Patents Examined by Keith Delahoussaye
  • Patent number: 9817177
    Abstract: Provided are a light source device capable of suppressing reflection of light which is irregularly reflected on a side face relating to a notch part, and a display apparatus. The light source device includes a light guide plate having a notch part formed at an edge part thereof, and a reflection sheet which is disposed to face the light guide plate and has a notch part formed at an edge part corresponding to the notch part, wherein the reflection sheet includes a low-reflection part which is provided around the notch part of a surface facing the light guide plate and has a reflectance lower than that of the reflection sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
  • Patent number: 9810399
    Abstract: An LED lighting apparatus is provided. The LED lighting apparatus includes a case part which covers a residual part, excluding a light-emitting surface, to provide a reflective space and has a predetermined depth and in which an upper edge of the inside thereof has a slope. Further, a receiving surface has a lateral surface portion of the case part that is bent toward the inside of the case. A substrate is fixed on the receiving surface and a plurality of LEDs are provided. A reflective part located in an upper center portion of the inside of the case part reflects the light of the LEDs and enables reflection and diffusion of light within the reflective space provided from the case part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KMW INC.
    Inventors: Duk-Yong Kim, Youn-Chae Lim, Myoung-Seo Park
  • Patent number: 9806242
    Abstract: An optical lens for an LED includes an upper portion defining a light extraction face, a lower portion and an annular flange between the upper and lower portions. The lower portion has a wall section defining a cavity for receiving the LED therein, and a curved lateral side. A lateral light generated by the LED and running against the curved lateral side has at least a part being refracted or reflected thereby to run through the light extraction face of the optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Chin Chiu
  • Patent number: 9803814
    Abstract: A recessed lighting fixture, comprising a non-metallic housing having a central opening adapted to receive an LED lamp therethrough. The housing is formed of a front-facing trim ring surrounding the central opening and a rear portion coupled to a rear of the trim ring about the LED lamp. The rear portion includes at least two peripheral flanges that extend backward from the trim ring and terminate in a spring-clip support. A spring clip is coupled to each of the spring clip supports and is rotatably biased toward a front of the housing to bear against a backside of a recessed opening when the housing is inserted into the recessed opening and when the trim ring bears against a frontside of the recessed opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: O'RYAN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Rick Grant
  • Patent number: 9791617
    Abstract: A guiding light platform includes a frame having a side plate, a top light-transmitting plate covering top of the frame, a bottom plate covering bottom of the frame, a LED strip mounted on the frame, and a separation plate mounted between the LED strip and the bottom plate. A top inner portion of the side plate is formed with a slanted surface disposed underneath and at an angle with respect to a bottom surface of the top light-transmitting plate to thereby define a space for receiving therein a waterproof adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Wonderlight International Ltd.
    Inventor: Ooi Yong Phua
  • Patent number: 9772083
    Abstract: A lighting structure for an exterior vehicle light unit has a light source with a principal light emission direction, at least one LED, a substantially parabolic reflector arranged to reflect light output from the light source in a first output region and to collimate the same in a primary light output direction. The light source is arranged in such a way with respect to the substantially parabolic reflector and the aspherical collimating lens that the principal light emission direction is inclined at an acute angle with respect to the primary light output direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Jha, Andre Hessling Von Heimendahl
  • Patent number: 9746163
    Abstract: An apparatus for an easy and safe method for installing a hook system for suspending outdoor holiday light strands on the roof lines of homes and businesses having one-piece-mountable-hooks able to be placed on a roof line of a building. Various embodiments of the one-piece-mountable-hooks are described to fit different types of roof lines and a roof line having a rain gutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Inventors: Gilbert Acosta, Sr., Gilbert Acosta, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9733421
    Abstract: A backlight module having a light guide plate, an optical assembly disposed on an upper surface of the light guide plate, and a light shielding tape, the light guide plate includes a light guide plate body and a reinforcement member disposed at a non-incidence side end surface of the light guide plate body, and the light shielding tape is adhered to a portion of an upper surface of the optical assembly and extends to cover the reinforcement member. Further provided is a display device having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gege Zhou
  • Patent number: 9709257
    Abstract: A recessed light apparatus for being installed at a ceiling includes a light source unit, a heat sink for dissipating heat generated from the light source unit, and a thermal insulating member coupled between the heat sink and the light source unit to define an upper space above the heat insulating member and a bottom space below the thermal insulating member. In case of fire, the heat insulating member prevents flame or fire spreading from the bottom space to the upper space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Liangju Wu
  • Patent number: 9689539
    Abstract: The invention discloses an LED fluorescent lamp, comprising a base plate, an end cap, an aluminum profile, a light diffusing plate, a light guide plate component, a lamp shade, a power unit and a lamp panel component as well as an LED lamp bead on the lamp panel component; first slots are arranged on two left side walls of the aluminum profile; the light guide plate can rotationally sleeved in the first slots; the top of the lamp shade is provided with a holding groove, at the bottom of which a hollowed-out part is hollowed out; the light diffusing plate is fixed in the holding groove and provided with many stripes on the surface; the stripes are crossed to form diamond-shaped stripes; and two sides of the lamp shade are arcs. The invention has the advantages of high thermal radiation effect, soft light and better light-emitting angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Inventors: Lap Wah Lin, Sek Lun Stephen Chan
  • Patent number: 9684110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting device for vehicles. The lighting device has a flat optical waveguide containing two opposing flat sides, a light input surface for the entry of light, and a light output surface for emitting the entering light at a light output side of the flat waveguide. The light input surface has a central input section disposed in the main beam direction in front of the light source, and an outer input section adjacent thereto. The central input section and the outer input section are shaped such that a first sub-light bundle of the light striking the central input section strikes a central region of a sub-surface of the light output surface disposed in the main beam direction in front of the light input surface after being reflected at the flat sides. A second sub-light bundle of the light source, striking the outer input section, strikes an outer region of the same sub-surface, adjacent to the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Carmen Bungenstock
  • Patent number: 9671078
    Abstract: A lighting unit including devices for emitting a luminous flux in the direction of a reflector featuring devices for optical deflection of the flux toward the outlet of the unit, the reflector including a support wall that is fastened to the optical deflection devices and is disposed across the optical deflection devices so as to be disposed between the optical deflection devices and the emission devices. The support wall includes a masking portion that is disposed facing the emission devices and a so-called cut-off edge of which is cut away so as to form a mask integral with the support wall adapted to allow to pass only a portion of the rays emitted by the emission devices. The invention also concerns a motor vehicle headlamp, notably in that it includes two lighting units disposed transversely side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Valeo Iluminacion
    Inventors: Damien Cabanne, Alberto Rodriguez-Fuentes, Jose Castillo Jimenez
  • Patent number: 9638404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable flashlight, and more particularly to a portable flashlight which has a wireless switching function for turning on or off the flashlight by means of a radio signal in addition to a manual switch provided on the outside of the flashlight. The flashlight can not only be turned on or off by means of an external radio signal, but also be used in various ways such as turning on a part of the lamp or intermittently turning on the flashlight. A flashlight according to the present invention includes a power supply part, a lamp for generating a light by means of the power from the power supply part, and a manual switch connected between the lamp and the power supply part for switching the flashlight, characterized by further including a radio switch in addition to or instead of the manual switch, wherein the radio switch consists of a radio receiver for receiving an external radio signal to operate the radio switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Sang Deuk Lee
  • Patent number: 9618193
    Abstract: A docking system for the interchangeable attachment of personal devices such as lights, electronic devices, popular survival and safety equipment and the like, to the outer face of an article of clothing. It has a pair of discs held in a parallel, spaced arrangement by a pair of opposing stanchions so that a slot is created between the disks and the stanchions. Into this slot may be inserted an engageable tab connected normally to an arm that is affixed to, or extends from a personal device, such as an emergency light. The emergency light has a plethora of lighting modes that regulate which of the numerous disposed LEDs will be illuminated and in what pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Inventor: Jeremy William Lord
  • Patent number: 9618784
    Abstract: A heat-dissipation structure of a liquid crystal is disclosed. The heat dissipation structure comprises a light bar component having a circuit portion, the light bar component comprises a vertical plate and a horizontal plate, the vertical plate and the horizontal plate are formed by one-piece bending and are vertical to each other, and a plurality of LED light source modules are disposed on a surface of the vertical plate; and a back plate, the horizontal plate is disposed on the back plate. In the liquid crystal module and the heat dissipation structure, the bending light bar component is connected to the back plate. Compared with the traditional art, the liquid crystal module has narrower border, higher heat dissipation efficiency and longer life time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dehua Li, Yuchun Hsiao, Shihhsiang Chen, Yongyuan Qiu
  • Patent number: 9604566
    Abstract: A lamp structure is provided in which a roof rack fixed on top of a car has an engaging slot for locking with a detent portion formed on the bottom of a positioning unit. A connecting portion extending on the detent portion has a fitting indentation with a positioning member penetrating therethrough, one end of the positioning member having a snap-fit portion provided on one end and a positioning pulling lever pivotally provided on the other end. A warning lamp having a snap-fit groove for engaging with the snap-fit portion is combined with the connecting portion. Therefore, the warning lamp has higher assembly position so that light emitted from the warning light is clearly visible by rear drivers from a longer distance and hence has better eye-catching and warning effect, and better driving safety can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Big Time Auto Parts Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 9534769
    Abstract: A lamp holder for an LED lamp string includes a base and an LED luminaire. The LED luminaire is inserted into the base. The base includes a casing, a cover, and a tail plug which are axially symmetric structures. The combination of the casing, cover and tail plug form a pin insertion hole of the LED luminaire and a wire inserting hole of a connecting wire of the lamp string, and the three are combined as a whole by a latch member, a latch slot, and a latch member. The cover and the tail plug seal an electrically conductive portion of the LED luminaire to provide a waterproof and dustproof effect. Since the casing, cover and tail plug are bilaterally symmetric structures, the level of difficulty of the alignment is reduced significantly. Automated equipment may be used for assembling the base in mass production, and the labor is reduced significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yao Wu Liu, Kuo Chih Chen