Illumination inventions 09/09

20090237909 - Light polarization control using serial combination of surface-segmented half wavelength plates: A light polarization control apparatus includes a linear polarized light generation device for generating a linearly polarized light ray; and a pair of first and second four-division type half-wave plate located at front and back positions of a light axis, each said half-wave plate having a surface divided into four... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090237910 - Indicator device: An indicator device includes a light emitting element for emitting light, and a light conducting plate having a light incidence surface for conducting light from the light emitting element inside thereof and a light output surface, for a lighted indication by the light output surface. The light conducting plate has... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090237911 - Switch for electronic device: A switch includes a substrate including a main body and a cylindrical portion protruding upright from the main body and defining a transverse groove in the outer surface thereof, a light emitter fixed on the cylindrical portion to receive light beams from the light emitter and produce three electrical outputs... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237912 - Personal article with electron luminescent display: A personal article includes an electron luminescent display (ELD), a circuit protection tube, a power supply circuit, a personal article body and a plurality of plastic membranes, wherein two electrodes of the ELD are connected to an electrode conducting wire, the circuit protection tube is made of a plastic material... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090237913 - Switch cover plate with lighting mechanism: A switch cover plate with lighting mechanism includes a cover plate having a receiving section arranged on at least one edge thereof, and a lighting mechanism removably assembled to the cover plate. The lighting mechanism includes an enclosure, a retaining section located on at least one side of the enclosure... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090237916 - Light unit and display apparatus having the light unit: A light unit and a display apparatus having the light unit are provided. The light unit comprises a light emitting parts comprising one or more light emitting diodes and an middle optical panel on the light emitting parts comprising a top surface with one or more lens. The display apparatus... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090237914 - Stereoscopic display device: A stereoscopic display device includes a substrate, a plurality of odd-line light source units, a plurality of even-line light source units, a lens array, and a circuit. The odd-line light source units and the even-line light source units are provided at a first side of the substrate and spaced from... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237915 - Surface light emitting apparatus emitting laser light: A surface light emitting apparatus capable of providing uniform illumination while efficiently using a laser light. The apparatus comprises a light source section that includes at least one light source which emits laser beam; an optical guiding section that guides from an incidence surface of the optical guiding section the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090237917 - Illuminated headgear: An illuminated headgear (10), with an energy absorbing support structure (11), operationally coupled to an outer shell (12), with illuminated graphical light displays, containing graphical representations that are illuminated by lights (25a-25f) flashing in a timed mode of operation, the lighting displays being integrated with the outer shell instead of... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090237919 - Illuminating device: An illuminating device, includes a board, a plurality of lights, a rechargeable battery, a first circuit, a second circuit, and a switch. The board has a first surface and a second surface at an opposite side of the board to the first surface. The light sources are mounted on the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237918 - Structure for road lamp with integration of wind power and solar power: A structure for road lamps with integrated wind power and solar power comprises a solar panel, a wind turbine generator, an electrically controlling apparatus, a battery, a road lamp, an electric box, a fixing ring, locking rings and a base. It is an independent system to be mounted around a... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090237920 - Blood tracking system: A blood tracking light includes a first light source emitting blue light, a second light source emitting red light, and a third light source emitting cyan light. The light sources combine to create a light beam that provides a distinct visual appearance to blood. The light sources may include one... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090237921 - Lamp: A lamp including a base, a bendable neck and a lamp head, an outer surface of the lamp covered by a pliable sheath. The lamp further including a plurality of switches and a plurality of light sources, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The plurality of switches are visually concealed by... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20090237922 - Led tube light: A tubular light includes a light-transmissive tube with an end cap fitted to each end. An electrical contact terminal extends from each end cap, and an array of LEDs is attached to each end cap and receives electrical power via the respective contact terminals. The LEDs are configured to emit... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20090237923 - Led lamp assembly: An LED lamp assembly includes a pair of LED lamps facing opposite directions. Each LED lamp includes a heat sink having a heat absorbing portion and a heat dissipating portion. The heat absorbing portion has opposite first and second surfaces. The heat dissipating portion extends rearwards from the first surface... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237924 - Beam adjustment mechanism for an led light fixture: A beam adjustment mechanism for a light fixture includes a frame assembly having an aperture substantially within the center thereof. Multiple peripheral lighting units engage the sides of the frame assembly. Each lighting unit includes an LED, a heat sink, and a reflector member. A central connecting member and/or a... Agent: King & Spalding

20090237926 - Illiminating device: The illuminating device of the invention comprises at least one lighting component, red lighting component, current limiting component and fluorescent body, wherein said red lighting component is first series connected with said current limiting component, and further parallel connected with said lighting component, so that input current to red lighting... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090237925 - White-light light-emitting diode (led) road lamp composed of red, green and blue leds: The invention provides a white-light LED road lamp composed of red, green, and blue LED's. The road lamp includes a road lamp body, a heat-dissipating element, a constant-current source, and an LED board. The road lamp body is suspended at a specific height above the ground. Inside the road lamp... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090237930 - led street lamp: A combined LED street lamp (100), comprises a lamp body and a LED bulb (107); the lamp body comprises a head portion (101), a middle portion (102), and a tail portion (103); a first gasket (104) is set between the head portion (101) and the middle portion (102), a second... Agent: Scihead Intellectual Property Law Group, Ltd

20090237927 - Led lamp assembly: An LED lamp assembly includes a central member and a plurality of lamps each having an LED module and a heat sink in thermal connection with the LED module. The central member has a plurality of inserting extrusions formed at a circumference thereof. The lamps each have a receiving tube... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237928 - Led traffic signal with sun phantom reduction: An LED signal that mitigates the “sun phantom” effect includes a lens having an optical segment configured to direct at least some of the incoming generally collimated light rays from the sun passing through the lens away from an LED found in the traffic signal.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090237929 - Street illuminating device: A street illuminating device includes a retaining frame, a light source module, and a heat dissipating module. The light source module includes a printed circuit board retained in the retaining frame, a number of solid state lighting elements, and a light reflecting plate. The printed circuit board has a first... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237931 - Led lamp assembly: An LED lamp assembly includes a receiving member and a pair of LED lamps. The receiving member has a pair of opposite slope surfaces. The LED lamps are mounted on the opposite slope surfaces of the receiving member. Each of the LED lamps includes a heat sink having a bottom... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237933 - Led illumination device and light engine thereof: An LED illumination device includes an optical section at a front end thereof, an electrical section at a rear end thereof, and a heat dissipation section between the optical section and the electrical section. The optical section includes a plurality of LEDs electrically connecting with the electrical section, and a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237932 - Led lighting device having heat convection and heat conduction effects and heat dissipating assembly therefor: An LED lighting device having heat convection and heat conduction effects has a heat dissipating assembly, a substrate, multiple LEDs and a base. The heat dissipating assembly has a housing and an outer cover. The housing has multiple air holes. The outer cover is mounted on an open top of... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090237934 - Led lamp assembly: An LED lamp assembly includes an LED lamp and a supporting member supporting the LED lamp. The LED lamp includes a plurality of LED modules and a heat sink supporting and cooling the LED modules. The supporting member includes a pair of supporting arms supporting the LED lamp and pivotably... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237935 - Light emitting device having light emitting elements: A light-emitting device operating on a high drive voltage and a small drive current. LEDs (1) are two-dimensionally formed on an insulating substrate (10) of e.g., sapphire monolithically and connected in series to form an LED array. Two such LED arrays are connected to electrodes (32) in inverse parallel. Air-bridge... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090237936 - Led unit with interlocking legs: An LED unit includes a plurality of LEDs, each of which includes a base, an LED die mounted on the base, a pair of leads penetrating the base to electrically connect with the LED die, a plurality of legs extending radially from a periphery of the base, a plurality of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237937 - Led illuminating device and light engine thereof: An LED illuminating device includes an optical section (10), an electrical section (30), and a heat dissipation section (20) arranged between the optical section (10) and the electrical section (30). The heat dissipation section is provided with a heat dissipation device (200) which includes a heat sink (23), a mounting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237939 - Indication plate: Disclosed herein is an indication plate including: a plate member including a light-transmitting material; and an indication part provided at a surface on one side with respect to the thickness direction of the plate member, wherein the indication part includes a light-shielding part including a light-shielding material and covering the... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Formmer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090237938 - Light source module and vehicular lamp: A light source module includes a circuit board on which a circuit pattern is formed; a semiconductor light emitting element; an electrode pad; and a connecting body. The semiconductor light emitting element includes a first surface formed into an oblong shape, and a second surface positioned facing opposite the first... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090237940 - Adjustable lighting device: An adjustable lighting device having a main body, a light generation device inserted into a receptacle, a movable lens, a base electrically connected to the light generation device, and an adjustor cover rotatably mounted to and covering the outside of the main body so that rotation of the adjustor cover... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090237941 - Illumination optics: Luminaire optics (300, 1100, 1500) comprise a complementary reflector (302, 402, 902, 1008, 1104, 1202, 1606, 1702, 1802, 1902, 2002) and lens (304, 404, 704, 904, 1024, 1108, 1204, 1610, 1704, 1804, 1904, 2004) that are described by a set of coupled differential equations. The luminaire optics are able to... Agent: Philip Premysler

20090237942 - Package structure for light emitting diode: A package structure for light emitting diode (LED) comprises a base, an LED die, an optical lens and a lens holder. The base comprises at least one holder cavity formed on its surface and at least one chase formed on its side surface. The lens holder comprises an opening, at... Agent: Hudak, Shunk & Farine, Co., L.p.a.

20090237943 - Flush mount reading light: A lighting system comprising a generally conical shaped optical housing having a focal point and a light source. The light source, for example, an LED, is disposed in the focal point of the optical housing. A lens surrounds at least a portion of the light source and encloses a cavity... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090237944 - Light fixtures with adjustable illumination angle: A ceiling light fixture having an adjustable illumination angle, comprising: a fixed mount; a flexible mount; and a soft pipe; wherein the fixed mount is adapted for connecting to a ceiling; the flexible mount is flexibly connected to the fixed mount via the soft pipe; the flexible mount is adapted... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20090237945 - Backlight module with integrated base and method of manufacturing thereof: A backlight module, a base used therein, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The backlight module includes a base and a slice-shaped circuit. The base has a back plate including a plate portion and a mezzanine portion. The mezzanine portion is parallelly offset from the plate portion, and the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090237946 - Light fixture coupling system: A light fixture coupling system includes a plurality of lamp housings, a plurality of elongated wireways, and a mounting plate. The plurality of elongated wireways each includes a proximal end and a distal end, each of the distal ends coupled with a corresponding lamp housing. The mounting plate is positioned... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20090237947 - Lamp position adjustment device and lamp module having the same: A lamp position adjustment device includes a bottom frame, a lamp holder, and a lamp mount. The lamp holder is disposed on the bottom frame for supporting the lamp, and the lamp mount is disposed between the lamp holder and the bottom frame. The lamp mount includes a base portion,... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090237948 - Headlight support structure for a saddle-type vehicle: A headlight support structure for a saddle-type vehicle allows a headlight to be easily mounted easily on a handlebar of the vehicle. The headlight support structure includes a support member. The support member, in turn, includes: an attachment portion fixed to a mounting bracket disposed on a handlebar; a first... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090237949 - Flashing stern light for boats: The flashing stern light for boats includes an elongated tubular base, a light source housing mounted on top of the base, a light source disposed inside the housing, an array of light emitting elements disposed along a length of the base, and wiring adapted to operative connect to a power... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20090237950 - Low glare lighting for a transit vehicle: A low glare overhead lighting fixture for a transit vehicle comprises a lighting fixture base assembly for mounting one or more light sources (e.g., LEDs or fluorescent tubes), and a light permeable cover adapted to reduce glare. The light permeable cover may include a light guide embodied as a grid-like... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20090237951 - Automotive illumination-system device and light-conductor system for an automotive illumination-system device: The invention relates to a light-conductor structure (13) for an automobile lighting device (11), with a coupling section (17) to couple light into the light-conductor structure, a curved reflecting surface (25) to reflect light beams (59) of the light coupled into the light-conductor structure via the coupling section, and at... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090237952 - Semiconductor-based lighting system and lighting system components for automotive use: A modular semiconductor light source assembly includes a semiconductor light source, such as a light emitting diode, which is mounted on a substrate which supplies electricity to the light source and which assists in removing waste heat therefrom. Substantially all of the light emitted by the LED is transferred to... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20090237953 - Vehicle lighting device: A vehicle lighting device is provided to maintain a viewability of light even when seen from a diagonal direction having a predetermined angle to an irradiation direction of the lighting device. The vehicle lighting device includes a board, which includes an array of a plurality of light sources. The vehicle... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090237954 - Light pipe assembly: A light pipe assembly includes a lamp assembly and a light pipe. The lamp assembly has a housing that holds a light source configured to emit light. The light pipe is elongated between an attachment end and an opposing distal end. The attachment end is received in the housing of... Agent: Robert J. Kapalka Tyco Technology Resources

20090237955 - Optical device and image exposure apparatus: A window of a CAN package is sealed by a circular transparent plate member and a cylindrical transparent member. The diameter of the cylindrical transparent member is equal to the diameter of the window, and the thickness thereof is 1 mm. The distance from a semiconductor laser LD to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090237956 - Light emitting diode assembly: An LED assembly (10) includes an LED (12) and a lens (16). The lens covers on an outer periphery of the LED. The LED has an encapsulant (125) and an LED chip (121) received in the encapsulant (125) and having a light emitting surface (122). The lens has a light... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090237957 - Illumination device, method of assembling illumination device, and liquid crystal display device: There is provided an illumination device equipped with a light guide plate, a light source unit having a plurality of point like light sources for supplying light to the light guide plate and a light source holding member for holding the point like light sources, the light source unit being... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090237958 - Low-clearance light-emitting diode lighting: A low-clearance light-emitting diode lighting includes a light guide panel having side surfaces and a front surface opposing a back surface, a plurality of light-emitting diodes positioned on at least two side surfaces of the light guide panel, a reflecting plate at the back surface of the light guide panel,... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090231829 - Lightwall instrument: A lightwall instrument for photographic purposes includes a supporting frame, a light source, a diffuser wall, and one or more shading walls. The position of the light source is adjustable. The shape of the diffuser wall is selectively changed for different effects. The present invention provides a convenient and flexible... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090231831 - Flat panel display and backlight module thereof: The invention is related to a flat panel display and a backlight module thereof. The backlight module comprises a light source and a plurality of wavelength converters. The light source formed by some arranged luminous elements would radially emit light with an optical wavelength individually. These wavelength converters are near... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090231833 - Light emitting device provided with lens for controlling light distribution characteristic: The light emitting device comprises a substrate (2), a positive electrode (6) and a negative electrode (4) formed on the substrate (2), a light emitting diode (8) connected to the positive electrode (6) and the negative electrode (4), the transparent resin (12 and 14) that covers the light emitting diode... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090231832 - Solid-state lamps with complete conversion in phosphors for rendering an enhanced number of colors: The invention relates to phosphor-conversion (PC) sources of white light, which are composed of at least two groups of emitters, such as ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and wide-band (WB) or narrow-band (NB) phosphors that completely absorb and convert the flux generated by the LEDs to other wavelengths, and to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090231830 - Transparent white fluorescent glass: A transparent white fluorescent glass is provided which contains a soda lime glass as a base material, 0.8 to 2.5 wt % of Sn, calculated as SnO, and 0.045 wt % or less of Fe, calculated as Fe2O3, and a transparent white fluorescent glass which contains the soda lime glass... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20090231834 - Backlight panel and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention is a fluorescent (or LED) illuminated backlight panel. Cold-cathode lamps, external electrode fluorescent lamps, thin fluorescent lamps, or LED strips are inserted into a transparent or translucent twinwall plastic sheet, similar in construction to corrugated cardboard. The lamp (or LED) spacing is easily changed in order to... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP Attn:IPDepartment

20090231835 - Apparatus and methods for multiplanar optical diffusers and display panels for using the same: Provided are solid state lighting devices that include multiple solid state light emitters that are configured to emit light and a multiplane light diffuser including a first diffusion plane and a second diffusion plane that are separated by a gap, the multiplane light diffuser including first side that is configured... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090231836 - Mirror with attachment assembly for dual light sources: A mirror assembly includes a mirror and a light fixture configured to be releasably coupled to the mirror. The light fixture has a mounting structure and a first lamp support attached to the mounting structure for supporting a first lamp. The light fixture further includes a second lamp support attached... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090231837 - Self leveling bracket/stabilizer for flourescent lighting fixtures with controlled uplight capability: A fluorescent light fixture is suspended by a longitudinally extending trapezoidal pendant bracket/stabilizer. The trapezoidal pendant bracket/stabilizer includes a horizontally extending top brace and a pair of obliquely extending arms extending downward in opposite directions from the top brace in a trapezoidal crossection. Each obliquely extending arm has a flat,... Agent: Alfred M. Walker

20090231838 - Self-generating streetlight: A self-generating streetlight is provided, including: a light pole; a lamp which is provided on the light pole to convert electricity into light; a condenser which comprises a central condenser plate and side condenser plates and converts solar energy into electricity, the central condenser plate being coupled to the light... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090231839 - Supplementary power supply for portable electrical devices: A supplementary power supply and method for powering a portable electrical device such as a flashlight having a positive terminal and a negative terminal and battery compartment adapted to receive a standard battery therein. The supply comprises a cap adapted for installation on the battery compartment, an electrical circuit comprising... Agent: Goudreau Gage Dubuc

20090231840 - Recessed lighting fixture: A lighting fixture comprising a reflector 100 and a double-ended elongate lamp 200, the reflector body comprising a casing (110) with a specular cavity having an apex and an aperture rim, wherein the lamp end portions (220, 220′) of the double-ended lamp are enclosed in slots (131, 131′) located in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property And Standards

20090231841 - Illuminator based on primary and secondary power supplies: An illuminator includes a primary power supply and a secondary supply. The first power supply includes a primary wire. The secondary power supply includes two energy-recycling units each comprising a magnetically conductive annular core made of iron powder and a secondary wire wound around the magnetically conductive annular core. The... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090231842 - Light reflector and planar light source: In a light reflector including a reflector 12 and a reflective chevronwise partition plate 18 projecting in a shape of a chevron from the reflector, a reflective planar partition plate 50 is provided, connected to a peak section 20 of the chevronwise partition plate such as to project upwards from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090231843 - Planar light source:

20090231844 - Street lamp emitting filtered light: A street lamp includes a lampshade, a light-emitting diode array, a lens array, and a filter film. The lampshade includes a bottom wall and a sidewall extending around the bottom wall, the lampshade defines a receiving space with an opening opposite to the bottom wall. The light-emitting diode array is... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090231846 - Illumination light source and image projector: A light beam emitted from a light source (11) impinges on the spherical surface (20a) of a collimator lens (20) substantially perpendicularly thereto. A light beam making a small angle to the optical axis impinges on the ellipsoid (20c) and then it is refracted. The ellipsoid (20c) converts light beams... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090231845 - Street light source assembly with solid state light emitting elements: A street light source assembly includes a number of spaced solid state light emitting elements for emitting light beams, a number of first light diverging members, and a number of second light diverging members. Each of the first diverging members comprises a first concave light incident surface facing the respective... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090231847 - Led illuminating device: A LED illuminating device includes a substrate, a plurality of blue LEDs mounted on the substrate, and an optical layer, which is kept a predetermined distance from the blue LEDs, for diffusing rays of the blue LEDs and for converting the rays of the blue LEDs to white light, or... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090231848 - Illuminator module: The illuminator module is composed of one or more lighting chips, a heat dissipating body and two conductive strips. The heat dissipating body is provided with two positioning grooves for accommodating the conductive strips separately. The heat dissipating body including the positioning grooves is under oxidation treatment to form an... Agent: David Shung

20090231849 - Light emitting diode lighting module and method for making the same: A method for making a light emitting diode lighting module includes steps of: (a) packaging a plurality of light emitting diode dies respectively on a plurality of die-mounting parts of a metal lead frame to form a plurality of light emitting diodes, respectively; and (b) cutting off supporting parts of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090231850 - Absolute fixture positioning: A lighting fixture having at least one internal processor and at least one fixed element to which controllable moving elements are rotatably fastened, one moving element having at least one light source that generates a beam of light. Information concerning positions of moving components in a lighting fixture is automatically... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090231851 - Illumination device: An illumination device includes a light source module, a heat dissipating device and a heat conducting plate. The heat conducting plate is thermally coupled between the light source module and the heat dissipating device. In addition, the heat conducting plate includes a first contacting portion thermally contacting the light source... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090231852 - Positioning encoding in a light fixture: A lighting fixture having at least one fixed element, to which fixed element controllable moving elements are rotatingly fastened, where one moving element has at least one light source. To automatically receive information concerning the orientation of lighting fixture and to achieve feed-forward regulation of cooling in the lighting unit... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090231853 - Surgical light: The invention relates to a surgical light having at least one discharge lamp which is arranged in a lamp body and which illuminates a surgical field via a reflector, wherein a mechanically adjustable diaphragm means is provided in the lamp body for changing the intensity of illumination and includes a... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20090231854 - Color change mechanism: The present invention provides a drive system for an optical light modulation system employing multiple light modulation element pairs. The each pair is driven by a single motor which drives one axis around which one element of the first pair rotates while the other element of the first pair free... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law

20090231855 - Uniform wash lighting fixture and lens: A parabolic aluminized reflector (PAR) lighting fixture is provided with a faceted lens having many distinct lens elements. A plurality of first lens elements use light refraction to direct light from the collimated beam supplied from the fixture reflector to uniformly illuminate segments of a region of an adjacent wall... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20090231856 - Reflective variable spot size lighting devices and systems: In one aspect, a lighting system is disclosed that includes an inner reflector extending from a proximal end to a distal end along an axis, where the proximal end is adapted to receive light from a light source and the distal end provides an exit opening (aperture) for the received... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090231857 - Illuminating device: A recess is formed in a substrate. A bare chip, i.e., a light-emitting diode, is installed in the recess and connected to conductive members on the substrate with leads. A light-guiding layer composed of a light-guiding elastomer is disposed on the surface of the substrate. A light-guiding cover layer is... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090231858 - Illumination homogenizing optical element: An illumination homogenizing optical element is disclosed that includes at least one optical surface having a plurality of refractive structures formed as either grooves or protrusions that, individually, are wider than the wavelength of light incident onto said illumination homogenizing optical element. At least part of the light incident onto... Agent: Arnold International

20090231859 - Brightness enhancement component: A brightness enhancement component includes a substrate and a plurality of prism elements. The prism elements are disposed on the substrate, and each element prism has a relatively high crest and at least one relatively low crest. A crest line of the relatively low crest is equal to or shorter... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090231860 - Lamp reflector structure: A lamp reflector structure includes a metal hood, an adhesive layer and a reflecting plate. The structure is applied to a backlight module of a liquid crystal display, and the metal hood is made by bending a metal plate into a first cross-sectional shape and forms a containing space in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090231862 - Adjustable recessed light fixture: A recessed light fixture includes a housing or can, a junction box, a protective flexible wire conduit connected to the junction box and the housing, and an adjustment assembly adjustably and detachably connecting the housing to the junction box. The adjustment assembly includes a first bracket connected to the housing... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090231861 - Recessed downlight fixture frame assembly: A recessed fixture frame mounting device comprises a first hanger bar connected to a first joist, a second hanger bar connected to a second joist, a recessed can light and junction box connected to the first and second hanger bars, the recessed can and the junction box movable about an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

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20090231864 - System and method for minimizing hysteresis in a motor drive system: The present invention provides an automated luminaire with more repeatable, identical and accurate movements by normalization for motion drive system hysteresis. The normalization system utilizes the use of multiple drivers which drive the drive system which engage in opposing movements following a movement to normalize the hysteresis in the drive... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law

20090231865 - Compact fluorescent bulb installation, replacement and storage containment device: The bulb bag includes a Velcro™ strap, a foam rubber seal, a rubber pouch and a tensioning clip (optional). A fluorescent bulb removal, installation and storage device to contain glass shards and mercury in case of breakage during bulb installation, replacement and storage. The device is placed over the bulb... Agent: Just In Time Products, LLC

20090231867 - Vehicle headlamp and method of controlling the same: A vehicle headlamp is provided. The vehicle headlamp includes a light source which is configured to form an additional light distribution pattern which is formed above a cut-off line of a low-beam mode light distribution pattern; a vehicle detection device which is configured to detect a presence of a front... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090231866 - Vehicle headlamp apparatus: A vehicle headlamp apparatus is provided. The vehicle headlamp apparatus includes a lamp unit, a first additional lamp unit which forms a first light distribution pattern, a second additional lamp unit which forms a second light distribution pattern overlapping with the first light distribution pattern, and a controller. The first... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090231868 - Led indicating assembly for car or motorcycle: An LED indicating assembly for a car or a motorcycle includes a circuit substrate arranged with a plurality of light emitting diodes and being extended with a power wire; a semi-transparent casing having a receiving space and a bottom plate; the receiving space being received with the circuit substrate; and... Agent: A-sheng Yang

20090231869 - Headlight assembly for a motorcycle: A headlight case, that houses a light body, is made small in size. The light body includes a reflector, and a lens attached to the reflector. The light body is pivotally supported in the headlight case by bolts extending through a ring member extending around the light body, so that... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090231871 - Direction indicator lamp: A direction indicator lamp mainly includes lamp fittings in pairs and corresponding sensing and emitting modules. The light fitting has a light source, a receiver, and a battery set disposed therein. The sensing and emitting module senses a signal frequency when the direction lamp is operated, or senses lights when... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090231870 - Wraparound light assembly: A wraparound light assembly for a vehicle. A lens is attached to a housing. A body panel defines an interior vehicle space, and the body panel includes a recessed portion defining an aperture. The housing overlays at least part of the recess. A grommet is disposed in the aperture and... Agent: Young Basile

20090231872 - Fender tab and locating cradle: A light assembly for a vehicle includes a light unit having a housing and a lens attached to the housing. A cradle is disposed on the housing, and the cradle includes a first guide surface. A body panel includes a cantilevered portion, and the cantilevered portion includes a tab projecting... Agent: Young Basile

20090231873 - Vehicle headlamp apparatus: A vehicle headlamp apparatus is provided. The vehicle headlamp apparatus includes a low beam lamp unit which forms a low beam distribution pattern having a cutoff line along an upper edge thereof, and an additional lamp unit which forms an additional light distribution pattern including an area above the cutoff... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090231874 - Headlamp and vehicle infrared night vision apparatus employing the headlamp as light source: A headlamp is provided, which has lower power consumption, a longer service life and a more compact size and yet is capable of easily projecting visible light and near infrared light in desired light distribution patterns. The headlamp includes a wavelength converting member and an excitation light source. The wavelength... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090231875 - Vehicle lamp: A vehicle lamp can include a plurality of light source modules each having an LED as a light source, and optical systems for distributing light from each of the light source modules frontward toward predetermined areas or predetermined patterns that are different from each other and which make up a... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090231876 - Vehicular headlamp: A vehicular headlamp is provided. The vehicular headlamp includes a headlamp which emits light; an indication lamp comprising semiconductor light-emitting elements as light sources; and an electric circuit which supplies a current to the indication lamp. The indication lamp is divided into at least two light source sections comprising respective... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090231877 - Thin light bar and method of manufacturing: Various embodiments disclosed herein comprise a display device comprising a plurality of spatial light modulators and an illumination apparatus. The illumination apparatus comprising a light bar that guides light along a length thereof and turning microstructure disposed on top or bottom of the light bar. The turning microstructure directs the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090231878 - Illumination device comprising a light source and a light-guide: Proposed is an illumination device (1), comprising a semiconductor light source (10) for generating light, a primary optical system (20) for feeding the light to a secondary optical system (30), which is provided for radiating the light and for achieving a desired radiation pattern. The semiconductor light source may comprise... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property And Standards

20090231879 - Connector: The invention discloses a connector including a housing, a light-emitting device, and a light-guiding member. The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting portion and at least one wire. The light-guiding member is assembled with the housing and includes at least one light-guiding part and at least one clamping part. The clamping... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090231880 - Backlight unit with health-care function: A backlight unit with a health-care function is disclosed. The backlight unit includes: a light source including a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), at least some of the plurality of LEDs radiating light having a wavelength beneficial to the human body; and an optical output unit outputting the light radiated... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090231881 - Light-emitting-diode backlight device: A light-emitting-diode backlight device includes a light source substrate to which many light-emitting diodes are mounted, and a bottom chassis having the light source substrate mounted to a principal surface side of the bottom chassis. Illumination light from the light-emitting diodes is supplied to a display panel unit. A back-surface... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090231882 - Light guide module and a display device with the light guide module: A light guide module and a display device with the light guide module are disclosed. The light guide module includes a rigid light guide film and a soft light guide film. The soft light guide film is pasted on the rigid light guide film. The soft light guide film has... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090225529 - Spherically emitting remote phosphor: Light sources comprise an emitter of photostimulative light, such as one or more blue LEDs, a reflector, which may be a diverging cone, disposed to reflect light from the LEDs towards an exit aperture, a tailored aspheric lens that further collimates the light from the reflector, a short-pass filter receiving... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090225530 - Light guide member, flat light source device, and display device: A protrusion 4 of a cylindrical shape is formed upward a plurality color of LED light sources 5R, 5G, 5B, e.g., RGB color at a backside face of a light guide member 1, and a conical depression 3 is disposed at the position directly over the protrusion. Lights of each... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225532 - Field effect electron emitting apparatus: A field effect electron emitting apparatus comprising a substrate, a plurality of wires embedded in the substrate, at least a portion of each wire being exposed from the substrate and extending generally perpendicularly therefrom and including magnetic material, wherein the average wire spacing is less than 30 μm, the average... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225531 - Night vision imaging system (nvis) compliant backlight: A dual mode illumination system with a primary mode providing high efficiency high brightness illumination and a secondary mode providing NVIS compliant illumination. The primary light source is direct view, not NVIS filtered and used for non-NVIS applications. The secondary light source is filtered for NVIS compliance and is not... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090225533 - Optical unit, backlight device, liquid crystal module and liquid crystal display apparatus: An optical unit for use in a backlight device of a liquid crystal display apparatus, has a first light-collecting and -diffusing optical component, a light-collecting optical component, and a second light-collecting and -diffusing optical component, provided in this order on the optical path of light emitted from a light source.... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090225534 - Headlight with directed flow heat sink: A headlight having a housing, a light assembly, at least one heat sink, and an air mover. The housing has a front end, a rear end, an air inlet, an air outlet, an intake chamber in fluid communication with the air inlet, an exhaust chamber in fluid communication with the... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20090225535 - Quick install canopy: An assembly and a method for attaching a sign-type lighting fixture to an electrical box. The assembly includes a lighting fixture having a mounting plate affixed to the electrical box, an illuminating sign, and a canopy affixed to the lighting fixture, allowing the canopy and the mounting plate to attach... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090225536 - Portable light assembly: An apparatus and associated method for operating a portable light assembly. In accordance with some embodiments, a frame providing a bridge and defining a transport region and a deployment region is slidingly connected to a mast. An arm is further connected to the mast by a hinge while a light... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, PC

20090225537 - Interior light: Disclosed is a flatly designed interior light which is essentially characterized by a centrally arranged hollow profiled support (1) that is disposed between two final parts (15) and is provided with an interior receiving space (17) and exterior reflective surfaces (18,19,20,21) for two fluorescent lamps (2, 3) which adjoin the... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20090225538 - Lighting device and light control member used for this and image display unit using these: In a lighting device, suppose a distance between centers of linear light sources is D and a distance between the linear light sources and a light control member is H and a function representing an outgoing light intensity toward a normal direction at a position coordinate X (light source position... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225539 - Optimizing use and performance of optical systems implemented with telecentric on-axis dark field illumination: Systems and methods are provided for imaging a planar specular object such as a semiconductor wafer. In one embodiment, an imaging system for imaging a defect on a planar specular object includes a telecentric lens having a sufficiently aspherical surface such that the telecentric lens is substantially corrected for an... Agent: Electro Scientific Industries/stoel Rives, LLP

20090225541 - Luminous device mounting substrate, luminous device mounting package, and planar light source device: The luminous device mounting substrate, in which plural kinds of luminous devices with different luminance colors are mounted, is characterized by comprising a plurality of luminous device mounting portions each of which is for enclosing a luminous device corresponding to a luminance color, wherein the luminous device mounting portion has... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225542 - Multiparameter stage lighting apparatus with graphical output: A multiparameter stage lighting apparatus is provided comprising a lamp housing, which may include a plurality of sets of light emitting diodes, each set of light emitting diodes having a plurality of colors, the plurality of sets of light emitting diodes forming an additive color mixing system. The multiparameter stage... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20090225540 - Semiconductor light-emitting apparatus integrated with heat-conducting/ dissipating module: The invention relates to a light-emitting apparatus. The light-emitting apparatus includes a heat-conducting/dissipating module and at least one semiconductor light-emitting module. The heat-conducting/dissipating module includes a substantially cylindrical heat-conducting device having at least one flat portion and at least one heat-dissipating fin mounted on the circumference of the heat-conducting device.... Agent: Reed Smith

20090225543 - Optical system for batwing distribution: A radiation distribution system designed to produce a batwing distribution. The system may be used with radiative sources emitting in the visible spectrum or in other spectra. The system comprises a specially shaped lens disposed over a radiative source, such as an LED, for example. The lens and source are... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20090225544 - Enamel substrate for mounting light emitting elements, light emitting element module, illumination apparatus, display apparatus, and traffic signal: An enamel substrate for mounting light emitting elements includes a core metal, an enamel layer that is covering on a surface of the core metal, and one or more through holes. In this enamel substrate for mounting light emitting elements, the core metal is exposed at inner surfaces of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225545 - Light source device and light source packaging method: A light source device includes a base member and a light guiding section. The base member has a plurality of layers with each of the layers including a plurality of light emitting bodies, the base member having a light emitting surface. The light guiding section is arranged in the base... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090225546 - Modular led lighting fixtures: Concatenatable lighting fixtures, each comprising a unitary cover member having a circuit board mounting platform integrally formed with suitable heat sinking and which cover member mounts onto a cooperating base chassis. In one embodiment, the circuit board mounting platform extends farther from one end of the cover member than the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090225548 - Light source device for endoscope: A light source device includes a xenon lamp, a rotary shutter, a main CPU for controlling drive of these components, and a sub CPU. The main CPU operates when receiving a reset cancel signal from a reset circuit. Between the sub CPU and the reset circuit, an AND circuit is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225547 - Spotlight with user-friendly fixable adjustable focus: The present invention is a spotlight with adjustable focus that has a focus fixing mechanism to prevent inadvertent changes to the focus of the light, while still allowing user-friendly intentional adjustment of the focus. The mounting collar of the reflector assembly rotates on helical threads on the neck of the... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20090225550 - Emission device, surface light source device and display: A light flux control member has a back face provided with a first recess portion and ventilation grooves. Output light of the light emitting element arranged as to correspond to the first recess portion enters into the light flux control member via the first recess portion and ventilation grooves being... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225549 - Led-based lighting system and method: A lighting system comprises a row of light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) receiving electricity and producing light and heat. The row of LEDs can be located in a channel or a groove of a piece of material, such as an aluminum extrusion or a bent piece of metal. The channel can... Agent: King & Spalding

20090225551 - Illumination apparatus: An illumination apparatus including a light-emitting unit and a lens module is described. The light-emitting unit is used for generating a light and has a light exit axis. The lens module has a light exit surface with a plurality of curved surfaces. The lens module receives the light and outputs... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090225552 - Light source-modulating device having composite curved surfaces: A light source-modulating device having composite curved surfaces comprises a light-distributing composite refractive surface, a base surface, a reflective surface and a light-modulating composite refractive surface, wherein the light-distributing composite refractive surface has a first and a second refractive surface, and the light-modulating composite refractive surface has a third and... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090225553 - Lampshade: A lampshade includes a top lampshade frame, a bottom lampshade frame, a lampshade covering covering the top lampshade frame and the bottom lampshade frame, hook materials (or loop materials) provided at the top lampshade frame and the bottom lampshade frame, and loop materials (or hook materials) provided at the lampshade... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225554 - Improved heat-dissipation structure: An improved heat-dissipation structure includes a heat-dissipation lamp frame which comprises: a heat-dissipation structure and a plurality of heat-dissipation lamp sets. The heat-dissipation structure has a plurality of heat-dissipation fins on one side thereof, and the heat-dissipation lamp sets are accommodated on the other side of the heat-dissipation structure. An... Agent: Frenkel & Associates

20090225555 - Led illumination device and radiating member of led illumination device: The present invention relates to a radiating member of an LED illumination device and the LED illumination device using the same. Provided is an LED illumination device includes a printed circuit board mounted with LED chips; and a radiating member provided on a rear surface of the printed circuit board,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090225556 - Thermoelectric cooler and illumination device using same: A thermoelectric cooler includes a plurality of P-type semiconductor elements, a plurality of N-type semiconductor elements, a plurality of connection circuits, a cold end and a hot end. The P-type semiconductor elements are electrically connected to the N-type semiconductor elements by the connection circuits. The P-type semiconductor elements, the N-type... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090225557 - Interface apparatus for mounting a portable illumination tool & related illumination assembly: An illumination tool fixture is generally provided. The fixture comprises an illumination tool receiving sleeve and a clamping assembly operatively received at an end thereof. The sleeve is generally characterized by first and second sleeve segments, each having first and second sleeve ends. The second sleeve end includes an interior... Agent: Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson Suite 401, Broadway Place East

20090225558 - Articulite: A light on a self-supporting collapsible arm having a plurality of frictionally restrained articulating joints, where the frictional joint has a male half joint with a first plate and an annular shaft with an inner wider diameter. In the surface of the first plate is a first O-ring seated in... Agent: F. Rhett Brockington

20090225559 - method and system for automatically controlling power supply to a lamp of a vehicle: A system for automatically controlling power supply to a lamp (101) of a vehicle, the system comprising: a detection module (20) to detect whether the vehicle is stationary or non-stationary; a controller (102) to receive a signal (25) having a first value transmitted by the detection module (20) when the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090225560 - Aircraft external illumination lamp: A compact aircraft external illumination lamp has a discharge bulb as a light source that ensures a waterproof property. The aircraft external illumination lamp includes a container-shaped reflector serving also as a lamp body, a front cover attached to a front opening of the reflector, and a discharge bulb inserted... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090225561 - Illuminated panel portion for vehicles and vehicular accessories: An illuminated panel portion for vehicles or vehicle accessories is provided having a generally translucent panel defining a selected design. The translucent panel is disposed in an aperture of an adjacent panel of the vehicle or vehicle accessory such that the outer surfaces of the translucent panel and adjacent panel... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20090225562 - Vehicular lamp: A vehicular lamp includes a light source positioned inside a lamp chamber. The lamp chamber is formed from a lamp body fixed to a vehicle body and a front cover that covers a front open portion thereof. The vehicular lamp includes a light guide that includes a side end surface... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090225563 - Vehicle lighting apparatus: A vehicle lighting apparatus includes a discharge bulb fixed to a reflector and a connector coupled to the plug of the discharge bulb and designed to feed power to the discharge bulb. The reflector includes a conductive film on the periphery of a bulb fitting opening for fitting the plug... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090225564 - Vehicle light and led package: A vehicle light having a plurality of LED light sources can be configured to be capable of preventing or suppressing emission of glaring light. An LED package with a plurality of LED light emitting elements can be provided. The vehicle light can include a plurality of LED light sources emitting... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090225566 - Illumination apparatus and methods of forming the same: An illumination device includes a waveguide having a recess in a bottom surface thereof. Disposed beneath and in direct contact with the bottom surface of the waveguide is a sub-assembly having a raised profile complementary to the recess, the sub-assembly including a discrete light source disposed on a carrier. The... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090225565 - Sub-assembly and methods for forming the same: A sub-assembly matable to a waveguide having a recess therein includes a structure comprising a discrete light source disposed on a carrier, and a substrate and a heat spreader disposed beneath the structure. The structure has a contour complementary to the recess, such that, when the sub-assembly is joined to... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090225567 - Liquid crystal display device: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device where there is less inconsistency in the brightness of the backlight due to deterioration in the efficiency of light emission of the light emitting diodes. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which stands... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225568 - Light device: A light device includes a body having a light source and electrical contacts that plug into a first electrical outlet of a duplex receptacle and receive power therefrom. An outlet cover mounted for pivotal motion with respect to the body about at a pivot axis, which is substantially proximate to... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20090219707 - Adjustable lens with self-illuminated scale: An adjustable lens with a self-illuminating scale for use in photography, cinematography, or videography has a housing surface with scale markings and an opaque member with a reference marking mounted over and movable relative to the surface. The movement of the member normally adjusts a parameter of the lens. The... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20090219708 - Lighted fittings for bathing installations: A fixture for through hole mounting to a panel includes a flange structure fabricated of a translucent material. The flange structure includes a body portion adapted to extend through a mount hole in the panel and having a outer peripheral portion, and a transverse flange portion having an outer size... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20090219709 - Self-illumination glove: A self-illumination glove for use in poor visibility or dim conditions, the orientation of the light head is adjustable to prevent the light being blocked by the hand movement. The glove body is adapted for load and unloads an illumination unit. The illumination unit includes at least one flexible arm... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090219710 - Wearable colored light signaling apparatus: The invention is a wearable array of colored lights that can be remotely controlled from a hand held user friendly interface. The user interface is made with interactive buttons for easy functional use. This allows manual control of each light independently. The embodiment can be adapted for use with other... Agent: Jason Ledderhos

20090219711 - Lighted bouquet: The present invention is an illuminated botanical assembly having a light and a plurality of botanical objects.... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090219712 - Conducting wallpaper: A wallpaper (1) for contacting an electrical device (2), which is attachable to a wall (3), preferably attachable to any kind of room walls or ceiling or flooring of a building, whereas the wallpaper (1) comprises a plurality of conductive stripes (4), and whereas the electrical device (2) features contact... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property And Standards

20090219713 - Lens and heatsink assembly for a led light tube: A LED lighting unit including an elongated heat sink having two spaced apart longitudinal grooves, the grooves facing tangentially or at an angle greater than an angle between a tangent of the lighting unit at the groove and a radius of the lighting unit at the groove. At least one... Agent: Young Basile

20090219714 - Tile for solid state lighting: A solid state lighting tile (10) includes a substrate having a planar surface. A first plurality of solid state light emitting devices (LEDs) are on the substrate. The first plurality of LEDs (19) are connected in series to form a first string of LEDs of a first color having an... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090219715 - Beacon light with reflector and light emitting diodes: The present invention is directed to a beacon light with a light emitting diode (LED) reflector optic. In one embodiment, the LED reflector optic includes a reflector having a plurality of reflecting surfaces and being associated with at least one optical axis, each reflecting surface including a curved cross-section and... Agent: Wall & Tong , LLP

20090219716 - Led optical lens: An optical lens and method for designing the lens are disclosed. The lens includes a first surface and a second surface. Light emitted from multiple light emitting elements enters the lens through a central section of the first surface. The light can be reflected from a reflective central section of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090219717 - Illumination device: Disclosed is an illumination device for projecting a substantially uniform light at a remote distance. The illumination device comprises a mounting assembly divided into a plurality of sections, each section comprising a plurality of light emitting sources arranged substantially equidistant along a circumference of the assembly to project a light... Agent: The Plevy Law Firm Arthur L. Plevy

20090219718 - Lighting apparatus: Plane light emitters 5, 6, and 7 constituted by organic EL elements are mounted at planar frames 2, 3, and 4 in the shape of a frame, and the above-mentioned frames 2, 3, and 4 are connected mutually and annularly so that light emitting units of a first-third rings are... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090219719 - Light emitting diode and light source module having same: An exemplary light emitting diode includes a substrate, a LED chip, a first heat conductor, and a second heat conductor. The substrate comprises a first surface and an opposite second surface. The LED chip is positioned on the first surface of the substrate and it has a first electrode and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090219721 - Light emitting device: The present invention is directed to a small-sized stroboscopic light emitting device that controls disorder in light distribution (orientation) characteristic caused by a shape of the reflector, and achieves a homogeneous light quantity distribution. The stroboscopic light emitting device includes an illuminator 1, a reflector 2 for reflecting light from... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090219720 - Lighting: Lighting assemblies with light sources are disclosed for use in place of fluorescent lights. A support member can be attached to brackets, which can snap into a spring lampholder brackets used for a fluorescent light. For holding a support member, an offset bracket can be used or alternatively, a bracket... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090219722 - Ceramic light emitting device: A light emitting device comprising a ceramic substrate is disclosed. And embodiment of the substrate comprises a mounting portion, a peripheral wall extending from the mounting portion, and a reflective surface extending from the peripheral wall opposite the mounting portion. The reflective surface has a reflective material located thereon. The... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090219723 - Brightness enhancement film: A brightness enhancement film comprising a plurality of closely arranged lens microstructures. Each lens microstructure has a cross section having an apex and two included side faces. At least one of the side faces forms a curved surface. The brightness enhancement film not only realizes light condensation but also optimizes... Agent: Leong C Lei

20090219724 - Backlight module with improved base structure and method for manufacturing the same: A backlight module and a method for manufacturing a base thereof are provided. The backlight module base includes a back plate and a frame. The back plate has a plate body and at least one sidewall, which includes a wall body and a folding structure bending from the top of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090219725 - Helicoidal system for recessed light fixture assembly: The disclosure herein describes a helicoidal system for securing a recessed light fixture assembly into an opening in a ceiling, wall or the like; the assembly comprises a light reflector having an upper collar and a light reflector support for mounting the light reflector into the opening of the ceiling,... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090219727 - Heat removal system and method for light emitting diode lighting apparatus: A heat removal assembly for a light emitting diode lighting apparatus is described. One embodiment of the heat removal assembly includes a plurality of fins configured to receive heat from a light emitting diode. In the plurality of fins, two adjacent fins are separated by a gap width, and each... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090219726 - Thermal storage system using phase change materials in led lamps: When the PCM absorbs heat from the LED as a solid, its temperature rises. However, when the PCM reaches its melting point, the temperature of the PCM stays at its melting point temperature until the phase of the PCM changes completely from a solid to a liquid. Then the PCM... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090219729 - Fixing structure of light emitting diode and electronic apparatus: A fixing structure of a light emitting diode includes an opening part formed in the fixing plate, the opening part being where the light emitting diode is inserted and extending in a fixing direction perpendicular to an inserting direction; a first engaging part configured to engage one of a surface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090219728 - Submount and its manufacturing method: A metallized electrode including optical device mounting parts and wiring parts is formed on a surface of a first substrate containing an insulating material as a main component, a through hole is formed in a glass substrate serving as a second substrate, the optical device mounting parts of the first... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090219730 - Illuminated trim element for an instrument cluster: An instrument cluster for a passenger vehicle may comprise a trim element that may comprise a leading portion nearest a passenger area, a trailing portion furthest from the passenger area, and a light transmissive portion. The instrument cluster may comprise an applique proximate the trailing portion of the trim element... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090219731 - Optical system with main function for motor vehicle: An optical system for a motor vehicle, the optical system performing at least one main optical function and including in particular a diffusion screen, at least one light source of the LED type, each LED of the optical system producing a set of rays of light to be propagated in... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20090219732 - Led with light pipe assembly: An LED light pipe assembly includes a light pipe; a heat sink portion; an LED mounted on a substrate in optical communication with the light pipe; and a carrier portion for receiving the light pipe and providing electrical interconnections to the LED. The heat sink portion includes a plurality of... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20090219733 - Electronic device having light guide: An electronic device includes a panel, a light guide, and light sources. The panel defines a light area, and includes a transparent main body, an optical clear coating layer painted on the main body, and a light tight coating layer painted on the optical clear coating layer without covering the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090219734 - Display device: A display device has a light guide plate formed with a display pattern by a plurality of diffusion dots having translucency in a display pattern formed region, a light shielding layer, and a light source. A plurality of the light guide plates are arranged facing each other, and the light... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090219735 - Structure for light emitting device array: Structure for polarized light source suitable for the application of flat panel display is provided.... Agent: Chen-jean Chou