Patents by Inventor Richard V. Heinisch

Richard V. Heinisch 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: 4979086
    Abstract: A luminaire is disclosed for producing uniform rectangular or square patterns of light. The luminaire itself consists of eight, curved main reflector sections which are concentrically located about a bulb mounting location opposite the open side of the housing in which the luminaire is mounted. The main reflector sections are joined together at their edges, such that cross sections of the luminaire in planes parallel to the open side of the housing form octagons of decreasing size as the cross sections are taken at increasingly greater distances from the open side of the housing. The orientation of the main reflector sections is such that alternate points of the octagon are located in alignment with the center of the bulb placed in the center of the reflector sections and corners of the area to be illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Lowering Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard V. Heinisch
  • Patent number: 4709312
    Abstract: A cut-off floodlight of the type having a straight light line, a reflector surface in a housing, and a light-emitting opening, and characterized by a reflector surface with a major portion parallel to the light line including a parabolic section on one side of the light line with its focus at and its vertex behind and to said one side of the light line to establish a main beam direction at an acute angle to the opening plane, and an opposite section on the other side of the light line to reflect light therefrom past the light line onto the parabolic section so its secondary reflection off the parabolic section will be close to the main beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Ruud Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard V. Heinisch, Ian Lewin
  • Patent number: 4564888
    Abstract: A "wall-wash" lighting fixture is mounted on the ceiling along the top of a wall to be provided with a substantially uniform illumination downwardly from the fixture. An elongated fluorescent bulb is used as the source of light; and the reflector is comprised of at least a central section and two shorter end sections. The cross-section of the central section of the reflector differs from the cross-section of the end sections in a manner to cause greater amounts of light to be reflected a greater distance downwardly on the wall from the center section than from the end sections. This compensates for the non-uniform light intensity from the fluorescent bulb, and results in a more uniform illumination of the wall below the fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Linear Lighting Corp.
    Inventors: Ian Lewin, Richard V. Heinisch, Arnold L. Tanunliong