Patents by Inventor Vincent J. Knaebel

Vincent J. Knaebel 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: 4152624
    Abstract: An LED device of the discrete type having a rectangular light emitting area suited for being arrayed with similar devices in contiguous relationship without optical cross-talk therebetween. An opaque but diffusely reflective housing of the device is molded of synthetic resin material with rectangular integral side walls defining a rectangular body. Their interior surfaces have peripheral upper and lower edges defining a principal cavity having a rectangular top opening. A pair of spaced electrodes extend through a bottom opening and have upper portions extending up into the cavity and there terminating so as to provide an electrode surface area below the top opening having a specularly reflective LED-containing cavity formed therein. An LED die within the electrode cavity is series-connected with the electrodes. Sloped inner walls of the body provide nonspecular reflection of light emitted from the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventor: Vincent J. Knaebel