Patents Examined by Y M Lee
  • Patent number: 9618181
    Abstract: A light emitting module includes a circuit board, a light emitting device mounted on the circuit board, and a lens dispersing light emitted from the light emitting device. The lens includes a lower surface formed with a concave section defining a light incident surface through which light enters the lens, an upper surface through which light exits the lens, and legs coupled to the circuit board and disposed farther outside the lens than an area of the upper surface. The light emitting device is disposed within the concave section of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Ki Hwang, Eun Ju Kim, Jung Doo Kim
  • Patent number: 9618164
    Abstract: An adapter is provided for retrofitting a lighting fixture with a light emitting diode (LED) lamp. The adapter includes a pin plate and a retaining ring. The pin plate includes at least one pin extending outward from a distal side of the pin plate. The retaining ring includes a base, at least one arm, and at least one projecting member, each having inward and outward surfaces. The at least one pin restricts movement of the adapter when the adapter is rotated to a restraining position. The at least one projecting member causes the inward surface of the at least one projecting member to face the inward surface of the base. The at least one projecting member restricts movement of the adapter in a direction corresponding to an axis of rotation of the adapter using the at least one projecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis L. Berry, Keith Davis, Theodore E. Kluska, Wei Xiong
  • Patent number: 9599311
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a light source (101), and a first free-form reflector (110) registered with the light source (101) and receiving non-collimated light (102) from the light source (101). A secondary reflector (120) is configured to receive the non-collimated light reflected from the first free-form reflector (110). A second free-form reflector (110) is configured to receive the non-collimated light reflected from the secondary reflector (120). A virtual source reflector (125) is registered with the second free-form reflector (110) and configured to receive the non-collimated light reflected from the second free-form reflector (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gilles Jean-Baptiste Benoit, Todd E. Bracher, Gary H. Paulsen, Byron E. Trotter, Catherine A. Leatherdale, Gina M. Albanese
  • Patent number: 9574750
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing and at least one adjustable light assembly coupled thereto. Each light assembly includes a light source and an optic lens that is disposed over at least a portion of the light source. At least a portion of the lens is positioned external to the housing. The lens is rotatably adjustable about an axis extending perpendicular from the lens and includes a portion of the light source. The lens emits an asymmetrical light output. A light source holder may be included as part of the light assembly and is used to couple the light assembly to the housing. The light source holder includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and an aperture extending therethrough. The light source is positioned adjacent the first surface over the aperture while the lens is positioned adjacent the second surface over the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Westly Davis Hetrick
  • Patent number: 9578716
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) light unit is disclosed. For example, the LED light unit includes at least one support plate having one or more inner openings. At least one LED array may be coupled to an LED board. The LED light unit also includes at least one heat pipe coupled to the LED board, wherein said LED board is coupled to the at least one support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Dialight Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas R. Burton, John W. Curran, John Patrick Peck, Kenneth J. Zimmer, Gregory K. Balczarek
  • Patent number: 9574738
    Abstract: A lens includes a light incident surface and a light output surface. In a coordinate system, the light incident surface satisfies a formula (1): Z r 1 = c 1 ? r 1 2 1 + 1 - r 1 2 ? c 1 2 + u 1 2 ? ( 1 - u 1 2 ) 1 - r 1 2 ? c 1 2 ? ? m = 0 M ? a m ? Q m ? ( u 1 2 ) . c1 is a curvature of the light incident surface. r1 is a distance from the center of the lens to a joint point between the light input surface and a radius which is substantially perpendicular to the central axis of the lens. u1 is a normalized radius of the light incident surface. am represents the aspheric coefficient. Qm is a polynomial of order m and represents that the sum of am is equal to the sum of the root mean square of the slope of the light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Po-Yu Lin, Chien-Hui Lin, Tai-Cherng Yu
  • Patent number: 9568161
    Abstract: A ventilation system for a vehicle headlight housing. The ventilation body has an inner part extending into the housing opening as well as an outer part extending circumferentially about the opening wall of the housing opening, which on the one hand offers, in the locked position thereof, a sealing attachment and on the other hand provides a labyrinthic ventilation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., AZ Ausruestung und Zubehoer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Hansmann, Jens Oliver Meyer, Michael Wysok
  • Patent number: 9563005
    Abstract: Provided are a light source device capable of uniformly illuminating, a display apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the light source device. Since a reflection sheet is adhered to a light guide plate through an adhesive layer, deflection thereof is suppressed. Since dot parts are filled in openings of an optical layer, it would be difficult for the dot parts to be distorted by an outer force. In addition, since the dot parts are formed by forming the optical layer and the adhesive layer in a large area in which an occurrence of distortion during forming is minimal, it would be difficult for the dot parts to be distorted during forming the same. Therefore, an occurrence of luminance unevenness caused by the deflection of the reflection sheet or the distortion of the dot parts may be suppressed. From the above result, it is possible to uniformly illuminate by the light source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Teragawa
  • Patent number: 9557469
    Abstract: A light guide plate and a backlight module are described. The light guide plate includes a main body and a plurality of stripe microstructures. The main body includes a light incidence surface, a light-emitting surface and a light reflective surface. The light-emitting surface is opposite to the light reflective surface, and the light incidence surface is connected between the light-emitting surface and the light reflective surface. The light-emitting surface includes a microstructure region adjacent to the light incidence surface. The stripe microstructures are arranged in the microstructure region, and parallel to a normal line of the light incidence surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Yin Chang, Chin-Ting Weng
  • Patent number: 9541783
    Abstract: A display device includes a bottom chassis on which a light source is disposed, a light guide plate disposed on the bottom chassis and configured to guide light emitted from the light source to a display panel, an optical sheet on the light guide plate, a mold frame coupled to the bottom chassis and including a support unit on which the display panel is disposed, and a light conversion shielding member disposed on a surface of the support unit of the mold frame having a side portion that extends down from the support unit and covers a side surface of the optical sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Baek, Seul Gi Kim, Yeong Bae Lee, Seok Hyun Nam, Chan Jae Park
  • Patent number: 9542868
    Abstract: Embodiments of a light emitting device, a surface mounted device-type light emitting device and a display device are provided. In one aspect, a light emitting device may include a main body and a light source. The main body may include a base and a number of terminals. The base may have a support surface. Each of the terminals may respectively have a welding portion such that the welding portions of the terminals form a connection surface with a first angle between the support surface and the connection surface. The first angle may be between 0 degree and 90 degrees. The light source may be disposed on the support surface and electrically connected to one or more of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Chiuan Lin
  • Patent number: 9534758
    Abstract: A method for setting a pivot angle of a headlamp with an asymmetrical low beam when a vehicle is negotiating a bend, wherein a course of a highway line is determined, a contact point is determined, wherein a tangent from the headlamp to the contact point makes contact with the highway line, and the headlamp is adjusted such that a projection of an intersection of a horizontal portion of a cut-off line of the headlamp and an ascending branch of the cut-off line of the headlamp in a plane in front of the vehicle and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle on the highway falls within a circle of predetermined radius around the contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: HELLA KGAA HUECK & CO.
    Inventors: Andreas Krauβ, Boris Kubitza, Jürgen Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9528684
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light conversion unit converting primary light into secondary light. The light conversion unit includes a light conversion member, a holder and a reflection member. The holder includes an incidence portion through which the primary light enters and an exit portion through which at least part of the secondary light exits in a direction crossing an optical axis of the primary light. The light conversion member is arranged on the optical axis of the primary light. Part of the secondary light allowed to exit from the light conversion member in a direction different from a direction toward the exit portion is reflected by the reflection member and exited from the exit portion. The ratio of reentering to the light conversion member is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tamura, Masahiro Nishio, Hiroyuki Kamee
  • Patent number: 9523483
    Abstract: A substrate is formed in a rectangular shape, a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged on one end face of the substrate, and a translucent sealing material is adhered to the one end face to seal the light emitting elements. A light irradiation device is thin, which transfers heat generated at the light emitting elements to the substrate where the heat is dissipated. Even if the substrate is made thinner, the heat dissipation performance of the substrate can be maintained or enhanced when the dimension of the substrate is increased in the direction intersecting the one end face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: OG Corporation, T. Chatani & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Ono, Takeshi Sumi
  • Patent number: 9523810
    Abstract: In an illumination device of the invention, as an arrangement interval of light deflection elements in a first direction discontinuously varies, an arrangement interval in a first direction becomes small with increased distance from an incidence face, where one of regions adjacent to each other which is close to the incidence face is referred to as a first region, the other of the regions which is away from the incidence face is referred to as a second region, as the arrangement interval of the light deflection elements in a second direction discontinuously varies at a boundary between the first region and the second region, the arrangement interval of part of the first region which is closest to the incidence face is smaller than the arrangement interval of part of the second region which is closest to the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakagome, Kazuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9519161
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member, a backlight assembly, and a display device including the same are provided. In one aspect, there is provided a wavelength conversion member comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, a wavelength conversion layer, and a spacer. The second substrate is positioned on the first substrate. The wavelength conversion layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to constantly keep a distance between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong Bae Lee, Seok Hyun Nam, Seung Hwan Baek, Sang Won Lee
  • Patent number: 9500332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module (10) for a motor vehicle or for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the light module (10) comprises: a heat sink (6); a carrier plate (3) for at least one light source (2); at least one light source (2) arranged on the carrier plate (3); wherein the carrier plate (3) is secured on the heat sink (6), wherein the carrier plate (3) has one or more reference positions (4) for referencing a light-shaping member, for example for referencing a reflector (1), and wherein the light-shaping member has a securing base (1?), by means of which securing base (1?) the light-shaping member can be referenced to the at least one reference position (4) of the carrier plate (3). In accordance with the invention, the securing base (1?) is assigned at least one return element (7), by means of which the securing base (1?) can be secured at least temporarily in the reference position thereof in relation to the carrier plate (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ZKW GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Jackl, Clemens Hauer
  • Patent number: 9499097
    Abstract: A pointer arm for a gauge of a motor vehicle is provided. The pointer arm includes first and second light reflecting surfaces and an an arm portion extending from the first and second light reflecting surfaces. The pointer arm may be supported for rotation about an axis of rotation relative to a scale, and a shroud may be used to support the pointer arm. A cap may be supported on the pointer arm. The cap may include a pin extending into an opening within the pointer arm. The light reflecting surfaces are configured to propagate light around the opening and through the pointer arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Birman, Arthur Brown, Patrick Wang, Richard Sanders
  • Patent number: 9496104
    Abstract: A luminous keyboard includes a keypad module, plural light-emitting elements, an illumination circuit board and a light guide plate. The illumination circuit board has a light amount control structure. The light amount control structure is disposed on a circuit board main body or a protective layer of the illumination circuit board, and arranged between the light guide plate and the illumination circuit board. When the plural light-emitting elements emit light beams to the illumination circuit board, the light beams are projected on the light amount control structure, and the reflected fraction of the light beams is reduced. Since the light beams are not very centralized, the problem of generating bright spots will be diminished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventor: Chung-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 9488325
    Abstract: A light transmitting device is extremely adaptable and provides a great amount of light for a given battery power. A flexible elongated polymeric light transmitting element has first and second ends with at least one LED immediately adjacent (e. g. touching but not embedded in) one or both of the ends so that light is efficiently transmitted from an LED along the light transmitting element. At least one battery powers the LED. A module including a printed circuit board, electrical switch, and the LED and battery, is positioned within a housing having open ends so that one or both ends of the light transmitting element receive light directly from an LED. A number of button batteries, or a rechargeable battery with USB port, may be mounted on the module, and the circuitry of the printed circuit board may include an integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ming D & Y
    Inventors: Jianming Dai, Banghui An