Patents by Inventor William Robert Wright

William Robert Wright 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: 10920938
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Savant Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Jeffrey Benner, Thomas J. Boyle, Dengke Cai, Thomas Clynne, William Erwin Cohen, Jean-Patrick Ducroux, Jianmin He, Jon Bennett Jansma, Chuan Lin, Juliana P. Reisman, Alok Mani Srivastava, Benjamin James Ward, Zhiyong Wang, William Robert Wright, Qing Yi
  • Publication number: 20200326042
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Jeffrey BENNER, Thomas J. BOYLE, Dengke CAI, Thomas CLYNNE, William Erwin COHEN, Jean-Patrick DUCROUX, Jianmin HE, Jon Bennett JANSMA, Chuan LIN, Juliana P. REISMAN, Alok Mani SRIVASTAVA, Benjamin James WARD, Zhiyong WANG, William Robert WRIGHT, Qing YI
  • Patent number: 10619803
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Jeffrey Benner, Thomas J. Boyle, Dengke Cai, Thomas Clynne, William Erwin Cohen, Jean-Patrick Ducroux, Jianmin He, Jon Bennett Jansma, Chuan Lin, Juliana P. Reisman, Alok Mani Srivastava, Benjamin James Ward, Zhiyong Wang, William Robert Wright, Qing Yi
  • Patent number: 10580637
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a halogen incandescent lamp is presented herein, the apparatus comprising a light source such as a light-generating element made of tungsten, configured to generate a visible light such as white light having chromaticity coordinates of the light source in a clear center in a color space, and a component such as light-transmissive envelope, enclosing the light source and comprising a coating with a compound comprising elements of neodymium and fluorine and configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound, where the desired light spectrum having chromaticity coordinates in the color space being shifted from the clear center below the black-body locus and outside of a four-step MacAdam ellipse of the light source to meet a predefined requirement for a modified spectrum lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CONSUMER LIGHTING (U.S.), LLC
    Inventors: Juliana P. Reisman, William Robert Wright, Jianmin He, Dengke Cai, Jenna Marie Baldesare
  • Publication number: 20190086038
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin Jeffrey BENNER, Thomas J. BOYLE, Dengke CAI, Thomas CLYNNE, William Erwin COHEN, Jean-Patrick DUCROUX, Jianmin HE, Jon Bennett JANSMA, Chuan LIN, Juliana P. REISMAN, Alok Mani SRIVASTAVA, Benjamin James WARD, Zhiyong WANG, William Robert WRIGHT, Qing YI
  • Publication number: 20160099141
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a halogen incandescent lamp is presented herein, the apparatus comprising a light source such as a light-generating element made of tungsten, configured to generate a visible light such as white light having chromaticity coordinates of the light source in a clear center in a color space, and a component such as light-transmissive envelope, enclosing the light source and comprising a coating with a compound comprising elements of neodymium and fluorine and configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound, where the desired light spectrum having chromaticity coordinates in the color space being shifted from the clear center below the black-body locus and outside of a four-step MacAdam ellipse of the light source to meet a predefined requirement for a modified spectrum lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Juliana P. REISMAN, William Robert WRIGHT, Jianmin HE, Dengke CAI, Jenna Marie NOVAK
  • Publication number: 20150279651
    Abstract: Lamps exhibiting a chromaticity shift relative to a clear baseline, including but not limited to modified spectrum lamps. Such a lamp includes a light-transmissive envelope and a light-generating element enclosed within the light-transmissive envelope. The light-transmissive envelope is doped to contain neodymium oxide and has a coating on its interior envelope surface that contains at least one color pigment. Visible light emitted by the light-generating element has chromaticity coordinates corresponding to a clear center of a clear baseline lamp. The light-transmissive glass envelope has a neodymium oxide content and the coating has a color pigment content that in combination cause visible light emitted through the light-transmissive envelope to have chromaticity coordinates that are shifted from the chromaticity coordinates of the visible light emitted by the light-generating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Juliana P. REISMAN, William Robert WRIGHT, Kristen BROUWER, Jean-Patrick DUCROUX
  • Patent number: 8461754
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a light-transmissive glass halogen filament tube with a filament light source having a coil concentricity ratio of not greater than 20% disposed therein, the filament tube having a multi-layer optical interference coating deposited on the outer surface thereof that transmits visible radiation from about 400-750 nm and reflects infra red radiation from about 800-2500 nm back to the filament for re-absorption, the coated filament tube exhibiting an LPW gain of at least 26%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ashfaqul Islam Chowdhury, Leonard Edward Hoegler, William Robert Wright
  • Publication number: 20110148272
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a light-transmissive glass halogen filament tube with a filament light source having a coil concentricity ratio of not greater than 20% disposed therein, the filament tube having a multi-layer optical interference coating deposited on the outer surface thereof that transmits visible radiation from about 400-750 nm and reflects infra red radiation from about 800-2500 nm back to the filament for re-absorption, the coated filament tube exhibiting an LPW gain of at least 26%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Ashfaqul Islam Chowdhury, Leonard Edward Hoegler, William Robert Wright