Beam-forming lens with internal cavity that prevents front losses
FIG. 1 shows lens body 10 with front face 11, recessed convex lens 12, forwardly divergently curved sidewall 13, rear cylindrical cavity 14, with sidewall 15, and front wall 16, the walls intersectin... Read More
Inventors: Medvedev, Vladimir; Parkyn, Jr., William A.;, Assignee: TIR Technologies, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA) |
Lighting unit
In view of the foregoing observations and description, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a lighting unit which can condense light with a high efficiency and can be sufficiently... Read More
Inventors: Naka, Yoji;, Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, JP) |
Method and light collection system for producing uniform arc image size
In view of the foregoing problems of the conventional systems, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved collection system which creates an arc image which is independent of the ... Read More
Inventors: Shimizu, Jeffrey A.;, Assignee: Philips Electronics North America Corp. (New York, NY) |
Luminaire device
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A multilayer luminaire device constructed in accordance with one form of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 2 and indicated generally at 10. A prior art wedge 11 is shown g... Read More
Inventors: Winston, Roland; Holman, Robert L.; Jacobson, Benjamin A.; Emmons, Robert M.; Gleckman, Philip;, Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, Co. (St. Paul, MN) |
Screen illumination apparatus and method
This invention offers an improved method of efficiently and uniformly illuminating a screen, such as a liquid crystal display, using a compact high-brightness source, such as the spherical plasma lam... Read More
Inventors: Medvedev, Vladimir; Parnyn, William A;, Assignee: Teledyne Lighting and Display Products, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA) |
LED with light extractor
Referring first to FIG. 1, a cylindrical body 10 of height L.sub.2 -L.sub.3 consists of light transmitting material such as thermo-setting polymer, UV curable polymer or injection moldable material s... Read More
Inventors: Pelka, David G.; Winston, Roland; Parkyn, Jr., William A.;, Assignee: Teledyne Lighting and Display Products, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA) |
Light intensity converter
The object of the present invention is to provide a light intensity converter having a small thickness and a simple configuration capable of emerging a light beam while changing the light intensity di... Read More
Inventors: Tawa, Fumihiro; Hasegawa, Shinya;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
Pulsed two lamp single light valve display system
The present invention achieves technical advantages as a two lamp single light valve imaging system. One lamp is utilized for generating red light, and a second lamp is utilized for generating both bl... Read More
Inventors: Bartlett, Terry A.;, Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) |
Efficient light engine systems, components and methods of manufacture
The delivery efficiency of a LE for a given, spatial extended emission source S and a given, remote illumination target T with respective spatial and angular dependent emission functions is improved b... Read More
Inventors: Strobl, Karlheinz;, Assignee: |
Devices and methods for distributing radially collected and collimated light
One object of the present invention is to create evenly distributed illumination from a luminaire that is mounted on and close to the surface that is to be illuminated. Another object of the present i... Read More
Inventors: Simon, Jerome H.;, Assignee: |
LED collimation optics with improved performance and reduced size
This invention represents an improvement in the performance of the Flat top Tulip Collimator disclosed and claimed in our co-pending application Ser. No. 09/415,833 referred to above in terms of reduc... Read More
Inventors: Marshall, Thomas; Pashley, Michael;, Assignee: Koninklijke Phillips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
Light extraction from LEDs with light pipes
It is a major object of the invention to provide a solution and/or solutions to the above problems and difficulties. Basically, a non-imaging coupler is provided, as in the form of a figure of resolut... Read More
Inventors: Parkyn, Jr., William A.; Pelka, David G.;, Assignee: Teledyne Lighting and Display Products, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA) |
Optical element
The present invention has been made in consideration of the aforementioned problems, and has as its object to suppress relative decentering of reflection surfaces, which must have highest precision, a... Read More
Inventors: Sekita, Makoto; Kumagai, Fumiaki;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
High efficiency non-imaging optics
In order to overcome the limitations of the prior art, the present invention provides an optical device that is highly efficient and a method of manufacturing the optical device in a variety of forms,... Read More
Inventors: Minano, Juan C.; Benitez, Pablo; Gonzalez, Juan C.; Falicoff, Waqidi; Caulfield, H. J.;, Assignee: Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC. (Irvine, CA) |
Lighting apparatus having low profile
One aspect of the present invention relates to a lighting apparatus for illuminating an illumination area of a display. The lighting apparatus comprises a waveguide adapted for mounting adjacent the d... Read More
Inventors: Pelka, David G.; Popovich, John; Qiao, Yong;, Assignee: Teledyne Lighting and Display Products, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA) |
LED/phosphor-LED hybrid lighting systems
OF THE INVENTION The hybrid lighting system of the invention generally comprises selectively combining one or more certain LEDs with a phosphor-LED consisting of a blue LED and at least one phosphor ... Read More
Inventors: Marshall, Thomas M.; Pashley, Michael D.; Herman, Stephen;, Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
Six color display apparatus having increased color gamut
It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus for forming, from digital data, a color image having a broad color gamut. With this object in mind, the present invention provid... Read More
Inventors: Roddy, James E.; Zolla, Robert J.; Blish, Nelson A.; Horvath, Louis S.;, Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
LED light module for vehicles
It is an object of the present invention to provide an LED replacement bulb for incandescent light bulbs, which is adapted for use in all standard vehicle sockets. It is further an object of the prese... Read More
Inventors: Wesson, Bruce;, Assignee: Jam Strait, Inc. (Newton, MS) |
Vehicle lamp
The invention has been conceived under the foregoing circumstances and aims at providing a vehicle lamp which is equipped with an LED light source and can make a reflection surface of a reflector glar... Read More
Inventors: Amano, Yasuyuki;, Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Apparatus for displaying a color image from digital data
It is an object of the present invention to provide a display apparatus for forming, from digital data, a color image having a broad color gamut. With this object in mind, the present invention provid... Read More
Inventors: Roddy, James E.; Zolla, Robert J.; Blish, Nelson A.; Horvath, Louis S.;, Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
Compact folded-optics illumination lens
The present invention advantageously addresses the needs above as well as other needs by providing a method of designing and/or manufacturing an optical device. The method comprises the steps of gener... Read More
Inventors: Benitez, Pablo; Miñ, ano; Juan C (Madrid, ES), Muñ oz, Fernando;, Assignee: Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (Irvine, CA) |
Light source unit having orthogonally disposed semiconductor light emitter
OF THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view showing a vehicular lamp 100 which incorporates a light source u... Read More
Inventors: Ishida, Hiroyuki; Tatsukawa, Masashi;, Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Screenless elliptical illumination module producing an illumination beam with cutoff and lamp comprising such a module
What is claimed is: 1. An illumination module for a motor vehicle lamp producing an illumination beam of the type with cutoff, comprising, arranged from back to front overall along a longitudinal hori... Read More
Inventors: Albou, Pierre;, Assignee: Valeo Vision (Bobigny, FR) |
Device for mounting a glass pane on an oven door
What I claim is: 1. An oven glass door system comprising in combination an oven including an opening for providing access; a gasket means, said gasket means being secured to said oven about said openi... Read More
Inventors: Lancelot, Pierre;, Assignee: Eurofours (Gommegnies, FR) |
Coaxial dual primary heat exchanger
Basically the present invention in it's most simple form or embodiment is directed to a heat exchanger which provides for at least two heat exchange surfaces and which has the combustion of the fuel, ... Read More
Inventors: Wilson, Jr., James C.;, Assignee: |
Illumination panel
The present invention was completed under this background, and a primary object of the present invention is to provide an illumination panel in which the entire illumination surface can be uniformly i... Read More
Inventors: Tokuda, Shuichirou; Furukawa, Noriyuki; Kawai, Yoshinori;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Necktie with a flat flashlight concealed therein
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now more specifically to FIG. 1, therein is disclosed a person 10 shown wearing a necktie that is generally designated by the reference numeral 12 and that embod... Read More
Inventors: Gilson, Warren E.;, Assignee: |
Food oven and smoker device
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown the improved food oven apparatus 10 of the present invention composed generally of a housing 12 and electronic control unit 14 advantag... Read More
Inventors: Cothran, Herman;, Assignee: American International Foodservice (Lakeforest, CA) |
Heat treatment of food with flow-dependent control
According to the invention this problem is solved in that a disturbance is forced on or an obstacle placed in the cooking area flow in the vicinity of a stationary connecting opening containing the se... Read More
Inventors: Meister, Siegfried;, Assignee: |
Oven with excess steam treatment device
To achieve these and other objects the invention consists in an oven for cooking foodstuffs including an airtight enclosure having an opening closed by a door with condensed water capture means for co... Read More
Inventors: Violi, Raymond;, Assignee: Societe Cooperative de Production Bourgeois societe cooperative de (Faverges, FR) |
Lighting 
