Recirculating Systems Patents (Class 313/12)
  • Patent number: 10454074
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes: an organic light emitting display panel including a light emitting surface and a non-light emitting surface opposite the light emitting surface; a heat radiation layer on the non-light emitting surface and having an emissivity equal to or greater than about 0.8 and less than about 1; and a protective member spaced from the heat radiation layer such that an air layer is between the protective member and the heat radiation layer. The protective member includes a base layer and a heat absorbing layer having an emissivity greater than an emissivity of the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuseok Lee, Sunggi Kim, Jinmin Chung, Jungho Hwang
  • Patent number: 10244650
    Abstract: A pressure compensated subsea electrical system and a pressure compensated subsea electrical system which has a housing filled with a dielectric liquid. The housing has a first housing portion and a second housing portion in pressure communication with each other. The first housing portion includes a transformer, and the second housing portion includes a power converter. The pressure compensated subsea electrical system includes a pressure compensator arranged to compensate pressure inside the housing. The pressure compensator is enabled to compensate pressure in both the first housing portion and the second housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tor Laneryd, Thomas Gradinger, Heinz Lendenmann, Esa Virtanen, Thomas Wagner, Timo Koivuluoma
  • Patent number: 10138121
    Abstract: Method for the irreversible dosage of hydrogen in LED light bulbs by means of heating an irreversible hydrogen dispenser containing at least an active material for hydrogen release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAES GETTERS, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Calogero Sciascia, Alessio Corazza
  • Patent number: 9871957
    Abstract: An environment recognition unit (20a) includes a frame (201), cameras (202) arranged on a front side in the frame (201), a camera control circuit (207) disposed on a back side in the frame (201), a pair of LRFs (205) arranged laterally to the frame (201). The frame (201) includes a first duct (208) provided adjacent to the camera control circuit (207), and a second duct (210) provided adjacent to the cameras (202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Ryuma Ujino, Minami Asatani
  • Patent number: 9664371
    Abstract: A lamp head assembly is provided. The lamp head assembly includes a thermally conductive block, an inlet cooling fluid pipe coupled to the thermally conductive block such that a cooling fluid is configured to pass from the inlet cooling fluid pipe to the thermally conductive block, and a metal heat exchanger secured to the thermally conductive block. The metal heat exchanger defines a plurality of internal channels to distribute cooling fluid provided by the inlet cooling fluid pipe. The metal heat exchanger is secured to the thermally conductive block such that the cooling fluid is configured to pass from the thermally conductive block to the plurality of internal channels defined by the metal heat exchanger. The lamp head assembly also includes a plurality of light producing elements secured to the metal heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Heraeus Noblelight America LLC
    Inventors: David Sprankle, Ruben Manikkam
  • Patent number: 9441826
    Abstract: There is disclosed a lighting apparatus including t light emitting unit including a light emitting part having a LED, a base part in which the light emitting part is mounted, a plurality of heat pipes fixed to the base part, and a plurality of heat radiation plates comprising a plurality of insertion holes to pass the plurality of the heat pipes there through and a flow hole for flowing external air there through, respectively, wherein a plurality of auxiliary pin arrays comprising a plurality of auxiliary pins inclined a preset angle are provided in each of the heat radiation plates, and a turbulence generation unit for generating turbulence flow when external air is flowing is provided in the auxiliary pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeuk Chang, Jeongseok Ha, Jaepyo Hong
  • Publication number: 20140312760
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) light source, a method of manufacturing an LED light source, and a method of cooling an LED source. The LED light source comprises: an LED source; and an enclosure surrounding the LED source; wherein a gas or gas mixture is filled within the enclosure such that the gas or gas mixture acts as a medium for heat transfer away from the LED source; and wherein the gas or gas mixture is chosen to provide an increased heat transfer from the LED source compared to air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: NOVALITE TECHNOLOGY PTE LTD
    Inventor: Anthony Augustine
  • Patent number: 8847472
    Abstract: A method of making a light-emitting diode (LED) bulb and an LED bulb comprising a base, a shell connected to the base forming an enclosed volume. A thermally conductive liquid is held within the enclosed volume. A laminate support structure connected to the base and a plurality of flange portions formed in the laminate support structure. A plurality of LEDs are attached to the plurality of flange portions and arranged in a radial array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Switch Bulb Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David Titzler, Glenn Wheelock, Ronan Le Toquin, David Horn
  • Publication number: 20140265810
    Abstract: A solid-state light source with light emitting diodes embedded in thermally conductive luminescent elements is cooled by immersion cooling via a phase change material (liquid or pool boiling). The thermally conductive translucent luminescent elements are arranged to confine the boiling to an inner tube with the condensed liquid on the output faces so as to provide a flicker free 360 degree output light source. At least one face of each LED is exposed directly to the fluid and the LED is unconstrained so as to provide optical emission with little to no wavelength shift as a function of drive current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: William R. Livesay, Scott M. Zimmerman, Richard L. Ross, Eduardo DeAnda
  • Patent number: 8618501
    Abstract: Provided is an ion generating device for an air-conditioner duct, which can be easily attached to the inside of an existing air conditioner duct and can ensure a desired ion generation quantity. The ion generating elements of the sub-units (3, 4, 5) of the ion generating device are connected to the drive circuit of the ion generating device main unit (2), and are driven by the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Mamiya, Masato Urushisaki, Hiroaki Kiyohara
  • Patent number: 8592788
    Abstract: A plasma pinch extreme ultraviolet source using lithium vapor requires surrounding surfaces that are heated or cooled in order to evaporate the desired quantity of lithium, typically setting the vapor pressure of lithium at a pressure of a few torr. Two distinct surfaces within the whole set are designated as the electrodes that emit and receive the high current of the plasma pinch. A method is described whereby the temperature of these designated electrode surfaces is manipulated in order to condense lithium and provide a liquid metal protective layer to absorb both plasma and extreme ultraviolet heat thereby controlling electrode erosion. A further method is described that provides a protective flow of liquid lithium exactly on the axis of the pair of discharge electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Plex LLC
    Inventor: Malcolm W. McGeoch
  • Patent number: 8569939
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a luminous device with a heat pipe formed therein and a heat pipe lead for a luminous device. The present invention provides a luminous device including a heat pipe lead or electrode and a luminous chip mounted onto the heat pipe lead or electrode. The luminous device of the present invention further comprises a heat dissipation member, such as a heat radiating plate or thermoelectric device, installed at an end of the heat pipe lead or electrode. Therefore, through the heat pipe lead or electrode of the present invention, a higher heat dissipation effect greater can be obtained as compared with the conventional one. As a result, it is possible to reduce thermal stress on a luminous device and to prevent the occurrence of a phenomenon in which external impurities penetrate into the luminous device. In addition, the cooling efficiency and the light-emitting efficiency of a luminous chip can be maximized by further disposing a heat dissipation member outside the heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Hyung Kim, Moon-Whan Shin, Woong-Joon Hwang, Chung-Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20130249374
    Abstract: Heat management devices and structures are disclosed that can be used in lamps having solid state light sources such as one or more LEDs. Some lamp embodiments comprise one or more phase change radiators that utilize the latent heat of fluids to circulate and draw heat away from the LEDs and radiate the heat into the ambient, allowing for the LEDs to operate at a lower temperature. Some phase change radiators according to the present invention can comprise a main radiator body and multiple radiator coolant loops mounted to the body. The present invention relies on the circulation of heated fluid through the radiator body to radiate heat from the LEDs. The heated liquid moves away from the LEDs and is circulated back to thermal contact with the LEDs thought the coolant loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventor: Hattie Blackwell
  • Patent number: 8319406
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light device comprising a light source (2), a ventilation unit (3) and a sealed transparent casing (4) sealing the inside (5) of the casing from the outside of the casing (4). The light source (2) and the ventilation unit (3) are located within the casing (4) and the ventilation unit (3) is adapted for generating a gas flow (6, 7) for transporting heat generated by the light source (2) to an inner surface (8) of the casing (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Harold Josef Gunther Radermacher
  • Publication number: 20120286640
    Abstract: A solid state lighting (SSL) device with a solid state emitter (SSE) being partially exposed in a channel loop, and methods of making and using such SSLs. The SSE can have thermally conductive projections such as fins, posts, or other structures configured to transfer heat into a fluid medium, such as a liquid coolant in the channel loop. The channel loop can include an upward channel in which the SSE is exposed to warm the coolant in the upward channel, and a downward channel through which coolant moves after being cooled by a cooling structure. The coolant in the channel loop can naturally circulate due to the heat from the SSE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Scott E. Sills, Anton J. de Villiers
  • Patent number: 8217557
    Abstract: A solid state lighting (SSL) device with a solid state emitter (SSE) being partially exposed in a channel loop, and methods of making and using such SSLs. The SSE can have thermally conductive projections such as fins, posts, or other structures configured to transfer heat into a fluid medium, such as a liquid coolant in the channel loop. The channel loop can include an upward channel in which the SSE is exposed to warm the coolant in the upward channel, and a downward channel through which coolant moves after being cooled by a cooling structure. The coolant in the channel loop can naturally circulate due to the heat from the SSE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott E. Sills, Anton J. de Villiers
  • Publication number: 20120113639
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to light emitting diode (LED) devices and methods for fabricating the same. An LED device includes a housing adapted to combine a heat sink with a vapor chamber to form an enclosed space interposed therebetween. The LED device includes light emitting diode modules attached to the housing adjacent to the vapor chamber. The vapor chamber is adapted to uniformly disperse heat generated from the LED modules within the enclosed space to form a uniform temperature field on the heat sink to thereby provide effective heat dissipation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Wen Lee, Hsueh-Hung Fu, Jin-Hua Wang, Chien-Liang Yeh
  • Publication number: 20120049715
    Abstract: A solid state lighting (SSL) device with a solid state emitter (SSE) being partially exposed in a channel loop, and methods of making and using such SSLs. The SSE can have thermally conductive projections such as fins, posts, or other structures configured to transfer heat into a fluid medium, such as a liquid coolant in the channel loop. The channel loop can include an upward channel in which the SSE is exposed to warm the coolant in the upward channel, and a downward channel through which coolant moves after being cooled by a cooling structure. The coolant in the channel loop can naturally circulate due to the heat from the SSE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Scott E. Sills, Anton J. de Villiers
  • Patent number: 7990030
    Abstract: A lamp assembly includes a storage tank, a lamp, a liquid inlet pipe, a liquid outlet pipe and an actuator. The storage tank contains liquid therein. The lamp includes a lighting portion and a lid located at a top of the lighting portion. A flume is defined between a top end of the lighting portion and the lid. The liquid inlet pipe connects a first end of the storage tank and a corresponding end of the flume. The liquid outlet pipe connects an opposite second end of the storage tank and a corresponding end of the flume of the lamp. The actuator drives the liquid to circulate between the storage tank and the flume of the lamp to thereby dissipate heat generated by the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Long Ku, Chin-Wen Yeh, Zhen-Neng Lin, Zhi-Jian Peng
  • Patent number: 7982376
    Abstract: Water or air is directed through a hood or double cylinder cooling device for providing cooling to one or more light bulbs used in growing plants in greenhouses, aquarium, and hydroponic applications. A water recirculation system with a reservoir and a pump may provide a flow of cooling water through tubing to the hood. The hood provides a housing and a tube which contains one or more light bulbs which can be accessed or replaced through an end of the tube which projects through the housing. The light holder includes an enclosed electric box and a plurality of curved fins which expand against the inside glass tube. Various reflector housing shapes and reflectors direct light to plants. The end cap is bolted to a split ring flange attached to the outer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Inventors: Stephen B Keen, Thomas E. Marek
  • Publication number: 20110084585
    Abstract: A lamp assembly includes a storage tank, a lamp, a liquid inlet pipe, a liquid outlet pipe and an actuator. The storage tank contains liquid therein. The lamp includes a lighting portion and a lid located at a top of the lighting portion. A flume is defined between a top end of the lighting portion and the lid. The liquid inlet pipe connects a first end of the storage tank and a corresponding end of the flume. The liquid outlet pipe connects an opposite second end of the storage tank and a corresponding end of the flume of the lamp. The actuator drives the liquid to circulate between the storage tank and the flume of the lamp to thereby dissipate heat generated by the lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicants: FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chin-Long Ku, Chin-Wen Yeh, Zhen-Neng Lin, Zhi-Jian Peng
  • Patent number: 7901110
    Abstract: A gas discharge lamp includes an arc envelope and a cooling device. Cooling passage is provided between the arc envelope and the cooling device. An airflow blocking structure is mounted rotatably to the arc envelope. The airflow blocking structure blocks airflow between the cooling device and the arc envelope except for a portion of the passage directed towards a top side of the arc envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Amol Suresh Mulay, Viktor Karoly Varga, Gary Robert Allen, Sairam Sundaram, Svetlana Selezneva, Vijaykumar Mallappa Kannure, Rocco Thomas Giordano
  • Publication number: 20110012512
    Abstract: Various system embodiments comprise a substrate of high thermal conductivity, a solid state light emitting device, an electric circuit, and an electric dielectric. The device has a die and a connection point to the die with a low thermal resistance. The connection point is in contact with the substrate. The electric circuit is electrically connected to the light emitting device, and separated from the substrate by the electrical dielectric. Various system embodiments comprise at least four color sources; and a controller configured to calculate a solution to form a target color using the color sources when the target is outside of a gamut formed by the color sources. The controller is configured to find an equivalent target color with reduced saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Garrett J. Young, Andrew Stangeland
  • Publication number: 20110006657
    Abstract: An LED illuminating device includes a housing defining a sealed boiling room, an optical module and an adiabatic member. The boiling room has a lower room and annular room surrounding the lower room. A wick structure is received in and attached to an inner side of the housing. Working fluid is received in the boiling room and saturated in a bottom portion of the wick structure located at a bottom of the lower room. The optical module is provided with a plurality of LEDs attached to the housing at a position under the bottom portion of the wick structure. The adiabatic member is received in the boiling room and attached to a middle portion of the wick structure at a top of the lower room for avoiding thermal and flow interactions between liquid in the middle portion of the wick structure and vapor in the lower room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: TAY-JIAN LIU
  • Publication number: 20100327723
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) illumination device includes a vapor chamber, a circuit board and at least one LED. At least one protrusion is formed on a surface of the vapor chamber, and a heat conducting tin layer is formed on the protrusion. The circuit board includes at least one through hole for passing the protrusion. The circuit board is formed by sequentially stacking an insulating layer and a heat conducting layer. The LEDs are installed on and contacted with the protrusions respectively, and each LED has two pins electrically connected to the circuit board. The LED device of the present invention is in a direct contact with the protrusion of the LED, such that the heat dissipated from the LED can be conducted to the vapor chamber, and then the vapor chamber carries away the heat quickly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventor: Pei-Choa WANG
  • Publication number: 20100225217
    Abstract: An LED illuminating device includes an optical section, an electrical section, and a heat dissipation section. The heat dissipation section is provided with a loop heat exchange device. The loop heat exchange device includes a hollow metal base and a plurality of metal fins extending outwardly from the metal base. A hermetical chamber is defined in the metal base. The chamber is cylindrical and has a U-shaped cross section along an axial direction of the metal base. A wick structure is attached to an inner surface of the chamber. A working fluid is saturated in the wick structure. A light source is thermally attached to the metal base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: TAY-JIAN LIU
  • Publication number: 20100141108
    Abstract: An LED illuminating device includes an optical section, an electrical section, and a heat dissipation section. The heat dissipation section is provided with a heat sink and at least one heat pipe therein. The heat sink includes a metal tube, a plurality of metal fins extending radially and outwardly from the metal tube, and a heat-absorbing plate attached to a bottom of the metal tube. A chamber is axially recessed from a top of the metal tube to the heat-absorbing plate. The heat pipe includes an evaporating section and a condensing section. The evaporating section of the heat pipe is attached to an inner surface of the heat-absorbing plate. The condensing section of the heat pipe is attached to an inner circumferential surface of the metal tube. The light source is attached to an outer surface of the heat-absorbing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicants: FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TAY-JIAN LIU, FENG TIAN
  • Publication number: 20100007258
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel for displaying images, such as a PDP. The display panel includes either a plurality of grooves constituting a plurality of flow paths aligned in a certain direction on its rear surface, or a plurality of flow paths aligned in a certain direction internally. The above-described image display device can enlarge heat radiation area in the display panel, and efficiently decrease the temperature of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro IWATA, Shinya OGASAWARA, Takayuki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090267474
    Abstract: An LED lamp includes a heat dissipation device and a plurality of LED modules. The heat dissipation device includes a heat conductive member and a fin unit. The LED modules are attached to a top surface of a first plate of the heat conductive member. The heat conductive member comprises a plurality of posts embedded in the top surface of the first plate. Peripheries of the first and second plates are in a hermetical conjunction with each other to form a chamber containing phase-changeable working fluid therein. The first plate has a plurality of receiving recessions which are depressed downwardly from the top surface thereof and respectively receive the posts. Screws are used to extend through the LED modules to threadedly engage in the posts thereby to intimately mount the LED modules on the top surface of the first plate of the heat conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicants: FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi-Yong Zhou, Qiao-Li Ding
  • Publication number: 20090256459
    Abstract: An LED illuminating device includes an optical section, an electrical section, and a heat dissipation section therebetween. The optical section includes a light source. The electrical section electrically connects with the light source. The heat dissipation section includes a mounting seat, a heat pipe and a heat sink. The heat pipe includes an evaporation section fixed on the mounting seat and thermally connecting with the light source and a condenser section. The heat sink includes a plurality of umbrella-shaped fins each including a main body perpendicular to the condenser section of the heat pipe and two flanges angling downward from two opposite edges of the main body towards the light source. A plurality of air venting holes are defined in the main body and the flanges of each fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: TAY-JIAN LIU
  • Publication number: 20090256458
    Abstract: The invention provides light-emitting diode illuminating equipment with high power and high heat-dissipation efficiency. In particular, the light-emitting diode illuminating equipment, according to the invention, is very suitable to be used as a street lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventor: Jen-Shyan Chen
  • Publication number: 20090230834
    Abstract: An LED illumination device includes an optical section at a front end thereof, an electrical section at a rear end thereof, and a heat dissipation section between the optical section and the electrical section. The optical section includes an LED electrically connecting with the electrical section, and a light output housing around the LED. The heat dissipation section includes a U-shaped heat pipe, a heat sink and a mounting seat. The heat pipe includes an evaporation section and two condensation sections extending backwardly from two opposite ends of the evaporation section, respectively. The condensation sections are inserted into the heat sink. The mounting seat bestrides on the evaporation section. The LED thermally connects with evaporation section via the mounting seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tay-Jian Liu
  • Patent number: 7545087
    Abstract: To devise a small light source device in which breaking of the bulb of the light source lamp can be suppressed and in which breaking of the bulb will not damage the window component, a light source lamp supported in a housing by only one of two hermetically sealed tubes at opposite ends of an arc tube, a cooling rib is mounted on a lead pin in the one of the sealed tubes that faces toward the window component and has a larger dimension in the radial direction than the maximum diameter of the opening edge of the light exit opening in the housing. The cooling rib serves to block bulb fragments and should it contact the peripheral edge area of the light exit opening with its edge that faces the window component, due to its size, neither the lead pin nor the cooling rib will contact the window component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuoki Miyasu, Takehiko Iguchi, Shunichi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 6917143
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus comprises an LED-mounted substrate and an exhauster. The substrate has a flat area as well as one or more raised areas of trapezoidal cross section which each form a passage thereunder. LEDs are mounted on the raised areas. When the LED-mounted substrate is installed on a wall, the passages are enclosed by the wall. The exhauster removes the heat from the LEDs by drawing out the air going through inside the passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsui, Hideo Nagai, Tetsushi Tamura, Kenzo Hatada
  • Patent number: 6770960
    Abstract: A semiconductor crystal layer formed by epitaxial growth on a seed crystal substrate is embedded in an insulating material in the condition where the seed crystal substrate is removed, electrodes are provided respectively on a first surface of the semiconductor crystal layer and a second surface of the semiconductor layer opposite to the first surface, and lead-out electrodes connected to the electrodes are led out to the same surface side of the insulating material. The semiconductor crystal layer functions as a semiconductor light-emitting device or a semiconductor electronic device. The insulating material is, for example, a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6759794
    Abstract: A high intensity discharge lamp assembly (10) has improved thermal venting. The discharge light source (12) is housed within a reflector body (20). Recesses (40) are circumferentially spaced around an open end (28) of the reflector body. A containment structure (50, 50′, 50″) provides a structure that serves the containment function without interfering with the thermal venting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Carolyn Wilson, Daniel Polis, Matthew A. Bugenske
  • Patent number: 6670616
    Abstract: Irradiation lamps of an ultraviolet-light irradiation apparatus are uniformly cooled to achieve an appropriate temperature of the walls of the lamps and the ultraviolet light emitted from the lamps is efficiently reflected toward an object to be irradiated so that the ultraviolet light is efficiently irradiated onto the object to be irradiated. A plurality of low-pressure mercury lamps are arranged in parallel. A reflective mirror is arranged above the low-pressure mercury lamps so as to reflect the ultraviolet light emitted by the low-pressure mercury lamps. An exhaust passage defined by the reflective mirror suctions air around the low-pressure mercury lamps and exhausts the suctioned air to outside. The reflective mirror has a plurality of openings arranged along a longitudinal direction of the low-pressure mercury lamps, and a part of the openings has a size different from a size of other parts of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Limited
    Inventor: Kenji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 6614103
    Abstract: There is provided a flexible circuit module, including at least one rigid carrier, at least one solid state device mounted over a first side of the at least one rigid carrier, a flexible base supporting a second side of the at least one rigid carrier, a conductive interconnect pattern on the flexible base, and a plurality of feed through electrodes extending from the first side to the second side of the at least one rigid carrier and electrically connecting the conductive interconnect pattern with the at least one of a plurality of the solid state devices. The solid state devices may be LED chips to form an LED array module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kevin Matthew Durocher, Ernest Wayne Balch, Vikram B. Krishnamurthy, Richard Joseph Saia, Herbert Stanley Cole, Ronald Frank Kolc
  • Patent number: 6265820
    Abstract: A heat removal system for use in an organic light emitting diode displays is disclosed. The heat removal assembly includes a heat dissipating assembly for dissipating heat from the organic light emitting device, a heat transfer assembly for transferring heat from the top organic light emitting device to the heat dissipating assembly and a cooling assembly for cooling the organic light emitting display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: eMAGIN Corporation
    Inventors: Amalkumar P. Ghosh, Walter V. Johnstone, Olivier F. Prache, Steven M. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 5504666
    Abstract: A light bulb cooling jacket is adapted to confine a light bulb in a space through which cooling liquid, such as water, may be circulated. The light bulb cooling jacket includes an shell having a rim, the rim defining an opening in the shell. A stopper fits in the opening in the shell and seals against the rim of the shell. The stopper has an aperture in it. The aperture is adapted to receive a portion of a light bulb, which is held and sealed in place in the aperture. The means employed to hold the bulb in place is adapted to engage a generally cylindrical portion of the light bulb, such as the neck of a standard 1000 W bulb. An important characteristic of the present invention that follows from this construction is that the light bulb cooling jacket may be used with a variety of standard high intensity light bulbs. Ports are provided in the stopper for introducing and withdrawing cooling liquid from the space enclosed by the shell and the stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: 475231 B.C. Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter Carmichael
  • Patent number: 5355054
    Abstract: An electrodeless low-pressure discharge lamp having a sealed discharge vessel filled with a metal and a rare gas and having a cavity. An inductive device is disposed in the cavity for generating a high-frequency electric field inside the discharge vessel during lamp operation. The inductive device includes a winding of metal wire surrounding a cylindrical core of magnetizable material. A cooling body is in contact with the cylindrical core for removing heat generated in the core during lamp operation. The cooling body is closed in a gastight manner and includes a condenser, an evaporator, a liquid, and a capillary structure (T, U) which comprises a winding (U) of gauze surrounding a vapor channel (V) for transporting the liquid from the condenser to the evaporator. The capillary structure has a central partition wall (T), which divides the vapor channel in two, and is connected along two opposing longitudinal sides thereof to the gauze winding (U).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Dirk F.W. Van Lierop, Herman H.M. Van der Aa, Nico H.J. Van de Peppel
  • Patent number: 5179312
    Abstract: Device for projecting television pictures by means of an assembly of three television picture tubes with associated lens systems arranged in each other's proximity, including an integrated cooling system. The integrated cooling system has a liquid circuit comprising a first duct extending below the television picture tubes, which duct is in direct communication via passages with the lower ends of the flow spaces, and a second duct extending above the television picture tubes, which duct is in direct communication via passages with the upper ends of the flow spaces. The first and the second duct are connected via at least one connection duct which extends along an end the assembly constituted by the three television picture tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Leendert Vriens, Gerrit B. Gerritsen
  • Patent number: 5168302
    Abstract: A light permeating apparatus preferably employable for an exposing equipment, a drying equipment, a printing equipment for forming a pattern on a printed circuit board is disclosed. The apparatus includes an opposing pair of light permeable plates, a casing fixedly secured to the light permeable plates, a filter disposed in the inclined state in the flat space defined between the light permeable plates to divide the interior of the flat space into two parts, a liquid supply tube attached to the fore end of the casing and liquid discharge tubes attached to the rear end of the casing. The opposite sides and the rear side of the casing are designed in the flow passage-shaped configuration, and a plurality of holes are formed on the inner wall of each of the flow passages on the opposite sides and the rear side of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: ORC Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Watanuki
  • Patent number: 5087853
    Abstract: A magnetron having an anode cylinder, cooling fins fixed thereto, permanent magnets vertically superposed on the anode cylinder and a yoke, serving as a magnetic path, for surrounding these components. The cooling fins extend on the windward direction to facilitate a discharge of the air in the orthogonal direction to the air blowing direction by an arrangement such that an outer width of the fins and a width of the yoke or the former is equalized to a diameter of the anode cylinder. Also included are a dielectric heater having a heating space for accommodating materials for heating and a space for accommodating the magnetron, an inverter power supply and a cooling air blower. The cooling air is discharged to the heating space and/or to the outside via a vent hole formed in a partition wall after impinging on the anode cylinder while cooling the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokatsu Oguro, Mamoru Tsuzurahara, Hironobu Yamada
  • Patent number: 5036242
    Abstract: A lamp cooling system is provided in which a liquid-cooled lamp is connected to a flow circuit conduit for cooling liquid circulating through the lamp. A liquid/air heat exchanger is positioned in the flow circuit conduit to cool liquid flowing in the flow circuit conduit by heat exchange with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Atlas Electric Devices Company
    Inventors: James V. Huber, Bhakti S. Patel, Jacob Tikhtman
  • Patent number: 4994705
    Abstract: A water-cooled low pressure gas or mercury vapor lamp which utilizes a cooling system to keep the lamp cool in the area where useful radiation is emitted. This is accomplished by means of a cooling chamber directly adjacent to the gas or mercury vapor discharge chamber. A cooling fluid is injected into the cooling chamber through a cooling inlet and exits the cooling chamber through a cooling outlet after traveling the cooling chamber's entire length. The cooling fluid removes the heat generated by the radiation and allows the useful emission to be optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Jacques F. Linder, Steven H. Boland
  • Patent number: 4937490
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing high intensity radiation has electrodes positioned within an elongated cylindrical arc chamber across which an arc discharge can be established. Liquid is injected into the arc chamber to produce a vortex motion therein to form a cylindrical liquid wall adjacent to the chamber, which constricts the arc by cooling an outer periphery thereof. Gas is injected into the arc chamber to produce a vortex motion adjacent the cylindrical liquid wall. An exhaust structure actively exhausts the liquid and gas from the arc chamber to reduce turbulence and restriction of fluid. This permits attainment of higher flux densities in the arc, and/or extension of electrode life. Preferably, the liquid and gas are exhausted actively by means of an ejector pump which ejects pressurized liquid into the gas and liquid leaving the arc chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Vortek Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: David M. Camm, Arne Kjorvel, Anthony J. Housden, Nicholas P. Halpin, Dean A. Parfeniuk, Andy J. Frenz
  • Patent number: 4775817
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display tube which is cooled by a flow of a translucent cooling liquid through a sealed space adjacent the display window, stimulated by a fluid-driven pump having two chambers, a drive chamber driven by a remotely located active electric motor driven pump, and a pump chamber responsive to the drive chamber and connected to the sealed space. Fields generated by the motor of the electric pump do not interfere with the operation of the display tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Arne L. Duwaer, Bernardus J. Brugman
  • Patent number: 4767961
    Abstract: An X-ray generator system comprising a pressurized fluid source disposed for directing dielectric coolant fluid through a housing wherein an X-ray source may be electrically connected for generating X-rays, the system including a venturi device having a restricted passage through which the fluid flows and which is disposed in communication with portions of the housing where gas bubbles may accumulate in the fluid. Thus, the fluid flowing through the restricted passage of the venturi device produces a reduction in pressure which draws fluid from said portions of the housing so that any gas bubbles accumulated therein may be purged from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: The Machlett Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Koller, John D. Weaver, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4734613
    Abstract: An efficiently cooled display tube is obtained by pumping a low viscosity liquid having a high heat capacity through a cooling space less than 1 mm. thick on the outside of the display window. A chamber is smoothly connected to the inlet aperture of the cooling space to assure a laminar flow, eliminating swirls which could give rise to refractive patterns in the display picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Gerritt B. Gerritsen, Willem M. Van Alphen