With Gas Or Vapor Patents (Class 313/567)
  • Patent number: 11508789
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device with a display panel, an input sensing unit, and a protective member. The input sensing unit is disposed on the display panel. The protective member includes an insulating material and is disposed on the input sensing unit. The protective member includes a first protective portion and a second protective portion disposed on the first protective portion, where a first modulus of the first protective portion is greater than a second modulus of the second protective portion. The second protective portion with the lower modulus absorbs external impacts, and the first protective portion with the higher modulus disperses the absorbed impact and prevents the display panel from being deformed by an external force. Therefore, the impact resistance of the display device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Yong Sung, Junghan Seo, Seungyong Song, Sehoon Jeong, Seung-Yeon Chae
  • Patent number: 11061439
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a mold frame at least partially surrounding the display panel, and a bracket at least partially overlapping the mold frame. Each of the mold frame and the bracket includes an electrically conductive material, and the mold frame and the bracket are electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eui Jung Kwon, Hee Kwon Lee, Kyu Bong Jung, Soong Won Cho
  • Patent number: 10069109
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same includes a first substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the first substrate; a planarization layer on the TFT; an organic light emitting diode (OLED) on the planarization layer; a passivation layer on the OLED; a second substrate on the passivation; and a hydrogen capturing material between the first and the second substrates to prevent oxidation of materials forming the TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YoungHoon Shin, SungJin Hong, Myungseop Kim, JoongSun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9762035
    Abstract: A multi-step tube (1) of a ceramic material comprises a tube body (1) of the ceramic material having an inner wall (11) located inside the tube body (1). A surface of the inner wall (11) is formed with a plurality of steps (2). The steps (2) are formed to extend differently far inside the tube (1). A multi-layered gas discharge tube comprises the multi-step tube (1). An inner electrode (31) is disposed on a step (21), and an outer electrode (41) is disposed on an outer surface (13) of the tube body (1). A disc (51) is partially placed on a step (22) and the inner electrode (31) between the inner electrode (31) and the outer electrode (41) so that, in case of an electrostatic discharge, the discharge will only take place in the center of the multi-step tube (1) and not at the border of the isolated ceramic disc (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Westebbe, Yu Zhang, Eric Liu, Jiaping Hong
  • Patent number: 9694094
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating UV and for treating a material with UV utilizing gas filled plasma-shells that emit UV during gas discharge. The UV treatment includes UV curing or inducing a chemical reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventors: Tricia N. Wedding, Carol Ann Wedding
  • Patent number: 9652892
    Abstract: Various embodiments relating to creating a virtual shadow of an object in an image displayed with a see-through display are provided. In one embodiment, an image of a virtual object may be displayed with the see-through display. The virtual object may appear in front of a real-world background when viewed through the see-through display. A relative brightness of the real-world background around a virtual shadow of the virtual object may be increased when viewed through the see-through display. The virtual shadow may appear to result from a spotlight that is fixed relative to a vantage point of the see-through display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Tomlin, Tony Ambrus, Ron Amador-Leon, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Ryan Hastings, Matthew G. Kaplan, Michael Scavezze, Daniel McCulloch
  • Patent number: 9496290
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a display device and a method for manufacturing the display substrate. The display substrate comprises a substrate, and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of common electrode lines which are formed above the substrate. The plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines are crossed to form a plurality of pixel units. Each of the plurality of pixel units comprises a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The display substrate further comprises connection electrodes located above the substrate. Each of the connection electrodes connects two adjacent common electrode lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian, Yong Qiao, Wenbo Li, Pan Li
  • Patent number: 9385410
    Abstract: To provide a radio wave half mirror for a millimeter wave band which can flatten transmittance characteristics and a method of flattening the transmittance of the radio wave half mirror for a millimeter wave band. A radio wave half mirror 20 includes a metal plate 21 that has an outward shape closing a transmission line 11 and a slit 22 for transmitting electromagnetic waves that is provided in the metal plate 21 along a long side of an opening of the transmission line 11. The thickness L of the metal plate 21 in a direction in which the electromagnetic waves pass through the slit 22 is set on the basis of the transmittance characteristics of the electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9018838
    Abstract: The invention describes a high intensity gas-discharge lamp (1) comprising a discharge vessel (5, 5?) enclosing a fill gas in a discharge chamber (2) and comprising a pair of electrodes (3, 3?, 4, 4?) extending into the discharge chamber (2), and wherein the fill gas includes a halide composition comprising a halide of sodium and, optionally, scandium iodide to a total proportion of at least 30 wt %, and a halide of terbium and/or gadolinium to a proportion of at least 5 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Klaus Schoeller
  • Patent number: 8994288
    Abstract: A pulse-excited mercury-free lamp system, and method of sustaining the emission of light emission from such a lamp, is provided. The system includes a light-transmissive envelope having an inner surface and a phosphor layer coated thereon. A discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture of a noble gas, at a low pressure, and a metal halide, is retained inside the light-transmissive envelope. An electrical system provides a plurality of pulses to the discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture, resulting in a discharge, which causes the lamp system to emit light. The emission of light is maintained by turning the discharge on during a pulse width of each pulse in the plurality of pulses and by turning the discharge off during a remainder of each period in the plurality of pulses. Particularly in systems where the metal halide is indium-based, this maintains an efficient emission of light without the use of mercury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventor: Philip E. Moskowitz
  • Patent number: 8952611
    Abstract: The present invention aims to prevent breakage of a sealing part and an electrode of a high pressure discharge lamp, and provides an electrode 100 used for a discharge lamp and having a rod-shaped part 101, one end of the rod-shaped part 101 to be sealed by a sealing part of an arc tube of the discharge lamp, the other end of the rod-shaped part 101 to be in a discharge space in the arc tube, wherein the rod-shaped part 101 has a rough surface that is composed of a plurality of types of crystal grains each having a different surface condition due to differences in crystal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Sakaguchi, Yoshiki Kitahara, Katsuhiro Ono, Kazunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 8922119
    Abstract: A flash lamp is disclosed including an insulative envelope containing a gas and housing a pair of arcing electrodes and characterized by an instance of isolated conductive material being formed at a predetermined location on the inside of the envelope adjacent an electrode. Further disclosed is a corresponding method of manufacturing a flash lamp and apparatus for the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Heraeus Noblelight Ltd.
    Inventors: John Littlechild, Martin Brown
  • Patent number: 8853655
    Abstract: A laser-sustained plasma illuminator system includes at least one laser light source to provide light. At least one reflector focuses the light from the laser light source at a focal point of the reflector. An enclosure substantially filled with a gas is positioned at or near the focal point of the reflector. The light from the laser light source at least partially sustains a plasma contained in the enclosure. The enclosure has at least one wall with a thickness that is varied to compensate for optical aberrations in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Ilya Bezel, Anatoly Shchemelinin, Alex Salnik, Anant Chimmalgi
  • Patent number: 8814620
    Abstract: Operation to produce an intermediate product for a crucible for a LUWPL is as follows: a) a body 2 is preheated and placed on a support, with its bore concentric with a tube 4 supported in a chuck and connected to a inflation means; b) the tube is heated with the chuck being rotated for evenness of heating; c) when the temperature of the tube is detected to be the softening point of the quartz of the tube, its rotation is stopped and it is advanced into a bore 3 in the body 2; d) advance is stopped when the distal, sealed end is detected to have reached a determined protrusion 18; e) simultaneously with the advance being stopped, inflation gas is admitted into the tube, to inflate it albeit it marginally, and bring its outer surface 5 into intimate contact with the surface 6 of the bore 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Ceravision Limited
    Inventors: Floyd R. Pothoven, Andrew Simon Neate, Martyn Roscoe, Barry Preston
  • Patent number: 8742663
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a lamp base element for holding a transformer is provided. The lamp base element may include a transformer chamber which holds the transformer, wherein the transformer is held completely in the transformer chamber, and wherein the contact pins of the transformer are passed through a contact-making face of the transformer chamber, which contact-making face is opposite an opening face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Frank Sroka
  • Patent number: 8736165
    Abstract: A mercury-free discharge lamp with an electrical power consumption of less than 35 Watts may include a translucent discharge vessel which has a discharge space into which electrodes protrude for generating a gas discharge, wherein metal halides and ignition gas are contained in the discharge space, wherein the metal halides are present in a quantity in the range from 5 milligrams to 15 milligrams per 1 milliliter of discharge space volume in the discharge space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft MIT Beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Florian Bedynek, Matthias Bruchhausen, Grigorios Tsilimis, Frank Werner
  • Patent number: 8729801
    Abstract: The invention relates to a metal halogen lamp comprising an elongated arc tube enclosed in a transparent casing, wherein the arc tube is made up of a hollow glass body comprising two end portions and a middle portion, and electrode is arranged on the respective end portion, which electrodes, each having an electrode end, upon connection to a power source and during operation of the metal halogen lamp, generate an arc between them; and the glass body encloses halogens (h) and metal atoms (m) and has a wall thickness which is thicker on the end portions than on the middle portion. The thicker end portions each have a length (L1) of at least one-third of the total length (L) of the arc tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Auralight International AB
    Inventor: Martin Fransson
  • Patent number: 8729800
    Abstract: The invention provides a high intensity discharge lamp comprising a ceramic discharge vessel having sealed first and second end plugs and an external electrical antenna, which is used as “active” antenna for facilitating ignition of the high intensity discharge lamp. The discharge vessel encloses a discharge volume and comprises two electrodes and contains a filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Johannes Jacobus Welters
  • Patent number: 8704436
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp having an electrode including an electrode rod, a melted part and a coil part, and satisfying 0 < La L < 0.3 , where La denotes an average value of a length in units of mm of an exposed portion of the coil part in an axial direction of the electrode rod, the exposed portion being not covered with the melted part, and L denotes a maximum value of a length in units of mm between a tip of a head of the electrode rod and an opposite edge of the coil part to the melted part, measured in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Ogawa, Yoshiki Kitahara, Kazunori Ohta, Tamotsu Ishikawa, Jun Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 8698115
    Abstract: A light source device repeatedly implements a first state and a second state in alternate shifts. The energy of a standing wave generated in a cavity resonator is absorbed by a rare gas or the like existing in a hollow member. This implements the first state in which plasma is generated and the electron temperature thereof is increased, and then the extreme ultraviolet light emitted from the plasma is emitted out of the cavity resonator through a window. The supply of the electromagnetic wave to the cavity resonator is interrupted. This implements the second state in which the plasma is extinguished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: A School Corporation Kansai University
    Inventors: Masashi Onishi, Waheed Hugrass
  • Patent number: 8664839
    Abstract: A cold cathode lighting system comprising a cold cathode lamp with electrodes on either end of the lamp, oriented such that it includes an electrode extension in order to return the electrode to the same parallel position as the main body of the lamp. The lamp's electrodes are inserted into a casing that is comprised of a casing covers on either ends of the casing which may slid be opened. The casing covers interact with a electrode cover assembly underneath the casing covers, that allows the lamp to be inserted when the casing covers are opened. The closing of the casing covers will safely engage an interconnection with the lamp's electrodes through the electrode cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: Eric K Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 8653731
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a metal halide lamp in which arc discharge in the initial stage of lamp lighting can be stabilized. A metal halide lamp includes a translucent outer tube with a base formed at one end thereof and a light-emitting portion disposed in the outer tube. This metal halide lamp is configured as a vertical mounting type such that the base thereof looks toward the upper side. The discharge tube has mercury and metal halides enclosed therein. Assuming that a lamp rated power is P [W], then a mercury concentration d(Hg) [?mol/cm3] in the discharge tube falls within a range of values of ±10% of a mercury concentration d(Hg) obtained by the following equation “d(Hg)=0.0007P2?0.4113P+99.557”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8653727
    Abstract: A high intensity discharge lighting assembly capable of instant ON/OFF operation with a lamp housing having therein an HID lamp, an instant ON igniter circuit and lamp driver circuitry. The housing may have a screw in base or may be configured for fixed mounting on an open receptacle box. In one version, a non-replaceable HID lamp has leads permanently connected to the instant ON circuitry. In another version, the HID lamp has an integral base with pins which are plugged in to a socket provided in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Compan
    Inventors: Jianwu Li, Laszlo Balazs
  • Patent number: 8629608
    Abstract: The inner surfaces of fluorescent lamp tubing are provided with a phosphor coating. The phosphor coating defines an inward-facing surface. A protective coating is deposited on the inward-facing surface of the phosphor coating. The protective coating defines an innermost surface and makes effective recombination of Hg ions possible on the innermost surface of the second coating before the Hg ions collide with the phosphor particles in the phosphor coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: István Károly Deme, Miklós Budai, Zoltán Hórvölgyi, Márta Kabai Jánosné
  • Patent number: 8618734
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp having an ignition aid is provided. The discharge lamp may include: a discharge vessel consisting of ceramic or quartz glass which is sealed at two ends and which is accommodated in an outer bulb which is likewise sealed at two ends, the discharge vessel having two ends in which electrodes are fastened, two power supply lines holding the discharge vessel in the outer bulb, a UV enhancer with a single electrode as ignition aid being accommodated in the outer bulb, wherein the UV enhancer is positioned in the vicinity of a second end of the discharge vessel, while a feed line is routed from the first power supply line along the discharge vessel and is connected to the UV enhancer, the feed line being capacitively coupled to the first power supply line, the UV enhancer being installed between the feed line and the second power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Johannes Buttstaedt, Stefan Lichtenberg
  • Patent number: 8614544
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a rectangular element mounted upon a mounting substrate via a heat-melted connecting material, wherein second substrate electrodes are formed conforming to the recesses of a first substrate electrode and a portion of the outer periphery of the first and second substrate electrodes is provided with first extended sections that extend farther outward than the outer periphery of the aforementioned element. The aforementioned first extended sections are formed in at least one or more locations per one side of the outer periphery of the aforementioned rectangular element; the aforementioned first substrate electrode is provided with second extended sections that are formed on at least one of both ends of the aforementioned recesses flanking the first extended sections of the aforementioned second substrate electrodes; and the aforementioned second extended sections extend farther outward than the outer periphery of the aforementioned element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Suzuki, Tadao Hayashi, Tomoya Tsukioka, Yoshikazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8581478
    Abstract: A cooling member for at least one semiconductor light emitting element, in particular an LED, may include a mounting cavity for accommodating at least part of a control electronics unit, whereby the cooling member is composed of multiple cooling member parts, whereby each of which cooling member parts includes part of a wall of the mounting cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Ralph Bertram, Nicole Breidenassel, Klaus Burkard, Florian Zeus
  • Patent number: 8525138
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing light includes a chamber and an ignition source that ionizes a gas within the chamber. The apparatus also includes at least one laser that provides energy to the ionized gas within the chamber to produce a high brightness light. The laser can provide a substantially continuous amount of energy to the ionized gas to generate a substantially continuous high brightness light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Energetiq Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald K. Smith, Matthew Besen, Huiling Zhu, Daniil Stolyarov, Hongke Ye, Gordon Hill, Ron Collins
  • Patent number: 8519604
    Abstract: A field emission panel is provided. The field emission panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a sealing member and a plurality of spaces which are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of concave portions which are formed on a surface of the first substrate, a plurality of cathode electrodes which are disposed within each of the plurality of concave portions, a plurality of field emission materials which are disposed on each of the cathode electrodes, a plurality of gate electrodes which are fixed to areas of the surface of the first substrate which separate the concave portions of the first substrate with a gap therebetween, a light emission unit which is disposed on the second substrate, and a charging prevention resistance unit which is disposed on the first substrate, on a gap between a pair of gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byong-gon Lee, Zin-min Park, Seung-hyun Son, Ji-hong Lim, Jin-hwan Hwang, Hyeon-seok Kim, Seong-gi Choo
  • Patent number: 8502449
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp having a single socket, comprising: a discharge vessel (100) having two opposite sealed ends (120, 130) and a discharge chamber (110) arranged between the sealed ends (120, 130), a first sealed end (120) extending into a lamp base (400) and the second sealed end (130) protruding out of the lamp base (400), a first electrode (20) which is fixed in the first sealed end (120) of the discharge vessel (100) and has an end on the discharge side extending into the discharge chamber (110), a second electrode (30) which is fixed in the second sealed end (130) of the discharge vessel (100) and has an end on the discharge side extending into the discharge chamber; and (110), a base flange (420) arranged on the lamp base (400) and defining a plane (421) which is usable for adjusting the high-pressure discharge lamp in an optical system wherein for the distance A from the end of the first electrode (20) on the discharge side to the plane (421) of the base flange (420) and for the distance B
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Becker, Florian Bedynek, Kilian Klages, Karsten Pietsch, Matthias Protsch
  • Patent number: 8497631
    Abstract: A microplasma device includes a substrate and either or both of a microchannel or microcavity defined in a polymer layer supported by the substrate. Electrodes arranged with respect to the polymer material can excite a plasma in a discharge medium contained in the microchannel or the microcavity or both. A method of forming a microplasma device places a curable polymer material between a mold having a negative volume impression of microcavities and/or microchannels and a substrate. The polymer is cured and then the mold is separated from the solid polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: J. Gary Eden, Sung-Jin Park, Meng Lu, Brian Cunningham
  • Patent number: 8471470
    Abstract: Apparatus and method using a gas discharge device for screening or shielding an object and/or person from electromagnetic (EM) radiation including radar, microwaves, X-rays, and/or gamma rays. The device comprises multiple gas discharge cells, each cell being within a gas-filled hollow shell. The shells are located in one or more single substrates. The gas may be selected to absorb radiation when the gas is in a non-discharge or discharge state. The shell may be composed of a radiation absorption material. In one embodiment, two or more single substrates are tiled and sealed together edge to edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Carol Ann Wedding
  • Publication number: 20130106280
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a ceramic metal halide lamp is provided where electrical characteristics and optical characteristics changed at the first time when the lamp begins to glow can be decreased. An example lamp includes a luminous tube with silver iodide (AgI) enclosed therein with predetermined amounts of mercury, metal halides and rare gas. Luminous flux change is measured by changing AgI/total amount of metal halide (weight ratio). An upper limit of AgI is determined by specifying an upper limit value of AgI/total amount of metal halide (weight ratio) based on an allowable lowering rate of luminous flux. Lamp voltage change is measured by changing AgI/total amount of metal halide. A lower limit of AgI is determined by specifying the AgI/total amount of metal halide based on an allowable lowering rate of lamp voltage. An AgI amount falling between the upper and lower limits is sealed into the luminous tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8427052
    Abstract: A metal halide lamp includes a ceramic discharge vessel that encloses a discharge space which accommodates two electrodes and contains a salt filling. The salt filling includes sodium iodide, thallium iodide, calcium iodide, cerium iodide, and barium iodide as a colorpoint stabilizing additive. The salt filling further includes calcium iodide and thallium iodide, and substantially no sodium iodide. The salt filling further comprises mercury iodide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Petrus Johannes Mathijs Van Der Burgt, Vincent Fischer, Timo Borlet
  • Patent number: 8410692
    Abstract: A lamp for receiving at least one light emitting diode as a light-emitting means, having a bottom part as a supporting element and for feeding the electric connecting wires to a mounting device carrying the at least one light emitting diode, and having a lamp shade. The mounting device is a separate mounting substrate having a breaking strength between 100 and 1,000 MPa and is arranged on the bottom of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: CeramTec GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Dohn, Karl Degelmann, Christian Schnagl, Armin Veitl
  • Patent number: 8405291
    Abstract: A light source comprising a lucent waveguide of solid dielectric material having: an at least partially light transmitting Faraday cage surrounding the waveguide, a bulb cavity within the waveguide and the Faraday cage and an antenna re-entrant within the waveguide and the Faraday cage and a bulb having a microwave excitable fill, the bulb being received in the bulb cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Inventor: Barry Preston
  • Patent number: 8405290
    Abstract: A lamp 1 comprises an oscillator and amplifier source 2 of microwave energy, typically operating at 2.45 or 5.8 GHz or other frequencies within an ISM band. The source passes the microwaves via a matching circuit 3 to an antenna 4 extending into a re -entrant 5 in a lucent waveguide 6. This is of quartz and has a central cavity 7 accommodating a bulb 8. The bulb is a sealed tube 9 of quartz and contains a fill of noble gas and a microwave excitable material, which radiates visible light when excited by microwaves. The bulb has a stem 10 received in a stem bore 11 extending from the central cavity. The waveguide is transparent and light from the bulb can leave it in any direction, subject to any reflective surfaces. Microwaves cannot leave the waveguide, which is limited at its surfaces by a Faraday cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Inventors: Barry Preston, Andrew Simon Neate
  • Publication number: 20130057144
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a fluorescent flat panel lamp. In one aspect, a flat panel lamp is provided. The flat panel lamp includes a substantially flat glass plate. The flat panel lamp further includes a formed plate attached to the substantially flat glass plate. The glass plates are hermetically sealed and define a channel. The channel is configured to hold gas and mercury. The flat panel lamp further includes an electrode at each end of the channel, wherein a ratio of the active area of the channel to a surface area of the electrode is less than 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: MATH BRIGHT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., LUMIETTE INC.
    Inventors: Noel Park, Fu-Min Guan, Steve Johnson
  • Patent number: 8390182
    Abstract: A light emitting diode bulb including a heat sink, a light source plate, a reflective frame and a secondary optical component is provided. The light source plate includes a circuit board disposed on the heat sink and a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the circuit board. The reflective frame disposed on the light source plate includes a plate portion and a reflective pillar. The plate portion has a plurality of openings exposing the light emitting devices. The secondary optical component has a first optical surface and a second optical surface. An absolute value of the slope of a tangent line of any point on the first optical surface with respect to the heat sink is constant. An absolute value of the slope of a tangent line of any point on the second optical surface is gradually smaller along the direction away from the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: AmTRAN TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Ta Yu
  • Patent number: 8390198
    Abstract: A discharge lamp with excellent arc stability and excellent durability in which the use level of thoriated tungsten is restrained has an anode and a cathode in the interior of a discharge vessel, wherein said cathode is made up from a thoriated tungsten part with a tungsten filling ratio of at least 90 vol.-% and a main body part connected to said thoriated tungsten part and consisting of pure tungsten, wherein a ratio ST/S of a side surface area ST of said thoriated tungsten part and a side surface area S of said cathode is in a range of from 0.005 to 0.15, with the proviso that, in case the cathode has a length in the direction of the cathode axis which exceeds twice the maximum diameter of the cathode, a side surface area S is used for calculating the ratio ST/S which corresponds to the side surface area where the distance along the cathode axis from a tip end adjacent to the anode is twice the maximum diameter of the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Shimizu, Tomoyoshi Arimoto, Mitsuru Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: 8350473
    Abstract: A plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate positioned to be opposite to the front substrate, a barrier rib positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate to partition a discharge cell, and a phosphor layer positioned in the discharge cell. The phosphor layer includes a phosphor material and an additive material. The phosphor layer includes a red phosphor layer emitting red light, a green phosphor layer emitting green light, and a blue phosphor layer emitting blue light. A thickness of the blue phosphor layer is larger than a thickness of the red phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihoon Lee, Heekwon Kim, Jeonghyun Hahm
  • Patent number: 8324790
    Abstract: A high illumination LED bulb includes a transparent lamp holder and a transparent reflective envelope having an inner face coated with a reflective membrane having light transmittance characteristic. A chamber is defined between the transparent lamp holder and the transparent reflective envelope and receives an actuator, a radiator and a light emitting module electrically connected to the actuator. The light emitting module includes a substrate disposed on the radiator and at least one LED disposed on the substrate. Light radiated from the LED is transmitted to produce superior projection beam by the transparent reflective envelope and reflected to produce inferior projection beam by the reflective membrane. Reflected halo formed by projection of the superior projection beam and the inferior projection beam on the transparent lamp holder and the transparent reflective envelope can form side projected halo, thereby radiating light with a full emission angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Inventor: Wen-Sung Hu
  • Patent number: 8314554
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an integrated gas discharge lamp including a lamp base, a gas discharge lamp burner and an ignition electronics, wherein the integrated gas discharge lamp includes an operation electronics for operating the gas discharge lamp burner, and the gas discharge lamp burner, the ignition electronics, and the operation electronics are unseparably coupled with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Knut Asmussen, Guenther Hirschmann, Lars Kolbe, Manfred Roehl, Bernhard Siessegger
  • Publication number: 20120274205
    Abstract: A flash lamp is disclosed including an insulative envelope containing a gas and housing a pair of arcing electrodes and characterized by an instance of isolated conductive material being formed at a predetermined location on the inside of the envelope adjacent an electrode. Further disclosed is a corresponding method of manufacturing a flash lamp and apparatus for the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: HERAEUS NOBLELIGHT LTD.
    Inventors: John Littlechild, Martin Brown
  • Patent number: 8288947
    Abstract: In a light source device provided with a light emission tube in which a light emitting element is enclosed and at least one laser oscillator part for radiating a laser beam towards said light emission tube, for focusing a beam within a light emission tube with a large solid angle and for preventing that the beam with a high energy density impinges upon the wall of the light emission tube, the light emission tube has a tube wall, part of which is made to function as a focusing means, or the light emission tube has a focusing means at the inner surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignees: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Energetiq Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio Yokota, Taku Sumitomo, Yukio Yasuda
  • Patent number: 8274223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high pressure discharge lamp that includes a pair of electrodes, which face each other in an electric discharge space. Further, an electrode axis of one of the electrodes is joined to a metallic foil in a sealing portion, and two or more grooves are formed in an axis direction on a portion corresponding to the sealing portion on the electrode axis. Furthermore, a remaining portion that lacks grooves is left on the electrode axis in a metallic foil side thereof, and the metallic foil side ends of the grooves are not aligned with each other in the axis direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuji Hirao, Hirohisa Iwabayashi
  • Patent number: 8258687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coaxial waveguide electrodeless lamp. The lamp is formed in analogy to coaxial waveguide cables, with an outer conductor, a central conductor, and a gas-fill vessel made of dielectric material between the outer conductor and the inner conductor. The gas-fill vessel is substantially hollow and filled with substances that form a plasma and emit light when RF radiation carried by the central conductor and ground conductor interacts with the substances in the gas-fill vessel. The present invention also relates to a leaky waveguide electrodeless lamp. The lamp is formed in analogy to leaky waveguides, with a conductor, a ground conductor, and a gas-fill vessel made of dielectric material butted against the conductor and encompassed by the ground conductor. The leaky waveguide electrodeless lamp emits light from a plasma similar to light-emission action of the coaxial waveguide electrodeless lamp described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Topanga Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick M. Espiau, Mehran Matloubian, Alexandre Dupuy
  • Patent number: 8258684
    Abstract: A cold cathode lighting system comprising a cold cathode lamp with electrodes on either end of the lamp, oriented such that it includes an electrode extension in order to return the electrode to the same parallel position as the main body of the lamp. The lamp's electrodes are inserted into a casing that is comprised of a casing covers on either ends of the casing which may slid be opened. The casing covers interact with a electrode cover assembly underneath the casing covers, that allows the lamp to be inserted when the casing covers are opened. The closing of the casing covers will safely engage an interconnection with the lamp's electrodes through the electrode cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Eric K Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20120218526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high pressure discharge lamp with a start-up assist member, a lamp unit, and a lamp system that reduce breakdown voltage and provide high design flexibility by reducing restriction on a position of an adjacent conductor. In a high pressure discharge lamp 10 of a lamp unit 1, a dielectric member 20 is on the outer surface of a first sealing part 101A. The dielectric member 20 made of a titanium compound has relative permittivity higher than that of fused quartz. An upstream end of a metal wire 21 is connected to an external lead wire 102B projecting from a second sealing part 101B. A downstream end 21a is in contact with the dielectric member 20. Upon lighting of the lamp, a corona discharge occurs at the point where the end 21a is in contact with the dielectric member 20 so that breakdown voltage is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Syunsuke Ono, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiroki Ogawa, Kazuyuki Okano
  • Patent number: 8237365
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a high-pressure discharge lamp is provided. The high-pressure discharge lamp may include a discharge vessel which is accommodated in a tubular outer bulb, wherein a major part of the outer bulb is closely surrounded by a transparent sleeve composed of highly heat-resistant plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Osram AG
    Inventors: Joachim Arndt, Uwe Fidler, Ralph Hauschild