Patents Examined by Elmito Breval
  • Patent number: 11686448
    Abstract: This invention is a projector headlight that, while offering dual beam patterns, boasts a 100% utilization of the light emitted from a light source by one of the following methods: (1) employing a reflective cutoff shield means to reflect the incoming light from said light source back to the reflector to enhance the illumination in low-beam pattern, (2) using reversible cutoff shield means to reflect the incoming light from said light source back to the reflector to enhance the illumination in low-beam pattern with no moving part involved, (3) utilizing a selective light-filter cutoff means to selectively reflect the incoming light from said light source back to the reflector to enhance the illumination in low-beam pattern without making use of any moving part, (4) using a low-beam light-emitting subassembly and a high-beam light-emitting subassembly that are separated by partition means to achieve dual beam patterns with no moving part, or (5) adopting a low-beam light-emitting subassembly in low-beam patter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventor: Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11674681
    Abstract: A headlight device includes a headband for encircling a head of a wearer, a padding system having a pad attached to at least a portion of the headband, the pad including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first cushioning material having a first durometer and or the second layer includes a second cushioning material having a second durometer, or the first layer is perforated in a first perforation pattern and or the second layer is perforated in a second perforation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Integra LifeSciences Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Africa, Lauren Angell
  • Patent number: 11674655
    Abstract: A forward projecting condensing and collimating optical platform enables the ability to more effectively utilize the light generated from a Lambertian light source. The optical system can effectively utilize light emitted from a 120-degree source viewing angle over a substantially large extended field of view. The optical system can project a high intensity light in a smaller packaging envelope. The optical design can be used for generation of hi-Intensity spot beams, fog lamps, head lamp low beams, head lamps, hi beams, a driving beam, and the like, while operating at a lower power input to equivalent optical systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Edgar Madril
  • Patent number: 11674660
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp device to be applied to a vehicle includes a light source, a lens, and a controller. The light source is configured to emit light. Light emitted from the light source is to pass through the lens. The controller is configured to control light distribution patterns for the light. The light distribution patterns include at least a first light distribution pattern and a second light distribution pattern. The first light distribution pattern illuminates an area ahead of the vehicle during running of the vehicle. The second light distribution pattern is projected as a marking at an optical axis adjustment that is performed during manufacturing of the vehicle. The controller causes a part of the light source to emit light so that the second light distribution pattern is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenshin Katami, Shunichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11674656
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle lamp module, and the vehicle lamp module includes a light source device including a substrate and a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate, a rod device that provides a path through which light generated by the light source device moves and forms a predetermined beam pattern, and a lens device provided so that the light emitted from the rod device is transmitted and discharged to an outside, wherein some of the plurality of light sources are arranged on the substrate in two rows in a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Geun Jun
  • Patent number: 11674659
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for a headlight assembly are described herein. One system includes a first light source that partially obscures a second light source and a channel is coupled between the first light source and the second light source. In some examples, a first mounting tab and a second mounting tab is coupled to a housing containing the first light source and second light source, and a indicator light is press fit onto the housing in a position that is visible to a motorcycle rider from a seated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventor: Christian Douglas Redmond
  • Patent number: 11677914
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source, an optical member, and a wavelength converter. The excitation light source is configured to emit first color light. The optical member has a reflecting surface configured to reflect the first color light emitted from the excitation light source. The wavelength converter includes a wavelength conversion member on which the first color light reflected by the optical member is incident. The wavelength conversion member is configured to convert at least part of the first color light into second color light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first color light and emit the second color light. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface of the optical member does not intersect with a light flux of the first color light emitted from the wavelength converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Takano, Kazuhiro Fujita, Kasumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11670149
    Abstract: An intruder distraction device comprising a trigger unit and a defense unit is disclosed. A user may be able to wirelessly active the defense unit using the trigger unit. Components of the defense unit include a distractor light, a high-intensity flashbulb, a reflector, a speaker, a power switch, a wireless signal receiver, cameras, and the like. Upon receiving the trigger signal from the wireless signal transmitter, the defense unit may be activated to sequentially perform the steps of playing a gun-cocking sound via the speaker, illuminating the distractor light for around 0.5 seconds, illuminating the high-intensity flashbulb via the reflector in a high intensity mode for around 0.5 seconds, and illuminating the high-intensity flashbulb via the reflector in a low intensity mode until the defense unit is powered off by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Larry Mobley
  • Patent number: 11668922
    Abstract: A light source includes a first LED to provide light of a first light wavelength spectrum along a first light path; a second LED to provide light of a second light wavelength spectrum along a second light path; a dichroic filter for passing light emitted from at least one of the first LED and the second LED and reflecting light emitted from at least one of the first LED and the second LED; an optical filter movable between a first position in which the optical filter receives light from the first light path and a second position of which the optical filter does not receive light from the first light path; a light output; a controller which is capable of switching the light source between a first mode for providing a first light to the light output and a second mode for providing a second light to the light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory G. Otterstrom, Ajay Ramesh, Hannah Lawrence, Candice Pack, Richard I. Palmisano
  • Patent number: 11671558
    Abstract: An ornamental frame assembly for enhancing the ornamental appearance of a flat screen display includes a frame that has a plurality of intersecting members such that the frame has a rectangular shape to conform to a flat screen display. Each of the intersecting members comprises a first portion that is oriented at an angle with a second portion to accommodate an outer edge of the flat screen display. A lens is attached to the frame such that the lens extends around a full perimeter of the frame. A plurality of light emitters is each positioned in the frame. Each of the light emitters is positioned behind the lens to emit light through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Doniel Favors
  • Patent number: 11662584
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide, an input coupler configured to couple display light into the waveguide, and a surface-relief grating on the waveguide and configured to couple the display light out of the waveguide towards an eyebox of the waveguide display on a first side of the waveguide. The surface-relief grating is formed in a plurality of grating layers having uniform or non-uniform thickness profiles. The plurality of grating layers is characterized by a refractive index modulation that increases and then decreases as the distance of the grating layer from the waveguide increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Hee Yoon Lee, Yu Shi, Elliott Franke
  • Patent number: 11662511
    Abstract: A beam expander includes first and second optical elements spaced apart from each other, and a light diffuser having an angular aperture that diffuses incident light through the angular aperture, wherein the first optical element in-couples the diffused light such that light exiting the first optical element has a first cross-sectional shape and light having a second cross-sectional shape different from the first cross-sectional shape is incident on the second optical element, and the second optical element out-couples light incident from the first optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aleksander V. Morozov, Andrey N. Putilin, Sergey E. Dubynin, Chilsung Choi, German B. Dubinin, Hongseok Lee, Hoon Song
  • Patent number: 11665805
    Abstract: A lighting device includes an indoor lamp (11), being provided in the cabin of a railroad vehicle (1) in order to wholly irradiate the inside of the cabin over the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a vehicle body power supply (20), supplying electric power to the indoor lamp (11), and a storage battery (30), being charged with a voltage applied by the vehicle body power supply (20). The indoor lamp (11) includes a general lamp light source (12) and a standby lamp light source (13), being lighted at an illuminance lower than that at which the general lamp light source (12) is lighted, and the general lamp source (12) being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply (20) not through the storage battery (30), while the standby lamp light source (13) being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply (20) through the storage battery (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Fujii, Hideto Sanui, Jun Ito, Hajime Suzuki, Youmei Kaminaga, Takayuki Izumi, Kazuo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11662436
    Abstract: A movable device includes a light deflector including a movable part rotatable about a predetermined axis; a mount including a pair of stationary parts to which the light deflector is secured; and a substrate attached to an opposite side of a light-deflector side of the mount. The substrate has a through hole between the pair of the stationary parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Konishi
  • Patent number: 11654826
    Abstract: In an interior member for a vehicle, a lens extends along a light guide member, and is provided with a groove receiving the light guide member therein, a first engaging portion provided on a wall that defines the groove, and a second engaging portion provided on a wall that defines the groove, and the interior member main body is provided with a first engaged portion engaged by the first engaging portion, and a second engaged portion engaged by the second engaging portion, the lens being resiliently deformable so as to bring the walls defining the groove toward each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Mihira, Yuji Nakano
  • Patent number: 11655971
    Abstract: A linear LED lamp having a body with a length between spaced first and second ends. The linear LED lamp has an elongate heat sink and a light source comprising LED emitters and a first end cap assembly at the first end of the body. The first end cap assembly has conductive power and ground pins and a support connector has conductive power and ground terminals for connecting with an external power supply and providing a grounding path for components of the lamp. The power and ground pins of the first end cap assembly are configured to engage the power and ground terminals of the support connector as an incident of the first end cap assembly moving relative to the support connector in a path that is transverse to the length of the body into an engaged position. A sleeve connector is also provided for mounting a non-power end of a linear LED lamp to a light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DVA Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Michael W. May
  • Patent number: 11655951
    Abstract: Provided is a lamp for a vehicle to prevent light efficiency from being deteriorated while being embodied in a slim form factor. The lamp for a vehicle includes a light emission portion to generate light; a first optical portion disposed in front of the light emission portion to allow the light generated from the light emission portion to be incident thereto; and a second optical portion disposed between the light emission portion and the first optical portion. The second optical portion refracts the light in a direction different from a light refracting direction of the first optical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SL Corporation
    Inventors: Kyung Su Lee, Woo Yeong Son, Ji Ho Hong
  • Patent number: 11656827
    Abstract: A privacy filter includes a base having a shape corresponding to a shape of an adherend and formed in a sheet form, a micro-louver portion stacked on one face of the base, wherein the micro-louver portion has a louver pattern in which a light transmitting layer and an opaque layer are alternately arranged with each other in a repeated manner, a first coating formed on one face of the micro-louver portion, a second coating formed on an opposite face of the base to one face of the base, and a foam pad stacked on one face of the second coating, wherein the foam pad is to be adhered to the adherend, and has a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SEWHA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Bon-Chul Koo
  • Patent number: 11644167
    Abstract: A light system comprising: (a) one or more bezels; (b) an internal lens located within and in communication with the one or more bezels, wherein the internal lens has a height; and (c) a light source that directs light from the light system to a location outside of a vehicle that is configured to house the light system, wherein some of the light is directed to the location outside of the vehicle directly through the internal lens; wherein the one or more bezels include a reflector surface located outside of the height of the internal lens and some of the light from the light source is redirected by the internal lens to the reflector surface of the one or more bezels so that the light is redirected outside of the height of the internal lens to the location outside of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Colby Darlage, Brant Potter, Damien Cabanne, Drew Haywood, Jean Sebastien Delfosse, Gaurav Bhutani
  • Patent number: 11644173
    Abstract: Disclosed in a lamp for a vehicle, the lamp including a light source configured to emit light, and a pattern conversion unit disposed forward of the light source and configured to form two or more types of light distribution patterns by receiving the light emitted from the light source, in which the pattern conversion unit includes a light-transmitting member disposed to face the light source and configured to transmit the light emitted from the light source, and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) member provided to be in close contact with one surface of the light-transmitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seong Yeon Han