Patents Examined by William J Carter
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Patent number: 11243343Abstract: Display performance can be improved by reducing light leak in an oblique direction at the time of black display while increasing front brightness.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya Watanabe, Megumi Sekiguchi, Yujiro Yanai, Naoyoshi Yamada, Yukito Saitoh
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Patent number: 11235700Abstract: An illumination device for a motor vehicle includes a multi-aperture projection display having a lighting means for illuminating a plurality of image segments and an array of projection lenses, where each projection lens is assigned an image segment, from the plurality of image segments, that is projected into a projection plane by way of a corresponding one of the projection lens, such that a light distribution is produced from all of the projected image segments in the projection plane. The array of projection lenses comprises a plurality of subarrays, where a respective subarray contains the same projection lenses and the projection lenses of different subarrays differ from one another such that each subarray generates a surface area in the light distribution and a size and/or a position of the generated surface areas varies between the plurality of subarrays.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Florian Brill, Dominik Drozdzyk, Tina Gehb, Burkhard Lewerich, Martin Mueller, Alf Riedel
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Patent number: 11239637Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for generating fiber delivered laser-induced white light. The apparatus includes a package case enclosing a board member with an electrical connector through a cover member and a laser module configured to the board member inside the package case. The laser module comprises a support member, at least one laser diode device configured to emit a laser light of a first wavelength, a set of optics to guide the laser light towards an output port. Additionally, the apparatus includes a fiber assembly configured to receive the laser light from the output port for further delivering to a light head member disposed in a remote destination. A phosphor material disposed in the light head member receives the laser light exited from the fiber assembly to induce a phosphor emission of a second wavelength for producing a white light emission substantially reflected therefrom for various applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.Inventors: Oscar Romero, Jim Harrison, Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Daming Liu
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Patent number: 11226074Abstract: An optical cup which mixes multiple channels of light to form a blended output, the device having discreet zones or channels including a plurality of reflective cavities each having a remote phosphor light converting appliance covering a cluster of LEDs providing a channel of light which is reflected upward. The predetermined blends of phosphors provide a predetermined range of illumination wavelengths in the output.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: ECOSENSE LIGHTING INC.Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard, Robert Fletcher
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Patent number: 11206971Abstract: A diagnostic tool, such as an otoscope or other hand-held diagnostic device features a handle, a head portion and a circuit. The handle includes a controller and the head portion includes one or more optical spectroscopy (OS) components including at least one light detection element. The circuit includes one or more portions configured to be contorted at acute through reflex angles while maintaining electrical connectivity between the controller and the one or more OS components. The circuit includes a first contact area for the at least one light detection element.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Cactus Medical, LLCInventor: Samir Shreim
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Patent number: 11204154Abstract: A modular lighting assembly uses LED banks as the light sources. The assembly allows the power supply and LED banks to be independently replaced. The assembly uses a power supply that is separated from the LED banks and electrically connected to the LED banks with a plug connector that may be unplugged and plugged back in to allow the power supply or LED bank to be independently and readily replaced. The assembly provides for easy replacement of the different components of the assembly. One feature that makes the components easier to replace is that the light modules and/or the power supply may be carried by the housing that is removable from the base mount that is secured to a mounting structure such as a wall or ceiling.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Autronic Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Lax, Agjah I. Libohova, Timothy J. Keuning
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Patent number: 11193650Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens and an illuminating device employing the same. The lens is an extendable lens, and includes a light incident surface, a light emitting surface, and a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface disposed on two sides of the light incident surface respectively. Light enters the lens from the light incident surface at least includes: a first part which is reflected by the second reflecting surface and then directly emits from the light emitting surface, and a second part which is reflected to the second reflecting surface by the first reflecting surface, reflected by the second reflecting surface, and then emits from the light emitting surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: Opple Lighting Co., Ltd., Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jing Yang
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Patent number: 11191371Abstract: A presentation device is revealed, in particular for goods, comprising a mounting frame (10) having a plurality of mounting profiles (12, 13; 14) arranged parallel and spaced apart from each other; and a plurality of frame or box-shaped inserts (30) releasably attached to the mounting profiles; the inserts (30) each having a plurality of side walls (31) forming a rectangular frame, and the inserts in each case being detached over their backsides. At the same time, it is preferable to supply the inserts with an electrical voltage at the same time. The inserts can be considered as modules which are individually attached to the mounting frame and can be designed differently. The inserts are detachably attached to the mounting profiles via their backsides. This means that the presentation equipment can be configured in a simple way for both retrofitting and new installations in salesrooms.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Inventor: Otmar Rau
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Patent number: 11187838Abstract: A spectral filter includes a curved filtering element including a concave surface forming a portion of a sphere. The concave surface may be positioned to receive light diverging from an output face of an optical fiber located at a first location proximate to a center of the sphere corresponding to the concave surface. The concave surface may transmit a first portion of a spectrum of the light. The concave surface may further reflect and focus a second portion of the spectrum to a second location proximate to the center of the sphere. The spectral filter may further include a collector to direct the second portion of the spectrum away from the output face of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: KLA CorporationInventors: Andrew V. Hill, Ohad Bachar, Avi Abramov, Amnon Manassen
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Patent number: 11169320Abstract: A light source member including a substrate, and a plurality of unit light source cells disposed on the substrate and arranged in a matrix, each of the unit light source cells including a light source driving electrode disposed on the substrate, a light source disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the light source driving electrode, an organic layer disposed on the substrate and exposing the light source and at least a part of the light source driving electrode, the organic layer having an upper surface including a concavo-convex pattern, and a heat dissipation layer disposed on the organic layer and contacting the light source driving electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Min Jeong Oh, Kwang Soo Bae, Beom Soo Park, Young Je Cho
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Patent number: 11167687Abstract: Provided is an object detection system which enables detection of a body of interest without causing any disturbance outside a vehicle even if the body of interest is present in a restricted-illumination area. In accordance with the timing whereby an imaging module captures an image of an object in the restricted-illumination area and on the basis of the result of image processing by an image processing module, an illumination control module controls the start and end of illumination of the restricted-illumination area by an illumination module.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takakiyo Yasukawa, Tatsuhiko Monji
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Patent number: 11162673Abstract: An illumination device capable of appropriately suppressing a temperature rise of a light emitting part, wherein the illumination device comprises a light emitting part configured to emit light for illumination, a cooling part configured to cool the light emitting part. The illumination device acquires a temperature at a first position, acquires a temperature at a second position that is less susceptible to a temperature change of the light emitting part than the first position, determines presence or absence of light emission of the light emitting part, and controls driving of the cooling part based on the acquired temperature at the first position, the acquired temperature at the second position and a determination result of the presence or absence of light emission.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keiichiro Saito
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Patent number: 11156348Abstract: A hazardous location light source module includes a metal base carrier having a light-module support surface on its upper side and a mounting stem on its lower side. The light-module support surface supports a light-module substrate mounting one or more light-emitting devices. The mounting stem is configured for mounting the light source module to a modular hazardous location light source assembly. A wiring port extending through the mounting stem to the base carrier upper side receives electrical wiring that connects electrically to the light-emitting device(s). A main-lens support surface on the base carrier upper side supports a light-transmitting main lens that comprises chemically strengthened glass and has a maximum dimension to maximum thickness ratio of not less than approximately 40:1. The main lens is permanently secured to the base carrier by virtue of a base carrier periphery being deformed into a lip that folds over to capture the main lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: K&H Industries, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Pinker, Jr.
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Patent number: 11148580Abstract: A receiving assembly for a headlight range adjusting device for a lighting module in a headlight of a vehicle, with a receiving area for the headlight range adjusting device and with thermal compensator to compensate for a temperature-related displacement of a connection point for the lighting module in an adjustment axis of the headlight range adjusting device. The compensator has at least one profiled receiving area which extends in the adjustment axis and which is made of a first material with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, and the compensator has at least one receiving slide which extends in the adjustment axis and which is made of a second material with a second coefficient of thermal expansion, which is received in the profiled receiving area in the adjustment axis so as to be displaceable.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventor: Joerg Sieme
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Patent number: 11150767Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a device body, a screen, and a photo-sensing module. The preset light-transmissive area is provided between the screen and a side casing of the device body. A light emitter of the photo-sensing module is mounted at an edge position of the device body and corresponds to the preset light-transmissive area, and the light emitter can emit a light through the preset light-transmissive area towards a sensing space corresponding to a front side of the device body for sensing.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Chaoxi Chen
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Patent number: 11142338Abstract: An aircraft lighting system includes a light unit configured to emit light, a portable measurement device, and a control unit. The portable measurement device is configured to measure at least one attribute of the light emitted from the light unit and output the measured attribute of the light in an output signal. The control unit is configured to receive the output signal and control the light unit based on the measured attribute. In some aspects, the light unit is positionable in an aircraft, in certain examples, a method of controlling a lighting system includes measuring at least one attribute of light of a light unit with a portable measurement device, transmitting the measured attribute to a control unit, and controlling the light unit based on the measured attribute. In some cases, the method includes measuring the at least one attribute of a light unit in an aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Zodiac Cabin Controls GmbHInventors: Henrik Heine, Günter Boomgaarden, Birger Timm, Volker Antonczyk, Thierry Despres, Lutz Neumann
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Patent number: 11137124Abstract: An anti-glare headlamp for a motor vehicle, including a large number of light units, each of the light units having: a light source element, which is configured to emit light along a first optical axis in the direction of a space; a projection optic, which is disposed behind the light source element in the direction of the emitted light and is configured to project the light emitted by the light source element into the space at a solid angle; and a photodetector, which is situated in front of the projection optic in the direction of the emitted light and is configured to detect the light projected into the space by the projection optic and reflected from an object in the space, along a second optical axis back to the projection optic.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Christian Haase, Julien Hansen
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Patent number: 11131852Abstract: Variable attenuation of an illumination source is provided by an aperture (i.e., an opening in a structure through which light passes) that is sandwiched between two tunable lenses that are configured to apply varying amounts of optical power. A controller operates the first tunable lens to apply optical power to the light to be divergent at the aperture structure so that a portion of the light is clipped. Varying the applied optical power at the first tunable lens can increase or decrease divergence at the aperture structure to thereby increase or decrease clipping and the attenuation of the light. The controller operates the second tunable lens to compensate for changes in light state at the first tunable lens by applying opposite optical power so that collimated light from the illumination source which enters the first tunable lens may exit the second tunable lens in the same collimated state.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Joshua Owen Miller
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Patent number: 11126036Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight module assembly, structural adjustment method thereof and display device. The backlight module assembly includes a plastic frame, a film and an adjustment sheet. The plastic frame is presented in a box shape with an opening on the top, and has side walls and a bottom wall, and a space enclosed by the side walls and the bottom wall being a mounting groove. The film is arranged on the bottom wall and received within the mounting groove. The adjustment sheet is arranged on an inner side of the side wall of the mounting groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiang Zhu, Hongchao He, Jianghui Zhan, Rui Wang, Yuxi Dong, Changjun Zhang, Bo Zhang, Dan Liu, Tongmin Liu
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Patent number: 11129253Abstract: Electric light sources typically exhibit temporal variations in luminous flux output, commonly referred to as “flicker.” Flicker, or temporal modulation, is known to influence the growth, health and behavior patterns of humans, and is also linked to growth, health and behavior patterns throughout the growth cycle of plants and animals. Control of peak radiant flux emitted by a light source to temporally modulate a light source will allow for the control of plants and animals for sustainable farming including but not limited to horticultural, agricultural, or aquacultural endeavors. The light source allows the transmission of daylight, which is combined with the flicker.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventors: Ian Edward Ashdown, Wallace Jay Scott