Patents Examined by Gerald J Sufleta, II
  • Patent number: 11822183
    Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising: a plurality of light sources arranged into an array, angle selection sheets on the light emitting sides of the light sources, and reflective layers on the sides of the light sources away from the angle selection sheets. The angle selection sheets are used for reflecting light rays of a first incident angle range and transmitting light rays of a second incident angle range, wherein an incident angle value corresponding to the first incident angle range is smaller than an incident angle value corresponding to the second incident angle range. The reflective layers can conduct diffuse reflection on the light rays reflected by the angle selection sheets and the light rays re-enter the angle selection sheets, so that light rays of a second incident angle subjected to the diffuse reflection are transmitted while light rays of a first incident angle repeat the described reflection operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fulin Li, Mingsheng Qiao, Nannan Zhang, Jinlong Li, Weidong Liu, Yushuai Zhai
  • Patent number: 11820329
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of vehicle key fobs. More specifically, the present invention relates to a vehicle key fob device comprised of a vehicle key fob that has a housing, a flashlight, a biometric scanner, a plurality of LED-illuminated buttons/emblems and a button that allows the color of the LED-illuminated buttons to change. The fob may have a plurality of buttons in differing embodiments, which are preferably illuminated via at least one LED that is positioned below each button. However, in one embodiment a singular large LED may sit below all buttons to illuminate the buttons simultaneously. The at least one LED can also produce any color known in the art, which can be changed by a user by pressing a color change button located on the side surface of the fob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventor: Bradley Buss
  • Patent number: 11815255
    Abstract: The utility model provides an ornamental lamp with a new structure, comprising a lamp body and a water pump, wherein the lamp body is provided with a cavity, liquid and ornamental objects are arranged in the cavity, a water inlet and a water outlet communicating with the cavity are respectively arranged on the lamp body, at least part of the side wall of the lamp body is transparent or semitransparent; the water pump is provided with a water inlet end and a water outlet end, the water inlet end communicates with the water inlet, and the water outlet end communicates with the water outlet. The ornamental lamp of the utility model has a simpler and more efficient structure and a longer service life, and the moving ornamental object is more ornamental.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11815764
    Abstract: To provide a light source device capable of irradiating a liquid crystal display module with light at uniform luminance and a display device including the light source device. A light source device has a rear vessel a front cover, a light source substrate, a plurality of light-emitting diodes, and a light-diffusing plate. The front cover is located over and overlaps the rear vessel. The light source substrate, the plurality of light-emitting diodes, and the light-diffusing plate are accommodated between the rear vessel and the front cover. The plurality of light-emitting diodes is located over the light source substrate. The light-diffusing plate is located over, overlaps, and is spaced away from the plurality of light-emitting diodes. The rear vessel and the front cover each have a bottom plate and a side plate integrated with the bottom plate. In at least one of the rear vessel and the front cover, a portion of the side plate is bent to form a protruding portion overlapping the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tsubota, Ken Sugiyama, Rina Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11815762
    Abstract: A backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes a substrate having a substrate surface, a conductive layer disposed on the substrate surface, a plurality of LED chips disposed on and electrically connected to the conductive layer, a light-permeable layer having a light-permeable surface away from the substrate surface, and a pattern layer disposed on the light-permeable surface and having a plurality of first patterns corresponding to and respectively located above the plurality of LED chips. Wherein, each first pattern has a maximum width. A maximum width of one first pattern satisfies the following formula: WP?2n(TE?TL)(1?1/n2)1/2+WL; wherein WP is the maximum width of one first pattern, n is a refractivity of the light-permeable layer, TE is a thickness of the light-permeable layer, TL is a thickness of the LED chip, WL is a maximum width of LED chip corresponding to the first pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: EPISTAR CORPORATION, Yenrich Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chien Wu, Wei-Shan Hu, Ching-Tai Cheng
  • Patent number: 11808427
    Abstract: An optical system for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the system includes at least two optical elements, including a light coupling area, a light decoupling area, a lateral surface which delimits the optical element and has an optically effective aperture edge for forming a bright/dark boundary in a far-field light distribution producible with the optical system. The system includes at least two anterior optics, wherein an anterior optic is associated with each optical element. The first anterior optic and first optical element are configured to produce a first far-field light distribution, wherein the second anterior optic and second optical element are configured to produce a second far-field light distribution, which lies below the bright/dark boundary of the first far-field light distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schager, Thomas Edletzberger, Thomas Kern, Manuel Fahrngruber, Daniel Mader, Jürgen Wachsenegger, Patrick Wippel
  • Patent number: 11803048
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes a first light source for producing visible light and a MEMS scanner in which a single tiltable mirror is integrated. A light spot, which is generated by the lighting device at a distance from the latter, can be moved by a scanning movement of the mirror. A control apparatus is provided in the lighting device and can be used to operate the lighting device in a first mode of operation. The control apparatus is further configured to operate the lighting device in a second mode of operation. Moreover, a sensor apparatus is provided, such that in the second mode of operation, the apparatus detects as sensor data light radiation which originates from the surroundings of the motor vehicle and which is incident on the mirror. The control apparatus carries out object recognition by way of evaluation of the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Erdl, Abdelmalek Hanafi
  • Patent number: 11803081
    Abstract: A color conversion plate and a display device are disclosed. Since a color conversion plate including a color conversion area and a transmissive area separated by a reflection barrier rib is in the path where light is supplied to the color filter, efficiency and purity of light supplied to the color filter is enhanced and the color gamut of the light emitted to the outside of the display device through the color filter is also enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: KiSung Lim, JaeHo Lee
  • Patent number: 11803082
    Abstract: A backlight unit comprising a printed circuit board; a plurality of light sources at a surface of the printed circuit board, the plurality of light sources to emit light; and a reflective sheet, arranged above the plurality of light sources, having differing transmittance on the basis of incident angle of the light from the plurality of light sources, respectively, wherein the reflective sheet is provided with at least one gap between two adjacent light sources from among the plurality of light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nishida, Farid Mukhtarov, Daesik Kim
  • Patent number: 11803084
    Abstract: A light emitting component comprising a first LED light source for emitting blue light, a second LED light source for emitting red light, and a luminescent layer (100) comprising a solid polymer composition and green luminescent crystals. The solid polymer composition comprises a polymer. The green luminescent crystals are perovskite crystals. The first and the second light source are directed to the luminescent layer. Upon absorption of the light emitted by the first light source, the luminescent crystals emit light of a wavelength in the green light spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Avantama AG
    Inventor: Norman Albert Lüchinger
  • Patent number: 11803115
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a laminated structure having a plurality of column portions, and an electrode provided on a side of the laminated structure opposite from the substrate. Each of the plurality of column portions includes a light-emitting layer. The electrode is provided with a plurality of first holes. A diameter of each of the plurality of first holes is less than a wavelength of light generated by the light-emitting layer. A distance between adjacent first holes of the plurality of first holes is less than the wavelength of light generated by the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: SOPHIA SCHOOL CORPORATION, SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ishizawa, Katsumi Kishino
  • Patent number: 11798760
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a keyboard key structure, a light guide for the keyboard key structure, and a computer key mechanism. The keyboard key structure can include a substrate; a key switch where the bottom of the key switch is configured to be coupled to the substrate; a keycap including a transparent region; a light guide coupled to the side of the key switch, the light guide comprising: a bottom surface and a top surface that is wider than and parallel to the bottom surface; a light emitting element coupled to the substrate and configured under the bottom surface of the light guide such that the light emitting element, the light guide, and the transparent region of the key cap are in a collinear arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Fu-Kai Hsu, Yung-Lin Chen, Feng-Hao Lin
  • Patent number: 11796862
    Abstract: A backlight module, a method of assembling a backlight module, and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a backboard, a fixing seat, a movable piece, a securing bracket, and an optical film. The fixing seat is fixed to a bottom of the backboard. The movable piece is made of a metal material and is correspondingly arranged on the fixing seat. The securing bracket includes an insert piece and an attraction piece that are connected together. The insert piece is fixed to a side of the backboard. The attraction piece is arranged opposite to the movable piece and is made of a magnetic material. The optical film is disposed between the movable piece and the attraction piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinglin Chen, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11789314
    Abstract: The backlight module includes a backplate, a light guide plate and a light source. The light guide plate includes a body part and a bending part. The body part is located on a side of the backplate facing the display panel, and a surface of the body part facing away from the backplate is an out-light surface. The bending part has a first end face and a second end face. The first end face is connected to the body part, the second end face is located on the side of the backplate facing away from the display panel and is an out-light surface. The light source is located on the side of the backplate facing away from the display panel and opposite to the second end face. The disclosure can achieve a narrower bezel design or bezel-less design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Ye Wan, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11788698
    Abstract: A lamp system applied to a vehicle according to the present disclosure is provided with any one of a reflector, an optical member, a digital micromirror display (DMD), a shield, or a shield optical module, and combined with a rotation light source device for generating light of a specific LED turned on at a synchronized rotation position of one or more LED chips of first to Nth LED chips (N is an integer of 2 or more) per one rotation while being rotated by a current application of a signal transmitter receiving a lamp turn-on signal of the vehicle, thereby generating various lighting patterns even while eliminating all problems of increasing the layout/decreasing the light amount/increasing the amount of property changed, lowering the reflection efficiency/transmission efficiency, and losing the optical efficiency with the circular LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seung-Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11789310
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a backlight unit and a display device including the same. Specifically, there may be provided a backlight unit with enhanced image quality and a display device in the same, which include a plurality of light sources disposed on a printed circuit and spaced apart from each other, a reflector disposed on the printed circuit and including at least one protrusion disposed to correspond to the at least one light source and a diffusion plate disposed on the reflector, wherein the protrusion surrounds at least one light source, and wherein the protrusion includes at least one opening in a side surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miok Kim, SeokHwan Oh
  • Patent number: 11782310
    Abstract: A display system includes a light source configured to emit light from a light exit surface, the emitted light having an emitted wavelength. An optical filter is disposed on the light exit surface of the light source. One or more light converting films are disposed between the optical filter and the light exit surface of the light source. The one or more light converting films are configured to receive the emitted light from the light source and convert at least portions of the received emitted light to blue, green, and red lights having respective blue, green and red wavelengths. For a substantially normally incident light and for at least an in-plane first polarization state, the optical filter reflects more than about 80% of the incident light having the emitted wavelength, and transmits greater than about 60% of the incident light for each of the blue, green and red wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Yu Hsin Lu, Gary T. Boyd, Matthew B. Johnson, Ryan T. Fabick, Carl A. Stover, Adam D. Haag
  • Patent number: 11785696
    Abstract: A solar-powered lamp is disclosed. The lamp includes a plurality of radiating extensions, each being formed from a plurality of flat panels that can fold relative to each other along lines between respective ones of the plurality of flat panels; and an electronics assembly, wherein the lamp is collapsible, and the flat panels for each of the radiating extensions fold relative to each other as the lamp is collapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LuminAID LAB, LLC
    Inventors: Andrea M. Sreshta, Anna Ruth Stork
  • Patent number: 11768404
    Abstract: Provided are a driving substrate, a backlight, and a display device. The driving substrate includes a plurality of backlight partitions arranged in an array. Each of the plurality of backlight partitions is provided with a first pad set column and a second pad set column, where the first pad set column and the second pad set column comprise arranged along a first direction and each include a plurality of pad sets arranged along a second direction, where the first direction intersects with the second direction. A boundary on one side of the first pad set column facing away from the second pad set column is denoted as a first boundary, and a boundary on one side of the second pad set column facing away from the first pad set column is denoted as a second boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liu Wang, Jian Liu, Zhijie Wang, Shumao Wu, Guochang Lai
  • Patent number: 11762237
    Abstract: Disclosed a backlight lamp panel, a backlight module and a liquid crystal display. The backlight lamp panel includes a substrate body and at least one light-emitting unit, wherein at least one side edge of the substrate body is disposed with at least one splicing tooth and at least one splicing groove for accommodating a splicing tooth on other substrate body, the splicing tooth and the splicing groove are alternately disposed; and at least one light-emitting unit is arranged on a first surface of the substrate body in a matrix, and disposed on the splicing tooth. The substrate body is divided into at least one sub-region, each sub-region includes the light-emitting unit of at least one splicing tooth, and brightness of each sub-region is independently adjusted. A bottom of the splicing groove has a larger size than a notch of the splicing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Deli Fang, Fan Yang