Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a flexible elongate substrate, a supply rail disposed on one surface of the substrate, and first and second ground rails disposed on the other surface. Groups of SSL packages are disposed parallel to the longitudinal axis of the substrate and between the first and second ground rails. Each package has SSL elements disposed on a first side and pairs of contact pads disposed on a second side. The SSL packages in each group are serially coupled from the first package to the last package of the group. One contact pad of each pair of the contact pads of the first package of each group is coupled to the supply rail through the substrate, one contact pad of a first pair of the pairs of contact pads of the last package of each group is coupled to the first ground rail at the first surface of the substrate, and one contact pad of a second pair of the pairs of contact pads of the last package of each group is coupled to the second ground rail at the first surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A provided flash unit includes a light emitting part in the main unit of the flash unit and a distance sensor provided only in the light emitting part, achieving an accurate measurement of a distance from a subject.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus is provided with a housing forming a battery housing and a light housing separated via a partitioning wall. A light module is supported by the light housing and includes a heat sink located at least partially within the light housing and at least one LED supported by the heat sink. A battery receptacle formed within the battery housing to slidingly receive a battery pack at least partially into the battery housing. An intake opening is formed within the partitioning wall and an air vent is formed in fluid communication with the light housing. In operation, an airflow passes in thermal contact with the battery pack from the battery housing into the light housing through the intake opening, and from the light housing in thermal contact with the heat sink out of the air vent.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear lamp, a side surface, and a rear surface. The rear lamp is disposed on a rear end and an upper end of a lower side surface and a rear end and a side end of the vehicle, and includes a lamp body extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The side surface includes the lower side surface bulging toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the rear lamp at a front side of a height position overlapping with the rear lamp. The rear surface includes an extending surface extending toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the lamp body in a top view of the vehicle from a lower portion of the lamp body. A side surface airflow is directed toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side through the extending surface and the generation of a large trailing vortex is suppressed.

Abstract: A display apparatus including a display panel, a light source unit configured to provide light to the display panel, and a light guide member disposed between the display panel and the light source unit and covering the light source unit such that the light source unit is buried in the light guide member, the light guide member having a surface roughness on an upper surface thereof to diffuse light and including a substrate, and a light emitting device disposed on the substrate and including a blocking pattern to have an intensity of light emitted in an upward direction to be equal to or less than about 80% of a maximum light intensity of the light emitting device.

Abstract: Provided is a display device which has improved heat dissipation efficiency. A display device according to the present invention is provided with a display unit, a circuit board which is positioned in the rear of the display unit, a heat dissipation member which is positioned in the rear of the circuit board and is capable of dissipating the heat of the circuit board, and a case body which contains at least the heat dissipation member. The heat dissipation member has a plurality of heat dissipation pieces which protrude to the outside of the case body through an opening that is provided in the case body, and which extend in the vertical direction, and the opening has an inclined surface, which is inclined upwardly, in a portion that faces the top of each heat dissipation piece.

Abstract: An abrasive blast cabinet uses a space frame to support panels defining an enclosed volume. One of the panels defines a view port and access ports. Illumination devices positioned on the one panel adjacent to and/or surrounding the view port illuminate the enclosed volume without significant shadowing, glare or reflections. The illumination devices are captured between a frame and the one panel and are protected from the blast environment by channel members which are covered by a transparent plate overlying the view port.

Abstract: A hydroponics apparatus includes a housing; two or more channels provided vertically on one side of the housing to be spaced apart from each other; brackets coupled to the channels; and cultivation modules seated on the brackets, wherein a plurality of cultivation modules is fitted and coupled to each other to have an extended form and water channels are formed to communicate with each other, the cultivation modules in the extended form are coupled to each channel and seated through a plurality of brackets disposed in a horizontal direction, and the plurality of brackets are coupled to the channels so that heights are gradually increased or decreased from one-side bracket in the horizontal direction to the other bracket in the horizontal direction to form an inclination of the water channel.

Abstract: An LED lighting fixture powered by a Metal-Organic Framework heat battery. The heat battery is formed of a canister, a MOF container comprised of a plurality of MOF tunnels, each MOF tunnel containing a powdered MOF material, a gate, and a plurality of thermoelectric devices. Below a certain adsorption activation temperature, the MOF material adsorbs a gas from the atmosphere. Above a certain desorption activation temperature, the MOF desorbs the gas. The heat from the adsorption is used to generate electrical current. The desorbed gas is captured to remove it from the atmosphere.

Abstract: An illuminating device according to the present disclosure is of a reflective type and uses a laser beam. The illuminating device includes: a laser element that emits a laser beam; an optical fiber that transmits the laser beam emitted by the laser element; a phosphor layer that converts a wavelength of light incident on one of surfaces and emits the light through the one of the surfaces; and an optical component that causes reflected light of the laser beam transmitted through the optical fiber to be incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer. With the illuminating device, an intensity distribution of the light incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer is sparse at a central region.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for methods of forming optical device structures. The methods utilize rotation of a substrate, to have the optical device structures formed thereon, and tunability of etch rates of a patterned resist disposed over the substrate and one of a device layer or the substrate to form the optical device structures without multiple lithographic patterning steps and angled etch steps.

Abstract: A wavelength-tunable interference filter includes: a first substrate where a first mirror and a first electrode are provided; a second substrate where a second mirror corresponding to the first mirror and a second electrode facing the first electrode are provided; and a bonding part bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together. The first substrate includes a moving part where the first mirror is arranged, a diaphragm part holding the moving part in such a way that the moving part is movable in the Z-direction, and an outer circumferential part provided outside of the diaphragm part. The diaphragm part includes a planar part having a uniform thickness, and a first slope part having a thickness in the Z-direction incrementing as it goes from the planar part toward the outer circumferential part. The first electrode is provided over a range from the planar part to the first slope part.

Abstract: A panel lamp includes a bottom case, a lamp cover, a lighting assembly arranged between the bottom case and the lamp cover, at least two bendable suspending assemblies arranged at two opposite sides of the bottom case. The bottom case defines a mounting groove, and an edge of the lamp cover is configured to be received into the mounting groove. The suspending assemblies are configured to hang the bottom case onto an overhead structure.

Abstract: An aircraft beacon light unit has an operating light emission distribution. The operating light emission distribution has a first light emission opening angle of at least 150° in a first cross-sectional plane, and a second light emission opening angle of at most 180° in a second cross-sectional plane orthogonal to the first cross-sectional plane. The aircraft beacon light unit is configured in such a way that it is mountable to an aircraft with the first cross-sectional plane being oriented in a vertical direction and the second cross-sectional plane being oriented in a horizontal direction, and the first light emission opening angle extends at least 75° both above and below the second cross-sectional plane.

Abstract: A light source unit includes a first light source configured to emit light in a first wavelength range, a second light source configured to emit light in a first wavelength range, a first dichroic mirror configured to reflect the light in the second wavelength range incident thereon at a first incident angle and transmit the light in the second wavelength range incident thereon at a second incident angle, which is different from the first incident angle, and a second dichroic mirror configured to reflect the light in the second wavelength range that has passed through the first dichroic mirror, wherein after having been reflected by the second dichroic mirror, the light in the second wavelength range is incident on the first dichroic mirror at the first incident angle to then be reflected by the first dichroic mirror.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an LED active luminous traffic marking based on light-transmitting concrete and a construction method thereof. The luminous traffic marking includes a light-transmitting concrete layer and a light source layer that are arranged vertically, where the light-transmitting concrete layer includes a concrete base and a plurality of light-guide fibers embedded in the concrete base, the light source layer includes an integrated LED light source board and a packaging protective shell for packaging the integrated LED light source board, the packaging protective shell is a shell with anchoring hollow protrusions, and the packaging protective shell is anchored to the concrete base through the anchoring hollow protrusions. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure improves the visibility, digitalization and intelligence level of road traffic markings, and has a broad application prospect.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a case, a plurality of oscillators configured to generate electromagnetic waves, and housed in the case and arranged two-dimensionally, a window unit configured to emit therefrom the electromagnetic waves, and disposed on a first side of the case, a plurality of inflow holes configured to allow fluid to flow into the case, and disposed at positions at which the electromagnetic waves from the window unit propagate, and a discharging unit configured to discharge the fluid, which has flowed into the case, out of the case, and disposed on a second side of the case, which is an opposite side to the first side. When the oscillator is viewed from the window unit, a part of the oscillator is located on an inner side of the inflow hole, and the fluid which has flowed into the case through the inflow hole reaches the oscillator.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion element includes a first phosphor region and a second phosphor region. The second phosphor region is disposed in a thickness direction of the first phosphor region and has a phosphor particle with a particle size different from a particle size of a phosphor particle positioned in the first phosphor region.

Abstract: A light source module, including a circuit board, a light-emitting element, a light-guiding plate, a first waterproof layer, a second waterproof layer, and a third waterproof layer, is provided. The light-emitting element is configured on the circuit board. The light-guiding plate includes at least one through hole. The circuit board is configured on a first surface of the light guide plate so that the light-emitting element inserts into the at least one through hole. The first waterproof layer is located on a second surface of the light-guiding plate that is opposite to the first surface, and covers the at least one through hole. The second waterproof layer is located between the first surface and the circuit board. The third waterproof layer is located between the second surface and the first waterproof layer.

Abstract: A fixture for a lamp and to a lighting element are provided that is usable as a reading light, for example in a vehicle or aircraft. The fixture is adapted to be releasably installed in an opening of an accommodating element and includes a cylindrical mounting element having a lateral wall, a front side, and an opposite rear side. The front side has an opening for receiving the lamp. The lateral wall has a radially outwardly projecting rib and a radially outwardly projecting latching element.