Patents Examined by Michael Chiang
  • Patent number: 11054568
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a light guide plate, a first light source unit, and an optical member. The light guide plate is on the display panel. The first light source unit is configured to provide light to a side surface of the light guide plate. The optical member is between the light guide plate and the display panel. The optical member includes an interconnection layer, an optical pattern unit including first optical patterns on a surface of the interconnection layer, and first pattern shaping wires configured to receive a control voltage from the interconnection layer and to control a shape of each of the first optical patterns via the control voltage. Each of the first optical patterns is connected to a respective some of the first pattern shaping wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunhee Oh, Junwoo You, Taeho Lee
  • Patent number: 11047547
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a stage lamp optical system having beam and pattern effects comprising a laser light source, a first light guide component, an LED light source, a second light guide component and a plurality of optical lens components, which are sequentially arranged along a main optical axis, wherein both the LED light source and the second light guide component are provided with an opening at a position directly facing the first light guide component; and after the light from the laser light source passes through the first light guide component or after the light from the LED light source passes through the second light guide component, the light sequentially passes through the plurality of optical lens components to form a light output in a beam mode or in a pattern mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Weikai Jiang
  • Patent number: 11015775
    Abstract: The invention provides a luminaire comprising an outer housing and an inner housing slidable within the outer housing. The inner housing carries a lighting unit. The inner housing slides within the outer housing between at least one latched positions at different recess depths and it is also removable from the outer housing to enable replacement of the lighting unit, all without needing tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Lukas Weyhaeghe, Florent Aubert, Jeffrey Huyghe
  • Patent number: 11009210
    Abstract: A lens body includes a first lens portion and a second lens portion and is configured such that light from a light source exits through a first exit surface of the first lens portion after being partially blocked by a shade of the first lens portion, further exits through a second exit surface of the second lens portion, thereby forming a predetermined light distribution pattern by the shade, wherein the first exit surface is a surface for condensing the light from the light source that exits through the first exit surface with respect to a first direction and is configured as a semicircular cylinder surface, and the second exit surface is a surface for condensing the light from the light source that exits through the second exit surface with respect to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and is also configured as a semicircular cylinder surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Nishimura, Kiichi Matsuno, Keisuke Kunori
  • Patent number: 11004891
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least three light emitting elements arranged side by side, and one or more light transmissive members each containing a phosphor and covering the light emitting elements. The at least three light emitting elements include two outer light emitting elements arranged on outer sides, and an inner light emitting element arranged between the two outer light emitting elements and having a different peak emission wavelength than a peak emission wavelength of the two outer light emitting elements. The phosphor has a longer peak emission wavelength than the peak emission wavelengths of the outer light emitting elements and the peak emission wavelength of the inner light emitting element. The two outer light emitting elements and the inner light emitting element are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seitaro Akagawa, Takeshi Morikawa, Kentaro Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 10982815
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a lighting device comprising: a body having a first opening at a central part thereof; a light source member, which is disposed on the body and includes a circuit board having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged thereon; and a cover disposed on the light source member and coupled to the body, wherein the circuit board comprises at least one second opening vertically overlapping the first opening and at least one first protrusion protruding toward the inside of the second opening from a side surface of the second opening, and at least one of the light-emitting elements is mounted on the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chul Ho Jang, Sun Ho Kim, Hwa Young Kim, Hui Jin Choe, Sang Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 10985513
    Abstract: A power transfer system to facilitate the transfer of electrical power between tree trunk sections of an artificial tree is disclosed. The power transfer system can advantageously enable neighboring tree trunk sections to be electrically connected without the need to rotationally align the tree trunk sections. Power distribution subsystems can be disposed within the trunk sections. The power distribution subsystems can comprise a male end, a female end, or both. The male ends can have prongs and the female ends can have voids. The prongs can be inserted into the voids to electrically connect the power distribution subsystems of neighboring tree trunk sections. In some embodiments, the prongs and voids are designed so that the prongs of one power distribution subsystem can engage the voids of another power distribution subsystem without the need to rotationally align the tree trunk sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Polygroup Macau Limited (BVI)
    Inventors: Chi Yin Alan Leung, Ricky Tong, Chi Kin Samuel Kwok, Chang-Jun He
  • Patent number: 10967783
    Abstract: Provided is a soft upper trim of a vehicle door, in which an upper substrate, foam, and a transparent skin are laminated, and particularly, to a soft upper trim for switch assembly of a vehicle door, in which a switch, which is configured to preserve continuity of a transparent skin and display lock and unlock symbols on the transparent skin, is easily assembled to an upper substrate, and a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: SEOYON E-HWA CO., LTD., SEOYON AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Cho, Dong Suk Kim, Jong Kyu Kim, Sung Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10969535
    Abstract: A luminaire configured to emit light in different directions. The luminaire may include a frame and optical waveguides disposed in the frame and positioned at different angles relative to one another to direct light outward in multiple different directions. At least one LED may be associated with each optical waveguide. A shield may be associated with the frame and configured to reduce the light from being directed in one or more of the different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING LLC
    Inventors: Bernd R. Sieberth, Brad Thomas
  • Patent number: 10955593
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light source unit capable of displaying an image of a desired color without causing color unevenness when mounted on a display. A light source unit including: a light source; a color conversion member that converts incident light incident from the light source into light having a longer wavelength than the incident light does; and a reflective film that is present between the light source and the color conversion member, transmits light incident from the light source, and reflects light exited from the color conversion member, wherein in the reflective film, the scattering angle (R2?R1) on at least one film surface is 5° or more, where the scattering angle is obtained from angles R1 and R2 (R1<R2) at which the transmitted light intensity is Tmax(0)/100 relative to the maximum transmitted light intensity of halogen light incident perpendicularly to the film surface of Tmax(0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Wataru Gouda, Takahito Sakai
  • Patent number: 10920939
    Abstract: The invention provides a lighting device (1) comprising a luminescent element (5) comprising an elongated light transmissive body (100), the elongated light transmissive body (100) comprising a side face (140), wherein the elongated light transmissive body (100) comprises a luminescent material (120) configured to convert at least part of a light source light (11) selected from one or more of the UV, visible light, and IR received by the elongated light transmissive body (100) into luminescent material radiation (8). The invention further provides such luminescent element per se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ludovicus Johannes Lambertus Haenen, Christoph Gerard August Hoelen, Dirk Kornelis Gerhardus De Boer, Simon Eme Kadijk, Yun Li
  • Patent number: 10920938
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Savant Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Jeffrey Benner, Thomas J. Boyle, Dengke Cai, Thomas Clynne, William Erwin Cohen, Jean-Patrick Ducroux, Jianmin He, Jon Bennett Jansma, Chuan Lin, Juliana P. Reisman, Alok Mani Srivastava, Benjamin James Ward, Zhiyong Wang, William Robert Wright, Qing Yi
  • Patent number: 10907806
    Abstract: A light fixture having an upper and lower housing, and a mounting bracket adapted to mount to a junction box. The light fixture has a relatively short mounting bracket for surface mount configurations, and a relatively long mounting bracket for recess mount configurations, and a difference in the height of the long and short mounting brackets is equal to the height of the junction box. In the surface-mount and recess-mount configurations a circumferential edge of the upper housing abuts the mounting surface so the lighting fixture has the same external appearance and size in both configurations. The light fixture also has a pendant mode wherein the upper housing is suspended from the junction box by an elongated support. An enclosure for the junction box has a plurality of cut-outs and covers to accommodate various configurations of surface mounted conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: USAI, LLC
    Inventors: Jaclyn Behnke, Frank Cogliano
  • Patent number: 10901260
    Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight unit. The backlight unit may include a printed circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting diodes mounted on the printed circuit board, at least one light spreading layer formed over the printed circuit board that spreads light received from the plurality of light-emitting diodes, a partially reflective layer formed over the at least one light spreading layer, a color conversion layer formed over the partially reflective layer, a collimating layer formed over the color conversion layer, a brightness enhancement film formed over the collimating layer, and a diffuser formed over the brightness enhancement film. The at least one light spreading layer may include two light spreading layers with elongated protrusions that are rotated relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rong Liu, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin, Wei Lv, Joshua A. Spechler, Yu P. Sun, Suraj P. Gorkhali, Daming Xu, Edward H. Kang, Wenyong Zhu, Ziruo Hong, Xinyu Zhu, Ling Han, Mookyung Son, Pee Khiam So, Janos C. Keresztes, Chenhua You, Zhenyue Luo, Heesang Suh, Juan He, Hung Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 10895416
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a heat-insulated body with an inner container, which delimits a coolable interior provided for storing foodstuffs, a refrigeration device for cooling the coolable interior, a door leaf for closing the coolable interior and interior lighting for the at least partial illumination of the coolable interior. The coolable interior is defined by two side walls and one rear wall of which the surfaces facing the coolable interior are formed by the inner container. The interior lighting has an at least semitransparent cover, a planar light guide with a first surface facing the inner container and a second surface facing the cover and at least one lighting device, which couples its light into the planar light guide so that the planar light guide is able to decouple the light from its second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Weber, Tobias Mayr, Andreas Hirschbolz
  • Patent number: 10890709
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an overhead street light (a luminaire) is formed that has an asymmetric light intensity distribution, where the peak intensity is greatest along the direction of the street, lower directly across the street, and much lower on the house side of the street. Around the edge of a circular transparent light guide are white light LEDs that inject light into the light guide. To help control the asymmetry of the light intensity distribution, sawtooth-shaped grooves are formed in the light guide surface opposite to the light-emission surface and parallel to the street. Gaussian diffusers are used to partially diffuse the light. By proper selection of the grooves, the Gaussian diffuser, and the relative amounts of light emitted by LED segments around the light guide, the desired asymmetrical light intensity distribution is achieved while a direct view of the light exit surface appears as a uniform light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Frederic S. Diana, Gregory Guth, Jeroen Den Breejen, Iain Black
  • Patent number: 10859240
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mini light emitting diode backlight module, comprising a light emitting diode light source and a fluorescent film layer, wherein the light emitting diode light source comprises a substrate and mini light emitting diode lamp beads arranged in an array on the substrate, and the fluorescent film layer is disposed in a light emitting direction of the light emitting diode light source, and a surface of the fluorescent film layer toward the mini light emitting diode lamp beads is provided with grooves arranged in an array. By designing the fluorescent film layer having a specific shape, and placing the same in front of the mini light emitting diode lamp beads, the light leakage can be avoided and the light path can be changed to solve the problem of hotspot and light leakage around in the mini light emitting diode backlight module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yan Cheng
  • Patent number: 10823358
    Abstract: A light system comprising: (a) a light source that is configured to direct light from an exterior of a vehicle; and (b) two or more optical elements that direct the light to two or more desired locations without movement of the light source, the two or more optical elements being in series so that the light from the light source is directed through the two or more optical elements; and wherein the two or more desired locations include a driving surface and a location above the driving surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Gregory Stein, Brant Potter
  • Patent number: 10774997
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide multiple channels of light to form a blended white light output, the systems and methods utilizing recipient luminophoric mediums to alter light provided by light emitting diodes. The predetermined blends of luminescent materials within the luminophoric mediums provide predetermined spectral power distributions in the white light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: EcoSense Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 10775544
    Abstract: A display device includes a light guide plate 2 having at least one incoming surface and a plurality of light sources (3-1 to 3-4) arranged to face any of the incoming surfaces. The light guide plate 2 has a plurality of prisms 11 that is arrayed along each pattern in a plurality of patterns (21 to 24) displayed on one surface 2b of the light guide plate and reflects light emitted from a light source corresponding to the pattern and entering the light guide plate through the incoming surface toward a direction within a prescribed range of angles with reference to a direction normal to the other surface 2c of the light guide plate. Each prism 11 is formed as a triangular pyramid groove in one surface of the light guide plate 2, and one of inclined surfaces of the triangular pyramid groove is formed as a reflective surface 11a that reflects light emitted from a light source corresponding to a pattern along which the prism is arrayed and entering the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Osumi, Masayuki Shinohara, Yoshihiko Takagi, Norikazu Kitamura, Jun Kishimoto