Patents Examined by Joseph L. Williams
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Patent number: 11456158Abstract: A ceramic structure including a first conductive structure embedded therein and a second conductive structure embedded at a different depth from the first conductive structure is disclosed. In the ceramic structure, the first conductive structure and the second conductive structure are electrically connected to each other by an electrically conductive connection member capable of compensating for a vertical shrinkage rate of a ceramic sheet shape while being embedded therein when sintering the ceramic structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: KSM COMPONENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Joo Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 11450713Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Universal Display CorporationInventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
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Patent number: 11442347Abstract: A light source device includes a light source unit and a rotating wheel. The light source unit is configured to emit first blue light and second blue light. The rotating wheel includes a diffuser layer configured to diffuse and transmit the first blue light, and a phosphor layer configured to convert at least a part of the second blue light into yellow light.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 11440151Abstract: A miller, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a method for milling a multi-layered object. The method may include (i) receiving or determining milling parameters related to a milling process, the milling parameters may include at least two out of (a) a defocus strength, (b) a duration of the milling process, (c) a bias voltage supplied to an objective lens during the milling process, (d) an ion beam energy, and (e) an ion beam current density, and (ii) forming a crater by applying the milling process while maintaining the milling parameters, wherein the applying of the milling process includes directing a defocused ion beam on the multi-layered object.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventor: Yehuda Zur
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Patent number: 11437213Abstract: An electron emission source is provided. The electron emission source includes a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode, the insulating layer, and the second electrode are successively stacked with each other. the second electrode is a graphene layer, and the graphene layer is an electron emission end to emit electron. A thickness of the graphene layer ranges from about 0.1 nanometers to about 50 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xin-He Yang, Peng Liu, Shou-Shan Fan
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Patent number: 11424142Abstract: A bonding system includes a surface modifying apparatus configured to modify a bonding surface of a first substrate and a bonding surface of a second substrate; a surface hydrophilizing apparatus configured to hydrophilize the modified bonding surface of the first substrate and the modified bonding surface of the second substrate; a bonding apparatus configured to perform bonding of the hydrophilized bonding surface of the first substrate and the hydrophilized bonding surface of the second substrate in a state that the bonding surfaces face each other; and a cleaning apparatus configured to clean, before the bonding is performed, a non-bonding surface of, between the first substrate and the second substrate, at least one which is maintained flat when the bonding is performed, the not-bonding surface being opposite to the bonding surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Satoshi Nishimura
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Patent number: 11422298Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a liquid crystal panel and an illumination unit which illuminates the liquid crystal panel. The illumination unit includes a light guide comprising a first side surface, a main surface opposing the liquid crystal panel and an opening made by a notch or a through hole, a first light source opposing to the first side surface, and a second light source provided closer to the opening than to the first light source.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takashi Ota, Kazutaka Nagaoka, Michihide Shibata, Toshihiro Yajima
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Patent number: 11421855Abstract: A white light source includes a light source and a phosphor conversion component. The light source emits short wavelength light peaked at a peak wavelength of 570 nanometers or shorter. The phosphor conversion component includes a light conversion layer comprising a phosphor effective to convert the short wavelength light to converted light. The light conversion layer includes light passages comprising openings or passage material that does not comprise the phosphor and is light transmissive for the short wavelength light. The light source is disposed respective to the phosphor conversion component so as to illuminate the light conversion layer with the emitted short wavelength light and to pass the short wavelength light through the light passages.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: MATERION CORPORATIONInventor: Michael P. Newell
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Patent number: 11422302Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical assembly and a method of using an optical assembly. The optical assembly includes a carrier, a filter module on a primary surface of the carrier and disposed on a predetermined optical path, wherein the filter module includes a plurality of filter elements corresponding to a plurality of beams of different channels, a focal length adjuster disposed on the predetermined optical path, wherein at least a focal length of one of the plurality of beams is altered by the focal length adjuster, and a receiver extension configured to receive the plurality of beams via a plurality of sensing areas respectively at a receiving surface, wherein a beam size of each beams at the receiving surface is less than an area of each of the corresponding sensing areas.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: BROWAVE CORPORATIONInventors: Wei-Hsuan Wu, Feng-Chiang Chao, Chia-Hua Yang, Pao-Shan Hsu
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Patent number: 11417494Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for automatically adjusting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun equipped with a photocathode to the incident axis of an electron optical system. [Solution] An incident axis alignment method for an electron gun equipped with a photocathode, the electron gun being capable of emitting an electron beam in a first state due to the photocathode being irradiated with excitation light, and the method including at least an excitation light radiation step, a first excitation light irradiation position adjustment step for changing the irradiation position of the excitation light on the photocathode and adjusting the irradiation position of the excitation light, and an electron beam center detection step for detecting whether a center line of the electron beam in the first state coincides with an incident axis of an electron optical system.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Photo electron Soul Inc.Inventors: Reiki Watanabe, Tomohiro Nishitani, Atsushi Koizumi, Haruka Shikano
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Patent number: 11415282Abstract: The present invention provides an LED module that can prevent breakage of an LED chip due to pulse lighting for a flash when the LED module is used in a flashing lamp. An LED module (10) for flashing lamp includes: an LED substrate (13); plural LEDs (12); and plural resin layers (11). In the LED module (10), the LEDs (12) are mounted on a mounting surface of the LED substrate (13). Each resin layer (11) is stacked on a surface of each LED (12) opposite to the LED substrate (13). Adjacent resin layers (11) stacked on the LEDs (12) are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: HotaluX, Ltd.Inventor: Norimasa Mizobe
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Patent number: 11416030Abstract: Disclosed herein are example edge-to-edge display devices and related methods. An example display device includes a display screen and a backlight including a light guide frame defining a cavity therein. The example display device includes an integrated circuit coupled to the display screen. The example display device includes a flexible printed circuit in communication with the integrated circuit and including an electrical component coupled thereto. The electrical component is at least partially disposed in the cavity of the light guide frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: John Lang, Seh Kwa, Zhiming Zhuang, Jackson Tsai, Jun Jiang
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Patent number: 11417687Abstract: A high-definition display device is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. A highly reliable display device is provided. The display device includes a first transistor and a display element electrically connected to the first transistor. The first transistor includes a first oxide, a second oxide, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a first insulator, and a second insulator. The first conductor and the second conductor are positioned over the first oxide to be apart from each other. The first insulator is positioned over the first conductor and the second conductor and includes an opening. The opening overlaps with a portion between the first conductor and the second conductor. The third conductor is positioned in the opening. The second insulator is positioned between the third conductor, and the first oxide, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the first insulator.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kensuke Yoshizumi
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Patent number: 11415825Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing at least partially defining an exterior surface and an internal volume of the electronic device, and an engagement feature affixed to the housing, the engagement feature including a shaft having a first diameter and a top portion having a second, larger diameter. A display component can be disposed in the internal volume and can define a retention feature including a first orifice having a diameter at least as large as the second diameter and a second orifice having a diameter less than the second diameter and at least as large as the first diameter, the first orifice intersecting the second orifice. The shaft can be disposed in the second orifice, and a securing component can be disposed between the display component and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas A. Rundle, David P. Tarkington
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Patent number: 11410838Abstract: An electron multiplier includes a series of discrete electron emissive surfaces or a continuous electron emissive resistive surface configured to provide an electron amplification chain; and a housing surrounding the series of electron emissive surfaces or the continuous electron emissive resistive surface and separating the environment inside the housing from the environment outside the housing. The housing includes an electron-transparent, gas-impermeable barrier configured to allow electrons to pass through into the housing to reach a first discrete electron emissive surface of the series of discrete electron emissive surfaces or a first portion of the continuous electron emissive resistive surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Inventors: Michael W. Senko, Joshua T. Maze, Scott T. Quarmby
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Patent number: 11407354Abstract: A headlight system for a banking vehicle is provided. The headlight system includes a plurality of optical assemblies being arranged about an optical horizon and an optical vertical axis. Each of the plurality of optical assemblies includes an illumination source and an optical element. Each of the illumination sources is configured to direct light toward a corresponding one of the optical elements to produce an illumination region. The illumination regions combine to form an illumination pattern that includes at least one illumination region that is radial and is positioned relative an optical origin. The intersection between the optical horizon and the optical vertical axis defines the optical origin.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: J.W. SPEAKER CORPORATIONInventors: Bradley William Kay, Dragan Popovic
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Patent number: 11408591Abstract: An LED lighting module with micro led arrays and phosphor film is disclosed. The LED lighting module includes a plurality of micro LED arrays and a phosphor film. The micro LED arrays are respectively composed of at least one micro LED. The phosphor film is disposed on one side of the micro LED arrays; and the phosphor film has a transparent substrate and is provided with a plurality of light emitting regions. The plurality of light emitting regions are arranged adjacent to each other and into a matrix form, and are set corresponding to the micro LED arrays collimation respectively. A part or the whole of the surface of the plurality of light emitting regions is provided with at least one type of phosphor powder.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: UNITY OPTO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Ching-Huei Wu
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Patent number: 11402071Abstract: Light engine modules include a support member and a solid state light emitter, in which (1) the emitter is mounted on the support member, (2) a region of the support member has a surface with a curved cross-section, (3) the emitter and a compensation circuit are mounted on the support member, (4) an electrical contact element extends to at least two surfaces of the support member, and/or (5) a substantial entirety of the module is located on one side of a plane and the emitter emits light into another side of the plane. Also, a module including means for supporting a light emitter and a light emitter. Also, a lighting device including a housing member and a light emitter mounted on a removable support member. Also, a lighting device including a module mounted in a lighting device element. Also, a method including mounting a module to a lighting device element.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: CreeLED, Inc.Inventors: Antony Paul Van De Ven, Paul Thieken
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Patent number: 11402691Abstract: A light emitting module comprising a light guide plate and a light source. The light guide plate has a polygonal shape with a plurality of corners in a plan view. The light guide plate has a first primary face which serves as an emission face, a second primary face opposing the first primary face, and a recessed portion in the second primary face. The light source is disposed in the recessed portion. The recessed portion has an opening on the second primary face, and a bottom face having a polygonal shape in a plan view. The light source has lateral faces along sides of the bottom face of the recessed portion. In a plan view, diagonal lines connecting opposing corners of the first primary face intersect with the sides of the bottom face of the recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Mamoru Imada
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Patent number: 11402361Abstract: A method of controlling a gas mixture for a laser includes receiving as an input one or more of a plurality of concentration values. Each of the concentration values respectively corresponds to a constituent of a plurality of constituents of air. In the method, a blend of the plurality of constituents of air is generated based on the received one or more of the concentration values. The method also includes determining whether the blend of the plurality of constituents of air is within a threshold range for a ratio of the concentration values for the plurality of constituents of air. A flow of the blend of the plurality of constituents of air is controlled to be routed through an output circuit for use as the gas mixture for the laser following a determination that the blend of the plurality of constituents of air is within the threshold range.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shane D. Bryant, Robert Young, Christopher F. Robinson, Kelly Bronson