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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7110177 | Polarizing film and image display The present invention provides a polarizing film or a polarizer that has an elastic modulus of at most about 3500 N/mm2 and suppresses occurrence of warping, the polarizing film is obtained by adsorbing a dichroic material in a polyvinyl alcohol-based fil... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110179 | Polarizers and isolators and methods of manufacture Polarizing glass articles, optical isolators including polarizing glass articles, and methods of manufacturing polarizing glass articles and optical isolators are disclosed. The methods manufacture can be used to manufacture isolators exhibiting improved contrast ra... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7054064 | Optical polarizer and method for fabricating such optical polarizer The present invention provides an optical polarizer and a method of fabricating such an optical polarizer. The optical polarizer includes a support member and an optical polarizing film supported by the support member. The optical polarizing film includes a number o... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052149 | Exterior vehicle mirror with auxiliary mirror having position marker indicating position of vehicle The present invention provides an outer mirrors installed in an automobile, that has a capability to be reset into a housing position, features to have auxiliary mirrors to percept and monitor the front wheels and thereabout, has a flexibility for well appreciated a... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7027223 | Optical element that is adjustable for optimizing extinction ratios An optical element such as a beam splitter for interferometer separates a heterodyne beam from the laser into separate beams having different the frequencies and orthogonal polarizations. Optical fibers can conduct the separate beams to a beam combiner for interfero... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014328 | Apparatus for tilting a carrier for optical elements The invention relates to an apparatus for tilting a carrier for optical elements with two optical faces which are arranged together on a carrier and are fixed at a fixed angle to one another, the carrier being fastened on a base plate via articulated connections. Th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014326 | Wavelength blocker A wavelength blocker including an input port for launching an input beam of light, first dispersing means for dispersing the input beam of light according to wavelength, an array of independently addressable elements for selectively blocking a portion of the dispers... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7008067 | Electrically operable pivoting actuator for door mirror of motor vehicle An electrically operable pivoting actuator for a door mirror is disclosed. The pivoting actuator comprises a frame, an electromotor, and an annular coupling member secured onto a horizontally extended support of the door mirror, the coupling member comprising two di... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009768 | Optical component and method of manufacturing same A multilayer film having two kinds of films of different refractive indexes alternately stacked on each other on a substrate composed of an optical element is formed in a plurality of parallel lines, and the adjacent lines of the multilayer film are connected to eac... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7008069 | Mirror mounting structure with offset increasing angular adjustment A mirror mount includes a mirror-head-attached first mount component, a window-attached second mount component, and a tubular connector. The first component includes a base defining an attachment plane, an angled stem, and a first ball section with a clearance area ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006266 | Optical switching devices The invention provides an optical switcing device, including a substrate having at least one polarization-selective multiplexing grating; at least one polarization-selective demultiplexing grating, and a polarization rotation element acting as a dynamic ½ λ plate,... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006268 | Bracket for supporting a torsional hinge mirror with reduced hinge stress The present invention provides methods and apparatus for combining a pivoting mirror and support bracket such that the support bracket transmits little or no stresses to the torsional hinges of the mirror. The bracket includes an isolation slot extending from one ed... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004591 | Antifogging element and method for forming the same A coating agent including photocatalyst particles dispersed in a titanium peroxide solution obtainable by causing titanium hydroxide (orthotitanic acid) gel to act with hydrogen peroxide being used as a material for the photocatalyzer film is used to a photocatalyze... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006286 | Optical member, method for producing the same, adhesive optical member and image viewing display An optical member comprising an at least one optical film, wherein an end face of the at least one optical film is covered with water-repellent materials, is useful to suppress occurrence of defects concerning the optical film, in particular, defects concerning pola... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002742 | Polarizing function element, optical isolator, laser diode module and method of producing polarizing function element This invention has the polarizing function of polarizing an input beam and a non-reflecting function of suppressing reflection of the input beam, wherein at least one side of a light-transmissive substrate 1 has a polarizing portion 4 with a striped st... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001032 | Automotive rear view mirror An automotive rear view mirror includes a primary flat reflective surface that generates an undistorted image, and three secondary reflective surfaces that are curved so as to increase the field of view laterally and also vertically. The curved reflective surfaces i... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001028 | Method and device for preventing dew condensation and frosting on optical glass window A method and an apparatus are provided for preventing formation of dew and/or ice on an optical glass window, with which formation of dew and/or ice is easily and simply prevented while an air turbulent disturbance is minimized and a deformation is inhibited as litt... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002743 | Polarization conversion system A polarization conversion system comprises a glass substrate; reflection type polarization plates, formed between top and bottom surfaces of the glass substrate and inclined at a predetermined angle, separating unpolarized incident light into two polarization direct... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999234 | Polarizing element, and plane light source unit and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same A polarizing element having excellent scattering and polarizing properties is made from a stretched sheet composed of a continuous phase and a dispersed phase. The element has continuous and dispersed phases including different resins, and the refractive index diffe... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995908 | Methods for reducing aberration in optical systems An optical system includes multiple cubic crystalline optical elements and one or more polarization rotators in which the crystal lattices of the cubic crystalline optical elements are oriented with respect to each other to reduce the effects of intrinsic birefringe... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992804 | Part made of transparent material and headlight lens for vehicles A part (1) made of transparent material that allows visible light waves to pass therethrough, said part comprising outer faces (11, 12) defining a solid body (10) made of transparent material, the part being characterized in that it further comp... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6991340 | Indirect viewing device A device for reflecting an image to a user's eyes that includes a viewing member having an interior mirror positioned in angled alignment with the user's eye; and an exterior mirror positioned in spaced alignment to the interior mirror. The exterior mirror is adjust... | 01/31/2006 |
| RE38943 | Compound objective lens for optical disks having different thicknesses A compound objective lens is composed of a hologram lens or transmitting a part of incident light without any diffraction to form a beam of transmitted light and diffracting a remaining part of the incident light to form a beam of first-order diffracted light, and a... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6986587 | Variable-shape reflection mirror and method of manufacturing the same A variable-shape mirror comprises a flexible film having a plurality of electrodes and a reflective surface whose shape varies when electrostatic forces are applied to the electrodes. The electrodes are divided in a circumferential direction and in a radial directio... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6984048 | Door mirror A door mirror which is installed on a motor vehicle's body in such a manner as to project laterally from the vehicle's body so as to reflect on a surface of the mirror what is behind the vehicle's body, wherein the mirror surface of the door mirror is divided intoâ–... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6979089 | Multi-view mirror assembly for a vehicle A multi-view mirror assembly for a vehicle dimensioned to allow a driver to view people, vehicles and other objects positioned lateral and downwardly vertical to a rear end of the vehicle is disclosed. The multi-view mirror assembly is mountable on either an exterio... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980338 | Image-reproducing apparatus and image-reproducing method An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977761 | Image-reproducing apparatus and image-reproducing method An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975454 | Variable polarization-dependent-loss source An optical device including a beam splitter, polarization controller, and beam combiner is described. In some embodiments, the beam splitter and beam combiner are provided in a single element. An incoming light beam is split into two beams with different polarizatio... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975440 | Image-reproducing apparatus and image-reproducing method An optical member 7 is bonded, at its rear side 7b, to a holographic stereogram 6. The front side 7a of the optical member 7 consists of parallel triangular prisms. Illumination light 9 is applied to the front ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972905 | Non-positive-definite optical filtering from positive-definite transfer functions Fractional Fourier transform properties of lenses or other optical environments are applied to one or more positive-definite optical transfer functions at locations outside the Fourier plane to realize or closely approximate arbitrary non-positive-definite transfer ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972886 | Variable blazed grating In one aspect of the invention, an apparatus operable to provide optical signal processing includes an inner conductive layer including an at least substantially conductive material and a plurality of at least partially reflective mirror strips disposed outwardly fr... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970292 | Beam shaping element for use in a lithographic system A beam homogenizer that minimizes undesired intensity variations at the output plane caused by sharp breaks between facets in previous embodiments. The homogenizer includes a hologram made up of irregularly patterned diffractive fringes. An input beam illuminates at... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6965473 | Polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same A polarizing plate which has a polarizing layer having a thickness of about 20 nm to about 1500 nm formed by rubbing at least one surface of a substrate, coating the rubbed surface of the substrate with an aqueous solution containing a dye having a tabular molecular... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6962421 | Full-size folding mirror and carry case apparatus A folding full length mirror and carry apparatus includes a foldable reflective surface support assembly which includes support panels connected together with panel-interconnection hinges. A non-folded reflective surface assembly is supported by the foldable reflect... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961183 | Optical filter and optical instrument An optical filter is provided with a thin film having: a first laminated portion that is constructed by alternately laminating low refractive index layers that have a relatively low refractive index with high refractive index layers that have a relatively high refra... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961181 | Compensated color management systems and methods Beamsplitters are frequently used in projectors based on reflective liquid crystal display for separating input and output light, and more recently for color management systems. Rather stack filters are used in such systems to orthogonally polarize primary colors, c... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959993 | Solar concentrator array with individually adjustable elements A tracking heliostat array comprises a plurality of optical elements. The tracking heliostat array further comprises a frame separated from the optical elements. Each of the optical elements has an orientation with respect to the frame. The tracking heliostat array ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961179 | Compensated color management systems and methods Disclosed are color management architectures used in video projection systems including, for example, retarder stacks sensitive to the symmetries between input and output polarizer configurations that provide the polarization transformations that will comprise for s... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961174 | Reflectometer and method for manufacturing a reflectometer A reflection-type graduation having a silicon substrate. The silicon substrate has first subsections formed thereon. Each of the first subsections has etched oblique surfaces. The surfaces are positioned so that light beams directed incident to the surfaces cause no... | 11/01/2005 |
