Patents Examined by James Menefee
  • Patent number: RE48790
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting apparatus that is suitable as a substitute for a conventional halogen lamp when positively utilizing leaked light. The lighting apparatus comprises: a heat dissipator 12 that is in one of a bottomed cylindrical shape and a bowl shape, and that has a bottom portion, a circumferential wall portion, and an opening; and a light-emitting device 18b that is provided inside the heat dissipator 12 at the bottom portion and is operable to emit light, wherein the heat dissipator 12 has one or more windows 19 for leaking the emitted light outside the heat dissipater 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Kawagoe, Naotaka Hashimoto, Toshiyasu Kojima, Taku Ikeda, Akira Taniuchi
  • Patent number: RE48806
    Abstract: An assembly includes a contact interface device, a lamp base and a circuit board. This device is connected to the circuit board and is used to bias the circuit board within the center of a cavity of a light bulb. This device contains two or more biasing portions that are connected to one another through a bridge portion. The biasing portions engage an interior threaded portion of the lamp base in order to lock into place and not allow the circuit board to move. The bridge portion allows the biasing portions to counteract one another and suspend the circuit board in the middle of the cavity of the light bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: eLUMIGEN, LLC
    Inventors: Gennaro Fedele, Mahendra Dassanayake, Brian Petku, Kevin Nalezyty, Christopher Darr
  • Patent number: RE48807
    Abstract: Trunk gland adapters include an adapter body having an internal bore that is sized to receive a trunk cable gland so that a front end of the trunk cable gland extends through a front opening of the internal bore and a plurality of attachment clips that are configured to releasably attach the adapter body to a mounting aperture in a wall of a fiber optic enclosure. elated trunk gland units and methods of routing a trunk cable into an enclosure are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventor: Neil C. Fletcher
  • Patent number: RE48812
    Abstract: A light assembly that includes a cover, a housing coupled to the cover, and a lamp base coupled to the cover. The light assembly also includes a first circuit board disposed within the housing. The first circuit board has a plurality of light sources thereon. A heat sink is thermally coupled to the light sources and is disposed within the housing. The heat sink includes openings therethrough. Each of the outer edges is in contact with the housing. The light assembly also includes an elongated control circuit board assembly electrically coupled to the light sources of the first circuit board and the lamp base. The control circuit board extends through the openings. The control circuit board has a plurality of electrical components thereon for controlling the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: eLUMIGEN, LLC
    Inventor: Mahendra Dassanayake
  • Patent number: RE48873
    Abstract: An LED lamp for illuminating a surface under a flat angle in linear lighting applications such as cove lighting and wall washing is provided. It produces a uniform intensity distribution and a uniform color output throughout the beam pattern of the light beam produced by a multi-color LED light source. The lamp comprises a body of an extruded profile. The body comprises at least one section with a mirrored surface and at least a lens section which allows exiting of light from the body. At least one LED preferably having a LED lens is provided at the inner side of the body. This combination of optical systems results in an asymmetric beam pattern from the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Fangxu Dong, An Mao
  • Patent number: RE48880
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laser diode array capable of inhibiting electric cross talk is provided. The method of manufacturing a laser diode array includes a processing step of forming a peel layer containing an oxidizable material and a vertical resonator structure over a first substrate sequentially from the first substrate side by crystal growth, and then selectively etching the peel layer and the vertical resonator structure to the first substrate, thereby processing into a columnar shape, a peeling step of oxidizing the peel layer from a side face, and then peeling the vertical resonator structure of columnar shape from the first substrate, and a rearrangement step of jointing a plurality of vertical resonator structures of columnar shape obtained by the peeling step to a surface of a metal layer of a second substrate formed with the metal layer on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Maeda, Masaki Shiozaki, Takahiro Arakida
  • Patent number: RE48882
    Abstract: A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Horace C. Ho, Rebecca Frank, Mark Quilling, Rebecca M. Ho, Nav Sooch
  • Patent number: RE49072
    Abstract: A vehicle side mirror is provided and includes a mirror and a mirror housing in which the mirror is installed. Additionally, a blind spot detection (BSD)-integrated mirror holder supports the mirror and includes a mounting groove formed in a front surface thereof that faces the mirror. A BSD module is configured to provide a warning regarding a danger in a blind spot on a rear lateral side of a vehicle and is disposed in the mounting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SL Mirrortech Corporation
    Inventor: Jeong Hun Oh
  • Patent number: RE49142
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus comprising includes an object table which carries an object. The lithographic apparatus may further comprise at least one include a sensor as part of a measurement system to measure a characteristic of the object table, the environment surrounding the lithographic apparatus or another component of the lithographic apparatus. The measured characteristic may be used to estimate the a deformation of the an object due to a varying loads load during operation of the lithographic apparatus, for example a varying loads load induced by a two-phase flow in a channel formed within of the object table. Additionally, or alternatively, the The lithographic apparatus comprises may include a predictor to estimate the deformation of the object based on a model. The positioning of the object table carrying the object can be controlled based on the estimated deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Adrianus Hendrik Koevoets, Christianus Wilhelmus Johannes Berendsen, Rogier Hendrikus Magdalena Cortie, Jim Vincent Overkamp, Patricius Jacobus Neefs, Putra Saputra, Ruud Hendrikus Martinus Johannes Bloks, Michael Johannes Hendrika Wilhelmina Renders, Johan Gertrudis Cornelis Kunnen, Thibault Simon Mathieu Laurent
  • Patent number: RE49241
    Abstract: A method for operating a target processing system for processing a target (23) on a chuck (13), the method comprising providing at least a first chuck position mark (27) and a second chuck position mark (28) on the chuck (13); providing an alignment sensing system (17) arranged for detecting the first and second chuck position marks (27, 28), the alignment sensing system (17) comprising at least a first alignment sensor (61) and a second alignment sensor (62); moving the chuck (13) to a first position based on at least one measurement of the alignment sensing system (17); and measuring at least one value related to the first position of the chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Niels Vergeer
  • Patent number: RE49327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a support for a light source of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, including a zone for positioning the light source, referencing elements with respect to three given mutually transverse axes, one of the referencing elements, termed a referencing element with two portions, a first portion extending along or parallel to a first axis of the three given axes, and a second portion extending transversely relative to this first given axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: David Dorn, Christophe Cherreau, Pierre Renaud, Silas Bakary-Gando, Laurent Garrouste
  • Patent number: RE49416
    Abstract: An illumination system generating light having at least one wavelength within 200 nm a plurality of nano-sized structures (e.g., voids). The optical fiber coupled to the light source. The light diffusing optical fiber has a core and a cladding. The plurality of nano-sized structures is situated either within said core or at a core-cladding boundary. The optical fiber also includes an outer surface. The optical fiber is configured to scatter guided light via the nano-sized structures away from the core and through the outer surface, to form a light-source fiber portion having a length that emits substantially uniform radiation over its length, said fiber having a scattering-induced attenuation greater than 50 dB/km for the wavelength(s) within 200 nm to 2000 nm range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Edward John Fewkes, Stephan Lvovich Logunov
  • Patent number: RE49630
    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: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Sergiy Vasylyev
  • Patent number: RE49602
    Abstract: Lithography system, sensor and method for measuring properties of a massive amount of charged particle beams of a charged particle beam system, in particular a direct write lithography system, in which the charged particle beams are converted into light beams by using a converter element, using an array of light sensitive detectors such as diodes, CCD or CMOS devices, located in line with said converter element, for detecting said light beams, electronically reading out resulting signals from said detectors after exposure thereof by said light beams, utilizing said signals for determining values for one or more beam properties, thereby using an automated electronic calculator, and electronically adapting the charged particle system so as to correct for out of specification range values for all or a number of said charged particle beams, each for one or more properties, based on said calculated property values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Pieter Kruit, Erwin Slot, Tijs Frans Teepen, Marco Jan-Jaco Wieland, Stijn Willem Herman Karel Steenbrink
  • Patent number: RE49645
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes providing a base body including a base section; fixing a plurality of semiconductor laser elements on an upper surface of the base section; and fixing an optical member to the base body, the optical member including a plurality of lens sections, and a non-lens section disposed at a periphery of the plurality of lens sections in a top view. In the step of fixing the optical member: the optical member is arranged above the base body; (i) an inclination and a height of the optical member are adjusted after interposing an adhesive between the base body and the non-lens section, or (ii) an adhesive is interposed between the base body and the non-lens section after adjusting the inclination and the height of the optical member; and subsequently, the adhesive is cured to fix the optical member to the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Miura, Seiji Kiyota, Eiichiro Okahisa
  • Patent number: RE49688
    Abstract: A clip cover for a C-type light string is an auxiliary accessory exclusively used for a C-type light string, and mainly includes a wire cover constituted by first front, rear covers, a lamp cover constituted by second front, rear covers and a buddle cover. Electric wire segments at the two sides of one C-type lamp of the light string are clipped inside the wire cover by engaging the first front cover with the first rear cover. Thereafter, the electric wire is pulled downward from the wire cover a certain length, allowing the C-type lamp to be hung perpendicularly below the wire cover; the lamp socket of the C-type lamp together with a small section of bent electric wire is further clipped inside the lamp cover through the second front, rear covers of the lamp cover; and the bundle cover is finally put around the lamp cover tightly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Chin-San Lin
  • Patent number: RE49725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate handling and exposure arrangement comprising a plurality of lithography apparatus, a clamp preparation unit for clamping a wafer on a wafer support structure, a wafer track, wherein the clamp preparation unit is configured for accepting a wafer from the wafer track, and an additional wafer track for transferring the clamp towards the plurality of lithography apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Jan De Jong, Marco Jan-Jaco Wieland
  • Patent number: RE49784
    Abstract: A new multi-beam apparatus with a total FOV variable in size, orientation and incident angle, is proposed. The new apparatus provides more flexibility to speed the sample observation and enable more samples observable. More specifically, as a yield management tool to inspect and/or review defects on wafers/masks in semiconductor manufacturing industry, the new apparatus provide more possibilities to achieve a high throughput and detect more kinds of defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Weiming Ren, Xuedong Liu, Xuerang Hu, Zhong-wei Chen
  • Patent number: RE49928
    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: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Shima
  • Patent number: RE49939
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source; an optical component provided separately from the light source; a holding member holding the light source and the optical component; and a variable pressing member variably pressing the optical component against the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Abe