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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2021
Optotune Switzerland Ag, Dietikon, CH;
Roman Patscheider, Winterthur, CH;
Christopher Laning, Windisch, CH;
David Andreas Niederer, Küttigen, CH;
Manuel Aschwanden, Allenwinden, CH;
Optotune Switzerland AG, Dietikon, CH;
Abstract
The invention relates to a tunable optical component () comprising a liquid chamber (), a flexible membrane (), a shaping element (), and an actuator (), wherein the liquid chamber () is filled with a liquid (), the membrane () delimits the liquid chamber (), the membrane () is attached to the shaping element (), the shaping element () has a ring shape, wherein the shaping element () surrounds an optically active area () of the membrane (), the actuator () comprises multiple piezo units (), the piezo unit () is coupled to a counterpart () in a releasable force-fitting manner, the piezo unit () is arranged to move the counterpart (), and wherein the relative movement of the counterpart () and the piezo unit () results in a movement of the liquid (), which causes a change of an optical property of the optically active area ().