Patents Examined by Natalie Walford
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Patent number: 8450919Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminant compound for a discharge lamp (1), said compound having an emission spectrum in the green spectral range and being designed to absorb the radiation emitted in the visible spectral range by an Hg source and to convert said visible radiation of the Hg source into the emission spectrum of the illuminant compound. The invention also relates to a discharge lamp comprising an illuminant compound of this type.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschränkter HaftungInventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
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Patent number: 8444309Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to an electrical device having illumination comprising a housing and at least one light pipe extending along a longitudinal axis, inside the housing. There is at least one light disposed in the housing and being positioned adjacent to the light pipe. The light has a radiation pattern having a corresponding peak radiation pattern direction which extends along the longitudinal axis of the light pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Jansen, Michael Kamor, Adam Kevelos, Walter Ancipiuk
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Patent number: 8439520Abstract: A collimated light source with solid-state light emitters in which the solid-state light emitter is optically coupled to a high refractive index reflector optic, which reduces the cone angle of the light input to the reflector optic. Reducing the cone angle allows the reflective surface of the reflector optic to be reduced in size compared with a conventional reflector in air. The solid-state light emitter is mounted near the light output surface to further reduce the size of the collimated light source. The highly collimated light beams of different colors generated by multiple collimated light sources enable the lighting assembly to use a decussate optical filter having dichroic filter elements to combine the light beams to provide the compact lighting assembly having a configurable output light color.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Rambus Delaware LLCInventor: Brian E. Richardson
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Patent number: 8436533Abstract: A method for forming a coating over a surface is disclosed. The method comprises depositing over a surface, a hybrid layer comprising a mixture of a polymeric material and a non-polymeric material. The hybrid layer may have a single phase or comprise multiple phases. The hybrid layer is formed by chemical vapor deposition using a single source of precursor material. The chemical vapor deposition process may be plasma-enhanced and may be performed using a reactant gas. The precursor material may be an organo-silicon compound, such as a siloxane. The hybrid layer may comprise various types of polymeric materials, such as silicone polymers, and various types of non-polymeric materials, such as silicon oxides. By varying the reaction conditions, the wt % ratio of polymeric material to non-polymeric material may be adjusted. The hybrid layer may have various characteristics suitable for use with organic light-emitting devices, such as optical transparency, impermeability, and/or flexibility.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Sigurd Wagner, Prashant Mandlik
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Patent number: 8432095Abstract: Systems and methods for the design and fabrication of OLEDs, including high-performance large-area OLEDs, are provided. Variously described fabrication processes may be used to deposit and pattern bus lines with a smooth profile and a gradual sidewall transition. Such smooth profiles may, for example, reduce the probability of electrical shorting at the bus lines. Accordingly, in certain circumstances, an insulating layer may no longer be considered essential, and may be optionally avoided altogether. In cases where an insulating layer is not used, further enhancements in the emissive area and shelf life of the device may be achieved as well. According to aspects of the invention, bus lines such as those described herein may be deposited, and patterned, using vapor deposition such as vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE) through a shadow mask, and may avoid multiple photolithography steps.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Universal Display CorporationInventors: Huiqing Pang, Peter Levermore, Kamala Rajan, Emory Krall, Ruiqing (Ray) Ma, Paul E. Burrows
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Patent number: 8430705Abstract: A first side has a first surface on which is located a material, at least a portion of which is to be formed into at least one tip. A second side has a second surface which is heated. At least one of the first and second surfaces being moved so material located on the first surface comes into physical contact with the second surface. Then at least one of the first side and the second side are moved, wherein the physical contact between the material and the second surface is maintained, causing the material to stretch between the second surface and the first surface, generating at least one capillary bridge. Movement is continued until the physical contact between the material and the second surface is broken resulting in the formation of at least one sharp conductive tip.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Sanjiv Sambandan, John E. Northrup, Gregory L. Whiting, Robert A. Street
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Patent number: 8427052Abstract: A metal halide lamp includes a ceramic discharge vessel that encloses a discharge space which accommodates two electrodes and contains a salt filling. The salt filling includes sodium iodide, thallium iodide, calcium iodide, cerium iodide, and barium iodide as a colorpoint stabilizing additive. The salt filling further includes calcium iodide and thallium iodide, and substantially no sodium iodide. The salt filling further comprises mercury iodide.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Petrus Johannes Mathijs Van Der Burgt, Vincent Fischer, Timo Borlet
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Patent number: 8421343Abstract: Provided are an organic light emitting display device which can be simultaneously used as a mirror and a display screen in an external display device such as a mobile phone, and a manufacturing method for the organic light emitting display device. In one embodiment, an organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate and first transistors formed on the first substrate. A first organic light emitting diode is electrically connected to each of the first transistors. A second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. Second organic light emitting diodes are formed on the second substrate. In the organic light emitting display device, a cathode electrode of each of the second organic light emitting diodes is formed of a reflective material.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eun-Ah Kim
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Patent number: 8421331Abstract: The present invention provides an electron emitting element, comprising: a first electrode; an insulating fine particle layer formed on the first electrode and composed of insulating fine particles; and a second electrode formed on the insulating fine particle layer, wherein the insulating fine particles are monodisperse fine particles, and when voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, electrons are discharged from the first electrode into the insulating fine particle layer and accelerated through the insulating fine particle layer to be emitted from the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayae Nagaoka, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, Yasuo Imura, Kanako Hirata, Tadashi Iwamatsu
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Patent number: 8419495Abstract: A method for manufacturing a switchable PBD includes filling a plurality of first-type particles and a plurality of second-type particles into each cell, where the plurality of first-type particles carries charges of a first charge polarity having a first charge density and the plurality of second-type particles is substantially electrically neutral, or carries charges having a second charge density that is substantially lower than the first charge density of the first-type particles, and filling a fluid into each cell, where the fluid comprises a charge controlling agent having a second charge polarity opposite to the first charge polarity, and the charge controlling agent has a substantially selective wettability, absorbability or adsorbability on the plurality of second-type particles. As such, at least part of the plurality of second-type particles is charged to have the second charge polarity in each cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Delta Electronics Inc.Inventors: Rong-Chang Liang, Jiunn-Jye Hwang, Jung-Yang Juang, Min-Chiao Tsai
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Patent number: 8415875Abstract: An organic light emissive device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic light emissive region between the first and second electrodes comprising an organic light emissive material which has a peak emission wavelength, wherein at least one of the electrodes is transparent and comprises a composite of a charge injecting metal and another material which is codepositable with the charge injecting metal, the other material having a different refractive index to that of the charge injecting metal and wherein the other material has a lower degree of quenching at the peak emission wavelength than the charge injecting metal whereby quenching of excitons by the at least one electrode is reduced, the charge injecting metal comprising either a low work function metal having a work function of no more than 3.5 eV or a high work function metal having a work function of no less than 4.5 eV.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology LimitedInventors: Euan C. Smith, Matthew Roberts, William Young, Clare Foden
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Patent number: 8410682Abstract: An organic light emitting display (OLED) and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes forming the OLED having upper and lower substrates that emit different colors from each other, and coupling the upper and lower substrates together.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwan-Hee Lee, Won-Kyu Kwak
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Patent number: 8410692Abstract: A lamp for receiving at least one light emitting diode as a light-emitting means, having a bottom part as a supporting element and for feeding the electric connecting wires to a mounting device carrying the at least one light emitting diode, and having a lamp shade. The mounting device is a separate mounting substrate having a breaking strength between 100 and 1,000 MPa and is arranged on the bottom of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: CeramTec GmbHInventors: Alexander Dohn, Karl Degelmann, Christian Schnagl, Armin Veitl
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Patent number: 8405291Abstract: A light source comprising a lucent waveguide of solid dielectric material having: an at least partially light transmitting Faraday cage surrounding the waveguide, a bulb cavity within the waveguide and the Faraday cage and an antenna re-entrant within the waveguide and the Faraday cage and a bulb having a microwave excitable fill, the bulb being received in the bulb cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Inventor: Barry Preston
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Patent number: 8405290Abstract: A lamp 1 comprises an oscillator and amplifier source 2 of microwave energy, typically operating at 2.45 or 5.8 GHz or other frequencies within an ISM band. The source passes the microwaves via a matching circuit 3 to an antenna 4 extending into a re -entrant 5 in a lucent waveguide 6. This is of quartz and has a central cavity 7 accommodating a bulb 8. The bulb is a sealed tube 9 of quartz and contains a fill of noble gas and a microwave excitable material, which radiates visible light when excited by microwaves. The bulb has a stem 10 received in a stem bore 11 extending from the central cavity. The waveguide is transparent and light from the bulb can leave it in any direction, subject to any reflective surfaces. Microwaves cannot leave the waveguide, which is limited at its surfaces by a Faraday cage.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Inventors: Barry Preston, Andrew Simon Neate
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Patent number: 8388399Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus according to a laser-induced thermal imaging (LITI) method, the method including patterning a transfer layer arranged on a donor film; disposing the donor film on an acceptor substrate; laminating the donor film on the acceptor substrate; transferring the transfer layer of the donor film to the acceptor substrate; and removing the donor film from the acceptor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Sul Kim, Jae-Seok Park, Cheol-Lae Roh
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Patent number: 8388200Abstract: A vehicle light can improve the visibility (noticeability) for pedestrians, roadside obstructs, other vehicles and the like in actual traffic environments. The vehicle light can be configured to project light beams with a predetermined white color, and can include a light source with a color temperature range of 4500 K to 7000 K. The light source emits light beams including four color light beams represented by four coordinate values of predicted colors including red, green, blue and yellow in the a* b* coordinate system corresponding to the CIE 1976 L*a*b* color space. The four coordinate values in the a* b* coordinate system can be encompassed by respective circle areas having a radius of, for example, 5, and each having center coordinate values of (41.7, 20.9) for red, (?39.5, 14.3) for green, (8.8, ?29.9) for blue and (?10.4, 74.2) for yellow, for example.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Kojima, Masafumi Ohno, Yasushi Kita, Takako Minoda, Naoko Takenobu, Susumu Nakamura, Norikatsu Myojin, Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 8390182Abstract: A light emitting diode bulb including a heat sink, a light source plate, a reflective frame and a secondary optical component is provided. The light source plate includes a circuit board disposed on the heat sink and a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the circuit board. The reflective frame disposed on the light source plate includes a plate portion and a reflective pillar. The plate portion has a plurality of openings exposing the light emitting devices. The secondary optical component has a first optical surface and a second optical surface. An absolute value of the slope of a tangent line of any point on the first optical surface with respect to the heat sink is constant. An absolute value of the slope of a tangent line of any point on the second optical surface is gradually smaller along the direction away from the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: AmTRAN TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hung-Ta Yu
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Patent number: 8390198Abstract: A discharge lamp with excellent arc stability and excellent durability in which the use level of thoriated tungsten is restrained has an anode and a cathode in the interior of a discharge vessel, wherein said cathode is made up from a thoriated tungsten part with a tungsten filling ratio of at least 90 vol.-% and a main body part connected to said thoriated tungsten part and consisting of pure tungsten, wherein a ratio ST/S of a side surface area ST of said thoriated tungsten part and a side surface area S of said cathode is in a range of from 0.005 to 0.15, with the proviso that, in case the cathode has a length in the direction of the cathode axis which exceeds twice the maximum diameter of the cathode, a side surface area S is used for calculating the ratio ST/S which corresponds to the side surface area where the distance along the cathode axis from a tip end adjacent to the anode is twice the maximum diameter of the cathode.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Shimizu, Tomoyoshi Arimoto, Mitsuru Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 8384280Abstract: A reflective electrode (2) includes an aluminum alloy layer (2a) and an aluminum oxide layer (2b) arranged on or above a substrate and is directly connected to a transparent pixel electrode (3) without the interposition of a barrier metal layer. The aluminum alloy layer contains 0.1 to 2 atomic percent of nickel or cobalt and 0.1 to 2 atomic percent of lanthanum. The aluminum oxide layer has a ratio [O]/[Al] of the number of oxygen atoms [O] to the number of aluminum atoms [Al] of 0.30 or less. The aluminum oxide layer has a thickness in its thinnest portion of 10 nm or less. The reflective electrode has a high reflectance and a low contact resistance, even when subjected to a heat treatment at a low temperature of 100° C. or higher but 300° C. or lower. The reflective electrode also has excellent thermal stability and does not cause defects such as hillocks.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Mototaka Ochi, Hiroshi Goto