Patents Examined by Gerald J Sufleta, II
  • Patent number: 11592610
    Abstract: A light fixture with a single edge lit optical assembly produces various light distributions which provide targeted control of light output with peak intensity that is non-normal to the light guide output face. The compact form factor of light fixture embodiments having narrow width are particularly well-suited for use in linear lighting applications requiring suspended, surface and recessed installations typically used to illuminate walls, floors and/or ceilings. The light fixture can also be selectively configured and oriented during assembly and installation to achieve various lighting distributions including asymmetrical and symmetrical with one or more peak intensities. Optical components within the light fixture are typically positioned and retained in optical alignment with internal support features of a linear housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: Fusion Optix, Inc., Axis Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Yeo, Timothy Kelly, Howard Yaphe, Stephane Beland, Jean Gagne, Andrew Miles
  • Patent number: 11592283
    Abstract: Provided herein are wearable laser devices that provide an intuitive visual indication of a fixed radius around the wearer. Some embodiments include optical detectors that detect when two or more persons are in proximity with one another. The wearable laser devices may be used in a variety of applications, including, but not limited to, infection control, sports and entertainment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Leili E. Singer
  • Patent number: 11585511
    Abstract: A lighting system is disclosed that may be used for marine applications. The lighting system comprises a light strip support structure, a first light strip comprising a first plurality of lighting elements, including light elements of different colors, a second light strip comprising a second plurality of lighting elements, the second light strip positioned above the first light strip and configured to emit only white light, a light element controller electrically connected to the first light strip, wherein the light element controller is configured to control the illumination of the first plurality of lighting elements and not the second plurality of lighting elements and a connector configured to mate with a watercraft stern connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventor: Cameron Merle Murray
  • Patent number: 11586101
    Abstract: A system includes a red light emitting diode (LED), a blue LED, and a green LED. The system also includes a red laser, a first filter, a second filter, and a lens. The system includes a first optical path that includes the red LED, the red laser, the first filter, the second filter, and the lens, where the first filter has a filter response to transmit red light from the red laser and to reflect red light from the red LED. The system also includes a second optical path that includes the blue LED, the green LED, the second filter, and the lens, where the second filter has a filter response to transmit blue light from the blue LED, to transmit green light from the green LED, to reflect red light from the red laser, and to reflect red light from the red LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gregory S. Pettitt, John M. Ferri
  • Patent number: 11578838
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a light-emitting bulb. The light-emitting bulb includes a cover, an electrical associated with the cover, a board arranged between the cover and the electrical connector, and a first light-emitting device disposed on the board. The first light-emitting device includes a carrier having a first side and a second side, a first electrode part disposed near the first side and extending to the second side, a bended part disposed near to the second side and spaced apart from the first electrode part, and a second electrode part extending from the bended part to the first side. No light-emitting diode unit is arranged on the second electrode part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiu-Lin Yao, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Been-Yu Liaw, Wei-Chiang Hu, Po-Hung Lai, Chun-Hung Liu, Shih-An Liao, Yu-His Sung, Ming-Chi Hsu
  • Patent number: 11578225
    Abstract: A color conversion film is provided. The film includes at least one narrow band emission phosphor dispersed within a binder matrix, wherein the narrow band emission phosphor has a D50 particle size from about 0.1 ?m to about 15 ?m and is selected from the group consisting of a green-emitting U6+-containing phosphor, a green-emitting Mn2+-containing phosphor, a red-emitting phosphor based on complex fluoride materials activated by Mn4+, and a mixture thereof. A device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark D. Doherty, Yangang Liang, Jie Jerry Liu, Samuel Joseph Camardello, James Edward Murphy
  • Patent number: 11573453
    Abstract: Provided is a light source device including: a housing body; a light source substrate located over and accommodated in the housing body; a plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements over the light source substrate; an optical sheet located over the plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements, accommodated in the housing body, and spaced away from the light source substrate; and at least one spacer accommodated in the housing body and in contact with a bottom surface of the optical sheet. A region of an upper surface of the light source substrate overlapping the plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements does not overlap the at least one spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Rina Yamamoto, Ken Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11572993
    Abstract: A light module for a motor vehicle headlamp comprising at least one pixelated light source, a plurality of electroluminescent emitters distributed into a plurality of pixels and capable of emitting light rays, a projection optic arranged to directly image, toward the outside of the light module, a light beam formed by said light rays emitted by said at least one light source. The light module is characterized by a mask arranged between the at least one light source and the projection optic in order to completely or partially prevent light rays originating from the light source from being reflected by regions arranged outside the plurality of electroluminescent emitters of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Pierre Albou, Thomas Daniel, Sophie Clade, Sebastien Roels
  • Patent number: 11576247
    Abstract: Activation of a far-red light device with a far-red light frequency that promotes the conversion of inactive Pfr to active Pr in short-day plants prior to a dark period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jon Piasecki, Gary Lee Rawson
  • Patent number: 11570876
    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: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LuminAID LAB, LLC
    Inventors: Andrea M. Sreshta, Anna Ruth Stork
  • Patent number: 11567243
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to tessellated bezel light diffusers which act to disperse penumbral light providing more uniform and even illumination. The present invention also relates to luminaires employing an array of light sources with tessellated bezel light diffusers which act to eliminate edge and transition lighting effects providing more uniform and even illumination between LEDs and at the periphery of illuminated zones. The present invention also relates to luminaires employing LED arrays equipped with tessellated bezel light diffusers that provide very uniform illumination zones with more evenly dispersed transitional edge lighting than conventional luminaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Vode Lighting, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Yu, Richard Wong
  • Patent number: 11556031
    Abstract: A light emitting diode device includes a substrate, a reflector cup on the substrate and defining cavity, a light-emitting chip on the substrate and in the cavity, fluorescent glue filling the cavity and covering the light-emitting chip, and a phosphor film on a side of the reflector cup away from the substrate. The light-emitting chip is surrounded by the reflector cup. The fluorescent glue includes fluorescent powder and transparent glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Hsing-Fen Lo
  • Patent number: 11556032
    Abstract: The invention refers to a diffusion plate and a backlight module having the diffusion plate. The diffusion plate comprises a plate-body and a plurality of pyramid-like structures arranged on a surface of the plate-body. Each pyramid-like structure has a bottom surface, a first convex portion and a second convex portion. The first convex portion and the second convex portion have different vertex angles, and therefore the pyramid-like structure can also be called as “pyramid-like structure with multiple vertex angles”. The pyramid-like structures with multiple vertex angles can increase the light splitting points, which can improve the light splitting effect of the diffusion plate. The light source of a single light-emitting diode can be divided into eight point-light sources (light splitting points) or more, which is double the number of light splitting points compared with the traditional pyramid structure with single vertex, and thus can greatly improve the light diffusion effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Yan-Zuo Chen, Hung Han Kao, Tsung-Chang Yang
  • Patent number: 11550182
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a color filter for a display device, which has at least one color filter element for generating a predefined color in response to incident light, wherein the at least one color filter element includes a Perovskite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tonino Greco, Klaus Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11533392
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state illumination system for use in a microscopy system utilizing a light sensor of a mobile phone camera module. The system includes a bright-field illumination source with an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The array of LEDs is configured to produce transmission light within a range of view of the light sensor of the mobile phone camera module. The system also includes a dark-field illumination source including a ring of LEDs. The ring of LEDs is configured to produce light outside of the range of collection of the camera module lens. The system also includes a diffuser configured to diffuse the transmission light and a diffusive black material coupled to the diffuser. The diffusive black material is configured to pass through at least some of the transmission light while blocking reflections of the scattering light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hound Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Friedman, Michael V. D'Ambrosio
  • Patent number: 11531232
    Abstract: An optical film for a back light unit that includes an array of light emitting diodes. The optical film includes a substrate, and a plurality of regions of spatially modulated microstructures on at least one side of the substrate. The spatially modulated microstructures have different sizes and/or shapes configured to create a gradient structure within each region. The gradient structure within each region is constructed and arranged to cause more spreading of light when positioned directly above an individual light emitting diode and less spreading of light at locations not directly above an individual light emitting diode. Within the back light unit, the gradient structure converts light beams emitted by the respective light emitting diode at different angles into a more uniform and higher on-axis luminance upon exiting the back light unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Jennifer Aspell, Thomas A. Rinehart, Bing Shen, Kenneth L. Walker
  • Patent number: 11526079
    Abstract: The present application provides a backplane unit, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: forming a photoresist layer on an array substrate; performing exposure on at least a portion of the photoresist layer corresponding to a light-emitting element; forming a light-shielding layer on at least a side of the photoresist layer away from the array substrate, wherein the light-shielding layer exposes at least a side portion of the light-emitting element; and laterally stripping the photoresist layer on the light-emitting element with a stripping solution to obtain the backplane unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11520182
    Abstract: A color conversion film for a backlight unit that includes an array of light emitting diodes. The color conversion film includes a substantially planar base portion, and a plurality of three-dimensional structures extending from the substantially planar base portion. Each of the three-dimensional structures has at least one sloped surface with a base angle of about 55°-75° relative to the substantially planar base portion. The color conversion film includes a material having a refractive index of about 1.5-1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BrightViewTechnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Walker, Juhyun J. Lee
  • Patent number: 11519562
    Abstract: A light emitting diode, LED, filament arrangement (100), comprising at least one LED filament (120) comprising an array of a plurality of light emitting diodes (140), LEDs. The LED filament comprises a substrate (150) on which the plurality of LEDs is arranged. The substrate surface comprises at least one of a multi-faceted surface structure (160), a lens structure (161), and a grating structure (162) and is configured to at least partially refract, at least partially reflect, and/or at least partially diffract the light emitted from the at least one LED filament during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Signify Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Johannes Petrus Maria Ansems
  • Patent number: 11520097
    Abstract: A single edge lit lighting module produces bi-lobed light distributions which provide targeted control of light output with peak intensity that is non-normal to the lighting module output face. The compact form factor of module embodiments having narrow width are particularly well-suited for use in linear lighting fixtures for suspended, surface and recessed lighting configurations typically used to illuminate walls, floors and/or ceilings. Embodiments of the single edge lit lighting module utilize reflectors in combination with light guides having volumetric light scattering properties and surface features to control peak intensities, output angles, and shapes of the two light output lobes. A variety of light distributions can be achieved including symmetrical bi-lobed distributions conventionally achieved by double edge lit modules. Further embodiments utilize selective alignment of light guide with reflector to achieve different asymmetric light distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: Fusion Optix, Inc., Axis Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Yeo, Timothy Kelly, Howard Yaphe, Stephane Beland, Jean Gagne, Andrew Miles