US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 22 for "Movable device, projection apparatus, head-up display, laser headlamp, head-mounted display, object recognition apparatus, mobile object, method of manufacturing movable device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,960, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Movable device, projection apparatus, head-up display, laser headlamp, head-mounted display, object recognition apparatus, mobile object, method of manufacturing movable device" was invented by Mizuki Shinkawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiki Minegishi (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable device includes: a first movable part; a driver to rotate the first movable part; a second movable part facing the first movable part; and a coupler coupling the first movable part and the second movable part to each other. The coupler includes: a first pillar exten...