Patents Examined by Vip Patel
  • Patent number: 10983281
    Abstract: A light source assembly having N outputs is disclosed. The assembly comprising: a light source arrangement arranged for supplying light to M inputs, where M an N independently of each other are integers and where M?2 and M?N; at least one optical couplers, each having at least one input arm and a plurality of output arms; and an integer number, P, of mode scramblers; The light source arrangement may comprise a broadband light source and a multimode coupler configured for receiving one or more light beams from the light source arrangement, wherein the one or more light beams being derived from the broadband light source and wherein a mode scrambler is arranged for mode scrambling one of said light beams before it enters the multimode coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: NKT PHOTONICS A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Feuchter, Irnis Kubat, Timur Iskhakov
  • Patent number: 10976046
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a safety light. The safety light includes a top housing; a printed circuit board assembly coupled to the top housing, the printed circuit board assembly having a top surface and a bottom surface; a plurality of light elements coupled to the bottom surface of the printed circuit board assembly, the printed circuit board assembly programmed to energize the plurality of light elements following depression of a first control button; a lens coupled to the bottom surface of the printed circuit board assembly and the plurality of light elements, the lens having a first angled reflective surface and a plurality of side surfaces; and a bottom housing coupled to the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Archangel Device LLC
    Inventor: Ronald R. Dir
  • Patent number: 10973943
    Abstract: A scented plug-in night light provides a pedestal for variable, interchangeable thematic character statuettes, which are illuminated by the scented plug-in night light. The scented plug-in night light is optionally provided with a digital clock incorporated into the housing for the scented night light to turn on the night at specified times to illuminate a child's favorite thematic character, which can serve as an inducement for a child who is reluctant to observe bedtime. Thereafter the illuminated thematic character of the night light stays on to act as a safety night light during the selected duration of time, and an alarm for waking the child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Steven Goldmeier
  • Patent number: 10964848
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a detector circuit and a light emitting diode (LED) die. The LED die includes a semiconductor stack grown on a substrate. The LED includes an emitter segment formed from one segment of the semiconductor stack. The LED die includes a photosensor segment formed from another segment of the semiconductor stack. The LED die includes a segmentation layer formed between the emitter segment and the photosensor segment. The segmentation layer electrically isolates the emitter segment from the photosensor segment. The LED die includes first electrodes configured to provide power to energize the emitter segment. The LED die includes second electrodes configured to send the current to the detector circuit. The detector circuit is configured to convert the current to a signal which provides operational feedback with respect to the emitter segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Vampola, Frederic Stephane Diana, Alan Andrew McReynolds
  • Patent number: 10962830
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a circuit board, a plurality of light emitting units, a support frame, a reflector, and a diffusion plate. The light emitting units are disposed on the circuit board. The support frame includes a plurality of first support members, wherein the first support members are disposed on the circuit board in parallel. The reflector is disposed on the support frame. The reflector includes a plurality of reflecting grids, wherein the reflecting grids are accommodated between the first support members and the light emitting units are located in the reflecting grids. The diffusion plate is disposed above the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Meng-Wei Lin, Yu-Chun Lo
  • Patent number: 10948156
    Abstract: A luminaire housing (10) comprises a light chamber (15) at least partially delimited by a light-transmissive cover (30). The light chamber comprises a mounting region for mounting at least one solid state lighting element. The cover comprises at least one rounded corner section (31) in between two further sections (33), wherein the rounded corner section has an inner surface (311) having opposing inner endpoints (103, 105) and an outer surface (313) having opposing outer endpoints (113, 115). Each inner endpoint is positioned relative to the outer endpoint proximal to said inner endpoint such that no ray of light (301, 301?) emitted by the at least one solid state lighting element entering the light-transmissive cover via an inner surface (331) of a further section exits the light-transmissive cover from the outer surface of a curved corner section. A luminaire including such a luminaire housing, a design method and a manufacturing method for such a luminaire housing are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Maria Thijssen, Silva Maria Booij
  • Patent number: 10948171
    Abstract: A headlamp includes a strap, a bracket coupled to the strap, and a first lighting assembly pivotally coupled to the bracket and including a first light housing enclosing a first LED, a battery housing enclosing a battery configured to power the first LED, and a first actuator operable to toggle the first lighting assembly between a first plurality of operating modes. The headlamp also includes a second lighting assembly coupled to the strap and having a plurality of second LEDs and a second actuator operable to toggle the second lighting assembly between a second plurality of operating modes such that the lighting assemblies are operable independently. A wire extends between the lighting assemblies to provide power from the battery to the plurality of second LEDs. The second lighting assembly extends along more than 50% of a circumference of the strap and follows a curvature of the strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Gall, Sara M. Manulik, Alan Amundson
  • Patent number: 10948176
    Abstract: Extruded frame members are connected together to create a frame around a mirror that be illuminated from in front of the mirror. The extruded frame members contain various components in channels or cavities. An extruded frame member can have a channel that contains a light source. A diffuser can be secured over the light source. Another channel is used to hold a mirror in place. The front lit mirror can be hung on a wall utilizing a channel in an extruded frame member. The extruded frame members contain electrical components and mechanical hardware. The hardware is used to attach a plurality of extruded frame members together and to attach an optional decorative frame to an extruded frame member. An extruded frame member is made from transparent or translucent material and can radiate light from a light source contained therein. An extruded frame member is opaque and cannot radiate light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRIC MIRROR, LLC
    Inventors: Jon Philip Johnston, Patrick Daniel Erickson
  • Patent number: 10942344
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component includes a light emitter including a multiplicity of image points configured to emit light, and an optical element configured to guide light emitted by the light emitter into a target region, wherein a lower side facing toward the light emitter of the optical element is subdivided into four quadrants, each quadrant includes a Fresnel structure having a multiplicity of ridges extending along concentric annular arcs, the ridges of the Fresnel structure in each quadrant are respectively curved around a center shifted relative to a midpoint of the lower side of the optical element, and the center in each quadrant is arranged at a corner of the lower side of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Streppel, Désirée Queren
  • Patent number: 10935836
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device that further suppresses reflection of external light and a change in tint in a case of being viewed in an oblique direction, a phase difference film, and a circularly polarizing plate. This organic electroluminescent display device has an organic electroluminescent display panel and a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate has a polarizer and a phase difference film. The phase difference film has, from the polarizer side, a positive A-plate, a first positive C-plate, and a ?/4 plate. The positive A-plate and the first positive C-plate have predetermined optical properties. The in-plane slow axis of the positive A-plate and the absorption axis of the polarizer are orthogonal to each other. The angle formed between the in-plane slow axis of the positive A-plate and the in-plane slow axis of the ?/4 A plate is 45°±10°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiro Atsumi, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 10933773
    Abstract: A door garnish for a vehicle includes a body part and an IMS module provided with a light source behind the body part including a transparent substrate so that light of the light source transmits the body part to be emitted to the outside, thereby displaying a certain shape of a button outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Seoyon E-Hwa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Sik Seo, Ji Hyun Cho, Seong Kwon Go
  • Patent number: 10935196
    Abstract: An optic for a light emitting diode array comprises an arrangement of optical structures for providing one or more down lighting distribution from the LED array; and a waveguide edge for providing one or more up-lighting distributions from the LED array. Luminaires are described comprising a light emitting diode (LED) array and the optic. Lighting systems are described comprising a plurality of the luminaires arranged over an area enclosed by walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Wilcox, Bin Hou
  • Patent number: 10928717
    Abstract: The present application discloses a laser light source driving method, a laser light source and a laser projector, and belongs to the field of laser technology. The driving method includes: continuously outputting, by a first laser assembly, laser light in a first color during an output time interval of a ray in the first color; and during at least part of the output time interval of the ray in the first color, exciting a fluorescent sub-assembly with laser light in a second color to induce fluorescence in the first color, and outputting the fluorescence in the first color, the laser light in the second color being emitted by a second laser assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: HISENSE LASER DISPLAY GO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rongrong Cui, Jianfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10928642
    Abstract: Structured light projection system includes an array of light emitting devices, which is configured to emit a pattern of light. A projection lens is configured to receive and project the pattern of light from the array to a first optical element. The first optical element alters the pattern of light to generate a first emitted pattern of light that is irregular. The first emitted pattern of light is transmitted to a second optical element that is configured to receive the first pattern of light and reproduce the first emitted pattern along a second emitted pattern, which comprises multiple instances of the first emitted pattern arranged in a tiled pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Dmitry Bakin, Markus Rossi
  • Patent number: 10914461
    Abstract: A device to support string lights, the device including a base member configured with a slot structured to receive a supporting band, and at least one support member extending away from the base member and configured to receive and support a portion of string lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Mark V. Jackson
  • Patent number: 10908346
    Abstract: A light fixture for waveguided ambient light is described herein. In one embodiment, the light fixture includes an LED light source for emitting light rays, a waveguide optically coupled to the LED light source to receive and guide the emitted light rays from a proximal end of the waveguide to a distal end of the waveguide, a first indirect lighting surface configured to receive a first portion of the emitted light rays and reflect the first portion at a first distribution to produce a first ambient light source, and a second indirect lighting surface configured to receive a second portion of the emitted light rays and reflect the second portion at a second distribution to produce a second ambient light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LUMINII LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery Parker, Meng Yang
  • Patent number: 10900642
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a light module body and a trim attachment mechanism. The trim attachment mechanism includes a first lever with a first cam on a first side of the light module body and a second lever with a second cam on a second side of the light module body. The first lever and the second lever can both be rotated between a release position that releases and attached trim and an engage position that engages an attached trim. The luminaire can also include a mounting bracket mechanism with a recess circumscribing the light module body and a pair of notches on opposite sides. Torsion spring brackets can be shaped to rotate freely in the recess, whereas friction blade brackets are secured in the notches so that the friction blades do not rotate relative to the light module body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Russell Bryant Green, Hao Luo, Huitang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10895350
    Abstract: A light-emitting device package includes a metalized substrate, a light-emitting diode (LED) die, and a single primary optic. The metalized substrate includes a top surface, pads on the top surface, and traces extending from the pads. The LED die is mounted on the pads of the metalized substrate. The LED die includes individually addressable segments. Each segment includes one or more junctions. The primary optic is located over the LED die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth John Vampola
  • Patent number: 10892137
    Abstract: An ion source apparatus for ion implantation is described, including an ion source chamber, and a consumable structure in or associated with the ion source chamber, in which the consumable structure includes a solid dopant source material susceptible to reaction with a reactive gas for release of dopant in gaseous form to the ion source chamber, wherein the solid dopant source material comprises gallium nitride, gallium oxide, either of which may be isotopically enriched with respect to a gallium isotope, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph D. Sweeney, Joseph R. Despres, Ying Tang, Sharad N. Yedave, Edward E. Jones, Oleg Byl
  • Patent number: 10890302
    Abstract: A lighting arrangement can include a luminaire, a driver circuitry assembly, and a battery backup portion. The luminaire can have light emitting diodes in an array string positioned in a first housing and a first wiring extending from the array string to a first plug connector. The driver circuitry assembly can drive the plurality of light emitting diodes and include circuitry with a rectifier and an IC chip positioned in a second housing and a second wiring extending from the circuitry to a second plug connector engageable with the first plug connector. The battery backup portion can be selectively positionable between the driver circuitry assembly and the external AC grid and have one or more batteries and a converter portion with a DC-AC inverter positioned in a third housing. The third housing and the second housing are interconnectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Inventors: Dave Boulanger, Maciej Nowakowski