Patents Examined by Robert J May
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Patent number: 11976800Abstract: A vehicle lighting assembly includes a light housing, a lens, a light source within a cavity provided by the light housing and the lens, and a light blade projecting from the lens outside the cavity. A vehicle lighting method includes emitting light from a light source that is inside a cavity provided by a light housing and a lens, and directing the light through a light blade that is outside the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mark Kaski, Omar Benjamin Lara Monarrez, Derek English, Brandon Schwandt, Linsheng Chen, Dean Carbis, Robert Todd Laster
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Patent number: 11959609Abstract: A lens unit, a lens for a low-beam illumination module, a low-beam illumination module and a vehicle. The lens unit includes a rear surface and a front surface; the lens unit has a focal line, and the focal line is a straight line perpendicular to a light emitting direction of the lens unit; the rear surface and the front surface are adapted to project light rays passing through the focal line into parallel light rays, and the front surface is a free-form curved surface. The lens unit has the optical characteristics of a cylindrical lens, and is able to cause parallel incident light to be focused into a line instead of a focal point upon passing through the lens unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiangqian Chen, Zhaoyu Chen, Guomin Xu, Tao Zhang, Ying Li, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang
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Patent number: 11960111Abstract: An optical film, an optical film set, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The optical film includes a main body, plural first prism structures and plural second prism structures. The main body has a first optical surface and a second optical surface. The first prism structures are disposed on the first optical surface. Each of the first prism structures extends along a first direction. The second prism structures are disposed on the second optical surface. Each of the second prism structures extends along a second direction. The first direction is different from the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics CorporationInventors: Wei-Hsuan Chen, Chung-Yung Tai, Chun-Yi Wu
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Patent number: 11953169Abstract: An in-situ replaceable LED car headlight and a design method, comprising a lamp body shell, a light source assembly provided with LED lamps, a driving assembly, and a fan, wherein the light source assembly is arranged at a head of the lamp body shell, and the driving assembly is arranged at a tail of the lamp body shell; a middle part of the lamp body shell is provided with a central installation part for accommodating the fan, and the fan is installed between the light source assembly and the driving assembly; the driving assembly is electrically connected with the fan by adopting a flexible board connecting wire. A structure in which the fan is arranged in the central position is adopted, so that the fan can be placed in the part with the largest internal space of the lamp body within the range limited by laws and regulations.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Jiaxing Guangtai Lighting Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hui Gao, Linghui Chen, Chengjie Zhu, Lihua Hu
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Patent number: 11953183Abstract: A combination for illuminating the interior of a building comprises a fixture and a retrofit kit. The fixture has a base attached to a building ceiling, the fixture having a first tombstone, and a second tombstone. The first and second tombstones are configured to receive between them a fluorescent light tube. The retrofit kit is connected to the base. The retrofit kit includes a light panel, the light panel having a first side facing the fixture and an opposite second side. The light panel resides between the first tombstone and the second tombstone, and the fixture resides above the light panel. The combination is devoid of a fluorescent light tube. The base and the light panel define between them a raceway. A light emitting diode is disposed on the second side of the light panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Power Concepts, LLCInventors: Bryan Beatenbough, Ryan Haley
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Patent number: 11951900Abstract: A vehicular forward viewing image capture system includes an accessory module configured for attachment at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle. While the vehicle is traveling along a road, multiple frames of captured image data are processed at a data processor to determine movement of an object of interest present in a field of view of the CMOS image sensor. The vehicular forward viewing image capture system is provided with vehicle data via a vehicle communication bus. With the accessory module attached at the in-cabin side of the windshield of the vehicle, image data captured by the CMOS image sensor and vehicle data provided via the vehicle communication bus are processed. With the accessory module attached at the in-cabin side of the windshield of the vehicle, captured image data is processed to determine a road condition of the road ahead of the equipped vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Kenneth Schofield
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Patent number: 11953209Abstract: A cooking appliance apparatus includes a first cooking compartment, a second cooking compartment that is different from the first cooking compartment, an operating apparatus designed to set operating conditions for both the first cooking compartment and the second cooking compartment, and an illumination apparatus designed to illuminate the first and second cooking compartments in such a way that depending on for which one of the first and second cooking compartments the operating apparatus currently sets the operating conditions, only the one of the first and second cooking compartments is illuminated by the illumination apparatus with a specific identification illumination scenario.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Edith Wrehde, Joschka Bär
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Patent number: 11946610Abstract: A vehicle lamp for emitting light at various locations adjacent to a vehicle while having a simplified configuration is provided. A vehicle lamp includes a light-emitting unit that emits light to form a road surface pattern, and a movable unit on which the light-emitting unit is mounted. The light generated by the light-emitting unit enables the road surface pattern to be formed on different locations of a road surface adjacent to the vehicle as the movable unit rotates.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SL CorporationInventors: Jong Min Lee, Jong Woon Kim, Hye Jin Park
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Patent number: 11937347Abstract: A method for adapting a digital lighting setpoint intended to be projected by a digital lighting unit for a motor vehicle including a matrix light source and an optical system. The method includes a step of applying a digital filtering to the digital setpoint. The filter used is capable of taking into account the interferences of light intensities between the elementary light sources of the matrix light source.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: VALEO VISIONInventors: Ali Kanj, Constantin Prat
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Patent number: 11934001Abstract: A lighting device including: a light guide, a reflecting sheet and a first prism sheet, in which a first white LED, a second white LED and a third white LED are disposed in a same interval on a first side surface and on a second side surface, which opposes to the first side surface, a first prism array extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction is formed on the major surface, a second prism array extending in a second direction and arranged in a first direction is formed on the back surface, the reflecting sheet is disposed under the back surface of the light guide, the first prism sheet is disposed on the major surface of the light guide, and a third prism array, extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction is formed on the back surface of the first prism sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 11933466Abstract: A vehicular lamp (1) includes a light source unit (20), and a meta-lens (30) in which a plurality of cells (33) including a nanostructure (35) smaller than a longest wavelength of light (L) emitted from the light source unit (20) are arranged, the meta-lens (30) having a main surface (31s) as a meta region through which the light L emitted from the light source unit (20) passes, and the main surface (31s) as the meta region changes a phase distribution of the light (L) passing through the main surface (31s).Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuya Motohashi
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Patent number: 11932164Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting cell array including a first emission region including a first light-emitting cell provided in a first direction, a second emission region including a plurality of second light-emitting cells, the plurality of second light-emitting cells being stacked on the first light-emitting cell in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and provided in the first direction, and a third emission region including a plurality of third light-emitting cells different from the plurality of second light-emitting cells, the plurality of third light-emitting cells being stacked on the plurality of second light-emitting cells in the second direction and provided in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seungwoo Lee, Gunduk Kim, Jongin Kim, Jongtae Kim, Jiheon Oh, Junho Lee, Kyuchae Cho
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Patent number: 11933471Abstract: A vehicle lighting assembly includes a primary lens and a light source on a first side of the primary lens. The light source is configured to emit light through the primary lens. A light blade is on an opposite, second side of the primary lens. A secondary lens covers a portion of the light blade. A vehicle lighting method includes emitting light from a light source, directing the light through a primary lens, directing the light from the primary lens through a light blade, and directing the light from the light blade through a secondary lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Omar Benjamin Lara Monarrez, Mark Kaski, Derek English, Dean Carbis, Robert Todd Laster, Brandon Schwandt, Linsheng Chen
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Patent number: 11920753Abstract: A light-emitting device (LED) module is described. The LED module includes a heatsink, at least one LED on a top surface of the heatsink, and mounting features protruding from the top surface of the heat sink for alignment with an optical component. A thermally insulating material is adjacent at least portions of the mounting features that would otherwise be in contact with the optical component when mounted.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Marc Droegeler, Wim Boogaard
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Patent number: 11906118Abstract: The invention provides a light generating device (1000) comprising s1 light sources (100) and a support (200) configured to support the s1 light sources (100), wherein the s1 light sources (100) are configured to generate light source light (101), wherein s1>1 and wherein: (a) the support (200) comprises n1 domains (210), wherein n1>3, wherein the support (200) comprises k1 fold lines (220), wherein k1>2, wherein at least three of the n1 domains (210) are separated by at least two of the k1 fold lines (220); wherein the domains (210) have a first domain side (211) and a second domain side (212); (b) the at least three of the n1 domains (210) and the at least two of the k1 fold lines (220) are configured parallel; and (c) the light generating device (1000) comprises m1 adhesive layers (400), wherein m1>2; and wherein at least two of the m1 adhesive layers (400) are functionally coupled to different domain sides (211,212) of one or more domains (210).Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Leendert Teunis Rozendaal
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Patent number: 11906130Abstract: A lighting fixture includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a base and a wall extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the base. A top portion of the wall includes one or more hinges extending outwardly therefrom. The second housing portion includes a front panel and a side panel extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the front panel. A top portion of the front panel includes at least one slot. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an open position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel is disposed elevationally above the base. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an operational position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel covers the base.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Chad Stuart Newton, Christopher Michael Bryant
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Patent number: 11903498Abstract: A free standing display case with a product display system capable of displaying product and delivering multiple different messages with the illumination of the product and the illumination of a product display panel separable from each other with the information on the illuminated product display panel generated from a backlit panel and either conspicuous or inconspicuous changes in illumination from LED strip lights drawing a customers attention to products on the product display stand.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Brian Walker
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Patent number: 11898715Abstract: A lamp for vehicle includes a light emitting unit including a plurality of light source modules arranged in a vehicle's width direction, and an optical unit disposed in front of the light emitting unit, for transmitting light generated from at least one of the plurality of light source modules to form a beam pattern that includes at least one pattern region, and including a plurality of lenses corresponding respectively to the plurality of light source modules and integrally formed to be arranged in the vehicle's width direction. Each of the plurality of light source modules includes a light source that generates the light, a reflector configured to reflect the light of the light source forward, and a shield configured to block a portion of the light reflected by the reflector and proceeding toward the optical unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SL CorporationInventor: Hyo Jin Han
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Patent number: 11898714Abstract: A vehicle lamp optical assembly includes a primary optical unit having a plurality of primary optical units arranged side by side. The primary optical unit has a light entrance portion and a light guide portion. The light guide portion has a light entrance portion mounting surface and a primary light emission surface. The light entrance portion mounting surface has at least one light entrance portion. The light entrance portion is configured to enable incident light to be converged and emitted to the light guide portion, and the light guide portion is configured to guide the incident light to be emitted from the primary light emission surface; and a secondary optical unit. The secondary optical unit has a secondary light emission surface and a secondary light entrance surface corresponding to the primary light emission surface. The secondary light emission surface is a narrow and long smooth curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Meng Li, Xiangqian Chen, Zhaoyu Chen, Ying Li
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Patent number: 11884204Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for modulating headlight characteristics according to a calculated probability of future unplanned disengagement of advanced driver-assistance systems or automated driving systems, collectively referred to as driving automation systems. In particular, some embodiments aim to alert drivers of both a likelihood of unplanned disengagement, as well as a source of unplanned disengagement.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: WOVEN BY TOYOTA, INC.Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Hiroshi Yasuda