Patents Examined by Natalie Walford
  • Patent number: 9188318
    Abstract: A system for mounting a light emitting diode (LED) wave guide down light retrofit fixture. The system can include a mounting plate having a number of apertures symmetrically positioned around a center of the mounting plate. The system can also include at least one fastening device mechanically coupled to an upper surface of the mounting plate using at least a first aperture of the apertures, where the at least one fastening device mechanically couples to a base of an existing fixture. The system can further include a coupling device mechanically coupled to a lower surface of the mounting plate. The system can also include a trim assembly having a frame and a LED light source mechanically coupled to the frame. The frame can have a coupling feature disposed on a top surface of the frame, where the coupling feature mechanically couples to the coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jerold Alan Tickner, Kevin Roy Harpenau, Russell Bryant Green
  • Patent number: 9165757
    Abstract: A stroboscopic device includes a flash discharge tube with a conductive film on its outer periphery, a conductive reflector into which the flash discharge tube is inserted, and a heat-resistant conductive medium laminated on a part of the conductive film of the flash discharge tube. The reflector is electrically connected to the conductive film of the flash discharge tube via the conductive medium. This achieves the stroboscopic device with long service life and high reliability by preventing or suppressing occurrence of spark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 9137894
    Abstract: A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery area and having two opposite sides connecting with the periphery area, a driving chip disposed at the periphery area for driving electrical elements in the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the electrical elements in the active display area. The distance from a first part of the wires to the center of the driving chip is farther than the distance from a second part of the wires to the center of the driving chip, and the width of the first part of the wires on a reference line perpendicular to the opposite sides of the active display area is greater than the width of the second part of the wires on the reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Chih Chiu, Wei-Chung Lu
  • Patent number: 9050929
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) whip light assembly includes a base and an LED light assembly. The base is configured to mount to an elongate whip rod. The LED light assembly is mounted to the base and includes a plurality of LED lights, an LED circuit, and a lens. The LED circuit includes a circuit board to which the plurality of LED lights are mounted. The lens is mounted to the base with a releasable, liquid-tight connection and covers the plurality of LED lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: CHECKERS INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Clifford
  • Patent number: 9048518
    Abstract: A transmission line RF applicator apparatus and method for coupling RF power to a plasma in a plasma chamber. The apparatus comprises an inner conductor and one or two outer conductors. The main portion of each of the one or two outer conductors includes a plurality of apertures that extend between an inner surface and an outer surface of the outer conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jozef Kudela, Tsutomu Tanaka, Carl A. Sorensen, Suhail Anwar, John M. White, Ranjit Indrajit Shinde, Seon-Mee Cho, Douglas D. Truong
  • Patent number: 9046232
    Abstract: A lighting system with at least one LED panel is provided. Said LED panel including a plurality of similar lighting modules, said lighting modules having controllable light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a polygonal housing frame. Said polygonal housing frame comprising a board for receiving said lighting modules. Said polygonal housing frame including a plug connector on at least one side of the housing frame for positively mechanically coupling a sliding rail connection. Said plug connector including electrical contact means integrated in said mechanical sliding rail connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventors: Erwin Melzner, Dennis Jackstien, Michael Jonischkeit, Kerstin Schlegel, Regine Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9028115
    Abstract: A high-intensity LED lighting system is presented whereby one or more LED lighting fixtures are affixed to an elevating structure, the elevating structure having a substantially continuous internal pathway. Said pathway can be used as a conduit or duct for pressurized air which is introduced at or near the bottom of the elevating structure and forced upwardly toward the lighting fixtures so to provide cooling of one or more components of the lighting fixtures so to, ultimately, improve the efficacy of the LEDs contained therein. A method of designing lighting systems, including analysis of whether or not to add air cooling to increase light source efficiency is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Musco Corporation
    Inventor: Myron Gordin
  • Patent number: 9024521
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an organic EL display device, including: a lower electrode provided every first organic EL element for a blue color and every second organic EL element for another color on a substrate; a hole injection/transport layer provided every first and second organic EL elements; a second organic light emitting layer for another color provided on said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic EL element; a connection layer made of a low-molecular material and provided over an entire surface of said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic light emitting layer and said first organic EL element; a first organic light emitting layer for a blue color provided over an entire surface of said connection layer; and an electron injection/transport layer and an upper electrode provided over an entire surface of said organic light emitting layer in order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Toshiki Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Higo
  • Patent number: 9018838
    Abstract: The invention describes a high intensity gas-discharge lamp (1) comprising a discharge vessel (5, 5?) enclosing a fill gas in a discharge chamber (2) and comprising a pair of electrodes (3, 3?, 4, 4?) extending into the discharge chamber (2), and wherein the fill gas includes a halide composition comprising a halide of sodium and, optionally, scandium iodide to a total proportion of at least 30 wt %, and a halide of terbium and/or gadolinium to a proportion of at least 5 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Klaus Schoeller
  • Patent number: 8975815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making an electronic display device (1) having a screen (3) covered by a protection plate, and to a substrate (2) covered by said screen for obtaining such a device. The method comprises the following steps: a) applying glue (10) at the non cross-linked state substantially on the entire surface of the screen and/or the assembling surface (11a) of the plate (11) following a deposit on the screen connection area (5) of at least one organic layer (15) for protecting the connection area from the glue; applying the assembling surface against the screen via the glue; c) emitting a radiation through the plate for cross-linking the glue; and d) removing a portion of the plate covering the connection area so that the latter can be electrically accessible, the protection layer being removed from the connection area upon said removal or during a further surface processing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Christophe Prat, Tony Maindron
  • Patent number: 8970106
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a laminated structure of conductive transparent oxide layers containing silicon or silicon oxide is applied as an electrode on the side of injecting a hole (a hole injection electrode; an anode) instead of the conventional conductive transparent oxide layer such as ITO. In addition, according to another aspect of the invention, a laminated structure of conductive transparent oxide layers containing silicon or silicon oxide, each of which content is different, is applied as a hole injection electrode. Preferably, silicon or a silicon oxide concentration of the conductive layer on the side where it is connected to a TFT ranges from 1 atomic % to 6 atomic % and a silicon or silicon oxide concentration on the side of a layer containing an organic compound ranges from 7 atomic % to 15 atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Toru Takayama, Naoya Sakamoto, Kengo Akimoto, Keiji Sato, Tetsunori Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8960931
    Abstract: A luminous keyboard device includes plural keys, a supporting plate, a light-emitting element, and a light guide plate. The supporting plate has a supporting plate opening, and the supporting plate opening has a light-guiding slant surface. The light-emitting element is inserted into the supporting plate opening for emitting plural light beams. When the plural light beams are emitted by the light-emitting element, the plural light beams are guided by the light-guiding slant surface to be introduced into the light guide plate, and the plural light beams are directed to the plural keys to illuminate the plural keys. Consequently, the light amount of the light beams to be introduced into the light guide plate will be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Yuan Chen, Hsuan-Wei Ho
  • Patent number: 8957574
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electro-luminescence display device and a method for fabricating the same, in which damage to a pad portion is prevented for improving yield. The organic electro-luminescence display device includes a thin film transistor array unit formed on a front surface of a lower substrate and a pad portion extended from the thin film transistor array unit, an organic EL array unit on the thin film transistor array unit having a matrix of organic EL cells, and a protective member for protecting the organic EL array unit and the thin film transistor array unit and exposing the pad portion to an outside, wherein the lower substrate has a thickness of a first region overlapped with the pad portion thicker than a thickness of a second region overlapped with the thin film transistor array unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Young Lee, Tae-Yeon Yoo
  • Patent number: 8957578
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device may include a substrate, a first electrode, a light emitting structure, a second electrode and a nanostructure. The first electrode may be disposed over the substrate. The light emitting structure may be disposed over the first electrode. The second electrode may be disposed over the light emitting structure. A plurality of nanoparticles may be disposed over the second electrode. The plurality of nanoparticles is capable of causing surface plasmon resonance by light. At least some of the plurality of nanoparticles have materials, sizes and shapes determined to cause surface plasmon resonance by light having a predetermined wavelength and emitted from the light emitting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Shik Lee
  • Patent number: 8957573
    Abstract: Wire-suspended thermionic cathodes provide lower power, further reduction in size, better stability and accuracy, and higher loading then conventional art. The cathodes are too small for use with conventional heaters and so are heated from behind by an electron beam or an intense light beam, such as laser light transmitted via optical fiber to the back of the cathode. The cathodes are electrically isolated from the focus electrode, thus allowing beam cutoff and modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Bernard K Vancil
  • Patent number: 8931914
    Abstract: A flexible solar light includes a lamp portion, a main body portion, and a goose neck portion. The goose neck portion connects the lamp portion and the main body portion, which is flexible and configured to be bent in a shape and maintains the bent shape. The lamp portion and the main body portion are configured to form a portable flashlight, a light stand, a wall lamp, or a ceiling lamp by engaging or separating each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Inventors: Ji Yong Kim, Man Duck Kim, Chung Han Kim
  • Patent number: 8926134
    Abstract: Lighting module mounted onto a C-shaped rail having a bottom wall and electrical lines extending along the rail includes a light source board having a first face carrying one or more light radiation sources and a second face carrying electrical contacts. A channel-shaped housing envelops the board and has a web wall for emitting the light radiation and two opposed side walls each facing one of the longitudinal edges of the board. Each of a pair of opposed guide members extends along one of the longitudinal edges of the board facing a corresponding side wall of the housing. Each of the guide members and the corresponding side wall of the housing have complementary, mutually cooperating, ramp-like surfaces to retain the light source board within the housing. Elastic members urge the board away from the web wall of the housing, whereby the complementary ramp-like surfaces are elastically urged against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Hast, Lorenzo Roberto Trevisanello, Franco Zanon
  • Patent number: 8922111
    Abstract: Some embodiments disclosed herein include a ceramic body including a first region and a second region. The first region may include a host material and first concentration of a dopant that is effective to produce luminescence. The second region may include the host material and second concentration of the dopant. In some embodiments, the first region has an average grain size that is larger than an average grain of the second region. The ceramic body may, in some embodiments, exhibit superior internal quantum efficiency (IQE). Some embodiments disclosed herein include methods for the making and using the ceramic bodies disclosed herein. Also, some embodiments disclosed herein lighting apparatuses including the ceramic bodies disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Zhang, Hiroaki Miyagawa, Toshitaka Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8907553
    Abstract: A cold cathode field emission electron source capable of emission at levels comparable to thermal sources is described. Emission in excess of 6 A/cm2 at 7.5 V/?m is demonstrated in a macroscopic emitter array. The emitter is comprised of a monolithic and rigid porous semiconductor nanostructure with uniformly distributed emission sites, and is fabricated through a room temperature process which allows for control of emission properties. These electron sources can be used in a wide range of applications, including microwave electronics and x-ray imaging for medicine and security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Inventors: Fred Sharifi, Myung-Gyu Kang, Henri Lezec
  • Patent number: 8901816
    Abstract: Write in of lower significant bits of a digital video signal to a memory is eliminated by a memory controller of a signal control circuit in a display device during a second display mode in which the number of gray scales is reduced, as compared to a first display mode. Further, read out of the lower significant bits of the digital video signal from the memory is also eliminated. The amount of information of digital image signals input to a source signal line driver circuit is reduced. Corresponding to this operation, a display controller functions to make start pulses and clock pulses input to each driver circuit have a lower frequency, and write in periods and display periods of sub-frame periods participating in display are set longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Koyama