With Support Patents (Class 362/249.01)
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Publication number: 20130335964Abstract: A lighting module includes a base structure and a plurality of light points configured to generate light radiation, wherein the light points are coupled to the base structure, wherein the lighting module comprises at least one light point which has a radiation pattern with rotational asymmetry, and wherein the base structure and the light point are configured to couple the light point to the base structure with different orientations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Alberto Zanotto, Dina Pasqualini
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Patent number: 8608341Abstract: Disclosed is a luminaire including an electrical base, a driver circuit in electrical communication with the electrical base, a heat sink operably coupled to the electrical base, a lens coupled to the heat sink and having a first portion adjacent the heat sink and a second portion adjacent the first portion, the first portion having at least one aperture disposed therein or therethrough, the at least one aperture having a different optical transmission property from the first portion in which the at least one aperture is disposed, a reflective member between the second portion and the heat sink, and an LED light source between the reflective member and the heat sink, the LED having at least one LED member between the reflective member and the first portion to emit light towards the reflective member, each LED member being disposed in electrical communication with the driver circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Lighting Science Group CorporationInventors: Mark Penley Boomgaarden, Shane Sullivan, Ryan Chase Kelley, David Henderson
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Patent number: 8608342Abstract: A wire-piercing light-emitting diode (LED) a lead frame having a first lead and a second lead. The first lead has a first transition portion and a first bottom portion with a first cutting member, and the second lead having a second transition portion and a second bottom portion with a second cutting member.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Willis Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Johnny Chen
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Patent number: 8608343Abstract: Embodiments of collapsible and adjustable support frames hold sockets of light strings at an equal distance and orientation to each other. Each frame can include, for example, a scissor frame with a locking slide arm on both ends to facilitate connection of the scissor frame of other scissor frames. Removable hooks that can be used from a vertical to a horizontal orientation from a gutter or any means that supports said hooks and adjustable light socket clips that can be rotated so as to be used in any orientation. This device can be adjusted and equipped with lights on the ground, thereby facilitating a reduction in the time need to install the light string. After use, the frames can be collapsed with the light string installed thereon to facilitate storage.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Inventor: Timothy J. Filtz
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Publication number: 20130329445Abstract: A lamp unit and a vehicle using the same are provided that include a substrate; and at least two light sources disposed on the substrate, wherein angles formed by a reference line and normal lines to the surface of the substrate, to which the at least two light sources are attached, are different from one another. The lamp unit and the vehicle using the same use a plurality of the light sources having different arrangement directions from a reference direction, so that it is possible to implement a surface light source by means of a small number of the light sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventor: Nam Seok OH
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Publication number: 20130320860Abstract: An objective is to provide a vase-shaped device, a light wall device, and a system which accentuate the beauty of flowers by implementing “interactive flower arrangement” in which the color of the vase-shaped device and that of a space around the vase-shaped device change according to the color of the arranged flowers so as to entertain users. To achieve the above objective, provided is a vase-shaped device including light-emitting devices as an output unit configured to output a signal as controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventor: Sachiko MUROMURA
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Publication number: 20130322069Abstract: A lamp structure includes a lamp housing, a light-guiding module, a light source module, and a fastening piece. The lamp housing includes a bottom wall and an annular side wall, where the side wall connects to the bottom wall to define a receiving space. The bottom wall has a positioning portion. The light-guiding module is disposed in the receiving space surrounded by the light source module. The light source module includes a circuit board and a plurality of light source units. The circuit board includes a projection portion engaging with the positioning portion. The fastening piece includes a fastening portion releasably attached to the lamp housing to provide structural stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: ENLIGHT CORPORATIONInventors: CHIH-MING LIAO, CHIH SUNG CHEN, CHI-FU CHUANG, JIH-SHENG HUANG
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Publication number: 20130322078Abstract: A lighting device having a cell structure (101) of polygonal cells (105), which is a heat sink, and light sources (103) arranged to be cooled by the cell structure. The light sources are arranged in at least some of the cells, one light source in each cell. The light sources are attached to the cell structure and electrically connected with the cell structure, which in turn is arranged to provide the light sources with power.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp, Florian Stadler
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Publication number: 20130322079Abstract: An illustrative light fixture includes a cylindrical lighting package housing surrounded peripherally by a cooling housing providing airflow cooling channels. The airflow cooling channels are defined in the space between the circumference of the cylindrical lighting package housing and a rim around the periphery of the light fixture. The cooling housing provides wide and long openings for air to rise vertically from below and through the airflow channels defined in part by cooling fins, and radial exit channels with vertical space for radially outward flow below a ceiling the fixture is mounted on, while also eliminating or minimizing the view through the airflow channels and to the ceiling.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Vincenzo Guercio, Jiang Hu, Dan Wang-Munson
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Patent number: 8596821Abstract: LED light bulbs include openings in base or cover portions, and optional forced flow elements, for convective cooling. Thermally conductive optically transmissive material may be used for cooling, optionally including fins. A LED light engine may be fabricated from a substrate via planar fabrication techiques and shaped to form a substantially rigid upright support structure. Mechanical, electrical, and thermal connections may be made between a LED light engine and a LED light bulb.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: George R. Brandes, Julio A. Garceran
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Publication number: 20130314921Abstract: An explosion-proof lamp with a heat dissipation mechanism includes a lamp base, a heat dissipater and a lighting module. The heat dissipater further includes a heat dissipation body having a foundation and a column block extended from the foundation; wherein the cross-sectional size of the foundation is greater than the one of the column block. A fastening means is provided between the foundation and the lamp base such that the foundation is fastened onto the lamp base via the fastening means. The lighting module is secured onto the column block. With such novel design, the heat dissipation effect of the explosion-proof lamp is advantageously improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: TOP HI-TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Chang-Nan CHEN
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Patent number: 8591062Abstract: A lamp has an optically transmissive enclosure and a base. A tower extends from the base into the enclosure and supports an LED assembly in the enclosure. The LED assembly comprises a plurality of LEDs operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path from the base. The tower and the LED assembly are arranged such that the plurality of LEDs are disposed about the periphery of the tower in a band and face outwardly toward the enclosure to create a source of the light that appears as a glowing filament. The tower forms part of a heat sink that transmits heat from the LED assembly to the ambient environment. The LED assembly has a three-dimensional shape. An electrical interconnect connects a conductor to the heat sink where the conductor is in the electrical path between the LED assembly and the base.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Cree, Inc.Inventors: Christopher P. Hussell, John Adam Edmond, Gerald H. Negley, Curt Progl, Mark Edmond, Praneet Athalye, Charles M. Swoboda, Antony Paul van de Ven, Paul Kenneth Pickard, Bart P. Reier, James Michael Lay, Peter E. Lopez
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Patent number: 8591052Abstract: A backlight that includes a front reflector and a back reflector that form a hollow light recycling cavity including an output surface is disclosed. The backlight also includes a semi-specular element, and a light extraction element disposed within the hollow cavity. The light extraction element has a gradient specularity. The backlight also includes one or more light sources disposed to inject light into the hollow light recycling cavity, where the one or more light sources are configured to inject light over a limited angular range.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: John A. Wheatley, Tao Liu
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Patent number: 8591064Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) street lamp includes an LED chip, a ceramic substrate, a lamp shade, a nano-enamel layer and a thermally radiative heat dissipation film. The nano-enamel layer is disposed on the ceramic substrate to provide electrical insulation and isolation for protection, is made from nano-particles to have a surface with the function of self-cleaning due to lotus effect. The thermally radiative heat dissipation film is disposed on the inner surface of the lamp shade and the surface of the ceramic substrate, and has a surface microscopic crystalline structure. The thermally radiative heat dissipation film fastly propagates the heat generated by the LED chip by thermal radiation in some specific direction so as to improve the efficiency of heat dissipation, reduce the total thickness, enhance the efficiency of light emitting and effectively prolong the lifetime of the LED street lamp.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Jingdezhen Fared Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jeong-Shiun Chen
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Patent number: 8591049Abstract: A photographic system includes a first light grid including a plurality of cells, and a first alignment feature disposed on the first light grid. The system further includes a bezel including a retainer for retaining at least the first light grid, and an alignment feature for aligning at least the first light grid within the light grid retainer, wherein the first alignment feature of the first light grid aligns with the alignment feature of the bezel.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: ExpoImaging, Inc.Inventors: Erik Sowder, John B. Baker
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Patent number: 8585241Abstract: A power-saving lighting apparatus including an upper housing, a bottom cover assembled with the upper housing, a lighting module and a positioning member is provided. The lighting module is disposed between the upper housing and the bottom cover, and the lighting module is mechanically supported by the bottom cover. The positioning member is disposed on the lighting module, wherein a relative position of the lighting module and the bottom cover is maintained by the positioning member.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Chang Wah Electromaterials Inc.Inventor: Wen-Kuei Tsai
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Patent number: 8585235Abstract: An assembly for accessing a body cavity having an illuminated proximal end. The assembly includes a housing defining a longitudinal axis and having a longitudinal opening therethrough for receiving a surgical object, an illumination source disposed adjacent a proximal end of the housing and a sensor mechanism disposed along the longitudinal opening and operably connected to the illumination source. The sensor mechanism is configured to detect the presence of a surgical object within the longitudinal opening and deactivate the illumination source when a surgical object is present in the longitudinal opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Brain Rockrohr, Michael Bettuchi, Russell Heinrich
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Patent number: 8579468Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting element mounting module includes a conductive plate including semiconductor light-emitting fixing portions and first and second electrical-supply segments, wherein the semiconductor light-emitting fixing portions includes first and second conductive sections in contact with one end of first and second contacts, the other end of the first and second contacts is conductive with an anode and a cathode of an light-emitting element, a pair of the first and second electrical-supply segments are electrically conductive with the first and second conductive sections at one end of the conductive plate, and the other pair of the first and second electrical-supply segments are conductive with the first and second conductive sections at other end of the conductive plate; and a resin surface-insulation portion covering the conductive plate with the other end of the first and second contacts exposed, and with the first and second electrical-supply segments exposed.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Kyocera Connector Products CorporationInventors: Toru Wagatsuma, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20130294055Abstract: A portable lighting system including a housing having an elongated slot formed in a surface of the housing. The slot being sized to receive a rod therein via an opening in the slot. The system further including a retention member movable between a closed position and an opened position, wherein the closed position provides at least a portion of the retention member blocking at least a portion of the upper opening of the slot and the opened position includes the retention member not blocking the upper opening of the slot. The system also having a light source including a plurality of lights oriented in different directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventor: Light Muse, LLC
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Publication number: 20130286650Abstract: Lighting modules include a housing, a window attached to the housing, and an array of light-emitting elements that are positioned within the housing and emit light through the window. The window has a first surface and a second surface. The light from the array of light-emitting elements is emitted through the first surface and the second surface of the window. In some examples, the first surface and the second surface of the window are angled with respect to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: PHOSEON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Doug Childers, David George Payne
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Publication number: 20130286682Abstract: A lighting device and a back light module therewith are disclosed. The back light module includes a light-guiding structure and a lighting device. The light-guiding structure includes two light-guiding parts and a reflection sheet disposed therebetween. The lighting device is disposed close to the light-guiding structure and includes an insulation carrier and two light sources disposed on the insulation carrier. The insulation carrier includes a positioning groove structure where an edge of the reflection sheet is disposed such that the two light sources correspond to the two light-guiding parts respectively and light emitted by the two light sources is capable of entering the corresponding light-guiding parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: AU OPTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chung-Wen Lin, Yu-Ling Hsiao, Shih-Ting Chen, Yuan-Yu Chien
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Patent number: 8567976Abstract: The present invention is an integrated control system for use with various home appliances, such as washing machine, dryers, refrigerators, dishwashers, and the like. In a first embodiment of the present invention, the integrated controls are incorporated into a polycarbonate clear door panel, and incorporate proximity switches and controls to provide control and operation of the applicance. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are optionally incorporated into a door handle for the appliance in an area out of sight such that only the light produced by the LEDs is seen and illuminates a handle for opening the door of the appliance. Additionally, opaque glass technology may be incorporated into one or more surfaces of the appliance which enables an opaque panel to become transparent to view the content of the interior of the appliance, such as a refrigerator.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Magna International Inc.Inventors: Bradley Ray Hamlin, Steven Martin Kowalski, John Joseph Bleau
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Patent number: 8567986Abstract: The LED tube for a lighting fixture has a transparent peripheral portion, internally disposed grooves for receiving an LED array board opposite the transparent portion and externally disposed longitudinally extending slots to slidably receive connectors for the mounting of the fixture. Multiple tubes can be grouped together in arrays of two or more without requiring different fixture enclosures.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Component Hardware Group, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Szprengiel, Thomas Graham, Viranjitsinh Chudasama
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Patent number: 8562175Abstract: A wire-piercing light-emitting diode (LED) a lead frame having a first lead and a second lead. The first lead has a first transition portion and a first bottom portion with a first cutting member, and the second lead having a second transition portion and a second bottom portion with a second cutting member.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Willis Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Johnny Chen
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Publication number: 20130271977Abstract: Implementations of the present invention relate to a rotatable and/or slidable lighting module. The lighting module can have a lighting fixture assembly that is optionally capable of rotating with respect to a support base to allow the lighting fixture assembly to project light on a desired surface or area. The lighting fixture assembly can also slide or move relative to the support base to allow the position of the lighting fixture to be selectively varied.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: 3FORM, INC.Inventors: Yaron Ronen, Brian Hillstrom, Stephen Lynn Rogers
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Publication number: 20130271973Abstract: A modular variable presentation device system is described which, in one embodiment, may be produced and assembled to display and/or view information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventor: CIRRUS SYSTEMS, INC.
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Patent number: 8556454Abstract: A light tube including a heat sink, a light transmissive cover disposed on the heat sink, and at least one light source module is provided. A containing space is formed between the heat sink and the light transmissive cover. The light source module includes a carrier, a plurality of first light-emitting devices, a plurality of second light-emitting devices, and a plurality of non-light-emitting passive devices. The carrier is disposed on the heat sink. The first light-emitting devices are arranged on the carrier along a first straight reference line to form a first line of light-emitting devices. The second emitting devices are arranged on the carrier along a second straight reference line to form a second line of light-emitting devices. The non-light-emitting passive devices are disposed on the carrier and between the first and second lines of light-emitting devices and electrically connected to the first and the second light-emitting devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chien-Chang Pei, Yi-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 8556465Abstract: An illumination lamp comprises a lamp body, a light-emitting module, a power supply module, and a circuit module. The lamp body defines an inner space. The partitioning unit is disposed in the lamp body for dividing the inner space into a first space for receiving the power supply module, and a second space for receiving the circuit module. Due to the presence of the partitioning unit, thermal convection between the first and second spaces is prevented to reduce adverse influence of a high temperature of the circuit module on the power supply module.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Limited, Lite-On Technology Corp.Inventors: Tsung-Chi Lee, Po-Wei Li, Shih-Chang Hsu, Chin-Yin Yu
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Patent number: 8556462Abstract: An LED lighting device has a cap, a circuit board assembly and a bulb envelope. The circuit board assembly is electrically mounted on the cap and has multiple circuit boards intersecting to each other to form a light frame with a crisscross section, and has multiple LEDs mounted on the circuit boards. The circuit board assembly may further have a top circuit board mounted on one end of the light frame. The top circuit board also has multiple LEDs mounted thereon. Sine the circuit boards intersect to each other to constitute the light frame, the light frame provides a large surface area for mounting a lot number of LEDs. Therefore, the LED lighting device is able to provide a wide angle illumination with enhanced lighting intensity.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Liquidleds Lighting Corp.Inventor: David Huang
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Patent number: 8556461Abstract: A lighting device may be provided that includes a light emitting module including a substrate and a light emitting device disposed on the substrate; and a case receiving the light emitting module therewithin and including an upper case disposed on the substrate and a lower case in which the substrate is disposed. The lower case includes a seating portion which is coupled to a heat sink. The seating portion is either a projection projecting outward from the outer surface of the lower case or a recess which is formed by digging inward the outer surface of the lower case.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwang Soo Kim, Young Ho Shin, Ki Man Park, Bu Kwan Je
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Publication number: 20130265757Abstract: A light-emitting unit includes a mounting substrate, and a first light-emitting portion disposed on the mounting substrate and emits light of a first color temperature to irradiate a first irradiation area, and second light-emitting portions each disposed on the mounting substrate and emits light of a second color temperature to irradiate a second irradiation area. The second irradiation area overlaps part of the first irradiation area and includes a region surrounding the first irradiation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro TANAKA, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Yoshiyuki NAKANO
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Publication number: 20130265763Abstract: A novel arrangement of light cells on a flexible or solid background into a multi-dimensional light source capable of unlimited configuration, which comprises of a mother cell that is connected to one source of electrical power and gets charged, subsequently charging all the other light cells and thus illuminating the entire light source with unlimited configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventor: Samir Hanna Safar
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Publication number: 20130265750Abstract: A lighting device configured to be held relative to a space extending from an opening in a first surface. A distance between first and second emitters and/or a dimension of a lens is/are larger than a largest dimension of the opening and/or a largest dimension of a power supply. Also, a bracket comprising a body member and at least two mounting clips, the body member configured to be attached to a lighting device, each mounting clip pivotable about respective pivot axes at least from a first position, where a first end region of the clip does not extend farther from an axis of the body member than all portions of the body member, to a second position, where the first end region of the clip extends farther from the axis of the body member than all portions of the body member. Also, a lighting device comprising a removable bracket.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Paul Kenneth Pickard, Nicholas W. Medendorp, JR., Mark D. Edmond, Dong Lu, Curt Progl, Mark Dixon, Spencer Scott Pratt, Nathan R. Snell, James Michael Lay
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Patent number: 8550680Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device. The lighting device includes a plurality of lighting units including a housing, a light emitting module installed in the housing, and a coupling part having a fixing section coupled on the housing and a protrusion section horizontally protruding from an upper end of the fixing section; and a bracket having an insertion groove slidably coupled with the protrusion section of the coupling part to assemble the lighting units with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Soo Kim
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Publication number: 20130258658Abstract: Devices, components and methods containing one or more light emitter devices, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) or LED chips, are disclosed. In one aspect, a light emitter device component can include a ceramic body having a top surface, one or more light emitter devices mounted directly or indirectly on the top surface, and one or more electrical components mounted on the top surface and electrically coupled to the one or more light emitter devices, wherein the one or more electrical components can be spaced from the ceramic body by one or more non-metallic layers. Components disclosed herein can result in improved light extraction and thermal management.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Christopher P. Hussell, Peter Scott Andrews, Florin A. Tudorica, Erin Welch
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Publication number: 20130258657Abstract: A panorama lamp with 360 degree peripheral illumination with reference to an axis of the lamp is disclosed. Each of the light units mounted on a heat sink has a light chip facing outward from the lamp. Either a protection cap or a circular wall lens can be optionally adopted to cap the top of the lamp. The protection cap provides protection to the chips of the lamp from being damaged. The circular wall lens modifies the beam profile of the lamp to meet various market requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: UNILED LIGHTING TAIWAN INC.Inventors: Ming-Te LIN, Ming-Yao LIN, Heng QIU
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Publication number: 20130258666Abstract: A light source device includes an outer housing, a partitioning member for forming a multi-stage structure in the outer housing, thereby partitioning each stage, a plurality of light source units disposed in respective stages of the outer housing, each of which has light source members and a heat pump unit for cooling the light source members, an opening portion for taking air acting as cooling air to be supplied to a cooling body from an outer part of the outer housing into an inner part thereof, and an opening portion formed along arrangement of the light source units in the partitioning member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yukio SATO, Mitoru YABE, Shigetoshi IPPOSHI
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Patent number: 8545051Abstract: A substrate for a lighting apparatus includes one or more light-emitting elements mounted thereon. The substrate includes a surface on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are mounted. Additionally, the substrate includes heat conductive elements for conducting heat from the one or more light-emitting elements, the heat conductive elements including heat conductive holes extending through a non-electrically conducting layer formed on a first surface of the substrate and an entirety of the substrate and a heat conductive layer formed on a surface of the substrate opposite the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayoshi Moriyama, Kazunari Higuchi, Sumio Hashimoto, Shinichi Kumashiro
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Publication number: 20130250549Abstract: Disclosed are an illumination unit and a display apparatus using the same. The illumination unit includes a first illumination unit including a first light source module, a second illumination unit including a second light source module, and a bracket located between the first and second illumination units to connect the illumination units to each other. The bracket includes a first body portion on which the first light source module is placed, a second body portion on which the second light source module is placed, and a connecting portion located between the first and second body portions to connect the body portions to each other. The connecting portion has a first distance from a first end of the first or second body portion and a second distance from a second end of the first or second body portion, and the second distance is greater than the first distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventor: Sung Yong PARK
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Publication number: 20130250576Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wiring board device includes a ceramic board including a first surface and a second surface. A first electrode layer is formed on the first surface of the ceramic board, and a second electrode layer is formed on the second surface of the ceramic board. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer are not electrically connected to each other. A first copper plated layer as a wiring pattern is formed on the first electrode layer, and a second copper plated layer is formed on the second electrode layer. The first copper plated layer and the second copper plated layer are not electrically connected to each other. A heat spreader is thermally connected to the second copper plated layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Nobuhiko BETSUDA, Hirotaka TANAKA, Takuya HONMA, Miho WATANABE, Kiyoshi NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20130250577Abstract: A lighting unit according to one embodiment includes a board, a support member, and a plurality of heat radiation fins. A light emitting element is disposed on a first surface of the board. The support member has an interior surface on which a second surface of the board that is opposite to the first surface is disposed to be in contact therewith to enable heat conduction from the board to the support member. The heat radiation fins are disposed on an exterior surface of the support member substantially parallel with each other and with a clearance between each other, and each having a flat shape that extends outwardly from the exterior surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Lighting & Technology CorporationInventors: Takayoshi MORIYAMA, Junya Murata, Makoto Yamazaki, Yumi Hanyuda, Katsumi Hisano, Mitsuaki Kato, Masataka Shiratsuchi, Yuichiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20130250601Abstract: A light source unit is provided with a housing, a substrate, and light-emitting devices. The light-emitting devices are mounted on a mounting part of the substrate. A heat dissipation part extends from an outer edge of the mounting part in a direction opposite to a light emitting direction of the light-emitting devices. The mounting part is held on a bottom part of the housing. A peripheral groove part extends in the direction opposite to the light emitting direction along an outer edge of the bottom part. The heat dissipation part is accommodated in the peripheral groove part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Noriaki Ito
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Publication number: 20130241419Abstract: A cone light is a light emitting structure that is placed on a traffic cone to improve the visibility of the traffic cone. The light cone includes a plurality of lights that are mounted to an outer surface of the cone light and a micro-controller that controls the illumination of the lights. The cone right also has a memory storing a plurality of flash patterns and the micro-controller illuminates the lights in the flash pattern selected by the user. Multiple cone lights can be used together with a master cone light transmitting a flash pattern signal to one or more slave cone light so that each of the cone lights is illuminated in a matching or coordinated pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Azim Zadah Ghafoori, Joel Timothy Morgan
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Publication number: 20130242265Abstract: In an optical module that aligns light beams from lasers of the three colors of red, green, and blue along a single combined beam optical axis, when the ambient temperature range is wider than the guaranteed operating range of the lasers, relative positional displacements of beam spots of the three colors that are generated due to a displacement or a deformation resulting from a temperature range at a heating time or a cooling time are suppressed. The optical module, which has mounted thereon a plurality of lasers, and emits light beams from the plurality of lasers, includes a cooling device that cools the entire optical module via a case on which the optical module is mounted, and heating devices that are provided on respective laser holders and individually heat the respective lasers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: HITACHI MEDIA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiichi KATO, Atsushi KAZAMA, Yasuo AMANO, Norio HOSAKA, Tsutomu KUROIWA, Teppei TANAKA
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Publication number: 20130235583Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to a lighting module, which includes at least a pair of light fixtures. Each of the light fixtures has a frame, a light source assembly, and a cover. The frame has a base plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The first side plate has a first engaging portion, and the second side plate has a second engaging portion and a plurality of third engaging portions. The two light fixtures are interlocked to one another by the following means: the first engaging portion and the first side plate of one light fixture are engaged to the second engaging portion and the third engaging portions of the other light fixture, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: LIGITEK ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: CHIEN-LI CHANG, I-HSIN TUNG
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Publication number: 20130229828Abstract: A display device of an electrical apparatus includes a first illumination module, a second illumination module and a circuit board. The circuit board is parallel with the first illumination module and the second illumination module. A first edge of the circuit board is inserted into a gap between the first illumination module and the second illumination module. Consequently, the first light beam from the first illumination module and the second light beam from the second illumination module are blocked by the first edge of the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventor: Chung-Yuan Chen
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Publication number: 20130229797Abstract: An LED panel assembly includes a circuit board having a plurality of LEDs. An LED seal louver is coupled over the circuit board. The LED seal louver includes a substrate and a pliable seal membrane. The substrate includes one or more substrate cavities. The pliable seal membrane is coupled with the substrate, and the pliable seal membrane includes a pliable material partially extending across the one or more substrate cavities. One or more LED passages extends through the pliable material adjacent to the substrate cavities. Each of the LED passages is sized and shaped to receive a single LED. Bulbs for one or more of the plurality of LEDs are correspondingly received within the LED passages, and the pliable material seals around each bulb with an interference fit. The bulbs are directly visible through the LED seal louver while the pliable seal membrane is sealed around the bulbs, and the circuit board is concealed by the LED seal louver and isolated from an environment exterior to the LED panel assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Daktronics, Inc.Inventor: Nathan Lane Nearman
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Patent number: 8523390Abstract: A string of lights is provided. The string of lights may include a plurality of light sources, wherein the light sources are integrated into the string of lights and are embedded in a support part of the string of lights.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter HaftungInventor: Harald Dellian
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Patent number: 8525421Abstract: A lighting element is disposed in an array of lighting elements. At the lighting element, a lighting status of at least one neighboring lighting element is sensed. Independent of any other lighting element, a lighting adjustment for the lighting element by applying the sensed lighting status to a predetermined rule is determined. The lighting adjustment is applied to the lighting element to adjust an illumination of the lighting element.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Howard UniversityInventor: Charles J. Kim
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Publication number: 20130221245Abstract: A lighting module has an array of light-emitting elements that is electrically coupled to a heat sink and a housing having a heat exit. The array of light-emitting elements is positioned in the housing and the heat sink is positioned to dissipate heat generated within the housing so that the heat is expelled through the heat exit. A deflector is secured to the housing and is positioned to extend over some portion of the heat exit. The deflector guides heat away from the housing in a direction. In some configurations, the deflector guides heat away from the housing in a direction that is opposite the direction in which the array of light-emitting elements emit light. Also, some lighting modules have multiple heat exits and may have multiple deflectors extending over a portion of the respective heat exits.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: PHOSEON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventor: Gary R. Till