Patents Issued in July 24, 2018
  • Patent number: 10030791
    Abstract: Articles are provided, having a first substrate and a polymeric structure wrapped around the first substrate at least two full circuits. The polymeric structure has a length, a width and a thickness, and comprises a crosslinked polymeric layer uniaxially oriented in the width direction at a draw ratio of at least 1.2:1. The length is greater than the width. A method is also provided including providing a polymeric structure, wrapping the polymeric structure around a first substrate at least two full circuits, positioning the polymeric structure at least partially within an aperture defined by a second substrate, and subjecting the polymeric structure to an elevated temperature above the transition temperature of the crosslinked polymeric layer and below the degradation temperature of each of the components in the polymeric structure. The thickness of the polymeric structure increases, creating at least a partial joint between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Joseph D. Rule, Sharilyn K. Loushin
  • Patent number: 10030792
    Abstract: An underground steel-concrete structure pipeline with a spiral composite reinforcement ring on an inner wall and a manufacturing method thereof. The pipeline includes a pipe body, multiple rows of concrete overflow holes spirally arranged on a pipe wall of the pipe body, a reinforcement ring capable of wrapping the concrete overflow holes, and concrete is filled in a hollow cavity between the reinforcement ring and the pipe wall to form a spiral concrete flow passage. The advantages are that the overall annular strength of the pipeline is reinforced by the reinforcement ring; the concrete filled between the reinforcement ring and the inner wall of the pipe body improves the compressive strength of the pipe body; the concrete overflowing from the overflow holes on the pipe wall combines the pipe body with a pit; and the pipeline solves the difficulty of using large-size steel structure products in underground common pipeline projects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NANJING LIANZHONG CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fujun Zhan
  • Patent number: 10030793
    Abstract: To produce a flexible pipe body, a length of tensile armour element (300) of pre-preg composite material is fed towards a fluid-retaining layer (602). The tensile armour element (300) passes through a guide (604) an a pre-heater (606). The tensile armour element (300) is then applied to the fluid-retaining layer (602), being wrapped around the fluid-etaining layer (602) by virtue of the rotation of the layer (602), the linear translation of the layer (602), and the fixed position of the tensile armour element feed (601). The element (300) is fed to the fluid-retaining layer under a constant, predetermined controlled tension. Positioning head (608) helps to position the element (300) on the fluid-retaining layer (602). As tensile armour element is wound onto the pipe body, the pipe body continues to move in a, linear direction and the pipe body moves through an oven (610).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas UK Limited
    Inventor: Neville Dodds
  • Patent number: 10030794
    Abstract: A corrugated tube includes: a tubular body including outer-face bellows recess sections outer-face bellows protruding sections in a circumferential direction as viewed from an outside, wherein the outer-face bellows recess section and the outer-face bellows protruding section are alternately arranged continuously in an axial direction of the tubular body. Deep groove sections are formed in some of the outer-face bellows recess sections. The deep groove section has: a shape being recessed partially in a predetermined range in the circumferential direction; a shape protruding toward an inner side of the tubular body; and a shape having a pair of tapered sections as viewed from the axial direction of the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Inao, Hidehiko Kuboshima, Hideomi Adachi, Kenta Yanazawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10030795
    Abstract: A crimp connection arrangement for pressurized pipes with a compression sleeve and a pipe, wherein an end piece of the pipe is insertable into the compression sleeve and wherein by an application of an external force to a pressing portion of the compression sleeve, a connection is achievable between the compression sleeve and the end piece of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventor: Joerg Altenrath
  • Patent number: 10030796
    Abstract: An agricultural planter includes a chassis, a pneumatic system carried by the chassis, and a row unit carried by the chassis. The row unit includes a unit body, a metering unit carried by the unit body, a flexible coupling locked onto the port by an inner lip formed on an inner surface of the coupling. The metering unit includes a port with a channel formed within the port. The coupling has a sliding region formed on an outer surface of the coupling. The row unit also includes a locking ring bound within the sliding region of the coupling. The locking ring is slidable across the sliding region between a locked position and an unlocked position, such that the locking ring prevents the coupling from deforming to allow the inner lip off the port in the locked position. The row unit also includes a hose connecting the pneumatic system to the channel of the port through the coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Chad M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10030797
    Abstract: An irrigation pipe and method of fabrication that utilizes a pipe that is made of a durable material, e.g., stainless steel or aluminum. During fabrication, the pipe is equipped with a plurality of components, i.e., a flange assembly, a truss mount, and an outlet, without drilling, welding, or the like. In this manner, a method of fabrication is provided that enables a plurality of components to be assembled to the pipe without compromising the integrity of the pipe material or treated surface so that galvanizing or painting is not required after the plurality of components have been fitted to the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Lindsay Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Korus, Charles H. Meis
  • Patent number: 10030798
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for electrically separating two fluid lines across a structural boundary. Fluid is transported between a first channel through a first fluid line and a second channel through a second fluid line across the structural boundary formed by a structure. The first channel and the second channel are connected by a channel formed by a fitting. The fitting is comprised of a first component, a second component, and an isolator. The first fluid line and the second fluid line are electrically separated using the isolator in the fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Gregory M. Waugh
  • Patent number: 10030799
    Abstract: A pipe joint for coupling to at least one pipe is disclosed in the present invention. The pipe joint includes a main body and at least one positioning socket. The main body has a runner and at least one opening communicated with the runner. The runner has an insertion area adjacent to the opening. The positioning socket has a head, an inserting portion, a pipe channel, a radial threaded hole and a bolt. The inserting portion is inserted into the runner via the opening. The pipe channel runs through the head and the inserting portion in an axial direction of the positioning socket. The threaded hole is formed on the head and communicated with the pipe channel. The bolt is adapted to engage with the threaded hole for abutting against the outer surface of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: IFOG COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ching Huang
  • Patent number: 10030800
    Abstract: A push-to-press inflation adaptor is provided for use with an English valve and includes a valve connector, a connection barrel, a coupler, an air tube, and a spring. The valve connector includes a first movement hole, a positioning cavity, a communication compartment, a valve opening and a constraint opening. The connection barrel is coupled to the valve connector. The connection barrel includes a second movement hole and an air tube opening. The coupler is received in the first movement hole and the second movement hole of the valve connector and the connection barrel and is reciprocally movable through application of a force thereto. The air tube is received through the air tube opening into the connection barrel to be jointed to the coupler. The spring is supported between the coupler and the connection barrel to provide a preloading force to bias the coupler in a direction toward the constraint opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: BETO ENGINEERING AND MARKETING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lopin Wang
  • Patent number: 10030801
    Abstract: A direct electric heating (DEH) system for heating a subsea pipeline is provided. The DEH system includes a subsea power cable adapted to be coupled to a three phase electric power source. The DEH system further includes two or more subsea DEH modules. Each subsea module of the two or more subsea DEH modules is provided for heating a different pipeline section of the subsea pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Damir Radan, Björn Rasch
  • Patent number: 10030802
    Abstract: Closure element for tightly closing a bore, the closure body of which closure element can be pressed into the bore with an oversize. In order to avoid damage to the bore, the closure body is designed as a hollow body. In this way, the closure body can deform slightly as the closure body is pressed into the bore and can thereby reduce the radial pressure on the wall of the borehole. At the same time, the weight of the closure element is reduced. The closure element is preferably a hollow sphere having uniform wall thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SFC KOENIG AG
    Inventors: Jürg Krauer, Robert Hollinger
  • Patent number: 10030803
    Abstract: Provided herein is a robot for inspection of a pipeline using a multi-output differential module, the robot including a robot body configured to move along an inside of the pipeline, and having a driving power supply unit; a proceeding unit rotatably-connected to the robot body, and provided with a plurality of active proceeding units having proceeding wheels that proceed along an inner wall of the pipeline; and a power transmission unit supported against the robot body, connected to the driving power supply unit to transmit driving power to the active proceeding unit, and having the multi-output differential module that distributes the transmitted driving power to the active proceeding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Homoon Kim, Hyeong Min Moon, Chanmin Park, Seung Ung Yang, Yun Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 10030804
    Abstract: An inner detecting device for subsea oil and gas pipeline includes a support shaft defining a sealed chamber therein; a packer cup coupled to the support shaft; a hinge assembly coupled to the support shaft, swinging with respect to the support shaft in a radial direction and sliding with respect to the support shaft in an axial direction; a magnetic detector connected to the hinge assembly to move with respect to the support shaft in the radial and axial directions, and the magnetic detector tending to move away from the support shaft in the radial direction; a battery pack; an electric recorder electrically connected to the battery pack; and a mileage recorder recording a travel distance of the inner detecting device within the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Songling Huang, Wei Zhao, Shen Wang, Xinjie Yu, Junjie Chen, Zheng Wei
  • Patent number: 10030805
    Abstract: A heat-insulating housing (21) includes: a wall body; and an open-cell resin body (4) of thermosetting resin with which a heat-insulating space formed by the wall body is filled by integral foaming, the open-cell resin body including: a plurality of cells (47); a cell film portion (42); a cell skeleton portion (43); a first through-hole (44) formed so as to extend through the cell film portion; and a second through-hole (45) formed so as to extend through the cell skeleton portion, wherein the plurality of cells communicate with one another through the first through-hole and the second through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Uekado, Tsuyoki Hirai
  • Patent number: 10030806
    Abstract: A fixing support is adapted to detachably fix a case onto a target object. The fixing support includes a fixing base, a rotary base, a rotary member and an engaging member. The rotary base is adapted to be assembled to the target object. The rotary member is rotatably disposed in the fixing base, and is fixed to the rotary base so as to rotate with the rotatory base on a rotational axis with respect to the fixing base. The engaging member is movably disposed inside the fixing base to be moved to a releasing position and an engaging position with respect to the fixing base according to the rotation of the rotary member. The engaging member has an engaging portion, and the engaging member is adapted to pass through the engaging hole. When the engaging member is moved to the engaging position from the releasing position with respect to the fixing base, the engaging portion engages a shoulder part of the engaging hole. In addition, a fixing module includes the aforesaid case and the aforesaid fixing support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Hung-Chuan Wen, Jui-Hsiang Lin, Jen-Yang Chang, Chang-Hua Wei
  • Patent number: 10030807
    Abstract: An expandable socket for attachment to a portable media player or a portable media player case. The expandable socket generally includes a platform, a skin coupled to the platform, a button coupled to the skin opposite the platform, and a biasing element. The skin includes an outer wall, an inner wall spaced radially inward of the outer wall, and a cavity defined by the inner wall, wherein the skin is deformable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The biasing element is arranged within the cavity of the skin between the platform and the button, such that the biasing element is at least partially surrounded by the inner wall of the skin. The biasing element is configured to bias the skin into the expanded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: POPSOCKETS LLC
    Inventors: Molly M. Hobbs, David B. Barnett
  • Patent number: 10030808
    Abstract: The disclosed invertible structures rely on combinations of translational movements to effect inversion. An exemplary invertible structure includes a track operable to be slidably coupled to a connector element of a longitudinal structure. In an embodiment, the connector element may include at least two connectors at least partially disposed in a slot defined in the track, which may have a plurality of translational axes for translational movements of the connectors of the longitudinal structure that would effect the inversion of the longitudinal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: UCP INTERNATIONAL CO. LTD.
    Inventors: David Jalbert, David Simonelli
  • Patent number: 10030809
    Abstract: A beam-receiving masonry unit bears an outdoor condenser component of a split air conditioning system. The masonry unit generally includes first and second faces each having at least one opening defined by one or more structurally supportive edges. The first face, the second face, and the space between them are sized to incorporate the unit into a block wall or foundation. The openings are positioned to receive a condenser support beam, and the structurally supportive edges in the faces bear the condenser support beam. The unit resists rotation of the beam after the unit is incorporated into a block wall or foundation. A fill opening allows cementitious fill to enter into the unit to bond the unit to a block wall or foundation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: J.F.R. ENTERPRISES
    Inventor: Jay F. Rowland
  • Patent number: 10030810
    Abstract: The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a valve assembly which includes a valve shaft, and a valve head extending from the valve shaft, wherein the valve head defines first and second through-apertures extending along a width direction and a slot extending along a height direction, a longitudinal cross-section of the first and second through-apertures being partially received within the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Alan Brockway
  • Patent number: 10030811
    Abstract: A system for attaching a device to a rotating shaft is provided herein. The system may include a rotating shaft, a telemetry transmitter positioned about the rotating shaft, and a housing positioned about the telemetry transmitter. The telemetry transmitter may be trapped by the housing. The system also may include a connector configured to connect the housing to the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Peter Ping-Liang Sue, Michael Davis Jacobs, Nathan Lee Brown, Mario Joseph Arceneaux, Paul Walter Dausacker
  • Patent number: 10030812
    Abstract: A cargo carrier wall mount system including a base-frame and a cargo-hitch-receiver assembly. The base frame includes a perimeter, center-section, and at least two lateral-braces, with the center-section and at least two lateral-braces contained within and affixed to the perimeter. Each of the center-section, the perimeter, and the two-lateral braces include a front-side, a back-side and a thickness. Also, each of the perimeter, the two-lateral braces, and the center section also include a plurality of apertures to accept and receive wall-fasteners to affix the base-frame to a vertical surface. The base-frame includes a rubber-gasket between the back-side of the base-frame and the vertical surface configured to reduce wear upon the vertical surface during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: John Higgins
  • Patent number: 10030813
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 10030814
    Abstract: A coupling guard for covering a coupling which couples a drive shaft of a prime mover and a rotational shaft of a rotary machine to each other. The coupling guard includes a cylindrical guard body having an upper semicylindrical member and a lower semicylindrical member coupled to the upper semicylindrical member, and a guard leg supporting the guard body. The guard body has a flange portion to which the guard leg is attached. The guard leg includes a vertical wall parallel to a central axis of the guard body, an upper wall, a bottom wall, a left-side wall, and a right-side wall which project perpendicularly outwardly from the vertical wall. The vertical wall, the upper wall, the bottom wall, the left-side wall, and the right-side wall are made of a single plate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Wei, Junya Kawabata, Shoji Ito, Miwa Hidekura
  • Patent number: 10030815
    Abstract: Natural gas boiling off from LNG storage tanks located on board a sea-going vessel, is compressed in a plural stage compressor. At least part of the flow of compressed natural gas is sent to a liquefier operating on a Brayton cycle in order to be reliquefied. The temperature of the compressed natural gas from the final stage is reduced to below 0° C. by passage through a heat exchanger. The first compression stage is operated as a cold compressor and the resulting cold compressed natural gas is employed in the heat exchanger to effect the necessary cooling of the flow from the compression stage. Downstream of its passage through the heat exchanger the cold compressed natural gas flows through the remaining stages of the compressor. If desired, a part of the compressed natural gas may be supplied to the engines of the sea-going vessel as a fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CRYOSTAR SAS
    Inventors: Vincent Fuchs, Mathias Ragot
  • Patent number: 10030816
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel filling system and a fuel filling method thereof that can determine the validity of information transmitted from a vehicle side while filling fuel with high accuracy. A hydrogen gas filling method of a hydrogen filling system includes: a step of filling hydrogen gas from a hydrogen station to a hydrogen tank under a predetermined filling control law (S2); and a determination step of determining whether a measurement error parameter corresponding to a difference between a filling amount of hydrogen gas calculated using information transmitted from the vehicle side and a filling amount of hydrogen gas calculated using a mass flow meter is within a predetermined permissible range (S9). In the filling step, the filling control law is changed after starting the filling of hydrogen gas, according to a determination result obtained in the determination step (S13 and S16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Handa
  • Patent number: 10030817
    Abstract: A control arrangement for supplying a plurality of hydrostatic actuators includes a pump with an output connected to a circulating line that opens into a tank. The control arrangement has a metering port and an individual pressure compensator for each actuator. The individual pressure compensators are connected in series by the circulating line. Some of the pressure medium are configured to be branched off from the circulation channel for the respective actuator by the individual pressure compensators and fed to the metering port disposed downstream of the individual pressure compensator. The pressure medium that is not required is forwarded from each individual pressure compensator into the circulating line and is fed back from the last individual pressure compensator to the tank by the circulating line. The actuators are prioritized based on the order of their individual pressure compensators and move independently of the load pressure without expensive load sensing lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Keyl
  • Patent number: 10030818
    Abstract: A liquid-flow monitoring device (10) arranged to monitor the flow of liquid in a conduit. The device (10) comprises sampling means (20), processing means (30) and data storage means (40). The sampling means is arranged to receive data substantially continuously from a sensor (12) indicative of at least one variable sensed by the sensor (12) indicative of fluid flow in a conduit and to sample the data to produce a stream of sampled data. The processing means (30) is arranged to process the stream of sampled data to extract at least one sub-sampled stream therefrom, the sub-sampled stream comprising a plurality of data sets, each data set being a statistical subset of the stream of sampled data over a respective data-set period. The data storage means (40) is arranged to store the at least one sub-sampled stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Asher John Hoskins, Ivan Iordanov Stoianov
  • Patent number: 10030819
    Abstract: A lamp has an at least partially optically transmissive enclosure and a base that retains lamp electronics. LEDs are located in the enclosure and are operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path from the base. The LEDs are thermally isolated from the lamp electronics in the base. A heat sink is disposed between the base and the enclosure. The heat sink includes a heat conducting portion that is thermally coupled to the LEDs and a heat dissipating portion that is exposed to the ambient environment. The heat dissipating portion includes fins that have inner edges and create spaces between adjacent ones of the fins. The inner edges are spaced from one another to define an interior open space where the interior open space communicates with the spaces between the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Praneet Jayant Athalye
  • Patent number: 10030820
    Abstract: An LED bulb comprises a structural shell formed by folding a flat PCB into a three-dimensional polyhedron shape and a fitting for removably coupling the bulb to a light socket. The PCB comprises a plurality of LEDs, at least one LED mounted electronically on a plurality of faces of the polyhedron, and a driver circuit for driving each LED. The perimeter of the PCB is shaped to join adjacent faces. Each LED produces minimal excess heat, which is partially conducted by a metallic heat sink bridge to the PCB and dissipated to the air through the PCB and through a plurality of spaces in the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NANOGRID LIMITED (HK)
    Inventors: Tomas Rodinger, Gimmy Chu, Christian Yan
  • Patent number: 10030821
    Abstract: A luminaire arrangement (30) comprising a luminaire holder (10) and a luminaire module (20). The luminaire holder (10) is arranged to be attached to a ground plane (32) and comprises electrical circuitry connectors (12), grommet seals (14) provided on said electrical circuitry connectors (12), and a shield (18). The luminaire module (20) comprises a covering (24) and is arranged to be received in the luminaire holder (10). The shield (18) and the covering (24) are arranged to form a sealing arrangement between the luminaire holder (10) and the luminaire module (20), when the luminaire module (20) is received in the luminaire holder (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Henricus Marie Peeters
  • Patent number: 10030822
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solar spectrum type LED type eye-protection flat lamp, comprising: a front diffusion panel, a front grating panel, a circuit board, a rear reflection and diffusion panel, a multicolor LED lamp bead group and an annular reflector. The front grating panel is snugly attached to the front diffusion panel and is arranged on a concave disk at the light-emitting side of the LED eye-protection flat lamp, and the front diffusion panel is arranged in front of the front grating panel; the rear reflection and diffusion panel is snugly attached to the circuit board and is arranged on a back-side concave disk of the LED eye-protection flat lamp, and the reflection and diffusion panel is arranged in front of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventors: Jinan Lin, Jinbiao Lin
  • Patent number: 10030823
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting apparatus. The light emitting apparatus includes a substrate; a light emitting device on the substrate; a fluorescent layer formed on the substrate and the light emitting device to surround the light emitting device; an encapsulant resin layer formed on the substrate and the fluorescent layer to surround the fluorescent layer; and a lens disposed on the light emitting device and supported by the substrate, wherein the lens includes a lens body having a first recess formed at a center of a top surface of the lens body and a second recess formed at a center of a bottom surface of the lens body, and a lens supporter provided at the bottom surface of the lens body to support the lens body such that the lens body is spaced apart from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Won Lee, Gyu Hyeong Bak
  • Patent number: 10030824
    Abstract: A lighting device comprising one or more solid state light emitters which emit near ultraviolet light and one or more lumiphors which emit light having a wavelength in the range of from 555 nm to 585 nm, which in the absence of other light would produce a mixture of light within an area defined by x, y coordinates (0.32, 0.40), (0.36, 0.48), (0.43, 0.45), (0.42, 0.42), and (0.36, 0.38). The lighting device may further comprise one or more 600 nm to 630 nm light emitters, and a mixture of light emitted from the lighting device may be within ten MacAdam ellipses of the blackbody locus. Also, packaged solid state light emitters and methods of lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Paul Van De Ven, Gerald H. Negley
  • Patent number: 10030825
    Abstract: A lighting assembly (100), a lamp, a luminaire, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing control program are provided. The lighting assembly comprises a light source (110) and an optical element (120). The light source comprises a solid state light emitter (112) and a luminescent element (114). The solid state light emitter is arranged to emit light of a first color into the luminescent element. The luminescent element comprises a light emission window (115) through which the light is emitted. The optical element is arranged for reducing a color over angle variation of the light emitted by the light emission window of the luminescent element. The optical element comprises a light input face, a light output face and at a plurality of locations a light transmitting wall (122) extending from the light input face to the light output face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Manuela Lunz, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 10030826
    Abstract: An example beacon can include: a dome having an interior space; a prism positioned within the interior space, the prism having a first refraction portion and a second refraction portion, the first refraction portion extending for a first semicircle and the second refraction portion extending for a second semicircle; and a printed circuit board assembly supporting at least one light emitting diode, the printed circuit board assembly being positioned within the interior space of the dome. Light from the at least one light emitting diode is directed by the first refraction portion and the second refraction portion towards an obtuse angle relative to a position of the at least one light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Federal Signal Corporation
    Inventor: Duane P. Belitz
  • Patent number: 10030827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an LED lamp having an integrally injection-molded heat conductive plastic part and loading power substrate, comprising a lamp shell and LED modules, the lamp shell being injection-molded from heat conductive plastic material, the LED modules which are connected by injection being provided in the lamp shell; and each of the LED modules comprises an aluminum substrate and a power circuit module, and LED beads are provided on the aluminum substrate and in ON-connection with the power circuit module. Since the LED modules have been connected by injection during the injection of the lamp shell of the LED lamp of the present invention, this may greatly simplify the subsequent assembly processes, significantly improve the production efficiency and obviously reduce the number of operators for assembling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ZHUHAI SEPSTAR ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Meihua Yu
  • Patent number: 10030828
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use of light emitting diode (LED) lighting in flexible strips, where the color of the lighting emitted from the flexible strip is consequential to the encapsulation process and heat from the lights is adequately dissipated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Lilibrand LLC
    Inventor: Ariel Meir
  • Patent number: 10030829
    Abstract: In various embodiments, one or more signals indicative of a shape formed by a flexible lighting strip (100) may be obtained, e.g., from one or more sensors (110) secured to the flexible lighting strip. One or more deformations in the flexible lighting strip may be detected based on the one or more signals. One or more light sources (102) may be selectively energized based on the one or more detected deformations. In some embodiments, one or more light sources contained in a first logical partition of the flexible lighting strip bound by at least one deformation may be energized to emit light having a first property. One or more light sources contained in a second logical partition of the flexible lighting strip separated from the first logical partition by at least one deformation may be energized to emit light having a second property different than the first property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Dirk Valentinus René Engelen, Philip Steven Newton, Tim Dekker, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis
  • Patent number: 10030830
    Abstract: A luminaire having a diffuser structure configured to adjust a shadow cast from one or more LED light sources such that the shadow cast has a gradated transition between an area of illumination and an area of shadow. Accordingly, diffuser teeth may be configured to cast a plurality of shadows from a plurality of LED light sources such that a complex overlap pattern of shadows from the plurality of LED light sources forms a shadow gradient between an area of illumination and an area in shade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Focal Point, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Krotseng, Casey Chung
  • Patent number: 10030831
    Abstract: A flame simulator can include a light beam source, a range limiter, a light beam mover, a power supply, a power control circuit, and a flame screen. The light beam source can be adapted to project a movable beam of light with a circular, oval, elliptical, or otherwise round, cross-sectional shape and with an intensity, shape and/or color that mimics a flame (e.g., a candle flame) when the beam strikes the flame screen. The light beam mover can generate beam movement and the range limiter can limit the range of movement so that the beam stays mostly on the flame screen in a region bounded by the typical range of movement of a flame being simulated (e.g., a candle flame moving in response to ambient air currents). The light beam mover can cause the illumination provided by the beam to dance on the flame screen with variations in position and shape that mimic a dancing flame (e.g., a candle flame being blown about by air currents). One or more of the flame simulators can be incorporated into an imitation candle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LOWE'S COMPANIES, INC.
    Inventor: Guillermo Enrique Baeza
  • Patent number: 10030832
    Abstract: A detachable warning lamp has a base, a light-emitting module disposed on the base, and a cover disposed on the base. The base has two retaining walls and two engaging grooves. The light-emitting module has a circuit board disposed on the base and multiple light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements are electrically connected to the circuit board and are respectively detachably disposed on the base. Each one of the light-emitting elements has a first engaging portion inserted into a corresponding one of the two engaging grooves, multiple first cushioning lugs abutting a corresponding one of the two retaining walls, a second engaging portion, and multiple second cushioning lugs. The cover has two baffles abutting the second cushioning lugs and two stopping surfaces abutting the second engaging portion. The light-emitting elements are detachably engaged on the base without the use of a screw and a hand tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: Neng-Chen Yeh
  • Patent number: 10030833
    Abstract: Described herein are day lighting systems that utilize a combination of at least one natural light source with at least one multimode artificial light source. Also disclosed are methods for designing and operating such systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventor: Helmar Adler
  • Patent number: 10030834
    Abstract: A light device for a vehicle improves viewability by giving variations to the appearance at the time of lighting without increasing the light quantity. The light device includes first light sources oriented to an irradiation direction of the light device, second light sources oriented opposite to the irradiation direction, a first base plate that mounts the first light sources and a second base plate that mounts the second light sources, and a lens that allows irradiation light of the first light sources and the second light sources to permeate therethrough. The base plates are disposed perpendicularly to the irradiation direction of the light device. A reflector reflects the irradiation light of the second light sources to the irradiation direction and an extension section surrounds the first light sources and stands so as to be oriented to the irradiation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyosuke Kitayama
  • Patent number: 10030835
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a headlight control system. The headlight control system is configured to be used with a headlight of a vehicle. The headlight control system includes a first light sensor, a microcontroller, a first driving motor, a power module and an optical lens module. The optical lens module is disposed in front of the headlight in order to receive illumination of the headlight. The microcontroller is electrically connected to the first light source sensor and configured to receive a signal transmitted by the first light sensor. The first driving motor is electrically connected to the microcontroller. The first driving motor is configured to follow an instruction from the microcontroller to drive a first driving mechanism. The first driving mechanism is configured to adjust the optical lens module upon being driven by the first driving motor. The power module is electrically connected to the microcontroller and the headlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ming Chi University of Technology
    Inventor: Chang Jo Wu
  • Patent number: 10030836
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting apparatus for an automobile which improves luminous efficiency. To this end, the lighting apparatus for an automobile according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a board on which a light source for generating light is mounted; and a light guide which has one end coupled to the board, and a light source insertion portion which protrudes at the one end, in which a protruding tip of the light source insertion portion is in contact with a surface of the board where the light source is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Min Ah
  • Patent number: 10030837
    Abstract: A lighting system for providing a lighting image a first substantially linear lighting structure of at least one lighting component of a plurality of lighting components and a second substantially linear lighting structure of the at least one lighting component of the plurality of lighting components. The first substantially linear lighting structure is configured to appear to intertwine with the second substantially linear lighting structure on at least one cross-over point of a plurality of cross-over points. At least one of the first substantially linear lighting structure appears to overlap the second substantially linear lighting structure at the at least one cross-over point of the plurality of cross-over points and/or the second substantially linear lighting structure appears to overlap the first substantially linear lighting structure at the at least one cross-over point of the plurality of cross-over points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven M. Kovach, Randall Smock, Arthur D. Osborne
  • Patent number: 10030838
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, provided is a vehicle lamp including a housing, a lens unit that is provided on a front surface of the housing, a light source unit that is arranged to be spaced apart from the lens unit by a predetermined distance and thereby forms a separation space, a thermoelectric module that is provided inside the housing, an air flow passage unit that provides an air movement passage between the thermoelectric module and the separation space, and a thermoelectric circulating unit that provides power so that air passing through the thermoelectric module is discharged to the separation space along the air movement passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Dong Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10030839
    Abstract: Promotional items with enhanced advertising messaging. More specifically, embodiments are directed to a metallic-finished promotional item with a laser-engraved message that is illuminated or backlit by incorporating a light source into the promotional item. The light source acts to illuminate or brighten the laser-engraved message when the light source is powered on. Furthermore, according to embodiments, when the light source is not in use, the laser-engraved message remains appealing, hereinafter referred to “daylight appeal”, due to its enhanced contrast with the surrounding metallic finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Amsterdam Printing & Litho, Inc.
    Inventors: David Casciotti, Jing Mahler, Darren Costelloe, Jianhua Luo
  • Patent number: 10030840
    Abstract: To implement an illuminating device which can adjust the distribution of light of flat lighting and which also has a superior light concentration function, the illuminating device of the present invention implements flat lighting having a light-concentrating member to maximize light concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Hee Kim, Kyu Sung Han, Tae Kyung Kim, Kwang Ho Park, Moo Ryong Park, Sang Jun Park, Jae Hyuk Jang, Youn Mo Jeong