Patents Issued in April 19, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180106421
    Abstract: A mounting bracket for storing large items, such as ladders, off of the ground and on a wall structure. The bracket can store up to three ladders or similar items using a pair of mounting prongs forming a Y-bracket, and a pair of mounting hooks which can receive bungee cords for stretching and connecting around ladder rungs. The bracket can mount to a wall structure by inserting mounting screws through a pair of mounting holes and drilling the mounting screws into the wall or a wall stud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Mark S. Zarantonello
  • Publication number: 20180106422
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic gimbal with camera and mounting configuration. The gimbal can include an inertial measurement unit which can sense the orientation of the camera and three electronic motors which can manipulate the orientation of the camera. The gimbal can be removably coupled to a variety of mount platforms, such as an aerial vehicle, a handheld grip, or a rotating platform. Moreover, a camera can be removably coupled to the gimbal and can be held in a removable camera frame. Also disclosed is a system for allowing the platform, to which the gimbal is mounted, to control settings of the camera or to trigger actions on the camera, such as taking a picture, or initiating the recording of a video. The gimbal can also provide a connection between the camera and the mount platform, such that the mount platform receives images and video content from the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Noriaki Saika, Ryan Harrison, Joshua Todd Druker, Himay Rashmikant Shukla, Nenad Uzunovic, Edward Gordon Russell, Gary Fong
  • Publication number: 20180106423
    Abstract: Present invention provides for magnetic clamping tools where desired angles can be selectively set by adjusting a tightening mechanism in a locking hinge connecting two arm pieces, as well as some preset angles of 30-degree, 45-degree and 90-degree; each of the arm piece is disposed between two opposite covers that are made of magnetizable materials, serving to provide the contact angle to the work pieces being held/worked on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Harry Wong
  • Publication number: 20180106424
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a target mounting fixture, including: a target fixing frame for fixing a target, the target fixing frame including a hoisting portion; a target carrier detachably connected to the target fixing frame; and a moving unit connected to the target carrier for moving the target carrier to move the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deyong WANG, Tong WANG, Yang XIA, Sai ZHANG, Qiong YANG, Xintao BAO, Beifan MA, Deguo HE, Quan ZHANG, Mianen CHEN, Liang PENG, Zengli LIU
  • Publication number: 20180106425
    Abstract: The disclosed balancing support interface provides an interface between a payload stabilizer, such as a motorized camera stabilizer, and a counterbalancing arm or other support apparatus. A balancing support interface to connect a payload stabilizer to a support structure and provide degrees of freedom to supplement any degrees of freedom provided by the payload stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Garrett W. Brown
  • Publication number: 20180106426
    Abstract: A container for collecting a lubricant including a housing having a longitudinal axial extension between a first end connectable to a source of lubricant and a longitudinally opposite second end, a cap attached to the second end, a piston slidably movable inside the housing between the first end and the second end of the housing. The cap is attached to the second end of the housing by a snap connection for blocking the axial translation between cap and the housing, the cap and the housing having respectively a first flat surface and a second flat surface contacting each other for preventing rotation of the cap around a longitudinal axis of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Jacob Djernes Madsen, Kenneth Stoltenberg Larsen
  • Publication number: 20180106427
    Abstract: A novel tank cryogenic-compatible composite pressure vessel that beneficially utilizes Vapor Cooled Shielding (VCS) is introduced to minimize thermal gradients along support structures and reduces heat loads on cryogenic systems. In particular, the configurations and mechanisms to be utilized herein include: providing for a desired number of passageways and a given thickness of the VCS, reducing the thermal conductivity of the VCS material, and increasing the cooling capacitance of the hydrogen vapors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Jacob William Leachman, Patrick Marshall Adam
  • Publication number: 20180106428
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying a fluid to an object surface comprises a metering valve, an actuator for moving the metering valve relative to the object surface in at least one spatial direction, and an electronic control device that is in signal communication with the metering valve and the actuator and that is configured to move the metering valve along a predefined metering path and to open it once or a multiple of times within the metering path for a fluid dispensing. The electronic control device comprises means for a time synchronization of the movement of the actuator, on the one hand, and of the opening and closing of the metering valve, on the other hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Martin Reuter
  • Publication number: 20180106429
    Abstract: A retention assembly for a valve assembly of a charged cylinder may comprise a first fitting coupled to the valve assembly and a second fitting coupled to the charged cylinder. A retaining member may be coupled between the first fitting and the second fitting. The retaining member may be disposed within an interior chamber of the charged cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Schmidt, James Baglini, JR., Nick Ruegsegger
  • Publication number: 20180106430
    Abstract: A system to maintain an inert ullage in a hydrocarbon tank. The system provides for outgassing/venting of ullage gases when a high pressure event is found within the tank. Further, when a low pressure event occurs, during fuel discharge or based on ambient conditions, a source of inert gas, such as nitrogen) supplies gas on-demand to the hydrocarbon tank via a pressure regulator (preferably along the venting system) to maintain both the pressure and inerting of the ullage. A method for maintaining the inert ullage is also provided, whereby a low pressure event triggers a supply of inert gas into the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Gregory E. Young, Zane A. Miller
  • Publication number: 20180106431
    Abstract: A connecting device comprising, a piercing housing for receiving the neck of a gas cylinder with a top surface comprising a gas outlet the piercing housing is defined by an opening, side wall and a bottom wall a piercing member arranged in the piercing housing for piercing the gas outlet of the gas cylinder a container defining a space for retaining the gas cylinder a protection cap being provided in the piercing housing which encloses the piercing member partially and can be pushed axially relative to the piercing member, wherein the axial direction coincides with the axis of the gas cylinder, wherein a male portion is provided on the protection cap for connecting the protection cap with the neck of the gas cylinder on which a female portion is present, wherein the female portion has a corresponding shape for being inserted in the male portion, the male portion and the female portion are fitted with each other when a correct position is achieved so that after the fitting the both portions cannot be rotate
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Felix Timm, Benjamin Lehnert, Tobias Neuber
  • Publication number: 20180106432
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting means (71) comprising at least two LEDs (3) mounted on apposite sides (21a, b) of a flat printed circuit board (1), said printed circuit board (1) being combined with a reflector (2) which is free of LEDs, a part of the light emitted by each LED (3) being reflected by the reflector (2) to homogenize the light distribution generated by the lighting means (71), and specifically in each case with a directional component parallel to a surface direction (24) of the flat printed circuit board (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Krister Bergenek, Florian Bosl, Andreas Dobner, Tobias Schmidt, Andreas Kloss, Frank Vollkommer
  • Publication number: 20180106433
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a bulb and bulb holder adapter kit, comprising an LED bulb body provided with a bottom interface and a lateral interface, and an bulb holder assembly comprising at least one first adapter and at least one second adapter. Each of the first adapter and the second adapter comprises at one end a screw portion, a first contact and a second contact, and at the other end an insertion portion and terminals. The screw portion and the LED bulb body are connected by matched screw threads, and the insertion portion is provided with a square column and pins. Each of the first adapter and the second adapter comprises a housing sleeved on the screw portion, and the first adapter further comprises an intermediate housing between the screw portion and the housing thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Max .
  • Publication number: 20180106434
    Abstract: A light emitting diode illumination device comprises a light-transmitting encapsulant, a transparent core, a light source plate stereoscopic structure and a power supply device. The light-transmitting encapsulant and the transparent core can be made of glass material. The light source plate stereoscopic structure is constituted by a plurality of connecting sub-light source plates. The light source plate stereoscopic structure installed in the light-transmitting encapsulant is connected to the transparent core, and is supported by the transparent core. The sub-light source plate comprises a circuit board body and light-emitting diode dies. The light-emitting diode dies can be installed on one surface of the circuit board body by surface-mount technology. The power supply device is used for supplying power to the sub-light source plates, so that a plurality of sub-light source plates may provide illumination through the light-transmitting encapsulant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Yanzeng Gao, Minghao Wu, Feng Wu
  • Publication number: 20180106435
    Abstract: An LED filament light including a bulb, a support bar, at least two electrode wires and at least two LED filament strips. Each LED filament strip including a base, an LED chip is set on the base and an electrode chip is fixed at both ends of the base. One end of the electrode chip is electrically connected with an LED chip on the base, the other end of the electrode chip is electrically connected with an electrode chip of another LED filament or electrically connected to one end of the electrode wires so that the support bar is fixed to the bulb, and the other end is connected with at least one. As the support bar is set to replace the existing LED filament light core and metal wire, and creatively the LED filament electrode chips directly is connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Minghao Wu, Yanzeng Gao, Feng Wu, Fuwen Li
  • Publication number: 20180106436
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method for producing an optoelectronic device is provided. The method may include in the following order: providing a substrate, having a first state having a non-planar shape, reshaping the substrate into a second state. The second state has a planar or substantially planar shape. The method may further include forming at least one optoelectronic component on the substrate and reshaping the substrate into a third state. The third state is identical or substantially identical to the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastian Wittmann, Arne Fleissner, Erwin Lang, Nina Riegel
  • Publication number: 20180106437
    Abstract: A charging process of a rechargeable lighting device is controlled by a software algorithm and a microcontroller configured within the rechargeable lighting device which has first and the second charging contacts located on its exterior and the charging circuit is turned on when a cradle detection circuit detects that at least one of the charging contacts engages an electrical contact when the rechargeable lighting device is inserted into a charging cradle. The charging process begins with a charge-current which is constant and a battery charge-voltage which rises up to a nominal battery charge-voltage. The rechargeable lighting device recovers to a preselected condition through use of a power interruption avoidance algorithm configured within the microcontroller when there is a loss of power to the microcontroller of less than a preselected amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Mag Instrument, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Maglica, Benny M. Osorio, Stacey H. West
  • Publication number: 20180106438
    Abstract: Disclosed is an illuminating safety net which includes a net body which has a quadrilateral perimeter of elongate tensile members, and a plurality of elongate tensile elements attached to the perimeter and extending within the perimeter in at least two transverse directions; and an elongate flexible lighting strip engaged to the net body along at least part of a perimeter edge of the perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Brendan Robert CROMPTON
  • Publication number: 20180106439
    Abstract: A light placement system includes a mounting strip including an illuminating device. The light placement system also includes a clip that is attached to a surface of an object and holds the mounting strip to illuminate an area of the object. The surface is an internal surface that is not visible from an external appearance of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Sahil DHALI, Kannan SUNDARAM
  • Publication number: 20180106440
    Abstract: A jig for a sample for a solar photovoltaic device is disclosed. The jig includes a cradle unit supporting the sample and a contact unit including at least one probe pin coming into contact with a busbar of the sample located in the cradle unit. The contact unit includes a coupling plate coupled with the cradle unit and at least one contact bar including a PCB and connected to the coupling plate, the contact bar having at least one probe pin aligned with the busbar of the sample with interposition of a probe pin connecting block. the jig includes a rotation support unit coupled with the cradle unit by a rotation shaft to allow the cradle unit to be rotated at an angle of 180° or greater so that upper and lower surfaces of the sample supported by the cradle unit are reversed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Seung-kyu AHN, Jun-sik CHO, Jae-ho YUN, Se-jin AHN, Jihye GWAK, Jin-su YOO, Joo-hyung PARK, Young-joo EO, Ara CHO, Kihwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20180106441
    Abstract: A a system for a luminaire comprising a lighting and a non-lighting module. A controller is provided for controlling the operation of a communication unit and a signalling unit in accordance with environmental parameters sensed by a sensor unit, the sensor unit generating an event signal when the environmental parameters exceed a predetermined threshold and the signalling unit providing an alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: SCHREDER
    Inventor: André Papoular
  • Publication number: 20180106442
    Abstract: A external light control device for equatorially located building utilizes tilting external light shelves that are capable of tilting backward (toward the building) from a vertical orientation to reflect low am (or late pm) sun away from occupants, but are deployed at a tilt away from the building exterior to capture more sun closer to noon time. The structure preferably integrate IR rejecting coating for incident light which is re-directed by TIR surface disposed normal to the thin film layers in a multi-layer IR reflective coating. The panel may be monolithic or comprise tilting louvers, which can be metallic, dielectric, or TIR reflectors. The louvers preferably also tilt in response to the determined sun position with the panel to optimize light utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: MARK E. GARDINER
  • Publication number: 20180106443
    Abstract: A daylighting device includes a photo-voltaic (PV) device that is mounted in or proximate to the daylighting device that provides sunlight to a service area. The PV device generates a power signal from incident sunlight. The power signal provides operational power to circuitry associated with the daylighting device, such as a transmitter that transmits a value representing the intensity of light on or near the daylighting device. This signal, which is generated either from the power signal or from a signal provided by a photosensor mounted in or proximate to the daylighting device, may be used by a control system to adjust light levels provided by artificial light sources to supplement the sunlight provided by the daylighting device to approach the desired light level in the service area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Shannin, Audwin Cash
  • Publication number: 20180106444
    Abstract: A lens of vehicular light has an entrance surface comprising: an upper part entrance surface for allowing light from the light source to enter, said light source being irradiated in an upper direction at a greater angle than a predetermined upper irradiation angle; a lower part entrance surface for allowing light from the light source to enter, the light source being irradiated in a lower direction at a greater angle than a predetermined lower irradiation angle; and a central entrance surface between the upper part entrance surface and the lower part entrance surface. The lower part entrance surface has a first lower part entrance surface on the light source optical axis side, and a second lower part entrance surface below the first lower part entrance surface. The lens performs the light distribution control whereby the light entering in the second lower part entrance surface is irradiated in a lower direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20180106445
    Abstract: This vehicle lamp includes a light source part having a semiconductor-type light source, a second lens disposed in front of the light source and having a second lens part, and a first lens disposed between the light source and the second lens and having a first lens part that converts a light cone of the light source into a cone connecting the second lens part and a basic focal point P of the second lens part, wherein the first lens part is formed such that it radiates the light coming from the light source and entering an incident surface located on the horizontally outer side of the first lens part after converting it into inward light so that the light enters an incident surface located on the horizontally outer side of the second lens part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20180106446
    Abstract: This relates to a light guide for a lighting device for a vehicle, including at least one woven flat body and a plurality of optical fibers, which at least partly build the flat body. All or some of the optical fibers comprise at least one coupling section. Each coupling section is disposable or disposed in a socket of the lighting device to receive light from a light source of the lighting device. The optical fibers include at least one light decoupling section being part of at least one illumination section of the woven flat body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Eugen Meier, David Derry Chamberlain, Robert Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20180106447
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a first light source, a second light source, a rotary reflector rotating around its rotation axis while reflecting a first light emitted from the first light source, and a projection lens configured to project the first light reflected by the rotary reflector in a light irradiation direction of the optical unit. The second light source is disposed such that a second light emitted from the second light source is incident on the projection lens without being reflected by the rotary reflector. The projection lens is configured to project the second light in the light irradiation direction of the optical unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetada Tanaka, Takayuki Yagi
  • Publication number: 20180106448
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lighting device for vehicle includes a socket containing a high heat conductive resin; a light emitting unit which is provided at one end portion of the socket, and includes a substrate which contains ceramic, and a light emitting element provided on the substrate. A face of the substrate on a side opposite to a side on which the light emitting element is provided is in contact with one end portion of the socket. Power applied to the light emitting element is 1 W or more and 3 W or less. The high heat conductive resin contains polyamide, and filler containing carbon, and has heat conductivity of 15 W/(m·K) or more, and 33 W/(m·K) or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20180106449
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a holder that holds an optical fiber, a wavelength converter that wavelength-converts laser light emitted from the optical fiber, and a case that is made of metal, holds the wavelength converter, and houses the holder. The holder includes a main body having a lead end face from which the laser light is emitted, and a flange projecting from an outer circumferential face of a base end of the main body. The case has a through hole penetrating from one end face to another end face, and the wavelength converter is attached to the case to be coaxial with the through hole. The through hole houses the main body, and has an abutting face which the lead end face of the main body abuts. The flange is secured to the case in a state where the lead end face of the main body abuts the abutting face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi KITAOKA, Hideharu KAWACHI, Sachiko AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20180106450
    Abstract: A lighting device for vehicles having a light source and having an optical unit for generating a predetermined light distribution, wherein the optical unit has a micro-optical array having a plurality of micro-optical elements and a microshutter array having a plurality of microshutter elements, wherein the microshutter array has a thickness in the range of 0.1 mm to 2.00 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Edwin N. KAMAU, Franziska KLEY
  • Publication number: 20180106451
    Abstract: A laser car lamp includes a plurality of laser diodes, at least one light guide element, a phosphor element, and a lens. The light guide element has a laser light incident surface and a laser light exit surface. The phosphor element is located adjacent to the laser light exit surface of the light guide element, and the lens is located adjacent to the laser light incident surface of the light guide element. In addition, the laser diodes are arranged around the laser light incident surface of the light guide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Tsung-Xian LEE, Ching-Chia CHOU, Kuei-Chun LIU
  • Publication number: 20180106452
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aspherical lens module of a vehicle headlamp configured such that a position light function is added to the existing functions of a low beam or high beam without increasing the size of the lamp module. Further, the aspherical lens module of a headlamp is configured such that the quantity of required light of a low beam or high beam is not reduced when the position light function is added to them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Seong Hoon Lee, Kyu Geol Lee
  • Publication number: 20180106453
    Abstract: A headlamp including a matrix static bending lights (SBL) optical system, which enables light to be turned on/off. The headlamp includes a headlamp body installed in a front region of a vehicle and including a main optical system for irradiating light, corresponding to one of a low beam headlight, a high beam headlight, and a glare free high beam (GFHB) headlight, onto the front of the vehicle, a reflective structure disposed on one side surface of the inside of a housing of the headlamp body with respect to a direction intersecting an installation reference direction of the main optical system and including a plurality of reflective surfaces, and a light source unit disposed apart from the reflective structure and including a plurality of light source chips that target at a reflective surface of the reflective structure and irradiate light onto the targeted reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Hyung Rok SHIM
  • Publication number: 20180106454
    Abstract: A headlight for a vehicle with a projector includes a reflector, a light source, a diaphragm, and a collimating optical element. The reflector includes a bowl-shaped reflective surface, which presents the shape of a concave curve in a cross-section formed by a vertical plane passing through the optical axis of the projector. The light source is positioned substantially at the source focal point of the curve. The diaphragm is positioned substantially at the image focal point of the curve to create a light-darkness boundary in front of the vehicle. The optical element is for collimation of the output light beam into the required direction. The diaphragm is made of a transparent material and includes one or more optical surfaces arranged to direct those rays that have fallen onto it and passed through it to the collimating element directly, or through a supplementary optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Jan Kratochvil, Dana Pekarkova, Radek Orlita
  • Publication number: 20180106455
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicular headlamp including an excitation light source, a phosphor excited by the excitation light source, a projection lens, and a scanning mechanism configured to receive light generated by an excitation light source array on a reflective surface of a reflector and scan the light toward the phosphor. The excitation light source is formed as the excitation light source array having a plurality of light emitting portions. Between the excitation light source array and the scanning mechanism, a lens array having a plurality of light condensing portions is provided. The plurality of light condensing portions are arranged to respectively face the plurality of light emitting portions, and configured to condense lights emitted from respective light emitting portions on the reflective surface, respectively, and arrange respective optical images of reflected lights on the phosphor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Naoki Uchida, Noriko Sato
  • Publication number: 20180106456
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle lamp, the vehicle lamp including a light source that emits light, and a light-guiding component that includes (i) a light-guiding component main body having an end portion at one end in a longitudinal direction thereof through which light from the light source is guided in and having an emission surface from which light reflected by a step portion is emitted out, and also having pairs of inclined surfaces that, when looked at in a cross-sectional view taken in the longitudinal direction thereof, extend on an inclination relative to the emission surface and are disposed facing each other, a plurality of the pairs of inclined surfaces being disposed in the longitudinal direction, and (ii) differential refractive index layers that are interposed between the pairs of inclined surfaces and have a lower refractive index than the refractive index of the light-guiding component main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi ASO
  • Publication number: 20180106457
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device has a housing and a ventilating device with an air supply line, which has an air intake opening, and which tapers away from the air intake opening in the form of a funnel, and which has an air outlet opening. The ventilating device includes a water collecting chamber, into which the air supply line opens with a transition cross section, and which has a water discharge opening and an air outlet opening, wherein the water discharge opening is disposed lower than the air outlet opening in an intended use of the ventilating device in a motor vehicle. A clearance of the water collecting chamber lying between the transition cross section and the air outlet opening is greater than the transition cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Jauernig, Uwe Schubert, Markus Kindler, Bernd Muehlbauer, Achim Bathe
  • Publication number: 20180106458
    Abstract: A lamp includes a fitting portion configured for being connected to an external source of electric power. A control module mounts on the fitting portion and is configured for receiving electric power from the fitting portion. A lighting portion mounts, in an optionally removable and spaced manner, on the control module and electrically connects to the control module in such a way as to be able to provide a luminous emission. The lighting portion includes a hollow body made of transparent or semi-transparent material and an intermediate element carried by the hollow body and having a plurality of light sources, in particular a plurality of LEDs. The hollow body includes an axial pass-through cavity facing towards the intermediate element. Through the lamp a luminous emission distribution is achieved that can be configured in accordance with lighting or design requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: George J. SOWDEN
  • Publication number: 20180106459
    Abstract: An optic has a freeform optical surface transforming incident light emitted by a zero-étendue light source to form an irradiation pattern including a caustic of light rays focused along a curve. The transverse thickness of the illuminated curve is determined by the diffraction limit of the wavelength of the incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brand
  • Publication number: 20180106460
    Abstract: The invention provides a lighting device (100) configured to generate lighting device light (101), wherein the lighting device light (101) includes an emission band (110) in the visible part of the spectrum which represents at least 80% of the total power (W) of the lighting device light (101) in the visible part of the spectrum, wherein the emission band (110) has a full width half maximum of at maximum 60 nm, and wherein the emission band (110) has a peak maximum (MM3), wherein said emission band (110) comprises luminescent material light (21), wherein the lighting device (100) comprises (i) a solid state-based light source (10), configured to generate light source light (11) having a peak maximum (MX2), and (ii) a luminescent material (20), configured to convert at least part of the light source light (11) into said luminescent material light (21), wherein the solid state-based light source (10) is configured to provide said light source light (11) with 0<MM3?MX2<60 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Ties VAN BOMMEL, Rifat Ata Mustafa HIKMET
  • Publication number: 20180106461
    Abstract: A light bulb is disclosed herein, which in general, includes a light transmitting bulb portion and a base portion. The light transmitting bulb portion includes a rotating light aperture. The base portion includes a motor for rotating the light aperture. The light transmitting bulb portion is rotated independently of the base portion to direct light produced by the light bulb in a direction defined by a rotational position of the light aperture. A controller, battery, and wireless transceiver are included in the light bulb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Hyrum Malone, Justin Robinson
  • Publication number: 20180106462
    Abstract: A display assembly having a first backlit display including a first panel with a first color image formed thereon, the first color image including a first transparent portion of a first color and a second transparent portion of a second color, a second panel including a first transparent portion of a first color and an opaque portion so that light from the light source does not pass through a corresponding portion of the first panel, and a light source that emits at least a first color light and a second color light, wherein the first color of the first transparent portion of the first panel is a different color than the first color of the first transparent portion of the second panel, and light from the light source passes through the first transparent portions of both the first panel and the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Lu Su, Samuel Yuehli Su
  • Publication number: 20180106463
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lamp. The lamp comprising a light source module and a shell module. The light source module comprising a circuit board provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements and a fixing ring. The fixing ring comprising an annular substrate, a sidewall connected to an outer edge of the annular substrate, and at least two flanges disposed on an outer surface of the sidewall. The circuit board is disposed on the annular substrate and surrounded by the sidewall. The shell module comprising a base. The base comprising a first surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, a receiving cavity formed on the first surface, and at least two sliding slots defined on an inner wall of the receiving cavity. The at least two flanges are received in the at least two sliding slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: YI-ZHAO ZUO
  • Publication number: 20180106464
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting device (1) comprising an envelope (100), a light generating unit (120) comprising at least one solid state light source, a stem (130) arranged to support the light generating unit (120) inside the envelope (100), a mechanical fastening part (110) arranged to fasten the light generating unit (120) at the stem (130), and a locking mechanism (215, 315, 415) arranged to lock the mechanical fastening part (110) to the stem (130). One advantage with the present invention is to further secure the mechanical fastening part (110) to the stem (130) by the use of the locking mechanism (215, 315, 415) arranged to lock the mechanical fastening part (110) to the stem (130).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Winand Hendrik Anna Maria FRIEDERICHS, Vincent Stefan David GIELEN
  • Publication number: 20180106465
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a socket housing including a heat sink formed of a metal material and having a board attachment portion, and a resin-molded unit formed using a resin material as a base material and having thermal conductivity, a board attached to the board attachment portion, and a light emitting element mounted on the board and configured to function as a light source. The board attachment portion is formed with an attachment surface to which the board is attached and a covered surface which is covered with the resin-molded unit. A holding hole communicating with the covered surface is formed in the resin-molded unit. In the socket housing, the heat sink and the resin-molded unit are formed by integral molding when a portion of the covered surface and a portion of the attachment surface are pressed by a portion of a mold inserted through the holding hole and another portion of the mold, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Yoshimasa Murata, Takuya Serita
  • Publication number: 20180106466
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for simple installation and replacement device thereof is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Kam Kwan CHAN
  • Publication number: 20180106467
    Abstract: A stack unit is provided for a signal indicator lamp including a plurality of such stack units stacked in a stacking direction. The stack unit includes an outer member, an inner member provided in a first internal space of the outer member, a support portion provided on the outer member, a board held in a second internal space of the inner member, and a first connector and a second connector for external electrical connection. The support portion supports the inner member so that the inner member is rotatable relative to the outer member about a rotation axis extending in the stacking direction and immovable relative to the outer member in the stacking direction. The first connector is provided at one end of the board with respect to the stacking direction, and the second connector is provided at an other end of the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: PATLITE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki MASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20180106468
    Abstract: A merchandise display system may include a low voltage power assembly may comprise a track that includes one or more conductive rods and one or more mechanical connections, wherein the track is powered from a power source; and a power connector assembly that connects to the track, wherein the one or more conductive rods connect to the power assembly providing a power connection, and further wherein the one or more mechanical connections connect to the power assembly providing a mechanical connection. The power connector assembly may be configured to provide low voltage power through the track to a low voltage power device. The power assembly may include a configuration of mechanical connections and conductive material arranged in such a way as to provide power and/or signal distribution to a mating device, such as to a set of LED modules, other lighting sources, or powered track devices for use with a merchandise display system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Nicieja, Thomas E. Hubley
  • Publication number: 20180106469
    Abstract: A demountable wall system that includes a base trim that receives an accent lighting assembly. The lower trim of the demountable wall system includes one or more lighting base trim sections that receive an accent lighting assembly. The accent lighting assembly includes an extruded diffuser formed from a transparent plastic material. The diffuser receives a light strip having a series of spaced LED lights each positioned to project light through a curved, projection wall of the diffuser. When the accent lighting assembly is mounted to the lighting base trim member, the accent lighting assembly projects light downward toward the floor and onto an angled face wall of the lighting base trim member. The lighting base trim member can selectively replace decorative base trim members of the demountable wall system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Krueger International, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn D. Green
  • Publication number: 20180106470
    Abstract: A buoyant illuminated board having a board assembly with a deck, a bottom, first and second lateral sides, and at least one aperture. An electrical system has a power source, and at least one light source within the at least one aperture. A hatch assembly has a lid, and a housing that defines a cavity. The electrical system further comprises a controller, an amplifier, and a battery charger connector that are housed within the hatch assembly along with the power source. The at least one aperture may be elongated to define a channel. The at least one light source is a bulb, a light, a lamp, a light-emitting diode, a light-emitting diode strip, or rope lighting. The board assembly also has an exterior cover that covers the at least one light source within the at least one aperture, and may have a battery charger to recharge the power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Franco MARTINANGELI