Patents Examined by Anh Mai
  • Patent number: 10041641
    Abstract: An LED streetlamp is provided that includes: a frame; a main PCB installed in the frame, extending in a longitudinal direction of the frame, and provided with a connector at a first side surface thereof; and a plurality of LED bars, each being coupled to the frame at an end thereof and emitting light by being powered by the main PCB, the LED bars symmetrically arranged with respect to the frame and arranged at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Inventor: Jong Hui Kim
  • Patent number: 10044172
    Abstract: An electrode material that may be used in spark plugs and other ignition devices including industrial plugs, aviation igniters, glow plugs, or any other device that is used to ignite an air/fuel mixture in an engine. In one embodiment, the electrode material is a ruthenium-based material that includes ruthenium (Ru) as the single largest constituent on a wt % basis, and at least one of rhenium (Re) or tungsten (W). The electrode material may further include one or more precious metals and/or rare earth metals. The electrode material may be used to form the center electrode, the ground electrode, firing tips, or other firing tip components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION COMPANY
    Inventor: Shuwei Ma
  • Patent number: 10041652
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laser spot light with twinkling function including a laser head, a body case defining an opening, a heat radiator supporting the laser head and fixed within the body case, a light baffle configured between the opening and the laser head, a first grating has a star pattern configured between the light baffle and the laser head, a second grating has a pattern of figures configured between the first grating and the laser head, a motor, a gearbox driven by the motor and configured to drive the light baffle to rotate or translate. The light baffle defines a plurality of through holes. The laser spot light of the invention utilize a motor driving a light baffle to rotate or translate, such that the static light spots generated by the first grating are blocked and unblocked alternately, resulting a lot of twinkling light spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Inventor: Jun Xi
  • Patent number: 10041659
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate for mounting light emitting element with a high positional accuracy and a method of fixing the substrate. A substrate for mounting light emitting element defines a first recess and a second recess in first side in a plan view. The first recess is defined by two corner portions and a straight portion which connects the two corner portions, and the second recess further includes at least two straight portions each narrowing toward the inner end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yagi, Toshihiko Aizawa
  • Patent number: 10041649
    Abstract: A light source comprising: (a) An LED source comprising at least one LED emitting an LED emission and at least one wavelength-converting material configured to convert a fraction of the LED emission, the LED source emitting a primary SPD; and (b) at least one optical element configured to interact with the primary SPD to remove radiation in the primary SPD, such that a final SPD is emitted from the light source; wherein a fraction of the primary SPD in the wavelength range 430-500 nm is less than 5%; and a fraction of the final SPD in the wavelength range 430-500 nm is less than 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa Inc.
    Inventor: Aurelien J. F. David
  • Patent number: 10036525
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting unit can prevent the appearance from deteriorating due to darkened portion even when a light guiding member is disposed in an area where the light guiding member cannot be seen from outside. The vehicle lighting unit can include a light source, and a light guiding member having a light guiding main body and configured to receive light emitted from the light source and guide the light while reflecting the light so that the light exits through the light guiding member, which are contained in a lighting chamber defined by a housing and an outer lens covering the opening of the housing. The light guiding member can include a fin-shaped light emitting portion extending from the light guiding main body and disposed in an area corresponding to an angular range through which the light guiding main body of the light guiding member cannot be seen directly from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Yajima
  • Patent number: 10035448
    Abstract: A warning light assembly for a vehicle having a tilt bed is provided. The warning light assembly includes a housing having an opening and a light assembly pivotally suspended within the housing. The light assembly is configured to pivot through the opening when the housing is rotated, thereby remaining in a substantially perpendicular orientation relative to a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Inventor: Lori Lynn Smith
  • Patent number: 10036546
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a first optical system includes a first light source and emits a first illumination light. A second optical system includes a second light source and emits a second illumination light. A controller controls turning-on/off of the first light source and the second light source. The first optical system and the second optical system are configured such that a first illumination standard is satisfied by the first illumination light and the second illumination light. The first optical system is configured such that a second illumination standard is satisfied by the first illumination light. The controller allows the turning-on of the first light source when the turning-on of the second light source is disabled, and prohibits the turning-on of the second light source when the turning-on of the first light source is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriaki Ito
  • Patent number: 10037861
    Abstract: A lamp (10), which is particularly a motor vehicle headlight, comprises a burner (12) for emitting light, which is supported by a holder (16) for mechanically connecting the burner (12) with a socket (14). The holder (16) comprises a metal ring (26) surrounding the burner (12). The metal ring (26) is thermally connected to the burner (12) via a single connecting surface (40), which is in planar contact to the burner (12) over an angle of ?350° in circumferential direction. Due to the increased heat transfer to the environment the used materials are less subjected to heat, so that the overall lifetime and the shock resistance of the lamp (10) are increased at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Juergen Flechsig, Peter Rosenmueller
  • Patent number: 10030825
    Abstract: A lighting assembly (100), a lamp, a luminaire, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing control program are provided. The lighting assembly comprises a light source (110) and an optical element (120). The light source comprises a solid state light emitter (112) and a luminescent element (114). The solid state light emitter is arranged to emit light of a first color into the luminescent element. The luminescent element comprises a light emission window (115) through which the light is emitted. The optical element is arranged for reducing a color over angle variation of the light emitted by the light emission window of the luminescent element. The optical element comprises a light input face, a light output face and at a plurality of locations a light transmitting wall (122) extending from the light input face to the light output face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Manuela Lunz, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 10030819
    Abstract: A lamp has an at least partially optically transmissive enclosure and a base that retains lamp electronics. LEDs are located in the enclosure and are operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path from the base. The LEDs are thermally isolated from the lamp electronics in the base. A heat sink is disposed between the base and the enclosure. The heat sink includes a heat conducting portion that is thermally coupled to the LEDs and a heat dissipating portion that is exposed to the ambient environment. The heat dissipating portion includes fins that have inner edges and create spaces between adjacent ones of the fins. The inner edges are spaced from one another to define an interior open space where the interior open space communicates with the spaces between the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Praneet Jayant Athalye
  • Patent number: 10031281
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel which generates and display an image with light, the display panel curved at a first mean curvature with respect to a bending axis and defining a display surface thereof at which the image is displayed; a backlight unit includes a light source which generates the light, and a curved light guide plate which receives the light from the light source and provides the received light to the display panel, the light guide plate; and a protection member in which the backlight unit is accommodated, the protection member curved at a second mean curvature with respect to the bending axis, the second mean curvature being different from the first mean curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongkwon Soh, Joohyuk Park, Kyunghoon Chae, Sungyeon Hwang, Jinhyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10030848
    Abstract: The invention discloses a parabolic LED lamp, comprises a lamp body, a lamp base, an arc lens, a parabolic reflective cup, an LED light source, and a drive; wherein the parabolic reflective cup is embedded and installed in the lamp body; the LED light source is installed in the bottom of the parabolic reflective cup and toward to the arc lens; the drive internally configured in the lamp body connects the lamp base and the LED light source; the inner wall of the arc lens is formed with a plurality of first lens areas and second lens areas spaced apart, the first lens areas uniformly distributed with a plurality of small hexagonal lenses with a same specifications, the second lens areas uniformly distributed with a plurality of small rhombic lenses with a same specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NINGBO YAMAO OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maojun Cao, Hui Chen, Hu Fang
  • Patent number: 10032912
    Abstract: A modified silicon substrate having a substantially defect-free strain relaxed buffer layer of SiGe is suitable for use as a foundation on which to construct a high performance CMOS FinFET device. The substantially defect-free SiGe strain-relaxed buffer layer can be formed by making cuts in, or segmenting, a strained epitaxial film, causing edges of the film segments to experience an elastic strain relaxation. When the segments are small enough, the overall film is relaxed so that the film is substantially without dislocation defects. Once the substantially defect-free strain-relaxed buffer layer is formed, strained channel layers can be grown epitaxially from the relaxed SRB layer. The strained channel layers are then patterned to create fins for a FinFET device. In one embodiment, dual strained channel layers are formed—a tensilely strained layer for NFET devices, and a compressively strained layer for PFET devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC., GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC., INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pierre Morin, Kangguo Cheng, Jody Fronheiser, Xiuyu Cai, Juntao Li, Shogo Mochizuki, Ruilong Xie, Hong He, Nicolas Loubet
  • Patent number: 10023100
    Abstract: A vehicle trim assembly is disclosed herein. The vehicle trim assembly includes a member having a transmissive member portion therein. A light source is configured to emit light through the light transmissive portion. A first photoluminescent structure is disposed within the member. A second photoluminescent structure is separated from the member and operably coupled with the light source. The first and second photoluminescent structures are configured to luminesce in response to excitation by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, James J. Surman, Pietro Buttolo, Dragos Maciuca
  • Patent number: 10026924
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, a sealing substrate on the display unit, a sealing member around the display unit and bonding the substrate and the sealing substrate, and a filler inside the sealing member and filling a gap between the substrate and the sealing substrate, wherein the filler is a non-hardening type, and a molecular weight of the filler is from about 100 kg/mol to about 5,000 kg/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Joon Oh, Kie-Hyun Nam
  • Patent number: 10024512
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device includes a light guide lens, a light source and a reflector. The long light guide lens extends in a direction obliquely tilted with respect to a front-rear direction. The light source is disposed opposite an end of the light guide lens. The reflector is disposed behind the light guide lens. The light guide lens comprises a front face parallel to the longitudinal direction and a rear face with lens cuts aligned in the longitudinal direction. Each of the lens cuts comprises a rear first prism face that stands backward and a front second prism face parallel to the front face. Light that has exited backward from the light guide lens through the first prism face of a lens cut is reflected forward on the reflector toward the second prism face of a different lens cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Sato
  • Patent number: 10025016
    Abstract: A backlight source comprising a light source, guide fibers and transmission fibers, the guide fibers and the transmission fibers are coupled by means of a coupling joint, wherein the first end of the guide fiber is coupled to the light source, the second end of the guide fiber is flexibly coupled to the first port of the coupling joint, and/or the first end of the transmission fiber is flexibly coupled to the second port of the coupling joint, and the second end of the transmission fiber is provided with a reflection head; the light emitted from the light source passes through the guide fiber and enters into the coupling joint, then is transmitted into the transmission fiber, and is finally emitted by the reflection head. The backlight source is collapsible and is thus flexible and convenient to use. Embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a transparent display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shang Wang
  • Patent number: 10022070
    Abstract: An IC for a sensor includes a detection unit which detects an angular velocity signal of a moving object based on a signal from a sensor element, an AD conversion unit which converts an analog signal from the detection unit into a digital signal, and a posture variation calculating unit which calculates a variation in posture of the moving object during a predetermined period based on the signal from the AD conversion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhito Nakajima, Katsuhiko Maki, Shunichi Mizuochi
  • Patent number: 10018322
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp includes a lamp body, a translucent outer cover, and a planar light source including a substrate and an organic EL light emitting layer formed on one side surface of the substrate. The planar light source has a bent portion in which the substrate having flexibility is bent at a predetermined position in a portion formed with the organic EL light emitting layer such that one end portion of the substrate is directed to one of a side of the outer cover and a side opposite to the outer cover, or the planar light source is provided such that at least part of an outer peripheral end of the organic EL light emitting layer emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Ito, Yoshiro Ito, Masaya Shido