Patents Examined by Matthew J Peerce
  • Patent number: 11339938
    Abstract: A vehicle headlight includes a light source and an adjustable objective. The light source is designed as a field having a plurality of microlight sources. The adjustable objective includes at least three lens groups, at least two of which are designed to be displaceable along the optical axis in order to adjust the focal length and the focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schneider, Alexander Gröger
  • Patent number: 11326768
    Abstract: An apparatus including a display surface for presenting an image of a user; a light emitting portion for using light to convey semantic information to the user; a sensor for measuring the position of the user relative to the light emitting portion; and a control unit to control the light emitting portion based on the measured position of the user relative to the light emitting portion so as to minimize an effect of the light conveying the semantic information provided by the light emitting portion on the presented image of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vincentius Paulus Buil, Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Daniel Willem Elisabeth Schobben
  • Patent number: 11312305
    Abstract: A lamp apparatus for use in an external rear view assembly includes at least one aperture, the apparatus including a housing comprising a rear view face and a front face with the at least one aperture; a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted adjacent the rear face, the PCB further having a power connector; an electronic circuit; and at least one light source mounted in a location on the PCB; a transparent lens component comprising at least one lens portion; and an adjusting device for spatially adjusting the apparatus relative to a housing part of the rear view assembly, relative to at least one of a housing cap or a mirror foot cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Jacob Heath Messenger, Sam Thoday, Simon Belcher, Arne Schmierer, Volker Erhart, Tobias Schwenger, Mikhail Kudryavtsev, Levente Acs
  • Patent number: 11306892
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle lamp III-zone illumination structure, vehicle lamp condenser, automobile illumination module, and automobile. The illumination structure comprises a III-zone light-incident part and a III-zone light-emitting part, sequentially arranged along the direction of incidence of light beams; The light-incident part comprises two light-transmitting tabs distributed in the horizontal direction; each tab comprises a III-zone light-incident surface, and the structure of the tabs is suitable for forming a light expansion profile, the normal direction of the light-incident surface faces the light-emitting part; the III-zone forming light beams are incident on the light-incident surface, and after being diffused by the light-incident surface, illuminate toward the light-emitting part, and are emitted via the light-emitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hui Li, He Zhu, Zhiping Qiu, Weigang Gong, Rui Nie
  • Patent number: 11306891
    Abstract: An vehicle light optical element (1) related to the technical field of vehicle lighting. The optical vehicle light element (1) comprises a light incident portion (10), a light transmission portion (11), and a light emitting portion. Two ends on the light transmission portion (11) in a light emitting direction are respectively a light incident end and a light emitting end. The light incident portion (10) comprises at least one light incident structure (13) provided at the light incident end of the light transmission portion (11) and corresponding to a light source (20). The light emitting portion comprises a light emitting surface (12) protruding from the light emitting end of the light transmission portion (11) towards the light emitting direction. A cross-sectional area of the light transmission portion (11) gradually increases from the light incident end to the light emitting end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiping Qiu, Dapan Zhang, He Zhu
  • Patent number: 11300256
    Abstract: A lighting system is described herein. The lighting system includes a plurality of lighted strip assemblies coupled together. Each lighted strip assembly includes a flexible transparent housing including a housing cavity extending between a first open end and an opposite second open end and an LED light assembly positioned within the housing cavity and extending between the first open end and the second open end. The LED light assembly includes a plurality of LED light pods, with each LED light pod including a predefined number of LED lights. A connector assembly is coupled between adjacent lighted strip assemblies. The connector assembly includes a first connector cavity configured to receive a first adjacent lighted strip assembly and a second connector cavity is configured to receive a second adjacent lighted strip assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: Carl Boehmer
  • Patent number: 11300272
    Abstract: An LED plug-in lamp is disclosed that has a plug head which converts between a G24Q 4-pin plug head and a G24D type 2-pin plug head. The A LED plug-in lamp includes a detachable plug head cap or pin cover that detachably couples to the plug head to thereby form a G24Q 4-pin plug head or is removed from the plug head to thereby from a G24D type 2-pin plug head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Green Creative Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryan Zhang, Bertrand Delalande
  • Patent number: 11293612
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp unit (100) for a motor-vehicle lighting device, comprising: a dipped-beam module (101), a main-beam module (102), an imaging optical element (103, 503) connected downstream of the dipped-beam module (101) and the main-beam module (102), having an optical axis (104, 204, 404, 504) and a focal surface (116) orientated normal to the optical axis (104, 204, 404, 504), and a diaphragm (105, 405), which has a diaphragm edge (106, 206, 306) and extends essentially up to the focal surface (116) of the imaging optical element (103, 503) for generating the horizontal cut-off line in a light image generated by the lamp unit (100), wherein the diaphragm (105, 405) has an opaque diaphragm region (107, 407) and has a transparent diaphragm region (108, 408) with a geometric structure (109, 409) made from a transparent material at the diaphragm edge (106, 206, 306) in the region of the focal surface (116), the geometric structure (109, 409) has at least one prism body (110, 210, 310, 410, 510)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Hechenberger, Bernhard Mandl
  • Patent number: 11293614
    Abstract: Disclosed is a projection apparatus (2) for a lighting module (1) of a motor vehicle headlamp, the projection apparatus (2) being formed by a plurality of micro-optical systems (3) that are arranged like a matrix; each micro-optical system (3) includes a micro-input optical element (30), a micro-output optical element (31) associated with the micro-input optical element (30), and a micro-diaphragm (32), all micro-input optical elements (31) forming an input optical unit (4), all micro-output optical elements (31) forming an output optical unit (5), and the micro-diaphragms (32) forming a diaphragm device (6); the diaphragm device (6) is disposed in a plane extending substantially perpendicularly to the main direction of emission (Z) of the projection apparatus (2), while the input optical unit (4), the output optical unit (5) and the diaphragm device (6) are disposed in planes extending substantially parallel to one another; all of the micro-optical systems (3) are subdivided into at least two micro-optical s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Moser, Bernhard Mandl, Friedrich Bauer
  • Patent number: 11287103
    Abstract: A low wattage balloon work light includes an illumination unit with a light-emitting diode (LED) light bank in the range of 30 watts to 300 watts, an inflatable balloon, and a power cord to power the low wattage balloon work light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ISM LIGHTING, LLC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Blount Palumbo, Ian A. McDermott
  • Patent number: 11280464
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a light source capable of emitting light rays; a collector with a reflective surface configured to collect and reflect the light rays emitted by the light source into a light beam along an optical axis of the module; an optical system configured to project the light beam. The collector is configured so that a portion of the light rays of the light beam are parallel to the optical axis or have an angle of inclination ? smaller than or equal to 25° in a vertical plane with respect to said axis; and the optical system is configured to form an image of the reflective surface of the collector. The invention also relates to a light device comprising one or more such light modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Sylvain Giraud
  • Patent number: 11280486
    Abstract: An electrical card connection system for an electrical lamp, including a neon lamp which has an upper lamp section and a lower base section, the base section having an end opening leading into a slotted cavity. An electrical circuit card has positive and negative card contacts affixed thereto, each card contact having through slots. An electrical wire carrying a positive charge and an electrical wire carrying a negative charge are connected to a power source. Each wire has an electrical contact member at its terminus. When the electrical contact members at the terminus of each wire are inserted into the slots of the card contacts and the electrical circuit card is inserted into the slotted cavity of the base section, the electricity from the power source is transmitted through the wires into the base section in order to illuminate the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventor: Sikai Chen
  • Patent number: 11274802
    Abstract: A projection headlight for vehicles having a first light module containing a light source and a primary optical system for shaping the light emitted by the light source, a second light module containing a light source and a primary optical system for shaping the light emitted by the light source, a secondary optical system, for projecting the light emerging from the primary optical system of the first light module in a region in front of the vehicle as a first light distribution and the light emerging from the primary optical system of the second light module as a second light distribution, a shield with a shield edge for producing a light/dark boundary in the resultant light distribution, wherein the primary optical systems of the first light module and of the second light module and the shield are connected to one another as a single piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Björn Dressler
  • Patent number: 11243340
    Abstract: A light emitting device of the disclosure includes a first light source and a second light source; a light-guiding plate having a first main surface and a second main surface that face each other, a first end surface facing the first light source, and a second end surface facing the first end surface and the second light source; a prism sheet disposed to face the first main surface; and a reflection sheet disposed to face the second main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Shingo Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 11242959
    Abstract: The present invention provides a U-shaped luminaire, comprises a lamp head module, a first glass tube, a second glass tube, a first light source board, a second light source board and a light transmission module, said lamp head module engaging said first glass tube and said second glass tube respectively, said first light source board being located within said first glass tube, said second light source board being located within said second glass tube and said light transmission module engaging said first glass tube and said second glass tube respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Xiamen PVTECH Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuxing Lu, Weibiao Zhong
  • Patent number: 11236880
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image lighting apparatus includes one or more light guides configured to guide paths of lights incident from one or more light sources toward a light distribution space, and to emit the lights, one or more divergence lenses disposed on the light distribution space so as to extend along the light guides, and configured to diverge the lights, which are incident from the light guides, in a linear shape, a half mirror disposed on one side of the divergence lenses, and a mirror disposed on the other side of the divergence lenses so as to face the divergence lenses, and configured to reflect the lights, which are diverged by the divergence lenses, between the half mirror and the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Woon Chung
  • Patent number: 11221117
    Abstract: A projection apparatus comprises a housing with a projection opening, a light source component, a reflective bowl and a driving motor in the housing, and a transparent cover is mounted on the housing and protrudes upwardly out of the projection opening. The light emitted by the light source component is illuminated on the reflective surface, and then the light passes through the transparent cover after being reflected. The light source component, the reflective bowl and the transparent cover can project to produce a cloud effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Longcai Xu
  • Patent number: 11215331
    Abstract: A panel light apparatus includes a heat sink frame, a first LED light bar, an optical guiding module and a back cover. The first LED light bar has a first plugging structure to be plugged to a second plugging structure of the heat sink frame. Heat of the LED light bar is transmitted to the heat sink frame. The optical guiding module includes a light diffusion layer and a light guiding layer. A lateral side of the light guiding layer faces to LED modules of the first LED light bar for guiding light of the LED modules to the diffusion layer. The light guiding layer and the light diffusion layer are fixed together as an assembly module before being placed in the surrounding border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Guangquan Gong, Jiansheng Zhang, Guanyinlian Liu
  • Patent number: 11193657
    Abstract: A frame system for securing a lighting fixture to a surface is provided. The frame system can include a frame defining an opening. The frame can be configured to accommodate a selected insert of a plurality of inserts associated with the lighting fixture and coupleable to the frame. Each of the plurality of inserts can include an aperture defining portion of a different size or shape. The aperture defining portion of the selected insert can extend through the opening defined by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Russell James Weston, Jared Roulier
  • Patent number: 11182006
    Abstract: An illuminated touch panel includes a backlight assembly and a cover plate. The backlight assembly includes a light guide plate, and an outer stop. The light guide plate includes a plurality of bar portions and a connecting portion. The plurality of bar portions are separated from each other and arranged side by side. Each of the bar portions includes a pattern dot region, a connecting end and a light entrance end. There is a narrow slot between any two adjacent bar portions. The long axis direction of each of the extending dot regions of the connecting portion is substantially parallel to the length direction of each of the narrow slots. The plurality of light blocking bars of the outer stop are arranged side by side and fitted with the plurality of narrow slots. The cover plate includes a plurality of window regions corresponding to the plurality of pattern dot regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Wei Ho, Ting-Wei Chang