Patents Examined by Joseph L. Williams
  • Patent number: 12044874
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lace fabric of a helical structure containing twisted optical fiber threads and a production method therefor. The lace fabric includes light guiding threads, an external sleeve and braided ropes. The light guiding threads and the braided ropes are mutually twisted to form a whole body; the external sleeve is further sleeved outside the light guiding threads and the braided ropes; an LED light source module is arranged at the outer parts of the light guiding threads and the braided ropes; and a light-emitting end of the LED light source module and the light guiding threads are arranged opposite to each other. The present invention is safe, is low in cost, is conveniently applied to and combined into various daily supplies, is used in some spaces with little light, such as outdoors in the night and other places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: FOSHAN JIEPIN TOY INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Huang, Zhenjiang Qu
  • Patent number: 12038158
    Abstract: A headlamp includes a strap, a bracket coupled to the strap, and a first lighting assembly pivotally coupled to the bracket and including a first light housing enclosing a first LED, a battery housing enclosing a battery configured to power the first LED, and a first actuator operable to toggle the first lighting assembly between a first plurality of operating modes. The headlamp also includes a second lighting assembly coupled to the strap and having a plurality of second LEDs and a second actuator operable to toggle the second lighting assembly between a second plurality of operating modes such that the lighting assemblies are operable independently. A wire extends between the lighting assemblies to provide power from the battery to the plurality of second LEDs. The second lighting assembly extends along more than 50% of a circumference of the strap and follows a curvature of the strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Gall, Sara M. Manulik, Alan Amundson
  • Patent number: 12032259
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel are provided. Pixel units of the array substrate include a thin film transistor region, pixel electrode regions, thin film transistors disposed in the thin film transistor region, and pixel electrodes disposed in the pixel electrode regions. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the thin film transistor. Meanwhile, a shielding member is further disposed in the thin film transistor region, and an interval between the shielding member and the pixel electrode in an extending direction of data lines is a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingwu Chen, Mei Chen, Qi Song, Dongze Li
  • Patent number: 12030427
    Abstract: A light assembly for attachment to a surface of a vehicle. The light assembly includes a vehicle base configured to be coupled to the surface of the vehicle and a light head coupled to the vehicle base. The light head is configured to rotate relative to the vehicle base about a first axis and about a second axis that is different from the first axis. The light head is configured to rotate about the first and second axes at a first speed in response to a first user input, and to rotate about the first and second axes at a second speed that is different from the first speed in response to a second user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Schermerhorn, David Proeber, Josh Adams, Duane W. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 12032205
    Abstract: A method of co-manufacturing silicon waveguides, SiN waveguides, and semiconductor structures in a photonic integrated circuit. A silicon waveguide structure can be formed using a suitable process, after which it is buried in a cladding. The cladding is polished, and a silicon nitride layer is disposed to define a silicon nitride waveguide. The silicon nitride waveguide is buried in a cladding, and annealed. Thereafter, cladding above the silicon waveguide structure can be trenched through, and low-temperature operations can be performed to or with an exposed surface of the silicon waveguide structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ORCA Computing Limited
    Inventors: Brian Mattis, Taran Huffman, Bryan Woo, Thien-An Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12035431
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to adjust device control information. The example apparatus comprises a light drive waveform generator to obtain metadata corresponding to media and generate device control information based on the metadata, the device control information to inform a lighting device to enable consecutive light pulses; an effect engine to apply an attack parameter and a decay parameter to consecutive light pulses corresponding to the device control information, the attack parameter and the decay parameter based on the metadata to affect a shape of the consecutive light pulses; and a color timeline generator to generate color information based on the metadata, the color information to inform the lighting device to change a color state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GRACENOTE, INC.
    Inventors: Markus Kurt Cremer, Robert Coover, Zafar Rafii, Aneesh Vartakavi, Andreas Schmidt, Todd Hodges
  • Patent number: 12033827
    Abstract: Provided is a photocathode kit that does not require adjustment of the distance between a photocathode film and a lens focusing on the photocathode film when the photocathode and the lens are installed inside an electron gun. The photocathode kit includes: a photocathode including a substrate in which a photocathode film is formed on a first surface; a lens; and a holder that holds the substrate and the lens, and the holder has a retaining member that retains the photocathode film and the lens to be spaced apart by a predetermined distance, and a first communication path that communicates between inside of the holder and outside of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Photo electron Soul Inc.
    Inventors: Haruka Shikano, Daiki Sato, Reiki Watanabe, Tomoaki Moriya, Hokuto Iijima
  • Patent number: 12017245
    Abstract: An electrospray apparatus and a method of operating the electrospray apparatus can include an array of emitters that can emit a fog of charged droplets, wherein the charged droplets can be produced in a carrier gas by the array of emitters and directed into a development zone of a charge image. Each emitter among the array of emitters can be implemented as a cone-shaped emitter. The array of emitters can be implemented as a cone jet electrospray micro-array that can produce a high liquid concentration of the charged droplets in the carrier gas. The charged droplets can comprise charged fountain solution droplets, and the charge image can be a fountain solution image that can be transferrable to a blanket for control and subsequent ink transfer to a receiving medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David K. Biegelsen, Kathryn F. Murphy
  • Patent number: 12018818
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a strip-like high flexibility region and a strip-like low flexibility region arranged alternately in a direction. The high flexibility region includes a flexible light-emitting panel. The low flexibility region includes the light-emitting panel and a support panel having a lower flexibility than that of the light-emitting panel and overlapping with the light-emitting panel. It is preferable that the light-emitting panel include an external connection electrode and that a length in the direction of a low flexibility region A that overlaps with the external connection electrode be longer than a length in the direction of a low flexibility region B that is closest to the region A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata, Akio Endo
  • Patent number: 12019332
    Abstract: Provided is a barrier film that can suppress a change in color when applied to a wavelength conversion sheet. A barrier film for a wavelength conversion sheet that is a barrier film comprising at least one inorganic oxide layer and at least one organic coating layer on one surface of a light-transmitting base material, wherein a value of a water vapor transmission rate according to JIS K7129-2:2019 is 0.20 g/m2·day or less, and when a spectral transmittance of the barrier film is measured with a surface of a side comprising the inorganic oxide layer and the organic coating layer as a light coming-in surface, the barrier film comprises a spectral transmittance bottom at which the spectral transmittance changes from decreasing to increasing, or a spectral transmittance peak at which the spectral transmittance changes from increasing to decreasing, in the range of 450 nm±7 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakamoto, Ryutaro Harada, Shuichi Tamura, Akihito Haruki, Shota Yamanishi, Yuko Fujioka
  • Patent number: 12004369
    Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a more convenient highly reliable light-emitting device which can be used for a variety of applications. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to manufacture, without complicating the process, a highly reliable light-emitting device having a shape suitable for its intended purpose. In a manufacturing process of a light-emitting device, a light-emitting panel is manufactured which is at least partly curved by processing the shape to be molded after the manufacture of an electrode layer and/or an element layer, and a protective film covering a surface of the light-emitting panel which is at least partly curved is formed, so that a light-emitting device using the light-emitting panel has a more useful function and higher reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kaoru Hatano
  • Patent number: 12000041
    Abstract: A method includes receiving light, by a light coupling device and along an optical path, reflected back from a reflector mounted on a liner of a processing chamber. The method further includes detecting, by a spectrometer within the received light, a first spectrum representative of a deposited film layer on the reflector. The method further includes aligning, using an alignment device, the light coupling device in two dimensions with reference to the reflector along the optical path until maximization of the light received by the light coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Tae
  • Patent number: 12001173
    Abstract: A LCD and LED hybrid display screen has a LCD display screen, a LED display screen overlapping with the LCD display screen, and a drive device for driving the LCD display screen and the LED display screen. The LED display screen has at least one LED pattern and each LED pattern comprises a plurality of strokes is corresponding to at least one LED lamp. The drive device drives the LCD display screen to display at least one LCD display pattern and driving the LED lamp to emit light. A LED display pattern formed by a light emitted by the LED lamp and the LCD display pattern are in one-to-one correspondence. A LCD and LED clock with a LCD and LED hybrid display screen is further provided. Different ambient brightness can be adapted while the power consumption can be reduced through overlapping the LCD display screen with the LED display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Yuguang Lin
  • Patent number: 11999303
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cladding part of a body shell of a vehicle. The cladding part having a base body, which has a visible side facing towards the outer side and an inner side and which comprises a light window in the form of a light-transmitting transparent or translucent region at least in a sub-region, and an opaque region with a colouring coating at least in a sub-region. The cladding part also having an illumination function, which is arranged behind the visible side of the base body for shining through or illuminating the light window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Exteriors GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Goetzelmann, Klaus Muenker, Michael Wurster, Tobias Weyer
  • Patent number: 12004413
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes arranging a display substrate in a chamber, arranging a mask assembly in the chamber, and supplying a deposition material to the mask assembly by a deposition source. The arranging of the mask assembly includes disposing a stopping layer including a stopping layer opening on a first mask layer, disposing an inorganic layer on the stopping layer, forming a first mask opening in the first mask layer, and forming an inorganic opening of the inorganic layer by etching the inorganic layer corresponding to the stopping layer opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeongkuk Kim, Heemin Park, Duckjung Lee, Sungsoon Im
  • Patent number: 12004362
    Abstract: A display device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a light-emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a charge transport layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and containing a charge transport material configured to transport a charge to the light-emitting layer. At least one layer of the light-emitting layer and the charge transport layer is a function layer including a nanofiber and a photosensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Asaoka, Shigeru Aomori, Tsuyoshi Kamada
  • Patent number: 11988940
    Abstract: A method of making a microstructured optical fiber including loading the core and cladding materials of the fiber with hydrogen and deuterium at a loading temperature; annealing the fiber at a selected temperature Tanneal; pumping the fiber with radiation; and reducing the temperature of the fiber and storing the fiber at the reduced temperature before the step of pumping the fiber; and wherein the method allows the hydrogen and the deuterium to become bound to the core material and the cladding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NKT PHOTONICS A/S
    Inventor: Carsten L. Thomsen
  • Patent number: 11979956
    Abstract: An emergency converter device for lighting applications provides a supply current to a load device such as a lighting module. The emergency converter device has a printed circuit board arranged within a housing. A control circuit such as a microcontroller and a non-volatile memory for storing log data are arranged on the printed circuit board. An interface is configured to connect mechanically and electrically at least one of a status indicator light a test switch or a duration link select switch. The interface has a first connecting element and a second connecting element. The emergency converter device has a connecting means for connecting a data output terminal (USART_TX) and a data input terminal (USART_RX) of the control circuit to the exterior of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Deepak Makwana, Jagjitpati Shukla, Stephen James
  • Patent number: 11965640
    Abstract: Providing a super-high pressure lamp having increased pressure resistance. The super-high pressure lamp includes: an arc tube; and a sealing portion in which a front end of an exhaust pipe capable of exhausting gas in the arc tube or supplying gas into the arc tube is sealed, wherein, in the sealing portion, a height of a first sealed space, which has a tapered shape that becomes narrower toward a front end of the sealing portion, is larger than twice an inner diameter of the first sealed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Mori, Takayuki Hiraishi, Junya Asayama
  • Patent number: 11956881
    Abstract: An array of non-thermal plasma emitters is controlled to emit plasma based on application of an electric current at desired frequencies and a controlled power level. A power supply for an array controller includes a transformer that operates at the resonant frequency of the combined capacitance of the array and the cable connecting the array to the power supply. The power into the array is monitored by the controller and can be adjusted by the user. The controller monitors reflected power characteristics, such as harmonics of the alternating current, to determine initiation voltage of the plasma and/or resonant frequency plasma emitters. The array of non-thermal plasma emitters may be used in therapeutic, diagnostic, and/or medical sanitization applications, including where a non-thermal plasma treatment regimen for infections such as Trichophyton rubrum, or other fungal infections, is prescribed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Chiscan Holdings PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Bradley N. Eckert, Huan Truong, Bryon K. Eckert