Patents by Inventor Kevin A. Hebborn
Kevin A. Hebborn 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).
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Patent number: 11448389Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to examples of a single modular heat spreader piece. In one example, the single modular heat spreader piece includes a body portion, wherein the body portion comprises a curved outer surface and a flange member coupled to a first side of the body portion, wherein the flange member has a curved outer edge, a connection member coupled to a second side of the body portion, wherein the second side of the body portion is opposite the first side, and a heat spreader member coupled to the second side of the body portion and on an opposite end of the body portion from the connection member.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Kenneth Jenkins, Samual Boege, David Weimer, Christian Vorrius, Kevin Hebborn
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Patent number: 10278249Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for powering a light fixture to provide a constant light output. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a current to one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), monitoring an external ambient temperature and increasing the current to the one or more LEDs as the external ambient temperature rises to maintain the constant light output.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DIALIGHT CORPORATIONInventors: Richard H. Fetterly, Kevin A. Hebborn, Anthony Verdes, Kenneth Jenkins, Virginia Merriam
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Patent number: 10135696Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for remotely receiving information from and configuring a battery-backed emergency lighting system. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a wireless communication session with a web server via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, receiving a request for information related to the battery-backed emergency lighting system and a request to change a configuration of the battery-backed emergency lighting system over the wireless communication session, configuring the battery-backed emergency lighting system in accordance with the request to change the configuration and sending the information that is requested.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Eman Koosha, Kevin Hebborn, Rizwan Ahmad
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Publication number: 20180255618Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for powering a light fixture to provide a constant light output. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a current to one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), monitoring an external ambient temperature and increasing the current to the one or more LEDs as the external ambient temperature rises to maintain the constant light output.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Richard H. Fetterly, Kevin A. Hebborn, Anthony Verdes, Kenneth Jenkins, Virginia Merriam
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Publication number: 20170244609Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for remotely receiving information from and configuring a battery-backed emergency lighting system. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a wireless communication session with a web server via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, receiving a request for information related to the battery-backed emergency lighting system and a request to change a configuration of the battery-backed emergency lighting system over the wireless communication session, configuring the battery-backed emergency lighting system in accordance with the request to change the configuration and sending the information that is requested.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Eman Koosha, Kevin Hebborn, Rizwan Ahmad
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Patent number: 9679448Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for remotely receiving information from and configuring a battery-backed emergency lighting system. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a wireless communication session with a web server via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, receiving a request for information related to the battery-backed emergency lighting system and a request to change a configuration of the battery-backed emergency lighting system over the wireless communication session, configuring the battery-backed emergency lighting system in accordance with the request to change the configuration and sending the information that is requested.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Eman Koosha, Kevin Hebborn, Rizwan Ahmad
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Patent number: 9578728Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for detecting a failure in a signal light. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring operation of one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the signal light coupled to a constant current driver, detecting a short circuit in at least one of the one or more LEDs and signaling a failure in the signal light when the short circuit is detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Kevin A. Hebborn, Glenn J. Zingler
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Patent number: 9561604Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for potting an electrical module. In one embodiment, the method includes placing the electrical component in a potting mold, wherein the potting mold comprises an interior topology that matches a topology of one or more components of the electrical module, filling the potting mold with a potting compound and curing the potting compound over the electrical module.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Kenneth Jenkins, Kevin A. Hebborn, William S. Leib, III, David Weimer
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Publication number: 20160267753Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for remotely receiving information from and configuring a battery-backed emergency lighting system. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a wireless communication session with a web server via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, receiving a request for information related to the battery-backed emergency lighting system and a request to change a configuration of the battery-backed emergency lighting system over the wireless communication session, configuring the battery-backed emergency lighting system in accordance with the request to change the configuration and sending the information that is requested.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: EMAN KOOSHA, Kevin Hebborn, Rizwan Ahmad
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Patent number: 9423086Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a light emitting diode (LED) signal light. In one embodiment, the LED signal light includes at least one visible LED, at least one infrared (IR) LED, a reflector, wherein the reflector collimates a light emitted from the at least one visible LED and a light emitted from the at least one IR LED and a power supply powering the at least one visible LED and the at least one IR LED.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: John Patrick Peck, Kevin A. Hebborn
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Patent number: 9326342Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an input impedance control circuit. In one embodiment, the automatic input impedance control circuit includes a circuit controller that comprises a module for calculating an impedance and a control logic module, wherein the control logic module provides a current enable signal and a current control output signal, a driver in communication with the circuit controller for receiving the current enable signal and the current control output signal, an input voltage sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance and the control logic module and an input current sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventor: Kevin A. Hebborn
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Patent number: 9271373Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a light emitting diode (LED) lighting system. In one embodiment, the LED lighting system includes an LED light source deployed in a first location and a power supply for powering the LED light source, wherein the power supply is remotely located from the LED light source in a second location and designed to power the LED light source to minimize a power loss along a length of an electrical connection coupled between the LED light source and the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Richard H. Fetterly, Kevin A. Hebborn, Rizwan Ahmad
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Patent number: 9095028Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, computer-readable medium and apparatus for monitoring a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) light banks for each one of a plurality of LED beacon lights. In one embodiment, the method includes determining an amount of ambient light, selecting an operating mode for each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights based upon the amount of ambient light, determining a value of a threshold for the operating mode that is selected, receiving a light output value of each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights, comparing the light output value of each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights to the predetermined value of the dynamic threshold and generating an alarm when the light output value of any one of the plurality of LED beacon lights falls below the predetermined value of the dynamic threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: John Patrick Peck, Kevin A. Hebborn
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Publication number: 20150002052Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an input impedance control circuit. In one embodiment, the automatic input impedance control circuit includes a circuit controller that comprises a module for calculating an impedance and a control logic module, wherein the control logic module provides a current enable signal and a current control output signal, a driver in communication with the circuit controller for receiving the current enable signal and the current control output signal, an input voltage sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance and the control logic module and an input current sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventor: KEVIN A. HEBBORN
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Publication number: 20140368111Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for detecting a failure in a signal light. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring operation of one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the signal light coupled to a constant current driver, detecting a short circuit in at least one of the one or more LEDs and signaling a failure in the signal light when the short circuit is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Kevin A. Hebborn, Glenn J. Zingler
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Patent number: 8908403Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a light emitting diode (LED) luminaire. In one embodiment, the LED luminaire includes a base, a heat sink coupled to the base, a power supply coupled to an interior volume of the heat sink, one or more LEDs coupled to the power supply, wherein the one or more LEDs are coupled to a circuit configured to provide a constant input impedance and a lens coupled to the heat sink and enclosing the one or more LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventors: Kevin A. Hebborn, Samual David Boege
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Patent number: 8836244Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an input impedance control circuit. In one embodiment, the automatic input impedance control circuit includes a circuit controller that comprises a module for calculating an impedance and a control logic module, wherein the control logic module provides a current enable signal and a current control output signal, a driver in communication with the circuit controller for receiving the current enable signal and the current control output signal, an input voltage sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance and the control logic module and an input current sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Dialight CorporationInventor: Kevin A. Hebborn
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Publication number: 20140184071Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, computer-readable medium and apparatus for monitoring a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) light banks for each one of a plurality of LED beacon lights. In one embodiment, the method includes determining an amount of ambient light, selecting an operating mode for each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights based upon the amount of ambient light, determining a value of a threshold for the operating mode that is selected, receiving a light output value of each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights, comparing the light output value of each one of the plurality of LED beacon lights to the predetermined value of the dynamic threshold and generating an alarm when the light output value of any one of the plurality of LED beacon lights falls below the predetermined value of the dynamic threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Dialight CorporationInventors: John Patrick Peck, Kevin A. Hebborn
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Publication number: 20140184098Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an input impedance control circuit. In one embodiment, the automatic input impedance control circuit includes a circuit controller that comprises a module for calculating an impedance and a control logic module, wherein the control logic module provides a current enable signal and a current control output signal, a driver in communication with the circuit controller for receiving the current enable signal and the current control output signal, an input voltage sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance and the control logic module and an input current sensing circuit in communication with the module for calculating the impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Dialight CorporationInventor: Kevin A. Hebborn
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Publication number: 20140021884Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for powering a light fixture to provide a constant light output. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a current to one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), monitoring an external ambient temperature and increasing the current to the one or more LEDs as the external ambient temperature rises to maintain the constant light output.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: RICHARD H. FETTERLY, KEVIN A. HEBBORN, ANTHONY VERDES, KENNETH JENKINS, VIRGINIA MERRIAM