Patents Examined by Nimeshkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 8920009
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp device for a vehicle, which includes: a lens disposed on a first optical axis extending to a front and a rear of the vehicle; a main reflector disposed at a rear side of the lens, reflecting light frontward, and including a first focus on the first optical axis; a light source disposed on the first focus, and emitting light; a lower sub reflector disposed below the light source, upwardly reflecting the light, and including a first focus on a point at which the first optical axis and a second optical axis extending above and below the vehicle intersect; an upper sub reflector disposed above the light source, and frontwardly reflecting the light reflected by the lower sub reflector; and a shield plate disposed between the lens and the light source, and disposed to correspond to a second focus of the main reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Gun woo Park
  • Patent number: 8922102
    Abstract: A composite ignition device includes a positive electrode having a tip formed thereon that is bonded to a first insulator to form a firing cone assembly. A second insulator having a negative capacitive element embedded therein is attached to the firing cone assembly. A positive capacitive element is disposed in the second insulator and is separated from the negative capacitive element by the second insulator. The positive capacitive element is coupled to the positive electrode. The positive and negative capacitive elements form a capacitor. A resistor is coupled to the positive capacitive element. An electrical connector is coupled to the resistor and attached to the second insulator. A shell including a negative electrode having a tip is attached to the second insulator and the firing core assembly and coupled to the negative capacitive element. The negative electrode tip is spaced apart from the positive electrode tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Enerpulse, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis S. Camilli
  • Patent number: 8922120
    Abstract: A compact strobe device includes the following components: a flash discharge tube having an anode on one side thereof and a cathode on the other side thereof; a conductive reflector composing an external trigger electrode, the reflector being in contact with and storing a part of the flash discharge tube; a trigger coil having a primary winding and a secondary winding wound around a hollow core; and an elastic conductor connecting the secondary winding of the trigger coil and the reflector. The trigger coil has an end of the flash discharge tube inserted into the core, and includes, at the end thereof adjacent to the reflector, a secondary terminal connected to the secondary winding. The conductor elastically deforms to be in contact with the secondary terminal of the trigger coil and a lateral side of the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Arata Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8922108
    Abstract: Remote component devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. In one aspect, remote component devices, systems, and methods can include a body for lockably securing the remote component to a housing. Devices, systems, and methods can also include one or more light emitting devices disposed over the body. An optical material can be remotely located at least a first distance away from the one or more light emitting devices. Remote component devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein can be used as replacements and/or equivalent light products for standard filament light bulbs and compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulbs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Hussell, Peter Scott Andrews, Florin A. Tudorica, David T. Emerson
  • Patent number: 8917011
    Abstract: An LED heat dissipation structure including: a heat sink, with a lug axially extended from an end of the heat sink, a hollow portion disposed inside the heat sink and axially extended to the lug, and a plurality of fins integrally extended from a peripheral side of the heat sink; and a support base, having an axial through hole sheathed on the lug of the heat sink, and an end of the support base abutting the support surface of the heat sink. A semiconductor light emitting module is tightly coupled onto a distal surface at an end of the lug for conducting generated heat to the heat sink, and a mirror mount is pressed against the semiconductor light emitting module and coupled to the support base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Shunchi Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: You-Nan Hung
  • Patent number: 8915627
    Abstract: At least one stress concentration factor is arranged in a bending position of forming the protrusion structure on a surface of the backplane. Then, a shape of the protrusion structure is formed by stamping. In the present disclosure, because the bending position during stretching the protrusion structure is firstly configured with a plurality of stress concentration factors in the stretching process of the protrusion structure, when the protrusion structure is stretched, stress concentration occurs in the position with the stress concentration factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Inventors: Lifeng Wang, Yuchun Hsiao, Yajun Yu, Yanxue Zhang
  • Patent number: 8915609
    Abstract: A light module for use as a portable light or as a light source in a track lighting system is described herein. The light module may include a module housing containing a light emitting aperture, and a light emitting diode (LED) light source located inside the module housing, where the LED light source is aligned with the light emitting aperture. The light module further includes a driver electrically connected to the LED light source, and a chargeable power supply component electrically connected to the driver. The light module also includes at least two magnets attached to the exterior of the module housing, where at least one magnet is associated with a positive electrical terminal and another magnet is associated with a negative terminal, and where at least one magnet provides electrical power to at least one of the chargeable power supply component or driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Ashok Deepak Shah, Kenneth George Beresinski, Christopher Michael Bryant
  • Patent number: 8915637
    Abstract: A light source module including a light guide plate, a plurality of light emitting devices, and a plurality of first reflective devices is provided. The light guide plate has a plurality of through holes and a light emitting surface. The through holes pass through the light emitting surface. Each of the through holes has a first side wall and a second side wall opposite the first side wall. At least one of the light emitting devices is disposed in each of the through holes. Each of the light emitting devices is capable emitting a light beam. The light beam enters the light guide plate from the first side wall of the through hole which the light emitting device is disposed in and leaves the light guide plate from the light emitting surface. The first reflective devices are disposed on the second side walls of the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Chiao-Chih Yang, Chao-Chun Cheng, Hsin-Hung Lee, Wei-Ching Wu, Yen-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 8917010
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the present invention, a lighting device includes a light-emitting element, a phosphor layer including a phosphor and spaced from the light-emitting element, and a light-transmitting layer with thermal conductivity that is higher than thermal conductivity of the phosphor layer, the light-transmitting layer disposed in contact with the phosphor layer. It is disclosed that the phosphor layer has first and second surfaces opposite to each other. In some embodiments, the light-transmitting layer that transmits light emitted from the light-emitting element is disposed on the first surface of the phosphor layer. It is also disclosed that the first light-transmitting layer that transmits light emitted from the light-emitting element is disposed on the first surface of the phosphor layer and a second light-transmitting layer that transmits visible light is disposed on the second surface of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takakazu Yano, Masato Yazaki, Masatoshi Sasuga, Mitsunori Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8912718
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting device which is less affected by a malfunction caused in a light emitting element. It is another object of the invention to provide a light emitting device in which light emitting elements are connected in series. As to a light emitting device of the invention, groups of circuits each having a light emitting element and a limiter are connected in parallel. Here, a light emitting element and a limiter are connected in series. The number of the circuits may be at least two or more. Further, each circuit group includes at least one light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji Nomura
  • Patent number: 8912715
    Abstract: A spark plug having a center electrode, a ground electrode, and a ground electrode side tip. The tip partially projects from a front end face and an inner circumference-side side surface of the ground electrode. The ground electrode has a center of the front end face, which center is located at a front end side in a direction of the axis with respect to a front end of the center electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Ban
  • Patent number: 8912717
    Abstract: An illumination device with an exit surface for pump light propagation with a main propagation direction and a phosphor element for converting the pump light into converted light is disclosed. Further, an optical system with a reflection surface is provided for deflecting the pump light, where the reflection surface reflects the pump light with a directional component opposite to the main propagation direction and onto the phosphor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Hartwig, Julius Muschaweck
  • Patent number: 8911131
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for coupling light from concentric illuminators into a light source in the form of a surface are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a plurality of concentric tubes, each tube including a light diffuser. The apparatus also has a sheet having a first edge with the plurality of concentric tubes placed along the first edge. Each tube of the plurality of concentric tubes diffuses light such that the light emanates in a predetermined pattern along the first edge of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: I2iC Corporation
    Inventors: Udayan Kanade, Balaji Ganapathy
  • Patent number: 8907558
    Abstract: A white light emitting device includes a light emitting element having a peak wavelength at from 430 nm to 460 nm; and a fluorescent layer on the light emitting element containing a red fluorescent material and a green-yellow fluorescent material. The white light emitting device achieves high color rendering properties, a high average color rendering index Ra and a high luminescent efficiency, or a high white efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryosuke Hiramatsu, Kunio Ishida
  • Patent number: 8899802
    Abstract: Optical component for illumination purposes, wherein the optical component comprises a monolithic body of transparent material, the monolithic body including a first light entry face, a first optically operative light exit face, a second optically operative light entry, and a second optically operative light exit face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Docter Optics SE
    Inventors: Dmitry Fedosik, Wolfram Wintzer, Silvana Kock, Mohsen Mozaffari
  • Patent number: 8900027
    Abstract: A lamp including a first and second lamp substrate with a first and second external electrode, respectively, and a first and second internal phosphor coating, respectively, wherein the first phosphor coating is a phosphor monolayer. A method of manufacturing a lamp, including screen-printing a phosphor monolayer on a first lamp substrate; screen-printing a phosphor layer on a second lamp substrate; joining the phosphor-coated faces of the first and second lamp substrates together with a seal; and joining a first and second electrode to the uncoupled exterior faces of the first and second lamp substrates, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Eden Park Illumination, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffry M Bulson, Jay E Pogemiller, David Blair DeHaven, Walter E Mason, Cyrus M Herring, Sung-Jin Park
  • Patent number: 8894263
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light source, a display panel and an optical plate between the light source and the display panel. The optical plate includes a supporting sheet, a first, a second and a third optical layer. The first optical layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the supporting sheet and has a plurality of first protruding portions on a bottom surface of the first optical layer and has a first refractive index. The second optical layer is disposed on the bottom surface of the first optical layer and covers the first protruding portions. The second optical layer has a second refractive index larger than the first refractive index. The third optical layer is disposed on a top surface of the supporting sheet and has a plurality of second protruding portions on a top surface and has a third refractive index smaller than the second refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Yeol Yeom, Yongkyu Kang, Seunghwan Chung
  • Patent number: 8896206
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) lamp tube includes a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal formed at both ends of the 3D lamp tube respectively, and a plurality of straight tube sections disposed between the first and second electrode terminals, and a bent section is disposed between two straight tube sections, and the first electrode terminal is extended upwardly from one of the straight tube sections and through the plurality of bent sections, and bent along an external periphery of the first electrode terminal to produce an arc 3D structure, and finally extended downwardly from another straight tube section to the second electrode terminal, so that the space and volume occupied by the 3D lamp tube can be concentrated to improve the drawback of the conventional lamp tube that can only be applied to a large planar lamp socket and to replace the conventional light bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cai Cheng Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuei-Liang Fan
  • Patent number: 8896198
    Abstract: An LED lamp is disclosed comprising a remote phosphor patch on or near the interior surface of a translucent sphere. The phosphor is illuminated by an adjacent light box containing blue LEDs, located within the lamp below the transmissive phosphor patch or alternatively above a reflective phosphor patch. The reflective patch can be either fully or partially populated with phosphor. Below the light box is an electronics bay, and below that is an Edison screw-in base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC
    Inventors: Waqidi Falicoff, Yupin Sun, Will Shatford
  • Patent number: 8890409
    Abstract: An array of microcavity plasma devices is formed in a unitary sheet of oxide with embedded microcavities or microchannels and encapsulated metal driving electrodes isolated by oxide from the microcavities or microchannels and arranged so as to generate sustain a plasma in the embedded microcavities or microchannels upon application of time-varying voltage when a plasma medium is contained in the microcavities or microchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illnois
    Inventors: J. Gary Eden, Sung-Jin Park, Taek-Lim Kim, Kwang-Soo Kim