Patents Examined by Natalie Walford
  • Patent number: 8827472
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including: a display panel which includes a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed to form a space between the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent to each other, and which is configured to form an image by the plurality of light emitting elements; and an optical member including a plurality of optical functional sheets, and an elastic body which includes a partition wall configured to partition the plurality of optical functional sheets and which is configured to array and hold the plurality of optical functional sheets to respectively correspond to the plurality of light emitting elements by at least one light emitting element of the plurality of light emitting elements, the optical member being attached to the display panel in such a manner that the partition wall is arranged in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Takada
  • Patent number: 8829773
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus with light-emitting diode chips and a remote phosphor layer includes a plurality of LED chips, a cover, a heat sink, a first end cap, a second end cap, at least one PCB, and a LED driver. The plurality of LED chips is positioned on the at least one PCB and electronically connected with the LED driver. The LED driver is electrically connected with male contacts which traverse through the first end cap and the second end cap. The at least one PCB is enclosed with the cover, the heat sink, the first end cap, and the second end cap. The blue light and ultraviolet light from the plurality of LED chips coverts into white or yellow light from a phosphor layer of the cover, where the phosphor layer is remotely positioned from the plurality of LED chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: LED Technology Group LLC
    Inventors: Adam Green, Eric Gutmann
  • Patent number: 8829792
    Abstract: The invention relates to an OLED and its manufacture. The OLED comprises substrate (1), a first electrode layer (2), a package (3) of layers comprising organic electroluminescence material, a second electrode layer (4), a spacer layer (5) and a cover (6) being sealed to the substrate (1) via a sealing material (8). According to the invention, the cover (6) is formed as a layer of a flexible material which is permanently fixed to at least a part of the spacer layer (5). OLEDs with this feature have less moisture penetration and can be produced with less costs. Moreover, electrical contacts (11) between the cover (6) and one of the electrode layers (2, 4) are more reliable in OLEDs having this feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Petrus Cornelis Paulus Bouten
  • Patent number: 8816577
    Abstract: A spark plug (20) includes a center electrode (24) and a ground electrode (22). The electrodes (22, 24) include a core (26) formed of a copper (Cu) alloy and a clad (28) formed of a nickel (Ni) alloy enrobing the core (26). The Cu alloy includes Cu in an amount of at least 98.5 weight percent, and at least one of Zr and Cr in an amount of at least 0.05 weight percent. The Cu alloy includes a matrix of the Cu and precipitates of the Zr and Cu dispersed in the Cu matrix. The Ni alloy of the clad (28) includes Ni in an amount of at least 90.0 weight percent. The Ni alloy also includes at least one of a Group 3 element, a Group 4 element, a Group 13 element, chromium (Cr), silicon (Si), and manganese (Mn) in a total amount sufficient to affect the strength of the Ni alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Ignition Company
    Inventors: Shuwei Ma, James D. Lykowski
  • Patent number: 8816575
    Abstract: An LED module substrate includes a substrate main body, an LED mounted on one plane of the substrate main body, and a contact mounted at an edge of the one plane of the substrate main body and electrically connected to the LED. A cover section covers the LED module substrate in which the contact and the thermal radiation sheet are exposed. A lamp is attached to a socket. The socket includes a terminal electrically connected to the contact by the attachment of the lamp. A luminaire main body includes a thermal radiator including a contact surface and a recess. The lamp attached to the socket is brought into contact with and thermally connected to the contact surface. The recess is provided in a position opposed to the terminal of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Kimiya, Kenji Nezu, Go Kato, Yoshiyuki Tamaki, Hiroto Nakamura, Kazunari Higuchi, Makoto Otsuka, Yoshiyuki Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 8814375
    Abstract: A display device including a first light source that emits light, a background panel including a translucent portion to which light emitted from the first light source is entered and from which transmitted light is exited, the translucent portion provided in at least a portion of the background panel; and a dial including a transparent portion to which at least a portion of the transmitted light exited from the translucent portion is entered, the transparent portion provided in at least a portion of the dial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Makita, Kouhei Takeshita, Ayako Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8801218
    Abstract: A lighting device including: a light-emitting device unit including one or more light-emitting devices; a first reflector which faces the light-emitting device unit and reflects light emitted from the light-emitting device unit; and a second reflector which faces the first reflector and reflects light reflected by the first reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ariyoshi, Cheon-ho Park, Byeong-hyeon Yu, Ji-hoon Yun
  • Patent number: 8801207
    Abstract: A light directing substrate includes a back major surface and a front major surface opposing the back surface. The back major surface includes light reflection regions and light transmission regions. The front surface includes a plurality of lenticular lens elements. A graphic image disposed on or in the light directing substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Meis, David G. Freier, Patrick R. Fleming, Ronald S. Steelman
  • Patent number: 8801229
    Abstract: An illuminating device includes a case, a heat sink block, an LED array, two waterproof plastic sheets and two covers. The case has a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and two partition grooves. The heat sink block has a carrying platform and a fluid channel. The fluid channel is conformally disposed in the partition grooves and communicated with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The LED array is located on the carrying platform. The waterproof plastic sheets respectively overlay the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The waterproof plastic sheets have a first opening communicated with the fluid channel. The covers respectively overlay the waterproof plastic sheet and a part of the case and have a second opening corresponding to the first opening. A fluid flows through the fluid channel via the second openings and the first openings so as to discharge heat from the LED array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng-Ting Hsu, Ming-Cheng Hua
  • Patent number: 8801204
    Abstract: The wavelength conversion member includes a plurality of fluorescent members that absorb the excitation light and emit fluorescent light having a peak wavelength different from the peak wavelength of the excitation light. The wavelength conversion member has a surface irradiated with excitation light that faces an excitation light emitting surface of the excitation light source. The optical axis passes the center of the surface irradiated with excitation light. The plurality of fluorescent members are arranged in a divisional manner at such proportions that a circumferential area ratio, which is defined as the ratio of area occupied by each of the fluorescent members in a concentric annular region having a center located at the center of the surface irradiated with excitation light on the surface irradiated with excitation light of the wavelength conversion member, is substantially constant irrespective of the radius of the concentric annular region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kamee, Takeshi Ito
  • Patent number: 8803416
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, the OLED apparatus including: a substrate; an active layer formed on the substrate; a gate electrode insulated from the active layer; source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode and electrically connected to the active layer; a pixel defining layer formed on the source and drain electrodes, having an aperture to expose one of the source and drain electrodes; an intermediate layer formed in the aperture and comprising an organic light emitting layer; and a facing electrode which is formed on the intermediate layer. One of the source and drain electrodes has an extension that operates as a pixel electrode. The aperture exposes the extended portion. The intermediate layer is formed on the extended portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Hyun Kwon, Il-Jeong Lee, Choong-Youl Im, Dae-Hyun No, Cheol-Ho Yu
  • Patent number: 8796921
    Abstract: A flexible display panel including: a flexible substrate comprising a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is formed in a first direction, and the second area is formed in a second direction that is different from the first direction; a first display area formed on the first area of the flexible substrate; a second display area formed on the second area of the flexible substrate; a bending area formed between the first display area and the second display area; and an encapsulation substrate encapsulating at least the first display area and the second display area. Accordingly, as a display area is not formed in a bent portion, display defects due to bending may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wi-Jin Nam
  • Patent number: 8796913
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an effective display region including a pixel, the pixel including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a wiring line connected to the second electrode at a position to the periphery of the effective display region, the wiring line including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer that are electrically connected to each other and that overlap each other, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer both extending in a direction in which an edge of the effective display region extends, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer extending in the direction a distance that is longer than a distance in which the edge of the effective display region extends in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Furusawa, Mitsuru Kuribayashi, Hayato Nakanishi, Toshimitsu Hirai
  • Patent number: 8786171
    Abstract: A field emission light source device, comprising: cathode plate comprising substrate and cathode conductive layer disposed on surface of substrate, and anode plate comprising base formed from transparent ceramic material and anode conductive layer disposed on one surface of base, and insulating support member by which cathode plate and anode plate are integrally fixed, and vacuum-tight chamber formed with anode plate, cathode plate and insulating support member; anode conductive layer and the cathode plate are disposed opposite each other. Because of advantages of good electrical conductivity, high light transmittance, stable electron-impact resistance performance and uniform luminescence, using transparent ceramic as the base of the anode plate in the field emission light source device can increase electron beam excitation efficiency effectively, increase light extraction efficiency of the field emission light source device, and finally increase its luminous efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ocean's King Lighting Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Wenbo Ma, Qingtao Li
  • Patent number: 8786177
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL element including a plurality of light-emitting layers which each emit light having a different peak wavelength, and having excellent light-emitting performances such as light-emitting intensity with a simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Ono
  • Patent number: 8770786
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a light guiding frame and a light source is provided. The light guiding frame has a recess, and an edge of an opening of the recess defines a light-emitting opening. The light guiding frame comprises a first light guiding structure and a second light guiding structure connected to the first light guiding structure. The light source is disposed on a bottom of the recess and has a light-emitting surface. The first light guiding structure is extended along a direction away from the light-emitting surface and the light-emitting opening. The second light guiding structure is extended along a direction away from the light-emitting surface but close to the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Lextar Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng-Ping Chen, Shang-Jung Hsieh, Hou-Hsiang Su
  • Patent number: 8770780
    Abstract: A building block having at least one shape in the building block which includes a sealed volume surrounded by the shape, where the shape includes a transparent front and transparent rear to allow light to pass through the front and the rear and enter into a building partially or fully covered by the building block. There is at least one iris aperture diaphragm on the rear of each of at least one shape which is positioned to let all light pass into the building, each of the at least one iris aperture diaphragm having an adjustable opening to control how much light passes into the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventors: Tyson E. Jang, Sei-Joo Jang
  • Patent number: 8770778
    Abstract: A utility light kit has one or more lights that can mount on a top platform of a ladder without requiring the user to use one hand for holding a light. The utility light kit is a portable, cordless, safe, battery-operated device that includes a tool utility tray for keeping tools or other objects conveniently located when working on a job where the ladder needs to be moved frequently. The light can be an LED panel having a plurality of lights that can be rotated to provide light in a desired area. When the utility light kit is closed, the utility tray is covered, preventing the contents from spilling out while moving the ladder. An attachment mechanism, such as clips or an attachment strap, can secure the utility light kit to the top platform of the ladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventors: Herberth A. Pereira, Stephen John Gerli, Stephen Joseph Gerli, James A. McCrea
  • Patent number: 8766517
    Abstract: The claimed invention was made by, on behalf of, and/or in connection with one or more of the following parties to a joint university corporation research agreement: Princeton University, The University of Southern California, The University of Michigan and Universal Display Corporation. The agreement was in effect on and before the date the claimed invention was made, and the claimed invention was made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of the agreement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Silvernail, Jason Paynter, Kamala Rajan
  • Patent number: 8764248
    Abstract: An LED lighting system provides at least one LED illuminating module for use in light bulbs and luminaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventor: Jerome H. Simon