Patents Examined by Tracie Y Green
  • Patent number: 11874561
    Abstract: A display apparatus and light source device thereof are provided. The light source device includes an optical dome having a specifically defined shape to be able to maintain an optical profile of a light source. According to the disclosure, a display apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a light emitting diode (LED) chip mounted on the PCB and configured to emit light, an optical dome formed to enclose the LED chip by being dispensed on the LED chip, and a liquid crystal panel configured to block or pass light output from the LED chip, wherein the optical dome may be formed to satisfy 1.70<r1/r0<1.83 where r0 is a straight distance for light vertically emitted from the LED chip to reach a surface of the optical dome and r1 is a straight distance for maximum output light emitted from the LED chip to reach the surface of the optical dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungsoo Park, Sungyeol Kim, Chunsoon Park, Kyehoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11874090
    Abstract: A laser accessory device comprises a housing having a front side having a port, a rear side opposite the front side, a left side, a right side opposite the left side, a top side, and a bottom side opposite the top side. One or more laser emitters within the housing are configured to emit a beam through the port. A first cover assembly is positioned on the front side, the first cover assembly including a first safety cover and a first frame securing the first safety cover to the housing. The first safety cover is movable between a closed position covering the port and an open position not covering the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wilcox Industries Corp.
    Inventors: James W. Teetzel, Gary M. Lemire
  • Patent number: 11868034
    Abstract: A phosphor particle is configured to emit fluorescence longer in wavelength than excitation light entering the phosphor particle. The phosphor includes a concave portion which is no smaller than 0.1 times as large as the wavelength of the fluorescence and no larger than 10 times as large as the wavelength of the fluorescence. The concave portion is disposed on a surface of the phosphor particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hashizume
  • Patent number: 11867374
    Abstract: A light assembly includes a light source and a lens. The lens includes a hardcoat surface that protects the lens. The light source is positioned close to the lens, and a microtexture is defined in the hardcoat material to increase diffusion of the light to overcome the limitations of the close spacing between the lens and the light source. The hardcoat material and microtexture may be applied to both sides of the lens or one side of the lens. The light source may be a plurality of spaced apart LEDs. The microtexture may be applied to the entire surface of the lens or select regions of the lens. The microtexture is defined after the hardcoat is applied, and is defined via removal or disruption of hardcoat material. The microtexture may be defined in different ways to vary the appearance of the microtexture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lacks Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Walters, Aaron Johnson
  • Patent number: 11867380
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a support and a wavelength conversion layer including a first phosphor having a composition represented by Formula (1) and having an emission peak wavelength in a range from 550 nm to 620 nm, and a second phosphor having a different emission peak wavelength and/or a full width at half maximum from the first phosphor. An amount of the first phosphor in the wavelength conversion layer is in a range from 20 mass % to 80 mass % relative to a total amount of the phosphors In Formula (1), M1 represents at least one of rare earth elements other than La and Ce, a total molar content percentage of Y, Gd, and Lu in M1 is 90% or more, and p, q, r, and s satisfy 2.7?(p+q+r)?3.3, 0?r?1.2, 10?s?12, and 0<q?1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki Yoshida, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Eri Matsuka
  • Patent number: 11866630
    Abstract: A quantum dot including a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group III-V compound; and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, the semiconductor nanocrystal shell including zinc, tellurium, and selenium, wherein the quantum dot does not include cadmium, and the semiconductor nanocrystal shell has a mole ratio of tellurium to selenium of less than about 0.025:1, a composition including the quantum dot, a quantum dot-polymer composite, a patterned layer including the composite, and an electronic device including the patterned layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taekhoon Kim, Shin Ae Jun, Yong Wook Kim, Tae Gon Kim, Garam Park
  • Patent number: 11867367
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solar light kit, comprising: a housing comprising a removably attached solar panel and a removably attached battery; a PCB comprising one or more light sources, the PCB configured to connect to the solar panel and the battery; a lens for diffusing light from the one or more light sources of the PCB, wherein the lens is configured to connect to the housing and the PCB; a plurality of removable fasteners for connecting the lens to one or more of the PCB and housing; and a tool for fastening the plurality of removable fasteners, wherein the housing, the PCB, the lens, the plurality of removable fasteners, and the tool are bundled together unassembled in a kit package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SolarBuddy.org Ltd
    Inventor: Simon James Doble
  • Patent number: 11859775
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light emitting diode (LED) filament arrangement (100) which comprises an elongated, flexible LED filament (110) having a plurality of LEDs arranged along the elongation of the filament. The arrangement further comprises a bending unit (120) having a body in which a channel (121) is formed. A portion of the LED filament is arranged within the channel of the bending unit, and the bending unit is at least partially curved and adapted to induce a bend in the LED filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 11859795
    Abstract: A surface maintenance machine includes a body, a surface maintenance tool coupled to the body, processing circuitry supported at the body, and a light projection mechanism supported at the body and coupled to the processing circuitry. The light projection mechanism includes a light housing, a light emitting element within the light housing, and a projection lens that is configured to focus light emanating from the light emitting element. The light projection mechanism is configured to project light onto a ceiling surface that is above a floor surface along which the surface maintenance machine is configured to perform a surface maintenance task using the surface maintenance tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENNANT COMPANY
    Inventors: Grant Daniel Leacox, Richard Alan Loveless
  • Patent number: 11862948
    Abstract: A fish stick includes a light emitting component, such as a lighted tip, near the leading end of the fish stick. The lighted tip includes a curved lens that directs some light around an attachment piece at the end of the fish stick and generally in the forward direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fish stick. The fish stick may be made of a phosphorescent material and stored in a lit container with an LED and reflective surfaces. The fish stick may be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other and include a spring biasing element that increases the coefficient of friction between the threads of the rods. The fish stick may also be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other via collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron M. Williams, Caleb C. Adams
  • Patent number: 11852323
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: a case made from a material allowing light to penetrate therethrough and having a cylinder shape with a closed bottom; a substrate including a light emitter configured to emit light; and a cover made from a rigid material, press-fitted and installed in the substrate so as to cover the light emitter, and installed inside the case together with the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Hori, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Masahiro Sawayanagi
  • Patent number: 11855050
    Abstract: Provided is a micro-LED display, a micro-LED transferring substrate, and a method of transferring micro-LEDs using the micro-LED transferring substrate. The micro-LED includes a backplane substrate; and a plurality of sub-pixels provided on the backplane substrate, wherein at least one sub-pixel from among the plurality of sub-pixels includes a first micro-LED; and a second micro-LED different from the first micro-LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjoon Kim, Kyungwook Hwang, Joonyong Park, Seogwoo Hong, Junsik Hwang
  • Patent number: 11853847
    Abstract: Quantum information processing involves entangling large numbers of qubits, which can be realized as defect centers in a solid-state host. The qubits can be implemented as individual unit cells, each with its own control electronics, that are arrayed in a cryostat. Free-space control and pump beams address the qubit unit cells through a cryostat window. The qubit unit cells emit light in response to these control and pump beams and microwave pulses applied by the control electronics. The emitted light propagates through free space to a mode mixer, which interferes the optical modes from adjacent qubit unit cells for heralded Bell measurements. The qubit unit cells are small (e.g., 10 ?m square), so they can be tiled in arrays of up to millions, addressed by free-space optics with micron-scale spot sizes. The processing overhead for this architecture remains relatively constant, even with large numbers of qubits, enabling scalable large-scale quantum information processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hyeongrak Choi, Dirk Robert Englund
  • Patent number: 11851208
    Abstract: An aircraft anti-collision light includes a first group of light sources arranged in a first annular configuration around an axis (A) and a second group of light sources arranged in a second annular configuration. The first group of light sources is surrounded by the second group of light sources. The light also has a first lens structure, which is configured for generating a first light output from light emitted by the first group of light sources, a second lens structure, which is configured for generating a second light output from light emitted by the second group of light sources, and a light transmissive cover, which is arranged over the first lens structure and the second lens structure and which passes the first light output and the second light output for emitting a total light output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marion Depta, Carsten Pawliczek, Andreas Ueberschaer, Bjoern Schallenberg
  • Patent number: 11855418
    Abstract: A discharge device includes a connector portion, an electrode portion, and a housing portion. A voltage is applied to the connector portion externally. The electrode portion discharges by boosting and supplying a voltage from the connector portion. The housing portion houses the connector portion and the electrode portion. The housing portion includes a step portion between the connector portion and the electrode portion. The step portion is, for example, a recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Okano, Nobuyuki Ohe
  • Patent number: 11841129
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light-emitting diode, LED, filament (100) including a filament core. The filament core comprises a flexible elongated carrier (102) having a first side, a plurality of LEDs (104) arranged on the first side, and an encapsulant (106) embedding at least said plurality of LEDs and at least a portion of the carrier. At least one alignment member (108) protrudes from the filament core at an angle from an elongation of the filament core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 11841128
    Abstract: A lantern lighting device is disclosed that can include a lantern and a base that can be configured to retain the lantern, where the base can include a light emitting element, which can be independent to a light emitting element of the lantern. The lantern lighting device can include a base comprising a base power supply and a base light emitting element, and a lantern detachably attached to the base. The lantern can comprise a lantern lighting element and a lantern power supply. The base can be configured to illuminate the base light emitting element when the lantern is detached from the base, and de-illuminate the base light emitting element when the lantern is detachably attached to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LB MARKETING, INC.
    Inventors: Lauren Lindley, Kaif Dosani, Douglas R. Kaye, Thomas Perrin, Kelly Dawn Hires
  • Patent number: 11841580
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a plurality of light boards spliced together and a reflector corresponding to a seam of two adjacent light boards. By disposing the reflector at the seam of the two adjacent light boards, a reflection performance of light at the seam is improved and a shadow problem at the seam is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng Zhou, Suimang Song
  • Patent number: 11843076
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light emitting diode, in which the light emitting diode includes an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer located on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer located on the active layer. The light emitting diode emits light that varies from yellow light to white light depending on a driving current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Hyun Baek, Ji Hun Kang, Chae Hon Kim, Ji Hoon Park, So Ra Lee
  • Patent number: 11841136
    Abstract: The invention provides a light generating device (1000) configured to generate device light (1001), wherein the light generating device (1000) comprises a first light source (110), a first luminescent material (210), a second source (120) of second light (121), and a third light source (130), wherein: the first light source (110) is configured to generate blue first light source light (111) having a first peak wavelength ?1 selected from the spectral wavelength range of 440-475 nm, wherein the first light source (110) is a first laser light source (10); the first luminescent material (210) is configured to convert at least part of the first light source light (111) into first luminescent material light (211) having an emission band having wavelengths in one or more of (a) the green spectral wavelength range and (b) the yellow spectral wavelength range, wherein the first luminescent material (210) comprises a luminescent material of the type A3B5O12:Ce, wherein A comprises one or more of Y, Gd, Tb and Lu, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Martinus Petrus Joseph Peeters, Ties Van Bommel, Olexandr Valentynovych Vdovin, Robert Van Asselt