Patents Examined by Natalie K. Walford
  • Patent number: 8148883
    Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable spark plug used for an internal-combustion engine and including an insulator with a high withstand voltage, and a method for manufacturing the same. Namely, it provides a spark plug containing a cylindrical metal shell having an insulator holding hole, a cylindrical insulator including an axial hole therein which extends in an axial direction, and engaging with said insulator holding hole of said metal shell, and a center electrode held in said axial hole of said insulator, wherein said insulator has a texture in which one or more pores exposed in a judgment area with 50 ?m in diameter occupy 40% or less of said judgment area at any locations in an observation area, in the case where a predetermined mirror-finishing section of an enclosed portion surrounded by said metal shell is used as said observation area to observe pores exposed in said observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshitaka Honda, Hiroyuki Tanabe, Takamitu Mizuno, Hiromi Otuka
  • Patent number: 8113902
    Abstract: A flat display panel sealing device that can prevent separation of a sealant by applying pressure to a first substrate and a second substrate with the sealant therebetween is disclosed. While the pressure is applied, light is irradiated to the sealant, whereby the first and second substrates are sealed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Wook Kang, Min-Sang Koo
  • Patent number: 8110979
    Abstract: An inorganic electroluminescence device including a first electrode and a second electrode disposed apart from each other, and a dielectric material layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric material layer has a micro-tubular shape, and a light emitting layer is filled in the dielectric material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shang-hyeun Park, Ji-beom Yoo, Mun-Ja Kim, Min-jong Bae, Tae-won Jeong
  • Patent number: 8040039
    Abstract: A device and method for emitting composite output light uses multiple wavelength-conversion mechanisms to convert the original light generated by a light source of the device into longer wavelength light to produce the composite output light. One of the wavelength-conversion mechanisms of the device is a fluorescent substrate of the light source that converts the original light into first converted light. Another wavelength-conversion mechanism of the device is a wavelength-conversion region optically coupled to the light source that converts the original light into second converted light. The original light, the first converted light and the second converted light are emitted from the device as components of the composite output light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Avago Technologies ECBU IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kee Yean Ng
  • Patent number: 8040038
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a high frequency, cold cathode, triode-type, field-emitter vacuum tube including a cathode structure, an anode structure spaced from the cathode structure, and a control grid, wherein the cathode structure and the anode structure are formed separately and bonded together with the interposition of spacers, and the control grid is integrated in the anode structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Selex Sistemi Integrati S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, Massimiliano Lucci, Silvia Orlanducci, Riccardo Riccitelli, Maria Letizia Terranova
  • Patent number: 8040057
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate and an electrode disposed on the substrate. A contact angle ? between the substrate and the electrode is expressed by the following Equation 1: arc tangent(T/S)???arc tangent(40T/S) (S: surface area of electrode cross section, T: peak height of electrode cross section).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Dohwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8040042
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic EL device comprising a transparent electroconductive anode layer which is formed by a simple coating method that enables film formation at a low temperature, which organic EL device is free from electrical short circuit between the transparent electroconductive anode layer and a cathode layer. Also disclosed is a transparent electroconductive layered structure used for manufacturing such an organic EL device. The transparent electroconductive layered structure is characterized by comprising a flat and smooth substrate, a transparent electroconductive anode layer which is formed on the substrate by a coating method and mainly composed of conductive particles, and a transparent substrate joined to the transparent electroconductive anode layer via an adhesive layer. The transparent electroconductive layered structure is also characterized in that the flat and smooth substrate can be separated from the transparent electroconductive anode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Yukinobu
  • Patent number: 8040056
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is an organic EL display panel including a plurality of first electrodes, a confining wall which covers an edge part of the first electrode and sections the plurality of first electrodes into different pixels, a luminescent medium layer which has a plurality of layers including a luminescent layer and a second electrode formed on the luminescent medium layer, and an organic EL display panel also includes at least two layers which are included in the luminescent medium layer and which are formed into a stripe shape and are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko Abe, Eiichi Kitazume, Koji Takeshita
  • Patent number: 8040036
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting device includes a base rod, and a plurality of organic light emitting units. Each of the plurality of organic light emitting units includes a first electrode formed on the base rod, an organic layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. The plurality of organic light emitting units are formed in longitudinal direction of the base rod and come into continuous contact with each other. The first electrode of each of the organic light emitting units comes into contact with the second electrode of each of the organic light emitting units adjoining said first electrode of each of the organic light emitting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeon Choi, Se-Hwan Son
  • Patent number: 8040044
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting device includes a first electrode, one or more organic compound layers, and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a conductive layer and an n-type organic compound layer disposed on the conductive layer. A difference in energy between an LUMO energy level of the n-type organic compound layer of the first electrode and a Fermi energy level of the conductive layer of the first electrode is 4 eV or less. One of the organic compound layers interposed between the n-type organic compound layer of the first electrode and the second electrode is a p-type organic compound layer forming an NP junction along with the n-type organic compound layer of the first electrode. A difference in energy between the LUMO energy level of the n-type organic compound layer of the first electrode and an HOMO energy level of the p-type organic compound layer is 1 eV or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Soo Kang, Se Hwan Son, Hyeon Choi
  • Patent number: 8040046
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display includes a pair of substrates; an organic electroluminescent device between the pair of substrates, including: a pair of electrodes of an anode and a cathode, and a light-emitting layer between the pair of electrodes; and a light scattering film on a substrate on the viewing side of the pair of substrates, including: a transparent substrate film, and a light scattering layer which contains a light transmitting resin and a light scattering particle having a particle size of from 0.3 ?m to 1.2 ?m, wherein a ratio of (np/nb) is from 0.80 to 0.95 or from 1.05 to 1.35, taking a refractive index of the light scattering particle and the light transmitting resin as np and nb, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Inoue, Ryuji Saneto
  • Patent number: 7990040
    Abstract: A fluorescent lamp including a phosphor layer including (Y1-x-yGdx)AlO3:EU3+y, wherein 0.4?x?0.7 and 0?y?0.1, and at least one of each of a green and blue emitting phosphor. The resulting lamp will exhibit a white light having a color rendering index of preferably 90 or higher with a correlated color temperature of from 2500 to 10000 Kelvin. The use of (Y1-x-yGdx)AlO3:Eu3+y in phosphor blends of lamps results in high CRI light sources with increased stability and acceptable lumen maintenance over, the course of the lamp life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alok Srivastava, Holly Comanzo, Venkatesan Manivannan
  • Patent number: 7977868
    Abstract: A full-color active matrix organic light emitting display including a transparent substrate, a color filter positioned on an upper surface of the substrate, a spacer layer formed on the upper surface of the color filter, a metal oxide thin film transistor backpanel formed on the spacer layer and defining an array of pixels, and an array of single color, organic light emitting devices formed on the backpanel and positioned to emit light downwardly through the backpanel, the spacer layer, the color filter, and the substrate in a full-color display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Cbrite Inc.
    Inventors: Chan-Long Shieh, Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 7973460
    Abstract: A composition for forming an electron emitter, an electron emitter formed using the composition, and a backlight unit including the electron emitter, where dispersion of the electron emission material in the composition is increased, and the composition includes an electron emission material, a vehicle, and carbon-based filler particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-Jin Kim, Jae-Myung Kim, Hee-Sung Moon
  • Patent number: 7973480
    Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp has an outer envelope (1) in which a discharge vessel (11) is arranged. The discharge vessel encloses a discharge space (13) with an ionizable filling. The discharge vessel has two mutually opposed neck-shaped portions (2,3) through which current supply conductors (4,5) extend to a pair of electrodes (6,7) in the discharge space. A lamp base (8) of electrically insulating material supports the discharge vessel. The lamp base also supports the outer envelope (1). The outer envelope encloses the current supply conductors and is connected to the lamp base in a gas-tight manner. By controlling the atmosphere in the outer envelope, a simplified and compact high-pressure discharge lamp is provided with an accurate positioning of the discharge vessel with respect to the optical axis of the lighting system. The high-pressure discharge lamp can be suitably applied in an assembly with a reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Leo Gustaaf Joanna Emiel Marien, Willibrordus Spijker, Nancy Jean Caruso, Jean-Francois Lavaud
  • Patent number: 7967653
    Abstract: A full color display comprising a red, a green, and a blue light emitting diode, each light emitting diode including a light emitting region having at least one layer of single crystal rare earth material, the rare earth material in each of the light emitting diodes having at least one radiative transition, and the rare earth material producing a radiation wavelength of approximately 640 nm in the red light emitting diode, 540 nm in the green light emitting diode, and 460 nm in the blue light emitting diode. Generally, the color of each LED is determined by selecting a rare earth with a radiative transition producing a radiation wavelength at the selected color. In cases where the rare earth has more than one radiative transition, tuned mirrors can be used to select the desired color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Lebby, Vijit Sabnis, Petar B. Atanackovic
  • Patent number: 7965038
    Abstract: Compact fluorescent lamp comprising a fluorescent lamp body (3), a cathode space (9) comprising a screened space (11) around an electrode (5) arranged inside the compact fluorescent lamp (1), and a power supply device (19) so arranged as to provide an electrical connection between the electrode (5) and a contact device (21) positioned next to the contact end (13) of the compact fluorescent lamp. The screened space (11) is formed by the electrode (5) enclosing the internal wall (7) of the fluorescent lamp body (3) and by a neighboring electrode (5) and beyond it a disc-shaped cathode screen (15) in a direction away from the contact end (13) containing a central opening (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Auralight International AB
    Inventors: Folke Axelsson, Mikael Severinsson
  • Patent number: 7956529
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent color light-emitting apparatus including, on a supporting substrate (100), a first pixel (10) comprising a first organic electroluminescent device emitting light having an emission peak wavelength of ?1; and a second pixel (20) comprising a second organic electroluminescent device emitting light having an emission peak wavelength of ?2; the emission peak wavelength ?2 being longer than ?1; the first and second organic electroluminescent devices each being a device in which a light-reflective electrode (11), (12), an organic luminescent medium layer and a semitransparent electrode are stacked in this order in the light-outcoupling direction; and m1 and m2 defined by the following formula (1) satisfying the relationship of m2+1.3>m1>m2+0.7 (m1 and/or m2 is an approximate integer of 0 or more).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kuma, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 7952276
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode are sequentially formed on a first sub-electrode, and a laser beam is irradiated onto the organic light emitting layer to partially remove the organic light emitting layer, so that the first sub-electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode. Thus, even though the second electrode is formed to have a small thickness in order to maximize an amount of light that is generated by the organic light emitting layer and exits to an exterior through the second electrode, the second electrode is electrically connected to the first sub-electrode, thereby reducing an electrical resistance of the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Soo Lee, Chang-Woong Chu, Jin-Koo Chung
  • Patent number: 7948172
    Abstract: A thin-film, white-light-emitting diode device includes a reflective, conductive thin-film structure and a semi-transparent, conductive thin-film structure. One or more thin-film layers are formed between the reflective and semi-transparent conductive thin-film structures to form two or more commonly-controlled microcavity structures. The thin-film layers emit white light in response to current provided by the conductive thin-film structure. Each of the two or more commonly-controlled microcavity structures has a different resonant frequency within one or more optical cavities and emits light with a smaller spectral range than the spectral range of the white-light-emitting thin-film layer(s). A combination of light emitted from the two or more commonly-controlled microcavity structures is white.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Michael E. Miller