Patents Examined by Joseph L. Williams
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Patent number: 11346993Abstract: A method of forming a micro-lensed fiber optic plate. The method includes obtaining a fiber optic plate that has a plurality of fibers arranged in parallel. A first end of a fiber of the plurality of fibers can have a first numerical aperture. The fiber of the plurality of fibers includes a core material running along a length of the fiber that is circumscribed by a layer of cladding material. The method also includes creating a lensed surface at a second end of the fiber of the plurality of fibers. The second end is opposite the first end. The lensed surface of the fiber of the plurality of fibers can have a second numerical aperture that is different from the first numerical aperture.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Brett Bagwell, Jeremy Benjamin Wright, Jayson Briscoe, Erika C. Vreeland
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Patent number: 11349077Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising a substrate; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation substrate disposed on the organic light emitting element; and an adhesive layer formed on the substrate, covering the organic light emitting element, and bonding the substrate on which the organic light emitting element is formed with the encapsulation substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jung-Hyun Son, Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 11345851Abstract: A photosensitive composition including a quantum dot; a binder polymer including a carboxylic acid group; a photopolymerizable monomer including a carbon-carbon double bond; and a photoinitiator, a patterned film produced therefrom and a display device including the same. The quantum dot includes a seed including a first semiconductor nanocrystal, a quantum well including a second semiconductor nanocrystal, the quantum well surrounding the seed and a shell disposed on the quantum well, the shell including a third semiconductor nanocrystal and not including cadmium, the second semiconductor nanocrystal has a different composition from each of the first semiconductor nanocrystal and the third semiconductor nanocrystal, and an energy bandgap of the second semiconductor nanocrystal is smaller than an energy bandgap of the first semiconductor nanocrystal and an energy bandgap of the third semiconductor nanocrystal.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Taekhoon Kim, Seonmyeong Choi, Jongmin Lee, Tae Gon Kim, Young Seok Park, Shin Ae Jun
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Patent number: 11340490Abstract: The present application discloses a backlight module and a display device thereof. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a side part thereof including a light incident surface; a light bar, including a circuit board and a plurality of photoelectric elements disposed on the circuit board, wherein the circuit board includes spacing parts located between two adjacent photoelectric elements, and light emitting surfaces of the photoelectric elements correspond to the light incident surface; and a reflective sheet, disposed between the light guide plate and the light bar, wherein the reflective sheet includes hollowed parts, and the hollowed parts are correspondingly disposed between the light emitting surfaces and the light incident surface, so as to reduce a reflective brightness of the photoelectric elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED, CHONGOING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jiahe Cheng
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Patent number: 11332065Abstract: A motor vehicle has a body, a vehicle part, and a spring bolt for fastening the vehicle part in a receptacle of the body. The rotational axis of the spring bolt is arranged in such a way that it has exactly one point of intersection with an XY plane of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Nicholas Aldersley, Thomas Fleck, Matthias Ruppert
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Patent number: 11332573Abstract: 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 an 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 exiting 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. The fixture may be housed in a recessed fixture.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Go Fan Yourself, LLCInventors: Darrin Niemiec, William Carlson
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Patent number: 11337307Abstract: To provide a highly reliable lighting-emitting device that hardly causes defects in case a wiring board is bent, while realizing high brightness by increasing a mounting density of surface-mounted LEDs on a wiring board that is rounded into a truncated cone shape or a cylinder shape, the light-emitting device comprises: the wiring board, a plurality of sets of pads arranged in a line along a circumferential direction of the wiring board, and a plurality of surface-mounted LEDs respectively fixed to the pads. The device satisfies y??1.04x+1.80, where (L) is a length of the circumference of the wiring board with the pads, (y) (y=s/L) is a ratio of a total sum (s) of the lengths in the circumferential direction of the pads relative to the circumferential length (L), and (x) is a curvature of the wiring board where the pads are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CCS INC.Inventors: Takahiko Koyama, Takashi Osawa
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Patent number: 11326771Abstract: This disclosure relates to a light-emitting fan includes a fan frame, an impeller, and a light-emitting component. The fan frame includes a base, a first ring, and a second ring. The first ring is disposed on the base. The second ring is disposed on the first ring. The first ring is located between the base and the second ring, and the first ring and the second ring together form an accommodating space. The impeller is located in the accommodating space and rotatably disposed on the base. The light-emitting component is located in the first ring or the second ring. One of the first ring and the second ring is made of light-permeable plastic, the other one is made of light-impermeable plastic, and light from the light-emitting component is emitted through the first or second ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: VAST GLORY ELECTRONICS & HARDWARE & PLASTIC (HUI ZHOU) LTD.Inventors: Shi-Man Xu, Qiancheng Yue
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Patent number: 11328914Abstract: Systems and methods for partial discharge reduction are provided. The systems and methods can receive an input voltage at a high voltage sensor configured within a sealed sensor assembly. The input voltage can be received via a discharge reduction of the sealed sensor assembly. The discharge reduction circuit can reduce an incidence of discharge associated with an ionization breakdown of an air gap between an output circuit of the sealed sensor assembly and an insulator conveying the output circuit through a hermetic barrier of the sealed sensor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Scot Alan Shermer
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Patent number: 11320125Abstract: A combination of a gripper assembly that reduces the risk of electrical short circuits by incorporating non-conductive components, and a specially designed small diameter two, three or four conductor high strength flexible cord, which incorporates high tensile non-metallic strands or cables under a resilient but flexible plastic outer cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventor: Laurence Robert St.Ives
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Patent number: 11320608Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a support structure including a cladding material and defining therein a plurality of substantially parallel cores. The article also includes a plurality of conically-shaped spikes protruding from a first side of the support structure. Each respective conically-shaped spike of the plurality of conically-shaped spikes includes a core material (i) extending through a corresponding core of the plurality of substantially parallel cores and (ii) comprising an axial protrusion that protrudes axially from the cladding material at the first side of the support structure. The axial protrusion of the core material is tapered to form the respective conically-shaped spike. The article also includes a refractory metal layer coating at least a portion of each respective conically-shaped spike and one or more electrodes connected to the refractory metal layer and configured to apply a voltage to the refractory metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Waymo LLCInventor: John Simpson
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Patent number: 11322344Abstract: The subject of the invention is a method and device for reducing contamination in a plasma reactor, especially contamination by lubricants, particularly for plasma processing of materials. The method is based on the fact that the contaminated gas pumped out of at least one reduced pressure vacuum chamber in the form of a plasma lamp (LA1, LA2, LA3) is purified in at least one purifying plasma lamp (LA01, LA02, LAH, LAE), in which a glow discharge is initiated between the anodes of the purifying plasma lamp (A01, A02) and the cathodes of the purifying plasma lamp (K01, K02), favorably particles of lubricants are cracked and partially polymerized, while processed heavy particles of lubricants are collected in a buffer tank (ZB) and then discharged outside the pumping system.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Plasma Investment Sp. z o.o.Inventors: Ihar Yelkin, Edward Reszke, Grzegorz Binkiewicz
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Patent number: 11315772Abstract: An MCP assembly of this embodiment is provided with an MCP unit and a flexible sheet electrode having a structure for facilitating handling thereof as a single body. The flexible sheet electrode is constituted by a mesh area provided with plural openings and a deformation suppressing portion surrounding the mesh area. Both the mesh area and the deformation suppressing portion are comprised of the same conductive material, and physical strength of the deformation suppressing portion is higher than that of the mesh area. With this configuration, the physical strength of an entire flexible sheet electrode is secured even if an opening ratio of the mesh area is increased, so that the handling of the flexible sheet electrode as a single body is facilitated.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventor: Masahiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 11313520Abstract: The present invention provides a lamp comprising: an LED light source; a lens comprising an incident surface and an emergent surface, the incident surface defining a first cavity, and the emergent surface comprising an annular protuberance thereon; and a light filter device accommodated within a space defined by the annular protuberance of the lens, wherein, the LED light source is situated within or proximate to the first cavity, to enable light emitted from the LED light source entering the lens from the incident surface and exiting the lens from the emergent surface to be at least partially transmitted through the light filter device.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Savant Technologies LLCInventors: Wenjiang Zhang, Ruojian Zhu
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Patent number: 11313541Abstract: A luminaire includes an elongated first housing, an elongated second housing, and a bracket. The elongated first housing supports a first light emitting device and includes a pair of sides and a first channel defined between the sides. The first housing includes a first aperture. The elongated second housing includes a pair of sides and a second channel defined between the sides. An end of the second housing is positioned adjacent an end of the first housing and includes a second aperture disposed proximate the first aperture. The bracket is disposed between the elongated first housing and the first light emitting element. The bracket includes a first projection engageable with the first aperture and a second projection engageable with the second aperture. The bracket is positioned partially within the first channel and partially within the second channel. The bracket is coupled to the first housing by snap-fit engagement and the bracket is coupled to the second housing by snap-fit engagement.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Hubbell Lighting, Inc.Inventor: Dhavalkumar Patel
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Patent number: 11311175Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Inventor: Gustav Lo
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Patent number: 11309166Abstract: Methods for fabricating gas discharge tubes. In some embodiments, a method for fabricating a gas discharge tube (GDT) device can include providing or forming an insulator substrate having first and second sides and defining an opening. The method can further include providing or forming a first electrode and a second electrode. The method can further include forming a first glass seal between the first electrode and the first side of the insulator substrate, and a second glass seal between the second electrode and the second side of the insulator substrate, such that the first and second glass seals provide a hermetic seal for a chamber defined by the opening and the first and second electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Bourns, Inc.Inventors: Zuoyi Wang, Peter Shak, Gordon L. Bourns
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Patent number: 11306899Abstract: A light source system includes an exciting light source, a collection system, a wavelength conversion device, a relay system, an optical-mechanical system, a detection device, and a distance adjustment device. The exciting light source emits exciting light. The conversion region converts the exciting light into excited light. Optical axes of the excited light and the exciting light that are emitted from the wavelength conversion device do not coincide with each other. The excited light and exciting light collected by the collection system are guided to the optical-mechanical system via the relay system. The detection device detects information on brightness and/or color coordinates of the light emitted from the optical-mechanical system. The distance adjustment device adjusts a distance between the collection system and the wavelength conversion device in such a manner that the brightness and/or color coordinates of the light emitted from the optical-mechanical system meet a preset condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Zuqiang Guo, Peng Du, Yi Li
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Patent number: 11305686Abstract: Protective grid adapted and configured to be coupled to a vehicle headlamp, where the vehicle headlamp is adapted and configured to emit a light beam, the protective grid including at least one grid element, and coupling means for operatively coupling the grid element, directly or indirectly, to the vehicle headlamp the coupling means, when the protective grid is operatively coupled to the vehicle headlamp, are adapted and configured for allowing the grid element to be moved such that the grid element can be displaced from a work configuration to a rest configuration, where in the work configuration the grid element is such to intercept the light beam and where in the rest configuration the grid element is placed so that it does not intercept the light beam, the protective grid including locking means configured to keep the at least one grid element in the rest and/or work configuration during motion of the motorcycle.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.Inventor: Francesco Maffe
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Patent number: 11300862Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes a substrate, a wavelength conversion layer and a filling layer. The wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the substrate. A surface of the wavelength conversion layer away from the substrate has a plurality of pores, the filling layer is disposed on the surface of the wavelength conversion layer to fill the pores, where the filling layer is a transparent structure, and a transmittance of the filling layer to visible light is greater than or equal to 85%. A projection device having the above wavelength conversion device is also provided. The wavelength conversion device and the projection device of the invention may simplify a manufacturing process to save costs, and a yield and optical effects thereof are improved.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Coretronic CorporationInventors: I-Hua Chen, Chi-Tang Hsieh