Patents Examined by Christopher E Dunay
  • Patent number: 11757081
    Abstract: A light fixture has a translucent tubular bulb. At least one end cap is located at one end of the translucent tubular bulb. A light engine is disposed in the translucent tubular bulb. The light engine has a leadframe on which a plurality of semiconductor light elements is arranged. The fixture may include an electronic driver. The electronic driver includes a plurality of electronic components. At least one of the plurality of electronic components is arranged inside the transparent tubular bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Rieder, Heinz Lang, Georg Rosenbauer
  • Patent number: 11752931
    Abstract: The condition responsive vehicular taillight is a safety device. The condition responsive vehicular taillight incorporates a vehicle and a control circuit. The control circuit mounts in the vehicle. The control circuit senses changes in the momentum of the vehicle. The control circuit generates a visual indication of the changes in the momentum of the vehicle. The visual indication is visible from the exterior of the vehicle. The visual indication is visible when viewed from the rear side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 11754757
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a light blocking sheet and a lens module. The light blocking sheet includes an inner hole. A plurality of micro concave structures are regularly disposed on a periphery of the inner hole. The micro concave structure extends from the periphery of the inner hole to a direction far away from a center of the inner hole. A depth of the micro concave structure is d, an outer ring diameter of the light blocking sheet is D1, d and D1 meet 0.01?d/D1?0.05. According to the light blocking sheet of the disclosure, the micro concave structures are disposed on the periphery of the inner hole, so that stray light may be effectively suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Zhang, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11754250
    Abstract: A second light source, a second incidence section and a second reflecting section in a vehicle lamp are disposed closer to a light guide section than a first light source, a first incidence section and a first reflecting section, a stepped section is provided between the first reflecting section and the second reflecting section, and the first reflecting section is disposed at above the stepped section and the second reflecting section is disposed at below the stepped section when seen from a side of the first incidence section and a side of the second incidence section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keita Saito
  • Patent number: 11754240
    Abstract: Wreath is a popular home decoration or event decorations; especially during holiday season and memorial services. Traditional wreath is made of fresh flower and plant branches. Some of the modern wreath is made of plastic flower and plant branch. Some wreath even is equipped with lights for enhancing its beauty. These lights are powered by batteries or plugged into the home outlets. The connection of the power cable and the life span of the battery lift have hindered the operation of these wreaths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KAISA USA, INC.
    Inventor: Wen Hua
  • Patent number: 11754235
    Abstract: Light systems, systems and apparatus related thereto that aids in the installation and removal of a luminaire as well as eliminates gaps formed in a housing for the light system. The light system includes a spring-loaded attachment system for a light system, a mounting system in which a luminaire can be arranged therein that includes interchangeable plates to accommodate various size and shape luminaires, and a light-blocking rotatable housing assembly for a recessed luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Sonneman, Christian N. Garnett, Yangyang Wang, Nuno Pires Da Silva
  • Patent number: 11754255
    Abstract: A luminaire can include a curved light guide plate including a first receiving surface, an emitting surface, a major surface opposing the emitting surface, second and third receiving surfaces, the first receiving surface extending in a first dimension between the major surface and the emitting surface and extending in a second dimension between the second and third receiving surfaces, the first receiving surface, emitting surface, and major surface including a positive, non-zero radius of curvature (R) and the second and third receiving surfaces generally planar, and a plurality of LEDs positioned to emit light into one or more of the first receiving surface, second receiving surface, third receiving surface, or a fourth receiving surface, the fourth receiving surface opposing the first receiving surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Frederic Stephane Diana, Mehdi Aas, Charles André Schrama
  • Patent number: 11754244
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to vehicle emblems, badges, logos or design elements and in particular to a vehicle design element including a light assembly that can provide a uniform light output without the light source being viewable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Chapman-Winter, Gary Dekievit
  • Patent number: 11746967
    Abstract: The invention discloses a portable mobile decorative cylinder LED lamp, comprising a bottom base cover, a first upper base cover, a second upper base cover, a first base connector, a second base connector, a circular aluminum sleeve, a switch button, a driver board, an aluminum tripod base, light strips, an inner pipe, an outer pipe and a top cover. The upper end of the bottom base cover is mounted with the first upper base cover and the second upper base cover through screws, the first upper base cover and the second upper base cover are clamped, the first upper base cover and the second upper base cover are jointly mounted with the first base connector through screws, and the upper end of the first base connector is in contact with the second base connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Jun Li
  • Patent number: 11745554
    Abstract: A taillight enhancement harness for providing a lighting enhancement to a taillight of a towed vehicle. The harness interconnects a first lighting system of a towing vehicle and a second lighting system of the towed vehicle. A lighting enhancement circuit is interposed between a first connector, configured to couple to the towing vehicle, and a second connector, configured to couple to the towed vehicle. The lighting enhancement circuit is configured to activate a taillight of the towed vehicle in a strobe operation. After a predetermined temporal period, the taillight resumes a normal indication operating mode for the taillight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Nicholas Joseph Falcone
  • Patent number: 11746991
    Abstract: A bendable fill light lamp comprises a plurality of segments of a lamp body assembly connected in a series or a sequence, wherein the lamp body assembly comprises a body for connecting the plurality of segments. Any two adjacent segments of the plurality of the segments are rotatably connected. Each of the plurality of the segments comprises a light-emitting surface as a fill light source. The body comprises a connecting member passing among the plurality of the segments. The connecting member comprises a bendable elastic body. In this way, during the use of the fill light, the bending of the intermediary segments may drive the sequential adjustment of the illumination angles of the light emitting parts on the intermediary segments. In one aspect, the light angle of the fill light may be adjusted and avoid phenomenon of multiple lights on the object to be photographed, which improves the shooting effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG SIRUI OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Li, Haimin Lin, Zhangxuan Yang, Qi Cai
  • Patent number: 11747006
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of lamps, and in particular to a plug-in lamp. The plug-in lamp includes a lamp base and a light source assembly. The lamp base includes a lamp base housing and a lamp base cover. The lamp base cover is capped on the top of the lamp base housing, connecting wires between the lamp base housing and the lamp base cover are contacted with ends of connecting terminals to realize electrical connection, and plug-in male terminals are respectively plugged into two plug-in holes to realize electrical connection. According to the present disclosure, the structural design is simple and reasonable, and the production efficiency is greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Jianguo Wang
  • Patent number: 11746970
    Abstract: A light-receiving unit containing four optical sensors arranged crosswise and a light-shielding body containing four through-holes confronting light-receiving surfaces of the optical sensors, and a tilt adjustment mechanism containing first and second movable bodies which are mounted on first and second rotation shafts arranged on a same plane to cross at right angles are provided. The tilt adjustment mechanism is mounted in a housing constituting a ceiling-mounted type lighting device and the light-receiving unit and a lighting lamp are mounted on a rotational center axis of the second moving body. Tilt adjustment light emitted from a treatment table hits the optical sensors via the light-shielding body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: ELCO CO., LTD, EVERS CO., LTD, DAI-ICHI SHOMEI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Michiru Sasaki, Takahito Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11747002
    Abstract: A string light includes a number of light emitting units, a number of connection cables, any two of which are detachably connectable to each other, and a number of integrally-formed light covers. Each of the light emitting units is connected to two of the connection cables. The light emitting units are received in the light covers, respectively. Each of the light covers defines two through holes that allow a corresponding one of the light emitting units and ends of two of the connection cables to pass therethrough. The light covers are connected to the connection cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN LESHIDA LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaojun Xu
  • Patent number: 11746969
    Abstract: A curving recessed lighting system having a plurality of housing sections, an LED strip (or two), and a flexible diffuser. Each housing section includes a base portion having an opening, a first flange having a first width and extending outward from the base portion, and a second flange having a second width and extending outward from the base portion in a direction opposite and coplanar to the first flange. Further, when the housing sections are arranged sequentially, the first and second flanges form two curved surfaces and the base portions in consecutive housing sections align to form a curved channel between the two curved surfaces. Preferably, the base portion of each of the plurality of housing sections has a depth not greater than ? inches (0.625 inches). This allows flush placement in standard drywall without the need for notching studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: PureEdge Lighting LLC
    Inventor: Gregory L. Kay
  • Patent number: 11739909
    Abstract: The purpose is to realize a lighting device which can project a light spot of rectangle with a simple structure. The invention is: A lighting device having a light source unit 1, the light source unit 1 including a funnel shaped reflector 10 and an LED 20, in which the funnel shaped reflector 10 includes a neck and an opening, the LED 20 is disposed at the neck of the funnel shaped reflector 10, a plan view of the opening is a rectangle, and provided a distance from the neck to the opening along axis is d, and one side of the rectangle is x, either one of the first light source unit and the second light source unit satisfies, d/x is 2 or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Okada, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11725788
    Abstract: Implementations are described herein for an adjustable recessed lighting apparatus (100) with a rotation ring (110). In various embodiments, a base (101) may be mounted to a surface and includes a light passage that generally directs light in a first direction (FD). The rotation ring (110) may be rotatably mounted to the base (101) such that the rotation ring (110) is rotatable about the light passage. At least one light source (140) may be mounted within the apparatus (100) to emit light through the light passage in a second direction (SD). A first drive (112) and a second drive (114) may be fixedly secured to the rotation ring (110). Accordingly, when torque is applied to the first drive (112), the rotation ring (110) may rotate relative to the base (101) about the light passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Mark Owen Jones
  • Patent number: 11724000
    Abstract: An air purifying light system using unsafe UV-C emitters mounted on an upward facing portion of the frame of the system and at least visible light LEDs mounted on a lower facing portion of the frame, wherein the UV-C emitters are configured to kill viruses and pathogens in a sanitization zone formed between the frame and the ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: George Erik McMillan
  • Patent number: 11713870
    Abstract: An illuminated landscaping assembly for illuminating landscaping includes a plurality of lighting modules, each comprising a housing that defines an interior space. A first connector and a second connector are attached to a first edge and a second edge of the housing, respectively. The second connector is complementary to the first connector so that the lighting modules are physically and electrically interconnectable via selective connection of the first connectors and the second connectors. A plurality of bulbs is attached to an upper face of the housing and is operationally engaged to the first connector and the second connector. A shell, which is substantially transparent, is attached to the housing and encapsulates the plurality of bulbs. A respective one of the first connectors and the second connectors is engaged a power cord extending from a power module. With the lighting modules positioned in a landscape, the bulbs selectively illuminate the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Bennie Boyd
  • Patent number: 11713863
    Abstract: A light projector for signalling high obstacles, having an elongate cylindrical lens, a linear light source in which the light projector has at least two reflectors and at least one of the reflectors is an upper reflector positioned above the horizontal plane of symmetry of the cylindrical lens and below an upper surface of the cylindrical lens, and at least one of the reflectors is a lower reflector positioned below the horizontal plane of symmetry of the cylindrical lens and above a lower surface of the cylindrical lens, the reflectors being configured to interrupt light rays from the light source that are oriented outside the elevation angular sector of the main flat light beam is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: OBSTA
    Inventor: Alban Royer