Current And/or Voltage Regulation Patents (Class 315/291)
  • Patent number: 11805583
    Abstract: Lighting system having a plurality light emitting diodes, wherein each of the light emitting diodes is configured to output light in a predetermined color bands and is arranged in a corresponding group according to the predetermined color bands. A plurality of power output controllers, each of the plurality of power output controllers configured to output a predetermined power level to the corresponding group of light emitting diodes and a master controller coupled to the plurality of output controllers and operable to synchronize the plurality of output controllers. The master controller operable to receive data from a remote device indicating a desired duty cycle, cycle period, and phase shift of the output power relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Verdant Lighting Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11785684
    Abstract: A light apparatus includes an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in parallel arrangement, in which the LEDs have respective first terminals coupled together for connection to a supply node of a power source that provides the drive current to the LEDs during operation. Driver circuity is disposed between respective second terminals of the LEDs and a return node of the power source. The driver circuitry includes a respective LED driver for each of the LEDs, and each LED driver includes (1) a transistor connected to the second terminal of the respective LED, and (2) a resistor in series between the transistor and a return node of the power source, the transistors of the LED drivers having respective control inputs for receiving respective LED drive signals to control operation of the LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Textron Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Michael James, Andrew John Seager
  • Patent number: 11785688
    Abstract: A solid-state light emitter power supply includes a first rectifier circuit, a second rectifier circuit, a power factor correction (PFC) stage, a first flyback converter, a second flyback converter, and a microcontroller. The rectifier circuits are configured to receive phase-cut signals from respective dimmer circuits as inputs and output respective phase-cut rectified power signals. The PFC stage is configured to receive a sum of the phase-cut rectified power signals as input and output a power-factor corrected electrical power to the flyback converters. The flyback converters are connected in parallel and are configured to power respective loads including a respective solid-state light emitter. The microcontroller is configured to receive signals derived from the phase-cut signals as inputs and to output respective pulse-width modulation (PWM) control signals to each of the flyback converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LUMINII LLC
    Inventors: Meng Yang, Laszlo A. Takacs, Mina Nazari
  • Patent number: 11758632
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a multiplicity of luminaries connected to a single wire pair. The luminaries contain minimum circuitry to allow dimming and color tuning by pulses on the wire pair without the need for a separate control wire or control communication bus or network. A single luminary can be color tuned to many different colors as well as dimmed and turned on and off. A driver module drives the wire pair and receives commands over a network The driver module contains a pulse generation circuit that generates and applies pulses to the two-wire output. The amplitude of some the pulses control color of the luminary by selecting different LEDs in the luminary to light, while other pulses control brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MHT Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamid Pishdadian, Thomas A. Spinelli, Akram A. Khalis
  • Patent number: 11754268
    Abstract: An underwater light including a programmable controller and a replaceable light-emitting diode (LED) printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) is provided. The light includes a controller PCBA in communication with the LED PCBA, and a connector for connecting the controller PCBA to the LED PCBA. An optically-transparent potting compound encapsulates the LED PCBA, and the LED PCBA can be safely replaced by removing a rear housing of the underwater light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny Raposo, James Carter, Steven Mitchell, Jeffrey Cho, Yevgeny Rapoport, Joseph A. Gundel
  • Patent number: 11751315
    Abstract: The invention provides a control device for controlling at least one wirelessly connected lighting device within a wireless network, wherein the control device comprises: a transceiver configured to overhear and transmit a message within the wireless network; a light sensor configured to detect a light signal comprising a temporal characteristic that is characteristic for a first artificial light source; a processor operatively coupled to the light sensor and the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to: determine, based on analyzing said temporal characteristic, a first condition that the light signal belongs to the of artificial light source, and transmit a control message to the at least one wirelessly connected lighting device upon determining said first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Ekkel, Harry Broers, Kumar Arulandu
  • Patent number: 11751304
    Abstract: A LED feedback voltage regulating driving device is provided. The LED feedback voltage regulating driving device includes a microcontroller, a first feedback circuit, a second feedback circuit, an oscillating circuit and a comparison circuit. The first feedback circuit and the second feedback circuit adjust the voltage and current from the electricity supply module and the driving circuit respectively, and transmit the voltage and current to the microcontroller; wherein, the microcontroller and the oscillating circuit reciprocate the voltage and current from the first feedback circuit and the second feedback circuit; wherein the comparison circuit compares the signal from the microcontroller and the oscillating circuit; wherein the pulse circuit adjusts the voltage and the current then transmits the voltage and current to the driving circuit for electricity driving; wherein, during the electricity driving, the driving circuit transmits part of the voltage and current to the second feedback circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Wen-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 11743987
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a light-emitting element whose one end is connected to a first voltage source. A control circuit is connected between the other end of the light-emitting element and a host computer and controls the light-emitting element in accordance with a signal from the host computer. A resistance element is connected between a first connecting portion, which is located between the light-emitting element and the control circuit, and a reference potential source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiro Harashima, Kazumichi Hada
  • Patent number: 11727863
    Abstract: A display device including pixels; a controller configured to generate first compensation data based on first sensing data with respect to threshold voltages of driving transistors of the pixels which are sensed during a first sensing period, to generate second compensation data based on second sensing data with respect to mobilities of the driving transistors of the pixels which are sensed during the first sensing period, to generate third compensation data based on third sensing data with respect to mobility change amounts of the driving transistors of the pixels which are sensed using image data for sensing compensated based on the first and second compensation data during a second sensing period, and to compensate input image data based on the first, second, and third compensation data to generate compensated image data; and a data driver configured to provide data voltages to the pixels based on the compensated image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boyoung An, Ji-Woong Jeong, Wook Lee, Jungki Min
  • Patent number: 11723125
    Abstract: The invention generally comprises creating a signal conditioner that is capable of filtering, converting, segmenting and producing a periodic waveform from an electrical source, converting in into an electrical signal to drive an electrical device, such as a LED lamp, so that the behavior of the device driven by the electrical signal enables the device to perform a function that is practically free of the variations present in the main electrical source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGIES INTELIA INC.
    Inventors: Claude Bouchard, Alexandre Brouillette, Hugo Bayeur, Jacques Godin
  • Patent number: 11703208
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to manipulate a perceived target material color by varying compositions of illumination with static perceived chromaticity is disclosed. An illumination source is configured to emit light at a first set of wavelengths with a first set of amplitudes to illuminate the target material. An observer perceives the emitted light to be at a predetermined chromaticity, and perceives light reflected from the illuminated target material to be at a first chromaticity. A control device switches the illumination source to emit light at a second plurality of wavelengths at a second plurality of amplitudes, which is perceived to the observer to be of the same predetermined chromaticity as before, while the light reflected from the illuminated target material is perceived to be of a different chromaticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Kyle Hounsell
  • Patent number: 11699946
    Abstract: A load control device for controlling power delivered from an alternating-current power source to an electrical load may comprise a controllably conductive device, a control circuit, and an overcurrent protection circuit that is configured to be disabled when the controllably conductive device is non-conductive. The control circuit may be configured to control the controllably conductive device to be non-conductive at the beginning of each half-cycle of the AC power source and to render the controllably conductive device conductive at a firing time during each half-cycle (e.g., using a forward phase-control dimming technique). The overcurrent protection circuit may be configured to render the controllably conductive device non-conductive in the event of an overcurrent condition in the controllably conductive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Dinesh Sundara Moorthy, James P. Steiner
  • Patent number: 11696384
    Abstract: A multiple location load control system comprises a main device and remote devices, which do not require neutral connections, but allow for visual and audible feedback at the main device and the remote devices. The main device and the remote devices are adapted to be coupled together via an accessory wiring. The main device can be wired on the line side and the load side of the load control system. The main device is configured to enable a charging path to allow the remote devices to charge power supplies through the accessory wiring during a first time period of a half cycle of the AC power source. The main device and the remote devices are configured to communicate with each other via the accessory wiring during a second time period of the half cycle, for example, by actively pulling-up and actively pulling-down the accessory wiring to communicate using tri-state logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ehsan Dadashnialehi, Robert C. Newman, Jr., Daniel Curtis Raneri, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
  • Patent number: 11683877
    Abstract: The invention proposes a communication adaptor, comprising within one casing: a transmission antenna, a wired control interface connected to wired control interface terminals, a control circuitry for converting wirelessly received wireless communication signals into wired control interface signals and vice versa, wherein the adaptor is designed such that it can be brought in close contact with a reception antenna of a converter for lighting mean, such as e.g. LEDs, in order to establish a wireless communication, wherein the control circuitry and the wired control interface are powered by means of the wired control interface terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Alexander Barth, Frank Lochmann, Fabio Romano
  • Patent number: 11676952
    Abstract: Light emitting devices and methods of integrating micro LED devices into light emitting device are described. In an embodiment a light emitting device includes a reflective bank structure within a bank layer, and a conductive line atop the bank layer and elevated above the reflective bank structure. A micro LED device is within the reflective bank structure and a passivation layer is over the bank layer and laterally around the micro LED device within the reflective bank structure. A portion of the micro LED device and a conductive line atop the bank layer protrude above a top surface of the passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Bibl, Charles R. Griggs
  • Patent number: 11665800
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for operating DC-DC regulators such as LED drivers. Various embodiments herein allow a DC-DC regulator to switch between buck mode and buck-boost mode without suffering effects otherwise resulting from transient currents when switching between modes. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by operating the DC-DC regulator in a buck-boost mode to charge a boost capacitor with a substantially constant inductor current. The inductor current is also used to control a set of switches to operate the DC-DC regulator in a buck mode to drive a load by using the capacitor as a power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Hariharan, Gregory Michael Fattig, Ramesh Selvaraj, Ron Vincent Ocampo
  • Patent number: 11626542
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an LED bracket, including: a front bracket, wherein an LED lamp chip is provided in the front bracket; and a back bracket, wherein the back bracket is connected to the front bracket, and a diffusion material is provided on a side of the back bracket away from the front bracket, wherein the LED lamp chip can emit light from the front bracket and light emitted from a direction close to the back bracket passes through the diffusion material and then goes out from the back bracket. In the present disclosure, the front bracket is provided, the back bracket is additionally provided on the front bracket, the diffusion material is provided on the back bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: GANZHOU HESHENG PRECISION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yaoquan He
  • Patent number: 11624498
    Abstract: An automated dimming load controller automatically measures the relationship between the current draw and the dimmer setting for each light or group of lights connected to the load controller. Once measured, the relationship between the current draw and the dimmer setting can be used to enable the dimmer controller to adjust the lights between their minimum and maximum effective illumination. This automatic setting of the dimmer controller may be performed regularly to accommodate changes in performance or replacement of any of the connected lights, drivers or ballasts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Watt Stopper, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Cartrette, Peter J. Horton
  • Patent number: 11622427
    Abstract: A lighting control system for controlling a cumulative light emitted by a lighting fixture having a plurality of LED light sources may comprise a plurality of LED drivers adapted to be coupled to a respective one of the LED light sources and configured to control an intensity of the respective LED light source, and a controller configured to transmit a single digital message for controlling the cumulative light emitted by the lighting fixture. Each of the plurality of LED drivers is configured to adjust the intensity of the respective LED light source to a preset intensity in response to the single digital message transmitted by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Venkatesh Chitta, Arya Abraham
  • Patent number: 11617242
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light source, a rectifier circuit, a DC-DC converter, an adjustment circuit and a controller. The rectifier circuit converts an AC power to a raw direct current. The adjustment circuit provides an adjustment signal corresponding a light intensity setting of the light source. The controller is coupled to the DC-DC converter and the adjustment circuit. The controller receives the adjustment signal for generating a first PWM signal. The DC-DC converter receives the first PWM signal. The DC-DC converter converts the raw direct current to an output current according to a first duty ratio of the first PWM signal. The output current is supplied to the light source corresponding to the light intensity setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lingfeng Zhou, Zongyan Liu, Bin Liu, Liangliang Cao, Yueqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11617245
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein include a LED driver, including a current output module configured to generate a constant current output split between a plurality of output channels, each output channel connected to one or more LEDs having an associated CCT value, at least one switch encoding a plurality of lumen settings and a plurality of CCT settings, and at least one circuit coupled to the current output module and the switch, the at least one circuit configured to determine a first lumen setting from the plurality of lumen settings encoded by the at least one switch, adjust the constant current output of the current output module based on the first lumen setting, determine a first CCT setting from the plurality of CCT settings encoded by the at least one switch, and adjust the plurality of output channels of the current output module based on the first CCT setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Hang Zhang, Peng Xiao, Tiberiu Antohi
  • Patent number: 11615704
    Abstract: A traffic light assembly is disclosed with red, amber and green lights. While light is being emitted, a flashing sequence pattern is generated within the area to enhance the meaning of the signal communicated to the driver. The sequence pattern is formed by changing the colour of light emitted, and or by ceasing to emit light. An intermediate pattern that is different in configuration from any of the sequence patterns is provided at a transition between at least one of the red, amber and green lights to further communicate to the driver that the light signal is about to change and that action is about to be required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ESKP3 PTY. LTD.
    Inventor: Elizabeth Abigael Kijashka
  • Patent number: 11617247
    Abstract: Multiple current sources are coupled in series to corresponding light-emitting elements. Switching converter supplies driving voltage to the multiple light-emitting elements and current sources. Pulse modulator generates pulse signal that transits to on level when the smallest from among voltages across both ends of the multiple current sources falls to bottom limit voltage, and subsequently transits to off level. Frequency stabilization circuit controls pulse modulator such that the frequency of pulse signal approaches its target. Dummy load circuit is configured to lower driving voltage in the enable state, to be set to the enable state when switching transistor continues to be off for a predetermined time, and to be set to the disable state in response to the next turn-on of the switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norito Takahashi, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11606657
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a privacy blocking device configured to prevent receipt, by a listening device, of video and/or audio data until a trigger occurs. A blocker may be configured to prevent receipt of video and/or audio data by one or more microphones and/or one or more cameras of a listening device. The blocker may use the one or more microphones, the one or more cameras, and/or one or more second microphones and/or one or more second cameras to monitor for a trigger. The blocker may process the data. Upon detecting the trigger, the blocker may transmit data to the listening device. For example, the blocker may transmit all or a part of a spoken phrase to the listening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Stachura
  • Patent number: 11602027
    Abstract: A light source driving method is applied to a light source driving module electrically connected to a light source and a controller. The light source driving module includes a frequency setting module, a driving circuit, and a conversion module. The frequency setting module generates a frequency setting signal according to a switching signal. The driving circuit generates a light source driving signal after receiving the switching signal and a current control signal. The conversion module selectively generates a driving current flowing through the light source in response to the light source driving signal. The driving current increases continuously during a rising duration, and the light source driving signal has a first operating frequency during the rising period. The driving current remains unchanged during a stable duration, and the light source driving signal has a second operating frequency during the stable period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11589445
    Abstract: A method (700) of controlling one or more lighting devices (120, 122, 124) is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Remco Magielse
  • Patent number: 11583990
    Abstract: A system of light devices including a first light device and a second light device. The first light device having a first housing, a first light, a first transceiver, a first electronic processor. The second light having a second housing, a second light, a second transceiver, a second electronic processor. The first electronic processor is coupled to the first light and the first transceiver, and configured to control operation of the first light, and transmit, via the first transceiver a command to the second light device. The second electronic processor coupled to the second light and the second transceiver, and configured to receive, via the second transceiver, the command from the first light device, and change an operational parameter of the second light in response to the command from the first light device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Isaacs, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Matthew J. Mergener, Burtrom L. Stampfl, Stephen Matson, Christian Coulis, Scott Schneider, Josh Schermerhorn, Thomas G. Simeone
  • Patent number: 11569838
    Abstract: A current source and/or current sink digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a DAC circuit that converts a digital code to an analog current or voltage signal, an optional transconductance circuit that converts a voltage output of the DAC circuit into a current signal, and an output circuit that amplifies a current output of the DAC circuit or optionally amplifies a current output of the transconductance circuit to set a desired high current output for application to an output of the current source and/or current sink DAC. A power supply control current may be coupled to a power supply circuit that supplies power to the output circuit of the current source and/or current sink DAC. The power supply control current adjusts the output of the power supply circuit to cause the current source and/or current sink DAC to operate at a higher power efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventor: Suat Sukuti Tukel
  • Patent number: 11564299
    Abstract: System and method for controlling one or more light emitting diodes. For example, the system includes: a power supply controller configured to receive a cathode voltage from a cathode of a diode, the diode including an anode configured to receive a rectified voltage generated by a rectifying bridge, the power supply controller being further configured to generate a first signal based at least in part on the cathode voltage; and a driver configured to receive the first signal and generate a second signal based at least in part on the first signal, the driver being further configured to output the second signal to a gate terminal of a transistor, the transistor including a source terminal coupled to the driver and a first resistor, the transistor further including a drain terminal coupled to the one or more light emitting diodes and an output capacitor connected to the cathode of the diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuoyan Li, Ke Li, Liqiang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11540367
    Abstract: An electrical load set circuit and apparatus having at least three control signal lines arranged in parallel, a pair of polarized electrical loads connected between two of the signal lines, and another electrical load connected between a different control signal line and one of the polarized loads. Individual ones of the electrical loads can be selectively activated without requiring an additional common (ground) line. At least two of the control signal lines can be kept in a floating state. A light strip includes plural light set circuits spaced along the control signal lines. In another variation, first and second light points are spaced along the three control signal lines, each including three different color LEDs respectively. Further variations include display devices having rotating and slit patterns of illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIAN YIBAO OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiayang Lin, Baowen Lin
  • Patent number: 11526071
    Abstract: A projector includes a first cooling device configured to cool a first cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into gas, a second cooling device configured to cool a second cooling target, and a heat conduction member. A refrigerant generator of the first cooling device includes a moisture absorbing and desorbing member, a first blower, a heat exchanger, and a second blower configured to send the air to the heat exchanger. The second cooling device includes a third blower and a circulation path through which the air circulates between the third blower and the second cooling target. The heat conduction member includes a heat absorber configured to absorb heat radiated from the second cooling target and a heat dissipator disposed on the inside of the first cooling device. The heat radiated from the heat dissipator is transferred to the moisture absorbing and desorbing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11528796
    Abstract: A two-way load control system comprises a power device, such as a load control device for controlling an electrical load receiving power from an AC power source, and a controller adapted to be coupled in series between the source and the power device. The load control system may be installed without requiring any additional wires to be run, and is easily configured without the need for a computer or an advanced commissioning procedure. The power device receives both power and communication over two wires. The controller generates a phase-control voltage and transmits a forward digital message to the power device by encoding digital information in timing edges of the phase-control voltage. The power device transmits a reverse digital message to the controller via the power wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Taipale, Timothy P. Gredler, Akshay Bhat
  • Patent number: 11521536
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprising a pixel provided on a substrate, the pixel including a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel which are arranged to be adjacent to each other and are configured to generate light components of colors different from each other, and the first, second and third subpixels comprise an organic compound layer including a light emission layer, wherein letting I1, I2, and I3 be driving current amounts of the first, second and third subpixels when generating white light of a predetermined luminance, if I1>I2>I3 holds, a current leakage between the first and third subpixels is limited as compared to that between the second and third subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11512246
    Abstract: A luminescent material includes a particle of an irregular shape. The particle of an irregular shape includes a core of an irregular shape and quantum dots. The quantum dots distribute on the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CHIMEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan-Ren Juang, Szu-Chun Yu, Keng-Chu Lin, Wei-Ta Chen, Yao-Tsung Chuang, Jen-Shrong Uen
  • Patent number: 11508715
    Abstract: Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly LED chip structures with electrical overstress protection are disclosed. LED chip structures are disclosed that include built-in electrical overstress protection. An exemplary LED chip may include an active LED structure that is arranged as a primary light-emitting structure and a separate active LED structure that is arranged as an electrical overstress protection structure. The electrical overstress protection structure may be electrically connected in reverse relative to the primary light-emitting structure. In this manner, under normal operating conditions, forward current will flow through the primary light-emitting structure to generate desired light emissions, and during an electrical overstress event, reverse current may flow through the electrical overstress protection structure, thereby protecting the light-emitting structure from damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CreeLED, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel E. Stasiw, Steven Wuester, Michael Check
  • Patent number: 11499698
    Abstract: A sweeping illumination system illuminates an aquarium with organisms requiring simulated sunlight for survival. The illumination system includes a downward-facing light housing for illuminating a top surface of the aquarium. A support arm is coupled to the light housing and enables the light housing to sweep a pattern across the top surface of the aquarium. The sweep pattern can be semi-circular or semi-elliptical along a plane parallel to the top surface of the aquarium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Zachary Daniel Ladner
  • Patent number: 11503685
    Abstract: Self-identifying solid-state transducer (SST) modules and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In several embodiments, for example, an SST system can include a driver and at least one SST module electrically coupled to the driver. Each SST module can include an SST and a sense resistor. The sense resistors of each SST module can have at least substantially similar resistance values. The SSTs of the SST modules can be coupled in parallel across an SST channel to the driver, and the sense resistors of the SST modules can be coupled in parallel across a sense channel to the driver. The driver can be configured to measure a sense resistance across the sense resistors and deliver a current across the SSTs based on the sense resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven A. McMahon
  • Patent number: 11490072
    Abstract: An image sensor system includes an image sensor and a prediction part. The image sensor includes an illumination module and a processing part. The illumination module includes a light emitting part for emitting light and a nonvolatile memory. The processing part stores a first data and a second data in the memory. The first data includes an electric parameter value when the light emitting part is applied with a power and a cumulative power-on time obtained by accumulating a time when the light emitting part is applied with the power. The second data includes a value obtained by multiplying the electric parameter value when the light emitting part is applied with the power by the cumulative power-on time. The prediction part obtains the first data or the second data from the memory and predicts a lifetime of the light emitting part based on the first data or the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru Horie
  • Patent number: 11490488
    Abstract: A switching driving circuit includes a switch configured to switch a current supplied to a target circuit, a sensing resistor connected to the switch, a controller configured to control the switch by comparing a sensing voltage applied to the sensing resistor with a reference voltage, and a compensation circuit configured to regulate the reference voltage based on an amount of variation of an input voltage input into the target circuit and an output voltage output from the target circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Hyuck Lee, Joo Han Yoon, Byoung Kwon An
  • Patent number: 11483909
    Abstract: A control circuit for a voltage source generates a reference signal for a voltage source, wherein the reference signal indicates a requested output voltage to be generated by the voltage source. A digital feed-forward control circuit computes a digital feed-forward regulation value indicative of a requested output voltage by determining a maximum voltage drop at strings of solid-state light sources. A digital feed-back control circuit determines a minimum voltage drop for current regulators/limiters for the strings and determines a digital feed-back correction value as a function of the minimum voltage drop. The control circuit then sets the reference signal after a start-up as a function of the digital feed-forward regulation value and corrects the reference signal as a function of the digital feed-back correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, STMicroelectronics Design and Application S.R.O.
    Inventors: Donato Tagliavia, Vincenzo Polisi, Calogero Andrea Trecarichi, Francesco Nino Mammoliti, Jochen Barthel, Ludek Beran
  • Patent number: 11458554
    Abstract: A wire electrical discharge machine determines the position of an endface of a workpiece by relatively moving a wire electrode toward the workpiece. The wire electrical discharge machine includes: a voltage application control unit configured to continuously apply voltage pulses between the wire electrode and the workpiece; a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage between the wire electrode and the workpiece; a pulse occurrence ratio calculation unit configured to calculate a pulse occurrence ratio that is a ratio of the number of the voltage pulses detected by the voltage detection unit to the number of the voltage pulses applied per a predetermined time by the voltage application control unit; and an endface position determination unit configured to determine the position of the endface of the workpiece based on the pulse occurrence ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minjie Al
  • Patent number: 11464093
    Abstract: In examples, an apparatus includes a transistor, a switch, a diode, a capacitor, a voltage divider, a second transistor, a resistor, and a controller. The transistor has a transistor drain, a transistor source, and a transistor gate. The switch is adapted to couple a power supply to the transistor drain through an inductor. The diode has a cathode and an anode, the diode cathode coupled to the transistor drain. The capacitor is coupled between the diode anode and ground. The voltage divider is coupled between the diode anode and ground and having a voltage divider output. The second transistor has a second transistor source and a second transistor gate. The resistor is coupled between the diode anode and the second transistor source. The controller is coupled to the transistor gate, the transistor source, the voltage divider output, the diode anode, the second transistor gate, and the second transistor source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tuan Van Tran, Vahid Yousefzadeh
  • Patent number: 11456611
    Abstract: A method of managing power and a power management circuit operable in a plurality of modes are presented. The power management circuit includes a three terminals switching converter coupled to a controller. The switching converter has a single inductor, two sets of switches, a bypass switch and a transition switch. The first set of switches is coupled to an input terminal. The second set of switches is coupled to a battery terminal. The bypass switch is coupled between the battery terminal and a load terminal. The single inductor is provided between a first switching node and a second switching node. The transition switch is provided between the first switching node and the battery or the load terminal. A controller is configured to select a mode of operation by changing a state of at least one of the bypass switch and the transition switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Pietro Gambetta, Mark Mercer
  • Patent number: 11450090
    Abstract: A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KORRUS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin James Harrison, Shruti Koparkar, Mark Reynoso, Paul Pickard, Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Gary Vick, Andrew Villegas
  • Patent number: 11450248
    Abstract: An image display device includes a use aspect information acquisition unit that acquires use aspect information regarding an equipment use aspect, an early period mode setting unit that sets a parameter related to processing or operation executed at a time of image display on the basis of the acquired use aspect information and causes image display operation to be executed as an early period mode, a later period mode setting unit that, in response to determination that it is the mode change timing, resets a parameter related to processing or operation executed at a time of image display and causes image display operation to be executed as a later period mode, and a timing determination unit that determines the mode change timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Toratani, Masahiro Tenpaku
  • Patent number: 11445582
    Abstract: A control circuit of a zero current controlled dimming circuit having a high side power switch, a low side power switch and an inductor, having: an error circuit, providing a compensation signal based on a reference signal and a current sense signal indicative of an output current; a compensation circuit, providing a compensation off time signal based on the compensation signal and a peak value sample and hold signal indicative of a peak value of an inductor current; and a control signal generating circuit, providing a low side switch control signal to control the low side power switch based on the compensation off time signal, wherein after the inductor current decreases to zero, the low side power switch maintains on for a compensation off time period determined by the compensation off time signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Li, Siran Wang
  • Patent number: 11441749
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrically addressable lighting assembly for providing different adjustable light distribution patterns. The light distributions can be pre-programmed or adjusted once installed in an environment by use of a controller or control device. The lighting assembly comprises at least one primary optical element such as a focusing lens or light guide, which can be backlit and/or edgelit, and light sources arranged in two or more independently addressed electrical channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Fusion Optix, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Yeo, John Montminy, Lee Mantha, Michael Demas, Timothy Kelly
  • Patent number: 11441747
    Abstract: The present invention relates to different embodiments of lighting fixtures, such as high bay lighting fixtures, comprising one or more improved features. Some of these features include the direct mounting of emitters on a heat sink and/or the use of a template-like board for providing an electrical connection between emitters. These features can improve heat dissipation from the emitters and simplify fabrication. In other embodiments, expensive lens optics of prior art SSL fixtures can be replaced with a flat lens and reflector in order to produce a fixture having a satisfactory spacing criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING LLC
    Inventors: Nelson Man Hoi Lui, Jr., Felix Chi Hoi Mung, Gauss Ho Ching So, Alan Hoi Leung Ng
  • Patent number: 11438989
    Abstract: Aspects of the presently disclosed embodiments may include a wireless power outage lighting system comprising one or more power change detection apparatuses and one or more wireless lighting modules where the system is implemented to allow management of multiple groups in the same area such that interference may be avoided when there are multiple transmissions in the same area. A power change detection apparatus may be configured to transmit to avoid interference with another power change detection apparatus. A power change detection apparatus may also be configured through the user input method to operate different groups of wireless lighting modules such that lighting zones may be created. Multiple lighting zone allow a user to configure lighting provided by the wireless power outage lighting system based on their preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael V. Recker, David B. Levine
  • Patent number: RE49705
    Abstract: A method and illumination device are provided for interference-resistant compensation in light emitting diode (LED) illumination devices. In one embodiment, the method includes bringing to a level insufficient to produce illumination the respective drive current of all except one of multiple emission LED elements for the duration of a first measurement interval and a later-occurring second measurement interval. The first and second measurement intervals are within respective first and second series of measurement intervals interspersed with periods of illumination, and the first and second series of measurement intervals are separated by respective first and second offsets from a timing reference. An embodiment of an illumination device includes multiple emission LED elements, one or more photodetectors, and a lamp control circuit, where the lamp control circuit is adapted to perform steps of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Horace C. Ho, Rebecca Frank