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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Nidec Sankyo Corporation, Suwa-gun, Nagano, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, Suwa-Gun, Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02F 1/1335 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01); G03B 21/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/0825 (2013.01); G02F 1/133305 (2013.01); G02F 1/133608 (2013.01); G03B 21/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical device may include a flat optical member; a reinforcement member which is bonded to a back side of the optical member and demonstrates stronger rigidity in a center area thereof than two side portions thereof when curved in a thickness direction in a first direction within an in-plane direction; and a driving device which switches a shape of the optical member together with the reinforcement member between a flat state and a curved state in which the optical member is curved in the first direction.