Patents Issued in July 29, 2014
  • Patent number: 8789934
    Abstract: An ink tank for use in a printer. In one embodiment, an ink tank includes an outer housing that defines an interior space, and an internal ink bag provided within the interior space, the ink bag being configured to be repeatedly be filled with and deliver ink, the ink tank including a metalized layer having a layer of polymeric material on which has been deposited a metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Qiong Chen, Richard Lewis, Marcos Arminana Terrasa, Soon Beng Koh, Francesc Ros Cerro, Binte Supati Rudyani
  • Patent number: 8789935
    Abstract: An ink cartridge container includes an ink bag made of flexible material to store ink internally, the ink bag having a corner at an internal bottom surface thereof and an ink outlet at an upper part thereof, an ink delivery tube made of elastic material and situated inside the ink bag to deliver the ink to the outside through the ink outlet, an ink outlet connector connected to the ink delivery tube at the ink outlet to supply the ink to the outside, and a bending part to have the ink delivery tube inside be curved to have the end thereof in contact with the corner at the internal bottom surface, wherein the ink delivery tube inside the ink bag is positioned to have an end thereof in contact with the corner at the internal bottom surface by the bending part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiya Murata
  • Patent number: 8789936
    Abstract: A fixer fluid composition, for inkjet printing, and ink set containing it. A disclosed example fixer fluid composition includes up to about 1.5 wt % of surfactants, from about 1 to about 20 wt % of humectants, from about 3 to about 16 wt % of a metal carboxylate salt as fixer agent, and an acid in view of adjusting the pH of said composition to a pH between about 5.0 and about 7.0. A disclosed example of ink set includes, at least, an ink composition including a colorant dispersed in an ink vehicle and said fixer fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ervin Mubarekyan
  • Patent number: 8789937
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method including attaching a liquid dispersant in which an amphoteric polymer containing a core portion having a cation group and a shell portion having an anion group that covers the core portion is dispersed in a dispersing medium to a recording medium and discharging and attaching cationic ink containing a coloring material and water to the surface of the recording medium to which the liquid dispersant is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mariko Kojima
  • Patent number: 8789939
    Abstract: An ink and print media cartridge for a printer device includes a print media housing assembly configured for insertion and removal to and from the printer device, the print media housing assembly having a top molding coupled to a bottom molding and a print media storage volume defined therebetween; an ink housing assembly attached to an outer surface of the bottom molding, the ink housing assembly defining an ink chamber with the outer surface of the bottom molding; a spring provided between the top molding and the bottom molding, the spring positioned to bear on one side against the top molding and on an opposite side against print media stored in the print media storage region; and a feed mechanism provided within the print media housing, the feed mechanism having a drive gear protruding externally from the print media housing. The drive gear is positioned to engage with a complimentary drive mechanism of the printer device upon insertion of the print media housing into the printer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Tobin Allen King, Kia Silverbrook
  • Patent number: 8789940
    Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a transporting roller; a driven roller provided opposite the transporting roller to sandwich the recording medium between the driven roller and the transporting roller, while moving in an approaching-departuring direction based on a thickness of the recording medium; a first biasing member biasing the driven roller to the transporting roller; a platen; a recording portion configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles; and a cooperative portion moving along with the movement of the driven roller in the approaching-departuring direction to move the platen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriyuki Kawamata
  • Patent number: 8789941
    Abstract: The side (1) includes an articulation front end (2) adapted to be articulated to a frame front face via a hinge (5) and a free rear end (3), a core (6) extending inside the side. One of the front and rear ends of the core (6) is anchored (8) in one of the front and rear ends of the side and the side includes, fixed to it, driving and shaping means (11, 16) for driving the other of the ends of the core, movably mounted in the other of the ends of the side and to deform the side and thus to modify its contour and curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Chene, Alain Miklitarian, Olivier Rodi, Dominique Delamour
  • Patent number: 8789942
    Abstract: An eyewear retainer for glasses, in which braided tubular sleeves with bonded terminal ends hold onto the temple piece of the glasses. The eyewear retainer consists of two braided tubular sleeves, with at least one of the terminal ends of each sleeve ending in a plurality of terminal ends of the braided strings or ribbons. The two braided tubular sleeves may be connected via a continuous braid or used with another intermediary component. The length of the device is selected for comfortable use and may be adjusted during use. In a preferred embodiment, the bonding of the terminal ends is accomplished, via a silicone-based epoxy to provide a flexible and tacky bond, which allows a more secure hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Carson Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Johnson, Michelle L. Hyers, Matthew R. Schoen
  • Patent number: 8789943
    Abstract: The subject invention provides lenses, and methods for designing and manufacturing these lenses, with reduced chromatic aberration. Advantageously, these lenses are specifically designed to correct chromatic aberration that results as multichromatic light passes through the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Lawrence H. Sverdrup, Sean Sigarlaki, Jagdish M. Jethmalani, Andreas W. Dreher, Jeffrey S. Chomyn
  • Patent number: 8789944
    Abstract: An optical article comprising: an optical base material; and a translucent layer that contains TiOx (0<x?2), the translucent layer is formed on the optical base material either directly or via some other layer, and the translucent layer has an argon concentration higher on a surface side of the translucent layer than on an optical base material side of the translucent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Lens Manufacturing Philippines Inc.
    Inventors: Keiji Nishimoto, Takashi Noguchi, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 8789945
    Abstract: Disclosed is an implementation of new technology for effectively providing a contact lens capable of achieving satisfactory corrective effects even with respect to irregular astigmatism (residual irregular astigmatism) caused by a conical cornea and so forth, which could not be corrected with conventional eye glasses or contact lens, wherein the contact lens is not dependent on being made to order for each wearer but is industrially mass-producible by means of a practical and novel structure. A contact lens for correction of irregular astigmatism is disclosed wherein a positive correction area (27) is provided on one side of a special radial line (30) and a negative correction area (28) is provided on another side while in any of the correction areas (27, 28) a lens power is configured so that an absolute value becomes progressively larger from an outer peripheral edge part towards a central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Menicon Co., Ltd., Osaka University
    Inventors: Asaki Suzaki, Yuji Goto, Naoyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 8789946
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product, in particular for designing or producing a lens having a prismatic effect, and to a lens having a prismatic effect. Said method consists of the following steps: individual data of the spectacle wearer is obtained, said individual user data comprising prismatic prescription data; the prismatic lens is designed taking into account the individual user data; centration data for the prismatic lens is determined in accordance with the prismatic prescription data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Altheimer, Gregor Esser, Wolfgang Becken
  • Patent number: 8789947
    Abstract: Lenses are designed using the corneal topography or wavefront measurements of the eye derived by subtracting the optical power of the eye after orthokeratology treatment from the optical power before orthokeratology treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Collins, Brett A. Davis, Khaled A. Chehab, Xu Cheng, D. Robert Iskander
  • Patent number: 8789948
    Abstract: In an ophthalmologic apparatus in which a head part is moved at a speed according to a rotation speed of a rotational part of a joystick, in order to enable a moving amount of the head part to correspond to a rotation amount even when the rotation speed becomes higher, the rotation speed of the joystick is detected at predetermined intervals, and when a current rotation speed (count of an encoder during a predetermined period) is lower than a previous rotation speed, a speed obtained by subtracting a predetermined value from the previous rotation speed is compared to the current rotation speed. Then, a higher speed is set as the current rotation speed, and the head part is moved at the speed corresponding to the current rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshifumi Masaki
  • Patent number: 8789949
    Abstract: A cornea imaging apparatus including: a collimation axis holding mechanism; an imaging mechanism; a Z-direction actuating means; an X-direction actuating means and a Y-direction actuating means; an inclination angle changing means that changes an inclination angle of an imaging center axis of the imaging mechanism against a collimation axis of an eye under examination; an endothelial configuration computing means that determines a corneal endothelial configuration; and a normal vector computing means that determines a normal vector direction at a given imaging position of the corneal endothelial configuration, wherein at the imaging position, the inclination angle and positions in the Z and X directions are set adjusted so as to align the imaging center axis of the imaging mechanism with the normal vector direction determined by the normal vector computing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Tomey Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Kato
  • Patent number: 8789950
    Abstract: A line-scanning ophthalmoscope includes a light source to provide a light beam to an object of interest, a beam separating device to receive the light beam, provide the light beam to a scanning device and substantially separate the light beam and the returning light beam from the object of interest, a scanning device to direct the light beam to the object of interest for scanning the object of interest; to receive the light beam returning from the object of interest; and to direct at least part of the reflected light beam towards a detector; and a further scanning device to convert the light beam to a line-shaped light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: I-Optics B.V.
    Inventors: Michiel Herman Mensink, Julien Coyne
  • Patent number: 8789951
    Abstract: A vision testing method and apparatus are disclosed, the method including measuring the modulation to a wavefront of light that is imparted by an intra-ocular lens, determining the wavefront modulation necessary to emulate the optical properties of the IOL after it replaces the crystalline lens in a patient's eye, generating a static or dynamic image viewable by a patient, modulating the wavefront of the image remote from the patient to attain the wavefront that necessary to emulate the optical properties of the IOL after it is implanted, and relaying said wavefront to a plane nearby, on, or within the patient's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: DigitalVision, LLC
    Inventors: Keith P. Thompson, Jose R. Garcia
  • Patent number: 8789952
    Abstract: An image processing device generates image data of a projection image displayed on a screen having a color obtained by correcting a color of original data representing an image to be displayed so that the projection image has a desired color. The image processing device includes a storage section adapted to store a spectral reflectivity of the screen, a designation section adapted to designate a type of an outside light in an installation environment of the screen, a correction light determination section adapted to determine a correction light using a spectral distribution of the reflected light obtained based on the spectral reflectivity and a spectral distribution of the outside light, and a color correction section adapted to generate the image data using the original data and data of a spectral distribution of the correction light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Okamoto, Masashi Kanai, Satoshi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8789953
    Abstract: A video delivery system includes a tablet computer and one or two detachable projectors. In one embodiment, video files are transferred from the tablet computer to the projectors when they are connected. The tablet computer is used as a remote control that controls an operation of delivering a video portion of the video file through the projectors and an audio portion through the tablet computer in a synchronized manner. In one aspect, the two projectors may be positioned to project two adjacent screens that present different portions of images. In another embodiment, positions of the projectors attached to the tablet computer may be adjusted to deliver desired screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Yang Pan
  • Patent number: 8789954
    Abstract: A front projection display system for a vehicle including a pico projector including keystone correction; and, a retractable pico front projector screen operatively connected to the pico projector. In one embodiment, a common housing contains the pico projector and the retractable pico front projector screen. In another embodiment the pico projector is mounted within the protective covering. In some embodiments the front projector screen is motor driven and in other embodiments it operated by hand. The present invention is particularly advantageous in an aircraft environment where size and weight considerations are imperative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C. Atkins, Chris A. Jameson, Timothy J. Bohr, James R. Dan, David F. Little, Alfred S. Alvarado
  • Patent number: 8789955
    Abstract: The embodiments of the Camera Visor comprise a top surface and a rear surface. The rear surface forms a plurality of attachment slots. Through the attachment slots the user can insert a strap, belt or rope to secure the Camera Visor to a support structure. The Camera Visor is placed over a wildlife camera or other type of outdoor surveillance camera or other electronic equipment to shield the camera or electronic equipment from the sun, rain and other elements. In another embodiment, the Camera Visor is also comprised of two side flaps and a front rim and a back rim. The front rim and back rim serve to channel water through the side water channels so as to direct the water down the side flaps and away from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Alan Barton
  • Patent number: 8789956
    Abstract: An optical system for shaping a laser beam includes an optical element with a base member having a lower base, an upper base, and a lateral surface. The lateral surface includes a transmitting surface for the laser beam, and the base member includes a first cutout portion having a lower base arranged in the upper base of the base member, and a lateral surface that has a first reflecting surface for the laser beam and generates an at least segmentally ring-shaped laser beam. The base member includes a second cutout portion having a lower base arranged in the lower base of the base member, an upper base that includes a transmitting surface for the laser beam, and a lateral surface abutting the lower and upper base. The lateral surface includes a second reflecting surface for the at least segmentally ring-shaped laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lieu-Kim Dang, Stefan Barth
  • Patent number: 8789957
    Abstract: A light source module includes a light-emitting device emitting an excitation light beam, a reflective component including a reflective surface with a first focal point and a second focal point, a wavelength conversion device including a plurality of excited regions and disposed nearby the first focal point and on the transmission path of the excitation light beam, and an optical component. By rotating the wavelength conversion device, the excitation light beam irradiates the different excited regions at different time, so that the excitation light beam is converted into different wavelength light beams at different time, and the different wavelength light beams respectively correspond to the excited regions and are reflected by the reflective surface and converged at the second focal point. The optical component is disposed nearby the second focal point so the different wavelength light beams pass through the second focal point and are transmitted to the optical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tzu-Yi Yang, Sheng-Chieh Tai, Ko-Shun Chen, Chia-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 8789958
    Abstract: A flat panel display device includes a display panel and a backlight system including a light source, a light homogenization mechanism, and a back frame that includes at least two assembling pieces joined to each other. The back frame includes a bracing piece fixed to the assembling pieces and including a bracing body fixed to the assembling pieces, a first suspension section extending from the bracing body toward one side of the bracing body, a first bearing section spaced from the bracing body and extending from the first suspension section toward one side of the first suspension section, and a first resilient bent section located between the first bearing section and the bracing body and bent from the first suspension section toward one side of the first suspension section. The first bearing section and the first resilient bent section resiliently clamp a first side edge of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Chun Hsiao, Cheng-Wen Que, Yi-Cheng Kuo
  • Patent number: 8789959
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a chassis, LED light sources, and a reflection member. The LED light sources are arranged in a matrix on a bottom plate of the chassis. The reflection member includes side wall portions and through holes through which the LED light sources are passed. The side wall portions surround each of the LED light sources passing through the respective through holes. The side wall portions have inclined surfaces on side surfaces thereof that lead light from the LED light sources toward the opening side of the chassis. Each of the side wall portions located between the LED light sources that are adjacently positioned in a diagonal direction has a height greater than a height of each of the side wall portions located between the LED light sources that are adjacently positioned in a vertical direction or in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8789960
    Abstract: A backlight unit (49) of a display device (69) having a liquid crystal display panel (59) is provided with a chassis (41), a diffusion plate (43) supported by the chassis, and a light source which irradiates the diffusion plate with light. The light source is constructed by combining a plurality of mounting substrates (21) provided with an LED (22) which serves as the light-emitting element and a diffusion lens (24) for covering the LED. Connectors (25A) are mounted on matching edges of the plurality of mounting substrates to electrically connect the substrates. The connectors are placed so as not to interfere with the illumination light region in which the LED imparts brightness to the diffusion plate. In order to achieve this state of non-interference, a beveled part (26) is formed on the side of the connectors facing the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yokota
  • Patent number: 8789961
    Abstract: A direct-type LED backlight module includes a supporting base having a supporting face, an LED mounted on the supporting face of the supporting base, and a dome-like light guiding cover positioned on the supporting face of the supporting base and covering the LED. The light guiding cover defines a plurality of through holes for permitting light emitted from the LED to pass through light guiding cover. The through holes are spaced from each other and arranged in a number of imaginary concentric circles relative to a center of the light guiding cover. An inner face of the light guiding cover facing the LED is coated with a reflective film. A semispherical light reflecting portion protrudes downwardly from an inner face of a top portion of the light guiding cover towards the LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li-Ying Wang He
  • Patent number: 8789962
    Abstract: A surgical headlight that uses multiple LEDs to produce superior illumination. Heat sinks are used to help dissipate heat produced from the LEDs. The light from the LEDs is directed, using collimizers, into fiber optic cables. The fiber light from the optic cables, using an LED combiner, is then combined and focused on a working area. The LED combiner may include an adjustable lens so that the device's illumination may be focused at multiple focal distances and with varied areas of illumination. The LEDs may be powered by a battery and may comprise one or more red LEDs, one or more blue LEDs, and one or more green LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Vikon Surgical, LLC
    Inventor: Austin Crowder
  • Patent number: 8789963
    Abstract: A work light having a work light body including handle section and light head section, an elongate housing, a battery compartment and a component chamber longitudinally aligned within the housing, a battery, an LED circuit board assembly extending longitudinally within the housing and having a substrate layer, an external component layer on a first side of the substrate layer, and a driving component layer on an opposing second side of the substrate layer. Overlapping portion of the LED circuit board assembly in close proximity to the battery. Also, at least one LED on the external component layer, the external component layer facing transaxially outwardly from the housing such that light emitting from the LED emits from the light head section. At least one driving component on the driving component layer, all driving components placed on an extending portion of the LED circuit board assembly over the component chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Brasscorp Limited
    Inventors: Robert Tod Whitfield, Donald L. Klipstein, Jack Brass
  • Patent number: 8789964
    Abstract: A support for a decorative item includes a stanchion with a first end and a second end. A flexible neck, having a first end and a second end, is connected to the second end of the stanchion at a first end thereof. At least one attachment device lies between the first and second end of the stanchion for attaching a decorative item to the stanchion. A luminary is connected to the second end of the flexible neck to provide illumination to the decorative item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Evergreen Enterprises of Virginia, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy A. Lamm
  • Patent number: 8789965
    Abstract: An electrical assembly, and a process for manufacturing it, in which the electrical assembly has a battery held within a battery block, a switch assembly attached to the battery block, a ribbon wire assembly held within a ribbon block and a PCB held within the battery and ribbon blocks. Two conductors in the battery block create electrical connections between the battery and the PCB after the battery is inserted into and held within the battery block. The ribbon wire assembly has one or more wires, preferably two or more, each of which has a protective covering with a gap that allows the wire to form an electrical connection with the PCB. All of the electrical connections between the PCB and the battery, the switch assembly and the ribbon wire assembly are made without the use of any solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Carmen Rapisarda
  • Patent number: 8789966
    Abstract: Described are LED lighting assemblies that may be used to replace a light source in a light fixture. The LED lighting assembly may include a thermally conductive extrusion, a plurality of light emitting diodes, and a diffuser. The diffuser is positioned below the light emitting diodes and also releasably engages the extrusion. The light fixture may include a housing, a reflector assembly with at least one longitudinally extending trough, at least one light source, and at least one lens assembly. As an example, the at least one lens assembly and the at least one light source are removed, and at least one LED lighting assembly is provided. At least a portion of the extrusion of the at least one LED lighting assembly is placed adjacent the at least one longitudinally extending trough. The diffuser of the at least one LED lighting assembly is connected to the at least one longitudinally extending trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Forrest McCanless, John D. DeMasie
  • Patent number: 8789967
    Abstract: A lighting fixture is presented comprising a plurality of modular apparatuses wherein each modular apparatus comprises one or more light sources and one or more light directing or light redirecting devices. Methods of adjusting one or more components of said lighting fixture about one, two, or three axes are presented whereby the lighting needs of a target area—even one of complex shape—may be addressed and in a manner that promotes compact fixture design with low effective projected area (EPA) without sacrificing transmission efficiency of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Musco Corporation
    Inventors: Myron Gordin, Timothy J. Boyle
  • Patent number: 8789968
    Abstract: A light-emitting panel includes at least a first light-emitting element emits and a second light-emitting element, each light-emitting element having, between a reflective film and a semi-transmissive/semi-reflective film, a layer including an optical adjustment layer and a light-emitting organic compound interposed between a pair of electrodes. One of the light-emitting elements further includes a layer transmitting red light provided over the corresponding semi-transmissive/semi-reflective film. The layer having the organic compound emits light having a wavelength between 600 nm and 800 nm, and light having a wavelength between 400 nm and 600 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Ohsawa, Toshiki Sasaki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 8789969
    Abstract: A light engine comprises a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) devices arranged in a plane and a corresponding plurality of reflector cups wherein each LED device is disposed in a corresponding reflector cup and wherein the light engine does not include either a diffuser or a light mixing cavity. A directional lamp comprises the aforesaid light engine and an imaging lens arranged to generate an image of the light engine at about infinity. The directional lamp may further include a collecting reflector (for example, a conical, parabolic, or compound parabolic reflector) extending between a relatively narrower entrance aperture at which the light engine is disposed and a relatively wider exit aperture at which the imaging lens is disposed. The imaging lens may be arranged to generate a defocused image of the light engine at about infinity to soften the beam edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: GE Lighting Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Gary R. Allen, Mark E. Kaminski
  • Patent number: 8789970
    Abstract: A luminaire in which color or brightness differences of light sources are compensated is provided. The luminaire can include several LED packages providing light to a primary optical component, which directs the light out of the luminaire. Because individual LED packages may output light at slightly different colors and/or brightness, the luminaire can include a secondary optical component having different materials that modify the color, brightness, or both of the output light. The secondary optical component can serve as a filter positioned between the LED packages (e.g., between a LED module) and the primary optical component, or between the primary optical component and the user, or above the primary optical component. The secondary optical component can be constructed by providing colorfast inks, phosphors, or quantum dots on a clear substrate or on a surface of the primary optical component. The materials can be disposed in a non-uniform manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Lunera Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter H. Mahowald
  • Patent number: 8789971
    Abstract: A flexible, integrally formed single piece light emitting diode (LED) light wire that provides a smooth, uniform lighting effect from all directions of the LED light wire. The integrally formed single piece LED light wire contains a conductive base comprising first and second bus elements formed from a conductive material. The bus elements distribute power from a power source to LEDs that are mounted on the first and second bus elements so that it draws power from and adds mechanical stability to the first and second bus elements. The flexible, integrally formed single piece LED light wire is assembled so that the first and second bus elements are connected to each other prior to the LED being mounted and such integrally formed single piece LED light wire is formed without a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Huizhou Light Engine Ltd
    Inventors: Paul Lo, Teddy Yeung Man Lo, Eddie Ping Kuen Li
  • Patent number: 8789972
    Abstract: A lighted moving ball display system configured to provide a visual display, such as in a Christmas tree. The system includes a plurality of light emitting balls. The light emitting balls each include a light emitting device, a ball power module, and a housing configured to secure the light emitting device and the ball power module, therein. The system includes a passive transport medium configured to receive the balls and permit the balls to traverse the medium under gravitational force. The system includes a lifting mechanism functionally coupled to the medium and configured to lift the plurality of light emitting balls to a top portion of the medium. The system includes a power module configured to provide power to the modules and components of the system. The system includes a motivating apparatus configured to actively urge the plurality of light emitting balls to traverse the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventors: Lloyd R. Plumb, Lola Melody Howard Plumb
  • Patent number: 8789973
    Abstract: A liquid cooled LED lighting device includes a sealed housing containing an LED element that emits light. Cooling liquid is contained in the housing to disperse heat generated by the LED element. An enclosure containing compressible material is preferably immovably positioned within the housing and outside of the optical path of the emitted light. The enclosure containing the compressible material compresses in response to expansion of the cooling liquid as it absorbs heat from the LED element. Advantageously, the cooling liquid and the enclosure containing the compressible material act to more efficiently cool the LED element, thereby providing higher light output and increased lifetime of the LED element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Wavien, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Li
  • Patent number: 8789974
    Abstract: A lighting device 1 includes a heat sink 2, a substrate 3 attached to a mounting portion 11 of the heat sink 2, a plurality of light sources 4 mounted on the substrate 3, and a cap 6 electrically connected to the substrate 3 while fixed to a rear portion of the heat sink 2 through a casing 5. The heat sink 2 has a three-dimensional shape including a plurality of mounting portions 11a, 11b and 11c facing in directions different from each other and provided at least at a front-end surface 12 of the heat sink 2. At least the front-end surface 12 is exposed to outside, and a plurality of heat-releasing fins 2a is provided around the front-end surface 12. The lighting device has a higher heat-releasing property, and can enlarge an illuminated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd., Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8789975
    Abstract: A lighting device comprises a heat sink, a housing mounted to and/or thermally coupled to the heat sink, a basket assembly attached to the housing, a solid state light emitter thermally coupled to the heat sink, and a baffle assembly attached to the housing. Also, a lighting device comprising a basket assembly and a baffle assembly. In some embodiments, the basket assembly comprises a first member defining a first opening, a second member, a space between the first and second members, and lenses in the opening and in the space. In some embodiments, the heat sink extends farther in a first direction in a first plane than a largest dimension of the housing in any plane which is parallel to the first plane. In some embodiments, at least one additional component (e.g., a power supply module or a junction box) is in contact with the heat sink element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Pickard, Gary David Trott
  • Patent number: 8789976
    Abstract: An integrated multi-layered illuminating unit and an integrated multi-layered illuminating assembling unit are provided in the disclosure. The illuminating unit provided in the present invention can be adapted to different purposes and locations of use through a flexible number of heat dissipating bases used and adaptable assembling methods, in other words, the present invention provides an illuminating unit which can be assembled into specific forms depending on different applications and purposes. The illuminating unit and can provide various irradiation intensity and rage, wherein the heat dissipating bases are connected and assembled with each other through connecting members with an easy, fast and convenient method, thus the illuminating unit provided is very time and effort saving regarding its production and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Gem Weltronics TWN Corporation
    Inventors: Jon-Fwu Hwu, Yung-Fu Wu, Kui-Chiang Liu
  • Patent number: 8789977
    Abstract: Techniques for light emitting diode (LED) lighting with heat spreading in illumination gaps. Inexpensive structural aluminum may be suitably employed to form a passive heat spreading mount for plural LEDs whose illumination collectively combines to provide the light needed by a particular lighting fixture, such as a pendant chandelier, by way of example, by angling fins of the passive heat spreading mount to correspond to illumination gaps of the LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell G. Villard
  • Patent number: 8789978
    Abstract: A recessed light fixture includes an LED module, which includes a single LED package that is configured to generate all light emitted by the recessed light fixture. For example, the LED package can include multiple LEDs mounted to a common substrate. The LED package can be coupled to a heat sink for dissipating heat from the LEDs. The heat sink can include a core member from which fins extend. Each fin can include one or more straight and/or curved portions. A reflector housing may be coupled to the heat sink and configured to receive a reflector. The reflector can have any geometry, such as a bell-shaped geometry including two radii of curvature that join together at an inflection point. An optic coupler can be coupled to the reflector housing and configured to cover electrical connections at the substrate and to guide light emitted by the LED package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Tickner, Scott David Wegner, Evans Edward Thompson, III
  • Patent number: 8789979
    Abstract: An illuminating device including a hollow body and a circuit board is provided. The hollow body includes a first opening end, a second opening end and a pair of first hooking portions, wherein a bore of the second opening end is larger than a bore of the first opening end. The first hooking portions are disposed on the first opening end. The circuit board is disposed in the hollow body and has a pair of second hooking portions, wherein the first hooking portions interfere with the second hooking portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications Company Limited, Kinpo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Hsien-Chang Wu
  • Patent number: 8789980
    Abstract: A light fixture assembly including an illumination assembly in the form of one or more light emitting diodes is interconnected to an electrical energy source by control circuitry. A mounting assembly supports the illumination assembly and a cover structure is disposed in heat transferring relation to the illumination assembly, wherein the cover structure and/or mounting assembly have enlarged surface areas formed of a heat conductive material, facilitating heat dissipation generated by the illumination assembly into the surrounding environment. At least one connector, formed of an electrically conductive material, is disposed in interconnecting, current conducting relation between a source of electrical energy and the illumination assembly. The mounting assembly is disposed in electrically segregated relation to the connector(s), wherein said interconnecting relation of the one connector at least partially defines an assembled orientation of the illumination assembly and mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Silescent Lighting Corporation
    Inventors: Daryl Soderman, Dale Stepps
  • Patent number: 8789981
    Abstract: Disclosed is an expandable envelope that comprises a light directing film this both transmits and reflects light. In its inflated form and along with a light source, the envelope forms a light balloon that due to the light directing film provides directed light to an area surrounding the balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Harms, Lance E. Behymer, Justin W. Wilhelm, Lars A. Smeenk, Mark H. Smith, Luis A. Aguirre, Felix Bierbaum, Karl K. Stensvad
  • Patent number: 8789982
    Abstract: A light source device is provided, which includes: a hold member; a light source held by the hold member; an optical element held by the hold member; and a hardened first adhesive agent bonding at least one of the light source and the optical element to the holding member. The hardened first adhesive agent has elasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taizo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8789983
    Abstract: An illumination lens for hemispherically emitting light emitting diodes is disclosed that produces a square illumination pattern too narrow for a refractive lens to produce by itself. The lens is freeform in that it departs from circular symmetry in order to produce a square pattern. It is catadioptric in that it comprises a central refractive lens with a square output of desired angular width and a surrounding TIR prism that produces the same square output, overlapping the first for better uniformity of the sum. The central lens and circumambient TIR prism are joined in a monolithic configuration suitable for injection molding. Vector equations are disclosed for generating the shapes of the five optically active surfaces of the invention, two internal surfaces forming a central cavity surrounding the LED and three external surfaces, all five departing from circular symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: William A. Parkyn
  • Patent number: 8789984
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device has the function of buffering external impacts so as to improve the resistance of the organic light emitting display device to impact. An electronic device includes the organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes: a frame; a first substrate disposed on the frame, a display unit being formed on a surface of the first substrate; a second substrate disposed so as to face the first substrate; a driver integrated circuit (IC) disposed on either the first substrate or the second substrate; and a buffer member formed so as to cover the driver IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Hee Lee, Kyu-Seob Han, Tae-Hyeok Kang