Illumination inventions 03/07

20070070614 - System and method for forming a back-lighted array using an omni-directional light source: An omni-directional LED device is constructed such that light is prevented from exiting from the top of the LED device. In one embodiment, an opaque barrier is created and in some embodiments enhancement surfaces are created below the opaque barrier to increase lumen output from the device sides. In one... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070070615 - Dispensing apparatus with led illuminated display panels: A device such as a vending machine, merchandiser or beverage dispenser for dispensing a number of products. The device includes one or more display panels illuminated by a light emitting diode (LED) or an array of LED's positioned to backlight the display panels.... Agent: Pepsico, Inc. C/o Goodwin Procter LLP

20070070616 - Surface light source device: A surface light source device 1 includes a base member 3 provided with a plurality of point-source lines, each of which has a plurality of point sources 11 arranged in a line, and a plurality of diffuse transmission members 14 for covering the point-source lines. Each of the diffuse transmission... Agent: Nath & Associates PLLC

20070070617 - Hand tool with illuminator: A hand toll equipped with an illuminator has a conductive assembly settled within the handle to provide power to a lamp assembly which can lighten the operating end of the hand tool. A user can push a switch back and fort to operate the conductive assembly and in turn switch... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070070618 - Lighted guide strip: A lighted guide strip includes an elongated metal housing defining an upwardly open U-Shape and outwardly extending upper flanges. The housing is secured to a pair of transversely extending mounting flanges for attachment to a support surface. A support body within the housing receives and supports a plurality of light... Agent: Roy A. Ekstrand

20070070619 - Flashlight having mating formations for integration with a rail mounting system: A modular flashlight assembly is provided that includes an integrated interface to facilitate mounting of the flashlight to a variety of different equipment. The flashlight mounting system includes a pattern of engagement surfaces on an exterior surface of the flashlight housing and a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket is configured... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20070070620 - Dive accessory: A dive accessory has an outer shell that encompasses a light maker and a noise maker. The light maker is waterproofed and has a light source electrically connected to an electrical power source for powering the light source. A light switch selectively opens and closes the electrical connection to switch... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20070070621 - Led lighting apparatus: A light comprising a housing, a plurality of LED lights coupled in an array inside of the housing, and a reflective protrusion coupled to the housing wherein the reflective protrusion is for reflecting light from the LED lights out of the housing. The housing can be of any shape such... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070070622 - Junction circuit for led lighting chain: An LED light string where the parallel connections of additional series blocks of LED lamps are added through an intermediate or junction circuit. The first half of the rectifying diode pair in the junction circuit receive the series connected LED lamps positive connection, complete the rectification of the first rectifying... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070070623 - Lighting apparatus: A lighting apparatus, particularly for the use as lighting elements in signage or as backlighting apparatus, which comprises a cavity formed by a light emitting front side, a reflective backside arranged opposite to the front side and a sidewall, and a plurality of light emitting semiconductor components mounted on the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070070625 - Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display module using the same: A backlight assembly includes light emitting diodes in patterns, a reflective sheet having a plurality of through holes through which the light emitting diodes protrude, and a sidewall dividing the patterns into a plurality of light emitting diode units.... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070070624 - Light-emitting diode assembly and light source device using same: A light emitting diode assembly includes a supporter and a plurality of light emitting diodes, the supporter having a light emitting diode region, the light emitting diode region defining a plurality of concentric circles with radiuses Rn thereof satisfying the equation: Rn=n×r, where r represents a radius of the smallest... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070070627 - Decorating with a lighted device: A decoration device may include a backlit panel inside an interior space of an ornament structure. The panel may include a decorative scene that is viewable from outside the ornament structure, and one or more light sources may be substantially aligned with certain elements of the scene (e.g., candles, a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070070626 - Lighting substrate: A lighting substrate (10) for supporting an array of interconnected lights (12) at space intervals includes an array of holes (11) and holding means (17, 22, 23, 44) arranged at least at some of the holes, wherein the interconnected lights (12) are each securely but removeably held in the holding... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20070070628 - Street light with heat dispensing device: A street light (1) includes a frame (11) with a plurality of integral fins extending from a top thereof and a plurality of Light Emitting Diodes (12) connected with a circuit board (121) are connected to underside of the frame. Two side boards (13) are connected to two ends of... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070070630 - High efficiency, compact, modular forced air cooling system for high intensity led light source: A forced air cooling unit for a light source formed of an array of high intensity light emitting diodes (LEDs). A housing includes side walls with a pair of grooves on the inside of the walls. A heat sink includes side extensions which are slidably received in the grooves. The... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070070629 - Lamp nose cone: A nose cone for a projector lamp having a lamp burner and a reflector, includes a metal shell, having a rear edge configured to attach to a forward edge of the reflector, and configured to cooperate with the reflector to substantially enclose the lamp burner. The metal shell includes means... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070070631 - [led lamp tube]: A LED lamp tube connectable to a conventional lamp holder is disclosed to include a circuit board, multiple arrays of LEDs (light emitting diodes) installed in the circuit board, an outer tubular shell that accommodates the circuit board and the LEDs, and two electric connectors provided at the two ends... Agent: Ledtech Electronics Corp.

20070070632 - Assembly for directed shading of outside lighting: A device for shielding outside lights comprising an essentially cylindrical, transparent shield body with a surface which is provided with a zigzag-shaped profile in a vertical direction in order to deflect the radiation from a lighting source incident on the shield body in a desired direction. Triangular projections of the... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070070633 - Self-standing reflector for a luminaire: A self-standing reflector, and method of making same, comprising a main reflector formed from at least one sheet of reflective material, and at least one reflective insert joined to the main reflector. The main reflector is typically formed by folding a plurality of flat panels along fold lines pre-formed in... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt LLC

20070070634 - Light source apparatus and projector: Due to this, a light source apparatus 61 is provided which includes a light source 63 in an interior of a reflector 65 which is formed into a cylindrical body and in which ring-shaped reflecting surfaces 69 are provided on the reflector 65 for gathering emitted light in an axial... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070070635 - Free mounting type light emitting device: A free mounting type light emitting device is disclosed to include a control unit, which is formed of a control circuit board, a battery and a switch, a light emitting unit, which includes LED chips and a flexible transmission line that connect the LED chips to the control unit for... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070070636 - Lighting device with replacement lamp storage: A lighting device with a replacement lamp storage for storing a plurality of replacement lamps.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070070637 - Optical machine having light pipe with rotational degrees of freedom: An optical machine includes a light pipe, a light pipe holder, and a light pipe covering installed on the light pipe holder in a rotatable manner for covering the light pipe. The optical machine utilizes a hinge connection of the light pipe covering and the light pipe holder so as... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070070638 - Lamp unit for a vehicle headlamp: A lamp unit including mirror member 18 having an upward reflecting surface 18a, which reflects part of reflected light from a reflector 16 upward and is disposed between the reflector 16 and a projection lens 12. The mirror member 18 can be moved in the direction of an optical axis... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070070639 - Trim panel assembly having a pivotal light mechanism: A trim panel assembly having a first housing, a second housing, and a pivotal light mechanism configured to swivel relative to the first and second housings.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070070640 - Display sign: A display sign is provided, such as a vehicle registration plate. The display sign has data in the form of one or more numbers, letters, images and/or characters displayed thereon. At least part of the display sign is formed from or includes electroluminescent material. The display sign is connected to... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20070070642 - Vehicle light: A vehicle light with a bulb arranged sideway is provided which can reduce a length of the entire light without a deterioration in its brightness and with a simple configuration. The vehicle light can include a light source arranged sideway on an optical axis extending horizontally in the front-to-rear direction... Agent: Cermak & Kenealy, LLP

20070070641 - Vehicular lighting unit and vehicle with enhanced perceived accuracy: This vehicular lighting unit enhances an accuracy of when a driver of another vehicle and a pedestrian looking a vehicle perceive the vehicle, and a vehicle having the vehicular lighting unit is enhanced in a perceived accuracy, wherein the vehicular lighting unit includes at least not less than three supplementary... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070070643 - Illumination device: The invention relates to an illumination comprised of an illumination source of electromagnetic radiation and a multi-part reflector (10) to route and focus the electromagnetic illumination, whereby the function of the separation (Y) from the angle (β) across at least partial areas of the reflector (10) is not a constant... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070070645 - Led lamp with direct optical coupling in axial arrangement: An LED light source (10) comprises a heat sink (12) having a body (14) with a front surface (16) and a rear surface (18), the rear surface (18) being provided with heat dissipaters (20). The front surface (16) includes a pocket (22) for the receipt of components (24), the components... Agent: William E. Meyer Osram Sylvania Inc.

20070070644 - Light pipe insulation techniques: A circuit board module has a circuit board, a first light emitting diode (LED) mounted to the circuit board, a second LED mounted to the circuit board, and a light pipe assembly disposed adjacent the first and second LEDs. The light pipe assembly is configured to convey light from the... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070070646 - Liquid crystal display module: A housing member accommodates a liquid crystal display panel and a lighting unit. The housing member is provided with a penetrated space for receiving a light-source unit in the lighting unit therein. A pair of fastening members are attached to a pair of openings of the space, respectively, for supporting... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070070648 - Light guide panel for a back light unit, and method of manufacturing the light guide panel: Provided are a light guide panel, a back light unit including the light guide panel, and a method of manufacturing the light guide panel. The light guide panel includes: a light guide panel body including an incidence surface receiving light irradiated from a back light source and an emission surface... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070070647 - Planar light source and liquid crystal display apparatus: A planar light source, which includes a first substrate, a plurality of electrode pairs, a second substrate, a plurality of side strips and a plurality of spacers, is disclosed. The electrode pairs are disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed above the first substrate. The side strips... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070070649 - Light-guide plate, backlight assembly having the light-guide plate and display device having the backlight assembly: A light-guide plate includes an incident surface receiving light, an upper surface extended from a first side of the incident surface, a lower surface opposed to the upper surface and a plurality of first prisms protruding from the upper surface and spaced apart by a separation distance.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070070650 - Backlight module and diffusion assembly: A diffusion assembly includes a diffuser, an optical film and at least one hanging element. The optical film includes at least one hole inserted by the hanging element. The hanging element is located on the diffuser for engaging with the at least one hole of the optical film. A backlight... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070070652 - Lamp holding apparatus, backlight device for display device including same, display device including same and liquid crystal display device including backlight device for display device: A lamp holding apparatus for mounting a lamp to a lamp mounting member includes a mounting plate provided with a locking portion which protrudes to a base side, inserted into a mounting hole provided at the base and is lockable to a peripheral edge of a back side thereof. The... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070070651 - Lamp holding apparatus, lighting device for display device including same, display device including same and liquid crystal display device including lighting device for display device: A lamp holding apparatus for mounting a lamp to a base member includes a mounting plate having a pair of locking portions protruding to a base side. The locking portion is inserted into a mounting hole provided at the base and capable of being locked to a peripheral edge on... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070064407 - Polarized light emitting device: A polarized light emitting device including a first reflector, an LED chip, a fluorescent layer, a second reflector and a polarizer with courragation structure is provided. In the polarized light emitting device, the LED chip emits a first light (e.g. ultraviolet light) confined within a resonant chamber configured by the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070064408 - Illumination unit and liquid crystal display device using the same: Illumination unit UT is used for the illumination of an LCD panel 1 from the rear side of the LCD panel 1. Illumination unit UT is provided with light source 2, rear cover 6 to cover light source 2 and reflective sheet 5 coated on an inner surface of rear... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070064409 - Elongated illumination device having uniform light intensity distribution: An illumination device has an elongated array of point light sources, a focusing rod, and a diffusing rod. The focusing rod is positioned adjacent and along the array of point light sources, for focusing light into an elongated light distribution pattern. The diffusing rod is positioned adjacent and along the... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20070064410 - Illumination unit and liquid crystal display device using the same: Illumination unit UT is used for the illumination of an LCD panel 1 from the rear side of the LCD panel 1. Illumination unit UT includes light source 2, rear cover 6 to cover light source 2 and resin frame 7 assembled with rear cover 6. Resin frame 7 is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070064411 - Multifunctional stick assembly: A stick assembly for a traffic use includes a handle having an inside formed with a receiving space, a battery unit mounted in the receiving space of the handle, at least one circuit controller mounted in the receiving space of the handle, a tube mounted on a first end of... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070064412 - Bracelet: A bracelet includes at least one electronic display unit. Each display unit has a display having a plurality of display elements arranged in a sequence lying along the length of the bracelet and/or arranged in a sequence lying substantially around the perimeter of the display. The bracelet has a control... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070064413 - Electroluminescent wire light source on a baseball cap: A baseball cap has an electroluminescent wire light source mounted on an exterior surface as an illuminated display pattern. The electroluminescent wire light source has a power supply and control circuit on an interior surface of the baseball cap.... Agent: William Propp, Esq. Pmb1-245

20070064414 - Formed lighting fixtures: An improved formed lighting fixture having a frame, a plurality of bulbs, and a refracting layer, in which the frame is formed by gathering a plurality of rods and profiled in a specific contour, the bulbs are installed on the frame to serve as lighting ornaments, and the rod frame... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070064415 - Portable light having multi-mode reflector: A portable light is provided having a reflector assembly configured to create multiple modes of light reflection. The reflector assembly surrounds a light source and has first and second reflectors that together define a substantially continuous reflective surface. The second reflector is mounted for axial movement relative to the first... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070064416 - Light emitting diode flexible printed circuit having a switching unit for switching between a series mode and a parallel mode: An exemplary light emitting diode flexible printed circuit (100) includes four light emitting diodes (110); three switching units (117) interconnecting the four light emitting diodes; a first lead (113) and four second leads (115). The first lead connects with the switching unit, all but one of the four second leads... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070064419 - Color control system for color changing lights: A system and method for color changing lighting comprising a pre-programmed controller along with driver circuit, a single or combination of LEDs and an OFF/ON switch which is used for making selection of mode of operation as well as switching the system ON/OFF. Brightness is changed using pulse width modulation.... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070064422 - Illumination device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a display panel, and an illumination device having a plurality of light sources emitting light of red, green, blue, and white. The illumination device is configured to illuminate the display panel by transmitting the light emitted from the plurality of light sources through the display panel.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070064420 - Led device with enhanced light output: An enhanced light output light emitting diode (LED) is constructed using a plurality of single domed LEDs with each dome acting as a lens. By packaging multiple LEDs, each with its own dome (lens), greater-light output can be achieved. In one embodiment, each individually domed LED is a single color... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070064423 - Lens having fresnel lens surface(s) and lighting apparatus using it: A lens comprising a transparent member having at least two surfaces, and a Fresnel lens surface provided on each of the two surfaces of the transparent member, the transparent member including a generally plate-like shape having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the Fresnel lens... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070064421 - Light source unit for use in a lighting apparatus: A backlight source of a LCD device includes constant-power red, green and blue LEDs emitting light having a constant output power, and a tone-correction red LED emitting light having a controlled output power controlled based on the temperature of the backlight source. The tone-correction red LED has a larger output... Agent: Norman P. Soloway Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070064417 - Lighting system and back-light device using this lighting system: Disclosed is an illuminating device which, as a light source for a backlight device, mixes the colors of light rays of three prime colors radiated by light emitting diodes to emit white light. The illuminating device includes a first light source (22R) radiating light rays of the first prime color,... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070064418 - [lamp module]: A Lamp module, which includes a metal holder frame that defines a longitudinal open chamber and transverse mounting slots across the longitudinal open chamber, LEDs that are respectively mounted in the transverse mounting slots and have a respective top metal frame fastened to the top wall of the metal holder... Agent: Ledtech Electronics Corp.

20070064424 - Multifunction edge device for powered doors: An edge device for an elevator door includes an elongate array of infrared transmitters and/or receivers and a proximate elongate array of illuminable elements, both arrays extending for a substantial part of the length of the door. The illuminable elements are adapted to be illuminated when the door is in... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP

20070064425 - Adjustable led luminaire: A lighting fixture apparatus includes a frame portion, a louver portion and a diffuser lens. The louver portion includes a baffle system for passing unobstructed at least a portion of the light impinging thereon. The diffuser lens includes a surface for diffusing light rays. At least one directional lighting apparatus... Agent: Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Legal Department

20070064426 - Four panel liquid crystal display system: A microdisplay projection system employs blue, red and green LED illuminators. Optics are provided to direct light from the blue LED illuminator to a blue LCD panel, to direct light from the red LED illuminator to a red LCD panel, and to direct light from the green LED illuminator to... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070064427 - Ceiling mount light with 360-degree motion sensor: A ceiling mount light with a single spherical lens with a 360-degree range viewing field to focus infrared energy into a motion sensor is provided. The ceiling mount light has a sensitivity regulating switch to adjust the level of sensitivity up to about 30 feet in the 360-degree viewing field.... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070064428 - Led light bar assembly: An LED (light emitting diode) light bar assembly is comprised of an elongated casing having an elongated cavity of substantially U-shape cross-section. The casing has a base wall, opposed side walls and an elongated open end between the side walls. One or more elongated heat sink LED modules each having... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070064429 - Light emitting diode arrays with improved light extraction: In accordance with the invention, an illumination device comprises a highly thermally conductive substrate having a surface, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) supported by the surface and arranged in an array to provide illumination. At least one reflective barrier at least partially surrounds each LED. The reflective barrier... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070064430 - Lamp surround: A lamp and a lamp surround are disclosed. The lamp surround comprises a frame which preferably comprises two carousels. A plurality of enclosures, such as glass test tubes are retained by the frame. The enclosures have structure at the upper end, such as a flange, to retain them in appropriate... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20070064431 - Near field lens with spread characteristics: A near field lens is for an automotive light assembly, generally comprising a central body positioned between opposing side bodies. The central body extends in a vertical direction, while the side bodies are positioned on horizontal sides of the central body. The opposing side bodies are structured to collimate the... Agent: Visteon

20070064432 - Light-source lamp: According to one embodiment, a light-source lamp is provided with a reflector, a light-emission tube, a support member and a heat radiation member. The reflector includes a cylindrical portion located in the center thereof. The light-emission tube includes a base located at one end. The base extends through the cylindrical... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070064433 - Recessed light fixture and speaker combination: At least one embodiment of the invention provides a recessed assembly combining a light fixture and a speaker assembly. The light fixture is a light source that is excited via an array of high-intensity light-emitting-diodes (LED) and is imbedded into a ceiling-mounted recessed assembly. The light fixture may be fashioned... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20070064434 - Nautical light and methods: Embodiments of the invention provide navigation lights for skiboats and methods of using the same. In a set of embodiments, a navigation light may be configured to cast light in an arc of the horizon in 360 degrees. In accordance with some embodiments, the navigation light thus may be configured... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070064435 - Mirror housing: A mirror housing includes a front side that defines a mirror opening and a rear side that defines a housing contour. The rear side includes a recess extending along a portion of the rear side. The rear side and the recess are unitary in structure. A light plate extends across... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070064436 - Headlamp for vehicles: The invention concerns a headlamp for vehicles with a reflector comprising a reflector opening for receiving a gas discharge lamp, with an ignition device for operating the gas discharge lamp, with holding means for releasably connecting the ignition device to a reflector, with electromagnetically compatible contact means arranged between the... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070064437 - Enhanced apparatus for reducing in size an igniter circuit and assembly: The present invention converts a D2 burner to a D1S bulb assembly by reducing the size of the transformer and providing a configuration for releasably attaching the D2 device to the D1S-sized assembly for ready insertion and removal of the D2 burner.... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070064438 - Lamp unit for a vehicle headlamp: A headlamp for a vehicle including a light-emitting device 14 that faces downward and is placed on an optical axis Ax, a reflector 16 which covers the device from the lower side, a mirror member 18 which reflects part of reflected light from a reflector 16 downward is disposed between... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070064439 - Led light source product: The present invention provides with a LED light source product, comprising LED light sources, light-guide materials, reflecting materials, a LED printed circuitry base and cooling materials, in which one or more LED light sources are arranged on the LED printed circuitry base. The reflecting materials are arranged on the LED... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070064440 - Light guide device and backlight module using the same: A light guide device (21) includes an incident surface (211), an emitting surface (212) and a plurality of protrusions (212a). The incident surface is configured so as to allow an incident light to pass therethrough. The emitting surface is adjoining the incident surface and configured so as to allow the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070064441 - Backlight module: An edge-lighting type backlight module (10) includes a light guide plate (12), at least one light sources (14), a reflector (16), a thermally conductive layer (18), and a plurality of heat pipes (20). The light guide plate has a light incident surface (120). The at least one light source is... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070064442 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal module using the same: This invention relates to a backlight unit that is adaptive for increasing brightness uniformity, and a liquid crystal module using the same. The backlight unit includes a plurality of light emitting diodes with the (2i −1)th (where i is a natural number) light emitting diodes of the plurality connected in... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070064444 - Display device: A liquid crystal display device comprising an LCD panel, a light guiding plate disposed in back of the LCD panel and a plurality of LEDs disposed on a plane in parallel with the LCD panel along a lateral side of the light guiding plate and arranged in two rows or... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064443 - Led backlight for flat panel display: The backlight for a flat panel display preferably includes a light guide having a shape complementary to a visible surface of a flat panel display positioned beneath the display. The light guide has a first side edge and has an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged on a flexible... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070064445 - Backlight device and liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a backlight apparatus and a liquid crystal display apparatus, capable of realizing a backlight apparatus having high color reproductivity without color irregularities in a backlight apparatus having a LED device as its light source. In the optical unit 61, there are disposed the dichroic mirror... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070064446 - Optical diffuser with ir and/or uv blocking coating: A diffuser is provided in an illumination system, where the diffuser is capable of blocking significant amounts of infrared (IR) and/or ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In certain example embodiments of this invention, the diffuser includes a glass substrate which supports an IR/UV coating(s) that blocks significant amounts of IR and/or UV... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070064447 - Electro-optical device supporting device and method of supporting electro-optical device: An electro-optical device supporting device, which interposes a flat flexible member extending from a held member in a vertical direction and holds the posture of the held member, includes a first member that supports neighboring portions of both ends of the flat flexible member in a widthwise direction from a... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20070064448 - Backlight module having tray integrally formed with frame, and liquid crystal display having same: An exemplary backlight module (12) includes a light guide plate (14), and a frame assembly (16). The frame assembly includes a first frame (18) and a second frame (19) integrally formed with the first frame. The first frame accommodates the light guide plate, and has a flared protrusion (184). The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070064449 - Light holder system: The present invention relates to an improved light holder system. The light holder system may be used individually or part of a light string. The light holder system includes a light bulb assembly and a light holder. The light bulb assembly is configured to securely releasably couple to the light... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070064450 - Led illumination device: An LED illumination device includes LED lamp modules 34 coupled in a vertical direction. Each of said LED lamp modules 34 includes a base 12, a bus bar circuit 35 formed on the base 12, and a cover 25 connected to the base 12 to cover the bus bar circuit... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070058356 - Meter instrument structure able of changing color: A meter instrument structure able of changing color comprising from top to bottom sequentially: a display panel, a light guiding plate, a control circuit having a plurality of light emitting members and a switch, the light emitting members contain light sources at least able to emit two kinds of colors... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070058357 - Lighting device: A lighting device having: a light-emitting diode lamp having a light-emitting diode device sealed by a glass sealing part; and a fluorescent layer disposed on the side of an illuminated object of the light-emitting diode lamp. The fluorescent layer is operable to radiate a wavelength-converted light by being excited by... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070058358 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device: Backlight unit B comprises: a LED 13 for compensating emission intensity of red wavelength light of a fluorescent tube 11, being arranged in between each of a plurality of said fluorescent tubes 11 arrayed in up and down directions, and a LED 13a for compensating emission intensity of red wavelength... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070058359 - Illumination device and display device: A plurality of LEDs are arrayed in the X-direction, and a light-guide plate is provided facing the LEDs. A plurality of prisms extending in the Y-direction are formed on a light-receiving surface of the light-guide plate. A plurality of prisms are additionally formed on a light-emitting surface of the light-guide... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070058360 - Illumination wiring arrangement for outdoor umbrella: An outdoor umbrella includes an awning, a main frame, an illumination system, and an illumination wiring arrangement. The illumination wiring arrangement includes a first wiring unit including a connector plug provided at a first connector end of a first post of the main frame to electrically connect to the illumination... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070058362 - Fire resistant glove illumination system: A fire-retardant glove illumination system comprising an illumination assembly removably disposed on a fire-retardant glove that is capable of emitting light before a firefighter as he or she crawls on the floor of a smoke-filled building. The illumination assembly includes a housing having a light in electrical communication with a... Agent: Moss & Barnett P.A.

20070058361 - Self illuminating belt buckle: A self illuminated belt buckle comprising a housing with a symbol shaped opening in the front and an opening in the bottom of the housing. The housing containing at least one power source, and at least one light source such as an LED which may be connected to a switch.... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20070058363 - Wound-in tenon/wound-in tenon collar for attachment of luminaire: A modular pole system for a luminaire includes an elongated pole section formed from a continuous filament winding process with a tenon or tenon collar wound into a tip end of the pole section. A method for making a modular pole system includes placing a tenon or tenon collar over... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070058364 - Flashlight and holster: A flashlight and holder cooperate to automatically turn the flashlight on when the flashlight is removed from the holder and turn the flashlight off when the flashlight is returned to the holder. The flashlight includes a bottom cap with a magnetically actuated switch. The holder includes a magnet which cooperates... Agent: Averill & Varn

20070058365 - Battery powered led lamp: A battery powered LED lamp including an array of high-performance LEDs disposed in a lightweight directionally oriented shade. Converting electronics are provided which may include a step-down DC voltage switching regulator for converting a higher voltage of the battery power source to a lower voltage required to drive the LEDs... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070058366 - Led module: An improved LED module that is thermally self-stabilizing, and that is able to be retrofitted into an existing flashlight is provided. In one embodiment, the LED module includes a light emitting diode, an amplifying circuit and a microchip. The amplifying circuit includes a temperature sensing device to sense heat from... Agent: Jones Day

20070058367 - Lamp keying system and method: A system and a method for keying lamps which involve a lamp keying device such as a keying device with at least one base protruding key being formed on the base and at least one support slot being formed in the lamp support receptacle, the at least one base protruding... Agent: Cislo & Thomas, LLP

20070058368 - Efficient high brightness led system that generates radiometric light energy capable of controlling growth of plants from seed to full maturity: According to one or more aspects of the present invention, a unit is disclosed that provides artificial light to promote plant growth. The unit utilizes red and blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit wavelengths of light that are more favorable to plant growth. In particular, blue LEDs are interspersed... Agent: Adam Partee

20070058369 - Linear lenses for leds: Various embodiments described herein comprise array of light emitting diodes and a cylindrical lens having front and rear curved surfaces. The cylindrical lens is disposed to receive light from the light emitting diodes and to redistribute the light. The cylindrical lens is located no more than about 8 inches distance... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070058370 - Backlight module and display utilizing same: A backlight module includes a substrate and at least a lamp. The substrate includes a high-voltage side, a low-voltage side and a bottom surface linking therebetween. The lamp includes two electrode ends respectively connecting to the high-voltage side and the low-voltage side. The lamp and the bottom surface form an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070058371 - Festival lamp string & its manufacturing method: The present invention involves to a festival lamp string comprised of cords, a certain number of sockets and coordinated illuminators; said illuminators are individually and sequentially connected with the cords, said socket is molded over the contacting portion of the illuminator and the cords by filling package. In manufacturing, firstly... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070058372 - Lighting system enabling combination of several light beams: The invention relates to an illumination system for combining two light beams. A prism bounded by two entrance faces that form a dihedron. An integrator is coupled to an exit face of the prism. Each beam penetrates the prism via one of the entrance faces and is reflected by internal... Agent: Joseph S Tripoli Thomson Licensing Inc

20070058373 - Projector device: A liquid crystal projector device of the present invention includes a lamp unit and a lamp cooling fan, the lamp unit having disposed therein a columnar lamp bulb having a luminous body enclosed therein, the lamp unit having a side wall opposed to the lamp cooling fan and provided with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070058375 - Light source module and projector using the same: A light source module includes a light source, an elliptical main-reflector, a paraboloid reflector and a plane reflector. The light source is for generating a light beam. The elliptical main-reflector is for reflecting and converging the light beam. The main-reflector has an axis and a first focal point. The light... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070058374 - Luminaire reflector having attachment ring: A friction spring reflector assembly is described, the reflector attachment mechanism utilizing a push-on friction ring which acts alone or in combination as a mounting ring for mounting additional hardware such as a lens to a curved reflector cone without the use of adhesives or mounting bolts. The push-on friction... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070058376 - Backlight device and liquid crystal display device incorporating same: A backlight device includes a frame, at least one lamp unit each comprising a transformer and a discharge lamp structured into an integral and rigid unit, and also includes a circuit board for lighting the discharge lamp, which is disposed at the back surface of the frame and at which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070058377 - Interconnection arrangement having mortise and tenon connection features: An interconnection arrangement features a housing having multiple exterior surfaces. The housing is configured to receive an electrical device therein and has a plurality of the multiple exterior surfaces each having at least one mortise connection feature formed therein which is configured to receive a tenon associated with an accessory... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070058378 - Socket device: There is provided a socket device (1, 1a-1g), comprising a plurality of conductors (2); a socket main body (4) coupled to the conductors to hold them together and defining a cavity (5) having an opening at least in one surface to expose part of the conductors so that an electric... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn

20070058379 - Suspension cable retention method and apparatus for lighting: A linear light fixture mounting assembly and method of mounting includes a cable, a housing member, and an elastic member. The cable has a body and an end, and the end has a larger cross-sectional extent than the body. The housing member has a top surface and a bottom surface... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070058380 - Lighting direction control apparatus: An initialization function of a lighting direction control apparatus of a vehicle lamp is provided with functions: for swinging, in a first direction, a lamp across the initial position until the lamp is bumped; for swinging, in the opposite direction (a second direction), the lamp from the bumped position across... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070058381 - Vehicle headlight assembly and motorcycle utilizing the same: To provide a vehicle headlight assembly designed to increase the productivity, the vehicle headlight assembly includes a light projecting group (34) accommodated within a casing (31) and including a plurality of light projecting units (29, 30). Each of the light projecting units (29, 30) in turn includes a light emitting... Agent: Joseph W. Price Snell & Wilmer LLP

20070058382 - Grille of automobile: A grille of automobile comprising a grille body, at least one light source and corresponding wires; the grille body comprises of an outer frame and a decoration board, the decoration board can be in different shape, several hollows are on the decoration board; the grille body is injected from a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070058383 - Vehicle lamp: A vehicle lamp, for example for installation in a cover cap of an external rear view mirror, includes an elongate light guide and a light source whose light is coupled into the light guide. The vehicle lamp has a light guide-cover plate unit which is formed in one piece and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070058384 - Electrical energy transfer assembly for a motorcycle wheel: A rotary electrical contact device for transferring electrical energy and control signals from a stationary point on a motorcycle to a motorcycle wheel for the purposes of powering a wheel-illuminating display device mounted on a motorcycle wheel such as that device described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,789,928, “Automatic Mechetronic Wheel... Agent: Mohammed J.f. Khan

20070058385 - Illuminating wheel rims: A wheel rim includes a generator connected thereto which is activated by a magnet which rotates across coils and electric capacitors in the generator so as to produce electrical power. A plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are connected to the rim and electrically connected to the generator such that... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070058386 - Method of constructing a headlight module for a motor vehicle, and the module and headlight: The invention concerns a method of constructing a headlight module giving a beam with cutoff, for a motor vehicle, comprising a lens and a light source disposed at the rear of the lens, from which it is separated by air, the light source being formed by at least one light... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070058387 - Vehicle headlamp: A light source is movable between a reference position located on an optical axis on the rear side of a rear side focal point of a projection lens and a forward shift position located on the forward side of the reference position. At a predetermined position of the reflecting surface... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070058388 - Light source device and method for manufacturing the same, display device and method for manufacturing the same, and method for driving display device: In a light source device, a row of fibers is provided in which a plurality of optical fibers is arrayed in a single row in parallel fashion separately from each other. A light-direction controller is disposed on one side of the optical fibers, main fibers is disposed above and below... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070058389 - Led white light illuminator: The invention provides an LED lighting device and method that produces high intensity, spatially uniform, white light in the near and far fields in a reduced package size that does not significantly heat the surrounding environment, wherein the white light is produced by using a phosphor layer in conjunction with... Agent: Francis J. Caufield

20070058390 - Backlight unit: Disclosed is a backlight unit which illuminates a display panel from a rear surface thereof, including at least: tubular lamps arranged in parallel to the panel; and a reflecting member which reflects light from the lamps toward the panel, wherein the reflecting member is divided into a first region opposed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070058391 - Light extraction layer: A light extraction layer and a display having a light extraction layer are described.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070058392 - Lighting device: The present invention provides a lighting device for a liquid crystal display and the like. The device comprises: a light guide plate having a top surface serving as a light exiting surface, a bottom surface serving as a reflective surface and a side surface serving as a light entering surface;... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070058393 - Backlight unit and display device having the same: A backlight unit and method of use are provided having a first light guide plate, a linear light source disposed along at least one side edge of the first light guide plate, a plurality of second light guide plates facing the first light guide plate, and a point light source... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070058394 - Light guide plate: A light guide plate a light incidence surface, a light-emitting surface joining with the light incidence surface, a diffraction grating having a plurality of grating slots formed on the light-emitting surface, and a bottom surface on an opposite side of the light guide plate to the light-emitting surface. The diffraction... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070058395 - Light guide plate with reflective layer and backlight module and liquid crystal display with same: An exemplary light guide plate (34) includes a main body, and a reflective layer (348). The main body includes a light incident surface (342), and a bottom surface (346) adjacent to the light incident surface. The reflective layer is formed on the bottom surface of the main body such that... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070058396 - Backlight module with light guide protrusion and liquid crystal display with same: An exemplary backlight module (1) includes a light guide plate (10) and at least one point illuminator (12). The light guide plate includes a first side surface (102), and a protrusion (14) outwardly extending from the first side surface. The protrusion includes at least one second side surface (144) oblique... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070058397 - Lighting device for display device and display device: In a lighting device for a display device, a clearance is set between an edge portion of a locking piece in a lamp clip, and a hole edge of a locking piece insertion hole provided at a back plate part of the case to correspond to the locking piece, and... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070053171 - Lamp guide holder, backlight assembly and liquid crystal display module including the same: A lamp guide holder includes a horizontal part that has a front surface and a rear surface, a fixing part that extends from the rear surface, and at least one lamp holding part on the front surface and having a ring shape. The lamp holding part has at least one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070053172 - Safety device for transporting oversized loads: The present invention includes a method for improving driver safety in an oversized highway vehicle or highway vehicle with an oversized load. The method includes obtaining an oversized highway vehicle or highway vehicle with an oversized load that includes safety indicia illuminated by one or more EL lighting surfaces, and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.a.

20070053173 - Night lighting system: Disclosed is a night lighting system retrofittable with existing wall switches for illuminating an area around the wall switches. The night lighting system comprises: a wall plate having at least one switch receiving slot capable of receiving a switch, at least one lens assembly disposed on the wall plate, a... Agent: Michael J. Faunce

20070053174 - Fountain: A fountain has a base, a pump, a lighting device and at least one stand. The base holds liquid and has a top opening. The at least one stand is mounted on the top opening of the base and has a top. The pump is mounted inside the base and... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.a.

20070053177 - Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display device having the same: A backlight assembly includes a receiving container, a lamp, a fixing member and a lamp holder. The lamp is disposed in the receiving container. The fixing member is disposed over the receiving container. The lamp holder has a hole into which the lamp is inserted, and a protruding portion supporting... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20070053176 - Backlight module: A backlight module comprises a bezel, an LED circuit board, an LED, and a driving circuit board. The bezel has a hole and the LED circuit board is disposed on the bezel and includes a first surface and a second surface. There is a first connector disposed on the second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070053175 - Illumination system and display device: An illumination system for illuminating a display device (3) comprising a light-emission window (2), a reflector (8) arranged substantially parallel and opposite to the light-emission window, the illumination system having a height h. The illumination system is provided with a plurality of elongate light sources (6, 6′, 6″, . .... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070053178 - Lcd display backlight system with improved color mixing and efficiency: A LCD display backlight system with improved color mixing and efficiency comprises a reflective surface, a plurality of light sources mounted on the reflective surface, a plurality of fractional wave plates and a reflective polarizer. The plurality of fractional wave plates is mounted on spaces between the plurality of light... Agent: C. Andrew Im Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p.

20070053179 - Low profile light source utilizing a flexible circuit carrier: A light source having a flexible light-generating module that includes a flexible circuit carrier, a plurality of light emitting dies, and a cover layer is disclosed. The flexible circuit carrier includes a sheet of flexible material having electrically conducting traces. The light emitting dies are electrically connected to the electrically... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070053180 - Night writing instrument and method of use: A writing instrument for writing in low light or dark conditions. The writing instrument is moved from a retracted non-writing position to an extended writing position. The writing instrument comprises a light bulb, a battery and a pressure mechanism. When the writing instrument is placed in a writing position and... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070053181 - Fireless and flameless biodegradable candle: A disposable and biodegradable candle lamp made with candle wax, translucent wax, palm oil wax, soy bean wax or a vegetable oil wax, scented or unscented for decorative purposes where a low level of light intensity is desirable comprising a candle like body positioned on its bottom sealed surface. A... Agent: Nishan Urkumyam

20070053182 - Combination fluorescent and led lighting system: LEDs can be added to a conventional fluorescent lighting fixture by providing an LED circuit to the fluorescent lighting fixture pan, by adding LEDs to the fluorescent light tube with an indentation in the light tube rear to receive an LED to influence the apparent color of the the fluorescent... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, Llc

20070053183 - Decorative illuminant: A decorative illuminant includes a decorative body and an illuminant base located at its bottom. The decorative body is made of transparent resin and its interior forms a plurality of refractive spaces that may be irregular cracks or gas bubbles, and the illuminant base is provided with at least one... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070053184 - Led illuminator with retro reflector: An illuminator with blue and red LEDs, a reflector upstream of the LEDs for capturing upstream light emitted out of the back surfaces of the LEDs and redirecting downstream as useful illumination, a band pass filter for conditioning the downstream light, a phosphor layer for changing the spectral properties of... Agent: Francis J. Caufield

20070053185 - Light source module: A light source module is provided. The light source module comprises a substrate, a reflective device and a plurality of light emitting diodes. The substrate comprises an opening, the reflective device a comprising light reflecting surface is disposed on one side of the substrate. In addition, the light emitting diode... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070053186 - Refractive index matching in capillary illumination: System and method for fluorescent light excitation and detection from samples to enhance the numerical aperture and/or reduce the cross-talk of the fluorescent light.... Agent: Mila Kasan, Patent Dept. Applied Biosystems

20070053187 - Cold cathode fluoresecent lamp lighting device: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp lighting device includes a lens cover, a cold cathode fluorescent lamp and a control box. The lens cover is a semicircular-shaped tube and includes a post having a threaded hole for insertion of a bolt. The cold cathode fluorescent lamp is circular and secured in... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070053188 - Led ultraviolet air sanitizer light fixture: A lighting fixture and lighting system for a transportation vehicle is disclosed that provides color variations for lighting the passenger cabin of an airplane, train, bus or other type of transportation vehicle. The lighting fixture and system further provide ultraviolet light that helps to disinfect the circulating air in the... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation

20070053189 - Backlight unit and method for equalizing brightness thereof: A backlight module includes at least a light source generator, a housing, at least a thermal detector, and an inverter. The thermal detector is disposed in the housing for measuring the temperature within the housing when the light source generator is operating, and the inverter is electrically connected to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070053190 - Compact efficient light collection optics for scrolling color illumination: A light source for a scrolling color illumination system includes a lamp (212) producing light, first and second independent reflectors (220, 230) each receiving a portion of the light from the lamp (212), and a light guide (260) receiving two independent images of the light source created by the portions... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070053191 - Light source module and projection apparatus using the same: A light source module includes a light source, a paraboloid reflector and an aspheric lens. The light source is used for generating a first light. The paraboloid reflector is used for reflecting the first light beam to form a second light. The aspheric lens is used for converging the second... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20070053192 - Wound-in tenon for attachment of luminaire: A modular pole system for a luminaire includes an elongated pole section formed from a continuous filament winding process with a tenon wound into a tip end of the pole section. A method for making a modular pole system includes placing a tenon over a trunion end of a mandrel... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070053193 - Method and system for providing indirect lighting: A lighting fixture based on the delivery of indirect lighting. A light source is embedded within a helmet which directs the light waves of the light source over light wave manipulation elements so that the light waves are deflected and/or refracted to disperse indirect lighting in proximity to the light... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20070053194 - Adjustable beam lamp: A LED swivel reading lamp having an easily user adjustable sized light beam for use in vehicles such as automobiles, aircraft, and the like.... Agent: Bruce E. Harang

20070053195 - Visual warning device: A visual warning device is disclosed and which includes an emitter of visibly discernible light positioned in spaced relation relative to an underlying supporting surface, and which, when energized, emits visibly discernible light which is projected onto the underlying supporting surface to identify a restricted region which is positioned in... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070053196 - Sliding adjuster: A lamp adjuster for adjusting the aim of a headlamp is disclosed. The lamp adjuster includes an input shaft, a ball stud bracket in threaded engagement with the input shaft and an o-ring mounted on the ball stud bracket. Rotation of the input shaft causes linear translation of the ball... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20070053197 - Backplate assembly for a vehicle tail lamp: A backplate assembly for a vehicle tail lamp is disclosed. The backplate assembly includes a back housing, a front housing secured to the back housing, a one-piece circuit disposed between the front housing and the back housing, a plurality of bulb clips disposed at least partially between the front housing... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20070053198 - Personalized break light: Break light is centered and mounted on rear edge of vehicle trunk, tailgate, or rear outer edge of vehicle hood depending on model of vehicle. Break light is mounted using common tools and adhesives.... Agent: Zachary Field Hooey

20070053200 - High intensity led array illuminator: A high intensity mutli-wavelength illumination apparatus comprising an array of LEDs each of which has a predetermined spectral output that is emitted over a predetermined solid angle, an array of non-imaging concentrators the individual non-imaging concentrators of which are optically coupled in one-to-one correspondence with the LEDs, each non-imaging concentrator... Agent: Francis J. Caufield

20070053199 - Led illuminator for changing target properties: An illuminator for irradiating targets to change their properties comprises at least one LED having spectral properties that are capable of interacting with a target to effect changes in its properties, a non-imaging concentrator for collecting radiation from the LED and emitting it as a spatially and spectrally uniform beam... Agent: Francis J. Caufield

20070053201 - Field display system: A display system includes display elements embedded in a playing surface. The display elements are configured to display images or video in the playing surface. The playing surface can be a soccer field, a football field, a rugby field, a baseball field, a track field, a horse racing track, a... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070053203 - Illumination device: An illumination device comprising an elongate rod (10) of a transparent acrylic material mounted on a base (11) in which is housed an array of LED's (15) which illuminate directly a lower end face of the rod (10) so that light is passed along the rod, and a conical or... Agent: Gauthier & Connors LLP

20070053202 - Light-emitting device and method of manufacturing light-emitting device: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, in which a light-emitting body is sealed between a substrate and a sealing body, includes forming a light-emitting layer, made of a light emitting material, on the surface of the substrate; forming the sealing body which partially covers the light-emitting layer; and removing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20070053204 - Confocal microendoscope comprising optical fibres with a tapering diameter: The invention relates to a confocal microendoscope, in which the diameter of optical fibres at the proximal end (8) of an optical fibre bundle (9) is greater than at the distal end (15). This permits the efficiency of coupling the light of a light source to be increased, without reducing... Agent: Purdue Law Offices 2735 N. Holland-sylvania Road

20070053205 - Reflective plate and method for manufacturing the same and backlight unit for liquid crystal display device using the same: A reflective plate includes a high heat conductivity material having a first heat conductivity and a reflective material having a second heat conductivity on the high heat conductivity material, wherein the first heat conductivity of the high heat conductivity material is greater than the second heat conductivity of the reflective... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.c.

20070053206 - Light source device and light deflection element: [The present invention provides] a light source device comprising: a light conductor which has a first light incident end surface, a second light incident end surface and a light emitting surface; a first primary light source and a second primary light source which are disposed respectively adjacent to the first... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070053207 - Surface light source apparatus: A surface light source apparatus includes: a fluorescent discharge tube having a bent portion; a light guide plate which has a corner portion facing the bent portion; a rear frame which receives the light guide plate and is formed of a resin material; and a middle frame which is provided... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070053208 - Uv light source coated with nano-particles of phosphor: A luminescent body is described that comprises a optical waveguide plate, a UV light source, and means for coupling the UV light into the optical waveguide plate and in which the optical waveguide plate is provided with a covering layer that contains one or more phosphors that are either applied... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070053209 - Low voltage lighting assembly and system: Various embodiments of lighting assemblies, lighting apparatus, and lighting systems are provided. The lighting assemblies, apparatus, and systems can have first and second contacts disposed to retain a bulb and to pierce an insulation layer on a conductor. The lighting assemblies, lighting apparatus, and lighting systems can be low voltage... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070047214 - Backlight unit using wire-grid polarizer and liquid crystal display apparatus employing the backlight unit: A backlight unit, which can emit one of s-polarized light and p-polarized light using wire-grid polarizer, and a liquid crystal display apparatus employing the backlight unit are provided. The backlight unit includes: a light source radiating light; a light guide plate disposed with the light source at a lateral side... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047215 - Display device: A display device includes an ultraviolet light source, a color light source, and a filter selectively hit by their lights. The filter has a first area part for displaying the first display contents excluding an overlapped parts when the ultraviolet light is emitted, a second area part for the second... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070047216 - Glow stick holder: A device for holding a chemiluminescent glow stick mounts to an article such as, but not limited to, a skateboard, an inline roller skate, a snow ski or the like. In one embodiment, the device has an open ended transparent tube for interlocking receipt of the glow stick therein. In... Agent: Robert M. Downey, P.A.

20070047217 - Vehicle backlit panel: A vehicle backlit panel includes a base substrate, an electroluminescent element and an outer substrate. The electroluminescent element is disposed on one side of the base substrate. The outer substrate overlies the electroluminescent element. The outer substrate includes a translucent substrate portion having areas of different thicknesses as measured in... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070047218 - Desk lamp with multi-function: A desk lamp with multi-function includes a lamp body, a negative ion generator, a thermostatic cup holder and an integrated power controller. The lamp body includes a lamp base, a lamp arm and a lamp shade. The negative ion generator is disposed inside the lamp body. The thermostatic cup holder... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070047220 - Backlight unit, display device having the same and driving method of the same: An LCD including a backlight unit including a light source unit, an optical fiber transmitting light from the light source unit, an optical sensor receiving the light from the optical fiber and sensing a color of light, a light source driving part providing power to the light source unit and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070047221 - Direct light type backlight unit and liquid crystal display: A direct light type backlight unit and a liquid crystal panel employing the same. The backlight unit includes a plurality of light emitting devices disposed at a predetermined angle on a substrate; and a grating which diffracts incident light from the light emitting devices at different diffraction angles to separate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047219 - Direct-lit backlight having light sources with bifunctional diverters: Direct-lit light backlights and associated methods and components are disclosed. The backlight has an output area such as a front diffuser behind which a plurality of light sources are disposed. A diverter having a first and second reflective surface is disposed between at least two light sources and the front... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070047222 - [umbrella with light-emitting indicator]: An umbrella with light-emitting indicator is provided. The umbrella with light-emitting indicator comprises an umbrella stand, a control circuit and a light-emitting device. The umbrella stand comprises a set of moveable ribs, a piece of umbrella cloth covered on the ribs and an insulative element with a receiving space formed... Agent: Wen-chu Chang

20070047223 - Finger light: A finger light provides local illumination adjacent to a user's finger during a writing activity. Using a housing having a switchable light source and a finger-engaging framework removably coupled to the housing, a finger light is provided that enables local illumination for the user in a discreet or focused manner.... Agent: Cislo & Thomas, LLP

20070047224 - Battery powered magnetically operated light: The invention provides light without the need for electrical wiring. Battery power is applied to the lamp using a magnetically operated switch. The power switch and battery holders are built into the light fixture. The light fixture can be easily mounted in locations such as filing cabinets, desk drawers, bedroom... Agent: Gregg Howard

20070047225 - Direct type backlight device for liquid crystal module: A direct type backlight device for a liquid crystal module having a liquid crystal panel includes a resin molded frame, a reflective sheet, a light diffuser plate and at least one crosspiece. The resin molded frame attaches linear light sources in parallel at a plurality of sites spaced apart. The... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070047226 - Led module and backlight system having the same: The present invention relates to a light emitting diode (LED) module. The LED module includes a circuit board, two first LEDs for emitting light of a first color component, two second LEDs for emitting light of a second color component, and a third LED for emitting light of a third... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070047227 - Systems and methods for converting illumination: An illumination system according to the principles of the invention may include a first LED and a carrier material. The carrier material may be comprised of plastic, synthetic material, polymer, latex, rubber or other material. The carrier material may also contain a phosphor, fluorescent material, organic fluorescent material, inorganic fluorescent... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070047229 - Led module and line type led illumination lamp using the same: Provided are an LED module and a line type LED illumination lamp. The LED (light emitting diode) module including a plurality of LEDs emitting light of predetermined colors, includes: a substrate formed in the form of line that is long in length and relatively narrow in width, and including a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070047228 - Methods of forming direct-lit backlights having light recycling cavity with concave transflector: Direct-lit backlights and associated methods and components are disclosed In one embodiment, a method of forming a direct-lit backlight having an output area includes providing a transflector that partially transmits and partially reflects incident light. The method further includes forming one or more recycling cavities that substantially fill the output... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070047230 - Light source apparatus and image display apparatus: A light source apparatus is disclosed which is capable of emerging predetermined linearly polarized light while a loss of light amount is reduced. The light source apparatus comprises plural light-emitting elements which are disposed so that their light-emitting surfaces face the direction of an emergence surface of the light source... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070047231 - Light source module, illuminating apparatus and liquid crystal display: A light source module including an optical plate and at least one light emitting device is provided. The optical plate includes a heat dissipation core plate and at least one electric circuit layer disposed thereon. The light emitting device is disposed on the optical plate and electrically connected to the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070047232 - Led lens for backlight: Disclosed herein is a Light Emitting Diode (LED) lens for a backlight. The LED lens includes an LED light source, a lens body, and a beam shaping element. The lens body is configured such that the LED light source is accommodated in the lower portion thereof, and light emitted from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070047233 - Method and apparatus for providing light: An apparatus and method according to which light is provided.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070047234 - Method and apparatus for providing light: An apparatus and method according to which light is provided.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070047235 - Method and apparatus for providing light: An apparatus and method according to which light is provided.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070047236 - Method and apparatus for providing light: An apparatus and method according to which light is provided.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070047237 - Method of forming a lamp assembly: An exemplary method of forming a lamp assembly is provided herein that includes scanning at least one surface of a reflector. The method further includes determining an estimated location of a focal point of the reflector based on the scanning, and aligning a burner relative to the estimated location of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070047238 - Light emitter sub-assemblies especially containing an array of light emitting devices (leds) and modules containing such sub-assemblies which provide lighting apparatuses, especially light bars for mounting on a vehicle: A sub-assembly for a light-projecting module has an array of LEDs mounted on a circuit board potted in a tray at the bottom thereof by a solidified body of potting material. The body of potting material and the tray are heat-conductive and serve to dissipate heat generated by the LEDs.... Agent: Kenneth J. Lukacher South Winton Court

20070047240 - Backlight module: A backlight module includes a back chassis, a third extruding frame, a fourth extruding frame, and an optical component set. The back chassis includes a plate unit, a first extruding frame, and a second extruding frame. The plate unit has a first side, a second side, a third side, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070047239 - Backlight unit for test device of lcd panel: A backlight unit for a test device of an LCD panel is disclosed. The backlight unit includes: a chamber enclosing a predetermined space, the chamber being provided with a plurality of through holes formed around the chamber perimeter to allow air flow between the interior and exterior of the chamber;... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070047241 - Apparatus for securing a trim frame to a recessed housing member and a method of making thereof: An apparatus for securing a trim frame to a housing member in a recessed lighting fixture. The apparatus includes a spring associated with the trim frame having a top edge, a left edge, a right edge, and a bottom edge, a left portion, a right portion, and a center portion... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070047242 - Collapsible chandelier: A collapsible chandelier comprises a central body and a set of arms with light fixtures at their outer ends connected to said central body by a respective set of connection bosses. Said connection bosses comprise T-shaped pairs of intersecting sleeves; the horizontal section of which penetrates said central body and... Agent: Zito Tlp

20070047243 - Mounting structure for led lighting systems: A mounting structure for LED lighting sources, includes a support body having attached on one side thereof a circuit board for mounting the LED lighting sources. The circuit board is preferably a printed-circuit board with conductive traces to feed electrical power to the LED lighting sources. The support body is... Agent: Osram Sylvania Inc

20070047244 - Procedure for controlling the light width of a motor vehicle: In a method for traffic dependent light width adjustment of light width for headlights in a motor vehicle, at least two image capturing units are provided whose pictures are forwarded to a control unit for evaluation. A control unit for controlling the light width of the headlights is provided, and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070047245 - Miniature portable lamp with swing arm: A lamp (10) has a base (12) including a longitudinal axis (14) extending in a first direction (16) and a transverse axis (18) extending in a second direction (20) normal to the longitudinal axis (14). A pivot arm (22) is mounted on the base (12) for rotation through 180 degrees... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070047246 - System for providing illumination: An illumination system for a vehicle is provided and includes a plurality of illumination units each having at least one light emitting diode attached thereto. A plurality of electrical leads connect the plurality of illumination units. The plurality of illumination units and the plurality of electrical leads are interconnected to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070047247 - Door handle to actuate a locking means of a door of an automobile from the inner side: A door handle for the inner side of a door of an automobile adapted to actuate a locking element for the door, wherein a light source is provided to illuminate the door handle. At least a portion of door handle is formed of a transparent material and coated with a... Agent: Lowe, Hauptman, Gilman & Berner, LLP (itw)

20070047248 - Vehicular lamp and projection lens for decreasing an amount of blocked light: A vehicular lamp that decreases the amount of light blocked by the extension towards the inside of the vehicle and increases the diffused light radiated toward the outside of the vehicle. The vehicular lamp 100 has a projection lens 33, a light source 27, a reflector 29 having a reflecting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047249 - Lighting unit for vehicle: To improve visibility by expanding a light emitting range without increasing a size of a light source, in a lighting unit for a vehicle using a projector lamp. A front light has a projector lamp arranged behind an outer lens. A light guiding body is provided from a side surface... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070047250 - Headlamp for vehicle: A headlamp including a first addition reflector 34 and a second addition reflector. The first addition reflector is arranged between a light source bulb 22 and a shade 32 and reflects light that is sent from a light source 22a toward a front region in a bulb insertion direction on... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070047251 - Light emitting diode bulb: A light emitting diode bulb (10) has a base (12), with a printed circuit board (14) contained therewithin, a plurality of electrical connectors (16) having a first end (18) mounted upon the circuit board (14) and a second end (20) extending away from the base (12) in a direction normal... Agent: Osram Sylvania Inc.

20070047252 - Light distribution and control unit: A light distribution and control unit is provided which includes an array of light emitting diodes controlled by a microprocessor and a plurality of optical fibers. The light emitted from the array is injected into one end of the optical fibers and emitted from the other ends. The emitter ends... Agent: Chase Law Firm L.c

20070047253 - Reflection plate for backlight unit and backlight unit of liquid crystal display having good thermal conductivity: The present invention relates to a reflection plate for a backlight unit in a liquid crystal display device, and more particularly, to a reflection plate for a backlight unit in a liquid crystal display device, which is made of a thermoplastic thermal conductive resin composition having a thermal conductivity of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070047254 - Illumination assembly and system: Illumination assemblies and systems using same are disclosed. The illumination assembly can include a reflective substrate, and a light source unit including one or more light sources capable of producing illumination light. The assembly can further include a first light extraction surface including an azimuthal beam widening topography, where the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070047255 - Backlight module and liquid crystal display module: A liquid crystal display module comprising a backlight module and a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The backlight module comprises a light-guide plate, a reflector and a light source. The light-guide plate comprises a first surface, and the first surface comprises a first position part. The reflector having a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070047256 - Backlight unit, display device having the same and method of controlling a light source: The present invention provides a backlight unit comprising a light source unit divided into a plurality of divisions which are driven independently each other, a light source driving group supplying electric power to the light source unit and comprising a multi-driving part which is connected to the divisions of at... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070047257 - Method for manufacturing backlight and backlight: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a backlight including a plurality of LEDs arranged in a plane manner. The method includes: preparing LEDs which are classified into a plurality of ranks in accordance with brightness; mounting, in respective blocks each having a same number of points for mounting... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070047259 - Illumination system for flat panel display device: An illumination system for a flat panel display device includes: a light guide plate made of an optically isotropic material; a light source disposed at a side of the light guide plate; an upper layer disposed on a top surface of the light guide plate and made of an optically... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047258 - Light guide plate having two micro structures and back light unit having the light guide plate: A light guide plate is provided. The light guide plate has a transparent substrate having a first optical face and a second optical face, a first micro structure and a second micro structure respectively corresponding to the first optical face and the second optical face. The first micro structure has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070047260 - Brightness enhancement film using light concentrator array: A brightness enhancement film comprises an array of tapered structures, each said tapered structure having a light input aperture and a larger light output aperture. The inner side-wall of each said tapered structure is adapted to reflect off-axis light from the light guiding plate incident at said input aperture to... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070047261 - Direct-lit backlight having light recycling cavity with concave transflector: Direct-lit backlights and associated methods and components are disclosed in which a transflector that partially transmits and partially reflects incident light is shaped to form at least one concave structure facing a back reflector of the backlight. This provides at least one recycling cavity therebetween, the at least one recycling... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070047262 - Edge-lit backlight having light recycling cavity with concave transflector: An edge-lit backlight having a light recycling cavity with concave transflector is disclosed. The edge-lit backlight has an output area and includes a back reflector facing the output area of the backlight. The backlight further includes a transflector that partially transmits and partially reflects incident light, the transflector being shaped... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070047263 - Backlight module with grooved light guide plate fixing light source therein: An exemplary backlight module (3) includes a light source assembly (33) and a light guide plate (34). The light guide plate includes a side surface (341), a light emission surface (348) substantially perpendicularly to the side surface, and a first groove (342) defined at the side surface. The first groove... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070047264 - Mold frame with reduced yellowing: A mold frame that does not yellow with exposure to ultraviolet radiation is presented. The mold frame includes a first portion, a second portion and a silicone layer. The first portion supports the optical member. The second portion extends from the first member and reflects a light generated from the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070047265 - Backlight assembly without a bottom chassis: A backlight assembly that does not use a bottom chassis is presented. The absence of bottom chassis reduces manufacturing cost, simplifies the assembly process, and facilitates heat dissipation. The backlight assembly includes a lamp, a light guide plate, a mold frame and a securing mold. The lamp unit includes a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP