Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Ernestine C. Bartlett
  • Substrates for large area electronic devices
    Patent number: 6627305
    Abstract: A light-weight substrate (10) for thin film, large area electronic devices such as active matrix display devices, image sensing arrays and the like comprises a layer of rigid, cellular material (12) bonded to a comparatively thin glass sheet (11) on whose surface thin film circuit elements are provided. An aerogel material of higher than usual density can be used for the cellular layer. An array of microlenses may be provided between the cellular layer and the thin glass sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Steven C. Deane, Cornelis Van Berkel
  • Electric iron with exchangeable reservoir
    Patent number: 6625910
    Abstract: An electronic iron includes a housing (1), a sole plate (2), a heater (3) for heating the sole plate, an exchangeable reservoir (4) for containing a liquid (5), a nozzle (6), and a pump (14) for delivering the liquid to the nozzle. To reduce the risk of the nozzle becoming clogged or contaminated, the nozzle (6) is an integral fixed part of the exchangeable reservoir (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Boon-Khian Ching, Ban Nee Choo, Arun Sundaram
  • Method of providing a marking on a substrate
    Patent number: 6627247
    Abstract: Method of applying a marking or image on a substrate which is provided with a coating by means of a sol-gel process. After the application of a layer of a sol-gel solution on the substrate, an ink which is compatible with the sol-gel is applied on the wet layer. The ink penetrates into the layer and then the layer is cured to form the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Auke Hovius, Dirk Herbert Johan Teeuw, Ytsen Wielstra, Jolanda Harma Sagitta Winkel
  • Laser etching method
    Patent number: 6617541
    Abstract: A method of furnishing a substrate with a patterned film of electrode material making use of a laser beam, whereby a stack is made by providing a surface of the substrate at least with a layer of an assistant material and an overlying layer of the said electrode material, the assistant material being capable of decomposition upon heating with the aid of the said laser beam, subsequent to which the stack is, in accordance with a desired pattern, locally irradiated with the laser beam so as to heat the assistant material to at least its decomposition temperature, consequent upon which the locally overlying electrode material is caused to detach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Sipke Wadman, Klaus B. Schildbach
  • Hand-held electrical appliance for personal care or for use as a tool
    Patent number: 6612034
    Abstract: A hand-held electrical appliance (1) for personal care or for use as an electric tool, has a housing (2), manual actuating means (3), at least one force sensor (9) located in or on the housing (2) for supplying a sensor signal representative of the grip force exerted by the hand of a user, and control means for controlling at least one operational parameter of the appliance (1) in response to the sensor signal. In this way the user can consciously or unconsciously influence the motor speed or the spring load of the shaving heads of an electric shaver, or the motor speed of an electric drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Ate Klaas Damstra
  • System for communicating operational data between an electric toothbrush and a separate control unit
    Patent number: 6611780
    Abstract: A system for communicating data between a battery powered electric toothbrush and a separate control unit includes a microprocessor in the toothbrush which collects and stores data concerning selected operational aspects of the toothbrush. The data is transmitted from the toothbrush to the control unit by means of an infrared link. The transmitted data is processed in the control unit and displayed there or is transmitted to a separate device for display and/or analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: William G. Lundell, David Bayeh
  • Detection and proper scaling of interlaced moving areas in MPEG-2 compressed video
    Patent number: 6608867
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of and system for determining whether a local area of a compressed video stream represented by a plurality of DCT encoded blocks subject to decoding and filtering/scaling is a stationary area or an interlaced moving area. Further, given such information, the invention relates to dynamically switching between frame- or field-based operations in a smart way, thus optimizing the output picture quality. Also, a DCT-domain-filtering scheme for field-based filtering/scaling of frame-DCT data is provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Zhun Zhong, Tse-hua Lan, Yingwei Chen
  • Coffee maker
    Patent number: D478461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: David Wesley Hoard
  • Clock radio receiver
    Patent number: D478562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Alfred Wei-Han Hu
  • Portable MP-3 CD player with gaming device
    Patent number: D478887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Michael Jerome
  • MP-3 digital audio player with battery pack
    Patent number: D478888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Zachary Ng
  • Digital audio player
    Patent number: D478889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Abhimanyu Kulkarni
  • Clock radio receiver
    Patent number: D478890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Zachary Ng
  • MP-3 digital audio player
    Patent number: D479712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Zachary Ng
  • Compact disc player with tuner and amplifier
    Patent number: D479832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Timothy Andrew Homewood, Liz Teh Siew Cheng
  • Compact clock radio receiver and compact disc player
    Patent number: D480062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Abhimanyu Kulkarni
  • Compact disc player with tuner and amplifier
    Patent number: D480063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Timothy Andrew Homewood, Liz Teh Siew Cheng
  • Blister pack
    Patent number: D480300
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Wai Chung David Lee
  • Compact disc player with tuner and amplifier
    Patent number: D480379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Timothy Andrew Homewood, Liz Teh Siew Cheng
  • Loudspeaker cabinet
    Patent number: D480383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Charlie Richard Bolton, Stephen Robert Heath