Patents by Inventor Juan Carlos Minano Dominguez

Juan Carlos Minano Dominguez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7160522
    Abstract: This invention consists in a nonimaging device for concentration or collimation of radiation on a receiver or from an emitter (14), depending on the case. The device is made up of the lens (50), which surrounds the receiver and consists of the aspheric surface (21), and the lens (15), whose upper refractive surface (16) may be aspheric, while the lower surface is aspheric (17) in its central portion (between points 18 and 19) and has a structure with discontinuous slope (20) in its external portion, in which the faces (22) fundamentally refract the rays while the faces (23) reflect them by total internal reflection. The design method provides that the device properties of concentration/collimation are noticeably superior to those of the existing inventions. Possible applications of this lens include: radiation sensors, illumination systems with LEDs, wireless optical communications and photovoltaic solar energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Light Prescriptions Innovators-Europe, S.L.
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Minano Dominguez, Pablo Benitez Gimenez
  • Publication number: 20050213180
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light source device which is safe for human eyes and whose switching is performed at high speed. The light source device comprising one or more laser light source 1 for monochromatically or polychromatically emitting, a diffuser 3 (transmissive, reflective or mixture) for diffusing the light bundle injected directly from the laser light source 1 or via the optical focusing system 2, and the optical system 4 which is referred to as a collimator for collimating the diffused light bundle emitted from the diffuser 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Francisco-Jose Lopez-Hernandez, Juan-Carlos Minano-Dominguez, Pablo Benitez-Gimenez, Masahisa Sakai, Kazutoshi Hirohashi
  • Publication number: 20030075167
    Abstract: This invention consists in a nonimaging device for concentration or collimation of radiation on a receiver or from an emitter (14), depending on the case. The device is made up of the lens (50), which surrounds the receiver and consists of the aspheric surface (21), and the lens (15), whose upper refractive surface (16) may be aspheric, while the lower surface is aspheric (17) in its central portion (between points 18 and 19) and has a structure with discontinuous slope (20) in its external portion, in which the faces (22) fundamentally refract the rays while the faces (23) reflect them by total internal reflection. The design method provides that the device properties of concentration/collimation are noticeably superior to those of the existing inventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Minano Dominguez, Pablo Benitez Gimenez
  • Publication number: 20030026002
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light source device which is safe for human eyes and whose switching is performed at high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Francisco-Jose Lopez-Hernandez, Juan-Carlos Minano-Dominguez, Pablo Benitez-Gimenez, Masahisa Sakai, Kazutoshi Hirohashi