Patents Examined by Glenn D. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 10962214
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to examples of a warning beacon light. In one embodiment, the warning beacon light includes at least one light redirection component, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) positioned relative to the light redirection component such that light emitted from the plurality of LEDs is collimated to within a predefined range relative to a light emitting axis, and a wireless power transfer system coupled to the plurality of LEDs to provide power to the plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Dialight Corporation
    Inventor: Keld Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10926889
    Abstract: This beam shaper for an aircraft headlight comprises a light input surface (3) and a light output surface (6), the output surface comprises prism-shaped areas so as to deflect a light beam transmitted between the light input surface and output surface by guiding the beam in two directions (D1, D2) which are oblique relative to an optical axis (A) of the beam shaper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Zodiac Aero Electric
    Inventor: Christian Tsao
  • Patent number: 10916387
    Abstract: A module cover comprising a through-hole for a passage of a key tappet of the key, a light injection region for injecting light from a light source into the module cover, a first light output region for outputting a first portion of the light, and a second light output region for outputting a second portion of the light out of the module cover. The first light output region and the second light output region, and a first light directing portion and a second light directing portion, are arranged on different sides of the through-hole. The first light directing portion directs a first portion of the light to the first light output region and a second portion of the light to the second light directing portion, and the second light directing portion directs at least part of the second portion of the light to the second light output region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CHERRY GMBH
    Inventor: Tatjana Dietz
  • Patent number: 10907810
    Abstract: An assembly for mounting light fixtures to a light tower includes an upper portion and a lower clamping portion. One of these components may be an L-shaped stationary portion, and the other may be a sliding portion. One or more of the portions have mounting holes adapted to receive fasteners that couple the light fixture to the assembly. The portions may be clamped together in use to provide a clamping force around the light tower to secure the light to the tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Khurram Moghal, Tyler Brian Morris
  • Patent number: 10892387
    Abstract: A lighting device comprises a light-emitting module with light-emitting elements, wherein the light-emitting elements are arranged adjacent to each other and are configured to emit light towards a light-emitting side. The light-emitting module is configured such that the light-emitting elements can be addressed partially independently of each other, such that some may be brought into a switched-on state while others are brought into a switched-off state. A top layer is disposed on the light-emitting module at the light-emitting side. Further comprising a switching material capable of a reversible change in transmittance for the light emitted by changing to a higher transmittance in regions where the top layer situated on light-emitting elements in the switched-on state or to a lower transmittance in regions of the top layer situated in the switched-off state. The invention further refers to methods for producing and operating a lighting device and using a lighting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds, LLC
    Inventors: Nicola Bettina Pfeffer, Arjen Van Der Sijde, Marcel Bohmer
  • Patent number: 10871644
    Abstract: Phosphor elements comprising phosphors in a host material having a phosphorescence-emitting surface with surface nanostructures are disclosed. Phosphor wheels having such phosphor elements, methods of making such phosphor elements, and methods of using such phosphor elements are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Materion Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Sprague, Michael P. Newell
  • Patent number: 10871266
    Abstract: This relates to a light guide for a lighting device for a vehicle, including at least one woven flat body and a plurality of optical fibers, which at least partly build the flat body. All or some of the optical fibers comprise at least one coupling section. Each coupling section is disposable or disposed in a socket of the lighting device to receive light from a light source of the lighting device. The optical fibers include at least one light decoupling section being part of at least one illumination section of the woven flat body. The woven flat body and/or the at least one light decoupling section of the optical fibers include at least one reflecting element to decouple light from the optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SMR Patents S.à.r.l
    Inventors: Eugen Meier, David Derry Chamberlain, Robert Shepherd
  • Patent number: 10865956
    Abstract: A vehicle light includes a light output lens for refracting light beams outwardly and forwardly in a first direction and a plurality of optical systems. Each optical system includes a light emitting unit and a lens unit positioned relative to the light emitting unit in a second direction transverse to the first direction. The light beams emitted from the light emitting unit propagate in the second direction and are reflected in the lens unit, such that all the extension lines of the light beams reflected in the lens unit extend through a focal region centered at the focus of the light output lens, and then propagate outwardly from the light output lens in directions generally parallel to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: T.Y.C. BROTHER INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Chih Shih
  • Patent number: 10859759
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display panel including a front surface on which an image is displayed, a base plate disposed behind the display panel, a light guide plate disposed between the display panel and the base plate, a light source, a light source cover, and a corner component. The light source is disposed along an edge of the base plate, and emits light incident on an edge face of the light guide plate. The light cover is elongated and covers a front of the light source. The corner component is disposed along a corner of the base plate, laterally supports the display panel, and includes a portion that overlaps the light source cover in a front to back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Isono, Toru Tanikawa, Takafumi Umitani, Yumie Itou, Xiao Han
  • Patent number: 10851957
    Abstract: A headlight module includes a light source, a light distribution control element and a projection optical element. The light source emits light. The light distribution control element forms a light distribution pattern by changing a divergence angle of the light incident therein. The projection optical element projects the light distribution pattern. The light distribution control element includes a first light distribution formation part configured to form a high luminosity region in the light distribution pattern and a second light distribution formation part configured to form a low luminosity region in the light distribution pattern. The low luminosity region is lower in luminosity than the high luminosity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashige Suwa, Ritsuya Oshima, Keiji Nakamura, Kuniko Kojima, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 10851985
    Abstract: An LED module that includes a light source unit which includes one or more LEDs mounted on one surface of a circuit board, a heat sink which includes a base substrate configured to support the light source unit and radiate heat generated from the light source unit and an insulating heat radiation coating layer applied on an outer surface of the base substrate, a protective cover which includes a convex portion formed in a region corresponding to the LED and is coupled to one surface of the heat sink to protect the light source unit from an external environment, an air flow space formed between the light source unit and the protective cover and provides a space through which air can flows, and one or more air vents which perform a function as a passage through which the air is moved to the outside from the air flow space and balance internal pressure of the air flow space with pressure of outside air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amosense Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyu-Weon Shin, Sang-Ho Ma
  • Patent number: 10845010
    Abstract: The light source device of the present invention has a light source unit having a plurality of LED elements; a first optical system that collimates each of light emitted from the light source unit; and a second optical system that collects a plurality of light emitted from the first optical system. At least one of the light source unit and the first optical system is provided with an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a positional relationship between the light source unit and the first optical system relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Matsushima, Yasushi Omae, Motonori Tada
  • Patent number: 10845529
    Abstract: A light engine system is disclosed in which the light engine system comprises a light engine. The light engine comprises independently addressable LED segments, each LED segment comprising LEDs and a flexible PCB to which the segments are attached. A light guide plate (LGP) is provided into which light from the segments is introduced, in which the light is guided, and from which the light exits to provide illumination. The segments emit light in all directions of a plane created by the LGP. A diffuser opposes a first surface of the LGP over substantially the entirety of the LGP. The diffuser diffuses light exiting the LGP into the environment away from the light engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Frederic Stephane Diana, Yifeng Qiu, Michael Wasilko, Nazila Soleimani, Jeroen Den Breejen, Alan Andrew McReynolds, Gregory Donald Guth
  • Patent number: 10836200
    Abstract: A light-emitting module structure comprises a support substrate and a micro-module disposed on or in the support substrate that extends over only a portion of the support substrate. The micro-module comprises a rigid module substrate, an inorganic light-emitting diode, a power source, and a control circuit. The inorganic light-emitting diode, the power source, and the control circuit are disposed on or in the module substrate and the control circuit receives power from the power source to control the inorganic light-emitting diode to emit light. A light conductor is disposed on or in the support substrate and in alignment with the micro-module so that the inorganic light-emitting diode is disposed to emit light into the light conductor and the light conductor conducts the light beyond the micro-module to emit the light from the light conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Willner, Ronald S. Cok, Robert R. Rotzoll, Christopher Andrew Bower
  • Patent number: 10830413
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lens for a light emitting element (a luminous flux control member) that can ensure sufficient spread of light even with a smaller number of light emitting elements. The luminous flux control member (10) of the present invention includes: a dome shaped aspherical lens body (11). The lens body (11) includes: a base surface (13); and a dome shaped curved surface (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiko Mochida
  • Patent number: 10823348
    Abstract: There is provided with a lighting apparatus. An elongated first light emission unit and an elongated second light emission unit each extend in a longer side direction and a shorter side direction. The first light emission unit and the second light emission unit have respective end portions in the longer side direction that are connected to each other via a restricting mechanism having a shape that restricts relative movement of the first and second light emission units in the shorter side direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CANON COMPONENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Junya Kinoshita, Junichi Kato
  • Patent number: 10823395
    Abstract: A wall lamp includes a lamp body, a mounting unit mounted on the lamp body, and a kerosene lighting mounted in the lamp body. The lamp body includes a housing, a door, a charging seat, a light source, and a light sensitive device. A Bluetooth receiver is mounted on the acoustics device. The kerosene lighting is removed from the housing and is operated individually when the door is pivoted outward from the housing. The light sensitive device detects a strength of a light after the kerosene lighting is removed from the housing, and turns on/off the light source module after the kerosene lighting is removed from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Dong Guan Bright Yinhuey Lighting Co., Ltd. China
    Inventor: Kevin Hsu
  • Patent number: 10816150
    Abstract: A lamp assembly includes a top disk, a shell, a fitting unit, a light output board, a lighting device, a light shading board, and a light permeable board. The top disk is mounted on the top of the shell. The light output board is mounted on the bottom of the shell. A receiving space is defined between the shell, the top disk, and the light output board, for receiving the lighting device, the light shading board, and the light permeable board. The fitting unit is mounted on the top disk, and includes a mounting bracket and at least one mounting mechanism. One of the mounting bracket and the at least one mounting mechanism is selectively mounted on the top disk. Thus, the lamp assembly is adapted to function as a ceiling fitting or a recessed light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Dong Guan Jia Sheng Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. China
    Inventor: Kevin Hsu
  • Patent number: 10816189
    Abstract: A display includes a display panel and a lighting device. The lighting device includes a display surface, a back surface, and upper frame surface and a socket. The upper frame surface is located between the display surface and the back surface opposite to each other, and the socket is provided at the upper frame surface. The lighting device is disposed in a pluggable manner on the socket, and includes a light source. When the light source is disposed on the socket, the light source forms a lighting area on a light exiting side of the display surface, wherein the lighting area is non-overlapping with the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Jiung-Cheng Pan
  • Patent number: 10808894
    Abstract: The light source device of the present invention has a light source unit having a plurality of LED elements; a first optical system that collimates each of light emitted from the light source unit; and a second optical system that collects a plurality of light emitted from the first optical system. At least one of the light source unit and the first optical system is provided with an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a positional relationship between the light source unit and the first optical system relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: USHIO DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Matsushima, Yasushi Omae, Motonori Tada