Patents by Inventor Luana E. Lorio

Luana E. Lorio 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).

  • Hermetical lamp sealing techniques and lamp having uniquely sealed components
    Patent number: 7839089
    Abstract: A system and method for hermetically sealing a lamp. Certain embodiments of the lamp have an arc envelope having an open end and, also, an end structure diffusion bonded to the arc envelope at the open end. The end structure also has a dosing passageway extending into the arc envelope. In other embodiments, a lighting device is provided with an end structure adapted to close an open end of an arc envelope, and a dosing tube diffusion bonded to the end structure. Another embodiment of the lighting device has an arc envelope and an end structure diffusion bonded to an open end of the arc envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bernard P. Bewlay, James A. Brewer, Sylvain S. Coulombe, Sylvia M. DeCarr, Luana E. Lorio, Anteneh Kebbede, Timothy J. Sommerer, James S. Vartuli