Patents Represented by Attorney José W. Jimenez
  • Patent number: 4715940
    Abstract: A shadow mask is provided which can provide a precise patterning to a deposit at process temperature without destruction of the shadow mask itself. The shadow mask consists of a plurality of metallic strips having a series of interconnecting small arched bridges that hold the strips of the mask together. The shadow mask is used in a process for depositing electrode structures in an electroluminescent device wherein the mask is positioned over a substrate surface to be coated and deposit electrode material is sprayed from a geometrically broad source, through the mask and onto the substrate. Deposition occurs beneath the arched bridges resulting in a pattern deposition that does not readily reveal the presence of bridges because sufficient material is coated beneath to provide cosmetic and electrical continuity between areas separated by the bridges. This invention is particularly suited for a mask designed to provide a fine pattern of closely spaced parallel lines or electrode structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Robert A. Boudreau
  • Patent number: 4687453
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for position orienting a base assembly of a metal halide lamp is describe for maintaining the curved arc tube in the upward position when the lamp is inserted in a socket. Once the lamp has been fully assembled and sealed a locator structure is attached to the base shell in order to create a base assembly which will properly position the lamp when it is in the socket. The welding apparatus of the present invention resistance welds the locator structure onto the base shell once the locator structure has been aligned approximately 90 degrees counterclockwise from the tip of the curved portion of the arc tube when viewed from the dome end of the lamp. The lamp resulting from the method and use of the apparatus will be more inexpensive and will not have the problems of a loose base or a cracked seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald C. Lekebusch, John T. O'Neil, Jr., Martin E. Muzeroll
  • Patent number: 4686412
    Abstract: This invention provides for an improved reflector-type lamp having reduced focus loss and exhibiting an increase in reflector collection efficiency. Stray light from the lamp's light source is reduced and channeled into the central angular region of the reflector where it can be more easily controlled and increase the in candle power of the lamp. A shorter, more compact filament design, wound with larger mandrel ratios, is positioned within the reflector to evenly disperse the light energy throughout the central angular region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Pierce Johnson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4683397
    Abstract: This invention provides an improved compact fine wire incandescent lamp filament and method for making such having a primary mandrel ratio in the range of about 1.40 to about 4.00 and a secondary mandrel ratio which is greater than or equal to the primary mandrel ratio. The improved filament design exhibits an increase in compactness and retains or increases structural rigidity while exhibiting minimal sag when the filament is incorporated into an incandescent lamp of the tungsten halogen type variety. The compact coiling method is particularly useful in designing compact filaments for high voltage applications where it is desirable to eliminate the use of rectifying means to lower the effective voltage across the filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Pierce Johnson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4680509
    Abstract: A light source including a spiral line pulse generator having an output coupled to one electrode of a high pressure discharge lamp and having an input for coupling to a source of lamp operating power for providing high voltage lamp starting pulses. The pulse generator includes, in addition to a spiral line circuit, a solid state electronic switch for discharging the spiral line pulse generator and a ballast capacitor connected in series with the solid state switch. The spiral line pulse generator preferably has a magnetic core associated therewith for increasing the spiral line inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Assignees: GTE Laboratories, Inc., GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Charles N. Fallier, Jr., James N. Lester
  • Patent number: 4673840
    Abstract: A tungsten-halogen lamp has a ruggedized mount structure employing tri-partite lead-in wires sealed in a soft glass stem and a hard glass capsule. Heavier intermediate sections provide support while the proximal and distal portions are different materials selected to form hermetic seals with the hard glass and soft glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Paul E. Gates
  • Patent number: 4670097
    Abstract: An optically transparent and electrically conductive film is patterned on a ubstrate, for instance in an electro-optical display device such as an electroluminescent device having a patterned transparent electrode layer, by a process utilizing a double masking structure that provides for more positive delineation of thin film device patterns. In this process, an indium tin oxide layer is formed between a metallic pattern on a glass substrate and a photoresist mask. The indium tin oxide layer has a metal lift-off mask under those areas that are to be removed and a photoresist protective mask over those areas that are to remain. The double masking will also provide greater protection to the electrode areas during the critical etching steps in developing an electroluminescent display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignees: GTE Products Corporation, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Mohamed I. Abdalla, M. Robert Miller
  • Patent number: 4659965
    Abstract: An electric discharge lamp has an arc tube within an outer gas filled glass envelope, and a thermal switching means is located within the outer envelope. The thermal switching means has a bimetal strip and a spring-like member each affixed to at least one of the electrical conductors, and upon application of heat the bimetal strip and spring-like member are flexed to short-circuit the electrical conductors and remove any DC potential between the main electrode and the starting electrode minimizing electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Robert P. Bonazoli
  • Patent number: 4649320
    Abstract: A circular fluorescent lamp assembly having the entire ballasting circuit, along with a thermal protector, contained within the assembly's lamp holder. The thermal protector serves the dual function of preventing permanent damage to the assembly's ballast means and for extending lamp starting switch means operating life under normal end of lamp life cycling conditions. The thermal protector is responsive to the coil temperature of the ballast means and is electrically coupled in series with the ballast means, starting switch, capacitor and the lamp. One example of the thermal protector is a bimetal bottle switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Harold L. Hough, Robert P. Bonazoli
  • Patent number: 4647819
    Abstract: A low wattage metal vapor discharge lamp starting and operating apparatus includes an inductive ballast connected to one of a pair of terminals connectable to a low voltage source, a metal vapor discharge lamp coupled to the ballast and to the other one of the pair of lamp terminals and a non-linear dielectric element shunting the discharge lamp with the ballast and non-linear dielectric element providing a potential within about 600 usec of current reversal of the source voltage in an amount sufficient to initiate operation of the discharge lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Elliot F. Wyner, John A. Scholz
  • Patent number: 4636687
    Abstract: A low wattage single-ended metal halide arc discharge lamp has an isothermal arc chamber with an outer diameter (t) substantially equal to the product of a first constant and the lamp wattage plus a second constant; a fill gas and a pair of electrical conductors sealed into and passing through one end of the arc chamber to provide a pair of electrodes therein having a spacing therebetween of a distance to provide a substantially uniform current for lamps in the range of about 35 to 150 watts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Keeffe, W. Calvin Gungle, Harold L. Rothwell, Jr., Zeya K. Krasko
  • Patent number: 4631446
    Abstract: A single-ended low wattage high intensity discharge lamp and manufacturing process wherein a sleeve of electrical insulating material having the same coefficient of expansion as quartz is telescoped over an electrical lead a fuzed to the "pinch" seal portion of a quartz envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: George J. English, Peter R. Gagnon, Stephen J. Leadvaro
  • Patent number: 4629936
    Abstract: A tungsten-halogen lamp is provided that incorporates therein means for substantially reducing filament embrittlement. The embrittlement reducing means comprises substances X and Y, which have an X and Y mass ratio of about 30:1. Substance X is a phosphorus-based gaseous compound and substance Y is a carbon-containing gaseous compound. Substance X is preferably phosphine and substance Y is preferably methyl bromide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas G. Weld, Mark D. Beschle
  • Patent number: 4629935
    Abstract: A tungsten halogen lamp which utilizes a quantity, in combination, of an organic getter and inorganic getter for the purposes of substantially eliminating contaminants contained within the lamp and substantially reducing filament sag. In particular, the organic getter may be in the form of a carbon-containing halide, such as methyl bromide, and the inorganic getter may be in the form of a phosphorus-based gaseous getter, such as phosphine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: James P. Keenan
  • Patent number: 4625141
    Abstract: A low wattage metal halide discharge lamp includes an evacuated envelope wherein is disposed a heat reducing member having an arc tube therein. The heat reducing member and the arc tube have a metal band and outer strap member adjacent one another and adjacent an electrode with the metal band, strap member and electrode all electrically connected to an electrical lead of one polarity whereby sodium losses from the arc tube are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Keeffe, Zeya K. Krasko, Robert J. Karlotski
  • Patent number: 4620125
    Abstract: A low wattage metal halide discharge lamp includes an evacuated envelope wherein is disposed a heat reducing member having an arc tube therein. The heat reducing member and the arc tube have a metal band an outer strap member adjacent one another and adjacent an electrode with the metal band, strap member and electrode all electrically connected to an electrical lead of one polarity whereby sodium losses from the arc tube are reduced. Importantly, the evacuated envelope includes a getter and the heat reducing member is in the form of a domed sleeve having an open end directed away from the getters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Keeffe, Zeya K. Krasko, Robert J. Karlotski
  • Patent number: 4620130
    Abstract: A low wattage single-ended metal halide arc discharge lamp has an isothermal arc chamber with an outer diameter (t) substantially equal to the product of a first constant and the lamp wattage plus a second constant; a fill gas and a pair of electrical conductors sealed into and passing through one end of the arc chamber to provide a pair of electrodes therein having a spacing therebetween of about a distance to provide a substantially uniform current for lamps in the range of about 35 to 150 watts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Keeffe, W. Calvin Gungle, Harold L. Rothwell, Jr., Zeya K. Krasko
  • Patent number: 4618802
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed enclosure for a thin film device, such as an electroluminescent device, in which the device includes a thin film matrix supported on a glass substrate. The glass substrate is mounted in a frame and a frit seal is provided between the glass substrate and the frame. A cover is also secured and sealed to the frame by a weld or solder joint. The integrity of both the substrate to frame seal and the frame to cover seal is preserved by forming the surfaces bounding each seal out of materials having substantially similar coefficients of thermal expansion. Since the rates of expansion will be similar, the seals should not develop weaknesses throughout the life of the device over a range of temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Martin P. Schrank
  • Patent number: 4615781
    Abstract: The present invention provides a means of relieving stress on an apertured mask, typically used to deposit thin-film structures on a glass substrate, such that the mask easily conforms to the substrate surface when the mask is in its hold down and patterning position during the deposition process. In particular, the present invention provides a mask assembly having a structurally relieved inner apertured mask portion from an outer mask portion that serves to eliminate wrinkles or crimps in the mask during deposition which may produce unacceptable blurs or shorts between thin-film structures. The stress relieving feature includes a slot which is disposed peripherally about the inner mask and two small segments providing the interconnection between the inner and outer mask of the mask assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventor: Robert A. Boudreau
  • Patent number: 4614890
    Abstract: A high intensity discharge lamp includes a hermetically sealed outer envelope having an arc tube therein containing a fill gas which includes sodium and having a wall member with a portion of increased thickness wherein the portion of increased thickness of the wall member of the arc tube is positioned adjacent to a metal conductor disposed within the outer envelope whereby loss of sodium from the arc tube is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent D. Meyer, William M. Keeffe