Patents Examined by Bao Q Truong
  • Patent number: 11517638
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a UV lamp having an axial dimension normal to a cross-section having a cross-sectional area with a ratio of the axial dimension to the cross-sectional area in the range of 0.1 cm/cm2 to 1000 cm/cm2. The UV lamp includes a first axial conductor separated from a second axial conductor by an electrically insulating material and a light emitting diode (LED) capable of providing light at a wavelength in the range of 100 nm to 400 nm, which LED is mounted to emit light from an outer surface. The invention also relates to a method of sterilising a surface using the UV lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: LED IBOND INTERNATIONAL A/S
    Inventors: Lars Frederiksen, Jesper Breuning-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11519581
    Abstract: A vehicle light assembly comprising: a flexible lighting strip comprising a multitude of light-emitting diodes, wherein the flexible lighting strip is arranged to be bent around at least two, more preferred three linear independent axes; a light guiding structure comprising a light receiving surface and a primary light emission surface, wherein the light receiving surface receives light emitted by the flexible lighting strip, wherein the primary light emission surface emits at least a part of the light received via the light receiving surface, and wherein the light receiving surface is arranged to define a bending of the flexible lighting strip; a coupling structure that is arranged to mechanically couple the flexible lighting strip to the light receiving surface in accordance with the bending defined by the light receiving surface. The invention further describes a vehicle rear light or vehicle front light comprising the vehicle light assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Floris Maria Hermansz Crompvoets, Andreas Timinger, Christian Kleijnen, Ralph Hubert Peters, Adam Lind, Rob Bastiaan Maria Einig, Tobias Fink
  • Patent number: 11515296
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a base including a conductive wiring; a light-emitting element mounted on the base and configured to emit light; a light reflective film provided on an upper surface of the light-emitting element; and a encapsulant covering the light-emitting element and the light reflective film. A ratio (H/W) of a height (H) of the encapsulant to a width (W) of a bottom surface of the encapsulant is less than 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motokazu Yamada, Yuichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11512818
    Abstract: Portable lighting devices, systems and methods are provided. The portable lighting devices may include a light source, a rechargeable battery, a battery charging and control circuitry, a power connector port and a wireless communication circuitry. The battery charging and control circuitry may be configured to control transmission of current from the rechargeable battery to the light source, and transmission of current from the rechargeable battery through the power connector port and onto an external device. The transmission of current to the external device may occur when the rechargeable battery has a charge capacity above a predetermined threshold level and terminates when the charge capacity of the rechargeable battery is at or below the predetermined threshold level. The wireless communication circuitry may be configured to transmit a battery condition information of the rechargeable battery to an external communication device through a wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Junming Ding, Rayford Higginbotham, Chengping Chen
  • Patent number: 11516901
    Abstract: The application discloses a lamp-control apparatus with multiple input modes including a housing, a circuit board arranged in the housing, a flash mode switching module, a sound-controlled flash mode input circuit for receiving external environment sound waves and sending a control command to a control circuit. The control circuit for controlling a light emitting mode of a lamp is arranged on the circuit board. The flash mode switching module and the sound-controlled flash mode input circuit are respectively and electrically connected to the control circuit. The sound-controlled flash mode input circuit includes a pickup device that is located inside the housing. One or more through holes for transmitting the sound waves to the pickup device are formed in the position where the pickup device is mounted on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Changzhou Jutai Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Huang, Min Fang, Chengqian Pan
  • Patent number: 11506348
    Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth a motion sensing outdoor security light with the flexibility of being mounted to either a wall structure or to an eave or ceiling structure. An adjustable spherical motion sensor housing may be provided with the rotationally adjustable outdoor security light, allowing easy adjustment of motion detection ranges under different mounting schemes without comprising the aesthetic design of the light. The adjustable spherical motion sensor housing may also provide an enlarged horizontal field of view for better performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HEATHCO LLC
    Inventors: Miles William McDonald, Kushagra Dixit, Scott Blaise Tylicki, Apollo Paul Paredes, Lionel V. Luu, John Colvin Deaton
  • Patent number: 11503892
    Abstract: The illuminated press on nail is a press on nail. The press on nail is a cosmetic structure that is worn by a client on a location selected from the group consisting of a finger nail and a toe nail. The illuminated press on nail comprises a press on nail, a control circuit, and a personal data device. The control circuit mounts is an illumination circuit that mounts in the press on nail. The personal data device forms a wireless communication link with the control circuit. The personal data device controls the operation of the control circuit. By controlling the operation is meant the personal data device controls the color of the illumination generated by the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tyrie Cassion, Kellii Cassion
  • Patent number: 11500278
    Abstract: A wavelength-converting element includes a substrate and a wavelength-converting layer. The wavelength-converting layer is disposed on the substrate. The wavelength-converting layer includes a first inorganic binder and a wavelength-converting material. The wavelength-converting material is mixed with the first inorganic binder. The first inorganic binder includes a first alcohol-soluble inorganic binder or a first water-soluble inorganic binder. A projection apparatus using the wavelength-converting element and a manufacturing method of the wavelength-converting element are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: I-Hua Chen
  • Patent number: 11503695
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light fixture control system and an illumination system. The light fixture control system includes a control box (100) and at least one wireless switch (200), and the wireless switch (200) is wirelessly and communicatively connected to the control box (100); an output end of the control box (100) is connected to an LED lamp, the control box (100) includes a main controller (110), a code matching control circuit (140), a first wireless communication circuit (130) and a multiple-independent-output control interface circuit (150), the main controller (110) is connected to the code matching control circuit (150) and the first wireless communication circuit (130), respectively and an output end of the main controller (110) is connected to the multiple-independent-output control interface circuit (150); output ends of the multiple-independent-output control interface circuit (150) are connected to a plurality of LED lamps in a one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN STEP ELECTRONIC AND LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xinyuan Qu, Yongjun Wei
  • Patent number: 11499680
    Abstract: A base unit (1), e.g. a luminaire, comprises fixation means (3, 5, 15) configured to fixate a module (11), e.g. a light module, in the base unit. The fixation means, e.g. comprising one or more protrusions (15), one or more recesses (3) and one or more magnetic field generators (5), is configured to release the module from the base unit upon detecting an unmanned aircraft (31) being docked with the base unit or the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Petrus Creusen, Willem Lubertus Ijzerman, Lucas Leo Desire Van Der Poel
  • Patent number: 11485279
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid backup lamp having a backup light and a laser or LED warning light integrated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Charles I. Sassoon
  • Patent number: 11490059
    Abstract: Provided is a light source device including a laser light source group including at least one multi-emitter laser light source and at least one non-multi-emitter laser light source that emits a colored light different from that of the multi-emitter laser light source, a collimator lens having at least one cylindrical surface that adjusts a laser light emitted from the at least one multi-emitter laser light source, and a light guide unit that performs color synthesis of a laser light emitted from the at least one multi-emitter laser light source and having passed through the cylindrical surface and a laser light emitted from the at least one non-multi-emitter laser light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Narita, Hideaki Okano
  • Patent number: 11478035
    Abstract: Lighted headgear are provided that include removable self-contained light modules. The self-contained light modules can include a housing that contains one or more light sources and a rechargeable power source. The housing may include a protruding engagement portion for removably securing the self-contained light module to a cap portion of the lighted headgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Waters
  • Patent number: 11466840
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device having an emitting surface and a bottom opposing to the emitting surface including: a resin, set between the emitting surface and the bottom, having a hole at a center, a reflection block set in the hole at a side of the emitting surface, an LED, which is a light source, set in the hole at a side of the bottom, a space between the LED and the reflection block, in which the resin is contained in a container whose inner surface is a reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Ken Kagabu
  • Patent number: 11465528
    Abstract: A charging device for an electric vehicle includes a network connection unit, a display light-panel, and a processor. The network connection unit is coupled to a server through a network and receives an indication of an operation of a charging procedure performed by a user device corresponding to the electric vehicle via the network. The display light-panel has an optical light-guiding component and a backlight module, wherein the optical light-guiding component has a fixed pattern printed thereon and the backlight module includes light sources, and the optical light-guiding component and the light sources are respectively disposed to operate the display light-panel in at least one illumination mode. The processor respectively changes the illumination mode of the display light-panel in response to the received indication, such that the display light-panel changes the light sources to generate an interaction display effect corresponding to the operation of the charging procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NOODOE CORPORATION
    Inventors: John C. Wang, Jen-Chieh Hsu, Ying-Chieh Hu, Chien-Chih Yu, Pu-Ying Lin
  • Patent number: 11457994
    Abstract: A light head for a medical device support system. The light head includes first and second zones of light sources, an optical system, and a control system. The first and second zones of light sources emit respective first and second beams of light that form an illumination pattern having a pattern size at a region of interest. The optical system adjusts a beam spread of the second beam of light to change the pattern size of the illumination pattern from a first pattern size to a second pattern size. The control system varies power to the first and second zones of light sources in response to adjustment of the beam spread of the second beam of light to maintain a substantially constant magnitude of illuminance at the region of interest as the pattern size is changed from the first pattern size to the second pattern size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: American Sterilizer Company
    Inventors: David Jesurun, Benjamin L. Yoder
  • Patent number: 11452224
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a battery box lamp wire installation structure, which relates to the technical field of power supply devices and it comprises a case, provided with an accommodating cavity inside; a printed circuit board, horizontally located in the accommodating cavity and fixedly connected with the case; an end cap, movably mounted on one end of the case, and the end cap is provided with a wire hole A; a lamp wire, of which one end penetrating through the wire hole A and restrained within the end cap; a connector, detachably mounted at the inner side of the end cap and fixing the positive and negative ends of the lamp wire; the positive and negative ends of the lamp wire are in electrical connection with the printed circuit board respectively when the end cap is mounted onto the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ACE SMART & TECH (NINGBO) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanbei Qin
  • Patent number: 11437850
    Abstract: A wirelessly electrically-coupled deployable apparatus comprising a deployable structure supported on a supporting structure for motion between a stowed position and a deployed position, an electrically-powered device carried by the deployable structure, a wireless electrical power receiving circuit carried by the deployable structure and connected between the device and a wireless electrical power receiver, and a wireless electrical power transmitting circuit carried by the supporting structure and connected between an electrical power supply and a wireless electrical power transmitter. The wireless electrical power transmitter is carried by the supporting structure, and the wireless electrical power receiver is carried by the deployable structure, in respective positions where wireless electrical power transfer between the wireless electrical power transmitter and receiver powers the device via the receiving circuit when the deployable structure is in its deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lippert Components Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Quigley, Vishwatej Mane, Brian Carlson, Evan Whitney, Nathaniel Fuller, Scott McKinnon
  • Patent number: 11435064
    Abstract: An integrated lighting module comprises a light emitting diode element, a driver, and a driver housing having first side walls and a first top that caps the first side walls to receive the driver. A heat sink module having an upper portion and a lower portion is configured for receiving the light emitting diode element and for transferring heat away from the light emitting diode element. An optical reflector is substantially conical in shape for reflecting and directing at least some light from the light emitting diode element. The light emitting diode element is disposed above a top-hole of the optical reflector. A holder is detachably coupled to the heat sink module to hold the at least one optical reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DMF, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Danesh
  • Patent number: 11428385
    Abstract: Provided is a light source module including a package body having a groove portion, a semiconductor light emitting diode (LED) chip provided on a bottom surface of the groove portion, the semiconductor LED chip being configured to emit light based on a first driving voltage applied thereto, a variable light transmission unit provided on the groove portion and having light transmissivity varying based on a second driving voltage applied thereto, a first electrode side surface and a second electrode side surface provided on side surfaces of the groove portion and connecting the bottom surface of the groove portion to the variable light transmission unit, and a processor configured to control application of the first driving voltage to the semiconductor LED chip and the second driving voltage to the variable light transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongsoo Lim, Chinwoo Kim, Yongchul Kang, Heejin Kim, Jeongje Moon, Jaeyoo Jeong, Jun Cho, Jongwook Ju