Patents Examined by Kevin Quaterman
  • Patent number: 10711976
    Abstract: In an aspect, a lighting system (1) comprises a lighting unit (11) with a light source (31) and a dichroic light exiting surface (15), wherein the lighting unit (11) is configured for emitting dichroic light from the dichroic light exiting surface (15). The emitted dichroic light includes a directional light portion (37) of direct light (17) and a diffused light portion (39) of diffused light (19) with a another larger correlated color temperature. The lighting system further comprises an appearance affecting optical system (13) with a plurality of structural elements (40, 91, 93, 101, 105) that comprise surfaces that delimit a plurality of diffused light passages (14, 103, 107), and comprise direct light illuminated surface regions (25), which are subject to the illumination with direct light (17) from respectively associated affected direct light providing areas (81) of the dichroic light exiting surface (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: CoeLux S.r.l.
    Inventors: Paolo Di Trapani, Davide Magatti, Antonio Lotti, Matteo Molteni, Giorgio Gatti
  • Patent number: 10144340
    Abstract: A motor vehicle directional lighting and/or signaling device comprises a light module rotationally mobile about an axis (A-A) supported by a base bearing elements for guiding in rotation about the axis (A-A). A bearing of the rotation guiding elements is formed partly by the base and partly by a support piece of a fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Benoit Cholley
  • Patent number: 10061171
    Abstract: A thin film transistor substrate is provided. The thin film transistor substrate includes a substrate; at least one signal line disposed over the substrate; a repair line disposed over the signal line and electrically connected to the signal line; and a light-shielding layer disposed over the repair line, wherein the light-shielding layer covers the repair line, and an area of the light-shielding layer is greater than that of the repair line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bi-Ly Lin, Chung-Jun Kuo
  • Patent number: 10061154
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing quantum dots display panel comprises the following steps of: using an existing yellow light manufacturing process from color filter or combining with a dry etching manufacturing process to resin composition with surface-modified red quantum dots and surface-modified green quantum dots, then completing production of a quantum dots layer with a more refined graphical structure. Compared with other existing method for manufacturing quantum dots display panel, the present disclosure has the following advantages that simple preparation of raw materials and in making process, high-resolution graphics, large-scale volume production, and less processing time and cost are saved. The quantum dots are used into the structure of the color filter is to effectively improve color saturation and gamut of the display device, and to enhance color performance of display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guohe Liu
  • Patent number: 9666823
    Abstract: Organic electroluminescent element capable of conveniently and precisely establishing the emission color of the element. The organic electroluminescent element includes a pair of electrodes and a light-emitting layer provided between the electrodes and presents an emission color at the coordinate Ao (Xo, Yo) in CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system. The light-emitting layer contains in the same layer, a light emitting material A1 that presents an emission color at the coordinate A1 (x1, y1) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system and a light emitting material A2 that presents an emission color at the coordinate A2 (x2, y2) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system; a distance LAo-A1 between the coordinates Ao (Xo, Yo) and A1 (x1, y1) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system satisfies LAo-A1?0.20; and a distance LA1-A2 between the coordinates A1 (x1, y1) and A2 (x2, y2) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinate system satisfies 0.13?LA1-A2?0.35 s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Yoshinobu Ono
  • Patent number: 8629608
    Abstract: The inner surfaces of fluorescent lamp tubing are provided with a phosphor coating. The phosphor coating defines an inward-facing surface. A protective coating is deposited on the inward-facing surface of the phosphor coating. The protective coating defines an innermost surface and makes effective recombination of Hg ions possible on the innermost surface of the second coating before the Hg ions collide with the phosphor particles in the phosphor coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: István Károly Deme, Miklós Budai, Zoltán Hórvölgyi, Márta Kabai Jánosné
  • Patent number: 8496350
    Abstract: The wiring board comprises an FFC and a through-hole portion as a segmenting portion. The through-hole portion segments the conductive pattern of the FFC into a plurality of conductive pattern segments. The conductive pattern segments connect the light emitting elements to thereby connect the light emitting elements in series to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Takeharu Naito, Kazuaki Ibaraki, Nobukazu Kato
  • Patent number: 8299702
    Abstract: A luminescence display panel, which can be manufactured without any damage to an organic layer thereof, and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. According to one of the embodiments in the present invention, the luminescence display panel includes a first electrode formed on a lower substrate, an organic layer formed on the first electrode, the organic layer including a luminescence layer, a second electrode formed on the organic layer, the second electrode having a thin film structure, and an auxiliary electrode formed on an upper substrate and facing the lower substrate, the auxiliary electrode being connected to the second electrode. The second electrode is thinner than at least one of the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Won Choi, Jae Hee Park
  • Patent number: 8231361
    Abstract: A hydrostatic pump (1) with a variable displacement volume can be operated in a closed circuit and is driven by a drive engine (2), in particular by an internal combustion engine. To control the displacement of the pump (1), a control device (4) is provided which can be actuated as a function of the speed-dependent control pressure which is a function of the speed of the drive engine (2). To improve the control characteristics of the pump, a switchover device (35) is provided, by which the pump (1) can be switched between a speed-dependent displacement control by the speed-dependent control pressure and a volume flow-dependent delivery control, in which the control device (4) of the pump (1) can be controlled as a function of the actuation of an actuator mechanism (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Steigerwald, Burkhard Sturmer
  • Patent number: 8206126
    Abstract: A pump unit (12) includes a pump housing (14), a pump cover (16), and an impeller (18) between the pump housing and pump cover. The pump housing and pump cover define a first channel (32) and a second channel (34) each having an inlet and an outlet. The impeller has first vanes (36) cooperating with the first channel and second vanes (38) cooperating with the second channel. The outlet of the second channel is constructed and arranged to provide fuel to an engine upon rotation of the impeller. A jet pump (38) is fluidly connected with the outlet of the first channel such that as the impeller rotates, the jet pump causes fuel to be drawn into the reservoir (37). Connecting structure (44, 44?) fluidly connects the first and second channels such that upon rotation of the impeller, fuel in the second channel flows into the first channel to prime the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc.
    Inventors: John Wattai, Matthias Vogel
  • Patent number: 7446467
    Abstract: An image display apparatus for forming an image in an image displaying region provided with a vacuum chamber having an electron source substrate and an image forming substrate has an ion pump for evacuating the vacuum chamber by an action of a magnet-filed-forming portion through an aperture portion formed in the electron source substrate or an image displaying substrate, wherein the magnet-filed-forming portion is arranged so that a shadow formed by perpendicularly projecting the magnet-filed-forming portion onto the electron source substrate or the image forming substrate can be located outside the image displaying region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisanori Tsuda, Masaru Kamio, Ihachiro Gofuku, Yasue Sato
  • Patent number: 7352120
    Abstract: An ignition device such as a spark plug having ground and center electrodes, at least one of which includes a firing tip formed from an alloy containing iridium, rhodium, tungsten, and zirconium. With the inclusion of tungsten and zirconium in the alloy, the percentage of rhodium can be kept relatively low without sacrificing the erosion resistance or reduced sparking voltage of the firing tip. In one embodiment, the firing tip contains 2% rhodium, 0.3% tungsten, 0.02% zirconium, and the balance iridium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignees: Federal-Mogul Ignition (U.K.) Limited, Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Paul Tinwell, Gurdev Orjela, Robin Hyde, Duncan Roy Coupland
  • Patent number: 7097529
    Abstract: A glass pipe 80 for a discharge lamp is prepared which includes a luminous bulb portion 1? that will be formed into a luminous bulb of a high pressure discharge lamp and a side tube portion 2?. Subsequently, a glass member 70 made of a second glass having a softening point lower than that of a first glass constituting the side tube portion 2? is inserted into the side tube portion 2?, after which a getter 75 is disposed in the side tube portion 2?. Then, with the pressure inside the glass pipe 80 reduced, the side tube portion 2? is heated to tightly attach the glass member 70 to the side tube portion 2?, thereby forming a sealing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Horiuchi, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Ichibakase, Shinichiro Hataoka, Tomoyuki Seki, Takashi Tsutatani
  • Patent number: 6737801
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for achieving multicolor displays using an integrated color chip is provided. The integrated color chip contains one or more multicolor generation sites on a single substrate. Each multicolor generation site is comprised of two or more light emitting regions in close proximity to one another, the number of light emitting regions per site dependent upon the number of required colors. The active light generation system for each light emitting region, e.g., an LED, is preferably identical in device structure although size and shape may vary. In order to achieve the desired colors, one or more light conversion layers are applied to individual light emitting regions. Each light emitting region may also include index matching layers, preferably interposed between the outermost surface of the light emitter and the light conversion layer, and protective layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: The Fox Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry Ragle
  • Patent number: 6534904
    Abstract: An infrared lamp with a closed-off enveloping tube which encloses an emission source joined with contacts for a power supply in the form of a carbon ribbon which, extending in a direction of a long axis of the enveloping tube, determines an irradiation length of the infrared lamp in the sense of a higher irradiation output. The carbon ribbon has a length which is larger than the irradiation length by a factor of at least 1.5. With a procedure for heating a material to be processed using the infrared lamp, which makes possible short processing times in connection with a simultaneous high degree of energy efficiency, the infrared lamp may be operated such that its maximum emission lies within a wavelength range from 1.8 &mgr;m to 2.9 &mgr;m, and such that its power output comes to at least 15 Watts per cm3 of the volume enclosed by the enveloping tube over the irradiation length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Heraeus Noblelight GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Dieudonné, Joachim Scherzer, Klaus Schmitz, Siegfried Grob