Patents Examined by Stephen F. Husar
  • Patent number: 9746143
    Abstract: An LED utility light has a one or more LED devices supported by a mounting structure and electrically connected to a mounting base section and to a boss and base cap for electrical engagement with a receptacle. LED device circuitry and conductive leads are located in the mounting structure and the mounting base section. A housing substantially surrounds the mounting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: TFL Lighting Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Osburn
  • Patent number: 9746137
    Abstract: A lamp includes a lamp housing which has a light exit opening. A light source of a first type is arranged in the lamp housing. A mounting is fastened to the lamp housing and at least one light source of a second type is fastened to the holder. The at least one light source of the second type includes an organic light-emitting diode and the at least one light source of the second type is arranged downstream of the light exit opening in an emission direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLDE GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Moeck
  • Patent number: 9739444
    Abstract: A lighting system comprises at least one excitation source (5), preferably an LED, operable to generate and radiate excitation radiation of a first wavelength (?1); a shade (4) configured to at least in part surround the at least one source (5) and remotely located thereto; and at least one phosphor (16) provided in or on at least a part of the shade (4), wherein the phosphor (16) emits radiation of a different wavelength in response to incident excitation radiation. The phosphor can be provided on a part of an outer or inner surface of the shade. Alternatively, or in addition, the phosphor is incorporated within the shade. The lighting system finds particular application as a hanging, a desk, a floor standing, a wall mountable, a spot, an outdoor or an accent lighting fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventor: Yi-Qun Li
  • Patent number: 9739457
    Abstract: An assembly includes a light source holding component sized and arranged to securely receive a source of light. The light source holding component may include a displaceable protective device that functions to generally protect against an accidental touching of electrical terminals of the light source holding component. An accessory mounting feature may also be provided to the light source holding component, The accessory mounting feature is adapted to cooperate with an accessory to provide a seal against a surface to which the light source holding component is attached. The light source holding component may have wire ports that are formed within an overall general outer diameter of the light source holding component. By way of example, the wire ports may include wire contacts having wires pre-attached thereto or the wire ports may include electrical connectors of the push-in type for receiving and thereupon holding wires inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: IDEAL Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis M. Breen, IV, Benjamin David Swedberg, Alan Emad Zantout, Matthew David Schroll
  • Patent number: 9739929
    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided with displays. A display may have a light guide plate. Backlight for the display may be launched into the light guide plate from an array of light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a metal core printed circuit board having a dielectric layer and a metal layer. The metal core printed circuit board may have an elongated shape that extends along the surface of a metal structure. A weld may be formed along a seam between the metal layer of the metal core printed circuit board and the metal structure. The metal structure may be an electronic device housing, a display chassis member, a heat spreader, a heat pipe, or other structures in an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam T. Garelli, Christopher L. Boitnott, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jun Qi, Nicholas A. Rundle, Victor H. Yin, Nathan K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 9739467
    Abstract: A portable light device includes a headlight disposed at one end of the portable light device. The headlight is adjustable and can be directed to a variety of angles. The headlight includes a reflector with facets and at least one light source positioned approximately in an optic center of the reflector. Further, the portable light device includes a floodlight panel disposed at a front side of the portable light device. The flood light panel includes one or more light sources and each light source is covered by a primary optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Gregg Lehman, Adam Green, Anthony Ryan Gibbs, James Richard Christ
  • Patent number: 9739449
    Abstract: In a light emitting device and system providing white light with various color temperatures are provided, a light emitting device includes a light emitting element (LED) that is operated by a driving bias and emits first light, and a phosphor layer including a phosphor that partially wavelength-converts first light and emits second light, thereby emitting white light using the first light and the second light, wherein the phosphor has a maximum conversion efficiency at a first level of the driving bias, and the LED has a maximum conversion efficiency at a second level of the driving bias, the first level being different from the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 9732940
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a wavelength converting apparatus. The wavelength converting apparatus includes a hollow tube and a wavelength converting material. The hollow tube has an accommodating chamber. The wavelength converting material is positioned in the accommodating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: LEXTAR ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuang-Neng Yang, Kun-Hua Wu, Jo-Hsiang Chen, Tai-Hua Ho, Tzong-Liang Tsai, Chih-Hao Lin
  • Patent number: 9726811
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit board including: a support substrate; a plurality of light emitting devices mounted on the support substrate; and a device protection portion surrounding one of the light emitting devices, or three or more surfaces of the plurality of light emitting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Woong Na, Min Jae Kim, Bi Yi Kim, Hyun Gyu Park, In Hee Cho, Man Hue Choi, Seung Kwon Hong
  • Patent number: 9726347
    Abstract: In a light emitting device and system providing white light with various color temperatures are provided, a light emitting device includes a light emitting element (LED) that is operated by a driving bias and emits first light, and a phosphor layer including a phosphor that partially wavelength-converts first light and emits second light, thereby emitting white light using the first light and the second light, wherein the phosphor has a maximum conversion efficiency at a first level of the driving bias, and the LED has a maximum conversion efficiency at a second level of the driving bias, the first level being different from the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 9719660
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide multiple channels of light to form a blended white light output, the systems and methods utilizing recipient luminophoric mediums to alter light provided by light emitting diodes. The predetermined blends of luminescent materials within the luminophoric mediums provide predetermined spectral power distributions in the white light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: EcoSense Lighting Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 9709244
    Abstract: A light-source module includes an optical film and at least one light-source unit, which together enclose a space. The light-source unit includes a reflective assembly, a light-concentrating unit and at least one light-emitting assembly. The light-concentrating unit has a light exiting end and a light incidence end, and the light exiting end faces the space enclosed by the light-source unit and the optical film. The optical-axis direction of the light-emitting assembly is defined as a first direction, and the direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the optical film is defined as a second direction. The length of the light-concentrating unit in the first direction is defined as a light-concentrating distance, the width of the light exiting end in the second direction is defined as a light exiting width, and the ratio of the light-concentrating distance over the light exiting width is greater than 0.5 but less than 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Hung-Wei Liu, Chin-Ku Liu
  • Patent number: 9707742
    Abstract: There is provided a flame-resistant composite member exhibiting remarkably high flame resistance even if having a flammable base material. The flame-resistant composite member according to the present invention has a film formed of a silicone resin composition (C) containing at least an inorganic oxide particle-containing condensation-reactive silicone resin on at least one surface of a base material. The inorganic oxide particle-containing condensation-reactive silicone resin may be a condensation-reactive silicone resin (A) including a crosslinked structural body wherein an inorganic oxide particle dispersed in a polysiloxane resin having a condensation-reactive group and the polysiloxane resin are crosslinked through a chemical bond. The silicone resin composition (C) may contain the condensation-reactive silicone resin (A) and an inorganic particle (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Doi, Kunio Nagasaki, Yusuke Sugino, Takafumi Hida, Yusuke Nakayama, Keisuke Hirano
  • Patent number: 9709726
    Abstract: An example display apparatus, comprising a display panel with one surface on which an image is displayed, a light guide plate disposed to face the other surface of the display panel, an optical sheet interposed between the display panel and the light guide plate, and a spacer which is sandwiched between the display panel and the light guide plate to secure a space for the optical sheet, wherein the spacer is adhered to the light guide plate and the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yonezawa, Daishi Ishikawa, Tomonori Takobe
  • Patent number: 9709240
    Abstract: A lamp includes a frame, a light source, a light guide unit and a decorative unit. The light source is disposed on the frame. The light guide unit has a light-incident surface and a light-emitting surface. The light-incident surface faces towards the light source, and light emitted from the light source enters the light guide unit from the light-incident surface and is emitted out from the light-emitting surface to form a light plane. The decorative unit is detachably disposed on a position different from the light plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Guo-Hao Huang, Kun-Feng Chen, Pen-Jan Wang
  • Patent number: 9703143
    Abstract: A display device includes a display component, a plurality of light sources, a flat optical member, a rear side support member, and a reflective sheet. The light sources are disposed on a rear side of the display device relative to the display component. The light sources irradiate the display component with light. The light sources are arranged with respect to the rear side support member such that among light emitted towards the display component from an edge-side light source that is disposed closest to an edge portion of the rear side support member out of the light sources, light emitted at a brightness that is at least half of an maximum brightness of the edge-side light source reaches an edge portion of the flat optical member corresponding to the edge portion of the rear side support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noritaka Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9702531
    Abstract: A system for replacing linear fluorescent lamps with LED modules in a cabinet sign includes an LED module support structure. The LED module support structure may be attached to the raceways of the cabinet sign or to the sockets formerly used for mounting fluorescent lamps between the raceways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Aaron Gorman, Gray Lankford
  • Patent number: 9702511
    Abstract: A lighting may include at least one semiconductor light source which emits primary light, at least one phosphor region spaced apart from the at least one semiconductor light source and serving for at least partly converting the primary light into secondary light, and at least one filter disposed downstream of the at least one phosphor region, wherein the at least one filter is partly reflective at least to the primary light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Henrike Streppel, Moritz Engl, Dirk Berben, Joerg Frischeisen, Michael Schoewel
  • Patent number: 9702518
    Abstract: An LED light source for headlamp of a motor vehicle is provided. The LED light source is a continuously luminous light band (1). The LED light source is designed into the light band of an area light source by utilizing an imaging principle, in such a manner that structure thereof is simple and an amount of accessories of the headlamp is decreased. The LED light source is low in cost, easy to implement and good in illuminating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Tinglin Guo, Derun Liu
  • Patent number: 9703031
    Abstract: A light guide includes opposed major surfaces and a light input edge extending therebetween. An array of micro-optical elements of well-defined shape at at least one of the opposed major surfaces corresponds to the light input edge. Each of the micro-optical elements in the array includes a longitudinal axis arranged within the range of angles relative to the light input edge. A path linearly extending along the light guide from the light input edge intersects at least a portion of the micro-optical elements in the array, at least one of the micro-optical elements along the path arranged with its longitudinal axis at a positive angle relative to the light input edge, and at least another one of the micro-optical elements along the path arranged with its longitudinal axis at a negative angle relative to the light input edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Rambus Delaware LLC
    Inventors: Dane A. Sahlhoff, Greg Coghlan, Todd Winski, Kurt Starkey