Patents Examined by Jacob R Stern
  • Light source
    Patent number: 10269553
    Abstract: A light source to be powered by microwave energy, having a dielectric body or fabrication of material lucent for exit of light therefrom, a receptacle within the dielectric body or fabrication, and a lucent microwave-enclosing Faraday cage surrounding the dielectric body or fabrication. The dielectric body or fabrication within the Faraday cage forms at least part of a microwave resonant cavity. A sealed plasma enclosure of lucent material within the receptacle has a means for locating the plasma enclosure within the receptacle with respect to the dielectric body or fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Ceravision Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Neate, Edward Charles Odell, John Stocks
  • Display device
    Patent number: 10268064
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a first substrate including a gate line extending in the first direction, and a source line extending in a second direction, and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a first light-blocking layer which opposed to the gate line, and a second light-blocking layer which opposed to the source line. Wherein, a subpixel is formed at a position defined by the gate line and the source line, and the color layer has a first width in the first direction, the first width is greater than a width of the subpixel, and the color layer has a lager width than the first width at a overlapping position on the first light-blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Hirosawa, Kayoko Miyazaki, Arihiro Takeda
  • Light-emitting module and lighting fixture
    Patent number: 10260687
    Abstract: A light-emitting module is provided. The light emitting module includes a substrate; a thin-film layer that is disposed above the substrate, the thin-film layer defining an opening that exposes a surface of the substrate; a light-emitting element disposed above the substrate and in the opening; and a sealant disposed above the substrate and in the opening, the sealant containing a wavelength converter and sealing the light-emitting element. A thickness of the thin-film layer is less than a thickness of the sealant. An edge portion of the sealant is in contact with the thin-film layer. The surface of the substrate and a surface of the thin-film layer are hydrophilic. The surface of the thin-film layer has a lower wettability than a wettability of the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisaki Fujitani, Masumi Abe, Kosuke Takehara
  • System and method for enhanced ion pump lifespan
    Patent number: 10262845
    Abstract: Within an ion pump, accelerated ions leave the center portion of an anode tube due to the anode tube symmetry and the generally symmetrical electric fields present. The apparent symmetry within the anode tube may be altered by making the anode tube longitudinally segmented and applying independent voltages to each segment. The voltages on two adjacent segments may be time varying at different rates to achieve a rasterizing process. In various embodiments, one or more wire internal to the anode structure and having a time-varying electric potential may alter the trajectory of the ions leaving the anode tube, as may the shape of the anode near the ends of the anode tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ben D. Gardner, David E. Burchfield
  • Spark plugs having a center electrode
    Patent number: 10250015
    Abstract: A spark plug having a housing, an insulator situated in the housing, a center electrode situated in the insulator and a ground electrode situated on the housing, the ground electrode and the center electrode being situated toward each other in such a way that the ground electrode and the center electrode form a spark gap, and the center electrode rest with a center electrode head on a seat developed on an inner side of the insulator, and the center electrode having an electrode base body and a core situated in the electrode base body, the core being made from a material that has a higher heat conductivity than the material of the electrode base body, the electrode base body having a diameter that is not greater than 1.7 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Benz, Manfred Roeckelein
  • Activewear visibility enhancement
    Patent number: 10240773
    Abstract: A reflective base fabric tape is permanently attached to a garment in all directions, the reflective base tape receiving a removably connected linear strip of high visibility LED lighted cable further attached to a local low voltage power supply having a remote on/off switch, the power supply concealing within the garment with the power supply garment extending through an outlet in the garment connecting to the lighted cable, the lighted cable removably detaching from the applied reflective base along with the power supply and switch so that the garment may be laundered and stored within the lighted cable and power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Inventors: Sidney Francis, Tiffany Swallow, Elizabeth Carroll
  • Fog lamp attachment bracket with integrated air curtain duct and fascia support
    Patent number: 10220804
    Abstract: A bumper assembly for a vehicle includes a bumper fascia having inner and outer surfaces. A support member is welded to the inner surface and at least partially surrounding a fog-lamp aperture. The support member reinforces the bumper fascia proximate the fog-lamp aperture. An air curtain duct integrally formed within the support member, the air curtain duct placing the outer surface in communication with a vehicle compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wahid Sedique, Ira Jason Goldberg, Jorge Alberto Alarcon Chagoya, Gerardo Velazquez Monroy
  • Light flux controlling member, light emitting device and method for manufacturing light flux controlling member
    Patent number: 10203089
    Abstract: A light flux controlling member includes a lens body and a cut part. The lens body and the cut part are an integrally molded article composed of a cured product of a liquid resin composition. The cut part extends outward from the entire circumference of the outer peripheral part of the lens body in plan view of the light flux controlling member. The cut part includes the outward-facing end surface bearing a blade mark or a melting mark. In the front-rear direction of the light flux controlling member, the distance between the bottom surfaces of the cut part and the lens body is 20 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Tatsuno, Hiroshi Motoki
  • Indicator light to correctly position jack under vehicle in an unlighted environment
    Patent number: 10183615
    Abstract: A vehicle jack locator system for a vehicle that incorporates a light source such as an LED to direct the operator to the recommended position for the load engaging saddle of a jack is disclosed. The vehicle jack locator system allows the operator to see, even in dark or poorly illuminated environments, the recommended place to position the jack saddle. The system incorporates a vehicle rocker panel having an outer surface and an underside positioned below the outer surface, a rocker panel jack attachment point on the underside of the panel for receiving the jack saddle, a jack placement indicator light positioned on the outer surface of the rocker panel at a point above the jack attachment point and near a tire, and a power system for selectively energizing the light. The power system is a tire pressure sensor system that includes tire pressure sensors and an electronic control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Carolina Herrera Gutierrez, Nicole Pamela Herrera Gutierrez
  • Electrode tip for spark plug, and spark plug
    Patent number: 10186845
    Abstract: An electrode tip for a spark plug, wherein Pt is contained as a main component, 7% by mass or more of Rh is contained, and a total content of Pt and Rh is greater than or equal to 95% by mass. The electrode tip includes: a narrow portion having the same cross-sectional shape in a direction of an axis; and a wide portion which is adjacent to the narrow portion and has a cross-sectional area, in a radial direction, which is greater than the narrow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sumoyama, Tatsuya Gozawa, Magoki Shimadate, Yusuke Kawashima
  • Optical device
    Patent number: 10180613
    Abstract: An optical device (100) includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20) and an optical layer (30). The optical layer includes a medium (31) containing a liquid crystal material, and shape-anisotropic particles (32). At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a film provided on the side of the optical layer, the film having a surface energy of 40 mJ/m2 or less, or having a contact angle with pure water of 75 degrees or greater or a contact angle with CH2l2 of 40 degrees or greater. Alternatively, at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a vertical alignment film (15, 25) provided on the side of the optical layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Backlight assembly and display apparatus
    Patent number: 10168573
    Abstract: The present application discloses a backlight assembly, comprising an optical film; and a frame for retaining the backlight and the optical film. The frame comprises a side wall having a first end surface, a second end surface opposite to the first end surface, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface; and a first receiving protrusion for receiving the backlight; and a second receiving protrusion for receiving the optical film, the first receiving protrusion and the second receiving protrusion protruding from the first side surface of the side wall in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lei Cao
  • Organic light emitting display device
    Patent number: 10157973
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device comprises a driving transistor for driving an organic light emitting diode; a first transistor controlled by a scan signal and connected between a reference voltage line and a first node of the driving transistor; a second transistor controlled by the scan signal and connected between a data line and a second node of the driving transistor; a first plate with an improved conductive characteristic and connected to the semiconductor layer of the driving transistor and the semiconductor layer of the first transistor; a second plate positioned on the first plate, and connected to the semiconductor layer of the second transistor and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a pixel electrode of the organic light emitting diode, positioned on the second plate and connected to the first plate through a contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: HeeDong Choi
  • Spark plug
    Patent number: 10153618
    Abstract: A spark plug having an insulator with a front end portion having an annular groove opened to a front side around an axial line. The groove has a width of greater than or equal to 0.2 mm in a radial direction. In a cross section including the axial line, a value D/L obtained by dividing, by a length L, a creepage distance D, from a position P on the frontmost side of a region in which a clearance distance between an outer surface of a front end portion and an inner circumferential surface of a metal shell is less than or equal to 0.1 mm to a connection position between an outer surface of the front end portion and the axial hole, is greater than or equal to 1.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Mukoyama, Hiroyuki Kameda
  • Triode hollow cathode electron gun for linear particle accelerators
    Patent number: 10115556
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for generating controllable beam of electrons using a hollow-cathode triode electron gun that substantially mitigate impact of back-streaming electrons. In one embodiment, a triode hollow-cathode electron gun is configured to provide electrons and substantially mitigates the impact of back-streaming electrons. The triode hollow-cathode electron gun includes a hollow cathode, a heating filament, an anode, a control grid, a shadow grid and a sleeve mechanically coupled to the hollow-cathode. The sleeve is substantially centered on the axis of the triode hollow-cathode electron gun and configured to maintain shape and trajectory of emitted beams of electrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Altair Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis G. Allen, Christopher P. Ferrari, Adam J. Mitchell
  • Ion generation apparatus and electric equipment
    Patent number: 10109449
    Abstract: Each of first to fourth needle-like electrodes is arranged such that a direction of extension thereof is parallel, and generates ions by discharge. Through a space, a gas for conveying the ions generated by the first to fourth needle-like electrodes flows. Needle tips of the first needle-like electrode and the second needle-like electrode protrude from a first wall surface that forms the space, are spaced apart from each other, and are arranged in line in the space. Needle tips of the third needle-like electrode and the fourth needle-like electrode protrude from a second wall surface that forms the space and faces the first wall surface, are spaced apart from each other, and are arranged in line in the space. The first needle-like electrode and the fourth needle-like electrode generate positive ions, and the second needle-like electrode and the third needle-like electrode generate negative ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ezaki, Yoshinori Sekoguchi, Satohiko Yamamoto, Tomoaki Takado, Keitaro Yamada, Satoshi Okano
  • Method of manufacturing spark plug
    Patent number: 10079477
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a spark plug includes a step (a) of chucking, by mutually facing chucks, a metallic shell extending along its center axis so as to fix the metallic shell, and (b) a step of pressing a ground electrode against the fixed metallic shell and applying voltage between the ground electrode and the chucks for resistance-welding the ground electrode and the metallic shell. A first chuck facing a second chuck, wherein, as viewed on an imaginary plane of projection perpendicular to the center axis, the number of support points on the second chuck is smaller than the number of support points on the first chuck for supporting the metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daishi Uchiyama
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 10073310
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device has a pixel structure which enhances a viewing angle of the LCD device through the use of a sub-pixel in which a gray scale varies during a display period and to which a photoconductive element is applied, the photoconductive element including a photoconductive layer of which a resistance level varies corresponding to an amount of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunsik Kim, Heejin Kim
  • Solid state lighting assembly
    Patent number: 10066814
    Abstract: A solid state lighting assembly includes a heat sink and a socket assembly coupled to the heat sink. The socket assembly includes a socket housing having an interior surface mounted to a front of the heat sink and having an extension extending from the interior surface. The extension is received in an opening of the heat sink and extends at least partially through the heat sink. A socket contact is held by the socket housing and includes a package mating end and a power termination end. The power termination end extends into a cavity of the extension such that the power termination end extends at least partially through the heat sink. The power termination end is terminated to a power conductor and the package mating end is mechanically and electrically coupled to a solid state lighting package to supply power thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Matthew Edward Mostoller
  • Phosphor blend and fluorescent lamp containing same
    Patent number: 10066162
    Abstract: A phosphor blend is described wherein the blend consists of a red-emitting rare earth phosphor, a green-emitting rare earth phosphor, and a blue-emitting rare earth phosphor wherein the 50% size of the phosphors is between about 12 to 15 ?m. The phosphor blend is incorporated into a fluorescent lamp having an increased efficacy. A dual layer coating may be used to provide an additional increase in efficacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LEDVANCE LLC
    Inventors: Arunava Dutta, Paul Salvi, Carissa Mercer