US 12,320,512 B2
Mirror and cabinet apparatus
Douglas J. Diemel, Kohler, WI (US); Feipeng Lv, Shanghai (CN); Yanxiong Zhuang, Shanghai (CN); Haichao Sun, Shanghai (CN); Qiuyue Liu, Shanghai (CN); Linan Han, Shanghai (CN); Kor Han Chew, Shanghai (CN); Yingying Xu, Shanghai (CN); Yuan Gao, Shanghai (CN); Fan Huang, Shanghai (CN); Wendong Zhu, Shanghai (CN); Danni Gu, Shanghai (CN); Mark Schibur, Sheboygan, WI (US); Maxwell Wasscher, Grafton, WI (US); Steve Hammond, Sheboygan Falls, WI (US); Jesse Lemel, Bayside, WI (US); Margaret Mazz, Atlanta, GA (US); Pete Kajuch, Brookfield, WI (US); Erin Lilly, Sheboygan, WI (US); Megan Wehmeier, Cleveland, WI (US); Katie Stevens, Fox Point, WI (US); Katerina Revelis, Sheboygan, WI (US); Shawn Booth, Sheboygan, WI (US); Matthew Wegner, Sheboygan, WI (US); and Alexander V. LeToumeau, Sheboygan, WI (US)
Assigned to Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (US)
Filed by Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (US)
Filed on May 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/199,140.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/343,375, filed on May 18, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202210588875.2 (CN), filed on May 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0375169 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. F21V 23/04 (2006.01); F21V 14/02 (2006.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC F21V 23/0471 (2013.01) [F21V 14/02 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bathroom mirror lighting system comprising:
a mirror;
a light source;
a sensor; and
a control circuit operably coupled to the light source and the sensor, the control circuit configured to:
receive a sensor signal from the sensor indicative of at least one of a user's distance from the sensor, a user's position, a user's posture, a motion of the user towards or away from the sensor, or a task being performed by the user; and
transmit a control signal to the light source causing the light source to alter its light output based on the sensor signal from the sensor,
wherein the light source comprises a plurality of lights, each of which is independently alterable by the control signal.