Patents Examined by William Carter
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Patent number: 9568156Abstract: A light source module including a substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices installed on the substrate, and a plurality of lenses installed on the substrate to cover the plurality of light emitting devices, respectively, and each of the plurality of lenses having a pair of open end portions facing one another, the plurality of lenses arranged such that an open end portion of one lens faces an opened end portion of an adjacent lens is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ariyoshi Tetsuo, Cheon Ho Park, Jong Pil Won, Ji Hoon Yun, Jun Ho Jung
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Patent number: 9562663Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a lighting device of motor vehicle with an arrangement of at least two light conductors. Each conductor includes one coupling arm having a first cross section, a light conductor area with a second cross section, and a transition area located between the coupling arm and the light conductor area. The coupling arms include a respective first contact surface, and the transition areas of the light conductors include a respective second contact surface. The contact surfaces are formed in such a way that the coupling arm of the one light conductor inserts into the transition area of the respective other light conductor. Each one of the two coupling arms include deflectors on a rear side of the coupling arm, which deflect towards the front side, within a section of the transition area where each respective coupling arm fits into the other light conductor.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbHInventors: Matthias Gebauer, Andreas Ladenburger
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Patent number: 9557030Abstract: An illumination device includes light-emitting elements (LEEs); a light guide extending in a forward direction from a first end to a second end, the light guide being positioned to receive at the first end light emitted by the LEEs and to guide the received light to the second end; and an optical extractor coupled to the second end to receive the guided light. The optical extractor is formed from a transparent, solid material and includes a first output surface including a transmissive portion arranged and shaped to transmit a first portion of the guided light to the ambient in a forward angular range and a reflective portion arranged and shaped to reflect via TIR all the guided light incident on the reflective portion; and a second output surface arranged to transmit, to the ambient in a backward angular range, light reflected by the reflective portion of the first output surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Quarkstar LLCInventors: Allan Brent York, Ferdinand Schinagl, Wilson Dau, Louis Lerman, Hans Peter Stormberg
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Patent number: 9553077Abstract: A compact LED module and a method of manufacturing such an LED module are provided. The LED module includes a first-pole first lead, a first-pole second lead, a first-pole third lead, a second-pole first lead, a second-pole second lead, a second-pole third lead, a first LED chip, a second LED chip, a third LED chip, and a housing. A distal end of the first-pole first lead is offset toward a second-pole side in a first direction with respect to both a distal end of the second-pole second lead and a distal end of the second-pole third lead.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiko Kobayakawa
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Patent number: 9546766Abstract: The present invention is directed toward light module for a motor vehicle headlamp that has numerous light sources, a primary lens, and a secondary lens. The primary lens is configured to collect light emitted from the light sources, and to convert this light to an intermediate light distribution having the form of a closed, illuminating surface area. The secondary lens has an object-side focal length, and the primary lens and the secondary lens are disposed such that the intermediate light distribution lies, at a spacing of this focal length, in the beam path in front of the secondary lens. The light emission surfaces of the light sources are separated from one another by spacings lying between them, and the primary lens is configured to distribute the light emitted from the light sources such that the spacings in the intermediate light distribution can no longer be perceived.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbHInventor: Matthias Brendle
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Patent number: 9512985Abstract: The disclosure is directed to systems for providing illumination to a measurement head for optical metrology. In some embodiments of the disclosure, illumination beams from a plurality of illumination sources are combined to deliver illumination at one or more selected wavelengths to the measurement head. In some embodiments of the disclosure, intensity and/or spatial coherence of illumination delivered to the measurement head is controlled. In some embodiments of the disclosure, illumination at one or more selected wavelengths is delivered from a broadband illumination source configured for providing illumination at a continuous range of wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: KLA-Tencor CorporationInventors: Gregory R. Brady, Andrei V. Shchegrov, Lawrence D. Rotter, Derrick Shaughnessy, Anatoly Shchemelinin, Ilya Bezel, Muzammil A. Arain, Anatoly A. Vasiliev, James Andrew Allen, Oleg Shulepov, Andrew V. Hill, Ohad Bachar, Moshe Markowitz, Yaron Ish-Shalom, Ilan Sela, Amnon Manassen, Alexander Svizher, Maxim Khokhlov, Avi Abramov, Oleg Tsibulevsky, Daniel Kandel, Mark Ghinovker
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Patent number: 9506619Abstract: An optical device is incorporated into an external part of a motor vehicle and comprises at least one sub-assembly including a light curtain or light curtain plus light guide and, on either side thereof, transparent plates each of which has at least one part being transparent and at least one other part being semi-transparent. At least one light source is connected to an electric source and emits rays of light that spread in a thickness of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide. The sub-assembly and light source are incorporated into a housing, and the optical device collaborates with at least one lamp incorporated into a body-shell of the vehicle or LED on a suitable plate included in a sub-housing incorporated into the housing and emits rays of light through at least a portion of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide that is transparent.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REAR LAMPS FRANCE S.A.S.Inventor: Alain Buisson
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Patent number: 9499089Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery charger and an exterior lamp assembly. The assembly includes a housing defining a cavity, and an electrical port including at least one electrical terminal disposed within the cavity, electrically connected with the battery charger, and configured to be electrically connected with an electrical power grid remote from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Duane M. Grider, Bala Chander
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Patent number: 9500325Abstract: An LED lamp or bulb is disclosed that comprises a light source, a heat sink structure and a remote planar phosphor carrier having at least one conversion material. The phosphor carrier can be remote to the light sources and mounted to the heat sink so that heat from the phosphor carrier spreads into the heat sink. The phosphor carrier can comprise a thermally conductive transparent material and a phosphor layer, with an LED based light source mounted to the heat sink such that light from the light source passes through the phosphor carrier. At least some of the LED light is converted by the phosphor carrier, with some lamp embodiments emitting a white light combination of LED and phosphor light. The phosphor arranged according to the present invention can operate at lower temperature to thereby operate at greater phosphor conversion efficiency and with reduced heat related damage to the phosphor.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: CREE, INC.Inventors: Tao Tong, Ronan Letoquin, Bernd Keller, Eric Tarsa
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Patent number: 9494309Abstract: A modular lighting system may include a support structure, a plurality of heat sink modules physically supported by the support structure, and one or more light source modules coupled to the plurality of heat sink modules. The plurality of heat sink modules may be arranged in a modular manner such that the heat sink modules in the modular lighting system is variable, and each heat sink module may be an integral molded structure defining at least one opening or passageway.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Christopher Ladewig, Christopher Michael Bryant, Philip Dean Winters
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Patent number: 9488329Abstract: A light fixture with a textured reflector surface is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide for a lighting system in which LEDs face, and the majority of light form the LED light source is incident on, a textured surface of a back reflector while producing minimal glare and minimal imaging of the light source. Such a reflector may be referred to as a retro-reflector. The reflector for the light fixture can be made from a relatively inexpensive material such as polycarbonate, which without texturing has a specular or semi-specular surface. This material can be used alone or with a metal substrate to form the reflector. The textured surface can be textured by way of an imprinted pattern or by roughening, and can be extruded. A prismatic texture may be used. The texturing can also be spatially varied.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: James Michael Lay, Paul Kenneth Pickard, John Durkee
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Patent number: 9476982Abstract: A marker system includes at least one emitter. The emitter(s) emit light responsive to a flow of electrical current there through. The marker system includes a device for acquiring an incoming signal and a circuit for processing the incoming signal. The circuit for processing the incoming signal monitors the device for acquiring the incoming signal to determine if the incoming signal includes any of a plurality of incoming Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) and/or munitions-targeting signals. The circuit emits one of a plurality of responses by sending electrical current selectively through the emitter(s) and/or other feedback devices based upon which of the plurality of incoming Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) and/or munitions-targeting signals is detected by the means for processing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Arcachon Holdings LLCInventors: Gary Leegate, Marcia Baldwin, Jamey Marcus Caldwell
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Patent number: 9476566Abstract: A light fixture with a textured reflector is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide for a lighting system in which LEDs face, and the majority of light form the LED light source is incident on, a textured back reflector while producing minimal glare and minimal imaging of the light source. Such a reflector may be referred to as a retro-reflector. The reflector for the light fixture can be made from a relatively inexpensive material such as polycarbonate, which without texturing has a specular or semi-specular surface. Further, a diffuse white layer to provide color mixing or prevent glare and reflections is not needed. The textured reflector can be textured by way of an imprinted pattern or by roughening, and can be extruded. A prismatic texture may be used. The texturing can also be spatially varied.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Dong Lu, Nick Hoang Nguyen, John Durkee
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Patent number: 9463733Abstract: A lamp device for a heavy duty vehicle includes a lamp housing unit having a base plate and a surrounding wall which cooperatively define an opening facing laterally, a light-transmissive lampshade cooperating with the base plate and the surrounding wall to define a chamber which is in communication with the opening, a low beam unit and a high beam unit mounted in the chamber, and a turning lamp unit including a plurality of turning lamps which are mounted on the base plate such that light emitted therefrom is visible through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: TKS INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Chung-Hsu Kao
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Patent number: 9441805Abstract: An optical device for automobile vehicles, notably a signalling and/or lighting device. The device comprises at least one surface-emitting light source, at least one lens, notably distant from the surface-emitting light source, disposed at least partially on the path of the light (R) emitted by the surface-emitting light source so as to produce an image of an object area of the surface-emitting light source.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Valeo VisionInventor: Vincent Godbillon
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Patent number: 9435531Abstract: A display apparatus provides a display region to display information, and a peripheral light luminous region to output light. The display apparatus includes an indicator light source and a coloring transmissive member made of light transmissive material. The coloring transmissive member includes a light input face where the light emitted from the indicator light source enters; a light output face with a belt-like shape in an extended direction to form the light luminous region by outputting light inputted from the light input face; and an attenuation portion attenuating light transmitting from the light input face to the light output face. The attenuation portion has a thickness between the light input face and the light output face. The thickness changes to increase in the extended direction of the light output face as going from a central portion towards each of both end portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Masahiro Kuno, Shinji Kamon
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Patent number: 9423103Abstract: A light source device includes a primary light source unit and a light converting unit. The primary light source unit includes a primary light emitting portion. The light converting unit includes a light converting member and a secondary light emitting portion. In the two-dimensional shape of the secondary light emitting portion projected on a surface perpendicular to the optical axis of primary light, the length of the minimum width of the two-dimensional shape passing through the center of gravity of the two-dimensional shape is different from the length of the maximum width of the two-dimensional shape passing through the center of gravity.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kamee, Eiji Yamamoto, Takeshi Ito
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Patent number: 9409481Abstract: An apparatus and a method for displaying a cluster are provided. The apparatus includes a driving sensor that senses a driving state of a mobile object and a display unit that converts a method of displaying a cluster indisposed within the mobile object. A controller is configured illuminate a scale and a pointer that indicates the scale based on the sensed driving state of the mobile object. In addition, the controller detects a current driving state of the mobile object in real time to generate a control signal with respect to the display method including a brightness degree, a brightness region, and a color of the scale.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Kum Lim Choi
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Patent number: 9410686Abstract: A cooling system (1) of a light-emitting diode-based light (2) is proposed, wherein said light comprises a completely closed light fitting (3) with a flame-proof housing (4). In the housing, a cooling body (5) as part of the cooling system (1) is arranged. The cooling system (1) further comprises an electrically operated air circulation means (6). By such a cooling system, it is possible to compensate reduction in light flux with minimal additional costs or minimal additional weight or size of the light, wherein the LED light is simultaneously usable in hazardous areas in a wide temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: COOPER CROUSE-HINDS GMBHInventors: Jens Burmeister, Gerhard Schwarz
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Patent number: 9383066Abstract: A lighting apparatus comprises: a body comprising a first body and a second body, wherein the first body comprises a first bottom surface and a first side surface, wherein the second body comprises a second bottom surface and a second side surface, and wherein the body has a receiving recess configured by the first bottom surface, the second bottom surface, the first side surface and the second side surface; a reflector disposed in the receiving recess of the body and comprising a plurality of reflective surfaces; and a light source disposed on the first side surface of the first body and the second side surface of the second body, disposed at an area corresponding to the reflective surfaces of the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Kuk Kwak, Sang Jun Hong, Ji Hoo Kim