Patents Examined by Hana S Featherly
  • Patent number: 7993180
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field emission element, the method includes providing one supporting member and wrapping a carbon nanotube (CNT) film around an outer surface of the supporting member at least once. The CNT film includes a plurality of bundles of carbon nanotubes connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan, Caesar Chen, Hsi-Fu Lee, Ga-Lane Chen
  • Patent number: 7994698
    Abstract: An electron emitting device includes an amorphous electron supply layer, an insulating layer formed on the electron supply layer, and an electrode formed on the insulating layer. The electron emits device emitting electrons when an electric field is applied between the electron supply layer and the electrode. The electron emitting device includes a concave portion provided by notching the electrode and the insulating layer to expose the electron supply layer, and a carbon layer covering the electrode and the concave portion except for an inner portion of an exposed surface 4a of the electron supply layer and being in contact with an edge portion of the exposed surface of the electron supply layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Tanaka, Nobuyasu Negishi, Kazuto Sakemura, Yoshiyuki Okuda, Tomonari Nakada, Atsushi Watanabe, Takamasa Yoshikawa, Kiyohide Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 7990034
    Abstract: A filter for a display panel includes a base unit and an external light shielding sheet. The sheet includes a plurality of pattern units provided in spaced relation adjacent the base unit to absorb external light. The base unit includes a dye or pigment for absorbing light in a specific wavelength region, and refractive indexes of the pattern units are greater than a refractive index of the base unit. The pattern units may have the same or different refractive indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Rae Cha, Ji Hoon Sohn, Joon Kwon Moon, Woon Seo Shin
  • Patent number: 7982382
    Abstract: A thermionic electron source includes a substrate, at least two electrodes, and a thermionic emitter. The electrodes are electrically connected to the thermionic emitter. The thermionic emitter has a film structure. Wherein there a space is defined between the thermionic emitter and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Liang Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 7977880
    Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided with a discharge cell comprising a discharge space, a phosphor film contacting with the discharge space, a holding portion (barrier ribs and a dielectric layer) sectioning the discharge space and holding the phosphor film on an opposite side to the discharge space side, and gas filled in the discharge space and emitting ultraviolet light by discharge. The phosphor film comprises a phosphor layer emitting visible rays by excitation caused by ultraviolet light and a reflecting layer reflecting visible rays, the phosphor layer is provided between the reflecting layer and the discharge space, a film thickness of the reflecting layer is 15 ?m or thinner, and a refractive index of the reflecting layer is 1.7 or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Horiuchi, Kenji Okishiro, Go Saitou
  • Patent number: 7956538
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a substrate; an organic light emitting diode on one surface of the substrate; an encapsulation substrate located opposite and substantially parallel to the substrate with the organic light emitting diode therebetween; a filler layer on one surface of the encapsulation substrate facing the substrate; a first encapsulation layer located between the encapsulation substrate and the substrate and sealing the substrate and the encapsulation substrate together; and a second encapsulation layer located adjacent to the first encapsulation layer and between the encapsulation substrate and the substrate, wherein the filler layer and the second encapsulation layer include a moisture absorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Joon Yoo, Jae-Sun Lee, Il-Sang Lee, Hye-Sun Kim, Hyun-Soo Jung
  • Patent number: 7952277
    Abstract: A PDP is proposed which has high emission efficiency and which can decrease address discharge voltage. In a column direction of at least one of transparent electrodes, which perform sustain discharge via respective discharge gaps of a pair of row electrodes and constituting a row electrode pair, is set to 150 ?m or less, and partial pressure of xenon in discharge gas sealed in a discharge space is set to 6.67 kPa or more. A width of a scan electrode, which is one row electrode of each of the row electrode pair facing the column electrode and to which scan pulse is applied, is wider than a width of the other row electrode of the pair to which discharge sustain voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignees: Advanced PDP Development Center Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Shinohe, Toshiyuki Akiyama, Takashi Yamada, Yasuyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7931517
    Abstract: Disclosed is an illuminative module for enhancing the white balance while reducing thermal drift and color blocks. The illuminative module includes a substrate and light-emitting elements provided on the substrate to emitting light of the primary colors and a fourth color, respectively, so that the light of the primary colors is mixed with the light of the fourth color to provide white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Inventors: Joe Yang, Kai-Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 7923909
    Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine and method of construction therefore includes a housing with an insulator secured therein. A center electrode is mounted within the insulator. A ground electrode extends from the housing with a portion of the ground electrode defining a spark gap across from the center electrode. At least a selected one of the center electrode or ground electrode has a platinum or platinum-based alloy firing tip. A resistance weld joint bonds the firing tip to the selected electrode and defines a lower surface of the firing tip that is embedded a first distance beneath an outer surface of the selected electrode. A continuous bead of overlapping laser weld pools is formed over an outer periphery of the firing tip. The overlapping weld pools extend a second distance beneath the outer surface of the selected electrode, with the second distance being greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Tinwell
  • Patent number: 7919918
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display device that reduces a unused area and reduces the voltage drop of a driving power bus line. The organic light emitting display device includes a pixel region having a plurality of organic light emitting diodes; a power bus line that is located on an outer side of the pixel region and supplies power to each of the organic light emitting diodes; and a metal layer that overlaps the driving power bus line, is electrically connected to the driving power bus line, and comprises a panel mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-Ah Kim
  • Patent number: 7915814
    Abstract: A top-emission-type organic EL display device which exhibits uniform screen brightness is realized by preventing a voltage drop of an upper electrode formed of a transparent conductive film. Pixels each of which is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode are arranged in a matrix array to form a display region. An auxiliary electrode extends in the lateral direction between the pixels and the pixels for preventing a voltage drop of the upper electrode. A current supply line which supplies an electric current to the upper electrode and the auxiliary electrodes are made conductive with each other by forming a through hole in an insulation layer. To ensure reliability of connection at the through hole, a contact electrode made of metal which overlaps with the auxiliary electrode is formed on the through hole by vapor deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriharu Matsudate, Takeshi Ookawara
  • Patent number: 7914355
    Abstract: First electrodes partially configuring light-emitting elements are patterned in the form of stripes on a first major surface of a transparent substrate. Next, piezoelectric elements functioning a SAW touch sensor are formed on a second major surface of the transparent substrate. Next, the light-emitting elements forming step of forming light-emitting elements on the first electrodes which are patterned in advance is sequentially executed. After the formation of the piezoelectric elements, since the step of forming the light-emitting elements is executed, the light-emitting elements can be prevented from being damaged by receiving heat in the formation of the piezoelectric elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignees: Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Component Limited
    Inventors: Fumihiko Nakazawa, Takashi Katsuki, Yuji Takahashi, Satoshi Sato, Satoshi Sasaki, Tamotsu Watanabe, Kunizo Ogoshi, Michiko Endo
  • Patent number: 7911121
    Abstract: The invention relates to an incandescent lamp (1) which is provided with an illuminant (7) which is inserted in a bulb (2) together with a filling in a vacuum-tight manner, the illuminant (7) comprising a metal carbide that has a melting point above that of tungsten. The bulb also comprises a source and a sink for a material of which the illuminant is depleted during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Axel Bunk, Matthias Damm, Georg Rosenbauer
  • Patent number: 7902750
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes thereon, a bank structure formed on the substrate and provided with a plurality of pixel apertures corresponding to the plurality of pixel electrodes, an injection layer formed in each of the plurality of pixel apertures for injecting electrons or holes, an organic semiconductor layer formed on the injection layer in each of a plurality of pixel apertures; and an electrode formed on the organic semiconductor layer, wherein the individual bank includes a lyophilic layer formed on the substrate and a lyophobic layer formed on the lyophilic layer. Here, each of the plurality of the pixel apertures is formed so as to penetrate the lyophilic layer and the lyophobic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Takei, Yuji Chino
  • Patent number: 7902733
    Abstract: This invention is an improvement to the internal combustion engine spark plug used to ignite the fuel air mixture in the engine combustion chamber. All spark plugs manufactured today produce one ignition spark for each high voltage electrical discharge of the ignition coil regardless of the number of spark plug electrodes used in the manufacture of the spark plug. This invention uses an intermediate electrically neutral electrode placed between the spark plug center electrode and the ground strap electrode creating two separate spark air gaps. For each single high voltage electrical discharge of the ignition coil, a spark will occur between the center electrode and the intermediate electrode and another distinct and separate spark will occur between the intermediate electrode and the ground strap electrode. Because the two ignition sparks are electrically in series, both will have the same electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Inventor: Thad Whitfield Posey
  • Patent number: 7902743
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a substrate, lower electrodes arranged in stripes on the substrate, an insulating layer arranged on the lower electrodes, upper transparent electrodes arranged in stripes in a direction intersecting with the lower electrodes, an organic electroluminescent layer arranged between the lower electrodes and the upper transparent electrodes, electrodes auxiliary to the upper electrodes arranged on the insulating layer and connected with the upper transparent electrodes, and insulating barrier walls arranged on the insulating layer or the electrodes auxiliary to the upper electrodes, the widths of which are broadened in the upper portions, wherein the upper electrodes are connected to the electrodes auxiliary to the upper electrodes at a position between the insulating layer and a region where the width of the insulating barrier wall is broadest, and are connected within a region corresponding to the broadest width of the insulating barrier wall; and a method for
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Masaya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7888872
    Abstract: An electric lamp includes a quartz-glass envelope having at least one sealed end, a thin foil including molybdenum at least partly embedded within said sealed end, a first current conductor connected to the foil extending interiorly of the envelope, and a second current conductor connected to the foil and extending exteriorly of the envelope. The re-crystallized foil exhibits a yield strength (offset=0.2%) according to ASTM F 8M-91 below 300 MPa. This can be obtained by molybdenum doped with between 0.01 and 5 wt % of rhenium or 0.01 and 2 wt % of tungsten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Chrysostomus Hidde Maria Maree, Jiajun Wang
  • Patent number: 7887385
    Abstract: An organic EL light emitting element is provided with a conductive transparent electrode 3, a counter electrode 8 opposing the conductive transparent electrode 3, an organic EL light emitting layer 6 provided between the conductive transparent electrode 3 and the counter electrode 8, an insulating protection layer 9 provided to cover at least the organic EL light emitting layer 6, and a heat dissipating layer 11 which is brought into contact with the insulating protection layer 9. The conductive transparent electrode has an ITO film including at least one of Hf, V and Zr at least on the surface part on the side of the organic EL light emitting layer 6, and the insulating protection layer 9 includes a nitride film having a thickness of 100 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Akinobu Teramoto, Akihiro Morimoto
  • Patent number: RE42233
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plasma display apparatus in which film-type front filter is connected. A plasma display apparatus of the present invention includes a panel formed by attaching an upper substrate to a lower substrate, an front filter attached to an entire surface of the panel and including extensions extending by predetermined lengths from edges of the panel in omni-directions, a back cover formed on a rear surface of the chassis base, and a filter supporter for electrically connecting the extensions to the back covers. The filter supporter is connected to the compass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Sung Kim, Kyung-Ku Kim, Hong Rae Cha, Myeong-Soo Chang, Byung-Gil Ryu
  • Patent number: RE42405
    Abstract: A partition is formed by the process including a step for providing a sheet-like partition material that covers a display area and outside thereof on the surface of the substrate, a step for providing a mask for patterning that covers the display area and the outside thereof, so that a pattern of the portion arranged outside of the display area of the mask is a grid-like pattern, a step for patterning the partition material covered partially with the mask by a sandblasting process, and a step for baking the partition material after the patterning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignees: Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited, Hitachi Plasma Patent Licensing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Fujinaga, Kazunori Ishizuka, Tatsutoshi Kanae, Kazuhide Iwasaki, Toshiyuki Nanto, Yoshimi Kawanami, Masayuki Shibata, Yasuhiko Kunii, Tadayoshi Kosaka, Osamu Toyoda, Yoshimi Shirakawa