US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on July 21 for "Optical module for encoder and reflection-type encoder" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,413, issued on July 21, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical module for encoder and reflection-type encoder" was invented by Yosuke Kuwahara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes: a support having a bottom wall part and a side wall part; a light receiving element and a light emitting element; a light transmitting member disposed on the side wall part; and a resin member disposed on a surface of the light transmitting member. The surface of the light transmitting member has an inner region and an outer region. The resin member is integrally formed over the inner re...