Patents Examined by Omar Rojas
  • Patent number: 12215835
    Abstract: A headlight module includes a light source to emit light; and a light guide projection optical element including an incidence surface to condense the light, thereby forming a first light, a first reflecting surface to reflect partial light as part of the first light, thereby forming light in a first light distribution pattern having a cutoff line from light other than the partial light, and a second reflecting surface inclined with respect to an optical axis of the light source so as to be farther from the optical axis as a distance from the light source along the optical axis increases. The second reflecting surface forms light in a second light distribution pattern by reflecting second light formed of the partial light reflected by the first reflecting surface and adds the light in the second light distribution pattern to the light in the first light distribution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohide Morimoto, Masashige Suwa
  • Patent number: 12209725
    Abstract: A light source distribution element for headlight device includes: a first light guide portion that is located between a first joint surface of an incident portion and a first emission portion, and is to guide light from the first joint surface of the incident portion to the first emission portion; and a second light guide portion that is located between a second joint surface of the incident portion and a second emission portion, has a first reflection surface formed on one of opposite side faces of the second light guide portion and a second reflection surface formed on the other one of the opposite side faces, and is to reflect light from the second joint surface of the incident portion by using the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface to guide the light to the second emission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashige Suwa, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 12208687
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: a first transparent or translucent layer comprising a pictogram, a second transparent or translucent layer, covering the pictogram, a liquid crystal display, arranged in line with the pictogram, and a light source configured to emit light to illuminate the pictogram by passing through the liquid crystal display and the second layer. The liquid crystal display at least partially covers the second layer, and an assembly formed by the first layer and the second layer is rigid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Christophe Cuvillier, Armand Brousselle
  • Patent number: 12202181
    Abstract: A method for producing a light module for a lighting device of a motor vehicle, wherein the module comprises a support component and a light-outcoupling component. According to the invention, a connection element for establishing a retaining connection between the support component and the light-outcoupling component is molded at least onto the support component by means of an injection molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Frank Brinkmeier, Michael Lakenbrink, Ulrich Temme, Thomas Wiese
  • Patent number: 12202398
    Abstract: Described herein are examples of devices which include a tie-down bracket including side-facing lighting. The side-facing lighting is configured to provide lighting and illumination in the lateral direction of the movement of the vehicle. The side-facing lighting assembly components are prepared from a light source, a gasket, a lens, and a bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Wehunt, Christopher Wehunt
  • Patent number: 12197076
    Abstract: The present application provides a backlight module, an in-vehicle display panel, and a vehicle. The backlight module includes a first backlight module and a second backlight module. The first backlight module includes an opening. The second backlight module is installed in the opening. The first backlight module and the second backlight module are of different types, so the first backlight module and the second backlight module can emit light separately according to different backlight control types, and therefore, a fault tolerance of the backlight module is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Zheng Zhou, Suimang Song
  • Patent number: 12181116
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp module for a vehicle including a first light source that outputs light, and a light guide part provided on a front side of the first light source, and having a first recessed area, to which the light output from the first light source is input and which has a shape that is recessed upwards from a lower surface thereof, the light guide part includes a rear light guide section defining a rear area of the light guide part, and a front light guide section provided on a front side of the rear light guide section, and defining a front area of the light guide part, the rear light guide section includes a total reflection surface, which the light output from the first light source reaches and that totally reflects the light and deliver the light to the front light guide section, the total reflection surface is formed on an upper surface of the rear light guide section, and the light that was reflected by the total reflection surface and reached the front light guide section is output to an outside
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 12181147
    Abstract: This invention relates to a safety measure taken against unsafe exposure of high-intensity laser light that is relevant for the reliable and safer operation of laser-based lighting devices. According to this invention, a lighting device comprises a first light-emitting semiconductor device and a light-conversion device. The first light-emitting semiconductor device is a laser device configured to generate a first light output and the 5light-conversion device is configured to receive the first light output and convert at least part of the first light output into a converted light output. The lighting device further comprises an optical element configured to receive the converted light output from the light-conversion device. The optical element is configured to transmit the converted light output and the first light output, and attenuate the first light output above a threshold value of the first light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Van Asselt, Dominique Maria Bruls, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 12181133
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a light source assembly, including a light source element, a circuit board and a light source holder which are sequentially stacked. The circuit board is provided with an elastic member, and the light source element is elastically connected to the circuit board through the elastic member, the light source holder is provided with a snap-fit portion, and an entirety constituted by the light source element and the circuit board is snap-fitted at the light source holder through the snap-fit portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: SUZHOU OPPLE LIGHTNG CO., LTD., OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Quanbiao Wang
  • Patent number: 12175896
    Abstract: An LED arc display includes at least one LED matrix array module. Each LED matrix array module is composed of a plurality of LED matrix units arranged regularly. Each LED matrix unit includes a display surface, and the display surface has an outer contour. The outer contour is a non-quadrilateral. Therefore, a non-smooth visual experience caused by assembly tolerances of the plurality of LED matrix units can be improved by using non-quadrilateral outer contours of each LED matrix unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: STAR ASIA VISION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuo-Shu Huang, Shang-Chien Wu, Tsung-Huai Lee
  • Patent number: 12169049
    Abstract: A support element for a lamp module adapted to precisely accommodate at least one part of the lamp module that comprises an alignment member of the part, wherein the support element comprises at least one alignment member of the element, wherein the alignment member of the part forms, with the alignment member of the element, a pair of specially shaped complementary alignment members adapted to define the relative position of the support element and the given part by tightly fitting a protrusion on one member of the pair into a gap on the other member of the same pair. Furthermore, the object of the invention is a lamp module comprising the support element and a method of lamp module assembly on such a support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hella Autotechnik Nova S.R.O.
    Inventors: David Machýček, Marek Budiš, Robert Fabián, Jiří Kubíček, Tomas Tempir
  • Patent number: 12169051
    Abstract: A light module for a headlight of a motor vehicle, the light module having: a circuit board having at least one illuminating device for emitting light, wherein the circuit board has a longitudinal extent along a Y-axis, a width extent, extending perpendicular to the longitudinal extent, along an X-axis, and a vertical extent, extending perpendicular to the longitudinal extent and the width extent, along a Z-axis; a reflector; and a heat sink on which the circuit board is fastened. The heat sink is fastened to the reflector via a first fastener in such a manner that the first fastener secures a first referencing structure and/or a second referencing structure of the reflector against the circuit board such that the at least one illuminating device is located in a reference position in the direction of the Y-axis and in the direction of the X-axis relative to the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Katrin Hunecke, Martin Kappelhoff, Sebastian Scholz, Ralf Seiger, Franz-Georg Willeke
  • Patent number: 12169057
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery powered light. The light includes a removable battery pack and a base portion which receives the battery pack. A light section is operably connected to the base section. The light section includes a light generator which produces light. The light further includes a mount. The mount is movable so that the mount can attach to a variety of surfaces including at least a flat surface and a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, Patrick J. Tilson, Sean M. Bailey
  • Patent number: 12163646
    Abstract: A side-emitting downlight with an integrated light bar is provided in this disclosure, which includes a face frame and a back plate. An annular projection is provided between the face frame and the back plate. The annular projection is provided with a notch, a first light bar is attacked to the inner peripheral wall of the annular projection, a second light bar is attacked to the outer peripheral wall of the annular projection and the first light bar and the second light bar are integrated and pass through the notch. In the side-emitting downlight with the integrated light bar according to the disclosure, with an uninterrupted integrated light bar, a function of inner-side and outer-side light emitting in two opposite directions can be realized, continuity and integrity of a circuit can be maintained, collocation of various color temperatures and simultaneous inner-side and outer-side light emitting can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: JOININ GLOBAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Hongbing Zheng
  • Patent number: 12164193
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a light conversion sheet between the display panel and the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a substrate and light-emitting sections arranged on the substrate, one or more light sources are disposed in each of the light-emitting sections, the light conversion sheet includes first partition walls and light conversion sections arranged to correspond to the light-emitting sections, a first partition wall of the first partition walls is disposed between adjacent light conversion sections of the light conversion sections. Each of the light conversion sections includes first quantum dots emitting a first light and second quantum dots emitting a second light having a color different from a color of the first light, and the at least one light source provides light of a predetermined wavelength to the light conversion sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Wook Kim, Soo Kyung Kwon, Jaeyong Lee
  • Patent number: 12158252
    Abstract: The purpose is to facilitate the adjustment of the size of a light emitting region of a lens structure. A lens structure for a vehicle light body includes a light emitting part and a base. The light emitting part includes an introduction reflective surface which causes light from the base to completely reflect as parallel light to the Z? direction, and a back-side reflective surface arranged to the Z direction in the light emitting back surface. Each back-side reflective surface has a normal direction sloping relative to the Z direction, and causes the parallel light from the introduction reflective surface to completely reflect to the Y+ direction. The light emitting surface emits light from the back-side reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Go Shimizu, Shunsuke Iwao, Hiroya Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 12152748
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle lamp, and the vehicle lamp includes a light source part including a plurality of light sources that irradiate a light beam, an output lens part that outputs the light beam irradiated from the light source part in an output direction that is a forward direction to form a predetermined beam pattern and including an input surface into which the light beam irradiated from the light source part is input and an output surface from which the light beam passing through the input surface is output, and a reflector that reflects the light beam irradiated from the light source part and inputs the reflected light beam into the input surface to form the beam pattern, wherein the light beam emitted from the light source part is condensed by the reflector and input into the input surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Geun Jun
  • Patent number: 12153277
    Abstract: A lens includes a cover part and an interposing member formed of a light-reflecting material. The cover part includes a lens part having a lateral side, a connection part constituting a lateral side wall extending from the lateral side, and a flange part having a lower surface disposed below the lateral side wall. The interposing member has an upper surface and an inner lateral surface. The upper surface is disposed on the lower surface of the flange part. The lens part and the interposing member define a recess having an opening facing downward. The lens part defines a bottom surface of the recess. The inner lateral surface defines a lateral surface of the recess, which defines the opening of the recess. The flange part extends outward from the opening. The lens part has a convex lens and a light-emitting surface with projections outward from the convex lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Okahisa, Toshiyuki Fujii, Tomohisa Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 12146646
    Abstract: A light-emitting sphere includes a light source device, a light source bracket, a light-transmissive housing, and a light-transmissive elastic layer. The light source device is fixed to the light source bracket. The light source bracket is fixed inside the light-transmissive housing, the light-transmissive housing completely covers the light source device and the light source bracket, a surface of the light-transmissive housing does not have any opening, and an interior of the light-transmissive housing is in an air-tight state. The light-transmissive elastic layer is formed on the surface of the light-transmissive housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Blackstar Corp.
    Inventor: Wei-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 12140833
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel; a light source providing light to the display panel; a diffuser plate located between the display panel and the light source; and a guide including a side part covering a side surface of the diffuser plate, and a protruding inner part for seating the diffuser plate. Further, a lower side of one of the diffuser plate or the side part of the guide includes a protrusion portion and a lower side of the other one of the diffuser plate and the side part of the guide includes a groove portion engaging the protrusion portion, and outer portions of the lower side of the diffuser plate directly contact corresponding outer portions of the side part of the guide, while a gap exists between the protrusion portion and the groove portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Insuk Jeong, Junhee Kong, Byungchun Yoo