Patents Examined by Kevin Quarterman
  • Patent number: 10859241
    Abstract: A modular troffer luminaire includes a housing having a perimeter frame, and a first light module removably attached to the housing. The first light module is replaceable by a second light module after the modular troffer luminaire is installed, where the first light module comprises an LED light source and an optic. The modular troffer luminaire further includes a sensor attached to the perimeter frame. The first light module is controllable based on sensing information from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Steven Russell Clements, Russell Tyler Martin, Anthony James Carney
  • Patent number: 10856653
    Abstract: A light-emitting desk or stool, having a frame and a support portion mounted on the frame; the support portion is a hollowed light-emitting box having a mounting seat and a transparent cover mounted on the mounting seat; a cavity is formed between the mounting seat and the transparent cover; light-emitting bodies are provided within the cavity. Lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies can illuminate through the transparent cover to provide lighting effect. Also, the lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies can pass through hollowed portions provided on the mounting seat, thereby projecting a pattern defined by the hollowed portions to the external environment, and hence enhancing the lighting effect as well as providing aesthetic effect. The pattern defined by the hollowed portions can be flexibly designed according to personal preference or practical need.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Peijun Wang
  • Patent number: 10863612
    Abstract: A system for generating a plasma jet of metal ions is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS
    Inventors: Tiberiu Minea, Thomas Petty, Daniel Lundin, Charles Ballage
  • Patent number: 10851980
    Abstract: A tactical flashlight provides an improved tactical advantage useful in life-threatening situations by being configured so that it will operate in a disorientingly bright mode while pressure is applied to its finger activated electronic switch but then automatically switch to a strobe mode when pressure is released from the electronic switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MAG INSTRUMENT, INC
    Inventor: John Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10842234
    Abstract: An illuminated accessory. The illuminated accessory includes a housing that may be elastic, a power source inside the housing, electric lights connected to the power source, and a power switch to control the electric lights and/or other components of the illuminated accessory, such as a camera, a microphone, a clock, and/or a timer. The illuminated accessory may be configured to wrap around a wrist of an individual and worn as a bracelet, and/or may be configured to wrap around a device, such as a hair trimmer, and used as a light source when performing an activity, such as trimming hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventor: Alva Kenley Allan
  • Patent number: 10845037
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion extends along a first axis and supports a first light emitter. The second portion is laterally spaced from the first portion and extends along a second axis that is oriented parallel to the first axis. The second portion supports a second light emitter. The third portion is disposed laterally between the first portion and the second portion and extends along a third axis that is oriented parallel to the first axis. The third portion supports at least one current driver for driving at least one of the first light emitter and the second light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Gaurav Amin
  • Patent number: 10823907
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. A back plate of the backlight module has a first surface and a second surface. The back plate comprises a metal portion and an insulating portion, and electrical connection pads are disposed in the insulating portion. The first and second electrical connection pads are disposed on the first surface and electrically coupled to each other. The third and fourth electrical connection pads are disposed on the second surface. The first electrical connection pad is correspondingly coupled to the third electrical connection pad, and the second electrical connection pad is correspondingly coupled to the fourth electrical connection pad. A driving circuit board comprises a fifth electrical connection pad. The fifth electrical connection pad is correspondingly coupled to the first electrical connection pad. A light emitting unit comprises a sixth electrical connection pad correspondingly coupled to the fourth electrical connection pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: JianFeng Shan
  • Patent number: 10821902
    Abstract: An edge-lit rearview assembly comprising a housing; a mirror element having a perimeter and disposed within the housing; a bezel extending around at least a portion of the perimeter of the mirror element; at least one circuit board; at least one light source in electrical communication with the circuit board; wherein the at least one light source is in optical communication with at least a portion of the bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradley A. Bosma, Michael F. Lisowski
  • Patent number: 10818464
    Abstract: An external grid-controlled hot cathode array electron gun, including an insulated cathode base, a filament, a plurality of hot cathode emission elements, and a grid-controlled structure is disclosed. In one aspect, the grid-controlled structure includes an insulated grid-controlled structure body and a plurality of through holes. One side of the grid-controlled structure body abuts against the cathode base to clamp the filament between the grid-controlled structure body and the cathode base and the plurality of hot cathode emission elements are inserted into the plurality of through holes respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Nuctech Company Limited, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Wenhui Huang, Qingxiu Jin, Cong Xu, Luming Zhang, Donghai Liu, Cheng Song, Peidong Wu, Qun Luo, Chengjun Tan, Shuo Wang
  • Patent number: 10816171
    Abstract: A downlight apparatus is designed to be installed in a cavity of a ceiling. The downlight apparatus includes a base part, a major part and a connector. The base part has a shape to be fixed in the cavity of the ceiling. The base part has a base housing for defining a through hole and a light window. The major part includes a major housing, a light source and a driver circuit. The connector connects the major housing and the base housing. The connector provides multiple candidate positions for a user to configure to change a relative position of the base part and the major part so as to change an output light defined determined by the light window and the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: ZhenKun Huang, Maojin Zeng, Qiqing Yu
  • Patent number: 10811467
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes providing a display substrate divided into a plurality of emission regions, and a non-emission region adjacent the emission regions; forming a black matrix on the display substrate, the black matrix corresponding to the non-emission region; and forming a plurality of color patterns on the display substrate through a solution process, the plurality of color patterns corresponding to the emission regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngdo Kim, Hoonsik Kim
  • Patent number: 10808906
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a luminous device the turned-on aspect of which is different from the turned-off aspect, the device including a mask that is able to be partially passed through by light, one or more light sources, and a closing outer lens that is placed downstream of the mask. The one or more light sources and the mask are arranged with respect to one another so that the mask directly or indirectly receives the light rays emitted by the one or more light sources and so that only some of these emitted light rays pass through the mask. The method includes a step of arranging the one or more light sources in the luminous device in number and in power so that the light rays exiting from the luminous device form a signalling light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Colombel, Erwan Faoucher, Francois Gratecap
  • Patent number: 10808903
    Abstract: A light converting device, comprising: a substrate functioning as a heatsink, a light converter adapted to convert laser light to converted light, wherein a peak emission wavelength of the converted light is in a longer wavelength range than a laser peak emission wavelength of the laser light, the light converter comprises a light entrance surface, a bonding surface opposite to the light entrance surface and at least one side surface, the bonding surface is mechanically and thermally coupled to the substrate, a reflective structure attached to or part of the substrate, wherein the reflective structure comprises at least one reflective metal surface arranged on the side of the substrate facing the light converter to reflect laser light and converted light, and a translucent ceramic protection layer, arranged between the reflective structure and the light converter, and having a thickness of less than 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: LUMILEDS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Claudia Goldmann, Rainald Gierth, Ulrich Hechtfischer, Josef Schug
  • Patent number: 10795072
    Abstract: An optical chamber, an optical system, and a display device are provided. The optical chamber includes: a plurality of sidewalls, including a first sidewall having at least one opening, configured to reflect light in the optical chamber; and a light path adjusting element connected with the first sidewall, wherein the orthographic projection of the light path adjusting element onto the plane where the first sidewall lies at least partially lies in the area where the opening is located, and the light path adjusting element is configured to uniformly emit the light reflected by the plurality of sidewalls to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Fei Liang, Lingyu Sun, Xiuyun Chen, Jingjun Du
  • Patent number: 10788612
    Abstract: A light-emitting unit includes first light-emitting sections, second light-emitting sections, and first and second light guide plates. The first and second sections, respectively, line up in first and second directions, and emit first and second light individually. The first plate includes first end and front surfaces; guides, along a second direction, a portion of the first light; and outputs the guided portion from the first front surface. The first and second end surfaces, respectively, along the first and second directions and face the first and second sections. The second direction is a direction getting away from the first end surface. The second plate includes second end and front surfaces; guides, along the first direction, a portion of the second light; and outputs the guided portion from the second front surface. The first and second plates are laminated to cause the first and second front surfaces to overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shinpei Nagatani
  • Patent number: 10784655
    Abstract: A corona igniter including a hermetic combustion seal between an insulator and center electrode is provided. The combustion seal includes a metallic coating, such as a nickel-based layer applied to a layer of molybdenum-manganese, and the metallic coating is disposed on the insulator inner surface. Optionally, a shot of copper-based powder can be disposed on a head of the center electrode. The center electrode and/or the copper-based powder is then brazed to the metallic coating on the inner surface of the insulator. The process can include applying the metallic coating to the inner surface while applying a metal coating to an outer surface of the insulator. The method further includes brazing the center electrode and/or the copper-based powder to the metallic coating on the inner surface while brazing the metal coating on the outer surface to a metal shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Tenneco Inc.
    Inventor: Balakrishnan Subramanian
  • Patent number: 10775665
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a substrate including a pixel array layer and a pad portion connected to the pixel array layer; a circuit film attached to the pad portion; and a coating layer provided between the pixel array layer and the circuit film on the pad portion, wherein the coating layer contains a light-shielding material, whereby flexibility of the coating layer and bond stiffness of a circuit film may be secured and the pad portion and lines may be prevented from being damaged during a laser release process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SangHoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10777101
    Abstract: A foldable display device including a panel pad unit, a first polymer layer disposed on the panel pad unit and including a first repeated subunit organic compound, a rigid layer disposed on the first polymer layer, a second polymer layer disposed on the rigid layer and including a second repeated subunit organic compound, a panel light-emitting unit disposed on the second polymer layer, and a third polymer layer disposed on the panel light-emitting unit and including a third repeated subunit organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Myoung Seo Park
  • Patent number: 10766555
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a brake warning device mounted between a bicycle handle and a brake horn, the brake warning device includes a moving portion, a fixing portion, a sensory switch and a tip light, the moving portion of the brake warning device includes a first thimble fixing block, a second thimble fixing block, a first thimble, a thimble spring, a second thimble, and a protective outer spring, the first thimble fixing block and the second thimble fixing block are embedded to form one and connected to the brake horn, the fixing portion of the brake warning device includes a first fixing block and a second fixing block, the first fixing block and the second fixing block are assembled to form a loop structure, which can be mounted on the handle, the sensory switch is located on the first fixing block, the second thimble passes through the first fixing block and is in contact with the sensory switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MEIZHOU FRII LENS ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daozheng Xu
  • Patent number: 10753583
    Abstract: An angled connector which allows connection between two LED lighting strips without the creation of an undesirable dark gap at connecting corners. The angled connector has a plurality of terminal pairs arranged such that when two LED light strips are connected, a distance between an end LED on one strip and an end LED on the other strip is approximately the same as a distance between adjacent equally-spaced LEDs on surfaces of the two strips. Used in a lighting fixture, a non-linear light source is retained within a housing having an opening through which light from LEDs can be directed. At least first and second adjacent LED light strips are connected at an angle to one another and a distance between end LEDs is approximately the same as a distance between equally-spaced LEDs on the surface of both the first and second LED strips. This configuration eliminates dark gaps at the corners of the fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: PureEdge Lighting LLC
    Inventors: Gregory L. Kay, James E. O'Shea