Patents Examined by Tracie Y Green
  • Patent number: 11781738
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to luminaire systems with movable modules. One example luminaire system includes a support structure. The luminaire system also includes a plurality of light sources arranged on the support structure. Additionally, the luminaire system includes at least a first and second optical module. The first optical module is provided with at least one first optical element and the second optical module is provided with at least one second optical element. The first and second optical module are configured for being interlocked with respected to each other in a moving direction. Further, the luminaire system includes a moving means configured to move the first optical module relative to the support structure in the moving direction, such that a position of the first and second optical module with respect to the support structure is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Schreder S.A.
    Inventors: Laurent Seronveaux, Roxane Caprara
  • Patent number: 11784283
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a substrate a plurality of light emitting elements provided on the substrate, and a reflective sheet provided to be positioned at a predetermined reference position on the substrate and having a plurality of apertures that expose the light emitting elements therethrough, respectively. The apertures are configured such that a first spacing that is located between each of the apertures and a respective one of the light emitting elements and farther than the respective one of the light emitting elements from the reference position is larger than a second spacing that is located between each of the apertures and the respective one of the light emitting elements and closer than the respective one of the light emitting elements to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Imahori
  • Patent number: 11781736
    Abstract: An LED lighting device includes a seat, an optical assembly and a light source, according to one embodiment of the present invention. The seat has a baseplate and a sidewall. A chamber is formed between the baseplate and the sidewall. The optical assembly completely covers a light-emitting side of the LED lighting device. The light source is disposed in the chamber of the seat and includes multiple LED arrays. Each of the LED arrays includes an LED chip. The optical assembly includes an optical unit. The optical unit includes multiple first optical members and multiple second optical members corresponding to the first optical members. The LED arrays correspond to the first optical members. Each of the second optical members includes a set of optical walls. The set of optical walls surrounds one of the first optical members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Mingbin Wang, Zhichao Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, Jifeng Xu, Tao Jiang, Kuan Lin
  • Patent number: 11781733
    Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle lamp optical element, a vehicle lamp module comprising the vehicle lamp optical element, a vehicle headlamp, and a vehicle. The vehicle lamp optical element comprises a light incoming part, a transmission part and a light exiting part, which are sequentially arranged. The light incoming part includes at least one light incoming structure. The rear end and the front end, in a light exiting direction, of the transmission part are respectively a light incoming end and a light exiting end of the transmission part. One end, facing away from the light exiting end of the light exiting part forms a light exiting face. The light exiting face is a curved face protruding forwards. The distance between at least one set of opposite side faces of the transmission part gradually increases from the end approaching the light incoming end to the end approaching the light exiting end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiping Qiu, Dapan Zhang, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang
  • Patent number: 11781730
    Abstract: A lighting unit which comprises a lens arrangement over a LED module is provided. The lens arrangement comprises a plate having at least one lens integrally formed by the plate for positioning over a substrate of the LED module, and at least one magnifying component integrally formed by the plate. The LED module substrate has an inspection region which is inspected through the magnifying component, so as to enable determination of a spacing between the lens arrangement and the substrate by viewing an image of the marker arrangement created by the at least one magnifying component at a given viewing location. A luminaire is also provided, which luminaire comprises a housing and the lighting unit mounted within the housing, wherein the lens arrangement (10) forms the light output window of the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V.
    Inventors: Jia Fei, Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11781729
    Abstract: The present application discloses a lamp body and a bulb lamp, the lamp body includes a lampshade and a light source assembly, which is integrated on the lampshade. The light source assembly is integrated on the lampshade, a distance between the light source assembly and the external environment is shorten, and the thermal performance is improved. The lampshade includes a mounting window, and the light source assembly is mounted in the mounting window, so that heat of the light source assembly can be directly dissipated to the external environment. The light source assembly includes a light source a transparent light source substrate, a surface of the light source substrate facing an inner cavity of the lampshade is a mounting surface, and the light source is mounted on the mounting surface. The bulb lamp includes a lamp holder and the abovementioned lamp body, the lampshade is connected with the lamp holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junguang Ding
  • Patent number: 11774045
    Abstract: A LED filament (100) comprising an elongated substrate (110), a first region (120), a second region (130) and a third region (140) arranged between the first and second region. The first region comprises a plurality of LEDs (121) of a first LED type configured to emit light with a first CCT, arranged along at least one row on the substrate. The second region comprises a plurality of LEDs (131) of a second LED type configured to emit light with a second CCT, different from said first CCT, arranged along at least one row on the substrate. The third region (140) comprises at least one first LED (141) of the first LED type and at least one second LED (142) of the second LED type. A first LED of the at least one first LED of the third region is located next to a second LED of the second region. A second LED of the at least one second LED of the third region is located next to a first LED of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 11774062
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lens and a lighting fixture, the lens includes a light incident portion and a light-emitting portion, the light-emitting portion includes a main light-emitting surface and an auxiliary light-emitting surface surrounding the main light-emitting surface. The main light-emitting surface and the auxiliary light-emitting surface protrude toward a side away from the light incident portion, the auxiliary light-emitting surface is a curved surface. The auxiliary light-emitting surface has a protruding height gradually decreasing in a direction away from the main light-emitting surface. The lighting fixture includes a lamp housing, a light-emitting assembly, and a light distribution assembly, the light distribution assembly includes the above lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SUZHOU OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD., OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wanlin Wang
  • Patent number: 11774052
    Abstract: A high-efficiency linear light source focused strip lamp has a strip lamp frame, a strip lamp plate provided on the strip lamp frame, a condensing lens arranged above the light emitting direction of the light-emitting chip, and a strip lamp cover connected to the strip lamp frame and located above the condensing lens; the strip lamp cover is provided with a convex lens array that visually stretches the light-emitting chip along a length direction. The high-efficiency linear light source focused strip lamp performs light distribution through the concentrating lens in the vertical length direction, and achieves high-efficiency sweeping function, and in the longitudinal direction, the light-emitting chip is performed visually stretching by the convex lens arrays on the strip lamp cover, thus achieving the effect of the line light source, solves the original glare problem without affecting the efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Self Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Yang, Kai Xu, Zuping He
  • Patent number: 11774063
    Abstract: A color mixing lens assembly is provided. The color mixing assembly may include a center mixing structure arranged concentrically within the optic. The center mixing structure may be configured to receive a first portion of electromagnetic radiation from a light receiving structure. The center mixing structure may include a plated surface. The center mixing structure may include a center kick structure arranged concentrically within the center mixing structure. The center kick structure may be configured to reflect the first portion of the electromagnetic radiation towards the plated surface. The center mixing structure may be configured to reflect the first portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the plated surface through an exit surface of the optic. The optic may be configured to reflect a second portion of the electromagnetic radiation received from the light source structure through the exit surface of the optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Eric Anthony Roth
  • Patent number: 11767964
    Abstract: A luminaire and LED light engine are provided. The luminaire includes the LED light engine and an optical device. The LED light engine includes an LED array and a partial diffuser. The partial diffuser diffuses light that is emitted by LEDs of a selected first subset of LEDs in the LED array and leaves undiffused light that is emitted by LEDs of a second subset of LEDs in the LED array. At least some LEDs are selected for inclusion in the first subset as emitting light that produces poorly blended colors in a light beam emitted by the LED array. The optical device is configured to receive a light beam emitted from the LED light engine and emit a modified light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Vilem, Tomas David, Josef Valchar
  • Patent number: 11768400
    Abstract: Provided is a backlight unit, a display apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus capable of securing a uniform and wide illumination area with a small number of light sources through reflection of a reflective layer. The backlight unit includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light; a first reflective layer configured to reflect the light emitted from the plurality of light sources; and a second reflective layer configured to reflect the light reflected from the first reflective layer, wherein an amount of reflection from the first reflective layer and an amount of transmission through the first reflective layer are different from each other according to an angle of incidence of light incident on the first reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daesik Kim, Yasuhiro Nishida, Farid Mukhtarov
  • Patent number: 11767966
    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 light source (120) of second light source light (121), and a second 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 437-472 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,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Hugo Johan Cornelissen, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Olexandr Valentynovych Vdovin, Rene Theodorus Wegh, Ties Van Bommel, Christoph Gerard August Hoelen, Robert Van Asselt
  • Patent number: 11770965
    Abstract: As a result of miniaturization of a pixel region associated with an improvement in definition and an increase in a substrate size associated with an increase in area, defects due to precision, bending, and the like of a mask used at the lime of evaporation have become issues. A partition including portions with different thicknesses over a pixel electrode (also referred to as a first electrode) in a display region and in the vicinity of a pixel electrode layer is formed, without increasing the number of steps, by using a photomask or a reticle provided with an auxiliary pattern having a light intensity reduction function made of a diffraction grating pattern or a semi-transmissive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hideaki Kuwabara, Hideto Ohnuma
  • Patent number: 11761608
    Abstract: A planar illumination device of an embodiment includes a substrate, a first linear Fresnel lens, and a second linear Fresnel lens. The substrate includes a plurality of light sources disposed two-dimensionally in a grid pattern. The first linear Fresnel lens is disposed at an emission side of the plurality of light sources and formed with a groove constituting a concave-convex surface of the lens and extending in one direction. The second linear Fresnel lens is disposed at an emission side of the first linear Fresnel lens and formed with a groove constituting the concave-convex surface of the lens and extending in a direction orthogonal to the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Suguru Mukumoto, Shogo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11761599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a natural light homogenization lighting device, and particularly relates to a natural light homogenization lighting device based on combination of biconvex lenses and semi-transparent lenses. The present invention aims to solve the problems of low efficiency and poor lighting uniformity of light pipes, and possible damage to the original building structure in the process of installation and not conducive to the promotion and popularization of the existing solar energy conversion devices. The device of the present invention includes a positive lens combination and a positive half-lens combination; the positive lens combination and the positive half-lens combination are arranged side by side, the positive lens combination is located outdoors, and the positive half-lens combination is located indoors. The present invention belongs to the technical field of lighting systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: GLORY LIGHT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Xinwei Wang, Xumin Ding
  • Patent number: 11757261
    Abstract: A ground electrode for a spark plug includes a ground electrode body arranged to face a center electrode of the spark plug. The ground electrode includes a discharge portion mounted on the ground electrode body to face the center electrode with a spark gap between the discharge portion and the center electrode. The discharge portion is made of a platinum-based alloy of platinum, rhodium, and nickel. A first mass percent of the rhodium contained in the platinum-based alloy of the platinum, the rhodium, and the nickel is within a first range from 2 wt % to 20 wt % inclusive. A second mass percent of the nickel contained in the platinum-based alloy of the platinum, the rhodium, and the nickel being within a second range from 2.5 wt % to 12 wt % inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Kaji, Nobuo Abe, Naoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11747668
    Abstract: A color substrate and a display device including the same. The color substrate includes: a substrate including first and second pixel regions spaced apart from each other, and a light shielding region between the first and second pixel regions; a first color conversion layer over the first pixel region and configured to convert incident light into first color light; a second color conversion layer over the second pixel region and configured to convert the incident light into second color light; and a retroreflective layer over the light shielding region and configured to retroreflect incident light through the first and second color conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heekeun Lee, Jangil Kim, Keunwoo Park, Suwan Woo, Yeogeon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11749486
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus related to a method for constructing a field emission device. The method includes providing a metal cathode substrate; shaping a carbon fiber fabric into a pattern, creating a patterned carbon fiber fabric; and brazing at least a portion of the patterned carbon fiber fabric to the metal cathode substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Brad Winston Hoff, Wilkin Wai-Hang Tang, Sterling Ryan Beeson, Ali Sayir
  • Patent number: 11739888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a color tunable and/or color temperature tunable LED filament (20, 22, 24), said LED filament comprising an elongated carrier (220), said elongated carrier comprising a first major surface (222) and a second major surface (224) arranged opposite to said first major surface, a plurality of LEDs (210) arranged in at least one linear array on said first surface of said elongated carrier, wherein the plurality of LEDs includes LEDs of different colors and/or different color temperatures, a first elongated transparent or substantially transparent layer (230) covering the plurality of LEDs on the first major surface and also at least partly covering said first major surface, and a first elongated light scattering layer (240), arranged to at least partially cover said first transparent or substantially transparent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Johannes Petrus Maria Ansems