Patents Examined by Hana S Featherly
  • Patent number: 11112080
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light diffusion device including element diffusion devices that diffuse incident light, a coherent light source that emits coherent light, a shaping optical system that shapes the coherent light, a scanner that adjusts a traveling direction of the coherent light so as to allow the coherent light to scan the light diffusion device, and a light condensing optical system located on a light path of the coherent light from the shaping optical system up to the light diffusion device. The light condensing optical system condenses the coherent light such that a spot area on the light diffusion device is smaller than the element diffusion device. Each element diffusion device diffuses the coherent light incident thereon so as to illuminate an element illumination area corresponding to the element diffusion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makio Kurashige
  • Patent number: 11105661
    Abstract: A light emitting pointer device which can reduce luminance unevenness at a light emitting face is provided. An annular rib is provided between a first holding portion holding an emission shaft and a second holding portion holding a light entrance shaft and the annular rib thereby covers a corner of the light entrance shaft. As a result, the light is not likely to enter a pointer body from the corner of the light entrance shaft, thereby reducing stray light and reducing luminance unevenness. An upper face of the annular rib on the light entrance shaft side has a radius of curvature that is greater than a radius of curvature of the corner of the light entrance shaft and is tapered, thus the corner can be easily covered with a space between the light entrance shaft and the annular rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi Mochizuki, Terukazu Kuboyama, Ami Shibahara, Takuya Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 11060670
    Abstract: A grille lighting system includes a light emitting lamp that includes one or more walls defining an inner space isolated from outside, a light emitting material disposed in the inner space and configured to emit light when the light emitting material contacts air, and a shutter disposed on the one or more walls, wherein the shutter is configured to be opened to allow introduction of outside air to the inner space from outside and further configured to be closed to block introduction of outside air to the inner space. The system further includes a controller configured to control operation of the shutter and cause the shutter to be opened and closed such that when the shutter is opened, the outside air is introduced to contact the light emitting material, which causes the light emitting material to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Gyu-Bong Kim
  • Patent number: 11054099
    Abstract: The invention relates to high power LED floodlight lamps (1) for arrangement on floodlight towers (2) on the lateral edges of a sports field for illumination thereof, wherein each LED floodlight lamp (1) comprises 4 LED emitters (14), which are formed at least from a housing (6), a cooling element (5), a reflector lens and a high power LED chip, wherein the LED emitters (14) are arranged in pairs on a carrier frame having joint connections, wherein an upper LED emitter pair (15) sits on a common carrier element (4), aligned parallel, and has a reflector lens, which effects a narrow emission angle, whereby the light emission of said LED emitter pair (15) is amplified, equally aligned, and thus overcomes additional sections in order to reach the center region of the sports field, whereas a lower LED emitter pair (16) sits on a separately alignable carrier element (4?) and has reflector lenses which effect a wide emission angle, whereby the light emission of said LED emitter pair (16) is alignable separate from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: RĂ¼diger Lanz
  • Patent number: 11039674
    Abstract: A breakage resistant light bulb headband having increased flexibility includes a single piece injection-molded main body with integral bulb holding structures, a clip-on battery case, and wiring that connects light sources and a power source in the battery case by extending along an outside surface of the headband so as to eliminate the need for an internal passage, and a relatively thick multiple piece construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Connie Wang
  • Patent number: 11016240
    Abstract: A light guide film that is bendable, has a strong resistance to impact, and can perform the adjustment of the brightness per region, and a backlight unit. The light guide film includes a plurality of optical units each of which includes a light guide portion and an emission portion; and a resin portion that is filled between the optical units adjacent to each other, in which the light guide portion guides light incident from a light source to the emission portion, the emission portion emits light guided and incident from the light guide portion from a light emission surface, the plurality of optical units are arranged in a plane direction of the light emission surfaces such that the light emission surfaces of the emission portions are parallel to each other, and the light guide portions and the emission portions are arranged in the plane direction of the light emission surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi Sekiguchi, Naoyoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 10981500
    Abstract: An in-cabin lighting device has: a lighting section that emits light within a vehicle cabin, and that is configured to arbitrarily change a color of emitted light; a color detecting portion that detects a color of an detection target in a detection region that is set within the vehicle cabin; and a control section that changes the color of light emitted by the lighting section to the color detected by the color detecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Iwano, Masaki Ito
  • Patent number: 10948135
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided having one or more light emitting diodes arranged in a row. The light emitting diodes may be supported by an elongated body. The elongated body may comprise an optical element formed from an at least partially optically transmissive material. The lighting apparatus has two ends and may have electrical connectors at tho ondo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEXT Lighting Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Katona, Steven Paolini, Robert Leonard, Randall Sosnick, Zach Berkowitz
  • Patent number: 10946786
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle, the lighting device including a vehicle stop-lamp assembly and a cargo-lamp assembly. The lighting device includes a common lens that is configured, on the one hand, to form at least one stop-lamp light beam and, on the other hand, to form at least one cargo-lamp light beam. It furthermore includes a first group of light sources that are configured to emit stop-lamp light beams and a second group of light sources that are configured to emit cargo-lamp light beams, the light sources of the first group and of the second group being arranged on a common electronic holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO VISION BELGIQUE
    Inventors: Alexandre Franc, Arthur-Guillaume Renaudeau, Yves Dubois
  • Patent number: 10920952
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting device to be installed in a vehicle, more particularly, a lighting device having a structure in which a plurality of unit lighting modules are installed on a bracket. Thus, the lighting device may allow users to select the size or shape of the lighting device, to replace or maintain only a unit lighting module where a problem occurs, and to implement various lighting patterns. The lighting device includes: a body; an LED module embedded in the body; the unit lighting module including a front cover being transparent and covering a front of the body; and the bracket on which the plurality of unit lighting modules are installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: VISION X ASIA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: In Hong Ko
  • Patent number: 10900628
    Abstract: Various components for artificial candles and other lighting devices are described that can be used to create a realistic flame effect in the devices. The devices include a flame piece or element that extends upwardly from a body of the device. A light source can be disposed with respect to the flame piece such that the flame piece is illuminated. A variety of drive mechanisms could be disposed within the body of the device that can cause movement of the flame piece with respect to the body or housing. The flame piece can be coupled to a body or housing of the device using various components to suspend at least a portion of the flame piece within the body or housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: L&L Candle Company, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Patton
  • Patent number: 10896631
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a housing having a front and a back; a component embedded within the front or the back of the housing; and an array of light-generating sources (LGSs) deposited on a substrate disposed in the housing, the array of LGSs being disposed adjacent at least a portion of the component of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Rohinni, LLC
    Inventors: Cody Peterson, Andrew Huska
  • Patent number: 10884179
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first display, an indicium, and a second display. The second display can include a light-generating source deposited on a substrate. The second display illuminates the indicium and the second display has a thickness of less than 0.25 millimeters. The apparatus also includes one or more controllers communicatively coupled to the first display and the second display and configured to control states of the first display and the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Rohinni, LLC
    Inventors: Cody Peterson, Andrew Huska
  • Patent number: 10865980
    Abstract: A configurable security light is described. The configurable security light may include a first and a second separable lamp head, each of which may include both an upper illumination segment and a lower illumination segment. The lower illumination segment may be affixed to the upper illumination segment through a multi-axis hinge so that the lower illumination segment may be redirected to a secondary light output direction as compared to a primary light output direction of the upper illumination segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: HEATHCO LLC
    Inventors: Scott Blaise Tylicki, Apollo Paul Paredes, Kenneth Earl Ramsey, Amer Salihovic, Leeman Elliot Stevens, Bradley Thomas Moore
  • Patent number: 10845531
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first display, an indicium, and a second display. The second display can include a light-generating source deposited on a substrate. The second display illuminates the indicium and the second display has a thickness of less than 0.25 millimeters. The apparatus also includes one or more controllers communicatively coupled to the first display and the second display and configured to control states of the first display and the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Rohinni, LLC
    Inventors: Cody Peterson, Andrew Huska
  • Patent number: 10816168
    Abstract: Disclosed is an outdoor light assembly to be disposed in a pathway or other hardscape area. The light assembly having a sleeve forming a receptacle having one or more coupling structures disposed in the receptacle and a user replaceable light fixture assembly being sized and shaped to transition between a secured position and an unsecured position relative to the receptacle. The light fixture assembly having one or more engagement structures that are complementary to the one or more coupling structures so as to inhibit, but not prevent, removal of the light fixture assembly from the sleeve when the light fixture assembly is in the secured position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Hunter Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Zeman
  • Patent number: 10792381
    Abstract: A surface disinfecting system utilizing UV radiation emitted from at least on UV lamp, the UV lamp positioned in a light fixture that is positioned in a room to be disinfected. The light fixture is provided with a shaft upon which the light fixture rotates according to a predetermined cycle. The cycle may be programmed to adjust the speed and direction of rotation and intensity of the UV lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventor: Peder Ulrik Poulsen
  • Patent number: 10760748
    Abstract: A high environmental protective and energy-saving LED illumination lamp includes a base, a first lamp body assembly arranged on an upper portion of the base, and a second lamp body assembly arranged on an upper portion of the first lamp body assembly. A controller, a power supply, a data memory, a wireless communication transmission unit configured to communicate with an external mobile terminal, an alerter configured to generate an alarm sound in case of an emergency, a sound device, and a voltage stabilizer are arranged inside the base. A first rotary drive motor is arranged inside the base. A rotary disc configured to support the first lamp body assembly is arranged between the base and the first lamp body assembly. The first rotary drive motor drives the rotary disc to rotate to drive the first lamp body assembly to rotate synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaojun Liu
  • Patent number: 10753588
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a light emitting diode (LED) tube lamp is provided along with a method of installing the LED tube lamp into a lighting fixture. In various embodiments, the LED tube lamp comprises: a tube; at least one LED positioned within the tube; and a passage formed through at least a portion of the tube, the passage configured to receive there-through a set of electrical connecting wires, wherein a first end of the electrical connecting wires comprises at least one of a two- or three-prong polarized plug. Various embodiments may further comprise a driver circuit positioned within the tube, the driver circuit comprising a second end of the electrical connecting wires. In various embodiments, the LED lamp tube may further comprise at least one end cap disposed on an end of the tube and at least one pin secured thereon wherein the pin is electrically isolated from the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Feit Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Halliwell
  • Patent number: 10690323
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a target-oriented light emitting device comprising: a light emitting part for emitting light; a light focusing part for focusing the light emitted from the light emitting part; a first light adjusting part to which the light focused by in the light focusing part is incident, adjusting the orientation direction of the light, and emitting the adjusted light; and a second light adjusting part disposed between the light focusing part and the first light adjusting part so as to adjust a focal position of the light incident to the first light adjusting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Hyun Joo, Chang Hyuck Lee