Patents Examined by Fatima Farokhrooz
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Patent number: 8851726Abstract: A vehicle lighting apparatus is provided with: a light source device including a first light source and a second light source; a reflector adapted to reflect forwardly light emitted from the light sources; a main shade adapted to shade a portion of light emitted from the first light source and reflected by the reflector; and a sub shade adapted to shade at least a portion of light emitted from the second light source and reflected by the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8827524Abstract: A computer bezel includes a bezel body, a light-guide structure mounted to the bezel body, and one or more light sources mounted on the bezel body. The light-guide structure includes a first bottom surface and a first end surface connected to the first bottom surface. The lighting portion includes an outer surface exposed out of the bezel body, a first side surface, and a second bottom surface connected to the guiding portion. A cross section of the light-guide structure is L-shaped taken along a plane substantially parallel to the first end surface. The guiding portion is configured to guide a plurality of light beams emitted from the light source to the lighting portion to enable the plurality of light beams to be refracted from the outer surface so as to be visible to a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fu-Kuo Huang
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Patent number: 8821134Abstract: A pump having a substantially cylindrical shape and defining a cavity formed by a side wall closed at both ends by end walls wherein the cavity contains a fluid is disclosed. The pump further comprises an actuator operatively associated with at least one of the end walls to cause an oscillatory motion of the driven end wall to generate displacement oscillations of the driven end wall within the cavity. The pump further comprises an isolator operatively associated with a peripheral portion of the driven end wall to reduce dampening of the displacement oscillations.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: The Technology Partnership PlcInventor: Richard Janse Van Rensburg
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Patent number: 8820998Abstract: A computer bezel includes a bezel body; a light-guide structure mounted to the bezel body, and one or more light sources mounted on the bezel body. The light-guide structure includes a guiding portion and a lighting portion extending from the guiding portion. The lighting portion defines an outer surface exposed out of the bezel body. The guiding portion includes a first bottom surface and a first end surface connected to the first bottom surface. An obtuse angle is defined between the first end surface and the first bottom surface. The light source corresponds to the first end surface. The guiding portion is configured to guide a plurality of light beams emitted from the one or more light sources to the lighting portion to enable the plurality of light beams to be refracted from the outer surface so as to be visible to a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fu-Kuo Huang
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Patent number: 8796918Abstract: Discloses is an organic light emitting display device including a first substrate divided into a pixel region and a non-pixel region. An organic light emitting element includes a first electrode, an organic thin film layer and a second electrode formed in the pixel region. A scan driver and a metal film corresponding to a region of the scan driver are formed in the non-pixel region. A second substrate is spaced apart from the pixel region and the non-pixel region of the first substrate. A frit is formed along an edge of a non-pixel region of the second substrate, wherein the frit is formed so that it can be overlapped with an active area of the scan driver formed in the non-pixel region.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Deuk Jong Kim, Seung Yong Song
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Patent number: 8777446Abstract: A portable light may comprise a light body and a light head rotatable relative to the light body. The light head may comprise a light source that may be pivotable relative to a base of the light head. The light source may be electrically connected to the light body by rotatable coaxial connections between the light head and the light body and by rotatable coaxial electrical connections between the base of the light head and the light source. The light may optionally further comprise a hanger movable relative to the light body, or may comprise one or more magnets on the light body, or may comprise a clip on the light body, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Streamlight, Inc.Inventors: Raymond L. Sharrah, Donald J. Keeley, Matthew B. Dalton
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Patent number: 8754577Abstract: An EL display device capable of reducing an average film resistance of an anode in an EL device as well as displaying an image with high definition, and electrical equipment including such an EL display device are provided. A light-shielding metal film (109) is provided on an anode (108) so as to conceal gaps between the pixels. Thus, an average film resistance of the anode (108) in the EL device is reduced. Furthermore, light leakage from the gaps between the pixels can be prevented, resulting in an image display with high definition.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Nishi, Noriko Ishimaru
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Patent number: 8748902Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an LED device which emits light of multi-wavelengths. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing LED devices which emit light of high quality from throughout the whole surface in a uniform manner. In particular, utilizing the manufacturing method of LED devices which emit light of multi-wavelengths makes it possible to produce LED devices of high quality in a simple and cost-efficient way, not by using adhesives, but by a sputtering or PLD method. In addition, since the characteristics of the desired emitted light can be controlled by controlling the amount and type of the phosphors during the manufacture of sputtering targets, high quality LED devices can be manufactured easily.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyo Chul Yun, Geum Jae Jo, Young Chun Kim, Dong Hyun Cho
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Patent number: 8742660Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting device in which high luminance can be obtained with low power consumption by improving the extraction efficiency. A light-emitting device of the invention comprises an insulating film, a plurality of first electrodes being in contact with the insulating film and formed on the insulating film to be in parallel, an electroluminescent layer formed over the plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting with the plurality of first electrodes and formed over the electroluminescent layer in parallel, wherein the insulating film contains nitrogen and silicon and the first electrodes contain a conductive transparent oxide material and silicon oxide.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichiro Sakata, Kaoru Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 8714770Abstract: A lighting device (1) is configured to include: an elongated flat substrate (2); a plurality of semiconductor light sources (3) arranged on the flat substrate in a longitudinal direction of the flat substrate; and a lens plate (4) disposed to face the semiconductor light sources, wherein the lens plate includes a lens-light-incident surface facing the semiconductor light sources and includes a lens-light-emitting surface, a first lens section (5) is formed on one of the lens-light-incident surface and the lens-light-emitting surface and distributing the light emitted by the semiconductor light source in the longitudinal direction, a second lens section (9) is formed on the other one of the lens-light-incident surface and the lens-light-emitting surface for distributing the light emitted by the semiconductor light sources in a width direction, and the first lens section has a curvature surface unit including two or more convex section curvature surfaces having different curvature radii and formed adjacent in tType: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Nichia Corporation, Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Kato, Kazunori Watanabe
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Patent number: 8716930Abstract: A flat panel display device including a display area where an image is displayed and a non-display area located at an outside of the display area includes bank portions arranged in a pattern in the display area and partitioning a plurality of openings, emission elements located in the openings, dummy bank portions formed in the non-display area and integrated therewith, and a sealing passivation layer having a multi-layered structure of organic films and inorganic films alternately arranged, one organic film being located at an interface directly contacting the emission element and one inorganic film located firstly on an outermost portion of the dummy bank portions when the sealing passivation layer extends from the display area to the non-display area.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-sik Oh, Sung-kee Kang, Jung-woo Kim, Ho-nyeon Lee, Young-tea Chun, Mi-jeong Song
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Patent number: 8716929Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including a first red sub-pixel region, a first green sub-pixel region and a deep blue sub-pixel region in a first pixel region; and a second red sub-pixel region, a second green sub-pixel region and a sky blue sub-pixel region in a second pixel region adjacent to the first pixel region, wherein each of the first and second red sub-pixel regions includes a first electrode, a red organic emission material pattern and a second electrode, each of the first and second green sub-pixel regions includes the first electrode, a green organic emission material pattern and the second electrode, wherein the deep blue sub-pixel region includes the first electrode, a deep blue organic emission material pattern and the second electrode, and the sky blue sub-pixel region includes the first electrode, a sky blue organic emission material pattern and the second electrode, and wherein an unit pixel displaying an image includes at least one of the deep blue sub-pixel region and the sky blue sType: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: LG Display Co., LtdInventors: Juhn-Suk Yoo, Yong-Chul Kim
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Patent number: 8698389Abstract: By repeating a purification process of a light-emitting organic compound several times, a thin film made of the light-emitting organic compound to be used in an EL display device contains ionic impurities at the concentration of 0.1 ppm or lower and has a volume resistivity in the range of 3×1010 ?cm or larger. By using such a thin film as a light-emitting layer in the EL device, a current caused by reasons other than the carrier recombination can be prevented from flowing through the thin film, and deterioration caused by unnecessary heat generation can be suppressed. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain an EL display device with high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Toshimitsu Konuma, Mayumi Mizukami
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Patent number: 8690384Abstract: A light assembly (20) for mounting to a planar support includes an extruded heat sink (22) presenting a mounting surface (24) and a heat transfer surface (26) slanted from an upper border (32) to a lower border (30). A panel block (52) depends from the lower border (30), a lens block (68) depends from the upper border (32), a back side (76) extends downwardly from the lens block (60), a truss member (82) interconnects the back side (76) and the heat transfer surface (26), and a mounting block (84) extends from the back side (76). The extruded heat sink (22) is cut into independent elongated sections (28) and light emitting diodes (44) are disposed thereon. The elongated sections (28) are mitered to one another to define a frame. A light directing panel (56) extends from the panel blocks (52) and a lens sheet (72) extends from the lens blocks (68).Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Relume Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Peter A. Hochstein
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Patent number: 8669701Abstract: An organic EL element array is provided which can more easily be produced with a high aperture ratio and a high definition and in which light-emitting layers of organic EL elements adjacent to each other in an interpixel region mutually overlap in the interpixel region.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Seishi Miura
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Patent number: 8648531Abstract: A high pressure discharge lamp has a sealing portion that is made of glass and a sealing metal piece. In a method of manufacturing the high pressure discharge lamp, the sealing metal piece is irradiated with laser beam whose pulse width is 1×10?9 seconds or less, so as to carry out a surface treatment of the sealing metal piece. The sealing metal piece may have a groove that is 120 to 600 nm in depth and 450 to 1,200 nm in width.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Yokota, Yukio Yasuda, Hiroyuki Daido, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Hajime Okada, Masayuki Suzuki, Izuru Daito
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Patent number: 8628211Abstract: A lighting assembly is provided including a support member configured to engage an object that is to be illuminated. A solar cell is rotatably joined to the support member. A lighting member is powered by the solar cell. The lighting member is rotatably joined to the support member to position a light provided in the lighting member.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Jensen Group, LLCInventors: William Mark Jensen, Heath A Doty
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Patent number: 8598787Abstract: A display device includes a first electrode formed on a first substrate, and a second electrode formed on a second substrate. An electro-optical material is sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. A protective layer has a first section formed over the second substrate, a second section formed over the first substrate, and a third section formed between the first and second sections. The third section conforms to the shape of sides of the electro-optical material, the second electrode, and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Creator Technology B.V.Inventors: Petrus Cornelis Paulus Bouten, Fredericus J. Touwslager
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Patent number: 8593047Abstract: A pixel tube for field emission display includes a sealed container, an anode, a phosphor, and a cathode. The sealed container has a light permeable portion. The anode is located in the sealed container and spaced from the light permeable portion. The phosphor layer is located on the anode. The cathode is spaced from the anode and includes a cathode emitter. The cathode emitter includes a carbon nanotube pipe. One end of the carbon nanotube pipe has a plurality of carbon nanotube peaks.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Wei, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 8575832Abstract: The present invention relates to a field emission display, which includes: a base substrate; a plurality of cathode strips, disposed over the base substrate; an insulating layer, disposed over the cathode strips and having a plurality of openings, therewith the openings corresponding to the cathode strips; a plurality of anode strips, disposed over the insulating layer, where the cathode strips and the anode strips are arranged into a matrix and the anode strips individually have at least one impacted surface; and a plurality of subpixel units, individually including: an emissive region having a phosphor layer disposed over the impacted surface; and at least one emissive protrusion, corresponding to the emissive region and disposed in the openings to electrically connect to the cathode strips and protrude out of the openings. Accordingly, the present invention can enhance light utilization efficiency of a field emission display.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Tatung CompanyInventors: Tzung-Han Yang, Chi-Tsung Lo