Patents Examined by Donald Raleigh
  • Patent number: 9831402
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a supporting base member which has an external electrode, at least one light emitting element disposed on at least a portion of an upper surface of the supporting base member. A sealing member encloses the light emitting element and has an outermost periphery larger than the supporting base member in a plan view. The supporting base member has at least one recess. The sealing member is filled in at least a portion of the recess and is formed so as to expose an electrode surface of the external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Oka
  • Patent number: 9824844
    Abstract: A transmission mode photocathode comprises: an optically transparent substrate having an outside face to which light is incident, and an inside face from which the light incident to the outside face side is output; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed on the inside face side of the optically transparent substrate and configured to convert the light output from the inside face into a photoelectron or photoelectrons; and an optically-transparent electroconductive layer comprising graphene, and disposed between the optically transparent substrate and the photoelectric conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagata, Yasumasa Hamana, Kimitsugu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9825433
    Abstract: An ignition plug wire for an internal combustion engine has an elongated conductor with a programmable capacitor module disposed in-line with the elongated conductor. The programmable capacitor module is configured to step up or convert the ignition voltage normally supplied by an ignition coil to a plasma voltage. An inventive ignition plug if configured such that the anode enclosed within the insulator includes or is replaced by a voltage converting module designed to convert the ignition voltage into a plasma voltage. The voltage converting module consists of a semiconductor circuit, a composite semiconductor material, or a capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventor: Serge V. Monros
  • Patent number: 9825432
    Abstract: A spark plug for an internal combustion engine is provided which includes a housing, a porcelain insulator, a center electrode, and an annular ground electrode. The housing has a small-diameter portion which has a smaller inner diameter and defines a front end thereof. The ground electrode is secured to a front end surface of the small-diameter portion and forms a spark gap between itself and an outer periphery of the center electrode. The ground electrode is smaller in outer diameter than the front end surface of the small-diameter portion. A annular weld which joints the ground electrode and the small-diameter portion is formed in an annular boundary through which the front end surface of the small-diameter portion and the base end surface of the ground electrode face each other. The annular weld continuously and fully extends in a circumferential direction of the ground electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Deguchi, Kanechiyo Terada, Tetsuya Miwa, Yuuki Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 9824878
    Abstract: A ceramic metal halide lamp includes a luminous tube; an illuminating arrangement having at least two illuminators serially connected with each other and deposed inside the luminous tube; and at least one retainer having at least contacting one end being contacted with an inner surface of the luminous tube to support the illuminators being stability located at a predetermined position inside said luminous tube, wherein the two illuminators are serially connected with each other along a central line of said luminous tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventor: Robert Su
  • Patent number: 9821712
    Abstract: A vehicle interior lighting device according to an embodiment includes a housing, a cover provided on one end portion side of the housing, a light-emitting section provided on the inside of the housing, and a detecting section provided on the inside of the housing and configured to detect, via the cover, a change in energy involved in a motion of an operator and convert the detected change in the energy into an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Heike
  • Patent number: 9819155
    Abstract: A spark plug includes a housing, an insulator inside the housing, a center electrode inside the insulator, and a connecting pin inside the insulator. At least one fillet is formed at a change of cross section at the housing, at the insulator, at the center electrode, and/or at the connecting pin. The fillet, viewed in cross section, includes a first leg and a second leg at an angle to the first leg. The length of the first leg is greater than the length of the second leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hermann Kersting, Jorge Diaz Alfonso
  • Patent number: 9812279
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electrode material that eases electron injection and does not react with contact substances. The structure of the material includes a conductive substrate plane on the top of which an emissive material is coated. The emissive coating bonds strongly with the substrate plane. The emissive material is of low work function and high chemical stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Jian Xin Yan
  • Patent number: 9812280
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-pressure discharge lamp, comprising the steps of: inserting a mount into an interior of a glass tube having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of an end part of a sealed container; radially constricting the glass tube at a first position located away from a metallic foil toward a tip of an electrode; sealing the mount by a region of the glass tube that ranges from the first position to at least the other end of the metallic foil; protruding the electrode out of the glass tube located away from the first position toward the tip of the electrode to form a glass-tube air-tightly sealed mount; inserting the sealed mount into the end part of the sealed container; and radially constricting the end part of the sealed container to sealing the glass tube of the sealed mount by the end part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PHOENIX ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuji Nakagawa, Hiroshi Takahashi, Takashige Yamada
  • Patent number: 9812670
    Abstract: A polarization film includes a polarization layer including a polymer and a dichroic dye having a maximum absorption wavelength (?max) at about 380 nm to about 780 nm, and a protective layer disposed on a surface of the polarization layer and having a cross-linking structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Choi, Sangah Gam, Seong-Jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9810403
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device (1) including a lens (200, 300) comprising an annular collimating structure (100) having a central axis of symmetry (202), said structure comprising a light exit surface (105) and an intermediate region (120) in between an inner region (110) proximal to said axis and an outer region (130) distal to said axis, wherein one of the inner region and outer region consists of a single prism (112) extending from the light exit surface by a first height (h1) and the other of the inner region and outer region comprises a plurality of prisms (132) extending from the light exit surface by a maximum second height (h2), wherein the first height is at least the maximum second height and the intermediate region has an intermediate region surface (120?) separated from the light exit surface by a maximum further height (h3) that is smaller than the first height; and a plurality of solid state lighting elements (20) arranged in a circular pattern on a carrier surface (25) such that the solid state
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Lin Wang
  • Patent number: 9810949
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes: a stage on which a substrate to be processed is supported, the substrate to be processed including a first alignment layer of the display device; an optical system facing the substrate to be processed which is supported on the stage, the optical system including a light source which irradiates ultraviolet rays to the substrate to be processed; and a mask which is interposed between the light source and the substrate to be processed which includes the first alignment layer of the display device. The mask defines: a transmitting portion thereof through which the ultraviolet rays irradiated from the light source are transmitted to the first alignment layer of the substrate to be processed, and a blocking portion thereof which blocks transmission of the ultraviolet rays irradiated from the light source to the substrate to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mi Hwa Lee, Min Hee Kim, Soo Jung Youn, Chang Hun Lee, Sung Hwan Hong
  • Patent number: 9804438
    Abstract: Liquid crystal molecules have a pretilt angle to the left-and-right direction in a plane perpendicular to the up-and-down direction, so that an end part of a first side as one side of a left side and a right side of the liquid crystal molecules is set closer to a backlight than an end part of a second side as the other side. Second edge parts of a black matrix adjacent to an upper side and a lower side of an opening have a straight line shape extending by inclination to mutually the same side in the left-and-right direction, so that an end part of the same side as a first side as one side of the left side and the right side of the second edge parts is positioned above the end part of the same side as the second side as the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yonemura, Manabu Iwakawa, Akimasa Yuki, Toshiaki Fujino, Tetsuya Satake, Taroh Yoshino, Kazunori Okumoto
  • Patent number: 9804468
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a gate line including a gate electrode; a data line including a source electrode; a drain electrode; an organic layer on the gate and data lines and the drain electrode, and a first opening defined therein; a first electrode on the organic layer, and a second opening defined therein; and a passivation layer on the first electrode, and a contact hole defined therein exposing the drain electrode. An interval taken in a first direction between a first edge of the gate electrode, the first edge parallel to a second direction in which the gate line is extended and which is different than the first direction, and a second edge of the first electrode second opening, the second edge parallel to the second direction and adjacent to the gate electrode first edge is 0 micrometer to about 6 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hyun Park, Woong Ki Jeon, Sung In Ro, Dong Gun Oh
  • Patent number: 9805926
    Abstract: A lamp for automotive front lighting and a vehicle headlight comprising the lamp are described, as well as a method of manufacturing the lamp. The lamp 10 comprises a base 12 for mechanical and electrical connection to an automotive headlight 50. A burner 14 is fixed to the base 12 and comprises an enclosed transparent vessel 22. A first filament 34 is arranged within the vessel 22. A holding wire 30c is arranged within the vessel, and a baffle 40 is arranged proximate to the first filament 34 to partially shield light emitted from the first filament 34. The baffle 40 is fixed to the holding wire 30c. The transparent vessel 22 comprises a vessel wall including a cylindrical portion 24 surrounding the first filament 34. In order to obtain a lamp which may withstand vibration, the vessel wall comprises, within the cylindrical portion 24, a deformed material portion 38 which contacts the baffle 40 or the holding wire 30c. The deformed material portion 38 is shielded from the first filament 34 by the baffle 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Schönfelder, Gerd-Peter Dohlen, Johannes Gerhard Möller
  • Patent number: 9803840
    Abstract: A landscape light including a first laser light source having a first lens and producing a first laser light having a first color, the first lens configured to disperse the first laser light, a second laser light source having a second lens and producing a second laser light having a second color, the second lens configured to disperse the second laser light, and a spotlight producing a background light such that the dispersed first and second laser lights are projected substantially within the background light produced by the spotlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Telebrands Corp.
    Inventor: Lou Lentine
  • Patent number: 9806261
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising a substrate; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation substrate disposed on the organic light emitting element; and an adhesive layer formed on the substrate, covering the organic light emitting element, and bonding the substrate on which the organic light emitting element is formed with the encapsulation substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Hyun Son, Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9805629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent electronic display board that is capable of uniform optical output and, more particularly, to a transparent electronic display board that is capable of uniform optical output wherein the pattern width and length are adjusted according to the sheet resistance of a transparent electrode of the transparent electronic display board, wherein a driving voltage applied to a light-emitting device can be uniformly supplied within a constant range, and wherein multiple light sources disposed in the transparent electronic display board can emit light at uniform intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: G-SMATT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 9797580
    Abstract: Light fixtures for illuminating spaces that use light emitting diode-based light sources and that incorporate chip on board technology that enables the light emitting diode to be mounted directly on a portion of the light fixture. In some embodiments, the light fixture includes a reflector assembly onto which the light emitting diode is directly mounted. In other embodiments, the reflector assembly includes an aperture that receives a board having chip on board technology onto which the light emitting diode is directly mounted. In some embodiments, the light fixture also includes a diffuser for diffusing the light emanating from the light emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Mansfield Quinlan, Mark Anthony Hand, Forrest Starnes McCanless, John T. Mayfield, III
  • Patent number: 9798173
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel (LCD) may include: a flexible liquid crystal panel; and a housing unit for housing the liquid crystal panel. The housing unit may have an integrated structure which includes a bottom surface, a side surface connected from the bottom surface, and a top fixing end connected from the side surface, the liquid crystal panel may be housed between the bottom surface and the top fixing end, and the housing unit may be formed of a flexible soft material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Suk Bang, You Young Jin, Sang II Kim, Won-Chul Lee