| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 359200100 | Bearing or shaft for rotary driver | 25 |
| 20100027088 | SPACE SCANNER FOR SELF-CONTROL MOVING OBJECT - Provided is a space scanner for a self-control moving object. The space scanner has a structure in which a reflective mirror is rotated and tilted. Thus, the space scanner can scan a moving object in horizontal and vertical directions to secure spatial-data, thereby performing a self-control movement. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100033789 | ROTARY CONSTRUCTION LASER WITH STEPPER MOTOR - A rotary construction laser is disclosed. The rotary construction laser having a deflection device rotatably mounted around an axis of rotation for emitting laser light as well as a stepper motor for rotating the deflection device around the axis of rotation. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100073749 | SPACE SCANNER FOR AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE - A space scanner for an autonomous mobile device can obtain spatial data by scanning not only in the horizontal direction but also in the vertical direction of the mobile device using a mirror configured to rotate as well as to tilt and thereby can ensure autonomous driving. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20110038022 | Method and Apparatus for Stabilizing Galvanometer Scanner - A galvanometer scanner includes a mechanical support unit engaged with a far end of an optical element. A near end of the optical element is connected to an output shaft of an electric rotary motor. The mechanical support unit maintains an alignment of an axis of rotation of the optical element and an axis of rotation of the electric rotary motor. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110116146 | SCANNER MOTOR - A scanner motor is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the scanner motor includes a shaft, a housing having an insertion-hole formed in a center thereof, in which the shaft is inserted into the insertion-hole, a polygonal mirror, which is mounted on an upper side of the housing and has a through-hole formed in a center thereof in such a way that the shaft penetrates through the polygonal mirror, and a compression spring, which is formed on an upper side of the polygonal mirror and includes a V-shaped curved part bent downwardly in such a way that the V-shaped curved part compresses an upper edge of an inner circumferential surface of the polygonal mirror both horizontally and vertically. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110128601 | MIRROR ACTUATOR AND BEAM IRRADIATION DEVICE - A mirror actuator includes a turning axis for turning a mirror; a support section for supporting the turning axis so as to be capable of turning; and a sliding contact member that is arranged on the turning axis and is opposed to the support section in a direction parallel to the turning axis with a predetermined clearance from the support section. The turning axis is biased in one direction parallel to the turning axis. This biasing causes the sliding contact member to contact the support section. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110235143 | Precision scan sphere - A precision scan sphere designed for use in conjunction with scanner technology, and includes a full or partial sphere, having a laser detecting surface, and which can be mounted by a shank into a holder, or held by a steel insert that may be applied to a sphere mount, during its application and usage. Because of the reduction and size of the insert, as applied to the bottom of the scan sphere, as an example, a 2.375 inch diameter sphere can mount directly to a 1.5 inch sphere mount, during its application and usage. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110299146 | SCANNER MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a scanner motor. The scanner motor includes a rotating shaft which rotatably supports the motor. A housing surrounds an outer circumference of the rotating shaft, is made by impregnating resin into a porous sintered metal material, and has a groove therein. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120120470 | ACTUATOR, PROTECTIVE COVER FOR ACTUATOR, ACTUATOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DEFLECTOR INCORPORATING ACTUATOR, AND TWO DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL SCANNER AND IMAGE PROJECTOR INCORPORATING OPTICAL SCANNER - An actuator is configured of a frame element, a pair of beam elements, a movable element rotatably supported by the frame element via the beam elements, a driver configured to rotate the movable element relative to the frame element around the beam elements as a rotary shaft; and damper elements provided on the rotary axis of the beam elements. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130208330 | MIRROR DRIVING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE - A mirror driving device can include: a mirror part having a reflection surface configured to reflect light; mirror support parts formed at portions of the mirror part diagonal to each other; and a first actuator and a second actuator placed so as to surround the mirror part, wherein the first actuator and the second actuator each have a structure in which a plurality of first piezoelectric cantilevers with a longitudinal direction oriented to a direction of a first axis and a plurality of second piezoelectric cantilevers with a longitudinal direction oriented to a second axis are coupled together so as to be folded, and each of the first actuator and the second actuator has one end connected to the mirror part via a relevant one of the mirror support parts and another end connected to a fixing part near the mirror support part to which the one end is coupled. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20140009810 | RECIPROCATING LASER SCANNING DEVICE - The present invention is a sweeping or reciprocating laser scanning device. The reciprocation or sweeping motion is cam driven. As the cam rotates, a lever arm is reciprocated or oscillated between two positions, which causes the laser or beam of light to move linearly, thus creating a triangular plane of light resulting in a reciprocating linear reference across the hypotenuse of the triangular plane of light. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140177020 | ACTUATOR, LIGHT SCANNER, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - An actuator includes: a movable section; a first shaft section adapted to swingably support the movable section around a first axis; and a reflecting section including a reflecting plate having a reflecting surface adapted to reflect light, and a support rod disposed on a surface of the reflecting plate on an opposite side to the reflecting surface, the support rod being fixed to the movable section, wherein a rib is provided to the surface of the reflecting plate on the opposite side to the reflecting surface. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140218780 | LIGHT SCANNER, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT SCANNER - A light scanner includes: a base part; a shaft part that swingably supports the base part around a first axis; an optical unit including a light transmission part that is supported by the base part and has light transmissivity, and a first light reflection reduction part that is provided on the light transmission part and reduces light reflection, wherein light enters the first light reflection reduction part. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140268265 | OPTICAL MODULE FOR LASER BEAM SHAKING - Apparatus for uniformizing light amount distribution by shaking line beams along a longitudinal axis direction is provided. The apparatus includes a mirror mount, a mirror, an actuator, and a deformation member. The mirror fixed to the mirror mount and includes a reflective surface. The actuator is disposed at a distance from the mirror mount and configured to repeat expansion and contraction along a first direction. The deformation member includes a plurality of blocks connected to each other by flexible joints and is coupled to the actuator and the mirror mount. The deformation member is configured to change a displacement in the first direction due to operation of the actuator to a displacement in a second direction that crosses the first direction, amplify the changed displacement, and transmit the amplified displacement to the mirror mount. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140268266 | OPTICAL SCANNER, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - An optical scanner includes a movable section, a frame body section, a first shaft section configured to connect the movable section and the frame body section, a fixed section, a second shaft section configured to connect the frame body section and the fixed section, a first distortion detecting element and a second distortion detecting element arranged at an end on the frame body section side of the second shaft section or in any one of the movable section, the frame body section, and the first shaft section, a first signal processing section configured to receive a detection signal of the first distortion detecting element and output a signal based on bending deformation of the second shaft section, and a second signal processing section configured to receive a detection signal of the second distortion detecting element and output a signal based on torsional deformation of the second shaft section. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150378152 | OPTICAL SCANNER - The optical scanner comprises: a motor having an rotor shaft; a rotor being attached to the rotor shaft; a tilt mirror having an inclined reflective surface and being attached to the rotor shaft together with the rotor; and a bearing section being provided to a stator housing and capable of rotatably holding the rotor shaft. The rotor and the tilt mirror are prohibited from detaching from and rotating with respect to the rotor shaft. A recessed part, through which the rotor shaft is penetrated, is formed in the tilt mirror. An elastic member, which always biases the tilt mirror toward the rotor, is provided between a retainer section and an inner bottom part of the recessed part. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150378153 | ROTARY BODY DRIVING APPARATUS - The rotary body driving apparatus for rotating a rotary body comprises: a rotor shaft, to which the rotary body and a rotor are attached, being rotatably held by a bearing section; a rotor magnet being attached to the rotor and partially exposed as a position detecting magnet; a first positioning section being formed in the rotor, the first positioning section corresponding to the position detecting magnet; and a second positioning section corresponding to a reference surface of the rotary body. The rotary body is attached to the rotor in a state where the first positioning section and the second positioning section are aligned so as to make circumferential positions of the reference surface and the position detecting magnet correspond to each other. | 12-31-2015 |
| 359200200 | Specific shaft material or structure (e.g., ceramic ring) | 7 |
| 20090323146 | ROTATION TRANSMITTING MECHANISM AND OPTICAL SCANNING PROBE - A rotation transmitting mechanism comprises: a three-layered coil that has an innermost layer coil portion, a middle layer coil portion and an outermost layer coil portion with alternating winding directions; and at least one elastic band that is fit to an outer peripheral area of said three-layered coil to press said outermost layer coil portion toward an inner peripheral side. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20110205609 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a light output unit, a light scanner that has a light reflection part reflecting the light from the light output unit, rotates the light reflection part around two axes, and scans with the light reflected by the light reflection part, and a scanner rotating unit the rotates the light scanner around a predetermined axis line while keeping a relative positional relation between an intersection of the two rotation axes and the light output unit constant, and the light scanner has a movable unit including the light reflection part, four connection parts provided at intervals of 90 degrees in an outer circumference of the movable unit, each of the connection parts has a shaft part that connects the movable unit and the drive unit and independently and bendingly deforms each of the shaft parts, and thereby, the movable unit rotates around the two axes. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20140168736 | OPTICAL SCANNER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanner includes: a light reflecting section having light reflectivity; a movable plate which includes the light reflecting section and can be displaced; four link sections connected to the movable plate; and a supporting section supporting the four link sections. The four link sections are provided on an outer circumference of the movable plate at 90-degree intervals along a circumferential direction of the movable plate in a plan view. Each link section includes a turnable drive section, and a shaft section which connects the movable plate and the drive section. The shaft section is bent and deformed in a thickness direction of the movable plate by turning the drive section. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140268267 | OPTICAL SCANNER, ACTUATOR, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - An optical scanner includes: a movable portion that is provided with a light reflection portion and is swingable around a first axis; a frame body portion that is swingable around a second axis; a first shaft portion that connects the movable portion and the frame body portion; a fixed portion; a second shaft portion that connects the frame body portion and the fixed portion; a strain detection element that is disposed in the second shaft portion to detect deformation of the second shaft portion; a first signal processing portion to which a detection signal of the strain detection element is input and that outputs a signal based on bending deformation of the second shaft portion; and a second signal processing portion to which a detection signal of the strain detection element is input and that outputs a signal based on torsional deformation of the second shaft portion. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150309308 | POLYGON MIRROR SCANNER MOTOR - There is provided a polygon mirror scanner motor including: a rotor configured to rotate around a rotation axis; a fitting member configured to be fitted to an outer circumferential surface of the rotor; and a polygon mirror configured to be fitted to the outer circumferential surface of the rotor and bonded with the fitting member, wherein a diameter of the rotor at a part, to which the fitting member is fitted, is configured to be smaller than a diameter of the rotor at a part, to which the polygon mirror is fitted. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20160178896 | OPTICAL SCANNER | 06-23-2016 |
| 359200300 | Grooved shaft | 1 |
| 20100118364 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE SCANNER - A Three Dimensional (3D) space scanner can obtain spatial data by scanning a mobile object not only in the horizontal direction but also in the vertical direction using a mirror that is driven to rotate as well as to tilt. | 05-13-2010 |
| 359200400 | Fluid pressure bearing | 1 |
| 359200500 | Dynamic fluid bearing | 1 |
| 20110170154 | SCANNER MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a scanner motor. The scanner motor includes a rotating shaft which is axially supported and rotatable, and a bearing which has the shape of a hollow cylinder. The bearing includes a hydrodynamic bearing portion provided on the upper portion of the bearing to rotatably support the rotating shaft, and an oil impregnated sintered bearing portion provided on the lower portion of the bearing. | 07-14-2011 |
