Patents Examined by Kevin Quarterman
  • Patent number: 10953788
    Abstract: A terrain viewing apparatus is provided to enable greater viewability of environmental conditions around a vehicle. A housing of the terrain viewing apparatus may include a lighting apparatus for emitting light and illuminating environmental conditions during nighttime, dusk, or adverse weather conditions. The housing may further include a reflecting apparatus to increase an operator's ability to view environmental conditions outside the vehicle. One or more joints may enable the housing to be adjustable with respect to the vehicle. An internal joint may enable the reflecting apparatus to be adjustable with respect to the housing. The lighting apparatus may receive power from the vehicle. The lighting and reflecting apparatuses may be electrically coupled to the vehicle and may be controllable therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: JST Performance, LLC
    Inventors: Nick Kastanis, Johnathan J. Heiner, Bradley J. LaMarche, Edgar A. Madril
  • Patent number: 10948804
    Abstract: A device includes a light-emitting device (LED) having at least two vertical light-emitting sides, and a ring-shaped light guide having a bottom side, a top side comprising a light-emitting surface, an inner sidewall, and an outer sidewall defining an indentation having at least two vertical in-coupling surfaces mated to the at least two vertical light-emitting sides of the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Varun Dev Kakkar, Arjen Van Der Sijde, Erno Fancsali, Chunxia Feng, Nicola Bettina Pfeffer
  • Patent number: 10935842
    Abstract: A display device includes a backlight unit having a light source and a liquid crystal display (LCD) module. The light source is configured to emit a primary light in a first wavelength region. The LCD module includes a pixel having a first, second, and third sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel includes a first emissive surface configured to emit a first light in a second wavelength region. The second sub-pixel includes a second emissive surface configured to emit a second light in a third wavelength region. The third sub-pixel includes a third emissive surface configured to emit a third light in the first wavelength region. The third luminance is greater than the first luminance and the second luminance. An area of the third emissive surface is smaller than an area of the first emissive surface and an area of the second emissive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nanosys, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest Lee, Charles Hotz, ZhongSheng Luo, Jason Hartlove, Shihai Kan, Jian Chen
  • Patent number: 10928043
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a main body, at least a portion of which is generally cylindrical, the main body having an open side, and one or more light sources disposed within the main body. The light fixture further includes one or more mounting rings configured to substantially encircle the main body and configured for mounting the light fixture. A diffuser may be provided, covering the open side of the main body and enclosing the one or more light sources within the light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Barry McCane, Forrest Starnes McCanless, Albert Tran, John Thomas Mayfield, III
  • Patent number: 10926690
    Abstract: In a vehicle body front structure, including a front hood (10) covering a front space (3) defined in a front part of a vehicle body (4) from above, a front panel (13) laterally extending along and under a front edge of the front hood and facing substantially in a fore and aft direction, the front panel defining an opening (13A) in an outboard part thereof, and a headlight (12) attached to the vehicle body and facing the opening of the front panel from behind the front panel, the headlight is attached to a rear side of the front panel via a bracket (40) which is positionally fixed to a periphery of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shinya Tanabe, Takafumi Miki, Yoshitaka Hirose, Masayoshi Takori, Toshiaki Ohnuki
  • Patent number: 10928022
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a ventilation and lighting system including a main housing having an inlet opening and a discharge opening, a blower and motor assembly disposed within a housing and operable to move air through the inlet and outlet, a grille configured to be located at the inlet opening, the grille having a cavity and a plate defining a plurality of apertures through which air may move, and one or more lighting elements arranged within the cavity and an optical component covering the cavity. The system is arranged such that light developed by the one or more lighting elements mixes within the cavity and transmits through the optical component covering the cavity, and the system further includes a controller that coordinates operation of the blower and motor assembly and the one or more lighting elements from a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Broan-NuTone LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Puffer, Bernard Krauska, Colin Norton, Jason Asmus, Julie Stange, Lauren Weigel
  • Patent number: 10914435
    Abstract: A modular light system comprising a lightbar assembly with first and second conductive parts, each of which extend in a direction generally transverse to a longitudinal axis of the lightbar assembly. The modular lightbar system further comprises a lightbar assembly connector having a major surface and with a conductive part that extends in a direction generally transverse to the major surface. Such a design and configuration enables the lightbar assembly connector and lightbar assembly to be connected by moving the lightbar assembly connector in a direction generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the lightbar assembly (or by moving the lightbar assembly in a direction generally transverse to the major surface of the lightbar assembly connector). It is thus possible to assemble a lightbar system comprised of a plurality of lightbar assemblies and lightbar assembly connectors, any of which are removable, replaceable, or serviceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MAXLITE, INC.
    Inventors: Aymen Chami, Yaolin Tang
  • Patent number: 10916567
    Abstract: A lightweight flexible light-emitting device which is able to possess a curved display portion and display a full color image with high resolution and the manufacturing process thereof are disclosed. The light-emitting device comprises: a plastic substrate; an insulating layer with an adhesive interposed therebetween; a thin film transistor over the insulating layer; a protective insulating film over the thin film transistor; a color filter over the protective insulating film; an interlayer insulating film over the color filter; and a white-emissive light-emitting element formed over the interlayer insulating film and being electrically connected to the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Kaoru Hatano
  • Patent number: 10916921
    Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator, a housing, and a deformable sealing washer disposed between the insulator and the housing, the insulator having an annular full-perimeter shoulder against which the sealing washer rests, and the shoulder having a radius in a range of between 0.20 mm and 0.60 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Schimmel, Ugur Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 10906450
    Abstract: An environmental sensor system in a two-wheeled vehicle is capable of being coupled to the two-wheeled vehicle via a carrier unit, the carrier unit being realized so as to be pivotable about an axis of the two-wheeled vehicle and, when there is a deflection of the two-wheeled vehicle, being pivoted about the two-wheeled vehicle axis in a direction opposite to the deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Moerbe
  • Patent number: 10910460
    Abstract: A display device having a display region and a peripheral region in contact with the display region above a substrate is provided. The display region has a plurality of pixels each including a transistor, an insulating film above the transistor, a pixel electrode arranged above the insulating film and electrically connected to the transistor, and a common electrode above the insulating film, a video signal line and a gate signal line electrically connected to the transistor, and liquid crystal layer above the plurality of, pixels. The peripheral region has a terminal electrically connected to the video signal line, a wiring arranged parallel to the gate wiring between the display region and the terminal, and a plurality of first electrodes above the wiring. The insulating film covers the wiring, and the s wiring is electrically connected to the plurality of first electrodes via an opening in the elating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Miyanaga
  • Patent number: 10907797
    Abstract: A variety of light-emitting devices are disclosed that are configured to output light provided by a light-emitting element (LEE). In general, embodiments of the light-emitting devices feature two or more light-emitting elements, a scattering element that is spaced apart from the light-emitting elements, an extractor element coupled to the scattering element, and a reflective element that is configured and arranged to reflect light emitted from the light-emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Allan Brent York, Roland H. Haitz, Louis Lerman
  • Patent number: 10903452
    Abstract: An organic EL device including a first barrier film that contains primarily silicon nitride, a second barrier film that contains primarily silicon nitride, an organic EL element that is disposed between the first barrier film and the second barrier film, a first flexible substrate that is disposed opposite the organic EL element with the first barrier film interposed therebetween, a second flexible substrate that is disposed opposite the organic EL element with the second barrier film interposed therebetween, and a third barrier film that is disposed between the second barrier film and the organic EL element, and contains primarily silicon nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuka Isaji
  • Patent number: 10890700
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display cover layer provided with an infrared-transparent antireflection coating. A pixel array may emit visible light through the cover layer and the coating. An infrared emitter may emit infrared light and an infrared sensor may receive infrared light through the coating and the cover layer. The coating may include a stack of thin-film interference layers. The stack may include alternating lower and higher refractive index layers. The layers may have thicknesses and materials that configure the coating to exhibit an infrared transmittance of greater than 94% from 920 nm to 960 nm and a photopic reflectance of less than 1.5%. The coating may reflect visible light to prevent displayed images from being obscured by visible reflections. At the same time, some photopic reflectance of the coating may be sacrificed to maximize infrared transmittance and accommodate operation by the infrared emitter and sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Cool, Li Zhang, Avery P. Yuen, Kristina A. Babiarz
  • Patent number: 10883671
    Abstract: This Optical Device is conformed by an optical reflector and a filter, the reflector is a diffuse or specular metallic surface with a reflectance of not less than 98%, of shape and dimensions according to the lamp to be affected. The optical filter is a rigid structure and transparent to visible light, with geometric shape and dimensions also according to the lamp to be affected, it is made of organic or inorganic material, and serves as a substrate on which a layer of zinc oxide is applied, specifically a nano structure of zinc oxide nano wires, to form a partially reflective and anti-reflective layer simultaneously as a function of the wavelength of the light that passes through it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Optical Saver Technologies, S.A.P.I. de C.V.
    Inventor: Enrique Capilla Bermudez
  • Patent number: 10879497
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device having a white light, obtained by light emission from a plurality of light emission units, that comprises red light, green light, and blue light. Among the distribution characteristics of light emitted inside a substrate, the brightness of the white light has a maximum value within an angle range of 0-15° from an axis perpendicular to the planar direction of the substrate and the spectral radiance of the blue light at the maximum emission wavelength has a maximum value within the angle range of 0-20° from the axis perpendicular to the planar direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LUMIOTEC INC.
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10877279
    Abstract: There is provided an electro-optical apparatus including an element substrate that includes a display region in which a plurality of pixels, which are light-emitting elements, are arranged in a matrix form. The light-emitting element has a structure in which a reflective electrode, a protective layer, an optical path adjustment layer, a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode are laminated on an insulation layer. The reflective electrode is disposed by being split in each pixel, and a gap is formed between each reflective electrode that is disposed by being split in each pixel. The protective layer covers the surface of the reflective electrode on which the gap is formed, and includes an embedded insulation film which is embedded in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Koshihara
  • Patent number: 10876717
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for attachment and removal of light sources is described herein. In one embodiment, the system may include a first LED light segment adapted or configured to produce ambient light, a second LED light segment adapted or configured to produce directional light, an installation track adapted or configured to connect to the first LED light segment and the second LED light segment along a length of the installation track, a power source adapted or configured to provide power, via the installation track, to the first LED light segment and the second LED light segment when the first LED light segment and the second LED light segment are connected to the installation track, where the first LED light segment and the second LED light segment are further adapted or configured to be separately controllable and positionable along the length of the installation track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LUMINII LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery Parker, Laurentiu Vlad, Meng Yang, Sergey Lagonsky
  • Patent number: 10871274
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices associated with an electronic candle are described. One example, electronic candle device includes a housing with a through-hole at its top, a transfer device including a driver motor and one or more gears positioned inside the housing, and a light emitting component coupled to the transfer device such that the transfer device causes the light emitting component to move vertically up or down to protrude from the housing or to retract into the housing. The electronic candle also includes a movable lid positioned below the through-hole inside the housing and movable to remain in at least one of an open configuration or a closed configuration, and a controller configured to turn on or off the light emitting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: L&L Candle Company, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 10865947
    Abstract: A filament structure, a lighting device with filament structures, a method for manufacturing a lighting device and a method for manufacturing a filament structure are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Sergey Kudaev, Farhang Ghasemi Afshar, Jörg Erich Sorg, Andreas Dobner