Patents Issued in July 13, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170198859
    Abstract: A support bracket includes a body, an arm, a first mount, a boss, and a second mount. The arm extends laterally from the body and a first fastener opening passes through the arm. The first mount extends from a first side of the body, and a first fillet is disposed at the interface of the first mount and the body. A boss extends from a second side of the body and a second fastener opening passes through the boss. A second fillet is disposed at the interface of the boss and the body. The second mount extends into the body opposite the boss. A third fillet is disposed at the interface of the second mount and the first side and a fourth fillet is disposed at the interface of the second mount and the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Seth E. Rosen, Kenneth Crawford
  • Publication number: 20170198860
    Abstract: Disclosed is a connector (1) for mounting a decorative element (2) on a structure (3), comprising an insertion guide (4), a support zone (5) for the decorative element (2), and a retaining structure (10); two substantially parallel legs (6, 7) adjoin the support zone (5), and the insertion guide (4) projects from a first of the two substantially parallel legs (6) at a predefined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Christof GAPP, Florian LECHTHALER
  • Publication number: 20170198861
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fixing structure. The fixing structure comprises a seat and at least a fixing device, the fixing device including a connecting part and a sucking disc, on end of the connecting part being connected to the seat while the other end of the connecting part being connected to the sucking disc, and the sucking disc being used to be sucked on a surface of a mounting base. There is also provided a display device having the fixing structure in the disclosure. With the fixing structure mounted on the display device, the display device can be prevented from toppling down when an external force is applied thereto, thus improving the stability of the display device. Further, the fixing structure according to the disclosure is able not to damage the surface of the mounting base and can be reused.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongda MA, Xinyin WU, Jian XU, Yuxin ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170198862
    Abstract: A gas pressure tank structure including: a tank wall, a compression oil cylinder, a locking ring, a spring cylinder, a locating pin mounting hole, a dowel pinhole, a refractory brick, a guide mechanism, a sealing structure, an arc joint, an arc shaped tank bottom, a steel ladle stand, a tank cover, and a reinforcing board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Zhaoli Yang, Yue Zuo, Xuejun Zhu, Sijin Zhang, Chengqun Yan, Zhongxian Du, Jianfei Sun, Fuyang Cao, Dongye Yang
  • Publication number: 20170198863
    Abstract: A heat insulator (10) is provided in a heat-insulating vessel for holding a substance having a temperature that is lower than ordinary temperature by at least 100° C. The heat insulator (10) includes a core material (14) and an outer wrapping material (13) for wrapping the core material (14). The core material (14) has a heat-insulating core material made of an open-cell resin. The outer wrapping material (13) is made of a metal thin plate. A peripheral edge of the metal thin plate is fixedly bonded. An inside of the outer wrapping material is vacuum-sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: TSUYOKI HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20170198864
    Abstract: In processes and systems utilizing a compressor to fill a vessel with gas, for example, in the filling of the fuel tank of a vehicle that operates on compressed natural gas (CNG), a number of advantages are realized by establishing independent control over the flow rate of gas discharged from the compressor, such as on the basis of the compressor discharge pressure, utilizing feedback from one or more gas pressure sensors. In representative embodiments, a detected or actual measured compressor discharge pressure can serve as a process variable, in a feedback control loop for regulating the output of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Edward A. Calvin, Wesley W. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20170198865
    Abstract: A pipeline system includes a pipeline portion; at least one sensor on the pipeline portion for measuring a physical property of the pipeline portion or of a fluid inside the pipeline portion; and an electromagnetic field source distributed along the pipeline portion and creating an electromagnetic field around the pipeline portion, the at least one sensor including an accumulator for storing an electric charge induced in the accumulator when the sensor is subject to the electromagnetic field created by the electromagnetic field source, the accumulator being able to power the at least one sensor by way of the stored electric charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karstein KRISTIANSEN
  • Publication number: 20170198866
    Abstract: An omni-directional LED light bulb, mainly connecting a head to the bottom of a main body and a base to the top thereof, and the main body being covered with a glass cover, characterized in that a mounting column has a height about the half height of glass cover; a circuit board with a plurality of LEDs respectively configured on the top face and bottom face thereof is in connection with the top end of the mounting column, the LEDs being flip chips and in electric connection with one another and electric elements inside the main body; the base and mounting column are made from material excellent in heat conduction, and the main body is made from material excellent in cooling, thereby allowing the LED light bulb to illuminate in all directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Yi-Pyng Gau
  • Publication number: 20170198867
    Abstract: A novel light fixture assembly 300, 301, 330, 340, 360, 370 and 400 with built-in adjustable mounting plates 71, 72, 73, 75, 101, 102, 103, 101a, 102a, 103a, 178 and 188 is disclosed. Easy installation with minimum on-site adapter fabrication is provided. Additionally, a hinge mechanism 95, 96 is shown providing easy access to the interior of the light fixture assembly. Angular adjustment of the front face or faces of the light fixture is also possible using the said hinge mechanism. Various modern control functions are disclosed such as wireless and wired controls for light dimming, color change, timing, occupancy sensing, programmability etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Frank Albert Bilan, Albert Lee Kramp, Robert Lee Williams
  • Publication number: 20170198868
    Abstract: An LED-based replacement light comprises multiple LEDs, the LEDs having different logical control addresses associated among them, with each logical control address subjecting one or more of the LEDs associated therewith to individual control; a controller in communication with the LEDs, the controller configured to generate signals that individually control the operating states of the one or more LEDs associated with each logical control address; a housing for the LEDs; and a connector disposed at an end of the housing, the connector shaped for connection with a light socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: James R. Scapa, John Ivey, James M. Amrine, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20170198869
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a driver base and a plurality of elongated light tubes. The driver base may include a driver configured to convert an external alternating-current (AC) power to a direct-current (DC) power and supply the DC power to the plurality of elongated light tubes. A first side of the driver base may have an electric connector connecting to an external AC power source. Each of the plurality of elongated light tubes may protrude independently out of a second side of the driver base. An aggregate lighting angle of the plurality of elongated light tubes may be 360 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Yiu Maa, Chun-Te Yu
  • Publication number: 20170198870
    Abstract: An automatic lamp installation mechanism includes a support element having one end of rotatably connected to a side of a fixing base; an elastic element arranged between the support element and the fixing base, a fixing element provided on the support element and including a first catch element; and a limiting element provided on the side of the fixing base and having a triggering element and a second catch element, wherein the triggering element is located apart from the fixing base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Liangju WU
  • Publication number: 20170198871
    Abstract: A lighting system is provided that is formed of a number of separate lighting elements that each include an attachment member or bracket secured to the lighting element. Each element is readily attachable to a wall storage system to secure the lighting element where desired such that the lighting element can illuminate the desired area of the storage system. The individual lighting elements are connected to one another by interconnecting members that can be selectively engaged between the lighting elements placed in the desired configuration, and rotatable clips of the brackets can be utilized to orient the lighting elements in the desired manner on the wall storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: John Keenan
  • Publication number: 20170198872
    Abstract: A plurality of lighting pendants and a distributor are arranged in a cluster and hung vertically. The distributor includes a plurality of sockets, one socket being connected to a hanger for receiving power and the remaining sockets being connected to the pendants to support the pendants and to provide power thereto. The pendants include parallel rods terminating in rod ends that slide into the respective sockets and then are attached to the distributor using set screws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Publication number: 20170198873
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus may include a collapsible shade formed from a semitransparent material and a housing. The housing may have a substantially cylindrical shape including a first end and a second end, and the collapsible shade may be coupled to a first end of the housing. The housing may include a light-emitting diode (LED) circuit including an LED coupled to the second end of the housing. Further, a user-selectable button may be coupled to the housing. The apparatus may also include a control circuit within the housing and coupled to the user-selectable button and to the LED circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control the LED to emit light having a selected wavelength and a selected brightness in response to selection of the user-selectable button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: James T Ashmore, Nicholas J Ashmore
  • Publication number: 20170198874
    Abstract: A luminaire includes an excitation light source which emits excitation light. A first fluorescent plate includes a first principle surface disposed across the optical axis of the excitation light. A first phosphor layer is arranged discretely along the first principle surface. A second fluorescent plate is arranged at the downstream side of the excitation light with respect to the first fluorescent plate. The second fluorescent plate includes a second principle surface disposed across the optical axis. A second phosphor layer is arranged discretely along the second principle surface. The second phosphor layer has a wavelength conversion characteristic different from a wavelength conversion characteristic of the first phosphor layer. A support supports the first fluorescent plate and the second fluorescent plate such that at least one of relative positions and rotations of the first fluorescent plate and the second fluorescent plate are adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUNAMI, Shintaro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170198875
    Abstract: A retrofit lamp (310) is provided. The retrofit lamp comprises a connector (311) for mounting the lamp at an automotive headlight; a body (312) extending from the connector along an axis (313); and a plurality of light emitting diodes (314) arranged at the body. The light emitting diodes are arranged along the axis and adapted to emit light (331, 332) laterally with respect to the axis. The retrofit lamp further comprises a reflective element (315) arranged at an end of the arrangement of light emitting diodes opposite to the connector. The reflective element is adapted to reflect some light (332) emitted by the light emitting diodes. Additionally—the extension of the arrangement of light emitting diodes along the axis is shorter than a light emitting a area (114) of a reference replaceable headlight bulb (110), and—the reflective element (315) is configured to establish a virtual prolongation (340) of the arrangement of LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Martinus Petrus CREUSEN, Lukas KUEPPER, Ludovicus Johannes Lambertus HAENEN
  • Publication number: 20170198876
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device (1), in particular for an automotive vehicle, comprising at least one light source (2) capable of emitting light rays (6) to form a light beam (17) and an optical projection system (4) configured to project the light beam (17) along an optical axis (16), characterized in that it additionally comprises a wavelength conversion element (5) configured to receive the light rays (6) emitted by the light source (2) and to re-emit light radiation creating said light beam (17) in the direction of the optical projection system (4), and scanning means (3) configured to scan the light rays (6) emitted by the light source (2) over the conversion element (5), the conversion element (5) being convexly curved toward the scanning means (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Loic BOINET
  • Publication number: 20170198877
    Abstract: A headlight module includes: a light source for emitting light; a condensing optical element for concentrating the light; and an optical element including an incident surface for receiving the concentrated light, a reflecting surface for reflecting the received light, and an emitting surface for emitting the reflected light. The condensing optical element changes a divergence angle of the light to form a light distribution pattern. The reflected light and light that enters the optical element and is not reflected by the reflecting surface are superposed on a plane including a point located at a focal position of the emitting surface in a direction of an optical axis of the emitting surface and being perpendicular to the optical axis, thereby forming a high luminous intensity region in the light distribution pattern on the plane. The emitting surface has positive refractive power and projects the light distribution pattern formed on the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashige SUWA, Ritsuya OSHIMA, Kuniko KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170198878
    Abstract: A shield driving device for a headlamp, which operates a rotary shield that selectively blocks a portion of light emitted from a light source to an aspherical lens, the shield driving device may include the rotary shield disposed in front of the light source, and performing a closing operation for blocking the portion of light from the light source, and an opening operation for unblocking the portion of the light while rotating about a rotating shaft, a shield controlling cam disposed below the rotary shield to be rotatable in a state of being in contact with a cam contact portion of the rotary shield, and rotating simultaneously with the cam contact portion by frictional force caused by contact, and an actuator which transmits rotational power to the shield controlling cam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seong Hoon LEE, Young Sub OH, Su Ho BAE
  • Publication number: 20170198879
    Abstract: A lighting module for an automotive vehicle. The module comprises a support, for example made by a heat dissipation device, and a printed circuit board accommodating at least one light source of a first type. The printed circuit board is housed on the support. The lighting module proposes allowing light sources of a second type, generating, for example, a different amount of heat, to be housed so that the rays arising from the two types of sources may be coupled into one and the same light guide, while efficiently dissipating the heat generated by each of the types of light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jose-Ramon MARTINEZ-PEREZ, Antonio Domingo ILLAN, Jose-David ROLDAN, Miguel-Angel PENA, Manuel Calmaestra
  • Publication number: 20170198880
    Abstract: We disclose a hardware supporting structure that we call drop box, designed to keep LED light emitters in fixed position in space while emitting light toward the higher parts of the walls around a room and to the ceiling above the room. Our invention assumes that the walls and the ceiling are good reflectors, painted with such pigments as to reflect 90% of the light (typical value), which is the case for most rooms, and which is a limiting factor for our invention. The position and direction of the LEDs of our invention, illuminating the upper part of the walls and the ceiling, is such that there is no need for the frosty material covering most existing luminaries. Because the frosty enclosures only transmit 75% of the light that propagates through them (typical value), our invention improves on the energy efficiency of the luminaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiro
  • Publication number: 20170198881
    Abstract: A luminaire assembly includes a substrate; light emitting elements (LEEs) secured to the substrate; optical couplers arranged along the substrate, each optical coupler being positioned to receive light emitting from a corresponding one of the LEEs and to direct the light in a forward direction orthogonal to the substrate; a redirecting surface spaced apart from the couplers along the forward direction to reflect the light from the optical couplers to an ambient environment in a backward angular range; a housing comprising a support structure and a layer of a heat conducting material disposed on the support structure, where a thermal conductivity of the layer of heat conducting material is greater than a thermal conductivity of a material forming the support structure; and a heat coupling layer arranged between the substrate and the housing, the heat coupling layer being adjacent to the heat conducting material of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Charles R. McCreary, JR., Ferdinand Schinagl
  • Publication number: 20170198882
    Abstract: There is obtained a light emitting device including a configuration such that when a viewing angle is changed, a larger colour variation can be presented. The light emitting device comprises: an organic EL panel having a light emitting surface; a light diffusion layer provided on the light emitting surface; and a color difference creation layer provided on the light diffusion layer to receive lights from the light diffusion layer, change the lights in color and thus discharge them to allow a different color to be observed depending on a viewing angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Junya WAKAHARA, Naoki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170198883
    Abstract: A cable assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a printed circuit board (PCB) (2) received in the insulative housing, a light member (4) mounted on the PCB, a light guide member (5) mounted on the PCB, and a shading member (6) covering the light guide member. The insulative housing includes a housing body (11), a receiving cavity (12) enclosed by the housing body, and a light transmitting area (13) mounted on the housing body. The PCB is mounted in the receiving cavity and the light guide member opposes the light transmitting area to transmit light emitted by the light member to outside of the insulative housing. The light guide member (5) is integrally formed with the shading member (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: SHUAI-HUI HUANG, RU-YANG GUO, QING-MAN ZHU, JERRY WU
  • Publication number: 20170198884
    Abstract: This light flux control member comprises a first (second) light flux control member. The first light flux control member comprises an entry region including a Fresnel lens portion and an entry surface; an exit surface; and a reflective surface. The reflective surface is a rotationally symmetric surface with the central axis of the first light flux control member as the rotation axis. The reflective surface is formed such that the generatrix of the reflective surface is a concave curve relative to the entry surface and the outer peripheral portion of the reflective surface is distanced farther from an orthogonal plane compared to the inner peripheral portion thereof in a direction that follows an optical axis, which is the center of the total light flux of at least one light-emitting element, said orthogonal plane passing through an arbitrary point on the entry surface and being orthogonal to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170198885
    Abstract: An optical orientation device includes a support structure; an optical element having an optical surface interacting with a laser beam; and a mechanism mounted on the support structure rotating the optical element around mutually perpendicular first and second fixed rotation axes. The mechanism includes a first rotary assembly articulated around a first mobile support axis, which is rotary and perpendicular relative to the first rotation axis. The first rotary assembly is coupled to the support structure to rotate around the first rotation axis, so the optical element rotates around the first rotation axis and the first mobile support axis. A second rotary assembly rotates around a second mobile support axis perpendicular to the first mobile support axis. The beam passes through a cavity around the first rotation axis, the cavity facing the optical element. First and second linear actuators rotate the first rotary assembly and the second rotary assembly, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: FONDAZION ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECHNOLGIA
    Inventors: Darwin CALDWELL, Leonardo DE MATTOS, Gianluca PANE
  • Publication number: 20170198886
    Abstract: A work light includes a beveled elastomeric gasket coupling a selectively removable lens to a housing containing a light source and a variable voltage transformer for connecting the light source to a power supply. The elastomeric gasket fits snugly to the work light housing and the lens, creating a waterproof and dust-proof seal around the housing and lens. The housing is provided with cooling fins to help dissipate heat generated by the work light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Paul Burgess, Stephanie Burgess
  • Publication number: 20170198887
    Abstract: A radially adjustable landscape light fixture mount includes a mounting plate having a female threaded portion for affixing a light fixture thereto and a separate mounting stake having a locking lever. The mounting stake has a recessed portion for receiving the mounting plate and affixed light fixture. The locking lever has an open position and a closed position. When the locking lever is in the open position the radial position of the mounting plate and affixed light fixture can be adjusted relative to the mounting stake by a user. In the closed position the locking lever fixes the radial position of the mounting plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas E. Veloskey, Dillon J. Rak, Michael A. Huelsman
  • Publication number: 20170198888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switchgear cabinet luminaire comprising illuminants on the basis of light emitting diodes (31), consisting of an elongated luminaire housing comprising housing main body (1) and light-transmissive cover (32) and electrical connection elements and means for universal fixing that are provided on the luminaire housing. The luminaire body (1) is preferably embodied in a trough-like fashion and a plurality of spaced-apart cutouts or recesses (2) for releasably receiving a pivoting bearing carrier (3) are provided on the underside of said luminaire body and/or in the side wall region. The pivoting bearing carrier (3) has two side surfaces (4) connected via a web (5), wherein the side surfaces (4) each have a receptacle (6) for a pivoting spindle (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Seifert
  • Publication number: 20170198889
    Abstract: Modular lighting systems are provided that comprise lighting strips physically and electrically connectable with one another by way of flexible connectors. The lighting strip devices can be made of flexible or rigid material to allow for applying the lighting devices along flat as well as contoured surfaces and can be waterproof or water resistant. A modular lighting strip system is provided comprising: two or more lighting strips comprising a non-conductive substrate strip with an electrical circuit; a plurality of light sources operably connected to the electrical circuit; a plug or socket at opposing ends of the strip; one or more connectors for providing electrical and physical interconnection of the lighting strips comprising: one or more plug and/or socket and one or more flexible wires interconnecting the plugs or sockets, which are operably configured to provide for side-by-side interconnection of lighting strips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Charles Qing Li
  • Publication number: 20170198890
    Abstract: A display device includes a base structure, a plurality of modules coupled to the base structure, where each of the modules include a plurality of actuator assemblies. Each of the actuator assemblies is individually controllable to move the actuator assemblies between a retracted state and a plurality of extended states. A controller is coupled to each of the modules and is programmed to control the actuator assemblies to move the actuator assemblies between the retracted state and the plurality of extended states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: William Jefferson Jurewicz, James Allen Squires, Barrett David Haroldson, Lawrence Alexander Duarte, Jeremiah Matthew Hueske, Lo Chi Kwong, Shawn Roske, Julio Obelleiro, Mervin Perkins, Ryan West, Peter Revelas, Jonathan Kirschner, Lisa R. Marchbanks, Marjorie Presten, Katherine Marie Brown, Jeremy D. Billig, Gregory Oren Bryant
  • Publication number: 20170198891
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. The hangers and bars cooperate to allow the hangers to be placed anywhere along the bars. Pendants can be hanged on the bars singly, or in clusters. In this manner systems can be formed easily and quickly to achieve systems having various esthetic and utilitarian configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Publication number: 20170198892
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of bars, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Publication number: 20170198893
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. The hangers and bars cooperate to allow the hangers to be placed anywhere along the bars. The pendants and hangers may be sized and shaped so that the pendants trapped the ends of the hangers forming a supporting mechanical interlock therebetween. Pendants can be hanged on the bars singly, or in clusters. In this manner systems can be formed easily and quickly to achieve systems having various esthetic and utilitarian configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Publication number: 20170198894
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. A canopy with ferrules is used to attach the system to the ceiling or other structural surface. The canopy includes a cup and ferrules extending through the cup wall and supporting hangers attached thereto. The ferrules further provide electric power to the hangers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Publication number: 20170198895
    Abstract: A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of buses, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. The hangers and bars cooperate to allow the hangers to be placed anywhere along the bars. Pendants can be hanged on the bars singly, or in clusters. In this manner systems can be formed easily and quickly to achieve systems having various esthetic and utilitarian configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Robert A. Sonneman
  • Publication number: 20170198896
    Abstract: An elongate tubular lighting assembly having a body with a length between spaced first and second ends. The tubular lighting assembly has an elongate heat sink and a light source comprising LED emitters and first and second connectors respectively at the first and second body ends for securing the lighting assembly to a light fixture. The first connector has cooperating first and second parts having first and second surfaces. The first and second connector parts are configured so that the first and second surfaces are placed in confronting relationship to prevent separation of the first and second connector parts with the body in an operative state as an incident of the first connector part moving relative to the second connector part from a position fully separated from the second connector part in a substantially straight path that is transverse to the length of the body into an engaged position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Michael W. May
  • Publication number: 20170198897
    Abstract: The invention proposes a lighting module for a motor vehicle, including a modulated intensity source of coherent light. The features of the invention make it possible to increase the safety of a device of this kind by employing more robust fault detection than the prior art. A method for controlling a device of this kind is also proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Sebastian KRICK
  • Publication number: 20170198898
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting diode illumination type ellipsoidal spotlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Seung Hwan RO
  • Publication number: 20170198899
    Abstract: The present application is directed to heat sinks for light emitting devices. In particular, the heat sinks can provide effective heat dissipation in a variety of different orientations and positions. In one exemplary heat sink, different groups (110, 120, 130, 140) of essentially parallel fins (112, 122, 132, 142) can be separated and disposed at particular angles to form fluid channels (114, 124, 134, 144, 108 and 109) that enable fluid flow in different directions and orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: CHAD LOCKART, ZACHARY ROBERT WESSNER, JONATHAN STUART LEVY
  • Publication number: 20170198900
    Abstract: A luminaire assembly includes: a substrate extending along a first direction comprising a first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion; a plurality of light emitting elements (LEEs) secured to the substrate and arranged along the first direction; a light guide composed of a material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion different over an operating temperature range; a plurality of optical elements arranged along the first direction, each optical element being positioned to receive light emitted from a corresponding one or more of the LEEs and to direct the light to an edge of the light guide; a housing; and a heat coupling layer arranged between the substrate and the housing. The substrate and the heat coupling layer are constructed so that each of the plurality of LEEs, while secured to the substrate, remain registered with their corresponding optical element over the operating temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Ingo Speier
  • Publication number: 20170198901
    Abstract: A method generates superheated steam using heat generated in a boiler of an incineration plant. The pre-superheated steam is fed to a final superheater that includes a plurality of final superheater pipes through which the pre-superheated steam is guided and is finally superheated in the process. The final superheater pipes (are arranged at least partially in at least one cavity (formed in an interior of a wall element of the boiler and/or of a bulkhead arranged in the boiler. The cavity is closed off on a boiler side at least partially by a refractory material layer and is flowed over by flue gas released during combustion. A secondary medium flows through the cavity and is heated via heat transfer from the flue gas via the refractory material layer. The heated secondary medium is fed via a secondary medium feed line to a secondary heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN INOVA AG
    Inventors: Niculin BÜHLER, Felix KOLLER, Istvan SZEPESHAZY
  • Publication number: 20170198902
    Abstract: A burner apparatus for a fired-heater system and a method of burner operation wherein the burner fuel is ejected outside of the burner wall from a surrounding fuel discharge ring, or from a lateral elongate ejection bar in the case of a flat flame burner, to a combustion zone projecting from the forward end of burner wall. The burner apparatus and method reduce NOx production by a combination of enhanced internal flue gas recirculation and staged fuel operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Darton J. Zink, Rex K. Isaacs, Jonathon Barnes, Parker Imel, Seth Marty, Cody Little, John McDonald
  • Publication number: 20170198903
    Abstract: A method for turning an atomizing burner from an ON state to an OFF state is provided. The burner has independently controllable flows of atomizing air, combustion air, and fuel flow, the burner in the ON state having flow values of burner parameters including flow of atomizing air, flow of combustion air, and fuel flow. The method includes: changing, in response to an OFF instruction, flow of at least one of the flow of atomizing air, combustion air and/or fuel to a lower non-zero value; first discontinuing, after a first period of time since the changing, flow of fuel and flow of atomizing air; maintaining, for a second period of time since the first period of time, flow of combustion air; second discontinuing, after the maintaining, flow of combustion air; wherein the maintaining prevents buildup of excess heat inside the burner during the transition to the OFF state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew D. BABINGTON, Juan Carlos LEMUS, Nigel JONES, Robert L. BABINGTON, Robert S. BABINGTON
  • Publication number: 20170198904
    Abstract: An oxy-gaseous fuel burner (400, 500) or a solid fuel burner (700) having an annular cavity (404, 504, 704) upstream from and proximate to an outlet plane (416, 516, 716) and a converging (434, 734) or converging-diverging nozzle (537) located upstream from and proximal to the cavity (404, 504, 704). The solid fuel burner (700) also is preferably operated so that the velocity of gas exiting a second annulus (730) is less than the velocity of gas exiting a central conduit (710).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Anup Vasant Sane, Avishek Guha
  • Publication number: 20170198905
    Abstract: An oxy-gaseous fuel burner (400, 500) or a solid fuel burner (700) having an annular cavity (404, 504, 704) upstream from and proximate to an outlet plane (416, 516, 716) and a converging (434, 734) or converging-diverging nozzle (537) located upstream from and proximal to the cavity (404, 504, 704). The solid fuel burner (700) also is preferably operated so that the velocity of gas exiting a second annulus (730) is less than the velocity of gas exiting a central conduit (710).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Anup Vasant Sane, Avishek Guha
  • Publication number: 20170198906
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for reclaiming uncondensed hydrocarbons normally exhausted to the atmosphere from a still column of a glycol dehydrator system, and combusting the uncondensed hydrocarbons in a burner assembly of a reboiler after the burner assembly has been ignited by fuel gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: D. Jeffrey Hill, J. Scott Hill, E. Todd Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20170198907
    Abstract: A method of combusting a sulfur-containing carbonaceous material with ash treatment includes: feeding a feed containing the sulfur-containing carbonaceous material and limestone into a furnace; combusting the feed in the furnace so as to generate preliminary fly and bottom ashes; hydrating the preliminary fly and bottom ashes to form a hydrated material; recycling the hydrated materials into the furnace so as to generate secondary fly and bottom ashes; and reacting the secondary fly and bottom ashes with a sulfuric acid solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Hsiu-Po KUO, An-Ni HUANG
  • Publication number: 20170198908
    Abstract: An example rotational flow and sink flow coupling integrated system may include a spray layer, a slurry pool, a circulating pump, a rotational flow and sink flow coupling device, and a tube bundle-type dedusting and demisting device. The rotational flow and sink flow coupling device, which includes a plurality of rotational flow and sink flow coupling units and supporting beams for supporting the rotational flow and sink flow coupling device which are located therebelow, is mounted above the slurry pool and below the spray layer. The tube bundle-type dedusting and demisting device is arranged on top of a tower body; each rotational flow and sink flow coupling unit includes a rotational flow cylinder, a rotational flow rotor, and a flow guiding device. Both the components described in this paragraph and any other additional components may be implemented in various ways according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Beijing SPC Environment Protection Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaiyuan Zhang