New Patent Awarded to Smart Guys at Ruud Lighting

The scientific language might be baffling, but the accomplishment is no less important. Four super smart guys who work at Ruud Lighting in Sturtevant were recently awarded a patent for "LED-module assembly."

Since the company is expanding to take advantage of more market share in the indoor commerical lighting industry, we imagine this new patent will go a long way in helping the company reach those goals.

Congratulations! Here's the full release:

Ruud Lighting, Racine, Wis., has been assigned a patent (8,101,434) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for LED-module assembly." The co-inventors are Wayne Guillien, Franksville, Wis., Scot Siebers, Racine, Wis., Joel Kapellusch, Racine, Wis., and Kurt S. Wilcox, Libertyville, Ill.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for LED-module assembly comprising the steps of providing a base portion with a base inner surface and a cover with a cover inner surface which together define a module interior, the cover having at least one opening therethrough; putting a sealing member into the module interior; positioning an LED lens into the cover opening; aligning an LED emitter and the LED lens within the module interior; sealing the module interior by securing the base portion with respect to the cover. The LED emitter is powered for imaging of the LED module to test light-output characteristics. A specific type of the LED lens is selected and its type and orientation are verified. The step of vacuum testing checks for water-air/tightness of the sealing of LED-module interior. A central database provides assembly and testing parameters to automated tool(s) performing each particular step. Each LED module includes a unique machine-identifiable module-marking with which the data related to each individual LED module is associated and stored in the central database."

Full text of the patent here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,101,434&OS=8,101,434&RS=8,101,434