Patents Issued in July 12, 2016
  • Patent number: 9388934
    Abstract: This application discloses a stand assembly that includes a receiving element for physically receiving a module, and a base assembly for supporting the receiving element. The receiving element further includes a module holding structure, an extended portion, and a first fastener structure coupled to an end of the extended portion. The base assembly includes a base, and a second fastener structure coupled to the base at a joint and configured to mate with the first fastener structure. The first fastener structure and the joint are configured to respectively provide a first degree of freedom of motion and a second degree of freedom of motion of the receiving element with respect to the base. The movement of the receiving element at the first degree of freedom has substantially consistent resistance through first part of a first full range of motion associated with the first degree of freedom of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam Scott Kilgore, Adam Duckworth Mittleman, Jason Evans Goulden
  • Patent number: 9388935
    Abstract: A display device includes a display main body having a housing having an opening formed through the front surface and a display unit attached to the housing to close the opening and displaying an image, a stand base placed on a mounting surface, and at least one support connected to the display main body at one end and connected to the stand base at the other end, in which the support includes a cable inputting/outputting power or signals to/from the display main body and a coating covering the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Fukuma, Tomoaki Takuma, Shigeru Yoshida, Tetsu Sumii, Keita Hibi
  • Patent number: 9388936
    Abstract: A device for aiding in storing implements comprising a retractable support adapted to engage a hook. The support being held to an implement via a monolithically formed, or attached, base portion. The device being capable of use with a wide variety of implements and having various forms adaptable for use to aid in hanging implements or for assisting them to stand alone. The support being retractable and capable of being held in various positions via an interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Stewart, III
  • Patent number: 9388937
    Abstract: A structure for fixing an electrical junction box is provided which makes it possible to fix the same electrical junction box, irrespective of the sizes, shapes and the like of batteries, and to commonly use the electrical junction box. The structure includes a bracket including a junction box fixing part which fixes the electrical junction box and a battery fixing part which is fixed to the battery. The electrical junction box is fixed to the battery via the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9388938
    Abstract: A mounting system for attaching an audio/visual device to a surface via a surface mounting member. The mounting system includes a support attachment bracket configured to operatively connect to the surface mounting member, a display mounting bracket configured to operatively connect to the audio/visual device, an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of the display mounting bracket relative to the support attachment bracket between a collapsed position and a tilted position, and a locking feature configured to selectively engage a post for retaining the mounting system in the collapsed position. The locking feature is disposed on one of the support attachment bracket, the display mounting bracket, and the adjustment mechanism. The post is disposed on another of the support attachment bracket, the display mounting bracket, and the adjustment mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: PEERLESS INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel E. Molter
  • Patent number: 9388939
    Abstract: A multi-media tablet holder is provided and includes a first retention member, a second retention member, a pair of slide pins, at least one extension spring and a handle. The first retention member includes a first retention plate and a first retention rail. The second retention member includes a second retention plate and a second retention rail. The first and second retention rails are sized to receive a thickness of a multi-media tablet. There is also provided a multi-media tablet holder including a retention member, a handle assembly and an articulating mechanism for pivoting and rotating the retention member relative to the handle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: Dimitri Girault
  • Patent number: 9388940
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for supplying lubricant to a plurality of lubrication sites. Embodiments include a pump with venting and non-venting piston return, a pump with stirrer and direct feed mechanism, a pump with CAN system and self-diagnostics, a pump with heated housing and reservoir and a pump with stepper motor and overdrive control. Profiles drive the stepper motor at various speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Lincoln Industrial Corporation
    Inventors: Paul G. Conley, Nathan David Donovan, Brad Allen Edler
  • Patent number: 9388941
    Abstract: A compact lubricant injector is disclosed. The injector includes an injector body having an inlet for lubricant under pressure, an outlet, and a measuring chamber for receiving lubricant from the inlet. A piston is movable in the injector body along a first axis through a stroke in the measuring chamber for the discharge of a measured volume of lubricant from the measuring chamber and thence through the outlet. A valve is movable in the injector body along a second axis different from the first axis. The valve is responsive to pressure conditions in the inlet for operation of the injector in a cycles ending in a state for venting the injector to effect recharging of the measuring chamber involving the transmission of lubricant from the inlet to the measuring chamber. A combination of at least one such lubricant injector and a manifold is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Lincoln Industrial Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas M. Arens, Paul G. Conley
  • Patent number: 9388942
    Abstract: Methods and systems for modular fuel storage and transportation are provided. In an embodiment, a fuel storage system includes one or more fuel containers each supported by a fuel container support assembly. The fuel storage system may be mounted to a transportation device such as a vehicle or used in a stand-alone fashion. Each support assembly may include a plurality of detachable end support members such as end support members configured to support the end portions of the fuel container and side support members configured to support the body portion of the fuel container. Some of the end support members may include neck grooves such that when the end support members are coupled, the neck grooves form an enclosure around the neck portion of the fuel container. In an embodiment, the support assembly is configured to facilitate release of excess pressure in the fuel container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: AGILITY FUEL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Sloan, Chris Forsberg, Jason Laycock, David Cate, Yoshio Coy, Amir Mahani
  • Patent number: 9388943
    Abstract: An ullage tank in a vertical cryogenic storage vessel that can store a liquefied gas is described. The ullage tank includes a hollow member. The ullage tank has at least one opening that allows communication between the ullage tank and an inner vessel of the vertical cryogenic vessel. The hollow member has a first open end and a second open end. The hollow member forms a vertically disposed passage through the ullage tank. The first open end and the second open end are in communication with the inner vessel. Related methods, apparatuses, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Chart Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Gustafson, Chris Schmoeckel, Lyle Holsinger, Carl Taylor
  • Patent number: 9388944
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that expand environmental support for an HVAC system with an HVAC fluid circulating throughout by vaporizing a cryogen; and sparging the vaporized cryogen to dispense sparge bubbles to the HVAC fluid to cool the HVAC fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: REFLECT SCIENTIFIC INC.
    Inventors: Boyd Bowdish, John Hammerman
  • Patent number: 9388945
    Abstract: System, including apparatus and methods, for aspirating at least a portion of an emulsion from a well using a tip. In some embodiments, the tip may have a flat end and an inlet surrounded by the flat end. The well may have a floor with one or more surface features that prevent uninterrupted circumferential contact of the flat end of the tip with any region of the floor. In some embodiments, the tip may not have a flat end. In some embodiments, the well may have a port that guides the tip to the floor with the tip slanted with respect to the floor. Methods of making a device that includes the well are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Bemis, Thomas H. Cauley, III, Klint Rose, James M. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 9388946
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a lighting device that includes a power connector base that includes a threaded electrical contact for connection to an Edison style socket and a pole that is attached to the power connector base that includes or retains a plurality of solid-state light emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: Lee D. Stagni
  • Patent number: 9388947
    Abstract: A lighting device includes one or more lumiphoric materials spatially segregated from one or more electrically activated (e.g., solid state) emitters and arranged to emit light toward a reflector for reflection of lumiphor-converted light emissions toward a light transmissive end of the lighting device. One or more adjustment elements may be arranged adjust position of the at least one lumiphoric material, and/or to adjust at least one of (a) position, (b) aim, and (c) focus, of the at least one electrically activated light emitting source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Everett Bradford
  • Patent number: 9388948
    Abstract: An LED lamp includes an elongated at least partially optically transmissive enclosure having a first end and a second end. LEDs are located in the enclosure and are operable to emit light through the enclosure when energized through an electrical path. A first pair of pins are mounted to the first end of the enclosure and a second pair of pins are mounted to the second end of the enclosure, the pins being in the electrical path. The LEDs are mounted on an LED board. A support structure for supporting the LED board is formed as one-piece with the enclosure and is formed of an optical material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Randolph C. Demuynck, Nicholas W. Medendorp, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9388949
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is characterized by providing an optical transfer function between a predetermined illuminated surface pattern, such as a street light pattern, and a predetermined energy distribution pattern of a light source, such as that from an LED. A lens is formed having a shape defined by the optical transfer function. The optical transfer function is derived by generating an energy distribution pattern using the predetermined energy distribution pattern of the light source. Then the projection of the energy distribution pattern onto the illuminated surface is generated. The projection is then compared to the predetermined illuminated surface pattern to determine if it acceptably matches. The process continues reiteratively until an acceptable match is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ILLUMINATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald G. Holder, Greg Rhoads
  • Patent number: 9388950
    Abstract: An illumination beam adjustment apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a housing (4), a plurality of first optical elements (12) fixed relative to the housing and adapted to receive and transmit electromagnetic radiation and adjust the beam angle of a beam of electromagnetic radiation passing therethrough, and a second optical element (14) removably mounted relative to the housing and adapted to receive electromagnetic radiation from the first optical elements and transmit electromagnetic radiation. The second optical element is adapted to adjust the beam angle of a beam of an electromagnetic radiation passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Raytec Limited
    Inventors: Shaun Lee Cutler, David Raymond Lambert, Anthony Gerard Whiting
  • Patent number: 9388951
    Abstract: A stacked assembly of light emitting devices includes a first light emitting device, a second light emitting device and a sealing member. The first light emitting device includes a first substrate member extending in a longitudinal direction and defining a plurality of through-holes, and a plurality of first light emitting elements arranged on the first substrate member. The second light emitting device is arranged to overlap with the first light emitting device. The second light emitting device includes a second substrate member extending in the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of second light emitting elements arranged on the second substrate and exposed respectively through the through-holes. The sealing member seals the first light emitting elements and the second light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motokazu Yamada
  • Patent number: 9388952
    Abstract: A head-mountable portable device comprising: a first light source configured to emit a beam of white light in a first direction; and a second light source configured to emit blue light, the second light source being configured such that the blue light is substantially emitted in a second direction that is different to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventors: Birju Patel, Roni Stone
  • Patent number: 9388953
    Abstract: A portable lighting device includes a housing, a battery, a lighting element coupled to the battery, and a solar panel. The housing includes a first wall coupled to a second wall and defines an internal volume. The battery is positioned within the internal volume. The solar panel is disposed along the first wall and coupled to the battery. The second wall of the housing is angled relative to the first wall of the housing such that the solar panel is positioned in a target orientation when the second wall is disposed along a support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: GOAL ZERO LLC
    Inventors: Robert E. Workman, Norman L. Krantz, Henry J. Howell, Fred K. Lillywhite
  • Patent number: 9388954
    Abstract: A dynamic flame simulating device mainly comprises an upper base, a flame element suspended from the upper base, a light source providing light rays, and a driving assembly below the flame element. The driving assembly further comprises an electromagnetic coil and a second magnetic element, wherein the electromagnetic coil is powered on to drive the second magnetic element to bounce toward a first magnetic element on the bottom end of the flame element to generate repellent magnetic acting forces to make the flame element swing naturally and achieve the dynamic visual effect of the natural beating of the burning flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: Wen-Cheng Lai
  • Patent number: 9388955
    Abstract: A laser optical system for a head lamp may include a laser diode, a pattern film having a surface on which a micro pattern is formed to diffuse a laser beam emitted from the laser diode and to specify a width and a height of the beam in accordance with a desired form, a reflective film having a film hole formed thereon to pass the laser beam that is diffused through the pattern film, a phosphor film formed in a film shape to react on the laser beam that passes through the reflective film to output white light, and an aspheric lens configured to direct the white light that permeates the phosphor film to a front area. The laser diode and the aspheric lens, and/or other components in between, may be arranged in a line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jik Soo Shin
  • Patent number: 9388956
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting device includes a light source, and at least one light distribution control member configured to control distribution of light from the light source. The light distribution control member includes a base member higher in refractive index than air, and two optical control layers located opposite each other with a predetermined space therebetween on either side of the base member. The two optical control layers each includes a first region and a second region formed in correlative patterns. The light distribution control member is configured to control the light distribution based on a change of an overlap between the first and second regions depending on a direction of transmitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ken Takahashi, Osamu Ono, Shusuke Morita, Masahiro Yokota, Nobuo Kawamura, Takeshi Ookawa, Hidemi Matsuda, Hideo Oota, Takashi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9388957
    Abstract: A secondary optical element including a light incidence surface, a light emitting surface, and a connecting surface is provided. The light incidence surface includes a first and a second light incidence surfaces. The first light incidence surface is a curved surface recessed toward the light emitting surface. The light emitting surface is opposite to the light incidence surface and includes a first and a second light emitting surfaces. The first light emitting surface is a free-form surface recessed toward the light incidence surface or a flat surface. The second light emitting surface is a free-form surface. A diameter of the second light emitting surface is larger than a diameter of the second light incidence surface, and the connecting surface is connected between the second light incidence surface and the second light emitting surface. A light source module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Yu-Kai Hsu, Jui-Wen Pan, Yung-Chih Huang
  • Patent number: 9388958
    Abstract: This disclosure includes light fixtures, some of which include a lower housing that defines a first channel and has first and second ends, where the first end defines an aperture and the second end has a first mounting surface disposed at a non-parallel first angle relative to a plane of the aperture, an upper housing that defines a second channel and has first and second ends, where the second end has a light mount and the first end has a second mounting surface disposed at a non-parallel second angle relative to a plane of the light mount, and a diffuser configured to be coupled between housings, where the upper and lower housings can be coupled at the first and second mounting surfaces such that the light mount is disposed at a non-parallel third angle relative to the plane of the aperture. Some light fixtures have unitary lower and upper housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: LUCIFER LIGHTING COMPANY
    Inventor: Frank Watson
  • Patent number: 9388959
    Abstract: A white-light emitter is disclosed, in which a silicone sheet is laminated between a pair of optically clear plastic sheets. The silicone sheet lacks the ability to retain its shape, while the three sheets, when sealed together, can retain a shape. The silicone sheet includes at least one phosphor, with a phosphor concentration between two percent and ten percent. The silicone sheet may be produced by molding. Compared to comparable silicone parts made by extrusion, the molded parts may show less part-to-part variation in color temperature, may be run in significantly smaller batches or as one-offs, and may allow the silicone and phosphor material to be mixed by hand or with a relatively simple mixing machine. In some cases, the sheets are sealed together at their perimeters and include a margin around the phosphor sheet. In some cases, the phosphor sheet includes a mixture of different phosphors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lessard, Edward Otto
  • Patent number: 9388960
    Abstract: A lighting unit (1) comprising a phosphor element (2) provided for converting pump light to converted light and designed to emit conversion light at an emission surface (6), and at least two pump light sources (3, 8) configured for emitting pump light, wherein the lighting unit (1) is designed such that primary pump light emitted by a first pump light source (3) illuminates the phosphor element (2) at an incidence surface (5), which differs from the emission surface (6), and secondary pump light emitted by a second pump light source (8) illuminates the phosphor element (2) at the emission surface (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Nadir Farchtchian
  • Patent number: 9388961
    Abstract: An asymmetrical optical assembly employs reflecting surfaces and a lens to combine the light from a plurality of LED lamps into an illumination pattern useful in a floodlight or work light. The reflecting surfaces and lens optical element are not symmetrical with respect to a plane bisecting the optical assembly and including the optical axes of the LED light sources. Some light from the LED light sources is redirected from its emitted trajectory into the desired illumination pattern, while a significant portion of the light from the LED light sources is permitted to exit the optical assembly without redirection. Minimizing the number of optical elements employed and the redirection of light enhances the efficiency of the resulting light assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Whelen Engineering Compnay, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd J. Smith
  • Patent number: 9388962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a LED spotlight, preferably for white light, comprising—an LED module having several LED chips on a carrier,—a cooling body that is in thermal contact with the LED module,—a reflector that laterally surrounds the LED chips, and—a light mixing chamber arranged within the reflector and laterally surrounding the LED chips, the light mixing chamber base surface and the reflector bottom being located on the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Derkits
  • Patent number: 9388963
    Abstract: A light source module includes a light source and an optical lens assembly covering the light source. The optical lens assembly includes an optical lens, a reflecting member located on the optical lens, and a reflecting film formed on the reflecting member. The optical lens includes a main portion and a protruding portion protruding upwardly from the main portion. The reflecting member is conical. The reflecting member is invertedly located on the protruding portion of the optical lens. A tip of the reflecting member is inserted into an inside of the optical lens from the protruding portion. The reflecting member has a top surface and an outer circumferential surface. A center of the top surface of the reflecting member is recessed inwardly, whereby a concave surface is formed. The concave surface oriented upwardly and outwardly relative to the light source. The reflecting film is distributed on the concave surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng-Yuen Dai, Chau-Jin Hu, Li-Ying Wang He
  • Patent number: 9388964
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination device capable of preventing a reflection sheet in the periphery of a light-emitting element from being raised while minimizing the instability in the fixture of a diffusion lens. The illumination device comprises a light-emitting element, a mounting substrate, a diffusion lens, and a reflection sheet having a through-hole. The diffusing lens includes a lens portion for diffusing light, and a fixed portion to be fixed to the mounting substrate. An engaging portion that sandwiches the reflection sheet between the engaging portion and the mounting substrate is formed in the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoki Takase
  • Patent number: 9388965
    Abstract: A light source device includes an excitation light source that generates excitation light, a phosphor wheel including a phosphor segment that generates fluorescent light by excitation of the excitation light, and a mirror that guides the excitation light from the excitation light source to the phosphor wheel and emits the fluorescent light from the phosphor wheel as illumination light. The phosphor wheel further includes an anisotropic diffusion and reflection unit that diffuses and reflects incident excitation light such that an optical path for the incident excitation light and an optical path for the diffused excitation light after incidence of the excitation light are not overlapped. The mirror includes a first region that reflects the excitation light and transmits the fluorescent light and a second region that transmits the fluorescent light and the diffused excitation light which the anisotropic diffusion and reflection unit has diffused and reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Miyoshi, Masayuki Fukui, Kei Adachi, Chohei Ono
  • Patent number: 9388966
    Abstract: A lighting device may include at least one phosphor region which can be irradiated by a primary light source, and at least one optical filter region which can be disposed downstream of the at least one phosphor region, wherein the at least one phosphor region and the at least one filter region are arranged at a different level on a common support wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Dirk Berben
  • Patent number: 9388967
    Abstract: A light source may comprise a housing, a window mounted in a front plane of the housing, a window length spanning a front plane length, and a linear array of light-emitting elements within the housing. The linear array may be aligned with and emit light through the window, and the linear array may span the window length, wherein first and last light-emitting elements of the linear array are positioned adjacent to widthwise edges of the window, and wherein window sidewalls at the widthwise edges are aligned flush with housing sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Phoseon Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Doug Childers
  • Patent number: 9388968
    Abstract: A light device includes a light engine. A plurality of petals extends radially outward from the light engine. A trim is disposed over the petals and light engine. An installation card is disposed between the trim and the petals and includes an elongated opening. A strap extends through the elongated opening of the installation card. A light-emitting diode is connected to the light engine. A support component is formed on a surface of the petals. The strap includes a hook surface and a loop surface opposite the hook surface. The installation card includes a second elongated opening formed near an edge of the installation card and a third opening formed in a central region of the installation card. A plurality of straps includes a width of the straps being less than a width of the elongated opening. The plurality of straps includes a zip tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Pedal Brite LLC
    Inventor: Lynn Teitel
  • Patent number: 9388969
    Abstract: Lighting fixtures for attachment to architectural surface structures are adapted to hold light sources. The lighting fixtures may include a base plate and mounting brackets. Clamps are provided that may bias the light source in either the forward or rearward direction. The clamps may include spring arms that center the light source within the fixture in addition to retaining the light source in place. The fixtures may further accommodate overlying structures, such as lenses. The lighting fixtures facilitate use with a variety of different architectural structures and formation in various shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: David E. Doubek
  • Patent number: 9388970
    Abstract: A plane light source having a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in a light emitting device matrix having rows and columns at a substrate, the plane light source including: a first matrix having a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in rows and columns; and a second matrix having a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in rows and columns, each of the light emitting devices located within a quadrangle formed by four neighboring light emitting devices included in the first matrix, wherein the pitch of the light emitting devices of the first and second matrices is different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young June Jeong
  • Patent number: 9388971
    Abstract: A method of making a light handle cover including providing a first mold tool and a second mold tool. The first mold tool engages with the second mold tool to form a mold cavity. The mold cavity is injected with a moldable material. The light handle cover is formed as a single integral piece with a substantially cylindrical grab portion that is circumscribed on one end by a substantially circular base shield. A plurality of teeth are formed in the light handle cover. Each of the plurality of teeth is separated by a space. The light handle cover is ejected from the second mold tool with a burst of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Aspen Surgical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Lawrence, Ryan Severns
  • Patent number: 9388972
    Abstract: A light source apparatus of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor light source, a light source holding member on which the semiconductor light source is disposed, the light source holding member being made of a thermal conductive material, and a cooling member that radiates heat generated by the semiconductor light source through the light source holding member. In addition, the light source apparatus includes an optical lens, an optical lens holding member that holds the optical lens and that is disposed on a light-emitting portion side of the semiconductor light source, and a thermal conductive member having a hole that houses a light-emitting portion of the semiconductor light source. The thermal conductive member is sandwiched between the light source holding member and the optical lens holding member, and comes into close contact with a side surface of the light-emitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shu Namba
  • Patent number: 9388973
    Abstract: A deep submersible light may include a body defining a hollow interior and a solid state light source such as a plurality of high brightness LEDs mounted in the interior of the body. A transparent window may be mounted over the LEDs. The space between the transparent window and the LEDs may be filled with an optically transparent fluid, gel, or grease, which allows light to pass through and ambient water pressure to pass in, thus pressure compensating the LEDs by allowing them to see ambient water pressure. The transparent window may be mounted in the body for reciprocation in both a forward direction and a rearward direction to accommodate volumetric changes in the compensating fluid, gel, or grease caused by changes in temperature and water pressure as the manned or remotely piloted submarine travels from the sea surface to deep ocean depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: DEEPSEA POWER & LIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Mark S. Olsson, Kevin R. Hardy, John R. Sanderson, Brian P. Lakin, Ray Merewether, Jon E. Simmons, Kenneth A. Steeves
  • Patent number: 9388974
    Abstract: A textile covering, comprising an under-layer in contact with a rear face of a layer of textile fibers, and comprising an optical fiber housed inside a routing groove in the under-layer, an end portion of the optical fiber extending through the layer of textile fibers via a support device of the optical fiber. The support device comprises a fixing ring and a heat-shrink tubing covering part of the fixing ring and of the end portion. The fixing ring comprises a base in contact with the rear face and a cylindrical portion into which the end portion of the optical fiber is inserted. The textile covering may be used as carpet equipping the floor of an aircraft cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS CORPORATE JET CENTRE
    Inventors: Jean-Cyrille Destieu, Dorine Servant, Cyrille Nicolas, Isabelle Jamme
  • Patent number: 9388975
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for designing, implementing, and/or using communication cables comprising a leaky feeder structure, which may be configurable for homogeneous distribution of data signals. An example communication cable may comprise a core conductor, an insulation shield surrounding the core conductor, an outer conductor around the insulation shield and having one or more apertures arranged along its length, and a jacket at least partly covering the outer conductor. The communication cable may also comprise an illumination arrangement which may be arranged at least along sections of the length of the cable. The illumination arrangement may comprise a plurality of light emitting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SWISSCOM AG
    Inventor: Daniel Wenger
  • Patent number: 9388976
    Abstract: A combustor including a housing, an injector body, insulation, an air/fuel premix injector, a hot surface igniter, a fuel injector and a burner. The housing forms a main combustion chamber. The injector body is coupled within the housing and the injector body includes an initial combustion chamber. The insulation lines the initial combustion chamber. The air/fuel premix injector is configured and arranged to dispense a flow of air/fuel mixture into the initial combustion chamber. The hot surface igniter is configured and arranged to heat up and ignite the air/fuel mixture in the initial combustion chamber. The fuel injector dispenses a flow of fuel and the burner dispenses a flow of air. The flow of fuel from the fuel injector and the flow of air from the burner are ignited in the main combustion chamber by the ignition of the air/fuel mixture in the initial combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Orbital ATK, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Tilmont, Joseph A. Alifano, Akiva A. Sklar, Nicholas Tiliakos, Vincenzo Verrelli
  • Patent number: 9388977
    Abstract: A boiler group includes a plurality of boilers. Each of the boilers has a unit amount of steam and a maximum variable amount of steam. A controller includes a deviation calculator for calculating a deviation amount between a necessary amount of steam and an output amount of steam, a boiler selector for selecting the plurality of boilers in order of load factors, and an output controller for varying an amount of steam of a boiler selected first by the boiler selector by the maximum variable amount of steam—when the deviation amount is at least the—maximum variable amount of steam, and varying the amount of steam of the first selected boiler by the unit amount of steam for the deviation amount when the deviation amount is less than the maximum variable amount of steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamada, Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 9388978
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling the temperature of a heated flue gas stream downstream of a multi-part heat exchanger within a desired operating range through the use of a fluid bypass line which bypasses one or more sections, but not all sections, of the multi-part heat exchanger. In some but not necessarily all embodiments some fluid flow is maintained through the heat exchanger at all times. In one embodiment, the method includes sensing a temperature in said flue gas stream in proximity to an intermediate header of said multi-part heat exchanger and controlling a position of a bypass line control valve to control an amount of fluid passing through a fluid bypass line that bypasses the section of the multi-part heat exchanger between an inlet header and the intermediate header based on said temperature in said flue gas stream in proximity to the intermediate header of said multi-part heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS AMERICAS, INC.
    Inventor: Roger A. Soltys
  • Patent number: 9388979
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a chemical-looping combustion device utilizing a solid fuel generating unburnt particles and using oxygen-carrying particles such as metallic oxides, and comprising at least one combustion zone and a separator for the particles contained in a gaseous mixture coming from the combustion zone, wherein the separator comprises at least one enclosure (1) with an intake line (4) for said mixture, a discharge line (5) arranged in the lower part of the enclosure and an outlet line (6) arranged in the upper part of the device, the intake and discharge/outlet parameters being so selected as to create in the enclosure a dense phase in the lower part and a dilute phase in the upper part, and wherein said intake line opens into the dilute phase. The invention also relates to a combustion method implementing the device according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignees: TOTAL SA, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Ali Hoteit, Florent Guillou, Sébastien Rifflart, Thierry Gauthier
  • Patent number: 9388980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for gasifying a hydrocarbon feedstock are provided. The hydrocarbon feedstock can be gasified in the presence of one or more particulates to produce a syngas and one or more carbon-containing particulates. At least a portion of the carbon of the one or more carbon-containing particulates can be combusted in a combustion process external to the gasifying of the hydrocarbon feedstock to produce a combustion gas. The combustion gas can be utilized in one or more processes external to the gasifying of the hydrocarbon feedstock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown + Root LLC
    Inventor: John Abughazaleh
  • Patent number: 9388981
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a combustion system is provided, which includes a nozzle configured to emit a diverging fuel flow, a flame holder positioned in the path of the fuel flow and that includes a plurality of apertures extending therethrough, and a preheat mechanism configured to heat the flame to a temperature exceeding a startup temperature threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: CLEARSIGN COMBUSTION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas W. Karkow, Joseph Colannino, Igor A. Krichtafovitch, Christopher A. Wiklof
  • Patent number: 9388982
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle assembly including a conduit defining a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet and being operable to convey a fuel stream comprising a solid particulate fuel entrained in a fluid. The conduit has a flow area defined by an interior surface of the conduit. A first flow deflector and a second flow deflector extend inwardly from the interior surface. The first flow deflector and the second flow deflector are positioned to disrupt a velocity profile of the flow stream established upstream of the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Richard E. Donais, Todd D. Hellewell, Wendell H. Mills
  • Patent number: 9388983
    Abstract: A burner includes a cylindrical tube that terminates in a burner discharge end. An annular disk, affixed to the discharge end, defines a hole. An oxidizer intake delivers oxidizer into the tube. A fuel nozzle delivers fuel into the tube. A cylindrical slotted member has an interrupted outer surface and is disposed within a portion of the tube. The slotted member is affixed to the annular disk and defines an interior void that opens to the hole. The tube and the slotted member define an annular passage therebetween. Elongated slots pass through the outer surface of the slotted member, each directed along a different non-diametrical chord of the slotted member. The elongated slots direct a gaseous stream into the interior void so as to impart both an inwardly-directed radial velocity component and a tangential velocity component to the gaseous stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Plum Combustion, Inc.
    Inventors: Yedidia Neumeier, David S. Neff, Michael Pratte, Joachim P. Sondervan, Ghislain Retaureau