Plural Mirrors Or Reflecting Surfaces Patents (Class 359/850)
  • Patent number: 12140740
    Abstract: An optical device introduces light from an outdoor view in a blind spot area hidden by an obstacle. The optical device includes a first reflector that reflects a part of light and transmits another part of the light, and a second reflector placed between a back surface of the first reflector and the obstacle and apart from the first reflector. The second reflector has a reflective surface that reflects light incident from the first reflector toward the first reflector. A light shield is placed at a front surface of the first reflector to block external light incident on and reflected from the front surface of the first reflector. The light shield includes light-shielding plates arranged at an interval in a vertical direction such that each light-shielding plate is horizontal. The first reflector is parallel to the reflective surface of the second reflector and tilted from a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MIRISE Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Tsuji, Kodai Takeda, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 12130363
    Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a laser source and a polygon scanner. The laser source is configured to generate a first beam. The polygon scanner includes a frame and a plurality of mirrors coupled to the frame, each mirror comprising a glass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti, IV, Yonggang Ha, Zhongjie Li, Cal Alden Smith
  • Patent number: 12001022
    Abstract: An extended field-of-view near-to-eye display system provides for AR/MR image viewing over about a 180° FOV. The display system may include a multiplicity of display panels per eye of a user and may include both high- and low-resolution display capabilities. The high-resolution displays may be positioned in front of the user's eyes in their primary visual field while the low-resolution displays may be positioned so as to be seen by the user's peripheral vision. The low-resolution displays provide cueing information to the user out to the limit of visual perception (for each eye), placing encoded light and movement in the periphery of the user's vision for enhanced situational awareness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Marsupial Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Parker, Julie Parker, Patrick Brophy
  • Patent number: 11981386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a convertible rearview mirror comprising a fixed portion associable with an outer surface and a movable portion, connected to the fixed portion by means of a joint system. The movable portion is rotatable with respect to the fixed portion between a first rearview position and a second deflected position, about a rotation axis of the joint system. The movable portion further comprises at least one reflective surface. The present invention also relates to a motorcycle comprising said rearview mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Rizoma IP S.r.I.
    Inventors: Fabrizio Rigolio, Guglielmo Urso, Eugenio Lodi, Mattia Rigoni
  • Patent number: 11930257
    Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion that joins the front housing portion. A first printed circuit board (PCB) is disposed at the front housing portion, with an imager disposed at a front side of the first PCB and a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first PCB. A second PCB has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side of the second PCB. Board-to-board electrical connection of circuitry of the second printed circuit board to circuitry of the first printed circuit board is made via electrical connection of the first and second electrical connectors. The connector portion of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector comprising a plurality of solid terminal pins. A connector portion of the rear housing portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
  • Patent number: 11835714
    Abstract: A polygon mirror includes a resin member, a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, an inner surface joining the first and second surfaces to surround a through hole extending from the first to the second surface, and includes outer surfaces joining the first and second surfaces. A first segment between the first surface and the outer surfaces is defined as a first reference of a height in a direction from a second segment between the second surface and the outer surfaces to the first segment. The first surface includes a projection that forms the inner surface and projects from the first reference toward a side opposite to the second surface. The second segment is defined as a second reference of the height in the direction. The second surface includes a depressed portion distant from the outer surfaces and depressed from the second reference toward the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Takata
  • Patent number: 11833965
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element assembly. The mirror reflective element assembly includes a main reflective element backing plate and a main reflective element. The main reflective element includes a glass substrate having a mirror reflector coated at a surface thereof. The mirror reflector-coated glass substrate of the main reflective element is attached at the main reflective element backing plate. The mirror reflective element assembly includes an auxiliary reflective element backing plate and an auxiliary wide angle reflective element. The auxiliary wide angle reflective element is positioned on the auxiliary reflective element backing plate. The auxiliary reflective element backing plate is attached to the main reflective element backing plate via an attachment mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Donnelly Corporation
    Inventors: Keith D. Foote, Kevin P. Benthem, Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 11686943
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a lens module comprising a lens and a reflective module in the lens; and a display module on at least one side surface of the lens, the display module being configured to display an image, the lens comprising: a side surface facing the display module and configured to receive the image; and an exiting surface configured to emit the image reflected by the reflective module, wherein the side surface comprises one or more inclination surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JeongWoo Park, Jaejoong Kwon, Hyun Sup Lee, Subin Jung, Juhwa Ha
  • Patent number: 11652181
    Abstract: A visibly transparent luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) is disclosed. The LSC includes a transparent substrate having at least one edge surface. A dye layer is coupled to the substrate, the dye layer having a peak absorption wavelength outside the visible band, the dye layer being configured to re-emit light at a peak emission wavelength outside the visible band, at least a portion of the re-emitted light being waveguided to the edge surface of the substrate. A photovoltaic device is coupled to the edge surface of the transparent substrate, the photovoltaic device being configured to absorb light at the peak emission wavelength and generate electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Richard Royal Lunt, Vladimir Bulovic, Miles Clark Barr
  • Patent number: 11622165
    Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion. The front housing portion accommodates a lens. A first printed circuit board (PCB) is disposed at the front housing portion, with an imager disposed at a front side of the first PCB and a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first PCB. A second PCB has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side. Circuitry of the second PCB is electrically connected to circuitry of the first PCB via electrical connection of the first and second electrical connectors. A plurality of terminal pins has a first end interior the camera housing and a second end at a connector portion of the rear housing portion. The connector portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector when the vehicular camera assembly is installed at a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
  • Patent number: 11567200
    Abstract: A lidar system includes one or more light sources configured to generate a first beam of light and a second beam of light, a scanner configured to scan the first and second beams of light across a field of regard of the lidar system, and a receiver configured to detect the first beam of light and the second beam of light scattered by one or more remote targets. The scanner includes a rotatable polygon mirror that includes multiple reflective surfaces angularly offset from one another along a periphery of the polygon mirror, the reflective surfaces configured to reflect the first and second beams of light to produce a series of scan lines as the polygon mirror rotates. The scanner also includes a pivotable scan mirror configured to (i) reflect the first and second beams of light and (ii) pivot to distribute the scan lines across the field of regard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Luminar, LLC
    Inventors: Jason M. Eichenholz, Scott R. Campbell, John E. McWhirter, Matthew D. Weed, Lane A. Martin
  • Patent number: 11525915
    Abstract: At least one beam of an optical wave is transmitted along a transmission angle toward a target location from a send aperture of a transmitter. The optical wave comprises at least a first portion, and a second portion having a different characteristic from a characteristic of the first portion. Two or more receivers include at least one receiver comprising: a receive aperture arranged in proximity to at least one of the send aperture or a receive aperture of a different receiver, an optical phased array within the receive aperture, the optical phased array being configured to receive at least a portion of a collected optical wave arriving at the receive aperture along a respective collection angle, and a filter configured to filter the received portion of the collected optical wave according to the characteristic of the first portion of the optical wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Photonics LLC
    Inventors: Peter Nicholas Russo, Christopher Vincent Poulton, Matthew Byrd, Zhan Su, Ehsan Hosseini, Michael Robert Watts
  • Patent number: 11458898
    Abstract: An overhead console includes a console housing, an illumination board, a vehicle interior checking mirror, a mirror surface light source mounted on the illumination board together with the illumination light source and configured to emit light toward the mirror surface of the vehicle interior checking mirror in the mirror surface visible position, and a see-through display plate that is a display plate capable of transparently displaying a symbol indicating predetermined information, the see-through display plate being provided in the console housing at a location between the mirror surface light source and the mirror surface so as not to hinder the passenger from visually recognizing the mirror surface and so as to face a partial region of the mirror surface, and the see-through display plate being configured to allow light from the mirror surface light source to transmit therethrough to display the symbol on the partial region of the mirror surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 11409199
    Abstract: A pattern drawing device is provided with: a first cylindrical lens on which a beam from a light source device is incident and which has an anisotropic refractive power for converging, in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to a main scanning direction, the beam traveling toward a reflection surface of a polygon mirror; an f? lens system for causing the beam having been deflected by the reflection surface of the polygon mirror to be incident thereon, and for condensing the beam as a spot light on a surface of an object to be irradiated; and a second cylindrical lens having an anisotropic refractive power for converging, in the sub-scanning direction, the beam traveling toward the surface after being emitted from the f? lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Kato, Shuichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11334047
    Abstract: A device and method for the controlled processing of at least one workpiece (1), comprising a workpiece carrier (2) on which at least one workpiece receptacle (2.1) is present remote from a rotary shaft (2.0), at least one processing unit (3) and at least one inspection unit (4), which are offset relative to the rotary shaft (2.0) by an angular distance (?n) from one another, are each arranged so that they can be adjusted and moved in a translational manner radially with respect to the rotary shaft (2.0), so that a processing beam (E) and an inspection beam (P), offset relative to one another by the angular distance (?n), describe the same spiral-shaped movement path (S) relative to the workpiece carrier (2), and the inspection results derived at an inspection point (PP) are used to control process parameters in order to change the effect of the processing beam (E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS JENA GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Koehler, Christian Schindler, Hannes Scheibe, Eckhard Roth
  • Patent number: 11275340
    Abstract: There is provided a holographic projector comprising a hologram engine and a controller. The hologram engine is arranged to provide a hologram comprising a plurality of hologram pixels. Each hologram pixel has a respective hologram pixel value. The controller is arranged to selectively-drive a plurality of light-modulating pixels so as to display the hologram. Displaying the hologram comprises displaying each hologram pixel value on a contiguous group of light-modulating pixels of the plurality of light-modulating pixels such that there is a one-to-many pixel correlation between the hologram and the plurality of light-modulating pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: DUALITAS LTD
    Inventor: Jamieson Christmas
  • Patent number: 11231559
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting a cable end of a cable, with and without a connected crimp contact, includes a mirror apparatus with a central axis along which the cable end can be arranged for checking the cable end. The mirror apparatus includes a plurality of mirror elements arranged at a predetermined angle to each other and arranged at a predetermined angle to the central axis, each mirror element having a mirror arranged along the central axis for viewing the cable end from a different viewpoint. The inspection apparatus includes a camera for generating images of the cable end from the different viewing angles of the mirrors. At least a portion of each of the mirror elements is held in a respective position in the mirror apparatus by magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KOMAX HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Adrian Gisler, Markus Kiser, Martin Stocker
  • Patent number: 11092311
    Abstract: A light emitting device may comprise a cup having a wall extending from a first area of the cup to a second area of the cup. The wall is formed from or coated with a reflective material. The light emitting device may comprise a light extraction bridge extending beyond an outer diameter of at least a portion of the wall for directing light into the air. The light may be produced by an LED die mounted at the second area of the cup such that at least some of a light emitted from the LED die exits the cup, having been reflected from the wall and the light extraction bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Yu-Chen Shen, Oleg B. Shchekin
  • Patent number: 10983316
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of designing a freeform surface off-axial imaging system. The method comprises the steps of establishing an initial system and selecting feature fields; gradually enlarging a construction of feature field, and constructing the initial system into a freeform surface system; and expanding a construction area of each freeform surface of the freeform surface system, and reconstructing the freeform surface in an extended construction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui-rui Tang, Ben-qi Zhang, Jun Zhu, Guo-Fan Jin, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 10897585
    Abstract: A hyperspectral imaging system and method are described herein for providing a hyperspectral image of an area of a remote object. In one embodiment, the hyperspectral imaging system includes an optic, a stack of waveguide plates, a spectral filter array, a detector array, and a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammad A. Saleh, Patrick Wallace Woodman
  • Patent number: 10670513
    Abstract: A particle detecting device includes an inspection light source 30, which emits inspection light, a flow cell 40, which is irradiated with the inspection light, and an oval mirror 50, which has a first focal point at a position of the flow cell 40 and has a hole 51 at an apex of the oval mirror 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Furuya, Daisuke Obara
  • Patent number: 10569712
    Abstract: An asymmetrical mirror lens, usable on front fenders of school buses and similar vehicles, which has a plurality of mirror sections, each having a distinct constant radius of curvature to reduce image distortion. Optional sections located between sections of the constant radius of curvature have a step-wise changing radii of curvature to smooth the image sizes as an object moves across the mirror lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ROSCO, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Englander, Julian Serer
  • Patent number: 10365164
    Abstract: When an optical system is illuminated with illumination light fluxes emitted from respective input image points, an interference image generated by superimposing output light fluxes output from the optical system and a reference light flux coherent with the output light fluxes is imaged to acquire interference image data collectively including information of an interference image about all input image points. Diffractive optical light propagation simulation is performed to acquire a phase distribution associated with only light emitted from a single input image point at a position where reconstructed light fluxes to the respective output light fluxes are separated into each light flux. In each input image point, this simulation is performed to acquire a phase distribution on an exit pupil plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Okamoto, Tsukasa Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10247939
    Abstract: A lens unit includes an optical system for forming an optical image of a subject. The optical system includes an optical member. The optical member is disposed closest to the subject. The optical member includes a subject-side surface having at least one groove provided thereto. The optical member transmits the optical image of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Numata
  • Patent number: 10131281
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a work vehicle being capable of arranging side view mirrors at arbitrary positions while reducing the vibration of the side view mirrors. Regarding a tractor, which is a work vehicle in which a mirror portion of a side view mirror is provided on the other end of a support arm whose one end is fixed on a cabin for covering a drive operating unit, the support arm is bent in a midway portion, and a beam is integrally formed with the support arm in such a manner as to sandwich a bending portion, and a cross-sectional area of a cross section vertical to the axial direction of the support arm is configured to be reduced as the support arm advances from the one end to the other end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Kawashiri, Kiyoyuki Okuyama
  • Patent number: 10119909
    Abstract: A biological sensing structure includes a mesa integrally connected a portion of a substrate, wherein the mesa has a top surface and a sidewall surface adjacent to the top surface. The biological sensing structure includes a first light reflecting layer over the top surface and the sidewall surface of the mesa. The biological sensing structure includes a filling material surrounding the mesa, wherein the mesa protrudes from the filling material. The biological sensing structure includes a stop layer over the filling material and a portion of the first light reflecting layer. The biological sensing structure includes a second light reflecting layer over a portion of the stop layer and a portion of the top surface of the mesa. The biological sensing structure includes an opening in the second light reflecting layer to partially expose the top surface of the mesa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Hua Lin, Li-Cheng Chu, Ming-Tung Wu, Yuan-Chih Hsieh, Lan-Lin Chao, Chia-Shiung Tsai
  • Patent number: 10095014
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical apparatus of collecting three-dimensional information of an object, which includes an optical apparatus of collecting three-dimensional information of an object, which includes an optical detector, a first omnidirectional mirror and a second omnidirectional mirror. The second omnidirectional mirror is disposed between the optical detector and the first omnidirectional mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tzunghan Lin
  • Patent number: 10076005
    Abstract: A lighting device may comprise a light emitting element and a reflector, the reflector comprising: a first opening surrounding the light emitting element and a second opening; reflector side walls forming the first and second openings, the reflector side walls divergently extending from the first opening away from the light emitting element to the second opening; and corner facets, wherein each corner facet is positioned over a corresponding reflector corner formed by an adjacent pair of reflector side walls at the first opening. In this way, a photosensitive work piece may be uniformly irradiated while mitigating under-curing and over-curing, and while reducing a coupling optics size and a distance between the light emitting elements and the work piece, thereby decreasing cure times and lowering manufacturing costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Phoseon Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Doug Childers
  • Patent number: 10073361
    Abstract: An EUV lithography system (1) includes: at least one optical element (13, 14) having an optical surface (13a, 14a) arranged in a vacuum environment (17) of the EUV lithography system (1), and a feed device (27) for feeding hydrogen into the vacuum environment (17), in which at least one silicon-containing surface (29a) is arranged. The feed device (27) additionally feeds an oxygen-containing gas into the vacuum environment (17) and has a metering device (28) that sets an oxygen partial pressure (pO2) at the at least one silicon-containing surface (29a) and/or at the optical surface (13a, 14a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Heinrich Ehm, Stefan-Wolfgang Schmidt, Edgar Osorio, Edwin Te Sligte, Mark Zellenrath, Hella Logtenberg
  • Patent number: 9971143
    Abstract: A wavelength variable interference filter includes a fixed substrate, a movable substrate that faces the fixed substrate, a pair of reflective films, a fixed extraction electrode provided on the fixed substrate, and a movable connection electrode that is provided on the movable substrate and is in contact with the fixed extraction electrode at a connection position, in which the movable substrate includes a first groove that is provided at the connection position in a plan view in which the fixed substrate and the movable substrate are viewed from a substrate thickness direction, and a second groove that has a larger area than an area of the first groove in the plan view and is connected to the first groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Teruyuki Nishimura, Tomoki Sakashita
  • Patent number: 9920892
    Abstract: One non-limiting example of an LED system for a lighting assembly includes a heat sink having a plurality of base plates. Each of the base plates has a pair of opposing edges disposed adjacent to a corresponding one of the other base plates. Additionally, each base plate has an outer face extending between the opposing edges; and the LED system further includes a plurality of LEDs attached to the outer face of each base plate. A fan is releasably attached to a bottom portion of the heat sink and configured to produce a flow of air through the heat sink from the bottom portion through a top portion of the heat sink to maintain an operating temperature of the LED system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Gary D. Yurich
  • Patent number: 9885908
    Abstract: An opposing substrate as a substrate for an electro-optical device includes a transparent base member and a light shielding portion disposed on a region between pixels on the base member. The light shielding portion includes a first reflective film and a second reflective film that is disposed to overlap the first reflective film and has a reflection rate lower than that of the first reflective film, and a first protective film that covers the first reflective film is provided between the first reflective film and the second reflective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Tsuchiya, Takehiro Ono, Yusuke Kinoe, Yoshitaka Hama, Yasushi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 9810991
    Abstract: A system for cleaning or suppressing contamination or oxidation in a EUV optical setting includes an illumination source, a detector, a first set of optical elements to direct light from the illumination source to a specimen and a second set of optical elements to receive illumination from the specimen and direct the illumination to the detector. The system also includes one or more vacuum chambers for containing the first and second set of optical elements and containing a selected purge gas ionizable by the light emitted by the illumination source. The first or second set of optical elements includes an electrically biased optical element having at least one electrically biased surface. The electrically biased optical element has a bias configuration suitable to attract one or more ionic species of the selected purge gas to the electrically biased surface in order to clean contaminants from the electrically biased surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Chilese, Gildardo Delgado, Rudy F. Garcia
  • Patent number: 9803842
    Abstract: A LED driving structure, includes: a lower housing, being a box structure and having an opening end; a upper housing positioned on the opening end of the lower housing, and covering a part of the opening end; a separating board positioned an end of the upper housing and being perpendicular to the upper housing, the upper housing, the separating board and a part of the lower housing cooperative forming an electrical chamber; and an upper cover positioned on the opening end of the lower housing, wherein the upper cover and the upper housing cooperatively cover the opening end, the upper cover, the separating board and the rest part of the lower housing cooperatively form a wiring chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN LONGOOD INTELLIGENT ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong Yang, Qingsong Chu, Yu Luo, Jun Ding
  • Patent number: 9751458
    Abstract: An illumination system for a vehicle is provided that includes a vehicle having a rear spoiler, a light assembly located on an underside of the spoiler, a sensor for sensing a location of a person proximate to the spoiler, and a controller for controlling the light assembly to illuminate an area proximate the rear of the vehicle when a person is detected proximate to the spoiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Dellock, Michael Musleh, Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, James J. Surman
  • Patent number: 9599944
    Abstract: The circuit substrate includes at least two lands formed on a substrate, wherein one electrode is to be mounted on the at least two lands, an electronic part having electrodes, one of the electrodes is soldered on the at least two lands with solders whose amounts are adjusted by a metal mask having at least two opening parts, positions of the at least two opening parts corresponding to the at least two lands when the solders are applied and melted, areas of the at least two opening parts being different with each other, wherein a height of one of the solders is different from a height of the other of the solders according to the difference of the areas of the at least two opening parts of the metal mask, whereby the electronic part is mounted on the circuit substrate in an inclined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Takahiro Yoneyama, Fumiyuki Yamatsuka
  • Patent number: 9563044
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reflective optical objective (1) comprising: —a first reflecting element (3) including a front surface (3a) and a hack surface (3b), the front surface (3a) including a convex reflecting surface (11); and —a second reflecting element (5) including a concave reflecting surface (13) facing the convex reflecting surface (11) of the first reflecting element (3), the second reflecting element (5) including a transmissive section (7) permitting electromagnetic radiation to pass through the concave reflecting surface (13) of the second reflecting element (5) to the first reflecting element (3). The reflective optical objective (1) is characterized in that the reflective optical objective (1) includes a carrier material (9) embedding at least the front surface (3a) of the first reflecting element (3) and defining the distance (d) between the first (3) and second (5) reflecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
    Inventors: Davor Kosanic, Bastien Rachet, Victor Cadarso, Juergen Brugger
  • Patent number: 9496822
    Abstract: A hurricane-proof solar tracker and related method of operation includes a solar panel array assembly having one end coupled to a ballast and a tilting assembly supporting a solar panel assembly. The tilting assembly tilts the solar panel array assembly to track with the sun in a first position, and retracts the solar panel array to a substantially flat second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: David H. Gerwing
  • Patent number: 9377609
    Abstract: An imaging element array includes a plurality of imaging elements that are arranged side by side. Each imaging element is integrally molded and includes an incident surface, an emission surface, and a plurality of reflective surfaces which is provided between the incident surface and the emission surface. The imaging element includes a first reflective element. In the first reflective element, at least one of the plurality of reflective surfaces is formed on a top of a convex portion which protrudes outwardly and has reflective sidewalls extending therefrom. In the first reflective element, a width of the reflective surface, which is formed on the top of the convex portion, in an arrangement direction thereof is less than a distance from an entrance into the concave portion to the top of the convex surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9122039
    Abstract: An optical system incorporating a compact internal field of view switch configured to switch the field of view of the optical system between a narrow field of view and a wide field of view while maintaining a constant exit aperture size. In one example the optical system includes an active imaging sub-system optically coupled to the exit aperture, and the field of view switch is positioned between the exit aperture and the active imaging sub-system. In one example the field of view switch is configured as a pupil relay having non-unity magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald G. Hegg
  • Patent number: 9110354
    Abstract: A subsystem is disclosed providing a steerable-beam light source. An array of micromechanical reflectors may be disposed to selectively direct portions of light from a light source to selected targets in a scene, such as for providing composed illumination for still or video photography. The array of reflectors may be continuously steerable, thereby achieving more than the mere inefficient patterning of illumination light available from prior art projection approaches, but instead efficiently redirecting light to the desired regions of the scene. The subsystem may be sufficiently compact so as to permit integration with a compact camera into a cellular telephone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a digital still-image camera, a digital video-image camera, and so on. The array may be operated in conjunction with a camera controller to selectively illuminate one or more targets of focus or zoom, omit illumination of undesirable image regions, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Philipp Helmut Schmaelzle, Dirk De Bruyker, Timothy Stowe
  • Patent number: 9086561
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an optical arrangement in a projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus which is designed for operation in EUV. The optical arrangement includes first and second mirrors that are in direct succession to each other along the projection beam direction. The second mirror is rigidly connected to the first mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Rostalski, Tilman Schwertner, Alexander Epple
  • Publication number: 20150138657
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an antenna apparatus. Disclosed is an antenna apparatus comprising a power feeding unit receiving an electromagnetic wave from a transmitter and providing the received electromagnetic wave to the antenna apparatus, a sub reflector generating an OAM (Orbital Angular Momentum) mode electromagnetic wave, and a main reflector reflecting the generated OAM mode electromagnetic wave to a far field region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Woo Jin BYUN, Yong Heui CHO, Kwang Seon KIM, Bong Su KIM, Min Soo KANG, Jong Soo LIM
  • Publication number: 20150108370
    Abstract: Devices and methods for curing materials with radiant energy are described. The devices include a first reflector and a second reflector that are semi-ellipses. The ellipses that define the first reflector and the second reflector have axes of different lengths, and the reflectors are aligned such that the focal points of the reflectors are overlaid. A radiative energy source at a near focal point of a reflector can provide energy to cure a coating on a substrate at a far focal point of the reflector. The different sizes of the two reflectors decrease focusing error of the radiative energy and provide improved efficiency to the curing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Miltec Corporation
    Inventors: John Gunter, Jerome Kreman
  • Publication number: 20150092174
    Abstract: An illumination optical unit comprises a first faceted element and a second faceted element having a multiplicity of displaceable micromirrors which can be grouped flexibly to form facets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Endres, Michael Patra
  • Publication number: 20150085270
    Abstract: A reflective imaging optical system which forms, on a second plane, an image of a pattern arranged on a first plane and illuminated with light from an illumination optical system includes a plurality of reflecting mirrors including first and second reflecting mirrors by which the light reflected by the first plane is reflected first, second, respectively. An area on the first plane illuminated with the light from the illumination optical system is an illumination objective area, the illumination objective area is positioned on a predetermined side of an optical axis of the reflecting mirrors, and reflection areas of the first and second reflecting mirrors are positioned on the predetermined side of the optical axis of the reflecting mirrors; and the first and second reflecting mirrors are arranged so that an optical path of the light from the illumination optical system is positioned between the first and second reflecting mirrors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshio KAWABE
  • Patent number: 8988791
    Abstract: A light collector includes a light guide having a refractive index larger than a refractive index of air and a reflecting surface configured to reflect light output from a conic surface of the light guide back to the light guide. The light guide is made of transparent material through which light passes. The light guide has an entering portion from which light enters and an exiting portion from which the light exits. The light guide has a circular cone shape and has a cross-sectional area that decreases in a direction from the entering portion to the exiting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Yamada, Koichi Mori
  • Patent number: 8985786
    Abstract: Provided is an image projection apparatus, such as a projector, including a light source; an image generating element such as a DMD that receives light from the light source and forms an image; an image generating unit that irradiates the image generating element with the light from the light source; a first optical system including multiple transmission refractive optical elements; a second optical system arranged on an optical path of outgoing light of the first optical system and including a reflection optical element; and a projection optical system that enlarges and projects an image conjugate to the image generated by the image generating element as a projected image. The light source, the image generating unit, and the first optical system are arranged side by side in series in a direction parallel with the projected image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujioka, Masamichi Yamada, Yasutada Tsukioka, Naoyuki Ishikawa, Hideo Kanai
  • Patent number: 8979329
    Abstract: A curved wall, square-shaped reflector assembly includes multiple reflector wall sections and multiple enclosure wall sections. Each reflector wall section is slidably coupled to a respective enclosure wall section by positioning a top reflector flange of the reflector wall section above a top support flange of the enclosure wall section and aligning alignment features on the enclosure wall section with holes on the reflector wall section. In addition, a bottom flange of the reflector wall section is positioned below a bottom edge of the enclosure wall section, thereby providing a consistent tension along the wall surface of the reflector wall section. Each enclosure wall section includes flange members on opposing side edges. Each of the combined reflector-enclosure wall sections are positioned orthogonal to one-another and coupled together along the adjacent flanges from the adjacent enclosure wall sections with rivets. The assembly reduces light leak without damaging the reflector surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Michael Darrill Moore, Robert Allan Blalock
  • Patent number: 8975601
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wafer with an integrated circuit (IC) layout includes receiving a first plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels corresponds to a portion of the IC layout and includes data members. The method further includes transforming the first plurality of pixels into a second plurality of control signals, wherein at least some of the control signals include both a data member of one of the pixels and another data member of another one of the pixels. The method further includes transferring the control signals to a third plurality of mirrors, wherein the mirrors conditionally reflect an energy beam incident thereupon when coupled with the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Chi Chen