Patents Examined by Joseph L. Williams
  • Patent number: 11162662
    Abstract: An LED lighting module and a display having the LED module are disclosed. The LED lighting module includes a plurality of micro LED arrays and a phosphor film. The micro LED arrays are respectively composed of at least one micro LED. The phosphor film is disposed on one side of the micro LED arrays; and the phosphor film has a transparent substrate and is provided with a plurality of light emitting regions. The plurality of light emitting regions are arranged adjacent to each other and into a matrix form, and are set corresponding to the micro LED arrays collimation respectively. A part or the whole of the surface of the plurality of light emitting regions is provided with at least one type of phosphor powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: UNITY OPTO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ching-Huei Wu
  • Patent number: 11156847
    Abstract: In one aspect, a light-mixing system is disclosed, which includes a light pipe having an input surface configured for receiving light from a light source, a light-mixing segment optically coupled to the input surface, and an output surface optically coupled to said light-mixing segment through which light exits the light pipe. A putative vector normal to at least one of the input or the output surface forms a non-zero angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the light-mixing segment. In some embodiments, the non-zero angle can be, for example, about 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Fraen Corporation
    Inventors: Carlton S. Jones, Robert A. Gobron, Anthony L. Bolzan
  • Patent number: 11152194
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an electron source chamber, an electron-beam sustained plasma (ESP) processing chamber, and a dielectric injector disposed between the electron source chamber and the ESP processing chamber. The dielectric injector comprises a first flared input region comprising a wide entry opening and a narrow exit opening. The wide entry opening opens into to the electron source chamber. The first flared input region is radially symmetric about a longitudinal axis of the dielectric injector. The dielectric injector further comprises a first parallel region comprising an input opening and an output opening. The input opening is adjacent to the narrow exit opening. The output opening is disposed opposite of the input opening. The first parallel region is cylindrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhiying Chen, Joel Blakeney, Peter Ventzek, Alok Ranjan, Kazuya Nagaseki
  • Patent number: 11149924
    Abstract: A lighting device is disclosed having a plurality of light emitting diodes of varying light intensities disposed about the same substrate. A lens is configured with a geometry that corresponds to different sections of the substrate containing the light emitting diodes of different light intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Alliance Sports Group, L.P.
    Inventors: Todd Marcucci, Gregory Lee Horne
  • Patent number: 11150499
    Abstract: A panel repairing apparatus and a method of repairing a display panel using the same are disclosed. The panel repairing apparatus includes a panel loader for accommodating a display panel therein, a laser repair unit for repairing the display panel by irradiating laser onto the display panel, and a press repair unit for repairing the display panel by pressurizing the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Keun Lee, Bum Hwan Park, Hyuk Son, Kyu Wook Choi, Jong Gyu Park, Jae Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11145841
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11142122
    Abstract: A gripping device for a vehicle, including a housing element with a user-accessible contact surface and a user-inaccessible inner surface and at least one light conducting element for providing an ambience illumination at the gripping device, the light conducting element being fastened to the housing element. For this purpose, it is provided according to the invention that a groove for accommodating the light conducting element is formed on the contact surface of the housing element in such a way that a user-accessible contact side of the light conducting element completes the contact surface in a flush and uninterrupted manner in an opening area of the groove on the contact surface of the housing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Bettzuege, Christian Jachmann
  • Patent number: 11133146
    Abstract: A solution electrode glow discharge apparatus has a housing that contains a solid electrode. The solid electrode has a head and a tip. The tip of the solid electrode extends outwards from the housing. At least a portion of the head of the solid electrode is positioned with an electrical and thermal conducting block. An adjustable-polarity power supply is provided in communication with the solid electrode. A cooling mechanism is provided for cooling the electrical and thermal conducting block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: 2S WATER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Neil Johnson, Ander Palmgren
  • Patent number: 11131964
    Abstract: A predetermined lighting pattern is projected on a surface to be illuminated and the lighting pattern is displaced on the surface to be illuminated. A laser beam generated by a laser light source is broadened by a magnifying lens so as to generate a divergent light. The divergent light is shaped by the collimation lens into a parallel illumination light, and the parallel illumination light is caused to be incident on an incident plane of a diffraction optical element which records a hologram image. A diffracted light from the diffraction optical element forms the lighting pattern as a hologram reconstructed image on the surface to be illuminated. By translating the collimation lens by a collimation-lens drive unit along a movement plane that is orthogonal to an optical axis of the laser beam, the lighting pattern can be displaced on the surface to be illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makio Kurashige
  • Patent number: 11131797
    Abstract: Disclosed are a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a substrate and light emitting devices disposed on a side of the substrate, where each of the light emitting devices includes a light emitting diode, and a first connecting weld leg and a second connecting weld leg disposed between the light emitting diode and the substrate; the backlight module further includes a reflective layer between the substrate and the light emitting diodes; and for a same light emitting device, an orthographic projection of the reflective layer on the substrate and an area between orthographic projections of the first connecting weld leg and the second connecting weld leg on the substrate have an overlapping area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinpeng Li, Ming Zhai, Pei Li, Zhiyuan Wang, Pengjun Cao, Jian Li, Teng Zhang, Zongying Shu, Yuanda Lu, Linxia Qi, Pei Qin
  • Patent number: 11131826
    Abstract: A Wien filter to be disposed inside a lens barrel made of a magnetic material includes: a plurality of electromagnetic poles disposed at equal angular intervals about a center axis of the lens barrel; a first magnetic shield disposed so as to cover the area around the plurality of electromagnetic poles; and a second magnetic shield disposed so as to cover the area around the first magnetic shield. The first magnetic shield is supported by a first support member made of a non-magnetic material provided at an inner surface of the second magnetic shield. The second magnetic shield is supported by a second support member made of a magnetic material provided at an inner surface of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Okada
  • Patent number: 11130442
    Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a handle portion movable to open a vehicle door and an illumination module having an illumination source and a light guide that extends at least partially along the length of the handle portion. When the exterior door handle assembly is normally mounted at the door handle region of the vehicle door and when the illumination source is powered, the light guide is illuminated and the illumination is viewable by a person viewing the handle portion from outside the vehicle. The exterior door handle assembly may include an emblem or icon that is back lit by light emitted by a back-lighting illumination source of the exterior door handle assembly. The emblem or icon is visible to the person viewing from outside the vehicle when back lit by light emitted by the back-lighting illumination source but is covert when not back lit by such emitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: DONNELLY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Dingman, Brett A. Gorby, Keith D. Foote
  • Patent number: 11125929
    Abstract: A display system including a lightguide and first and second reflective layers disposed on opposite sides of the lightguide is provided. The lightguide has opposing first and second major surfaces and includes a light extraction pattern for extracting light that would otherwise be confined and propagate within the lightguide primarily by total internal reflection. Light extracted by the light extraction pattern exits the lightguide through at least one of the first and second major surfaces of the lightguide. Each of the first and second reflective layers has an average specular reflectance of at least 50% in a predetermined wavelength range. The light extraction pattern may be repeatedly imaged by the first and second reflective layers to produce three-dimensional stacked images of the light extraction pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Tao Liu, Brian W. Ostlie, Brent A. Hedding, Charlie C. Ho, Yongshang Lu, Jay M. Jennen, David C. Mercord, Johnnie L. Williams
  • Patent number: 11127721
    Abstract: A full spectrum white light emitting device includes photoluminescence materials which generate light with a peak emission wavelength in a range from about 490 nm to about 680 nm; and a broadband solid-state excitation source operable to generate broadband excitation light with a dominant wavelength in a range from about 420 nm to about 480 nm. The device is operable to generate white light with a Correlated Color Temperature in a range from about 1800K to about 6800K, a CRI R9 less than 90, a spectrum whose intensity decreases from its maximum value in the orange to red region of the spectrum to about 50% of the maximum value at a wavelength in a range from about 645 nm to about 695 nm, and over a wavelength range from about 430 nm to about 520 nm, a maximum percentage intensity deviation of light emitted by the device is less than 60% from the intensity of light of at least one of a black-body curve and CIE Standard Illuminant D of the same Correlated Color Temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Qun Li, Xianglong Yuan, Jun-Gang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11119262
    Abstract: A optical device includes a waveguide plate, which includes an in-coupling element to form first guided light (B1) and a second guided light (B2) by diffracting input light (IN1), an expander element to form third guided light (B3) by diffracting the first guided light (B1), an out-coupling element to form first output light (OB3) by diffracting the third guided light (B3), a bypass element to form fourth guided light (B4) by diffracting the second guided light (B2), wherein the first guided light (B1) propagates in a first direction, the second guided light (B2) propagates in a second direction, and the angle ?12 between the first direction) and the second direction is in the range of 60° to 120°, wherein the out-coupling element includes one or more augmenting regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN OPTIARK SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Tapani Kalervo Levola, Houqiang Jiang, Yisheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11119377
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an emission D-IC on array (EOA) module (10?) thereof are provided. The EOA module includes a high-level generating unit, a resetting unit, and a restoring unit. The high-level generating unit is configured to generate an output signal, where the output signal is at high level when a first clock signal (CLK) is at high level. The resetting unit is configured to reset the output signal from high level to low level when a second clock signal (CLKB) and a scan signal (Gn) of a current stage are simultaneously at high level. The restoring unit is configured to restore the output signal from low level to high level when a scan signal (Gn+1) of a subsequent stage is at high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Ha Kim, Nana Xiong, Dan Chen
  • Patent number: 11118744
    Abstract: A device for lighting a court including at least one lighting strip extending substantially horizontally along at least one side of the court, at a predefined height relative to the court. The strip comprises a series of light sources distributed along its length, each of the light sources projecting a light beam with a diffusion angle that is less than 20°, oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NLX
    Inventors: Jérôme Papineau, Jean-Luc Tournebise
  • Patent number: 11112686
    Abstract: A light source unit of the invention includes a first light source configured to emit light in a first wavelength range and a wheel in which a first transmitting area is formed, the first transmitting area being configured to transmit light in the first wavelength range incident from a side facing a first surface of the wheel, and the first transmitting area contains a first luminescent material configured to emit first luminescent light including at least a wavelength range of light in the first wavelength range by light in a second wavelength range whose wavelength range differs from that of light in the first wavelength range being shined from a side facing a second surface of the wheel, the second surface being opposite to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventor: Osamu Umamine
  • Patent number: 11112095
    Abstract: To provide a lamp unit in which rattling of a light-emitting element is prevented, a lamp unit (4) includes: a holder member (9) attached to an attachment object (3), a base board (6) provided with a light-emitting element (5) coupled on a main surface thereof; a retaining member (8) that engages the holder member to sandwich the base board between the retaining member and the holder member such that the base board is retained at a prescribed position on the holder member; and a cover member (9) that is at least partially light-transmissive and is attached to the holder member such that the cover member cooperates with the holder member to define a housing chamber (90) for housing the base board and the retaining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Mihira, Yuji Nakano, Masahiro Nomura
  • Patent number: 11097854
    Abstract: An aircraft light comprises at least one light source; at least one sensor, an operating mode selector, and a transmitter. The sensor is configured for detecting current operational conditions and providing at least one corresponding sensor signal. The operating mode selector configured for determining a suitable light emission of the at least one light source based on the at least one sensor signal. The operating mode selector is further configured for determining the amount of electrical power needed for generating the determined light emission. The transmitter configured for transmitting a power request signal indicating the determined amount of electrical power to a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventor: Andre Hessling-Von Heimendahl