US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Nov. 18 for "Optical unit, smartphone, and manufacturing method of optical unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,594, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical unit, smartphone, and manufacturing method of optical unit" was invented by Takayuki Iwase (Kyoto, Japan), Tomohiro Egawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Genki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical unit has an optical element reflecting light between intersecting first and second directions, and a holder. The holder includes a holder body extending in a third direction intersecting the first and second directions, and a pair of surface portions extending from the holder body in an intersection direction intersecting the third direction. The optic...