Patents Examined by Peggy Neils
  • Patent number: 11460185
    Abstract: An integrated functional multilayer structure, includes a flexible preferably 3D-formable and thermoplastic, substrate film; a lighting module provided upon the substrate film and preferably electrically connected to the circuit design thereon, the lighting module having a circuit board for hosting electronics; and circuitry arranged on the circuit board including at least one light source; a thermoplastic layer including one or more thermoplastic materials molded upon the substrate film and at least laterally surrounding, optionally also at least partially covering, the lighting module; wherein the circuitry on the circuit board of the lighting module including the at least one light source is configured to electrically and thermally connect to a number of locations of the remaining structure beside or underneath the circuit board utilizing at least one connection material positioned in between, preferably at least at the periphery of the circuit board. A related method of manufacture is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TACTOTEK OY
    Inventors: Vinski Bräysy, Ilpo Hänninen, Mikko Heikkinen, Pälvi Apilo, Jarmo Sääski, Tomi Simula, Topi Wuori, Giovanni Ferri, Pasi Koronen
  • Patent number: 11457297
    Abstract: The present application discloses a speaker lamp which comprises: a housing is formed with a cavity therein; a radiator is provided within the cavity, and divides the cavity into an upper cavity and a lower cavity; a circuit board is provided within the upper cavity and connected to the radiator, and Light Emitting Diode (LED) light sources are provided on the circuit board; a reflector has an opened upper end and an opened lower end and is hollowed so as to surround a reflector cavity, the lower end of the reflector is connected to the circuit board, and the LED light sources surround an outer side of the reflector; and a speaker is installed at the upper end of the reflector and accommodated within the reflector cavity, wherein within the reflector cavity, a space exists between the speaker and the circuit board. By means of such arrangement, the speaker lamp of the present application is capable of improving lighting efficiency, and improving sound quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Xiaojun Ren, Kun Xiao, Weihu Chen, Hai Huang
  • Patent number: 11448383
    Abstract: A battery-powered utility light mountable to a workpiece comprising a main body and a plurality of lights coupled to the main body. Each of the plurality of lights are independently movable relative to the main body. The utility light further includes a first mode actuator that is configured to cycle one of the plurality of lights through a plurality of lighting modes and a second mode actuator that is configured to cycle a different one of the plurality of lights through a plurality of lighting modes separately from the other plurality of lights. The utility light further includes a hooking element that is moveably coupled to the main body between an open position, in which the workpiece is permitted to be received in an opening, and a closed position, in which the workpiece is inhibited from being removed from the opening. The opening is disposed between the main body and the hooking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Harvey, Jason D. Thurner, David Proeber, Justin D. Dorman
  • Patent number: 11439129
    Abstract: A lighting system for a poultry feeding house includes a wire harness attachable to an existing feeding house shocker wire or feed auger pipe and a lighting fixture positioned beneath the wire harness and positionable on the feed auger pipe. The lighting fixture includes dual-color LED components using two independently controlled channels. A wire connection secured to the wire harness encapsulates wire leads to power and control the lighting fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: AHPharma Inc.
    Inventors: James L. McNaughton, Michael Barnas, Michael Roberts, Aaron Redden
  • Patent number: 11441766
    Abstract: Disclosed is a unique trunk of a tree pole for a pre-lit Christmas tree. An inexpensive and easily fabricated circuit board is placed inside the tree trunk that has light sockets mounted directly to the printed circuit board. In addition, controllers and IoT devices can also be mounted on the printed circuit board. Pre-lit Christmas trees can be monitored and operated from any Internet location and each of the light strings on each of the branches can be separately controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ledup Manufacturing Group Limited
    Inventor: Jing Jing Yu
  • Patent number: 11433806
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a board, a light-emitting element mounted on a surface of the board, a support member on which the board is placed, and a cover having a plate shaped main cover body covering the light-emitting element and a tubular portion which receives a light guide body that guides light emitted from the light-emitting element. The main cover body includes a base, a protrusion protruding from the base toward the board, and a ridge disposed on a protruded end of the protrusion. A step is formed by the protrusion and the ridge, and the protrusion and the ridge extend in a same direction along the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11428018
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resilient and multipurpose window well installation. The installation comprises numerous different features and optional additional attachments and functionalities. In one embodiment, the installation can increase the amount of light entering into a basement window. In an alternative embodiment, the installation can also protect from influx of flood water through the basement window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventor: Neville Joel Jasmin
  • Patent number: 11428861
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a reflection layer, a light guide plate and a mask layer. The light guide plate is disposed on the reflection layer and includes a light guide body, a first and a second opening structures. The first opening structure including a first closed end, the first closed end has two first branches. The second opening structure includes a second closed end, the first closed end and the second closed end face each other, at least one of the two first branches of the first closed end partially overlaps the second closed end along a first axis, the two first branches are located on two sides of the second closed end along a second axis, and the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis. The light guide plate is disposed between the reflection layer and the mask layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED, Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Yi-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 11415299
    Abstract: A temporary lighting system having a temporary lighting assembly that is configured to readily and selectively connect to a variety of connectors on a recessed lighting assembly. The temporary lighting system disclosed herein provides significant benefits over known temporary lighting systems by providing a much more economical and efficient solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: REL Lighting Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Nash, Lowell Hill
  • Patent number: 11415308
    Abstract: A curtain lights kit including a curtain lights device including a set of two curtain lights assemblies each having a preformed bendable wireless fidelity/short range wireless light emitting diode light strip for displaying in a common window frame; roll of magnetic polarity-A tape; roll of magnetic polarity-B tape; pin light emitting diode female to female connector cables; pin light emitting diode female to female butterfly connector cables; mateable pin light emitting diode male connectors; first AC/DC power supply adapter; second AC/DC power supply adapter; quick reference codes; curtain lights kit/curtain lights device instruction manual; portable curtain lights storage case, a first curtain lights assembly including a first preformed curtain including a first wireless fidelity/short range wireless controller having a first wireless fidelity/short range wireless combination chip, and a second curtain lights assembly including a second preformed curtain including a second wireless fidelity/short range wir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Neil Haney
  • Patent number: 11406481
    Abstract: A handheld device (100) including a housing; at least one light source arranged within the housing, the at least one light source configured to emit light in at least a first direction; an optical element (300) comprising an inside surface (A) facing the at least one light source and an outside surface (B) opposite the inside surface, the optical element configured to transmit light from the light source; and a plurality of laser-induced modifications (302) formed on the inside surface or inside the optical element and configured to alter a transmission of light through the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: David Storch, Andreas Gardeback, Regan Starkey Foster
  • Patent number: 11402086
    Abstract: One purpose is to smoothly raise and lower a telescopic post used in a floodlight. There is provided a floodlight that includes: a telescopic post that has a plurality of posts whose outer diameters are made gradually smaller, into which the posts can be loosely fitted, and that can be extended and contracted in an up-down direction; a lighting unit attached to the post located on the innermost side; a raising and lowering unit that extends and contracts, in the up-down direction, the posts in conjunction with each other; a base that the post located on the outermost side is fixed to; and dampers that connect a side surface of the post located on the outermost side and a side surface of the post located on the second outermost side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LIGHTBOY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihito Yoshimori, Hirotoshi Ishizawa, Koji Tsuchiya, Satomi Kugimiya
  • Patent number: 11397001
    Abstract: Lighting devices and methods of manufacturing lighting devices are described. A lighting devices includes at least one thermally conductive element, at least one lighting module thermally coupled to the at least one thermally conductive element, and an overmould at least partially encasing the at least one thermally conductive element, the overmould comprising at least one receiving portion. The at least one circuit board is mounted in the at least one receiving portion and is at least partially exposed from the overmould. The at least one circuit board includes at least one connector and at least two bond pads. The at least one connector includes surface accessible conduction lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: Lumileds LLC, Marelli Automotive Lighting Reutlingen (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Mertens, Georg Henninger, Andreas Stang, Anna Harder
  • Patent number: 11391442
    Abstract: A recessed lighting system includes multiple components formed from a polymer to reduce the number of components in the system, lower the cost of manufacture, and simplify the installation of the recessed lighting system. In one example, a recessed lighting system includes a housing formed from a polymer, a hanger bar assembly, a light module, and a trim. A yoke may be installed into the housing to provide greater accessibility to mount the light module and/or trim to the housing. A partition plate may be installed to push back wires/cables disposed in the housing such that the cavity of the housing is divided into a wiring compartment containing the wires/cables and a lighting compartment containing the light module and the trim. A hanger bar assembly may also be coupled to the housing to couple the recessed lighting system to a building structure (e.g., a T-bar, a joist, a stud).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DMF, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Danesh, Amir Lotfi, Ali A. Nikooyan
  • Patent number: 11391440
    Abstract: Light-emitting component includes a light source and a dimming element arranged downstream of the light source in a radiation direction. The dimming element includes a dimming layer. The light source includes at least one emitter which is configured to emit light. A brightness of a light emitted by the light-emitting component is adjustable. The brightness is partially adjustable by way of a pulse width modulated and/or amplitude modulated operating signal for the emitter, and the brightness is partially adjustable by way of partial absorption and/or reflection of the light emitted by the emitter in the dimming element. A dimming capability of the dimming layer increases along an extension direction transverse to the radiation direction. The dimming layer is displaceable along the extension direction relative to the light source. A degree of absorption and/or reflection of light emitted by the emitter is variably adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Halbritter, Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11391428
    Abstract: An automotive headlamp is provided that includes a digital micromirror device (DMD) headlight module, the DMD headlight module including a DMD, a white light module to provide a white light beam to illuminate the DMD, illumination optics optically coupled between the DMD and the white light module to prepare the white light beam for illuminating the DMD, and projection optics optically coupled to the DMD to receive pixelated light reflected by the DMD and project a pixelated light beam on road, in which at least one of the DMD, the white light module, and the illumination optics shape a beam profile of the white light beam such that the light reflected by the DMD has a pixelated non-uniform beam profile suitable for projecting a white light beam that forms a portion of a white light beam of the headlamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Vikrant R. Bhakta, Jeffrey Scott Farris
  • Patent number: 11378732
    Abstract: Systems and methods for holographic waveguide backlights in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes an optical illumination device including at least one waveguide, a source of light optically coupled to the at least one waveguide configured to emit light having a first polarization state, a first plurality of grating elements for diffracting the light having the first polarization state out of the at least one waveguide into a first set of output paths, a second plurality of grating elements for diffracting the light having the first polarization state light out of the at least one waveguide into a second set of output paths, and at least one input coupler configured to couple at least a portion of the light having the first polarization state towards the first and second pluralities of grating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DigLens Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan David Waldern, Milan Popovich, Alastair John Grant
  • Patent number: 11371680
    Abstract: A portable or landscape lamp or luminaire for illumination, decorative lighting, or lighting to encourage the growth of plants, consists of a clamping base including a housing for device electronics, a control panel disposed on an outer surface of the clamping base for receiving user input, and a plurality of a gooseneck lamps supported by the clamping base and having LEDs for selectively emitting light under the control of the device electronics as directed by the user input through the control panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: E. Mishan & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Mohan Rajasekaran
  • Patent number: 11371661
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a bulb lamp, which includes a lamp cap, a lamp holder and a bulb shell. The bulb holder connects the lamp cap and the bulb shell to form a lamp body, and a light source assembly is provided in the lamp body; the bulb lamp further includes a heat radiator, the heat radiator is arranged in the lamp holder, the heat radiator includes a first hollow mechanism, a contact part is provided at one end, away from the lamp cap, of the radiator, and the light source assembly is arranged on the contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaoguang Li, Yisheng Xiao
  • Patent number: 11371684
    Abstract: A driver housing for holding driver electronics of a lighting device system includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion is configured to hold and retain the driver electronics. The second housing portion is configured to contain or hold one or more electrical connectors for connecting the first one or more electrical conductors to the one or more power source conductors. A pivotal joint connects the first housing portion and the second housing portion together, for pivotal movement relative to each other. The pivotal joint improves the ease and ability of installation of the driver housing in small or narrow spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Troy-CSL Lighting Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Hawkins, Calvin Wong