Patents Examined by Omar Rojas
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 12140285
    Abstract: Method for attaching a lens (100) for a motor vehicle headlight (10) to a motor vehicle headlight housing (200), comprising the following steps in chronological order: a. providing a motor vehicle headlight housing (200), wherein the following is arranged in the motor vehicle headlight housing (200): a first light module (210) and a second light module (220), a screen (230), wherein the first and second light module (210, 220) as well as the screen (230) form an assembly, and providing a lens (100), which has a first projection section (110) and a second projection section (120), wherein the first projection section (110) in combination with the first light module (210) is designed to produce a first light distribution, and wherein the second projection section (120) in combination with the second light module (220) is designed to produce a second light distribution, wherein the lens (100) has an opaque section (130), b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Artner, Markus Bemmerl, Markus Huber
  • Patent number: 12140287
    Abstract: A lamp assembly for a vehicle includes a housing. The lamp assembly also includes an outer lens operably coupled with the housing to define a chamber therebetween. A light source is disposed in a first portion of the chamber and is configured to emit visible light through the outer lens to a region exterior to the vehicle. The lamp assembly further includes a LiDAR module disposed in a second portion of the chamber and facing the outer lens. The LiDAR module is configured to capture distance information based on infrared light reflected from the region exterior. The second portion is vertically spaced from the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ricardo Filho, Anderson Dal Zotto, Eric Santos, Edson Hiroshi Otuka
  • Patent number: 12135123
    Abstract: A feature inspection lighting system includes an outer cover having a mounting structure at a first end thereof and defining an outer periphery at a second end thereof. The cover includes an inner surface between the first end and the second end. The inner surface has raised surfaces defined thereon. A plurality of light sources is coupled to the raised surfaces of the inner surface of the cover, and cables to provide electrical power to the light sources is routed between the raised surfaces of the outer cover. The outer periphery of the cover may have a cutout defined therein through which all or part of an object to be inspected can pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: UnitX, Inc.
    Inventors: Boyun Wang, Roman Balak, Paul Lee Briel, Yen-Chia Chu
  • Patent number: 12117139
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light-emitting module including a light source capable of emitting light rays, a collector with a reflective surface, an optical system configured to project a light beam by imaging a portion of the reflective surface located behind the light source, a screen located in front of the light source, with a rear face arranged so as to gather light rays which are emitted forward by the light source and are not reflected by the reflective surface. The screen includes an end face, adjacent to the rear face and facing the reflected light rays, which is configured to avoid and/or to absorb the reflected light rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Corentin Debaine, Sylvain Giraud, Yves Gromfeld, Clement Olchewsky
  • Patent number: 12111023
    Abstract: The invention provides a light generating system (1000) configured to generate in an operational mode system light (1001) having a spectral power distribution with at least 85% of the spectral power in emission bands (111, 121, 131, 141) in four basic wavelength ranges of each at maximum 50 nm width, of which at least three of the four basic wavelength ranges are selected from a first wavelength range of 452 nm+/?25 nm, a second wavelength range of 504 nm+/?25 nm, a third wavelength range of 560 nm+/?25 nm, and a fourth wavelength range of 617.5 nm+/?25 nm, wherein the emission bands (111, 121, 131, 141) have full width half maxima of at maximum 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Marcel Petrus Lucassen, Martinus Petrus Joseph Peeters, Olexandr Valentynovych Vdovin
  • Patent number: 12092923
    Abstract: A backlight system includes a plurality of pixel ICs respectively including a plurality of channels connected to a plurality of LEDs and that control the LEDs to be turned on and off through the channels, and a driver IC connected to the pixel ICs and that supplies a data signal to each of the pixel ICs. The pixel ICs include a first pixel IC connected to first LEDs and a second pixel IC connected to second LEDs. The first pixel IC turns the first LEDs on or off in a first order based on first control data included in the data signal, and the second pixel IC turns the second LEDs on or off in a second order different from the first order based on second control data included in the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sugyeung Kang, Kangjoo Kim, Taehyeon Kwon, Sunkwon Kim, Sewoong Ahn, Sungmok Lee, Yilho Lee, Jongsung Lee, Changyeon Cho
  • Patent number: 12078311
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a housing closed by a transparent outer lens and, inside the housing, a lighting module that emits a light beam in the direction of an optical axis defining a cone of light and a transparent screen that is positioned between the lighting module and the outer lens and receives, in its thickness, a light beam emitted by a light source. An internal face of the screen is provided with optical modules that reflect the light emitted by the light source in the direction of the outer lens. The outer lens forms a first angle of 60 to 100° with the optical axis of the lighting module and the screen forms a second angle such that a part of the cone of light of the light beam that is situated beneath the optical axis is reflected by the screen above the lighting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: RENAULT S.A.S
    Inventor: Valère Calais
  • Patent number: 12078309
    Abstract: A lamp unit irradiates light emitted from a light source and reflected by a spatial light modulator, toward a front of the unit through a projection lens. The projection lens is constituted by a plurality of lenses disposed side by side in a front-rear direction of the unit. The plurality of lenses are supported by a common lens holder. In the plurality of lenses, a lens located on a rearmost side of the unit is constituted by a glass lens and remaining lenses are constituted by a resin lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuho Sato, Takahiko Honda
  • Patent number: 12078889
    Abstract: A backlight module, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a light-emitting diode (LED) light source and a quantum-dot-brightness enhancement film disposed on one side of the LED light source, wherein the quantum-dot-brightness enhancement film contains a resin system of blue phosphor and red-and-green quantum dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zihang Song
  • Patent number: 12072075
    Abstract: Disclosed are a primary optical structure, a high-beam lighting device, and an anti-glare high-beam light. The primary optical structure comprises a reflection unit and a shading structure located in front for blocking part of the reflected light from the reflection unit. The primary optical structure is configured for use in a left vehicle lamp or a right vehicle lamp, where the shading structure is arranged at a left side portion or a right side portion of the lamp, respectively. The light blocked by the shading structure and the light that is not blocked are bounded by a right side edge or a left side edge respectively, and an upper side edge of the shading structure. In a vehicle lamp, the primary optical structure can form a high-beam profile having a dark area to prevent glare, such that the dark area formed has an adjustable width and position, improving driving safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiping Qiu, Cong Li, Meng Yan, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang