Patents Examined by Y M Lee
  • Patent number: 10422492
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a wallpack lighting fixture is provided herein for use with solid state lighting and which is configurable to selectively utilize different quantities, up to a maximum, of solid state lighting modules, allowing for different levels and patterns of light output. In a second aspect, a wallpack lighting fixture is provided herein for use with solid state lighting which includes a main housing and a secondary enclosure removably mountable to the main housing. In a further aspect, a wallpack lighting fixture is provided herein for use with solid state lighting which includes a housing having a wall mountable back panel and a door portion hingeably, and detachably, connected to the back panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: MAXLITE, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Xiang, Amro El-Adle
  • Patent number: 10414326
    Abstract: An illumination device is provided having a light source, a light exit aperture, and a reflector unit that is arranged between the light source and the light exit aperture and can be controlled in terms of its reflection position by means of a control signal, wherein the reflector unit is designed to assume (via an operating control signal) an operating position in which light emitted by the light source can be deflected to the light exit aperture, and wherein the illumination device has an absorber element which is designed to absorb received light, wherein the reflector unit is designed to assume (via an absorber signal) an absorber position in which the light emitted by the light source and/or light entering into the illumination device from the outside through the light exit aperture can be deflected to the absorber element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Carsten Gut
  • Patent number: 10415786
    Abstract: A pixel light headlamp for a vehicle may include a light source module, a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) optical system, an imaging lens module, wherein the condenser lens includes a first condenser lens disposed between the light source and the phosphor and second and third condenser lenses which are disposed on a path through which light emitted from the first condenser lens is incident on the DMD chip; the second condenser lens is disposed to face the phosphor; the third condenser lens is disposed to be distanced from the second condenser lens such that it is not overlapped with a moving path of light emitted from the phosphor; and the light source and the first condenser lens as well as the DMD chip and the imaging lens module are configured to tilt with respect to a lens housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Suk Ahn, Jik Soo Shin, Keun Sig Lim, Jung Wook Lim, Ki Hong Lee
  • Patent number: 10393329
    Abstract: There is provided a light fixture that includes a mechanism for attaching the light fixture to another light fixture. The mechanism includes a set of retractable hooks configured to mate with an end of the other light fixture to attach the light fixture to the other light fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Steve Germain
  • Patent number: 10394005
    Abstract: A method and a device for the optical viewing of objects, the method comprising the stages of illuminating an object with ultraviolet radiation, and acquiring an image of the object thereby illuminated using a lens comprising at least a forward optical group and an aperture diaphragm exhibiting a transparent window located at a focal point of the forward optical group defined for the ultraviolet radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: OPTO ENGINEERING S.R.L.
    Inventor: Claudio Sedazzari
  • Patent number: 10386045
    Abstract: The invention proposes a luminous module comprising a flexible printed circuit board. The connection to ground of the electronic circuit accommodated by the printed circuit board is produced without adding fastening parts dedicated to this role. Compared to known prior-art techniques, the invention allows a luminous module to be produced comprising fewer constituent parts and occupying a smaller volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Olivier Badia
  • Patent number: 10371922
    Abstract: The optical apparatus includes a lens barrel, a lens held by the lens barrel, and a light emitter and an accessory attachment portion that are provided in an object-side end portion of the lens barrel so as to be located outside further than the lens in a radial direction of the lens barrel, the light emitter emitting an illumination light, the accessory attachment portion allowing detachable attachment of an accessory. The accessory attachment portion is located inside further than the light emitter in the radial direction. The lens barrel is provided with a slope surface formed so as to decrease an outer diameter of the lens barrel toward an object side end of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 10371330
    Abstract: An LED projection night light for night time or dark area use includes a plug-in wall outlet night light or direct current operated night light with projection features to project an image, message, data, logo, or time on a ceiling, walls, floor, or other desired surface. The LED night light incorporates optics means such as an optics-lens, slides, openings, or cut-outs, and/or a transparent material piece, translucent material piece, telescope assembly, housing-member, slide-film, slide-disc, elastic-member, tilt-means, rotating-means, adjust-means, roller-means, mechanical-means, extend-means, convex lens, and/or concave lens designed to make the desired image, message, data, logo, or time project to the ceiling, walls, floor, or other desired surface to be seen by a viewer. The LED light has an interchangeable power source arrangement, permitting the night light to be selectively powered by either an AC powered sealed-unit or a DC powered battery-pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Inventor: Tseng-Lu Chien
  • Patent number: 10358761
    Abstract: Household appliance (2) has a rotatable user interface element (44) which during a rotation by one full round engages in a discrete number of defined rotational positions. At least one group (50) of light elements (54) is provided. The appliance (2) is configured such that the light elements are illuminated and/or can be activated depending on the rotational state and/or movement of said rotatable user interface element (44) wherein the number of rotational position is larger than the number of light elements in said group (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Fernando De Luca
  • Patent number: 10359179
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a board, a resin-molded unit formed using a resin material as a base material and having thermal conductivity, and a socket housing including a heat sink formed of a metal material, and a board attachment portion to which the board is attached and a covered surface which is covered with the resin-molded unit, wherein the resin-molded unit is formed with a holding hole communicating with the covered surface, and the heat sink and the resin-molded unit are formed by integral molding when a portion of the covered surface and a portion of the attachment surface are pressed by a portion of a mold inserted through the holding hole and another portion of the mold, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Yoshimasa Murata, Takuya Serita
  • Patent number: 10352548
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a lighting device is provided with a support member with a fork-like shape with two prongs carrying mutually facing electrically powered light radiation sources, and an annular heat sink member fitted onto the prongs and extending around the light radiation sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Alessandro Bizzotto
  • Patent number: 10336025
    Abstract: A compound lens and a related method of manufacture are provided. The compound lens includes a first lens element and a second lens element such that a light emitting surface of the first lens element is integrally joined to a light receiving surface of the second lens element, the first and second lens element being in optical alignment with each other. The first and second lens element are molded from optical grade silicone and can achieve complex illumination objectives not possible with single lens constructions. The method of manufacture includes injecting a silicone resin molding compound into a mold cavity having the desired shape of the compound lens. The method of manufacture can include over-molding a lens holding member onto the compound lens and adding electro-optically active particles to a surface of the compound lens or to the silicone resin forming the compound lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: Lumenflow Corp., Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Harold W. Brunt, Jr., Michael R. Strong, Gilbert M. Pinter
  • Patent number: 10337698
    Abstract: A device adapted to perform the shaping of light beams emitted by lighting fixtures, in particular by lighting fixtures comprising punctiform light sources such as, for example, LEDs. The device according to the present invention, in particular, allows shaping the light flow produced by lighting devices comprising punctiform light sources, so as to filter any parasitic reflection phenomena of the light flow emitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Iguzzini Illuminazione S.P.A.
    Inventor: Massimo Gattari
  • Patent number: 10317030
    Abstract: A headlamp assembly is provided that includes a circuit board that is attached to the bottom of a headlamp reflector and that includes a plurality of light emitting elements. The plurality of light emitting elements are arranged on the circuit board in a high-beam and low-beam producing pattern configured to generate light toward the outer edge of the headlamp reflector. The headlamp assembly also includes an optical lens that includes a first optical surface and a second optical surface. The optical lens optically forms a low-beam light pattern and a high-beam light pattern from the light generated from the plurality of light emitting elements through the optical lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Grote Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Hossein Alisafaee, Albert J. Bolander, Jr., Paul Miller, Cesar Perez-Bolivar
  • Patent number: 10302256
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus including a plurality of frames connected to each other in the lengthwise direction; a connector, which is arranged between the plurality of frames and interconnects the plurality of frames by including a portion inserted into one of the plurality of frames, and including another portion inserted into the other one of the plurality of frames; and a light source arranged on the plurality of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-kwang Kwon, Joo-hun Han, Bang-won Oh, Du-su Kwon, Hyun-kyung Kim, Yoon-ki Park, Yoon-suk Lee
  • Patent number: 10300973
    Abstract: A taillight assembly including a support member, a right light assembly, a right lens assembly, left light assembly, and a left lens assembly. The right and left light assemblies are mounted to a light supporting portion of the support member. The right assembly includes a first light source oriented to direct a first beam of light in a rearward direction and a second light source oriented to direct a second beam of light in a rightward direction. The left light assembly includes third light source oriented to direct a third beam of light in rearward direction and a fourth light source oriented to direct a fourth beam of light in a leftward direction. The right and left lens assemblies are mounted to the light supporting portion to house the right and left light assemblies, respectively, and cooperate to disperse the first, second, third, and fourth beams of light 270 degrees horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventor: Bernard Luttmer
  • Patent number: 10302852
    Abstract: A backlight unit and a display device including the same are provided. The backlight unit includes: a frame; a reflection sheet located on the frame; a housing coupled to at least one side of the frame; a substrate located on the housing; a light assembly mounted on the substrate; and a light guide plate located opposite to the light assembly on the reflection sheet, wherein the housing is exposed to the outside of the frame. Therefore, as the housing is exposed to the outside of the frame, even if a problem occurs in a light assembly, by separating only the housing, the problem can be solved, and the housing is exposed to the outside of the frame to enhance a heat releasing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungtae Kim, Sanghun Baek
  • Patent number: 10293745
    Abstract: The invention is directed to methods and devices to improve light patterns used to inform or assist an observer or a driver. The invention is related to an illuminating device and to a method for projecting a pre-definable light pattern using the illuminating device of the vehicle into an area surrounding the vehicle. According to the invention, a projection surface is determined in the area surrounding the vehicle, a position of a predefined observer has been determined or provided, and a light unit of the illuminating device is controlled pixel-wise according to the determined projection surface and the determined position of the predefined observer in order to produce the pre-definable light pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jose Roberto Vargas Rivero, Carsten Gut, Johannes Reim
  • Patent number: 10295731
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an accommodating member including a bottom portion and a sidewall extending from the bottom portion, a backlight unit including a light source inside the accommodating member and a light source substrate inside the accommodating member and on which the light source is mounted, and a driving substrate connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member. The driving substrate includes a first extending portion disposed outside the accommodating member, a second extending portion extended from the first extending portion and through the sidewall of the accommodating member to dispose an end portion of the second extending portion inside the accommodating member, and a pad portion disposed on a lower surface of the end portion of the second extending portion and inside the accommodating member. The pad portion is electrically connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Moonshik Kang
  • Patent number: 10295722
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (10) including a lighting source (12) and a light guide (14), the light guide including an inlet optical surface (20), configured to allow the entry of the light emitted by the light source illuminating the inlet optical surface, and an outlet optical surface (22), configured to allow the exit of the light from the light guide, characterized in that the light guide also includes at least two through-holes (30, 31) arranged passing through the inlet optical surface and the outlet optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Stephane Bombard, Maryline Thorailler