Patents Examined by Thomas M. Sember
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Patent number: 11835223Abstract: A luminaire comprises a first light exit opening for emitting light from at least two light sources. A diffusely-reflecting first reflector portion is arranged on an inner side of a luminaire body. A first light source is arranged in an edge portion of the luminaire body surrounding the first light exit opening. First light beams of the first light source are deflected towards the first reflector portion by a second reflector portion, so that said beams exit through the first light exit opening as a diffusely-reflected first light beam bundle. A second light source generates a second light beam bundle. The first light beams exit the luminaire body exclusively as first light beams reflected at the first reflector portion. A second light exit opening is surrounded by the first reflector portion. A second aperture angle of the second light beam bundle is smaller than the first aperture angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: BEGA Gantenbrink-Leuchten KGInventor: Heinrich Johannes Gantenbrink
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Patent number: 11819068Abstract: A duty belt for providing visibility and awareness of the user wearing the belt is disclosed. The belt is worn about the waist and generally provides a lighting element which illuminates in order to improve the visibility and awareness of a person viewed from a distance. Further, the duty belt is functionally and ergonomically designed to easily attach existing duty gear including pepper spray, firearms, flashlights, etc. without interfering or snagging with the lighting element.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventor: Jeffrey A. Menshouse
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Patent number: 11815249Abstract: A headlamp includes a strap, a bracket coupled to the strap, and a light assembly including a housing enclosing a light source and a battery for providing power to the light source. A magnetic interface is configured to removably couple the light assembly to the bracket. The magnetic interface includes a first magnetic element fixed to the bracket, and a second magnetic element fixed to the light assembly. The first magnetic element and the second magnetic element are configured to produce a magnetic attractive force to retain the light assembly relative to the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Benjamin Oliver Ryan Cabot, Alan Amundson, Patrick P. Stockwell, Christina Prestidge-Kadrlik, Michael J. Hopkins
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Patent number: 11812708Abstract: A lighting system is for providing photosynthetically stimulating artificial light to a specified target area where such artificial light is needed. The lighting system has at least one luminaire with a light source. The luminaire emits photosynthetically stimulating light at a narrow beam angle of less than and including 20° (FWHM). The lighting system has means for positioning the at least one luminaire at a distance of minimum 20 m from the specified target area measured in a light beam direction, and the luminaire is adapted to illuminate the specified target area with a minimum photosynthetic photon flux density of 140 ?mol/s/m2. A method is for improving the growth conditions for plants in need of light at a specified target area by exposing the plants to a photosynthetically artificial light from a light source.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Mobile Lighting Rig ASInventors: Kolbjørn Sæther, Tore Kolås
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Patent number: 11810485Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed and includes a substrate, a circuit layer, and a plurality of diodes. The substrate has a plurality of structures. The circuit layer is disposed on the substrate. The diodes are disposed on the circuit layer, wherein a first spacing is defined as a distance between a center point of a first one of the structures and a center point of a second one of the structures, a second spacing is defined as a distance between a center point of a third one of the structures and a center point of a fourth one of the structures, and an absolute value of a difference between the first spacing and the second spacing is less than 0.5 times radius of curvature of the electronic device when the electronic device is bent.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Chin-Lung Ting, Chung-Kuang Wei, Li-Wei Mao, Chi-Liang Chang, Chia-Hui Lin
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Patent number: 11808445Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lighting assembly including a lighting structure. The lighting structure includes a protective housing, a wick, and a main control circuit board; the surface of the main control circuit board is provided with a lighting module structure for switching the modes of ever-bright lighting, flickering lighting, and low-speed flickering lighting; when a switching button is in contact with the surface of a contact conductor, a loop is formed to respectively switch the modes of ever-bright lighting, flickering lighting, and low-speed flickering lighting in the lighting module structure so as to improve the practicality of a product; different modes can be used in different lighting occasions; flickering lighting can be selected to increase the promptness thereof on foggy days so as to ensure personal safety; low-speed flickering lighting can be selected in rainy days so as to achieve the function of reducing power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventor: Minyi He
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Patent number: 11807158Abstract: A vehicle lighting device includes: a first optical system including a light source and a first lens; a second optical system including a light source and a second lens; and a housing configured to house the first optical system and the second optical system. The first optical system is configured to illuminate an interior of a vehicle. The second optical system is configured to display predetermined information to the outside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Yusuke Nakada, Tsuneto Tamura, Jumpei Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11796149Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle light unit with a primary light device including a primary light module arranged in a primary housing, a secondary light device including a secondary light module arranged in a secondary housing, a primary part with a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being transparent, a secondary part with a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being transparent, and a logo. One of the primary part or secondary part includes an indexing device to position the primary part or secondary part relative to the other part with one of the primary part or secondary part partially overlapping the other part. The light unit further including a mounting surface for the logo with the mounting surface including an attachment device for attachment to one of the primary part or secondary part.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Valeo VisionInventor: Thomas Daniel
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Patent number: 11788715Abstract: Provided are a lighting device in which adjacent lighting appliances appears continuous with inconspicuous joint therebetween, and a method for constructing a building. Each of a first lighting appliance and a second lighting appliance includes a lighting appliance body including a chassis, and a plurality of light sources, a fitting adapter disposed on the rear surface of the chassis, the fitting adapter being fitted into a mounting hole formed in a building material, and a light-transmissive cover. The first lighting appliance and the second lighting appliance are arranged adjacent to each other with respective corresponding ones of the lateral surface portions abutting against each other, The first lighting appliance includes a first coupling member disposed on the rear surface of the chassis, and the second lighting appliance includes a second coupling member disposed on the rear surface of the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Nichia CorporationInventors: Susumu Ninomiya, Tetsutoshi Ishida, Kei Haraguchi
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Patent number: 11786127Abstract: A disposable thumb light and a method of providing direct lighting for a medical procedure on a patient using a disposable thumb light is described. The disposable thumb light includes a housing, a light source, and at least one attachment configured to couple the disposable thumb light to a thumb of a user or a glove. The housing can include at least one flexible portion. The disposable thumb light can further include a flex responsive switch that is configured to move between at least a first position and a second position when the housing moves from a first housing position to a second housing position and energize or de-energize the light source in response. In the method of providing direct lighting for medical procedure, the disposable thumb light is coupled to a thumb of a user; the light source is energized by moving the thumb of the user from a first position to a second position; and the light source is de-energized by moving the thumb of the user from the second position toward the first position.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: STANLEY MEDICAL DESIGNS, INC.Inventor: Anthony G. Stanley
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Patent number: 11787493Abstract: A bicycle lamp that is easy to disassemble and replace, wherein the bicycle lamp includes a top surface and a bottom surface; a detachable top surface base is arranged on the top surface, and a detachable bottom surface base is arranged under the bottom surface; the top surface base is configured to connect and fix bicycle equipment, and the bottom surface base is configured to connect and fix the bicycle lamp to an extension clip of a bicycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventor: Shaokun Li
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Patent number: 11779132Abstract: A shelf assembly for an enclosure includes a shelf panel having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an edge extending between the upper and lower surfaces. The edge includes front, rear, and side edges. A light housing is coupled to the shelf panel and includes one or more walls defining an interior. The light housing includes front, rear, and side portions disposed adjacent to the front, rear, and side edges of the shelf panel, respectively. A plurality of light sources received within the light housing to project light outwardly therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SSW Advanced Technologies, LLCInventors: Matthew McMillin, Jason Robert Yochum
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Patent number: 11781727Abstract: A light guide extending in a main direction and including an inlet face for the light emitted by a light source, the inlet face being contoured to form a collimator. The light guide includes a face for guiding the light, a light outlet face, and a face for decoupling the light towards the outlet face, the decoupling face being transversely opposite to the outlet face. At least one portion of the profile of the inlet face is constant in a transverse direction so as not to collimate the light in a longitudinal plane including the transverse direction but in a longitudinal plane perpendicular to the transverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: VALEO VISION BELGIQUEInventor: Christophe Valois
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Patent number: 11771238Abstract: An illuminable display assembly including (a) a housing having a base securable to a support surface, a platform detachably mounted to the base, and a generally enclosed interior bounded from above by the platform. The platform includes a plurality of illuminable windows spaced apart from each other therealong. The display assembly further includes (b) a plurality of retractable tethers mounted to the platform in the interior of the housing. The tethers fasten corresponding display containers to the platform and urge the display containers to predetermined positions adjacent corresponding windows. The display assembly further includes (c) a lighting system including one or more interior light sources in the interior of the housing for illuminating the windows and display containers from below.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: ALL PLASTIC, INC.Inventors: William Thomas Smith, Cheryl Ann Smith
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Patent number: 11766940Abstract: A vehicle interior component includes a first surface, a second surface that is adjacent to the first surface, an edge disposed between the first surface and the second surface, and an operating element where an item of operating information can be input by the operating element. The operating element is disposed adjacent to the edge on the first surface and/or on the second surface and the operating element is nonvisible in an inoperative state and is visible in an operative state.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Elsa Davy, Lenja Sorokin
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Patent number: 11754249Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle, comprising a housing, an illuminant arranged in the housing and comprising a light panel for the passage of light generable by the illuminant, wherein a frame is provided, which is molded onto the light panel at least on the edge side in an at least sectionally circumferential fashion using a plastic injection molding process, and wherein the frame is joined to a connection portion of the housing by means of a plastic welded seam. The invention further relates to a method for producing a lighting device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventor: Odo Karger
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Patent number: 11752933Abstract: A lighting system for specialty lighting, which may be attached to a motor vehicle with a window (e.g., glass, plastic, etc.) that is light transmissive. The lighting system may include one or more light assemblies attached to the window in an interior of the vehicle. The lighting system may include an optical path translator to direct the light emitted out the window of the vehicle and limit the amount of light reflected into the cabin of the vehicle. The lighting system may provide concealed electrical connections for power, signal, and data, as well as concealment for one or more additional aspects of the lighting system.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Emergency Technology, Inc.Inventors: Douglas V. Baker, Bradley D. Miller
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Patent number: 11754258Abstract: A lighting assembly includes a lighting tower. The lighting tower includes a plurality of layers of lighting elements, where each layer of lighting elements is configured to provide a different angle of emitted light onto a parabolic reflector with respect to light emitted from another layer of lighting elements onto the parabolic reflector when activated.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLCInventors: Charles Edwards, Richard Pierceall
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Patent number: 11745663Abstract: A front-view system is disclosed. The front-view system may include: a detector configured to detect whether a forward vision of a driver is obstructed; a front camera configured to capture a front view of a vehicle and transmit an image of the captured front view of the vehicle; at least one display mounted in the vehicle; and a controller configured to receive the image of the captured front view of the vehicle from the front camera in response to receiving information indicating that the forward vision of the driver is obstructed, and display the received image of the front view of the vehicle on the at least one display. A front-view method using the front-view system is further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventor: Shyam Raman
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Patent number: 11744309Abstract: An exemplary illuminated hard hat for providing visibility to workers is presented. The illuminated hard hat allows for the Illumination of the hard hat. Since, the illumination come from inside of the hard hat there no distracting lights to the face. The illuminated hard hat is lightweight and cost effective. The illuminated hard hat further protects workers from injury while meeting OSHA requirements required by law. The illuminated hard hat is useful for construction workers, road workers, mountain climbers as well as anyone who desires to wear a hard hat. While the illuminated hard hat is intended for hard hats, it can also be adapted to be used in any kind of hat worn by people.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Inventor: Buck L Davis