Patents Examined by Lawrence O. Richardson
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Patent number: 5530316Abstract: Provided is a color cathode-ray tube with a magnetic shield member which is capable of efficiently reducing only the amount of mislanding caused by the external magnetic field applied in one direction by effectively utilizing the shape effect of a magnetic substance and which can be readily designed. A U-shaped magnetic substance is formed by curving an elongated magnetic substance into a U-like shape. One end of the U-shaped magnetic substance is fixed to a long side wall side of a frame, while the other end thereof extends toward an electron gun. The U-shaped magnetic substance is magnetized therealong due to the shape effect thereof, concentrating an induction field on the area surrounded by the U-shaped magnetic substance. Thus, a great shield effect can be obtained. Further, the U-shaped magnetic substance is readily magnetized in a special direction due to its shape anisotropy.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1993Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignees: Tohoku Gakuin University, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Haga, Hiroshi Nasuno, Keisuke Yamane
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Patent number: 5528229Abstract: An apparatus and method for thermostatically controlling the operation of a multiple speed fan and light assembly by inputting a desired temperature range and airflow direction for each fan speed and by inputting a single number for controlling the on time and duration of the light assembly. A temperature sensor determines an initial room temperature, an input device enters a temperature set-point corresponding to each of the fan speeds, a processor stores the temperature set-points corresponding to each of the fan speeds from the input device, receives the temperature signal and uses the temperature signal and the temperature set-points to determine a desired fan speed, and a fan driving device changes the initial rotation speed to the desired fan speed in response to the processor and thereby automatically controls the fan speed.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1993Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: Hunter Fan CompanyInventor: Vinay Mehta
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Patent number: 5525856Abstract: A light irradiation device emits a visible light and an ultraviolet ray by using one light source to reduce an energy cost and simplify a mechanism. A light source 7, a first reflection mirror 8 and a second reflection mirror 9 are provided in a case 6. A radiation light ranging from an ultraviolet area to a visible light area is emitted from the light source 7. The first reflection mirror 8 is a visible light reflection mirror and the second reflection mirror 9 is an ultraviolet ray reflection mirror. Of the light emitted from the light source 7, the visible light is reflected by the first reflection mirror 8 and the ultraviolet ray passes through the first reflection mirror 8 and is reflected by the second reflection mirror 9.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1995Date of Patent: June 11, 1996Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Kouji Kawai, Shigeki Ishihara
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Patent number: 5523646Abstract: An Arc Chamber Assembly for use in an Ionization Source for dissociating to a desired ion form an element or compound of a material and ionizing such element or compound to provide a beam of charged particles. The chamber is enclosed within a structure having separate sides and ends and top and bottom and having a filament extending through the chamber, the filament having two end sections, each located along the same longitudinal axis with a central section offset from the end sections, but having a longitudinal axis parallel to the end sections, the filament further having two loops of essentially 180 degrees each separating the central section from the two end sections.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1994Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Inventor: John F. Tucciarone
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Patent number: 5508585Abstract: An EL lamp includes a transparent electrode, an electroluminescent dielectric layer overlying the transparent electrode, a patterned insulating layer overlies selected portions of the dielectric layer for reducing the electric field across the selected portions of the electroluminescent dielectric layer, and a rear electrode overlying the insulating layer and the electroluminescent dielectric layer. The insulating layer is preferably a low dielectric constant material and can overlie the electroluminescent dielectric layer or can be located between a separate dielectric layer and a phosphor layer. A gray scale is produced by depositing or printing more than one thickness of insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1995Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Durel CorporationInventor: James H. Butt
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Patent number: 5506470Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a face plate having a curved inner surface and a substantially rectangular effective area. A phosphor screen is formed on the inner surface of the face plate, and a shadow mask is arranged to oppose the phosphor screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masatsugu Inoue, Tohru Takahashi
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Patent number: 5506763Abstract: The incandescent bulb and reflector system, and method of making, of the present invention includes a small incandescent lamp which is incorporated into one of several embodiments of a reflector base. In a first embodiment, the reflector base is formed as a single piece, in a second embodiment, the reflector base is formed as a base with a separately formed and overlying reflector, in a third embodiment, the reflector base is formed as a base with a separately formed and overlying reflector having an extended axial length land, and in a fourth embodiment, the reflector base is formed as a base with a separately formed reflector which fits within the base. The method of making involves the automated processing of a length of bar stock material, and the subsequent assembly of the component parts to form a lamp system.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1995Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Inventor: Curtis J. Carley
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Patent number: 5498924Abstract: A fluorescent lamp that has a T10 outer diameter which is capable of operating on ballasts of both the T8 and T12 types. In addition to the T10 diameter, the lamp has at least one groove in its wall to reduce the envelope cross-section, a fill gas of neon and argon, preferably 25% neon and 75% argon and a controlled amount of mercury.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: Duro-Test Corp.Inventor: Donald P. Northrop
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Patent number: 5498921Abstract: A picture apparatus includes a vacuum envelope which has a phosphor screen and a plurality of electron gun assemblies for emitting electron beams to the phosphor screen, and a deflection device for deflecting the electron beams emitted from the electron gun assemblies. The deflection device has a plate-like coupling member arranged to face the vacuum envelope, and a plurality of elemental deflection units for deflecting the electron beams to scan the phosphor screen dividedly. The deflection units are fixed to the coupling member and located at predetermined positions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1995Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Nishimura, Kazuyuki Seino, Yuuji Haraguchi, Eiji Kamohara
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Patent number: 5497048Abstract: Multiple concentric, triangular cross-sectioned fluorescent lamp tubes, located substantially in the same plane with respect to each other, are utilized in appropriate assemblies for: 1) a direct screw-in replacement for reflective incandescent lamps and; 2) recessed ceiling fixtures that are typically hardwired. The inherent triangular geometries of the concentric, substantially same plane lamps create mutually benefiting reflecting surfaces to maximize the net light output. The triangular geometry enables light from two sides of the fluorescent tubing to be efficiently cast if desired (or muted by absorbent housing wall if desired). The remaining side, or base, of each triangular tube produces light that is redirected by opposing, intersecting, coaxial, conical reflectors arranged to direct the light through the unobstructed center of the concentric tubing arrangement. A transparent collimating structure adjacent to the triangular tub bases is used to enhance control of the light emanating from the base.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1994Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Inventor: David M. Burd
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Patent number: 5493168Abstract: To prevent corrosion of molybdenum connecting pins or wires extending from elt-sealed ends of high-power lamps, the region immediately adjacent the exit points from the melt-sealed end are cooled by a cooling gas, for example air or an inert gas such as nitrogen. The cooling gas is applied by cooling ducts which are made of metal and, simultaneously, provide for electrical connection of electrical energy to the connecting leads. Cooling gas can be introduced either through terminal pins or rods into the tubular elements, or the tubular elements can be connected, as usual, to the part-solid terminal pins or rods and additional gas connections are passed through the base through the tubular elements to supply cooling gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1993Date of Patent: February 20, 1996Assignee: Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft F. Elektrische Gluehlampen mbHInventor: Ralf Seedorf
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Patent number: 5488266Abstract: An electro-luminescence device is described, which includes a laminate composed of a transparent substrate having successively laminated thereon a transparent electrode, a luminous layer, a dielectric layer, and a back electrode, with a back protective material being adhered to the back electrode through an adhesive resin film, wherein the back protective material is a moisture impermeable protective material and the adhesive resin film is a thermo-plastic resin film having a thickness of from 10 to 200 .mu.m, and a method for production thereof is also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1993Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Assignee: Showa Shell Sekiyu K. K.Inventors: Masaaki Aoki, Isao Yokotsuka, Yoshihiro Ogata
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Patent number: 5485055Abstract: An active matrix electroluminescent display having an array of pixel electrodes disposed on a transparent substrate. Each pixel electrode having an associated electronic circuit formed intermediate the pixel electrode and the transparent substrate to which it is electrically connected. The array of pixel electrodes are overlayed with an electroluminescent stack and a transparent ITO conductive layer. The surface of each pixel electrode is uniformly texturized to enhance the brightness of the pixel element when it is activated to its luminous state by its associated electronic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1994Date of Patent: January 16, 1996Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.Inventor: Thomas R. Keyser
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Patent number: 5483129Abstract: A synchrotron radiation light-source apparatus is provided in which the characteristics of synchrotron radiation generated by bending electromagnets can be made uniform, and emittance can be made smaller to increase brightness. The synchrotron radiation light-source apparatus for bending the traveling direction of an electron beam with bending electromagnets and for emitting synchrotron radiation includes deflecting electromagnets which cause a negative value (-dBy/dx) of a magnetic-field gradient gradually to increase after gradually decreasing in the traveling direction of the electron beam, that is, along the length of the bending electromagnets, so as to form a smooth recessing distribution, or to increase in a step-like manner after decreasing in a step-like manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1993Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5479066Abstract: The electric lamp comprises a cap (10) having a housing (11) in a base portion (13) of which holes (14) are present to allow current conductors (3) to extend to contact members (15) of the cap. In the housing (11) a rubber disk (20) is present against the base portion (13), kept pressed against it by a pressing member (30). The rubber disk is pierced by the current conductors (3), sealing the cap and preventing volatile compounds to enter a reflector in which the lamp may be mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Johannes J. G. S. A. Willems, Dieter Wilhelm
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Patent number: 5473226Abstract: An incandescent lamp having an envelope of hardglass. The envelope encloses a tungsten filament and contains a fill material including an inert fill gas and a halogen additive. A coating of silicon dioxide (i.e., silica) is disposed on a substantial portion of the internal surface of the envelope. The silicon dioxide coating prevents the halogen additive from combining with alkaline ions of the hardglass envelope.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1993Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.Inventors: Mark D. Beschle, Erich J. Bockley, Peter R. Gagnon, Robert M. Griffin
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Patent number: 5463291Abstract: A cyclotron and associated magnet coil and coil fabricating process. The cyclotron (10) includes a return yoke (12) defining a cavity (28) therein. A plurality of wedge-shaped regions called "hills" (29) are disposed in the return yoke (12), and voids called "valleys" (34) are defined between the hills (29). A single, substantially circular magnet coil (40) surrounds and axially spans the hills (29) and the valleys (34). The cyclotron magnet coil fabricating process includes the steps of securing a first end portion of a continuous length of sheet conductor to a substantially circular base, and positioning a first end portion of a length of insulator material coated on opposite sides with a thermosetting resin between the first end portion of the sheet conductor and the base.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1993Date of Patent: October 31, 1995Inventors: Lewis Carroll, George Hendry, Franck Picker
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Patent number: 5447460Abstract: There are provided a cathode-ray tube display unit which can be manufactured with reduced weight and cost and which can have a screen plane flattened without the use of any metal band, and a method of making the same. The screen panel is previously deformed by the use of a jig and then sealingly connected to a funnel. After the jig has been removed, the interior of the display tube body is extracted to form a vacuum. The display tube body is distorted by the extraction, but such a distortion can be corrected by deformations previously applied to the display tube body. Thus, the screen plane can be flattened without the use of any metal band.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1993Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tetsushin Yazu, Suguru Fujii, Keitaro Tsukui, Junko Itoh, Kenichi Umino
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Patent number: 5391961Abstract: A flange, which is integrally formed with the inner surface of the cylindrical member, is located at an intermediate point between the end surface position of the cylindrical member to which the electrode plate of one of the discharge electrodes is sealed and the tip position of the discharge electrode portion of that electrode. Both end surfaces of the cylindrical member are hermetically attached with the discharge electrodes. This arrangement prevents inner flashovers without affecting the discharge characteristics of the discharge tube and also ensures manufacture of discharge tubes with no possibility of gas leakage with very high yields even if the machining precision is not so high.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hiromitsu Tsuchiya, Takahisa Suzuki, Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 5379032Abstract: An impulse transducer that does not use eccentric, motor-driven weights is constructed of a permanent magnet movable armature that oscillates within a housing and impacts resilient bumpers to produce vibrations. The armature is accelerated by a varying magnetic field energized by an alternating current. The dimensions of the enclosed housing and the mass of the movable armature as well as the strength of the magnetic fields can be optimized for the impulse magnitude that is desired.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1992Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Jewett E. Foster, Theodore Lind, Charles W. Mooney, Irving H. Holden