Drop Patents (Class 362/451)
  • Patent number: 11796166
    Abstract: A light including a housing having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a central axis. The lower portion defines a battery port. The upper portion acts as a lens. The light further includes a heat sink extending upward from the lower portion of the housing and including a body defining a central aperture. A plurality of light support surfaces are arranged around a perimeter of the body and a top support member is coupled to and oriented perpendicularly relative to the plurality of light support surfaces. The light further includes a first plurality of LEDs coupled to the plurality of light support surfaces and a second plurality of LEDs supported on the top support member. The light further includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack, both of which are electrically connected to the first and second pluralities of LEDs when received in the battery port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Harvey, Ross McIntyre, David Proeber, Jason Isaacs, Joshua Schermerhorn, Brian Cornell
  • Patent number: 11466828
    Abstract: A lighting system that includes a lighting device and a dimming controller. The lighting device has a support structure that supports multiple lighting zones. Each lighting zone including one or more lighting sources. The dimming controller is in communication with multiple dimmers supported by the lighting device. Each of the lighting sources is coupled to a corresponding dimmer from the multiple dimmers. The dimming controller is configured to communicate a controlled setting for one or more of the lighting zones to the multiple dimmers. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DOLAN DESIGNS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Patrick S. Dolan
  • Patent number: 10488016
    Abstract: An LED lighting device is provided. The LED lighting device includes at least one light source, a base board, a reflector, a shell, a drive module and a mounting structure. The at least one light source is arranged on the base board. The base board and the reflector are contained in the shell. The drive module is assembled to the mounting structure. The LED lighting device includes connector connecting the mounting structure with the reflector. The base board and the shell are sandwiched between the reflector and the mounting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianmin Xie, Xiufeng Shi, Chaobo Liu
  • Patent number: 9951930
    Abstract: A portable work light is disclosed having a front cover having a LED light source; a protective housing for the LED light source; a back housing for enclosing the portable light and the various components thereof; a power source and electrical components for operating the portable light; a ratcheting stand and handle; and a plurality of bumpers for protecting various contact points of the portable light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Walter R. Tucker Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Cacciabeve
  • Patent number: 8562184
    Abstract: An LED work light has multichip LEDs and a diffusing dome. Each LED may have separate electrical terminals for each chip. The LED work light may have convex lenses forward of each LED. Convex lenses may be hemispherical. Convex lenses may have a nonhemispheric curved surface whose cross section has at least one circular arc and no non-circular arcs. The LED work light has a battery or receives power from an external power source. The LED work light may have a transparent plastic tube as a structural member. A replaceable plastic cover may be added to protect any structural tube or other major transparent part of the LED work light from abrasions. The plastic cover may be tubular. The plastic cover may comprise laminations of plastic that can be removed individually after being abraded. Any external power source may be a wall transformer type and may have current limiting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Brasscorp Limited
    Inventors: Donald L. Klipstein, Jack Brass, Robert Tod Whitfield
  • Patent number: 7712916
    Abstract: A reduced emissions work light that includes a bulb having an elongated bulb tube, a handle adjacent the bulb and adapted for being gripped by a user to manipulate the work light, an emissions containment housing positioned adjacent the bulb tube, and an integrated ballast and filter assembly. The integrated ballast and filter assembly is located within the housing and operatively connected to the bulb for providing voltage to the bulb and reducing emissions generated by the work light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Jameson, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Jay Hahn, Bradley Robert Kokoski
  • Patent number: 7350942
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display apparatus, particularly to structure of LED display modules. The invention could be implemented through a LED matrix display module with high luminance area ratio comprising an injection molding unit and a printing board fitted therewith, wherein, LEDs are regularly arranged in a matrix on said printing board, and each pixel dot is correspondingly provided with a reflecting cavity on said molding unit, with the reflecting cavity expanding gradually from the inside section (close to the display surface). The circumference of the inside section of the reflecting cavity forms a closed and smooth circular curve. The invention is characterized in that, the circumference of the outside section of the reflecting cavity forms a closed and smooth curve which is a square with round corners, and the side face of the reflecting cavity is a smooth and cured surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Shanghai Sansi Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bishou Chen, Yinghua Wang, Peng Wang, Xiaoliang He
  • Patent number: 7090381
    Abstract: A utility light has a dual fluorescent lamp assembly mounted in a housing with a removable lens for ease of lamp replacement. The lens is releasably retained at an upper end by a locking tab. The housing has swivel hooks at each end, a handle cushion, a housing cushion at an upper end, an electrical outlet at a lower end and a power indicator light in the handle. In an alternate embodiment, a halogen spotlight is mounted in the upper end surface of the housing and can be operated independently of the fluorescent lamp assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Alert Safety Lite Products 6, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Kovacik, Paul S. Blanch, Joseph J. Smith
  • Patent number: 7004605
    Abstract: An illumination device comprising, in combination an elongated housing, an elongated lamp or lamps extending in the housing, a magnetic ballast or ballasts carried in the housing to selectively energize the lamp or lamps, and switch means carried by the housing to control energization of said ballast or ballasts, the housing having a forward illumination portion, a rearward grip portion and an intermediate portion. A cushioning cover is receivable over two of said housing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: National Electric Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: James M. Galvez
  • Publication number: 20040218394
    Abstract: Provided is an auto lift ceiling lighting system in which the width of the left and right rotary drums is formed as wide as the width of the flat cable and the flat cable is winded stably and vertically on the outer surface of the winding core in the left and right rotary drums when winded by the motor, thereby not to be twisted. In the auto lift ceiling lighting system, the lamp can be turned on and off at any position and the flat cable supplying the electric power to the lamp is not twisted and the balance of the lamp is kept while the lamp ascends and descends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: Jong Yeol Kim
  • Patent number: 5681106
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for suspending a light source such as a flashlight and amplifying the light emanating from the flashlight. The apparatus comprises a plate having a longitudinal axis, a top surface and a bottom surface. There is a means for removably retaining a fight source and a hanging means. A method for illuminating a space using the described apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Inventors: Cecilia J. Coultas, Jamie A. Coultas
  • Patent number: 5430630
    Abstract: For recessed lighting fixtures, particularly those mounted in ceilings, the present invention provides an easily attached removable accessory device for deflecting a portion of the light path in a selected direction that differs from the original direction, e.g. deflecting downwardly directed light to a substantially horizontal direction. A mirror assembly, typically having two round flat reflecting surfaces, one on each side, is supported by a wire hanger element via an axle portion passing diametrically through the mirror; the hanger element has a pair of hooks at the upper ends of two side wires that engage the recessed light fixture at any desired orientation around the axis of the fixture. The mirror can be tilted to any angle, and is retained at the selected tilt angle by friction of the wire axle being clamped between of a pair of resilient pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Engineered Lighting Products
    Inventors: Ralph W. Swarens, Anatoly Kudishevich
  • Patent number: 5369559
    Abstract: A trouble light assembly includes a handle portion, a door in the handle portion which is hingeably movable between open and closed positions, a bulb receptacle mounted at one end of the handle portion, a cage portion adjacent the bulb receptacle for enclosing a bulb therein, and a plurality of conductor blades which are electrically connected to the bulb receptacle. The conductor blades extend downwardly from the bulb receptacle so as to define a male conductor plug within the handle portion. The female end of a extension cord set is received into the handle portion through the hinged door, and matingly engaged with the conductor blades so as to establish an electrical connection between the bulb receptacle and the cord set. In a first embodiment, the hinged door is permanently sealed in the closed position after assembly of the cord set, and in a second embodiment the hinged door is provided with a tab and slot assembly for releasably maintaining the door in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: General Cable Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Hedrick, Thomas Varatta, Sr.
  • Patent number: 5205644
    Abstract: The invention provides a two piece chandelier securable at two discrete positions. An upper and lower framework are moveable with respect to one another along a displacement axis and are securable in an access position and a decorative position, whereby access to an internal component of the chandelier such as a lighting element is facilitated in the access position relative to the decorative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: A. Schonbek & Co.
    Inventors: George Bayer, Daniel Tucker
  • Patent number: 4833580
    Abstract: An illuminated hollow decorative ornament having support means independent of the associated light source or the support structure of the associated light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Inventor: Sheril L. Allen
  • Patent number: 4639842
    Abstract: A trouble light which has at the end opposite to the cage a hook that is rotatably mounted to the handle of the trouble light. The rotatable mounting is achieved by the use of a rotation assembly inserted through a hole in the end of the handle of the trouble light. The rotation assembly includes two discs. The first disc is of greater diameter than diameter of the hole in the handle but of lesser diameter than the internal diameter of the handle, and the second disc is of greater diameter than the hole in the handle and of diameter approximating the outside diameter of the handle. The rotation assembly also includes an intermediate cylindrical portion attaching the two discs. The cylindrical intermediate portion has an outside diameter approximating the diameter of the hole in the handle of the trouble light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Woods Wire Products, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Upchurch
  • Patent number: 4460943
    Abstract: A light projector suitable for performance lighting and provided with a means capable of adjusting beam azimuth and elevation from a remote location is provided with an input device locating the operator's finger, hand, or a stylus in two dimensions by non-mechanical means. The azimuth and elevation control means is capable of operation in either an incremental or rate of displacement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Inventor: Michael Callahan