Patents Examined by Michael Chiang
  • Patent number: 12685303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting element including an insect repelling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: PIC Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Rubel
  • Patent number: 12680689
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an easy-to-wear eyelash extension lamp, including a base box; a remote control receiving electronic circuit is arranged inside the base box; the remote control receiving electronic circuit inside the base box is connected to a remote control foot switch; an upper surface of the base box is connected to a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp; the LED lamp uses a 410 mm nano LED; a charging port is provided on one side of the base box; the charging port is connected to a battery through a wire; and a tweezer is arranged below the base box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Guangdong Kuaimei Technology Industry Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zeyu Lin
  • Patent number: 12673604
    Abstract: An external shutter assembly to control a light beam emitted by a headlight of a vehicle includes a pair of transparent structures arranged facing the headlight and a blind assembly arranged between the transparent structures. The blind assembly includes a support rod extending movably coupled to a first transparent structure and a base rod fixedly coupled to a second transparent structure. The support rod is arranged to be displaced in the vertical direction. The blind assembly further includes a plurality of blinds arrayed in a vertical direction and arranged spaced apart from each other with first ends the blinds being pivotally coupled to the base rod and second end of the blinds attached to the support rod. The blinds pivot between a horizontal position and a slanted position in response to the vertical displacement of the support rod to control an angle of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Inventor: Mirza Faizan
  • Patent number: 12674565
    Abstract: A foldable wide-angle headlamp is provided, including a supporting case, a flexible case, a circuit board, and a flexible light strip. The flexible case comprises a wrapping body and a wrapping tape those are integrally formed, the wrapping body is configured to wrap up the supporting case, the wrapping tape is in a shape of a long strip, and the wrapping tape is configured to be folded and unfolded relative to the wrapping body. The circuit board is arranged within the supporting case, and the circuit board is provided with lighting beads exposed on a front outer surface of the wrapping body. The flexible light strip is covered by the wrapping tape. By setting the lighting beads on the circuit board and using the flexible light strip wrapped by the wrapping tape, making the product of the present disclosure foldable and compact in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Inventor: Congchao Shu
  • Patent number: 12669229
    Abstract: A lighting device for a headlight is provided. The lighting device includes a plurality of light sources and a collimating optic with a plurality of collimating lenses arranged next to one another in a row extending in a first direction. The collimating lenses have an entry surface and an exit surface through which light emitted by the light sources passes during operation of the lighting device. The lighting device also includes a secondary optic with an array of structures. During operation of the lighting device, light emitted by the collimating optic passes through the array of structures. The light sources have a light exit surface with at least two separately controllable portions, such that light emitted from a first portion of the light sources generates a first light function and light emitted from a second portion of the light sources generates a second light function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Alexander Klarius, Wolf Alexander Quitsch, Peter Rausch, Piet Risthaus, Alexander Schwan, Sebastian Völker
  • Patent number: 12663148
    Abstract: Improved mounting features on a sealing ring component or niche housing for an underwater pool light. The prior art sealing rings and/or housings only offer one hole and one notch to install a light fixture. If the hole and/or notch fail, the entire sealing ring or housing must be repaired or replaced. The improved mounting features of a sealing ring component or housing include additional mounting features providing alternative locations to attach the light fixture. The light fixture may be disconnected and rotated within the housing to engage with different mounting features to re-attach the light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Inventor: Mike Francisco
  • Patent number: 12665398
    Abstract: A fish stick includes a light emitting component, such as a lighted tip, near the leading end of the fish stick. The lighted tip includes a curved lens that directs some light around an attachment piece at the end of the fish stick and generally in the forward direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fish stick. The fish stick may be made of a phosphorescent material and stored in a lit container with an LED and reflective surfaces. The fish stick may be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other and include a spring biasing element that increases the coefficient of friction between the threads of the rods. The fish stick may also be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other via collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron M. Williams, Caleb C. Adams
  • Patent number: 12655959
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical component (100) for beam shaping comprising a conical reflector (101) having an inner surface being diffusely reflective, a transparent refractive hollow dome-shaped member (102), wherein said transparent refractive hollow dome-shaped member (102) has a proximal end (103) arranged in contact with said conical reflector (101), and a top (104) arranged at a distance from said conical reflector (101), wherein said top (104) has an opening (105) and that said transparent refractive hollow dome-shaped member (102) is manufactured by means of fused deposition modeling (FDM) using a transparent thermoplastic polymer material as printing material. The present invention also relates to a luminaire (10) and a method (200) for manufacturing such an optical component (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Johannes Petrus Maria Ansems, Ties Van Bommel
  • Patent number: 12650219
    Abstract: Provided is a waterproof lamp including a lamp housing having a circumferential side wall and an opened housing opening, a lamp cover, connected to the lamp housing and covering the opening, a light source plate, arranged in the housing inner space, and a lens, mounted on the plate and electrically connected to the plate, a switching unit for switching correlated color temperature or power of the lamp, the switching unit includes a switch having switching gears and electrically connected to the plate, and an operation knob that includes a disk-shaped body and a cylindrical connecting portion extending from one side of the body, the body is located outside the housing, and a portion of the body abuts the side wall, and the connecting portion is connected to the switch through a through hole on the housing so gear switching of the switch can be driven by rotation of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Guangting Guo, Kun Xiao, Hai Huang, Tiantian Fang
  • Patent number: 12631320
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure relate to the technical field of lamps and disclose dual-resistor airtight and waterproof bulbs. In some examples, the stem structure incudes a waterproof rubber base and a vertical light source plate. The waterproof rubber base includes an upper insertion portion and a lower assembly portion which are formed integrally. The lower assembly portion is arranged at an opening of the lamp shade and fits the opening of the lamp shade to form a filling recess. The disclosure may improve the stem structure of existing LED lamps and enables a light strip to be inserted into the waterproof rubber base more easily to implement connection and electric conduction, such that the production process of the stem of lamps may be simplified, and the stem may be formed without repeated fixed-position welding, thus may effectively improve the forming efficiency of the lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Sichuan Jamie Charming Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiming Li, Weiguang Li, Zhimin Hu
  • Patent number: 12631312
    Abstract: An optical element or a lighting element assembly including an optical element, can include a first portion of transmittance defining high transmittance enabling greater that 80% of light transmission, and a second portion of transmittance defining a low transmittance enabling less than 40% of light transmission, wherein the second portion of transmittance encircles the first portion of transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: EMERGENCY TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas V. Baker, Bradley Miller
  • Patent number: 12620645
    Abstract: An emergency driver (100) of this disclosure for driving emergency lighting means comprises a battery (101) operably coupled to the emergency lighting means, a preferably resistive temperature sensor (104) configured to generate a temperature signal (Ts) corresponding to a temperature of the battery (101), at least a resistive heating element (102) configured to increase the temperature of the battery (101) by a heating operation, and a controller (106) configured to perform in a time multiplex manner, the reading of the temperature sensor (104) and the operation of the resistive heating element (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Jagjitpati Shukla, Deepak Makwana
  • Patent number: 12613022
    Abstract: A lens used for cooperating with a light source includes a lens body including a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other, an outer lens provided on the first surface, an inner lens provided on the second surface and corresponding to the outer lens. The outer lens and the inner lens are substantially strip-shaped, the inner lens protrudes towards the light source, the outer lens protrudes away from the light source, light emitted by the light source is firstly scattered by the inner lens, and then is converged by the outer lens and emitted to an external environment. An LED lamp is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SNC OPTO ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianyong Xu, Zhikeng Mo, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 12607326
    Abstract: An optical assembly, a linear lamp, a linear lamp combination and a track linear lamp are provided, the optical assembly includes a light source module, a reflective cup, a lens component, and an anti-glare cup which are sequentially arranged in a height direction, in which an edge of the reflective cup is provided with a snap-fit slot, and an edge of the lens component is provided with a first hook in a protruding manner, the anti-glare cup is provided with a second hook in a protruding manner, the first hook and the second hook extend in a same direction so as to be inserted into a corresponding snap-fit slot, and the reflective cup, the lens component, and the anti-glare cup are connected in a snap-fit manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignees: SUZHOU OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD., OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Wang, Junhui Huang
  • Patent number: 12601462
    Abstract: An optical system may comprise an emitter assembly and an optical structure that are configured to be used with a lighting device for providing a narrow beam angle for the lighting device. The emitter assembly may comprise an array of emitters configured to emit light. The optical structure may comprise a body having a light-entry portion, a light-exit portion, and side wall extending between the light-entry portion and the light-exit portion. The side wall of the optical structure may define a total internal reflection (TIR) surface. The light-exit portion may comprise a front surface and an octagon-shaped well formed into the front surface. The octagon-shaped well may have a center surface surrounded by a beveled portion configured to refract light that is reflected off of the TIR surface towards a central axis of the optical system, such that light rays that are transmitted from the light-exit portion are substantially collimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Fangxu Dong, Dong Jenna Lu
  • Patent number: 12601463
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for adjusting the spot size of light provided from a surgical light by translating a focus panel relative to a plurality of light emitters. The focus panel can be mounted to the housing of the surgical light such that the focus panel can translate relative to the housing in an axial direction toward and away from the plurality of light emitters. The focus panel can engage with one or more tracks that are movably mounted relative to the housing and controlled via at least one actuator. The actuator(s) can be configured to translate the focus panel towards or away from the plurality of light emitters to adjust the spot size of light provided by the surgical light via the engagement between the focus panel and the one or more tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: David Patrick Chase, Gianni Boccoleri
  • Patent number: 12595893
    Abstract: A planar illumination device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first optical element, a second optical element, a third optical element, a pair of fourth and fifth optical elements, and a sixth optical element. A plurality of light sources are two-dimensionally arranged on the substrate. The first optical element is arranged at an emission side of the plurality of light sources to condense light emitted from the plurality of light sources. The second optical element is arranged at an emission side of the first optical element to tilt light distribution of the light condensed by the first optical element in a first axial direction within an emission surface. The third optical element is arranged at an emission side of the second optical element to spread the light tilted by the second optical element in the first axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITUSMI Inc.
    Inventors: Ginga Ito, Masaya Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 12595894
    Abstract: Some parameters are defined that a focal length of the condensing optical system is f, a width orthogonal to an optical axis and having a maximum width of the collimating optical system is b, an axis coinciding with a line segment constituting the width b is an axis B, a width of a projection image on an axis optically equivalent to the axis B is a, the projection image being on a light emitting surface on a back focus surface of the condensing optical system, and a separation distance between an incident surface of the fly eye lens and a back focus of the condensing optical system is L, the light source device satisfies a predetermined formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeo Matsushima
  • Patent number: 12578075
    Abstract: A recessed lighting luminaire component that includes a reflector integrated with a lens is described herein. The reflector may have a square or round top opening, the walls of the reflector widening as the walls extend downward to a flange, the walls continuing below the flange in a square or round box. A square or round lens is integrated with the square or round box of the reflector, the square or round lens includes a lens box with an open top and a bottom of the lens box being a semi-transparent convex material, where walls of the lens box and the walls of the reflector are joined, perhaps with an ultrasonic weld, the flange being of circular shape extending outward from the reflector, the flange including a plurality of tabs, the flange configured to mount inside of a recessed lighting luminaire housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ramanand Radhakrishna Kamath, Wei Zhao, Zhihong Lin, Wilston Nigel Christopher Sayers, Kyle Lowery
  • Patent number: 12578079
    Abstract: Disclosed are a color-changing lampshade and a lamp. The color-changing lampshade includes an upper cover, a waterproof ring, a substrate and a color-changing coating. The upper cover encloses a light outlet. The substrate is a transparent component, and the substrate is provided with a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The upper cover extends along the periphery of the substrate; the upper cover leans against the first side, and the upper cover presses the substrate against one side of the waterproof ring. The color-changing coating is provided corresponding to the position of the light outlet, and the color-changing coating is coated on the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN AURORA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Qingbo Xie