Patents Examined by Leah S Macchiarolo
  • Patent number: 9699854
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting arrangement for a lighting fixture includes: a lighting strip comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged along a length of the lighting strip; a first multi-faceted side wall reflector extending from a first side of the lighting strip at an angle such that the first multi-faceted side wall reflector extends along an entire length of the lighting strip and away from a bottom portion of a light emitting portion of each of the light emitting diodes (LEDs); and a second multi-faceted side wall reflector extending from a second, opposite side of the lighting strip at an angle such that the second multi-faceted side wall reflector extends along an entire length of the lighting strip away from the bottom portion of the light emitting portion of each of the light emitting diodes (LEDs). The first and second multi-faceted side wall reflectors cause light produced by the plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to be amplified and formed into a uniform beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: APPALACHIAN LIGHTING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: James J. Wassel
  • Patent number: 9683726
    Abstract: A lamp that emits light and includes: a mounting board on which a light-emitting element is provided; a support disposed on a side opposite a light-emission-side of the mounting board; and a case connected to a support. The case includes a securing part which is disposed on the light-emission-side of the mounting board, and secures the mounting board to the support by sandwiching the mounting board between the securing part and the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsushi Seki
  • Patent number: 9644811
    Abstract: A vehicular headlamp has a projection lens having an optical axis extending in a front-back direction, a light source disposed behind a rear side focal point of the projection lens, a reflector that reflects direct light from the light source toward the projection lens, a shade disposed between the projection lens and the light source, and that partially blocks light reflected from the reflector and to form a cut-off line of a light distribution pattern, a first reflective surface disposed in front of the reflector, that partially reflects direct light from the light source downward to the a front of the shade, and a second reflective surface disposed in front of the shade and lower than the rear side focal point of the projection lens, that reflects the light reflected from the first reflective surface toward the projection lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takehiko Tajima
  • Patent number: 9593817
    Abstract: A high beam reflector (341) is disposed below a high beam LED light source (46) and reflects light from the high beam LED light source (46) in front of a vehicle. Low beam reflectors (342, 343) are disposed below a low beam LED light source (45) and reflect light from the low beam LED light source (45) in front of the vehicle. The low beam LED light source (45) is located on either side of the high beam LED light source (46) and disposed in front of the high beam LED light source (46). The high beam reflector (341) is longer than the low beam reflectors (342, 343) in the front-rear direction, and the low beam reflectors (342, 343) are positioned before the high beam reflector (341).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kuriki
  • Patent number: 9588346
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light concentrating film and a display device. The light concentrating film has a planar shape, and includes multiple light concentrating units which are connected to each other so as to concentrate the incident light on a light incoming side of the light concentrating film at the light outgoing side of the light concentrating film. The display device of the present disclosure includes a display panel and the light concentrating film of the present disclosure, and the light outgoing side of the light concentrating film faces a light incoming side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Bai, Hetao Wang, Kun Lu, Kai Yan, Jingshi Li
  • Patent number: 9574745
    Abstract: The invention provides a light source apparatus including first and second light sources that output light in mutually opposing directions along a single optical axis; a wavelength conversion element that is disposed between these light sources and that generates light of a wavelength different from that of said light due to irradiation with the light; a first optical member that is disposed between the wavelength conversion element and the first light source, that transmits the light therefrom, and that reflects back light that is scattered towards the first light source, toward the wavelength conversion element; and a second optical member that is disposed between the wavelength conversion element and the second light source, that transmits the light therefrom, and that deflects, in a direction intersecting the optical axis, the light scattered toward the second light source and the light reflected back by the first optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichiro Furuta
  • Patent number: 9568159
    Abstract: A vehicle illumination apparatus includes at least one illumination light source and at least one light guiding lens. The illumination light source is capable of providing an illumination beam. The light guiding lens includes a first light transmissive surface, a second light transmissive surface opposite to and smaller than the first light transmissive surface, an inner surrounding surface, and an outer surrounding surface. The first light transmissive surface is capable of projecting the illumination beam out of the light guiding lens. The inner surrounding surface and the second light transmissive surface are connected to each other and define a containing space configured to accommodate the illumination light source. The outer surrounding surface is connected to the inner surrounding surface and the first light transmissive surface. Besides, the outer surrounding surface has at least one light condensing region and at least one light diverging region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CORETRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Han-Wen Tsai, Ming-Feng Kuo, Kuo-Sheng Huang
  • Patent number: 9541246
    Abstract: An LED light fixture having a light-emitting region and a perimetrical structure therearound. The light-emitting region includes at least one LED-array module supported by an LED heat sink open for air/water-flow. The perimetrical structure has first and second opposite substantially-aligned edge-adjacent portions each extending along the light-emitting region and meeting each other at a perimetrical edge. The first and second edge-adjacent portions converge toward each other at positions progressively closer to the perimetrical edge to form aerodynamic-drag-reducing cross-sectional profiles transverse to the fixture plane and extending in substantially all fixture-plane directions from the intersection of its two major principal axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan J. Ruud, Kurt S. Wilcox, Steven R. Walczak
  • Patent number: 9535286
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image display device includes a light-emitting module, a housing which includes a back chassis covering the light-emitting module from behind, and accommodates the light-emitting module, and a supporting member attached to an engagement hole formed in the back chassis and holding a circuit component on the back chassis. The supporting member includes a receiving portion which receives the circuit component, and a light-shielding portion configured to block off light of the light-emitting module passing through the engagement hole of the back chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Sakurada
  • Patent number: 9529174
    Abstract: The present invention provides a diffuser plate assembly. The diffuser plate assembly includes a first diffuser plate and a second diffuser plate located under the first diffuser plate, and a gap is formed therebetween. Correspondingly, the present invention also provides a backlight comprising the diffuser plate assembly and a display device comprising the backlight. Compared with the prior art, the diffuser plate assembly provided by the present invention can enable light emitted by a light source to irradiate a display panel more uniformly, and the thicknesses of the backlight and the display device can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongli Zhu, Lili Jia, Zhidan Zhang, Daekeun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9510442
    Abstract: An LED light source unit for a backlight of a liquid crystal display is provided. The light source unit includes a plurality of LED chips, an insulating substrate, and a metal film covering a principal surface of the substrate. The LED chips are mounted on the metal film. With this arrangement, brightness of the light source unit is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Tanuma, Tomoharu Horio, Tadatoshi Miwa, Hiroyuki Tajiri, Takumi Yamade
  • Patent number: 9507156
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light concentrating film and a display device. The light concentrating film has a planar shape, and includes multiple light concentrating units which are connected to each other so as to concentrate the incident light on a light incoming side of the light concentrating film at the light outgoing side of the light concentrating film. The display device of the present disclosure includes a display panel and the light concentrating film of the present disclosure, and the light outgoing side of the light concentrating film faces a light incoming side of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Bai, Hetao Wang, Kun Lu, Kai Yan, Jingshi Li
  • Patent number: 9500346
    Abstract: A light dispersing flashlight cover adapted for selective attachment to a flashlight having an articulating head. The cover includes a platform supported in resilient cantilevered relation such that the platform is disposed in overlying, raised relation to at least a portion of the flashlight lens when the cover is in place. A light beam emitted through the lens is at least partially blocked by the platform and is dispersed radially relative to the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
    Inventors: Christopher A. J. Iannello, Jon D. Burrow
  • Patent number: 9494292
    Abstract: The invention shows and describes, among others, a light fixture (10) for illuminating building surfaces, comprising a circuit board (11) on which a plurality of LEDs (12a, 12b, 12c) are mounted, secondary optics (14) that bundle the light emitted by the LEDs, and tertiary optics (16) formed by a planar, translucent element that has light-directing microstructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: ERCO GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Bremerich, Markus Goerres
  • Patent number: 9476581
    Abstract: A dustproof and waterproof multipurpose LED-light power source assembly comprises a heat sink, a heat-dispersal fan, a circuit board driver module, an LED light source module, a power-source casing top cover and a power-source casing bottom cover. The LED light source module comprises plural LED chips and an LED heat-dispersing substrate. The heat-dispersal fan is a dustproof and waterproof fan. The heat sink comprises a baseboard to which the LED heat-dispersing substrate is fixedly connected and conducts dispersed heat. At the center of the top of a heat-dispersal member, a space is provided to accommodate the heat-dispersal fan. The power-source casing bottom cover is positioned above the heat-dispersal fan and is fixedly connected to the heat sink. The power-source casing top cover and the power-source casing bottom cover are hermetically connected one to the other. A waterproof bolt assembly is connected to the top of the power-source casing top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NANKER (GUANG ZHOU) SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventor: Chun-wei Wu
  • Patent number: 9476562
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device includes a housing, a first receiving cavity recessed inwardly from a center of a front side of the housing, a first light source received in the first receiving cavity, an annular second receiving cavity recessed in the front side of the housing and surrounding the first receiving cavity, a second light source received in the second receiving cavity, a first envelope fixed in the front side of the housing and covering the first receiving cavity, and an annular second envelope fixed in the front side of the housing and covering the second receiving cavity. An inner face of the second receiving cavity is a bending face including a plurality of reflecting facets for reflecting light emitted from the second light source. Every two adjacent reflecting facets intersect with an angle. The second light source faces at least one reflecting facet distant from the second envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Chou Chen
  • Patent number: 9383089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat radiation device of lighting device. The heat radiation device of lighting device comprises passive heat radiator and mounting assembly, the passive heat radiator includes: a heat radiating base plate; a slablike upstanding plate, the slablike upstanding plate is a solid plate of metal material; a heat absorbing ending face disposed at one side of the heat radiating base plate deviated from the upstanding plate, and adapted to mount luminous chip of the lighting device; heat radiating fins connected to a surface of the slablike upstanding plate, the heat radiating fins are of hollow cubic tubular structure; the heat radiating base plate of the passive heat radiator is connected with the mounting assembly. The present invention adopts upstanding plate which substantially perpendicular with the horizontal plane and heat radiating fins of hollow cubic tubular structure, improves heat radiating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Inventor: Hongwu Yang
  • Patent number: 9371980
    Abstract: The backlight device 12 of the present embodiment includes: a plurality of LEDs 17; a chassis 14 that is a plate-shaped member and on which the LEDs 17 are arranged; a plurality of diffusion lenses 40 that are fixed to the chassis 14, that individually cover the LEDs 17 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, and that exert optical effects on the light from the LEDs 17; a reflective sheet 21 that covers the plate surface of the chassis 14, that exposes the LEDs 17, and that has the lens insertion holes 21 through which the diffusion lenses 40 are respectively inserted; and reflective sheet holding members 30 that hold the reflective sheet 21 from the side opposite to the chassis 14, that engage the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40, and that extend on the sheet surface of the reflective sheet 21 between the adjacent diffusion lenses 40 and 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuuki Namekata
  • Patent number: 9291331
    Abstract: A solid state lamp having a threaded base with an LED light source receives a threaded ring with a snap-on lens. The snap-on lens has cantilevered fingers with pegs on the distal ends that snap into receiving holes in the ring. The ring has internal threads that screw on to the base. A lamp shade is held on to the base when the ring is screwed on to the base. The lamp is adapted to work with light fixtures or a ceiling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CORDELIA LIGHTING, INC.
    Inventor: James Keng
  • Patent number: 9265295
    Abstract: A helmet mounted lighting apparatus including an identification or decorative shield that may be removably coupled with the helmet. The apparatus may include one or more of at least one light, at least one power source, a microcontroller, a switch and a heat dissipater. In at least one embodiment, the at least one power source does not protrude in front of a main surface area of the identification or decorative shield. The at least one light may be focused to point forward from the identification or decorative shield, such that the at least one light illuminates an area forward of the helmet focusing on a working area of a user. The at least one light may also point downward at an adjustable angle. The apparatus may include at least one location proximal to the identification or decorative shield to place the at least one light respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Highland Innovates, Inc.
    Inventor: Christian Boulan