Lens Mounts Patents (Class 359/819)
  • Patent number: 12216329
    Abstract: A housing of an imaging unit is disclosed. The housing comprises an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inner surface of the housing defines a lens channel sized to receive a lens barrel. Further, the inner surface of the housing defines a helical step in the lens channel, wherein the helical step protrudes outwardly into the lens channel, and wherein the helical step is angled at a first predetermined pitch. Further, the inner surface of the lens channel defines a glue pocket, in the lens channel, which extends from the inner surface of the housing to the outer surface of the housing such that a first edge surface, defining a portion of a periphery of the glue pocket, is coplanar with the helical step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Good, Gregory Rueblinger
  • Patent number: 12189147
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a dual molded optical element, a plurality of imaging lens elements and a light blocking element. The dual molded optical element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface and includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an optical effective section. The light absorbing portion is located on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the dual molded optical element, and a plastic material of the light absorbing portion and a plastic material of the light transmitting portion are different colors. The imaging lens elements are disposed in the inner space of the imaging lens assembly. The light blocking element is disposed adjacent to the light transmitting portion of the dual molded optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 12181728
    Abstract: A lens assembly can include: a holder; a lens module disposed at an inner side of the holder; an optical module disposed at an upper side of the lens module; and an conductive substrate electrically connected to the optical module. The conductive substrate includes: a body part disposed at an upper side of the holder; and an extension part extended from one end of the body part, and including a terminal part, the holder includes a second lateral surface formed by being recessed inwards from a portion of a first lateral surface, and at least a portion of the extension part is disposed at the second lateral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youn Baek Jeong
  • Patent number: 12153279
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a lens alignment system having opposing end effectors configured to control a position of a rigid lens body with respect to a plane. In an illustrative example, each of the opposing end effectors may engage a corresponding receptacle on respective opposite faces of the lens body. Each of the end effectors may, for example, frictionally contacts each of the corresponding receptacles within a respective portion of each of at least two contact regions. During the engagement, each of the contact regions may, for example, lie on opposite sides of an axis of rotation that extends between the end effectors. In response to at least a predetermined minimum net moment applied to the lens body, the lens body may, for example, be rotatable about the axis of rotation. Various embodiments may advantageously enable precise and/or rapid positioning of the lens body in the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: BANNER ENGINEERING CORP.
    Inventors: Dan Frost, Matt Payne, Ethan Stout
  • Patent number: 12140780
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus includes a base, a printed circuit board disposed over the base, and mounted on the base, a coil disposed over the printed circuit board, and a lens barrel, which contacts the base at a lower portion of an outer surface thereof, wherein the base, the printed circuit board and the coil include respective holes, wherein the lens moving apparatus includes a blocking member, which is provided along an internal surface of the hole in the base and which protrudes in a first direction so as to inhibit the lower portion of the outer surface of the lens barrel from contacting internal surfaces of the holes in the printed circuit board and/or the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12140816
    Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a movable portion for holding an optical element, a fixed portion, a driving assembly used for driving the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion, and an adhesive element. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion, and the fixed portion includes a case and a bottom affixed on the case. The case has a top wall and a side wall. The top wall is plate-shaped and is perpendicular to a main axis, and the side wall is not parallel to the top wall. An accommodating space for accommodating the movable portion is formed between the case and the bottom. The adhesive element is in direct contact with the bottom, the case, and the driving assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Kun-Shih Lin, Yu-Sheng Li, Shih-Ting Huang, Yi-Hsin Nieh, Yu-Huai Liao
  • Patent number: 12140625
    Abstract: An alignment mechanism is disclosed which includes a mount, a beam having a first end affixed to the mount and a second end. The beam is an order of magnitude more rigid along its longitudinal axis than along an axis orthogonal to its longitudinal axis. The second end of the beam is affixed to a first device having a surface configured to contact a second device. The beam applies a normal force component to the second device through the first device and allows movement at the second end in directions orthogonal to the normal force component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Delta Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Ihor Tustaniwskyj, James Wittman Babcock
  • Patent number: 12120410
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a camera module. An objective is aligned in relation to an image sensor and is subsequently fixated in terms of position by connecting to a support receiving the image sensor or to a housing surrounding the image sensor. The objective is connected to the support or to the housing via at least two cylindrical pins, the cylindrical pins being in each case placed laterally against the objective and being welded on the one hand to the objective, and on the other hand to the support or the housing. A camera module is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai Bauer, Andreas Moehrle, Moritz Winkler
  • Patent number: 12099248
    Abstract: An optical component includes an active optical surface, a back surface opposite the active optical surface, and an installation surface connecting the active optical surface and the back surface. At least one of the active optical surface or the back surface is formed with a metal layer on at least a portion of an area located away from a center of the at least one of the active optical surface or the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLIGHT TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Dengqun Yu, Yuzhou Sun, Long Chen
  • Patent number: 12099181
    Abstract: A method for centering an optical element in an optical system for an endoscope, wherein the optical element has an optical axis aligned in the optical system such that the optical axis of the optical element coincides with an optical axis of the optical system, the method including: forming recesses into a circumference of the optical element, wherein in a cross-sectional plane of the optical element each recess includes a deepest point which has a smallest distance to the optical axis of the optical element, and the deepest points are located in the cross-sectional plane of the optical element on a circle, a center of the circle being located on the optical axis of the optical element; inserting a centering material into each of the recesses; and aligning the optical element in the optical system using the centering material in each of the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH
    Inventor: Uwe Schoeler
  • Patent number: 12072481
    Abstract: A device for viewing a target, the device including a housing, an objective lens positioned within the housing, where the objective lens has a first lens group including at least a first lens and a second lens group including at least a second lens, the first lens positioned closer to the target than the second lens, and a camera positioned within the objective lens between the first lens and the second lens, where the camera is configured to provide images of the target located near a focal point of the objective lens, and wherein the arrangement of the first lens, the second lens, and the camera provides for simultaneous capture of a first image of a surface of the target and a second image of a sub-surface cellular structure of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER
    Inventors: David Dickensheets, Milind Rajadhyaksha
  • Patent number: 12066601
    Abstract: An imaging lens element assembly includes a dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a transparent portion, a light absorbing portion and a step structure. The transparent portion, in order from a center to a peripheral region, includes an optical effective area and a transparent peripheral area, wherein an optical axis of the imaging lens element assembly passes through the optical effective area, and the transparent peripheral area surrounds the optical effective area. The light absorbing portion surrounds the optical effective area and is disposed on an object side of the transparent peripheral area and includes an object-end surface and an outer inclined surface. The object-end surface faces towards an object side of the light absorbing portion, and the outer inclined surface extends from the object-end surface to an image side of the light absorbing portion and is gradually far away from the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-An Chang, Ming-Ta Chou, Cheng-Feng Lin, Ming-Shun Chang
  • Patent number: 12050409
    Abstract: An assembly for collimating broadband radiation, the assembly including: a convex refractive singlet lens having a first spherical surface for coupling the broadband radiation into the lens and a second spherical surface for coupling the broadband radiation out of the lens, wherein the first and second spherical surfaces have a common center; and a mount for holding the convex refractive singlet lens at a plurality of contact points having a centroid coinciding with the common center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Yongfeng Ni, Ronald Franciscus Herman Hugers, Andreas Johannes Antonius Brouns
  • Patent number: 12044844
    Abstract: An calibration kit includes a base, a combination of calibration parts, and a manipulation part. The combination of calibration parts is disposed on the base and includes a first calibration part and a second calibration part. The first calibration part has a first calibration surface. The second calibration part has a second calibration surface. The first calibration part and the second calibration part are relatively movable in a movement direction and are movable relative to the base. The manipulation part is movably or rotatably disposed on the base. The manipulation part is configured to be operable to drive the first calibration part and the second calibration part to move in the movement direction relative to the base, so that the combination of calibration parts forms a three-dimensional calibration surface configuration through the first calibration surface and the second calibration surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Tzu-Huan Hsu, Po-Fu Wu, Yuan-Yu Hsiao, Ching-Huey Wang, Chih-Kang Peng, Chun-Ming Shen, Chih-Ming Hu, Yi-Ling Lo
  • Patent number: 12038672
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein can be used to improve camera modules (e.g., camera components), particularly when the camera lens depth of focus is very small. Improvement of a camera with a small depth of focus is particularly important in various applications, such as in cameras used in autonomous navigation (e.g., advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) systems).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Ori Eytan, Dan Alon, Shimon Davino
  • Patent number: 12019303
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes a lens unit and a holder. The lens unit includes at least a front lens and a rear lens, and the holder includes a positioning portion and a holding portion extended downwardly the positioning portion. The positioning portion and the holding portion are integrated with each other. The holding portion forms a light chamber for holding the lens unit therein, wherein the light chamber allows imaging lights to enter thereinto and pass through the lens unit. The positioning portion is sealed on the outer surface of the front lens along the outer periphery of the front lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Ningbo Sunny Automotive Optech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia Yang, Heteng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12022176
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior camera includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. An imager printed circuit board (imager PCB) includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side and separated from the first side by a thickness of the imager PCB, with an imager disposed at the first side of the imager PCB. A lens barrel accommodates a lens and has an inner end. The first housing portion includes a passageway for receiving the lens barrel. The lens barrel is received through the passageway of the first housing portion. The inner end of the lens barrel is adhesively bonded to the first side of the imager PCB via an adhesive. The adhesive circumscribes the imager at the first side of the imager PCB to enclose an area between the imager PCB and the lens. The imager is disposed within the enclosed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Rene Dreiocker, Jonathan D. Conger, Jose Luis Zamudio Cabral, Steven V. Byrne
  • Patent number: 12015838
    Abstract: A light shielding plate including a front surface located on a light incident side, a rear surface facing away from the front surface, and an aperture penetrating through the front and rear surfaces. The aperture includes a first aperture portion and a second aperture portion connected to the first aperture portion via a central opening. The first aperture portion extends from a rear opening in the rear surface toward the central opening and has a shape tapered from the rear surface toward the front surface. The second aperture portion extends from a front opening in the front surface toward the central opening and has a shape tapered from the front surface toward the rear surface. The front opening is larger than the rear opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoaki Nishitsuji, Shinichi Shimamura
  • Patent number: 12007617
    Abstract: An imaging lens system has an optical axis. The imaging lens system includes a plurality of optical elements, a lens barrel, an optical mark structure and a curable liquid. The optical elements are arranged along the optical axis. The lens barrel surrounds the optical axis, and at least one of the optical elements is accommodated in the lens barrel. The optical mark structure is disposed on the lens barrel, and the optical mark structure includes a plurality of optical mark units arranged side by side along a circumference direction that surrounds the optical axis. The curable liquid is disposed on the optical mark structure. The curable liquid is in physical contact with at least one of the optical mark units, and one of the optical elements adjacent to the optical mark structure is fixed to the lens barrel while the curable liquid is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yu Chen Lai, Ming-Ta Chou, Liang Chieh Weng, Ming-Shun Chang
  • Patent number: 11966095
    Abstract: A lens holder with an air escape hole which cannot be fouled by adhesive includes a holder body and a lens barrel disposed on the holder body. The holder body includes a first surface away from the lens barrel and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface defines a groove. The groove includes a first bottom surface, the first bottom surface defines a recess. The recess includes a second bottom surface, the second bottom surface defines an air escape hole. A cross-sectional size of the air escape hole is less than a cross-sectional size of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO.LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Jie Ding, Shin-Wen Chen, Jing-Wei Li, Jian-Chao Song, Shuai-Peng Li
  • Patent number: 11934030
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical lens, which includes a first lens member, a second lens member and a first adhesive. The first lens member includes at least one first lens. The second lens member includes a second lens barrel and at least one second lens mounted in the second lens barrel. The at least one second lens and the at least one first lens together forms an imaging optical system. The second lens member has a second optical region and a second structural region surrounding the second optical region. The second structural region has a second top surface and the second top surface has a groove. The first adhesive locates in a first gap between the first lens member and the second lens member, and the first adhesive is accommodated in the groove. The first adhesive is adapted to flow in the groove when uncured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiko Tanaka, Heng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11934029
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses spaced apart from each other along an optical axis; and a first spacer disposed along the optical axis between any two lenses of the plurality of lenses, wherein the first spacer includes a body portion including an opening enabling light to travel between the two lenses; and an extension portion protruding from one surface of the body portion and extending toward one lens of the two lenses, the one lens being either one of the two lenses, the one surface of the body portion is spaced apart from the one lens, and the extension portion contacts and supports the one lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Mi Yang, Jin Se Kim
  • Patent number: 11906664
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an emission module and a mounting and adjustment method of the same, a LiDAR and a smart sensing device. An emission module includes an emission apparatus and a collimating element provided sequentially along an outgoing laser, where the emission apparatus is configured to generate the outgoing laser, and the collimating element is configured to collimate the outgoing laser generated by the emission apparatus and emit the outgoing laser; and the collimating element includes a fast-axis collimating element and a slow-axis collimating element provided sequentially along the outgoing laser, the fast-axis collimating element is configured to receive the outgoing laser generated by the emission apparatus and collimate the outgoing laser in a fast-axis direction, and the slow-axis collimating element is configured to receive the outgoing laser collimated in the fast-axis direction, collimate the outgoing laser in the slow-axis direction and emit the outgoing laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUTENG INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Wang
  • Patent number: 11899225
    Abstract: A camera module includes: a lens module including a plurality of lenses; a housing accommodating the lens module; a reflective member disposed in front of the lens module; an image sensor module to receive light passing through the lens module; and a first light shielding plate disposed in the housing in a space between the lens module and the image sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In Gun Kim, Young Suk Kang
  • Patent number: 11899268
    Abstract: An optical lens, comprising: a first lens component (100) comprising a first lens barrel (101) and at least one first lens sheet (102) mounted in the first lens barrel; a second lens component (200) comprising a second lens barrel (201) and at least one second lens sheet (202) mounted in the second lens barrel, the at least one second lens sheet and the at least one first lens sheet together constituting an imageable optical system; and an adhesive bonding the first lens component and the second lens component together, at least a part of the adhesive being interposed between a lens barrel and a lens sheet, wherein the statement of between the lens barrel and the lens sheet specifically means between the second lens barrel and the first lens sheet or between the first lens barrel and the second lens sheet. A corresponding assembly method for optical lens, a camera module, an optical lens and assembly method for camera module are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuijia Chu, Heng Jiang, Lin Liu, Enlai Xiang, Kailun Zhou
  • Patent number: 11867967
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a lower surface; a first lens barrel comprising a first protrusion protruding from the lower surface; a first lens array comprising a plurality of first lenses disposed in the first lens barrel; a first holder comprising a first hole into which the first protrusion is inserted; a first adhesive member disposed between a lower surface of the first lens barrel around the first protrusion and an upper surface of the first holder around the first hole; and a first image sensor disposed under the first hole, wherein the first adhesive member comprises one end and the other end, which are disposed to encompass the first hole, and the one end and the other end of the first adhesive member are spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Kim, Chul Ro Lee
  • Patent number: 11860440
    Abstract: An embodiment of a camera module comprises: a lens portion; a front body on which the lens portion is mounted; a substrate portion arranged to be spaced from the lens portion in a first direction and coupled to the front body; an image sensor arranged on the substrate portion and provided to face the lens portion; a first fastener, one side of which is inserted into the front body such that at least a part of the substrate portion is coupled to the front body; and a first attachment portion arranged between the front body and the substrate portion, wherein the first attachment portion may comprise at least one through-hole formed between the front body and the substrate portion so as to couple the front body and the substrate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Wook Park, Myoung Jin An
  • Patent number: 11805232
    Abstract: An optical system has a hollow mechanical body having first and second ends. An optical assembly has a plurality of optical components arranged in a stack configuration. Each of the optical components has a set of engagement configurations. For each pair of adjacent optical components in the stack configuration, at least some of the engagement configurations of a first optical component in the pair engage with at least some of the engagement configurations of a second optical component in the pair. Some of the engagement configurations of the optical component at a first end of the stack configuration engage with corresponding engagement configurations of the hollow mechanical body at the first end of the hollow mechanical body to position the other optical components of the stack configuration within the hollow mechanical body. An emissive display device is deployed at the second end of the hollow mechanical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Kobi Greenstein, Tsion Eisenfeld, Netanel Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11762164
    Abstract: A lens includes an optical portion refracting light, a rib extending along a circumference of at least a portion of the optical portion, a first area and a second area of an object-side surface of the rib, wherein the first area has a first surface roughness and the second area has a second surface roughness less rough than the first surface roughness, and a third area and a fourth area of an image-side surface of the rib, wherein the third area has a third surface roughness and the fourth area has a fourth surface roughness less rough than the third surface roughness, wherein the second area includes inclined surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Shin Yang, Ju Sung Park, Sot Eum Seo
  • Patent number: 11733475
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes a front end portion. The front end portion includes an outer surface facing toward an object side and an inner surface facing toward an image side. The inner surface includes an inner side conical surface. The inner side conical surface is connected to the outer surface. The inner-side conical surface includes a plurality of toothed structures, an inner edge near an optical axis and an outer edge away from the optical axis. The outer edge is closer to the image side than the inner edge. The inner edge forms a clear hole. Each of the toothed structures includes a tooth peak and a tooth valley. The tooth peak and the tooth valley are disposed at the inner edge, and the tooth peak extends from the inner edge to the outer edge to form a convex strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junjiao Chen, Jianhai Huo, Shang-Hao Su, Qingshu Ye
  • Patent number: 11698506
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a carrier mechanism for retaining optical devices. The carrier mechanism includes adjacent tray assemblies stacked such that a plurality of optical device lenses are retained therebetween. The carrier mechanism retains the plurality of optical device lenses without damaging the plurality of optical device lenses by contacting corners of the optical device lenses. The plurality of optical device lenses are retained with a plurality of support pins and a plurality of capture pins disposed in the tray assemblies. Each tray includes a plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of optical device lenses such that fluids may contact the plurality of optical device lenses. The carrier mechanism may be utilized in multiple processing methods of the plurality of optical device lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin B. Riordon, Kangkang Wang
  • Patent number: 11693205
    Abstract: A plastic lens barrel includes an object-side portion, an image-side portion and a tube-shaped portion. The object-side portion is located close to an object side of the plastic lens barrel. The object-side portion includes an object-side opening and an object-side annular surface. The object-side annular surface surrounds the object-side opening and faces toward the object side. The image-side portion is located close to an image side of the plastic lens barrel and includes an image-side opening. The tube-shaped portion surrounds an optical axis. The tube-shaped portion is connected between the object-side portion and the image-side portion, and configured to define an inner space. The object-side annular surface includes a groove structure area. The groove structure area includes a plurality of groove structures. The groove structures are disposed in at least one of an arranging manner and an extending manner along a sagittal direction away from the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Hua Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou, Lin-An Chang
  • Patent number: 11681082
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes a dual molded optical element, a plurality of imaging lens elements and a light blocking element. The dual molded optical element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface and includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an optical effective section. The light absorbing portion is located on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the dual molded optical element, and a plastic material of the light absorbing portion and a plastic material of the light transmitting portion are different colors. The imaging lens elements are disposed in the inner space of the imaging lens assembly. The light blocking element is disposed adjacent to the light transmitting portion of the dual molded optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11683467
    Abstract: A lens unit includes: a resin lens including a flange forming an outer peripheral portion of the resin lens and a fitting portion having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the outer peripheral portion of the flange; a lens barrel including a lens housing chamber and an abutting surface, the lens housing chamber housing the resin lens with the fitting portion facing the abutting surface; and a pressing member pressing the resin lens against the abutting surface along an optical axis of the resin lens. The fitting portion being fit into the lens housing chamber over an entire circumference of the fitting portion with clearance between the entire circumference and the lens housing chamber to position the resin lens in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the resin lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Teranishi
  • Patent number: 11675153
    Abstract: A lens including 6˜11 lenses with a refractive power is provided. A spherical lens and an aspheric lens are disposed between the aperture and the image plane of the lens assembly. At least two lenses are disposed between the aperture and the object side of the lens assembly. EFL is the effective focal length of the lens. LT is the length on the optical axis of the lens from the lens surface farthest from the image plane of the lens assembly to the lens surface closest to the image plane of the lens assembly. The lens assembly satisfies the following conditions: 3 mm<EFL<5 mm, 0.1<EFULT<0.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: RAYS OPTICS INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Lung Lai, Hung-You Cheng, Kuo-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11675155
    Abstract: Spacers for separating a first lens element from a second lens element, lens modules including such spacers and digital cameras including such lens modules. A spacer may comprising along its perimeter at least one contact section being in contact with the first lens element and the second lens element and at least one non-contact section being separated from the first lens element. The at least one non-contact section comprises an internal inclined surface having designed to reduce or mitigate stray light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Itay Yedid, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 11671689
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes at least one dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element has a central axis, and includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an optical effective region and a lens peripheral region, and the lens peripheral region surrounds the optical effective region. A light absorbing portion surrounds the optical effective region. The light transmitting portion and the light absorbing portion are made of different plastic materials with different colors, and the light absorbing portion includes at least three gate portions surrounding the central axis, wherein all gate portions are located on the same surface of the dual molded lens element. The light transmitting portion and the light absorbing portion of the dual molded lens element are integrally formed by the injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Shun Chang, Ming-Ta Chou, Chun-Hua Tsai
  • Patent number: 11668894
    Abstract: Digital cameras, optical lens modules for such digital cameras and methods for assembling lens elements in such lens modules. In various embodiments, the digital cameras comprise an optical lens module including N?3 lens elements Li, each lens element comprising a respective front surface S2i?1 and a respective rear surface S2i. In various embodiments the first lens element toward the object side, L1 and its respective front surfaces S1 have optical and/or mechanical properties, such as a clear aperture, a clear height and a mechanical height that are larger than respective properties of following lens elements and surfaces. This is done to achieve a camera with large aperture stop, given a lens and/or camera height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Michael Dror, Itay Yedid, Gil Bachar
  • Patent number: 11592641
    Abstract: An accessory that can be attached to a camera body, the camera body including a first camera-side clock terminal that outputs a first clock signal, a first camera-side data terminal that outputs a first data signal, and a third camera-side data terminal to which a third data signal is input, the accessory includes: an eighth terminal that is brought into contact with the first camera-side clock terminal; a seventh terminal that is brought into contact with the first camera-side data terminal; and a ninth terminal that is brought into contact with the third camera-side data terminal, wherein the eighth terminal is positioned between the seventh terminal and the ninth terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Funaoka, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Hideaki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11579341
    Abstract: A lens (10) and a camera module (100) and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the lens (10) comprises an edge-cut lens sheet (114), wherein the edge-cut lens sheet (14) includes at least one chord edge (1141) and at least one circular edge (1142), wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) are adjacently connected to each other, and wherein the chord edge (1141) and the circular edge (1142) have different curvatures, so that the lens sheet (114) becomes narrow and the width of the lens (10) become narrow, to form an ultra-narrow camera module (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Bojie Zhao, Chunmei Liu, Feifan Chen, Zhenyu Chen
  • Patent number: 11543618
    Abstract: It is provided a lens unit to be small-sized, while reducing deterioration in optical performance after experiencing thermal expansion. The lens unit includes an aperture member, a lens, an image sensor, and a holder. A range where the aperture member abuts on a flange part of the lens overlaps with a range where the holder abuts on the flange part of the lens. A first gap is provided between a holder inclined surface of the holder and a lens inclined surface of the lens over the entire circumference. A second gap is provided between an outer circumferential surface of the lens and an inner surface of the holder over the entire circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKOH GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomi Hirao, Ryo Iijima
  • Patent number: 11536928
    Abstract: A VCM (voice coil motor) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a cylindrical bobbin for accommodating a lens and protruded at a bottom end with a boss, and a coil block arranged at a periphery of the bobbin; a stator including a magnet facing the coil block and a yoke fixing the magnet; and an elastic member including a first elastic member formed with a through hole coupled to the boss of the bobbin and a second elastic member coupled to an upper end facing the bottom end of the bobbin; wherein the boss is formed with a disengagement prevention unit inhibiting the first elastic member from being disengaged from the boss, and the first elastic member is formed with a coupling unit contacting a joint where the disengagement prevention unit and the coupling unit meet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangjun Min, Sanghee Lee, Hyuneo Yoo, Seungki Kim, Jinsuk Han
  • Patent number: 11485286
    Abstract: A vehicle vision system includes an extender element disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle. The extender element includes an extender portion and an end portion, with the end portion viewable to a viewer who is viewing the rear portion of the vehicle. The end portion includes at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a vehicle emblem and (ii) a vehicle logo. A rear backup camera assembly is at least partially disposed in the extender portion of the extender element. The rear backup camera assembly is disposed with its lens viewing exterior of the vehicle. The extender element is incapable of extending such that the rear backup camera assembly is non-movable relative to the rear portion of the vehicle when disposed at the rear portion of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: William G. Briggance
  • Patent number: 11480755
    Abstract: An imaging lens module includes a plastic barrel, an optical lens assembly and a glue material. The plastic barrel includes an outer object-end surface, an outer image-end surface and an inner tube surface. The inner tube surface connects the outer object-end surface and the outer image-end surface, and includes a plurality of parallel inner surfaces. A plurality of stripe structures are disposed on and protruded from at least one of the parallel inner surfaces, wherein the stripe structures are regularly arranged along a circumferential direction of the parallel inner surface. The optical lens assembly includes a plurality of optical elements disposed in the plastic barrel and arranged along the optical axis, wherein an outer annular surface of at least one of the optical elements is disposed correspondingly to the stripe structures. The glue material is applied among the outer annular surface and the stripe structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Hua Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou, Ming-Shun Chang
  • Patent number: 11479851
    Abstract: A device for depositing a layer, which has been structured by the application of a mask, on a substrate, includes an adjusting device for adjusting the position of a mask support with respect to a support frame. The device also includes, a mask lifting device, by which the support frame, together with the mask support, the adjusting device and a mask assembly, can be vertically displaced from a mask changing position into a processing position. The device also includes a substrate holder lifting device, by which the substrate holder can be vertically displaced from a loading position into a processing position. Restraining means, which include a V-groove and a spherical surface, restrain the substrate holder in the processing position on the support frame. The spherical surface, formed by a ball element of the support frame, is supported on flanks of the V-groove that is formed by the substrate holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: AIXTRON SE
    Inventors: Markus Jakob, Wilhelmus Janssen, Steffen Neumann, Jaap Oudes
  • Patent number: 11474322
    Abstract: A lens apparatus includes a fixing member, a barrel member configured to hold a lens, and a press member configured to press the lens. The barrel member includes a fixed portion fixed to the fixing member, a screwing portion screwed on the press member, and an engagement portion engaged with the press member. The fixed portion is disposed at the same phase as the engagement portion in a circumferential direction of the lens. The screwing portion is disposed at a phase different from the engagement portion in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasushi Murakami
  • Patent number: 11467473
    Abstract: A lens assembly, including a lens barrel and a lens. The lens barrel is hollow and includes an interior surface, the lens is disposed inside the lens barrel, and the lens includes a side surface in interference fit with the interior surface, where the interior surface has a hollow area, the side surface includes a micro-convex structure, and the hollow area fits the micro-convex structure. A fit quantity between the micro-convex structure and the hollow area is changed through relative rotation of the lens and the lens barrel, to adjust assembly interference between the lens barrel and the lens. Embodiments further provide a camera module and a terminal, to resolve problems of lens deformation and degraded imaging quality caused by large assembly interference of the lens barrel and the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chengshiun Wu
  • Patent number: 11460660
    Abstract: A lens holder with an air escape hole which cannot be fouled by adhesive includes a holder body and a lens barrel disposed on the holder body. The holder body includes a first surface away from the lens barrel and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface defines a groove. The groove includes a first bottom surface, the first bottom surface defines a recess. The recess includes a second bottom surface, the second bottom surface defines an air escape hole. A cross-sectional size of the air escape hole is less than a cross-sectional size of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Jie Ding, Shin-Wen Chen, Jing-Wei Li, Jian-Chao Song, Shuai-Peng Li
  • Patent number: 11457134
    Abstract: A camera sub-assembly for a vehicular camera includes a lens barrel having a cylinder accommodating a plurality of lens optics, and an annular flange extending radially outward from the cylinder. The cylinder is received in a receiving structure of a lens holder so that an annular attaching surface of the lens barrel is juxtaposed with an annular attaching surface of the receiving structure with a cured adhesive disposed between and contacting both of the annular attaching surfaces. The cured adhesive includes an adhesive material. With the lens optics aligned with respect to an imaging array of a printed circuit board attached at the lens holder, the adhesive material is cured to a partially-cured state via exposure of the adhesive material to ultraviolet light. With the joined lens barrel and lens holder construction at a further curing station, the adhesive material is further cured from the partially-cured state to a more-cured state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Matthew C. Sesti, Robert A. Devota, Yuesheng Lu, Steven V. Byrne, Joel S. Gibson
  • Patent number: 11448968
    Abstract: A beam-forming and illuminating system for a lithography system, such an EUV lithography system, includes an optical element and an adjusting device. The adjusting device is configured so that, during a heat-up phase of the beam-forming and illuminating system, the adjusting device measures a field position and/or a pupil position of the beam-forming and illuminating system and adjusts the orientation and/or position of the optical element based on the measured field position and/or pupil position to keep the optical element in a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Holderer, Klaus Abele, Björn Liebaug