Including A Nonspherical Surface Patents (Class 359/708)
  • Patent number: 9759894
    Abstract: A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens includes: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side. The camera lens satisfies specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9753258
    Abstract: A compact low-profile imaging lens which offers a wide field of view and corrects aberrations properly. It includes: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface as a first optical element; a second negative meniscus lens having a concave image-side surface as a second optical element; a third lens having at least one aspheric surface as a third optical element; a fourth lens having at least one aspheric surface as a fourth optical element; a fifth lens having at least one aspheric surface as a fifth optical element; and a sixth double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface as a sixth optical element. The aspheric image-side surface of the sixth lens has pole-change points off an optical axis. As a seventh optical element, one double-sided aspheric aberration correction optical element with virtually no refractive power is located between the first lens and an image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9746641
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, and a third lens having positive refractive power. The second lens group includes a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The third lens group includes a sixth lens having negative refractive power and a seventh lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: OPTICAL LOGIC INC., KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 9746644
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY., LTD.
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9746646
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly is provided in the present disclosure. The imaging lens assembly includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens are arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, and satisfy conditions provided in the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9726857
    Abstract: An optical photographing 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. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are both aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. The optical photographing lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9727783
    Abstract: An iris recognition system may include an optical system having an intentional amount of spherical aberration that results in an extended depth of field. A raw image of an iris captured by the optical system may be normalized. In some embodiments, the normalized raw image may be processed to enhance the MTF of the normalized iris image. An iris code may be generated from the normalized raw image or the enhanced normalized raw image. The iris code may be compared to known iris codes to determine if there is a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Global Bionic Optics, LTD
    Inventor: Gilles Mathieu
  • Patent number: 9720211
    Abstract: A low-cost imaging lens which corrects aberrations properly with a small F-value, ensures high performance with a larger number of constituent lenses and has a more low-profile design than before. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a positive (refractive power) first lens having a convex object-side surface near an optical axis; a positive second lens having convex object-side and image-side surfaces near the optical axis; a negative third lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis; a fourth lens having at least one aspheric surface; a meniscus fifth lens having a concave object-side surface near the optical axis; a sixth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a negative seventh lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis. These constituent lenses are not joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tohru Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 9709776
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric and having at least one inflection point thereof; and a sixth lens element with positive refractive power having both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being convex thereof and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric; wherein the image capturing lens system has a total of six lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9703076
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yao-Wei Liu, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9703078
    Abstract: A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens includes seven piece ultra-thin and high-luminous flux wide angle lenses with excellent optical properties as follows: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power which are arranged in an order from an object side to an image side. The camera lens satisfies specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9696522
    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 negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface, wherein two surfaces of the fourth lens element are both aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein two surfaces of the fifth lens element are both aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yen Chen, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9690077
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9684155
    Abstract: In an optical system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a front unit (LF) having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a rear unit (LR) having a positive refractive power, the front unit (LF) includes a meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1) closest to the object side, and a focal length (fw) of the entire optical system, a focal length (fg1) of the meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1), and a curvature radius (R2) of a lens surface on the image side of the meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1) are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Hatada
  • Patent number: 9678309
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical image capturing system. The optical image capturing system includes a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with refractive power, a sixth lens with refractive power and a seventh lens with refractive power sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along the optical axis. At least one of the first through sixth lens has positive refractive power. The seventh lens may have negative refractive power and both image side and object side surfaces of the seventh lens are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for the application of compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9673892
    Abstract: In a device for transmitting signals on two channels between two sub-assemblies rotatable relative to each other about an axis, a photodetector and a light source are connected via connecting lines to a receiver circuit and transmitter circuit. At least one of the connecting lines has a section extending with a radial directional component. The beam path of one channel extends with an axial directional component radially outside relative to the beam path of the optical signal of the other channel, past the section of the at least one connecting line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: LTN SERVOTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ludwig Angerpointner, Peter Autenzeller
  • Patent number: 9671088
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lens for an illumination device, including an incident surface, an emergent surface, and a reflective surface connected between the incident surface and the emergent surface. The lens includes a first axis as an optical axis of the lens, a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and extending in a longitudinal direction of the lens, the first axis and the second axis defining a symmetrical surface of the lens, and a third axis perpendicular to the symmetrical surface, a first portion of light from a light source is incident upon the incident surface, refracted by the emergent surface, and then emerges to form a first light beam, and a second portion of light from the light source is incident upon the incident surface, reflected by the reflective surface, refracted by the emergent surface, and then emerges to form a second light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Yusheng Ming, Zhijun Ou, Guangwei Chi, Jing Lin
  • Patent number: 9671594
    Abstract: An imaging lens is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, and a positive third lens group. During focusing operations, the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed, while the second lens group moves. The first lens group has a cemented lens formed by cementing a positive lens and a negative lens together. The second lens group is constituted by two or fewer lenses. The third lens group is constituted by three or more lenses. The surface toward the object side of at least one of the first and second lenses from the object side within the third lens group is concave. A negative lens having a concave surface toward the object side is provided most toward the image side. A predetermined conditional formula is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kondo, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9671591
    Abstract: An 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, a sixth lens element and a seventh 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. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9638899
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens set includes a first lens element to a plastic fifth lens element from an object side toward an image side along an optical axis. The second lens element has an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Cheng Lin, Ta-Cheng Fan
  • Patent number: 9638894
    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 concave image-side surface. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface, and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof, wherein the surfaced thereof are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9625679
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a camera lens composed of 4 ultrathin and high-luminous flux wide angle lenses with excellent optical properties. The lenses are lined up in turn from the object side as follows: a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, and a fourth lens with negative refractive power. The camera lens meets specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liquan Yang, Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9618725
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes, arranged in succession from an object side to an image side, a first lens L1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens L2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens L3 having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens L4 having a positive or a negative refractive power, a fifth lens L5 having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens L6 having a negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 9612424
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of a first lens group, a second lens group, an aperture stop and a third lens group that has positive refractive power in this order from an object side. The first lens group consists of an L11 lens having positive refractive power, an L12 lens having negative refractive power, an L13 meniscus lens having negative refractive power with its concave surface facing an image side, an L14 lens having negative refractive power with its concave surface facing the object side and two or three lenses, each having positive refractive power, in this order from the object side. The second lens group consists of an L2p lens having positive refractive power and an L2n lens having negative refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 9606328
    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, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has both of an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the seventh lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and both of an object-side surface and the image-side surface are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9588331
    Abstract: An apochromatic imaging system has an object-side lens group having at least an object-side lens element with positive refractive power and formed from a flint glass material with deviation of relative dispersion ?0.013<?Pg,F<+0.013 and an Abbe number less than 50. A middle lens group has at least a second lens element and a third lens element, wherein, one of the second and third lens elements has deviation of relative dispersion ?0.013<?Pg,F<0.013 and the other of the second and third lens elements has deviation of relative dispersion 0.013<?Pg,F<0.04. An image-side lens group has at least a fourth lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Inventor: Joseph R. Bietry
  • Patent number: 9575294
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens having positive refractive power, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The third lens and the fourth lens are arranged in a specific configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: OPTICAL LOGIC INC., KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 9547159
    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: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 9549134
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and method. The display apparatus may sense light reflected from an object and passed through a display panel, and may control a power of a backlight unit depending on whether the light has passed through the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Joo Suh, Chang Kyu Choi, Kwon Ju Yi, Du Sik Park
  • Patent number: 9541730
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having positive refractive power; and a third lens group having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, and a third lens having negative refractive power. The second lens group includes a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The third lens group includes a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first to third lenses have specific Abbe's numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 9535235
    Abstract: A compact low-profile low-cost imaging lens with an F-value of 2.5 or less and a wide field of view which corrects aberrations properly. Its elements are arranged from an object side: a first positive optical element group including a first positive lens having a convex object-side surface and a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a second positive optical element group including a third positive lens having a convex image-side surface; and a third negative optical element group including a fourth negative double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface and a fifth double-sided aspheric lens having a concave object-side surface. The fourth lens image-side surface has at least one pole-change point off an optical axis. A double-sided aspheric aberration correction optical element with virtually no refractive power is located in an air gap between the first and second optical element groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9529180
    Abstract: Provided is a projection lens including a first lens, a reflective optical device, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens from an image side to an object side in turn. The first lens is of a negative focal power, an image side of the first lens is of a convexity, an object side of the first lens is of a concavity; the reflective optical device enables light to be bended; the second lens is of a positive focal power, an object side of the second lens is of a convexity; the third lens is of a positive focal power, an image side of the third lens is of a convexity, an object side of the third lens is of a concavity; and the fourth lens is of a positive focal power. A diaphragm is arranged between first lens and second lens, meeting 0.25<ImgH/D<0.55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Huang, Fujian Dai
  • Patent number: 9500842
    Abstract: The maximum amount of movement DF1 of a first focus lens section during focusing, the maximum amount of movement DF2 of a second focus lens section during focusing, the focal length fLP of a lens section LP, the focal length fF2 of the second focus lens section, the focal length fLRw of a rear unit at the wide angle end, and the focal length fw of the entire system at the wide angle end are appropriately configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Nakahara
  • Patent number: 9468358
    Abstract: The objective lens for an endoscope substantially consists of a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a stop, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power in this order from the object side. The first lens group consists of a single negative lens. The second lens group consists of two or fewer lenses. When the focal length of the first lens group is f1 and the focal length of the entire system is f, conditional expression (1): ?0.9<f1/f<0 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Keisuke Harada
  • Patent number: 9423587
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes: a first, second, third and fourth lens element, the first lens element having an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, the second lens element having an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, and an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its periphery, the third lens element having an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, the fourth lens element having an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, wherein the optical imaging lens set does not include any lens element with refractive power other than said first, second, third and fourth lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Yanbin Chen, Jinhui Gong
  • Patent number: 9423595
    Abstract: An imaging lens is essentially constituted by seven lenses, including: a positive first lens having a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; a third lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; a fourth lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; a positive fifth lens of a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side; a sixth lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; and a negative seventh lens having a concave surface toward the image side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Shinohara, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 9417434
    Abstract: A photographing 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 negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fourth lens element has refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both of the two surfaces are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9383553
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially includes seven lenses, constituted by: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface toward an image side; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; a sixth lens; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, a concave surface toward an image side, and at least one inflection point in the surface toward the image side; provided in this order from an object side. All of the first lens through the seventh lens are single lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Shinohara, Yoshiaki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9379297
    Abstract: Provided is a LED light source package comprising a circuit board, a light source seated on an upper portion of the circuit board, and a lens structure arranged on the upper portion of the circuit board via the light source. A surface that faces the light source in the lens structure includes a first inclined surface that projects toward the light source as going to a center portion of the lens structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Seo Yoon, Seong Yong Hwang, Kyung Min Kim, Young Min Park
  • Patent number: 9373927
    Abstract: A method for designing an optical component for shaping laser light according to one embodiment of this invention measures the intensity distribution of an incident laser light, obtains the shapes in the short and long axial directions of a pair of aspheric lenses for each of the short and long axial directions of the incident laser light from the measured intensity distribution of the incident laser light and a desired intensity distribution, performs approximation of a high-order polynomial of the shapes in the short and long axial directions of the pair of aspheric lenses, corrects the high-order polynomials for the short or long axial directions using a correction factor, and obtains the shapes of the pair of aspheric lenses on the basis of the corrected high-order polynomials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Haruyasu Ito, Takashi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9366845
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from object side to 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 first lens element has positive refractive power. The second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements have refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9366847
    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, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. Each second, third, fourth and fifth lens element has refractive power. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and both of the surfaces of the sixth lens element are aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 9354426
    Abstract: An optical image lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface, wherein at least one of two surfaces of the fifth lens element is aspheric. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein at least one of two surfaces of the sixth lens element is aspheric, and the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point on at least one of the surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 9349765
    Abstract: A suspended lens system, for imaging a scene, includes (a) a single-piece lens for receiving light from the scene, wherein the single-piece lens includes a concave surface, and (b) a substrate including a side that faces the concave surface, for holding the single-piece lens, wherein the substrate has non-zero optical transmission and contacts only portions of the single-piece lens that are away from the concave surface. A wafer-level method for manufacturing a suspended lens system includes molding a lens array, wherein each lens of the lens array includes a concave surface, and bonding the lens array to a surface of a substrate that has non-zero optical transmission, such that the concave surfaces face the substrate, to form a suspended lens wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsung Wei Wan, Wei-Ping Chen
  • Patent number: 9329362
    Abstract: The imaging lens substantially consists of a first lens group having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having positive refractive power, in this order from the object side. The first lens group consists of, in this order from the object side, an eleventh lens group and a twelfth lens group with a largest air space therebetween. The eleventh lens group has at least one negative lens with a concave surface toward the image side, having negative refractive power; and the twelfth lens group has positive refractive power. The second lens group substantially consists of, in this order from the object side, an aspheric lens having at least one aspheric surface, a positive lens, a negative lens, and a three-cemented lens formed by cementing a positive lens, a negative lens, and a positive lens in this order from the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9316812
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yita Chiang, Kailun Wang, Jiasin Jhang
  • Patent number: 9297986
    Abstract: A wide angle lens system and an electronic apparatus including the same are provided. The wide angle lens system includes a first lens group having a negative refractive power, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power. The second lens group is spaced apart from the first lens group by a maximum air gap. The first lens group and the second lens group are sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image side. The second lens group includes a positive 2-1 lens group, a negative 2-2 lens group, and a positive 2-3 lens group, and focusing is performed by moving the 2-2 lens group along an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 9285553
    Abstract: An optical receptacle includes an optical fiber attaching section, a photoelectric conversion device, and a lens, the lens includes a first face that faces an end portion of an optical fiber and is composed of a concave face that recesses towards a light-receiving element side, and a second face that faces the light-receiving element and is composed of a convex face that projects towards the light-receiving element side, and as a result of the combination of the concave face and the convex face, is formed such that outgoing light from the optical fiber that is attached at an angle to an optical axis of the lens is collected in an appropriate area of the light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutaka Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9279963
    Abstract: A low-cost imaging lens which corrects aberrations properly with a small F-value, ensures high performance with a larger number of constituent lenses and has a more low-profile design than before. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a convex object-side surface near an optical axis; a second lens having a convex object-side surface near the optical axis; a third lens having at least one aspheric surface; a fourth lens having at least one aspheric surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens; a sixth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis; and a seventh lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis. These constituent lenses are not joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tohru Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 9256055
    Abstract: A low-cost imaging lens which corrects aberrations properly with a small F-value, ensures high performance with a larger number of constituent lenses and has a more low-profile design than before. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a convex object-side surface near an optical axis; a positive second lens; a negative third lens having a convex object-side surface near the optical axis; a fourth lens having at least one aspheric surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens; a sixth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis. These constituent lenses are not joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tohru Ishizaka