METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL DEVICE AND OPTICAL DEVICE

• US 20140043484A1
• Filed: 12/28/2011
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Seger, Ulrich, Keith, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US14/000,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20140043484A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/1671 with an insert
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 11/00 Producing optical elements, e.g. lenses or prisms grinding or polishing of optical elements B24B; constructional form of optical elements G02B; optical parts of spectacles G02C7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 11/00432 Auxiliary operations, e.g. machines for filling the moulds B29D11/00125 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices

Abstract

A method for manufacturing an optical device including manufacturing a first element from a first component, manufacturing at least one second element from a second component, the first and second elements being manufactured with the aid of a two-component injection molding process and at least the first element being designed as an optical element. An optical device, a corresponding image sensor and a corresponding use are also described.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for manufacturing an optical device, comprising:

manufacturing a first element from a first component; and

manufacturing at least one second element from a second component;

wherein the first and the second elements are manufactured with the aid of a two-component injection-molding process, and at least the second element is an optical element.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the first and the second elements are manufactured from different components.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein at least one of the two elements is sprayed onto a support of the optical device.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the second element is a mount for the optical element.

15. An optical device, comprising:

a first element made up of at least one first component;

a second element made up of at least one second component; and

a support, at least one of the two elements being situated on the support, at least the first element being an optical element, and at least the first and second components being a plastic material.

16. The device as recited in claim 15, wherein the second element is a mount for the first element.

17. The device as recited in claim 15, wherein the second element is an optical element, the optical element being a light conductor.

18. The device as recited in claim 15, wherein the first element is at least one of an aspherical lens and a diffractive optical element.

19. An image sensor, comprising:

an optical device including a first element made up of at least one first component, a second element made up of at least one second component , and a support, at least one of the two elements being situated on the support, at least the first element being an optical element, and at least the first and second components being a plastic material; and

a light-sensitive chip.

20. A method, comprising:

providing an optical device including a first element made up of at least one first component, a second element made up of at least one second component , and a support, at least one of the two elements being situated on the support, at least the first element being an optical element, and at least the first and second components being a plastic material; and

using the optical device in a motor vehicle.