Patents Examined by Jessica M Apenteng
  • Patent number: 12385632
    Abstract: A rotary folding lamp includes a support assembly, a light emitting assembly, a rotation assembly, a folding assembly and a control component, the light emitting assembly includes a first light emitting part and a second light emitting part which is foldably connected to the first light emitting part, the rotation assembly is arranged between the first light emitting part and the support assembly to allow the first light emitting part to rotate with respect to the support assembly, the folding assembly is arranged between the support assembly and the rotation assembly to allow the first light emitting part to be folded onto the support assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: NINGBO FUTAI ELECTRIC LIMITED
    Inventor: Fujun Qiu
  • Patent number: 12372707
    Abstract: A optically transmissive component is configured within a light fixture to provide benefits in brightness uniformity and visual appearance with the use of a light scattering extension portion that provides light scattering of light emitted from near an input edge of a light guide or other edgelit optical element. The sequential propagation of light through both the extension portion and main portion of the optically transmissive component significantly reduces the higher brightness and uneven “hotspotting” type visual defects typically produced near the input edge of an edgelit optical system. With appearance constraints removed or reduced, edgelit light fixtures with higher output, higher efficacy, and/or simplified edgelit optical components are enabled. Embodiments include the use of the extension portion of the optically transmissive component extension to mechanically position and retain an edgelit optical element within a light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Fusion Optix, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Yeo, Timothy Kelly, Michael Demas
  • Patent number: 12332472
    Abstract: An optical film comprises a light incident side and a light emitting side opposite to the light incident side. A plurality of light incident microstructures are formed on the light incident side, and the light incident microstructures are tapered structures. According to the structural design of the light incident microstructures of the optical film, the light field of a light source can be expanded to achieve the purpose of emitting light at a specific angle. The invention also provides a backlight module and a display device including the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Hsuan Chen, Chung-Yung Tai, Wen-Hao Cai, Chun-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 12332443
    Abstract: A near-eye display device, an augmented reality device including the near-eye display device, and an operation method of the near-eye display device are provided. The near-eye display device includes a first expanding waveguide including a first expanding diffractive grating and a second waveguide including a second diffractive grating. The first expanding diffractive grating and the second diffractive grating are located on different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nikolay Victorovich Muravev, Dmitriy Evgenyevich Piskunov, Gavril Nikolaevich Vostrikov, Andrey Nikolaevich Putilin
  • Patent number: 12331987
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance includes a liner positioned within a cabinet, the liner having an inner liner surface that defines a chilled chamber and an aperture that passes through the liner. A light assembly is mounted to the liner and includes a light source positioned within a light housing in the insulated space between the liner and the cabinet. A lens is mounted to the light housing and is positioned within the aperture, the lens defining an outer lens surface that sits flush with the inner liner surface and an inner lens surface defining a plurality of refractive grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Nurein Ibrahim Ahmed, Kyle Andrew Kozinski, Philip Nehemiah Simons, Mark Aaron Weaver
  • Patent number: 12326590
    Abstract: A light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The light guide plate is configured to be coupled to a light source. The light guide plate includes a light-emitting surface, a bottom surface, a light-incident surface, plural stripe-shaped microstructures and plural light guiding microstructures. The bottom surface is opposite to the light-emitting surface. The light-incident surface is connected between the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface. The stripe-shaped microstructures are disposed on the at least one of the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface, and each of the stripe-shaped microstructures has two opposing side surfaces and an active surface. The side surfaces are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the active surface. The light-guiding microstructures are disposed between any adjacent two of the stripe-shaped microstructures and arranged along an extending direction of each of the stripe-shaped microstructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Chin-Ting Weng, Chia-Yin Chang, Feng-Nien Tsai
  • Patent number: 12287506
    Abstract: An illumination device for a display screen operable in an open-viewing mode B1 and a restricted-viewing mode B2 where light is emitted in a limited angular range. It includes a backlight emitting the limited-angular-range light, a plate-shaped light guide with large surfaces and narrow connecting sides in front of the backlight in a viewing direction. The light guide has outcoupling elements on the surfaces or within its volume, and is at least 50% transparent to backlight light. Outcoupling elements have a function surface for coupling out light guide light. Illuminants are arranged laterally of the narrow sides. The backlight is on and the illuminants off in mode B2, and the illuminants are on in mode B1. Some outcoupling elements have a structure causing scattering in a preferential direction that is stronger by a factor of at least 1.2 than in a direction perpendicular to the preferential direction, yielding anisotropic scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: siOPTICA GmbH
    Inventors: André Heber, Markus Klippstein
  • Patent number: 12267930
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an intelligent music lamp string. The intelligent music lamp string includes a human body sensing module, a control module, a music control module and a lamp string. The human body sensing module is configured to sense a human body and output a sensing signal when the human body is sensed. The control module is configured to receive the sensing signal and output an enable signal and a control signal according to the sensing signal. The music control module is configured to receive the enable signal and play a predetermined music according to the enable signal. The lamp string is configured to receive the control signal and start to work according to the control signal, a duty cycle of the control signal in each cycle corresponding to beats of each section of the predetermined music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12253661
    Abstract: A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness using three interactions in a first portion of light and two interactions in a second portion of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Fangxu Dong
  • Patent number: 12241288
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module component (100) for a movable part (201) of a vehicle (200), comprising: a support housing (10) for fastening the module component (100) to the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200), a key device (20) for actuating the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200), wherein the key device (20) comprises a key cap (21) configured to receive an activation action, in particular a touch and/or force, of a user, wherein an activation element (24) is arranged on the key cap (21) to be able to detect a presence and/or an activation action of the user, and an electronic device (30) for providing lighting functions and/or sensor functions when the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200) is actuated, wherein the electronic device (30) is fastened to the support housing (10), wherein the electronic device (30) comprises a sensor device (31, 32) for a presence detection and/or an activation action detection at the activation element (24), and wherein the electronic device (30) comprises at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ingo Bott, Andreas Beck, Florian Knubben, Andreas Hoffmann, Thomas Popp, Thomas Liepold
  • Patent number: 12241604
    Abstract: A vehicle light includes: a light lens having a base panel made of a transparent plastic material, an outer paint layer disposed on an outer surface of the base panel, and an inner paint layer disposed on an inner surface of the base panel and including a light-transmitting hole formed therein; and a light source installed to be spaced apart from the light lens, in which light from the light source is transmitted out of the light lens through the light-transmitting hole and the base panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, SL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Ho Park, Dong Eun Cha, Dong Woo Kim, Young Ho Jo, Tae Seok Seo
  • Patent number: 12242100
    Abstract: A wide-area waveguide illumination system is provided, including an optical waveguide formed from a sheet of optically transmissive material having a generally uniform thickness. The waveguide comprises a first broad-area surface, an opposing second broad-area surface, and a first light input edge. One or more solid-state light sources are optically coupled to the first light input edge. An image print, comprising a viewable surface, is disposed in an energy receiving relationship with the optical waveguide. The system also includes a two-dimensional pattern of light extraction features distributed over the area of the optical waveguide with variable areal density, defining a plurality of higher-density light extraction areas and a plurality of lower-density light extraction areas. The distances between the light extraction features in the higher-density light extraction areas are generally less than in the lower-density light extraction areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Sergiy Vasylyev, Mykola Masalitin
  • Patent number: 12234984
    Abstract: A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and, depending on whether glare control is not needed, the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening and if lessening glare is needed, also on the TIR outer reflective surface. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Fangxu Dong
  • Patent number: 12210179
    Abstract: A backlight keyswitch includes a backlight module and a keyswitch body having a cap with a symbol. The backlight module disposed under the cap includes a light guide plate, a light-blocking sheet, a backlight circuit board having first, third, and second lighting units disposed in the light guide plate and arranged sequentially along a longitudinal direction for emitting first, third, and second color lights respectively, and a micro optical layer. The light-blocking sheet is located above the backlight circuit board and has a transparent region. The light guide plate is located between the light-blocking sheet and the backlight circuit board. The micro optical layer is parallel to the light guide plate and formed corresponding to the transparent region to guide the first, second, and third color lights to the symbol and has first and second clearance regions respectively adjacent to the first and second lighting units in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chao-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 12188634
    Abstract: The flashlight with illuminating dome member is intended for use as a flashlight. The flashlight with illuminating dome member generates an illumination with an adjustable field of illumination. By adjustable field of illumination is meant that the flashlight with illuminating dome member generates a field of illumination selected from the group consisting of: a) an omnidirectional field of illumination (such as area lighting); and, b) a directed field of illumination formed from a collimation of the generated illumination. The flashlight with illuminating dome member incorporates a housing structure and a lamp circuit. The housing structure contains the lamp circuit. The housing structure adjusts the field of illumination generated by the lamp circuit. The lamp circuit is an electric circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Walter Griffin
  • Patent number: 12187181
    Abstract: A vehicle having: a vehicle body; a plurality of light-emitting parts; a light source configured to output a laser beam to the light-emitting parts; a fiber optic cable that constitutes a part of a laser beam path, the fiber optic cable having a most upstream branch portion; a single shared laser driver board controlling laser beam source elements in the single light source; and at least one laser light-emission-manner converter, each disposed in, or downstream of, the most upstream branch portion, to thereby cause each light-emitting part downstream from said each light-emission-manner converter to change a light-emission manner thereof. The laser light-emission-manner converter and/or the single shared laser driver board are at least partially disposed in an in-body covered region, which is disposed further downward than, and in a plan view of the vehicle overlaps, any of a fuel tank, a dummy tank, a foot board, and a seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro Inoue, Atsushi Kamo, Kenichi Muramatsu, Yoko Takagi
  • Patent number: 12187180
    Abstract: A leaning vehicle or a straddled vehicle, including a vehicle body, a light source unit, a light using device, an optical fiber cable, an electrical power supply unit, a plurality of electrical units, and an electrical cable. The vehicle body includes a seat and a body cover. The optical fiber cable has a supported portion disposed along, and supported by, a trunk portion of the electrical cable, and an upstream portion connecting the light source unit and the supported portion without being supported by the trunk portion. The supported portion and the upstream portion are partially disposed within an in-body covered region, which is at least one of a region closer to a vehicle center than an outermost surface of the body cover is, or a region positioned further in a downward direction than an uppermost portion of the seat is, both being invisible from an outside of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro Inoue, Atsushi Kamo, Hiroaki Kurita, Yoko Takagi
  • Patent number: 12189168
    Abstract: A backlight scattering element, multiview display, and method of backlight scattering element operation employ a high-index light guide layer in conjunction with a light guide and diffraction grating to provide emitted light. The backlight scattering element includes a light guide that guides light as guided light and a high-index light guide layer optically connected to the light guide and configured to extend a thickness of the light guide. The backlight scattering element also includes a diffraction grating adjacent to the high-index light guide layer to diffractively scatter out a portion of the guided light as emitted light. The multiview display includes a light guide having a first layer and a second layer, a refractive index of the second layer being greater than a refractive index of the first layer. The multiview display may modulate diffractively scattered out directional light beams to provide a multiview image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LEAI INC.
    Inventors: David A. Fattal, Ming Ma, Joseph D. Lowney
  • Patent number: 12173865
    Abstract: A downlight assembly that is selectively tiltable to direct a light source thereof at an angle relative to a housing of the downlight assembly. A threaded rod is rotatably coupled to the housing and extends vertically upwards therefrom. A fastener is threadedly coupled to the threaded rod and inserts into an arcuate slot of a plate pivotably coupled to the housing. The light source is mounted to the plate. Rotation of the threaded rod causes the fastener to move up and down the threaded rod and along the arcuate slot, in turn tilting the plate and the light source relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LIGHTHEADED LIGHTING LTD.
    Inventors: Norm David, Igor Sanabio, Russ Jensen
  • Patent number: 12156305
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a current controller, a current source and a signal converter. The first light source and the second light source are two light sources of a light source set. The light source set may further include more light source of same type of different type. The current source is controlled by the current controller for generating a first driving current to the first light source and for generating a second driving current to the second light source. The signal converter converts a first type control signal to a second type control signal. The first type control signal indicates a light parameter to be produced by the light source set and the second light source. The second type control signal is supplied to the current controller to determine the first driving current and the second driving current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hemu Ye, Qiqiang Lin, Zongyuan Liu, Yankun Li