Patents Examined by Matthew J Peerce
  • Patent number: 11867377
    Abstract: A lamp for the rear of a vehicle is disclosed with a light transmissive cover having a red first illuminated surface area and a clear second illuminated surface area. It has a first LED light emitter located directly beneath the red first area, a second LED light emitter located directly beneath the clear second area, and a third LED light emitter, also located directly beneath said clear second area. The third red LED light emitter is for emitting red light through the clear second area simultaneously with light transmitted through the red first area, whereby the first and second areas are adapted to collectively form a contiguous red illuminated surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Grote Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Norris, Randall Staggs, Nakul Anand, Shawn S. Smith, Christopher C. Riley, Mark D. Noe
  • Patent number: 11846801
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a back plate and a plurality of light plate assemblies arranged on the back plate, and there is a seam between every two adjacent light plate assemblies. The backlight module further includes at least one light guide plate and at least one side light source. The light guide plate is arranged at the seam. The side light source corresponds to the light guide plate, is located on the side of the light guide plate, and provides a light source for the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: MIANYANG HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhilong Zhao, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11835194
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes a lighting apparatus which has one or more light sources and one or more transparent bodies which each have a surface made of a plurality of flat facets. The lighting device is configured such that light which comes from a light source at least in part passes through a transparent body and is refracted at facets of the transparent body. The light which passes through the transparent body at least in part exits from the lighting device in order to create a light distribution. An associated transparent body is a molded component having one or more recesses which are integrally molded in the molded component, the molded component being clamped in the lighting device by the engagement of one or more projections into the one or more recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Sebastien Casenave, Dominik Hart, Katharina Santner, Chunyue Zhai
  • Patent number: 11835189
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a working lamp, including a working lamp housing, a working lamp lighting assembly, and a working lamp power supply system, where a working lamp connecting portion is provided on an outer wall of the working lamp housing, and the working lamp housing is detachably connected to other working lamps by means of the working lamp connecting portion. The working lamp provided by the present invention is provided with the working lamp connecting portion on the outer wall of the working lamp housing, which allows the working lamp to be detachably connected to the other working lamps by means of the working lamp connecting portion, so that a user can easily connect the working lamp to the other working lamps, and the illumination range is expanded accordingly. The working lamp is convenient to use. The present invention also provides a working lamp group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Guohui Bai, Xia Xiao
  • Patent number: 11821600
    Abstract: A lighting device for a headlight includes a light-emitting element carrier having a longitudinal direction. At least one low-light-emitting element, at least one high-light-emitting element, and at least one position light-emitting element are arranged at the light-emitting element carrier. The at least one position light-emitting element is arranged, in respect of the longitudinal direction, in a front facing end zone of the light-emitting element carrier, and the at least one low-light-emitting element and the at least one high-light-emitting element in respect of the longitudinal direction are arranged behind the at least one position light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: KTM AG
    Inventors: Daniel Hirschbichler, Zbynĕk Kremzer
  • Patent number: 11794980
    Abstract: A packaging subassembly for containing at least one foodstuff item. The packaging subassembly includes at least one foodstuff item container and foodstuff-containing packaging portion. The foodstuff-containing packaging portion supports the at least one foodstuff item container. The foodstuff-containing packaging portion includes an illuminator having one or more light sources that is configured to produce light for illuminating the at least one foodstuff item container. A packaging assembly is also disclosed. A method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Gummigram, LLC
    Inventor: David William Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 11796148
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising: a light module (2), wherein the light module (2) comprises a light source (2a) and a collimator (3), which is set up in such a manner that the light generated by the light source (2a) is emitted via a light-emitting surface (3a) in a light propagation direction (4), an optical element (5) having a light-coupling surface (5a) and a light-decoupling surface (5b), wherein the light of the collimator is guided through the optical element (5), wherein the light-decoupling surface (5b) of the optical element (5) has multiple optical elements (6) through which the light is emitted as a divergent light beam, wherein the light-emitting surface (3a) of the collimator (3) is formed from multiple lenses (7), wherein each lens (7) is set up for emitting the light of the light source (2a) to the light-coupling surface (5a) of the optical element (5) in a divergent manner, wherein all lenses (7) have essentially the same focal leng
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kemetmüller, Alexander Strohmüller
  • Patent number: 11788702
    Abstract: A headlight module includes a first light source that emits first light, and a first optical unit. The first optical unit includes a first optical surface that reflects the first light, and a lens surface that projects illuminating light including the first light reflected by the first optical surface. An edge part of the first optical surface close to the lens surface includes a first edge part and a second edge part differing from each other in a position in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens surface, and a position of the second edge part in a direction of the optical axis is closer to the lens surface than a position of the first edge part in the direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashige Suwa, Ritsuya Oshima, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11788701
    Abstract: Lighting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least two lighting modules and at least one support member supporting the lighting modules. Each lighting module includes at least one light source capable of emitting light rays and an optical system arranged, on a specific optical axis of the lighting module, across the light rays and configured to project a light beam. The support member supporting the different lighting modules is, on the one hand, rigidly connected to a closing element incorporating at least two optical systems and, on the other hand, connected to at least a first adjustment system enabling one of the lighting modules to move independently relative to at least the other lighting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Colombel, Michel Hermitte, Sylvain Giraud
  • Patent number: 11781719
    Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes a first lamp unit that forms a first region of a beam pattern using a plurality of first lamp modules arranged along a width direction of the vehicle; and a second lamp unit that is disposed more outward than the first lamp unit along the width direction of the vehicle and forms a second region of the beam pattern using a plurality of second lamp modules arranged along the width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SL Corporation
    Inventors: Hyo Jin Han, Kyung Su Lee
  • Patent number: 11781720
    Abstract: A black image type hidden light system applied to a vehicle is composed of a control module coupled to a hidden lamp module in which an outer lens, an inner lens, and a light source are assembled in a lamp housing, and a black color surface of the outer lens covers an inner space of the lamp housing to block the exposure to the outside and transmits the light fully reflected to the inner lens to the outside, thereby forming a deposition image in black when not lit and a lamp image or a lighting image when lit, and in particular, optimizes a light transmittance with an amount of addition of a carbon black material mixed with a polycarbonate (PC) material, thereby substantially enabling the mass-production beyond the limitation of an AL deposition image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong-Seon Kim, Hwi-Eon Kim, Wan-Ku Yoon, Gil-Won Han
  • Patent number: 11767960
    Abstract: A headlamp illumination source that switches from a first configuration conforming to on-road illumination standards to a second configuration that does not conform to on-road illumination standards. The switching is preferably controlled by a wireless signal but in some embodiments the switching can be controlled by a hard-wired signal or by a switch proximate the illumination source itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: William H. Jones, Jr, Edward Robertson, William Lauer, Jason Anderson, John Wiley Horton
  • Patent number: 11770883
    Abstract: The present invention is an illumination module including at least one light path adjustment unit, at least one first light source, and at least one second light source. The first light source is configured to generate a first color light and project the first color light to the light path adjustment element. A second light source is configured to generate a second color light and project the second color light to the light path adjustment element. The light path adjustment element projects the first color light and the second color light to the front of the illumination module, and the first color light and the second color light partially or fully overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: COPLUS INC.
    Inventor: Jacob Wu
  • Patent number: 11754252
    Abstract: A lighting device disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a resin layer covering the light source on the substrate; a light blocking layer having an opening portion on the resin layer; and a lens plate disposed on the light blocking layer, wherein the lens plate includes a light transmitting portion and a convex portion arranged on one surface or the other surface of the light transmitting portion, and the total area of the opening portions is 50% or less of an area of an emission surface through which light is emitted through the resin layer, and the interval between the lens plate and the light blocking layer may be greater than the length of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Lee, Kwang Hyun Ko, Kyoung Soo Ahn
  • Patent number: 11746990
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes an electrical cord providing electrical communication between a first light fixture and a second light fixture, and a cover removably coupled to the first light fixture and the second light fixture. The electrical cord includes a first electrical connector coupled to the first light fixture, and a second electrical connector coupled to the second light fixture. The cover extends over the electrical cord, and includes a first end adjacent the first light fixture, a second end adjacent the second light fixture, and a surface extending between the first end and the second end. The cover provides a continuous surface between the first light fixture and the second light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HLI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Qianshan Li, Kevin Lu, Syed Raza, Dean Dal Ponte
  • Patent number: 11747677
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a backplane and a light bar. The backplane includes a bottom plate and a side plate assembly, the side plate assembly is connected to the bottom plate and is enclosed with the bottom plate to form an accommodating cavity, the light bar is located in the accommodating cavity and is installed on the bottom plate; the light bar has a main body part and an edge part surrounding the main body part, the backlight module further includes a first light absorbing member and/or a first light condensing member disposed between the side plate assembly and the edge part of the light bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaogang Hu, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11746994
    Abstract: A battery powered lighting device is configured to be attached to lift bucket having sidewalls and an upper lip extending from uppermost portions of the sidewalls. The lighting device includes a main housing, a securing member, and a main light mounted to the main housing and located to illuminate areas outside of the lift bucket. The main housing includes a first securing surface and an upper housing portion, with the upper housing portion configured to be located above the upper lip of the lift bucket with the first securing surface engaged against a surface of the lift bucket. The main light is mounted to the main housing to move between a lower position wherein the main light is positioned below the upper housing portion and an upper position wherein the main light is positioned above the upper housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Klein Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton J. Gable, Kozeta C. Topchian, Eric Salinas, Scott M. Hargis, John H. Kargenian
  • Patent number: 11746980
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, which illumination device (10) has at least one projection device (100), which projection device (100) is arranged on a support frame (50) of the illumination device (10), wherein the at least one projection device (100) comprises the following: at least one micro-optics array (200), which has a plurality of micro-optics (210) arranged in a matrix-like manner in a plane orthogonal to a main emission direction (X) of the projection device (100), at least one substrate layer (300), on which the at least one micro-optics array (200) is arranged, wherein the at least one micro-optics array (200) is arranged on an optically active section (310) of the substrate layer (300), which optically active section (310) is at least partially light-permeable, at least one light source (400), which is designed to emit light beams, wherein the light beams are coupled into the optically active section (310) of the substrate layer (300) and co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Gürtl, Alexander Hacker
  • Patent number: 11746995
    Abstract: A frame system for securing a lighting fixture to a surface is provided. The frame system can include a frame defining an opening. The frame can be configured to accommodate a selected insert of a plurality of inserts associated with the lighting fixture and coupleable to the frame. Each of the plurality of inserts can include an aperture defining portion of a different size or shape. The aperture defining portion of the selected insert can extend through the opening defined by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HLI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Russell James Weston, Jared Roulier
  • Patent number: 11746981
    Abstract: A multi-faceted reflective hidden lighting lamp applied to a vehicle may block a portion of external light and repeatedly reflect internal light in two or more steps with a reflective surface on one side surface of a light reflective portion having a triangular sawtooth shape formed on a lens in a direction facing a light source and a transmissive surface on the other side surface thereof in an internal space of the lamp, and form a reflective layer on the reflective surface in painting/deposition/plating processes, a laser perforation process, a masking process, and a film insert process to reduce a color conversion material for the same color conversion effect and increase the utilization of an overlap skin portion of the lens, increasing the light blocking ability for a region other than the region required by regulations in addition to increasing the transmissive/light-receiving ability for the region required by regulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Pyo Hong, Yun-Min Cho, Chang-Hwan Oh, Dong-Joo Park, Han-Soo Park, Ju-Hyun Kim, Jung-Woo Shin