Patents Examined by Mariceli Santiago
  • Patent number: 11098246
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a semiconductor light source in direct contact with a polymer composite comprising a color stable Mn4+ doped phosphor, wherein the lighting apparatus has a color shift of ?1.5 MacAdam ellipses after operating for at least 2,000 hour at a LED current density greater than 2 A/cm2, a LED wall-plug efficiency greater than 40%, and a board temperature greater than 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: James Edward Murphy, Anant Achyut Setlur, Florencio Garcia, Robert Joseph Lyons, Ashfaqul Islam Chowdhury, Nagaveni Karkada, Prasanth Kumar Nammalwar, William Winder Beers
  • Patent number: 11091090
    Abstract: A lighting device (1) comprising a housing (2) accommodating at least one light source (14), said housing (2) comprising an at least partially transparent wall (6) supporting a touch interface (7) for controlling the light source (14) and allowing through the light generated by the light source (14), and a cover (3) closing the housing (2); the assembly formed by the housing (2) and the cover (3) being tightly assembled by clipping means (4), said lighting device (1) further comprising a flexible mechanical and electrical connection means (20) compressed between the touch interface (7) and the light source (14) allowing both control of the light source (14) and compensation of the stresses exerted by the clipping means (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: PSA AUTOMOBILES SA
    Inventors: Marc Norais, Damien Schnuriger, Guillaume Royer
  • Patent number: 11088217
    Abstract: An OLED module can include a panel, a middle frame coupled to a rear surface of the panel, a PCB assembly provided at the outside of the panel, connected to the panel and folded to be arranged on a rear surface of the middle frame, and a back cover coupled to an outer surface of the middle frame provided with the PCB assembly arranged thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon Shin, Kyung-Tae Park
  • Patent number: 11079085
    Abstract: A lighting module and a headlamp for vehicle lighting are provided. The lighting module includes a dynamic bending light module; and a lens that is situated in operative relationship with the dynamic bending light module; wherein the lens has a thin aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Gavin Warner
  • Patent number: 11073646
    Abstract: Thin multilayer reflectors are described. In particular, thin multilayer reflectors that partially transmit blue light and reflect green and red light are described. The thin multilayer reflectors have a uniform left bandedge across each dimension of the film, wherein the location of the left bandedge varies in a range of no more than 10% of the average left bandedge across that dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew B. Johnson, Edward J. Kivel, Ryan T. Fabick, Gilles J. Benoit
  • Patent number: 11067247
    Abstract: The invention provides a collimator comprising a Fresnel lens comprising a refractive lens portion and a toothed total internal reflection portion. A light blocking element is at least between the lens portion and the light source. A portion of a light source output is blocked from reaching at least one region of the inner lens portion. At some or all parts of the lens portion, light does not reach those parts from the full area of the light source. This partial light blocking means the whole shape of the light source is not projected onto all of the lens portion, and the halo effect is reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Signify Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Oliver Dross
  • Patent number: 11071224
    Abstract: A novel, highly convenient or reliable functional panel is provided. A novel, highly convenient or reliable method for manufacturing a functional panel is provided. The functional panel includes a first base; a second base having a region overlapping with the first base; a bonding layer that bonds the first base to the second base; and an insulating layer in contact with the first base, the second base, and the bonding layer. With this structure, an opening which is formed easily in a region where the bonding layer is in contact with the first base or the second base can be filled with the insulating layer, which can prevent impurities from being diffused into the functional layer located in a region surrounded by the first base, the second base, and the bonding layer that bonds the first base to the second base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kohei Yokoyama, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 11060348
    Abstract: The window blind decorating kit is a kit. The window blind decorating kit is configured for use with a Venetian blind. The Venetian blind comprises a plurality of slats. The window blind decorating kit applies an image to the surface formed by the plurality of slats of the Venetian blind when the Venetian blind is positioned to block the passage of light. The window blind decorating kit comprises a stencil, one or more marking compounds, a lamp, and glitter. The one or more marking compounds and the glitter decorate the Venetian blind with a received image. The stencil guides the application of the one or more marking compounds and the glitter to the Venetian blind to form the received image. The lamp illuminates the received image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Angeleta Shaw, Sandra Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11061264
    Abstract: A novel foldable display device or an electronic device using the same, e.g., a portable information processor or a portable communication information device, is provided. A foldable display device of which a display panel can be folded n times (n?1, and n is a natural number) at a curvature radius of greater than or equal to 1 mm and less than or equal to 100 mm is obtained. The display device can be miniaturized by being foldable. In addition, in the state where the flexible display panel is opened, display which is unbroken and continuous over a plurality of housings is possible. The plurality of housings can store a circuit, an electronic component, a battery and the like inside as appropriate, and the thickness of each housing can be small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Seminconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 11054119
    Abstract: The invention provides a lamp (5) comprising a lamp body (6) and a mounting unit (8), for fitting through an opening in a substrate. The mounting unit has a front ring (10) for mounting against a front side of the substrate and an arrangement of lugs (12), sliders (20) and brackets (30). The brackets have a collapsed position in which the brackets fit through the opening; and an expanded locked position in which the brackets do not fit through the opening and the brackets are positioned for engaging with a back side of the substrate. The brackets are driven into their positions by a pushing/pulling arrangement rather than by using sprung arrangements. This enables damage to the substrate to be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Lijia Wang, Ying Xia, Jisong Xu
  • Patent number: 11054112
    Abstract: A device including a phosphor layer having a plurality of air gaps arranged within the phosphor layer to block lateral light transmission. The phosphor layer can be sized and positioned to be continuously extend over a plurality of LED emitter pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Kentaro Shimizu, Venkata Ananth Tamma, Hisashi Masui
  • Patent number: 11054090
    Abstract: A white light emitting device includes a solid-state excitation source operable to generate excitation light having a dominant wavelength ranging from 440 nm to 455 nm; a first photoluminescence material which generates light having a peak emission wavelength ranging from 500 nm to 530 nm; and a second photoluminescence material which generates light having a peak emission wavelength ranging from 640 nm to 690 nm, where the device is operable to generate white light with an IEC TM-30 Gamut Index Rg ranging from 105 to 115. The device can be operable to generate white light having an IEC TM-30 Fidelity Index Rf which ranges from 85 to 95 and a sum of Gamut Index Rg and fidelity index Rf is greater than or equal to 195 and less than or equal to 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventors: Xianglong Yuan, Yi-Qun Li
  • Patent number: 11054087
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) filament light bulb is disclosed. The LED filament light bulb includes a plurality of LED filaments, an RF driver, an antenna, and a cover. The antenna defines a first end portion and a second end portion, where the first end portion of the antenna is electrically connected and in signal communication with the RF driver. The cover defines an external wall and a support structure. The external wall defines an interior volume and the support structure defines an evacuation passageway and a cavity. The evacuation passageway and the antenna are both received within the cavity of the support structure and the evacuation passageway is fluidly connected to the interior volume of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Technical Consumer Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dustin Cairns, George J. Uhler, Paul Phillips, Jimmy Zheng
  • Patent number: 11049424
    Abstract: The invention discloses a splicing frame device and a splicing method thereof, wherein the splicing frame device is used for installing a display screen body and comprises at least two layers of frames connected up and down, each layer of frame comprises at least two frame bodies, in two adjacent layers of frames, a splicing seam between the frame bodies in the upper layer and a splicing seam between the frame bodies in the lower layer are arranged in a misplaced way, and the frame bodies at two sides of the splicing seam are both connected to the frame body at an end of the splicing seam. The splicing frame device can also be an integral structure even without a transverse connecting structure, which greatly improves the structure stability of the splicing frame device and is conductive to reducing the manufacturing cost of the splicing frame device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ROE VISUAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Danhu Cai, Shunwen Tian, Chen Lu, Dries Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 11041595
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a light emitting diode module, a driver housing, and a hollow connector that connects the driver housing and the light emitting diode module. The driver housing includes a rotatable cap and a driver that provides power to the light emitting diode module. The rotatable cap permits rotation of the hollow connector and the light emitting diode module in order to direct the light from the light emitting diode module in a desired direction. The light emitting diode module includes a plurality of optics wherein each optic covers at least one light emitting diode and at least one vent adjacent to each optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Khurram Z. Moghal, Bobby Brooks
  • Patent number: 11041601
    Abstract: A first light guide lens includes a first entering section and a first emitting section located on opposite side to the first entering section, the first emitting section has a shape inclined or curved so that an outer side thereof retreats further than an inner side thereof, a plurality of light emitting elements include a first light emitting element disposed at a position overlapping the first entering section at the inner side when seen in a front view, and a second light emitting element disposed at a position that does not overlap the first entering section at the outer side when seen in the front view, and a light guide section that guides light emitted from the second light emitting element to a position corresponding to the outer side of the first entering section is provided between the second light emitting element and the first entering section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miyoko Nagaike, Hiroyuki Chikama, Shun Sato
  • Patent number: 11043350
    Abstract: The invention discloses a photocathode comprising an amorphous substrate such as a glass substrate (110) presenting an input face that will receive incident photons and a back face opposite the front face. Nanowires (120) made from at least one III-V semiconducting material are deposited on the back face of the substrate and extend from this face in a direction away from the front face. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a photocathode by MBE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignees: PHOTONIS FRANCE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Claude Alibert, Moustapha Conde, Jean-Christophe Harmand, Théo Jegorel
  • Patent number: 11035524
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) light engine that includes an anode supporting base contact having a first arcular geometry; a cathode supporting base contact having a second arcular geometry; and a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) filament structures connected in series, the plurality of light emitting diode (LED) filament structures all connected at a common apex interface, wherein at least a first of the plurality of light emitting diode (LED) filament structures has an anode contact in electrical communication with the anode supporting base contact, and at least a second of the plurality of light emitting diode (LED) filament structures of has a cathode contact in electrical communication with the cathode supporting base contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: LEDVANCE LLC
    Inventors: Tom Spehalski, Steve Farley
  • Patent number: 11029011
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a lamp socket connector, a lighting device and a lighting system. The lamp socket connector includes a docking portion. The docking portion includes a docking port for docking a light source module, a docking channel extending from the docking port, and at least two socket terminals in the docking channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Li, Xuejun Feng
  • Patent number: 11028986
    Abstract: Disclosed is a self-power-generating water outflow device with a light. An LED light source and a driving circuit for driving the LED light source are disposed in a water outflow terminal, and a first positive electrode and a first negative electrode are electrically connected to the driving circuit. A connector is detachably connected to the water outflow terminal. The connector comprises a connection housing and a self-power-generating component. The self-power-generating component is disposed in the connection housing, and the connection housing comprises one or more second positive electrodes and one or more second negative electrodes electrically connected to the self-power-generating component. When the connector is connected to the water outflow terminal, the first positive electrode is in contact with the one or more second positive electrodes and the first negative electrode is in contact with the one or more second negative electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Xiamen Lota International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuedong Wang, Zhiyong Li, Chuanbao Zhu