US Patent Issued to STANLEY ELECTRIC on June 2 for "Optical scanning device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,067, issued on June 2, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical scanning device" was invented by Yoshifumi Takao (Tokyo), Makoto Sakurai (Tokyo), Katsunori Nakazawa (Tokyo), Naoya Matsumaru (Tokyo), Atsushi Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Nazirul Afham Idris (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning device includes a light source and a MEMS optical deflector mounted on the same substrate, at least one optical path generation mirror configured to generate an optical path which causes a light beam emitted from the light source to enter the MEMS optical deflector, and a lens arranged between the light source and t...