Patents Examined by Britt D Hanley
  • Patent number: 11248836
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door configured to open/close the cabinet, an outer plate defining a front surface of the door and having an opening formed therein to pass through the door, a door liner defining a rear surface of the door, lighting members configured to illuminate storage spaces of the door and the cabinet, a transparent panel assembly mounted to shield the opening and allowing the storage spaces to be selectively seen according to an ON/OFF state of the lighting members, an insulator filled between the outer plate and the door liner, and a blocking part arranged inside the door along a periphery of the transparent panel assembly and detachably coupled to a peripheral surface of the transparent panel assembly to fix the transparent panel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chanuk Kang, Hyuk Kwon, Sangmyung Lee
  • Patent number: 11248753
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an LED light bulb comprising a light source board, a heat sink, a lamp shade, and a paddle member is provided. The light source board is disposed on an upper end surface of the heat sink, and the lamp shade is connected to the upper end surface of the heat sink to enable the light source board to be contained within the lamp shade. A patch switch comprises a paddle handle extending downwardly along an axial direction of the heat sink. A front end of the paddle member is configured to extend through a space-providing opening and to be operatively coupled to the paddle handle, a rear end of the paddle member defines an operating member, and the operating member is configured to be paddled to adjust turning ON and OFF of LED beads of different colors disposed on the light source board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen Longstar Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xilong Li
  • Patent number: 11248782
    Abstract: The invention relates to an explosion-proof housing and to a method for connecting a housing part and a cover part, wherein the housing is formed at least from a metal housing part with at least one housing opening and/or receiving surface and a support edge which borders said housing opening and/or receiving surface and with a cover part which covers the housing opening or receiving surface and comprises a peripheral cover edge. The cover part and the housing part are connected together in an explosion-proof manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Reiner Naumann, Jens Burmeister, Toni Ott
  • Patent number: 11236901
    Abstract: A heat sink for use in a lighting assembly and including a hexagonal body extending a length. The body including an outer surface, an inner surface opposite the outer surface, a lumen defined by the inner surface, at least one hole extending through the hexagonal body from the inner surface to the outer surface, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth body portions extending the length. The first, second, and third body portions including planar surfaces extending the length. Each of the first, second, and third body portions configured to support an LED strip thereon. The fourth, fifth, and sixth body portions including fins extending outward therefrom. The inner surface including a plurality of fins extending inward and positioned around a perimeter thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Luminet, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Gregory Young Holliger, Alice Stover Mayfield, Philip Graham Rowe, Dusty Raymond Terry
  • Patent number: 11239702
    Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator for uniformly illuminating an inner space thereof. The refrigerator includes a cabinet including a storage compartment having a predetermined size, a shelf installed in the storage compartment, the shelf including a light source unit for illuminating an inside of the storage compartment, a transmitter connected to an external power supply for wirelessly transmitting power, the transmitter having a primary resonance frequency within a predetermined range, and a receiver for wirelessly receiving the power from the transmitter so as to supply the power to the light source unit of the shelf, the transmitter transmitting the power to the receiver using a secondary resonance frequency generated when the receiver is located close to the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seonghun Lee, Byungsang Jung, Hwanyong Kim, Seungje Park, Sangdoo Ha, Yongjun Son, Seonwook Park, Jaesung Yang, Wonbok Lee, Gyoocheol Choi, Joonggil Jeong
  • Patent number: 11221519
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a light emitting module, the method including: providing a light guiding plate having a first main surface serving as a lighting surface, and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, the second main surface defining a recess thereon, preparing a light emitting element unit by attaching a wavelength conversion portion to a light emitting element having electrodes and a light emitting surface; providing a light diffusion portion at a bottom of the recess; depositing the light emitting element unit onto the light diffusion portion in the recess; and forming a terminal having an electrical conductivity on the electrodes of the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Imada, Toshiaki Moriwaki, Yusaku Achi
  • Patent number: 11221128
    Abstract: A low profile lighting device for installation on a flat surface such as a ceiling. The low profile down light can have a housing comprising a generally planar surface and a sidewall rising from the planar surface; a PCB with a plurality of LEDs affixed to the generally planar surface of the housing; a lens in contact with the sidewall of the housing and having a first side facing the LEDs on the PCB such that light from the LED illuminates the first side of the lens; and a trim ring adapted to slide over the housing and having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein the first end has a plurality of tabs adapted to secure the trim ring to a housing and the second end has an inwardly projecting lip adapted to contact the second side of the lens thereby securing the lens to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: American Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Winters, Jennifer Barry, Jason Elrod
  • Patent number: 11215875
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device and a backlight module. The backlight module includes a substrate, an ink layer, and a plurality of light-emitting units, wherein the substrate includes a first end and a second end oppositely arranged, the ink layer is disposed on the substrate, the ink layer includes a plurality of hollow-carved units arranged gradually from the first end to the second end, and at least two light-emitting units are disposed on the ink layer in an array arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Linlin Fu, Dehua Li, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11215347
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a driver, a bottom cover, a light source module, a lens module, a light passing cover and a base plate. The bottom cover has a first central opening a driver container for storing the driver. The light source module has multiple LED modules and a second central opening. The lens module has a third central opening and multiple diffusion lenses respectively placed above the multiple LED modules. The lens module is fixed to the bottom cover to make the light source module, the driver, the lens module and the bottom cover as a portable module. The first central opening, the second central opening and the third central opening together form a main central opening. The base plate may be fixed to an installation platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shijian Xie, Zhengkun Liu, Dingwei Liang, Wenpei Li, Shaowei Huang
  • Patent number: 11215527
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a headlight setting test device comprising a lens, which directs an image of the tested headlight on a monitor, comprising a data memory, which stores the height difference between the contact area of a rear wheel arranged on the side of the relevant headlight being tested and the contact area of the corresponding front wheel or a value corresponding to said height difference, and comprising a correction possibility—taking account of the relevant height difference or value—for the position of the image on the monitor, as a result of which the effect of the height difference on the assessment of the relevant setting of the relevant headlight is able to be compensated for. The invention furthermore relates to a headlight setting station, a headlight setting device and a method for testing a headlight setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Manfred Rischke
  • Patent number: 11215326
    Abstract: A filament lamp lighting module and a manufacturing method thereof, the filament lamp lighting module comprise: at least two upper bridges with at least two bridge arms; and at least three lower bridges with at least one bridge arm; the lower bridge includes two rectifying bridges comprising rectifying bridge arms; the rectifying bridges are connected with the external power supply, the rectifying bridge arms are respectively connected with one ends of two rectifying diodes, and the other ends of the two rectifying diodes are respectively connected with different upper bridges to form a rectifying circuit; the lower bridge includes a bridge arm connected with one end of the filament, and the other end of the filament is connected with an upper bridge arm for rectifying and supplying power to the filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hangke Optoelectronics Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qianjun Yan, Qili Xu, Zhaozhang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11208778
    Abstract: An illuminated dock board system comprises a plurality of dock board components that each include one or more channels, each channel having a chamber beneath it. A channel cover component may be separably received into the open top of the channel to cover the channel and may be constructed from a low-opacity material to allow light to emanate. An electrical lighting subsystem comprising a light generating component (e.g., an LED strip) at least partially resides in a channel of a dock board component. And fasteners inserted through the channel and the chamber of a given dock board component operate to mechanically fix the given dock board component to a support structure (pylons, joists, stringers, etc.) such that a head of the fastener resides within the channel in contact with the bottom channel surface and a shank portion of the fastener resides within the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Robert T. Ellingson, Dennis L. Harms, Jr., Robert A. Whitley
  • Patent number: 11206765
    Abstract: An LED plant growth lamp spectrum, the spectrum including: a light wave of 500-599 nm and a light wave of 700-780 nm, where a ratio of the number of photons in the range of 500-599 nm to the number of photons in the range of 700-780 nm is 0.9-1.6:1. The LED plant growth lamp spectrum promotes indoor cultivation and growth of plants, and helps to increase the yield of medicinal components per unit area and per unit time in the factory production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIAN SANAN SINO-SCIENCE PHOTOBIOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Guojie Liu, Jian Ma, Qiushi Ning, Hengsheng Chen, Linping Meng, Zhi Wang
  • Patent number: 11209151
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a driver box, a driver module and a light module. The driver box includes a surrounding wall and a top cover. The surrounding wall has multiple rectangular plates. A hinge structure is disposed for connecting the surrounding wall and the top cover so that the top cover is rotatable with respect to the surrounding wall to expose a container space enclosed by the surrounding wall. An elastic clip has a first clip end fixed to the surrounding wall and has a second clip end for elastically deformed to either lock or release the top cover to rotate with respect to the surrounding wall. The driver module is disposed in the container space of the surrounding wall. The driver module is connected to a power wire via a wiring hole disposed on the surrounding wall. The light module receives a driving current from the driver module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yongzhe Dong, Jiahong Chen, Shouqiang Hou, Xiaoliang Wen
  • Patent number: 11204139
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light emitting strip (10), comprising: an elongate body (12); at least one light source (16) adapted to emit light into the elongate body; and a gap (24) in the elongate body, which gap is arranged in front of the at least one light source, wherein the gap is adapted to omnidirectionally distribute, in a plane (26) perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the light emitting strip, light emitted by the at least one light source. The present invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a light emitting strip (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Ansems, Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg
  • Patent number: 11204137
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) tube includes a translucent tubular body having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end, and a second end. The LED tube further includes a first end cap with a first pair of contact pins, arranged at the first end of the tubular body, and a second end cap with a second pair of contact pins, arranged at the second end of the tubular body, an LED light engine with a plurality of LEDs, and a driver circuit for driving the LED light engine. The driver circuit includes a first sub-circuit with at least one electronic component and a second sub-circuit with at least one electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: LED VANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Gang Xu, Xiongqiang He, Long Chen
  • Patent number: 11193663
    Abstract: A quick-connect modular LED lamp strip includes an H-shaped lamp body, a PC lampshade in a movably snap-fit connection with an upper portion of the lamp body, a plug wiring assembly connected with the lamp body, a printed circuit board (PCB) circuit board disposed inside the lamp body, and end caps disposed on each of head position of two ends of the lamp body and configured to block the two ends of the lamp body. The end caps are in an L-shaped structure, and each of the end caps includes an end cap insert configured to insert into the lamp body and at least one fixing column integrally formed with the end cap insert and configured to connect with the plug wiring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHINESKY OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Bin Wu
  • Patent number: 11181777
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides with a backlight unit and a display device with the backlight unit including a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on a substrate, a first reflector disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of holes, one of the plurality of light emitting elements being disposed in each hole, a light conversion sheet disposed on the substrate and having a light conversion pattern disposed at a position overlapping the light emitting element, and a phosphor sheet having a first phosphor disposed on the substrate, wherein a size of first light emitting elements disposed on the edge of the substrate among the plurality of light emitting elements is larger than size of second light emitting elements disposed in the center of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: RokHee Lee, Hyunmin Park
  • Patent number: 11181259
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an illumination module and an illumination device. The illumination module includes a bottom case, a shield buckled coupled with the bottom case to form an accommodation cavity, a lens and a polygonal substrate provided with a light source which are arranged in the accommodation cavity, the lens being configured to distribute light beams emitted from the light source, where the bottom case has a plurality of side walls, an outer side of each of the plurality of side walls is mounted with a first magnetic component, and the first magnetic component is configured to connect two illumination modules by attraction; each side of the polygonal substrate is provided with an electrical connection interface; and upon the electrical connection interface of the illumination module being plugged into an electrical connection interface of another illumination module, an electrical connection between the two illumination modules is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaolei Wang
  • Patent number: 11175019
    Abstract: The invention refers to a carrier for at least one lighting module, the carrier comprising: at least one mounting portion for receiving the at least one lighting module, wherein the carrier has a triangular cross section at least in sections with the at least one mounting portion being arranged on an edge of the triangular cross section; and a heat sink body portion arranged adjacent to the at least one mounting portion, wherein the heat sink body portion protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting portion. The invention further relates to a lighting device and a method for producing such lighting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Florent Grégoire Monestier, Michael Deckers