Patents by Inventor Nicola Schiccheri

Nicola Schiccheri 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: 10436408
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be employed e.g. as a retrofit bulb for vehicle lamps, includes a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, and a beam-narrowing optical system facing the light radiation source, for propagating a narrowed light radiation beam of the same source along a longitudinal axis of the device. Arranged distally of the beam-narrowing optical system along said longitudinal axis, there is moreover provided a cascaded arrangement of: a light-condensing lens, a light-driving lens, a filament-like body including annular reflective surfaces extending around the longitudinal axis and exposed to light radiation from the light radiation source propagated through the light-condensing lens and the light-driving lens, a distal mirror member having a reflective surface facing towards the filament-like body, to reflect light radiation towards annular reflective surfaces in said plurality of annular reflective surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Patent number: 10378751
    Abstract: Accroding to the present disclosure, a heat sink, which may be used e.g. for LED lamps or bulbs for motor vehicle lights, includes: a plate-like portion extending along an axis with opposed mounting surfaces for at least one heat source, such as e.g. a LED lighting source, and a finned portion thermally coupled with the plate-like portion and including a plurality of annular fins extending around said axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin, Nicola Schiccheri
  • Patent number: 10321637
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lighting device, e.g. for greenhouse lighting, including a substrate with an array of electrically-powered light radiation sources, e.g. power LEDs. The sources of array are arranged in a first set and in a second set to emit a blue radiation and a red radiation, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Nicola Schiccheri
  • Patent number: 10253941
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be employed e.g. as a retrofit bulb for vehicle lamps, includes a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, and a beam-narrowing optical system facing the light radiation source, for propagating a narrowed light radiation beam of the source along a longitudinal axis of the device. Arranged distally of the beam-narrowing optical system along the longitudinal axis, there is provided: a light reflector, a light-driving lens, a filament-like body including annular reflective surfaces extending around the longitudinal axis and exposed to light radiation from the light radiation source propagated through the light reflector and the light-driving lens, a distal mirror member having a reflective surface facing towards the filament-like body, to reflect light radiation towards annular reflective surfaces in the plurality of annular reflective surfaces. The light radiation reflected by the annular reflective surfaces of the filament-like body is spread radially from the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Patent number: 10222530
    Abstract: An automotive light is provided that includes a light-guide plate extending inside the rear body of the light remaining substantially parallel to the light reference optical axis close up to the front lenticular hemi-shell of the light with its front side edge facing the strip-shaped transparent or semi-transparent portion of the front lenticular hemi-shell, and a linear-extending light source directing emitted light towards the inside of the light-guide plate through the rear side edge of the same light-guide plate. The rear side edge of the light-guide plate includes a serrated profile with teeth substantially triangular in shape oriented so that a first inclined edge of the tooth is arranged locally substantially perpendicular to the optical reference axis. The light source includes a row of spaced LEDs facing the rear side edge, each LED facing a respective tooth of the rear side edge so as to direct/project emitted light through the first inclined edge of the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Patent number: 10119676
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be used e.g. to produce motor vehicle lamps, may include a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, having a light-permeable body arranged facing source for propagating light radiation along a longitudinal axis. The light-permeable body includes a collimator exposed to light radiation source and adapted to collect light radiation and to inject it into light-permeable body, a tapered portion coupled to collimator for receiving light radiation and directing it towards an output end, a distal portion acting as an emission filament, coupled to the output end of tapered portion, with an output mirror having a shank portion extending in said distal portion and a head portion, the output mirror reflecting light radiation radially from longitudinal axis and proximally towards said light radiation source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Publication number: 20180266636
    Abstract: A lighting device and corresponding method are described herein. In various aspects, the lighting device may be implemented as an electrically powered lighting device (e.g., a C5W lamp). The lighting device may include a first electrical supply contact and a second electrical supply contact. The lighting device may also include one or more light emitting diodes disposed between a first terminal and a second terminal, such that the light emitting diode(s) may be conductive from the first terminal towards the second terminal. The lighting device may further include a rectifier circuit that contains first and second rectifier branches being conductive from the first supply contact towards the first terminal and from the second terminal towards the second supply contact, respectively; and third and fourth rectifier branches being conductive from the second supply contact towards the first terminal and from the second terminal towards the first supply contact, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Marco Barp, Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto
  • Patent number: 10065363
    Abstract: A welding apparatus for making an automotive light including light guides having an inlet which receives the fibers the laser beam produced by the laser emitting device and an outlet which propagates/transmits the laser beam collimated by said guides. The light guide has respective free ends mechanically separated from each other, wherein the light guides are configured so as to direct collimated light beams on adjacent and locally continuous portions of welding interface so as to obtain a homogeneous and uniform distribution of the light beams along the welding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone
  • Patent number: 10054282
    Abstract: An automotive light includes a rear body; a front lenticular half-shell which closes the mouth of the rear body and is provided with at least one transparent/semi-transparent portion; and at least one lighting assembly which emits light upon command and is located within the rear body to backlight the transparent/semi-transparent portion of the front lenticular half-shell. The lighting assembly includes a planar OLED light source which emits light from its front face and is within the rear body with the front face facing the inner surface of the front lenticular half-shell to direct light towards the front lenticular half-shell; a concentrated LED light source behind the planar light source; and a light-guide rod of photoconductive material between the concentrated light source and the planar light source and receives light emitted by the concentrated light source and conveys the light towards the rear face of the planar light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Davide Baccarin, Stefano Di Gallo, Ivan Favro, Jean Pascal Herlin, Fabio Leone, Stefano Marchesin, Nicola Schiccheri
  • Publication number: 20180187855
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be employed e.g. as a retrofit bulb for vehicle lamps, includes a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, and a beam-narrowing optical system facing the light radiation source, for propagating a narrowed light radiation beam of the source along a longitudinal axis of the device. Arranged distally of the beam-narrowing optical system along the longitudinal axis, there is provided: a light reflector, a light-driving lens, a filament-like body including annular reflective surfaces extending around the longitudinal axis and exposed to light radiation from the light radiation source propagated through the light reflector and the light-driving lens, a distal mirror member having a reflective surface facing towards the filament-like body, to reflect light radiation towards annular reflective surfaces in the plurality of annular reflective surfaces. The light radiation reflected by the annular reflective surfaces of the filament-like body is spread radially from the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Publication number: 20180187853
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be employed e.g. as a retrofit bulb for vehicle lamps, includes a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, and a beam-narrowing optical system facing the light radiation source, for propagating a narrowed light radiation beam of the same source along a longitudinal axis of the device. Arranged distally of the beam-narrowing optical system along said longitudinal axis, there is moreover provided a cascaded arrangement of: a light-condensing lens, a light-driving lens, a filament-like body including annular reflective surfaces extending around the longitudinal axis and exposed to light radiation from the light radiation source propagated through the light-condensing lens and the light-driving lens, a distal mirror member having a reflective surface facing towards the filament-like body, to reflect light radiation towards annular reflective surfaces in said plurality of annular reflective surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Patent number: 9874329
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile; associating the profiles, with a contact surface therebetween defining a welding interface; providing a laser emission device emitting radiation, operatively connected to a first light guide with an output to distribute radiation via a spatial distribution including with lobes; providing a second light guide inside the lenticular body adapted to obtain a light guide of radiation inside the lenticular body, having walls defined by a first lobe; arranging the guides to route a first lobe of radiation from the output towards the second guide, to propagate at least one lobe of radiation inside the second light guide towards the welding interface; wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Nicola Schiccheri, Fabio Leone, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Patent number: 9869445
    Abstract: An automotive light includes a rear body; a front lenticular half-shell which closes the mouth of the rear body and is provided with at least one transparent/semi-transparent portion; and at least one lighting assembly which emits light upon command and is located within the rear body to backlight the transparent/semi-transparent portion of the front lenticular half-shell; the lighting assembly being provided with a planar OLED light source which faces the inner surface of the front lenticular half-shell and includes at least one plate-like OLED which emits light in a distributed way from its front and rear faces; and a rear refracting member facing the rear face of the OLED that re-directs light that exits from the rear face of the OLED towards a transverse light passage in the OLED in a direction such that the light can traverse the OLED and exit from the front face of the OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Davide Baccarin, Stefano Di Gallo, Ivan Favro, Jean Pascal Herlin, Fabio Leone, Stefano Marchesin, Nicola Schiccheri
  • Publication number: 20170370552
    Abstract: Accroding to the present disclosure, a heat sink, which may be used e.g. for LED lamps or bulbs for motor vehicle lights, includes: a plate-like portion extending along an axis with opposed mounting surfaces for at least one heat source, such as e.g. a LED lighting source, and a finned portion thermally coupled with the plate-like portion and including a plurality of annular fins extending around said axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin, Nicola Schiccheri
  • Publication number: 20170356616
    Abstract: A lighting device, which may be used e.g. to produce motor vehicle lamps, may include a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, having a light-permeable body arranged facing source for propagating light radiation along a longitudinal axis. The light-permeable body includes a collimator exposed to light radiation source and adapted to collect light radiation and to inject it into light-permeable body, a tapered portion coupled to collimator for receiving light radiation and directing it towards an output end, a distal portion acting as an emission filament, coupled to the output end of tapered portion, with an output mirror having a shank portion extending in said distal portion and a head portion, the output mirror reflecting light radiation radially from longitudinal axis and proximally towards said light radiation source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Bizzotto, Marco Munarin
  • Patent number: 9757896
    Abstract: Method of manufacture of an automotive light comprising the steps of providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile, providing a lenticular body, internally delimited by a second perimetral profile and externally by an outer edge corresponding to said second perimetral profile, wherein the container body acts as an absorbent element of the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmission element of the light beam, providing optical devices for changing the divergence of the portions of laser beams in output from the fibers, so as to collimate them overall along at least one predetermined optical axis. The method further comprises the steps of directing on a critical portion of the welding interface at least a first laser beam emitted by a respective fiber lying on an optical plane incident with said critical portion of the welding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone
  • Publication number: 20170020084
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lighting device, e.g. for greenhouse lighting, including a substrate with an array of electrically-powered light radiation sources, e.g. power LEDs. The sources of array are arranged in a first set and in a second set to emit a blue radiation and a red radiation, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Alberto Alfier, Nicola Schiccheri
  • Patent number: 9482403
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing at least one laser diode emitting a light beam with a characteristic emission spectrum; providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a molded lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile and having at least first and second overlapping integral layers with different transmittance values in relation to the laser emission spectrum; at least partially associating the perimetral profiles; and at least partially welding at the perimetral profiles with the laser, wherein the laser beam is routed towards the perimetral profiles so as to reach the first perimetral profile after passing through at least one of the layers of the lenticular body, and wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member in relation to the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Nicola Schiccheri, Fabio Leone, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Publication number: 20160273731
    Abstract: An automotive light is provided that includes a light-guide plate extending inside the rear body of the light remaining substantially parallel to the light reference optical axis close up to the front lenticular hemi-shell of the light with its front side edge facing the strip-shaped transparent or semi-transparent portion of the front lenticular hemi-shell, and a linear-extending light source directing emitted light towards the inside of the light-guide plate through the rear side edge of the same light-guide plate. The rear side edge of the light-guide plate includes a serrated profile with teeth substantially triangular in shape oriented so that a first inclined edge of the tooth is arranged locally substantially perpendicular to the optical reference axis. The light source includes a row of spaced LEDs facing the rear side edge, each LED facing a respective tooth of the rear side edge so as to direct/project emitted light through the first inclined edge of the tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Publication number: 20160236403
    Abstract: A welding apparatus for making an automotive light including light guides having an inlet which receives the fibres the laser beam produced by the laser emitting device and an outlet which propagates/transmits the laser beam collimated by said guides. The light guide has respective free ends mechanically separated from each other, wherein the light guides are configured so as to direct collimated light beams on adjacent and locally continuous portions of welding interface so as to obtain a homogeneous and uniform distribution of the light beams along the welding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone