Patents Examined by Kevin Quarterman
  • Patent number: 10619804
    Abstract: An integrated cap for retrofitting an existing light fixture can include an integrated cap housing that is configured to be disposed atop a pole that supports the existing light fixture, where the integrated cap housing includes a communication module and a transceiver. The integrated cap can also include a first coupling feature disposed at a bottom end of the integrated cap housing, where the first coupling feature is configured to couple to a first component of the existing light fixture to provide electrical signals to the communication module and the transceiver, where the communication module and the transceiver communicate with a second component external to the existing light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Chenell Erika York, Nam Chin Cho
  • Patent number: 10618462
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to encapsulation-embedded exterior-facing light sets for vehicles, and/or methods of making the same. This system includes a main body portion. Wire guides are embedded in, and located along a channel of, the main body portion. Pockets are formed in the main body portion. Removable light sources are located in the pockets. A power and/or data cable is fed through the wire guides and through the channel of the main body portion, and is operably connected to the light sources. A groove is shaped and arranged to receive a windshield of the safety and/or protection vehicle such that, when the groove receives the windshield and the windshield is installed in the vehicle, the pockets and the light sources are external to the vehicle. The light sources may be LED light sources, with each pocket receiving plural LEDs provided on a respective LED module and associated optical element(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Custom Glass Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Chad Christopher Beach
  • Patent number: 10608416
    Abstract: The spark plug includes: an insulator having an axial hole formed along an axial line; and a metal terminal provided on a rear side of the axial hole of the insulator. The metal terminal has, at a rear end portion thereof, a bottom surface facing rearward and a projection projecting rearward from an outer edge of the bottom surface, and a mark is provided to at least a part of the bottom surface. The Vickers hardness of the projection is 100 HV or higher. A rear end surface of the projection is positioned on a rear side with respect to a rear end of the mark. An area of the rear end surface is 3 mm2 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mai Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10605441
    Abstract: An aiming device configured for easily removable attachment to a light projecting luminaire. The device has a body with attachment members that are configured to fit a specific luminaire that has corresponding attachment receiving features, and is further configured with clamps for mounting a light source outputting a high intensity collimated visible light aiming beam such that, when the device is removably attached to the luminaire (i.e., latched in place) the laser is prepositioned to direct the laser beam parallel to a center axis of the luminaire's light output beam. Ideally the luminaire has preexisting features that can be utilized as the attachment receiving features for corresponding attachment members of a suitably configured aiming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Eye Lighting International of North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul J. Jurkovic
  • Patent number: 10593492
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an illuminating keyboard including a keyboard module and a light emitting module. The keyboard module has an opaque region. The light emitting module includes a light guiding plate, a first light emitting component and a second light emitting component. The light guiding plate includes an accommodating groove corresponding to the opaque region. The accommodating groove has a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a first light divergence segment and a second light divergence segment. The first light divergence segment and the second light divergence segment are disposed on the first sidewall and the second sidewall, respectively. The first light emitting component and the second light emitting component are located in the accommodating groove and are disposed toward the first sidewall and the second sidewall, respectively. The light beams are injected into the light guiding plate via the first and the second light divergence segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Wei Ho, Jian-Hua Huang
  • Patent number: 10585227
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light guide plate and a light source. The light guide plate includes a plate-like member. The light source is arranged so as to oppose an end surface of the light guide plate and emits light to the end surface. The light guide plate has a light incidence surface, an opposite surface of incidence, and a through-hole. In a straight traveling direction of light traveling straight inside the light guide plate from the light incidence surface to the opposite surface of incidence along an optical axis direction of the light, a region on the opposite surface of incidence side with respect to the through-hole is a shielded region where the light traveling straight along the optical axis direction is interrupted by the through-hole. Stepwise step parts that emit light from the light source to the shielded region side are provided adjacent to the shielded region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Kawano, Tomohiro Morita
  • Patent number: 10584863
    Abstract: Described herein is a light emitting diode (LED) luminaire comprising a cylindrical plastic housing having a first open end and a second open end. At the first open end, an externally threaded formation terminating with a flange is formed to mate with an internally threaded mounting unit, and at the second open end, an internal ridge is formed with a circumferential groove at its base. Inside the cylindrical plastic housing, an aluminum heat sink is insert molded. The aluminum heat sink has a cylindrical profile matching with the internal profile of the plastic housing. The aluminum heat sink has an open end towards the first open end of the plastic housing and a closed end resting on the internal ridge at the second open end of the plastic housing. With the interior surface of the closed end of the aluminum heat sink, a printed circuit board (PCB) holder plate locks a PCB driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Overdrive Electronics Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohit Mittal, Nagesh Chandra Nath, Manish Kumar Pandey
  • Patent number: 10576883
    Abstract: A gauge assembly includes a dial face including a plurality of printed indicia. A plurality of illuminable chaplet tick marks extend through openings in the dial face. The dial face includes dark outlines around a perimeter of each of the openings for reducing a luminance of each of the chaplet tick marks. A method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Birman, Kevin Michael Dyer, Tian Bai
  • Patent number: 10576884
    Abstract: A device for interior illumination for a vehicle includes an array formed by multiple light sources, with which an ambient illumination and a reading illumination can be generated inside the vehicle, an additional lamp unit with which exclusively an ambient illumination can be generated inside the vehicle, and a control unit for controlling the light sources and the additional lamp unit in three modes. The control unit is designed and configured in such a way that in the first mode the light sources are controlled in such a way that exclusively a reading illumination is generated inside the vehicle; in the second mode the light sources and the additional lamp unit are controlled in such a way that exclusively an ambient illumination is generated inside the vehicle; and in the third mode the control unit simultaneously activates the first and second modes for simultaneously generating an ambient illumination and a reading illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Daniel Betz, Daniel Fuhrmann, Michael Holz, Juergen Ketterer, Daniel Steffen Setz
  • Patent number: 10578292
    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: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MAG INSTRUMENT, INC.
    Inventor: John Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10564340
    Abstract: A multispectral light source device includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting diodes, a cover body and a light guide body. The light-emitting diodes are disposed on the substrate. A plurality of waveband lights with different wavelengths are emitted by the light-emitting diodes. The cover body is disposed on the substrate, and the light-emitting diodes are covered by the cover body. The light guide body is disposed on the substrate. The light guide body has a light guide outlet. The substrate has a first diameter, the light guide outlet has a second diameter, and the ratio of the first diameter to the second diameter is in a range between 9 to 15, so that the waveband lights are moved and converged in the light guide body and emitted through the light guide outlet. As a result, the product can be miniaturized, and the handheld detection instrument can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: APACER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chong-Jing Peng
  • Patent number: 10551025
    Abstract: A lighting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a substrate; light sources of the side-emitting LED type, which are placed on the substrate and which illuminate in main directions that are orientated along the substrate; and a screen placed so as to receive the light rays emitted by the light sources. The substrate includes windows and the lighting device furthermore includes reflective surfaces that are placed facing the windows so as to reflect, toward the screen, a portion of the light rays emitted by the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Franck Millon, Natacha Audy, Lingxuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10538193
    Abstract: An illumination device for a vehicle includes: plural light sources that are disposed so as to be lined-up in at least one line, and that illuminate light; a light-blocking member having an opening portion onto which light illuminated from the light sources is incident; and a projecting lens that emits, toward an object, light that has passed through the opening portion of the light-blocking member and has been incident on the projecting lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko Mouri, Takuya Kitazono, Norikatsu Myojin
  • Patent number: 10539303
    Abstract: An airfield light includes a light assembly mounted on a base and a transparent cover disposed over the light assembly and secured to the base. The light assembly includes a curved LED (light emitting diode) assembly having a circuit board with at least a portion that is curved along its length. A plurality of LEDs are spaced apart along the length of the circuit board and are configured to emit light through the transparent cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Vivian Loomis Hunter
  • Patent number: 10539307
    Abstract: A lamp mounting mechanism and automated luminaire are provided. A lamp head includes a lamp access panel and the lamp mounting mechanism. The lamp access panel can be removed to provide access to the lamp mounting mechanism. The lamp mounting mechanism includes a lamp mounting plate and a lamp retainer. A lamp is removably mounted in the lamp mounting mechanism, which aligns an optical axis of the lamp with a center of the lamp mounting plate. The lamp retainer includes a plurality of retaining clips that apply forces to flanges of the lamp to maintain the lamp in a fixed position relative to the lamp mounting plate. The retaining clips allow a user to rotate the lamp to position the flanges of the lamp in openings between the retaining clips. The openings between the retaining clips allow the user to remove the lamp from the lamp mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Robe Lighting s.r.o.
    Inventors: Pavel Jurik, Josef Valchar
  • Patent number: 10539301
    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: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 10534224
    Abstract: A display substrate may include a base substrate having a plurality of pixel areas; and a pixel electrode in the pixel area. The pixel electrode may include a bump portion defining a plurality of domains and at least one slit extending along an edge of the pixel electrode in at least one domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taekyung Yim, Suwan Woo, Keunwoo Park, Nakcho Choi
  • Patent number: 10534187
    Abstract: A light path adjustment mechanism includes a carrier, an optical plate member, a support, a first axis, a second axis, a first actuator and a second actuator. The carrier includes an inner frame and an outer frame, the optical plate member is disposed on the inner frame and has a reflective surface and an opposite surface opposite the reflective surface. The first axis is disposed between the inner frame and the outer frame, and the second axis is disposed between the outer frame and the support. The first actuator and the second actuator are disposed on one side of the carrier facing away from the reflective mirror, and the opposite surface of the reflective mirror and the first axis are spaced at a distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: YOUNG OPTICS INC.
    Inventor: Tung-Hua Chou
  • Patent number: 10533713
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first wavelength converter that contains a first phosphor that absorbs at least part of primary light radiated by a radiation source and converts the primary light absorbed into secondary light, and a second wavelength converter that contains a second phosphor that absorbs at least part of the secondary light and converts the secondary light absorbed into tertiary light. The lifetime of fluorescence emitted from the second phosphor is longer than the lifetime of fluorescence emitted from the first phosphor, and the light density of the secondary light, with which the second wavelength converter is irradiated, is lower than the light density of the primary light, with which the first wavelength converter is irradiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Abe, Shozo Oshio, Hiroshi Asano, Yosuke Honda
  • Patent number: 10529741
    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: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Kaoru Hatano