Patents Examined by Keith Delahoussaye
  • Patent number: 10106073
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for a vehicle includes a main lens; a light source device configured to emit light; and a first reflecting unit provided in a partial area of a front surface of the main lens. The lighting apparatus also includes a scanning module configured to reflect the light emitted from the light source device to the first reflecting unit in a predetermined scanning pattern. The lighting apparatus further includes a reflective fluorescent body configured to convert a wavelength of light reflected by the first reflecting unit and to reflect the light having the converted wavelength into the main lens. The scanning module includes: a scanning unit configured to be driven according to a predetermined frequency and to reflect an incident light in the predetermined scanning pattern, and a first light condensing device configured to condense the light emitted from the light source device into the scanning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Park
  • Patent number: 10101010
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an irradiation device including a pump radiation source for emitting pump radiation, a conversion element for converting the pump radiation into conversion radiation of longer wavelength, and a reflection surface, which is reflective to the conversion radiation and on which backscattered conversion radiation emitted at a backscatter emission surface and thus counter to a useful direction is incident and is reflected therefrom back to the conversion element; said reflection surface is concavely curved relative to the conversion element in such a way that at least the backscattered conversion radiation emitted divergently from a surface centroid of the backscatter emission surface is incident on the reflection surface at an angle of incidence of at most 20° in terms of absolute value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Sergey Khrushchev
  • Patent number: 10031273
    Abstract: A light source device including a light guide plate which has notches formed at edge parts thereof and emits light from one surface thereof, the light having entered a side face of the light guide plate, and a reflection sheet member which is disposed to face the light guide plate and has concave parts corresponding to the notches at edge parts thereof is disclosed. And the light source device is provided with edge part frame members on the edge part side of the one surface of the light guide plate at an interval in an emitting direction of light from the one surface, and the entirety of light amount at the edge parts of the light guide plate is increased by reflecting the light emitted from the edge parts of the one surface of the light guide plate to the one surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
  • Patent number: 10025027
    Abstract: A glazing unit includes a transparent display located in only one portion of the glazing unit, at least one light-guiding substrate located nearer the exterior than the display, at least one light source located on the periphery of the substrate, for example facing an edge face of the light-guiding substrate, and a light extraction device for extracting the light emitted by the light source. The light source may be formed from a plurality of light emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Andrzej Odulinski, Stéphane D'Audiffret
  • Patent number: 10018766
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device. In the light guide plate, a plurality of triangular pyramid dots are provided; two of four surfaces of each of the triangular pyramid dots are light receiving surfaces facing a backlight source, and are reflective mirror surfaces, so that incident light reaching the two light receiving surfaces from the backlight source is converted into emergent light exiting in two different directions, and then the emergent light is emitted out from the upper surface of the light guide plate. In the solution, as the triangular pyramid dots capable of converting incident light from a backlight source into emergent light exiting in two specific directions are provided in a light guide plate, the effect of dual-view backlight can be realized while providing a light guide plate or dual-view backlight module with simpler structure and lower cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shang Wang, Qiuxiang Li
  • Patent number: 10012785
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light guide plate, a light source unit, a wavelength conversion sheet which is disposed between the display panel and the light guide plate, and a bottom chassis where the wavelength conversion sheet includes a first portion which covers an upper surface of the light guide plate, the first portion including a first edge extending in a first direction and a second edge facing the first edge, a second portion which extends from the first edge toward the bottom chassis, is coupled to the bottom chassis and covers a first side surface of the light guide plate, and a third portion which extends from the second edge toward the bottom chassis, is coupled to the bottom chassis and covers a second side surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jieun Nam, Hyoung-joo Kim
  • Patent number: 10007049
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a quantum rod backlight module for a liquid crystal display. The quantum rod backlight module includes a quantum rod layer disposing at one side of a backlight source and comprising a plurality of quantum rods, wherein the major axes of the plurality of quantum rods are aligned along a direction parallel to a surface of the quantum rod layer; a first micro-prism layer including a plurality of first parallel strip-shape prisms, and a second micro-prism layer including a plurality of second parallel strip-shape prisms, wherein both of the alignment directions of the first parallel strip-shape prisms and the second parallel strip-shape prisms are perpendicular to the direction of the major axes of the plurality of quantum rods, and the retardations of the first micro-prism layer and the second micro-prism layer are zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: BenQ Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Ren-Hung Huang, Jian-Hung Wu, Shih-Wei Chao, Po-Tung Lai, Ya-Chun Chang, Yi-Lung Yang, Chung-Hung Chien, Meng-Chia Cheng, Chien-Yi Kao, Chen-Kuan Kuo
  • Patent number: 9995440
    Abstract: A solid-state linear lamp comprises a co-extruded component, the co-extruded component comprising multiple photoluminescence portions corresponding to different color temperatures, a diffuser portion, and a top portion, where the photoluminescence portion, the diffuser portion, and the top portion are integrally formed into the co-extruded component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Edwards
  • Patent number: 9978225
    Abstract: A flashlight capable of operating with its head removed in a candle mode is combined with a wand which has two inner zones to receive either the head of the flashlight or the barrel of the flashlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MAG INSTRUMENT, INC.
    Inventor: Anthony Maglica
  • Patent number: 9974138
    Abstract: Composite light sources and methods use a low-blue component light source emitting first substantially white light and a high-blue component light source emitting second substantially white light. The second substantially white light has a greater correlated color temperature than the first substantially white light. The first and second substantially white light combine to provide substantially intermediate warm-white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: GE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Robert Allen, Ashfaqul I. Chowdhury, David C. Dudik, Kevin James Vick, Thomas J. Boyle
  • Patent number: 9970598
    Abstract: There is provided a lighting device (100) comprising a housing comprising a frangible light exit window (110) and a fitting (120) including a first electrical connector (122) inside said housing. Within the housing there is a carrier assembly (130) comprising a plurality of SSL elements (132), and a second electrical connector (134) in contact with the first electrical connector (122). The second electrical connector (134) is held in contact with the first electrical connector (122) by the light exit window (110). This lighting device is relatively safe as if the light exit window (110) breaks the electrical components of the carrier assembly (130) may not be live.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Robertus Leonardus Tousain, Jean-Paul Jacobs, Xiaoqing Duan
  • Patent number: 9927104
    Abstract: A lighting fixture is disclosed. The lighting fixture includes at least one lamp cup shell, a lampshade configured to be supported on the at least one lamp cup shell, and an LED light bulb configured to be coupled to the at least one lamp cup shell and extend up through an opening in a bottom of the lampshade. The LED light bulb includes a heat sink having a base and series of cooling fins arranged around the base. The cooling fins define external threads. The LED light bulb also includes an LED light board on the heat sink and a translucent cover covering the LED light board. The LED light board includes at least one LED light. The lighting fixture also includes a compression ring configured to threadedly engage the external threads of the heat sink to couple the LED light bulb to the lampshade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Gardenia Industrial Limited
    Inventor: Hing Chuen Allan Kwong
  • Patent number: 9920915
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device (100) comprising a carrier (10) having a main body (12) and first and second protrusions (14, 16) extending in parallel from said main body, the first protrusion comprising a first main surface (142) and an opposite second main surface (144), the second protrusion comprising a third main surface (162) and an opposite fourth main surface (164), wherein the first main surface and the third main surface are on the same side of the carrier, said carrier carrying at least one solid state lighting element (20) on at least one of the first main surface and the fourth main surface; and a heat dissipating member (30) having a first portion (32) thermally coupled to the second main surface and having a second portion (33) thermally coupled to the third main surface. A luminaire including such a lighting device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Yan Xiong, Xiao Qiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9910210
    Abstract: An electronic device and a display device are provided. The electronic device includes the display device and an object to be shown. The display device includes a display panel, a first backlight module, and a second backlight module. The display panel has a transparent area corresponding to the object. The first backlight module is disposed with a gap to the display panel and generates first backlight to reach the display panel. The second backlight module has a prism sheet and a collimated illumination. The prism sheet is parallel to the display panel and corresponding to the transparent area, while the collimated illumination generates light reaching the prism sheet. The light is orientated by the prism sheet and becomes a second backlight before entering the transparent area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tzu-Ling Niu
  • Patent number: 9904160
    Abstract: A light-emitting device (1) and a related light source system. The light-emitting device (1) comprises a laser light source (11, 21, 31) and a light collecting system (12, 22). The laser light source (11, 21, 31) comprises a first laser array (111, 211, 311) and a second laser array (112, 212, 312) for respectively generating a first light and a second light with different wavelength ranges. The light collecting system (12, 22) is used for collecting the light emitted from the laser light source arrays. The ratio of the divergence angle of the collected second light to that of the first light is less than or equal to a predetermined value. The predetermined value is 0.7. The light-emitting device (1) is capable of generating two kinds of light beams with different etendues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Haixiong Hou
  • Patent number: 9891439
    Abstract: A light source comprises a light combining device for guiding incident light from a first light emitting source (310) and incident light from a second light emitting source (340) with different incident directions to combine two paths of incident light into one path of emission light emitted from a first optical path. The light combining device comprises a guide part (330), for guiding light from the second light emitting source (340) to converge into the first optical path, and hindering a part of light from the first light emitting source (310) from entering the first optical path, the luminous flux of the hindered part of the light being less than the luminous flux of light from the first light emitting source (310) entering the first optical path. This light source can effectively reduce the cost and achieve a better heat dissipation effect and is especially suitable for a projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 9891374
    Abstract: A display device includes a display device including a display panel and a light source configured to emit light. A light guide member is configured to receive the light and guides the light toward the display panel. A protective member is dimensioned and configured to receive the light guide member. The protective member includes a sidewall portion. A support member is configured to absorb pressure from the light guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongjun Lee, Jungki Kim, SeongKoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 9862443
    Abstract: A backpack for motorcyclists provides a rigid outer shell with an electrical system wherein an onboard battery powers rear signal lights, each comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), which are linked with the motorcycle's electrical system to function as brake lights and turn signals. The electrical system also charges a cellular telephone or other portable device via a Universal Service Bus (USB) port, and may be recharged by one or more solar panels mounted to the exterior of the backpack. A cellular telephone, music player, or similar device may also be connected via the USB port to play digital music files via speakers provided by the backpack, and a headphone socket is also provided. An onboard mapping device or homing beacon, enabled by the Global Positioning System (GPS), may be optionally provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventor: Melvin White, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9834135
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: a light source; a sealed housing accommodating the light source therein; and an aiming screw rotatably supported in a through-hole which extends through the housing. Therefore, an optical axis of light emitted from the light source can be adjusted by rotating the aiming screw. A breathing passage communicating inside and outside of the housing with each other is provided inside the aiming screw, so that it is unnecessary to separately provide a breathing passage, thereby enabling decrease in the number of parts, and simplification of the structure. Accordingly, breathing of the housing of the lighting apparatus is achieved using a simple and compact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA ACCESS CORP.
    Inventor: Kunihiko Seki
  • Patent number: 9835314
    Abstract: A luminaire mounting system can accommodate mounting a luminaire to different structures. The luminaire can comprise an adapter, which may be formed into or otherwise associated with a frame of the luminaire, for example. The adapter can provide a mechanical interface to different brackets that are configured for mounting to different structures. The adapter can connect to a first type of bracket that is configured for mounting to a vertically extending pole, to a second type of bracket that is configured for mounting to a horizontally extending pole, and to a third type of bracket that is configured for mounting to a wall or other flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Timothy Wright