ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,519, issued on June 24, was assigned to NIDEC SANKYO Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Optical unit" was invented by Takeshi Sue (Nagano, Japan) and Tsutomu Arai (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical unit includes: a reflective portion that reflects, on a reflective surface, an incident light flux incident from the outside in a reflection direction toward an imaging element from an incident direction; a movable body to which the reflective portion is fixed; and a fixed body. In the movable body, emboss processing is applied to at least one of a reflective surface contact surface in contact with the reflective surface, and a ...