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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7606454 | Optical fiber array, optical component and optical switch using the optical fiber array An optical fiber array for insertion-positioning and arranging coated optical fibers in a substrate, in which a plurality of through-holes are formed, wherein a coating of a tip of the coated optical fiber is removed to expose a optical fiber, and wherein with the u... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7515800 | Display device with fiber-optic arrangement The invention relates to a display device having a fiber-optic plate and a display with an image plane on which the image information of the display is generated, the fiber-optic plate comprising a fiber bundle with a multiplicity of fiber cores extending beside one... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512301 | Image reader and image processor having a light source forming trapezoid-shaped illuminance distribution in sub-scanning direction An image reader for reading an image drawn on a paper or a sheet-like recording medium, an image processor provided with the image reader, such as a copying machine, a scanner and the like, and a fiber lens to be applied to those devices. The image processor has to ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7502538 | System to monitor a structure within an outer casing of a gas turbine engine A system is provided to monitor a structure within an outer casing of a gas turbine engine. The system may comprise an optical fiber bundle, a fiber bundle palette and a camera palette assembly. The optical fiber bundle may have first and second ends. The first end ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7444052 | Display device A display device includes an illuminating device having an optical waveguide plate for introducing light thereinto, a drive assembly having a planar array of actuators disposed in facing relation to the optical waveguide plate, a displacement transmitter assembly di... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440668 | Devices and methods for side-coupling optical fibers to optoelectronic components Optical devices, components and methods for mounting optical fibers and for side-coupling light to/from optical fibers using a modified silicon V-groove, or silicon V-groove array, wherein V-grooves, which are designed for precisely aligning/spacing optical fibers, ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437039 | Optical engine with tightly coupled light source An image presentation device (100) with an associated optical light engine includes one or more semiconductor light emitting diodes or other such devices (122, 124, 126) that are combined to provide a source of light to a micro-display panel (150 | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421170 | Large-area fiber plate, radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing the same and producing method therefor The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiat... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7400805 | Compact light collection system and method A light collection system includes at least one light source, a light tunnel having reflective walls and a collimating plate at the light output end of the tunnel. The collimating plate includes an optical element array. The element array receives the light emitted ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7379643 | Optical fiber sensor based on retro-reflective fiber Bragg gratings A retro-reflective sensor for sensing mechanical, chemical or temperature related information, is disclosed. The sensor is formed of an optical waveguide suitable for use in-situ in a high temperature environment having a Bragg grating written into a core region the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377701 | Radiation imaging apparatus and large-area fiber plate The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366382 | Optical beam diagnostic device and method An optical beam diagnostic device includes one or more sets of coherent optical fiber bundles, wherein one end of the coherent optical fiber bundles is arranged to receive optical information from a dynamic moving or static optical beam or beams, and the other end o... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363023 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. A V-shaped groove is provided adjacent an operation panel, the V-shaped groove containing a first slope s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7348560 | Thermoluminescent reader module A thermoluminescent reader module having a hardened, durable construction has a casing which houses a filter, a ball lens and detection module. After a thermoluminscent material is heated by a laser diode, the ball lens collects the hemispherical photon emissions. T... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346245 | Switch-type imaging fiber apparatus and branch-type imaging fiber apparatus A switch-type imaging fiber apparatus and a branch-type imaging fiber apparatus are provided. Light emitted from a laser light source is made incident on an opening of an IF (image fiber) guided by a GM (galvanometer), output from an optical system provided at a lea... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7338196 | Low profile light panel Low profile, thin panels using a layer of clear cast polymer with a reflective, mirrored backing and edges and a light diffusing face sheet, carrying light sources using fiber optic lenses or diodes on all or any sides thereof. The reflective sides direct the light ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333698 | Optical scanning device An optical scanning device including a bundle of optical fibers adapted for delivering optical energy beams therethrough, and an actuator coupled to the bundle of optical fibers adapted to bend the bundle of optical fibers in a scanning motion. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324807 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel is located a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321757 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel is located a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321758 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel is located a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321760 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel is located a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321137 | RGB light emitting diode package with improved color mixing properties An RGB light emitting diode package with improved color mixing properties includes red, green, and blue light emitting diode chips provided on a reflector. A photomixing material and a filler resin scatters rays so as to uniformly mix the rays emitted from the light... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321759 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel, a V-shaped groove is provided which contains a first slope stretching awa... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321756 | Information processing unit An information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and which reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. Adjacent to an operation panel is located a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309880 | Display apparatus and method for producing the same A display apparatus includes an array of fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a layered structure having a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a semiconductor light-e... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7297931 | Method and apparatus to effectively reduce a non-active detection gap of an optical sensor An apparatus is provided to effectively reduce the non-active detection gap between sensor elements of an optical sensor. Reducing the non-active gap can subsequently reduce the time delay between sensor elements, mitigating the image degrading effects of a composit... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295736 | Image pickup device An image pickup device according to the present invention comprises (1) a fiber optical plate constituted by bundling a plurality of optical fibers, including a core and a cladding covering an outer periphery thereof and having a light incident surface and a light-e... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292760 | Optical converter formed from flexible strips A fiber optic faceplate fabricated using a series of stacked ribbon structures. Each ribbon structure comprises optical fiber segments that run from an input edge to an output edge with fixed input and output fiber-to-fiber spacing. Input and output edge spacers may... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287915 | Optical device An optical device comprises an optical head and a package containing the optical head and having pins led outside. A V-groove is formed in one side of a glass substrate. On the other side, the glass substrate is secured to the base of the package. A PD array and the... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286733 | Light guide body A light guide body includes: at least a front end tapered portion including one end connectable to an optical fiber and the other end, the one end being thinner than the other end; a plurality of second taper portions, each including one end connectable to an optica... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283112 | Reflective microelectrical mechanical structure (MEMS) optical modulator and optical display system A MEMS optical display system includes an illumination source for providing illumination light, a collimating lens for receiving the illumination light and forming from it collimated illumination light, and a microlens array having an array of lenslets for receiving... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280723 | Illumination assembly including a rigid light-guiding element incorporating a numerical-aperture alteration taper An illumination assembly includes a light-emitting element that emits light over a light-source numerical aperture and an elongated light-guiding element including opposed incident and emission ends between which ends light propagates by total internal reflection. T... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280727 | Micro-well and methods of fabricating and selectively blackening the same Well plates adaptable for specimen sampling in the biological, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences are fabricated by dissolving fusedly-retained cores from the cladding material of a fused fiber plate to define a capillary plate including first and second faces and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270458 | Curved light guide screen Provided is a curved light guide screen. A plurality of vertically aligned light guides are arranged into light guide magnifying layers. Spacers are disposed between any two adjacent light guide magnifying layers, proximate to the magnifying output ends, to position... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262921 | Illuminating optical system for endoscope An endoscope illuminating optical system having a gradient index lens capable of illuminating by a sufficient light amount and by a wider angle is provided. The endoscope illuminating optical system is constituted to illuminate an observed region by light guided by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262764 | Universal computing device for surface applications A universal input device for use with a surface, such as a whiteboard, is provided. The universal input device can be used to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be associated with new or stored... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251399 | Method of making densely packed light guide ribbon Provided is a method of making a densely packed light guide ribbon. More specifically, in at least one embodiment, a first clad layer is deposited upon a carrier. A first plurality of spaced light guides are then provided upon the first clad layer. A second clad lay... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251383 | Method and device of imaging with an imager having a fiber plate cover There is provided an imager with, for example, a fiber plate cover capable of transferring to a sensor element an image of a sample that may be close to or in contact with such fiber plate cover, and imaging such sample. An imager may include a fiber plate cover cap... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250636 | Display apparatus and method for producing the same A display apparatus includes an array of fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a layered structure having a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a semiconductor light-e... | 07/31/2007 |