. The base is fixedly connected to the housing along the main axis. The frame is disposed in the housing, and has a plurality of protruding columns extending along the main axis. The protruding columns have a first section and a second section, and the first section is closer to the base than the second section. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion, and carries an optical element. The shortest distance between the first section and the movable portion is longer than the shortest distance between the second section and the movable portion. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: You-Zhen Lin, Liang-Ting Ho, Chao-Chang Hu
  • Patent number: 11262529
    Abstract: A mirror holding structure includes: a holder; at least one protrusion part provided to one of a mirror body and the holder; at least one reception part provided to the other of the mirror body and the holder and having an insertion hole in which the at least one protrusion part is to be inserted; and at least one elastic part located between an outer peripheral surface of the at least one protrusion part and an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and being elastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taichi Tabata, Yoshiaki Ueta, Masaki Amie
  • Patent number: 11262530
    Abstract: An imaging lens comprises five optical elements, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising, a first lens as a first optical element having positive refractive power, a second lens as a second optical element having negative refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a third lens as a third optical element having the refractive power, and a fourth lens as a fourth optical element having refractive power and the convex surface facing the object surface near the optical axis, wherein and an aberration correction optical element as a fifth optical element are arranged between said third lens and said fourth lens, said aberration correction optical element has both flat surfaces near the optical axis and aspheric surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 11262531
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical lens, in particular to a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, the first lens has a positive refractive power, the second lens has a positive refractive power, and the third lens has a negative refractive power, and the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: ?20.00?f2/f3??10.00, and 0.50?d1/d3?3.00, where f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens, f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens, d1 denotes an on-axis thickness of the first lens, and d3 denotes an on-axis thickness of the second lens. The camera optical lens can obtain high imaging performance and a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Minyi Xu, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262532
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical lens, in particular to a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens; the second lens has a negative refractive power, and the third lens has a positive refractive power; wherein the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 1.30?f1/f?2.00; 13.00?R7/d7?16.00, where f denotes a focus length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focus length of the first lens; R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens; and d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens is d7. The camera optical lens may obtain high imaging performance and a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenxiyang Chen, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262533
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical lens, in particular to a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens; the second lens has a negative refractive power, and the third lens has a positive refractive power; wherein the camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 1.30?f1/f?2.00; 13.00?R7/d7?16.00, where, f denotes a focus length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focus length of the first lens; R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens; and d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens may obtain high imaging performance and a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenxiyang Chen, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262534
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, 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 camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.00?f1/f2?6.00; and ?7.00?(R1+R2)/(R1?R2)??1.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamazaki, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yaqiong Guo
  • Patent number: 11262535
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: ?5.00?f1/f2??1.70; and 2.00?R3/R4?20.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high optical imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Wang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262536
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: an aperture; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: ?9.00?f2/f??6.00; 9.00?f2/f4?13.00; 11.00?(R3+R4)/(R3?R4)?20.00; and 0.02?R7/R8?0.30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 11262537
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens, the second lens and the fifth lens have positive refractive powers, and the third lens and the sixth lens have negative refractive powers. A total effective focal length f of the camera lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the camera lens assembly satisfy: f/EPD?1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ming Li, Lingbo He
  • Patent number: 11262538
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens system includes six lens elements. The six lens elements 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, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yuan Liao, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11262539
    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 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: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunhuan Fang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yaqiong Guo
  • Patent number: 11262540
    Abstract: An imaging lens system includes eight 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, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. Each of the eight lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens element of the imaging lens system has at least one lens surface having at least one inflection point. The imaging lens system has a total of eight lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11262541
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having negative refractive power, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a convex image-side surface, and a seventh lens, disposed sequentially from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies ?5.0<f2/f<?2.0, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system and f2 is a focal length of the second lens. An F No. of the optical imaging system is less than 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il Yong Park, In Do Seo, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11262542
    Abstract: A photographing 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, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has refractive power. Each of the third through sixth lens elements has refractive power and an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. The photographing optical lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11262543
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis and positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens being double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis and negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of the sixth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one off-axial pole point, an image-side surface of the third lens is a convex surface facing the image side near the optical axis, the fourth lens has positive refractive power near the optical axis, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Nitta, Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11262544
    Abstract: An imaging lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power having object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, at least one surface thereof having at least one inflection point; a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric concave image-side surface, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 11262545
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a total of six lens elements. The six lens elements 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, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11262546
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a wide field of view, a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a second lens, a third lens having an image-side surface being convex in the paraxial region, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with negative refractive power in the paraxial region, a sixth lens with positive refractive power in the paraxial region, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power having an image-side surface that is concave in the paraxial region and is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 11262547
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens made of a plastic material; a second lens made of a plastic material; a third lens made of a glass material; a fourth lens made of a plastic material; a fifth lens made of a plastic material; a sixth lens made of a plastic material; and a seventh lens made of a plastic material. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.51?f1/f?2.50; 1.70?n3?2.20; 0.00?f3/f4?2.00; ?10.00?(R13+R14)/(R13-R14)?10.00; and 0.01?d5/TTL?0.20. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Minyi Xu, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262548
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens made of a plastic material; a second lens made of a plastic material; a third lens made of a plastic material; a fourth lens made of a glass material; a fifth lens made of a glass material; a sixth lens made of a plastic material; and a seventh lens made of a plastic material. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.51?f1/f?2.50; 1.70?n4?2.20; 2.00?f3/f4?5.00; ?10.00?(R13+R14)/(R13?R14)?10.00; and 1.70?n5?2.20. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Zhao, Lei Zhang, Yanmei Wang, Yanli Xie
  • Patent number: 11262549
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, 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 camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.51?f1/f?2.50, 1.70?n3?2.20, ?2.00?f3/f4?2.00, ?10.00?(R13+R14)/(R13?R14)?10.00 and 1.70?n6?2.20, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens; f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens; n3 denotes a refractive index of the third lens; n7 denotes a refractive index of the seventh lens; R13 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the seventh lens; and R14 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the seventh lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamazaki, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262550
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: ?5.00?f1/f2??2.00; and ?20.00?(R1+R2)/(R1?R2)??2.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging optical imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Wang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11262551
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera lens including six lenses, having good optical characteristics under near-infrared light and having a bright F number. The camera lens includes, from an object side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power. The camera lens satisfies prescribed conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 11262552
    Abstract: A photographing lens assembly includes seven 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, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shu-Yun Yang
  • Patent number: 11262553
    Abstract: A photographing lens assembly includes seven 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, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and at least one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element includes at least one inflection point. At least one surface of the seven lens elements is aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hung-Shuo Chen, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11262554
    Abstract: A lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region. The second lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side and an image-side surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an aspheric concave object-side surface and an aspheric convex image-side surface in a paraxial region. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region with a convex shape in an off-axis region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Chen Lin, Po-Lun Hsu, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11262555
    Abstract: Provided is a camera optical lens including, sequentially from an object side to an image side, first to seventh lenses. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 20.00?R7/d7?30.00; 20.00?v7?v5?30.00; and ?12.00?(R1?R2)/(R3?R4)??1.00, where v5 denotes an abbe number of the fifth lens; v7 denotes an abbe number of the seventh lens; R1 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the first lens; R2 denotes a curvature radius of an image side surface of the first lens; R3 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the second lens; R4 denotes a curvature radius of an image side surface of the second lens; R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens; and d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance such as large-aperture, wide-angle and ultra-thin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamazaki, Lei Zhang, Yuanshan Cui
  • Patent number: 11262556
    Abstract: A photographing 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 with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-Yao Liao, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11262557
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 11262558
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a camera having a depth which is less than the maximum length of the outer lens of at least one optical chain of the camera are described. In some embodiments a light redirection device, e.g., a mirror, is used to allow a relatively long optical chain with a relatively large non-circular outer lens. In some embodiments the light redirection device has a depth, e.g., front of camera to back of camera dimension, which is less than the maximum length of the aperture of the outer lens in the aperture's direction of maximum extent. Multiple optical chains with non-circular outer lenses arranged in different directions may and in some embodiments are used to capture images with the captured images being combined to generate a composite image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rajiv Laroia
  • Patent number: 11262559
    Abstract: Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Gal Avivi, Gil Bachar
  • Patent number: 11262560
    Abstract: A four-piece infrared single wavelength lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens element with a refractive power having an object-side surface being convex near an optical axis, a second lens element with a positive refractive power, a third lens element with a positive refractive power having an object-side surface being concave near the optical axis and an image-side surface being convex near the optical axis, a fourth lens element with a negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex near the optical axis and an image-side surface being concave near the optical axis. Such arrangements can provide a four-piece infrared single wavelength lens system which has a wide field of view, large stop, short length and less distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei-Hsin Tsai, Sian-Chih Ke, Shu-Tzu Lai
  • Patent number: 11262561
    Abstract: Provided is a relay lens including a plurality of relay optical systems that are arranged in a long, rigid tube along a longitudinal direction and that re-form an image, wherein each of the relay optical systems includes a pair of rod lenses that are disposed with a space therebetween in the longitudinal direction, a barrel that is disposed between the pair of rod lenses along the longitudinal direction, and a positive lens that is fixed to an inner side of the barrel and that has a positive refractive power; and a length of the barrel in the longitudinal direction is larger than a thickness of a peripheral edge of the positive lens in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kato
  • Patent number: 11262562
    Abstract: The technology provides a camera module cover that prevents infrared light from leaking into the lens of an adjacent camera. The camera module cover can be used with in-vehicle environments, such as the passenger area and truck, as well as other indoor locations and places where infrared illumination is co-located with an optical camera system. An infrared illuminator unit is positioned adjacent to the camera, for instance in such a way that infrared light is evenly distributed or diffused around the camera lens. The camera module cover has a surface that includes an infrared-transparent material to promote even distribution of the infrared light. To avoid leakage into the camera lens, an infrared-opaque or otherwise blocking material is disposed within the cover so as to be between the infrared illuminator unit and the camera lens. The infrared-transparent and infrared-blocking materials may be formed as a single part via double injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Zhaokun Wang, Albert Shane, YooJung Ahn, Jeffrey Du, Scott Duncan, Choon Ping Chng, Cheng-Han Wu
  • Patent number: 11262563
    Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first positive lens group, a stop, a second positive lens group, and a third negative lens group. During focusing, the first lens group and the second lens group move integrally. The first lens group consists of three or less lenses. The first lens group includes a cemented lens in which a negative lens and a positive lens are cemented in order from the object side. The third lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative aspheric lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens. The lens closest to the image side in the second lens group is a biconvex lens, and the imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional expression regarding the radius of curvature of the surface of the biconvex lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Kondo
  • Patent number: 11262564
    Abstract: In order to provide an optical element in which the occurrence of a region where no light beams are present (omission) is prevented, an optical element is provided with a main substrate which is manufactured from a light-transmitting material and in which a front surface and a rear surface are parallel to the setting directions, wherein at least one main beam splitter surface is provided obliquely to the setting directions and formed inside the primary substrate. The optical element is also provided with a sub substrate which is manufactured from a light transmitting material and in which a front surface and a rear surface are parallel to the setting directions, wherein a sub beam splitter surface is arranged at least between the front surface or the rear surface of the single sub substrate, and the rear surface or the front surface of the main substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11262565
    Abstract: Optical systems for displaying an image are described. The optical systems include spaced apart first and second optical lenses. A partial reflector is disposed on and conforms to a major surface of the first optical lens where the major surface can have a best-fit spherical radius of curvature in a range from 20 mm to 200 mm. A reflective polarizer is disposed on and conforms to a major surface of the second optical lens where the major surface can have a best-fit spherical radius of curvature in a range from 14 mm to 250 mm. A retarder layer is disposed between the reflective polarizer and the partial reflector. The first optical lens can have an optical birefringence of less than 15 nm/cm and the second optical lens can have an optical birefringence of greater than 15 nm/cm. A method of fabricating an optical assembly is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIPVE PROPERTIES C OMPANY
    Inventors: Jo A. Etter, Timothy L. Wong, Zhisheng Yun, Gregg A. Ambur, Benjamin G. Sonnek, Robert M. Jennings
  • Patent number: 11262566
    Abstract: A biological tissue inspection apparatus is disclosed. The biological tissue inspection apparatus comprises a stage and a probe. The probe comprises an optical imaging device, an optical interference detector, and a light guide. The probe acquires data regarding optical images and optical interference, through the optical imaging device and the optical interference detector. The stage or the probe moves such that a selected area of the inspection object is positioned in the FOV of the optical imaging device and of the optical interference detector. The light guide is configured such that illumination light from the optical imaging device and measurement light from the optical interference detector are coaxially emitted to the inspection object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KOH YOUNG TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hong Ki Kim, Min Kyu Kim, Min Young Hwangbo
  • Patent number: 11262567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a correction objective (10), comprising a first lens group (12) of positive optical power, a second lens group (14) of positive optical power, a third lens group (16) of negative optical power, and a fourth lens group (18) of positive optical power, which are arranged in this order from the object side, the second lens group (14) being movable along the optical axis (O) in such a way that the sum of the distance (V1) between the second lens group (14) and the first lens group (12) and the distance (V2) between the second lens group (14) and the third lens group (16) is constant. The image scale of the second lens group (14) lies in a range of ?0.9 to ?1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Schulz
  • Patent number: 11262568
    Abstract: A microscopic imaging system and a microscopic imaging method. The system includes: an illumination module configured to generate a laser illumination, an LCOS device located in a Fourier plane of the laser illumination and configured to modulate a phase of the laser illumination, a 4-F system configured to adjust a size of a light beam of the laser illumination, an excitation lens group configured to generate a point illumination focused in a sample plane, a detecting lens group configured to capture an image of a PSF of the point illumination, a camera sensor, and a controller configured to synchronously control a change in a phase pattern of the LCOS device and an image capture of the camera sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qionghai Dai, You Zhou, Jiamin Wu, Guoxun Zhang