Patents Examined by Ismael Negron
  • Patent number: 11959621
    Abstract: An illumination system includes a housing with a top cover, a side wall, a bottom portion, and a light diffusing lens integrated into the bottom portion. The illumination system includes a light source within the housing and optically coupled to the lens, light control components located along the side wall of the housing, and motion sensing components disposed along the side wall of the housing and configured to collectively detect motion within an approximately 360 degree planar field of view of the light emitting device. The motion sensing components are configured to trigger the light source in a direction of a planar field of view from the individual motion sensing component being triggered. The system includes an audio device for providing an audio signal when any one of the motion sensing components is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Battle Born LLC
    Inventors: James S. Abercrombie, III, Nicholas J. Day, Ayrton J. Day
  • Patent number: 11959627
    Abstract: A night light includes a housing, a light source provided in the housing, a speaker provided in the housing, a battery provided in the housing to power the night light, a controller configured to control operation of the night light, a stand adapted to receive the housing to charge the battery, and a sensor configured to detect whether the housing is positioned on the stand or not. The controller is configured to reduce sound volume output from the speaker, or disable a wireless communication port associated with the housing when the housing is not detected to be on the stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HB Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Harvey Neil Karp, Peter Fornell
  • Patent number: 11946635
    Abstract: An desk lamp includes a control main board, an alarm clock module and a light-emitting element. The alarm clock module is electrically connected to the control main board, and the alarm clock module at least includes two alarm clock modes. The light-emitting element is electrically connected to the control main board. The desk lamp can not only be used as a lighting device for emitting lighting rays, but also provide an alarm clock function. A user can set different alarm clock modes and can set two or more alarm clocks at different time according to an actual need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Xiaoqiang Huang
  • Patent number: 11946640
    Abstract: A light source includes a first light emitting diode (LED) die configured to emit a first die color and a second LED die configured to emit a second die color, the first and second LED dies provided on a substrate. A first filling covering the first LED die, and includes a first phosphor to convert the first die color to a first illuminous color. A second filling covering the second LED die and extending to the first filling, and includes a second phosphor to convert the second die color to a second illuminous color that has a higher absorption energy than an illumination energy of the first illuminous color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Jozef Henricus Kessels, Ton Theunissen, Ralph Hubert Peters, Georg Henninger
  • Patent number: 11947151
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light guide having a light output surface, one or more LED packages having two or more spatially separated LED chips, and two or more wavelength dependent modification features located on the output surface of the light guide. Each wavelength dependent modification features is configured to modify the intensity of light from one or more of the LED chips to provide homogeneous colored light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Design LED Products Limited
    Inventors: James Gourlay, Marius Jankauskas
  • Patent number: 11946614
    Abstract: The downlight apparatus includes a surface rim, a rotation bracket, a bowl housing and a light source. The surface rim has an rim edge and a lateral wall. The rotation bracket includes a bracket body and two arms. Each arm has an arm bottom and a arm top. The rotation bracket is attached to the lateral wall. The bowl housing has a bowl edge. The bowl edge defines a light opening. The arm tops of the two arms are attached to the bowl edge. The bowl housing is rotatable with a tilt angle with respect to the arm tops. The light source is mounted inside the bowl housing for emitting a light from the light opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jinfu Chen, Zhenyu Tang, Shuxing Gao, Yongzhe Dong
  • Patent number: 11940122
    Abstract: A luminaire including an outer support member having a plurality of LED arrays; a driver housing centrally located within an interior of the outer support member; a plurality of attachment arms extending from the outer support member and secured to the driver housing, resulting in open spaces between the attachment arms and between outer support member and the driver housing and a plurality of heat dissipating fins extending from an upper surface of the outer support member to the driver housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Appleton Grp LLC
    Inventors: Timothy E. Graff, Santosh K. Patil, Sumit Kumar, Karan Mandlekar, SB Chethan, Nagesh C. Nath, Sourabh D. Patil, Shriprasad V. Khadse
  • Patent number: 11933468
    Abstract: A headlight device includes a first optical system and a second optical system. The first optical system emits first light in a predetermined emission direction. Part of an optical axis of the first optical system coincides with part of an optical axis of the second optical system in the emission direction. The second optical system includes a light receiver and a first optical part, and second light traveling in an incidence direction opposite to the emission direction is incident on the second optical system. The first optical part includes an aperture part that sets a diameter of the second light traveling toward the light receiver through the second optical system to be smaller than a diameter of the second light when entering the second optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka Terashima, Masashige Suwa
  • Patent number: 11927334
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting device having a front housing with an outer profile and a shape formed from a translucent or transparent material. The front housing has an edge protrusion extending from a front housing body along the outer profile. The edge protrusion bounds an inner light chamber. A rear housing is separately provided having a size and outer profile substantially corresponding to the shape of the front housing. The rear housing is opaque or impervious to light, and has a substantially planar rear panel and a rear panel protrusion extending from the rear panel adjacent to and spaced apart from an outer edge of the rear housing. The rear panel protrusion and the rear panel further bound the inner light chamber. At least a portion of the edge protrusion surrounds the rear panel protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Bitro Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ketak An
  • Patent number: 11927313
    Abstract: A flashlight including a lens assembly having an adjusting element; and a light source assembly provided at one side of the lens assembly. The light source assembly includes a first light source, a second light source, an excitation element, and a light path adjusting element. Light emitted from the first light source irradiates the excitation element to generate first exciting light, and light emitted from the second light source irradiates the excitation element to generate second exciting light. The first exciting light and the second exciting light sequentially pass through the light path adjusting element and the adjusting element, and are outputted simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Lighting Institute
    Inventors: Yong Ma, Huancheng Jiang, Bin Chen, Xingjia Chen
  • Patent number: 11920778
    Abstract: A ventilation fan includes a housing having an opening, a grille structure positioned to cover the opening, a fan module provided in the housing and a function module. The grille structure includes a base defining an outlet, and a grille support spaced apart from the base and connected by the connecting columns A radial inlet is formed between the base and the grille support is in communication with the outlet. The base includes a holder having a holding opening axially downward and faced away from the housing. The function module is disposed within the holder through the holding opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsiang Huang, Yen-Lin Chen, Chih-Hua Lin
  • Patent number: 11920771
    Abstract: A device for providing light and sound to a surrounding area configured to output sound and light in combination of a breathing cadence to calm a subject. The device includes a light configured to emit light at varying colors and levels of intensity synchronized with varying volumes of the sound output. The intensity of light output may increase during an inhalation period of the cadence and decrease during an exhalation period of the cadence. The cadence may be adjusted, manually or automatically, or matched to a user's breathing pattern, to provide desired light and sound combination to provide a calming effect. The sound output may be white noise, pink noise, or Brown noise, or a recording of other sounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HB Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Harvey Neil Karp, Peter Fornell
  • Patent number: 11913613
    Abstract: A lighting assembly includes at least one light source array provided in a housing and a light scattering primary transmissive optical element having at least one focal region positioned substantially parallel or concentric with the light source array. Lens features of the optical element may include a Fresnel lens pattern to produce at least one focal region. An auxiliary transmissive optical element may be provided to further control light distribution and brightness uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Fusion Optix, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Yeo, John Montminy, Lee Mantha, Michael Demas, Timothy Kelly
  • Patent number: 11913614
    Abstract: A lighting unit includes an extruded container body; a plurality of first light sources and a plurality of second light sources, arranged in the container body on at least one printed circuit board; a power supply for the light sources; diffusion optics for diffusing light emitted by the first light sources; and concentrating optics for concentrating light emitted by the second sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Monsonego
  • Patent number: 11913621
    Abstract: A fan system includes a fan mount having a main body with at least two bayonet guides, and a fan having at least two bayonet elements configured to be coupled to the bayonet guides to form a bayonet joint. Each of the bayonet guides include a bayonet arm fastened to and extending spaced apart from the main body. The fan is coupled to the fan mount by moving towards the main body in an axial direction, then rotating it such that the bayonet elements engage the bayonet guides, with each of the bayonet arms securing a corresponding bayonet element against the main body. The fan system is used in a vehicle headlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Annhild Gockel, Sebastian Scholz, Ralf Seiger, Franz-Georg Willeke
  • Patent number: 11913610
    Abstract: The light generating device including at least one solid state light source, a monolithic support for the light source with first and second support parts bent relative to each other, and a housing having a housing wall. The light source is supported by the first support part, with the second support part in thermal contact with the housing wall. At least a portion of the support located between the light source and the housing wall is thermally conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Arnoldus Cornelis Heijmans, Michal Jan Horaczek
  • Patent number: 11914185
    Abstract: A backlight keyswitch includes a cap with a symbol, and a backlight module under the cap and having first and second light modifying layers, a light guide plate, a light-blocking sheet having a transparent region corresponding to the cap, and first, third, and second lighting units arranged sequentially along a longitudinal direction for emitting first, third, and second color lights. The first and second light modifying layers might be ink layers formed on the light-blocking sheet and located outside the first and second lighting units, with colors of the first and second ink layers at least corresponding to colors of the second and first color lights respectively to achieve a mixed color. Alternatively, the first and second light modifying layers might be adhesive layers arrange parallel to the light guide plate, the first and second adhesive layers scattering a respective one of the first and second color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chao-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11906144
    Abstract: A cable interface is configured to mechanically and electrically connect to, via a plurality of piercing members, power-channel wires and a common wire of a ribbon cable. A lighting-element socket coupled to the cable interface is configured to receive a lighting element within and to provide electrical connection between power and common electrical contacts of the lighting element received and power-channel and common electrical contacts of the lighting-element socket. A channel selector conductively connected to the power electrical contact of the lighting-element socket is configured to select and electrically connect to a selected one of the plurality of power-channel wires via the power-channel contacting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Seasons 4, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Loomis
  • Patent number: 11903527
    Abstract: An active foodware system includes a visual-stimulating component for displaying information related to a plurality of sensing components, such as load cells, sensing weight of food on respective dining surfaces of supporting dining plates. A mechanical structure supports and positions the dining plates in a constrained relationship to each other, and cavities in the mechanical structure may unattachedly mate with the dining plates. A wireless communication component wirelessly sends weight data to the visual-stimulating component, such as a mobile phone or tablet computer. The system is configured to determine calories of the food, and the system may include a camera for sensing the food or a diner. The visual-stimulating component may display information other than information provided by a scale, and auditory and haptic stimuli may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: James F. Kramer
  • Patent number: 11898736
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a support section, a heatsink coupled above the support section and including a plurality of flat vertical exterior surfaces, a driver housing coupled above the heatsink, a plurality of light source modules coupled to the exterior surfaces of the heatsink, and a plurality of nano-optical lenses coupled to the light source modules to direct light from the light. source modules to sub-fields of illumination disposed horizontally below. The illumination device is mounted above ground and configured for uniformly illuminating the sub-fields of illumination without direct glare.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EXPOSURE ILLUMINATION ARCHITECTS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel S. Spiro