Patents Examined by Jimmy Lin
  • Patent number: 7632536
    Abstract: A method for producing a pattern of an electroconductive member, comprises: a step of forming on a substrate surface a resin film containing acid group; a step of incorporating into the resin film a liquid containing a metal complex salt and having a pH value of 5 to 7; and a step of baking the resin film to form the electroconductive member from a metal component incorporated into the resin film, thereby improving uniformity and speed of an adsorbing of the metal component into the resin, and providing uniform characteristics of the electroconductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Furuse, Shosei Mori, Masahiro Terada, Tsuyoshi Ibe, Makoto Kojima
  • Patent number: 7625596
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention discloses a method for making a first layer in an electroactive device comprising the steps of (i) preparing a composition by mixing at least one adhesion promoter material and at least one electroactive material; and (ii) depositing said composition onto a second electroactive layer of said electroactive device; and (iii) optionally further depositing a third electroactive layer onto the surface of said first layer opposite the second layer, wherein said composition enables adhesion between said first layer and said second layer or between said first layer and said third layer, or between said first layer and both said second layer and said third layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Larry Neil Lewis, Venkatesan Manivannan, Tami Janene Faircloth, Jie Liu, James Anthony Cella
  • Patent number: 7625602
    Abstract: A method for metering powdered or granular material onto a heated surface to vaporize such material. The method comprises providing a rotatable auger d for receiving powdered or granular material and as the rotatable auger rotates, such rotatable auger translates such powdered or granular material along a feed path to a feeding location. The method also providing at least one opening at the feeding location such that the pressure produced by the rotating rotatable auger at the feeding location causes the powdered or granular material to be forced through the opening onto the heated surface in a controllable manner. The material is agitated or fluidized proximate to the feeding location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Long, Neil P. Redden, Bruce E. Koppe, Thomas W. Palone
  • Patent number: 7625601
    Abstract: A method for metering powdered or granular material onto a heated surface to vaporize such material, includes providing a container with powdered or granular material having at least one component; providing a rotatable auger disposed in material receiving relationship with the container for receiving powdered or granular material from the container and as the auger rotates, such rotating auger translates such powdered or granular material along a feed path to a feeding location; and providing at least one opening at the feeding location such that the pressure produced by the rotating auger at the feeding location causes the powdered or granular material to be forced through the opening onto the heated surface in a controllable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Long, Thomas W. Palone, Bruce E. Koppe
  • Patent number: 7618674
    Abstract: A deposition mask and a method for manufacturing an organic light emitting display (OLED) using the same are provided. The deposition mask is intended for preventing an organic film from being damaged due to touching of a blocked-off portion of the mask to an emission layer (EML), or chemical transition from being generated at the organic film. For that purpose, the deposition mask stuck to a substrate of the OLED to deposit an organic EML includes an opening and an indentation. The opening is opened so as to deposit the organic EML. The indentation is indented a predetermined depth from a plane facing the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Ho Kang, Tae-Seung Kim, Jae-Min Hong
  • Patent number: 7611745
    Abstract: The invention is directed to repairing of a defective portion caused by a short circuit without generating a dark spot by a pin hole. Laser beams are irradiated to an irradiating region set in a peripheral region of a foreign substance. This prevents damaging of an organic EL element which the foreign substance adheres to and formation of the pin hole. By irradiating laser beams to the peripheral region at a distance from the foreign substance, energy of the laser beams spreads concentrically around the irradiating region, and is also supplied to the foreign substance indirectly. Therefore, the high resistive region can be formed between an anode layer and a cathode layer so that the defective portion caused by the short circuit by the foreign substance can be repaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuji Nishikawa, Ryozo Nagata, Takashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 7608293
    Abstract: A field emission device, including: a cathode substrate; a carbon nanotube array slice attached on the cathode substrate, the carbon nanotube array slice including a plurality of carbon nanotube segments arranged approximately parallel to each other, the carbon nanotube segments each having a first end and an opposite second end, the first ends thereof terminating at a common plane, and the second ends thereof being electrically connected to the cathode plant. A method for manufacturing the field emission devices based on carbon nanotube array is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Huang, Yang Wei, Yang Wu, Liang Liu, Chang-Hong Liu, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 7601399
    Abstract: This invention involves the application of dense, metallurgically bonded deposits of tungsten and tungsten rhenium coatings onto preformed based x-ray anodes to be used as focal tracks. The coatings are applied by low pressure DC plasma spraying. The invention also includes heat treatments that further densify the as-applied coatings improving their suitability for use as focal tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Surface Modification Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajan Bamola, Albert Sickinger
  • Patent number: 7597925
    Abstract: An improved method of forming a display is described. The method describes depositing droplets of a display fluid into a sealing solution. The sealing solution seals the droplets of display fluid such that each droplet forms a miniature cell of display fluid. Electrodes address charged particles in the miniature cells to form viewable images for use in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventor: Jurgen H. Daniel
  • Patent number: 7592034
    Abstract: A dispenser system for a liquid crystal display panel includes at least one table upon which a substrate having a plurality of image display parts is loaded, a plurality of syringes each having a nozzle at one end portion for supplying a dispensing material onto the substrate, and a plurality of robot arms having the plurality of syringes arranged at both sides of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Su Jung
  • Patent number: 7582333
    Abstract: A pattern forming method is provided which discharges droplets of a liquid material on a substrate and forms a film pattern W. The method comprises a first step of forming a central pattern W1 of the film pattern W on the substrate, a second step of forming a first side pattern W2 with respect to the central pattern W1, and a third step of forming a second side pattern W3 with respect to the central part W1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Hirai, Hironori Hasei
  • Patent number: 7579040
    Abstract: Provided is a method for fabricating an organic EL device that can prevent delamination of an electrode. The method includes: forming electrode separators on a substrate, the electrode separators being spaced apart by a constant distance from one another; and depositing an electrode material on an entire surface of the substrate including the electrode separators to form an electrode separated by the electrode separators. According to the present invention, since the anode is automatically separated in the unit of pixels due to the existence of the electrode separator, delamination of the anode can be prevented, and further product reliability can be enhanced. Also, since a complicated photolithography process is not needed, process efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Nyun Lee, Chang Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 7575773
    Abstract: An optical compensatory sheet producing apparatus produces an optical compensatory sheet having a liquid crystal layer. In the apparatus, a rubbing unit is supplied with resin film having a first layer including resin, and subjects the first layer to a rubbing process, so as to form an orientation layer. A dust remover removes dust from the orientation layer by use of liquid such as perfluorocarbon, to which the orientation layer is insoluble. A liquid crystal layer coater is disposed downstream from the dust remover, for coating the orientation layer with coating liquid including liquid crystalline compound, so that the liquid crystal layer is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Ishizuka, Munehiro Ura, Tadashi Sugiyama, Kenji Nakajima, Kazuhiko Fujiwara, Naoyuki Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 7575775
    Abstract: The present invention is a low pressure physical vapor deposition method for the deposition of multi element sulfide thin film phosphor compositions for electroluminescent devices where a thermal source comprising a polysulfide compound provides the source of sulfur species for phosphor film deposition and/or annealing. The method is particularly useful for the deposition of phosphors for full color ac electroluminescent displays employing thick film dielectric layers with a high dielectric constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Ifire IP Corporation
    Inventors: James Alexander Robert Stiles, Paul Barry Del Bel Belluz, John Wesley Moore
  • Patent number: 7572478
    Abstract: A technique for sealing an EL panel of a light emitting device is provided. By preparing a absorption metal as a film on EL elements on the inside of an enclosed space, it becomes easy to made the interior of the space possess a absorption function, and further, an enclosure structure can be fabricated without the penetration of oxygen and moisture into the space because the absorption film is formed in succession after formation of the EL elements, according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiiti Ogura, Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7566473
    Abstract: A method of identifying an object comprising providing an vehicle having on a surface thereof at least one layer of paint, such as a urethane-based paint. A unique alphanumeric identification is applied to the paint layer with a fluorescent material at a selected unrevealed location thereon. The fluorescent material is permitted to migrate into the at least one paint layer, while an excess amount of fluorescent material remains on the at least one paint layer. Thereupon, the excess amount of fluorescent material is removed from the at least one paint layer with a solvent. The unique discrete identification created by fluorescent material migrated into the at least one paint layer is visible at an acute angle to the object surface without use of an ultraviolet light, while being substantially invisible at an angle normal to the object surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Vin Mark Security Services, LLC
    Inventor: Milton Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 7560134
    Abstract: A method for forming a coating of nano-sized material on the surface of another material using a micromachining bead-blasting machine for implantation of nanoparticles is disclosed. The method can be practiced with a wide range of target materials, nanoparticles (such as carbon-nanotubes, CNTs), and environmental conditions, using a wide range of carrier bead sizes and materials, or without carrier beads. The claimed implantation method can be used to fabricate a surface-activated CNT-cathode for use in a field emission device. The implantation method can also be used for chemically reacting any of the materials present near the point of impact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Yaniv, Richard Lee Fink, Mohshi Yang
  • Patent number: 7550173
    Abstract: Disclosed are a luminescent device and electric appliance which have low power consumption and a long life. An organic luminescent element is provided by a scheme that a region 204b where the concentrations of first and second organic compounds change gradually is provided in the organic compound layer 203b, a region 201b where the first organic compound can express its function is formed, and a region 202b where the second organic compound can express its function is formed. Thereby the functions of the individual materials are allowed to express. This scheme provides an organic luminescent element which has low power consumption and a long life. A luminescent device and electric appliance are manufactured by using the organic luminescent element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7547462
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flat panel display, and more particularly, to a method of fabricating an organic light emitting display device so as to improve device characteristics by patterning a plurality of organic layers using a heat transfer method to optimize thicknesses according to R, G and B pixels. The method includes: forming lower electrodes of R, G and B pixels on an insulating substrate; forming an organic layer on the insulating substrate; and forming an upper electrode on the organic layer. Formation of the organic layer includes forming a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer of the R, G and B pixels on the entire surface of the substrate as a common layer. The R and G emission layers are patterned by a heat transfer method using a heat transfer device having a transfer layer such that an organic layer is patterned to a thickness obtained by subtracting a thickness of the B emission layer from the thicknesses of the R and G emission layers required in R and G colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mu-Hyun Kim, Byung-Doo Chin, Seong-Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 7537798
    Abstract: A deposition mask frame assembly, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent (EL) device using the deposition mask frame assembly are provided. The deposition mask frame assembly includes a mask including a thin plate in which a predetermined pattern of apertures is formed, a frame supporting one surface of the mask so that the mask is tensed, and a cover mask supporting an opposite surface of the mask, wherein the cover mask corresponds to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Shigemura