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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111969 | Methods of fabricating light guide members and backlight units A light guide member capable of guiding light received from at least a first light source and second light source, wherein the first light source is spaced a distance D3 from the second light source. The light guide member may include a first side including a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111968 | Optical devices for guiding illumination Optical devices for guiding illumination are provided each having a body of optical material with staircase or acutely angled ramp structures on its top surface for distributing light inputted from one end of the device from the front exit faces of such structures a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8073303 | Light-concentrating panel A light-concentrating panel is disclosed. The light-concentrating panel comprises a planar light collecting element and a linear light collecting element. The planar light collecting element receives and collects the planar light, and then emits out as linear light.... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059933 | Backlight asymmetric light input wedge A backlight is disclosed and includes a visible light transmissive body primarily propagating light by TIR with a light input surface and a light output surface and a light guide portion and a light input portion. The light guide portion has a light reflection surfa... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7991261 | Light-guide solar panel and method of fabrication thereof The present invention is that of a solar energy system that uses a light-guide solar panel (LGSP) to trap light inside a dielectric or other transparent panel and propagates the light to one of the panel edges for harvesting by a solar energy collector such as a pho... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7965917 | Illuminating apparatus and surface inspection system using illuminating apparatus At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an illuminating apparatus, configured to uniformly illuminate a surface of an object, and includes a light-guiding member configured to guide light emitted from a source to a surface to be illuminated, and a reflectin... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953312 | Light guiding member and bifurcated linear light source apparatus A light guiding member having a light direction changing face which extends in a longitudinal direction of the light guiding member and a light emitting face which faces the light guiding member, wherein the light direction changing face includes two faces arranged ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7941028 | Backlight asymmetric light input wedge A backlight is disclosed and includes a visible light transmissive body primarily propagating light by TIR with a light input surface and a light output surface and a light guide portion and a light input portion. The light guide portion has a light reflection surfa... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7907811 | Optical waveguides and methods of making the same An optical waveguide includes a silicon wafer having two opposed sides. A first notch is defined in each of the two opposed sides such that the silicon wafer includes a head portion and a first stem portion. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7885506 | Device and a method for polarized illumination of a micro-display A display device comprises a light source to provide an input light beam, a substrate having an input surface to form an in-coupled light beam by receiving light of the input light beam, wherein the in-coupled light beam is confined to the substrate by total interna... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7873256 | Backlight with structured surfaces A backlight includes a lightguide, a light source disposed with respect to the lightguide to introduce light into the lightguide and a turning film. Optical structures are formed in one of an output surface and a back surface of the lightguide. The optical structure... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873257 | Light-guide solar panel and method of fabrication thereof The present invention is that of a solar energy system that uses a light-guide solar panel (LGSP) to trap light inside a dielectric or other transparent panel and propagates the light to one of the panel edges for harvesting by a solar energy collector such as a pho... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7809237 | Lens for reforming light-emitting diode radiation A lens for reforming radiation from a light-emitting diode having a first convex surface for admitting radiation path from the light-emitting diode that is close to the axis of the diode and a cylindrical surface for admitting radiation that makes a wider angle with... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805048 | Methods and apparatus for directing light emitting diode output light Sideways emission enhancements are described for light emitting diode (LED) lighting solutions having a wide variety of applications. While a typical LED lighting device has a substantial portion of its light emitted near a normal to the semiconductor photonic chip ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7764860 | Optical path converting member, multilayer print circuit board, and device for optical communication A device for optical communication includes at least a conductor circuit and an insulating layer formed and laminated. An optical circuit and an optical path are transmitting an optical signal, and an optical element or a package substrate on which an optical elemen... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7751679 | Brightness enhancement film and backlight module The present invention relates to a brightness enhancement film and a backlight module having the brightness enhancement film. The brightness enhancement film includes first micro-reflectors and second micro-reflectors. The cross-section of each of the first and seco... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7720347 | Backlight having all-in-one type light guide plate and method of manufacturing all-in-one type light guide plate Provided is an all-in-one type light guide plate including a plurality of prism-shaped structures that are integrally formed on the all-in-one light guide plate and which totally internally reflect light incident from a light source and emit the totally internally r... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7697814 | Radiation emitting apparatus with spatially controllable output energy distributions A laser handpiece is disclosed, including a fiber optic end having a non-cylindrical shape and further including a reflector surrounding a portion of the fiber optic end. The reflector is shaped to direct laser energy emitted from the fiber optic end in a direction ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697813 | Light guide member and backlight unit including light guide member and methods of fabricating light guide members and backlight units A light guide member capable of guiding light received from at least a first light source and second light source, wherein the first light source is spaced a distance D3 from the second light source. The light guide member may include a first side including a... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7660509 | Backlight asymmetric light input wedge A backlight is disclosed and includes a visible light transmissive body primarily propagating light by TIR with a light input surface and a light output surface and a light guide portion and a light input portion. The light guide portion has a light reflection surfa... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7650056 | Method for manufacturing a light-guiding plate and key module having the light-guiding plate For manufacturing a light-guiding plate and a key module having the light-guiding plate, a mold is prepared first. Then, a material having high light transmittance is injected into the mold. After the plastic material is formed, the mold is released, so that the pla... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7639918 | Manifold-type lightguide with reduced thickness A light guide includes a body having an elongate shape and a plurality of light-reflecting faces and light-emitting faces extending along the body. The light-reflecting faces extend in a stepped fashion along the body in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the l... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7620290 | Modified-output fiber optic tips A laser handpiece is disclosed, including a shaped fiber optic tip having a side-firing output end with a non-cylindrical shape. The shaped fiber optic tip can be configured to side-fire laser energy in a direction away from a laser handpiece and toward sidewalls of... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616858 | Light guiding plate made of transparent resin, surface-emitting light source apparatus and process for manufacturing light guiding plate A light guiding plate is made of a transparent thermoplastic resin and has a first main surface, a second main surface opposed to said first main surface, a first side wall, a second side wall, a third side wall opposed to said first side wall and a fourth side wall... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7596295 | Magnetic disk device A magnetic disk device performs magnetic recording by generating a magnetic field using an electric current on a light-irradiated surface of a recording medium. A head unit is formed by laminating an optical film that transmits a light and a metal film through which... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593617 | Optical waveguide An optical waveguide comprises a body (13), the body including an entrance window (9) and an exit window (11) defining an optical path (13) through a cavity. The cavity contains a first fluid (A) and a second fluid (B), with an interface ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593615 | Optical devices for guiding illumination Optical devices for guiding illumination are provided each having a body of optical material with staircase or acutely angled ramp structures on its top surface for distributing light inputted from one end of the device from the front exit faces of such structures a... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587118 | Resonator and device having the same A resonator with a three-dimensional photonic crystal having a fewer number of layers presenting a basic period, having a wide frequency band presenting a complete photonic band gap, and operating in a single mode, as well as a device using the same are provided, th... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587117 | Luminaire device An optical device for collecting light and selectively outputting or concentrating the light. A layer has an optical index of refraction n1, and top, bottom and side surfaces defining an angel of inclination φ. A back surface spans the top, bottom and si... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587119 | Optical waveguide device An optical waveguide device comprises a first under-cladding layer, a light emitting element provided on an upper surface of the first under-cladding layer and having a light emitting portion which emits light, and a core provided on the upper surface of the first u... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7565054 | Ultra thin lighting element An ultra thin lighting element including at least one light source. A lightguide element includes one lightguide layer comprising a plurality of discrete fine optic surface relief structures on at least one portion of at least one surface. Each surface relief struct... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7555194 | Illumination device and image scanning device An improved illumination device shortens a redundant area of insufficient light intensity close to a longitudinal end thereof. The device includes a casing, a bar-shaped light guide housed in the casing to cause a light-emitting surface thereof to be exposed, a ligh... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7532800 | Light guide unit The disclosed is a light guide unit and a surface illuminator illuminating a liquid crystal display (LCD). The light guide unit (100) is composed of a surface lighting light guide (30) having a light emitting major surface (30a) and a lig... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529461 | Light guide plate with compensated emission light field A light guide plate includes a light incidence surface, a light reflection surface, and a light emission surface. The light emission surface forms a plurality of light-guiding structures, which are extended in a direction substantially perpendicular to a lengthwise ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7522810 | Scanning head and printer A scanning head includes a surface emitting part array panel which has an array of surface emitting parts to emit light A plurality of light guide parts are respectively opposite to the surface emitting parts. Each of light guide parts has an entrance plane to recei... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522811 | Producing sandwich waveguides Complementary surface fabrication processes such as molding, casting, embossing, and so forth, are used to produce articles, structures, or components structured to operate as sandwich waveguides. Resulting complementary surface artifacts include, for example, optic... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522809 | Planar light source and light guide for use therein A planar light guide (4) having a light entrance end face (41) receiving light from a spot-like primary light source and a light exit face (43) outputting the entered light, wherein a plurality of lens arrays (42) are formed, at least a p... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7512310 | Backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device A light guide member for guiding light received from a light source, the light source illuminating light toward the light guide member, the light guide member may include a plurality of first grooves on a first side of the light guide member, the first grooves exten... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505668 | Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device including the same A backlight unit capable of reducing or effectively preventing a luminance deviation includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, a light source substrate on which the plurality of light emitting diodes is mounted, a light guide plate converting line-shaped light ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7493010 | Stepped light guide A stepped light guide has an incident surface, an emitting surface and a stepped reflecting structure. The emitting surface is adjacent to the incident surface. The stepped reflecting structure is adjacent to the incident surface, faces the emitting surface and has ... | 02/17/2009 |
