Patent ID: 9690015
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G02B,G02C

Claim:
1. A fluid lens assembly comprising: a first lens having a first lens-viewing center and a front peripheral portion that surrounds said first lens-viewing center; a second lens having a rear concave portion and a peripheral flange portion that extends from and that surrounds said rear concave portion, said peripheral flange portion being stacked on said front peripheral portion, said rear concave portion defining a rear recess and having a second lens-viewing center that is aligned with said first lens-viewing center along a viewing axis; and a membrane unit including a flexible first membrane that is stacked between said first lens and said second lens, that covers said rear recess, and that cooperates with said first lens to define an accommodating space therebetween, said accommodating space being adapted to receive a first fluid layer of a fluid, said first membrane having a membrane-viewing center that is aligned with said first lens-viewing center along the viewing axis; wherein said first membrane is inflatable so as to be inflated into said rear recess when the fluid is introduced into said accommodating space to cause an increase in the volume of the first fluid layer; and wherein said first membrane wraps over and around said periphery of said rear recess and is deformed into said rear recess such that said membrane-viewing center is kept aligned with said first lens-viewing center along the viewing axis during inflation of said first membrane.