Patents Examined by Michael H. Day
  • Patent number: 6501217
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device is provided which includes a cathode (51), an anode (47, 46, 48), and an organic electroluminescent region (49, 50). The anode includes a metal layer (46), a barrier layer (47), and an anode modification layer (48). Light is emitted through the cathode (51) when a voltage is applied between the anode (47, 46, 48) and the cathode (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tilman A. Beierlein, Eliav Haskal, Heike Riel, Walter Riess, Paul Seidler, Samuel Clagett Strite, Horst Vestweber
  • Patent number: 6498429
    Abstract: A mercury-free high pressure sodium vapor lamp is dosed with sodium, xenon and zinc as an elemental metal additive. The addition of the metal additive prevents an undesirable low-voltage operating mode of the sodium-xenon discharge associated with a mercury-free HPS lamp, which otherwise occurs when sodium is no longer available to participate in the arc discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: János Sneider, Jack Mack Strok, Zoltán Tóth, István Csányi
  • Patent number: 6498425
    Abstract: A field emission array includes a dielectric structure with at least two dielectric layers between the cathode and anode grid thereof. The lower dielectric layer is planarized to minimize the occurrence of electrical shorts between the cathode and anode grid of the field emission array. Thus, the upper dielectric layer is substantially free of any electrically conductive defects or imperfections that extend through the lower dielectric layer. In addition, the field emission array includes an array of emitter tips, which are laterally surrounded and may be spaced apart from the dielectric structure. The field emission array may also include a grid over the dielectric structure and the emitter tips, with the emitter tips being exposed through grid openings or apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Ammar Derraa
  • Patent number: 6495955
    Abstract: A method and structure are provided for simultaneously fabricating polysilicon cones for a field emitter and a porous insulating oxide layer for supporting a gate material. The porous insulating oxide is fabricated by first making the polysilicon porous in the field regions by an anodic etch and then oxidation. This is a fully self-aligned process and only one masking is used. Shaping of the gate material in close proximity to the top of the cone is achieved by a lift-off technique and requires no special deposition techniques like depositions at a grazing incidence to improve the emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Forbes, Kie Y. Ahn
  • Patent number: 6492766
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has excellent focusing characteristics over the whole screen thereof, as well as a total length which is short, thus providing a compact monitoring device. The Cathode ray tube has an electron gun in which the ratio between the diagonal size De of a phosphor screen and the distance Lg from the center of the phosphor screen to an end portion of a focusing electrode which forms a main lens portion of the electron gun and faces an anode electrode in an opposed manner is set to De/Lg>1.5. The focusing electrode and the anode electrode have single opening portions whose opening size in the horizontal direction is not less than 68% of the outer diameter of a neck portion and end surfaces of the opening portions face each other in an opposed manner in the tube axis direction along which the electron beams pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tsuzurahara, Kenichi Watanabe, Syouji Shirai, Shinichi Kato, Go Uchida, Hirotsugu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6492768
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a phosphor screen and an electron gun. The electron gun includes an indirectly heated cathode structure and plural grid electrodes in axially spaced relationship. The cathode structure includes a base metal having an electron emissive material coating and a heater for heating the base metal. The heater includes a major heating portion having a spirally wound heating wire and leg portions disposed at ends of the major heating portion, and each of the leg portions includes a first multilayer winding portion having heating wires wound spirally in plural layers and a second multilayer winding portion disposed intermediate between the major heating portion and the first multilayer winding portion and having heating wires wound in plural layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Electronic Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Koizumi, Norio Iwamura, Terutoshi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 6489713
    Abstract: In the case of shadow masks which are pretensioned vertically and horizontally and the horizontal pretension of which is produced by stretching in the vertical direction, an expensive mask material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion can only be replaced by a less expensive mask material, such as iron, if the tension forces which can be produced for pretensioning the mask in the horizontal direction are markedly higher than the hitherto produced forces. For this purpose, the outer boundaries of the shadow-mask sides which are not connected to the mask frame are implemented such that they have a curved shape and a higher strength. In this way, it is possible to produce in a direction perpendicular to the stretching direction tension forces which are higher than the hitherto produced forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Display Devices (Germany), GmbH
    Inventor: Johann Mitrowitsch
  • Patent number: 6486596
    Abstract: A Braun tube for use in a TV receiver or the like, in which its screen does not need high resolution, but the brightness of the screen is important. The Braun tube has a panel with a flat outer surface, an electron gun arranged in an in-line manner and a phosphor screen whose phosphors are arranged in a delta pattern, and the horizontal pitch of a shadow mask can be varied in the direction of the Y-axis. The mechanical strength of the shadow mask is improved by making the curvature of the shadow mask larger than the curvature of the inner surface of the panel in the direction of the vertical axis of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Inoue, Katsuyoshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 6483234
    Abstract: A single-component ARTIC BRITE™ phosphor and a low pressure discharge lamp utilizing such a phosphor is provided having a lamp envelope 3 having an inner surface 15, means 5,6,7,9,13 within the lamp envelope for generating ultraviolet radiation; and a layer 17 of a luminescent material adjacent the inner surface of the lamp envelope for generating visible light when impinged by the ultraviolet radiation. The phosphor material is at least one layer of a single-component ARTIC BRITE™ calcium, halophosphate phosphor having CIE color coordinates of X=346 and Y=359 and a CRI of at least 69, preferably a calcium halophosphate having the formula Ca5−x−ySbxMny(PO4)3ClzF1−x−z, wherein x is from about 0.032 to 0.037; y is from about 0.06 to 0.14; and z is about 0.025 to 0.05. The phosphor is derived from low cost, mined calcium carbonate, employing reactants in the following ratios: based on six phosphate atoms) about 0.142 manganese carbonate, about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Peter Milewski
  • Patent number: 6483233
    Abstract: A color CRT is provided, which makes it possible to use a larger-sized shadow mask without increasing the size of a face panel. This CRT is comprised of a vacuum envelope having a face panel, a funnel connected to the panel, and a neck connected to the funnel. The envelope has a central longitudinal axis approximatley pernendicular to the panel. The panel has studpins fixed to the inside of its side walls. A shadow mask assembly is provided in the envelope, which includes a shadow mask and a frame for supporting the mask. The frame has an approximately rectangular front section, an approximately rectangular middle section, and an approximately rectangular rear section. The front section and the rear section extend in approximately parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the envelope. The front section is shifted outwardly with respect to the rear section to approach the side walls of the panel. The periphery of the mask is fixed to the front section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tsukasa Yasuda
  • Patent number: 6479931
    Abstract: An extended temperature operating range low pressure discharge lamp (10) including: an envelope (12) containing an ionizable medium (20) at a selected pressure; an electrode (16, 18) sealed at each end of the envelope (12) for sustaining an electric discharge through the ionizable medium; and a volume variation control for varying the volume of the ionizable medium (20) in response in variations in temperature within the envelope, wherein the volume variation control includes at least one control volume (of gaseous pressure 40) containing a specified volume of the ionizable medium and an aperture (34) communicating between the envelope (12) and the at least one control volume, wherein the at least one control volume includes a sliding piston (36) for varying the volume of the ionizable medium (20) within the envelope (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard George Lange, Robert Joseph Komar, David Luverne Vos
  • Patent number: 6476545
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes an electron gun directing electrons away from a faceplate having an electrode biased at screen potential. A plurality of electrodes located on or near the rear wall of the tube envelope are biased at graduated potentials so that the electron beam is deflected by the electrostatic field produced thereby to impinge upon the faceplate. The electron beam is magnetically deflected over a relatively small angle as it exits the electron gun to scan across the faceplate to impinge upon phosphors thereon to produce light depicting an image or information. The electrodes may be biased at or below screen potential, with the electrode closest the electron gun typically biased at a negative or ground potential and the electrode closest the faceplate (i.e. distal the electron gun) typically biased below screen potential to direct electrons towards the faceplate, thereby to increase the landing angle thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Carpinelli, Dennis John Bechis, George Herbert Needham Riddle, David Arthur New, John Richard Fields
  • Patent number: 6476553
    Abstract: A small fluorescent discharge tube and a bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp using the same with improved rise characteristics with respect to luminous flux in the case of a relatively short non-operation time of one to six hours after a stop of operation are provided. The fluorescent discharge tube includes at least three U-shaped glass tubes joined to form one body, electrodes provided at the ends thereof, and one discharge path formed therein. The fluorescent discharge tube further includes first auxiliary amalgams in vicinities of the electrodes, main amalgams placed at least in two locations in the discharge path between the electrodes, and a second auxiliary amalgam placed at least in one location between the main amalgams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiro Iida, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 6472807
    Abstract: A Braun tube including a shadow mask, a panel for supporting the shadow mask, stud pins fitted between the shadow mask and the panel, and a frame of substantially rectangular form having a long side with a height in a range of (0.8-0.9)×(a height from a center of the stud pin to a central point of an inside surface of the panel), and a short side and a corner side each with a height in a range of (0.7-0.85)×(the height of the long side), thereby making the Braun tube stable from influences from doming, howling, and geomagnetism by optimizing respective heights of the frame to satisfy various requirements for the Braun tube at the same time when an overall size of the frame is increased, and permitting convenience of design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Thae Seok Yoon
  • Patent number: 6472813
    Abstract: This invention discloses an image forming apparatus having an electron source on which a plurality of electron-emitting devices are arranged, an image forming member on which an image is formed by electrons emitted by the electron-emitting devices, and a structure for maintaining an interval between the electron source and the image forming member, in which an interval between two electron-emitting devices adjacent to each other via the structure is larger than an interval between two electron-emitting devices adjacent to each other without the mediacy of the structure, and electrons emitted by the electron-emitting devices are deflected toward the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Mitsutake, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Naoto Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6469434
    Abstract: Willemite (Zn2SiO4:Mn) is doped with one or more ions selected from the group formed by Gd3+, Eu2+, Co2+, Ce3+, Pr3+, Nd3+, Sm3+, Tb3+, Dy3+, Ho3+, Er3+, Tm3+ and Yb3+. This results in a increase in absorption and quantum yield and a decrease of the decay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Helmut Bechtel, Thomas Jüstel, Walter Mayr, Hans Nikol, Cornelis R. Ronda
  • Patent number: 6469438
    Abstract: An organic ELECTROLUMINESCENCE device exhibiting a minimal change in the color purity (CIE chromaticity coordinates) even if there is some fluctuation in the optical path length, and a method of manufacturing such an organic EL device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fukuoka, Mitsuru Eida
  • Patent number: 6469431
    Abstract: A color cathode-ray tube that can attenuate vibration of an entire shadow mask positively with a simple structure. The color cathode-ray tube includes a frame-shaped mask frame and a shadow mask in which many apertures are formed in a flat plate, the shadow mask stretched and fixed in the mask frame in a condition in which a tension force is applied in one direction. The amplitude in the end portions of the shadow mask is not less than a certain amount relative to the amplitude in the center portion of the shadow mask, in a resonance of the shadow mask caused by a vibration propagated to the color cathode-ray tube. Furthermore, by providing vibration attenuators at the end portions of the shadow mask, vibrations at the end portions of the shadow mask are attenuated as the side surfaces of the shadow mask slide on the vibration attenuators. Thus, vibration of the entire shadow mask can be extinguished positively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Suzuki, Michiaki Watanabe, Yoshikazu Demi, Mitsunori Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 6469437
    Abstract: Organic light emitting devices are disclosed which include a heterostructure for producing electroluminescence wherein the heterostructure includes a non-metallic cathode. As a representative embodiment of the present invention, the heterostructure for producing electroluminescence includes in order, a non-metallic cathode layer (1), an electron injecting interface layer (6), an electron transporting layer (2), a hole transporting layer (3), and an anode layer (4); wherein the non-metallic cathode layer (1) includes an indium-tin oxide layer in contact with a copper phthalocyanine layer which functions as the electron injecting interface layer (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Gautam Parthasarathy, Paul Burrows, Stephen R. Forrest
  • Patent number: 6469444
    Abstract: A discharge lamp for providing visible radiation includes a lamp envelope which is made of light transmissive material a fill in the envelope including either calcium halide or strontium halide together with either elemental sulfur or elemental selenium in gaseous form which is obtainable when the fill is excited by sufficient power in operation, in an amount such that the excited fill emits a discharge of visible radiation from the fill with substantially all of the radiation being molecular radiation which is emitted in the visible region of the spectrum. The calcium halide or strontium halide operates at a vapor pressure which provides a significant amount of radiation in the red region of the spectrum therefrom and the overall spectrum has a color rendering index of about 87 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Fusion Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongzhang Leng, James T. Dolan, Bruce Shanks