Patents by Inventor Randall Levy Bernard
Randall Levy Bernard 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: 10794572Abstract: A troffer light fixture has a housing with a LED assembly positioned in the housing. The LED assembly includes at least one LED array comprising LEDs of at least two different colors. The LED assembly includes a first LED array having a first LED on a first string and a second LED on a second string and a second LED array having a third LED on a third string and fourth LED on a fourth string. A wide lens covers the LED array. A reflector assembly has a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface reflecting light from the at least one LED array laterally across the width of the wide lens. Alternatively, the LED array may be approximately one-half the width of the wide lens and the reflector may be eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ideal Industries Lighting LLCInventors: Jin Hong Lim, Kurt Wilcox, Mark Boomgaarden, Randall Levy Bernard, Curt Progl
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Patent number: 10788176Abstract: This disclosure relates to LED based lighting systems, such as surface mounted lighting systems and lighting systems that can connected to an existing grid structure. These lighting systems can be utilized in many settings, for example, as primary lighting systems for a commercial building and for retrofit lighting improvement purposes. Devices according to the present disclosure provide lighting systems capable of mounting to an existing surface, such as a T-bar ceiling structure. These devices can further comprise modular elements which facilitate connections of multiple lighting body components, allowing for multiple lighting arrangements and providing a cost effective and easily configurable lighting design. In some embodiments, multiple lighting components can be attached together by movable joints, allowing further user control over light distribution from the lighting systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Ideal Industries Lighting LLCInventors: Nicholas William Medendorp, Jr., James Michael Lay, Randall Levy Bernard
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Publication number: 20200088387Abstract: A troffer light fixture has a housing with a LED assembly positioned in the housing. The LED assembly includes at least one LED array comprising LEDs of at least two different colors. The LED assembly includes a first LED array having a first LED on a first string and a second LED on a second string and a second LED array having a third LED on a third string and fourth LED on a fourth string. A wide lens covers the LED array. A reflector assembly has a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface reflecting light from the at least one LED array laterally across the width of the wide lens. Alternatively, the LED array may be approximately one-half the width of the wide lens and the reflector may be eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Jin Hong Lim, Kurt Wilcox, Mark Boomgaarden, Randall Levy Bernard, Curt Progl
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Patent number: 10508794Abstract: A troffer light fixture has a housing with a LED assembly positioned in the housing. The LED assembly includes at least one LED array comprising LEDs of at least two different colors. The LED assembly includes a first LED array having a first LED on a first string and a second LED on a second string and a second LED array having a third LED on a third string and fourth LED on a fourth string. A wide lens covers the LED array. A reflector assembly has a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface reflecting light from the at least one LED array laterally across the width of the wide lens. Alternatively, the LED array may be approximately one-half the width of the wide lens and the reflector may be eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting LLCInventors: Jin Hong Lim, Kurt Wilcox, Mark Boomgaarden, Randall Levy Bernard, Curt Progl
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Patent number: 10416377Abstract: A luminaire includes a first waveguide having a first primary light emitting surface directed in a first direction and a first secondary light emitting surface directed in a second direction. A second waveguide having a second primary light emitting surface directed in the second direction and a second secondary light emitting surface directed in the first direction. A first plurality of LEDs are optically coupled to the first waveguide and a second plurality of LEDs are optically coupled to the second waveguide. The first and second waveguides are independently operable. The first and second plurality of LEDs may comprise LED groups where each of the LED groups are independently controllable. The light emission pattern and light properties of the emitted light are controllable.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Claudio Girotto, Eric Tarsa, Nathan Ray Snell, James Ibbetson, Mark Youmans, Theodore D. Lowes, Bernd Keller, Ethan Creasman, Randall Levy Bernard, William L. Dungan
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Publication number: 20190186710Abstract: A light fixture has a linear LED array and a lens having a first surface and a second surface that covers the LED array. The light being received at the first surface and emitted from the second surface. The lens includes a plurality of light shaping features on at least one of the first surface and the second surface where the plurality of light shaping features are configured to generate a directional light distribution pattern. The light pattern may be symmetric or asymmetric relative to a longitudinal axis of the light fixture. The lens may comprise a plurality of sections where the plurality of sections made of material having different optical properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Jin Hong Lim, Mark Boomgaarden, Randall Levy Bernard, Eric Marsh
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Patent number: 10323824Abstract: A light fixture has a linear LED array and a lens having a first surface and a second surface that covers the LED array. The light being received at the first surface and emitted from the second surface. The lens includes a plurality of light shaping features on at least one of the first surface and the second surface where the plurality of light shaping features are configured to generate a directional light distribution pattern. The light pattern may be symmetric or asymmetric relative to a longitudinal axis of the light fixture. The lens may comprise a plurality of sections where the plurality of sections made of material having different optical properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Jin Hong Lim, Mark Boomgaarden, Randall Levy Bernard, Eric Marsh
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Patent number: 10260685Abstract: An LED lamp includes a LED assembly comprising at least one LED operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path. A heat sink structure is thermally coupled to the LED assembly for dissipating heat to the ambient environment. An aromatic structure is thermally coupled to the heat sink structure such that the aromatic structure is heated by the heat dissipated from the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Randall Levy Bernard, P. Joseph DeSena, Jr., Philip Scott
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Patent number: 10247372Abstract: A light fixture includes a LED assembly and a housing. A lens assembly comprises a lens and a first end cap and a second end cap. The end caps are releasably connected to the housing such that the lens and the end caps are releasably mounted to the housing as a unit. The end caps may be releasably mounted to the housing by a deformable, resilient first engagement member that releasably engages a second engagement when the lens assembly is moved relative to the housing in a first direction. A force is created between the first engagement member and the second engagement member sufficient to hold the lens assembly in the housing and low enough that the lens assembly is removable from the housing by pulling the lens assembly in a second direction opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Kurt Wilcox, Donald Walker, Curt Progl, Randall Levy Bernard
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Publication number: 20190086058Abstract: A troffer light fixture has a housing with a LED assembly positioned in the housing. The LED assembly includes at least one LED array comprising LEDs of at least two different colors. The LED assembly includes a first LED array having a first LED on a first string and a second LED on a second string and a second LED array having a third LED on a third string and fourth LED on a fourth string. A wide lens covers the LED array. A reflector assembly has a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface reflecting light from the at least one LED array laterally across the width of the wide lens. Alternatively, the LED array may be approximately one-half the width of the wide lens and the reflector may be eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Jin Hong Lim, Kurt Wilcox, Mark Boomgaarden, Randall Levy Bernard, Curt Progl
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Publication number: 20180224075Abstract: A light fixture includes a LED assembly and a housing. A lens assembly comprises a lens and a first end cap and a second end cap. The end caps are releasably connected to the housing such that the lens and the end caps are releasably mounted to the housing as a unit. The end caps may be releasably mounted to the housing by a deformable, resilient first engagement member that releasably engages a second engagement when the lens assembly is moved relative to the housing in a first direction. A force is created between the first engagement member and the second engagement member sufficient to hold the lens assembly in the housing and low enough that the lens assembly is removable from the housing by pulling the lens assembly in a second direction opposite to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Kurt Wilcox, Donald Walker, Curt Progl, Randall Levy Bernard
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Publication number: 20180224072Abstract: An LED lamp includes a LED assembly comprising at least one LED operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path. A heat sink structure is thermally coupled to the LED assembly for dissipating heat to the ambient environment. An aromatic structure is thermally coupled to the heat sink structure such that the aromatic structure is heated by the heat dissipated from the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Randall Levy Bernard, P. Joseph DeSena, JR., Philip Scott
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Patent number: 10012371Abstract: A solid state lighting apparatus can include an electrical connector that is configured to couple to a standardized electrical fixture, where the electrical connector provides a recess therein. A cover can be coupled to the electrical connector to cover the recess and a solid state lighting driver circuit can be located beneath the cover. A solid state lighting housing, that is separate from the electrical connector and the cover, can be configured to house a solid state light emitting device and at least one flexible wire can electrically couple the solid state lighting driver circuit to the solid state light emitting device.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Praneet Athalye, Randall Levy Bernard, Yaote Huang, Kevin Gierl
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Publication number: 20170322364Abstract: A luminaire includes a first waveguide having a first primary light emitting surface directed in a first direction and a first secondary light emitting surface directed in a second direction. A second waveguide having a second primary light emitting surface directed in the second direction and a second secondary light emitting surface directed in the first direction. A first plurality of LEDs are optically coupled to the first waveguide and a second plurality of LEDs are optically coupled to the second waveguide. The first and second waveguides are independently operable. The first and second plurality of LEDs may comprise LED groups where each of the LED groups are independently controllable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Claudio Girotto, Eric Tarsa, Nathan Ray Snell, James Ibbetson, Mark Youmans, Theodore D. Lowes, Bernd Keller, Ethan Creasman, Randall Levy Bernard, William L. Dungan
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Patent number: 9222659Abstract: A lamp comprises an enclosure that is at least partially optically transmissive. The enclosure comprises an optically transmissive lens and a base where the lens is connected to the base; and a LED board supporting an LED. A first of pins and a second pair of pins are rotatable relative to the enclosure and are in the electrical path supplying power to the LEDs. The lamp is positioned between a pair of tombstone connectors such that the first pair of pins engages the first tombstone connector and the second pair of pins engages the second tombstone connector. The first and second pair of pins are inserted into the tombstone connectors and are rotated to engage the electrical connectors in the tombstone connectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas William Medendorp, Jr., Randall Levy Bernard, James Michael Lay, Nathan Ray Snell, Paul Kenneth Pickard
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Patent number: 9169977Abstract: A LED lamp has an enclosure including an optically transmissive lens. LEDs are mounted on a plane in the enclosure and are operable to emit light through the lens when energized through an electrical path. A portion of the lens extends behind the plane of the plurality of LEDs such that a portion of the light is emitted as back light. Approximately between 5 and 25 percent of the total Lumen output of the lamp is emitted as backlight.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas William Medendorp, Jr., Randall Levy Bernard, James Michael Lay, Nathan Ray Snell, Paul Kenneth Pickard
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Patent number: D731689Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Randall Levy Bernard, Nathan Snell, Yaote Huang, Kevin Gierl
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Patent number: D740972Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Randall Levy Bernard, Nathan Ray Snell
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Patent number: D805660Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Creasman, Nathan Ray Snell, Randall Levy Bernard, William L. Dungan, Bart P. Reier, David Power
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Patent number: D825789Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Creasman, Nathan Ray Snell, Randall Levy Bernard, William L. Dungan, Bart P. Reier, David Power