Patents Examined by James A. Menefee
  • Patent number: RE47584
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes a light source, a light guide part to receive a light emitted from the light source, a light conversion member between the light source and the light guide part, and a spacer between the light source and the light conversion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Ryong Park, Hyun Ho Choi, Gi Seok Lee
  • Patent number: RE47591
    Abstract: An LED lamp provides a strong red color with a natural appearance. The LED lamp is provided with an LED module and a filter. The LED module includes a blue LED with a main emission peak in the 440 nm to 460 nm wavelength band, a green/yellow phosphor that is excited by light emitted by the blue LED, and a red phosphor that is excited by light emitted by at least one of the blue LED and the green/yellow phosphor. The filter reduces the spectral radiation intensity of at least a portion of the 570 nm to 590 nm wavelength band among light emitted by the LED module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Matsubayashi, Hiroshi Yagi, Masanori Shimizu, Yoshio Manabe, Atsushi Motoya, Kazuhiro Matsuo, Toshio Mori
  • Patent number: RE47675
    Abstract: An apparatus and source arrangement for filtering an electromagnetic radiation can be provided which may include at least one spectral separating arrangement configured to physically separate one or more components of the electromagnetic radiation based on a frequency of the electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus and source arrangement may also have at least one continuously rotating optical arrangement which is configured to receive at least one signal that is associated with the one or more components. Further, the apparatus and source arrangement can include at least one beam selecting arrangement configured to receive the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Brett Eugene Bouma, Seok-Hyun Yun, Wang-Yuhl Oh, Johannes Fitzgerald De Boer, Guillermo J. Tearney
  • Patent number: RE47688
    Abstract: A bicycle light for securing to a handlebar or other part of a bike, or to a rider's helmet, has an angled front face that allows use of a single, flat LED circuit board with one or more deep conic or parabolic reflectors positioned in front of the upper part of the board and one or more shallow reflectors in front of the bottom part of the board. This provides for both a spot beam produced by the deep reflector and flood light produced by the shallow reflector, in a compact and efficient assembly. Another important feature of the device is side lighting which can be independently controlled, important in affording the rider side lighting while in street traffic but the option to pulse or switch off the side lighting when riding on a trail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Light & Motion Industries
    Inventors: Christopher McCaslin, Greg Weisenfeld, Beau Jesse Robertson, Roxanne Lo
  • Patent number: RE47707
    Abstract: A apparatus according to an embodiment includes a unit to generate first blocks in a writing region in which at least one of writing groups respectively using different base doses is to be written, a unit to generate second blocks for proximity effect correction, in the each of the regions of the groups, a unit to calculate an area density in each of the first blocks, a unit to perform a weighting calculation on the area density for each of the first blocks by using a base dose of a corresponding group, a unit to calculate a dose coefficient for proximity effect correction, for each of the second blocks, by using a corresponding weighted area density, and a unit to calculate a dose by using the base dose of the each of the groups and the dose coefficient of the each of the second blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kato, Jun Yashima, Akihito Anpo
  • Patent number: RE47708
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device including a semiconductor element and a wiring substrate on which the semiconductor element is mounted. The wiring substrate includes an insulating substrate and conductive wiring formed in the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor element. The conductive wiring includes an underlying layer formed on the insulating substrate, a main conductive layer formed on the underlying layer, and an electrode layer covering side surfaces of the underlying layer and side surfaces and an upper surface of the main conductive layer. The underlying layer includes an adhesion layer being formed in contact with the insulating substrate and containing an alloy of Ti.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Noichi, Yuichi Okada
  • Patent number: RE47726
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a nip forming member and a transfer bias output device that outputs a transfer bias to form a transfer electric field in a transfer nip between the nip forming member and an intermediate transfer member. Upon transfer of a composite toner image including a particular toner image onto a recording medium in the transfer nip, the transfer bias output device outputs the transfer bias including a first superimposed bias in which a direct current (DC) component is superimposed on an alternating current (AC) component. Upon transfer of the composite toner image without the particular toner image onto the recording medium in the transfer nip, the transfer bias output device outputs one of the transfer bias including a second superimposed bias having a peak-to-peak value of the AC component smaller than that of the first superimposed bias and the transfer bias including only the DC component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Aoki, Haruo Iimura, Yasuhiko Ogino, Tadashi Kasai, Naomi Sugimoto, Shinya Tanaka, Keigo Nakamura
  • Patent number: RE47765
    Abstract: A plurality of pixels PX include effective pixels and optical black pixels. Signal lines VL are provided corresponding to each column of the pixels PX and supplied with output signals of the pixels PX of the corresponding column. Clip transistors CL are provided corresponding to the respective signal lines VL and limit a potential of the corresponding vertical signal lines VL based on a gate potential. At least in a predetermined operating mode, a potential Vclip_dark is supplied to a gate of one of the clip transistors CL corresponding to at least one pixel column formed of the optical black pixels when reading a noise level from the pixels PX corresponding to the clip transistors CL and when reading a data level from the pixels PX corresponding to the clip transistors CL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Shima
  • Patent number: RE47818
    Abstract: A method of tuning the time duration of laser output pulses, the method including spectrally dispersing optical pulses and further comprising providing an optical pulse having a time duration and a spectral bandwidth; spectrally dispersing (243, 245) the optical pulse so as to provide a selected change in the time duration of the pulse responsive to the spectral bandwidth of the pulse; outputting (226) an optical output pulse having a first time duration that is responsive to the selected change in time duration; providing another optical pulse; changing the amount of spectral bandwidth of the another optical pulse (272) to be different than that of the optical pulse or changing the amount of spectral dispersion so that spectrally dispersing the another optical pulse provides a change in time duration that is different than the selected change; and outputting (226) another optical output pulse having a second time duration that is responsive to the different change in time duration, the second time duration o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NKT PHOTONICS A/S
    Inventors: Paulo Almeida, John Redvers Clowes, Pascal Dupriez, Anatoly Borisovich Grudinin
  • Patent number: RE47887
    Abstract: Laser lit flat panel displays are disclosed including edge-lit and direct lit backlights. In certain embodiments, laser assemblies are selected to obtain bandwidth distributions to reduce speckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Karakawa
  • Patent number: RE47964
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a circuit substrate, a light source electrically connected to the circuit substrate, the light source being disposed under the circuit substrate, and a light conversion member disposed on a light emitting surface of the light source and a side of the circuit substrate, the light conversion member converting a wavelength of light emitted from the light source. Here, the light conversion member is disposed also on a side surface of the circuit substrate and converts a wavelength of light emitted from the light source. Since the light conversion member is disposed on the side surface of the circuit substrate, the light conversion member may be aligned with the light source without interfering with the circuit substrate. Thus, the display device may effectively convert the wavelength of the light emitted from the light source to realize improved brightness and color impression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Mok Lee, Jae Hyun Jin
  • Patent number: RE48012
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a circuit substrate, a light source electrically connected to the circuit substrate, the light source being disposed under the circuit substrate, and a light conversion member disposed on a light emitting surface of the light source and a side of the circuit substrate, the light conversion member converting a wavelength of light emitted from the light source. Here, the light conversion member is disposed also on a side surface of the circuit substrate and converts a wavelength of light emitted from the light source. Since the light conversion member is disposed on the side surface of the circuit substrate, the light conversion member may be aligned with the light source without interfering with the circuit substrate. Thus, the display device may effectively convert the wavelength of the light emitted from the light source to realize improved brightness and color impression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Mok Lee, Jae Hyun Jin
  • Patent number: RE48492
    Abstract: An illumination system employing an elongated waveguide having a non-round transversal cross-section and having at least a portion of its surface shaped in the form of a linear collimating element. The waveguide further employs at least one array of light extracting features distributed along a longitudinal axis of the waveguide and disposed in the focal area of the respective linear collimating element. Each light extracting feature has an active aperture which is substantially less than the light receiving aperture of the linear collimating element and is configured to redirect light propagating in the waveguide generally towards a normal direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the waveguide. Light rays redirected by the light extracting features are further collimated by the linear collimating element and exit from the waveguide in the form of a directional beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Sergiy Vasylyev
  • Patent number: RE48575
    Abstract: A display device in particular for cooktops is provide that has a glass ceramic with a front side and a back side and a lamp arranged in the area of the back side. The display device further includes an optical compensation filter arranged between the front side and the lamp so as to implement any color impressions easily and inexpensively and in a preselectable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Evelin Weiss, Gerold Ohl, Thomas Zenker, Martin Taplan
  • Patent number: RE48577
    Abstract: A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) capable of providing high output of fundamental transverse mode while preventing oscillation of high-order transverse mode is provided. The VCSEL includes a semiconductor layer including an active layer and a current confinement layer, and a transverse mode adjustment section formed on the semiconductor layer. The current confinement layer has a current injection region and a current confinement region. The transverse mode adjustment section has a high reflectance area and a low reflectance area. The high reflectance area is formed in a region including a first opposed region opposing to a center point of the current injection region. A center point of the high reflectance area is arranged in a region different from the first opposed region. The low reflectance area is formed in a region where the high reflectance area is not formed, in an opposed region opposing to the current injection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Maeda, Masaki Shiozaki, Takahiro Arakida
  • Patent number: RE48601
    Abstract: An embodiment of a solid optical sky-sun diffuser, which comprises a transparent solid matrix embedding a dispersion of transparent nanoparticles having an average size d in the range 10 nm?d?240 nm; wherein: the ratio between the blue and red scattering optical densities ??Log [T(450 nm)]/Log [T(630 nm)] of said diffuser falls in the range 5???2.5, where T(?) is the Monochromatic Normalized Collinear Transmittance; in at least one propagation direction, said Monochromatic Normalized Collinear Transmittance is T(450 nm)?0.4; in at least one propagation direction said Monochromatic Normalized Collinear Transmittance is T(450 nm)?0.9, said propagation direction being the same or different from that at which said Monochromatic Normalized Collinear Transmittance is T(450 mm)?0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CoeLux S.r.l.
    Inventors: Paolo Di Trapani, Alessandro Averchi, Marta Cecilia Pigazzini
  • Patent number: RE48668
    Abstract: A temperature sensing probe including a temperature sensor in an elongate housing wherein the elongate housing of the probe is elongate in a first direction and the elongate housing is comprised of a material which has a thermal conductivity of at least 500 W/mK at 20° C. in at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Thibault Simon Mathieu Laurent, Gerardus Adrianus Antonius Maria Kusters, Johan Gertrudis Cornelis Kunnen, Sander Catharina Reinier Derks
  • Patent number: RE48676
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus including a fluid handling structure configured to contain immersion fluid in a space adjacent to an upper surface of the substrate table and/or a substrate located in a recess of the substrate table, a cover having a planar main body that, in use, extends around a substrate from the upper surface to a peripheral section of an upper major face of the substrate in order to cover a gap between an edge of the recess and an edge of the substrate, and an immersion fluid film disruptor, configured to disrupt the formation of a film of immersion fluid between an edge of the cover and immersion fluid contained by the fluid handling structure during movement of the substrate table relative to the fluid handling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Niek Jacobus Johannes Roset, Nicolaas Ten Kate, Sergei Shulepov, Raymond Wilhelmus Louis Lafarre
  • Patent number: RE48690
    Abstract: Provided is a light unit including a plurality of LED light sources formed on a PCB, a resin layer stacked on the PCB to diffuse and guide emitted light forwards, and a diffusion plate having an optical pattern printed thereon to shield light emitted from the LED light sources. The optical pattern is composed of a diffusion pattern implemented as at least one layer, or a combination of the diffusion pattern layer and a light shielding pattern. The light unit forms an optical pattern for shielding or diffusing light on a surface of a light diffusion plate of the back-light unit, and combines a diffusion pattern and a metal pattern to attain uniformity of light and realize a yellow-light shielding effect, thus leading to a reliable light quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Ho Park, Woo Young Chang, Chul Hong Kim, Byoung Eon Lee
  • Patent number: RE48712
    Abstract: Color mixing optics for a multi-color LED lamp comprise an outer reflector having a paraboloidal surface of revolution and a total inner reflection (TIR) lens having an outer contour with a paraboloidal surface of revolution. The outer reflector and the TIR lens are centered around a common center axis. A common focal point of the outer reflector and the TIR lens is provided for placing a LED assembly. Such LED lamps produce uniform color throughout the entire light beam while the outer dimensions are such that the optics fit into conventional lamp housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Fangxu Dong