Patents Examined by William J Carter
  • Patent number: 11635195
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing for supporting a light source and an enclosure for supporting a driver in electrical communication with the light source. The enclosure is selectively supported in one of a first position and a second position while maintaining electrical communication between the driver and the light source in both positions. The enclosure is directly coupled to the housing in the first position, and the enclosure is supported separately from the housing in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Luis Morales, Anthony Sinphay
  • Patent number: 11623035
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MEDLITE ID INC.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11619366
    Abstract: A light source module includes a light source, a dichroic unit, a color wheel and a wavelength conversion unit. The light source is configured to emit a light. The dichroic unit is opposite to the light source and configured to reflect a portion of the light as a first illumination light in a first direction and reflect a portion of the light as a second illumination light in a second direction inverse to the first direction. The color wheel is opposite to the dichroic unit and configured to at least receive the first illumination light. The color wheel has a blue filter area, a green filter area and a red filter area. The wavelength conversion unit is opposite to the color wheel and the dichroic unit and configured to at least receive the second illumination light and provide a converted light to the color wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Shiung Chien, Ming-Kuen Lin, Tsung-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 11608964
    Abstract: A modular lighting assembly uses LED banks as the light sources. The assembly allows the power supply and LED banks to be independently replaced. The assembly uses a power supply that is separated from the LED banks and electrically connected to the LED banks with a plug connector that may be unplugged and plugged back in to allow the power supply or LED bank to be independently and readily replaced. The assembly provides for easy replacement of the different components of the assembly. One feature that makes the components easier to replace is that the light modules and/or the power supply may be carried by the housing that is removable from the base mount that is secured to a mounting structure such as a wall or ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Autronic Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Lax, Agjah I. Libohova, Timothy J. Keuning
  • Patent number: 11594862
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for generating fiber delivered laser-induced white light. The apparatus includes a package case enclosing a board member with an electrical connector through a cover member and a laser module configured to the board member inside the package case. The laser module comprises a support member, at least one laser diode device configured to emit a laser light of a first wavelength, a set of optics to guide the laser light towards an output port. Additionally, the apparatus includes a fiber assembly configured to receive the laser light from the output port for further delivering to a light head member disposed in a remote destination. A phosphor material disposed in the light head member receives the laser light exited from the fiber assembly to induce a phosphor emission of a second wavelength for producing a white light emission substantially reflected therefrom for various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
    Inventors: Oscar Romero, Jim Harrison, Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Daming Liu
  • Patent number: 11578840
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a light source module for plant cultivation and a light device including the same. The light source module for plant cultivation may include at least one main light source emitting white light. The white light from the main light source is provided to a plant during cultivation to improve the growth and phytochemical content of the plant. In addition, the white light may have peak wavelengths of 430 nm or less, 440 nm to 460 nm, 510 nm to 530 nm, and 600 nm to 630 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Min Ko
  • Patent number: 11578839
    Abstract: An LED light source unit for plant cultivation includes: at least one first light emitting diode chip emitting light of 430 nm or less, at least three types of phosphors excited by the at least one first light emitting diode chip, and combined light emitted from the first light emitting diode chip and the at least three types of phosphors produces a basic spectrum of white light having a color temperature of 5000K or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Min Ko, Jin Won Kim
  • Patent number: 11564358
    Abstract: A lighting module for illuminating cultivated crops in indoor farming comprises at least one monolithic efficiency enhancing optical element (EEOE) further comprising: (a) a front portion comprising a spectrum conversion layer; (b) an optically transparent middle body portion having at least one light source embedded there within and configured to emit spectrally controllable radiation; and (c) a back portion configured to reflect the radiation emitted by the spectrum conversion layer to the cultivated crops. The back portion has a central area being adjacent to the optically transparent middle body portion configured for reflecting radiation propagating within the optically transparent middle body portion and a peripheral area configured for reflecting radiation emerged from the optically transparent middle body portion via the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Tatiana Kosoburd, Joseph Kedmi
  • Patent number: 11560987
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source device includes a first light source configured to emit first light, and a first lens that includes a first surface on which the first light having a first optical axis is incident and a second surface from which a second light having a second optical axis is emitted. An intensity of the first light has a first value on the first optical axis of the first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Aruga, Akira Nagahashi
  • Patent number: 11561339
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a flexible elongate substrate, a supply rail disposed on one surface of the substrate, and first and second ground rails disposed on the other surface. Groups of SSL packages are disposed parallel to the longitudinal axis of the substrate and between the first and second ground rails. Each package has SSL elements disposed on a first side and pairs of contact pads disposed on a second side. The SSL packages in each group are serially coupled from the first package to the last package of the group. One contact pad of each pair of the contact pads of the first package of each group is coupled to the supply rail through the substrate, one contact pad of a first pair of the pairs of contact pads of the last package of each group is coupled to the first ground rail at the first surface of the substrate, and one contact pad of a second pair of the pairs of contact pads of the last package of each group is coupled to the second ground rail at the first surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY CORPORATION
    Inventor: David Neuman
  • Patent number: 11550205
    Abstract: A provided flash unit includes a light emitting part in the main unit of the flash unit and a distance sensor provided only in the light emitting part, achieving an accurate measurement of a distance from a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma Kikuchi, Minenori Kaimoto, Yutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11543093
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided with a housing forming a battery housing and a light housing separated via a partitioning wall. A light module is supported by the light housing and includes a heat sink located at least partially within the light housing and at least one LED supported by the heat sink. A battery receptacle formed within the battery housing to slidingly receive a battery pack at least partially into the battery housing. An intake opening is formed within the partitioning wall and an air vent is formed in fluid communication with the light housing. In operation, an airflow passes in thermal contact with the battery pack from the battery housing into the light housing through the intake opening, and from the light housing in thermal contact with the heat sink out of the air vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Puzio, Daniel L. Schwarz, Ethan L. Helmer
  • Patent number: 11536893
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel, a light source unit configured to provide light to the display panel, and a light guide member disposed between the display panel and the light source unit and covering the light source unit such that the light source unit is buried in the light guide member, the light guide member having a surface roughness on an upper surface thereof to diffuse light and including a substrate, and a light emitting device disposed on the substrate and including a blocking pattern to have an intensity of light emitted in an upward direction to be equal to or less than about 80% of a maximum light intensity of the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ri Choi, Eun Ju Kim, Hee Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 11535311
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear lamp, a side surface, and a rear surface. The rear lamp is disposed on a rear end and an upper end of a lower side surface and a rear end and a side end of the vehicle, and includes a lamp body extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The side surface includes the lower side surface bulging toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the rear lamp at a front side of a height position overlapping with the rear lamp. The rear surface includes an extending surface extending toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the lamp body in a top view of the vehicle from a lower portion of the lamp body. A side surface airflow is directed toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side through the extending surface and the generation of a large trailing vortex is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Aburame, Shinji Miyamoto, Ichiro Sakai, Yohei Kusamoto, Masaki Hirata, Kosuke Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11519594
    Abstract: Provided is a display device which has improved heat dissipation efficiency. A display device according to the present invention is provided with a display unit, a circuit board which is positioned in the rear of the display unit, a heat dissipation member which is positioned in the rear of the circuit board and is capable of dissipating the heat of the circuit board, and a case body which contains at least the heat dissipation member. The heat dissipation member has a plurality of heat dissipation pieces which protrude to the outside of the case body through an opening that is provided in the case body, and which extend in the vertical direction, and the opening has an inclined surface, which is inclined upwardly, in a portion that faces the top of each heat dissipation piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kodai Ohno, Mitsuru Ikeno
  • Patent number: 11517994
    Abstract: An abrasive blast cabinet uses a space frame to support panels defining an enclosed volume. One of the panels defines a view port and access ports. Illumination devices positioned on the one panel adjacent to and/or surrounding the view port illuminate the enclosed volume without significant shadowing, glare or reflections. The illumination devices are captured between a frame and the one panel and are protected from the blast environment by channel members which are covered by a transparent plate overlying the view port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Titan Abrasive Systems
    Inventors: Brandon Acker, Brian Fox
  • Patent number: 11497180
    Abstract: A hydroponics apparatus includes a housing; two or more channels provided vertically on one side of the housing to be spaced apart from each other; brackets coupled to the channels; and cultivation modules seated on the brackets, wherein a plurality of cultivation modules is fitted and coupled to each other to have an extended form and water channels are formed to communicate with each other, the cultivation modules in the extended form are coupled to each channel and seated through a plurality of brackets disposed in a horizontal direction, and the plurality of brackets are coupled to the channels so that heights are gradually increased or decreased from one-side bracket in the horizontal direction to the other bracket in the horizontal direction to form an inclination of the water channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NTHING, INC.
    Inventors: Kyeong Hoon Baik, Kang Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11493185
    Abstract: An illuminating device according to the present disclosure is of a reflective type and uses a laser beam. The illuminating device includes: a laser element that emits a laser beam; an optical fiber that transmits the laser beam emitted by the laser element; a phosphor layer that converts a wavelength of light incident on one of surfaces and emits the light through the one of the surfaces; and an optical component that causes reflected light of the laser beam transmitted through the optical fiber to be incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer. With the illuminating device, an intensity distribution of the light incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer is sparse at a central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Iizawa, Masahito Yamana, Kazuyuki Yamae, Tetsuya Nishi
  • Patent number: 11493180
    Abstract: An LED lighting fixture powered by a Metal-Organic Framework heat battery. The heat battery is formed of a canister, a MOF container comprised of a plurality of MOF tunnels, each MOF tunnel containing a powdered MOF material, a gate, and a plurality of thermoelectric devices. Below a certain adsorption activation temperature, the MOF material adsorbs a gas from the atmosphere. Above a certain desorption activation temperature, the MOF desorbs the gas. The heat from the adsorption is used to generate electrical current. The desorbed gas is captured to remove it from the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Abdullah Alrasheed
  • Patent number: 11487058
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for methods of forming optical device structures. The methods utilize rotation of a substrate, to have the optical device structures formed thereon, and tunability of etch rates of a patterned resist disposed over the substrate and one of a device layer or the substrate to form the optical device structures without multiple lithographic patterning steps and angled etch steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Levent Colak, Ludovic Godet, Andre P. Labonte