ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,803, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Optical scanning device and manufacturing method" was invented by Atsushi Yamamoto (Tokyo), Makoto Sakurai (Tokyo), Yoshifumi Takao (Tokyo), Katsunori Nakazawa (Tokyo), Naoya Matsumaru (Tokyo) and Nazirul Afham Idris (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning device includes a VCSEL and an emission unit mounted on the same substrate, and a bottom plate portion arranged on the lower side of the substrate. A columnar protruding portion has a tapered shape and is plastically deformable, and is fixed to the bottom plate portion. The columnar protru...