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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Microvision, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Ellis, Sammamish, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microvision, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02B 26/10 (2006.01); H02N 2/02 (2006.01); H01L 41/187 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/0858 (2013.01); G02B 26/10 (2013.01); G02B 26/101 (2013.01); H02N 2/028 (2013.01); H01L 41/1875 (2013.01); H01L 41/1876 (2013.01);
Abstract
The embodiments described herein include scanners that can provide improved scanning laser devices. Specifically, the embodiments described herein provide scanners with a modular construction that includes one or more separately formed piezoelectric actuators coupled to a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) scan plate, flexure structures, and scanner frame. Such modular scanners can provide improved scanning laser devices, including scanning laser projectors and laser depth scanners, LIDAR systems, 3D motion sensing devices, gesture recognition devices, etc.