Patents Assigned to Tempo Industries
  • Patent number: 9429283
    Abstract: First and second modules carrying LED circuit boards are interconnected by an interconnection mechanism which enables the modules to both pivot and move linearly with respect to one another such that the distance and angle between the modules may each be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Wesley Scott Dochnahl, Guang Jin
  • Patent number: 9322533
    Abstract: A sconce light fixture and a wall mount bracket are configured such that the wall mount bracket may be attached to a wall and the sconce light fixture thereafter may be removably attached to the wall mount bracket in a manner which establishes a continuous electrical power path from the wall mount bracket to the sconce light fixture and LEDs mounted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Michael D. Bremser, James Johnson, Jignesh Bhagat, Garry Tye
  • Patent number: 9261263
    Abstract: One or more interconnectable modules, each comprising a housing mounting an LED circuit board on an underside thereof and having a guide track on a top surface thereof with one or more slip fitter components shaped to slidably insert into and engage or attach to the guide track and configured to cooperate with one or more of a ceiling mounting bracket, a hanger bracket, an eye hanger and a cable hanging arrangement in order to provide multiple modes of hanging, suspending or otherwise mounting the one or more lighting modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin, Wesley Scott Dochnahl, Jorge Santana
  • Publication number: 20160003457
    Abstract: One or more interconnectable modules, each comprising a housing mounting an LED circuit board on an underside thereof and having a guide track on a top surface thereof with one or more slip fitter components shaped to slidably insert into and engage or attach to the guide track and configured to cooperate with one or more of a ceiling mounting bracket, a hanger bracket, an eye hanger and a cable hanging arrangement in order to provide multiple modes of hanging, suspending or otherwise mounting the one or more lighting modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin, Wesley Scott Dochnahl, Jorge Santana
  • Patent number: 9093004
    Abstract: A seat marker assembly including a raceway for receiving and mounting a central base component which includes a seat marker and an LED carrying circuit board positioned to illuminate the seat marker, the raceway further mounting first and second wire way covers on either side of the central base component, the assembly further including an end wire way assembly including a wire way base, an end wire way slide with an integrally formed wire guide, and an end wire way cover, wherein the end wire way slide is configured to slidably mount into the wire way base and the end wire way cover is configured to engage the wire way slide so as to position the wire guide at a selected distance beyond the wire way base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin
  • Publication number: 20140328057
    Abstract: A plurality of adjacent capsules, each comprising a base component, a body component carrying an LED circuit board, and a lens component, wherein the body and the base snap together and the lens snap-fits to the body. Such capsules are attached to a flexible electrical power cable by electrical connector components internal to the body and which conduct power from the power cable through the body to the LED circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin, Jorge Santana
  • Patent number: 8864347
    Abstract: An illustrative modular light fixture apparatus may comprise a plurality of modules, each having a base component and a cover component. The base component has a split vertical male plug positioned within a cylindrical recess, and a cylindrical female receptacle formed at an opposite end thereof. The cylindrical female receptacle and split male plug are so configured such that the female receptacle of one module will snap fittingly or otherwise interconnect with the split male plug of another module. The cover component has respective pairs of rectangular openings on first and second sides thereof configured to snap fittingly engage respective tabs on the sides of the base component as the cover component is pushed downwardly over the base component to thereby attach the cover component to the base component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Wesley Scott Dochnahl, Guang Jin, Jorge Santana
  • Patent number: 8801237
    Abstract: Modular LED light fixture units are interconnected together in articulated fashion with each modular unit including a base component and a cover component. First and second of the base components each include a cylindrical recess formed at a first end with a vertical boss positioned therein, the vertical boss having a threaded opening therein and an extension member formed at a second, opposite end and positioned within first and second outer fingers. The hole in the extension member of the first base component and the boss of the second base component are so positioned, shaped, and dimensioned that a fastener is insertable through the hole in the extension member of the first base component and into the boss of the second base component to thereby pivotally interconnect the first and second base components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Wesley Scott Dochnahl, Guang Jin, Jorge Santana
  • Patent number: 8794817
    Abstract: A plurality of adjacent capsules, each comprising a base component, a body component carrying an LED circuit board, and a lens component, wherein the body and the base snap together and the lens snap-fits to the body. Such capsules are attached to a flexible electrical power cable by electrical connector components internal to the body and which conduct power from the power cable through the body to the LED circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Wesley Scott Dochnahl, Guang Jin, Jorge Santana
  • Patent number: 8672508
    Abstract: An LED light fixture comprising a contoured light transmissive lens cover pivotally mounted between upper and lower end brackets so as to be movable between an open position and a closed position wherein in the closed position the upper and lower contoured edges of the lens cover mate flushly with the contoured surface of respective upper and lower end caps. A bank of LED carrying housing components are attached between the upper and lower mounting brackets so as to direct illumination toward the lens cover. Expansion brackets may be employed to facilitate addition of one or more additional banks of LED carrying housing components behind a lens cover of longer length to thereby created a sconce fixture of extended length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin, Jorge Santana
  • Patent number: 8398276
    Abstract: A wall light system including a single piece wall mount extrusion having a vertical rear mounting surface and a horizontally extending light shield. The interior of the vertical rear mounting surface has first and second projections extending therefrom defining a first slot, while the interior of the light shield has a downwardly extending vertical projection and a horizontal projection formed thereon, which together define a second slot. A lampholder has lower and upper tongues positioned to snap fit into the first and second slots, respectively, and mounts a circuit board which carries one or more LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin
  • Patent number: 8061870
    Abstract: A seat light and plaque holder including a seat light base having a downwardly angled mounting surface and an upwardly angled mounting surface with a first plurality of LEDs mounted on the downwardly angled mounting surface and a second plurality of LEDs is mounted on the upwardly angled mounting surface. A light cover is attached to the seat light base having a row marker positioned thereon to be backlit by the second plurality of LEDs and an end portion of a length selected to shield the downwardly angled first plurality of LEDs from view of persons walking up or down an aisleway while directing illumination towards an aisleway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Tempo Industries
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Guang Jin
  • Patent number: 8002426
    Abstract: A stair rail light attachable between first and second vertical stair rail posts and having an elongated central housing whose interior mounts an extrusion designed to hold and position a plurality of LED carrier members wherein the housing slidably engages respective mounting plugs pivotally attached to respective stair rail posts, thereby permitting the length of the rail light to be adjusted in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Terry Horwitz, Richard Horvath
  • Patent number: 7798841
    Abstract: A smaller conductor having an uninsulated portion and an insulated portion is positioned adjacent a larger conductor having an insulated portion and a conductive portion located within the insulated portion of the larger conductor. The two conductors are joined by a discontinuous metal band having respective ends extending across a top portion of the insulated portion of the larger conductor to make electrical contact with the uninsulated portion of the smaller conductor, then bending downward on one side of the conductor pair and then upward and through the insulated portion of the larger conductor such that a first of the ends of the metal band is positioned in contact with the conductive portion of the larger conductor; the metal band bending downward on the opposite side of the conductor pair and then upward and through the insulated portion of the larger conductor such that a second of the ends of the metal band is positioned in contact with the conductive portion of the larger conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Terry Horwitz
  • Patent number: 7726840
    Abstract: Concatenatable lighting fixtures, each comprising a unitary cover member having a circuit board mounting platform integrally formed with suitable heat sinking and which mounts onto a cooperating base chassis. In one embodiment, the circuit board mounting platform extends farther from one end of the cover member than the other so as to facilitate placement of LEDs in a fashion which enhances lighting uniformity and minimizes dark spots. In one embodiment, first and second guide members may be positioned in respective opposite ends of adjacent fixtures, each guide member having a plurality of extending fingers with a flexible electrical conductor-carrying conduit disposed between the respective opposite ends and retained in position by the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Terry Horwitz, Richard Horvath
  • Patent number: 7686642
    Abstract: A smaller conductor having an uninsulated portion and an insulated portion is positioned adjacent a larger conductor having an insulated portion and a conductive portion located within the insulated portion of the larger conductor. The two conductors are joined by a discontinuous metal band having respective ends extending across a top portion of the insulated portion of the larger conductor to make electrical contact with the uninsulated portion of the smaller conductor, then bending downward on one side of the conductor pair and then upward and through the insulated portion of the larger conductor such that a first of the ends of the metal band is positioned in contact with the conductive portion of the larger conductor; the metal band bending downward on the opposite side of the conductor pair and then upward and through the insulated portion of the larger conductor such that a second of the ends of the metal band is positioned in contact with the conductive portion of the larger conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Tempo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Pearson, Terry Horwitz