Patents Examined by Robert May
  • Patent number: 9134477
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a printed circuit board (PCB), and a light emitting diode (LEDs) arranged on the PCB. The PCB is configured with a fixing structure(s) for fixing the LED. The LEDs are configured with butting structures for butting with the fixing structures. The LEDs are mechanically fixed to the fixing structures of the PCB by the butting structures of the LEDs. The LEDs fixed by the fixing structures and the butting structures are removably connected, which facilitates replacement of the LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventor: Quan Li
  • Patent number: 9133995
    Abstract: A sealed optical street luminaire having a luminaire housing fitted with a clear, flat lens and provided with an LED light source assembly mounted in the housing. The light source assembly has a heat dissipating LED support member secured to a heat conductive adapter for securement in the luminaire housing. A reflector is secured in the luminaire housing. The LED support member supports LED modules at a predetermined angle and orientation relative to an inner reflective surface of the circumferential wall of the reflector. The heat dissipating LED support member and the heat conductive adapter dissipate heat through the luminaire housing whereby to operate the LED modules at a lower temperature than the critical thermal temperature Tc of the LED modules whereby to achieve lifespan, photometric and colorometric rating of the LED modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: SQ TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Steeve Quirion, Robert Lachance, Michel Bernard, Chrisnel Blot
  • Patent number: 9123265
    Abstract: A planar light source device includes: a point light source that emits light; a circuit board that has a mounting portion, on which the point light source mounted, and a fixing portion, on which a connector supplying electric power to the point light source is mounted; and a frame that holds the circuit board with the point light source, wherein the circuit board has a protruding portion that protrudes from an end portion of the fixing portion, and wherein the fixing portion of the circuit board is fixed at an inner portion of the frame, and wherein the protruding portion of the circuit board is fixed at an outer portion of the frame, which is opposite to the inner portion of the fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Matsumoto, Kenji Arita
  • Patent number: 9121594
    Abstract: An LED lamp for replacement of directional incandescent lamps. The lamp comprises a screw base, a plurality of LEDs located in a first position, and a driver for the LEDs located in a second position separate from the first position. A lamp housing is secured to the screw base, with the LEDs and the driver being located in the lamp housing. A heat spreader is mounted in the lamp housing in proximity to the LEDs to remove heat therefrom. The heat spreader can also remove heat from the driver, or the driver can be located in proximity to the screw base and in thermal connection therewith so that heat is transmitted through the screw base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Polybrite International, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Scianna, Raymond G. Janik, Ted Lowl Thompson
  • Patent number: 9121580
    Abstract: A closure for a lighting fixture includes a cover having interior and exterior surfaces that defines at least a part of an enclosure of the lighting fixture. In certain aspects, the cover comprises mounts for mounting circuitry to the interior surface of the cover and at least one attachment feature for affixing the cover to a cabinet of the lighting fixture. A light source and driver circuitry are also affixed to the cover. Because the driver circuitry and the light source are both mounted to the same cover of the lighting fixture, the light source may be replaced with an alternate light source having different voltage and current specifications, for example, by replacement of the cover with another cover. In this manner, light sources having different operating characteristics and specifications may be replaced or interchanged with relative ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Christopher Michael Bryant
  • Patent number: 9116387
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a chassis, a plurality of LED light sources, and a reflection member. The chassis includes a bottom plate and side plates, and has an opening on a front surface side. The LED light sources are arranged in a matrix on a front surface of the bottom plate of the chassis. The reflection member includes a plurality of through holes through which the respective LED light sources are passed and side wall portions having inclined surfaces on the sides thereof. The side wall portions provided in the end portion of the bottom plate of the chassis has a height greater than a height of the side wall portions provided in the middle portion of the bottom plate, and surround each of the LED light sources. The inclined surfaces lead light from the light sources toward the opening side of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9108563
    Abstract: To provide, at a low cost, a head lamp for a vehicle having a low-beam lamp and a high-beam lamp, which is high in the utilization factor of light and can irradiate a wide area, the present invention is provided with a head lamp for a vehicle which includes a low-beam light source unit that is a reflective type and a high-beam light source unit that is a projector type and is disposed beneath the low-beam light source unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Tanaka, Kazuhito Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9096170
    Abstract: Example light fixtures include one or more light transmitting illuminated rods that emit a series or array of discrete spots of light. Some example light fixtures disclosed herein include optical features that provide an intriguing, attention-getting affect that can be useful particularly in alerting personnel of certain conditions at a doorway of a truck loading dock. In some examples, the light transmitting rods are mechanically coupled to a housing that contains an LED light source. The mechanical coupling allows the illuminated rods to be readily replaced without disrupting with the operation or wiring of the light source. Some example light fixtures illuminate the cargo bay of a vehicle at the loading dock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: RITE-HITE HOLDING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark R. Swessel, Norbert Hahn, Tim Muhl, Mark G. Petri, Paul Maly, Charles S. Waugaman, Matthew C. McNeill, Paul D. Rowlett, Jason Dondlinger
  • Patent number: 9096163
    Abstract: A light source unit is provided with a housing, a substrate, and light-emitting devices. The light-emitting devices are mounted on a mounting part of the substrate. A heat dissipation part extends from an outer edge of the mounting part in a direction opposite to a light emitting direction of the light-emitting devices. The mounting part is held on a bottom part of the housing. A peripheral groove part extends in the direction opposite to the light emitting direction along an outer edge of the bottom part. The heat dissipation part is accommodated in the peripheral groove part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriaki Ito
  • Patent number: 9097412
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a base, a heat sink, a plurality of thermal elements, and a plurality of LED elements. The base may be configured to attach to a screw in light socket. The heat sink may be connected to the base. The plurality of thermal mounts may project from the heat sink. The thermal mounts may be electrically connected to the base and thermally connected to the heat sink. The plurality of LED elements may be connected to the thermal mounts. The LED elements may form a pattern about a central axis to project light evenly from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Inventor: Robert M. Pinato
  • Patent number: 9093002
    Abstract: A direct type backlight module includes a bezel, a light source, a reflecting plate and least one buffering liner plate. The bezel includes a bottom plate and a plurality of sidewalls connected to the bottom plate, and defines a receiving space therein. Each of the sidewalls includes a connecting portion and an extending portion. One end of the connecting portion is connected to the bottom plate, and the extending portion extends from another end of the connecting portion. The light source and the reflecting plate are disposed within the receiving space. The reflecting plate includes a stopping portion and a reflecting potion disposed between the light source and the bezel. The stopping portion extends outwardly from the reflecting portion and is fixed on the corresponding extending portion. The buffering liner plate is disposed on at least one of the extending portion and adjoins to an edge of the stopping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Yu Chen, Hung-Lung Hsu
  • Patent number: 9086206
    Abstract: A wide-range portable illumination device is an apparatus that produces a wide horizontal band of light in order to illuminate a wider scope of objects within the dark. The apparatus evenly distributes a plurality of illumination device along a circular arc. Each illumination device is physically separate from each other, which allows them to be arranged in a radially pattern along the circular arc. In addition, each illumination device includes an light emitting diode (LED) bulb and a pyramidal case. The LED bulb traverse into the apex of the pyramidal case and is centrally mounted within the pyramidal case. The pyramidal case has a plurality of lateral panels that surrounds the LED bulb. Each lateral panel has an inner reflective surface, which focuses the light emitted by the LED bulb in one direction. The apparatus also includes a housing, a portable power source, a switch, and an ergonomic handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Inventor: Richard A. Namors
  • Patent number: 9086512
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: light-emitting diodes (light sources) (4); an LED substrate (light source substrate) (5) that has a mounting surface (5a) on which the light-emitting diodes (4) are mounted; a light-guiding plate (6) that has a light incident surface (6b1) from which light from the light-emitting diodes (4) enters, and a light emitting surface (6c) that emits the light having entered from the light incident surface (6b1) toward a liquid crystal panel (object to be irradiated) (2); and a reflection plate (7) that is provided on a side of an opposite surface (6d) of the light-guiding plate (6) that is opposite to the light emitting surface (6c), and reflects light. The reflection plate (7) includes a bent portion (7b) formed by bending an end portion of the reflection plate (7) so that the bent portion surrounds the light-emitting diodes (4) while being in close contact with the mounting surface (5a) of the LED substrate (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Takase
  • Patent number: 9086192
    Abstract: A light module for an exterior light, comprises a circuit board holder, at least one circuit board disposed in the circuit board holder comprising a plurality of LEDs and a cover which covers the circuit board holder and the circuit board disposed therein. Embodiments of the cover comprise a transparent cover which is permeable to light in order to transmit light produced by the LEDs. An optical system for influencing the beam path through the transparent cover may be disposed on the inner side of the transparent cover for each LED. Each optical system can comprise a central optical element, which is disposed directly above the LED, two outer optical regions on the opposite sides of the central optical element, a second optical element which laterally encloses the central optical element and the two outer optical regions and has at least one longitudinal side and a third optical element which extends linearly outside the second optical element parallel to a longitudinal side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventor: Dennis Möller
  • Patent number: 9081227
    Abstract: A lighting device includes LEDs, a reflecting sheet that reflects light emitted from the LEDs, and connectors electrically connected to the LEDs. The reflecting sheet has integrated superposed portions on which the connectors are superposed, and the connector surface on the reflecting sheet side thereof serves as a sheet pressing surface for pressing down the superposed portions of the reflecting sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keitaro Matsui
  • Patent number: 9068704
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to an integrated signal light head. In one embodiment, the integrated signal light head includes a molded housing for holding at least one light emitting diode (LED) light source and a power supply compartment coupled to the molded housing. As a result, a power supply may be remotely located and independent of the at least one LED light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Dialight Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas R. Burton, John H. Vines, Richard Liskoff, John Patrick Peck, Aleksandr Olegovich Spiridonov
  • Patent number: 9057502
    Abstract: A lighting fixture includes a reflector reflecting light from a fluorescent lamp to a desired direction, and one or more lamp connectors connecting the reflector to rotatably and detachably coupling with the fluorescent lamp, wherein the reflector is adapted to selectively rotate with respect to an axis of the fluorescent lamp for reflecting light from the fluorescent lamp so as to change a light pattern of the fluorescent lamp towards an opening of the foldable housing. The foldable housing includes two side frames and a retention frame extended between the two side frames to retain a distance therebetween, wherein the side frames are pivotally coupled with the retention frame to fold between an unfolded position to retain the fluorescent lamp in longitudinal position and a folded position to form a compact size for storage and transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Inventor: Qin Kong
  • Patent number: 9057811
    Abstract: A cooling structure for light emitting elements for a liquid crystal panel according to the present invention includes: a long-shaped substrate that is disposed so as to extend along an edge of a light guide plate provided on a rear surface of a liquid crystal panel, and in which a plurality of through-holes are formed; a plurality of light emitting elements that are disposed on a front surface of the substrate so as to face the light guide plate; and a chassis that is provided at a rear surface side of the substrate, and the through-holes are arranged at a higher density at a center portion of the substrate in a long direction than at end portions of the substrate in the long direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kasuga
  • Patent number: 9049284
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a case, a multi-directional input unit having an annular base and a flange that extends from an outer circumferential surface of the annular base and fits part of the case, the flange guiding light emitted from a light source and radiating the light; and a cover having a through-hole through which part of the multi-directional input unit passes, the cover abutting the flange and being secured to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomonori Sakurai, Chikara Kobayashi, Jiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9039237
    Abstract: An illumination device, includes a printed circuit board, a plurality of LED light sources mounted on the printed circuit board, a hollow supporting post covering the plurality of LED light sources, a reflective cup located above the supporting post, a first lens received in a bottom portion of the reflective cup and a second lens located at a top portion of the reflective cup. The supporting post is connected to the printed circuit board, and the first lens is connected to the supporting post. The reflective cup includes a bottom portion adjacent to the LED light sources and a top portion remote from the LED light sources. The printed circuit board, the reflective cup, the first lens and the second lens are combined as a whole by the supporting post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li-Ying Wang He