Patents Examined by Kevin Quarterman
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Patent number: 11137128Abstract: A warning device. In some embodiments, the warning device can include: a plurality of light sources forming an array; a plurality of reflectors, with at least one reflector being associated with each of the plurality of lights; and a plurality of lenses, with at least one lens being associated with each of the plurality of lights. In some examples, each of the plurality of reflectors and the plurality of lenses is tilted along a principal axis to collimate light and to direct the light from one of the plurality of lights to one of a plurality of far field light spots.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Federal Signal CorporationInventors: Vincent S. Fleszewski, Jeffery M. Loftus
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Patent number: 11119267Abstract: A reflective sheet of a display apparatus includes a sheet configured to reflect light; and a beading pattern protruding from a surface of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoungjin Cho, Yoonki Park, Jongbin Kim, Wonyeop Jang
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Patent number: 11114651Abstract: An apparatus and a method for manufacturing a curved display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a carrying machine, a flexible bag, a supporting machine, and an infusion equipment. The carrying machine is used to carry a curved cover. The flexible bag is used to fasten a flexible display device. The supporting machine is used to fasten the flexible bag. The infusion equipment is used to infuse a liquid substance into the flexible bag so that the flexible display device is attached the curved cover. The disclosure can avoid gaps presented between the flexible display device and the curved cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Guoqiang Jiang
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Patent number: 11110876Abstract: The present invention discloses a seatbelt strap sensor for automobiles. The seatbelt strap sensor could detachably fasten to a strap of a seatbelt of the automobile. The strap sensor comprises a plurality of LEDs disposed within a housing, and a pressure sensor and a bracket are disposed on the rear surface of the housing. The pressure sensor is positioned against the body of a child and configured to measure the tightness of the strap of a seatbelt. The bracket has capable to tightly hold the strap sensor to the strap of the seatbelt. The LEDs are configured to illuminate different colors for indicating the tightness of the strap based on the output of the pressure sensor. The housing having indications with letters or words and symbols corresponding to the LEDs. It helps users to determine the tightness of the strap and could be adjusted optimally.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Inventor: Jeremy R. Escobar
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Patent number: 11094769Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a substrate including a pixel area and a peripheral area surrounding the pixel area and an organic light-emitting element formed in the pixel area and including a first electrode, an organic emission layer, and a second electrode. The display also includes a common voltage line formed in the peripheral area and configured to provide a common voltage to the second electrode, wherein the common voltage line and the first electrode are formed of the same material.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Won Se Lee
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Patent number: 11081864Abstract: A spark plug is provided that ensures that a ground electrode is positioned in a predefined, precise orientation when installed in a spark plug hole of an engine head. The spark plug is configured for axial insertion into the plug hole, and has a non-axisymmetric ground shield that fits into the plug hole, wherein the ground shield has an outer shield surface with a non-axisymmetric shape and the plug hole is also provided with a complementary non-axisymmetric shape. The spark plug includes a central insulator, which has an inner end surrounding a central electrode and supporting the ground shield, which is mounted on the insulator to support a ground strap adjacent the electrode for forming a spark therebetween. The insulator and ground shield are axially slidable into the plug hole, and the spark plug includes a jamb nut which is rotatable to fix the spark plug in position in a predefined orientation.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: FRAM Group IP LLCInventors: Matthew B Below, Timothy J Smith
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Patent number: 11060711Abstract: A lighting cove apparatus includes an elongate main housing with an outer rear wall from which an outer sidewall extends vertically therefrom on each side of the outer rear wall and terminating in an inwardly extending peripheral lip to define a channel with a passageway. The passageway extends the length of the housing. The outer rear wall has an inner concave reflecting surface configured to reflect light. The peripheral lip has an inwardly chamfered surface extending at an acute angle and intersecting with an inside surface of outer sidewall. The inwardly chamfered surface is configured to hold an LED strip. The main housing includes one or more female interlock components at one end and corresponding male interlock components at the other end. The lighting cove apparatus further includes a right-angled connector component for connecting two main housing units in a horizontal configuration and a corner connector component for connecting two main housing units in a vertical configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Seeless Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Shalom Illouz
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Patent number: 11060701Abstract: A lighting module (10) is disclosed comprising a housing (15) and a woven fabric (50) defining a light exit window across said housing, the housing comprising an acoustically absorbent panel (20) opposing the woven fabric and a light engine arrangement (30) on the acoustically absorbent panel arranged to generate a light output through the light exit window, the lighting module further comprising a felt-based volumetric diffuser (40) in between the woven fabric and the light engine arrangement. Also disclosed are a N lighting kit and luminaire comprising such lighting modules (10).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Signify Holding B.V.Inventor: Martinus Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden
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Patent number: 11052820Abstract: Interior panels for an interior of a vehicle, vehicles, and methods for making interior panels for an interior of a vehicle are provided. In one example, the interior panel includes a first trim section having a first exposed surface configured to face towards the interior. A second trim section that has a second exposed surface configured to face towards the interior is disposed adjacent to and spaced apart from the first trim section to define a gap. A first lighting array that includes light sources is configured to be disposed proximate the gap hidden from the interior by the second trim section. A controller is configured to be in communication with the first lighting array to independently direct each of the light sources to generate light that passes through the gap into the interior and illuminates the first exposed surface to define an illumination pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Inventors: Matthew Wallace, Stephen Spencer, Timothy O'Hara
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Patent number: 11054102Abstract: A collimator lens in use for a vehicle lighting apparatus includes: an incident surface which allows incident light to become primary light that passes through an inside of the collimator lens; and an emission surface that is configured to emit secondary light parallel to an optical axis of the collimator lens, wherein a diffusion angle of a horizontal component of the primary light is larger than a diffusion angle of a component in a vertical direction of the primary light.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinya Kogure
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Patent number: 11018317Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first substrate, a display unit defining an active area on the first substrate and including an insulating layer, a second substrate on the display unit, one or more signal lines outside the active area and on the insulating layer, and a sealant between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealant bonds the first substrate and the second substrate, and covers at least a portion of the signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Min Hong, Hyun-Min Hwang, Hyun-Young Kim, Eun-Jae Na
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Patent number: 11005238Abstract: A spark plug has a housing, an insulator, a central electrode and a ground electrode. A projection part is formed projecting radially from the housing. The spark plug has a structure which satisfies a relationship of t2/t1?0.85, s1?0.5, and s1?1.05?t2/t1. A leg part of the insulator has a first end and a second end in an axial direction thereof. The second end is located opposite to the first end in the axial direction. In the relationship, t1 represents a first radial thickness of the first end in a radial direction of the leg part, t2 represents a center radial thickness in the radial direction at a middle position of the leg part, and s1 represents a first gap width in the radial direction of the housing between the projection part of the housing and the first end of the leg part.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masamichi Shibata
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Patent number: 11003051Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Lumileds Holding B.V.Inventors: Varun Dev Kakkar, Arjen Van Der Sijde, Erno Fancsali, Chunxia Feng, Nicola Pfeffer
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Patent number: 11000911Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a backlight source. The method for manufacturing a backlight source according to the present invention forms a plurality of tin soldering pattern groups on a substrate. Each tin soldering pattern group includes tin soldering patterns spaced from one another, and the tin soldering patterns are in a closed ring shape. The Mini-LEDs are disposed on the tin soldering pattern groups respectively. The substrate is placed in the space having a varying magnetic field. The circuit of the tin soldering patterns in the tin soldering pattern groups generates the induced current for rapid heating and melting, to solder the Mini-LEDs on the substrate. The soldering speed is improved, the process efficiency is high, the process cost is low, and the light effect of the backlight source is effectively ensured.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventor: Yong Yang
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Patent number: 10996451Abstract: A system, method and device for collimating the output of a light emitting diode (LED) are disclosed. The system, method and device include an LED substrate including a top surface from which the light is emitted, and an array of subwavelength scattering antennas positioned within the emitted light path, the array of subwavelength scattering antennas configured to select directions of scatter of the LED emitted light to provide collimated light output from the device. The array may be aligned perpendicular to the plane of propagation of the light emitted from the LED and may be positioned adjacent to the top surface. The array may be at least partially, or completely, positioned within the LED substrate. The array may be spaced a distance from the top surface and the spacing may be achieved using a dielectric spacer adjacent to the top surface. The array may be positioned within the dielectric spacer.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventor: Venkata Ananth Tamma
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Patent number: 10986828Abstract: Problems associated with the use of fluorescent tubes in insect traps are resolved by providing a replacement lamp employing multiple sets of light emitting diodes that each emit light at different specific wavelengths each positioned within a translucent sleeve have a surface coated with an environmentally safe light diffusion material creating a pattern on the surface comprising areas of more intense light dominated by the light cast by a single LED separated by areas of less intense light where light cast by adjacent LEDs is more mixed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Gardner Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Bruce R. Studer, Timothy M. Jones
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Patent number: 10989367Abstract: A three-way bulb including light emitting diodes is used to achieve a variety of light output colors and/or intensities. In some embodiments, the inputs to a three-way bulb are configured to perform other functions, such as power a motor. In some embodiments, a bulb including light emitting diodes includes a replicable cover and/or a replicable LED. This cover may be configured to project images or support a shade made of a heat sensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventor: Steven Michael Colby
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Patent number: 10978856Abstract: A spark plug including a cylindrical insulator having a step portion; a center electrode provided in an axial hole of the insulator; and a cylindrical metal shell having a ledge portion, the metal shell holding the insulator from an outer circumferential side in a state in which the step portion is engaged with the ledge portion via a packing, wherein a recess is formed on a part contacting with the packing, of one of the step portion and the ledge portion, and a projection which at least partially overlaps the recess in the axial-line direction is formed on a part contacting with the packing, of the other of the step portion and the ledge portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Tanahashi, Naoki Nishio
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Patent number: 10960986Abstract: A seal assembly includes a housing, a shaft, and a gland. The housing defines an opening and an annular retention channel, according to various embodiments. The shaft extends through the opening, and the shaft comprises a longitudinal axis, according to various embodiments. The gland may be disposed circumferentially around the shaft and may be movably retained within the annular retention channel. The gland is movable relative to the housing in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, according to various embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Adam M. Schimke, Gerald Brandon Biehle
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Patent number: 10958044Abstract: In the spark plug, an insulator is held by a metal shell via a packing. The packing includes a base material and a metal layer formed on a surface of the base material. In a cross section including the axial line, of distances between end points of the metal layer on a first contact surface of the insulator that contacts with the metal layer and first points which are intersections of the first contact surface and first perpendiculars extending to the first contact surface from first corners at which a first surface and third surfaces of the base material intersect each other is longer than a thickness of the metal layer at a middle position on the third surface that corresponds to half a length measured along the third surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Kawashima, Naoki Nishio, Yusuke Tanahashi