Patents Examined by Jong-Suk (James) Lee
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Patent number: 10655790Abstract: A lighting device (1, 11, 21) comprising a substrate (4, 14, 24), a plurality of light sources (3, 13, 23), and a housing (2, 12, 22) of a light transmissive material. The substrate has a first side (4a, 14a, 24a) and a second side (4b, 14b, 24b) and the plurality of light sources are arranged on the first side of the substrate. The light sources have a common general output direction. The housing is arranged to transmit light surrounding the substrate, having a first portion (2a, 12a, 22a) of said housing and a second portion (2b, 12b, 23b) of the housing arranged substantially opposite the first portion with respect to the substrate. The plurality of first optical elements (6, 16, 26) may be arranged substantially opposite the output direction of the plurality of light sources along the first portion of the housing facing the first side of the substrate. The substrate is adapted to allow transmission of light.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Wouter Petrus Kaandorp, Coen Theodorus Hubertus Fransiscus Liedenbaum
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Patent number: 10656320Abstract: A lighting device includes at least one light source, and a lens. The lens directs light emitted from the at least one light source. The lens has a concave component with an inner bottom face and an inner face, the light emitted from the at least one light source being incident on the concave component, an emission face located on an opposite side from the concave component, and an outer face located to the side of the concave component. The inner face forms a convex face that faces toward inside of the concave component. The outer face reflects the light that has entered the lens through the inner face toward the emission face.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Noritaka Tanabe, Seiji Takemoto
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Patent number: 10648635Abstract: A headlamp structure has a contoured reflector panel with a forward-facing surface and a reflex supporting portion. The forward-facing surface has a plurality of reflector surface portions. The reflex supporting portion extends forward from an inboard side inboard of the reflector surface portions. A passive reflector is attached to the reflex supporting portion with a reflector surface that faces an outboard direction relative to the forward-facing surface. Each of the plurality of reflector surface portions is shaped and configured to reflect light from a corresponding one of a plurality of light emitting elements and aim the reflected light to project in a forward direction parallel to the reflector surface of the passive reflector. The reflector surface of the passive reflector is configured such that at least light approaching the contoured reflector panel from outboard of an outboard side of the contoured reflector panel is reflected back in the outboard direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventor: Sarah Ford
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Patent number: 10648646Abstract: Operating room monoreflector light includes a dome or hood-shaped upper housing portion and a lighting means arranged in the upper housing portion, preferably as an LED lighting means, including an LED board on which a plurality of LEDs are arranged. A main reflector is arranged in the upper housing portion and deflects a light flux produced by the lighting means through a light exit opening closed by a cover plate of the upper housing portion. To reduce the necessary installation space and to simplify the construction, the upper housing portion is in one piece and extends interruption-free from an upper end which is directed upwardly in the installation position to a lower end which defines the light exit opening. The upper housing portion includes a fixing plane for the LED board, and on which an LED light module is or can be mounted.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TRILUX Medical GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Bruchhage, Dominik Körling, Hermann Hauschulte
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Patent number: 10641447Abstract: A light fixture includes a mount configured to mount onto a mounting surface and a stem having a first end attached to the mount and extending in a first direction away from the mount with respect to the mounting surface to a second end. The light fixture further includes at least one arm having a first end attached to the stem and extending in a second direction away from the stem with respect to the mounting surface to a second end, the second direction at an angle with respect to the first direction. The light fixture includes a socket disposed on the second end of the at least one arm for receiving a light emitter and a power receptacle and/or a communication receptacle disposed on the second end of the stem.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: McKeon Products, Inc.Inventor: Devin Benner
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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: 10609783Abstract: A self-monitoring LED marine navigation light that monitors LED intensity and if the intensity is not COLREG compliant, a microprocessor in the light simulates an open filament just as would an incandescent light, thus allowing the analog ships alarm panel circuit to trigger an alarm. The device generally comprises a base, a lens mounted to the base, and an LED module seated in the base and enclosed by the lens. The LED module includes primary and optional secondary LED lights plus one or more photodiode(s) exposed to the LED light(s). The LED also includes a processor and software for measuring light intensity input to the photodiode(s), comparing measured intensity to a minimum COLREG threshold, and signaling failure when measured intensity falls below said minimum threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventors: David J Horst, Jerry A. Carr
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Patent number: 10605438Abstract: A radially adjustable landscape light fixture mount includes a mounting plate having a female threaded portion for affixing a light fixture thereto and a separate mounting stake having a locking lever. The mounting stake has a recessed portion for receiving the mounting plate and affixed light fixture. The locking lever has an open position and a closed position. When the locking lever is in the open position the radial position of the mounting plate and affixed light fixture can be adjusted relative to the mounting stake by a user. In the closed position the locking lever fixes the radial position of the mounting plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Hunter Industries, Inc.Inventors: Thomas E. Veloskey, Dillon J. Rak, Michael A. Huelsman
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Patent number: 10605443Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for attaching and detaching a handle of a surgical light which is a medical lighting apparatus. The device, in the handle which is inserted into or separated from a surgical light shaft in a female-male coupling manner, comprises: a lock pin which protrudes in the axial direction of the surgical light shaft and is inserted into a lock hole formed on the handle so as to prevent the handle from being separated; a pin spring, supported on the surgical light shaft, for providing elastic force so that the lock pin protrudes to the outside of the surgical light shaft; a separation button which is provided on the outside of the handle and, when an external force for separating the handle from the surgical light shaft is applied, is pushed so as to enable the lock pin to be separated from the lock hole of the handle; and a button support body for supporting the separation button on the handle so that the separation button is movable to a certain degree.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: DENTIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Guen Kim, Yoon Sang Oh, Jung Il Kim, Jae Min Yun, Myung Gyu Sim, Jeong Su Kim, Hyun Ki Hong, Duk Ho Kong
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Patent number: 10608151Abstract: A light source device includes a light emitting element and a light transmissive member having a light incident surface opposite to the light emitting element, and a light emitting surface. The light incident surface includes an inner region having a retroreflective lens portion and directly facing the light emitting element, and an outer region having a shape different from a shape of the retroreflective lens.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Takanori Aruga
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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: 10598427Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet forming a storage space, a main door that opens and closes the storage space while defining an opening part that is in communication with the storage space, a sub-door mounted to the main door and configured to open and close the opening part, the sub-door including a panel assembly for allowing selective viewing of an inside of the opening part, a detection device for detecting an operation of a user, a lighting unit inside the refrigerator that turns on based on user operation to allow selective viewing of the inner side of the opening part, and a display unit inside the refrigerator at a position corresponding to the panel assembly that becomes visible and displays an operation state of the refrigerator when the lighting unit turns on.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Kwanghyun Choi
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Patent number: 10598371Abstract: The modular enclosure with water management mating interfaces most fundamentally includes a mechanical connection which directs and obstructs water via various strategically positioned structures and gaps. One basic configuration includes a base having at least one end face and a periphery extending from the end face. The periphery includes an outward projecting lip. A plurality of retainers is secured to the base below the lip. The retainers and the lip define a channel extending along at least part of each side of the base. A dome having longitudinal sides that terminate in a bottom edge and an inward projecting flange that is spaced from the bottom edge is received by the flange in the channel to retain the dome to the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.Inventor: Jon H. Lyons
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Patent number: 10591132Abstract: An LED light unit comprises a support portion, a light source having at least one LED, the light source being arranged on the support portion and having a source-side light intensity distribution (LISS), and a refractive optical element having an inner surface and an outer surface, with at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface being non-spherical, the refractive optical element being arranged over the light source and being attached to the support portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Anil Kumar Jha, Christian Schoen, Andre Hessling von Heimendahl
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Patent number: 10588428Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator is characterized by enabling at least a part of a refrigerator door to be selectively transparent by a user's operation, such that the user sees through an inside of the refrigerator while the refrigerator door is closed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jisu Park, Taehoon Choi
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Patent number: 10562446Abstract: The invention relates to an interior trim element for a motor vehicle which comprises: a translucent carrier component with a front side and a rear side, a translucent cover material on the front side of the carrier component and a light source on the rear side of the carrier component, wherein the translucent cover material has a Shore A hardness in the range between 60 and 80, wherein the interior trim element comprises at least one surface of a storage tray or storage compartment of the motor vehicle which is visible to passengers of the motor vehicle, and wherein the light source illuminates the visible surface of the storage tray or storage compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS GROUP GMBHInventor: Carter Scott Cannon
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Patent number: 10563850Abstract: The recessed lighting fixture includes a light source module and a driver housed within a unified casting, and within a shared outer casing. The outer casing may be coupled to a hangar holder that is movably coupled to a corresponding hangar bar. The outer casing, including the light source module and driver installed therein, may move both 1) in the length direction of the hangar bar and 2) perpendicular to the length direction of the hangar bar. The recessed lighting fixture may have less bulk and size than traditional recessed lighting fixtures. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: DMF, Inc.Inventor: Michael D. Danesh
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Patent number: 10564435Abstract: A device emitting light from two sides includes a base, a first light emitting surface, and a second light emitting surface. The base comprises a first surface and a second surface, the first surface is depressed to form a receiving groove, the receiving groove comprising a light incidence surface. The first light emitting surface protrudes from the second surface. The second light emitting surface is arranged beside the receiving groove. The second light emitting surface is a micro-structural portion, the micro-structural portion recessed from the first surface towards the second surface and forming a plurality of micro-structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: CHAMP TECH OPTICAL (FOSHAN) CORPORATIONInventor: Chin-Chung Chen
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Patent number: 10563830Abstract: A split luminaire having at least two sections that attach to one another, each section including an outer light transmitting cover and a housing. The housing includes partition with a rear side including a recess that extends upward from a bottom to a top edge of the housing. The recess defines a conduit through the assembled housings that is open on its top and bottom. A hollow tubular support is located within the conduit and permits wiring, cabling and/or other components to extend through the luminaire from the pole to above the housings. The tubular support has an upper and lower flanges. The upper flange provides a point for attachment of electrical components above the luminaire and the lower flange is attached to the top of a pole. One or more light sources are mounted within the luminaire.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Spring City Electrical Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Daniel A. Kovalchick, Michael Greck
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Patent number: 10563858Abstract: An athletic wear illumination system. The athletic wear illumination system may comprise a power pack device, and an athletic wear garment. The power pack may be configured to connect to a power pack connector and at least one illumination channel. The at least one illumination channel may be configured to consist of at least one upper layer and at least one bottom layer, where one or more lights are placed within the channel of the upper layer and bottom layer of an athletic wear garment.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Inventor: Timothy Ryan Polanowski