Patents Examined by Peggy Neils
  • Patent number: 11300269
    Abstract: A structurally reinforced illumination panel which includes a multiwall structural panel having a pair of optically transmissive sheets joined using transverse ribs that define a series of linear hollow chambers. The linear hollow chambers extend parallel to each other between opposite edges of the panel. The panel further includes two or more strips of a thin and flexible substrate material positioned within the respective chambers, and two or more linear arrays of electrically interconnected LED sources which are distributed over a length of the respective strips and mounted to the surfaces of the strips. A thickness of the optically transmissive sheets is less than 1 mm, and thickness of at least one of the transverse ribs is less than the thickness of the optically transmissive sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Sergiy Vasylyev
  • Patent number: 11300280
    Abstract: A lamp has a mechanism for allowing rotational slippage between a lamp body and an electrical connector when an applied torque is too large. This prevents damage during rotational coupling of the lamp, via the electrical connector, to a socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Xiao Long Nie, Morna Shen, Qing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11293605
    Abstract: An illuminating decorative device comprising a plurality of electrically conducting wires interconnected together as a lattice or web including a plurality of lights that are electrically coupled to an electrical power strip having one or more connectors for connecting to an external power source, where the illuminating decorative device is configured into various ornamental shapes or patterns including for example, snowcaps, or a spider web. The illuminating decorative device is easily and quickly attachable to buildings and other surfaces such as rooftops as one integral unit to provide decorative illumination during holiday seasons or festive occasions or celebrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: David Massinello
  • Patent number: 11293627
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to a miniature light emitting diode and accompanying mounting tab device. The instant invention seeks to provide a solution to light fixture designers by making a readily available and tightly compact light emitting diode mounting device. The instant invention provides for a mounting tab with a heat dissipating element to allow the use of high powered light emitting diodes that are small and compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Gary Lagasse
  • Patent number: 11293633
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lamp holder assembly and lamp device thereof, including a lamp body, which includes a housing, a heat radiator, a plurality of light-emitting devices, and a lens. The heat radiator is placed in a receiving cavity of the housing. The heat radiator includes a platform for attaching each of the light-emitting devices. The lens covers an opening at one end of the housing to fix the heat radiator. At least one top surface of a platform facing the light exiting direction has a certain slope relative to the horizontal direction perpendicular to the light exiting direction. The lens includes a light exiting surface opposite to the top surface of each platform. The lamp holder assembly has a small structure, high space utilization, large irradiation area, and uniform illumination. The light is emitted in a direct manner, which minimizes light loss and improves light emitting efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: Shanghai Sansi Electronic Engineering Co., Ltd., Shanghai Sansi Technology Co., Ltd., Jiashan Sansi Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd., Pujiang Sansi Optoelectronic Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shan Li, Ming Chen, Xiaoliang He, Shuyang Fu
  • Patent number: 11287092
    Abstract: A reflected light device to make a lighting display comprises at least one frame, at least one connecting element, at least one reflective element, and at least one light source. The at least one connecting element attaches to the at least one frame, the at least one reflective element attaches to the at least one connecting element, and the at least one light source is directed at the at least one reflective element. Illumination projecting onto the at least one reflective element is redirected to provide a user with a pleasant display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: John Louis Pertsch
  • Patent number: 11287124
    Abstract: Color changing systems include a color changing article or device that includes a color, text, and pattern changing hardware. Smart devices or other standalone controllers provide software instructions to the color changing hardware to produce colors, patterns, and text which appear on the articles or devices. A software app running on the smart device or standalone controller initiates a method of changing colors, text, and patterns of apparel, devices, hard goods, and accessories. The color changing systems include fabrics and other materials including LEDs, LED fiber optic fabrics, electroluminescence (EL), bioluminescence, electrochromatics, E-ink, OLED, light guides, printed nano LEDs, photonic ink, and other materials. The systems selectively apply an analog voltage or data stream to the output material to produce an article with a selected color, text or pattern. A camera or color detector can be used to select colors for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: JMAD CREATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan M. Maderic
  • Patent number: 11287675
    Abstract: Eyewear including an optical element, a controller, a support structure configured to support the optical element and the controller, light sources coupled to the controller and supported by the support structure, and a diffuser positioned adjacent to the light sources and supported by the support structure, the diffuser including microstructures that diffuse light emitted by the light sources in a radial anisotropic diffusion pattern or a prism-like diffusion pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Cècile Claire Madeleine Carlson
  • Patent number: 11287120
    Abstract: A direct-type panel lamp with a driving box and a package structure, including a frame, a diffusion plate, a back plate, a driving box and a lamp strip. A central region of the back plate bulges to form a chamber for accommodating the lamp strip. The chamber includes a flat bottom wall and inclined side walls. The diffusion plate is arranged opposite to the back plate to close the chamber. The frame is formed by connecting a number of frame strips, each frame strip is connected with respective edges of the diffusion plate and the back plate. The driving box is configured to receive a driving module electrically connected to the lamp strip. The driving box includes a box body with an opening and a top cove buckled over the opening. The box body has a through hole for wire through which a connecting wire of the driving module passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CH LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangfeng Jiang, Jizhong Pu
  • Patent number: 11280487
    Abstract: A videotelephony lighting system and a method of using the same is provided. The videotelephony lighting system includes one or more light bars that can prop themselves up or be supported by a stand so as to be positioned in different configurations to light a user's face while they are on a video call. The videotelephony lighting system embodies a simple approach wherein each lightbar provides only one linear high-CRI LED light source having a 2700-3000 K CCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Christien Methot
  • Patent number: 11274819
    Abstract: A support for light-emitting elements is disclosed. The support comprises a mounting section comprising at least one mounting face. The at least one mounting face has an arrangement direction and is configured to accommodate at least one light-emitting element along the arrangement direction. The support comprises a body section adjacent to the mounting section and having a length that extends parallel to the arrangement direction. The body section protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting face. The support comprises a plurality of conductors connecting the body section to the at least one mounting face. Each contact section corresponds to a conductor. The plurality of conductors are a layered structure of conductors. An extension direction of the layered structure of the conductors extends substantially perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the at least one mounting face. The layered structure of conductors comprises an angled section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Epmeier, Carsten Weber, Petra Wellmeier, Frank Giese
  • Patent number: 11274822
    Abstract: A lighting device assembly includes a light source and an optic attached to a first heat sink member, a second heat sink member connected in thermal communication with the first heat sink member, and an aperture member connected to the second heat sink member. The aperture member has an inner surface having steps surrounding a light exit opening to reduce a thickness dimension. The edge of the light exit opening is angled radially outward toward its light exit side. A third heat sink member is connected in thermal communication with the second heat sink member, and has a plurality of openings to receive one or more plaster materials. The third heat sink member has a first region and a second region at least partially surrounding the first region, the second region has a reduced heat conduction capability relative to the first region, to inhibit a transfer of heat to the outer perimeter of the body of the further heat sink member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Troy-CSL Lighting Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Nguyen, Jacob Benjamin Hawkins, Joshua Portinga
  • Patent number: 11266291
    Abstract: A dishwasher appliance includes a user interface panel positioned on a door at a top edge of the door. A circuit board is positioned within the door. A user touch input and a side-fire light emitting diode are mounted to the circuit board. A lightguide is positioned within the door. An inlet of the lightguide is positioned proximate the side-fire light emitting diode, and an outlet of the lightguide positioned below the circuit board. The side-fire light emitting diode is operable to emit light, and the lightguide is configured such that the light from the side-fire light emitting diode is reflected within the lightguide from the inlet of the lightguide to the outlet of the lightguide in order to illuminate an indicator at the outlet of the lightguide with the light from the side-fire light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Diana Gross, Kyle James Brewer
  • Patent number: 11262055
    Abstract: A utility light mountable to a workpiece. The light includes a main body having a length extending between a first end and a second end, a light assembly, and a battery. The battery is removably coupled to the first end. The light further includes a first handle coupled to the second end and a second handle movably coupled to the first handle. The second handle is linearly extensible relative to first handle along a direction perpendicular to the length between a retracted position and an extended position. In the extended position, an opening is defined between the second handle and the main body. The opening is configured to receive the workpiece to support the utility light when the handle is in the extended position. The light assembly is disposed above the battery and below the first handle with respect to a direction along the length of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Harvey, Jason D. Thurner, David Proeber, Justin D. Dorman
  • Patent number: 11255508
    Abstract: A lamp or lens assembly for a motor vehicle that includes electrically conductive traces for defogging or deicing the lens. Aspects include a light transmissive lens coupled to a lamp housing. The light transmissive lens may define a curved cross-section with a curvature extending across the length and/or the width of the lens. The lens may include one or more electrically conductive traces positioned on a surface of the lens, the electrically conductive traces optionally extending across and curving with the curvature of the light transmissive lens. One or more coatings may optionally cover the conductive traces and a portion of the lens surface leaving portions uncovered. The electrically conductive traces may extend outwardly away from the surface of the lens with height that is greater than their width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Grote Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiabiao Ruan, Sankalp Pampattiwar, Ammar Ali, Cesar Perez-Bolivar
  • Patent number: 11255516
    Abstract: A luminaire that can resist the shock associated with a ballistics event and continue to operate. The luminaire has a base formed from high ductility aluminum. An illumination source, such as a light emitting diode array, is secured to a support of the base. A lens having a gasket is positioned over the illumination source and secured thereto with a clamp. A ballistic shield having a dual gasket is coupled to the clamp by a bezel positioned over the ballistic shield and secured to the clamp. The gaskets extending around the peripheral edges of the lens and the shield cooperate with the highly ductile aluminum base to reduce the transmission of any shock associated with a ballistic event to the illumination source and associated electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: M3 Innovation, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nolan, Joseph R. Casper
  • Patent number: 11248754
    Abstract: A light tube apparatus includes a light passing tube, a light strip, first cap end, a second cap end, a driver circuit board and a manual switch. The light passing tube are connected with the first cap end and the second cap end on opposite sides of the light passing tube. The manual switch is a fixed to the first cap end. The driver circuit board is at least partly enclosed by the first cap end. The manual switch has a switch sheath and a sliding switch. When a user moves the switch sheath, the sliding switch is moved by the switch sheath to change a position of the sliding switch for changing an operation parameter of the driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guochao Li, Yongjun Bao, Dejuan Liang
  • Patent number: 11248775
    Abstract: An inline clip for holding a light bulb along a light string includes a top flat area, two symmetrical sides, and two symmetrical tabs. The flat area has a constant width extending across a side profile and a constant thickness extending from a top surface of the top flat area to an internal surface of the top flat area. The two symmetrical sides extend in a continuous manner at respective upper ends from a left end and a right end of the top flat area, and are arcuate shaped for forming a hollow interior space configured to receive within the light bulb and a portion of the light string aligned side-by-side along a diameter of the light bulb. The two symmetrical tabs extend in a continuous manner at respective connecting ends from the lower ends of the two symmetrical sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ulta-Lit Tree Company
    Inventors: John DeCosmo, Gregory J. Foster, Robert W. Sheldon
  • Patent number: 11248774
    Abstract: An illumination system includes a light assembly. The light assembly may include a housing having a first zone and a second zone isolated from the first zone. The housing may be configured to fit generally flush with a ceiling. A movable light source may be positioned within the first zone and is configured to emit a first light. A stationary light source may be positioned within the second zone and is configured to emit a second light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: GENTEX CORPORATION, MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Jason D. Hallack, Bradley R. Hamlin, Todd W. Knallay, Danny L. Minikey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11242980
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a base housing, an elongated light source module and at least one holder hook. The base housing has a main body and two arms. The two arms are extended from the main body. Each of the two arms has a base connector. The elongated light source module has two light connectors respectively detachably connected to the base connectors of the arms. The elongated light source module emits a light having a main direction. The elongated light source module is rotatable with respect to the base connectors for adjusting the main direction. At least one holder hook is extended from the main body for detachably hooking an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhenkun Huang, Shouqiang Hou, Xiaoliang Wen