Patents Examined by Sandra L. O'Shea
  • Patent number: 7874704
    Abstract: The diffuse reflectivity of an LED source is utilized to recycle some of its emission, thereby enabling a luminaire to escape the étendue limit. Retroreflectors intercept the rays destined for the outer part of the luminaire aperture, which can then be truncated. The resulting smaller aperture has the same beam-width as the full original, albeit with lesser flux due to recycling losses. A reduction to half the original area is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventors: Waqidi Falicoff, Julio C. Chaves, Pablo Benitez, Juan Carlos Miñano, William A. Parkyn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7874711
    Abstract: Lamp capsules and systems thereof having a socket, socket holder, and lens holder are provided. Socket holders include a plurality of fins extending radially and outwardly therefrom, and define a cavity into which a lamp is placed. Systems include a lens positioned in the lens holder, and a snoot is connected to the lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Russell Green, Grzegorz Wronski, Huang Rongxiu
  • Patent number: 7874701
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus comprises a light panel having a panel frame, and a plurality of LEDs or other light elements secured to the panel frame. Lenses and/or filters are adjusted in distance from the light elements, by for example moving the lenses/filters into different slot positions of the frame, to alter characteristics of the emitted light. Focal lenses, diffusion lenses, and color filters may be used individually or in combination. A compound lens includes lens elements having different characteristics arranged in a pattern. Through groupwise control of the intensity of the light elements, the different characteristics are emphasized or de-emphasized. The light panel may have an integrated battery, and may be mounted on a stand. The panel may be modular, allowing larger panels to be constructed from smaller panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Litepanels, LLC
    Inventors: Rudy G. Pohlert, Pat Grosswendt, Kevin C. Baxter, Ken S. Fisher
  • Patent number: 7874692
    Abstract: An LED lamp includes a lamp cover consisting of a plurality of sector-shaped connecting bodies, a plurality of fins attached to the lamp cover and a plurality of LED modules attached to the lamp cover and opposing the fins. A locking device is pivotably mounted to the lamp cover and comprises a supporting pole extending in the lamp cover, a plurality of branches pivotably mounted to the lamp cover and the supporting pole. The branches are movable along the supporting pole to be locked at a desired position, whereby an illumination angle of the LED modules of the lamp cover relative to the supporting pole is changeable via movement of the branches along the supporting pole of the locking device. Thus, an illumination area and an illumination intensity of the LED lamp are adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Bo Zheng, Meng Fu, Chun-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 7874710
    Abstract: An LED lamp including a lamp housing, an LED light source, a heat sink and a control circuit. The lamp housing has an accommodating space, a plurality of air inlets and a plurality of air outlets, wherein the accommodating space joins an environment through the air inlets and the air outlets. The LED light source and the heat sink are disposed in the accommodating space and the heat sink is connected with the LED light source. The heat sink includes a pedestal and a plurality of heat dissipation fins connected to the pedestal. An air convection channel is located between any two adjacent heat dissipation fins. Air from the environment flows into the accommodating space, passes through the air convection channel, and leaves the accommodating space via the air outlets sequentially. The control circuit is disposed in the accommodating space and connected to the LED light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Top Energy Saving System Corp.
    Inventors: Wen-Kuei Tsai, Chia-Chi Liu, Chun-Chien Wang, Ching-Hua Wu
  • Patent number: 7874689
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display element for showing information as a screen image; and an ornamental member disposed on a display surface of the display element and having a shape corresponding to the screen image. The ornamental member includes a light transparent element and a light nontransparent element. The screen image includes a designed image on a position of the display surface corresponding to the light transparent element. The display element outputs a screen image light from the display surface. The screen image light corresponding to the designed image passes through the light transparent element so that the screen image light is outputted from the ornamental member to the display side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Seigo Tane, Satoshi Sugiura, Akira Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7874705
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a cover for an illumination device including a composite image including selectively visible design elements. The exterior surface of the cover may include a design element viewable regardless of whether the light source is extinguished or illuminated. The interior surface of the cover may further include a design element that is viewable on the exterior surface only when the light source is illuminated. Thus, when a viewer views the exterior of the lamp generally in elevation, the cover selectively displays different designs to the viewer depending on the illumination state of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Marnie Deacon Kenney
  • Patent number: 7874707
    Abstract: A lighting fixture comprising a reflector 100 and a double-ended elongate lamp 200, the reflector body comprising a casing (110) with a specular cavity having an apex and an aperture rim, wherein the lamp end portions (220, 220?) of the double-ended lamp are enclosed in slots (131, 131?) located in the casing at opposite sides of the aperture rim and substantially flush with the aperture rim, is extremely flat and slim and therefore useful as a recessed down-light in a shelf, a ceiling, or a wall panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Oliver Boehme, Bruno Thoennessen
  • Patent number: 7874697
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp with a first light source generating white light, comprising at least one fluorescent lamp (2) or an incandescent lamp, as well as a second light source comprising at least one set of light-emitting diodes (4, 5; 300), and comprising a reflector (1) for the light emitted by the light sources, wherein a cooling device (6, 7) for the at least one set of light-emitting diodes (4, 5) is attached to the reflector (1) and is thermally linked to the at least one set of light-emitting diodes (4, 5), and wherein the lamp comprises a translucent and light-dispersing medium (3) in the optical path of the light emitted by the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mitbeschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Ulrich Biebel, Jens Clark, Udo Custodis, Ulrich Henger
  • Patent number: 7874691
    Abstract: A light emitting device (1), which is adapted to be attached to at least one air cylinder (2, 3) that is to be carried by a diver, such as a scuba diver or a smoke diver, comprises an electroluminescent filament and a protective cover enclosing the filament and made of translucent, heat resistant silicone material. The light emitting device (1) further comprises resilient fastening elements (4a, 4b), which are arranged to secure the light emitting device (1) to the air cylinder/cylinders (2, 3) by a force determined by the resilient properties of the fastening elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Laszlo Kormos
  • Patent number: 7871184
    Abstract: A heat dissipating structure includes a cover. The cover includes an inner heat dissipating body and an outer heat dissipating body. The inner heat dissipating body includes a cylinder and a plurality of first fins extending from an outer surface of the cylinder. The outer heat dissipating body includes a ring portion encircling a part of the inner heat dissipating body and a plurality of second fins extending from one side of the ring portion. In this way, more heat dissipating fins and larger heat dissipating surface area can be formed to enhance heat conduction and dissipation effect when restricted by the size of cover. A lamp with this heat dissipating structure is also provided. A service life of the LED in the lamp can be greatly prolonged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Cooler Master Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chang-Hung Peng
  • Patent number: 7871181
    Abstract: An improved color changeable tube light includes a opaque core line, a plurality of LEDs being arranged in the core line, a translucent diffuser with the same length as the core line, a cladding layer having the same length as the core line and covering the core line and being formed by extrusion molding integrally with the diffuser into one piece. A unit is formed by disposing a red LED, a green LED and a blue LED of the plurality of LEDs into a fixing means, a plurality of the units are connected in series and disposed in the plurality of transversal through-holes of the core line respectively. The fixing means may be a box. The box may be quadrate, round or elliptic in shape. The tube light of the present invention to have the effects of light beams of neon light, and the color changing and the color mixing to obtain various results are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: He Shan Lide Electronic Enterprise Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben Fan
  • Patent number: 7866853
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting element mounting substrate which includes: a core metal provided with a reflective cup which reflects light emitted from a mounted light-emitting element in a prescribed direction; and an enamel layer having a thickness within a range of 50 ?m to 200 ?m, and provided on a surface of the core metal. The present invention also provides a light-emitting element module in which a light-emitting element is provided on this light-emitting element mounting substrate, and in which the light-emitting element is sealed with a transparent sealing resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Ohashi, Ken-ichi Uruga, Masanori Ito
  • Patent number: 7866871
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise light recycling films comprising an array of parallel ridges and grooves that form prisms that selectively reflect or transmit light. In some embodiments, the light recycling film may be used in displays that include spatial light modulators comprising a plurality of pixels. The light recycling film can limit the field-of-view of the display and enhance the luminance within that field-of-view. Various embodiments comprising multiple arrays of ridges and/or grooves can enhance uniformity of illumination of the pixels in the spatial light modulator and reduce Moiré effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis I. Couzin, William J. Cassarly, Steven R. Chapman
  • Patent number: 7866842
    Abstract: Reflector (1) for light concentration and direction in fluorescent lamps with parabolic shape made of thin synthetic film with reflective surface and vertically positioned louvres (4) made of thin flexible and synthetic film through which the reflector (1) is fitted on the fluorescent lamps (3). In the centre of the louvres (4) there is an especially shaped opening (6) which adjusts to the diameter of the lamp (3), so that the lamp (3) can pass through the openings (6) of the louvres (4), retain the reflector (1) on the fluorescent lamp (3) and rotate some degrees in relation to the lamp (3) in order to concentrate the light towards the desired direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Pilux & Danpex, S.A.
    Inventor: Stavros Piperidis
  • Patent number: 7866856
    Abstract: A lamp housing which contains an accommodating apparatus for a burner or a lamp with a glass vessel, a lamp base and contact pins for supplying current, and a lampholder with sockets for connection to the contact pins, is provided. The accommodating apparatus containing clamping jaws, which can be connected to the lamp base in a force-fitting and/or interlocking manner, engage at least partially around the lamp base, are articulated, via lever arms, on the lamp housing or a lampholder mount, which is fixed to the housing and is connected to the lamp housing, and can be adjusted by means of an adjusting device, which has at least one adjusting element, which is arranged between the lever arms and pushes the lever arms apart from one another for opening the clamping jaws into an opening position, in which the lamp base is released, and brings the lever arms together for closing the clamping jaws into a locking position, in which the lamp base is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventors: Anton Hundhammer, Klaus-Dieter Stegmaier
  • Patent number: 7866082
    Abstract: A long range, high intensity spotlight for human incapacitation and control that uses an incoherent collimated constant light source of sufficient intensity and focus to cause temporary incapacitation of a person for a period of time when illuminated by the beam without causing permanent physical harm. The high intensity spotlight comprises a head portion at one end having a window opening and a handle portion connected to the head portion and containing electronic circuitry and thermal air management for controlling operating temperature of the lamp. A paraboloid reflector is mounted in the head portion to face the window opening, and a high intensity electric arc Xenon lamp is adjustably mounted within the reflector so that the electrode gap is located as close as possible to the focus of the reflector. An adjustable mounting base allows the position of the reflector to be adjusted until the optimum focus is reached. A properly positioned cathode wire feed optimizes the lamp performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Genesis Illumination, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Eisenberg, Herbert Parker
  • Patent number: 7866851
    Abstract: An LED heat sink having an LED unit and a pipe. The LED unit has a base having a top and an LED chip attached to the top of the base. The pipe has a inlet end, a outlet end, a body, multiple inlets, multiple partitioning walls and multiple partitions. The inlet end is attached to the base of the LED unit. The inlets are defined near the base. The partitioning walls are formed inside the body. The partitions are defined within the body by the partitioning walls and communicate with the inlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Inventor: Tong-Lung Chang
  • Patent number: 7866872
    Abstract: The light guide plate includes a light exit plane, two light entrance planes, two symmetrical inclined rear planes increasingly distanced from the light exit plane from the two light entrance planes toward a center of the light exit plane, a curved portion joining the two inclined rear planes and scattering particles for scattering light travelling inside the light guide plate. The light guide plate satisfies given ranges set for a length between the two light entrance planes, a thickness of each of the two light entrance planes, a thickness at the center of the curved portion, a radius of curvature thereof, tapers of the inclined rear planes, and a particle diameter and a density of the scattering particles, and conditions that a light use efficiency be 55% or greater and that a middle-high ratio represented by the brightness distribution at the light exit plane be greater than 0% and not greater than 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takamitsu Okumura
  • Patent number: 7866874
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a backlight module having replaceable light apparatus. The backlight module includes the replaceable light apparatus, a back plate and a frame body. The replaceable light apparatus includes a light control circuit, a securing device and conducting wires. The light control circuit is adapted to a frame body and a back plate of the backlight module. Additionally, the light control circuit has a plurality of light sources, a first end portion and a second end portion. The securing device has a supporting housing which has a position protrusion and a clamping portion for supporting the first end portion of the light control circuit along a first direction (X) and a third direction (Z). The clamping portion clamps the first end portion of the light control circuit along a second direction (Y) and the third direction (Z).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Keng-ju Liu, Wen-yuan Cheng, Chi-chih Chu