Process Patents (Class 445/1)
  • Publication number: 20100002446
    Abstract: Multiple axis control for a lamp inside a reflector. At least multiple axes of control are made without increasing a length of the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: PRODUCTION RESOURCE GROUP L.L.C
    Inventor: James Bornhorst
  • Publication number: 20100002450
    Abstract: An LED module comprises an LED chip mounted on a substrate, a lens, and a metal holder mechanically holding the lens and being soldered on the substrate. The holder can be designed such that it holds the lens such that there is an air gap between the light exit surface of the LED chip and the bottom face of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: LEDON LIGHTING JENNERSDORF GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Pachler, Stefan Tasch
  • Publication number: 20090134797
    Abstract: In a halogen-metal vapor lamp having a ceramic housing (2) and a current lead-through conductor (3) arranged in the ceramic housing, the glazed part of the current lead-through conductor (3) is a niobium alloy doped with phosphorus, in particular with 50 ppm to 0.5 wt. % phosphorus. The glazed part of the current lead-through conductor (3) preferably has inside the ceramic vessel (2) a shielding (4) from halides, which is connected to a tungsten electrode. The glazed part of a current lead-through conductor (3) in the form of a pin having a length of 5 to 30 mm and a diameter of 0.2 to 2 mm is a niobium alloy doped with phosphorus. For the glazing of current lead-through conductors in a ceramic burner, a current lead-through conductor made of a niobium alloy temperature-stabilized with phosphorus is glazed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: W.C. Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Spaniol
  • Patent number: 7537503
    Abstract: An electron beam apparatus in which a spacer having a high-resistance film coating a surface of a base material is inserted between a rear plate having electron emitting elements and row-direction wires, and a faceplate having a metal back. The row-direction wires and the metal back are electrically connected via the high-resistance film. An electric field near an electron emitting element near the spacer is maintained to substantially constant irrespective of the positional relationship between the spacer and the electron emitting element near the spacer. When a sheet resistance value of the high-resistance film on a first facing surface of the spacer that faces a row-direction wire is represented by R1, and a sheet resistance value of the high-resistance film on a side surface adjacent to the electron emitting element is represented by R2, R2/R1 is 10 to 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taro Hiroike, Koji Yamazaki, Yoichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20090085456
    Abstract: Traditional methods of making headlamp coils have left a portion of the coils with slightly irregular forms. These irregularities can result in defects in the ultimate beam pattern. Accommodating these defects in robust lamp and headlamp optical systems can reduce the performance that might otherwise be available. The preferred coil is therefore continuously coiled as a straight body, and carefully cut into segments. Subsequently, legs are welded to the coil segment ends. The coil is then left substantially undistorted by the manufacturing process that would otherwise normally leave a portion of the coils distorted. The method particularly enables a functional center leg coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: OSRAM SYLVANIA INC
    Inventors: Michael D. Tucker, Charles M. Coushaine, Daniel D. Devir, Paul Okerholm, Douglas Bottom, Stuart K. Denham
  • Publication number: 20090072702
    Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first and the second substrates are flexible and face each other. A discharge electrode sheet is disposed between the first and second substrates to configure a plurality of discharge cells and includes a plurality of patterned discharge electrodes. A phosphor layer is formed in each of the discharge cells. An exhaust gas pathway is formed in the discharge electrode sheet and connects the discharge cells. The exhaust gas pathway that connects adjacent discharge cells is formed in the film shape discharge electrode sheet between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Jae-Ik Kwon, Won-Ju Yi, Kyoung-Doo Kang, Seok-Gyun Woo
  • Publication number: 20090058252
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electron-emitting device according to the present invention includes the steps of: preparing a substrate having a first electrode and a second electrode, and a conductive film for connecting the first electrode and the second electrode; and forming a gap on the conductive film by applying a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode; wherein a planar shape of the conductive film has a V-shape portion between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: HIROKO TAKADA, HISANOBU AZUMA, JUN IBA
  • Publication number: 20090026925
    Abstract: An electronic device having an intermediate layer which can transfer smoothly carriers between two layers adjacent to the intermediate layer and having improved properties, and electronic equipment having high reliability are provided. An electronic device includes a pair of electrodes and laminated layers provided between the electrodes. The laminated layers include a hole transport layer (first organic semiconductor layer), a light emitting layer (second organic semiconductor layer), and an intermediate layer provided between the first and second organic semiconductor layers so as to make contact with both of the hole transport layer and the light emitting layer. The intermediate layer is constituted of a compound represented by a general formula A1-B-A2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamitsu Uehara
  • Publication number: 20090015141
    Abstract: An optical resonator is provided, and methods for making the same, as well as devices and sub-assemblies including the same. For example, such an electronic device (FIG. 4) may include a first electronic component (172) designed to be photoactive to radiation having a first wavelength and a second electronic component (174) designed to be photoactive to radiation having a second wavelength. The device may also include a cavity that defines an optical resonator having a cavity length such that the optical resonator resonates in successive resonant modes that locate at the first and second wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Gang Yu
  • Publication number: 20090015147
    Abstract: A display element with partition structures in display areas and a fabrication method thereof. The partition structure is formed on a display area of a display substrate by a solution process using the coffee ring effect. A display area of the display element is defined using the coffee ring ridge of the coffee ring as a partition structure. A covering material is inkjet printed or dispensed in the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Fu-Kang Chen, Jhih-Ping Lu, Chao-Feng Sung, Yuh-Zheng Lee, Chao-Kai Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090009496
    Abstract: A pixel including: an organic light emitting diode for emitting light in accordance with a received driving current; a first transistor including a gate for receiving a voltage corresponding to a data signal, the first transistor being for transferring the driving current in a direction from a source of the first transistor to a drain of the first transistor; a second transistor for transferring the data signal in accordance with a scan signal; a first capacitor for storing a voltage corresponding to the data signal and for applying the voltage corresponding to the data signal to the gate of the first transistor; and a second capacitor for controlling the voltage stored in the first capacitor, wherein an outside portion of the first capacitor has a plurality of bents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Won-kyu Kwak, Hae-jin Chun, Ki-myeong Eom
  • Publication number: 20080239242
    Abstract: A visible laser beam projection system for a vehicle projects visible laser beam onto an instrument panel in a vehicle compartment. The instrument panel is provided with highly reflecting portions, which are scattered on the upper surface of the instrument panel. The highly reflecting portions having a diffuse reflectivity for the wavelength of a visible laser beam higher than that of other portions of the instrument panel The visible laser beam is projected to the highly reflecting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi MORI, Seiji Kawai, Yoshihisa Sato, Tetsuya Enokizaka
  • Publication number: 20080227357
    Abstract: An OLED comprises an anode, a hole source, an emissive region, an electron source and a cathode, wherein the materials for the electron source and the hole source are chosen such that the electrical conductivity of these charge carrier sources is greater than the electrical conductivity of the emissive region. In particular, the electrical conductivity of the source layers is between 10?8 to 102 S/cm. Furthermore, one or both of the hole source and the electron source are made substantially of one or more inorganic materials. The emissive region can have one or more layers of organic material. The materials for the emissive region are insulators. The cathode can be made of a metal such as Mg:Ag and Al, and the anode is made of ITO or the like. The electrical conductivity of the cathode and the anode is significantly higher than 102 S/cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: Tswen-Hsin LIU
  • Publication number: 20080171483
    Abstract: An inexpensive fluorescent object is provided which may be used, for example, as a test object for color adjustment of a fluorescent endoscope system. The fluorescent object generates fluorescence while minimizing the generation of ‘noise’ at undesired wavelengths, and is made using a plastic that substantially does not deteriorate upon exposure to U.V. and visible radiation. A method of producing the fluorescent object is disclosed, namely, a plastic powder (such as PTFE) and an inorganic fluorescent powder (such as Mn-doped ZnS) are blended so as to form a mixture of these components, and the mixture is then molded by applying pressure to the mixture. An important feature of the invention is that heat is not added during any phase in the production of the fluorescent object, thereby preventing the inorganic fluorescent powder from being denatured when producing the fluorescent object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Takeshi Suga, Tomonori Sato, Nobuyuki Suda, Yukichi Hanayama
  • Publication number: 20080042542
    Abstract: An electron emission device includes a substrate, cathode electrodes and gate electrodes formed on the substrate crossing one another to thereby form a plurality of crossed regions, and electron emission regions, each electrically coupled to one of the cathode electrodes. Each of the cathode electrodes includes a resistive layer formed with first openings, and a conductive layer disposed on one surface of the resistive layer, and formed with second openings. The second openings are spatially communicated respectively with the first openings, and circumferential wall portions of the conductive layer defining the second openings maintain a predetermined spacing from circumferential wall portions of the resistive layer defining the first openings. The electron emission regions are then disposed in the first openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Sam-Il Han, Sang-Hyuck Ahn, Sang-Jo Lee, Sang-Ho Jeon, Jin-Hui Cho, Su-Bong Hong
  • Publication number: 20070290608
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device (OELD) and a method of manufacturing the OELD are provided. The OELD includes a substrate, an anode electrode stacked on the substrate, an organic light emitting layer that is stacked on the anode electrode and has a plurality of protrusions on the organic light emitting layer, and a cathode electrode that covers the protrusions formed on the organic light emitting layer and is formed of a metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Yoon-sun Choi, Jin-Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20020142694
    Abstract: A method for dissipating heat on address electrode drive chips of plasma display panel (PDP) comprises the steps of connecting an external voltage pulse circuit to the address electrode drive chips for driving; enabling a control circuit to control a switching sequence of switches in both the external voltage pulse circuit and each address electrode drive chip; generating an external voltage level or zero volt in each address electrode drive chip and applying the same to each address electrode of the PDP; and totally transferring a switching loss in the switches of each address electrode drive chip during switching to the switches of the external voltage pulse circuit. The method can prevent heat caused by switches switching loss from accumulating on drive chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Yao-Hung Lai, Kuang-Lang Chen
  • Patent number: 6304022
    Abstract: A spark plug includes a center electrode, an insulator provided outside the center electrode, a metallic shell provided outside the insulator, a ground electrode disposed to face the center electrode, and a spark discharge portion fixed on at least one of the center electrode and the ground electrode for defining a spark discharge gap. The spark discharge portion is formed from a noble metal alloy containing a main component element selected from among Ir, Pt, and Rh, and at least one additional component element differing from the main component element. In the noble metal alloy, the additional component element is distributed such that stripes of high concentration regions and low concentration regions extend in a direction perpendicular to the direction of voltage application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wataru Matsutani
  • Patent number: 6224445
    Abstract: An actinic radiation source (20) includes an anode (36) upon which an electron beam from a cathode ray gun (24) impinges. The anode (36) includes a window area (52) formed by a silicon membrane. The electron beam upon striking the anode (36) permeates the window area (52) to penetrate into medium surrounding actinic radiation source (20). A method for making an anode (36) uses a substrate having both a thin first layer (44) and a thicker second layer (46) of single crystal silicon material between which is interposed a layer of etch stop material (48). The second layer (46) is anisotropically etched to the etch stop material (48) to define the electron beam window area (52) on the first layer (44). That portion of the etch stop layer (48) exposed by etching through, the second layer (46) is then removed. The anode (36) thus fabricated has a thin, monolithic, low-stress and defect-free silicon membrane electron beam window area (52) provided by the first layer of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: AIT
    Inventors: Armand P. Neukermans, Timothy G. Slater
  • Patent number: 6059622
    Abstract: A system for manufacturing a photocathode includes a housing and a retainer disposed within the housing. The retainer includes a seating area operable to receive a first surface of the photocathode. The retainer is operable to independently translate relative to the housing along an axis. The system also includes a weight enclosed within the retainer. The weight is operable to provide a substantially uniform pressure across a second surface of the photocathode as the housing translates across a polishing pad substantially orthogonal to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Litton Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Pruet, David G. Couch
  • Patent number: 5828172
    Abstract: A diode mount for an LED (2) with a plug connector (3) and compensating resistor (4) is manufactured by injection molding a one piece housing and mounting an LED and plug connector therein. An electrical connection between the LED and the plug connector, as well as a mechanical fixing, is accomplished by an electrically-conductive paste (5). At the same time, the electrically-conductive paste forms the compensating resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Preh-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gottfried Berthold, Hans-Michael Schmitt, Anton Ruettiger
  • Patent number: 5759077
    Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube is demagnetized or magnetized in a magnetic transfer process with a direct-current biasing magnetic field, using an alternating-current magnetic field which is attenuated to a median thereof in a median attenuating time of at least 0.1 second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 5562515
    Abstract: A lamp base locking clip comprises a first end having a given thickness; an intermediate portion having a thickness at least approximately 3 times said given thickness and a second end having said given thickness. The intermediate portion is defined by opposed, space apart, first and second surfaces, said first end being contiguous with said first surface and said second end being contiguous with said second surface. In a preferred embodiment the clip is formed from a single piece of ribbon material and said intermediate portion is formed by folding said ribbon to have two reentrant portions. The preferred embodiment is especially suited for automation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventor: Huiling Zhu
  • Patent number: 5525867
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display and method of fabricating the same is described in which an active driver panel (14) is integrated with a processed display panel (12) using a unique application of semiconductor wafer technology. A microelectronic driver circuit (32) and back electrode (34) are fabricated on a semiconductor wafer (30) to provide a panel for driving the display. Multiple driver circuits (32) and respective back electrodes (34) may be arranged on the wafer to form an active-matrix electroluminescent display. The display panel (12) includes a front electrode (18) and an adjacent phosphor panel (20) for illuminating the display. The driver panel (14) is adhered to the display panel (12) using either an indium bump connection or a thermal bond, which provide both mechanical and electrical coupling between the back electrodes (34) and the phosphor panel (20). Exposure of the active devices on the driver panel to destructive high processing temperatures inherent in display panel processing is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventor: Ronald L. Williams
  • Patent number: 5490326
    Abstract: So-called "retrofitting" of old style fluorescent lighting fixtures is carried out in a punch and die press provided with a special punch and die assembly having guide blocks positioned laterally of the punch and die for receiving pre-existing notches flanking the unnotched portion of the notched edge margin of a so-called "trougher raceway" strip portion of the old fluorescent lighting feature to be retrofitted, the punch of which assembly has cutting edges configurated for piercing the metal work strip backwardly of the notched edge thereof and at the ends of a longitudinal cut to be made and at the back ends of mutually spaced lateral end cuts to be made and for executing severing stokes along such cutting edges and thereby cutting out and removing a slug of metal exactly conforming in shape and dimension to the pre-existing guide notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Inventor: Lyman O. Nielson
  • Patent number: 5438241
    Abstract: A display panel is formed using a single crystal thin-film material that may be transferred to substrates for display fabrication. Pixel arrays form light valves or switches that can be fabricated with control electronics in the thin-film material prior to transfer. The resulting circuit panel is then incorporated into a display panel with a light emitting or liquid crystal material to provide the desired display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Zavracky, John C. C. Fan, Robert McClelland, Jeffrey Jacobsen, Brenda Dingle, Mark B. Spitzer
  • Patent number: 5399114
    Abstract: A method of injecting liquid crystal for producing a liquid crystal display panel, in which the liquid crystal is injected into a cell of an LCD panel after the liquid crystal is purified by adding ionic material captures for capturing ionic material which increases the contamination degree of the liquid crystal, into the liquid crystal contained in a liquid crystal tray having a contact coil formed at the upper part thereof. According to the method of the present invention, the specific resistivity of the liquid crystal is prevented being lowered down and the number of times of injecting the liquid crystal into a cell of an LCD panel is decreased because the contamination of the liquid crystal contained in the liquid crystal tray by ionic material in producing the LCD panel is restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Goldstar Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seong B. Park
  • Patent number: 5389025
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetically split internal magnetic shield (19) which comprises two complementary parts (15) and (16). Two plate-shaped parts (15') and (16') of a ferromagnetic material are arranged next to each other at a distance d and welded together by means of a strip of a non-magnetic metal. Subsequently, an internal magnetic shield is formed from the twin plate by means of drawing, cutting and/or bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Vanceulen, Wilhelmus J. Beekmans, Henricus P. Van Der Vijfeyke
  • Patent number: 5317236
    Abstract: A display panel is formed using a single crystal thin-film material that may be transferred to substrates for display fabrication. Pixel arrays form light valves or switches that can be fabricated with control electronics in the thin-film material prior to transfer. The resulting circuit panel is then incorporated into a display panel with a light emitting or liquid crystal material to provide the desired display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Zavracky, John C. C. Fan, Robert McClelland, Jeffrey Jacobsen, Brenda Dingle, Mark B. Spitzer
  • Patent number: 5094641
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for protecting, installing and removing a fragile device having a screw threaded mounting end. The apparatus includes a housing surrounding the fragile device having an open end with a screw threaded portion which is threaded in a direction opposite to the screw thread mounting end of the fragile device. An end ferrule is attached to the mounting end of the fragile device and has a screw thread portion adapted to threadingly engage the screw thread portion of the open end of the housing. The method is practiced by inserting the fragile device into the screw threaded open end of the housing and threadingly engaging the ferrule with the housing in a first direction to a desired level of torque. The screw threaded mount of the fragile device is then threadingly engaged in a screw threaded mounting hole by turning the housing in the same direction until the fragile device and the ferrule seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: General Signal Corporation
    Inventors: Roger W. McCleary, Robert S. Allegretto
  • Patent number: 5019004
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing CRT tubes with binary coded faceplates including dispensing a frit paste on the faceplate in the form of a bar code. The frit is devitrified as part of conventional faceplate processing either during normalizing or during devitrification of the mask rail frit without any additional steps. In one embodiment the frit is dispensed through a single dispensing nozzle and the nozzle is moved relative to the faceplate in x and y coordinates to form a single undulating line. In another embodiment, frit is selectively dispensed through a plurality of nozzles for each character pair to form either narrow bars or wide bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Johann Steiner, John M. Jarosz
  • Patent number: 4758193
    Abstract: Internal magnetic shield for color television picture tube has a pair of slot-shaped openings, facing each other above and below the Z axis, and an oblong-shaped aperture surrounding the Z axis, having a length-to-width ratio of about 1.7 to 2.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Assignee: North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp.
    Inventor: Richard I. Brown
  • Patent number: 4718203
    Abstract: A method of and a device for working the sealing edge of a funnel portion for a cathode ray tube during a plurality of working phases. A number of funnel portions are simultaneously worked in successive working units. Each unit comprises a centering device for centering and bringing the funnel portion into a stationary working position. The funnel portions are simultaneously transported from one unit to another by a common transport device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Henry A. Schweitz, Rienk Weening
  • Patent number: 4457733
    Abstract: A television cathode ray picture tube has an in-line electron gun for generating three coplanar electron beams. The raster pattern projected by the center beam is diminished in vertical height so as to be non-coextensive with the superimposed raster patterns projected by the off-axis beams. The method according to the invention for providing raster coextensiveness comprises embracing each off-axis beam at the point of beam egress from the gun with a pair of inwardly converging but non-intersecting magnetic field enhancer means in symmetrical relationship and defining an opening therebetween. Each member of the enhancer means is oriented at a predetermined convergence angle with respect to the plane of the three beam paths, and located at a predetermined distance from the tube axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Zenith Radio Corporation
    Inventors: Norman F. Gioia, Fred H. Seher