Illumination inventions 04/07

20070091583 - Security lock, locking system and kit: A security lock, locking system, kit, and personal apparel, such as garments, purses, and luggage that include the security lock. The security lock is a typical combination lock, which includes a body and a locking member in communication with a lock mechanism disposed within the body and a user interface... Agent: Michael J. Persson Lawson & Persson, P.C.

20070091584 - Spacer and backlight module using the same: A spacer includes a base, at least a supporting column, and at least a clamp. The base includes at least a bridge-shaped portion and at least a flat portion. The bridge-shaped portion includes a bridge top surface, and two curving sidewalls respectively extend from two ends of the bridge top... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070091585 - Landscape lighting and fluid delivery system: A landscape light and fluid delivery fixture is provided. The fixture is comprised of a lamp compartment adapted to receive a lighting element. The fixture also has a nozzle disposed above the lamp compartment. The fixture also includes a cover with an inner surface and an outer surface. The cover... Agent: Wallenstein & Wagner, Ltd.

20070091589 - Backlight assembly and display device having the same: A backlight assembly includes a receiving container, a plurality of lamps and a lamp support member. The receiving container includes a bottom portion and a side portion defining a receiving space. The lamps are arranged substantially in parallel with each other in the receiving container and generate light. The lamp... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091587 - Backlight unit for liquid crystal display device: A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a light source, a bottom cover to receive the light source, a diffuser positioned to diffuse light irradiated from the light source, and resistors positioned between the bottom cover and the light source.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070091588 - Backlight unit having heat dissipating layer, display device having heat dissipating layer, and method for manufacturing heat dissipating layer: A backlight unit and a display device having heat dissipating layer, and a method for manufacturing the heat dissipating layer are provided. A backlight unit includes a light source for emitting a light; a reflector below the light source for reflecting the light emitted from the light source and absorbing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091586 - Illuminant device: The invention relates to an illuminant device. The illuminant device of the invention comprises a base, a connecting portion, a containing portion, a sheet-like light source and a closing element. The base has a rib. The connecting portion has a first combining portion, and the shape of the first combining... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070091590 - Safety lights for connection to people: The personal safety light of the present invention modifies clothing of an adult, teenager, or children. It provides a bright, colored, and perhaps flashing, lights as a safety feature when walking, jogging, in transit, or at any time in public circulation when safety in traffic is a factor.... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070091591 - Integrated laboratory light fixture: The integrated laboratory light (lablight) fixture is a sealed ceiling mounted fixture that combines air outlets, lighting and other devices for use in laboratory, clean room, healthcare, educational, and other facilities requiring critical airflow control. The integrated lablight is made for a central location in the lab to eliminate room... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070091592 - All-in-one adapter container: An all-in-one adapter container. The all-in-one adapter container comprises a space, a cover covering the space, at least one power line, a printed circuit board (PCB) and at least one line-arranging mechanism. The line-arranging mechanism provides arrangement for the power line. The printed circuit board is electrically connected to the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070091593 - Positionable flashlight with dual light sources: The flashlight comprises a housing defining a recess therein. The light sources are disposed in the housing. A first light source is fixably attached to the housing. The first light source is preferably arranged at a front end of the housing. A second light source is arranged in the recess.... Agent: Vector Products, Inc. Robert Powell

20070091594 - Solar powered portable light apparatus: A light apparatus includes a light source and a solar power source configured to provide solar generated power for powering the light source. The solar generated power may charge a battery, which provides power to the light source. The light source and the solar power source may be disposed in... Agent: Ken Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20070091595 - Display and backlight module thereof: A display and a backlight module thereof are provided. The backlight module comprises a substrate, a supporting element, and at least one U-shaped lamp installed over the substrate. The substrate has a bottom surface. The U-shaped lamp comprises two ends and a curved portion for forming a reference surface. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070091596 - Modular lighting system and method of installation: A modular lighting system is formed of tubular fluorescent lamps mounted within adjustable fixtures. The fixtures are composed of rigid and flexible elements and can conform to the shape of almost any size or shape of lamp. The lamps may be of any variety of pre-determined shape, curvature or length,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070091599 - Flat light-emitting apparatus: A flat light-emitting apparatus includes a light-emitting element for radiating visible light consisting of a first-wavelength light with a wavelength substantially not less than 600 nm and a second-wavelength light with a wavelength substantially not greater than 480 nm, a wavelength conversion material for generating a third-wavelength light when irradiated... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070091597 - High power led color bulb with infrared remote function: The invention is a high power LED color bulb which has infrared remote function. The invention includes a reflector, a LED module which has inner LED chips, and a bulb cover which has inner controller to control a circuit board. The LED module is set behind the reflector, and LED... Agent: Ting Feng Wu No. 2 Alley 492

20070091598 - Low-voltage led garden lights: A low cost, low voltage garden light system is disclosed. A transformer to convert 120 v AC to 12V DC is connected to a series of outdoor light fixtures. Each outdoor light fixture contains one or more LED bulbs. The LED bulb includes a hollow enclosure and a lower cover... Agent: Strasburger & Price, LLP

20070091601 - Led traffic light structure: A traffic light structure includes an LED light source having a circuit board and multiple LEDs securely mounted on the circuit board, a front cover having a first incidence surface provided with multiple lenses each with rectangular lenses and a first emergence surface and an inner cover sandwiched between the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070091602 - Multiple light emitting diodes with different secondary optics: A plurality of light emitting diode dies (LED) with associated secondary optics, which produce different light distribution patterns, are combined to produce an efficient light source having a desired illumination pattern. By way of example, a first LED may include a lens that produces a light distribution pattern with a... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070091600 - Uniform multiple light source etendue: A method and apparatus emits light from multiple light sources and combines the etendue of the light sources such that the etendue is substantially uniformly distributed over an area.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091603 - String array lighting mount: String array lighting is mounted with an elongated assembly that comprises a light shade that at least partially blocks light emission from the lighting. A series of at least translucent light emitting lenses, a plurality of hangers, and a plurality of lighting supports are disposed along the body length. The... Agent: Invention Perfection, LLC 443 Clark Place

20070091606 - Formable decorative light set: Disclosed is a decorative light string, being formable to provide varying shapes, to hold position when wrapped around or placed upon structures to be decorated, and to facilitate storage without tangling of one or more light strings.... Agent: Benjamin David Reed

20070091604 - Led positioning device for led light assembly: An LED light assembly includes a backboard having a plurality of insertion ports on a rear end thereof and each insertion port receives an LED assembly. A plurality of holes are defined through the backboard so that the LEDs extend through the hole. Each LED assembly includes a base to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070091605 - Triangular red led warning device: A triangular red LED warning device comprises a compact box. A pair of oblique side red LED flashing boards, a base side red LED flashing board and a pair of supporting leg plates. The pair of oblique side red LED flashing boards are connected frictionally by a frictional tightening means... Agent: Jay L. Chaskin

20070091607 - Drop-in high intensity discharge lamp assembly and retrofit method: A retrofit HID lamp assembly adapted for use in a non-HID lighting receptacle includes in one embodiment: (1) a housing compatible in size and shape with the receptacle; (2) a ballast unit disposed substantially within the housing interior; (3) a base terminal structure receiving electrical inputs and communicatively coupled to... Agent: Vincent K. Gustafson Intellectual Property/technology Law

20070091608 - Light transmitting modules with optical power monitoring: An optical module, such as a package for a vertical cavity surface emitting laser diode (VCSEL) or other light emitting device, includes monitoring of the emitted optical power by tapping the transmitted beam. The module includes a substrate, which carries the light emitting device and an optical monitor. In addition,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070091609 - Searchlight: A searchlight (3) on board a vessel (1) arranged for illuminating a point (2p) and maintain said point (2p) illuminated regardless of the movements of said vessel (1).... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070091610 - Lamp thermal management system: The invention relates to a thermal management system for a lamp. The system comprises a lamp socket that comprises a socket body. The thermal assembly is in thermal communication with the socket body to form a thermal circuit between the lamp and the thermal assembly for dissipating heat generated by... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070091611 - Thermal spreading sheet and method for manufacturing the same, and backlight unit with the same: The present invention relates to a thermal spreading sheet with superior ductility and strength, and a method for manufacturing the same. One method for manufacturing the thermal spreading sheet according to the present invention comprises the steps of mixing graphite powder and binder; and applying the mixture of graphite powder... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091612 - Light-emitting diode based traffic light: A traffic light includes a circuit board on which linear arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are mounted in a V-shaped arrangement, an inner cover having a first inner surface facing the LEDs to receive light from the LEDs and an opposite, first outer surface forming elongate prisms inclined with respect... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070091613 - Backlight using surface-emitting light sources: wherein y is a radial distance along the illumination plane from the optical axis of the beam-spreading optical element, dy is an arbitrarily small increment of the radial distance, dθ is the angular increment of the beam angle corresponding to dy, and ƒ(θ) is the distribution function for the angular... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070091614 - Plastic component having visible part and light source: The present invention relates to a plastic component having a visible part that is made in one single layer from a plastic molding compound and that comprises a transparent or translucent matrix, and having a light source that comprises one or more lamp elements, situated under the surface of the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070091615 - Backlight module for lcd monitors and method of backlighting the same: A backlight module for LCD monitors and method of backlighting are disclosed, in which a dome-shaped lens and a LED light source are employed in the backlight module. This method includes the preparation of a LED light source and a dome lens, fitting the dome lens over the light source,... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070091617 - Light enhancing structures with a plurality of arrays of elongate features: Various embodiments comprise light recycling films comprising an array of parallel ridges and grooves that form prisms that selectively reflect or transmit light. In some embodiments, the light recycling film may be used in displays that include spatial light modulators comprising a plurality of pixels. The light recycling film can... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070091616 - Light enhancing structures with multiple arrays of elongate features of varying characteristics: Various embodiments comprise light recycling films comprising an array of parallel ridges and grooves that form prisms that selectively reflect or transmit light. In some embodiments, the light recycling film may be used in displays that include spatial light modulators comprising a plurality of pixels. The light recycling film can... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070091618 - High power led electro-optic assembly: The present invention provides a high power LED electro-optic assembly (40) including conductive heat sink (18) and an LED (14) mounted at one end of the heat sink. The LED (14) is in electrical engagement with the heat sink (18). The assembly (40) also includes a reflector (2) mounted at... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070091619 - Adjustable lamp shade: A lamp shade for placement around a lamp is disclosed. The lamp shade comprises a plurality of elongated slats having an aperture proximate to each end thereof. Each end of each slat is interlaced with another end of at least one other slat such that apertures of each slat are... Agent: Quickpatents, Inc.

20070091620 - Power board and plug-in lighting module: The present invention provides a modular panel lighting apparatus comprising a multi layer power board and one or more lighting modules. The power board is a compound structure of one or more electrically conductive layers which are separated by one or more electrically insulating layers. The power board is configured... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070091622 - Led device with an active heat-dissipation device: A light-emitting diode (LED) device has a shade, an active heat-dissipation device and an LED module. The shade has a cavity. The active heat-dissipation device is mounted in the cavity in the shade and has a cooling board, an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, an expansion valve and a refrigerant.... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070091621 - Projection display: A projection display includes a housing, a display panel, a power plug for electrically connecting to an external power source and receiving power provided by the external power source, a light source electrically connected to the power plug for emitting light onto the display panel when receiving power from the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091623 - Owner/operator control of a light management system using networked intelligent luminaire managers: A plurality of networked luminaire managers, each collocated with a respective luminaire, monitor the status of their respective luminaires. The luminaire managers include transmitters for transmitting status information about their respective luminaires and third-party devices to a network server. The network server forwards the received status information from the networked... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070091624 - Front structure of vehicle: Disclosed is a front structure of a vehicle, which comprises a pair of right and left front side frames, a shroud installed between respective front ends of the side frames, a pair of right and left headlamps each arranged on a lateral side of a corresponding one of laterally opposite... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091625 - Rear warning system employing outside mirror in vehicle: Disclosed is a rear warning system employing an outside mirror of a vehicle. When a driver moves a vehicle backward and parks the vehicle, the rear warning system warns a driver that the vehicle approaches a person or an obstacle existing behind the vehicle and provides the driver with a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070091626 - Wire cover assembly for vehicle interior mirror: An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a circuit element having a mirror wire harness extending therefrom and extending from a mirror casing. The mirror assembly includes a mirror mounting assembly having a mounting base and a support arm for adjustably mounting the mirror reflective element at the... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070091627 - Vehicle door outer handle system: A vehicle door outer handle system is provided in which a pair of electrodes and a circuit board on which is provided a detection circuit for detecting a change in capacitance between the electrodes are housed within an operating handle formed from a handle main body and a cover covering... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070091628 - Rimzikulz: A fanciful designed attachment to an automobile containing lights which illuminate tires and rims of said automobile for aesthetic reasons.... Agent: Jerry W. Anderson

20070091629 - Vehicle lighting device: A vehicle lighting device is provided with a pair of lamps arranged on right and left sides of a front part of a vehicle. Illumination light beams emitted from the pair of lamps are overlapped with each other to illuminate a front area of the vehicle. A light distribution characteristic... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070091630 - Bifunctional led headlamp: A bifunctional LED headlamp for a vehicle is disclosed, wherein at least one of a shield, a lens, a reflector, and an LED are movable to facilitate use of the headlamp in both a low beam mode and a high beam mode.... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070091631 - Signaling assembly: A signaling assembly is described which includes a semitransparent mirror, an opaque layer attached to the semitransparent mirror, a reflector member positioned within an aperture defined by the opaque layer; a circuit board defining an aperture through which visible light can pass, and which is positioned in spaced relation relative... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070091632 - Convectively cooled headlamp assembly: A headlamp assembly for a motor vehicle including a lens and a housing that cooperate to define an inner chamber that is generally isolated from the atmosphere. A heat sink includes a fin portion that extends from the inner chamber so as to be exposed to ambient air. A light... Agent: Visteon

20070091633 - Light apparatus: A light apparatus includes one or more light pipes and/or diffusers to transfer and/or diffuse light from a few point light sources to a broader area and to other points. A hollow light pipe includes a light transmissive sidewall that encompasses an interior space, which receives and hides control circuitry... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20070091634 - Light supply unit, illumination unit, and illumination system: A light supply unit comprises optical fibers, LEDs, optical connectors, and a controller. The optical fibers constitute optical fiber groups which extend to their respective illumination positions different from each other. The optical connectors optically connect one ends of the optical fibers to the respective LEDs. The controller controls light... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070091635 - System and method for providing ambient light to a display in an electronic device: The invention provides a device and method for providing backlight to a display in an electronic communication device. The device comprises: a lens to collecting ambient light from outside the device; a body to transmit the ambient light from the lens to a backlight system for the display for dispersion... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070091636 - Thermal layer, backlight unit and display device including the same: Disclosed is a thermal layer, as well as a backlight unit and a display device including the same. A composition for the thermal layer comprises a thermally conductive material, about 10 to 40 parts by weight of a binder based on 100 parts by weight of the thermally conductive material,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091637 - Prism sheet, surface light source device and display: White points (point-like abnormal emission) are made scare even if prismatic projection rows of a prism sheet are pressed against an emission face of a light guide plate. A plurality of prismatic projections are formed side by side on an inner face of a prism sheet. Each prismatic projection row... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091638 - Waveguide for autostereoscopic display: A display 17 comprises a display panel 2 and a backlighting system comprising a light source 3 and waveguide 18. The waveguide 18 comprises a plurality of portions of diffusing material 10a to 10f. Light propagates through the waveguide 18 by means of total internal reflection, but may be scattered... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091639 - Backlight unit capable of easily forming curved and three-dimensional shape: Disclosed herein is a backlight unit, capable of easily forming a curved or three-dimensional shape. The backlight unit according to the present invention comprises a light guide panel which includes a light guide plate having on one surface or both surfaces thereof a plurality of notches, an uneven dot pattern,... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070091640 - Light guide unit for point light source, backlight assembly having the light guide unit and display device having the same: A light guide unit for a point light source includes a light incident portion, a first reflecting portion and a second reflecting portion. The light emitted from the point light source enters to the light incident portion. The light incident portion includes an optical pattern diffusing an incident light corresponding... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091641 - Backlight structure: A backlight structure is disclosed, which is constituted of a series of backlight devices connecting with one another to form a large-scale backlight area, the backlight device at least being composed of an emitting portion and a light-guiding portion, wherein the emitting portion provides a light source, mixes the light... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091642 - Light guide plate and backlight unit having the same: The present invention provides a light guide plate capable of improving brightness uniformity and a backlight unit having the same. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display having such light guide plate and backlight unit. The light guide plate according to the present invention has a light incidence... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070091643 - Planar light source device and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: There is provided a backlight unit including a light guide plate, a linear light source disposed in the light incident side of the light guide plate, a reflective sheet disposed in the rear side of the light guide plate, and a heat spreader sheet disposed in the rear side of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091644 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display apparatus with the same mounted thereon: Provided is a backlight unit which includes a frame-shaped chassis, a light guide plate, a light source, a photodetector, and a shield plate. The light guide plate is disposed inside the chassis. The light source is disposed on one edge face of the light guide plate, and a photodetector for... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070091645 - Edge-type backlight module with a lock mechanism for combining a light guide plate with a backing plate: An edge-type backlight module includes a light guide plate including a first lock mechanism, a backing plate installed on one side of the light guide plate including an opening located in a position corresponding to a position where the first lock mechanism is located, and a second lock mechanism for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091646 - Molded lamp socket: A molded lamp socket. The molded lamp socket includes a lamp base body defining a socket cavity with an opening for receiving a lamp bulb. The molded lamp socket also includes a lead extending from a first contact portion disposed in the socket cavity to a second contact portion spaced... Agent: Edmund P. Anderson Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070086176 - Apparatus and method for providing a light source in the form of a surface: An apparatus and method for providing a light source in the form of a surface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a first sheet including a light diffuser, and a light source placed along an edge of the first sheet. The first sheet diffuses light generated by the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070086177 - Tapered tophat lighting fixture shade: A shade, for use with a theatrical or architectural lighting fixture. The lighting fixture having a slot configured to receive the shade. The shade includes a frustoconical tube having a side wall defining a central opening and having a larger end and a smaller end, a base plate disposed about... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070086178 - Shining lock structure: A lock includes a main body, a shining device, and a switch; the main body has a holding portion on one side thereof, which is formed with a through hole; the shining device is held in the holding portion of the main body, and it includes a power source, and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070086179 - Light mixing plate and direct backlight module: A novel light mixing plate and a direct backlight module using the light mixing plate are provided herein. The light mixing plate has a first surface and a second surface, in which a number of indented grooves are configured along the first surface to accommodate the LED light sources. The... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070086180 - Light emitting apparatus and light emitting method: A light emitting apparatus of the present invention includes: an EL emitting unit including at least a light emitting layer which generates an EL light; and a pair of light blocking layers arranged such that they sandwich the light emitting layer so that the layers block the EL light generated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086181 - Backlight device and liquid crystal display apparatus: A light dimming dot pattern is provided for an LCD in which the diameter of dots is changed in a range from approximately 0.16 mm to approximately 0.65 mm depending on the distance of the dots from a fluorescent tube (13) in such a manner that the volume of the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070086182 - Horse safety headlight apparatus: A nighttime safety light apparatus for use on a horse, comprising a battery powered compact light source and a pouch for holding the light source and securing it to the horse's breast collar. The pouch is formed of a single cross-shaped sheet wherein the horizontal members fold forward and inward... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070086183 - Children's dental mirror: The present invention provides a children's dental mirror. The children's dental mirror includes a mirror and an integral timer. At least one light can be provided that pulsates to a timer. An audio sound byte can be provided that is governed by a timer.... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma, Novusip, LLC

20070086185 - Electroluminescent device having a plurality of light emitting diodes: An improved electroluminescent device (“IED”) including a plurality of LEDs and a plurality of terminals, where one of the terminals is a common terminal providing either an incoming or outgoing current connection to all of the LEDs of the device, and at least one of the LEDs is attached to... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070086184 - Illumination system using phosphor remote from light source: The invention provides an illumination system and a method for illumination. The illumination system includes one or more light sources that produce a primary light, a light-mixing zone that homogenizes the primary light, a wavelength-converting layer that converts the primary light to a secondary light, and a light-transmitting zone that... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070086186 - Position lamp: A position lamp for watercraft or for placing ashore, in particular a multicoloured lamp, having light to be emitted in at least two different directions and at least one light source per direction, the light passing optically refractive elements, and in which a dedicated optically refractive element is provided per... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070086187 - Led assembly with vented circuit board: A light emitting diode (LED) assembly with a vented printed circuit board is disclosed. A printed circuit board assembly may include a plurality of LED modules disposed in an array with a multilayered substrate and a plurality of vents. The multilayer substrate may include a thermal cooling layer which is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070086188 - Led assembly with vented circuit board: A light emitting diode (LED) assembly with a vented printed circuit board is disclosed. A printed circuit board assembly may include a plurality of LED modules disposed in an array with a multilayered substrate and a plurality of vents. The multilayer substrate may include a thermal cooling layer which is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070086189 - Led assembly with vented circuit board: A light emitting diode (LED) assembly with a vented printed circuit board is disclosed. A printed circuit board assembly may include a plurality of LED modules disposed in an array with a multilayered substrate and a plurality of vents. The multilayer substrate may include a thermal cooling layer which is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070086190 - Multi-functional law enforcement tool: The invention is a multifunctional law enforcement tool, which includes several of the tools needed by law enforcement and security personnel. In one embodiment, the multifunctional tool comprises a flashlight, deterrent spray dispenser and removable cartridge housing. The cartridge housing is an open bay on the tool, and is adapted... Agent: Pedersen & Company, PLLC

20070086191 - Optical member, method of manufacturing the optical member, and display device having the optical member: An optical member that lends itself to be more cost-effectively manufactured than a conventional optical member is presented. A display device made with the optical member can be thinner than the conventional optical member. The optical member includes a light-incident face that receives light emitted from a lamp positioned at... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070086192 - Adjustable working light with magnet: An adjustable light includes a base member, which is a shell-like member, having a circuit board and a battery set therein and having a pivot portion and a magnet at an end thereof. The base member can be attracted on a surface, which is made of a magnetic attraction material,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070086193 - Luminous display stand: A luminous display stand is disclosed to include a stand, a frame affixed to the top side of the stand, a transparent board mounted within the frame and back-covered with a layer of mercury coating, LEDs mounted in the frame for emitting light toward the transparent board, a battery pack... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070086196 - Heat dissipation devices for and led lamp set: This invention discloses heat dissipation devices for an LED lamp set with a plate-type heat spreader as the core unit. The plate-type heat spreader is either a flat-plate heat pipe or a metal plate embedded with heat pipes. The high-power LED lamps are thermally connected to the bottom surface of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070086197 - Illuminator assembly: An apparatus includes a lens having a light entrance end forming a recess defining a concave surface, a heat sink having an end portion facing the recess and a light source positioned to transmit light having a predetermined wavelength via the concave surface of the recess into the lens. The... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070086195 - Lighting armature: The invention relates to a lighting fixture comprising a housing, a primary light source, and a secondary light source. The primary and the secondary light source are placed in the housing. The lighting fixture further comprises a reflector for reflecting light originating from the primary light source in a desired... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070086198 - Lighting for detention facility: A detention facility lighting fixture includes an elongate unibody housing having a flat back wall, four sidewalls including symmetrically sloped and opposed lengthwise sidewalls and trapezoidally shaped end sidewalls, at least one top wall, and welded seams at each of four corners, a door having a lens frame, a lens,... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20070086199 - Combination white light and colored led light device with active ingredient emission: A replacement device for a light bulb includes a translucent shell and a base. The base supports a plurality of colored lights positioned so as to emit a light show through the shell. The base is configured to be received in a conventional light socket. The base also includes a... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070086200 - Vehicular illuminator: A vehicular illuminator having a design board, behind which a sensing electrode having an aperture is located. Arranged between the design board and the sensing electrode is an LED serving as a light source and a light guide plate to defuse light from the LED. The sensing electrode is connected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086201 - Light emitting handle for vehicle: A light emitting handle includes a handle body, a light emitting device mounted on the handle body to emit light outward, and a light guide device mounted on the handle body to guide and reflect the light of the light emitting device outward from the handle body. The light emitting... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070086202 - Lamp unit of vehicle headlamp: A low beam light distribution pattern is formed by turning on a first light source unit and a high beam light distribution pattern is formed by additionally turning on a second light source unit. The second reflector of the second light source unit has reflecting faces of vertical cross-sectional shapes... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070086203 - Vehicle headlight device: A headlight device (27) for motor vehicle includes a plurality of headlight units (29 and 30). At least one of those headlight units is a movable headlight unit (30) having a light distribution adjusting mechanism (83) for changing a range of illumination during a cornering of the motor vehicle.... Agent: Joseph W. Price Snell & Wilmer LLP

20070086204 - Near field lens having reduced size: A near field lens for an automotive light assembly which has a reduced thickness. Generally, the near field lens includes a main body of light transmitting material. A pocket is formed in the main body for receiving light from a light source. The pocket is defined by an inner radially... Agent: Visteon

20070086205 - Compact, high efficiency, high power solid state light source using a solid state light-emitting device: A compact, high-efficiency, high-power, solid state light source, comprising a high-power solid state light-emitting device, a light guide having a proximal light-receiving end proximate the light-emitting device and a distal light-transmitting end spaced farther from the light-emitting device, and a mechanical light guide fixing device coupled to the light guide... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070086206 - Light guiding structure for optical fiber: A light guiding structure for optical fiber includes a stage, a plurality of light-guiding pipes and a base. The stage is defined with a plurality of through holes defined through upper face and lower face of the stage. The plurality of light-guiding pipes are arranged atop the plurality of through... Agent: Hdsl

20070086207 - Display systems including light enhancing structures with arrays of elongate features: Various embodiments comprise light recycling films comprising an array of parallel ridges and grooves that form prisms that selectively reflect or transmit light. In some embodiments, the light recycling film may be used in displays that include spatial light modulators comprising a plurality of pixels. The light recycling film can... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070086208 - Back light unit: The present invention relates to a back light unit. Particularly, the present invention relates to a back light unit which can increase the efficiency of light condensation. A back light unit according to the present invention comprises a light source unit; a light guiding plate for changing and emitting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086209 - Prism sheet employed in a backlight unit: The present invention relates to a prism sheet employed in a backlight unit. The prism sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a coating layer having a resin transmitting the incident light from the outside; and a plurality of beads contained in the resin and scattering the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086210 - Optical film and lighting device using the optical film: An optical film for use in a side-light type lighting device of a liquid crystal display or the like includes a plurality of tilted column-shaped transparent film cells extending from a light entrance surface to a light exit surface of the optical film. Light-reflecting layers are provided on a part... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070086211 - Side emitting illumination systems incorporating light emitting diodes: The invention is a side-emitting illumination system that incorporates a light emitting diode. The side-emitting illumination system recycles a portion of the light internally generated by a light emitting diode back to the light emitting diode as externally incident light. The light emitting diode reflects the recycled light, thereby increasing... Agent: William Propp, Esq. Goldeneye, Inc.

20070086213 - Backlight module with interengaging frame and light guide plate and liquid crystal display device with same: An exemplary backlight module (200) includes a light guide plate (50) and a frame (80). The light guide plate includes a plurality of surfaces, and at least one of the surfaces each defines at least one groove (502) thereat. The frame includes a plurality of sidewalls, and at least two... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070086212 - Liquid crystal display device with detachable light source: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (200) includes a top frame (210), a light source (240) having at least one lamp (241) and a reflective cover (242) disposed adjacent to the at least one lamp; a back plate (260); a fastening member (270) having a bottom plate portion (272) detachably... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070086214 - Surface light source apparatus: A surface light source apparatus including a lamp reflector, a light guide plate, a transparent support member and a light source is provided. The lamp reflector includes a bottom surface and a light emitting cross-section opposite to the bottom surface. The light guide plate has a light incident surface and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070081319 - Backlight module having optical conversion device: A backlight module (3) includes a light guide plate (31), a light source (32) and an optical conversion device (33). The light guide plate includes an incident surface (311), an emitting surface (312) adjacent to the incident surface and a bottom surface (313) parallel to the emitting surface. The incident... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070081320 - Electroluminescent illumination for audio components: The present invention is an electroluminescent panel which is used in conjunction with electrical components to provide illumination for the components. The invention comprises an electroluminescent panel which is powered by a power supply located within an electrical component. The power supply includes an electrical voltage inverter and a power... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20070081322 - Backlight assembly and display device having the same: A backlight assembly includes a container, a plurality of lamps and a lamp-fixing member. The container includes a bottom face and side faces extending therefrom that define a receiving space. The lamps are arranged in parallel with each other in the container. The lamp-fixing member includes a support body installed... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070081321 - Backlight unit and display apparatus having the same: In a backlight unit and a display apparatus having the backlight unit, the backlight unit includes a first light source, a second light source, and an optical plate having a lower surface facing the second light source and an upper surface substantially parallel with the lower surface. The first light... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070081323 - Led backlight unit: An LED backlight unit includes a light source; a board including a circuit pattern printed on an underside thereof, and having at least one mounting hole perforated therein where the light source is inserted; a metal chassis having an inside surface on which an underside of the light source is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070081324 - Led illuminated laynard: An illuminated lanyard includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, a plurality of conductors having the light emitting diodes mounted to the conductors spaced from one another along the length of the conductors. The light emitting diodes and the conductors define an LED assembly. A power source is operably connected... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein Intellectual Property Department

20070081325 - Cove lighting: A light apparatus is mounted to a wall of a building. At least one elongate mounting plate is engaged to the wall extending essentially horizontally along the wall. A number of brackets are mounted to the mounting plate and extend forward therefrom. One or more trim pieces are mounted generally... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070081327 - High power light-emitting flashlight: A high power light-emitting flashlight includes a lampshade, a first tube, a second tube, and a base cover screwed to one another; the first tube containing a lamp holder and a power socket, the lamp holder including a carrier, an LED circuit board mounted with an LED lamp, and a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070081326 - Portable work light: A portable light (10) includes a harness (12). Multiple illumination sources (14) are contained within the harness (12). A power source (16) is electrically coupled to the illumination sources (14). The portable light (10) also includes one or more of an alignment-maintaining mechanism (22), a separation-maintaining mechanism (24), and a... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070081328 - Illuminating device for plants: An illuminating device has a board with multiple holes. Multiple domes are formed on a top side of the board and respectively located among the holes. An energy transferring film is coated on the top side of the board. Multiple light sources are respectively inserted into the holes and erected... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070081330 - Light emitting package, backlight unit and liquid crystal display device including the same: A light emitting package is disclosed that can generate a white light while controlling Red, Green and Blue light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) simultaneously. In the light emitting package, a plurality of LEDs are connected in series to one another. The plurality of LEDs are responsive to one driving voltage. Currents... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070081329 - Light source for lcd back-lit displays: An apparatus having a light source, light pipe, and light conversion layer is disclosed. The light source includes a plurality of LED dies arranged in an array, each LED emitting light having an excitation wavelength, the light source emitting light within a cone of angles. The light pipe is positioned... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070081331 - Rotational obstruction and beacon signaling apparatus: A rotational obstruction and beacon signaling apparatus is disclosed, in which chip-on-board (COB) packaged light emitting diodes (LEDs) are employed to provide a flashed emission pattern with high luminous intensity. The flash sequence of individual LEDs is controlled by an electronic timing circuit to simulate a rotational or other motional... Agent: Bwt Property, Inc.

20070081333 - Special application light for light strings: A light for use in light strings has a deeper socket, a longer base and longer Dumet wires than a standard socket, base, and Dumet wires so that the standard bases and bulbs will not operate in the non-standard socket. Furthermore, the base and sockets are keyed so that they... Agent: Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, LLC

20070081332 - Strip light structure: A structure of strip light, comprising a main unit and a plurality of light-emitting devices, wherein the main unit consisting of an insulating unit and a plurality of conductive units, the conductive units being arranged in lines on the insulating unit; the light-emitting devices are respectively connected with the conductive... Agent: Liberty Patent And Trademark Office

20070081334 - Cigarette lighter: Cigarette lighter having a main unit comprising a substantially cylindrical heating insert and a substantially sleeve-like lighter body to receive the heating insert, comprising a substantially annular attachment of transparent and light-guiding material which is slid onto the main unit, for illuminating a region of the cigarette lighter which is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070081335 - Apparatus for controlling lighting lamp with security function and lighting control method using the same: An apparatus for controlling a lamp with a security function and a lighting control method are disclosed. The apparatus includes a security switch for selecting a security mode, a light emitting diode for displaying security status, a lamp, an illuminance sensor set to a predetermined illuminance value for detecting illuminance... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070081336 - Illumination system with optical concentrator and wavelength converting element: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, an optical concentrator, such as a compound parabolic concentrator, a dichroic filter between the light emitting element and the optical concentrator and a wavelength converting material, such as a phosphor. The optical concentrator receives light from the light emitting element, via... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070081338 - Illumination device: An illumination device includes a body. The inner space of the body is divided into two parts as a first part and a second part. A heat dissipating module is disposed in the first part. The second part is fully sealed so that dusts, water and insects may be kept... Agent: Hdsl

20070081341 - Led assembly with vented circuit board: A light emitting diode (LED) assembly with a vented printed circuit board is disclosed. A printed circuit board assembly may include a plurality of LED modules disposed in an array with a multilayered substrate and a plurality of vents. The multilayer substrate may include a thermal cooling layer which is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070081339 - Led light source module with high efficiency heat dissipation: The present invention provides an LED light source module design featured with efficient heat dissipation. This invention comprises a printed circuit board of thickness less than 400 μm, installed with an LED array which is composed of multiple high powers, super bright emitter LEDs. The thinner version of the printed... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070081340 - Led light source module with high efficiency heat dissipation: The present invention provides a light source module with high efficiency, super bright LEDs featured with efficient heat dissipation. This invention comprises a printed circuit board installed with an LED array which is composed of multiple emitter LEDs. To achieve efficient effect for heat dissipation, there is more than one... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070081337 - Replaceable led socket torch and lighting head assembly: A replaceable lighting head assembly comprised of a high output LED (Light Emitting Diode) socket torch package, vertically aligned thermal heat sink, and electrical connector coupled with a secondary housing unit that conducts heat received from the heat sink to the external environment and acts as a conduit for the... Agent: Ray K. Shahani, Esq., Attorney At Law

20070081342 - System and method for mounting a light emitting diode to a printed circuit board: A light emitting diode (LED) array that is configured to minimize heat damage to the LEDs during both the manufacturing of the array and the use of the array. The LED array utilizes a circuit board. The top surface of the circuit board contains a mounting area for retaining a... Agent: Lamorte & Associates P.C.

20070081343 - Method of forming a lamp assembly: A method of forming a lamp assembly includes removably coupling a burner assembly to a datum structure, the burner assembly including a fireball, moving the datum structure and the burner assembly to an aligned position relative to a reflector such that the fireball is at a focal point of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070081344 - Display assemblies and methods of display: Applications of embodiments include the use of transmissive or transflective display technologies in extreme temperature environments. Specifically, display assemblies and methods using heating and/or active cooling are described. For example, such applications may include the use of display panels, such as LCD panels, having a diagonal dimension of 17 inches... Agent: Hartman Patents PLLC

20070081345 - Industrial light fixture with spring-bracket over capacitor: An industrial light fixture of the type including a housing with a base member and a top member and containing power-related components includes a spring-bracket secured to bracket-securement point(s), extending along the capacitor to hold the capacitor in place and biasing the capacitor into heat-exchange engagement against one surface of... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20070081346 - Apparatus for remotely turning on and off lighting devices: Lighting device (1) installable on a light bulb (12), or a bulb socket, which can be operated by any remote control, for example an IR remote control (5) of a TV set. The device (1) comprises at least one receiver (20) capable of detecting an IR code sent by the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070081347 - Method and system for displaying lighting fixtures: A lighting fixture display system and method including a light support member for supporting truncated floor-based lighting fixtures and a rail member. The light support members have shelf structures and brackets and are mounted on or attached to the rail member, which in turn may be mounted on or attached... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070081348 - Medical illumination device with sterile packaging: A medical illumination device including a sterile package, a base, a light housing, and a flexible body. An attachment component of the base may include an adhesive exposable upon removal of the component from the package. The base may have sufficient surface area, sufficient base weight, and sufficient holding strength... Agent: Maeyaert & Maeyaert

20070081349 - Vehicle provided with inclination sensor: To prevent an inclination sensor of a vehicle from becoming soiled by flying matter such as muddy water splashes scattered by the rotating wheels of the vehicle itself, which may result in false detection of the inclination of the vehicle to a road surface, a vehicle provided with an inclination... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070081350 - Rearview mirror and signal light arrangement: A rearview mirror and signal light arrangement is disclosed to include a rearview mirror, a lens fastened to the back side of the rearview mirror, and plurality of light emitting devices mounted inside the rearview mirror and electrically connected to the power circuit of one lamp of the car for... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070081351 - Car lamp structure: A car lamp includes a lamp shell, a reflecting shade ahead of the lamp shell, a bulb on the reflecting shell, a set-off member ahead of the reflecting shade, and a pervious-to-light lamp cover secured ahead of the set-off member; the reflecting shade has several reflecting surfaces; the set-off member... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070081353 - Rear lighting assembly for motor vehicles: Lighting unit, preferably rear light, for vehicles, preferably motor vehicles The lighting unit has a housing (1), in which at least one lamp (2, 3) is housed, which lies behind a lens (4). Furthermore, the lighting unit has at least one electroluminescent layer (12 through 15). In order that the... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070081352 - Vehicle lamp: A vehicle lamp has a housing and a transparent cover formed of a transparent resin having a flexural modulus of 2000 MPa or more, and joined to the housing by beam welding. The transparent cover has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface faces the housing, and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070081354 - Fiber optical display systems and related methods, systems, and computer program products: A key system includes a display surface, a light source, and a plurality of optical fibers having first and second ends and a longitudinal sheath. The plurality of optical fibers are connected to the light source at the first ends thereof and configured to transmit light from the light source... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070081355 - Light generating unit, display device having the same, and method thereof: A light generating unit includes a plurality of light sources generating lights with different wavelengths. Among the light sources, at least one is disposed on a horizontal surface which differs in height from horizontal surfaces on which the other light sources are disposed. A display device includes the above light... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070081356 - Backlight module and liquid crystal display device incorporating the same: A battery cartridge includes a pair of outer frame members for receiving unit cells and an inner frame member disposed between the outer frame members. The unit cells are mounted between the outer and inner frame members. The inner frame member has a plurality of through-holes, which communicate with the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070081357 - Display apparatus and method of controlling the same: A display apparatus having a liquid crystal panel, comprises a light source part comprising a plurality of point light sources for supplying light to the liquid crystal panel. The light source part is partitioned into a plurality of light source zones. A light source driving part supplies power to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070081358 - Medical illumination device with a base: A medical illumination device including a base, a light housing and a flexible body. The base includes a power source and an attachment component. The attachment component further includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion attachable to an attachment point and the second portion repositionable relative... Agent: Maeyaert & Maeyaert

20070081359 - Diffuser sheet for compensating for chromatic dispersion and illumination apparatus employing the same: A diffuser sheet which compensates for chromatic dispersion generated in a hologram light guide plate, and an illumination apparatus employing the diffuser sheet are provided. The diffuser sheet includes a plate type light-transmissive substrate and a light diffusion layer disposed on a light emission surface of the light-emission substrate. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081360 - Display backlight with improved light coupling and mixing: A display backlight assembly providing improved optical coupling between a solid state light source and a display optical light guide. The assembly includes an optical coupler to couple the solid state light source and display optical light guide together. In addition, the optical coupler may include a light mixing element... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070081361 - Light emitting diode backlight for liquid crystal displays: The invention is directed to a backlight for a display which utilizes a light emitting diode array as a light source and is devoid a light guide.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070081362 - Christmas ornament: A Christmas ornament can be assembled with an illuminating device easily therein and provide color-transforming effectiveness with a well mixed and gradual-layers light appearance. The Christmas ornament has a housing and an illuminating device. The housing has a plurality of peripheral walls and a bottom wall. The peripheral walls are... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070081363 - Holiday light assembly with hanging light clusters: A holiday light assembly has a main support rod and a plurality of hanging support structures each having a hanging branch rod supported from the main support rod, and holiday lights supported on the hanging support structures to form desired lighting patterns. The hanging branch rods of the hanging support... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070076404 - Dummy wire structure of light string: A lamp string includes a plurality of lamps each including an insulation socket and a bulb received and fixed in the socket, an electrical wire selectively connectable to an external power source and electrically and mechanically coupled to the lamps to supply power to the lamps, and a dummy wire... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070076405 - Display system for gaming cabinets: There is provided a display system for gaming cabinets comprising a backlit display and a mounting plate. The backlit display comprises a lighting source, an arcuate translucent face sheet, and a support frame for supporting said lighting source and said face sheet, said support frame comprising a hinged top cover,... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070076406 - Light controlling sheet and surface light source device: A light controlling sheet 14 is provided in a surface light source device 10a including a light source portion 13a. The light controlling sheet 14 includes an outgoing light side lens portion 141a having multiple unit lenses 141 arranged to project toward the outgoing light side, and transparent portions 143... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070076407 - Fabric display: The present invention provides a fabric display using the action of electrostatic charges to manipulate visual displays. The fabric display comprises areas of furry fabrics (16) that can serve as visual effects or display of information and can be usable in a wearable garment, furniture, or other suitable locations where... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070076408 - Traffic gloves: An apparatus that functions as a glove. The apparatus includes a glove adapted to receive a human hand, with areas suitable to fit a plurality of human fingers and a human thumb. In one embodiment, an elastic band comprises the wrist area of the glove, and is fitted to hold... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076409 - Durable illuminated stitching tools configured to provide ambient lighting and an illuminated working tip: An illuminated stitching tool includes a handle, a controllable light source coupled to the handle, and a light transmitting shaft operably coupled to the handle at a proximal end and in optical communication with the light source. The light transmitting shaft is elongated, has a free working end and is... Agent: Mark Young, P.A.

20070076410 - Flashlight: A portable, battery-operated flashlight having improved pivoting, switching and focusing features is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, the flashlight takes the form of an attachment to a head gear for hands free use. In another aspect of the invention, the flashlight takes the form of a head lamp... Agent: Jones Day

20070076411 - Lighting device: The present invention provides a lighting device having a battery housing to hold a battery, a light housing having a light source and a lens assembly into which said light source will emit light when activated, said battery and said light source being in circuit with a switch to open... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20070076412 - Light source with light emitting array and collection optic: A light system includes a plurality of light emitting elements, such as light emitting diodes, arranged in an array. One or more light emitting elements are positioned in a center region of the array. The light emitting elements in the center region have superior performance, such as luminance and/or efficiency,... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070076413 - Highly integrated power led lamp: A power LED lamp, particularly usable in modular luminaires of the enclosure type, comprising a lamp body which is also adapted to act as a heat sink, a plurality of power LEDs adapted to be supported by a supporting element accommodated within the lamp body, a plurality of lenses arranged... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070076414 - Apparatus and method for improved illumination area fill: A reflector for a light source, such as an LED, is provided with a shape which efficiently collects and directs energy to an illumined surface whereby almost 100% of the light is collected and distributed into a designer composite beam. The shape in one embodiment is comprised of three zones... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070076415 - Lighting apparatus: The present invention provides a lighting apparatus with an elongated housing which accommodates a light source. The housing may be pivoted to rotate between a stored position and a deployed position. The housing may be maintained at a plurality of desired positions within its range of rotation. In addition, according... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070076416 - Bollard lamp: A bollard includes a bollard post having a lamp which includes a louver stack. The louver stack includes louvers spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the bollard post. The bollard post is rectangular in cross section and the louver stack extends outwardly beyond the periphery of the bollard. There... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070076417 - Light guide device and backlight module therewith: A light guide device (52) includes a light guide substrate (520) and a sub-wavelength grating (527). The light guide substrate has a light input surface (521), a light output surface (522) adjacent to the light input surface (521), a bottom surface (523) opposite to the light output surface (522). In... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070076418 - Spoiler having integral stop lamp cover: A spoiler for a vehicle has an integral stop lamp cover. The stop lamp cover comprises a cover body configured to be open at an upper end thereof, and having a stop lamp insertion opening, a stop lamp receiving space, and a flange part formed on an upper end of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070076419 - Vehicular light assembly and related method: A vehicular light assembly including a dichroic lamp, a socket, a cradle and an optional support to mount the assembly to a vehicle. The dichroic lamp includes a reflector which reflects light emitted by the bulb forward but allows radiant heat to pass rearwardly through the reflector. The dichroic lamp... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20070076420 - Vehicle lamp: A semiconductor light source emits a light. The semiconductor light source is directly mounted on a heat sink unit. A swivel unit swivels the semiconductor light source and the heat sink unit. A swivel shaft that is coupled to the swivel unit is integrated with the heat sink unit.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070076421 - Turn signal lamp for a vehicle: A turn signal lamp for a vehicle is provided having an improved appearance. In a front blinker including a lamp housing, an LED provided on the lamp housing, a reflector for reflecting light from the LED, and a lens fitted into an opening of the lamp housing, a reflector has... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070076422 - Lighting and/or signaling device for a motor vehicle incorporating a material having thermal anisotropy: The device comprises at least one power light emitting diode light source and other means able to constitute one or more heat sources of such a nature as to affect the thermal environment of the light emitting diode light source. In accordance with the invention, the device also comprises a... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20070076423 - Liquid-ejecting device and recording apparatus: A liquid-ejecting device includes a feed roller that conveys a medium, an ejection head that ejects a liquid while reciprocating along the medium, a rotational position detector including a rotational position detection scale to detect a rotational position of the feed roller, and a movement position detector including a movement... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070076424 - Backlight module: A backlight module device is disclosed. The module comprises lighting tube and light conductive panel having a light coupling device therebetween. The light-receiving end plane of the light coupling device is at least a non-vertical plane so that the light source from the tube, via refraction, changes its direction at... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070076425 - Surface light-source device and display unit using the same: A surface light-source device of a display unit comprises a light source, light guide plates and reflector sheets. The light guide plate has an emission surface for emitting the light of the light source as planar light. The reflector sheet reflects the light of the light source, which has entered... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076426 - Lamp with two light sources: A lamp includes both a light-emitting filament and one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a lamp base. The LEDs may be electrically connected to the filament and receive their operating current through the filament so that the filament is the ballasting resistor for the LEDs. The filament may be... Agent: Osram Sylvania Inc.

20070076427 - Linear lighting apparatus with increased light- transmission efficiency: The present invention provides for a linear lighting apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, a primary optical assembly, and a secondary optical assembly. The light emitting diodes produce light towards the primary optical assembly. The primary optical assembly refracts this light towards the secondary optical assembly.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070076428 - Festoon lamp: The present invention discloses a festoon lamp, which comprises: a light-permeable tube, with two electrode contacts respectively installed at two ends of the light-permeable tube; a light-conducting element, installed inside the light-permeable tube; and two light sources, respectively installed at two ends of the light-conducting element, and respectively coupled to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070076429 - Optical probe: An optical probe has a tubular outer envelope, and a shaft rotatable about a rotating axis extending longitudinal direction of the outer envelope. A light guide disposed to extend along the shaft is connected to the shaft at its leading end portion, a light deflector connected to the leading end... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076430 - Surface light source for emitting light from two surfaces and double-sided display device using the same: A surface light source device includes a light-emitting element which generates light, and a light guide plate which causes light emitted from the light-emitting element to be incident from an end face, causes the light to be reflected between opposite plate surfaces to guide the light along the plate surfaces... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070076431 - Display unit: In the case that the LED is used as a light source for a backlight such as a display unit or the like, if a lot of current is circulated for securing a brightness, a lot of heat is generated in view of a characteristic of the LED, so that... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070076432 - Light guide plate and backlight module therewith: backlight module includes a light guide plate (52), a light source (51), a reflecting sheet (53), a diffusion sheet (54), and a reflective polarizing beam splitter (57). The light guide plate includes a light input surface (521), a light output surface (522) adjacent to the light input surface, a reflecting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070076433 - Liquid crystal display, illuminant module and its manufacturing method: When a long illuminant module is constructed, debonding of a bonded interface or bending occurs due to a difference in a magnitude of thermal deformation between a lens material and a metal substrate. In an illuminant module including light emitting elements, a substrate on which the light emitting elements are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070076434 - Light source device, display device, and terminal device: In a display device equipped with a light source device, a second light-guide member is provided to the back surface of a first light-guide member that has an emitted light control sheet provided to the front surface thereof. The emitted light control sheet is composed of a flat plate portion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076435 - Light-conductive panel of side-light type backlight module: A light-conductive panel of side-light type backlight module is disclosed. The reflective plane of the light-conductive panel is formed with a plurality of light conductors, and one lateral side of the conductor is formed with an auxiliary light conductor which is formed along the light conductor. The leak light source... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070076436 - Backlight module having improved light utilization ratio and liquid crystal having same: An exemplary backlight module (3) includes a light guide plate (31), a light source (32) located adjacent to the light guide plate and a fixing member (33) located adjacent to a corner of the light guide plate. The light source includes a corner portion. The fixing member includes a channel... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070076437 - Area illumination for led night light: The area illumination for a LED night light to apply a simple very roughly surface light-medium has the input-end to receive the said LED light beams to travel within the said light-medium and majority of the light beams can be seen on the all surface of the said light-medium. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070076439 - Led night light with interchangeable display unit: The LED night light with interchangeable display unit which means the display unit can be separated from the base by certain strength which can reduce the prong device been damaged by pulling, pushing, twisted because separated display unit will reduce the torque strength. The display unit may have the build-in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070076438 - Poly night light: A poly night light which made of Un-saturated Polyester resin (UPR) compound to make the said night light with certain degree of softness and clearance to meet with quality testaments. The said poly night light has clipper means to allow the said display unit can fit into the lamp holder's... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070076440 - Multiple functions led night light with air freshener: A multiple function LED night light with air-freshener consist of (a) LED display unit with light-medium properties to allow the LED(s) located on LED input-ends to make majority of LED light beams travel within the said LED display and the brightness be seen from viewer from LCD display all surface.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070076441 - Positive locking light fixture with faceplate: An assembly has a faceplate having inwardly extending pins and a housing having holes for receiving said inwardly extending pins. Vibration resistant means is provided for locking the faceplate to the housing.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070076442 - Disconnect and locking system and method of disassembly and reassembly: A locking and disconnect system for use with an ultraviolet lighting system used in a waste management system. The system includes a light coupled to a housing having a cam receiving portion. The system further includes a cell for housing the light. The cell includes a cam locking mechanism engageable... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C