Patents by Inventor Ingrid Snijkers-Hendrickyx

Ingrid Snijkers-Hendrickyx has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp
    Publication number: 20060017366
    Abstract: The low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp has a light-transmitting discharge vessel (10), enclosing a discharge space (13) provided with mercury and a rare gas and comprising means for maintaining a discharge in the discharge space. At least a part of the discharge vessel is provided with a luminescent layer (17) of a luminescent material. At least an outer portion of the discharge vessel is provided with a coating (3). According to the invention, the coating comprises a pigment which absorbs part of the visible light and/or the coating comprises reflecting particles. The coating comprises a network obtainable through conversion of an organically modified silane by means of a sol-gel process. The organically modified silane is selected from the group formed by compounds of the structural formula RISi(ORII)3, wherein RI is an alkyl group or an aryl group and RII is an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Rene Hendriks, Ingrid Snijkers-Hendrickyx, Remy Broersma, Hendrik-Jan Dreuning