Plural Radiation Sources Patents (Class 250/494.1)
  • Patent number: 11944240
    Abstract: An unenclosed fabric warming rack includes at least one rod extending along a horizontal plane, a first light source positioned on a first end of the at least one rod, and a second light source positioned on a second end of the at least one rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Schwartz, Gunter Felix
  • Patent number: 11794009
    Abstract: Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for treating urological and gastrointestinal disorders, including bedwetting, through stimulation of the dorsal or plantar surface of the foot, including the superficial peroneal nerve and branches thereof, such as the dorsal intermediate and medial cutaneous nerves, or the medial and/or and lateral plantar nerves. The device facilitates placement of electrodes on the foot. Also provided herein is a system including the device, a pulse generator, and a controller, and methods of manufacturing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventor: Changfeng Tai
  • Patent number: 11786754
    Abstract: An example particle therapy system includes a particle accelerator to output a particle beam having a spot size; a scanning system for the particle accelerator to scan the particle beam in two dimensions across at least part of a treatment area of an irradiation target; and an adaptive aperture between the scanning system and the irradiation target. The adaptive aperture includes structures that are movable relative to the irradiation target to approximate a shape to trim part of the treatment area. The part of the treatment area has a size that is based on an area of the spot size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MEVION MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gerrit Townsend Zwart, Mark R. Jones, Miles S. Wagner, James Cooley, Eros Pedroni, Robert Silva
  • Patent number: 11353647
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a liquid crystal panel and an illumination device. The illumination device includes a first light guide having a first opening and facing the liquid crystal panel, a first light source facing the first light guide, a second light guide provided in the first opening and having a first main surface facing the liquid crystal panel, a second main surface, and a side surface, a second light source having a light emitting surface facing the side surface, and a wavelength conversion element located between the side surface and the light emitting surface, and configured to convert a wavelength of light from the second light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimokawa, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11307373
    Abstract: A lens arrangement (200) for a camera device, the lens arrangement (200) comprising: a lens member (100) comprising a barrel (104) enclosing a lens unit (106) and extending along a longitudinal lens member axis (A), a lens holder (202) comprising a wall surrounding a cavity, wherein the lens member is at least partly inserted into the cavity, wherein the barrel (104) of the lens member (100) defines a channel (102) which extends inside a wall section of the barrel (104) of the lens member (100) in parallel with the longitudinal lens member axis (A) and which has a first end opening facing a field of view of the lens arrangement (200), and wherein the lens arrangement (200) comprises an emitter (110) arranged to emit electromagnetic radiation to an area located in the field of view of the lens arrangement (200) via the channel (102) and the first end opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Malte Bokvist, Jöns Danelius
  • Patent number: 11273320
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photo-therapy device and its use for treatment of skin conditions such as rashes or similar dermatological conditions that are exhibited by Grover's disease or other diseases which are associated or co-existent with Grover's disease. The treatment includes exposure of the subject's affected skin and preferably the entire body with blue LED light to improve skin status by stimulating body's immune system to reduce itching, blotchiness and skin discomfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TCELLERATE LLC
    Inventor: William Woodburn
  • Patent number: 11181520
    Abstract: Methods of imaging described herein comprises disposing a first and second ultrasound-switchable fluorophore in an environment; exposing the environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region; disposing the first and/or second fluorophore within the activation region to switch the first and/or second fluorophore from an off state to an on state; exposing the environment to a beam of electromagnetic radiation; detecting a first photoluminescence signal at a first location within the environment, the photoluminescence signal comprising at least one of a first ultrasound fluorescence signal emitted by the first fluorophore, a first fluorescence signal emitted by the second fluorophore, and a background signal; correlating the first photoluminescence signal with a first reference signal to generate a correlation coefficient for the first location; and multiplying the first photoluminescence signal by the first correlation coefficient for the first location to generate a first modified photoluminesce
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Regents, the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Baohong Yuan, Bingbing Cheng, Mingyuan Wei
  • Patent number: 11083807
    Abstract: A system for sterilizing viruses includes beam generation circuitry for generating a radiating wave having radiating energy therein at a predetermined frequency therein. A controller controls the radiating wave generation at the predetermined frequency. The predetermined frequency equals a resonance frequency of a particular virus. The predetermined frequency induces a mechanical resonance vibration at the resonance frequency of the particular virus within the particular virus for destroying a capsid of the particular virus. Radiating circuitry projects the radiating wave on a predetermined location to destroy the particular virus at the predetermined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NXGEN PARTNERS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Solyman Ashrafi
  • Patent number: 11071799
    Abstract: A handheld portable device for sanitizing a surface or air surrounding a surface. The handheld portable device includes a body that comprises a user input and a UVC light source disposed at the body. The handheld portable device also includes a power source for providing power to the UVC light source. Responsive to actuating the user input, such as by a user holding the handheld portable device, the UVC light source emits UVC light to sanitize the surface or the air surrounding the surface of pathogens. The handheld portable device includes a visible light emitter that, when powered, emits visible light to indicate the surface or space that is irradiated by the UVC light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Freestyle Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer K. Rosen, Benjamin X. Feeney, Gregory D. DeGrazia
  • Patent number: 11058784
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a multipurpose ultraviolet (UV) floor curing device. The device includes a mobile carriage, a UV panel, and a control device. The mobile carriage is configured to move on a floor applied with a photocurable coating. The UV panel is coupled to the mobile carriage and removably secures a plurality of radiation units configured to emit UV light of a predetermined intensity capable of curing the photocurable coating. The UV panel is configured to transition between a floor configuration and a non-floor configuration. The control device configured to drive the UV panel for the plurality of radiation units to project the UV light towards the ground substantially underneath the UV panel in the floor configuration and towards elevated surfaces proximate to the ground in the non-floor configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Anram Holdings
    Inventors: Prakash Valentino Ramanand, Manjinder Singh Dhillon
  • Patent number: 11033758
    Abstract: A photon therapy delivery system can deliver radiation therapy to a patient via a photon beam. The system can utilize a controller configured to facilitate delivery of radiation therapy via a photon beam and also a particle beam. This can include receiving radiation therapy beam information for radiation therapy treatment of a patient utilizing the particle beam and photon beam. Also, patient magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data can be received during the radiation therapy treatment. Utilizing the patient MRI data, real-time calculations of a location of dose deposition for the particle beam and for the photon beam can be determined taking into account interaction properties of soft tissues through which the particle beam passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: VIEWRAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James F. Dempsey, Iwan Kawrykow
  • Patent number: 11020498
    Abstract: A method of destroying pathogens disposed upon an epidermis includes providing a hand held device including a grip and a lamp, transmitting far-UVC light via the lamp, and filtering the transmitted far-UVC light to attenuate portions of transmitted UVC light that have a wavelength known to cause damage to an epidermis of a human. The epidermis is scanned by tracing the hand held device over a localized area of the epidermis thereby illuminating the localized area with the filtered far-UVC light. The filtered far-UVC light destroys pathogens disposed upon the epidermis while not causing adverse biological damage to the epidermis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: FREESTYLE PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer K. Rosen, Benjamin X. Feeney
  • Patent number: 11000694
    Abstract: A method for treating a subject having a diseased or atrophic state of fibrotic tissue, kidney disease and associated nerve endings, or for promoting tissue regeneration in muscle tissue is accomplished through exposing the tissue with a laser light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 700 nm, or more preferably having a wavelength of about 405 nm, about 532 nm, about 635 nm, or a combination thereof. Subsequent to exposure, mesenchymal stem cells can be administered to the subject. After the administration of mesenchymal stem cells, the tissue is further exposed to laser light having a wavelength of about 400 nm to about 700 nm, or a laser light having a single wavelength of about 400 nm to about 700 nm. The mesenchymal cells can be interferon gamma activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Amelia Bartholomew, Megan O'Connor, Rachana Patil
  • Patent number: 10953237
    Abstract: The present invention relates inter alia to a cosmetic method for providing skin care comprising illuminating the skin of a subject with one or more light beams, said beams together providing light to the skin having a discontinuous spectrum. The invention also relates to a method for treating a skin-related disorder and relates to a light-emitting device for use in these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: InDerm
    Inventors: Géraldine Decaux, Jean-Alexis Grimaud
  • Patent number: 10946219
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use as a compact medical ion accelerator includes a charged particle linear accelerator module and a pair of fixed field magnet assemblies. The linear accelerator module accelerates a pulse of charged particles as a beam aligned along a first ray. The pair of assemblies controls the orbits of the pulse by turning the pulse 360 degrees within a first plane. The magnet assemblies are disposed on opposite sides of the linear accelerator with mirrored symmetry relative to a line that is perpendicular to the first ray and passes through a reference point in the first plane. Each assembly includes a pair of magnets for which a strength of a magnetic field varies non-linearly along a radial direction; and a superconducting magnet for which a strength of a magnetic field varies along a radial direction. The superconducting magnet is disposed between the pair of magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Malek Haj Tahar, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson
  • Patent number: 10928675
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including a display panel; and a light source assembly including: a plurality of first light sources disposed in a first region to supply first light toward the display panel; a light guide plate including: incident surface configured to receive second light; and an exit surface facing the display panel and configured to transmit the second light received from the incident surface of the light guide plate to the display panel; and a plurality of second light sources disposed on a periphery of the first region to supply the second light to the incident surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Bin Kim, Byoung Jin Cho, Young Chol Lee, Ho Seok Lee, Nae Won Jang, Suk Ju Choi
  • Patent number: 10816760
    Abstract: A camera module is provided and includes a lens assembly and an illuminating module. The lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses and a lens barrel disposed around the lenses for supporting the lenses. The lens assembly includes an incident surface, an emergent surface and a lateral surface. The lens barrel includes a bearing part parallel to the lenses, and the bearing part is disposed on the emergent surface of the lens assembly and is not disposed on the incident surface of the lens assembly. The illuminating module includes at least one light source and an annular circuit board, and disposed on the incident surface of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SPRING RAINBOW OPTICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hung-Chang Cho, Yu-Teng Jheng
  • Patent number: 10264645
    Abstract: A light, in particular for testing workpiece surfaces using a fluorescent marking device, which light has at least two lighting elements that emit electromagnetic radiation with different wavelength ranges. The intensity with which the lighting element irradiates can be adjusted separately for at least one of the lighting elements. Expediently, the light is configured to increase or reduce the intensity of at least one of the lighting elements and at the same time to keep the intensity of at least one other of the lighting elements constant, or to reduce it or increase it in the opposite way to the first-mentioned lighting element. The light is configured to adjust the intensity at such a speed that the human eye can adapt to a change in the intensity during the adjustment without adverse effects on the person's sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Inventor: Marc Breit
  • Patent number: 10206838
    Abstract: An incubator of the disclosure is configured such that a top hood is detachable from a peripheral frame by unlatching first latch mechanisms that latch the top hood. The incubator is also configured such that any of wall portion among four wall portions configuring the peripheral frame are detachable from an incubator base by unlatching any of corresponding second to fifth latch mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ATOM MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Wakabayashi, Kenji Kobayashi, Masaaki Oohashi, Ichiro Matsubara, Terumi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10110883
    Abstract: A device can determine a distance to an object. The device can use the determined distance to vary a focal length of a first adjustable element so that the first adjustable element directs light from the object into a first waveguide and onto a detector, and forms an image of the object at the detector. The device can produce an image, such as augmented content, on a panel. The device can direct light from the panel into a second waveguide. The device can use the determined distance to vary a focal length of a second adjustable element so that the second adjustable element directs light out of the second waveguide and forms a virtual image of the panel in a plane coincident with the object. The device can operate as an augmented reality headset. The adjustable elements can be phase modulators, or acoustically responsive material with surface acoustic wave transducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: DAQRI, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Mullins, Matthew Kammerait
  • Patent number: 10092665
    Abstract: UV hard-surface disinfection system that is able to disinfect the hard surfaces in a room, while minimizing missed areas due to shadows by providing multiple UV light towers that can be placed in several areas of a room such that shadowed areas are eliminated and that can be transported by a cart that is low to the ground such that the towers may be loaded and unloaded easily by a single operator. The system is able to be controlled remotely, such that during activation of the system, no operator is present, and to automatically cut power to all towers in the event that a person enters the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Surfacide, LLC
    Inventors: Waldemar John Lyslo, Mark Howard Schwartz, Stephen Boyd Pettis
  • Patent number: 9782505
    Abstract: UV hard-surface disinfection system that is able to disinfect the hard surfaces in a room, while minimizing missed areas due to shadows by providing multiple UV light towers that can be placed in several areas of a room such that shadowed areas are eliminated and that can be transported by a cart that is low to the ground such that the towers may be loaded and unloaded easily by a single operator. The system is able to be controlled remotely, such that during activation of the system, no operator is present, and to automatically cut power to all towers in the event that a person enters the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Surfacide, LLC
    Inventors: Waldemar John Lyslo, Mark Howard Schwartz, Stephen Boyd Pettis
  • Patent number: 9698003
    Abstract: Apparatuses are disclosed which include a discharge lamp configured to emit ultraviolet light, a power circuit configured to operate the discharge lamp, and a reflector system configured to redirect ultraviolet light emitted from the discharge lamp. In some embodiments, the apparatuses include a support structure containing the power circuit and supporting the discharge lamp. In some of such embodiments, the reflector system is configured to redirect ultraviolet light propagating away from the support structure to a region exterior to the apparatus and which is between approximately 2 feet and approximately 4 feet from a floor of a room in which the apparatus is arranged. In other embodiments, the reflector system may be additionally or alternatively configured to redirect ultraviolet light propagating away from the support structure to encircle an exterior surface of the apparatus. In any case, the reflector system may, in some embodiments, include a repositionable reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: XENEX DISINFECTION SERVICES, LLC.
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Stibich, James Blaine Wolford, Alexander Nathan Garfield, Martin Rathgeber, Eric Martin Frydendall
  • Patent number: 9572996
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the stimulation of thermal receptors in the skin of a patient by means of thermal stimuli. The device comprises a plurality of noninvasive stimulation units for irradiating the skin of the patient with electromagnetic radiation, wherein thermal stimuli are produced by absorption of the electromagnetic radiation in the skin of the patient and the wavelength range of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the stimulation units can be adjusted. The device also comprises a control unit for controlling the stimulation units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Alexander Tass, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Thomas Von Bueren, Jean-Noel Fehr, Urban Schnell
  • Patent number: 9421398
    Abstract: A radiation therapy system comprises a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system combined with an irradiation system, which can include one or more linear accelerators (linacs) that can emit respective radiation beams suitable for radiation therapy. The MRI system includes a split magnet system, comprising first and second main magnets separated by gap. A gantry is positioned in the gap between the main MRI magnets and supports the linac(s) of the irradiation system. The gantry is rotatable independently of the MRI system and can angularly reposition the linac(s). Shielding can also be provided in the form of magnetic and/or RF shielding. Magnetic shielding can be provided for shielding the linac(s) from the magnetic field generated by the MRI magnets. RF shielding can be provided for shielding the MRI system from RF radiation from the linac.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ViewRay Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shmaryu M. Shvartsman, Gordon DeMeester, James F. Dempsey, John Lester Patrick
  • Patent number: 9360187
    Abstract: This light source 1 is provided with a luminescent cylinder 3A housing a luminescent part 2 to generate light; a light guide cylinder 3B connected to the luminescent cylinder 3A on a one end side, and configured to guide the light generated by the luminescent part 2, to an exit window 4 provided on the other end side; and a cylindrical reflective cylinder 9 inserted and fixed between the exit window 4 of the light guide cylinder 3B and a portion connecting the luminescent cylinder 3A and the exit window 4, and having an inner wall surface as a reflective surface 9a to reflect the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K. K.
    Inventor: Shigeki Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9061142
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a data processing method for determining a treatment plan for radiation therapy treatment of at least two spatially separate targets by means of a treatment device constituted to treat the at least two targets by means of one or more sub-beams during a treatment time, the one or more sub-beams constituting at least one treatment beam which is to pass through the at least two targets in accordance with a treatment plan during the treatment time, the treatment device being further constituted to allow for simultaneous treatment of the at least two targets by at least two of the sub-beams at least during a time interval during the treatment time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventor: Stefan Vilsmeier
  • Patent number: 9005452
    Abstract: A device for purifying a fluid is disclosed. The aforesaid device comprises: (a) a passage adapted for conducting a flow of the fluid, said passage provided with input and output openings; (b) a plurality of elongate members coated with a titanium oxide disposed within the passage; (c) fastening means for mechanically fixating terminals of the elongate members within the passage; (d) at least one source of ultraviolet radiation adapted for illuminating the elongate members; (e) pumping means adapted for generating the fluid flow through the passage from the input opening to the output opening. The fastening means comprises at least two fasteners. Each fastener comprises two mutually orthogonal spaced apart pluralities of parallel rods. The rods are adapted for restricting lateral displacement of the elongate members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Inventors: Alex Arenshtam, Pinchas Maman
  • Publication number: 20150076368
    Abstract: An assembly and method for irradiating a surface utilizing a plurality of LEDs in a pattern such that a linear fill factor characterizing such pattern is at least 80% along a focusing direction and/or at least 20% along a direction transverse to said focusing direction, the radiation emitted from the LEDs and reflected onto the surface from a trough reflector. Non-linear disposal of LEDs on an LED assembly is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: ROBERT L. SARGENT, Robert F. Karlicek, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150076367
    Abstract: An assembly and method for irradiating a surface utilizing a plurality of LEDs in a pattern such that a linear fill factor characterizing such pattern is at least 80% along a focusing direction and/or at least 20% along a direction transverse to said focusing direction, the radiation emitted from the LEDs and reflected onto the surface from a trough reflector. Non-linear disposal of LEDs on an LED assembly is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: MICHAEL D. CALLAGHAN, Robert L. Sargent
  • Publication number: 20150069265
    Abstract: A solution for generating ultraviolet diffusive radiation is provided. A diffusive ultraviolet radiation illuminator includes at least one ultraviolet radiation source located within a reflective cavity that includes a plurality of surfaces. At least one of the plurality of surfaces can be configured to diffusively reflect at least 70% of the ultraviolet radiation and at least one of the plurality of surfaces can be configured to transmit at least 30% of the ultraviolet radiation and reflect at least 10% of the ultraviolet radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: SENSOR ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Saulius Smetona, Alexander Dobrinsky, Timothy James Bettles, Yuri Bilenko, Ignas Gaska, Michael Shur, Remigijus Gaska
  • Publication number: 20150034843
    Abstract: A shade structure comprising a horizontal box that is open in a lower region and comprises within it a motorized roller with a shade associated therewith, cooperating with optional guides, and at least one bactericidal lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Marco ANTONIAZZI
  • Patent number: 8901518
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a heating assembly using a heat exchange device to cool a plurality of heating element. The heating assembly includes a plurality of heating elements, a cooling element having one or more cooling channels for receiving cooling fluid therein, and a heat exchange device disposed between the plurality of heating elements and the cooling element. The heat exchange device comprises a hot interface disposed adjacent to and in thermal contact with the plurality of heating elements and a cold interface disposed adjacent to and in thermal contact with the cooling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Ranish, Aaron Muir Hunter
  • Publication number: 20140346372
    Abstract: A lamp includes: a housing; a platform supported by the housing; a left light source disposed on a left side of the lamp; a right light source disposed on a right side of the lamp; a first top light source disposed at least partially above the platform, wherein; the left and right sources extend closer to a front of the lamp than the first top light source; and a space between the platform and the; light sources; to simultaneously receive therein five nails of all five digits of a hand or foot of a user. The positions of the sources and platform may be designed so as to provide substantially uniform light flux to all five nails so as to synchronously and uniformly cure light-curable nail gel or acrylic on the user's nails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
    Inventors: Thong Vu, David Valia
  • Publication number: 20140340665
    Abstract: A light source includes a plurality of ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) and an LED phase shift controller coupled to the plurality of UV LEDs adapted to control the phase shift of each UV LED in the plurality of UV LEDs. The plurality of UV LEDs forms a UV LED array. An ultraviolet lithography system can include a light source as described above. The system can further include a mirror assembly in a light path of the light source, the mirror assembly having a polarization mirror with an interference coating. A method provides a light source for an ultraviolet lithography system including the element of providing an plurality of UV LEDs that emit UV light and the element of controlling a phase shift of the plurality of UV LEDs with an LED phase shift controller coupled to each UV LED or arrays of the UV LEDs in the plurality of UV LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaw-Lih SHIH, Hong-Hsing CHOU, Yeh-Chieh WANG, Hsin-Kuo CHANG, Chung-Nan CHEN, Kuang Hsiung CHENG
  • Publication number: 20140319386
    Abstract: Micro-channel-cooled UV curing systems and components thereof are provided. According to one embodiment, a lamp head module includes a high aspect ratio, high fill factor array of light emitting devices and a submount. The array includes multiple groups of electrically seriesed light emitting devices that are connected in electrical parallel. The submount is of monolithic construction and includes multiple L-shaped patterned circuit material layers. Each of the L-shaped patterned circuit material layers includes an arm portion and a stem portion. The arm portion functions as a light emitting device bond pad and the stem portion functions as a wire bond pad and a circuit trace. Each light emitting device of a group is affixed to a corresponding arm portion of the submount. The stem portions are located external to the array, run parallel to the length of the array and perform a primary current carrying function for current flow between adjacent light emitting devices of the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Jonathan S. Dahm
  • Patent number: 8872137
    Abstract: A device for UV curing a coating or printed ink on an workpiece such as an optical fiber comprises dual elliptical reflectors arranged to have a co-located focus. The workpiece is centered at the co-located focus such that the dual elliptical reflectors are disposed on opposing sides of the workpiece. Two separate light sources are positioned at a second focus of each elliptical reflector, wherein light irradiated from the light sources is substantially concentrated onto the surface of the workpiece at the co-located focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Phoseon Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Doug Childers
  • Publication number: 20140299791
    Abstract: Techniques for forming a target and for producing extreme ultraviolet light include releasing an initial target material toward a target location, the target material including a material that emits extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light when converted to plasma; directing a first amplified light beam toward the initial target material, the first amplified light beam having an energy sufficient to form a collection of pieces of target material from the initial target material, each of the pieces being smaller than the initial target material and being spatially distributed throughout a hemisphere shaped volume; and directing a second amplified light beam toward the collection of pieces to convert the pieces of target material to plasma that emits EUV light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Yezheng Tao, Robert J. Rafac, Igor V. Fomenkov, Daniel J.W. Brown, Daniel J. Golich
  • Patent number: 8854737
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser light source and others for decreasing wavelength-by-wavelength differences of focal positions of focused components in collimating and then focusing polychromatic light with a wide spectrum width. The laser light source includes a collimator device, in which relative positions of emergence of a laser beam emitted from a polychromatic light source and a collimating lens composed of an achromatic lens can be adjusted at a 10 ?m level or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Nagano, Motoki Kakui
  • Patent number: 8841632
    Abstract: A device having a vertical slot for sanitizing a dental appliance inserted in the device. The device comprises a removable tray for containing a dental appliance, the removable tray is suitable to be lifted in and out of the vertical slot of the sanitizing device. The device comprises vertically extending walls on opposing sides of the vertical slot between which the removable tray is inserted, wherein one of the vertically extending walls comprises an ultraviolet lamp for transmission of ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Practicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley P. Griffin, Gary Fisher
  • Patent number: 8835886
    Abstract: A lamp includes: a housing; a platform supported by the housing; a left light source disposed on a left side of the lamp; a right light source disposed on a right side of the lamp; a first top light source disposed at least partially above the platform, wherein; the left and right sources extend closer to a front of the lamp than the first top light source; and a space between the platform and the; light sources; to simultaneously receive therein five nails of all five digits of a hand or foot of a user. The positions of the sources and platform may be designed so as to provide substantially uniform light flux to all five nails so as to synchronously and uniformly cure light-curable nail gel or acrylic on the user's nails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Revlon Consumer Products Corporation
    Inventors: Thong Vu, David Valia
  • Patent number: 8816306
    Abstract: An infrared (IR) light device is provided comprising: a main casing filled with a gas to prevent condensation from forming on an interior surface of the visible light filter; and a plurality of IR light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted in the main casing, wherein the casing includes heat dissipating features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Robert A. Yano, Jr., Joseph W. Martin, Darren J. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 8809816
    Abstract: A multipurpose device for transmitting radiation from a source to an object comprises two antennas, each designed as a truncated segment of a spherical or cylindrical surface, a radiation source provided in the aperture plane of one of the antennas, and an object placed in the combined focal area of the two antennas. The antennas are positioned opposite one another at a distance of from 0.6 to double the radius of the spherical or cylindrical surface, and the radiation source is of a distributed type. The antenna design effectively concentrates radiation emitted by a distributed source on an object placed in the focal area of the antenna, providing greater efficiency of radiation transmission, the possibility of radiation power variation, a more uniform concentration of radiation, an increase in the volume of the focal area without replacing the radiation source, increased reliability of the system, and reduced power requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Quantrill Estate Inc.
    Inventor: Evgeny Vyacheslavovich Komrakov
  • Publication number: 20140209806
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a radiography system and a radiography method. A radiation output device has a plurality of radiation sources disposed along a predetermined plane. Also, in accordance with whether an imaging state is a still image mode or a moving picture mode, at least one of the radiation sources that outputs radiation among the plurality of radiation sources is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Yasunori OHTA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Kouichi KITANO, Naoto IWAKIRI
  • Publication number: 20140203194
    Abstract: A system for generating extreme ultraviolet light, in which a target material inside a chamber is irradiated with a laser beam to be turned into plasma, includes a first laser apparatus configured to output a first laser beam, a second laser apparatus configured to output a pedestal and a second laser beam, and a controller connected to the first and second laser apparatuses and configured to cause the first laser beam to be outputted first, the pedestal to be outputted after the first laser beam, and the second laser beam having higher energy than the pedestal to be outputted after the pedestal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: GIGAPHOTON INC.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nagano, Yasunori Wada, Tatsuya Yanagida, Osamu Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 8766219
    Abstract: A method of operating a particle beam microscopy. A particle beam is scanned across a scanning region of a surface of the object. Particles are detected by a detector system for a plurality of impingement locations of the primary beam within the scanning region. A detector system generates detector signals which represent for each of the impingement locations an intensity of the detected particles. Material data of the interaction regions are calculated depending on the detector signals and depending on topography data, which represent a topography of the object surface in the scanning region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Michel Aliman, Jaroslaw Paluszynski, Wolfgang Berger
  • Patent number: 8760054
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for generating a plasma electron flood using microwave radiation. In one embodiment, a microwave PEF apparatus is configured to generate a magnetic field that rapidly decays over a PEF cavity, resulting in a static magnetic field having a high magnetic field strength near one side (e.g., “bottom”) of the PEF cavity and a low magnetic field strength (e.g., substantially zero) near the opposite side (e.g., “top”) of the PEF comprising an elongated extraction slit. In one particular embodiment, the one or more permanent magnets are located at a position that is spatially opposed to the location of the elongated extraction slit to achieve the rapidly decaying magnetic field. The magnetic field results in an electron cyclotron frequency in a region of the cavity equal to or approximately equal to a microwave radiation frequency so that plasma is generated to diffuse through the extraction apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Axcelis Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: William DiVergilio, Bo Vanderberg
  • Patent number: 8758630
    Abstract: A method for reducing fecal coliforms in waste water wherein the flow of water is directed through a reactor having removable cover, inlet and outlet, two UV lamps, six irradiating chambers, each interconnected by apertures, a UV lamp control box, and a heat a conducting pipe to transfer heat from the control box into the flowing water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Britenstine Incorporated
    Inventor: Eric Britenstine
  • Patent number: RE44908
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electron beam exposure apparatus for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target, comprising: a beamlet generator for generating a plurality of electron beamlets; a modulation array for receiving said plurality of electron beamlets, comprising a plurality of modulators for modulating the intensity of an electron beamlet; a controller, connected to the modulation array for individually controlling the modulators, an adjustor, operationally connected to each modulator, for individually adjusting the control signal of each modulator; a focusing electron optical system comprising an array of electrostatic lenses wherein each lens focuses a corresponding individual beamlet, which is transmitted by said modulation array, to a cross section smaller than 300 nm, and a target holder for holding a target with its exposure surface onto which the pattern is to be transferred in the first focal plane of the focusing electron optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mapper Lithography IP B.V.
    Inventors: Marco Jan-Jaco Wieland, Bert Jan Kampherbeek, Alexander Hendrik Vincent Van Veen, Pieter Kruit
  • Patent number: RE45049
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electron beam exposure apparatus for transferring a pattern onto the surface of a target, comprising: a beamlet generator for generating a plurality of electron beamlets; a modulation array for receiving said plurality of electron beamlets, comprising a plurality of modulators for modulating the intensity of an electron beamlet; a controller, connected to the modulation array for individually controlling the modulators, an adjustor, operationally connected to each modulator, for individually adjusting the control signal of each modulator; a focusing electron optical system comprising an array of electrostatic lenses wherein each lens focuses a corresponding individual beamlet, which is transmitted by said modulation array, to a cross section smaller than 300 nm, and a target holder for holding a target with its exposure surface onto which the pattern is to be transferred in the first focal plane of the focusing electron optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mapper Lithography IP B.V.
    Inventors: Marco Jan-Jaco Wieland, Bert Jan Kampherbeek, Alexander Hendrik Vincent Van Veen, Pieter Kruit