Two Components Patents (Class 359/793)
  • Patent number: 11550121
    Abstract: The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11448857
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side. The third lens and the seventh lens are formed of plastic, and the first lens, the second lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are formed of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hag Chul Kim, Hyuk Joo Kim, Kyu Min Chae
  • Patent number: 11287645
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical image technologies, and provides a camera lens module. The camera lens module includes: a lens barrel including a first barrel wall extending in a horizontal direction and a second barrel wall bent and extending from the first barrel wall; a lens module including at least a first lens and a second lens, the first lens and the second lens being received in the lens barrel sequentially from an image side to an object side; and a light shading sheet provided in the lens barrel and sandwiched between the first lens and the second lens. The second lens includes an optical portion located at a central position and a peripheral portion surrounding the optical portion, and the light shading sheet is embedded in the peripheral portion and fixed to the peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hailong Wang
  • Patent number: 11254098
    Abstract: A composite light blocking sheet includes a first surface layer, a second surface layer, an inside substrate layer and a central axis. The first surface layer has a first opening and a first outer surface connected to the first opening. The second surface layer has a second opening and a second outer surface connected to the second opening. The inside substrate layer has a substrate opening and is disposed between the first surface layer and the second surface layer and connects the first surface layer and the second surface layer. The central axis is coaxial with the first opening, the second opening and the substrate opening. More than 95% of the first outer surface has a first gloss being GU1, more than 95% of the second outer surface has a second gloss being GU2, and the first gloss GU1 and the second gloss GU2 satisfy specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Feng Lin, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11256067
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The optical lens satisfies the conditions of 7 mm<D<25 mm and 0.3<D/LT<0.5, where D is a diameter of a lens surface of the second lens group furthest from the first lens group and LT is a total lens length measured along an optical axis between a lens surface of the first lens group furthest from the second lens group and the lens surface of the second lens group furthest from the first lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: RAYS OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Te Chen, Ching-Sheng Chang, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11204478
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical imaging technologies, and provides a lens module. The lens module includes a lens barrel having a receiving space, and a lens received in the receiving space. The lens barrel includes a first barrel wall defining a light through hole, and a second barrel wall extending from an outer side of the first barrel wall while being bent towards an image side, the second barrel wall and the first barrel wall defining the receiving space. The lens includes a first area having a first processing precision, and the first area includes an optical portion for imaging and an engagement portion extending from a periphery of the optical portion. The engagement portion abuts against the first barrel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie Ma
  • Patent number: 11194174
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a lens element for an adjustable power lens of the kind comprising two lens elements that are slidable relative to one other in a direction transverse the optical axis of the lens and have respective lens surfaces that are shaped to act together to form a corrective lens, the power of which varies according to the relative disposition of the two lens elements, the method comprising the steps of forming a lens puck having two opposite faces, which are shaped to form opposite lens surfaces of one of the lens elements of the adjustable power lens, the puck having at least one alignment feature, and thereafter edging the puck to a desired eye shape with reference to the alignment feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ADLENS LTD
    Inventors: Robert Edward Stevens, Alex Edginton, Daniel Paul Rhodes, Martyn Francis Kenneally, Simon Peter Horrocks, Benjamin Ian Curnow
  • Patent number: 10996440
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side: an alignment group, having a positive refractive power and including at least one lens, a lens closest to the object side in the alignment group having a positive refractive power; and a fixing group, having a refractive power and including at least one lens, a lens closest to the image side in the fixing group having a negative refractive power. An effective focal length fa of the alignment group and an effective focal length f of the camera lens assembly satisfy: 0.6<fa/f<2.0. The camera lens assembly of the present disclosure includes an automatic alignment group and a fixing group, which can realize the alignment function by grouping lenses, thereby improving the module process yield and shortening the AF duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Li, Kaiyuan Zhang, Wendi Liu
  • Patent number: 10732386
    Abstract: An optical lens system of the present disclosure 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, an optical filter and a sensor. The first lens element and the fourth lens element each have a negative power. The second lens element, the third lens element, the fifth lens element and the sixth lens element each have a positive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng-Yi Lai
  • Patent number: 10704894
    Abstract: Provided is a laser sensor including an optical window with high accuracy and having excellent dustproof and waterproof properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Mori, Tomokazu Taguchi, Norihiro Nagai
  • Patent number: 10684452
    Abstract: An optical lens is provided. The optical lens includes, in order from an object side to an image-forming side, a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having refractive power and having an Abbe number Vd3, a cemented lens having refractive power, and a fourth lens having refractive power and having an Abbe number Vd4, wherein 15?Vd3 and/or Vd3?30, and 60?Vd4 and/or Vd4?85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Yao Chen, Yu-Min Chang, Shuo-Hsien Cheng
  • Patent number: 10598908
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens assembly comprises a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a meniscus lens with negative refractive power. The second lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an object side. The third lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an image side. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The sixth lens is with positive refractive power. The wide-angle lens assembly satisfies Vd4?Vd5?50, wherein Vd4 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens and Vd5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventor: Wei-Ting Chiu
  • Patent number: 10564383
    Abstract: An imaging lens set includes a plastic lens element. The plastic lens element having a central axis includes an object-side surface and an image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface is located opposite to the object-side surface. Each of the object-side surface and the image-side surface includes an effective optical section and a lens peripheral section in order from the central axis to an edge of the plastic lens element. The effective optical section is for being passed through by an imaging light and aspheric. The lens peripheral section surrounds the effective optical section. At least one of the lens peripheral section of the object-side surface and the lens peripheral section of the image-side surface includes at least one annular groove structure, wherein the annular groove structure includes a plurality of stepped surfaces and is not in contact with the optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10564398
    Abstract: A lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is disposed between a magnified side and a minified side. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side. The lens includes six or less lens elements, and at least four of the six or less lens elements are aspheric lenses. A field of view of the lens is in a range between 100 degrees and 165 degrees, and the second lens group has at least one spherical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Rays Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Bing-Ju Chiang, Hsin-Te Chen, Kuo-Chuan Wang, Sheng-Da Jiang
  • Patent number: 10558022
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the second side. The optical lens satisfies the conditions: 2.1<D1/D3<3.0 and 1.9<D1/DL<3.2, where D1 is a diameter of a surface of the first lens facing the first side, D3 is a diameter of a surface of the third lens facing the first side, DL is a diameter of a surface of a last lens facing the second side, and the last lens is nearest the second side as compared with any other lens of the optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: RAYS OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Da Jiang, Ching-Sheng Chang, Hsin-Te Chen, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 10488559
    Abstract: An anti-reflective film includes a transparent substrate, and a high hardness coating layer on at least one surface of the transparent substrate, the high hardness coating layer having a hardness of about 4 H or higher and a moth-eye pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam-il Koo, Min-Seok Choi, Eui-sun Choi, Hyung-kyu Lee, Ji-min Lee
  • Patent number: 10416420
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged in sequence from a magnified side towards a reduced side. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are negative, negative and positive respectively. The third lens is a glass lens. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the reduced side. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens arranged in sequence from the magnified side towards the reduced side. Refractive powers of the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are positive, negative and positive respectively. The first lens, the second lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens are plastic lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Ming Chuang, Hsin-Hsiang Lo
  • Patent number: 10353183
    Abstract: The invention discloses an eight-piece optical lens for capturing image and an eight-piece optical module for capturing image. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises 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; a seventh lens with refractive power; and an eighth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image side and object side of each of the eight lens can be aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang
  • Patent number: 10306113
    Abstract: A camera includes a lens part in which a lens is installed, a housing coupled to the lens part, and a substrate electrically coupled to the lens part, wherein the housing includes a metal compound, a heating-element groove is formed over one or more surfaces of the housing, and a heating element including a conductive material is disposed in the heating-element groove, and wherein the substrate includes a coupling part coupled with the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jong Bok Lee, Gideok Kwon, HeeJin Ro
  • Patent number: 10302914
    Abstract: The invention discloses an eight-piece optical lens for capturing image and an eight-piece optical module for capturing image. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises 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; a seventh lens with refractive power; and an eighth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the eight lens elements can be aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang
  • Patent number: 10145532
    Abstract: A light emitting device package is disclosed. The light emitting device package includes a light source, a lens located on the light source, and a pattern unit located on the lens, wherein the lens includes a body having a first lower surface facing the light source and a protrusion protruding from the body in a direction other than a direction of optical axis, and the pattern unit is located on at least one selected from among at least a portion of a surface of the protrusion and a first side surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Wook Jung
  • Patent number: 10054756
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens barrel and a lens group accommodated in the lens barrel. The lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, each of the first lens and the second lens including an arc part and a peripheral part around the arc part. A matching structure is formed by the peripheral part of the second lens and the peripheral part of the first lens. By virtue of the matching structure, the lens module of the present disclosure has a high concentricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 9933591
    Abstract: A lens module includes a lens barrel and a lens group accommodated in the lens barrel. The lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, each of the first lens and the second lens including an arc part and a peripheral part around the arc part. A matching structure is formed by the peripheral part of the second lens and the peripheral part of the first lens. By virtue of the matching structure, the lens module of the present disclosure has a high concentricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 9915806
    Abstract: An optical lens including, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, 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, wherein the second lens has a concave object side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dukkeun Kwon
  • Patent number: 9304294
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes plastic-made first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged in the given order from an object side to an imaging side. The first lens element has a positive focusing power and is biconvex. The second lens element has a negative focusing power, is biconcave, and has an abbe number not greater than 30. The third lens element has a positive focusing power and has a convex imaging-side surface facing toward the imaging side. The fourth lens element has an imaging-side surface formed with a concave area in a vicinity of an optical axis of the fourth lens element. The imaging lens further includes an aperture stop disposed between the first and second lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Poche Lee, Kuo-Wen Chang, Long-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 9293079
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) for viewing a virtual environment generally include a flat display (FD), lenses for focusing on the FD, and a housing to enclose the FD and lenses. The housing is generally opaque to block out all external light, so the viewer only sees light from the FD. By making a portion or all of the housing translucent or transparent, ambient light and other external light can be seen by the viewer, providing additional visual cues and a larger perceived field of view. Additionally, other people can see light from the FD. The lenses are configured to view the FD and parts of the translucent housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Mark Bolas, J. Adam Jones, David M. Krum
  • Patent number: 9151938
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first to fourth lens units having positive, negative, positive and positive refractive powers, respectively. The intervals between adjacent lens units vary during zooming. The first lens is disposed nearer to an object at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end. Each of the first lens unit to the fourth lens unit includes at least one negative lens. The lens total length Lt, the focal length ft, the mean value N2an of the refractive indices of materials of negative lenses of the second lens unit, the mean value NAan of the refractive indices of materials of the negative lenses included in the entire system, and the mean value NAap of the refractive indices of materials of the positive lenses included in the entire system are appropriately configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Okada
  • Patent number: 9116330
    Abstract: An image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side; a negative front lens unit; a stop; and a positive rear lens unit, wherein the front lens unit includes a negative front first lens, a negative front second lens, and a positive front third lens, in order from the object side, wherein the rear lens unit includes a positive rear first lens having at least one aspherical surface and a cemented lens made up of a positive rear second lens and a negative rear third lens, in order from the object side, and wherein an Abbe constant of a positive lens disposed on the most object side, an Abbe constant of a negative lens disposed on the most image side, a focal length of the front lens unit, and a focal length of the rear lens unit are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirofumi Abe
  • Patent number: 9077916
    Abstract: A method is described of capturing an image. The method comprising the steps of: exposing an image sensor to radiation from a first part of the electromagnetic spectrum using a first aperture and to radiation from a second part of the spectrum using a second aperture having a different size than the first aperture; and, forming an image on the basis of first image data generated by the radiation from the first part of the spectrum and second image data generated by radiation from the second part of the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Dual Aperture International Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Andrew Augustine Wajs
  • Publication number: 20150146036
    Abstract: An image forming lens system includes a front lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens unit, and does not include any other lens unit. The front lens unit includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and a second lens unit having a negative refractive power. Each of the first lens unit and the second lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens. The second lens unit is a focusing lens unit. The rear lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens. The second lens unit is the only lens unit that moves, in the front lens unit, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2?) are satisfied: 0.5<fFF/f<1.65 ??(1) 0?|f/rG2b|<6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikura, Keisuke Ichikawa, Kazuteru Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20150146310
    Abstract: In a lens module, a concave portion may be formed on an image-side surface of a first lens, a convex portion protruding toward the concave portion may be formed on an object-side surface of a second lens, an outer region of the concave portion of the first lens and an outer region of the convex portion of the second lens may be closely adhered to each other, the concave portion and the convex portion may be spaced apart from each other, and a gap between the concave portion and the convex portion in an optical axis direction and a gap between the concave portion and the convex portion in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis may be formed so as to be different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kwang Yun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20150131173
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a tube lens; a single lens arranged at a downstream side with respect to the tube lens in an optical incidence direction; and a supporting member that supports the tube lens and the single lens. Reflection light from a document is condensed on an image sensor by the tube lens and the single lens to form an image. An end surface part, not facing the tube lens, of the single lens is in direct contact with the supporting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAI, Tsuyoshi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150112538
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an obstacle sensing module and a cleaning robot including the same. The cleaning robot includes a body, a driver to drive the body, an obstacle sensing module to sense an obstacle present around the body, and a control unit to control the driver, based on sensed results of the obstacle sensing module. The obstacle sensing module includes at least one light emitter including a light source, and a wide-angle lens to refract or reflect light from the light source so as to diffuse the incident light in the form of planar light, and a light receiver including a reflection mirror to again reflect reflection light reflected by the obstacle so as to generate reflection light, an optical lens spaced from the reflection mirror by a predetermined distance, to allow the reflection light to pass through the optical lens, and an image sensor, and an image processing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon Kyu Jeong, Dong Won Kim, Jea Yun So, Sang Sik Yoon, Gwang Jin Jung, Joon Hyung Kwon
  • Patent number: 9013812
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having negative refractive power; a stop; and a second lens group having positive refractive power, arranged in the order from the object side to the image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having a strong concave surface facing the image plane side and negative refractive power; and a second lens having negative refractive power and a biconcave lens shape near the optical axis. The second lens group includes a third lens having a biconvex shape; and a lens group that is composed of a lens having positive refractive power and a lens having negative refractive power, and has negative refractive power as a whole. The first lens group has a focal length F1 and the second lens group has a focal length F2 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied: ?1.0<F1/F2<?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Optical Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20150098139
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes a first lens element and a second lens element. The first lens element has at least one contacting surface. The second lens element has at least one contacting surface. The contacting surface of the first lens element comes in contact with the contacting surface of the second lens element, and at least one air duct is disposed on at least one of the contacting surface of the first lens element and the contacting surface of the second lens element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Shun CHANG
  • Patent number: 9001440
    Abstract: A macro lens system includes a positive first lens group, and a positive or negative second lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein at least the first lens group moves toward the object side when focusing on an object at infinity to an object at a close distance, wherein the second lens group includes a negative first sub-lens group and a positive second sub-lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein the following condition (1) is satisfied: ?5.0<f2A/fi<?0.8??(1), wherein f2A designates the focal length of the first sub-lens group, and fi designates the focal length of the entire the macro lens system when focusing on an object at infinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Saori
  • Patent number: 8982484
    Abstract: An imaging optical system including, from the object side to the image side, a first lens group having positive refracting power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having positive power, in which the first lens group consists of three lens subgroups, having positive, negative and positive refracting powers, respectively, from the object side to the image side, with satisfaction of the following: 4<(LTL+fB)/fB<15??(1) 0.3<D12/IH<4??(2) where fB is an on-axis distance, from an image side-surface in the second lens group to an image plane upon focusing at infinity, LTL is an on-axis distance from an object side-surface in the first lens group to the image side-surface in the second lens group, D12 is an on-axis length from an image side-surface in the first lens group to an object side-surface in the second lens group upon focusing at infinity, and IH is a maximum image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Masaru Morooka
  • Publication number: 20150070786
    Abstract: An optical lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group is disposed between a magnified side and a minified side and has a negative refractive power. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side and has a positive refractive power. The optical lens is capable of forming an image at the magnified side. F/H>0.52, where F is an effective focal length, and H is an image height. A viewing angle is greater than 116.7 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: YOUNG OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hung Chou, Ying-Hsiu Lin, Yuan-Hung Su, Shiu-Sheng Li
  • Publication number: 20150062727
    Abstract: There is provided a lens including: a first surface having a first coupling part formed thereon, the first coupling part having a staircase-shaped cross section; and a second surface having a second coupling part formed thereon, the second coupling part having an angle of inclination with respect to an optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Suk Kang
  • Patent number: 8964312
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes: a first lens group; an aperture stop; and a second lens group having a positive power, in this order from an object side. The first lens group includes a first lens having a negative power and a second lens having a positive power. The imaging lens satisfies Conditional Formulae (1), (2), and (3): ?0.50<f/f1<0.20??(1) 0.08<d12/f<0.35??(2) 2.5<TL/Y<4.0??(3) wherein f is the focal length of the entire system, f1 is the focal length of the first lens group, d12 is a distance along an optical axis from the image side lens surface of the first lens to the object side lens surface of the second lens, TL is the distance along the optical axis from the most object side lens surface within the first lens group to an imaging surface Sim, and Y is a maximum image height, when focused on an object at infinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Daiki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8934183
    Abstract: An optical element is provided, which is small in distortion when at least three optical members including a resin layer sandwiched by the optical members are cemented together, has a high environmental resistance and optical performance, and has an excellent chromatic aberration correction effect. In the optical element, the resin layer is formed on one of light incident/exit surfaces of a first optical member, and a second optical member is cemented to the resin layer by a bonding material. A condition of ?g<?r is satisfied where ?r indicates an outer diameter of the resin layer and ?g indicates an effective region diameter of a surface of the second optical member which is cemented to the resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Maetaki
  • Patent number: 8934182
    Abstract: A lens system comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1; and a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power; the first lens group G1 including a sub-lens group GS11 having positive refractive power, and a sub-lens group GS12 having negative refractive power, the sub-lens group GS12 having negative refractive power including a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object side, given conditions being satisfied, thereby providing a lens system having high optical performance with excellently correcting various aberrations, and an optical apparatus equipped therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Obama
  • Publication number: 20140376116
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes a first lens, an adhesive layer, and a second lens in sequence, wherein the first and the second lenses are rectangular in shape. The adhesive layer is made of an adhesive acrylic composition. to adhere both sides thereof to interior sides of the first lens and the second lens, and the adhesive layer has following conditions: a transmittance greater than 70%; |n3?n1 |<0.5; and |n3?n2 |<0.5; where n1 is a refractive index of the first lens; n2 is a refractive index of the second lens; and n3 is a refractive index of the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: GLOBAL MICROPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHING-SHAN YANG, WU-LI WANG
  • Patent number: 8917456
    Abstract: A first lens group having positive refractive power and a second lens group are arranged in this order from an object side, and only the first lens group moves in the optical axis direction while focusing. The first lens group substantially consists of a positive 1-1 lens, a positive 1-2 lens, a positive 1-3 lens, a negative 1-4 lens, an aperture stop, a negative 1-5 lens, a positive 1-6 lens, and a positive 1-7 lens. The 1-3 lens and the 1-4 lens are cemented to each other, and the 1-5 lens and the 1-6 lens are cemented to each other. The second lens group substantially consists of a negative 2-1 lens and a positive 2-2 lens. Only the first lens group moves in the optical axis direction while focusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ori
  • Patent number: 8917460
    Abstract: A fixed focus lens system includes a first lens group having a negative refractive power; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens group and the second lens group are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, and the second lens group includes two lenses having an Abbe's number of 80 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mi-won Kang
  • Patent number: 8917454
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having a negative power; and a second lens group having a positive power, in this order from an object side. The first lens group includes a first lens having a negative power and a second lens having a positive power. The zoom lens satisfies conditional formulae 1.6<|f1|/fw<2.5 (1); 1.6<f2/fw<2.4 (2); 0.32<d2/fw<0.60 (3); 2.5<ft/fw<4.5 (4); 1.56<nd2<1.66 (5); and ?d2<33 (6), when f1: the focal length of the first lens group, f2: the focal length of the second lens group, fw: the focal length of the entire system at the wide angle end, d2: the distance between the first and second lenses along an optical axis, ft: the focal length of the entire system at the telephoto end, nd2: the refractive index of the second lens at the d line, and ?d2: the Abbe's number of the second lens at the d line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Daiki Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8908292
    Abstract: A fixed focal length lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group is disposed between a magnified side and a minified side and has a negative refractive power. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side and has a positive refractive power. The fixed focal length lens satisfies F/H>0.52, where F is an effective focal length of the fixed focal length, and H is an image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Hung Chou, Ying-Hsiu Lin, Yuan-Hung Su, Shiu-Sheng Li
  • Publication number: 20140334021
    Abstract: An optical lens laminate has an adhesive member with at least one aperture, an optical member with an optical feature; and another optical member with an optical feature. The lens laminate may be made by positioning the at least one adhesive member between the optical members, with the apertures aligned with the lens features, and pressing the optical members together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Norton, Anthony P. Gallagher, Matthew R. Michieli, John D. Shurboff
  • Patent number: 8873154
    Abstract: A tele-side converter lens including a first unit having a positive refractive power and a second unit having a negative refractive power, in which: the first unit includes one or two positive lenses; the second unit includes one negative lens and one or two positive lenses; and average Abbe constant and partial dispersion ratio of materials of positive lenses constituting the first unit, average Abbe constant and partial dispersion ratio of materials of positive lenses constituting the second unit, an Abbe constant and a partial dispersion ratio of materials of the negative lenses constituting the second unit, combined Abbe constants of materials of the lenses constituting the respective first and second units, focal lengths of the first and second units, a refractive index of a material of a positive lens disposed closest to the object side, and a magnification of the tele-side converter lens are appropriately set, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shoichi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8861085
    Abstract: A fixed focal length lens has a focal length of a whole system shorter than a back focus. The fixed focal length lens includes an aperture stop, and an image-stabilizing lens unit that moves in a direction including a component of a direction orthogonal to an optical axis to reduce an image blur. The conditions of 0.1<f/|fis|<0.5 and ?0.35<Dis/DL<0.25 are met, where f is the focal length of the whole system, fis is a focal length of the image-stabilizing lens unit, Dis is a distance from the aperture stop to a surface farthest from the aperture stop of the image-stabilizing lens unit, and DL is a distance from a first surface closest to an object side to a final surface closest to an image side of the fixed focal length lens. A sign of the distance is positive in a direction from the object side to the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Nakahara