H04N 1/0318
Integral pick-up heads, i.e. self-contained heads whose basic elements are a light-source
Official title: {Integral pick-up heads, i.e. self-contained heads whose basic elements are a light-source, a lens array and a photodetector array which are supported by a single-piece frame}
H04N1/0318 (Integral pick-up heads, i.e. self-contained heads whose basic elements are a light-source) appears on 223 US grants and 193 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 223
- Published applications
- 193
- Assignees
- 76
- Inventors
- 377
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 5 |
| 2003 | 7 | 14 |
| 2004 | 8 | 11 |
| 2005 | 7 | 19 |
| 2006 | 9 | 16 |
| 2007 | 5 | 11 |
| 2008 | 10 | 12 |
| 2009 | 12 | 13 |
| 2010 | 13 | 9 |
| 2011 | 8 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14 |
| 2013 | 9 | 5 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8 |
| 2015 | 7 | 7 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 8 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical line sensor3 Feb 2026US 12,541,096 B2Vienex Corporation
- Device housing, image reading device, and electrostatic capacitance detection device including a ground auxiliary conductor disposed over a level difference existing between a plane including an electrically conductive surface and a plane including a ground conductor19 Aug 2025US 12,395,595 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Lens mirror array, optical device, and image forming apparatus12 Aug 2025US 12,388,939 B2Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image-reading device comprising a plurality of optical components arranged along the scanning direction board components arranged to have a second clearance therebetween and board components fixed to the housing15 Jul 2025US 12,363,237 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Image-reading device comprising a plurality of optical components arranged along the scanning direction and housing components arranged to have a first clearance therebetween, board components arranged to have a second clearance therebetween and the first clearance and the second clearance are arranged to be staggered in the scanning direction20 May 2025US 12,309,334 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Optical unit and optical line sensor having same12 Jun 2025US 2025/0189456 A1Vienex Corporation
- Optical device20 Feb 2025US 2025/0063127 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image-reading device comprising a plurality of optical components arranged along the scanning direction and housing components arranged to have a first clearance therebetween22 Aug 2024US 2024/0283882 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Image-reading device comprising a plurality of optical components arranged along the scanning direction and housing components arranged to have a first clearance therebetween22 Aug 2024US 2024/0283883 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Optical member and image reading device8 Aug 2024US 2024/0264337 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Contact type image sensor, producing method of the same, and information processing apparatus133US 5,489,995 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996
- Contact-type image sensor126US 6,166,832 ARohm Co., Ltd. · 2000
- Document reading apparatus, having a body unit for holding apparatus components116US 5,399,850 AKYOCERA Corporation · 1995
- Image sensor unit and image reading apparatus having the unit110US 4,783,700 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1988
- Read head incorporating an image pick-up function103US 5,317,146 AOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. · 1994