Patents by Inventor David Field Showers

David Field Showers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6796680
    Abstract: A strip lighting device includes an elongate housing, a plurality of light sources arranged at intervals within the housing, and a fastener for fastening the elongate housing to a surface. The elongate housing overlies the plurality of light sources and diffuses, disperses or scatters light from the light sources such that individuals of the plurality of light sources are substantially not distinguishable when the housing is viewed from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC
    Inventors: David Field Showers, James Berry Quantrell, Kenneth Robert Goddard, Malcolm Wesley Oldis
  • Publication number: 20040037077
    Abstract: A sign illumination kit includes lamp support means adapted to be trimmed for location in co-operation with structure defining a sign or sign segment. Means forming, or divisible to form, a plurality of illumination elements each has a mount component and one or more solid state lamp devices mounted thereon, which elements may be arranged in sets of varying size and shape. Means is provided for attaching the illumination elements to lamp support means in an assembly in which the solid state lamp devices when activated cause the sign or sign segment to be illuminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: David Field Showers, Malcolm Wesley Oldis, Kenneth Robert Goddard, Scott Victor Pitcher
  • Patent number: 6609813
    Abstract: A housing and mounting system for a strip lighting device, particularly a lighting device of the kind in which multiple light emitting diode (LED) light sources are arranged at spaced intervals within an elongate tubular housing that is translucent and arranged to diffuse, disperse or scatter the light from the LED light sources. The tubular housing has two longitudinally extending keys integrally formed on the exterior of the tube. The interior of the tube has longitudinally extending formations for supporting mounted LED light sources within the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Lumileds Lighting, U.S. LLC
    Inventors: David Field Showers, James Barry Quantrell