Plural Patents (Class 313/487)
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Patent number: 8723403Abstract: A light assembly with light-mixing function includes a case having an assembling room defined therein and an assembling opening at a top thereof, the assembling opening communicating with the assembling room, a light-mixing sheet sealing the assembling opening of the case, the light-mixing sheet having at least one array set defined thereon, the array set having a plurality of fillisters uniformly defined on the light-mixing sheet, a volume of mixed chemical compound is entered into each fillister, at least one light source electrically set on a bottom of the assembling room. Under this arrangement, when the light assembly with light-mixing function is turned on, a plurality of light beams from the light source is caged in the mixed chemical compounds of the fillisters; and the mixed chemical compound shifts a wavelength of each of the light beams which are caged in the mixed chemical compounds.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: National Central UniversityInventors: Ching-Cherng Sun, Yu-Yu Chang, Chih-Yu Chiu
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Patent number: 8704437Abstract: A phosphor mixture for a discharge lamp, which includes a first phosphor compound and a second phosphor compound, wherein the first phosphor compound has an emission spectrum in the green and/or yellow spectral range and absorbs the UV radiation emitted by an Hg source and the radiation in the blue spectral range emitted by the Hg source, characterized in that the first phosphor compound of the phosphor mixture comprises (Ba,Sr,Ca)2SiO4:Eu and/or (Srl-x-yBaxCay)Si2O2N2:Eu(SrSiON), as a constituent, and the second phosphor compound of the phosphor mixture comprises Y2O3:Eu, as a constituent; and the phosphor mixture has a color temperature of less than 2500 K.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Frank Jermann, Armin Konrad, Martin Zachau
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Patent number: 8703019Abstract: A phosphor which emits light having high brightness, serves as an excellent orange or red phosphor whose light brightness is less decreased when exposed to an excitation source contains a crystal phase having the chemical composition expressed by the general formula [1]: (1?a?b)(Ln?pMII?1?pMIII?MIV?N3).a(MIV?(3n+2)/4NnO).b(AMIV?2N3)??[1] wherein Ln? represents a metal element selected from the group consisting of lanthanoids, Mn, and Ti; MnII? represents a divalent metal element except the Ln? element; MIII? represents a trivalent metal element; MIV? represents a tetravalent metal element; A represents a metal element selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, and K; 0<p?0.2; 0?a, 0?b, a+b>0, 0?n, and 0.002?(3n+2)a/4?0.9.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignees: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Independent Administrative Institution National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Naoto Hirosaki, Takatoshi Seto, Naoto Kijima
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Patent number: 8704438Abstract: Disclosed herein are lamps comprising a radiation source and a phosphor blend configured for conversion of radiation, the phosphor blend including at least two different rare earth phosphors, wherein the phosphor blend comprises at least one multimodal rare earth phosphor. Disclosed advantages may include greater lumen output than an identical lamp in which the phosphor blend, at the same loading, does not comprise at least one multimodal rare earth phosphor.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Erwin Cohen, William Winder Beers, Fangming Du
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Publication number: 20140084779Abstract: Improved recyclability of phosphors in fluorescent lamps is provided. A fluorescent lamp is constructed with phosphor particles having a specific surface area less than a certain predetermined value. During recycling, these phosphor particles are more readily separated from the basing cement used in such fluorescent lamp. A method is also provided by which such phosphors are more readily separated from the basing cement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jon Bennett JANSMA, David James MONK
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Patent number: 8663502Abstract: A red-emitting phosphor comprises a nitride-based composition represented by the chemical formula M(x/v)M?2Si5-xAlxN8:RE, wherein: M is at least one monovalent, divalent or trivalent metal with valence v; M? is at least one of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Zn; and RE is at least one of Eu, Ce, Tb, Pr, and Mn; wherein x satisfies 0.1?x<0.4, and wherein the phosphor has the general crystalline structure M?2Si5N8:RE, Al substitutes for Si within the crystalline structure, and M is located substantially at interstitial sites. Furthermore, the phosphor is configured such that 1,000 hours of aging at 85° C. and 85% humidity results in a deviation in chromaticity coordinates CIE ?x and ?y of less than about 0.03. Furthermore, the phosphor absorbs radiation in the UV and blue and emits light with a photoluminescence peak wavelength within the range from about 620 to 650 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Intematix CorporationInventors: Dejie Tao, Yi-Qun Li
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Patent number: 8663501Abstract: Cerium, gadolinium and terbium doped aluminum phosphates of formula I may be used in fluorescent lamps Al1-x-y-z-a-b-c-d-eTbxCeyGdzLuaScbIncLadGaePO4??I wherein x is greater than or equal to about 0.001 and less than or equal to about 0.3; y is greater than or equal to about 0.001 and less than or equal to about 0.3; z is greater than or equal to about 0.01 and less than or equal to about 0.3; a is greater than or equal to about 0.01 and less than or equal to about 0.1; b is greater than or equal to about 0.01 and less than or equal to about 0.1; c is greater than or equal to about 0.01 and less than or equal to about 0.1. d is greater than or equal to about 0.01 and less than or equal to about 0.1; and e is greater than or equal to about 0.01 and less than or equal to about 0.1.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alok Mani Srivastava, Holly Ann Comanzo, Gopi Chandran Ramachandran, Samuel Joseph Camardello, Swarnagowri Addepalli, Florencio Garcia
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Patent number: 8652359Abstract: The embodiment provides a red light-emitting fluorescent substance represented by the following formula (1): (M1-xECx)aM1bAlOcNd??(1). In the formula (1), M is an element selected from the group consisting of IA group elements, IIA group elements, IIIA group elements, IIIB group elements, rare earth elements and IVA group elements; EC is an element selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce, Mn, Tb, Yb, Dy, Sm, Tm, Pr, Nd, Pm, Ho, Er, Cr, Sn, Cu, Zn, As, Ag, Cd, Sb, Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi and Fe; M1 is different from M and is selected from the group consisting of tetravalent elements; and x, a, b, c and d are numbers satisfying the conditions of 0<x<0.2, 0.63<a<0.80, 2.1<b<2.63, 0<c?0.24 and 4<d<5, respectively. This substance emits luminescence having a peak in the wavelength range of 620 to 670 nm when excited by light of 250 to 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Aoi Okada, Yumi Fukuda, Naotoshi Matsuda, Iwao Mitsuishi, Shinya Nunoue
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Patent number: 8636921Abstract: Disclosed is a phosphor having a formula of M3-2xM?x(M?1-y-zPryGdz)(PO4)2. M is Li, Na, K, or combinations thereof. M? is Ca, Sr, Ba, Mg, Zn, or combinations thereof. M? is Sc, Y, La, Lu, Al, Ga, In, or combinations thereof. 0?x?1, 0<y?0.15, 0<z?0.7. The phosphor can be collocated with an excitation light source to construct a UV light-emitting device, wherein the excitation light source emits light with a wavelength of 140 nm to 240 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yi-Chen Chiu, Yao-Tsung Yeh, Shyue-Ming Jang, Chien-Hao Huang, Teng-Ming Chen, Kang-Ling Shih, Yen-Ying Kung
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Patent number: 8624479Abstract: Provided is a high-efficiency plasma display panel having short decay time and high luminance and color purity. The plasma display panel includes a green phosphor layer emitting visible light when excited with vacuum ultraviolet rays, in which the green phosphor layer is formed of a green phosphor containing 30% by weight or more and 60% by weight or less of a phosphor represented by a general formula: dZnO.(2?d)MnO.eSiO2 (1.80?d?1.90, 1.00?e?1.02) and one of a phosphor represented by a general formula: aYO3/2.(3?a)CeO3/2.bAlO3/2.cGaO3/2.fWO3 (2.80?a?2.99, 3.00?b?5.00, 0?c?2.00, 0.003?f?0.020, where 4.00?b+c?5.00) and a phosphor represented by a general formula: aYO3/2.(3?a)CeO3/2.bAlO3/2.cGaO3/2.gK2WO4 (2.80?a?2.99, 3.00?b?5.00, 0?c?2.00, 0.003?g?0.015, where 4.00?b+c?5.00).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Kojiro Okuyama
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Patent number: 8541948Abstract: An operating device for operating at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp which has a first and a second electrode coil may include a unit for providing a variable that is correlated with the Hg vapor pressure in the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp comprises at least one unit for capturing emission spectra of at least specifiable spectral ranges, wherein the unit for capturing emission spectra may include at least one light receiving unit which is arranged in the beam path of the at least one Hg low-pressure discharge lamp.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Osram Gesellschaft mit Beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Armin Konrad, Roger Hunt, Martin Zachau, Ralph Hoeck
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Publication number: 20130234583Abstract: Described are methods and apparatus for providing fluorescent lamps having a two-layer phosphor coating that includes a base coating and a top coating that economically provides a high color rendering index (CRI) of at least 87 with improved brightness. In an embodiment, a low-pressure discharge lamp includes a light transmissive envelope having a basecoat phosphor layer disposed on an inner surface, wherein the basecoat phosphor layer includes less than ten percent weight of a rare earth phosphor. Also included is a topcoat phosphor layer on a surface of the base coat phosphor layer that includes a blend of at least red, green, green-blue and blue emitting rare earth phosphors, and a fill gas composition within the light transmissive envelope.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Fangming DU, Heidi M. ANDERSON, William Erwin COHEN, Stephen Lloyd KILLION, Adam Jason BURNS
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Patent number: 8531098Abstract: A phosphor blend suitable for use in a fluorescent lamp for emitting white light is disclosed. The phosphor blend includes a first phosphor, a second phosphor and a third phosphor. The first phosphor is selected from a europium doped barium magnesium aluminate, a europium doped strontium aluminate, and a combination thereof; and the second phosphor has formula Y2O3:Eu3+. The third phosphor is selected from a phosphor of formula I: (A1-xMnx)E4O7, a phosphor of formula II: (L1-y-zMyMnz)2P2O7, and a combination thereof, where 0<x?0.10, 0<y?0.20, 0<z?0.10; A is Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Mg, or a combination thereof; E is Ga, Al, In, or a combination thereof; L is Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Mg, Na, or a combination thereof; and M is at least one of Sn, and Ce. A fluorescent lamp including such phosphor blend is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alok Mani Srivastava, Holly Ann Comanzo, Samuel Joseph Camardello
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Publication number: 20130200775Abstract: Provided is a high-efficiency plasma display panel having short decay time and high luminance and color purity. The plasma display panel includes a green phosphor layer emitting visible light when excited with vacuum ultraviolet rays, in which the green phosphor layer is formed of a green phosphor containing 30% by weight or more and 60% by weight or less of a phosphor represented by a general formula: dZnO.(2?d)MnO.eSiO2 (1.80?d?1.90, 1.00?e?1.02) and one of a phosphor represented by a general formula: aYO3/2.(3?a)CeO3/2.bAlO3/2.cGaO3/2.fWO3 (2.80?a?2.99, 3.00?b?5.00, 0?c?2.00, 0.003?f?0.020, where 4.00?b+c?5.00) and a phosphor represented by a general formula: aYO3/2.(3?a)CeO3/2.bAlO3/2.cGaO3/2.gK2WO4 (2.80?a?2.99, 3.00?b?5.00, 0?c?2.00, 0.003?g?0.015, where 4.00?b+c?5.00).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: PANASONIC CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20130193835Abstract: This disclosure features fluorescent lamps that include a phosphor layer including at least one phosphor, which in the past has not been commercially usable in lamps or in some cases suffers from performance problems such as poor brightness. These problems of the phosphors were caused, for example, by mercury ion bombardment or exposure to 185 nm radiation from the discharge. These problems are expected to be avoided by coating particles of one or more of the phosphors, such as using atomic layer deposition in which the coating is not more than 500 nm in thickness. Examples of phosphors that can be coated are yttrium vanadate activated with europium or yttrium vanadate phosphate activated with europium. The coating can be selected from the group consisting of alumina, yttria, lanthanum oxide, magnesium aluminate spinel, magnesium oxide and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: William Erwin COHEN, William BEERS, Alok SRIVASTAVA, Laszlo BALAZS, Istvan DEME
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Patent number: 8486299Abstract: The invention provides phosphors composed of Eu(1-x-w)MaxMbwMgMc10O17, wherein Ma is Yb, Sn, Ce, Tb, Dy, or combinations thereof, and 0<x<0.5, Mb is Ca, Sr, Ba, or combinations thereof, and 0?w?0.5, and Mc is Al, Ga, Sc, In, or combinations thereof. The blue phosphors emit blue light under the excitation of ultraviolet light or blue light, and the phosphors may be further collocated with different colored phosphors to provide a white light illumination device. The blue phosphors of the invention can efficiently utilize light in solar cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Tien-Heng Huang, Fang-Ching Chang, Yao-Tsung Yeh, Shian-Jy Wang
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Patent number: 8487523Abstract: A reduced wattage gas discharge lamp and method of making same. The gas discharge lamp includes a light transmissive envelope with an inner surface, having a light scattering reflective layer disposed thereon. A phosphor layer is coated on an inner surface of the light scattering reflective layer. A discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture is retained inside the light-transmissive envelope. The discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture includes at least 88% argon, by volume, at a low pressure. An electrode is located within the light-transmissive envelope. The electrode is capable of providing an electric discharge to trigger a reaction within the light-transmissive envelope to cause the lamp to emit light. The remainder of the discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture is substantially neon, at a low pressure. The low pressure is about 3.6 Torr.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.Inventors: Brian D. Jones, Craig Boyce
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Patent number: 8475682Abstract: To provide a phosphor for manufacturing an one chip type LED illumination, etc, by combining a near ultraviolet/ultraviolet LED and a blue LED, and having an excellent emission efficiency including luminance. The phosphor is given as a general composition formula expressed by MmAaBbOoNn:Z, (where element M is one or more kinds of elements having bivalent valency, element A is one or more kinds of elements having tervalent valency, element B is one or more kinds of elements having tetravalent valency, O is oxygen, N is nitrogen, and element Z is one or more kinds of elements acting as an activator.), satisfying a=(1+x)×m, b=(4?x)×m, o=x×m, n=(7?x)×m, 0?x?1, wherein when excited by light in a wavelength range from 300 nm to 500 nm, the phosphor has an emission spectrum with a peak wavelength in a range from 500 nm to 620 nm.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Akira Nagatomi, Kenji Sakane, Tomoya Yamada
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Patent number: 8471277Abstract: A light emitting device according to one embodiment includes a light emitting element that emits light having a wavelength of 380 nm to 470 nm; a CASN first red phosphor that is disposed on the light emitting element; a sialon second red phosphor that is disposed on the light emitting element; and a sialon green phosphor that is disposed on the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Iwao Mitsuishi, Shinya Nunoue, Takahiro Sato, Yumi Fukuda, Aoi Okada, Naotoshi Matsuda, Toshiki Hikosaka, Keiko Albessard, Masahiro Kato
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Patent number: 8461753Abstract: A low-pressure discharge lamp includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a light-transmissive envelope, a fill-gas composition capable of sustaining a discharge sealed inside the light-transmissive envelope, and a phosphor composition at least partially disposed on an interior surface of the light-transmissive envelope. The phosphor composition is disposed on an interior surface of the light-transmissive envelope in a plurality of layers that include at least a basecoat phosphor layer and a topcoat phosphor layer. The basecoat phosphor layer includes at least one halophosphor and the topcoat phosphor layer includes a blend of at least two rare earth phosphors. The basecoat phosphor layer has a greater Color Rendering Index (CRI) value than the topcoat phosphor layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fangming Du, William Winder Beers, Jon Bennett Jansma
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Publication number: 20130140979Abstract: A plasma tube array-type display device has an improved high resolution and sufficient brightness. In the plasma tube array-type display device comprising a plasma tube array that includes a plurality of plasma tubes 31, 31, . . . arranged in parallel, each plasma tube 31 has a transverse section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of a vertically long, flattened shape having its longer diameter vertically, and the plurality of plasma tubes 31, 31, . . . are arranged to adjoin each other by their tube walls of longer diameter side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinoda Plasma Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20130140978Abstract: Mercury vapor discharge fluorescent lamps are provided. The lamp can include a lamp envelope enclosing a discharge space and having an inner surface. First and second electrodes can be positioned on the lamp, such as on opposite ends of the lamp envelope. An ionizable medium that includes mercury and an inert gas can be within said lamp envelope. A phosphor layer can be on the inner surface of the lamp envelope. The phosphor layer generally includes a phosphor blend of a calcium halophosphor, a blue phosphor having an emission peak at about 440 nm to about 490 nm, a blue-green phosphor having an emission peak at about 475 nm to about 530 nm, and a red phosphor having an emission peak at about 600 nm to about 650 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: William Winder BEERS, Jon Bennett Jansma, Fangming Du, William Erwin Cohen, Alok Mani Srivastava, Samuel Joseph Camardello, Holly Ann Comanzo
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Patent number: 8455907Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same can include a wavelength converting layer in order to emit various colored lights including white light. The semiconductor light-emitting device can include a base board, a frame located on the base board, at least one light-emitting chip mounted on the base board, the wavelength converting layer located between an optical plate and each outside surface of the chips so as to extend toward the optical plate using a meniscus control structure, and a reflective material layer disposed at least between the frame and both side surfaces of the wavelength converting layer and the optical plate. The semiconductor light-emitting device can be configured to improve light-emitting efficiency and color variability between the light-emitting chips by using the reflective material layer as each reflector, and therefore can emit a wavelength-converted light having a high light-emitting efficiency from various small light-emitting surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Waragawa, Kosaburo Ito
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Publication number: 20130134862Abstract: A fluorescent lamp is provided including a five phosphor blend comprising four rare earth phosphors, including BAMn, and a non-rare earth white halophosphate phosphor. This phosphor blend provides a lamp that exhibits high color rendering index (CRI), of at least about 85, i.e. at least 87, while simultaneously achieving good lumen output, or lumens per watt (LPW), of at least about 70, i.e. at least 75, at all CCTs, and particularly at lower CCT of between about 3000K and 4100K. The phosphor system provided includes a rare earth-doped red emitting phosphor, a rare earth-doped blue emitting phosphor, a rare earth-doped green-blue emitting phosphor, a rare earth-doped green emitting phosphor and a non-rare earth white halophosphate phosphor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Inventors: Fangming Du, William Winder Beers, Jon Bennett Jansma
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Publication number: 20130134863Abstract: A phosphor blend suitable for use in a fluorescent lamp for emitting white light is disclosed. The phosphor blend includes a first phosphor, a second phosphor and a third phosphor. The first phosphor is selected from a europium doped barium magnesium aluminate, a europium doped strontium aluminate, and a combination thereof; and the second phosphor has formula Y2O3:Eu3+. The third phosphor is selected from a phosphor of formula I: (A1-xMnx)E4O7, a phosphor of formula II: (L1-y-zMyMnz)2P2O7, and a combination thereof, where 0<x?0.10, 0<y?0.20, 0<z?0.10; A is Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Mg, or a combination thereof; E is Ga, Al, In, or a combination thereof; L is Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Mg, Na, or a combination thereof; and M is at least one of Sn, and Ce. A fluorescent lamp including such phosphor blend is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Alok Mani Srivastava, Holly Ann Comanzo, Samuel Joseph Camardello
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Patent number: 8446085Abstract: A fluorescent lamp comprises a glass envelope that is light transmitting. Also included is means for providing a discharge inside the envelope. A discharge-sustaining fill includes mercury and an inert gas sealed inside the envelope. An underlying phosphor-containing layer is disposed inside the envelope. The underlying layer includes zinc silicate phosphor. A protective phosphor-containing layer is disposed over the underlying layer at a location that is more distal from the glass than the underlying layer. A ratio of a surface density of the protective layer to a surface density of the underlying layer is at least 0.4:1.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jianmin He, Jon Bennett Jansma, William Erwin Cohen
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Publication number: 20130116756Abstract: The invention relates to a discharge lamp with a novel garnet-type Pr or Tm doped phosphor with excellent UV-A and UV-B spectral properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Thomas Juestel, Georg Greuel
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Publication number: 20130099656Abstract: A low-pressure discharge lamp includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a light-transmissive envelope, a fill-gas composition capable of sustaining a discharge sealed inside the light-transmissive envelope, and a phosphor composition at least partially disposed on an interior surface of the light-transmissive envelope. The phosphor composition is disposed on an interior surface of the light-transmissive envelope in a plurality of layers that include at least a basecoat phosphor layer and a topcoat phosphor layer. The basecoat phosphor layer includes at least one halophosphor and the topcoat phosphor layer includes a blend of at least two rare earth phosphors. The basecoat phosphor layer has a greater Color Rendering Index (CRI) value than the topcoat phosphor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Inventors: Fangming DU, William Winder Beers, Jon Bennett Jansma
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Patent number: 8427040Abstract: A light emitting element package includes first and second light emitting elements, a phosphor film consisting of first and second phosphor elements and a sensing module. The sensing module is configured for modulating light intensity of the at least one second light emitting element. Light of a first color temperature is generated when light from the at least one first light emitting element passes through the first phosphor elements. Light of a second color temperature is generated when light of the at least one second light emitting element passes through the second phosphor elements. Light of a predetermined color temperature is generated by mixing the light of the first color temperature and the light of the second color temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jian-Shihn Tsang
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Patent number: 8415869Abstract: A fluorescent lamp includes a glass envelope that is light transmitting. There is means for providing a discharge inside the envelope. A discharge-sustaining fill of mercury and an inert gas is sealed inside the envelope. An underlying phosphor-containing layer is disposed inside the envelope. The underlying layer includes yttrium vanadate phosphor. A protective phosphor-containing layer is disposed over the underlying layer at a location that is more distal from the glass than the underlying layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William Erwin Cohen, Jianmin He
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Patent number: 8415870Abstract: The semiconductor light emitting device of the present invention emits a blue light component, a green light component, and a red light component. The blue light component is a light component emitted by a first solid light emitting element that emits light having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 430 nm to less than 490 nm, the green light component is light emitted by a second solid light emitting element that emits light having an emission peak in a wavelength range of 360 nm to less than 420 nm that is converted into wavelength-converted light by a green phosphor, and the red light component is light emitted by at least one solid light emitting element selected from the first solid light emitting element and the second solid light emitting element that is converted into wavelength-converted light by a red phosphor. The green phosphor emits green light on the basis of an electronic energy transition of Mn2+.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shozo Oshio
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Publication number: 20130076228Abstract: A fluorescent lamp is provided including a phosphor blend comprising less than about 10% by weight rare earth phosphor, based on the total weight of the phosphor composition. This phosphor blend, when coated on a lamp, provides a lamp that exhibits high color rendering index (CRI), of at least 87, while simultaneously achieving low CCT, of less than about 4500K, i.e. of between about 3000K and 4500K. The phosphor system provided includes a non-rare earth strontium red broad band phosphor, a non-rare earth blue broad band halophosphor, and a rare earth-doped green-blue emitting phosphor, more specifically, a combination of SAR and blue-halo non-rare earth phosphors, and less than 20 wt % BAMn phosphor, based on the total weight of the phosphor system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Fangming Du, William Winder Beers, Jon Bennett Jansma, William Erwin Cohen
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Patent number: 8405299Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a first light emitter, a second light emitter, and a third light emitter. The first light emitter has a peak wavelength within the range from 600 nm to 660 nm and a wavelength range at half peak intensity wider than the range from 600 nm to 660 nm, the second light emitter has a peak wavelength within the range from 530 nm to 570 nm and a wavelength range at half peak intensity wider than the range from 530 nm to 570 nm, and the third light emitter which a peak wavelength is 420 nm-470 nm in a spectral power distribution thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Naohiro Toda, Hiroki Noguchi, Kenichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8373338Abstract: A lamp having improved color quality scale, especially at elevated color temperatures, is provided. The light generated by the light-emitting elements of the lamp, when the lamp is energized, has delta chroma values for fifteen color samples of the color quality scale within select parameters. The delta chroma values are measured in the CIE LAB color space.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: William Winder Beers
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Publication number: 20130026905Abstract: A fluorescent lamp including the four rare earth phosphor system provided herein exhibits high color rendering index (CRI), of at least 87, while simultaneously achieving high lumen output, or lumens per watt (LPW), of at least 80. The phosphor coating may be disposed in a one or two layer coating format. The four rare earth phosphor system includes a red emitting phosphor, a green emitting phosphor, a blue emitting phosphor, and a blue-green emitting phosphor, all four phosphors being rare earth-doped phosphor compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Inventors: Fangming Du, William Winder Beers, Jon Bennett Jansma, William Erwin Cohen
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Patent number: 8361346Abstract: The invention provides a phosphor composed of (M1?xREx)5SiO4?yX6+2y, wherein M is Ba individually or in combination with at least one of Mg, Ca, Sr, or Zn; RE is Y, La, Pr, Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, Ce, Dy, Yb, Er, Sc, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni, or Lu; X is F, Cl, Br, or combinations thereof; 0.001?x?0.6, and 0.001?y?1.5. Under excitation, the phosphor of the invention emits visible light and may be collocated with other phosphors to provide a white light illumination device.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Wei-Jen Liu, Yi-Chen Chiu, Yao-Tsung Yeh, Shyue-Ming Jang, Teng-Ming Chen, Jen-Chuen Liao, Li-Ching Chuo, Fang-Yi Su
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Patent number: 8355098Abstract: A wavelength conversion member which can achieve high color purity and optimize color temperature according to environmental changes, a light source assembly including the wavelength conversion member, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) including the light source assembly. The light source assembly includes a light-emitting chip which generates light and a wavelength conversion member which includes wavelength conversion particles that convert the light into light having a predetermined wavelength, the predetermined wavelength being determined according to the size of the wavelength conversion particles.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Byung Park, Hae-Il Park, Jin-Seob Byun
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Patent number: 8354784Abstract: A light emitting device comprises at least one light emitter, typically an LED, operable to generate blue light and a wavelength conversion component. The wavelength conversion component can be light transmissive or light reflective and comprises at least two phosphor materials that are operable to absorb at least a portion of said blue light and emit light of different colors and wherein the emission product of the device comprises the combined light generated by the LED(s) and the phosphor materials. The phosphor materials are configured as a pattern of non-overlapping areas on a surface of the component.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Intematix CorporationInventors: Xianglong Yuan, Bing Dai, Yi-Qun Li
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Patent number: 8350460Abstract: The invention relates to a fluorescent coating for Hg low-pressure discharge lamps, comprising a fluorescent composition from at least one green fluorescent material emitting in the green spectral range, especially a Tb-and/or Eu-doped green fluorescent material, and a red fluorescent material emitting in the red spectral range, especially a Eu and/or Mn red fluorescent material. The invention is characterized in that a further fluorescent material is present which is adapted to absorb UV Hg and Hg-Vis radiation.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: OSRAM AGInventors: Claudia Castiglioni, Wolfgang Gruber, Armin Konrad
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Patent number: 8339026Abstract: Metal induced polycrystallized silicon is used as the anode in a light emitting device, such as an OLED or AMOLED. The polycrystallized silicon is sufficiently non-absorptive, transparent and made sufficiently conductive for this purpose. A thin film transistor can be formed onto the polycrystallized silicon anode, with the silicon anode acting as the drain of the thin film transistor, thereby simplifying production.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Hoi Sing Kwok, Man Wong, Zhiguo Meng, Jiaxin Sun, Xiuling Zhu
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Patent number: 8324794Abstract: The present invention provides a plasma display device that has light emission properties with short persistence where green light has a persistence time of 3.5 msec or less, that is excellent in luminance, luminance degradation resistance, and color tone, and that is suitable for, for example, a stereoscopic image display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shozo Oshio, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Nobumitsu Aibara, Yoshihisa Nagasaki, Yukihiko Sugio, Masaaki Akamatsu
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Patent number: 8324798Abstract: Disclosed herein are lighting apparatuses having a light source, a first phosphor, and a second phosphor, wherein the lighting apparatuses exhibit increased R9 values. In some embodiments, the light source is configured to emit radiation having a wavelength of peak emission between about 495 nm and about 500 nm. The first phosphor may have a first wavelength of peak emission between about 495 nm and about 600 nm. The second phosphor may be represented by the formula RE2-x-yCaMg2Si3O12:Cex,Ay. In an embodiment, RE is a rare earth metal; A is a co-dopant, x is greater than 0 and less than about 1.0; and y is greater than 0 and less than about 0.2. Also disclosed are phosphor compositions including the first phosphor and the second phosphor, and methods of using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Bin Zhang, Rajesh Mukherjee, Toshitaka Nakamura
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Patent number: 8319430Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a front plate, a rear plate facing the front plate, and a phosphor layer formed on the rear plate. The phosphor layer includes a green phosphor layer containing Zn2SiO4:Mn and (Y1-X, GdX)3Al5O12:Ce, where 0?X?1. In Zn2SiO4:Mn, the amount of Mn is no less than 8 at. % to no more than 10 at. % relative to the total amount of Zn and Mn, and the total amount of Zn and Mn is no less than 197 at. % to no more than 202 at. % relative to the amount of Si. The amount of (Y1-X, GdX)3Al5O12:Ce is no less than 20 wt. % to no more than 50 wt. % relative to the total amount of Zn2SiO4:Mn and (Y1-X, GdX)3Al5O12:Ce.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Nagasaki, Kazuhiko Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20120286645Abstract: Disclosed herein are lamps comprising a radiation source and a phosphor blend configured for conversion of radiation, the phosphor blend including at least two different rare earth phosphors, wherein the phosphor blend comprises at least one multimodal rare earth phosphor. Disclosed advantages may include greater lumen output than an identical lamp in which the phosphor blend, at the same loading, does not comprise at least one multimodal rare earth phosphor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: William Erwin COHEN, William Winder Beers, Fangming Du
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Patent number: 8310141Abstract: In a fluorescent lamp, an initial chromaticity change can be suppressed. An atmosphere in contact with a blue light-emission phosphor forming a phosphor particle layer 3 that contains argon (Ar) and neon (Ne) shown by the following equation A/(A+N)?0.04, wherein A represents a mole fraction of argon and N represents a mole fraction of neon.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Igarashi, Tsuneo Kusunoki
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Patent number: 8310145Abstract: A light emitting device according to one embodiment includes a light emitting element that emits light having a wavelength of 380 nm to 470 nm; a CASN first red phosphor that is disposed on the light emitting element; a sialon second red phosphor that is disposed on the light emitting element; and a sialon green phosphor that is disposed on the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Iwao Mitsuishi, Shinya Nunoue, Takahiro Sato, Yumi Fukuda, Aoi Okada, Naotoshi Matsuda, Toshiki Hikosaka
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Patent number: 8299696Abstract: A gas discharge device comprising a multiplicity of hollow gas filled Plasma-shells located on a substrate, each Plasma-shell being wholly or partially made of a first luminescent material, an exterior portion of each Plasma-shell containing a second luminescent material. The first luminescent material comprises an inorganic material or a combination of organic and inorganic materials. The second luminescent material comprises an organic material or a combination of organic and inorganic materials. Both the first and second luminescent materials may be the same material(s). The combination of organic and inorganic materials includes mixtures, suspensions, dispersions, layers, and coatings.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Imaging Systems TechnologyInventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
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Patent number: 8278824Abstract: Electrode and electrode pad configurations for a gas discharge device having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels that are defined by a hollow plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. The invention is described with reference to a plasma-dome, but other plasma-shell geometric shapes may be used including plasma-discs and plasma-spheres.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Imaging Systems Technology, Inc.Inventors: Carol Ann Wedding, Daniel K. Wedding, Oliver M. Strbik, III
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Patent number: 8278814Abstract: A lamp having improved color quality scale is provided. The lamp has a light-transmissive envelope and a phosphor layer comprising a first phosphor and a second phosphor wherein the first phosphor has an emission band with a maximum between 590 nm and 640 nm and the second phosphor has an emission band with a maximum between 520 nm and 570 nm. The light generated by the phosphor layer, when the lamp is energized, has delta chroma values for all fifteen color samples of the color quality scale within select parameters. The delta chroma values are measured in the CIE LAB color space.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: William W. Beers, Laszlo Balazs, Istvan Bakk
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Patent number: 8273265Abstract: There are provided phosphors having high luminous efficiency at desired wavelengths and good light output stability and a light emitting device using the same. A phosphor according to an aspect of the invention includes a sulfide crystallographic phase and an oxide crystallographic phase. Here, the phosphor is a multiphase compound in which the sulfide crystallographic phase and the oxide crystallographic phase exist together.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mihail Nazarov, Chul Soo Yoon, Hyo Jung Kim