Vibe — Decorative Lighting Manufacture

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Founded and led Vibe, designing, manufacturing and commercialising decorative lighting fixtures.

French Tech Innovation Grant — BPI France, 2016.
Full design-to-production cycle and commercialisation.
Built on prior R&D and manufacturing experience (Smart & Green, Bergès).

Modular LED Luminaire

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Concept render — demo image, watermarked & downscaled at build

Overview

Architecture of modular, low-consumption LED lighting modules that plug into one another (male–female connectors carrying the supply), enabling fast assembly from identical parts and industrialisation.

Patent record


Title	Module d’éclairage et dispositif lumineux comportant de tels modules d’éclairage (lighting module and lighting device comprising such modules)
Inventors	Philippe Landry, Boris Dupoux (spelt « Dupous » in the register), Peter Wildhorn
Applicant	IPW Europe
French patent	FR2976049, filed 31 May 2011, granted 31 October 2014, lapsed in 2016 (annual fees not paid)
European application	EP2532944, filed 2012, published December 2012, deemed withdrawn in 2015 — never granted

This was the venture’s first invention; the contactless pairing method (FR2993731) followed in 2012.

Highlights

Design-to-production: from concept to industrialised product.
International supply chain (France & China).
Part of a product line sold to the hospitality sector across 13 countries.
Co-invented during the Smart & Green venture (wireless LED startup).

Manufacturing on Boris Dupoux

Vibe — Decorative Lighting Manufacture

Overview

Modular LED Luminaire

Overview

Patent record

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