Patents Examined by Sean P. Gramling
  • Patent number: 10767817
    Abstract: An LED light bulb, comprising: a bulb shell with a lower part and an upper part opposite to the lower part; a bulb base connected with the bulb shell; a heat dissipating element connected with the lower part of the bulb shell and the bulb base, wherein the height of the heat dissipating element is L1 and the maximum height from the heat dissipating element to the upper part of the bulb shell is L2, and the ratio of L1 to L2 is from 1/30 to 1/3; and an LED filament with a plurality of LED chips electrically connected to each other disposed in the bulb shell, two conductive supports, disposed in the bulb shell, a driving circuit, electrically connected with the two conductive supports and the bulb base, a stem disposed in the bulb shell, the LED filament is connected with the stem through the conductive supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Liqin Li
  • Patent number: 10760750
    Abstract: A recessed light includes a top board, a main body, a reflector, a plurality of retaining mechanisms, a shading plate, a transparent plate, a light output plate, an LED ring, a bottom bracket, and a plurality of elastic strips. The light output plate, the transparent plate, and the shading plate are sequentially mounted in the main body. The LED ring is mounted in the main body, and surrounds the transparent plate. The top board is located above the main body. The reflector is located under the main body. The retaining mechanisms connect the top board and the bottom bracket. Each of the retaining mechanisms includes a connecting piece and a locking piece removably mounted on the connecting piece. The elastic strips are mounted on the main body. The reflector is retained by the elastic strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Dong Guan Jia Sheng Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. China
    Inventor: Kevin Hsu
  • Patent number: 10749079
    Abstract: An LED module 101 is provided with an LED chip 200 that includes a sub-mount substrate 210 made of Si and a semiconductor layer 220 laminated on the sub-mount substrate 210. The module also includes white resin 280 that does not transmit light from the semiconductor layer 220 and that covers at least part of a side of the sub-mount substrate 210, where the side is connected to the surface on which the semiconductor layer 220 is laminated. These arrangements enhance the brightness of the LED module 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiko Kobayakawa
  • Patent number: 10738949
    Abstract: A tubular semiconductor lamp having an elongate heat sink formed from sheet metal, at least one strip-shaped circuit board, which is equipped with at least one semiconductor light source and which lies on the heat sink, and a light-transmissive bulb made of plastic, which arches over the equipped circuit board, wherein the circuit board is held in a longitudinally movable manner by the heat sink. A method for producing a tubular semiconductor lamp, which can be applied, for example, to replacement lamps for straight-line fluorescent lamps or linear lamps, of type T5 or T8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Rieder, Shaozhu Yang
  • Patent number: 10729312
    Abstract: An endoscope light source device includes a light source to emit light, and a speckle reduction member to scatter the light. The reduction member has a surface including thickness variation to provide the light with an optical path difference. The device also includes a drive to move the reduction member, and a lens to condense the light passed through the reduction member onto a light guide of an endoscope. The surface of the reduction member has inclination of an average inclination angle. The average inclination angle is determined so that a light quantity loss rate of the entering light into the light guide by scattering of the reduction member and refraction of the lens has a positive value equal to or smaller than an effective allowable loss rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kamee, Eiji Yamamoto, Takeshi Ito, Masahiro Nishio
  • Patent number: 10718470
    Abstract: The present invention provides a retro LED light bulb comprising a transparent lampshade and a base fixedly connected with the transparent lampshade. It further comprises a transparent stem inside the transparent lampshade, a power supply board fixedly mounted on the transparent stem, rigid conductive wires passing through the transparent stem and connecting to the power supply board, and an LED filament fixedly connected to the rigid conductive wires; the rigid conductive wires are two in number; the LED filament is in U-shape; two ends of the LED filament are respectively connected to the rigid conductive wires as one-to-one connection. Since the LED filament is supported by the rigid conductive wires, and the LED filament is bent into a U-shape, the light emitted by the LED filament will not be blocked by the stem easily, resulting in more uniform light and better illumination effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: Linlin Wu
  • Patent number: 10712121
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel non-propellant personal defense tools that provide increased safety to users that prefer non-lethal weapons. In particular, the novel non-propellant personal defense tools of the present invention comprise a combat housing in an innovative combination with a vision impairment light, and sliding forend that creates sound when bidirectionally engaged, for example, as in the cocking of a shotgun. A non-propellant personal defense tool of the present invention is a hefty deterrent and resembles the image and action of a shotgun by an attacker when the vision of the attacker is impaired by the vision impairment light. In specific embodiments, the combat housing is shaped like a bat. Additionally, further embodiments also trigger an alarm or an alarm system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy E. Moran, Harry J. Tolley
  • Patent number: 10709071
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus (300) has: a surface (310) to be irradiated; and light-emitting devices (200) that are each obliquely arranged directly above the surface (310). The light-emitting devices (200) each have a light-emitting element (210) and a luminous flux control member (100). The luminous flux control member (100) distributes light emitted from the light-emitting element (210) in directions above and below the optical axis (OA) of the light-emitting element (210). The absolute value of the angle (?1) formed between the optical axis (OA) and the optical axis of the light directed upward is smaller than the absolute value of the angle (?2) formed between the optical axis (OA) and the optical axis of the light directed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Maryam Husna Yahya
  • Patent number: 10705287
    Abstract: A lighting system can include a lightguide having an edge and two major surfaces. The lightguide can be mounted in a frame so that one of the major surfaces faces towards an area to be illuminated, while the other major surface faces away from the area. LEDs can couple light into the lightguide edge, with the coupled light emitting from both major surfaces. Light emitted from the major surface that faces away from the area to be illuminated can be reflected back into the lightguide by a reflective surface. The reflective surface can be separated from the lightguide by an air gap. The air gap can promote internal reflection at the major surface facing away from the area to be illuminated, thereby enhancing homogeneity and output of light towards the area to be illuminated. The frame can include integral wireways, reflector retention clips, and grounding circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Signify Holding B.V.
    Inventor: RUss Clements
  • Patent number: 10704741
    Abstract: An LED light bulb comprises an LED filament configured for emitting omnidirectional light. The filament comprises a linear array of LED chips operably interconnected to emit light upon energization, a conductive electrode electrically connected with the linear array of LED chips, and a light conversion coating enclosing the linear array of the LED chip and the electrode. The light conversion coating includes a top layer and a base layer conformally interconnected to form a unitary enclosure. The top layer is coated on a first side of the linear array of LED chips and the electrode. The base layer is coated on a second side of the linear array of LED chips and the electrode. A first LED chip in the linear array of LED chips is guided by the unitary enclosure to a different angle in relation to a second LED chip in the linear array of the LED chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Liqin Li
  • Patent number: 10704778
    Abstract: An LED fixture is provided including a housing having a hollow configuration, a mounting plate secured to an upper end of the housing, a globe ring, separate from the housing, secured to a lower exterior end of the housing, a base on the housing extending within the globe ring, and an LED array positioned on the base of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Appleton Grp LLC
    Inventors: Suraj N. Desai, Harsha N. Devappa, Dawn M. Grandsart, Timothy E. Graff, James G. Brand
  • Patent number: 10698263
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a wavelength conversion member disposed to face the plurality of light sources; and a diffusion member disposed between the wavelength conversion member and the plurality of light sources, and configured to uniformize distribution of traveling direction angle of incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Kenji Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Nishida
  • Patent number: 10697604
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp for installing on a vehicle includes a projector lens, a reflector, a first light emitting element, a shield, and an optical grating unit. The projector lens has a light entry surface and a light exit surface. The first light emitting element is adjacent to a first focal point of the reflector, and is for emitting light towards the reflector. The shield is for blocking a portion of the light that is emitted from the first light emitting element to form a cut-off line in a light distribution pattern. The optical grating unit is for reflecting at least a portion of the light that has passed a second focal point of the reflector and that has not passed through the light exit surface of the projector lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Hua Xin Optronics Co.
    Inventors: You-Kang Guan, I-Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 10677429
    Abstract: A light module includes a heat sink and one or more light sources coupled within a heat sink cavity formed therein. The heat sink includes an internal surface surrounding the cavity. The internal surface includes a mounting region, a reflector region extending from the perimeter of the mounting region to a distal end, and a decorative region extending from the distal end to a second distal end. The light module includes multiple mounting pads coupled circumferentially around a portion of the heat sink. The mounting pads are configured to facilitate the heat sink being coupled within different housing diameter sizes. The light module includes a trim ring integrally formed with the heat sink and extending radially outward from one end of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Jared Michael Davis
  • Patent number: 10677404
    Abstract: Emergency light system housing, with two replaceable covers is invented to supplement the prior art, U.S. Pat. No. 6,741,324 B1. The disadvantage of prior art is that it does not permit the cover of emergency light system housing to be replaceable. However, the present invention resolved this disadvantage by the way that it, creatively positions three connecting members on the cover and positions three holes on the housing. Three connecting members on the emergency light cover come to be respectively combined into three holes on the emergency light system housing. The shape of emergency light cover could be various as far as three connecting members on the emergency light cover are Properly positioned as described in the claim so that they come to be respectively combined into three holes on the emergency light system housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Sun Kyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 10670216
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a light source and a rotary reflector configured to reflect a light emitted from the light source and rotate around a rotation axis in one direction. The rotary reflector is provided with a reflective surface such that a desired light distribution pattern is formed by scanning a light of a light source reflected by the rotary reflector while the rotary reflector is rotated. The light source includes a first light-emitting portion configured to be turned on when forming a first light distribution pattern that mainly illuminates a range lower than a horizontal line, and a second light-emitting portion configured to be turned on when forming a second light distribution pattern that illuminates a range at least higher than the horizontal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetada Tanaka, Kazutoshi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10663119
    Abstract: A LED filament for an omnidirectional lamp comprises two longitudinal filament sections, and each filament section includes a plurality of LEDs. The two filament sections are electrically conductively connected by a flexible connecting section. A lamp using such LED filaments provides a light distribution having an increased homogeneity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Jing Lin, Shijun Nie, Shaozhu Yang
  • Patent number: 10661709
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: an LED; a light guide; a diffusion plate; and an air vent housing, wherein at least one shielding protrusion having a receiving portion is formed to protrude from the rear of the air vent housing having the irradiation hole formed therethrough into which the diffusion plate is inserted to be fixed, wherein a bent extension portion is formed to extend from one side of the light guide such that a locking protrusion inserted into the receiving portion formed in the shielding protrusion protrudes from the front thereof and an inflow portion, through which the light generated from the LED is introduced, protrudes from the rear thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NIFCO KOREA INC.
    Inventors: Keun Heung Kim, Jae Wook Jung, Yun Sup Hwang
  • Patent number: 10653494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a handle device for a surgical light, which comprises a handle element, prepared for attachment to a receiving body of the surgical light and forming a handle surface in an exterior region. A voice control module that has at least one acoustic sensor is detachably connected to the handle element. The invention further relates to a surgical light having said handle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Joachim Strölin
  • Patent number: 10648638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for obtaining a light-scattering assembly in particular for a motor vehicle, the light-scattering assembly comprising a part including first and second sections. The process includes forming, by injection molding, the first section of the light-scattering assembly, the first section forming a transparent scattering screen having microstructures obtained by injection molding and configured to scatter light passing through said first section, and forming, by injection molding, the second section, the second section being devoid of microstructures obtained by injection molding and configured to scatter light. The second section has an external region extending around at least some of the perimeter of the first section, the external region extending beyond a peripheral portion of the first section [and away from the first section, the first and second sections being formed in contact with each other and being united with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Lingxuan Zhu