Patents Examined by Erin Kryukova
  • Patent number: 10342277
    Abstract: A safety light helmet is a helmet with a light affixed to the top center of the helmet for 360-degree visibility by other riders and vehicles when passing a rider wearing the helmet. The safety light detaches immediately during a collision without causing injury to the rider. The safety light helmet has a plurality of light bulbs operative for displaying a plurality of light patterns. The light is rechargeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventor: Darryl William Munns
  • Patent number: 10330858
    Abstract: A multilayered illuminated laminate system including a light source positioned proximate to an edge of a light panel that includes a series of reflective paint in the shape of diamonds of increasing size is provided. The system further includes a diffuser sheet of sufficient opacity that it obscures the diamond pattern on the bottom surface of the light panel and a reinforced panel formed from fiberglass that bestows the system with scratch, abrasion, impact, and chemical resistance to meet or exceed current regulatory requirements. The light source is positioned within a clamp mount that contains the light panel, diffuser, and reinforced panel in frictional engagement without the need for an adhesive. A graphic can be positioned between the diffuser sheet and the reinforced panel to increase the aesthetic appearance of the system exterior surface, as well as moderate the intensity of the light it emits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Advanced Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: James G. Burgio, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10317063
    Abstract: The invention relates to an explosion-proof luminaire (1) comprising a luminaire housing (2), at least one light source (3) arranged in the luminaire housing (2), a reflective device (4) assigned to the light source (3) for deflecting light emitted by the light source (3) in the direction of a light exit opening (5) in the luminaire housing (2) and a cooling device (6) assigned to the light source (3) and/or the luminaire housing (2). In particular, an inner side (7) of the luminaire housing (2) is formed, at least pointwise, as a reflective device (4) and/or the cooling device (6) is formed in one piece with the luminaire housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Toni Ott, Jens Burmeister
  • Patent number: 10310327
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a supporting plate, a light source module, and an optical modulation film. The light source module includes a plurality of light sources disposed on a supporting surface of the supporting plate. The optical modulation film is disposed above the light source module and has a plurality of light emitting holes. Light from the light source module is distributed by the optical modulation film and emitted via light emitting holes at different positions. The optical modulation film has a periphery area and a central area. An average perpendicular distance between the periphery area and the supporting surface is different from an average perpendicular distance between the central area and the supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yung-Hsin Liu, Chiung-Han Wang, Li-Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 10288263
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a planar light-emitting panel attached with a jacket to protect edges of a light-emitting tile, while the jacket is prevented from being peeled off or removed from the light-emitting tile. The planar light-emitting panel includes the light-emitting using a glass substrate as a base, and an elastic jacket covering end faces of the glass substrate. An emission surface is provided on a front face of the light-emitting tile. The elastic jacket has a rear face side opening, on a rear face side of the light-emitting tile. On opening edges of the rear face side opening, when viewed from rear, a plurality of jacket side protrusions protruding toward a center side of the rear face side opening are formed. The jacket side protrusions are separated at predetermined intervals along the opening edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Nishikawa, Yukinobu Hamada, Hidemaro Saiki, Tsukasa Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 10267979
    Abstract: A light shaping article includes a solid optic having a cross-sectional profile including an input interface; a convex output surface opposite the input interface; a concave first side surface extending between the input interface and the convex output surface; and a second side surface opposite the concave first side surface extending from between input interface to the convex output surface. The concave first side surface and the convex output surface are configured such that, when the solid optic receives input light having an input angular range in a plane of the cross-sectional profile, the solid optic guides the light to and emits the light from the output surface in an output angular range in the plane. A prevalent propagation direction of output light in the output angular range is tilted toward the second side surface relative to a prevalent propagation direction of input light in the input angular range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Speier, Victor E. Isbrucker
  • Patent number: 10267493
    Abstract: An optical device includes a clamp seat and a light tuning assembly. The clamp seat includes a base, a curved portion extending from the base, and a pressing portion extending from the curved portion. The light tuning assembly includes a support frame disposed at the base, an optical lens restrained by the support frame, and an adjusting member coordinating with the optical lens. In an application of the optical device, a user may clamp a multimedia mobile communication device by the base and the pressing portion to allow the optical lens to align with a light projecting assembly of the multimedia mobile communication device. The adjusting member is rotated to adjust a distance between the optical lens and the light projecting assembly. Light from the light projecting assembly is then focused or dispersed through the optical lens to solve an issue of unadjustable light of a conventional solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: Cheng-Kuo Wang
  • Patent number: 10257901
    Abstract: A dental light having an array of light emitting diode (LED) assemblies, at least one first LED assembly having at least one first LED element configured to emit light according to a first spectral distribution, a conversion phosphor configured to convert at least a portion of the first spectral distribution. At least one filter is fixed within said converted light, the filter configured to block at least a portion thereof. The array includes at least one second LED element configured to emit light according to a second spectral distribution, wherein light having the filtered spectral distribution is selectively emitted from said array in a first mode and from both the filtered and second spectral distributions in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Osten, Jack L. Burwick
  • Patent number: 10247392
    Abstract: A luminous system is disclosure. The luminous system is used for projecting light to a plane and includes a luminous component and an angle-adjustable device. The luminous component is used for generating the light ray. The angle-adjustable device is used for adjusting luminous angle of the light ray. The angle-adjustable device is arranged between the plane and the luminous component and located on the route of the light ray, the angle-adjustable comprises a first lens element, and the first lens element comprises a light-emitting portion and a light-incident portion connected to the light-emitting portion. The light-including portion comprises a recess opposite to the light-emitting portion. An outer diameter of the light-emitting portion is larger than an outer diameter of the light-incident portion, and the outer diameter of the light-incident portion decreases along a direct away from the light-emitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: CHUN KUANG OPTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chieh Huang, Shun-Wen Teng, Shun Wang
  • Patent number: 10220770
    Abstract: A guide lamp for a vehicle is provided that guides nearby vehicles or pedestrians as to the path of a vehicle. The guide lamp includes a sensing unit that is configured to sense a path change attempt of the vehicle and a lamp unit that is configured to generate a road beam pattern indicating a direction toward the path change of the vehicle. The lamp unit includes one or more light sources and a light emitter that is configured to generate the road beam pattern by emitting light generated by the light sources in two or more different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SL Corporation
    Inventors: Youngho Son, Byoungki Ji, Jaiek Lee, Jin Young Jung
  • Patent number: 10219570
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is disclosed for mounting on a surface, the lighting apparatus includes a light emitting element plus a planar body having a first side and an opposing second side, the planar body is at least partially transparent, wherein the light emitting element is disposed within the planar body with the light emitting element being positioned between the first and second sides, wherein the light emitting element is visible from the second side. Also included in the lighting apparatus is an adhesive disposed on the first side, with the adhesive being affixed to the surface, the lighting apparatus is operational to enable the surface to have visibility from the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas H. Scott
  • Patent number: 10215371
    Abstract: A outdoor lighting fixture includes an enclosure, a heatsink, and an end-cap. The enclosure includes a cabinet and a cover that enclose control and power circuitry to provide power to illuminate a light source. The cabinet further includes an attachment face, and the extruded heatsink can be coupled to the attachment face. The extruded heatsink includes sides, a discontinuous plane of material formed with sides of the heatsink to provide a recessed mounting tray, and heat-conducting fins extending from the plane of material. The light source, which can include an LED light source, is coupled to the heatsink. The extruded heatsink can be coupled at one end to the attachment face of the cabinet at a position such that a space remains between the plane of material and a bottom edge of the attachment face, to permit water to drain from between the heat-conducting fins of the extruded heatsink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Gregg Arthur Lehman, Sridhar Reddy Nimma
  • Patent number: 10208938
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a lighting device (1) comprising an exit window (2) and a light source substrate (3) arranged to carry at least one solid-state light source (4), the at least one light source (4) being arranged to emit light through the exit window (2). The exit window (2) is shaped to allow a front surface of the light source substrate (3) to be brought into physical contact with a surface of the exit window facing the light source substrate (3), and in that the light source substrate (3) is held in physical contact with the exit window (2), thereby enabling thermal contact between the light source substrate (3) and the exit window (2). Since thermal contact between the exit window and the light source substrate is secured, the heat transfer of the lighting device will be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Antonius Adrianus Maria Marinus, Marcellus Jacobus Johannes Van der Lubbe, Vincent Stefan David Gielen, Hendrik Jan Eggink
  • Patent number: 10203087
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel; a frame at a rear of the display panel, the frame including a bottom and a sidewall extending from the bottom; a substrate on the frame; a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate; and a reflecting sheet on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONIS INC.
    Inventors: Sewon Oh, Eunseok Kim
  • Patent number: 10190748
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a reflecting base, a light source, at least one 3D optical control structure, and at least one illumination adjusting structure. The light source and the 3D optical control structure are disposed on the reflecting base, and the 3D optical control structure covers the light source. Each 3D optical control structure includes two sidewalls, and at least one of the sidewalls has at least one through-hole. The illumination adjusting structure is adjacent to the sidewall having the through-hole. A position of an orthogonal projection of the through-hole to the reflecting base is A, and a position where a normal line of the sidewall passing through the through-hole intersects the reflecting base is B. An illumination adjusting section is an area between A and B. The illumination adjusting structure is disposed in the illumination adjusting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Tang Ma, Wei-Chun Chung, Su-Yi Lin, Chun-Liang Lin
  • Patent number: 10161591
    Abstract: An example lamp optic comprises a light guide (100) to receive light from a light source (108) and generate a light beam via internal reflection. The light guide includes a proximal end (104) to receive the light and a distal end (106) to emit the light beam. An optical axis (OA) extends from the proximal end to the distal end, and a transverse axis (TA) extends perpendicular to the optical axis. A surface of the distal end has a stepped portion (110) including a central surface (112) substantially parallel to the transverse axis and centered on the optical axis, and linear steps (114) extending in opposing directions from the central surface parallel to the transverse axis and along the optical access towards the distal end. Each linear step includes an optical face (116) extending perpendicular to the optical axis and a transverse face (118) extending perpendicular to the transverse axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence M. Rice, Thomas Tessnow
  • Patent number: 10145530
    Abstract: An arrangement of a heatsink for insertion in a headlamp, and a holder being provided in the headlamp, in which the heatsink is held. At least one semiconductor light source is provided, which can be cooled with the heatsink (10). A clamping element is provided, with which the heatsink is arranged in a holding manner on the holder and by means of which one or more semiconductor light sources are directly or indirectly held on the heatsink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co., KGaA
    Inventor: Franz-Georg Willeke
  • Patent number: 10146005
    Abstract: A light shaping article includes a solid optic having a cross-sectional profile including an input interface; a convex output surface opposite the input interface; a concave first side surface extending between the input interface and the convex output surface; and a second side surface opposite the concave first side surface extending from between input interface to the convex output surface. The concave first side surface and the convex output surface are configured such that, when the solid optic receives input light having an input angular range in a plane of the cross-sectional profile, the solid optic guides the light to and emits the light from the output surface in an output angular range in the plane. A prevalent propagation direction of output light in the output angular range is tilted toward the second side surface relative to a prevalent propagation direction of input light in the input angular range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Speier, Victor E. Isbrucker
  • Patent number: 10132988
    Abstract: A variety of luminaire modules are disclosed that are configured to output light provided by multiple light-emitting elements (LEEs). In general, embodiments of the luminaire modules feature at least two LEEs disposed on at least one substrate, at least two light guides that receive light from corresponding LEEs of the at least two LEEs, and at least one optical extractor that receives light from corresponding light guides from the at least two light guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventor: Allan Brent York
  • Patent number: 10101521
    Abstract: A multilayered illuminated laminate system including a light source positioned proximate to an edge of a light panel that includes a series of reflective paint in the shape of diamonds of increasing size is provided. The system further includes a diffuser sheet of sufficient opacity that it obscures the diamond pattern on the bottom surface of the light panel and a reinforced panel formed from fiberglass that bestows the system with scratch, abrasion, impact, and chemical resistance to meet or exceed current regulatory requirements. The light source is positioned within a clamp mount that contains the light panel, diffuser, and reinforced panel in frictional engagement without the need for an adhesive. A graphic can be positioned between the diffuser sheet and the reinforced panel to increase the aesthetic appearance of the system exterior surface, as well as moderate the intensity of the light it emits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Advanced Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: James G. Burgio, Jr.