Patents Examined by Jacob Stern
  • Patent number: 8118566
    Abstract: In a piston-type compressor in which a working fluid is taken in through an intake port is first compressed with pistons and is then let out through an outlet port, an axial hole ranging along the axial direction and a radial hole communicating with the axial hole and opening into a crankcase are formed within the shaft. Additionally, a first intake passage through which the working fluid having flowed in through the intake port is guided via the crankcase to the radial hole and the axial hole and a second intake passage through which the working fluid having flowed in through the intake port is guided to join the working fluid having been drawn into the first intake passage by bypassing the crankcase are formed in the compressor. The working fluid is taken into cylinders from the area where the first working fluid and the second working fluid join each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Takahashi, Yoshihiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 8098006
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a color EL display characterized in that at least color filters, a thin film transistor circuit, an organic EL layer, and a common electrode are laminated in this order on a transparent substrate. Another embodiment of the invention is a method for producing a color EL display comprising the steps of forming color filters on a transparent substrate; forming a thin film transistor circuit; forming an organic EL layer; and forming a common electrode, wherein a process temperatures of the steps of forming the thin film transistor circuit and subsequent steps are 200° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ishizaki, Norimasa Sekine, Manabu Ito, Eiichi Kitazume
  • Patent number: 8049417
    Abstract: A high brightness excimer light source has an elongated tube containing an excimer-forming gas and electrodes for exciting the gas to form a plasma, and thus create excimers such as a rare gas halogen excimer or a rare gas excimer. Light emitted from the excimer propagating axially along the tube passes out of the tube through an exit device such as a lens or optical fiber at one or both ends of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Rutgers, The State University
    Inventors: Nazieh Mohammad Masoud, Daniel E. Murnick
  • Patent number: 7999472
    Abstract: A plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of electrodes positioned on the substrate, a dielectric layer covering the plurality of electrodes. A height of the electrode around a central axis of a cross section of the electrode is larger than a height of the electrode at an edge of the cross section of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Osung Kwon
  • Patent number: 7990062
    Abstract: An LED lamp includes a heat dissipation part, an optical part and an electric part. The optical part includes an LED module attached to a heat dissipation member of the heat dissipation part and an envelope covering the LED module. The electric part includes a casing, a circuit board and a lamp cap. The casing includes a bottom plate and an annular sidewall extending from a periphery of the bottom plate to connect with the heat dissipation part and the optical part. The lamp cap includes an electric shell and an electric pole axially inserted in the electric shell. The lamp cap is rotatablely connected to the casing via the electric pole. The electric pole is fixedly connected to and electrically insulated from the electric shell. An orientation-adjusting structure is provided between the casing and the lamp cap for adjusting the illumination direction of the LED lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tay-Jian Liu
  • Patent number: 7986080
    Abstract: An electron-emitting device and a fabricating method thereof are provided. First, a substrate, having a first side and a second side which is opposite to the first side, is provided. Afterwards, a first electrode pattern layer is formed on the first side of the substrate. Next, a conductive pattern layer is formed on the substrate and the first electrode pattern layer. After that, an electron-emitting region is formed in the conductive pattern layer. Then, a second electrode pattern layer is formed on the second side of the substrate and partially covers the conductive pattern layer. The fabricating method has a simple fabricating process and a low fabricating cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Tsai, Kuan-Jung Chen, Fu-Ming Pan, Mei Liu, Chi-Neng Mo
  • Patent number: 7969082
    Abstract: It aims to improve electron emission efficiency in an electron beam apparatus which includes laminated electron-emitting devices. To achieve this, there are provided an insulating member which has a concave portion on its surface, a cathode which is positioned astride a side surface of the insulating member and an inner surface of the concave portion, a gate which is positioned opposite to the cathode, and a protruding portion which is formed on the gate. In this constitution, the low potential surface of the cathode which is positioned inside the concave portion is inclined to the side of the gate from the entrance toward the interior of the concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroko Takada, Jun Iba
  • Patent number: 7965039
    Abstract: A plasma display device includes a front protective cover and a back cover that form a chassis for receiving a module in which a plasma display panel is incorporated in a chassis member. The front protective cover includes a front frame having a front frame opening for exposing a front image display region of the plasma display panel, a protective plate attached to the front frame opening of the front frame, and a protective plate pressing bracket that presses the periphery of the protective plate against the edge of the front frame opening of the front frame. A reinforcing frame is disposed between the front frame and the protective plate pressing bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Keiji Uchida, Tomio Shiota, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7956522
    Abstract: An ignition anode for an ignition device of a reignitable rocket combustion chamber. The anode includes an ignition anode body having an ignition anode frontal area. The ignition anode frontal area has a plurality of edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Astrium GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Unrath
  • Patent number: 7948182
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel gas fillings of low-pressure gas discharge lamps for reducing the starting and arc drop voltages at low Hg vapor pressures. In favor of a mixture consisting of Ne and Kr, the Ar portion of the gas filling is considerably reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Martin Beck, Jürgen Dichtl, Roland Hoffmann, Maria Hoffmann, legal representative, Astrid Hoffmann, legal representative, Kerstin Hoffmann, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7932673
    Abstract: A new gas discharge tube comprising at least two electrodes and at least one hollow insulator ring fastened to at least one of the electrodes, wherein the insulating ring has an extended length for a creeping current on at least one of the surfaces inside and/or outside compared to its height thereby providing a long distance to any possible creeping current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Jensen Devices AB
    Inventors: Johan Schleimann-Jensen, Jan-Ake Nilsson, Arne Schleimann-Jensen
  • Patent number: 7923916
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including a switching element and a driving element connected to the switching element on a substrate including a pixel region, a cathode connected to the driving element, in which the cathode includes molybdenum (Mo), an emitting layer on the cathode, and an anode on the emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Soo Heo, Jae-Hee Park, Sang-Ho Yu, Kyung-Min Park, Sung-Hoon Choi, Seok-Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 7906907
    Abstract: A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes: a first substrate and a second substrate, a plurality of barrier ribs disposed between the substrates to define discharge cells and including single walled barrier ribs and double walled barrier ribs, a plurality of discharge electrodes disposed on portions of the panel corresponding to the barrier ribs to supply a discharge voltage to the discharge cells, and phosphor layers formed in the discharge cells. The barrier ribs include single wall barrier ribs and double wall barrier ribs. The discharge electrodes disposed on the single wall barrier ribs are commonly used to generate a discharge in the adjacent discharge cells, and thus, discharge areas can be extended. Also, since the discharge spaces of the discharge cells are asymmetrically formed, the brightness of discharge cells that have a relatively low brightness can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Soh, Joong-Ho Moon, Jin-Won Han
  • Patent number: 7902739
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to maintain sufficient light extraction from an organic light emitting device and reduce reflection of external light. There are arranged a polarizing member, a prism member, a phase member, and an organic light emitting element which has an organic light emitting layer arranged between a pair of electrodes, in mentioned order from the side of a light extraction surface. When the prism member includes two sheets, the vertex angle of the prism member sheet arranged on the side of the organic light emitting element is preferably a vertex or less of the prism member arranged on the side of the light extraction surface. Furthermore, the prism members are preferably arranged so that pitch directions thereof are orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoichi Osato, Hiroyuki Kitayama
  • Patent number: 7898161
    Abstract: An object is to provide an electron emitting cathode achieving high luminance, low energy dispersion, and long life. It is therefore an object to provide a diamond electron emitting cathode graspable on a sufficiently stable basis, sharpened at the tip, and improved in electric field intensity. A diamond electron emitting cathode 110 according to the present invention is partitioned into at least three regions, i.e., a front end region 203 intended for electron emission at a tip of columnar shape, a rear end region 201 intended for grasping opposite in the longitudinal direction, and a thinned intermediate region 202, a cross-sectional area of the rear end region is not less than 0.2 mm2, the tip of the front end region is sharpened, and a maximum cross-sectional area of the thinned intermediate region is not more than 0.1 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Akihiko Ueda, Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Takahiro Imai
  • Patent number: 7876051
    Abstract: The electrode mount includes a filament coil, paired lead wires supporting the filament coil therebetween in a manner that the filament coil hangs across the lead wires; and bead glass retaining the paired leadwires. The arc tube includes an arc tube main body formed by winding a glass tube, and an electrode fixed to the end portion of the arc tube main body. For this electrode, the electrode mount is used. The fixing of the electrode mount at the end portion of the arc tube main body is made at a region of the lead wires positioned between the filament coil and the bead glass, and the bead glass is disposed outside the arc tube main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Andou, Kenji Nakano, Noriyuki Uchida, Yusuke Iwase
  • Patent number: 7876032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light unit, comprising a concave reflector (7) with an outlet opening and an axis, whereby the reflector encloses a light source running in the direction of the axis. The light source is enclosed at a separation from an open-ended cylindrical protective tube (16), with a glare shield (19), provided at the open end of the protective tube. The glare shield (19) is a sheet, cupped over the burst-protection tube, whereby the glare shield comprises a semi-circular end piece with a given maximum diameter, on which a straight cylindrical section of greater diameter is mounted which itself is further provided with an offset screen (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Joachim Arndt, Uwe Fidler, Markus Herb
  • Patent number: 7868526
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light source apparatus with a structure that enables the brightness of a gas discharge tube to be stabilized and facilitates gas discharge tube maintenance work. The light source apparatus has a gas discharge tube, a lamp container housing the gas discharge tube, and a base on which the lamp container is fixed. The gas discharge tube is fixed via a heat insulating member to a portion of an outer shell of the lamp container, and the heat insulating member functions to reduce heat transfer between the lamp container and the gas discharge tube to reduce the influence of temperature change, outside the lamp container, on the gas discharge tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.
    Inventors: Koji Matsushita, Kazuo Ueno, Kouzou Adachi
  • Patent number: 7857675
    Abstract: A method for producing a plasma display panel wherein the projection of the end portions of electrode in the widthwise direction are suppressed so that failure in insulation and pressure proof is not caused upon forming an electrode pattern by collectively exposing and developing a bus electrode having a two-layered structure. When the electrode pattern having two-layered structure by a photolithography method using a mask, exposure is made by applying light, while a part of a surface of portion of a paste film of an electrode material which portion to be formed into the electrode pattern is shield from the light, so that a dent is formed in the electrode surface after developing and the thermal shrinkage of the center portion and the thermal shrinkage of the end portions of the electrode in the widthwise direction are controlled separately by the dent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Horikawa, Toshifumi Nagino
  • Patent number: 7855501
    Abstract: A light-emitting device (1) includes a substrate (10), a light-emitting element (12) that is mounted on the substrate (10) and includes a luminous region (12b) and a nonluminous region (12a), and a phosphor layer (13) that is formed to cover the light-emitting element (12). The thickness of the phosphor layer (13a) located on the nonluminous region (12a) is smaller than that of the phosphor layer (13b) located on the luminous region (12b). The light-emitting device (1) can suppress nonuniform luminescent color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Tanimoto, Toshifumi Ogata, Satoshi Shida, Hiroyuki Naito