Patents Examined by James M Endo
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Patent number: 10775025Abstract: An LED lighting device (6) having an LED (8) emitting white light and optical filter means (12) suitable for filtering the white light emitted by the LED (8). The optical filter means comprise at least two optical filters (12) that have different transmission coefficients and that are positionable to filter the light emitted by the LED (8) individually. The lighting device (6) includes a power supply unit (10) suitable for delivering different power supply currents to the LED (8) depending on whether one or the other of the optical filters (12) is positioned to filter the light from the LED (8), so as to modify the color temperature of the light emitted by the LED (8).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: MAQUET SASInventors: Robin Jousse, Cecilia Valteau, Lionel Comte
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Patent number: 10767838Abstract: A lighting unit includes a board, which supports a lamp and an electronic circuit for activating the lamp. The lamp includes one or more LEDs. The lighting unit further includes a decorative layer, which is applied directly to a surface of the board.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Würth Elektronik GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Jan Kostelnik
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Patent number: 10759339Abstract: A light system for a vehicle is provided herein. The light system includes a trim member defining an aperture. A light guide is disposed within the aperture. The light guide has a proximal portion operably coupled with a light source. A lens is integrally formed with the light guide and is disposed at a distal portion of the light guide. A deformable attachment mechanism is integrally formed on the light guide between the proximal and the distal portions of the light guide. The light guide is compressively retained within the aperture by a forward portion of the attachment mechanism and a rearward portion of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ali Ammar, Jason Robert Emrich, Fayez Alamat, Steven J. Antilla, Megan May Lovejoy
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Patent number: 10704769Abstract: A lamp reflector assembly that includes a lamp reflector and a circuit board holder plate. The lamp reflector and the circuit board holder plate each include guide ribs to hold a lamp circuit board in place in the reflector assembly. The board holder plate provides X, Y, Z location of the lamp circuit board as well as visual position verification of the lamp circuit board held in the reflector assembly. Finger tabs protruding from the lamp circuit board through slots in the board holder plate permit repositioning the lamp circuit board so that the lamp circuit board, the board holder plate, and the lamp reflector are properly positioned relative to each other prior to securing the board holder plate to the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Roger Schaefer, Timothy Belt
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Patent number: 10704776Abstract: An illuminating light switch with an integrated sliding member that, when actuated by a user, exposes led lighting elements to illuminate the area where the light switch is affixed. The light switch includes a front member having a light aperture aligned with a light source, a rear member with a first mounting member affixed, a second mounting member adapted to be coupled to both a support surface and the first mounting member, and an internal switch to selectively supply current to the light source. In the closed position, the sliding member obscures the light source and no current is supplied to the light source. In the intermediate position, the sliding member partially exposes a first extent of the light source that provides illumination through the light aperture. In the open position, the sliding member exposes a second extent of the light source to provide a greater amount of illumination through the light aperture.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Promier Products Inc.Inventor: Cody Grandadam
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Patent number: 10639416Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for illuminated medical infusion including, for example, a medical infusion system which includes a source of illumination and an illuminating infusion line and wherein the illuminating infusion line includes an integrated fluid transmission channel and light transmission channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Inventor: Hans Utz
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Patent number: 10605431Abstract: A face-lit waveguide illumination system employing a planar slab or plate of an optically transmissive material. A light source is optically coupled a linear optical element which is formed in or attached to a face of the waveguide and is configured to inject light at an angle permitting for light propagation by means of a total internal reflection. Light is propagated through the waveguide towards a predetermined direction in response to optical transmission and total internal reflection. Light extraction features located along the prevailing path of light propagation extract light from the waveguide and emit such light towards a surface normal direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SVV TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Sergiy Victorovich Vasylyev
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Patent number: 10578267Abstract: A vehicle lamp is provided with a housing and a transparent lens connected to the housing to define a lamp chamber there between. A reflector is disposed in the lamp chamber for reflecting light through the lens. An electrical board is disposed in the lamp chamber and oriented in relative to the reflector. A light emitting diode (LED) is mounted to the electrical board for emitting light. A light shade is mounted to the electrical board at a mounting feature defined at a predetermined location relative to the LED to block light rays emitted by the LED. The shade is soldered to the electrical board at the predetermined orientation relative to the LED and the light shade does not contact the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: NORTH AMERICAN LIGHTING, INC.Inventors: Dean Bowles, Panakalu Vangala, Marc Bell, Pavan Venkannagari
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Patent number: 10507759Abstract: An adaptive lighting system for an automotive vehicle. The adaptive lighting system has a wavelength conversion device for receiving the light radiation (L) from the primary source and re-emitting white light radiation (B). An optical imaging system receives the white light (B) re-emitted by the wavelength conversion device and projects this light (B) in front of the vehicle to form a lighting beam, the wavelength conversion device being situated close to a focal plane of the optical imaging system, and the scanning system and the optical system being situated on the same side or on opposite sides of the wavelength conversion device. An intensity of the white light radiation (B) emitted by the wavelength conversion device is capable of being modulated between a minimum value and a maximum value, and the scanning is performed at variable speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Valeo VisionInventors: Jean-Paul Ravier, Benoist Fleury, Loic Benoit
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Patent number: 10488709Abstract: A color conversion film includes fluorescent dots and a polymer layer, the fluorescent dots distributed within the polymer layer; a barrier film at one surface of the color conversion film; and a transflective film at another surface of the color conversion film. An organic or inorganic phosphor may be partially or entirely applied to the fluorescent sheet and the transflective film is applied to a bottom surface of the fluorescent sheet, thereby enhancing light efficiency without causing harm to the environment, as well as reducing a manufacturing cost.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soon Young Kim, Yui-Ku Lee, Dae Won Lee, Chul Huh
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Patent number: 10480773Abstract: A canopy light including a frame, a venting cap, an electrical assembly and a light transcending cover. The frame has a cavity defined by a base and an upstanding structure defining an upper perimeter edge. A component cavity venting system includes a drainage chamber in communication with the cavity through a communicating port. The drainage chamber has an ingress opening. A drain opening is isolated from the communicating port, to allow drainage from the drainage chamber, while substantially preclude the passage of a fluid through the drain opening, into the drainage chamber and through the communicating port into the cavity. The venting cap extends over the ingress opening of the drainage chamber, substantially sealing the same. The electrical assembly includes a power supply and at least one LED light assembly, positionable within the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Jarvis Corp.Inventors: Kirby Corkill, Sawyer Hopps, Lauren Strandberg, Adam Broda
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Patent number: 10443824Abstract: A lighting system having a light box housing, a plurality of lighting units, a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on a PCB. The lighting units can also be interconnected in a daisy-chain configuration on at least one carrier, such that the lighting units form an array of lighting units. The array of lighting units adapted to be mounted within the light box housing, wherein the light box housing has one or more arrays of lighting units.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: The Sloan Company, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Quaal, Timothy Drew Ferrie, Aaron Meyer, Chad Chu
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Patent number: 10446065Abstract: A lighting system having a light box housing, a plurality of lighting units, a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on a PCB. The lighting units can also be interconnected in a daisy-chain configuration on at least one carrier, such that the lighting units form an array of lighting units. The array of lighting units adapted to be mounted within the light box housing, wherein the light box housing has one or more arrays of lighting units.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: The Sloan Company, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Quaal, Timothy Drew Ferrie, Aaron Meyer, Chad Chu
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Patent number: 10422513Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting device is provided. The lighting device may include at least one first part and at least one second part, fastened to the first part, which first and second parts are interconnected by a potting compound, the parts being positively interconnected by the potting compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBHInventor: Thomas Bittmann
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Patent number: 10401011Abstract: An illumination system operable for use as a string of Christmas lights may include a plurality of lamps connected in series. Each lamp may include a lamp luminary, a lamp stem, a lamp holder, and a pair of cables connected to the lamp holder. The lamp stem may have an insertion portion. The lamp holder may have an accommodation space formed therein. When the lamp stem is disposed in the accommodation space, the insertion portion may be clamped between a pair of first protrusions to separate the protrusions. When the lamp stem is removed from the accommodation space, the pair of first protrusions may resume contact through the elastic nature of the cable and the protrusions. The illumination system may be simple in structure and may be convenient for use.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Inventors: Hou Hua Han, Bing Zhang
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Patent number: 10400985Abstract: In various embodiments, a lighting device is provided. The lighting device includes an optical unit having at least one optical element, which optical unit is fastened to the lighting device by means of at least one fastening region; wherein the optical unit is fastened with a force fit in at least one direction; wherein the at least one fastening region is formed as a spring element; and wherein the optical unit can be moved through the at least one fastening region in the direction of the force-fit fastening.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBHInventors: Henrike Streppel, Klaus Eckert, Carolin Muehlbauer
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Patent number: 10328846Abstract: A tail light device includes a housing defining an accommodation chamber enclosed by a light shade, a mounting fixture removably connected to a surrounding wall of the housing and having a mounting wall, two first light emitting modules respectively secured to first mounting wall portions of the mounting wall, and a second light emitting module secured to a second mounting wall portion of the mounting wall such that a modular construction is made to be mounted in the accommodation chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: COPLUS INC.Inventor: Jacob Wu
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Patent number: 10317782Abstract: A laser projection display device, relating to the technical field of laser, including a laser light source having a light source shell, an airtight device fixed on an inner wall of the light source shell, and a laser device provided in the interior of the airtight device. The airtight device having a sealing housing and a gas pressure adjustment structure, the sealing housing is fixed on an inner wall of the light source shell, the gas pressure adjustment structure is arranged on one side of the sealing housing, the sealing housing is communicated with the gas pressure adjustment structure, and the gas pressure adjustment structure is configured to adjust the volume of the airtight device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignees: HISENSE CO., LTD., HISENSE USA CORP., HISENSE INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Xianrong Liu, Youliang Tian
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Patent number: 10288254Abstract: This application describes a front-lit reflective display assembly including a reflective display and an illumination article for front-lighting the display when the article is optically coupled to a light source. The illumination article includes a variable index light extraction layer optically coupled to a lightguide. The variable index light extraction layer has first and second regions, the first region comprising nanovoided polymeric material, the second region comprising the nanovoided polymeric material and an additional material, the first and second regions being disposed such that for light being transported at a supercritical angle in the lightguide, the variable index light extraction layer selectively extracts the light in a predetermined way based on the geometric arrangement of the first and second regions. Front-lit reflective display devices including the front-lit reflective display assembly optically coupled to a light source are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Kevin R. Schaffer, David Scott Thompson, Zhaohui Yang, Encai Hao, Audrey A. Sherman, Michael A. Meis, William J. Bryan, John A. Wheatley, Joseph W. Woody, Steven D. Solomonson, Matthew S. Stay, Mikhail L. Pekurovsky
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Patent number: 10281639Abstract: A solid state lighting strip (100) for mounting in or on a panel support element (210) of a modular panel system (200) including a plurality of solid state lighting elements (110, 110?), a light extraction layer (120) and a glare reducing layer (130) is disclosed. The solid state lighting elements are arranged such that the light emitted by said elements is coupled into the glare reducing layer via the light extraction layer. The solid state lighting strip (100) can be used as part of a lighting system, a panel support element (210) and a modular panel system (200).Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Fetze Pijlman, Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Johannus Michiels, Cornelis Gerardus Maria de Haas, Menno Van Baardwijk, Jochen Renaat Van Gheluwe, Siebe Tjerk De Zwart, Theodorus Johannes Petrus Van Den Biggelaar, Michel Cornelis Josephus Marie Vissenberg, Maarten Marinus Johannes Wilhelmus Van Herpen