Patents Examined by Joseph L. Williams
  • Patent number: 11282989
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light emitter including a light-emitting portion that emits first emission light having a first peak wavelength in a range of 380 to 425 nm and a half width of 15 to 35 nm, and a coating located over the light-emitting portion of the light emitter and containing phosphors to emit second emission light having a second peak wavelength in a range of 430 to 475 nm and having a third peak wavelength in a range of 490 to 540 nm. The light-emitting device emits external emission light having a peak region including the first peak wavelength, the second peak wavelength, and the third peak wavelength 14P02303 and having a long wavelength region defined between an upper end of the range of the third peak wavelength and a wavelength of 750 nm in which a light intensity decreases continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetaka Katou, Tamio Kusano, Kiyotaka Yokoi
  • Patent number: 11273766
    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: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Andreas Herrmann, Andrew Lettis, Callum Scott-Collins, Gary Smith, Graham Rehill, Andrew Brian Little, Ian Robert Toone
  • Patent number: 11276808
    Abstract: A conductive substrate for a display device has a plurality of rows of electrode connecting areas, a plurality of first conductive wires, a plurality of second conductive wires, and a plurality of first transparent electrically insulating layers disposed on an electrically insulating substrate. The second conductive wires are separated by the rows of the electrode connecting areas each including a plurality of electrically isolated electrode connecting areas. Each of the second conductive wires disposed between two neighboring rows of the electrode connecting areas has its one end connected to a single electrode contact in one electrode connecting area of the same row of the electrode connecting areas. Each of the first transparent electrically insulating layers is disposed between the second conductive wires respectively connected to a first section and a second section of the electrode connecting areas in the same row of the electrode connecting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventor: Wen-Chang Fan
  • Patent number: 11262620
    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 emitting light, an optical dome formed to enclose the LED chip by being dispensed on the LED chip, a liquid crystal panel blocking or passing light output from the LED chip, and an optical film arranged between the LED chip and the liquid crystal panel, wherein a ratio of height of the optical dome to a diameter of a bottom surface of the optical dome may be 0.25 to 0.31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungyeol Kim, Kyungsoo Park, Chunsoon Park, Kyehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11262047
    Abstract: A display unit includes a transparent or translucent layer with a display side and a rear side, with an opaque or semitransparent layer on the display side, containing a plurality of apertures, a plurality of illuminants which are present at, or at a distance from, the rear side of the transparent or translucent layer, at least partly embedded in the layer, wherein at least one illuminant is substantially behind one of the apertures in each case configured and designed to emit light in the direction of and through the aperture, a transparent or translucent lamination ply adjoining the opaque or semitransparent layer and covering the plurality of apertures, and a transparent or translucent protective layer adjoining this lamination ply. Also disclosed are a display apparatus and a traffic guidance system comprising such a display unit, and use of the display unit as a media energy façade or a daylight display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Volker Probst
  • Patent number: 11262051
    Abstract: A flat lamp with a light guide plate comprises a lamp body, an LED plate arranged on a side wall of the lamp body, an upper support plate snap-fitted and connected to an opening end of the lamp body, and a fixing assembly arranged over a surface of the upper support plate and connected with the upper support plate. A method for mounting the flat lamp comprises steps of screwing screws into arc grooves of the cover plate of the fixing assembly and into screw holes provided at ends of the support plate members and fixing the fixing assembly on a roof; and moving the support plate members (41) to allow them to slide into the V-shaped bent portions of the connecting components and then continue sliding until being restrained by the bent plate at an end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Sang Pil Moon
  • Patent number: 11255336
    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 a housing container and an axial fan. The fan has a fan cavity including air diversion mechanism to direct air from the fan cavity toward the lighting and fan components. The inventions include an airflow surface to direct air existing the fan cavity along an LED light fixture. Moreover, disclosed embodiments include one or more UV light sources which irradiate contaminants as air flows through the ceiling tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: WLC Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Darrin Niemiec, William Carlson
  • Patent number: 11255513
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an asymmetric illumination lens and an illumination system implementing at least one such lens, for example for illuminating a stadium play field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: NORTHLED ApS, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
    Inventors: Henrik Chresten Pedersen, Kenneth Saxskiold-Noerup
  • Patent number: 11257890
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display region provided with a plurality of pixel portions; wires installed to the respective pixel portions within the display region from an outside of the display region for transmitting a signal to drive the respective pixel portions; connection pads provided on the outside of the display region and serving as input portions to provide the wires with a signal while electrically conducting with the wires; switch elements provided on the outside of the display region in a middle of the wires; and a light shielding covering portion shielding the switch elements from light and formed to cover the connection pads while electrically conducting with the connection pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Tamonoki, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 11255527
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for retrofitting a fluorescent light fixture accommodating an LED-based lighting system. A track is electrically connected to the driver module. The track includes at least one electronic conductor that is connected along the length of the track. At least one track adapter may connect to the track, and the track adapter includes a locking mechanism that allows the track adapter to connect to the track at any location along the track and the track may be removed. The locking mechanism may permit the track adapter to be removable. At least one light engine module can connect to the track and may also be removable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LEDVANCE LLC
    Inventors: Fernando Ulloa, Valeriy Zolotykh, Anil Jeswani, Anu Mathew
  • Patent number: 11258036
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Yasunori Kijima, Jiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11255489
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a light emitting module and a lighting device using the light emitting module. The light emitting module includes a light source component, and several light guide sheets arranged at a periphery of the light source component, the light source component includes several groups of light source strips vertically arranged, and each group of light source strips is covered with one of the light guide sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaowei Xu, Hongbo Wang, Xuejun Feng, Feng Li
  • Patent number: 11255529
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) chip is bonded to a substrate. The LED chip includes a plurality of electrodes that each corresponds to a contact on the substrate. The plurality of electrodes are exposed to one or more laser beams for coupling the LED chip to the substrate. The laser beams may be directed to one or more edges or corners of the plurality of electrodes, where the edges or corners lie outside emission areas of LEDs on the LED chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeb Wu, Oscar Torrents Abad, Daniel Brodoceanu, Pooya Saketi, Zheng Sung Chio, Ali Sengül
  • Patent number: 11247606
    Abstract: A light emission device 20 comprises a light source 21 irradiating excitation light; and a window glass 13 emitting visible light through incident radiation of the excitation light, which is attached to a car door 10, wherein the window glass 13 emits the light by irradiation with the excitation light depending on an opening/closing state of the car door 10. The present invention can provide a light emission device that enables the opening and closing of a vehicle door to be easily recognized by a person in the back, without attaching any separate part to an outer side of the vehicle door or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakajima, Yuusuke Oota, Atsushi Nohara, Masashi Yanai
  • Patent number: 11239062
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber; a substrate support having a lower electrode, an electrostatic chuck, and a heater; a radio frequency power supply; a DC power supply; a first controller; and a second controller. The first controller controls the radio frequency power supply to supply a pulsed radio frequency power to the lower electrode periodically with a cycle defined by a first frequency, and controls the DC power supply to apply a pulsed negative voltage to the edge ring periodically with the cycle. The second controller includes a heater controller that controls the power by obtaining a resistance value of the heater from sample values of a current and a voltage supplied to the heater. The first frequency is different from a second frequency that is a sampling frequency of the sample value of the current and the sample value of the voltage in the second controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhito Yamada, Hiroki Endo, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11236869
    Abstract: A light emitting device for plant growth includes a blue light emitting diode (LED) configured to emit blue light, and at least one wavelength converting material configured to be excited by the blue light and convert the blue light into light having a different wavelength, the converted light being light for plant growth. An emission spectrum of the light for plant growth is when a photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) in a 400 nm to 500 nm band is 1, a PPF in a 500 nm to 600 nm band is in a range of 6 to 10, and a PPF in a 600 nm to 700 nm is in a range of 5 to 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chohui Kim, Seulgee Lee, Sungwoo Choi, Inhyung Lee
  • Patent number: 11236753
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention include a housing for light bulbs or light sources, above, and attached to or integrated with, a ceiling fan, thus providing soft non-glaring indirect light upwardly into a room. Light bulbs or light bulb fixtures do not intrude into the space of the room either upwardly or downwardly or horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Lara Anne Campbell
  • Patent number: 11237414
    Abstract: A detecting method and a detecting equipment therefor are provided. The detecting method includes: inspecting whether a display panel has a defective position; after acquiring the defective position of the display panel by the inspecting, using a first focused ion beam generated by a first ion overhaul apparatus to cut the defective position of the display panel, so as to strip a defect at the defective position and observe morphology of defect; using a repair apparatus to perform a repair treatment on the defective position after the defect is stripped. An inspection apparatus for the inspecting of the defective position, the first ion overhaul apparatus and the repair apparatus are sequentially installed on the same production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chung-Kuang Chien
  • Patent number: 11235702
    Abstract: A device including: a rotary actuator; an electronic pixel matrix display comprising a transparent outer layer; wherein the rotary actuator comprises an actuating part and a detector configured to detect rotational position, wherein the actuating part is rotationally mounted by a bearing so that it can rotate about an axis of rotation along a rotation direction, and the rotary actuator is arranged on the transparent layer; and wherein the rotary actuator also comprises a light guide designed to guide light of several pixels of the pixel matrix display from a light inlet surface of the light guide to a light outlet surface of the light guide either in the direction of or into an illumination surface of at least one of the rotary actuator and the actuating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: PREH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Schubert, Haiko Glienicke
  • Patent number: 11221113
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: a mounting step; a light-shielding frame placement step; a light-transmissive member placement step; a light-guiding supporting member formation step; a light-guiding supporting member bonding step; and a second light-reflective member formation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kensuke Yamaoka