Patents Examined by Nimeshkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 9704926
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus is provided. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a display substrate including a non-pixel area and a plurality of pixel areas including a first pixel and a second pixel having a shortest distance from the first pixel among pixels of the plurality of pixel areas; an encapsulation substrate facing the display substrate; and a spacer in the non-pixel area of the display substrate to maintain a space between the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate, wherein the spacer is between the first pixel and the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9689561
    Abstract: A lighting unit for a large electrical household appliance includes a base part configured to receive a luminous element and having positive engagement elements, and a top part configured for attachment to the base part through displacement of the top part longitudinally in a connection plane relative to the base part. The top part has in displacement direction a front region which is provided with two gripping hooks for engagement with the positive engagement elements of the base part, with the gripping hooks engaging below the positive engagement elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heinrich, Matthias Wiedenmann
  • Patent number: 9685494
    Abstract: A terminal is formed on a substrate. An anisotropic conductive film is disposed on the terminal. A flexible printed board is connected to the terminal via the anisotropic conductive film. At least one opening is formed in the terminal. An adhesion reinforcing portion as a projection is formed inside the opening. The adhesion reinforcing portion is formed of a material having higher adhesion to the anisotropic conductive film than a material constituting the surface of the terminal, and is adhered to the anisotropic conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Odaka, Jun Hanari, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9678385
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an alignment layer includes: a dispenser which supplies an alignment material; an anilox roll, onto which the alignment material supplied from the dispenser is applied; a printing roll which is engaged and rotated with the anilox roll; and a resin plate attached to an outer peripheral surface of the printing roll, where the resin plate receives the alignment material applied onto the anilox roll and prints the alignment material to a targeted substrate, in which the resin plate comprises a first area and a second area surrounding the first area, first convex portions and first concave portions are disposed in the first area, second convex portions and second concave portions are disposed in the second area, and an area of each second convex portion is larger than an area of each first convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Ho Kim, Sun-Kyu Joo, Ji-Yoon Jung
  • Patent number: 9678391
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded by a sealing material, with a liquid crystal interposed between the two substrates. An alignment film has a two-layer structure of a lower alignment film not subjected to photo alignment treatment and an upper alignment film subjected to photo alignment treatment and contacting the liquid crystal. A hollow with an increased film thickness is formed in an end portion of the lower alignment film. An end portion of the upper alignment film is determined by the hollow of the lower alignment film. The material, process conditions, or other conditions of the lower alignment film for easy control of outer end dimensions can be selected to easily control the profile of the alignment film as a whole. Thus, it is possible to avoid the reduction of reliability due to the reduction of the bonding strength between the sealing material and the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takenori Hirota
  • Patent number: 9669943
    Abstract: An apparatus for illuminating an underside of a fuselage of an aircraft, the apparatus comprising a housing mounted to an underside of the fuselage; and a light source disposed within the housing the housing being configured to direct light from the light source toward the underside of the fuselage in an aft direction. Also disclosed is an aircraft advertising arrangement, comprising light emanation means for causing light to emanate from an underside of an aircraft fuselage, the light emanation means being configured to emanate light as a graphical advertising image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Concept Ideas Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Joane Andre Sidler
  • Patent number: 9666400
    Abstract: A field emission electron source includes a linear carbon nanotube structure, an insulating layer and at least one conductive ring. The linear carbon nanotube structure has a first end and a second end. The insulating layer is located on outer surface of the linear carbon nanotube structure. The first conductive ring includes a first ring face 1301 and a second ring face, an end surface of the linear carbon nanotube structure, and the first ring face are coplanar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cai-Lin Guo, Jie Tang, Peng Liu, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 9666425
    Abstract: A gas discharge lamp has an inner bulb with a discharge vessel with two sealing sections thereon, from which electrodes protrude into the discharge vessel, each electrically connected with a conductor in the associated sealing section to supply current to the electrodes. The lamp also has an outer bulb surrounding the discharge vessel, leaving a cavity therebetween. Close to at least one of the electrodes in or near a transitional area between the discharge vessel and the associated sealing section on an outside of the inner bulb is arranged potential-free a conductive structure which on application of a voltage to the electrodes influences the electrical field adjacent the electrodes such that a discharge arc travels from the electrode first in the direction of a wall section of the discharge vessel adjacent the electrode and then over the inside of the wall toward the other electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Norbert Lesch, Manfred Westemeyer, Klaus Schoeller
  • Patent number: 9666402
    Abstract: Each of first to fourth needle-like electrodes is arranged such that a direction of extension thereof is parallel, and generates ions by discharge. Through a space, a gas for conveying the ions generated by the first to fourth needle-like electrodes flows. Needle tips of the first needle-like electrode and the second needle-like electrode protrude from a first wall surface that forms the space, are spaced apart from each other, and are arranged in line in the space. Needle tips of the third needle-like electrode and the fourth needle-like electrode protrude from a second wall surface that forms the space and faces the first wall surface, are spaced apart from each other, and are arranged in line in the space. The first needle-like electrode and the fourth needle-like electrode generate positive ions, and the second needle-like electrode and the third needle-like electrode generate negative ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ezaki, Yoshinori Sekoguchi, Satohiko Yamamoto, Tomoaki Takado, Keitaro Yamada, Satoshi Okano
  • Patent number: 9659749
    Abstract: A beam extraction slit structure includes a plasma chamber interior surface that is, in operation, in contact with a plasma; a plasma chamber exterior surface that faces an extraction electrode; and a slit surface part that forms a beam extraction slit between the plasma chamber interior surface and the plasma chamber exterior surface in the beam extraction direction. The slit surface part includes a plasma meniscus fixing part formed in an area of relatively higher plasma density in the slit longitudinal direction to fixingly maintain a plasma meniscus of the plasma and a plasma meniscus non-fixing part formed in an area of relatively lower plasma density in the slit longitudinal direction to movably maintain the plasma meniscus of the plasma in the beam extraction direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES ION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masateru Sato
  • Patent number: 9659762
    Abstract: Energy-saving lamps contain a gas filling of mercury vapor and argon in a gas discharge bulb. Amalgam balls are used for filling the gas discharge bulb with mercury. Novel coated balls whose operating life in the case of automatic metered introduction is increased by coating of the balls with an alloy powder and conglutination of the amalgam balls during storage and processing is prevented are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Olivier Hutin, Hans Martin Ringelstein
  • Patent number: 9657922
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for providing protective coatings onto an energizable LED component coupled to an electrical path. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to LED lamps comprising transparent dielectric coatings and LED lamps and devices made thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Negley, Praneet Athalye, Shaow B. Lin
  • Patent number: 9659734
    Abstract: A vacuum electronic device includes a multi-layer graphene grid that includes at least two layers of graphene, where the transmission of electrons through the multi-layer graphene grid can be tuned by varying the parameters of the vacuum electronic device such as the number of graphene layers, relative positions of the electrodes, voltage biases applied to the electrodes, and other device parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: William David Duncan, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Max N. Mankin, Tony S. Pan, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9653280
    Abstract: The invention describes an electrode (1) for use in a lamp (3) comprising a quartz glass envelope (30) enclosing a chamber (31), which electrode (1) comprises a tip for extending into the chamber (31) and base for embedding in a sealed portion (33) of the quartz glass envelope (30), characterized in that the base comprises a plurality of essentially smooth concave channels (2) arranged around the body of the electrode (2) and wherein the depth (dch) of a channel (2) is preferably at most 8 percent, more preferably at most 5 percent, most preferably at most 3 percent of a diameter (De) of the electrode (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Barbara Roswitha Muelders, Reiner Feder
  • Patent number: 9655199
    Abstract: A light emitting system is provided including a first organic light emitting device. The first organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, a first organic emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a second organic emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The first organic emitting layer and the second organic emitting layer each include an emissive dopant having a peak wavelength of between 400 to 500 nanometers, but one of the peak wavelength of one of the dopants is at least 4 nm less than the peak wavelength of the other dopant. The first organic emitting layer and the second organic emitting layer may overlap each other, such as being disposed one over the other. The device may be used in white light or multi-color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Weaver, Xin Xu, Julia J. Brown
  • Patent number: 9644832
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting apparatus that can be provided in a warehouse and driven by using an industrial power source and has superior light efficiency and long life span. The disclosed lighting apparatus is provided in a warehouse and driven by an industrial power source, and comprises a main body having a plurality of concave portions and a plurality of convex portions; and a plurality of light emitting modules disposed in the concave portions of the main body, thereby having low power consumption and long life span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mi Ra Yun
  • Patent number: 9646798
    Abstract: A device includes an anode, a cathode, and a grid configured to modulate a flow of electrons from the cathode to anode. The grid is made of graphene material which is substantially transparent to the flow of electrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Tony S. Pan, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9647181
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting device in which with the general color rendering index Ra and the special color rendering index R9 maintained at high numeric values, the light emission efficiency is prevented from being reduced as much as possible, and the high color rendering and the high efficiency are achieved so as to be usable for general lighting usage. The device includes at least one light emitting element 6 emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a near-ultraviolet to blue region, and a phosphor layer 5 containing a green phosphor excited by a primary light emitted from the light emitting element 6 and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a green region, a first red phosphor excited by the primary light and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength in a red region, and a second red phosphor exited by the primary light and emitting a light having a peak emission wavelength different from that of the first red phosphor in the red region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinya Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 9644996
    Abstract: Obtained is a controller for an air-conditioning apparatus with which indication by light can be effectively performed. The controller includes a light source 21 capable of emitting light in a plurality of colors and a light guiding member 22 that diffuses the light emitted from the light source 21 so as to increase an indication area, thereby performing light indication in an indication region 22a. By increasing the light indication area, light indication can be effectively performed, and accordingly, visual recognition by the user can be easily performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Yahata
  • Patent number: 9645462
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which smear error is suppressed and transmittance is uniform is provided. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a plurality of pixels and uses comb-teeth-shaped transparent conductive films 110 as common wirings, the common wirings include mesh-shaped common metal wirings 101v and 101h extending in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction and the comb-teeth-shaped transparent conductive films 110 are connected between adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Saori Sugiyama, Yuji Maede, Masateru Morimoto