Patents Examined by Robert J May
  • Patent number: 11560082
    Abstract: The device includes at least one acceleration sensor provided to detect acceleration of a vehicle in at least one direction, a wheel speed sensor provided to detect a speed of a wheel, a lamp provided to emit light, a driving unit connected to the lamp to adjust a direction of light, and a controller configured to, when the vehicle is traveling, calculate a dynamic angle value of the vehicle with respect to a road surface while the vehicle is in acceleration or deceleration and calculate a first static angle value based on the dynamic angle value of the vehicle, and, when the vehicle is stopped, to calculate a second static angle value and a road slope value of a road on which the vehicle is positioned, and then control a direction of the light emitted forward of the lamp based on the first or the second static angle value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji Sung Kang
  • Patent number: 11560992
    Abstract: An electronic candle includes a casing, a light source, a driving component, a swinging support member, and a flame head. The casing has a mounting cavity, where the light source and the driving component are mounted, and is provided at the upper end with an opening communicating with the mounting cavity. The light source is right below the opening and projects light on the flame head, which is mounted, and can swing freely, on the light source and at least partially extends out of the opening. The driving component can drive the swinging support member to swing, thereby driving the flame head, which is connected to the swinging support member, to swing freely with respect to the light source. With the swinging support member intermittently driven by the driving component and swinging freely under gravity during the undriven intervals, the flame head can swing dynamically to simulate a swinging flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Mao-Lung Lin
  • Patent number: 11561041
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a receiving compartment for food and a planar lighting module for lighting the receiving compartment. The lighting module has a first lighting sub-module with a first plate-shaped light guide and a separate, second lighting sub-module directly adjoining the first sub-module and having a second plate-shaped light guide. The first light guide has a first edge and the second light guide has a first edge. The first edges are arranged facing one another and in a direction at right angles to a plane defined by the lighting module, an offset is formed between the first edges, so that in this direction the first edges are arranged at a distance from one another perpendicular to the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Hirschbolz, Tobias Mayr, Armin Weber
  • Patent number: 11555591
    Abstract: A projection device for ambient decoration may include a first light-emitting assembly comprising at least one first incoherent light source, a reflective medium, and a first driving device. The first light-emitting assembly may further include a mount recessed internally to define a placing groove adapted to the reflective medium, a first through-hole and a placing recess on one side of the first through-hole arranged at a bottom of the placing groove, a fixing column arranged in a center of the placing recess, and a second through-hole arranged at a bottom of the reflective medium. The first driving device may be coupled to the reflective medium, the fixing column may pass through the second through-hole into the reflective medium, and the at least one first incoherent light source may be connected to the fixing column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Huazhu Zheng, Yunyun Lu, Caijian Zheng, Wenzhen Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11555588
    Abstract: A lighting fixture includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a base and a wall extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the base. A top portion of the wall includes one or more hinges extending outwardly therefrom. The second housing portion includes a front panel and a side panel extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the front panel. A top portion of the front panel includes at least one slot. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an open position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel is disposed elevationally above the base. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an operational position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel covers the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Chad Stuart Newton, Christopher Michael Bryant
  • Patent number: 11548432
    Abstract: A vehicle system device is provided. The vehicle system device includes a headlamp, a storage storing information about a height where the headlamp is mounted and a left and right distance, and a controller. The controller includes a road surface information generator that generates road surface information corresponding to a sensor signal, a coordinate converter that obtains location coordinates of the road surface information and converts the location coordinates into angle coordinates based on the information stored in the storage, and a headlamp controller that controls the headlamp to emit the road surface information based on the angle coordinates. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Deuk Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11548431
    Abstract: A problem to be solved by an embodiment of the present invention is how to reduce the load-bearing requirement for a supporting bracket. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a supporting bracket of a vehicle headlight is disclosed, wherein the supporting bracket includes a first supporting part for supporting a low beam unit; a second supporting part for supporting a high beam unit; and a first rotary part for causing the first supporting part and the second supporting part to rotate simultaneously in a horizontal direction about the rotation axis of the first rotary part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Chen Chen, Wenling Zhang, Bin Han
  • Patent number: 11541805
    Abstract: A controller is provided that includes a bit plane generation component and a processor configured to receive one or more headlight commands and to configure the bit plane generation component to generate bit planes of a headlight frame responsive to the one or more headlight commands, wherein the bit plane generation component includes bit generation pipelines configured to operate in parallel to generate respective bits of consecutive bits of a bit plane of the headlight frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shashank Dabral, John Peter Fenske, Mohhamad Jacob Pulliam
  • Patent number: 11536443
    Abstract: A heat dissipating light fixture includes one or more elongated rows of LEDs extending a length of a light engine, and forming an array having outer and inner perimeter edges. At least one light engine heat sink is conductively coupled to the light engine and disposed adjacent to the array of LEDs. A driver assembly includes a driver that supplies power to the light engine coupled to the light engine in spaced relation thereto, and a driver heat sink is conductively coupled to the driver and disposed relative to the at least one light engine heat sink so as to prevent conductive heat transfer therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Light Emitting Design, Inc.
    Inventor: Zorak Ter-Hovhannisyan
  • Patent number: 11536431
    Abstract: A lamp (1) includes: a light source; a substrate (50) on which the light source is disposed; a housing (10) in which the substrate (50) is disposed; an electric cable (20) connected to the substrate (50), the electric cable (20) extending outward from the housing (10); and a thermally conductive sheet (40) having elasticity, the thermally conductive sheet (40) being sandwiched by a region in which the light source is disposed on the substrate (50) and the housing (10), in which the housing (10) has a recess (16) as a storage space in which the electric cable (20) is housed, at a position overlapping part of the substrate (50) out of the region in which the light source is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroto Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11533835
    Abstract: A working vehicle is capable of autonomously traveling on a target traveling route and appropriately performing illumination during autonomous traveling to enable an operator to reliably confirm the presence of obstacles or the like on the target traveling route. The working vehicle includes a traveling body to autonomously travel on the target traveling route, illumination lamps located on the traveling body to respectively illuminate different directions, and a controller to change a control relating to a way of turning on the illumination lamps during the autonomously traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kurogi
  • Patent number: 11506928
    Abstract: A display device having a curved display surface is provided and includes a front plate, a plurality of display panels each of which is boned to the front plate; a plurality of light guide plates disposed facing the respective display panels; a plurality of light sources configured to cause light to be incident on the light guide plates; and a light diffusion film between the display panels and the light guide plates, wherein the light diffusion film faces the respective display panels and the respective light guide plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Shimon Itakura
  • Patent number: 11505120
    Abstract: A frunk lighting system applied to a vehicle is mounted on a hood provided with an emblem on a front of the vehicle to cover or open a space of a frunk, and has an illuminating direction of light emitted by a light source changed into lighting for the emblem and lighting for the frunk by movement of a rotating mechanism connected to a motor whose rotating direction is changed by a closing signal and an opening signal of the hood, thereby easily implementing an appearance design suitable for a future motorized vehicle with a light-emitting effect for the front emblem of the vehicle, and particularly, automatically switches the lighting, which has illuminated the emblem in a state where the hood is closed, toward the frunk to illuminate a frunk space, thereby maximizing visibility and usability of the frunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Sang Park, Eun-Soo Park, Seung-Mok Lee, Geun-Hyung Nam
  • Patent number: 11505112
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method for controlling a light pattern provided by an automotive lighting device of an automotive vehicle, wherein a dynamic portion of the light pattern is provided at least by a matrix arrangement of light sources. This method includes the steps of sensing a turn in a steering system of the automotive vehicle, dividing the dynamic portion in a first portion and a second portion, shifting the operation of the light sources associated to the first portion in the same direction as the sensed turn and create a third portion between the shifted first portion and the second portion. The invention also provides an automotive lighting device with control means to perform the steps of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Ali Kanj, Constantin Prat
  • Patent number: 11505111
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus that illuminates an illumination zone having a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction is provided with a light source to emit a coherent light beam, and a diffraction optical device to diffract the coherent light beam incident from the light source. The diffraction optical device diffracts the incident coherent light beam so that a width of the illumination zone in the second direction gradually becomes wider along the first direction of the illumination zone from a nearer side to the diffraction optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Nishio, Makio Kurashige, Kaori Nakatsugawa, Tomoe Sato
  • Patent number: 11499695
    Abstract: An optical member includes: a body portion having a first upper surface, and a second upper surface that is located above the first upper surface and surrounds the first upper surface in a plan view; a phosphor member disposed on the first upper surface; and a hold-down portion configured to secure the phosphor member such that the phosphor member is interposed between the hold-down portion and the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akinori Hara
  • Patent number: 11491912
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting device and a method of controlling luminance thereof are provided. The vehicle lighting device includes a camera module configured to capture an image of the driver's face, a sensing unit configured to detect the surroundings of a vehicle, a lighting unit including at least one light source to illuminate the interior of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information on a daytime mode and a nighttime mode through the sensing unit, to acquire information on an infrared brightness level or information on the size of the pupil of the driver's eye based on the image of the driver's face captured by the camera module, and to control the luminance of the lighting unit in response to the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chongbae Park
  • Patent number: 11491876
    Abstract: A console assembly for a vehicle according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a touch-sensitive panel providing at least one touch-sensitive switch, and a circuit electrically connected to the at least one switch. The circuit is configured to receive one or more inputs from the touch-sensitive panel and issue commands to control one or more aspects of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMAY NORTH AMERICA AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
    Inventor: Jianhua Wang
  • Patent number: 11486561
    Abstract: The invention relates to an area light decorative element (1) comprising an optically activatable symbol body (2) at least partially formed of a transparent optically activatable first material (9) and configured to emit visible light in response to the optically activatable symbol body (2) being excited with electromagnetic radiation in a predetermined first frequency range, a light element (3) consisting of a transparent material, wherein the optically activatable symbol body (2) is arranged in the light element (3), a touch-sensitive surface (4) disposed in a first area (5) of a surface of the light element (3) above the optically activatable symbol body (2) for detecting a touch of a user in the first area (5), and an illumination unit (6) which is arranged to emit visible light in a predetermined visible frequency range (22) into the light element (3) and, together with the visible light, also to emit electromagnetic radiation in the predetermined first frequency range into the light element (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Miedl, Thomas Tille
  • Patent number: 11472332
    Abstract: A vehicle having controlled exterior lighting is provided including a plurality of lighting devices oriented on the exterior of the vehicle to illuminate areas proximate to the vehicle, a plurality of sensors located on the vehicle for sensing a user relative to the vehicle and generating sensed signals indicative of the sensed user, and a transceiver for communicating with another vehicle. The vehicle also includes a controller processing the sensed signals generated by the plurality of sensors, and detecting the user proximate to the vehicle and tracking movement of the user proximate to the vehicle, the controller further activating one or more of the plurality of exterior lighting devices to selectively illuminate areas that track the user and further communicating with the other vehicle to illuminate the user with lighting devices on the other vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Kristopher Karl Brown, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Hussein H. Berry