Patents Examined by Cara E Rakowski
  • Assistive cane for visually impaired with programmable lighting
    Patent number: 10779620
    Abstract: An illuminated, multi-function cane for use by low-vision individuals is described and claimed. The device's various pulsating lights enable low-vision people to travel at night with assured confidence that they will be seen by drivers and cyclists from a safe distance exceeding one mile on a dark street! While at a high traffic lit city intersection the Lumi cane is very noticeable with its strobing rainbow lights 200 yards away, even with competition from other bright artificial lights. Even in dense fog Lumi's LED lights are visible at 40 to 75 yards distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Johnson
  • Wavelength conversion element, light source apparatus and image projection apparatus
    Patent number: 10775686
    Abstract: The wavelength conversion element converts a wavelength of part of an exciting light to generate a fluorescent light and thereby generate a combined light in which the fluorescent light is combined with a non-converted light whose wavelength is the same as that of the exciting light. The element includes a fluorescent body, a binder contacting the fluorescent body, and multiple diffuser particles included in the binder. A minimum particle diameter of the multiple diffuser particles is ΒΌ or more and 4 times or less of a wavelength of the fluorescent light, and a ratio of a volume of the multiple diffuser particles to a total volume of the binder and multiple diffuser particles is 25% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Ohkoba, Yuya Kurata, Ryota Kadowaki
  • Pixel light source
    Patent number: 10775012
    Abstract: A pixel light source includes having a light source array, an optical system and an imager matrix arrangement, wherein the optical system maps light radiated by the light source array onto the imager matrix arrangement, the light source array includes a plurality of light emitting diode elements and a plurality of LARP elements, and the optical system is configured to map the light radiated by at least one of the LARP elements into a gap in the angular aperture situated between the light radiated by the light emitting diode elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Groetsch, Julia Rothneichner
  • Lighting device, display device, television device, and method for manufacturing wavelength converter
    Patent number: 10775543
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes LEDs a light guide plate, and a wavelength converter. The light guide plate includes a light entering end surface and a light exiting plate surface. The light entering end surface is at least a section of an outer peripheral end surface of the light guide plate. The light exiting plate surface is a plate surface of the light guide plate. The wavelength converter is interposed among the LEDs and the light entering end surface to extend along the length direction of the light entering end surface. The wavelength converter includes phosphors configured to wavelength-convert light. The wavelength converter is configured such that at least any one of end portions in the length direction is formed as a great light emission portion configured to emit a greater amount of wavelength-converted light per unit length in the length direction than that of a center portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Harada, Akira Gotou
  • Optical system
    Patent number: 10778922
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power, both surfaces thereof being convex in a paraxial region; a third lens having refractive power and having an object-side surface that is convex in the paraxial region; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power and having an image-side surface that is concave in the paraxial region; and a sixth lens having refractive power, wherein the first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side, and when an Abbe number of the first lens is v1 and an Abbe number of the second lens is v2, |v1?v2|<10 is satisfied, whereby an aberration improvement effect can be increased, and high resolution in images captured thereby can be realized while an amount of light incident through the lenses to an image sensor can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Joo Jo
  • Backlight module, display panel and display device
    Patent number: 10775668
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight module, a display panel, and a display device. The backlight module includes a module frame and at least one first conductive tip structure disposed inside the module frame, the first conductive tip structure includes a first conductive tip, the first conductive tip being in an exposed state of being exposed out from the module frame. The backlight module, according to a point discharge principle, preferentially performs discharging on static electricity through the conductive tip structure, to provide a novel antistatic backlight module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zijin Lin, Xiaoguang Pei, Haisheng Zhao, Dongjiang Sun
  • Sparkling viewing effect with cavity and light effect material
    Patent number: 10767851
    Abstract: A sparkling viewing effect is created when a light material viewing effect attributable to a given LED is seen to move about a light effect material as an electronic assembly moves within a chamber when the given LED is emitting light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Carmen Rapisarda
  • Synaptic electronic devices with electrochromic device
    Patent number: 10768502
    Abstract: A synaptic electronic device includes a substrate including a one or more of a semiconductor and an insulator; a photosensitive layer disposed on a surface of the substrate; an electrochromic stack disposed on the photosensitive layer, the electrochromic stack including a first transparent electrode layer, a cathodic electrochromic layer, a solid electrolyte layer, an anodic electrochromic layer, and a second transparent electrode layer; and a pair of electrodes disposed on the photosensitive layer and on opposing sides of the electrochromic stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shu-Jen Han
  • Fairlead with a lighting system
    Patent number: 10767821
    Abstract: Systems are provided for a fairlead, and in particular to fairlead including an integrated lighting system. In one example, a fairlead may comprise a frame, the frame including a central, first opening and a second opening disposed above the first opening. The second opening may house an integrated lighting system, the integrated lighting system including a plurality of lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: WARN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Craig A. Clark, Bryan Averill
  • Optical system
    Patent number: 10761300
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens includes an object-side surface that is convex with a meniscus shape. The second lens includes an image-side surface that is convex. The third lens includes an image-side surface that is concave. The fifth lens includes an image-side surface that is concave. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Sik You
  • High environmental protective and energy-saving LED illumination lamp
    Patent number: 10760748
    Abstract: A high environmental protective and energy-saving LED illumination lamp includes a base, a first lamp body assembly arranged on an upper portion of the base, and a second lamp body assembly arranged on an upper portion of the first lamp body assembly. A controller, a power supply, a data memory, a wireless communication transmission unit configured to communicate with an external mobile terminal, an alerter configured to generate an alarm sound in case of an emergency, a sound device, and a voltage stabilizer are arranged inside the base. A first rotary drive motor is arranged inside the base. A rotary disc configured to support the first lamp body assembly is arranged between the base and the first lamp body assembly. The first rotary drive motor drives the rotary disc to rotate to drive the first lamp body assembly to rotate synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaojun Liu
  • LED puck holder for wire rope tension grids
    Patent number: 10760777
    Abstract: A light puck that attaches to a wire rope tension grid has a top cover with a plurality of slots to receive wire ropes therein and a corresponding bottom cover. There is also a light fixture having a plurality of LEDs disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover, the light fixture aligned with an opening in the bottom cover. A biasing plate is positioned between the light fixture and the top cover and has adjustment screw associated therewith to bias the biasing plate relative to the top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: InterAmerica Stage, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Krieger
  • Microelectromechanical displacement structure and method for controlling displacement
    Patent number: 10752492
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a displacement amplification structure and a method for controlling displacement. In one aspect, the displacement amplification structure of the present disclosure includes a first beam and a second beam substantially parallel to the first beam, an end of the first beam coupled to a fixture site, and an end of the second beam coupled to a motion actuator; and a motion shutter coupled to an opposing end of the first and second beams. In response to a displacement of the motion actuator along an axis direction of the second beam, the motion shutter displaces a distance along a transversal direction substantially perpendicular to the axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Agiltron, Inc.
    Inventors: Luzhong Yin, Jing Zhao, Guanghai Jin
  • Linear LED lamp tube with internal driver and one or more electrically isolated pins
    Patent number: 10753588
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a light emitting diode (LED) tube lamp is provided along with a method of installing the LED tube lamp into a lighting fixture. In various embodiments, the LED tube lamp comprises: a tube; at least one LED positioned within the tube; and a passage formed through at least a portion of the tube, the passage configured to receive there-through a set of electrical connecting wires, wherein a first end of the electrical connecting wires comprises at least one of a two- or three-prong polarized plug. Various embodiments may further comprise a driver circuit positioned within the tube, the driver circuit comprising a second end of the electrical connecting wires. In various embodiments, the LED lamp tube may further comprise at least one end cap disposed on an end of the tube and at least one pin secured thereon wherein the pin is electrically isolated from the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Feit Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Halliwell
  • Harness vest with portable safety and illumination lighting
    Patent number: 10746393
    Abstract: A harness vest carries a lighting system for safety and utility. The vest includes holsters for light modules on front and back shoulder pads. The light modules may be removable or fixed LED strips attached to the front and back shoulder pads. Each lighting module is removable and is controlled by on/off buttons and front-mounted control panels for separate use as portable, personal, lighting devices. Modules are magnetic and may be removable from the harness best and attached to other surfaces for illuminating a work area. The user controls brightness, mode (such as strobe, strobe frequency), and color. The vest can be added to a reflector cover as part of a 5-point breakaway reflector vest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventors: Gary M. White, David White
  • Zoom lens and imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 10746976
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group fixed relative to the image surface during zooming, at least two movable lens groups including a negative second lens group being adjacent to the first lens group, the at least two movable lens groups being movable by changing a distance in an optical-axis direction to an adjacent group during zooming; and a final lens group arranged on the most image side and fixed relative to the image surface during zooming. The first lens group has, continuously in order from the most object side, a first negative lens having a concave surface facing an image side, a second negative lens, and a third positive lens. A predetermined conditional expression relating to the first lens group is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Motoari Ota, Takuya Tanaka
  • Cover window for display device and display device including the same
    Patent number: 10739498
    Abstract: A cover window includes: a base film disposed on a display panel of a display device which displays an image with light; and porous nanoparticles embedded in the base film at a side of the base film opposite to that at which the display panel is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Hoon Choi, Sang-Il Park, Heon Jung Shin, Jeoung Sub Lee
  • Projection device for a head-up display, head-up display, and vehicle
    Patent number: 10739588
    Abstract: A projection apparatus for a head-up display includes an imaging unit designed to produce an image, a projection unit designed to project the image produced by the imaging unit via a projection path onto a projection surface. The projection device includes a convex optical element arranged in the projection path, which is provided with a circular polarizer or is formed as a circular polarizer. The invention further relates to a head-up display having such a projection apparatus and to a corresponding vehicle having such a projection apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Mark Riebe
  • Lens moving apparatus
    Patent number: 10739610
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin adapted to move upward and downward in a first direction, a housing in which the bobbin is accommodated and which is movable upward and downward in the first direction, a cover member accommodating the bobbin and the housing, and a base to which a lower portion of the cover member is coupled, wherein the cover member has an opening formed in an upper face thereof, and is provided at an area thereof surrounding the opening with a first stopper for limiting a distance by which the bobbin moves upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min
  • Microelectromechanical displacement structure and method for controlling displacement
    Patent number: 10730740
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a displacement amplification structure and a method for controlling displacement. In one aspect, the displacement amplification structure of the present disclosure includes a first beam and a second beam substantially parallel to the first beam, an end of the first beam coupled to a fixture site, an end of the second beam coupled to a motion actuator, and a motion shutter coupled to an opposing end of the first and second beams. In response to a displacement of the motion actuator along an axis direction of the second beam, the motion shutter displaces a distance along a transversal direction substantially perpendicular to the axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Agiltron, Inc.
    Inventors: Luzhong Yin, Jing Zhao