Quotables
"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8061867 | Lighting device A lighting device includes: a housing, a coupling member, at least one reflector, and a light source unit, wherein the light source unit includes: a first body having a first coupling unit, a first sloping surface, and a first hinge protruding, a second body having ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8052307 | Lens and light emitting apparatus having the same Provided are a lens and a light emitting apparatus comprising the lens. The light emitting apparatus comprises a substrate, a light emitting device package on the substrate, and a lens supported by the substrate, the lens being disposed on the light emitting device ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7972033 | Indicator light An indicator light (10) is provided. The indicator light (10) includes a body section (11), a cover section (12) detachably mounted on the body section (11), a printed circuit board (14) received in the body section (11 | 07/05/2011 |
| 7946730 | Light emitting diode replacement lamp The invention is a replacement for a conventional incandescent or halogen light bulb. Besides providing regular illumination, it has advantages over a conventional bulb while maintaining the bulb's decorative function, such as visual effects associated with the bulb... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7926980 | Electronic device An electronic device includes a housing and at least one light source. The housing defines a chamber therein and includes an inner surface defining at least one recess configured with a specified pattern. The at least one light source is fixed in the chamber and cor... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7914174 | Method to optimize micro-optic lens in LED flashlight application A micro-optic lens is disclosed. The micro-optic lens includes a substrate; and a lens element on the substrate, wherein the lens element includes a flat surface and an annularly grooved surface including first facets and second facets, and wherein the first facets ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7789531 | LED system and method Embodiments provide an LED comprising a quantum well region operable to generate light and a substrate having an interface with the quantum well region, wherein light generated by the quantum well region traverses the interface to enter the substrate and exit the LE... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7690814 | Luminaire with a one-sided diffuser A luminaire is provided with a one-sided diffuser, located a predefined distance below the light output ports, in order to efficiently distribute light through an upper smooth surface and a lower surface having light altering tracks where each wherein each light alt... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7597456 | Light emitting diode replacement lamp The invention is a replacement for a conventional incandescent or halogen light bulb. Besides providing regular illumination, it has advantages over a conventional bulb while maintaining the bulb's decorative function, such as visual effects associated with the bulb... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7597457 | Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes a power supply housing section, a circuit board housing section, a light source housing section, a cutout portion, and a light source. An image recorded on a record medium is displayed in the state th... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7547116 | Positive contrast roadway lighting system A luminaire assembly generally includes a reflector having a center of symmetry and a lamp supported within the reflector, wherein the lamp is offset from the reflector center of symmetry, whereby light emitted from the lamp is reflected by the reflector in an asymm... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7543956 | Configurations and methods for embedding electronics or light emitters in manufactured materials Methods and means for embedding electronic components, such as LED-based light sources and associated control circuitry, into molded or continuously cast surface materials (e.g., material manufactured under the trademark CORIAN®). During the manufacture of the surf... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7527391 | Lighting board using cassette light unit A lighting board is made with a receptacle substrate accommodated to accept cassette light units. The convenience of assembly and disassembly of the light unit from the receptacle substrate makes the product easily to be maintained for changing different color light... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7410275 | Refractive optic for uniform illumination An apparatus for distributing light from a light source includes a support and an optic supported by the support. The optic includes a truncated axially symmetric body. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7374313 | Luminaire with improved lateral illuminance control A luminaire with improved lateral illuminance control comprising a light pipe with a longitudinal center is disclosed. A light-extraction means applied to a radial swath of the light pipe has a longitudinal portion having dimension along its length, centered about a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374317 | Exterior wall lamps An exterior light fixture includes a housing configured to be mounted to an exterior vertical wall. A luminaire is connected via a projecting arm to the housing and powered by electrical wires running therethrough. The housing includes a rotatable door which, when r... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7357535 | Supporting structure of straight down back light module A straight down back light module including a diffuser plate, a lamp, a reflector plate (back plate) and a support. The reflector plate is located below the diffuser plate. The lamp is located between the diffuser plate and the reflector plate. The support is instal... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347583 | Automatically activated flashlight and holster A flashlight and holder cooperate to automatically turn the flashlight on when the flashlight is removed from the holder and turn the flashlight off when the flashlight is returned to the holder. The flashlight includes a bottom cap with a magnetically actuated swit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338189 | LED utility light with removable magnet An LED utility light includes a hollow housing having a wider upper light portion connected to a narrower lower handle portion. The light portion has a lens opening covered by a lens permitting light generated from an array of LEDs to exit the housing. A magnet moun... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339790 | Halogen lamps with mains-to-low voltage drivers A halogen lamp includes a mains base and a converter operably connected to the mains base. The converter has a lamp socket, a toroid transformer, and a heat sink disposed within a center opening of the toroid transformer. A lamp is removably disposed in the lamp soc... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331696 | Method and apparatus for mounting a task light A light fixture for mounting to the underside of a furniture element. The light fixture includes a housing with a first side and a second side opposed to and approximately parallel with the first side. The first side has a first spring latch at one end of the first ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329026 | Lighting fixture with smooth adjustable beam width A lighting fixture having a main housing to which is attached a moveable reflector assembly. The fluorescent lamps are affixed to the main housing and the moveable reflector assembly is adjusted to a position close to the fluorescent lamps to achieve a narrow illumi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330319 | High brightness LED package with multiple optical elements A light source includes an LED die with an emitting surface and a plurality of optical elements having input surfaces in optical contact with distinct portions of the emitting surface. The optical elements can comprise tapers or concentrators that have reflective si... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7296913 | Light emitting diode replacement lamp The invention is a replacement for a conventional incandescent or halogen light bulb. Besides providing regular illumination, it has advantages over a conventional bulb while maintaining the bulb's decorative function, such as visual effects associated with the bulb... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293876 | Light source unit and projector It is an object of the present invention to provide a light source unit that can supply bright light efficiently. The light source unit includes a light emitting unit that emits light, a phase plate that polarizes the light from the light emitting unit to produce a ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290902 | Direct-type backlight The present invention provides A direct-type backlight having: a resin sealing member including at least one resin layer, which has a light reflecting section formed on the outermost surface of the resin sealing member; an optical semiconductor element sealed by the... | 11/06/2007 |
| RE39900 | Light fixture having a plurality of light reflecting fins A light fixture having a base for housing a light producing source and a flat plate disposed within the base. The plate has a well formed in it, the well having light reflecting walls. A lamp socket is located in a light reflecting bottom wall of the well. A plurali... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7262885 | Stochastic halftone screening method A method for halftoning a gray scale image to generate a halftoned image uses a stochastic screen is designed to provide visually pleasing, blue noise dot profiles when thresholded at any gray level and wherein substantially all the threshold values corresponding to... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258467 | Low profile direct/indirect luminaires A luminaire for distributing light rays from a light source may include first and second reflector sections. The first reflector portion may be configured to direct light rays in a first direction substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the luminaire. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253557 | Light source provided with a housing enclosing voltage regulator means and method of manufacturing thereof A light source for testing sites using a fluorescent dye is described. The light source can include a low voltage lamp or a low heat generating lamp. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247071 | Light source lamp and manufacturing method thereof, and projector To reduce or prevent adhesive particles from being scattered toward a light-emitting portion of an arc tube and an auxiliary reflecting surface of an auxiliary mirror even when an inorganic adhesive injected for fixing the auxiliary mirror to the arc tube is boiled,... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244047 | Drop-in high intensity discharge lamp assembly, and retrofit method of deploying same A retrofit HID lamp assembly, for use in a non-HID lighting receptacle, to provide HID illumination. The lamp assembly includes (i) a housing of a non-HID lamp assembly, (ii) a base terminal structure coupled with the housing, and compatible with such non-HID lighti... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238262 | System and method of coating substrates and assembling devices having coated elements A system and method of coating curved substrates and assembling devices having coated elements. The system and method are of particular utility in the manufacture of lamps having a coating formed on the hermetically sealed light emitting chamber of the lamp. The sys... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234674 | 3-way adjustment mechanism for downlight fixture The instant invention provides an adjustable mechanism for a fixture having a fixture frame, a plurality of hanger bars, and an aperture ring. An adjustment assembly slidably connects the fixture frame, the plurality of hanger bars, and the aperture ring. The adjust... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229191 | Industrial up light reflector In order to provide efficient and uniform up and down lighting an elongated luminaire comprises an elongated concave primary down light reflector, a pair of secondary down light reflectors having slots approximately horizontal with a lamp, and a pair of up light ref... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226187 | Bright decorative molded articles and molded articles located in the beam path of radar device This invention provides a bright decorative molded article exhibiting a bright color, and particularly a gold color tone. Also, this invention provides a molded article located in the beam path of a radar device that allows only a small radio transmission loss. This... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224271 | Signal assembly A signal assembly includes a light device connected to a light stick which has three connection hooks extending from an outer periphery thereof. A first connection assembly is mounted to the light stick and includes a first ring and a second ring connected with each... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222989 | Computer peripheral device arranged to emit a homogeneous light A computer peripheral device includes a body, a printed circuit board (PCB), a light source, and a reflecting device within the body arranged to cause light to be emitted from the body in a homogeneous manner. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222988 | Display device for illuminating optical storage disks for visual display and method of using the same A device and method for illuminating optical storage disks are disclosed. The device and method allow such disks to serve decorative and functional purposes, other than simply serving to store and transmit digital data. The display device is ideally suited to serve ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213957 | Lighted Christmas star ornament apparatus A lighted star ornament that is freestanding, and designed for use with a nativity set. A multi-faceted star is affixed atop a telescoping support post, the bottom of which is attached to a support base housing a battery or electrical power pack. Running through the... | 05/08/2007 |
