38 Patents

HIGH TORQUE LOW INERTIA BRUSHLESS MOTOR

Four slot, two-pole, brushless motor with extremely high acceleration capability.

Date Issued: Aug 7, 2023 Patent issuer and number: US 11,735,969

VARIABLE TORQUE LOW INERTIA BRUSHLESS MOTOR

Extremely high speed brushless motor. Basically the continuous-rotation version of our Saturn scanner.

Date Issued: Aug 7, 2023 Patent issuer and number: US 11,728,698

LOW INERTIA ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Sine/Cosine position sensor for our continuous-rotation motor which is surely among the fastest in the world.

Date Issued: Nov 2, 2021 Patent issuer and number: us 11,162,819

HIGH TORQUE LOW INDUCTANCE ROTARY ACTUATOR

Chinese utility patent of the magnetic circuit used in our our Saturn-series of laser scanners. 

Date Issued: Apr 30, 2021 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201310128586.5

LIGHT DETECTOR EMPLOYING TRAPEZOIDAL CHIPS

A position sensor employing silicon photodiodes formed from trapezoidal chips mounted on a printed circuit board detects angular positions of a rotor shaft within a galvanometer-based optical scanner.

Date Issued: Mar 23, 2021 Patent issuer and number: us 10,955,266

VARIABLE TORQUE LOW INERTIA BRUSHLESS MOTOR

Continuous-rotation motor capable of extremely high acceleration. Quite possibly the fastest-accelerating motor in the world. (Zero to 120,000 RPM in 1 millisecond!)

Date Issued: Nov 12, 2020 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201922337936.4

ELECTROMECHANICAL LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR AND METHOD EMPLOYING SEGMENTED COILS

The final patent on the way we form and insert coils in our Compact 506 scanner.

Date Issued: Aug 4, 2020 Patent issuer and number: us 10,734,857

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

The US Patent for the updated version of our ARC scanner — making it even easier and less expensive to build a galvanometer laser scanner. This is especially important for consumer and high volume applications including 3D printers, LIDAR, Head-up Displays and other consumer laser displays.

Date Issued: Jul 21, 2020 Patent issuer and number: us 10,720,824

VERBESSERTER LICHTDETEKTOR UNTER VERWENDUNG TRAPEZFÖRMIGER CHIPS

Trapezoidal light sensor used in Saturn scanners, plus other applications of trapezoidal chips with photosensitive material.

Date Issued: Jun 19, 2020 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2020 000 007

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

Updated version of our ARC scanner — making it even easier and less expensive to build a galvanometer laser scanner. This is especially important for consumer and high volume applications including 3D printers, LIDAR, Head-up Displays and other consumer laser displays.

Date Issued: Feb 25, 2020 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201920775937.4

BÜRSTENLOSER MOTOR MIT VARIABLEM DREHMOMENT UND GERINGEM TRÄGHEITSMOMENT

High Torque, Low Inertia, Brushless motor. Believed to be the fastest accelerating motor in the world. (Zero to 120,000 RPM in 1 millisecond!)

Date Issued: Jan 31, 2020 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2020 000 420

LIGHT DETECTOR EMPLOYING TRAPEZOIDAL CHIPS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Trapezoidal position sensor used in Saturn-series scanners.

Date Issued: Jan 21, 2020 Patent issuer and number: us 10,539,433

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

Latest version of our ARC scanner design — low cost galvo scanner, perfect for LIDAR, 3D Printing, and Projection applications.

Date Issued: Oct 10, 2019 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2019 002 282.1

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

Another patent covering the ARC scanner, which is an optical scanner that can be made quickly, easily, and at low cost, perfectly suited for high-volume consumer applications.

Date Issued: May 8, 2019 Patent issuer and number: us 10,305,358

ELECTROMECHANICAL LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR AND METHOD EMPLOYING SEGMENTED COILS

Method of forming and then inserting coils into a small motor such as an optical scanner. The method involves “segmenting” the coils, and then keeping them in place using a special low-cost retainer having tabs. This is used on our VRAD-506 actuator and Compact 506 scanner.

Date Issued: May 7, 2019 Patent issuer and number: us 10,284,038

ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Rotary Position Detector used on the Compact 506 and ARC series of laser scanners.

Date Issued: Nov 23, 2018 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201310151544.3

ELECTROMECHANICAL ROTARY ACTUATOR AND METHOD

Magnetic circuit and assembly method for actuators used in VRAD-series and Compact-series ScannerMAX products.

Date Issued: Nov 23, 2018 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201210363955.4

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

The “ARC scanner” offers the same performance as conventional galvos but has a fraction of the cost to produce. It is of interest to high-volume laser scanning applications, including laser displays, 3D printers and LIDAR systems.

Date Issued: May 18, 2018 Patent issuer and number: us 9,991,773

ELECTROMECHANICAL ROTARY ACTUATOR AND METHOD

Magnetic circuit and assembly method for actuators used in VRAD-series and Compact-series ScannerMAX products.

Date Issued: Jun 30, 2017 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201210363949.9

MULTI-TURN ELECTRICAL COIL AND FABRICATING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Specialized coils used in ScannerMAX Saturn series of galvo scanners. The coils are thin, and have perfect nesting of all turns thereby maximizing copper density and heat transfer.

Date Issued: Dec 13, 2016 Patent issuer and number: us 9,530,559

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

Least expensive method of making a galvanometer. We call this our “ARC scanner” — perfect for consumer laser displays, 3D printers and LIDAR systems.

Date Issued: Sep 14, 2016 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201620112019.X

MIRROR SCANNING CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD

Bumpers that prevent a mirror from exceeding a valid range of rotation for optical scanners. This is done instead of drilling a hole and placing a “stopping pin” in a shaft as almost all other laser scanner companies do.

Date Issued: May 31, 2016 Patent issuer and number: us 9,366,860

LOW COST LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

The ARC scanner represents the least expensive method of building a galvanometer. Performance is on par with conventional galvos, and thus, this achieves the highest price-to-performance ratio, which enables high volume consumer applications such as portable laser light shows, head-up displays, 3D printers and LIDAR for self-driving cars.

Date Issued: Mar 8, 2016 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2016 000 737.9

HIGH TORQUE LOW INDUCTANCE ROTARY ACTUATOR

Electromagnetic rotary actuator used on ScannerMAX Saturn-series of scanners. A significant improvement in torque-per-watt over conventional scanners, allowing the scanner to run cool while delivering more torque.

Date Issued: Feb 10, 2016 Patent issuer and number: us 9,270,144

SCANNING MIRROR SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

X-axis scanning mirror that is shaped like Darth Vader’s helmet, so as to have the same inertia as Y-axis mirror. When both X- and Y-axis mirrors have the same inertia there won’t be any phase difference during vector scanning. Our Darth-Vader-Shaped mirror does a much better job than using two Y-axis mirrors as many competitors do…

Date Issued: Nov 10, 2015 Patent issuer and number: us 9,195,061

ELECTROMECHANICAL LIMITED ROTATION ROTARY ACTUATOR

VRAD series rotary actuator

Date Issued: Jul 7, 2015 Patent issuer and number: us 9,077,219

ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Position detector for optical scanner

Date Issued: Apr 29, 2015 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL 2011 10066043.6

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD

VRAD 1510 and 506 assembly method and operating concepts

Date Issued: Feb 24, 2015 Patent issuer and number: us 8,963,396

ELEKTRISCHE MEHRWINDUNGSSPULE UND FERTIGUNGSVORRICHTUNG (MULTI-TURN ELECTRICAL COIL AND METHOD)

Coils used in our Saturn-series of optical scanners, and may also be used for smart-cards.

Date Issued: Nov 6, 2014 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2014 000 846.9

COIL FORMER AND COIL SYSTEM

Coils used in Saturn scanners, but can also be used in smart cards and other places where a thin, highly-packed coil is needed

Date Issued: Sep 24, 2014 Patent issuer and number: cn ZL201420102156.6

ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS*

Rotary position detector for optical scanner

Date Issued: Jul 11, 2014 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2013 003 263.4

ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Rotary position sensor for optical scanner

Date Issued: Aug 13, 2013 Patent issuer and number: us 8,508,726

DREH-STELLANTRIEB MIT HOHEM DREHMOMENT UND NIEDRIGER INDUKTIVITAT (ACTUATOR WITH HIGH TORQUE AND LOW INDUCTANCE)*

Actuator used in our Saturn-series of optical scanners.

Date Issued: Apr 29, 2013 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2013 000 369.3

ELEKTROMECHANISCHES DREHSTELLGLIED (ELECTROMECHANICAL ROTARY ACTUATOR)*

VRAD Rotary Actuator

Date Issued: Sep 26, 2012 Patent issuer and number: de 20 2012 009 275.8

HIGH-SPEED Z-AXIS FOCUSING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Fourth-generation Beam Brush (https://youtu.be/75s7uBlVJIU)

Date Issued: Aug 28, 2012 Patent issuer and number: us 8,254,045

ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Rotary position sensor for optical scanner

Date Issued: May 10, 2011 Patent issuer and number: us 7,940,380

ROTARY POSITION DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Position sensor for optical scanner

Date Issued: Mar 30, 2010 Patent issuer and number: us 7,688,432

MOVING MIRROR OPTICAL SCANNER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

Optical scanner on which substantially only the mirror rotates — no separate rotor.

Date Issued: Aug 15, 2006 Patent issuer and number: us 7,092,135
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