Patents Examined by Omar Rojas
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 12066159
    Abstract: A projection lens has first-lens-body including first incidence part located in an area facing first light source and emission part located on a side opposite to the first incidence part, and second-lens-body including second incidence part located in an area facing second light source and third incidence part located between the first incidence part and the second incidence part, and has structure in which the first-lens-body and the second-lens-body abut against each other while first boundary surfaces and second boundary surfaces are interposed between the first-lens-body and the second-lens-body, the first boundary surfaces being provided between the emission part and the third incidence part, and the second boundary surfaces extending from boundary-line with respect to the first boundary surface until the first incidence part and the third incidence part, and the first boundary surfaces and the second boundary surfaces are disposed at acute angle while having the boundary-line disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Sugihara, Shinya Hoshino
  • Patent number: 12067862
    Abstract: An illuminated indicator for a doorbell can be arranged to receive light along an optical axis (e.g., that is perpendicular to a front face of the doorbell housing) and emit the light from an output portion that defines a closed loop (e.g., that extends around the optical axis) and in a direction that is parallel to the optical axis. The illuminated indicator can include a light pipe that receives light along the optical axis and reflects the light to follow a radially outward and divergent path, e.g., that is perpendicular to the optical axis. The radially outward and divergent light can be reflected to follow a path that is parallel to the optical axis for emission at an output portion of the light pipe. The light pipe can be configured to transmit a doorbell switch activation force to other parts of the doorbell to cause actuation of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lloyd Murphy, Gregory Kintz
  • Patent number: 12066158
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp for a vehicle. The lamp for a vehicle includes a first optical module that forms a first light distribution pattern, and including a first light source part and a first condensing lens part that condenses light emitted from the first light source part, a second optical module that forms a second light distribution pattern, and including a second light source part and a second condensing lens part that condenses light emitted from the second light source part, and a third optical module that forms a third light distribution pattern, and including a third light source part and a third condensing lens part that condenses light emitted from the third light source part, the first optical module, the second optical module, and the third optical module are arranged in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Ji Jin
  • Patent number: 12055280
    Abstract: To prevent point illumination and fix a light-guiding body. The present invention includes: a fixation portion having a first holding portion and a second holding portion; engagement portions that restrict frontward movement of the one end portion in the front-back direction; an elastic portion that generates elastic force upward in the up-down direction, and abuts on the one end portion to maintain engagement of the engagement portions; contact portions that bring the first holding portion and the one end portion into contact with each other on both sides in the left-right direction; an abutment portion that abuts on the one end portion to restrict backward movement of the one end portion in the front-back direction; and a restriction portion that abuts on the elastic portion to restrict downward movement of the elastic portion in the up-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Seito Wada, Shintaro Abe
  • Patent number: 12049991
    Abstract: A light member includes a housing having an outer surface and an inner surface, a portion of the outer surface includes a lens. A light source is mounted in the housing. The light source is directed toward the lens. A plurality of light manipulating elements is arranged in the housing between the light source and the lens. Each of the plurality of light manipulating elements includes a body having a first side surface and a second side surface. Each of the first side surface and the second side surface is a light manipulating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jonglee Park, Thomas S. Prevost, Jodi Mary Jean Allen, Helgert Elezi
  • Patent number: 12048328
    Abstract: An optical module includes a light-emitting portion for emitting light and a display including a first surface having a first transmission region through which at least a portion of the light emitted from the light-emitting portion is transmitted and a first blocking region which is surface-treated to block transmission of the light, and a second surface which the light transmitted through the first transmission region reaches to deliver an image to a user, wherein the first transmission region may include a path changing member for changing a propagation path of the transmitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hwi Kyeong An
  • Patent number: 12044377
    Abstract: The object is to improve degree of freedom in design for the cross-sectional shape of a region of light guided by the lens structure. A lens structure for a vehicle light body guides at least part of the light in the Z+ direction to both sides of the X direction, and then guides in the Y+ direction. The first reflective surface includes a first reflective surface sub part projecting from the first reflective surface main part to the X+ direction. The second reflective surface includes a second reflective surface sub part projecting from the second reflective surface main part to the X? direction. The first reflective surface sub part and the second reflective surface sub part are arranged in the Y direction in a plan view seen in the Z direction, and intersect in a plan view seen in the Y direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Go Shimizu, Shunsuke Iwao, Hiroya Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 12038140
    Abstract: To provide a technology capable of improving efficiency in a mounting process of disposing a large number of identical parts such as LED elements on a circuit board. An optical light emitting device includes: packages of a plurality of regular polyhedra each having a light emitting element; and a board having a plurality of mounting holes fitted with three surfaces of the regular polyhedral packages. In the optical light emitting device, the exterior of each of the regular polyhedra in the regular polyhedral packages is comprised of a transparent member. Each of the regular polyhedral packages includes: first electrodes each provided at each top; and second electrodes each provided on a straight line connecting the two tops, each of the first electrodes is connected to one electrode of the light emitting element, and each of the second electrodes is connected to the other electrode of the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ishihara