Patents Examined by Jong-Suk (James) Lee
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Patent number: 11162674Abstract: Millions of homes across the world have shower stalls with poor illumination, not only creating additional risk of falls and other accidents and making cleaning of the shower more difficult, but also reducing enjoyment of the showering experience. Accordingly, the present inventor devised, among other things, an illuminated shower curtain rod assembly. One exemplary rod assembly, which is adjustable via screwing in or out one or both of its end caps, includes a elongated tension rod having one or more electric light elements distributed along the length. In some variations, the rod is extruded from aluminum or plastic and includes an extruded strip light support element that supports an LED strip light and enhances rigidity of the curtain rod. Also some embodiments integrate a light diffusion panel into the rod structure for enhanced illumination and aesthetic appeal.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Inventor: Jesse D. Larson
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Patent number: 11156341Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a light source structure and at least one optical film. The optical film is disposed above the light source structure. The optical film includes a main body and plural optical structures. The optical structures are disposed on the main body. Each of the optical structures is a tapered structure. Each of the optical structures has plural side surfaces, and a portion of light emitted from the light source structure is guided toward plural primary directions when passing through the side surfaces of the optical structures, and therefore the light emitted from the light source is no longer concentrated on the top of each of the optical structures.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignees: Radiant(Guangzhou) Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd, Radiant Opto-Electronics CorporationInventors: Yen-Chuan Chu, Chia-Yin Chang, Chin-Ting Weng, Yi-Ching Chung, Hao Chen
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Patent number: 11149936Abstract: A light emitting embodiment uniformly illuminating a planar field configured to operate in conjunction with other like embodiments in proximity to form a continuous uniformly lit planar pathway and/or field of illumination.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Exposure Illumination Architects, Inc.Inventor: Daniel S. Spiro
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Patent number: 11143916Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a display device comprising: a backlight module comprising a backlight source; a display panel disposed opposite to the backlight source, and comprising an effective display area, a fan-out area and a common electrode routing area located between the effective display area and the fan-out area; and a light leakage prevention component configured to block the fan-out area to prevent light generated by the backlight source from leaking from the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zeyao Li
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Patent number: 11137640Abstract: A lighting device includes a mounting substrate comprising a first pair of conductive pads and a second pair of conductive pads arranged along a first direction on the mounting substrate. The first pair of conductive pads is offset from the second pair of conductive pads in the first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction with respect to a plane parallel to the mounting substrate. A first light emitting device is coupled to the first pair of conductive pads, and configured to emit lights toward a first side within a space formed between the mounting substrate and a diffusion plate. A second light emitting device is coupled to the second pair of conductive pads, and configured to emit lights toward a second side opposite of the first side within the space formed between the substrate and the diffusion plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Masuda, Hisashi Watanabe, Youzou Kyoukane, Hirotoshi Yasunaga
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Patent number: 11134618Abstract: There are provided luminaire assemblies and methods of assemblies thereof. For example, there is provided a luminaire assembly including a hollow core and an overmolded thermal dissipation structure molded over the hollow core.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Eden Dubuc, Robert David SpĂvock
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Patent number: 11131801Abstract: A backlight assembly, a backlight unit, and a display panel are provided. The backlight assembly includes a back plate, a light source plate, at least one buffer member, and at least one heat dissipation component. The back plate is on a side of the light source plate distal to a light exit side thereof, both the at least one buffer member and the at least one heat dissipation component are between the back plate and the light source plate, the heat dissipation component extends from a side of the buffer member proximal to the light source plate to a side of the buffer member proximal to the back plate, and the surfaces, which are in contact with each other, of two ones of each heat dissipation member, each buffer member, the back plate and the light source plate, are fixed to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Shipeng Wang
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Patent number: 11129465Abstract: An arm wearable apparatus includes a telescoping arrangement having a plurality of sections, a user interface system that removably attaches the telescoping arrangement with an arm of a wearer, and a plurality of illuminable rings. Each ring of the plurality of illuminable rings is attached with a respective section of the plurality of sections and has an inner diameter such that the plurality of illuminable rings form an opening to receive the arm when the telescoping arrangement is in a retracted configuration. At least some of the plurality of illuminable rings are arranged beyond an extent of the arm when the telescoping arrangement is in an extended configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Goslin, Clifford Wong
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Patent number: 11131880Abstract: A lighting device and a light housing are provided. The lighting device includes a housing, and the housing is provided with a light exit and an accommodating cavity extending inward from the light exit; the lighting device further includes a first light source, a second light source, and a controller. The controller controls at most one selected from a group consisting of the first light source and the second light source to emit light. Both the first light source and the second light source are disposed in the accommodating cavity. The first light source is used for an auxiliary lighting mode, in the case where the first light source emits light, the background image is visible from the light exit; and the second light source is used for a main lighting mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignees: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.Inventor: Haitao Jiang
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Patent number: 11125404Abstract: The present invention relates to an LED lighting module for a low street light, installed at a low height on the periphery of a road or a median strip, to illuminate light in a direction crossing the road, and to an LED lens provided on the LED lighting module. When using the LED lighting module for the low streetlight and the LED lens, according to one embodiment of the present invention, streetlight can be installed at a low height thereby reducing the cost for streetlight installation, glare on a car driver can be prevented by evenly lighting the road in the horizontal direction while deflecting downward, and the loss of light can be minimized.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignees: UNO ENP CO., LTD., SUNRIN CO., LTD.Inventor: Soongyu Kim
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Patent number: 11125407Abstract: A vehicle lamp assembly includes a housing that defines an opening. A light source is operably coupled with the housing. The light source is configured to emit light. A lens is coupled to the housing proximate the opening. The lens includes a first side that has an A-surface of the lens. A second side has a B-surface of the lens. A first optic defines an interior surface of the first side of the lens. The A-surface is free of the first optic. A second optic is defined on the second side. The first optic and the second optic are aligned to collimate and disperse the light.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Linsheng Chen, Robert William Miller
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Patent number: 11118750Abstract: Reliability of an in-vehicle headlight is improved by changing a light distribution pattern without using any mechanical configuration. The in-vehicle headlight includes a laser light source 1, a spatial light modulator 3, a spatial-light-modulator controller, and a projection lens 5. The laser light source 1 emits a laser light beam 10. The spatial light modulator 3 modulates a phase distribution of the laser light beam 10 emitted by the laser light source 1. The spatial-light-modulator controller is provided in a headlight controller 36, and controls the spatial light modulator 3. The spatial-light-modulator controller controls the spatial light modulator 3 so as to modulate the phase distribution of the laser light beam 10, and changes the light distribution pattern projected from the projection lens 5.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Shimada
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Patent number: 11117510Abstract: A vehicle light assembly includes a fixed structure, at least one light and an image projector. The fixed structure is configured to be assembled to a vehicle body component of a vehicle. The at least one light is fixed to the fixed structure and is configured to illuminate a first external area that is in the vicinity of the vehicle. The image projector is fixed to the fixed structure and is configured to project an image onto a second external area that is in the vicinity of the first external area.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: William Weber, Dale Butterworth
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Patent number: 11118767Abstract: A holder for setting a bulb in a specified orientation is provided. The holder includes a supporting post, a base including a latch for receiving the supporting post, a flexible portion, a fastener attached to the flexible portion, and a first hinge positioned between the base and the flexible portion. The flexible portion is configured to pivot at the first hinge between (i) a first position where the flexible portion and the base are coplanar and (ii) a second position where the flexible portion and the base are not coplanar and the supporting post is received in the latch.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Ulta-Lit Tree CompanyInventors: John DeCosmo, Gregory J. Foster, John C. Krolopp
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Patent number: 11112099Abstract: A user can replace a battery smoothly. A portable lighting apparatus includes a guide pipe, a pole supported on the guide pipe in a manner movable in a vertical direction parallel to a central axis of the guide pipe, at least one light emitter at an upper end of the pole, a collar surrounding the guide pipe, a plurality of legs pivotally connected to the collar, and a battery mount located in an upper part of the guide pipe.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Masao Miwa
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Patent number: 11112652Abstract: In an embodiment, a backlight unit includes a light-emitting device and lower reflector on a substrate. The lower reflector has a hole that accommodates and exposes the light-emitting device. The lower reflector may have a height greater than a height of the light-emitting device. The backlight unit may include a color resin in the holes and on the light-emitting device. The backlight unit may include a light path modulator above the light emitting device and on the color resin. The light path modulator may have a different refractive index than a refractive index of the color resin to reflect the emitted light at a boundary of the light path modulator and the color resin towards the lower reflector.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Donghwi Kim, KiSeong Kim, HyeokJoon Yoon, SeungJu Gwon
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Patent number: 11112096Abstract: A portable light includes an elongate body, a plurality of extension poles slidably received in the body and movable out of the body between an extended position and a retracted position, a light head pivotably coupled to one of the extension poles, and a head assembly housing fixed to the body and having an opening to receive the light head when the extension poles are in the retracted position. The portable light also includes a collar positioned around a portion of the body and movable between a first position and a second position, a handle coupled to the collar for movement with the collar, and a plurality of legs pivotably coupled to the collar. The legs are collapsed against the body when the handle and the collar are in the first position and are expanded apart from the body when the handle and the collar are in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Kyle Harvey, Ross McIntyre, Michael Halverson, Eric Mackey, Justin Dorman
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Patent number: 11105497Abstract: A lamp holder assembly includes a support post, and a plurality of fixtures mounted on the support post. The support post includes a main body and a securing portion. The main body has a plurality of entrance slots. Each of the entrance slots has two limit grooves. Each of the fixtures includes a mounting head and a locking member. The locking member is inserted into each of the entrance slots and is introduced from each of the entrance slots into the two limit grooves of each of the entrance slots by rotation of each of the fixtures, and is locked in the two limit grooves of each of the entrance slots. The locking member is provided with two pressing pieces. When each of the fixtures is rotated, the pressing pieces are locked into the limit grooves of each of the entrance slots.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Dong Guan Jia Sheng Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. ChinaInventor: Kevin Hsu
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Patent number: 11104451Abstract: An exterior lamp for an aircraft including a housing defining an interior volume, a heat source disposed within the interior volume of the housing, a light source disposed within the housing configured to emit a light therefrom, a protective lens coupled to the housing proximate the light source, wherein the protective lens is configured to transmit the light, and a capillary transport apparatus having a first end and a second end wherein the first end is coupled to the heat source and the second end is disposed in a catchment basin.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: B/E Aerospace, IncInventor: Van I. Phifer
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Patent number: 11098884Abstract: Lighting strip system (1) which extends along a longitudinal axis direction (L) and has the following: an elongated carrier profile (2) with two elongated side walls (21, 22) that face each other and an elongated base wall (20) connecting the side walls (21, 22), which together delimit a receiving space (A), a first and a second mechanical coupling region (3, 4), wherein the first coupling region (3) is provided between the base wall (20) and the second coupling region (4) as viewed in the longitudinal axis direction (L), an elongated power supply unit (5) which extends in the longitudinal axis direction (L) in the receiving space (A), a lighting strip lamp (6) which extends in the longitudinal axis direction (L), is electrically contacted with the power supply unit (5) and is releasably mechanically coupled to the second coupling region (4), and an electrical or electronic unit (7) with a functional region (73) and an operating region (74), wherein the functional region (73) is arranged adjacent to the lightType: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBHInventor: Andreas Machate