Patents Examined by Tracie Y Green
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Patent number: 11085618Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source; a power supply configured to supply power to the light source; a heat sink configured to dissipate heat from the light source; and a light controller configured to control light from the light source. The heat sink has a configuration in which a plate is bent so as to have a first portion and a second portion that is bent at a predetermined angle with respect to the first portion, the light source is arranged on the first portion, and the second portion includes an insertion portion through which the power supply connected to the light source is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Aoki
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Patent number: 11086072Abstract: A backlight module and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module includes a film sheet, including a first opening and a second opening; and a light guide plate, including a first limit boss located within the first opening and a second limit boss located within the second opening. The second limit boss limits a position of the film sheet in a first direction; the first limit boss limits the position of the film sheet in a second direction. In the second direction, a first interval between is between a portion of the film sheet that forms the second opening and the second limit boss; and the portion of the film sheet that forms the second opening includes two first sidewalls opposite to each other in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Mengjie Li, Kaiwen Wang, Haifeng Xu, Hui Dong, Aixia Sang
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Patent number: 11079094Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a light-transmissive member, a covering member, and a base member. The light-transmissive member has a flange on a lateral surface thereof in such a manner as to continue from a periphery of an upper surface to a periphery of a lower surface of the light-transmissive member and to be positioned outside the upper surface of the light-transmissive member and an upper surface of the light emitting element in plan view. The flange has a thin portion at an inner side than the outer edge side of the flange. The thin portion has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the outer edge side of the flange.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Ozeki, Masami Nishi
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Patent number: 11075259Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate in which a display area and a non-display area disposed outside the display area are defined; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a cell seal disposed on the non-display area, where the cell seal includes a bonding filament connecting the first substrate and the second substrate to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo Suk Seo, Sang Woo Ha, Sung Chul Kim, Jung Hyun Kim, Si Joon Song, Jun Ho Song, Bong Hyun You
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Patent number: 11073726Abstract: A display device including a backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes: a substrate, a backlight cavity, a plurality of light emitting elements, and an optical adjustment layer. The backlight cavity is located on the substrate. The plurality of light emitting elements is disposed in the backlight cavity. The optical adjustment layer covers the plurality of light emitting elements and fills the remaining space of the backlight cavity. The optical adjustment layer has a refractive index n greater than the refractive index n0 of the air.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Chin-Lung Ting, Ming-Hui Chu, Fang-Ho Lin, Chia-Lun Chen, Yen-Liang Chen
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Patent number: 11067259Abstract: Disclosed is an outdoor light fixture assembly having a housing, a contact block, and a user serviceable light module. The housing has a first opening for receiving the contact block and a second opening for receiving the user serviceable light module. The contact block has at least one contact and a power wire. The contact block can be disposed relative to the first opening so that the at least one contact is accessible from inside the housing. The user serviceable light module light module is sized and shaped to transition between a connected position and a released position relative to the housing. The user serviceable light module has a cover and a circuit board supporting one or more light emitting diodes and having at least one contact pin. The light emitting diodes are arranged relative to the circuit board to emit light in a direction towards the second opening when the user serviceable light module is in the connected position.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Hunter Industries, Inc.Inventors: Darrin I. Schmuckle, Adam Zeman, Sergio Corona
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Patent number: 11063189Abstract: A light emitting device comprises an LED emitting ultraviolet or blue light and one or more phosphors excited by the ultraviolet or blue light and in response emitting longer wavelength light to provide a combined phosphor emission spectrum having an emission peak at wavelength ?pk with a full width at half maximum of FWHM. With ?pk and FWHM expressed in nm, 525 nm??pk?0.039*FWHM+492.7 nm. The light emitting device may be used, for example, to signal the autonomous driving state of an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Matthias Heidemann, Erik Roeling
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Patent number: 11061275Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light source module, and a reflector opposed to the light source module. The reflector includes a plurality of incidence openings on which light from the light source module is made incident, a plurality of emission openings opposed to the incidence openings, a plurality of reflective surfaces extending from the incidence openings to the emission openings, respectively, and reflective films formed on the reflective surfaces. The reflector includes a plurality of blocks, and the blocks are bonded to each other to form the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masayuki Mifune
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Patent number: 11060707Abstract: A foldable electronic display having a layered sheet-form structure including a multi-layer flexible support substrate sheet, a flexible front sheet and a plurality of rigid heat-conductive substrates bonded to the flexible support substrate sheet, and a large number of individually digitally addressable solid-state light emitting devices hermetically encapsulated within the layered sheet-form structure and each configured to emit light in a different color than an adjacent solid-state light emitting device. The display further has a fold area located in a space between at least two of the plurality of rigid heat-conductive substrates and is configured for repetitive and reversible folding upon itself with a radius of curvature in the fold area from 1 mm to 5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Sergiy Vasylyev
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Patent number: 11054115Abstract: A coupling mechanism for a lighting apparatus (and a lighting apparatus having a housing, a mount and the coupling mechanism for coupling the lighting apparatus to the housing) has a first coupling member comprising a curved strip and a second coupling member comprising a retaining element for magnet coupling with the curved strip at multiple positions along its length whereby the first coupling member may be adjustably orientated about at least one axis relative to the second coupling member. The lighting system having the coupling mechanism is thus a multi-direction lighting system which may be directed over a wide illumination area and which is simple and easy to assemble and adjust.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: ECOLED LTD.Inventors: Simon Cadisch, David Ong
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Patent number: 11054661Abstract: A near-eye display device and a near-eye display method for human eye of an observer are provided in embodiments of the disclosure, the near-eye display device including: a light source device, configured to emit a plurality of single-colored light beams sequentially; a light guide device, on a light-emergent side of the light source device, and configured to receive and transmit the plurality of single-colored light beams from the light source device and to guide the plurality of single-colored light beams to emit outwards from a light-emergent side of the light guide device; a display panel, on the light-emergent side of the light guide device and comprising a plurality of pixels, and configured to receive the plurality of single-colored light beams from the light guide device and to control both color and grayscale of emergent light beams generated by the plurality of snide-colored light beams which are incident on the display panel and transmitted through the plurality of pixels, and then exit the displayType: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Jifeng Tan
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Patent number: 11056858Abstract: A spark plug has a housing of a cylindrical shape and an insulator supported to an inside of the housing. A channel part is formed at a distal end side of the housing. The channel part is open so that the inside of the housing communicates with an outside of the housing through the channel part. The channel part has a channel bottom having a tapered shape oblique relative to a plug central axis. An overall channel bottom is arranged in the housing closer to a proximal end side than to the distal end side of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Izumi, Masamichi Shibata, Kanechiyo Terada, Tetsuya Miwa
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Patent number: 11056859Abstract: A spark plug electrode includes an electrode base body made of a first material and an ignition element made of a second material and forming an ignition surface for a spark plug. The electrode base body and the ignition element are integrally joined to each other via a welding seam. A mixing rate for the first or second materials is less than 15 weight percent in a half of the welding seam adjacent to the ignition element. A method for manufacturing a spark plug electrode includes: providing an electrode base body and an ignition element; carrying out a welding process joining the electrode base body and the ignition element while forming a welding seam, where a welding beam guided over the surface of the spark plug electrode by tilting a reflection element, thereby producing a welding seam at a joining point between the electrode base body and the ignition element.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Zhuo Tang, Dennis Quest, Stefan Nufer
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Patent number: 11054686Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of a display panel. The display panel includes: a display region including a first display region and a second display region. In the first display region, a surface of a first substrate facing towards a second substrate is provided with a plurality of organic light emitting elements. In the second display region, a surface of the second substrate facing towards the first substrate is provided with a plurality of Micro Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and a plurality of second traces. An encapsulation frame is further configured between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the encapsulation frame is disposed in a frame region and surrounds the display region. In the frame region, the surface of the first substrate facing towards the second substrate is provided with a plurality of first traces.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jujian Fu
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Patent number: 11048086Abstract: The display device includes the first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a first color filter through which light from the first light-emitting element passes, and a second color filter through which the light from the second light-emitting element passes. The relative positional relationship between the center of the first light-emitting element and the center of the first color filter is different from the relative positional relationship between the center of the second light-emitting element and the center of the second color filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Koshihara, Hitoshi Ota
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Patent number: 11050221Abstract: A spark plug includes a tubular metallic shell having an attachment screw portion having an external thread, an insulator disposed inside the metallic shell and having an axial hole, and a center electrode disposed in the axial hole. The attachment screw portion has a pitch diameter local maximum portion at which the external thread has a locally maximum pitch diameter. The pitch diameter local maximum portion is located on the forward end side of a rear end of the center electrode in a direction along an axial line of the metallic shell.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventor: Susumu Imai
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Patent number: 11027036Abstract: An electronic scented candle is described that includes a movable flame-shaped component, a shell including an installation chamber, a fragrance container that is removably positioned inside the installation chamber and a scent chamber. An electric fan is positioned within the shell to drive the air into the scent chamber and a scent outlet coupled to the scent chamber to allow the fragrance material to leave the scent chamber and to reach an external environment of the electronic scented candle. The electronic candle also includes a receptacle for connecting a power cord on a bottom surface of the electronic candle. The bottom surface includes a plurality of protruding stands that provide a space to allow the power cord to be connected to the receptacle and be routed below the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: L&L Candle Company, LLCInventor: Xiaofeng Li
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Patent number: 11028981Abstract: Lighting device, in particular for automotive applications, comprising a plurality of lighting elements, wherein each lighting element comprises at least one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs). The lighting device comprises a first connector for connecting the lighting device to a lighting driver. The lighting elements are arranged in a row in order to form a luminous band. The plurality of lighting elements is divided into more than one group, each group consisting of at least one or more lighting elements. The lighting elements of one group are electrically connected in series. The groups are electrically connected in parallel in order to control each group individually.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Udo Karbowski, Christian Kleijnen, Josef Schug
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Patent number: 11028998Abstract: A multi-color spotlight has a housing having a lens on a first side, a rotational LED mechanism, a knob for actuating the rotational LED mechanism, and a power supply source within the housing operably coupled to the rotational LED mechanism, wherein the rotational LED mechanism comprises a rotatable rod having a plurality of substrates coupled around the circumference thereof, with each substrate being in a distinct geometric plane, each substrate having an LED chip in the center, and wherein only the LED chip that is positioned in the center beneath the lens is configured to receive power from the power supply source.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: ALLPREDATORCALLS.COM, INC.Inventor: Andrew Paul Jones
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Patent number: 11029462Abstract: A backlight module including a light guide plate, a light source, an optical film, a first prism sheet and a second prism sheet is provided. The light guide plate has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface connected to each other. The light source is disposed on a side of the light incident surface. The optical film is overlapped with the light emitting surface and has a plurality of optical microstructures facing the light emitting surface. An angle between the extending direction of the optical microstructures and the light incident surface is 90 degrees or between 45 degrees and 90 degrees. The first prism sheet and the second prism sheet are overlapped with the optical film and are positioned on a side of the optical film being far away from the light guide plate. A display apparatus adopting the backlight module is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Coretronic CorporationInventors: Ping-Yen Chen, Chung-Yang Fang, Jen-Wei Yu, Yang-Ching Lin, Yu-Fan Chen