With Or Including Transparent Or Translucent Member Patents (Class 362/223)
  • Patent number: 11947212
    Abstract: An electronic device which is capable of being bent in a first direction and includes a plurality of light-emitting units and a plurality of conductive patterns overlapping with at least a portion of the plurality of light-emitting units and extending in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction have an angle ? of not greater than 30 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Yu-Chia Huang, Yu-Ting Huang, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chia-Hung Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11942266
    Abstract: Systems for improvements in electrical power distribution and monitoring systems for data centers. A system can include a circuit breaker, a set of phased current transformers (CTs), a neutral CT, and a metering device. The circuit breaker can be mounted in a first enclosure. Additionally, the set of phased CTs can be positioned in a first component arrangement of a second enclosure. The set of phased CTs can be coupled to the circuit breaker and be configured to measure a current value flowing through the circuit breaker. Moreover, the neutral CT can be positioned in a second component arrangement of the second enclosure. The neutral No errors found. CT can be coupled to the circuit breaker. Furthermore, the metering device can be configured to transmit data associated with the current value to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Christopher Thies, Tor Adom Kyaagba
  • Patent number: 11825964
    Abstract: A frame lit mirror component includes an extruded frame member. The extruded frame member further includes a mirror mounting edge. The mirror mounting edge extends along a longitudinal direction of the extruded frame member. The mirror mounting edge is sized to receive an edge of a mirror. A light source volume extends along the longitudinal direction of the extruded frame member. An angle exists between the mirror mounting edge and the light source volume. The light source volume is sized to receive a light source, such that when the light source is in an on-state light radiates from the light source volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRIC MIRROR, LLC
    Inventors: Jon Philip Johnston, Patrick Daniel Erickson
  • Patent number: 11780605
    Abstract: A runway-embedded flash lighting device, including: a body; a ceiling member; a light guide member; and an LED flash light source, wherein the body is configured to be embedded in a runway, the ceiling member is disposed in an upper opening of the body and configured to be exposed to a runway surface when the body is embedded in the runway, the ceiling member includes a flash emission window, the light guide member is disposed in the flash emission window, the LED flash light source is disposed inside the body and configured to emit a flash toward the light guide member, and the light guide member is configured to allow the flash emitted from the LED flash light source to be emitted from the flash emission window to outside the runway-embedded flash lighting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HotaluX, Ltd.
    Inventor: Norimasa Mizobe
  • Patent number: 11614576
    Abstract: A suspended lighting fixture for direct/indirect lighting including a pair of curved sheets which are joined by a linear heat-dissipating structural element and cooperatively forming a trough-shaped structure configured to be suspended with a downward orientation using one or more suspension elements. The lighting fixture further includes a linear light source with one or more linear arrays of light emitting diodes (LEDs) optically coupled to light input edges of the curved sheets, a linear heat-dissipating structural element joining curved sheets, and an opaque elongated housing at least partially enclosing the structural element, light source, and the light input edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: S.V.V. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Sergiy Vasylyev
  • Patent number: 11530786
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus formed from a translucent cylindrical foam tube such as a white “pool noodle” that is soft, flexible, and resilient and has a flexible electrically powered internal illumination source such as an LED strip bearing multiple LEDs extending through its interior. The lighting apparatus is typically provided with electricity via a plug adapted for insertion into an automobile cigarette lighter socket, and is readily positioned along the interior edges of an automobile window for illumination of areas where window tint/film is being applied to the window. The lighting apparatus can also have a self-contained power source and be connected in series for added versatility and utility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Lorin Jeffrey Rutherford
  • Patent number: 11512834
    Abstract: An optic for aisle lighting includes a portion of an optical material defined by a length and a cross-sectional profile. The cross-sectional profile is characterized by a cavity within the optical material, two upwardly-facing surfaces of the optical material on opposite sides of the cavity from one another, and downwardly-facing surfaces of the optical material. The cavity is bounded by an upward facing aperture, and at least three faces of the optical material that meet at interior angles. Light received through the upward facing aperture is separated at the interior angles, and refracted by the faces of the optical material, into separate light beams equal in number to the faces. The two upwardly-facing surfaces internally reflect the separate light beams downwardly. The downwardly-facing surfaces intercept respective portions of the separate light beams, and refract the portions as they exit the optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Craig Eugene Marquardt
  • Patent number: 11506376
    Abstract: Industrial lighting device including a light source and a sealed housing containing the light source. The housing includes a support delimiting a housing window extending opposite the light source, a window pane sealing the housing window, and a sealing gasket extending along the periphery of the housing window and compressed between the window pane and the support. The device includes a filter extending in front of the housing window, outside the housing. The filter includes a frame defining a frame window which is removably fixed to the housing, in an assembled position in which the frame window is opposite the housing window, and an optical film fixed to the frame and sealing the frame window. The device includes an elastic compression member arranged between the support and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TPL VISION UK LTD
    Inventors: Guillaume Mazeaud, Jack McKinley
  • Patent number: 11428387
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a tilt housing, a bottom plate, a first cap cover, a second cap cover, a driver, a light source plate and a light passing cover. The lighting apparatus may be installed in a closet. The tilt housing includes a tilt plate, a top plate and a side plate. The tilt plate has a first side connected to the top plate. The bottom plate has a front side connected to a second side of the tilt plate. The bottom plate also has a back side connected to the side plate. The second side is opposite to the first side in the tilt plate. The bottom plate and the tilt housing form a polygonal tube defining an inner container. The first cap cover and the second cap cover are fixed to two opposite ends of the polygonal tube for concealing the inner container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jinhui Liang, Shouqiang Hou, Xiaoliang Wen, Yongzhe Dong
  • Patent number: 11346531
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus can include a light assembly having a housing section and an attachment section. At least one light emitting device is contained within the housing section. The attachment assembly can include a substantially flat base section and an attachment member extending outwardly from the base section. The attachment section of the light assembly can define a recess having a size and shape that is complementary to the attachment member of the attachment assembly, such that the light assembly and the attachment assembly can be releasably attached to each other by complementary frictional engagement of the attachment member of the attachment assembly and the attachment section of the light assembly when the attachment member is positioned within the attachment section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: FUSE, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew S. Brown
  • Patent number: 11333325
    Abstract: A modular LED light, in particular for explosive areas, has at least one LED module and one central power supply module. At least the LED module is detachably attached to a housing module. The housing module has two arrangement planes in the vertical direction, wherein at least power supply connectors for the LED lights and connection lines to the central power supply module and to the LED module are arranged in the upper arrangement plane and the LED module and a driver device on an LED module receiving element or on the central power supply module are arranged in the lower arrangement plane. The housing module has at least one LED module receiving unit that is arranged lateral to the central power supply module and in which an LED power supply interface for supplying electrical power to the LED module in its usage position is arranged in the LED module receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jens Burmeister, Bernd Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11326745
    Abstract: A LED light tube apparatus installed to a tube bracket includes a LED light source and a light passing tube. A driver includes a driver circuit. A power input electrode that an external power is supplied to the driver for generating a driving current supplied to the LED light source. A first cap and a second being disposed at two opposite ends of the light passing tube. The first cap and the second cap respectively have two pins inserted into corresponding pin sockets for fixing the LED light tube apparatus to the tube bracket. The LED light tube provides an in-house power source to the pin sockets, but the in-house power is not routed to the driver from the pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: XIAMEN LEEDARSON LIGHTING CO. LTD
    Inventors: Linhua Wang, Shuijing Liang, Shou Chen
  • Patent number: 11306886
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing configured to be secured to a support surface, a plurality of light emitters supported on the housing, and a pair of panels supported on the housing. The housing includes a first end, a second end, a pair of sides extending between the first end and the second end, and an intermediate portion positioned between the pair of sides and oriented in a direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis. The housing includes a light emission opening through which light is directed. The panels are positioned on opposite sides of the intermediate portion from one another. Each of the panels is oriented in an inclined plane relative to the light emission opening. Each of the panels includes an outer edge positioned adjacent one of the sides of the housing, and an inner edge positioned adjacent the intermediate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hubbell Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Lewis, John Hollander, Stephen Kiff
  • Patent number: 11255509
    Abstract: A lighting device contains light-emitting elements and has an elongated shape. The lighting device has a housing that has reflective side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the housing; a cavity formed between the reflective side walls; and light-emitting elements arranged at least partially along the longitudinal direction relative to each other in the cavity. An opening of the cavity forms a light-emitting area, A width of the cavity expands from the light-emitting elements towards the opening at least in sections. A reflective element covers at least a section of the opening and reflects a part of light emitted from the light-emitting elements towards the cavity and reduces a width of the light-emitting area compared to a width of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Christian Kleijnen, Floris Maria Hermansz Crompvoets, Benno Spinger, Thorsten Anger
  • Patent number: 11181255
    Abstract: Apparatus for coupling a luminaire with a surface includes a mounting plate having or more studs extending therefrom, a back plate for a luminaire, and a latch. The back plate forms slots that can receive the studs. The back plate can move in a first direction with the studs received within the slots. The latch couples with the back plate, and can engage one of the studs that extends through one of the slots. In a first rotational position of the latch with respect to the back plate, the latch does not engage the stud, and in a second rotational position of the latch with respect to the back plate, the latch engages the stud in a direction different from the first direction, so as to constrain movement of the back plate in the first direction, latching the back plate to the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Kaitlyn T. Crawford
  • Patent number: 11097644
    Abstract: An awning system includes lighting units integrated with support arms thereof. The lighting units are configured to direct light emitted thereby primarily toward a canopy thereof when the canopy is fully deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Lippert Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. McKinnon, Steve Jenkins, Josh Black, Byron Brown, Brian M. Worthman, Catherine Kline
  • Patent number: 11098857
    Abstract: The LED tube lamp includes a lamp tube, an LED substrate, and a diffusion film. The LED substrate includes a plurality of LED chips disposed on the LED substrate, and a driving circuitry for receiving power to enable the plurality of LED chips. The diffusion film is disposed on a surface of the lamp tube. The diffusion film includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. The first region and the second region of the diffusion film are arranged along a longitudinal axis of the lamp tube. The first region has a first transmittance rate and the second region has a second transmittance rate higher than the first transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Guochao Li, Qi Liu, Shaokun Guo
  • Patent number: 11079535
    Abstract: A lighting fixture defines a lateral direction, a transverse direction, and a vertical direction. The light fixture includes a frame and a first panel supported by the frame. The first panel includes a first edge extending between a front surface of the first panel and a rear surface of the first panel. The lighting fixture includes a second panel supported by the frame. The second panel includes a second edge extending between a front surface of the second panel and a rear surface of the second panel. The lighting fixture includes at least one light source configured to illuminate the first panel and the second panel. The lighting fixture includes a light reflector extending adjacent to the rear surface of the first panel and the rear surface of the second panel. The light reflector reflects light emitted from at least one of the first panel and the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean M. Hawthorne, Timothy S. Farrell, Michael F. Conroy, Rachel L. Sidiropoulos
  • Patent number: 11060708
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes alight base, a middle light body, a first end box, a second end box, a first side light body, a second side light body. The light base has a main body and a center opening located in a middle place of the main body. For example, the light base has a bracket housing. The first end box and the second end box are attached to two opposite ends of the light body. The first side light body is connected to the first end box and the second end box for emitting a first lateral light. The first side light body and the second side light body are rotatable with respect to the first end box and the second end box for adjusting light emitting angles of the first lateral light and the second lateral light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Chunteng Chen, Chuntian Qiu
  • Patent number: 11022278
    Abstract: A light fixture includes a housing, a recessed channel, a light-emitting element, and a lens positioned over the light-emitting element. The housing includes a mounting surface. The recessed channel includes a bottom and a pair of side walls extending along the length of the mounting surface. The light-emitting element is coupled to the bottom of the recessed channel. The lens is positioned over the light-emitting element and removably retained between the pair of side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Davis, Dhavalkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 10995933
    Abstract: An optical device includes: a first reflective surface disposed to reflect, to a substantially arc-shaped first region around a first axis, at least a portion of first light incident along the first axis and having a light distribution characteristic with an optical axis parallel to the first axis, the first reflective surface including a plurality of reflective arc surfaces separated in a direction along the first axis; a second reflective surface and a third reflective surface intersecting each other on the first axis and disposed such that the first reflective surface is located between the second reflective surface and the third reflective surface; and a light-transmissive emission surface adapted to refract at least a portion of light reflected by the plurality of reflective arc surfaces to emit the light around the first axis, the emission surface having periodic irregularities in a cross section in the direction along the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Aruga, Hiroyuki Itahana, Wataru Kitahara, Yoshinori Momose, Masahiro Imai
  • Patent number: 10948162
    Abstract: An optic for aisle lighting includes a portion of an optical material defined by a length and a cross-sectional profile. The cross-sectional profile is characterized by a cavity within the optical material, two upwardly-facing surfaces of the optical material on opposite sides of the cavity from one another, and downwardly-facing surfaces of the optical material. The cavity is bounded by an upward facing aperture, and at least three faces of the optical material that meet at interior angles. Light received through the upward facing aperture is separated at the interior angles, and refracted by the faces of the optical material, into separate light beams equal in number to the faces. The two upwardly-facing surfaces internally reflect the separate light beams downwardly. The downwardly-facing surfaces intercept respective portions of the separate light beams, and refract the portions as they exit the optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Craig Eugene Marquardt
  • Patent number: 10935189
    Abstract: The lighting device includes at least one filament module, a base, at least one pillar, and a base. The filament module includes more than two filaments. Each filament includes a substrate, multiple LED chips, a phosphor film, a top extended electrode, and a bottom extended electrode. Multiple LED chips are mounted on the substrate. The phosphor film covers the substrate and multiple LED chips. The top extended electrode and bottom extended electrode are connected to two ends of the substrate respectively. At least part of top extended electrode and bottom extended electrode are not covered by the phosphor film, and each top extended electrode of the filaments is fixed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongkui Jiang, Yanzeng Gao
  • Patent number: 10914459
    Abstract: An LED rack system for a troffer retrofit has a rail structure with a front rail, rear rail, right rail, and a left rail. The left rail is spaced apart from and parallel to the right rail. The front rail is spaced apart from and parallel to the rear rail. The rear rail is connected to the right rail and the left rail. The front rail is connected to the right rail and the real rail. A reflector is mounted to the rail structure. The reflector includes a reflector planar portion. The reflector planar portion has column supports and row supports. The column supports and the row supports are formed as linear intersecting protrusions from the planar portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Lin Yang, Zhengping Huang, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 10907783
    Abstract: A luminaire including a housing, a light emitter supported by the housing, and a cover removably coupled to the housing, where the cover includes a lens substantially covering the light emitter. An end cap is removably coupled to the housing and positioned substantially flush with the lens. A coupling mechanism couples the end cap to the housing, where the end cap substantially covers the coupling mechanism while coupled to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Kevin Lu, Syed Raza, Dean Dal Ponte, Steve Eastwood, George Guerra, Paul Lewis, Prathika Appaiah
  • Patent number: 10876689
    Abstract: A lighting tube for uniform illumination is disclosed. The lighting tube includes a conduit having an inner layer, outer layer, and a middle layer between the inner and outer layers. The middle layer has at least two of a phosphor film, a diffusion film, and a UV-blocking film. The lighting tube also includes a light emitting chain located inside of the conduit. The light emitting chain includes control wires and a plurality of light emitting units spaced along the control wires. Each unit has a plurality of faces interconnected to form a polygon when viewed along a central axis, with each face being on a different side of the polygon. Each face has an LED coupled to the control wires. The LED emits light with a wavelength that causes the phosphor film to luminesce. The illumination of the middle layer by the chain is substantially uniform in all radial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Retinal 3-D, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Roger C. Bowser
  • Patent number: 10880996
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible printed-circuit strip to whose upper face and/or lower face electronic components can be or are mounted, wherein it is subdivided in the direction of its longitudinal extension (L) into first and second surface zones (F1, F2) and it is subdivided perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (L) into a first edge region (SB1) and a second edge region (SB2), the two strip portions (SB1, SB2) being on both sides of a common longitudinal line (LL), wherein all the first surface zones (F1) are arranged in the first edge region (SB1) and all the second surface zones (F2) are arranged in the second edge region (SB2), and wherein first and second surface zones (F1, F2) that are adjacent in longitudinal direction (L) are respectively connected by a connecting web (V) that crosses the longitudinal line (LL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LED-LINEAR GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Schaffarz, Michael Kramer, Soeren Bleul, Peter Schoepper, Dennis Schuettler
  • Patent number: 10851957
    Abstract: A headlight module includes a light source, a light distribution control element and a projection optical element. The light source emits light. The light distribution control element forms a light distribution pattern by changing a divergence angle of the light incident therein. The projection optical element projects the light distribution pattern. The light distribution control element includes a first light distribution formation part configured to form a high luminosity region in the light distribution pattern and a second light distribution formation part configured to form a low luminosity region in the light distribution pattern. The low luminosity region is lower in luminosity than the high luminosity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashige Suwa, Ritsuya Oshima, Keiji Nakamura, Kuniko Kojima, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 10775004
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for illuminating. An exemplary apparatus includes a substrate having a longitudinal axis, and a first plurality of spaced apart fingers extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis from a first side of the substrate. The apparatus further includes second plurality of spaced apart fingers extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a second side of the substrate, wherein the first side of the substrate is opposite the second side of the substrate. The apparatus still further includes a first plurality of spaced apart lighting elements located on a third side of the substrate, wherein the first plurality of spaced apart lighting elements are spaced along the longitudinal axis of the substrate, and a second plurality of spaced apart lighting elements located on a fourth side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Roll & Hill, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Miller, Eric Beam, Raymond Clepper
  • Patent number: 10757856
    Abstract: The seed counting sensor (200) for pneumatic seeding machines comprises a detection chamber (210) within a house (204), said detection chamber allowing the seeds to pass through the sensor and having a center axis (211) extending in the flow direction of the seeds (102); a plurality of light sources (240) arranged within the house (204), outside the detection chamber (210), at predetermined distances from each other, said light sources being in a plane (P) extending substantially perpendicularly to said center axis of the sensor; a plurality of light detectors (250) arranged within the house (204), outside the detection chamber (210) at predetermined distances from each other, said light detectors being in the same plane (P) as the light sources, wherein the number of the light detectors equals to the number of the light sources, and a signal processing unit (502) for controlling operation of the light sources (240) and for processing the electronic signals produced by the light detectors (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Digitroll Ktf.
    Inventors: Gergö Körösi, Tamás Csatári, Csaba Erdei, János Silye
  • Patent number: 10732342
    Abstract: A luminaire (1) is disclosed comprising at least one optical chamber (10) delimited by a light exit window (11) and a curved reflective surface (15) extending from the light exit window to a mounting surface (17) extending from the curved reflective surface towards the light exit window. Each optical chamber comprises a light source (20) mounted on the mounting surface; and a light guide (30) extending across part of the optical chamber. The light guide comprises a total internal reflection major surface (40) facing the light exit window; a further major surface (50) facing the curved reflective surface, said further major surface comprising a light outcoupling portion (51) comprising a plurality of light outcoupling structures (53); a first edge surface (60) optically coupled to the light source; and a further edge surface (70) opposite the first edge surface arranged to direct light towards the curved reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Qin Li, Qun Luo, Kang Li, Zhengyi Zheng, Min Chen
  • Patent number: 10690297
    Abstract: A tubular light comprises an elongate light source (10) and a tubular housing (18) around the light source. An optical beam shaping arrangement (20) is provided within the housing. It has an effective focal distance, in the plane perpendicular to the length axis, which varies in dependence on the angular position around the optical beam shaping arrangement. The effective focal distance is longer for light in a light output optical axis direction than for light output laterally to the sides of the light output optical axis. This means the beam shaping, e.g. collimation, is greater at the edges of the light output beam than in the middle, so there is light mixing within the output beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Hubertus Petrus Gommans, Jochen Renaat Gheluwe
  • Patent number: 10677421
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus that is to be disposed in a recess formed in a part of a building includes: a light-emitting module that includes a board and a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the board; a light diffuser that has translucency and covers the light-emitting module; and a light reflector that includes a wall having light-reflecting properties and surrounding the plurality of light-emitting elements. Among the plurality of light-emitting elements, every two adjacent light-emitting elements are disposed on the board at a first interval. Among the plurality of light-emitting elements, a light-emitting element closest to the wall is disposed on the board with a second interval to the wall, the second interval being larger than ¼ of the first interval and smaller than the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Takeshita, Kentaro Yamauchi, Satoru Yamauchi, Shumpei Fujii, Satoshi Hyodo
  • Patent number: 10674055
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed of an apparatus including an illuminator. The illuminator includes an illumination dome having a wide end through which illumination is emitted, a narrow end with a camera opening, and a plurality of sidewalls. An annular light tray including a plurality of dome-light sources is positioned around a perimeter of the wide end so that light emitted by the plurality of light sources is directed toward an interior of the illumination dome. A set of low-angle light sources is positioned in each of the plurality of sidewalls. A camera is coupled to the illuminator, the camera's optics being optically coupled to an image sensor and to the camera opening. A controller is communicatively coupled to the illuminator and to the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Kubon, Raylon K. Vaughan, David Naddor
  • Patent number: 10665153
    Abstract: An illuminated display includes a plurality of illumination means, in particular a plurality of LEDs, which are arranged on a transparent base member. The transparent base member reduces visible light on average by a maximum of 40%. Preferably, the transparent base member is constructed in the form of a film, or in a further preferred manner in the form of a plastics material film. The illumination means are supplied with voltage by means of strip conductors. The strip conductors are electrically connected at one end preferably to a control unit and at the other end to at least one illumination means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: LIGHTNTEC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manuel Huebner, Florian Kall
  • Patent number: 10598371
    Abstract: The modular enclosure with water management mating interfaces most fundamentally includes a mechanical connection which directs and obstructs water via various strategically positioned structures and gaps. One basic configuration includes a base having at least one end face and a periphery extending from the end face. The periphery includes an outward projecting lip. A plurality of retainers is secured to the base below the lip. The retainers and the lip define a channel extending along at least part of each side of the base. A dome having longitudinal sides that terminate in a bottom edge and an inward projecting flange that is spaced from the bottom edge is received by the flange in the channel to retain the dome to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Jon H. Lyons
  • Patent number: 10578352
    Abstract: The refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment therein, an illumination device for illuminating the interior of the storage compartment, a door hinged to the cabinet for opening and closing the storage compartment, the door having an opening formed therein and a panel assembly having a front panel provided at the front thereof, a knock sensor module including a microphone module for sensing a sound wave generated by knock vibration applied to the door and a module microcomputer for determining whether the knock vibration is a predetermined knock based on the sensed sound wave, and a controller provided separately from the module microcomputer for receiving a knock-on signal from the module microcomputer and operating the illumination device such that light is transmitted through the panel assembly, whereby the interior of the storage compartment can be seen from outside the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sangoh Kim
  • Patent number: 10563849
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a wall assembly, a support, and a door. The wall assembly has a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall connected to the first and second side walls, and a second end wall connected to the first and second side walls. The support is connected to the wall assembly. The door includes a lens and is connected to the wall assembly. The door is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The side walls and end walls can be formed with various lengths and selectively connected together to form different sized wall assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Seng Vang, Martin Carl Werr, David John Rector, Randy Kent Lewis, David Arthur Simoni
  • Patent number: 10551029
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided, for example a head lamp or a tail lamp. The lighting device includes an array of light sources, a lens assembly having a collimator lens, an inner lens, and an outer lens, and a housing to maintain the lens assembly in fixed relation relative to the array of light sources. The collimator lens includes a central geometry to manage high intensity light from directly above the LEDs and a lateral geometry to manage low intensity light that is offset from the LEDs, such that the light output from the LEDs exits the lens assembly with a homogeneous light distribution. The lighting device is suitable for vehicle applications, including internal lighting applications and external vehicle lighting applications. The lighting device can be manufactured by extrusion, making it well suited for low cost applications, such as interior ambient lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: José Miguel Mercado Peña
  • Patent number: 10487994
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cover for covering a light outlet opening (4) limited by a support rail (1) of a lighting strip system, the support rail (1) being designed to receive a lamp (2) having a light source (3) for producing light, wherein the cover (5) has a holding device (6) for holding at least one optically active element (7) for influencing the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bechter, Martin Bader, Wolfgang Gadner
  • Patent number: 10473275
    Abstract: Lighting device includes a first concentrator with a first luminescent material, a second concentrator with a second luminescent material having an absorption band overlapping with the emission band of the first luminescent material, and a plurality of light sources arranged to project light into a first input surface of the first concentrator to be converted at least partially into a first converted light by the first luminescent material and outputted from a first output surface of the first luminescent concentrator. The second concentrator arranged parallel to the first concentrator such that light from the light sources that leaks from a side surface of the first concentrator is received by the second concentrator and converted by the second luminescent material and outputted from a second exit surface of the second concentrator. The first and second concentrators having different lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Petrus Joseph Peeters, Rémy Cyrille Broersma
  • Patent number: 10466403
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling a display device to which is coupled a light guide that has smooth surfaces for light-transmission and at least one surface that is for light scattering and internal reflection. The method includes depositing a reflective coating on that surface, and installing the display device with coupled light guide in an interior of a meter housing or casing. A portion of the casing interior is filled with a component, such as epoxy, for sealing the case interior to protect the display device and light guide against water and dust penetration. All surfaces of the light guide are protected from direct contact with the epoxy. This approach greatly simplifies the assembly process and yields a robust display that also prevents light leakage from the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Chambers, Justin Larson
  • Patent number: 10443925
    Abstract: The refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment therein, an illumination device for illuminating the interior of the storage compartment, a door hinged to the cabinet for opening and closing the storage compartment, the door having an opening formed therein and a panel assembly having a front panel provided at the front thereof, a knock sensor module including a microphone module for sensing a sound wave generated by knock vibration applied to the door and a module microcomputer for determining whether the knock vibration is a predetermined knock based on the sensed sound wave, and a controller provided separately from the module microcomputer for receiving a knock-on signal from the module microcomputer and operating the illumination device such that light is transmitted through the panel assembly, whereby the interior of the storage compartment can be seen from outside the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sangoh Kim
  • Patent number: 10408391
    Abstract: Embodiments of light-emitting multilayer structures incorporating substrate films 3D-formed with recesses for light sources and plastics material molded thereupon are presented. Related methods of manufacture are set forth as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: TACTOTEK OY
    Inventor: Sami Torvinen
  • Patent number: 10393341
    Abstract: A tri-lobe optic for a linear light source, and related light rails, retrofit kits and light fixtures, are disclosed. The linear light source defines a light emitting region along an axis. The tri-lobe optic includes an optical material having a constant cross-sectional profile along a direction of the axis from a first axial end to a second axial end. The cross-sectional profile includes a first azimuthal side relative to the axis and concave and convex curves relative to the axis. The curves are a first concave curve coupled with the first azimuthal side, a first convex curve, a second concave curve, a second convex curve and a third concave curve. Each of the concave curves defines a lobe of the optical material along the direction of the axis. The cross-sectional profile further includes a second azimuthal side relative to the axis, coupled with the third concave curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Forrest Starnes McCanless
  • Patent number: 10393952
    Abstract: Provided is an optical unit which includes a light guide plate configured to emit light made incident thereon through a light incident side surface from one surface thereof, and a reflection sheet disposed to face the light guide plate, wherein the reflection sheet has a projection piece which protrudes with respect to a surface of the reflection sheet on one edge thereof. The projection piece is held with being in surface contact with any one side surface of the light guide plate, thereby the reflection sheet is held so as to face the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
  • Patent number: 10353142
    Abstract: A LED light source includes a longitudinally extending first light guide, a housing, and a cartridge. The first light guide has a longitudinally extending light emitting face. The light emitting face has a first end face and a longitudinally spaced apart second end face. The housing has a first side proximate the first end face of the first light guide. The cartridge is mountable to the first side of the housing and has at least one LED on a first face of the cartridge. The first face extends generally transverse to the first light guide when the cartridge has been mounted to the housing. When the cartridge is mounted to the first side of the housing, the first face of the cartridge is adjacent the first end face. A LED light bulb is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 10344948
    Abstract: There is a category of situations which may have previously been considered direct replacement but in fact takes on many elements of a true retrofit; namely, replacing existing LED lighting systems (which they themselves were retrofits) with different LED lighting systems that (i) overcome a deficiency or inadequacy of the existing LED lighting system retrofit, (ii) adds a functionality to the existing LED lighting system retrofit, or (iii) reestablishes functionality that would otherwise be lost with the existing LED lighting system retrofit. Discussed herein are means to provide improved glare control, horizontal beam containment, playability and control functionality for interfacing with third party controls in these so-called retrofit-of-a-retrofit, or “upgrade” situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Musco Corporation
    Inventors: Myron Gordin, Joel D. DeBoef, Aric D. Klyn, Alan W. Sheldon
  • Patent number: 10302274
    Abstract: A luminaire is disclosed comprising a cover plate including an light exit window and a region surrounding the light exit window, at least a part of said region comprising a plurality of first fixing members selected from one of a plurality of holes and a plurality of protrusions dimensioned to extend through said holes; a reflector having an inner volume and comprising at least one edge comprising a plurality of second fixing members, selected from the other of the plurality of holes and the plurality of protrusions dimensioned to extend through said openings; and a plurality of solid state elements within the inner volume, wherein the protrusions extend through the holes, each protrusion having a portion extending beyond the opening through which the protrusion extends, said portion being bent over an edge of the opening to secure the reflector on the cover plate, wherein the inner volume is delimited by the reflector and the cover plate and the solid state lighting elements are arranged to direct their lumi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Alex Feng Liu, Riemer Adema, Mariusz Jankow, Aleksander Zach
  • Patent number: 10288240
    Abstract: A system and method of converting a light fixture from a conventional light fixture to an LED light fixture. Originally, the light fixture has a troffer, a ballast unit, and bulb receptacles. The conversion is accomplished by mounting a panel over the face of the troffer that obscures the ballast unit and bulb receptacles. LED light strips are mounted to the panel. Likewise, an LED power supply is mounted to the panel. The panel is attached to the troffer with a hinge connection. In this manner, the panel can be rotated away from the troffer for easy access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Inventors: Oliver Szeto, Gary Sigman, Kevin High