Patents Examined by Danielle Allen
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Patent number: 8011799Abstract: An LED-based lighting system includes a printed circuit board (“PCB”) having conductors on a front-side thereof, one or more LEDs mounted with the conductors, and a structural element. The PCB is mounted with the conductors near to the structural element so that heat dissipation from the LEDs is primarily through the conductors and the structural element. A method of dissipating heat generated by an LED-based lighting system includes configuring a PCB with conductors on a front-side of the PCB, such that when one or more LEDs mounted to the conductors generates heat, the heat dissipates from the one or more LEDs to the conductors. The method also includes integrating a structural element such that at least portions of the conductors face the structural element, and the heat dissipates from the conductors to the structural element.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Albeo Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter Van Laanen, Jeff Bisberg
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Patent number: 8007161Abstract: A backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes a backplate, at least one supporter, and a plurality of light emitting devices. The supporter is disposed on the backplate, and includes a supporting portion and a buffering portion. The supporting portion is disposed between the buffering portion and the backplate. The elastic coefficient of the buffering portion is smaller than the elastic coefficient of the supporting portion. The light emitting devices are also disposed on the backplate. The supporter is disposed between the light emitting devices. The buffering portion of the supporter of the backlight module is adapted for buffering an external force applied upon the supporting porter or the element disposed thereupon.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Au Optronics CorporationInventors: Fu-Tung Chen, Shih-Che Fu, Chih-Chia Chen, Chung-Te Lee
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Patent number: 8007154Abstract: A vehicle lamp can include a light source, a reflector having a parabolic reflective surface for reflecting light beams from the light source, and a lens formed in a generally rectangular shape (i.e., square, rectangular, substantially square, substantially rectangular). The lens can include a plurality of lens cut portions for diffusing the generally parallel light beams from the reflector. The principal optical axis of the vehicle lamp can be aligned with the center of the lens. A plurality of ridge lines or valley lines can extend radially from the principal optical axis to divide the generally rectangular lens into at least a first lens cut portion, a second lens cut portion, a third lens cut portion, and a fourth lens cut portion. The first lens cut portion can be a substantial mirror image of the second lens cut portion, and the third lens cut portion can be a substantial mirror image of the fourth lens cut portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetaka Okada, Nao Nakano, Norihide Todoroki
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Patent number: 8002446Abstract: A direct and indirect suspended component light fixture is described herein. The light engine of the fixture is recessed within a ceiling and contains a plurality of linear fluorescent lamps substantially surrounded by an ellipsoidal reflector. The ellipsoidal reflector reflect light downward through a light output region to a suspended diffuser, the suspended diffuser acting as both a provider of direct and indirect light to generate smooth and even illumination both in the indirect and direct light components.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Carlton Plunk, Eugene Graff
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Patent number: 8002433Abstract: The decorative light mount apparatus provides for permanent support of lights and light strings to a structure. The right angle member provides for light wiring to be wire tired or fastened otherwise, to the gapped risers of the tie plates, so that lights are extended from the horizontal length of the right angle member. The right angle member is supported on a structure via the hinge that is fastened to the right angle member. The hinge allows the right angle member to be pivoted, positioning the vertical length of the right angle member either vertically upward, vertically downward, or even angled from the downward vertical. The lock member provides fastening of the right angle member so that the lights are visibly concealed. Release of the wing nut allows the right angle member to pivot upwardly to position lights in a downward and visible mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Inventors: Douglas D. Cucksey, Diane E. Cucksey
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Patent number: 7997746Abstract: An arrangement and method for displaying at least a first and a second image. The arrangement comprises at least one light source (120, 121, 220, 221, 320, 321) adapted to generate light having at least a first and a second light characteristic; and at least a first and a second image forming element (122, 123, 222, 223, 322, 323) arranged to display a first and a second image (128, 129, 230, 231), respectively. The first image forming element (122, 222, 322) is at least responsive to the light having the first light characteristic. The second image forming element (123, 223, 323) is at least responsive to the light having the second light characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventors: Gunnar Klinghult, Mats Kleverman, Richard Nilsson, Kent Ådán, Torbjörn Karlelid
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Patent number: 7997770Abstract: A replacement for the standard fluorescent lamp tube has a plurality of LED devices mounted on a circuit board. The enclosure within which the circuit board is held has a clear or frosted lens mounted on a heat sink. The lens and heat sink each are arcuately shaped and together form a circular tube. A power converter is mounted below the circuit board and transfers its heat to the heat sink. A pair of pins mounted on the power converter extend beyond one end of the tube. An end cap has means for snapping onto and off the end of the tube and has clearance holes for the pins to protrude through and extend beyond so as to be fitting into mechanical and electrical contact with a standard lamp mounting fixture.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Inventor: William Henry Meurer
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Patent number: 7993032Abstract: Disclosed is a modular light emitting diode (LED) light pod having heat dissipation structures. A reflective optic plate, which may be made in various modular sizes and designs, having a plurality of recesses is seated on an LED board having a plurality of LEDs, such that the plurality of LEDs fit within the plurality optical recesses. The optical recesses serve to collimate light in a desirable manner based on predetermined dimensional ratios of the optical recesses. A heat dissipation system involves a heat sink housing acting in combination with a heat extraction plate having a plurality thermally conductive posts extending perpendicularly from a top and bottom surface, and a heat dissipation plate to create a thermally conductive path for moving heat away from the LED board when the light pod is in use.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Light-Pod, Inc.Inventor: Lothar E. S. Budike
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Patent number: 7993030Abstract: A lighting system comprises a housing suitable for mounting to a structural unit. The housing includes a plurality of enclosure panels. At least two light-bearing members are moveable relative to the housing and are pivotally coupled one to another. A pair of actuators are moveable in opposing directions, one of the light-bearing members being coupled to one of the actuators and an other of the light-bearing members being coupled to an other of the actuators. Movement of the actuators relative to one another results in pivotal movement of the light-bearing members relative to one another, causing an end of each light-bearing member to move further from or closer to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Innovative D-Lites LLCInventors: Detlef Andreas Galke, Melvin Hess Pedersen, Glenda Pedersen, legal representative
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Patent number: 7993033Abstract: A reflector built in a down light includes a plurality of floodlight openings respectively exposing a plurality of light-emitting elements to a front surface side, a plurality of radial partition walls which respectively partition and surround these floodlight openings, and an inner circumferential partition wall. Each of the partition walls has a ridge line, and the reflector includes a plurality of reflection concave surfaces each which open and widen from a respective one of the plurality of floodlight openings towards ridge lines of the plurality of partition walls which respectively surround the plurality of floodlight openings. The plurality of radial partition walls extend from the center of the reflector towards the outer circumference, and the inner circumferential partition wall is located between the center and the outer circumference.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Patent number: 7988331Abstract: An LED lamp includes a lamp cover, a plurality of brackets received in the lamp cover and interconnecting each other, a plurality of LED modules thermally attached to inner surfaces of the brackets and a plurality of light-guiding covers covering the LED modules, respectively. The brackets have different sizes and are coaxially positioned wherein a larger bracket encloses a smaller bracket. The LED modules are inclined relative to a bottom of the lamp cover and light emitted by the LED modules respectively travels through the light-guiding covers to generate a wide illumination area through the bottom of the brackets.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shi-Song Zheng
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Patent number: 7985001Abstract: An LED light fixture includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a plurality of LED chips. The first substrate, on one side thereof, includes a plurality of spaced first electrodes, a first inner terminal electrically connected to the first electrodes, and a second inner terminal insulated from the first electrodes, and, on another side thereof, a first outer terminal electrically connected to the first inner terminal and a second outer terminal electrically connected to the second inner terminal. The second substrate includes a plurality of spaced second electrodes corresponding to the first electrodes, and a third inner terminal electrically connected to the second electrodes and the second inner terminal. The LED chips are arranged between the first and second substrates and electrically connected to the first and second electrodes of the first and second substrates, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chia-Shou Chang
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Patent number: 7985003Abstract: A forming mold of a light-emitting member includes a frame, an upper mold and a lower mold, and the frame is provided with carriers, pins and supporting portions. The upper and lower molds match with each other to provide a forming space for the base of the light-emitting member. The forming space contains the carriers and a part of the supporting portions. One or more projections are disposed at the position where the brinks of the upper and lower molds contact the supporting portions. After injection molding, the burrs formed by a plastic material along the supporting portions can be concealed in the recesses that are formed corresponding to each of the projections, thereby reducing the influence of the burrs on the external size of the base.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Lextar Electronics Corp.Inventors: Wen-Lung Su, Chin-Chang Hsu, Hsuan-Chi Liu
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Patent number: 7950837Abstract: A vehicle lamp can include a plurality of light source modules each having an LED as a light source, and optical systems for distributing light from each of the light source modules frontward toward predetermined areas or predetermined patterns that are different from each other and which make up a light distribution pattern. Each of the optical systems can be optimized to emit light to a predetermined area, and each of the light source modules' LEDs can be optimally arranged for each of the corresponding optical systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Yatsuda, Teruo Koike, Takuya Kushimoto, Takashi Futami, Ryotaro Owada
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Patent number: 7950815Abstract: A back light unit includes a bottom cover, a plurality of light source modules mounted on the bottom cover, and an optical sheet unit over the light source modules, wherein each of the light source module includes a PCB having the plurality of light source modules mounted thereon, a diffusing plate spaced a distance from the LED light sources and surrounding the PCB fully for diffusing a light incident thereon from the LED light sources throughout a surface thereof uniformly, and a diffusing plate supporter for securing the diffusing plate to the PCB, and the diffusing plate includes a flat plate portion, a side wall portion extended from opposite edges of the plate portion to the diffusing plate supporter, and a plurality of light diffusing units each projected from a surface facing the LED light source on the plate portion at a position matched to the LED light source, thereby enabling to make effective response to fabrication of thinner liquid crystal display device and improve a light uniformity, and imprType: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Ji Jin, Hee Jeong Park
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Patent number: 7942540Abstract: A lighting module includes a light output window, at least one side wall that defines a cavity and a mounting plate, and at least one light source, and at least one reflector that is within the cavity. The light output window may be one of the side walls in a side-emitting configuration. The spectral distribution of the light coming out of the light output window may be changed by manipulating the relative position of the side wall to the at least one reflector that is within the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Xicato, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Harbers, Mark A. Pugh, Menne T. de Roos, Peter K. Tseng
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Patent number: 7922378Abstract: A medical illumination unit (1) has an LED chip (15) and a rod-shaped body (5) with a proximal end (11) and a distal end (7). A distal hollow section (9) begins before the distal end (7) and reaches the distal end (7), and a supply lead section (12) begins at the proximal end (11) and reaches the distal hollow section (9). The LED chip (15) is in the distal hollow section of the rod-shaped body (5) and is supplied with energy through the supply lead (12). A luminescent converter is between the LED chip (15) and the distal end (7) of the rod-shaped or tubular body or at the distal end of the rod-shaped body (5), the converter properties of which are selected to convert light emitted by the LED chip (15) into light with a desired wavelength distribution.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Carl Zeiss Surgical GmbHInventors: Markus Bausewein, Michael J. Eichler
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Patent number: 7914186Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle includes a lamp unit serving to irradiate a light forward, and an actuator having a single output shaft for tilting the lamp unit vertically and transversely. The lamp unit is disposed in a lamp housing formed by a lamp body and a transparent cover for covering a front surface of the lamp body. The lamp unit includes a body coupling portion to be coupled to the lamp body and an actuator coupling portion to be coupled to the actuator. The lamp body includes a lamp unit coupling portion coupled to the body coupling portion and serving to support the lamp unit tiltably in vertical and transverse directions. The actuator is supported on the lamp body and includes an output shaft for tilting the lamp unit vertically and transversely in engagement with the actuator coupling portion of the lamp unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naohisa Tatara, Masahiro Kusagaya
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Patent number: 7909492Abstract: A mounting apparatus for reflectors such as reflector umbrellas for lighting used in motion picture and still photography. The apparatus secures the reflector by retaining elements and the reflector may be removed efficiently from the apparatus and replaced by another reflector if desired by rotating one of the retaining elements about a hinge. The angular position of the reflector may be adjusted by rotating supports for the retaining elements to desired angular configurations by activation of a gear mechanism in a housing. The apparatus includes an indicator that indicates the position or angular orientation of the reflector and allows a user to orient the reflector into one or more desired angular configurations and remove the reflector while maintaining the orientation of the supports.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Inventor: Sergio Alejandro Ortiz-Gavin
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Patent number: 7905647Abstract: A prism sheet, a back light unit using the same and liquid crystal display device having the back light unit are disclosed, for improvement of light concentration, frontal luminance and viewing angle, in which the prism sheet includes a light-condensing film. The light condensing film has a plurality of prism peaks, each having a triangular cross section inclined surface which is inclined from a top surface of the light-condensing film at an angle of about 20° to about 40°.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: LG. Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hoe Sup Soh, Man Hoan Lee, Ji Su Yoon, Sung Keun Lee, Jin Hyuk Kwon