Patents Examined by Michael Chiang
  • Patent number: 11851208
    Abstract: An aircraft anti-collision light includes a first group of light sources arranged in a first annular configuration around an axis (A) and a second group of light sources arranged in a second annular configuration. The first group of light sources is surrounded by the second group of light sources. The light also has a first lens structure, which is configured for generating a first light output from light emitted by the first group of light sources, a second lens structure, which is configured for generating a second light output from light emitted by the second group of light sources, and a light transmissive cover, which is arranged over the first lens structure and the second lens structure and which passes the first light output and the second light output for emitting a total light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marion Depta, Carsten Pawliczek, Andreas Ueberschaer, Bjoern Schallenberg
  • Patent number: 11841128
    Abstract: A lantern lighting device is disclosed that can include a lantern and a base that can be configured to retain the lantern, where the base can include a light emitting element, which can be independent to a light emitting element of the lantern. The lantern lighting device can include a base comprising a base power supply and a base light emitting element, and a lantern detachably attached to the base. The lantern can comprise a lantern lighting element and a lantern power supply. The base can be configured to illuminate the base light emitting element when the lantern is detached from the base, and de-illuminate the base light emitting element when the lantern is detachably attached to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LB MARKETING, INC.
    Inventors: Lauren Lindley, Kaif Dosani, Douglas R. Kaye, Thomas Perrin, Kelly Dawn Hires
  • Patent number: 11828440
    Abstract: An encapsulated LED engine having a printed circuit board, a plurality of LED arrays, each of said LED arrays mounted on said printed circuit board, and electrically connected to each other, an encapsulation layer comprising a pre-molded optic positioned over and adhered to the printed circuit board, and a frame positioned over the LED arrays and secured to the printed circuit board. A method of forming an encapsulated LED engine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Appleton Grp LLC
    Inventors: Timothy E. Graff, Jean-Francois Monteil, Marius Sav, Sumit Kumar
  • Patent number: 11821622
    Abstract: A planar light source includes a light guide member having a through hole, a light source, a first light adjusting member, a second light adjusting member, and a light transmissive member. The first light adjusting member having reflectivity and transmissivity with respect to light from the light source is disposed on or above an upper face of the light source in the through hole. The second light adjusting member having reflectivity and transmissivity with respect to the light from the light source is disposed above and apart from the first light adjusting member. The first light transmissive member having a higher transmissivity with respect to the light from the light source than the transmissivities of the first and second light adjusting members is disposed between the first light adjusting member and the second light adjusting member, and between a lateral face of the light source and the light guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Toru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11815251
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a smart lighting device equipped with a user interface capable of gesture recognition, the smart lighting device including: a main body provided with a light-emitting diode (LED) lighting unit; a sensing unit embedded in the main body, and configured to detect a gesture of a user's hand and to generate sensing information for the gesture; an integrated control unit embedded in the main body, and configured to control individual units so that a setting adjustment for any one of control modes, including at least any one of a brightness setting, color temperature setting, and timer setting of the LED lighting unit and ON/OFF control, corresponding to the sensing information can be made based on previously stored control information; and a power supply unit configured to supply an operating voltage so that the LED lighting unit, the sensing unit, and the integrated control unit can operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TANGRAM FACTORY, INC.
    Inventors: Sung Kyou Woo, Sang Hyun Kang, Tae Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11815235
    Abstract: A lighted artificial tree includes a first tree portion including a first trunk portion, first branches joined to the first trunk portion, and a first light string. The first trunk portion has a trunk connector and a first trunk wiring assembly, the first trunk wiring assembly is electrically connectable to the first light string and the trunk connector, and at least a portion of the first wiring assembly is located inside the first portion. The second tree portion includes a second trunk portion, second branches, and a second light string. The second trunk portion has a trunk connector and a second trunk wiring assembly, the second trunk wiring assembly electrically connectable to the second lighting string and the trunk connector. The second tree portion may be mechanically coupled and electrically connected to the first tree portion by coaxially coupling the first trunk portion to the second trunk portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Willis Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Johnny Chen
  • Patent number: 11808435
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide lighting fixture mounting kits for mounting a flat panel lighting fixture to a mounting surface. The lighting fixture mounting kits may comprise a mounting portion (e.g., a mounting plate) and a lighting fixture. The mounting portion may be secured relative to a mounting surface and may comprise mounting catches. The lighting fixture may be secured relative to the mounting portion, and may comprise fixture catches configured to selectably engage the mounting catches. The lighting fixture may be slidable relative to the mounting portion between an engaged configuration in which the fixture catches are engaged with the mounting catches; and a disengaged configuration in which the fixture catches are disengaged from the mounting catches. When in the disengaged configuration, the lighting fixture is pivotable away from the mounting portion to facilitate access to a back portion of the lighting fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FEIT ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Brian Halliwell
  • Patent number: 11803103
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic lamp chuck compatible with different lamp holders. The photographic lamp chuck comprises a main chuck body (100), wherein an accessory installation position is provided on the main chuck body (100), a first insertion hole (101) for accommodating a lamp holder of a first-type photographic lamp is provided in the main chuck body (100), an arc-shaped positioning face (103) and a groove body (102) are formed in an inner wall of the first insertion hole (101), a positioning inserting member (200) is movably inserted into the groove body (102), a first positioning face is arranged on the positioning inserting member (200), a second insertion hole (202) is enclosed by the first positioning face of the positioning inserting member (200) and the inner wall of the first insertion hole (101), and the second insertion hole is used for accommodating a lamp holder of a second-type photographic lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Godox Photo Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Weijun Zeng
  • Patent number: 11802672
    Abstract: The invention herein disclosed is a solar-powered lighting system optimized to convert light energy into electrical energy, store that electrical energy during daylight hours, and use stored electrical energy to power an LED light source during darkness hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventor: William Ramsdell
  • Patent number: 11799251
    Abstract: A power transfer system to facilitate the transfer of electrical power between tree trunk sections of an artificial tree is disclosed. The power transfer system can advantageously enable neighboring tree trunk sections to be electrically connected without the need to rotationally align the tree trunk sections. Power distribution subsystems can be disposed within the trunk sections. The power distribution subsystems can comprise a male end, a female end, or both. The male ends can have prongs and the female ends can have voids. The prongs can be inserted into the voids to electrically connect the power distribution subsystems of neighboring tree trunk sections. In some embodiments, the prongs and voids are designed so that the prongs of one power distribution subsystem can engage the voids of another power distribution subsystem without the need to rotationally align the tree trunk sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Polygroup Macau Limited (BVI)
    Inventors: Chi Yin Alan Leung, Ricky Tong, Chi Kin Samuel Kwok, Chang-Jun He
  • Patent number: 11781730
    Abstract: A lighting unit which comprises a lens arrangement over a LED module is provided. The lens arrangement comprises a plate having at least one lens integrally formed by the plate for positioning over a substrate of the LED module, and at least one magnifying component integrally formed by the plate. The LED module substrate has an inspection region which is inspected through the magnifying component, so as to enable determination of a spacing between the lens arrangement and the substrate by viewing an image of the marker arrangement created by the at least one magnifying component at a given viewing location. A luminaire is also provided, which luminaire comprises a housing and the lighting unit mounted within the housing, wherein the lens arrangement (10) forms the light output window of the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Jia Fei, Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11781733
    Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle lamp optical element, a vehicle lamp module comprising the vehicle lamp optical element, a vehicle headlamp, and a vehicle. The vehicle lamp optical element comprises a light incoming part, a transmission part and a light exiting part, which are sequentially arranged. The light incoming part includes at least one light incoming structure. The rear end and the front end, in a light exiting direction, of the transmission part are respectively a light incoming end and a light exiting end of the transmission part. One end, facing away from the light exiting end of the light exiting part forms a light exiting face. The light exiting face is a curved face protruding forwards. The distance between at least one set of opposite side faces of the transmission part gradually increases from the end approaching the light incoming end to the end approaching the light exiting end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiping Qiu, Dapan Zhang, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang
  • Patent number: 11781717
    Abstract: A lighting unit (100) for a medical luminaire (150) has a number of groups of LEDs (110, 110?, 110?) that are connected to a common planar printed circuit board (115). Each LED (112, 112?) of at least one of the groups (110, 110?) is associated with a respective optic (122, 122?) by which a respective LED-optic pair (120, 120?) is formed. The respective optics, based on the structure (328), specify a tilt angle (125) of a central light beam axis (124, 124?) of an emitted light beam of the LED optics pair in a tilt direction (627) of the respective LED optics pair. The tilt direction is defined such that the respective light beam axes of the emitted light beams of the LED optics pairs from the at least one group of LEDs are at least partially skewed in pairs with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Hanno Kretschmann, Georg Spielberger
  • Patent number: 11781732
    Abstract: A lighting fixture with reduced glare is provided. Lighting fixtures described herein use a lens assembly to redirect light away from a housing in order to reduce a unified glaring ratio (UGR) (e.g., when viewed crosswise or endwise). The lens assembly may further provide diffusive properties which result in a more pleasing and soft light over traditional lighting fixtures. In aspects described herein, the UGR of troffer-style lighting fixtures can be improved (e.g., reduced) through lens assemblies having one or more light redirection features configured to particularly redirect light emitted at high v-angles (e.g., light emitted sideways relative to the housing at v-angles greater than 70 degrees). For example, the lens assembly may include an inner prismatic surface of a lens, an inner lens, a louver assembly (e.g., over or under a lens), or a reflector to achieve this light redirection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting LLC
    Inventors: Jin Hong Lim, Mark P. Boomgaarden
  • Patent number: 11784283
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a substrate a plurality of light emitting elements provided on the substrate, and a reflective sheet provided to be positioned at a predetermined reference position on the substrate and having a plurality of apertures that expose the light emitting elements therethrough, respectively. The apertures are configured such that a first spacing that is located between each of the apertures and a respective one of the light emitting elements and farther than the respective one of the light emitting elements from the reference position is larger than a second spacing that is located between each of the apertures and the respective one of the light emitting elements and closer than the respective one of the light emitting elements to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Imahori
  • Patent number: 11781738
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to luminaire systems with movable modules. One example luminaire system includes a support structure. The luminaire system also includes a plurality of light sources arranged on the support structure. Additionally, the luminaire system includes at least a first and second optical module. The first optical module is provided with at least one first optical element and the second optical module is provided with at least one second optical element. The first and second optical module are configured for being interlocked with respected to each other in a moving direction. Further, the luminaire system includes a moving means configured to move the first optical module relative to the support structure in the moving direction, such that a position of the first and second optical module with respect to the support structure is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Schreder S.A.
    Inventors: Laurent Seronveaux, Roxane Caprara
  • Patent number: 11774063
    Abstract: A color mixing lens assembly is provided. The color mixing assembly may include a center mixing structure arranged concentrically within the optic. The center mixing structure may be configured to receive a first portion of electromagnetic radiation from a light receiving structure. The center mixing structure may include a plated surface. The center mixing structure may include a center kick structure arranged concentrically within the center mixing structure. The center kick structure may be configured to reflect the first portion of the electromagnetic radiation towards the plated surface. The center mixing structure may be configured to reflect the first portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the plated surface through an exit surface of the optic. The optic may be configured to reflect a second portion of the electromagnetic radiation received from the light source structure through the exit surface of the optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Eric Anthony Roth
  • Patent number: 11774052
    Abstract: A high-efficiency linear light source focused strip lamp has a strip lamp frame, a strip lamp plate provided on the strip lamp frame, a condensing lens arranged above the light emitting direction of the light-emitting chip, and a strip lamp cover connected to the strip lamp frame and located above the condensing lens; the strip lamp cover is provided with a convex lens array that visually stretches the light-emitting chip along a length direction. The high-efficiency linear light source focused strip lamp performs light distribution through the concentrating lens in the vertical length direction, and achieves high-efficiency sweeping function, and in the longitudinal direction, the light-emitting chip is performed visually stretching by the convex lens arrays on the strip lamp cover, thus achieving the effect of the line light source, solves the original glare problem without affecting the efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Self Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Yang, Kai Xu, Zuping He
  • Patent number: 11774062
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lens and a lighting fixture, the lens includes a light incident portion and a light-emitting portion, the light-emitting portion includes a main light-emitting surface and an auxiliary light-emitting surface surrounding the main light-emitting surface. The main light-emitting surface and the auxiliary light-emitting surface protrude toward a side away from the light incident portion, the auxiliary light-emitting surface is a curved surface. The auxiliary light-emitting surface has a protruding height gradually decreasing in a direction away from the main light-emitting surface. The lighting fixture includes a lamp housing, a light-emitting assembly, and a light distribution assembly, the light distribution assembly includes the above lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SUZHOU OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD., OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wanlin Wang
  • Patent number: 11767964
    Abstract: A luminaire and LED light engine are provided. The luminaire includes the LED light engine and an optical device. The LED light engine includes an LED array and a partial diffuser. The partial diffuser diffuses light that is emitted by LEDs of a selected first subset of LEDs in the LED array and leaves undiffused light that is emitted by LEDs of a second subset of LEDs in the LED array. At least some LEDs are selected for inclusion in the first subset as emitting light that produces poorly blended colors in a light beam emitted by the LED array. The optical device is configured to receive a light beam emitted from the LED light engine and emit a modified light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Vilem, Tomas David, Josef Valchar