US Patent Issued to STANLEY ELECTRIC on Aug. 19 for "Lighting apparatus with liquid crystal element tilted with respect to the optical axis of the projection lens, vehicle lamp system having the same and lighting apparatus with prisms to refract a traveling direction before and after a liquid crystal element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,469, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Lighting apparatus with liquid crystal element tilted with respect to the optical axis of the projection lens, vehicle lamp system having the same and lighting apparatus with prisms to refract a traveling direction before and after a liquid crystal element" was invented by Hiroaki Ido (Tokyo), Matsuo Kamei (Tokyo) and Yoshihisa Iwamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the brightness of irradiated light in the lighting apparatus using a liquid crystal element. Alighting apparatus includes: a light source; a condensing unit that condenses light ...