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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102582 | Ultra-short pulse scanning optical system A scanning optical system including an optical source configured to generate an ultra-short light pulse, a dispersion compensation system disposed such that the ultra-short light pulse travels through the dispersion compensation system, an optical deflector configur... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085473 | Phase offset integrated solid immersion mirror and lens for a general phase front An apparatus includes a core waveguide for directing electromagnetic radiation to a focal point, the core waveguide having a first interface on a first side of a longitudinal axis for directing a first plurality of rays of the electromagnetic radiation to a focal po... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8031388 | Two-element f-θ lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a positive refraction meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, the secon... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031387 | Two-element fθ lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a positive refraction meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, the secon... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7982962 | Lens module of scanner A lens module of a scanner is provided, including a first lens with a positive diopter, a second lens with a negative diopter, a third lens with a positive diopter, and a fourth lens with a negative diopter. The first, second, third, and fourth lenses are sequential... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7911668 | Ultra-short pulse scanning optical system A scanning optical system including an optical source configured to generate an ultra-short light pulse, a dispersion compensation system disposed such that the ultra-short light pulse travels through the dispersion compensation system, an optical deflector configur... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7898739 | Plastic optical element, nest structure, die, optical scan apparatus and image formation apparatus A plastic optical element is provided, which includes an optical element body having a transfer surface which includes at least one laser beam incident portion of a concave shape, and a support portion connected with the optical element body, in which the support po... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7852566 | Single F-theta lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A single f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit is in a meniscus shape formed by the lens in which a concave surface faces towards the side of a MEMS reflecting mirror. The single f-θ lens has a first optical surface and a s... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7821721 | Two-element f-θ lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the convex surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS m... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817320 | Two-element fθ lens with short focal distance for laser scanning unit A two-element fθ lens with short focal distance is used for a laser scanning unit with a polygon mirror and the two-element fθ lens comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is a positive power meniscus lens and the second lens is a negative power m... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817342 | Two-element F-theta lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a biconvex lens, the second lens is a meniscus lens of which the concave surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800806 | Two-element Fθ lens with short focal distance for laser scanning unit A two-element fθ lens with short focal distance for a laser scanning unit comprises a first lens and a second lens. The first lens has first and second optical surfaces, the second lens has third and fourth optical surfaces, and all the optical surfaces in a main s... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7791812 | Two-element fθ lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a meniscus lens of which the concave surface is disposed on a side of a MEMS mirror, the second lens is a biconca... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7619801 | Two-element f-θ lens used for micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit A two-element f-θ lens used for a micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning unit includes a first lens and a second lens, the first lens is a biconvex lens and the second lens is a biconcave lens. At least one optical surface is aspherical surface in bo... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7567387 | Phase offset integrated solid immersion mirror and lens for a general phase front An apparatus comprises a condenser for directing electromagnetic radiation to a focal point, the condenser comprising a first interface on a first side of a longitudinal axis for directing a first plurality of rays of the electromagnetic radiation to a focal point a... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7557998 | High distorted lens A lens with a very high degree of barrel distortion at the image plane (or pincushion distortion in object space). ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7450313 | Scanning lens molded from resin and method of positioning a scanning lens A scanning lens is molded from resin. A lens part refracts a light beam which is scanned in a first direction of the lens part. The lens part defines an optical axis orthogonal to the first direction. The first end part is disposed adjacent to the lens part at one e... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7436563 | Optical scanning apparatus with composite collimator-deflector between laser source and deflection scanner An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source; a deflection scanner for scanningly deflecting a laser beam emitted by the light source; a deflection member for deflecting a part of the laser beam emitted by the light source, the deflection member being dispo... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7382543 | fθ lens in laser scanning unit and method of making The present invention mainly relates to the structure and manufacturing process of a new fθ lens in LSU, which is plastic lens produced through injection molding. Its optical surface is made of multi-sections, and the optical surface of each section, according to t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7355772 | Scanner and image forming apparatus including a pre-deflection lens that has a width reduced by an emission-side concavity and that converges light incident on areas other than the thinned portion A cylindrical lens is positioned between and a polygon mirror and a second slit plate through which light beams from two light beam emitting units pass, and the cylindrical lens has a thin portion where the thickness between the entrance plane and the emission plane... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7230769 | Humidity tolerant scan lens A lens has a lens body (1), reinforcing extensions (3a, 3b) and a clear aperture (9) surrounded on top and bottom by lens body. The lens is suitable for spot scanning. The lens is made of a water absorbing material, such as ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7180644 | Holographic storage lenses Disclosed are holographic storage systems and lenses for holographic storage systems. The lens units can be of a two-component design. The lenses can be used to both record to photorefractive storage media and to read from photorefractive storage media. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7164518 | Fast scanner with rotatable mirror and image processing system A scanner for obtaining an image of an object placed on an at least partially transparent platform, wherein the platform is defined by edge portions and has at least including a first scan area and a second scan area. In one embodiment, the scanner includes a white ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7106415 | Illumination compensator for curved surface lithography A zero power identical pair of oppositely-oriented meniscus lens elements mounted in the projection light path, serves as curved mask support while compensating for optical anomalies such as beam shift and beam deviations produced by other transparent supports for t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7088353 | Display device In order to provide a display device by which increasing of number of spatial light modulation elements and increasing of number of pixels can be suppressed, and high definition of a display image is easily realized, in the display device, a DMD is inclined with res... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7035017 | System and method for telecentric projection lenses A projection lens system which includes a telecentric lens assembly. The lens may be used to form an image from a light source, including for example a resonant microcavity phosphororcathode ray tube, onto a screen or display, such as in a television or a projection... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7012757 | Method for designing a lens system and resulting apparatus A method for designing a lens system that allows one design tolerance to be relaxed to enhance other lens characteristics where the aberration(s) resulting from the relaxed design tolerance can be corrected by image processing subsequent to the acquisition of the ra... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995919 | F-theta lens and laser scanning unit including the same An f-theta lens and a laser scanning unit including the same are provided. The f-theta lens for a laser scanning unit includes a lens body that to focus incident light onto a scanning surface, and ribs formed on opposite sides of the lens body to protect the lens bo... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6985183 | Method for exploring viewpoint and focal length of camera The present invention is a method for exploring the viewpoint and focal length of a fisheye lens camera (FELC). It employs the characteristic of the central symmetry of the distortion of the fisheye lens (FEL) to set its optic axis by means of a calibration target w... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980367 | Scanning type display optical system A scanning display optical system is disclosed that can optically correct the distortion of images formed by two-dimensional scanning of a light beam. The scanning display optical system comprises a deflection device deflecting a light beam from a light source two-d... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6965715 | Lens and method for producing a lens A rod lens with one or more optically active surfaces and one or more inactive surfaces, in which one part of the optically inactive surface or surfaces, especially a lens facet and/or radial peripheral surface of a lens, is smooth, and a method for smoothing one pa... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6940891 | High precision optical imaging systems and related systems This disclosure describes the design and construction of high-precision off-axis optical imaging systems. The disclosure also describes the design and construction of high-precision mounting structures for rigidly holding optical elements in an optical imaging syste... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6922289 | Objective lens system for optical pickups An objective lens system for optical pickups reading and/or writing information by condensing a luminous flux from a light source onto an optical information recording medium, consists of, a single lens having, from a light source side, a first surface convex to the... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6919993 | Scanning lens and scanning optical device A scanning lens molded with resin is disclosed. The lens has a first lens surface which a light beam incident to, and a second lens surface which emits the light beam. The lens further includes a first lens frame formed to project from the first lens surface, the fi... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6914727 | Imaging optical system An imaging optical system which images a line image extending in a main scanning direction in a two-dimensional image as an erected image at a unit magnification in the main scanning direction includes an erecting unit optical system consisting of a plurality of ref... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6914704 | Obliquity correction system Disclosed are methods of producing obliquity corrected light beams, and holographic recording and retrieval systems that utilize a obliquity corrected reference beam. The obliquity correction is accomplished using off-center lenses. ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6894843 | Optical apparatus for a line scanner system with reduced optical total track An optical apparatus for a line scanner system comprises a main lens group, an aspherical field flattener lens and a line sensor arranged sequentially along the same optical axis. The main lens group consists of four rotationally symmetrical lenses for refracting an... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6859329 | Scanning type display optical system and scanning type image display apparatus A scanning type display optical system which is small in size and can display images by two-dimensionally scanning light is disclosed. The scanning type display optical system scans light from a light source in a first direction by a first scanning device, and scans... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6807011 | Humidity tolerant scan lens A lens has a body (1), reinforcing extensions (3a, 3b) and a clear aperture (9) surrounded on top and bottom by lens body. The lens is suitable for spot scanning. The lens is made of a water absorbing material, such as most ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6771429 | Optical scanner An optical scanner according to the present invention comprises a first imaging optical system consisting of a collimator lens and a cylindrical lens, a light deflector reflecting/deflecting a light beam for scanning, and a second imaging optical system consisting o... | 08/03/2004 |
