Reflector Patents (Class 313/113)
  • Publication number: 20140091698
    Abstract: A lamp device includes a substrate body, a light source part mounted on the substrate body, and a contact portion electrically connected to the light source part. A cover receives the light source part in a space formed by the cover and the substrate body, is light transmissive at least at a position facing the light source part, and spatially separates the light source part mounted on the substrate body and the contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Kimiya, Kenji Nezu, Kazunari Higuchi, Makoto Otsuka, Takeshi Osada, Yoshiyuki Tamaki
  • Patent number: 8684547
    Abstract: A backlight unit and a display apparatus using the same are disclosed. The backlight unit includes an optical sheet, a reflector having a reflective surface spaced apart from the optical sheet and having an inclined surface, a fixture connected to one side of the reflector, and a light source disposed to one side of the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Sang Kim, Ji Won Jang
  • Patent number: 8680756
    Abstract: A HID luminaire includes a HID lamp, a reflector, and a lens. The reflector has a proximal end, a distal area, and an intermediate are positioned therebetween. The reflector has an interior surface that includes a first portion that extends from the proximal end to the intermediate area and a second portion that extends from the intermediate area to the distal end. The second portion is less light reflective than the first portion. The lens has two different diffusion rates and includes a center portion having a lens inner diameter and an outer portion surrounding the center portion. The lens inner diameter is about the same diameter as the diameter of the intermediate area. The outer portion is more diffuse than the center portion but allows light to be transmitted therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Wei Rong, Reed Bradford, Barton Kirk Ideker, Grzegorz Wronski, Adam M. Foy
  • Patent number: 8678611
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a tube having a transparent first section and an opaque second section. An LED disposed inside of the tube. The second section is has an inner surface having a light diffusive surface so that the LED light is diffusively reflected. The LED is disposed so that a total amount of direct light from the LED to the first section is smaller than a total amount of indirect light that is incident on the first section as a result of being reflected by the second section (i.e., scattered or diffused light). The LED is disposed so that a light axis of the LED points toward the inner surface of the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: GT Biomescilt Light Limited
    Inventors: Sidney Chun Kit Chu, Oon Siang Ling, Low Kean Choong, Chew Tong Fatt
  • Publication number: 20140077681
    Abstract: Reflector lamps and their methods of manufacture are provided. The reflector lamp includes a parabolic housing defining an interior surface; a light source positioned within the housing; a reflector layer (e.g., including aluminum) on the interior surface of the housing; and an optical interference multilayer coating on the reflective layer. The optical multilayer coating generally includes a plurality of alternating low index layers and high index layers, with the low index layers having a refractive index that is about 1.38 to about 1.55 at 550 nm and the high index layers having a higher refractive index than the low index layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter William BROWN, Jiawei Li, Tianji Zhao
  • Publication number: 20140070690
    Abstract: Embodiments of a lighting apparatus with a light source using one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) to generate light. In one embodiment, the lighting apparatus comprises a light diffusing assembly that generates an optical intensity profile consistent with incandescent lamps. The light diffusing assembly comprises an envelope and a reflector element having frusto-conical member and an aperture element disposed therein. The lighting apparatus can also comprise a heat dissipating assembly with a plurality of heat dissipating elements disposed radially about the envelope. In one example, the heat dissipating elements are spaced apart from the envelope to promote convective heat dissipation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: GE Lighting Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jeyachandrabose Chinniah, Ashfaqul Islam Chowdhury, Gary Robert Allen, Jeremias Anthony Martins, Anthony Rotella
  • Publication number: 20140061439
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric conversion unit, and a reflecting plate that includes a first portion that is provided on a side opposing a light incidence side with respect to the photoelectric conversion unit and formed at a center of a region in which light beams are collected, and a second portion that is formed on a boundary of adjacent regions to be convex on the incidence side with respect to the first portion, and collects reflected light beams within the regions by generating a phase difference between reflected light beams on the first portion and reflected light beams on the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Toda
  • Patent number: 8662680
    Abstract: A projector includes: a light emitting device; a light modulation device adapted to modulate a light beam emitted from the light emitting device; and a projection device adapted to project the image formed by the light modulation device, wherein the light emitting device includes a light emitting element formed of a super luminescent diode, and adapted to emit light, and a base supporting the light emitting element with first and second reflecting surfaces to reflect the light emitted from the light emitting element. The light emitting element emits the light from first and second end surfaces. Directions of first and second outgoing light respectively emitted from the first and second end surfaces are opposite to each other. Directions of the first and second reflected light respectively reflected by the first and second reflecting surfaces are the same as each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Takashi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20140042891
    Abstract: A glass ceramic sinter is disclosed. The glass ceramic sinter includes a glass matrix, and anorthite grains, fersmite grains and quartz grains, all of which are in the glass matrix. A total content of the glass matrix, the anorthite grains, the quartz grains, and the fersmite grains is 98% or more by mass of the glass ceramic sinter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youji Furukubo
  • Publication number: 20140043814
    Abstract: A light emitting module according to embodiments includes a substrate. In addition, the light emitting module according to the embodiments includes a light emitting element which is provided on the substrate. In addition, the light emitting module according to the embodiments includes a reflecting member which is provided on the substrate, formed of a material containing silicon resin, of which Martens hardness of the material is any value in a range of 0.05 (N/mm2) or more and 10.0 (N/mm2) or less, and which reflects light which is emitted from the light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya HONMA
  • Patent number: 8643265
    Abstract: In a backlight assembly, a light emitting module is divided into a plurality of light generating blocks each sequentially outputting a plurality of primary colors of light having different wavelengths. The light emitting module includes first and second base substrates, and a plurality of electroluminescent units disposed between the first and second base substrates and arranged in each of the light generating blocks. The light emitting module includes a barrier arranged corresponding to a boundary between two adjacent light generating blocks between the first and second base substrates to prevent the primary colors of light from traveling an adjacent light generating block. Thus, a mixture of colored light from the light generating blocks is prevented, thereby improving color reproducibility of the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haeil Park, Jinseob Byun, Gunwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8641239
    Abstract: A lighting assembly utilizing a reflective body for use with a light source to uniformly disperse the light from the light source. The reflective body includes a lower array of first reflectors arranged about a central axis. Each of the first reflectors form an obtuse angle with the next adjacent first reflector. The reflective body also includes an upper array of second reflectors arranged about the central axis. Each of said second reflectors include a left face and a right face. The upper array defines obtuse angles between next adjacent second reflectors. Additionally, reflex angles are defined between the left and right faces of the second reflectors. The combination of angles evenly disperse the light supplied from the light source to provide a pleasant glow for illuminating an area below the lighting assembly without causing hot spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Best Lights, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary D. Yurich
  • Publication number: 20140021851
    Abstract: As a substrate for an LED module and a method for manufacturing the same, they teach a substrate for an LED module and a method for manufacturing the same which including a base substrate, an insulating layer formed on a remaining region except a chip mounting region A in the base substrate, an electrode layer formed on the insulating layer, an oxide layer formed on the chip mounting region A of the base substrate and a high reflection layer formed on a top surface of the oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheol Ho HEO
  • Patent number: 8629607
    Abstract: The lighting device includes: a light emitting module including a substrate and a light emitting device disposed on the substrate; a member disposed on the light emitting module, the member including: a base having a hole configured to receive the light emitting device; a projection configured to reflect light from the light emitting device; and a predetermined inclined surface coupled to an outer circumference of the base, a cover surrounding the light emitting module and the member; and a heat sink including a flat surface on which the light emitting module is disposed, and coupled to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Young Choi, Hwa Young Kim, Il Yeong Kang, Sang Won Lee, Ji Hoo Kim, Seung Hyuk Lee, Sung Ku Kang, Cheon Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 8624482
    Abstract: A blue LED device has a transparent substrate and a reflector structure disposed on the backside of the substrate. The reflector structure includes a Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) structure having layers configured to reflect yellow light as well as blue light. In one example, the DBR structure includes a first portion where the thicknesses of the layers are larger, and also includes a second portion where the thicknesses of the layers are smaller. In addition to having a reflectance of more than 97.5 percent for light of a wavelength in a 440 nm-470 nm range, the overall reflector structure has a reflectance of more than 90 percent for light of a wavelength in a 500 nm-700 nm range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Techno Center Inc.
    Inventor: Chao-Kun Lin
  • Publication number: 20140001946
    Abstract: A flash discharge tube includes a cylindrical glass bulb filled with a rare gas; a pair of main electrodes sealed to both ends of the glass bulb via bead glasses; rough surfaces formed at least in the regions to which the bead glasses are welded, the regions being on the outer circumferential surfaces of the pair of main electrodes; and hard microparticles adhered to the rough surfaces. The hard microparticles are embedded in the rough surfaces. This increases the connection strength between the bead glasses and the pair of main electrodes, thereby ensuring the sealing performance between the bead glasses and the pair of main electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Rie Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140001419
    Abstract: A light-reflective anisotropic conductive adhesive used for anisotropic conductive connection of a light-emitting element to a wiring substrate includes a thermosetting resin composition, conductive particles, and light-reflective insulating particles. The light-reflective insulating particles are formed by subjecting titanium oxide particles to a surface treatment with one kind selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, SiO, SiO2, ZnO, ZnO2, and ZrO2. The amount of the titanium oxide contained in the light-reflective insulating particles is 85 to 93%. The particle diameter of the light-reflective insulating particles is 0.2 to 0.3 ?m, and the particle diameter of the conductive particles is 2 to 10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetsugu Namiki, Shiyuki Kanisawa, Hideaki Umakoshi
  • Publication number: 20140001947
    Abstract: A stroboscopic device includes a flash discharge tube with a conductive film on its outer periphery, a conductive reflector into which the flash discharge tube is inserted, and a heat-resistant conductive medium laminated on a part of the conductive film of the flash discharge tube. The reflector is electrically connected to the conductive film of the flash discharge tube via the conductive medium. This achieves the stroboscopic device with long service life and high reliability by preventing or suppressing occurrence of spark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 8618724
    Abstract: To provide a reflective frame for a light-emitting element, which can be preferably used for a light-emitting device having a metal member on which a light-emitting element is mounted, whereby the light extraction efficiency, the reliability and the productivity, etc. can be improved. A reflective frame for a light-emitting element, which is made of a sintered body comprising a glass material and a ceramic powder; and the sintered body is one fired at at most 900° C. and has a porosity of at most 15% and an average reflectance at a wave length of from 400 to 700 nm being at least 86% when the thickness is 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masamichi Tanida, Akihiro Hishinuma
  • Publication number: 20130342097
    Abstract: An exemplary light emitting package includes a reflector, a receiving groove defined in the reflector, a light emitting device, and an encapsulation body. The light emitting device is received in the receiving groove and covered by the encapsulation body. The encapsulation body includes a number of light guide layers, and refractive indexes of the light guide layers gradually increase along a direction corresponding to a direction of propagation of the light from the light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: SIN-TUNG HUANG, WUN-CI KANG
  • Patent number: 8613531
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device that realizes a similar light distribution state to that of a conventional incandescent light bulb even though the light emitting device has a structure with a light emitting element such as an LED placed on a substrate. In the light emitting device in which the LED is placed on the substrate, the light emitting device includes the light guiding member, into which light emitted from the LED enters, while the light guiding member having the launching surface (i.e., the facing-substrate launching surface and the side launching surface) from which the entered light is launched. Meanwhile, the launching surface has the facing-substrate launching surface including a total reflection surface for totally reflecting light incident in the launching surface at a critical angle, in a direction tilted toward a side of the substrate than a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignees: Nittoh Kogaku K.K.
    Inventor: Keiichi Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8608347
    Abstract: Embodiments of a lighting apparatus with a light source using one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) to generate light. In one embodiment, the lighting apparatus comprises a light diffusing assembly that generates an optical intensity profile consistent with incandescent lamps. The light diffusing assembly comprises an envelope and a reflector element having frusto-conical member and an aperture element disposed therein. The lighting apparatus can also comprise a heat dissipating assembly with a plurality of heat dissipating elements disposed annularly about the envelope. In one example, the heat dissipating elements are spaced apart from the envelope to promote convective heat dissipation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: GE Lighting Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jeyachandrabose Chinniah, Ashfaqul Islam Chowdhury, Gary Robert Allen, Jeremias Anthony Martins, Anthony Rotella
  • Patent number: 8602600
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element that includes a reflection layer formed on a substrate, a light emitting layer formed on the reflection layer, and a semi-reflection layer formed on the light emitting layer, so as to transmit a portion of light from the light emitting layer and to reflect a remaining portion of the light. The light emitting element is configured as an optical resonator that causes a portion of the light outputted from the light emitting layer travelling at a predetermined angle ?, larger than 0 degrees with respect to a direction perpendicular to the reflection layer, to resonate between the reflection layer and the semi-reflection layer and extracts the light from the side of the semi-reflection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 8604685
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a glass bulb and a reflective film formed in a region having an angle of at least 230° on an outer peripheral surface of the glass bulb. The light emitting device can obtain the reflective film having a sufficient film thickness in a wide region on an outer peripheral surface of an electric discharge tube and has a uniform light intensity distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Ogino, Kiyoshi Tsutsumi, Toshiaki Murai
  • Patent number: 8600637
    Abstract: A braking control device for a vehicle executes braking force distribution (BFD) biased to front wheel in a manner compatible with Anti-skid control. In BFD control, braking force on rear wheels is held at a holding braking force and braking force on the front wheels is incremented beyond braking force requested by a braking action of a driver. After the starting of BFD control, further increase in the braking action is reflected in the front wheel braking force. Upon starting anti-skid control for either of the wheels during the execution of BFD control, an increment of the front wheel braking forces to be requested by BFD control is gradually decreased. Simultaneously, the holding of the rear braking force is released so as to compensate for the shortage of braking force on the front wheel. The gradual decrease of the braking force increment prevents a conflict of BFD and Anti-skid control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiaki Hamada, Akifumi Doura
  • Patent number: 8598771
    Abstract: A glass article that is ion-exchangeable and has at least one roughened surface. The roughened surface has a distinctness-of-reflected image DOI of less than 90 when measured at an incidence angle of 20°. A pixelated display system that includes such a glass article is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Krista L Carlson, Shandon D Hart, Kelvin Nguyen, Lu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8593044
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods involve an assembly of multiple LED light engines in which a desired number of LED lamps are mounted to a plate that forms a wall of an enclosure. In an illustrative example, three LED light engines may be mounted to a plate that may be slidably installed as a wall of an extruded housing that contains electrical connections from an AC power inlet to each light engine. In various examples, the number and layout arrangement of the LED light engines may be custom selected for a particular application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: ONCE Innovations, Inc.
    Inventor: Zdenko Grajcar
  • Publication number: 20130307401
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device package having a high reflectance and strength. In a light-emitting device package (10) containing: a glass ceramic (21) as a major component; and a high refractive index material (23) having a higher refractive index than the glass ceramic, and being for housing a light-emitting element (2) therein and reflecting light emitted from the light-emitting element (2) toward a predetermined direction, the high refractive index material (23) is a silicate compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicants: SANYO TUNER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma Hitomi, Masashi Kubota
  • Patent number: 8587016
    Abstract: Provided are a light emitting device package and a lighting system comprising the same. The light emitting device package comprises a package body having an inclined side surface and a light emitting device on the inclined side surface of the package body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Seon Song
  • Publication number: 20130300277
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a constricted part of a globe, one end is set to a minimum diameter, the other end is set to a maximum diameter, and a diameter thereof increases from the one end side to the other end side. The constricted part of the globe is concaved into the inside of an imaginary straight line connecting an outer edge of the one end and an outer edge of the other end when viewed in section. A light source part includes a semiconductor light-emitting element and is contained in the globe so that a light-emitting part is positioned between both the ends of the constricted part of the globe. A cap is positioned on one end side of the globe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Sasaki, Ryotaro Matsuda, Naoto Mori, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Hideki Okawa, Takeo Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20130300285
    Abstract: Provided are a light-emitting device that emits light suppressed in unevenness in luminance (furthermore, unevenness in color), a lighting device that can irradiate planar light suppressed in unevenness in luminance (furthermore, unevenness in color), a display device that can display an image suppressed in unevenness in luminance (furthermore, unevenness in color), and a method for producing a light-emitting device that can easily produce the light-emitting device. A light-emitting device 10 includes a light-emitting element 12, a phosphor layer 13 containing a phosphor that is excited by the light emitted by the light-emitting element 12 to emit fluorescence, a substrate 11 with the light-emitting element 12 and the phosphor layer 13 on the surface, and a resin body 14 that seals the light-emitting element 12 and the phosphor layer 13. An additional member 15 is provided on an opposite surface 14a opposed to the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting element 12 on the surface of the resin body 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shin Ito
  • Patent number: 8581479
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a first lead frame, a light-emitting element fixed to the first lead frame, and a second lead frame electrically connected via a metal wire to the light-emitting element. In addition, the light-emitting device includes a resin that covers the first lead frame, the light-emitting element, and the second lead frame, and functions as a transmission medium for light emitted from the light-emitting element. The resin has a side surface which is perpendicular to the face to which the light-emitting element has been fixed, and an upper surface. The resin surfaces are configured so that the angle of incidence of a portion of the light emitted from the light-emitting element to the side surfaces is larger than a critical angle needed for total reflection of the light incident on the side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshio Shiotani
  • Patent number: 8581482
    Abstract: A method of making a subassembly (10) for a PAR lamp (12) comprising the steps of: (a) providing a base (14) including a cup-shaped portion (16) with a top edge (18) having an extended flange (20) projecting therefrom; (b) providing a plurality of electrical contacts (22, 24) and inserting the contacts into appropriate locations (22a, 24a) in a bottom (26) of the cup-shaped portion (16); (c) providing a lamp capsule (28) including a light source (30) having dependent leads (32, 34) projecting from a base end (36); (d) inserting the base end (36) of the lamp capsule (28) into the cup-shaped portion (16) and affixing the dependent leads (32, 34) to the electrical contacts (22, 24); (e) providing a reflector (38) having a funnel-shaped body (40) with a substantially tubular neck (42); (f) filling the cup-shaped portion (16) with a liquid cement (44) to a depth that covers the base end (36) of the lamp capsule (28); (g) fitting the reflector (38) over the lamp capsule (28) so that the tubular neck (42) is submers
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Louie Veiga, Renaud Richard, Harold Rothwell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8564182
    Abstract: A lamp comprising electric contact members (9,10) at the outside of the lamp for making contact with corresponding electric contact elements (21,22) in a lamp holder surrounding the lamp. The light radiation of the lamp is emitted from the front side (2) of the lamp, which front side (2) is substantially located in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the lamp. The contact members (9,10) are located near the circumferential edge of said front side of the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Oliver Boehme, Peter Meier-Graichen, Markus Gollan
  • Publication number: 20130271026
    Abstract: There is provided a discharge lamp of an embodiment includes a burner having a light emitting part, and a disk-shaped flange which is capable of holding the burner so that the light emitting part is positioned at a front end side of the flange. The flange includes a resin part formed at an edge of the flange, and a metal part formed to be embedded in the resin part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Doi, Makoto Deguchi, Osamu Shirakawa, Syuhei Abe, Keisuke Nakazato, Masahiro Oki, Kousuke Ueda, Hajime Murakami
  • Patent number: 8547406
    Abstract: Display element with at least one color-generating cell of the first type which has an emissive light source, and with at least one color-generating cell of the second type which has a reflective and/or transmissive and/or transflective light source, whereby each cell of the second type can be driven so that it makes visible one of the chromatic colors red, green, blue, magenta, cyan and yellow and the achromatic colors white and black, to compensate at least partly for the absence of the color impression created by at least one color-generating cell of the first type on account of the ambient light of the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Advanced Display Technology AG
    Inventors: Andriy Bitman, Dieter Jerosch, Frank Bartels, Karlheinz Blankenbach, Juergen Rawert
  • Patent number: 8541931
    Abstract: A lamp comprises: a thermally conductive body; a plurality of LEDs configured as an array and mounted in thermal communication with the body and a light reflective hood located in front of the plane of light emitting diodes. The hood has at least two frustoconical light reflective surfaces that surround the array of LEDs and are configured such that in operation light emitted by the lamp is within a selected emission angle (beam spread). The hood is configured such that in operation a variation in illuminance (luminous flux per unit area incident on a surface) is 10% or less over approximately a third to one half of the selected emission angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventor: Haitao Yang
  • Patent number: 8541938
    Abstract: There are provided an electronic paper display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The electronic paper display device includes: a lower substrate having lower barrier ribs formed thereon, the lower barrier ribs forming cells for receiving electronic paper display elements; electronic paper display elements mounted in the cells of the lower substrate and having optical and electrical anisotropy; and an upper substrate formed to cover the lower substrate and including upper patterns bonded to the lower barrier ribs so as to secure a fluid moving path of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Moon Lee, Young Woo Lee, Choong Hee Lee, Sang Jin Kim, Hwan-Soo Lee
  • Publication number: 20130229103
    Abstract: A lamp device having first and second ends comprising a glass lens positioned on the first end of the lamp and a socket positioned on the second end of the lamp. The lamp is configured with a parabolic reflecting surface lining the interior side walls of a top portion of the lamp and an array of LEDs or other light emitting device positioned within that the top portion of the lamp. The array of LEDs or other light emitting device are operatively connected to the socket in order to receive power. The lamp may also be configured to facilitate movement of the glass lens closer to and further away from the array of LEDs or other light emitting device in order to shorten or lengthen the focal point of the light beam created by the array of LEDs or other light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: INNOVX GROUP LLC
    Inventors: William R. Lutz, Gavin McCalla
  • Patent number: 8523363
    Abstract: A projector includes: a light source that emits light having an asymmetric illuminance distribution; a light modulation device that modulates the light emitted from the light source; and an optical member disposed in an optical path between the light source and the light modulation device, the optical member changing the illuminance distribution of the light from the light source, wherein the optical member changes the illuminance distribution of the light passing therethrough in such a way that a highest illuminance area in the illuminance distribution of the light after passing through the optical member is shifted toward the center of the optical member as compared with the position of the highest illuminance area in the illuminance distribution of the light before incident on the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Susumu Aruga
  • Publication number: 20130221236
    Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge, DBD, lamp device comprises a toroid shaped discharge chamber (10) having a discharge chamber wall (12). The discharge chamber wall comprises a tubular inner wall section (14), a tubular outer wall section (16), and two ring-shaped end wall sections (18, 20). Each of the end wall sections extend between an end of the outer wall section and an end of the inner wall section. A high voltage electrode (22) is provided at an outer surface of the outer wall section of the discharge chamber wall. A low voltage electrode comprises an electrically conducting fluid surrounded by the inner wall section of the discharge chamber wall. The DBD lamp device may be part of an optical fluid treatment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Olaf Mastenbroek, Robert Bak, Jacques Maria Jozef Geboers, Michiel Van Der Meer
  • Patent number: 8519605
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a metal vapor discharge lamp that has an outer tube less likely to break, and that is obtained at low manufacturing cost. A metal vapor discharge lamp 10 comprises: an outer tube 300 having an open end portion 301 at one end and a closed end portion 302 at another end; an inner tube 200 housed in the outer tube 300; a discharge tube 100 housed in the inner tube 200; and a base 400 attached to the open end portion 301 of the outer tube 300, wherein relationships of t?1.1×d?0.4; 0<d; and 0.3?t are satisfied, where t denotes a minimum thickness, in millimeters, of the closed end portion 302 of the outer tube 300, d denotes a shortest distance, in millimeters, in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the outer tube 300, between an inner surface 304 of the closed end portion 302 of the outer tube 300 and an outer surface 204 of an end portion 202 of the inner tube 200, the end portion 202 being located opposite from the base 400.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiya Kanazawa, Atsushi Utsubo, Shunsuke Kakisaka
  • Publication number: 20130214666
    Abstract: Lamps and bulbs are disclosed generally comprising different combinations and arrangements of a light source, a reflective optical element, and a separate diffusing layer. This arrangement allows for the fabrication of lamps and bulbs that are efficient, reliable and cost effective and can provide an essentially omni-directional emission pattern, even with a light source comprised of an arrangement of LEDs. The lamps according to the present invention can also comprise thermal management features that provide for efficient dissipation of heat from the LEDs, which in turn allows the LEDs to operate at lower temperatures. The lamps can also comprise optical elements to help change the emission pattern from the generally directional pattern of the LEDs to a more omni-directional pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: CREE, INC.
    Inventor: CREE, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130214667
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a lighting apparatus includes a light source that includes a light emitting element, and a member which is irradiated with light emitted from the light source and which is formed of resin having absorptivity of 15% or less in a wavelength in which intensity is 10% of a peak intensity, at a wavelength side that is shorter than an intensity peak of a spectrum of blue light emitted from the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsunaga, Hiroki Tamai, Kazunari Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20130200784
    Abstract: To improve the luminance of light emitted by a light-emitting device, the light-emitting device includes a base (1) that has an opening part (1p) constituted by a light-reflecting surface (1r) and a bottom surface (1u), a light-emitting chip (2) that is mounted on the bottom surface (1u) of the opening part (1p), a transparent member (3) that covers the light-emitting chip (2), and an optical member (4) that is disposed on the transparent member (3). The transparent member (3) is disposed on the bottom surface (1u) of the opening part (1p) in a state where the transparent member (3) is spaced away from the light-reflecting surface (1r) of the opening part (1p).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Matsuura, Tomoya Tabuchi, Kousuke Katabe, Yuki Mori, Akira Miyake, Daisuke Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 8492971
    Abstract: An EL element having a novel structure is provided, which is suitable for AC drive. A light-emitting element of the invention is provided with material layers (material layers each having approximately symmetric I-V characteristics with respect to the zero point in a graph having the abscissa axis showing current values and the ordinate axis showing voltage values) between a first electrode and a layer including an organic compound and between the layer including the organic compound and a second electrode respectively. Specifically, each of the material layers is a composite layer including a metal oxide and an organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Sakata, Hisao Ikeda, Takahiro Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8476814
    Abstract: A light utilization efficiency of a high-pressure discharge lamp is improved even in a case of reducing the size of a reflection mirror without using an auxiliary reflection mirror. In a lamp device where a portion of lights emitted from a discharge bulb to the periphery thereof in forward and backward directions for a predetermined range of angle is reflected at a concave reflection mirror and illuminated to a light collection area of a predetermined size formed forward of the lamp, a prism surface having an angle of refracting or deflecting at least a portion of lights emitted from the discharge bulb that is not reflected at the concave reflection mirror to the light collection area is formed to the outer peripheral surface of the discharge bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd., Fujii Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ibi, Sumio Uehara, Kyouichi Maseki, Yosuke Kano, Toshitaka Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8471447
    Abstract: It is provided a lamp (12) for an automotive headlamp (10), comprising a filament coil (14) for emitting light (22) and a nominal alignment axis (32) for aligning the filament coil (14) such, that the filament coil (14) is positioned in the middle of an allowable tolerance box wherein the filament coil (14) is arranged shifted to the nominal alignment axis (32). Due to the shifted arrangement of the filament coil (14) the flexibility given by the allowable tolerance may be used for positioning the filament coil (14) such, that the projected image (18) of the filament coil (14) is projected nearer to the bright/dark-cutoff (40) without blinding oncoming traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Lukas Kuepper
  • Publication number: 20130155707
    Abstract: An improved incandescent light source as may be used in a vehicle headlamp for providing forward illumination. The illuminating system includes a filament coil and an anisotropic reflector assembly. The filament coil is constructed from a coil of wire that is electrically conductive and has a high melting point and the primary axis of the coil of wire is substantially aligned with a principal axis of the reflector system. The light flux emitted by the filament coil toward the reflector system is rotationally anisotropic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Istvan MUDRA, Laszlo Nagy, Jozsef Gallai
  • Publication number: 20130154467
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a first lead frame, a light-emitting element fixed to the first lead frame, and a second lead frame electrically connected via a metal wire to the light-emitting element. In addition, the light-emitting device includes a resin that covers the first lead frame, the light-emitting element, and the second lead frame, and functions as a transmission medium for light emitted from the light-emitting element. The resin has a side surface which is perpendicular to the face to which the light-emitting element has been fixed, and an upper surface. The resin surfaces are configured so that the angle of incidence of a portion of the light emitted from the light-emitting element to the side surfaces is larger than a critical angle needed for total reflection of the light incident on the side surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Toshio SHIOTANI