Patents Examined by Nimeshkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 8890405
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device and an image display system employing the same are provided. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first substrate; an organic light-emitting pixel structure disposed on a top surface of the first substrate; a second substrate having a bottom surface opposite to the top surface of the first substrate; and an optical functional layer disposed over the organic light-emitting pixel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Su, Du-Zen Peng
  • Patent number: 8888330
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus is disclosed. The lighting apparatus may be an omni-directional LED lamp. The lighting apparatus may include a heat sink and a first substrate disposed over the heat sink. A second substrate may be mounted to a connector provided on the first substrate. The second substrate may include at least one LED mounted on a surface of the second substrate. The second substrate may be mounted in the connector such that the surface of the second substrate is positioned at a prescribed angle with respect to the upper surface of the first substrate. Various types of reflectors are disclosed that reflect light in a prescribed angular range with uniform intensity. A bulb may be provided over the heat sink to surround the LEDs. Moreover, a power module may be electrically connected to the connector to provide power to the LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seokhoon Kang, Sejoon You, Bongho Kim
  • Patent number: 8888547
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, the apparatus including: a substrate; a first electrode formed on the substrate; an intermediate layer formed on the first electrode, including an organic emissive layer; a second electrode formed on the intermediate layer; and an insulating member interposed between the intermediate layer and the second electrode, on an edge of the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nam-Choul Yang
  • Patent number: 8890408
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus includes a substrate having a plurality of conductive traces terminating at a peripheral edge of the substrate. An active display portion is disposed on an upper surface of the substrate and electrically coupled to the conductive traces of the substrate. The peripheral edge of the substrate includes a protruding region that extends beyond a peripheral edge of the active display portion. A plurality of conductive bonding pads are affixed at the protruding region and coupled to the plurality of the conductive traces. A flexible circuit includes a plurality of conductors electrically coupled to the plurality of bonding pads at locations on or below a lower surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Esa-Sakari Maatta
  • Patent number: 8884509
    Abstract: A structure with which luminance of light extracted outside is improved in the case where a color filter is used is disclosed below. In an optical device including an optical element and a color conversion unit which light radiated from the optical element (light emitted from the optical element or light passing through the optical element) enters, the color conversion unit has a color filter region in which a color filter layer is provided and a transmissive region having higher transmittance per unit area than the color filter region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Matsukura
  • Patent number: 8884514
    Abstract: To enhance luminance and color rendering of a light emitting device comprising phosphors as wavelength converting material and at least one semiconductor light emitting device that emits visible light, as said phosphors, are used phosphors which are one or more kinds of phosphors selected from a group consisting of oxides, oxynitrides and nitrides, and are a mixture consisting of two or more kinds of phosphors whose luminous efficiency is 35% or higher when excited by the visible light from said semiconductor light emitting device at room temperature. In addition, said mixture contains a first phosphor, and a second phosphor that is different from said first phosphor and capable of absorbing emitted light from said first phosphor, and said first phosphor is contained 85 weight % or more of said mixture of phosphors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Shimomura, Hideaki Kaneda, Naoto Kijima
  • Patent number: 8882299
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wavelength conversion member that is provided with: a light transmissive member including a light input plane into which excitation light is inputted, and a light output plane from which wavelength converted light is outputted; and a semiconductor fine particle phosphor, which is dispersed in the light transmissive member, and which absorbs the excitation light, converts the wavelength, and emits light. The dispersion concentration of the semiconductor fine particle phosphor in the direction parallel to the light traveling direction, i.e., the direction connecting the light input plane and the light output plane, is lower than the dispersion concentration of the semiconductor fine particle phosphor in the direction orthogonal to the light traveling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Kinomoto, Tatsuya Ryowa
  • Patent number: 8884501
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) based lamp is provided that may include a housing, a LED module having at least one LED to emit light, and a lens to receive the light from the LED and to guide the light to a specific area. An outer circumference of the lens may have a different surface roughness than an inner surface of the lens or may have a different light transmissivity than the inner surface of the lens. The outer circumference of the lens may minimize light from being transmitted to a region outside the specific area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hankyu Cho, Hyunha Kim, Euna Moon
  • Patent number: 8882331
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a warping buffering structure for a light guide plate and a backlight module. The warping buffering structure includes: a first member with one side thereof contacting one end of the light guide plate of a backlight module; a second member with one side thereof flexibly connected to a side wall of a back cover of the backlight module, and the second member capable of sliding along an extending direction of the side wall; a first inclined surface formed on an end of one side of the first member which is away from the light guide plate; and a second inclined surface formed on an end of one side of the second member which is away from the side wall, and the second inclined surface contacting the first inclined surface and being slidably engaged with the second inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuchun Hsiao, Weifeng Chen
  • Patent number: 8882310
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a low inductance light source module, which may have a small footprint and comprise a printed circuit board (PCB) mount having first and second conducting traces formed on a side of the PCB mount and a semiconducting light source having a first electrical contacts for receiving power that is bonded to the first conducting trace with a conducting bonding material and a second electrical contact for receiving power that is connected by at least one bondwire to the second conducting trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Mandelboum, Giora Yahav, Asaf Pellman, Shlomo Felzenshtein
  • Patent number: 8884503
    Abstract: A spark plug has a metal shell and a ground electrode joined at a base end portion thereof to the metal shell and includes a surface layer and a core higher in thermal conductivity than the surface layer. The surface layer has a thickness of 0.2 to 0.4 mm at a specific position that is located 1 mm from the base end portion. The spark plug satisfies the following condition: W1?W2×1.55?(W3+0.25) where W1 (mm) is a width of the metal shell at a weld region of the metal shell joined with the base end portion in a specific direction that extends perpendicular to the axis direction through a center line of the ground electrode; W2 (mm) is a thickness of the ground electrode at the specific position in the specific direction; and W3 (mm) is a thickness of the surface layer at the specific position in the specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagasawa, Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8876569
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a vacuum cell-assembling device and a cell-assembling method. The vacuum cell-assembling device comprises: an upper substrate, a signal processing apparatus, and a lower substrate provided opposite to the upper substrate, wherein the upper substrate is provided with a light-emitting apparatus thereon, and the lower substrate is provided a photosensitive receiving element array thereon, and the photosensitive receiving element array is connected with the signal processing apparatus, and the signal processing apparatus is adapted for converting the electrical signals from the photosensitive receiving element array to a liquid crystal diffusion-simulation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bingyu Chen, Huan Tang, Tingze Dong, Ying Liu
  • Patent number: 8876349
    Abstract: A display includes: a display section including pixels, and grouping the pixels into pixel groups to assign, in a predetermined assignment pattern, perspective images to the groups, respectively, thereby displaying the perspective images; and a light source device including a light guide plate and one or more first light sources, and emitting light, the light guide plate having a first internal reflection face and a second internal reflection face and having one or more side faces, and the first light sources applying first illumination light into the light guide plate. One or both of the first and second internal reflection faces each have scattering regions arranged in a predetermined arrangement pattern corresponding to the predetermined assignment pattern, the scattering regions allowing the first illumination light from the first light source to be scattered and to exit to the outside of the light guide plate through the first internal reflection face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masaru Minami
  • Patent number: 8876570
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrode (16) for a high-pressure discharge lamp (10), comprising the following steps: a) scanning at least part of the electrode surface for producing an oxide layer (step 120); b) at least partially sublimating the oxide layer formed in step a) (step 120); and c) reducing the rest of the oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Seitz
  • Patent number: 8878429
    Abstract: A lighting device comprising sources of visible light comprising solid state light emitters and/or luminescent materials emitting three or four different hues. A first group of the sources, when illuminated, emit light of two hues which, if combined, would produce illumination having coordinates within an area on a 1931 CIE Chromaticity Diagram defined by points having coordinates: 0.59, 0.24; 0.40, 0.50; 0.24, 0.53; 0.17, 0.25; and 0.30, 0.12. A second group of the sources is of an additional hue. Mixing light from the first and second groups produces illumination within ten MacAdam ellipses of the blackbody locus. Also, a lighting device comprising a white light source having a CRI of 75 or less and at least one solid state light emitters and/or luminescent material. Also, methods of lighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony Paul Van De Ven, Gerald H. Negley
  • Patent number: 8870433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a backlight unit including a plurality of light guide plates, each discretely arranged with an interval, one or more light sources formed at a lateral surface of the plurality of light guide plates, and a filling material filled among the plurality of light guide plates and having a lower refractive index than that of the light guide plate, whereby each of the plurality of light guide plates can be split-driven to guarantee a uniform luminance at an interval among the plurality of light guide plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keetae Um
  • Patent number: 8872424
    Abstract: A lamp device and a light source module are provided. The lamp device includes a lamp body and a coil connecting tube. The lamp body has an end portion and a lead wire extends from the end portion. The coil connecting tube is disposed corresponding to the end portion of the lamp body and electrically connecting to the lead wire for power supply purpose. The coil connecting tube winds about an axial direction of the lamp body and is capable of stretching or compressing along the axial direction. The light source module includes the lamp device and a lamp connector which has a power source portion being coupled to the coil connecting tube for power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Sung-Mu Nien, Yen-Lin Lee, Shih-Che Fu, Hsuan-Hao Hsu
  • Patent number: 8866174
    Abstract: A light-emitting device having a light-emitting stacked layer with a first conductivity type semiconductor layer is provided. A light-emitting layer is formed on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer. A second conductivity type semiconductor layer is formed on the light-emitting layer. The upper surface of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer is a textured surface. A planarization layer is formed on a first part of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer. A transparent conductive oxide layer is formed on the planarization layer and a second part of the second conductivity type semiconductor layer, including a first portion on the planarization layer and a second portion having a first plurality of cavities on the second conductivity type semiconductor layer. An electrode is formed on the first portion of the transparent conductive oxide layer, and a reflective metal layer is formed between the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Tzu-Chieh Hsu, Ching-San Tao, Chen Ou, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Chao Hsing Chen
  • Patent number: 8864358
    Abstract: In a surface light source device frame, an amount of light that leaks from an outer peripheral surface of the frame can be decreased while a decrease in luminance is suppressed in an emission surface. The frame includes a rectangular frame main body made of a black resin and an auxiliary member made of a white resin. In inner peripheral surfaces of both lateral sides of the frame main body, fitting portions are provided in an end portion on a side farther away from the light source in the frame main body in order to fit the leg portions. The auxiliary member is attached to the inner peripheral surface on the side farther away from the light source in the frame main body while the leg portions are fitted in the fitting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Nambu, Kenji Ozawa, Yuichi Hiraki
  • Patent number: 8866383
    Abstract: A flat display device includes a substrate, a light-emitting diode on the substrate, and a sealing layer on the light-emitting diode, the sealing layer including at least one sealing unit that includes an organic film, an oxygen-free buffer layer on the organic film, and an inorganic film on the oxygen-free buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Kyu Jang, Nam-Jin Kim