Patents Examined by Michael Chiang
  • Patent number: 11578856
    Abstract: A lighting lamp is provided. The lighting lamp includes a light module and a lens. The lens includes a lens body, provided with a first end and a second end which are opposite to each other and a side wall located between the first end and the second end, in which a light source of the lighting lamp is arranged at the first end, and at least a portion of the side wall is configured as a light emitting component. The lens also includes a light incident component, arranged at the first end of the lens body, in which the light incident component irradiates light emitted by the light source to the second end. The lens includes a light reflecting component, arranged at the second end of the lens body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenxi Bu, Yisheng Xiao
  • Patent number: 11555599
    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: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FEIT ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Brian Halliwell
  • Patent number: 11549654
    Abstract: A light guide structure with jagged protrusions is configured in a lighting device of a mobile vehicle. The light guide structure includes a light injecting surface and a light emitting surface. The light emitting surface includes a middle section and two side sections deployed respectively at opposite ends of the middle section. The side sections have a plurality of jagged protrusions forming a light guiding area. The extending direction of the jagged protrusions intersects with the light emitting direction. A light source module forms an irradiation area by the light guide structure, the light guiding area extending the width of both sides of the irradiation area, the beam contour being enlarged evenly. The disclosure also provides a headlight structure, a light source module having the light guide structure and a convex lens configured sequentially in the light emitting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TAN DE TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Pai Lee, Cheng Chih Lai, Chung Chiang Pan
  • Patent number: 11550133
    Abstract: The invention provides a lighting system (100) comprising: —a plurality of n light sources (10), wherein each of the n light sources (10) is configured to generate light source light (11); —a plurality of n first beam shaping elements (20), wherein each of the n first beam shaping elements (20) is configured downstream of a respective light source (10); —k arrays (300) of optical elements (310), wherein each of the k arrays (300) comprises nk optical elements (310), wherein each of the nk optical elements (310) is configured downstream of a respective first beam shaping element (20) from a subset (250) of the n first beam shaping elements (20); wherein the optical elements (310) are configured to influence one or more of (i) a beam direction of the light source light (11), (ii) a beam shape of the light source light (11), (iii) a spectral distribution of the light source light (11), and (iv) an intensity of the light source light (11); and wherein n?2, k?1, and 1?nk?n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Signify Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Anthonie Hendrik Bergman, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis
  • Patent number: 11542034
    Abstract: A set of exterior aircraft lights, comprises a main landing light, which comprises at least one main landing light source and is configured for emitting a main landing light beam around a main landing light beam direction (L), and at least one of a taxi light and a runway turn-off light. The taxi light is configured for emitting a taxi light beam around a taxi light beam direction (T) and for emitting a first auxiliary landing light beam around a first auxiliary landing light beam direction (AL1), wherein the first auxiliary landing light beam direction (AL1), when projected onto a vertical plane, is angled downwards between 5° and 15° with respect to the straight ahead direction. The runway turn-off light is configured for emitting a runway turn-off light beam around a runway turn-off light beam direction (Ra, Rb).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Jha, Jens Leuschner
  • Patent number: 11536439
    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: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Nakabayashi, Toru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11535325
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motorcycle lamp (2) for implementing at least one lamp function. The motorcycle lamp (2) comprises a housing (4) having a light-emission aperture (6), a bracket (8) mounted on the housing (4) for securing the motorcycle lamp (2) to a motorcycle, at least one light source (10) disposed in the housing (4) and a front optics (12) made of a solid transparent material disposed between the at least one light source (10) and the light-emission aperture (6), wherein the at least one light source (10) comprises an LED and is disposed and oriented in the housing (4) such that it emits light in a main radiation direction (14) extending through the light-emission aperture (6), and wherein the front optics (12) closes the light-emission aperture (6) and deflects and shapes the light emitted by the at least one light source (10) to generate a light distribution corresponding to a lamp function implemented by the motorcycle lamp (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MOTOGADGET GMBH
    Inventor: Garrit Keller
  • Patent number: 11506832
    Abstract: A planar illumination device according to embodiments includes a substrate and a light guide plate. The substrate has a plurality of light sources arranged two-dimensionally. The light guide plate is disposed on a side of the surface of the substrate, the surface having the light sources. The light guide plate has a plurality of through holes disposed in a thickness direction and individually accommodating the light sources, and a pseudo light source. The pseudo light source is disposed such that another pseudo light source is not disposed on a line connecting the center of the pseudo light source and the center of one of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Edamitsu, Satoshi Sugawara, Kai Wu, Masao Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11506447
    Abstract: A refrigerator including a storage chamber. The refrigerator also includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall arranged to form at least a portion of both side surfaces of the storage chamber. The refrigerator further includes a light source arranged on the first sidewall to illuminate an inside of the storage chamber. The refrigerator also includes a light guide member provided inside the storage chamber and formed to extend between the first sidewall and the second sidewall to guide light emitted from the light source. The light guide member includes an incident surface arranged to face the first sidewall and an exit surface through which the light guided by the light guide member is emitted to an outside of the light guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoungjin Jang, Jiyong Park, Jinhong Yu, Seungjae Lee, Jisick Hwang
  • Patent number: 11499699
    Abstract: A mechanical actuation system for a light fixture that allows for translation of an array of optics relative to an array of light sources in a defined plane. The system can prevent undesired movement such as rotation or out-of-plane motion. A simple and intuitive user interface enables a user to point a resulting light beam in a desired direction without requiring an understanding of the internal mechanical system. The user interface may include a manually manipulated touch point such as a joystick, knob, or other interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GLINT PHOTONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Gladden, Victor Chub, Peter Kozodoy
  • Patent number: 11499687
    Abstract: Provided is a light fixture comprising: a) a housing; b) a cover for the housing; d) one or more lenses configured to be attached to the cover; and d) a plurality of LED light sources placed inside of the housing to provide a substantially uniform light through the one or more lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Elite Lighting
    Inventor: Hamid Rashidi Doust
  • Patent number: 11493188
    Abstract: A lighting effect adjustment system includes a light source module, and a focusing module, a magnification module and a light output lens that are arranged in sequence along a beam projection direction of the light source module. The focusing module, the magnification module and the light output lens are mounted on a stage light holder, The focusing module and the magnification module are independently slidable in a light path direction. An effect module is further slidably arranged between the focusing module and the light output lens. The effect module includes one or more effect sheets configured to be switched into and out from a light path, and motions of the effect module and the magnification module are independent without interference with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Weikai Jiang
  • Patent number: 11482569
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least three light emitting elements arranged side by side, and one or more light transmissive members each containing a phosphor and covering the light emitting elements. The at least three light emitting elements include two outer light emitting elements arranged on outer sides, and an inner light emitting element arranged between the two outer light emitting elements and having a different peak emission wavelength than a peak emission wavelength of the two outer light emitting elements. The phosphor has a longer peak emission wavelength than the peak emission wavelengths of the outer light emitting elements and the peak emission wavelength of the inner light emitting element. The two outer light emitting elements and the inner light emitting element are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seitaro Akagawa, Takeshi Morikawa, Kentaro Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 11479361
    Abstract: A lighting system for an aircraft including a light source configured to emit light and a refractive optical element configured to receive light from the light source and to redirect the light to produce light beams each directed to illuminate a specific surface of the aircraft or ground near the aircraft. The lighting system may be used in a method to monitor ice accretion on a surface of an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS, S.L.U.
    Inventor: Pablo Cueto-Gomez
  • Patent number: 11459006
    Abstract: A modular lamp system (200) for a railroad crossing warning device includes a crossing lamp (210) and a crossing lamp base (220) controllable by a wayside control device (40), and a module (230) comprising an electronic circuit (250), wherein the crossing lamp base (220) is configured to provide power to the crossing lamp (210) and the module (230), and wherein, when the crossing lamp (210), the crossing lamp base (220) and the module (230) are assembled and in operation, the crossing lamp (210) performs a first action and the module (230) performs a second action, which is different from the first action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Alan McGavock, Jr., Brian Harp
  • Patent number: 11454365
    Abstract: A vehicle luminous module intended to generate a light beam along an optical axis includes primary light guides each including an entrance dioptric interface and an exit, and a light source arranged facing an entrance dioptric interface. A projecting assembly includes a focal region and an exit member, the projecting assembly being arranged so that the light rays passing through said focal region and reaching the exit member are imaged in a projection field downstream of said projecting assembly. The exits of the guides are arranged level with the focal region. The luminous module includes at least one secondary light guide distinct from the primary light guides, and arranged so as to deviate light rays generated by the light source so that they do not reach the exit member, and/or so as to spread said light rays in said projection field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Orane Marchal
  • Patent number: 11448378
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source and a compound optical lens that emits light forward. The compound optical lens has an incidence surface, an emission surface, and a shade part. The emission surface emits the light received by the incidence surface forward. The shade part is disposed between the incidence surface and the emission surface. The compound optical lens has first and second reflector surfaces. The first reflector surface reflects light forming a first light distribution pattern toward the emission surface. The second reflector surface reflects light forming a condensed-light distribution pattern toward the emission surface. The width of the first reflector surface is larger than the width of the second reflector surface in a vehicle width direction at a position where the first reflector surface and the second reflector surface are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11425950
    Abstract: A helmet including fit system straps with illuminable strips on them or woven into them and one or more light sources positioned adjacent the tops of the fit system straps on the helmet body to emit light toward the illuminable strips. The light sources may be connected directly to the illuminable strips to emit light into an end of the illuminable strips. The light sources may emit light from or near a lower surface of the helmet body toward the illuminable strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Bell Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian P. McAllister, Mark D. Doublin, Ronald A. Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11415736
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight module including a light guide plate including a light-emitting surface, a bottom surface opposite to the light-emitting surface, and a light-incident side connecting the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface and light-emitting elements disposed at the light-incident side along a first direction. The light guide plate includes first columnar microstructures extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on the light-emitting surface and columnar microstructure groups with second columnar microstructures, which are 1-15 times the number of the adjacent first columnar microstructures, between the first columnar microstructures extending along the second direction on the light-emitting surface. A first width of the first columnar microstructures is larger than or equal to a second width of the columnar microstructure groups along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: DARWIN PRECISIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Huan Chiu, Chien-Wei Liao, Yen-Lung Chen
  • Patent number: 11398524
    Abstract: A chip-on-board type photoelectric device exemplarily includes: a package substrate, provided with a chip mounting region, a first electrode and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes being arranged spaced from each other at a periphery of the chip mounting region; first photoelectric chips, arranged in the chip mounting region to form inwardly concave strip-shaped patterns as mutually spaced first color temperature regions, and electrically connected between the first and second electrodes to form at least one first photoelectric chip string; and second photoelectric chips, arranged in the chip mounting region to form second color temperature regions. A light-emitting color temperature of each the second color temperature region is higher than that of each the first color temperature region. The second photoelectric chips are electrically connected between the first and second electrodes to form second photoelectric chip strings. A good uniformity of light mixing can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: KAISTAR LIGHTING (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Chu, Gang Wang