Patents by Inventor Evan Edwards

Evan Edwards 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: 9159521
    Abstract: A dual-reflector assembly includes an upper reflector and a lower reflector. The upper reflector includes a proximal end and a distal end. The lower reflector includes a proximal end and a distal end. A light source is positioned between the proximal ends of the upper reflector and the lower reflector. The upper reflector surrounds at least a portion of the lower reflector. The shape and orientation of the dual-reflector assembly can be formed by placing a cup reflector having an upper edge profile and a lower edge profile a predetermined distance away from a rotational axis and at a desired orientation, rotating the cup reflector around the rotational axis, obtaining the shape and orientation of the upper reflector and the lower reflector from the rotating upper edge profile and the rotating lower edge profile, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Joe Zhuo Chen, Reed Alan Bradford, Megan Marie Christen, Christopher Michael Bryant, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20150247620
    Abstract: A lighting fixture can comprise a rim or raised edge that extends peripherally around a recessed area. Light emitting diodes can be mounted in the recessed area and oriented to emit light out of the recessed area, towards an area to be illuminated by the lighting fixture. The lighting fixture can be mounted above the area, which may be outdoors, for example. A cavity can be formed inside the rim or raised edge. Circuitry for the light emitting diodes can be disposed in the cavity, so that the rim or raised edge encloses or houses the circuitry. The circuitry can comprise a light emitting diode driver, for example. The rim or raised edge can block emission of unwanted light, for example to function as a light pollution shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventor: Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20150098219
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20150092425
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Evans Edward Thompson, III, Jerry Alan Tickner
  • Patent number: 8911121
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8905602
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8789978
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8688146
    Abstract: A method begins by a processing module receiving a safety status request for a safety status level associated with a user device and determining whether to generate a safety status response. When generating a safety status response, the method continues with the processing module obtaining the safety status level associated with the user device and determining whether to include location information in the safety status response. When including the location information, the method continues with the processing module obtaining location coordinates corresponding to the user device, obtaining street address location information based on the location coordinates, generating the location information based on the location coordinates and the street address location information, generating the safety status response to include the safety status level and the location information, and outputting the safety status response to a requesting entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Inventors: Gary W. Grube, Evan Edward Quisenberry, John Edward Buchalo
  • Publication number: 20140009931
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20130294084
    Abstract: The luminaire includes a light emitting diode (LED) module that includes a heat sink with an outer wall defining a top cavity and a bottom cavity and a mounting flange generally positioned along the bottom of the outer wall. A LED light source is positioned within the bottom cavity and in thermal communication with the heat sink. The bottom surface of the mounting flange includes one or more alignment features or keys extending out from the bottom surface. A trim having a corresponding alignment aperture is matingly engaged by positioning all or a portion of the alignment feature into the alignment aperture to ensure proper orientation of the trim with the LED module and to provide sufficient surface area for good thermal transfer between the heat sink and the trim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Jyoti Gururaj Kathawate, Kevin Roy Harpenau, Russell Bryant Green, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20130294095
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20130235587
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8529100
    Abstract: A modular heat sink includes one or more heat sink sections interconnected sequentially to each other to form a polar array. Each heat sink section includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part, where the first connecting part is configured to couple with the second connecting part of another heat sink section. Once assembled, the modular heat sink includes a channel formed substantially through the center of the modular heat sink. Each heat sink section is manufactured using an extrusion process. The assembled modular heat sink has one or more hollow portions within the overall shape that cannot be fabricated in a single extrusion process. One or more LEDs are coupled to the outer surface of the modular heat sink. The modular heat sink, with LEDs coupled thereto, is coupled to a wireway tube and mounted to a post-top light fixture to form an LED luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Ellis W. Patrick, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8511852
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the invention are directed to a light fixture that includes a housing with a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, two side walls, and an aperture, a reflector connected to the housing, and one or more bracket-based LED light sources segments connected to at least one of the front wall, the back wall, or the two side walls of the housing. In some embodiments of the invention, the housing is a wall mount housing. In some embodiments of the invention the bracket-based LED light source includes a bracket shaped to position the LED light source to emit a particular optical distribution from the aperture of the housing, and/or the bracket is shaped to thermally disburse heat radiating from the LED light source. In other embodiments of the invention, a portion of a bracket of at least one bracket-based LED light source is flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Steen Vann, Evans Edward Thompson, III, Megan Christen, Jerold Alan Tickner, Christopher Lee Bohler
  • Patent number: 8491166
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Publication number: 20130040661
    Abstract: A method begins by a processing module receiving a safety status request for a safety status level associated with a user device and determining whether to generate a safety status response. When generating a safety status response, the method continues with the processing module obtaining the safety status level associated with the user device and determining whether to include location information in the safety status response. When including the location information, the method continues with the processing module obtaining location coordinates corresponding to the user device, obtaining street address location information based on the location coordinates, generating the location information based on the location coordinates and the street address location information, generating the safety status response to include the safety status level and the location information, and outputting the safety status response to a requesting entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Gary W. Grube, Evan Edward Quisenberry, John Edward Buchalo
  • Publication number: 20130040619
    Abstract: A method begins by a processing module obtaining a set of identifiers (IDs) corresponding to a set of user devices, wherein each user device of the set of user devices is associated with a corresponding safety status level. For each identifier (ID) of the set of IDs, the method continues with the processing module generating a safety status request that includes the ID, outputting the safety status request to a user device of the set of user devices that corresponds to the ID, receiving a safety status response of a set of safety status responses, wherein the safety status response includes a corresponding safety status level of one user device of the set of user devices, and indicating the safety status level of the safety status response when an ID of the safety status response compares favorably to at least one ID of the set of IDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Gary W. Grube, Evan Edward Quisenberry, John Edward Buchalo
  • Patent number: 8348479
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8348477
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: D679047
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Evans Edward Thompson, III, Scott David Wegner