Patents Examined by José M. Diaz
  • Patent number: 11730037
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a wavelength control layer disposed on the display panel, a light control member disposed on the wavelength control layer, and a cover layer disposed on the light control member. The light control member includes an inorganic layer disposed on the wavelength control layer and having a first refractive index, a first light control layer disposed on the inorganic layer and having a second refractive index, a second light control layer disposed on the first light control layer and having a third refractive index, and a color filter layer disposed on the second light control layer. The first refractive index is greater than the second refractive index and is less than a refractive index of the wavelength control layer, and the third refractive index is greater than the second refractive index and is less than a refractive index of the color filter layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seon-Tae Yoon, Junghyun Kwon, Hyojoon Kim, Yunha Ryu, Kisoo Park, Hyeseung Lee
  • Patent number: 11716939
    Abstract: Optical system for facilitating plant growth is provided. The optical system can produce a light beam having a full width at half-maximum (FWHM) angle of greater than 120 degrees in one or more transverse directions, wherein the transverse direction is perpendicular to the optical axis of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Verdant Lighting Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Liangliang Cao, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11719428
    Abstract: A heat-sink assembly is configured with two parts to grip a light-emitting element and produce a transverse force urging a surface of the light-emitting element toward a surface of the heat-sink assembly, which conducts heat away from the light-emitting element. Fastening mechanisms and a fulcrum inter-connect the heat-sink parts and produce the force that grips the light-emitting element. A configuration of the heat-sink parts creates a semi-enclosed space accessible through a gap. A configuration of elastomeric gaskets within the semi-enclosed space protects a portion of the space from intrusion of liquids or other environmental influences. Configuration of the heat-sink parts to form a recess in the heat-sink assembly provides protection of the light-emitting element from mechanical damage, and the recess may contain transparent materials that further protect the light-emitting element from detrimental environmental influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: XTREMELUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Edward B. Stoneham
  • Patent number: 11708950
    Abstract: Disclosed is a night downlight, including a plastic housing, a light source plate, a reflective cup, and a light guide sleeve. The plastic housing is provided with an opening, and the light source plate is arranged on an inner side of the plastic housing opposite to the opening. The light source plate is provided with a first light source and a second light source. One end of the reflective cup abuts against the light source plate. The light guide sleeve is arranged between the other end of the reflective cup and the plastic housing. The light guide sleeve is in snap-fit with the reflective cup. The snap-fit design of the light guide sleeve and the reflective cup allows replacement of the small component rather than replacement of the whole face ring when the snap-fit structure fails, thereby effectively reducing waste in repair and replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Xiamen Topstar Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiajie Lai, Xibin Lin, Yongjie Wu
  • Patent number: 11692699
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a ceramic fluorescent body for converting a wavelength of incident light, a heat radiation member for radiating heat of the ceramic fluorescent body to an outside atmosphere, and a solder layer for joining together the ceramic fluorescent body and the heat radiation member. The solder layer includes a joining portion disposed between the ceramic fluorescent body and the heat radiation member and a protruding portion protruding outward from an outer circumferential portion of the ceramic fluorescent body. The protruding portion is spaced apart from a side surface formed on the outer circumferential portion of the ceramic fluorescent body. In the solder layer, the maximum value of thickness of the protruding portion is greater than the average value of thickness of the joining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Yatsuya, Ryuichi Arakawa, Toshiyuki Sakurai, Tomoo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11693251
    Abstract: An optical combiner includes a curved reflective element and a rotating mirror configured to rotate through a range of angular displacement. During a first time period, the curved reflective element is configured to reflect a first light beam emitted from a first light source to the rotating mirror when the rotating mirror is disposed at a first angular displacement, and the rotating mirror is configured to receive the first reflected light beam and provide a first output light beam along an output optical axis. During a second time period, the curved reflective element is configured to reflect a second light beam emitted from a second light source to the rotating mirror when the rotating mirror is disposed at a second angular displacement, and the rotating mirror is configured to receive the second reflected light beam and provide a second output light beam along the output optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Kristina Uhlendorf
  • Patent number: 11678789
    Abstract: An imaging connector includes a proximal side and a distal side. The proximal side includes a light input opening and an image output opening. The distal side includes a light output opening and an image input opening. The imaging connector is operable to (i) transmit light from the light input opening to the light output opening, and (ii) transmit an image from the image input opening to the image output opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Gustav Lo
  • Patent number: 11675232
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus and light source device which includes an optical dome having a specifically defined shape to be able to maintain an optical profile of a light source. A display apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB); a light emitting diode (LED) chip mounted on the PCB and configured to emit light; an optical dome disposed over and enclosing the LED chip; a liquid crystal panel configured to block or pass light output from the LED chip; and an optical film arranged between the LED chip and the liquid crystal panel, wherein a ratio of a height of the optical dome to a diameter of a bottom surface of the optical dome is 0.25 to 0.31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungyeol Kim, Kyungsoo Park, Chunsoon Park, Kyehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11665827
    Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate, a touch module and a ring structure. The display substrate includes a first portion for display, a second portion located at a non-display side of the first portion of the display substrate, and a first bent portion for connecting the first portion and the second portion, and a first driver is provided at a side of the second portion away from the first portion. The touch module includes a touch layer and a touch flexible circuit board connected with the touch layer, the touch flexible circuit board includes a flat portion located at a side of the second portion away from the first portion and a second bent portion for connecting the touch layer and the flat portion. The ring structure is located between the flat portion of the touch flexible circuit board and the second portion of the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuang Zhang, Xiaoxia Huang, Jiangsheng Wang, Jianjun Wu, Xuerui Gong, Bing Ji
  • Patent number: 11662653
    Abstract: A light source device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a light source unit, a wavelength conversion unit including a wavelength conversion wheel, and a wheel housing configured to expose a part of the wavelength conversion wheel and house the wavelength conversion wheel, and an optical unit including a condensing optical system, a pickup optical system, and an optical housing. The light source unit and the optical unit are fixed in a sealed state. In the optical unit and the wavelength conversion unit, a part of the wavelength conversion wheel exposed via a first opening section of the wheel housing is disposed on an optical path between the condensing optical system and the pickup optical system. The second opening section of the optical housing and the first opening section of the wheel housing are fixed in a sealed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko Hagihara
  • Patent number: 11659755
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display device including red, green and blue pixel units. In the red pixel unit, a light emitting element emits a blue light that then passes through a light conversion element and a color filter and the blue light is converted into a red light while passing through the light conversion element. In the green pixel unit, a light emitting element emits a blue light that then passes through a light conversion element and a color filter and the blue light is converted into a green light while passing through the light conversion element. In the blue pixel, a light emitting element emits a blue light that then passes through a color filter. The red pixel unit has a lighting area greater than a lighting area of the blue pixel unit and less than a lighting area of the green pixel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsiao-Lang Lin
  • Patent number: 11644679
    Abstract: An image light generation device includes a first panel configured to emit a first image light including a blue wavelength region, a second panel configured to emit a second image light including a wavelength region different from the blue wavelength region, and a color combining prism configured to combine the first image light and the second image light. The first panel includes a plurality of first pixels, each of the plurality of first pixels includes a first light emitting element, and a first transistor provided corresponding to the first light emitting element, the second panel includes a plurality of second pixels, each of the plurality of second pixels includes a second light emitting element, and a second transistor provided corresponding to the second light emitting element, and a size of the first transistor is greater than a size of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuiga Hamade, Takumi Kodama
  • Patent number: 11641771
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first light-emitting element including a first light-emitting region, a second light-emitting element including a second light-emitting region, a first filter, and a second filter. The area of the first light-emitting region is smaller than the area of the second light-emitting region, and a relationship (Lf11?Le11)>(Lf21?Le21) is satisfied when the length of the first light-emitting region is Le11, the length of the second light-emitting region is Le21, the length of the first filter is Lf11, and the length of the second filter is Lf21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Irobe, Takeshi Koshihara
  • Patent number: 11635654
    Abstract: Provided in an illumination device including a display panel including a first surface configured to display an image, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a plurality of display pixels disposed between the first surface and the second surface, and a transmission window configured to transmit light incident on the second surface through the first surface, a light source disposed at the second surface of the display panel and configured to emit light to an object toward the display panel, and a light deliverer disposed between the light source and the display panel, the light deliverer configured to deliver the light emitted from the light source to the object as flood illumination through the transmission window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jangwoo You, Seunghoon Han, Namseop Kwon, Byunghoon Na, Minkyung Lee, Suyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 11631722
    Abstract: A display device includes a first light emitting element on a first substrate and overlapping a first effective pixel area; test light emitting elements on the first substrate and overlapping the test pixel area; a first color filter on a second substrate and overlapping the first light emitting element; a first wavelength conversion pattern on the first color filter and overlapping the first color filter and the first light emitting element; a first test color filter on the second substrate and overlapping one of the test light emitting elements; and a first test wavelength conversion pattern on the second substrate and overlapping another one of the test light emitting elements. The first test wavelength conversion pattern and the first wavelength conversion pattern include a same first wavelength conversion material, and the first test color filter and the first color filter include a same first color colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jea Heon Ahn, Jeong Ki Kim, Seong Yeon Lee, Si Wan Jeon, Tae Hyung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11631834
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a first light emitting element for a first color and a second light emitting element for a second color whose wavelength is shorter than the wavelength of the first color. The first light emitting element includes a first reflection layer, a first transparent insulating layer, a first transparent electrode layer, a first light emitting layer, and a first upper electrode layer in this order. The second light emitting element includes a second reflection layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a second light emitting layer, and a second upper electrode layer in this order. The second reflection layer and the second transparent electrode layer are in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11624494
    Abstract: A white light source includes a light source and a phosphor conversion component. The light source emits short wavelength light peaked at a peak wavelength of 570 nanometers or shorter. The phosphor conversion component includes a light conversion layer comprising a phosphor effective to convert the short wavelength light to converted light. The light conversion layer includes light passages comprising openings or passage material that does not comprise the phosphor and is light transmissive for the short wavelength light. The light source is disposed respective to the phosphor conversion component so as to illuminate the light conversion layer with the emitted short wavelength light and to pass the short wavelength light through the light passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MATERION CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael P. Newell
  • Patent number: 11621303
    Abstract: An OLED display panel includes a substrate and a pixel array on the substrate, each pixel includes a group of subpixels, and each subpixel includes a light-emitting element and a color filter element. Among the color filter elements in the subpixel group, there is a first color filter element which is substantially transparent for light of the longest wavelength. Except a periphery of the pixel array, every M first color filter elements from M adjacent pixels abut against each other to form a seamless color filter block, where M?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SeeYA Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhongshou Huang
  • Patent number: 11608411
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a combination axial fan and LED lighting system configured to fit into the footprint of a standard ceiling tile. Disclosed embodiments further include ceiling tiles with a built-in fan and/or LED lighting. The disclosed systems may include one or more UV-C light sources which irradiate contaminants as air flows through the UV-C unit. The UV-C unit is mounted on either a universal mounting mechanism or a mobile support unit to provide mobility to the UV-C unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Go Fan Yourself, LLC
    Inventors: Darrin Niemiec, William Carlson
  • Patent number: 11603044
    Abstract: A multi-function rearview device for use with a vehicle includes a housing configured to be attached to the vehicle and to be moveable relative to the vehicle, a rearview element including at least one of a reflective element, a camera and a display element, a bezel formed at an outer portion of the multi-function rearview device surrounding the rearview element, with the rearview element being attached to at least one of the bezel and the housing, one or more light assemblies providing at least one or more light function indications, including a Human Machine Interface (HMI), and at least one sensor, the sensor controlling the one or more light assemblies or the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Andreas Herrmann, Andrew Lettis, Callum Scott-Collins, Gary Smith, Graham Rehill, Andrew Brian Little, Ian Robert Toone