Abstract: A frame is provided for supporting ornamental lights on a structure. Each frame includes a rod having at least one hoop and at least one peg from which a bar is hinged or pivotally disposed. A plurality of prongs may also be provided to retain an electrical cord with ornamental lights. The bar may also be provided with a plurality of clips to retain the ornamental lights as they are strung along the bar. A plurality of frames may be joined together via the rods to form an assembly. The size of the assembly may vary according to the sizes of the frames used and the number of frames connected. The lengths of the bars may also vary. Shingle-gutter members for attaching and suspending the frame or assembly to the structure are also provided.

Abstract: A two-dimensional organic thin film electroluminescence (EL) display unit has a plurality of one-dimensional organic EL arrays extending in a first direction and adhered together in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The EL array has a transparent substrate having a main surface directed to the second direction, and a multilayer EL structure formed on the main surface and including a plurality of first layer transparent electrodes extending perpendicular to the array, an organic EL thin film and a second layer metallic electrode extending along the array. The EL array emits luminescence in the third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions. The first layer electrodes and the second layer electrode drive the EL array in a matrix drive. The organic EL display unit exhibits excellent image quality, contrast and brightness.

Abstract: An amorphous multi-layered structure (100, 200) is formed by a method including the steps of: i) positioning a deposition substrate (101) in a physical vapor deposition apparatus, (300, 400, 500) ii) ionizing a precursor of a multi-phase material within the physical vapor deposition apparatus (300, 400, 500) iv) modulating the total ion impinging energy of the ions to deposit layers having predetermined properties corresponding to the total ion impinging energy values.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for automatically supplying a pattern signal for testing and adjusting a screen of a video display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) assembly. When a pallette stops at a certain working position, the pallette is pushed to the direction vertical to a transporting direction of a conveyor belt and toward the operator and then fixed. Afterwards, due to the operation of a cylinder, connecting rods and a pattern signal supply terminal are connected to a connector which is electrically connected to the CRT assembly, and thereby the pattern signal for testing and adjusting the screen is supplied. The mobility in every direction generated in moving the connecting rods by the operation of the cylinder is properly controlled by an elastic element. In addition, by buffering the rapid rectilinear movement of a piston rod caused by the operation of the cylinder, the pattern signal supply terminal is smoothly connected to the connector for testing and adjusting the screen of the CRT assembly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating caps from gas discharge lamps which include a hollow cylindrical glass tube body and a cap at each end of the tube body. A break-off line is formed near each end of the tube body, and the caps are then removed from the lamps by venting and blowing-off the ends of the gas discharge lamp in a single working operation by directing a plasma flame of a plasma nozzle towards each break-off line and burning a hole in the lamp. The discharge flow of gas from the plasma nozzle flows through the hole produced in the lamp into the interior thereof and the gas pressure blows off the ends of the gas discharge lamp with the caps.

Abstract: A light guide illumination system having a metal-halide double-ended illumination source is disclosed. The light guide illumination system includes at least one light guide and two curved reflectors disposed in proximity to the double-ended illumination source. The two curved reflectors are adapted to reflect the emitted light from the double-ended illumination source into the light guide. The light guide illumination system further includes at least one multi-sectored lens adapted to receive light from the light guide, and at least one output light guide. The multi-sectored lens is adapted to receive the reflected light from the light guide and to focus the light into the output light guide.

Abstract: An electroluminescent lamp assembly includes electroluminescent lamps of selected limited size placed and secured upon a larger printed circuit substrate employing surface mount techniques. The electroluminescent lamp assembly includes a substrate having a relatively large lamp receiving surface and relatively smaller lamps. At least one of these smaller lamps is a multi-layer sheet-form electroluminescent lamp having a sheet-form layer containing electroluminescent particles, the layer disposed between a pair of sheet-form conductive layers, one of which is transparent for transmitting light emitted from the particles. The electroluminescent lamps each have conductors exposed for engagement and connection with conductive traces on the lamp receiving surface of the substrate in a surface mounted face-to-face arrangement and are distributed in spaced-apart relationship according to a preselected illumination pattern and connected to the conductive traces.

Abstract: A color cathode ray tube comprises a panel having an effective portion. The outer surface in the effective portion of the panel is substantially flat or forms a slightly curved plane with a small curvature. The inner surface of the panel has a substantially infinite curvature radius in a direction of the longer axis in at least a central portion of the panel and is curved in a direction of the shorter axis. A difference in thickness of the effective portion of the panel between the central portion and the edge portions diagonally apart from each other exceeds 8 mm and does not exceed 20 mm, and the transmittance of the glass in the central portion of the effective portion is at least 70%. The particular construction enables the vacuum envelope of the color cathode ray tube to exhibit a mechanical strength high enough to sufficiently withstand the atmospheric pressure, though the effective portion of the panel is flattened.

Abstract: An electroluminescent matrix display device which displays images with uniform brightness on its panel having connecting terminals for both scanning and data electrodes formed on one side of the panel is disclosed. Scanning electrodes requiring larger current than data electrodes are formed vertically on the panel so that they can be connected directly to the terminals formed on the bottom side of the panel, and data electrodes are formed horizontally to be connected to the terminals at the bottom side through wiring leads. Since the wiring leads have different lengths and resistances from one another, the resistances are compensated or adjusted by changing widths of the wiring leads or adding compensating resistors thereto so that the wiring resistances become uniform or differences thereof are reduced. Running directions of the scanning and data electrodes may be exchanged.

Abstract: A marine navigation light assembly for installation in alternately configured mast mounting bases has a mast, a navigation light mounted to a top end of the mast, and an electrical receptacle mounted in a bottom end of the mast and electrically connected to the navigation light. The electrical receptacle includes a receptacle shell and at least two electrical contacts housed in the shell wherein a first of the at least two contacts is fixed with respect to the shell and a second of the at least two contacts laterally floats within the shell and with respect to the first contact for interchangeable mating between electrical plugs having differently spaced electrical pins.

Abstract: A spark plug, especially one for a gas-fueled internal combustion engine has an electrically conducting spark plug body (1), a central electrode (3) which is located in the spark plug body (1) and which is electrically insulated from and projects away from the spark plug body (1), and a ground electrode (4) which is electrically connected to the spark plug body (1) and is made in the form of an annular electrode. The annular electrode (4) surrounds the front part of central electrode (3) such that an annular ignition gap (ZS) is formed between them. Surfaces of the central electrode (3) and the annular electrode (4) bordering the ignition gap (ZS) are provided with precious metal armorings in the form of sleeves (5, 6,), especially of platinum or a platinum alloy. This yields a spark plug with an extremely long service life.

Abstract: A telescoping, outdoor, lighted, Christmas tree exhibit, which at night will simulate a lighted Christmas tree. The Christmas tree exhibit comprises a plurality of concentric hoops, populated with Christmas lights. The hoops are each of decreasing diameter that are sequentially interconnected by a plurality of concentric non stretching, flexible plastic bands, each hoop decreasing in size at the same rate as the hoop before it, with the largest-diameter hoop at the bottom of the Christmas tree exhibit and the smallest-diameter hoop at the top of the Christmas tree exhibit, when fully extended, a conical, tree-shaped appearance is obtained. Preceding the uppermost hoop is a top disk that is connected to the top end of the non stretching, flexible plastic bands. The top disk is supported by an adjustable, collapsible center pole.

Abstract: A phosphor particle having thereon a conformal coating of aluminum nitride. By conformal coating is meant a coating that follows the surface contours of the individual particles. The method of making such phosphors comprises the steps of introducing an inert gas into a reaction vessel; charging phosphor particles into the reaction vessel; heating the reaction vessel to a reaction temperature; introducing a nitride coating precursor into the reaction vessel; introducing a coreactant into the reaction vessel; and maintaining the inert gas flow, coreactant flow and precursor supply for a time sufficient to coat the phosphor particles. The nitride coated phosphor particles produced by this method have excellent efficacy ratings and strong luminance values in lamps after 100 hours use in high humidity (i.e.,>95%).

Abstract: A radiation source, in particular a discharge lamp suitable for operating a dielectrically hindered pulsed discharge by means of a ballast, has at st one electrode separated by dielectric material from the inside of the discharge vessel. By appropriately designing at least one of the electrodes and/or the dielectric material, local field reinforcement areas are created, so that during the pulsed mode of operation one or more dielectrically hindered individual discharges are generated exclusively in these areas, maximum one individual discharge being generated in each area. These areas are obtained in particular by shortening the spacing in locally limited areas, for example by providing on one of the electrodes hemispherical projections which extend towards the counter-electrode. This measure achieves a timestable discharge structure with a high useful radiation effectiveness uniformly distributed throughout the discharge vessel.

Abstract: An rectangularly shaped illumination area utilizing an LED device having a high utilization efficiency in light flux and having an economical manufacturing cost is attained. Herein a light flux emitted from an LED chip 1 and then reflected by reflective surfaces of a horn 11 toward a lens 12 is concentrated into corner FIGS. 14 located in diagonal directions of the rectangular shape 4 while another light flux emitted from the LED chip 1 and directly incident to the lens 12 is focused by the lens on an area having an elliptic FIG. 13, which is inscribed in the rectangle area 4.

Abstract: A spark plug includes a ground electrode, a firing electrode, an insulator core, and an outer shell surrounding the insulator core. The outer shell has a threaded section for mounting the spark plug in a combustion engine and a splined section for installation of the spark plug. The splined section includes at least one spline having an outer surface and a corresponding castellation recessed from the outer surface.

Abstract: In front of a reflector, a polarizing beam splitter section for transmitting therethrough one of P- and S-polarized light components of light from a light-emitting body and reflecting the other, and a half-wave optical phase plate covering half the area of an aperture portion of the reflector are disposed, whereby the number of times light passes through an optical phase plate used for converting the light from a light source section into polarized light is reduced, thus decreasing loss in light quantity in the optical phase plate. An S-polarized light component reflected by a polarizing beam splitter 3 toward a reflector 2 is converted into a P-polarized light component so as to be made incident on the polarizing beam splitter 3 again, whereby this light component can also be transmitted through the polarizing beam splitter 3 so as to be made incident on liquid crystal display panels 23B, 23G, and 23R.

Abstract: In an organic EL display device, an organic EL multilayer structure is disposed in a gastight space defined between a substrate and a shield member and filled with an inert gas. The organic EL multilayer structure includes organic materials having a Tg of at most 140.degree. C. The shield member is a continuous member free of a filling port. The shield member is joined to the substrate with a UV-curing epoxy resin adhesive of the cationic curing type. The inert gas in the space has a water content of at most 100 ppm. The steps of forming layers on substrates to form organic EL multilayer structures and the steps of adhesively joining shield members to the substrates are carried out in inert gas atmospheres.

Abstract: A capsule (20) having a glass wall (21) and containing mercury is positioned in a radiation-transmitting discharge vessel, after which the discharge vessel is provided with a rare gas and closed, means for maintaining an electric discharge are arranged in or adjacent the discharge vessel. The capsule is opened by fusion after the discharge vessel has been closed by heating the capsule by irradiation (42) with a parallel beam of radiation through the wall of the discharge vessel. The wall of the capsule has for this radiation an absorption coefficient which amounts at least ten times that of the wall portion of the discharge vessel.

Abstract: A spark plug includes a center electrode, an insulator provided outside the center electrode, a metallic shell provided outside the insulator, a ground electrode disposed to oppose the center electrode, and a spark discharge portion fixed on at least one of the center electrode and the ground electrode for defining a spark discharge gap. The spark discharge portion of the spark plug is formed of a metallic material containing Ir as a main component, and a region where the Vickers hardness is not greater than Hv 400 extends from the surface of the spark discharge portion to a depth of 0.05 mm or more. The average value of d.sub.min /d.sub.max ratios of grains on an arbitrary cross-section is preferably equal to or greater than 0.7 where d.sub.min represents the minimum diameter of each grain on the cross-section and d.sub.max represents the maximum diameter of the grain. The ratio of hS/hB is preferably not greater than 0.