Abstract: There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element body part, a low refractive index layer part which is provided over a light output surface of the light-emitting element body part and has a first refractive index, and a packaging member which is provided to seal the light-emitting element body part and the low refractive index layer part inside the packaging member, has a planar light output surface, and has a second refractive index which is greater than the first refractive index.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device having an oscillator and high voltage transformer connected to a glass-like tube filled with an inert gas or a mixture of inert gasses. The tube is located at the end of a wand having a handle. The output of the transformer is an RF high voltage signal. The output of the transformer is fed to the tube through a high voltage wire, where the signal excites the gas to produce a plasma-like beam. The tube is then applied to a patient's skin to aid in healing and the relief of additional ailments. The field generated by the tube interacts with the cells in the patient to increase transmembrane potential, stimulate ATP production, and inject negative ions and ozone into the surface of the user's skin to combat infection and disease.

Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.

Abstract: There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element body part, a low refractive index layer part which is provided over a light output surface of the light-emitting element body part and has a first refractive index, and a packaging member which is provided to seal the light-emitting element body part and the low refractive index layer part inside the packaging member, has a planar light output surface, and has a second refractive index which is greater than the first refractive index.

Abstract: A method of making a display assembly includes providing a display, providing a cover glass, ink jetting an ink covering onto a perimeter portion of the cover glass, and assembling the display to the cover glass to form the display assembly. The ink covering prevents light from leaking from the display through the perimeter portion of the cover glass.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate that face each other, a pixel between the first substrate and the second substrate and the pixel emitting primary light toward one of the first and second substrates, and a black film arranged on another of the first and second substrates. The other of the first and second substrates being opposite to the one of the first and second substrates toward which the primary light is emitted.

Abstract: A display apparatus has a first display substrate including a pixel electrode, and a second display substrate facing the first display substrate and including a pixel region. The second display substrate includes an insulating substrate, a concave surface compensation pattern that is in the pixel region and that is on the insulating substrate, an overcoating layer covering the concave surface compensation pattern, and a common electrode that is on the overcoating layer and that has an aperture therein at a location corresponding to the concave surface compensation pattern.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a photoluminescent light source is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a light source that emanates light of a particular spectrum, a camera, and a selective mirror placed between the light source and camera. The selective mirror transmits light of a spectrum detected by the camera and reflects light of a spectrum generated by the light source. The light source is transparent to light incident on its face.

Abstract: It is provided a lamp (12) for an automotive headlamp (10), comprising a filament coil (14) for emitting light (22) and a nominal alignment axis (32) for aligning the filament coil (14) such, that the filament coil (14) is positioned in the middle of an allowable tolerance box wherein the filament coil (14) is arranged shifted to the nominal alignment axis (32). Due to the shifted arrangement of the filament coil (14) the flexibility given by the allowable tolerance may be used for positioning the filament coil (14) such, that the projected image (18) of the filament coil (14) is projected nearer to the bright/dark-cutoff (40) without blinding oncoming traffic.

Abstract: A display device is provided, in which view-angle dependence of chromaticity of white or an intermediate color may be reduced. The display device includes a pair of opposed substrates, a light blocking layer provided on one of the pair of substrates while having a plurality of openings, and a plurality of self-luminous elements provided on the other of the pair of substrates, each of the self-luminous elements having an emission region facing each of the openings, and having an emission color different from an emission color of another element, at least one self-luminous element being different from other self-luminous elements in clearance in a display plane direction from an end of the emission region to an opening of the light blocking film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lamp having a spacer which is made of a thin metal plate being put on a closed end of an inner tube and held between the inner tube and the outer tube for keeping a predetermined constant distance therebetween for coaxially arranging the inner tube and the outer tube. In order to reduce the deepness of the shadow caused by strips of the spacer that shield light emitting through the inner tube, the spacer is attached to an exhaust portion protruding from a center of the closed end of the inner tube by inserting the exhaust portion into a hole, and strips, - - - extending in the direction of the opening end of the inner tube from peripheral edge of the center plate are inclined in a circumferential direction around an optical axis of the lamp.

Abstract: The invention describes a gas-discharge lamp (1) comprising a vessel (5), which vessel is partially coated with an essentially rectangular stripe (Sv) arranged circumferentially on a surface of the vessel, and wherein a first long side (14) of the stripe is situated close to a base (6) of the lamp, and the width (wv) of the stripe is such that a first angle (?v2) subtended at a lamp centre between a radius (r) and a point on the first long side (14) of the stripe comprises at most 55°, and a second angle (?v1) sub-tended at the lamp centre between the radius and a point on a second long side (15) of the stripe comprises at most 50°.

Abstract: The invention describes a gas-discharge lamp (1) comprising a vessel (5), which vessel (5) is partially coated with at least one longitudinal stripe (SH, SH?) arranged on the surface of the vessel (5) below a horizontal plane (P) through a longitudinal axis (X) through the centre of the lamp (1) such that, on each side of the lamp, an angle (?H1, ?H2) subtended at the lamp centre by the horizontal plane (P) and an upper edge (16, 17) of the longitudinal stripe (SH, SH?) on that side of the lamp comprises at least 10°, more preferably at least 13°, most preferably at least 15°.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp for motor vehicles that at least comprises a first incandescent filament that is intended to produce a light beam having a light/dark cutoff line, the incandescent filament having associated with it for this purpose a shielding cap to restrict the light emitted to a given angular range. The shielding cap (4) has at least one opening that is intended to produce a light beam above the light/dark cutoff line, with at least part of this light beam, which light beam passes through the said opening, not passing through and/or passing through a color filter.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a photoluminescent light source is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a light source that emanates light of a particular spectrum, photoluminescent material which converts light from the light source to light of another spectrum, and a selective mirror which reflects light generated by the light source and transmits light generated by the photoluminescent material. The photoluminescent material may be arranged so as to provide a plurality of light sources that emanate light of various colors. In an embodiment, the photoluminescent material is situated in small regions within a transparent material and lenses are used to collimate light emitted from the small regions.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a photoluminescent light source is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a light source that emanates light of a particular spectrum, photoluminescent material which converts light from the light source to light of another spectrum, and a selective mirror which reflects light generated by the light source and transmits light generated by the photoluminescent material. The photoluminescent material may be arranged so as to provide a plurality of light sources that emanate light of various colors.

Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) device includes a reflective electrode and a transparent electrode having one or more light-emitting layers formed there-between. A contrast-enhancement element is located on a side of the transparent electrode opposite the light-emitting layer. The contrast-enhancement element has a first reflected-light absorbing layer and a second layer including transparent areas and reflective areas. The second layer is between the first reflected-light absorbing layer and the reflective electrode. A patterned light-scattering layer is located between the reflective areas of the second layer and the reflective electrode.

Abstract: A vehicle bulb shield with material differences in configuration, thickness, strength, grade or surface coating in the leg and shield sections, manufactured from a tailor welded steel strip of different materials to obtain desired corresponding combinations of features in each component from each material. A progressive forming process is used to accommodate the different metal combinations within the tailor welded steel strip (e.g. material type and/or thickness), and thereby allow new material property configurations in the bulb shield components. A material property configured bulb shield design enables consideration of formability of material in different component sections, the rigidity of material in different component sections, and cost of different materials, in a single component design.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp for motor vehicles that at least comprises a first incandescent filament that is intended to produce a light beam having a light/dark cutoff line, the incandescent filament having associated with it for this purpose a shielding cap to restrict the light emitted to a given angular range. The shielding cap (4) has at least one opening that is intended to produce a light beam above the light/dark cutoff line, with at least part of this light beam, which light beam passes through the said opening, not passing through and/or passing through a color filter.

Abstract: An electric lamp is described, which has a quartz glass lamp vessel (10) accommodating an electric element (3, 4). The lamp vessel locally has a light-absorbing, non-reflective coating (11, 12). The coating mainly consists of iron, iron oxide, silicon, and silicon dioxide, the ratio of the weight percentages of iron (compounds) and silicon (compounds) being in the range of 0.17<=iron (compounds) /silicon (compounds)<?12, and the ratio of the weight percentages of silicon and silicon dioxide being in the range of 0.5<=silicon/silicon dioxide<=50.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp with one filament for a vehicle headlamp with a low beam, fog light, turning light or bending light function, which comprises at least an outer tube (3) and a light-emitting region (4) and which emits at least visible light from a number of regions of the outer tube (3), wherein at least one partial coating (2) is arranged on the outer tube (3) in such a way that, when the low beam, fog light, turning light or bending light function is implemented, the area of the traffic space which lies below the light/dark cut-off (F) can be illuminated in a first defined region with increased intensity and in a second defined region with reduced intensity and the partial coating (2) is an at least partially reflective coating.

Abstract: A BM (black matrix) structure has a semiconductor layer and a light-shielding layer. The semiconductor layer has a first surface and a second surface. The light-shielding layer is disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor layer, and the second surface is an incident plane of environmental light.

Abstract: A method for producing a display comprising: forming a plurality of pixels arrayed on a flexible substrate and independently driven by TFTs, wherein the TFTs are formed in such a manner that the direction of the channel length L between the source and drain of each TFT is the direction of two orthogonal directions on the substrate in which the substrate has a smaller dimensional change ratio than the other direction. When the TFTs include a switching TFT and a driving TFT, the TFTs are formed in such a manner that the direction of the channel length between the source and drain of at least the driving TFT is the direction of the two orthogonal directions on the substrate in which the substrate has a smaller dimensional change ratio than the other direction.

Abstract: A display device manufacturing method including arraying pixels 20 comprising plural sub-pixels with different light-emitting colors in two intersecting directions on a flexible substrate 12 by patterning plural sub-pixels 14, 16, 18 with different light-emitting colors onto the flexible substrate 12, wherein patterning of the sub-pixels is performed such that from the two directions of pixel array, the plural sub-pixels with different light-emitting colors are arrayed within the pixels in a rows along the direction X with the smaller substrate dimensional change ratio.

Abstract: A multifunctional thin display panel film 1 includes a base film 2, a conductive mesh 3 disposed on a surface of the base film 2, an absorption layer 4 covering the conductive mesh 3 and being disposed on the surface of the base film 2 to absorb neon-emission light and infrared light, an adhesive layer 5 disposed on the near-infrared absorption layer 4, and an antireflection layer 6 disposed on the other surface of the base film 2.

Abstract: A vehicle headlamp is provided with: a projection lens; a light source; a reflector for reflecting light, which has been directly emitted by the light source, to a front side along an optical axis; and a shade arranged between the projection lens and the reflector, for shading a part of light reflected by the reflector 24. A bright and dark boundary forming portion capable of forming a cutoff line of a light distribution pattern is formed at an upper edge portion of the shade. In a neighborhood of the bright and dark boundary forming portion on a front face of the shade, a low reflecting region is provided. A reflectance of the low reflecting region is lower than a reflectance of a high reflecting region. A reflectance of the high reflecting region is higher than a reflectance of a rear face of the shade.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp for a vehicle headlight with low-beam function, which lamp has an outer envelope and emits at least visible light of different colors from several regions of the outer envelope, characterized in that in that a partial coating is at least provided on the outer envelope such that, when the low-beam function is being realized, at least that region of the traffic space which lies above the bright-dark cut-off can be at least partly illuminated with visible colored light which is scattered at said partial coating, while at the same time that region of the traffic space which lies below the bright-dark cut-off can be illuminated with visible light of a different color in defined regions.

Abstract: A reflector assembly includes at least one reflector body having an inner cavity including a first inner surface conformable along a first geometric curve, and a second inner surface conformable along a second geometric curve. An outer surface is conformable about the first geometric curve. A plurality of through apertures are spaced about the reflector body, each formed between the outer surface and a transition region between the first inner surface and the second inner surface. A coolant flow source directs a coolant toward the reflector body. A first portion of the coolant contacts the outer surface, and a second portion of the coolant enters the inner cavity through the apertures. Providing apertures at or adjacent to the change in reflector body wall thickness allows a positive flow of cooling medium around and into the reflector body, while positioning an arc lamp outside of a cooling medium direct impingement path.

Abstract: A U-shaped compact fluorescent sun-tanning lamp (10) capable of generating and transmitting desired and undesired wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation, for example, the desired wavelength is in the range of 352 nm and the undesired wavelength is in the range of 254 nm. The lamp (10) comprises two lamp tubes (12) that are transparent to the desired wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation and substantially opaque to the undesired wavelength of the ultraviolet radiation. The tubes (12) are connected at the upper portion by a bight (14) that in an unmodified state is transparent to both the desired and the undesired wavelengths of the ultraviolet radiation. A modification (16) on the bight (14) is opaque to at least the undesired wavelength of ultraviolet radiation. In a preferred embodiment the modification is a ceramic paint (18).

Abstract: In a plasma display panel which is capable of improving colorimetric purity without lowering light efficiency by selectively filtering only visible light of request color, a plasma display panel includes a filter including a grating layer having plural gratings for diffracting lights generated in a plasma display panel at a certain angle and a black matrix layer for transmitting or cutting off the lights diffracted by the grating layer.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device comprising: a back electrode; an organic light-emitting layer; a transparent electrode; a first reflective mirror; a substrate; and a second reflective mirror in this order, the second reflective mirror having R1(&thgr;=0°) of 80 to 100% and R2(&thgr;=0°) of 0 to 40%, wherein R1(&thgr;) is an average reflectance at a wavelength &lgr; being 400 nm to (&lgr;0−&Dgr;&lgr;) (where &lgr;0 is a resonance wavelength; and &Dgr;&lgr;=&lgr;max−&lgr;0, &lgr;max is a maximum wavelength that is obtained by measuring reflectance having the same value equal to R&agr; in a wavelength range about 400-700 nm, and R&agr; is an average reflectance at a wavelength range from 400 nm to (&lgr;0−100) nm) at an incidence angle &thgr;, and R2(&thgr;) is an average reflectance at a wavelength &lgr; is &lgr;0 to 700 nm at an incidence angle &thgr;.

Abstract: An EL panel includes a substrate 1-5 mils (0.25 -1.26 mm) thick supported by a reinforcing frame screen printed or otherwised deposited in or on the panel.

Abstract: To provide a spot light-source device whose discharge envelope has high pressure resistance and that emits high brightness as a spot light source, a spot light-source device excited by electromagnetic energy has a lamp that with a discharge envelope made of translucent non-conducting material, an expansion part forming a discharge space, and a tube connected thereto, and a discharge concentrator having a front tip part which is supported by the tube without protruding from the discharge envelope and faces the interior of the discharge space of the expansion part, that intensifies concentration of the electric field in the discharge space and that concentrates discharge, an electromagnetic energy provision source that excites discharge in the discharge concentrator from outside of the lamp, a concave reflection mirror that reflects light from the lamp, and a container with a resonance window that creates electromagnetic energy resonance.

Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight comprises a light source, a reflector and an occulting mask. The mask comprises a set of elements which in pairs define, respectively, mutually facing faces which define between them passages extending through the mask in directions passing away from the light source.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming an electroluminescent circuit by screen printing. The method according to the invention includes screen printing a rear electrode pattern on a substrate, which is preferably a polyester sheet, screen printing a dielectric layer over the rear electrode pattern, screen printing a front electrode pattern on the dielectric layer, and screen printing a phosphor layer over the front electrode layer. The rear electrode pattern preferably includes a solid layer disposed upon the substrate and the front electrode pattern preferably includes a plurality of opaque lines separated by spaces. In an alternative embodiment, the method according to the invention includes screen printing the phosphor layer on the substrate, screen printing the front electrode pattern on the phosphor layer, screen printing the dielectric layer over the front electrode pattern, and screen printing the rear electrode pattern over the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A flat lighting device (8; 32) having an aperture fluorescent lamp (33), an optical system (10; 34) and an optical conductor plate (11; 35) is provided. The optical system (10: 34) specifically influences the light distribution of the light to be coupled into the optical conductor plate in such a way that seen in a cross-sectional plane of the tubular discharge vessel of the lamp, the light distribution has at least one maximum at an angular spacing &bgr;, measured from the optical axis (A), the angular spacing &bgr; fulfilling the following relationship: &LeftBracketingBar; β &RightBracketingBar; ≥ arctan ⁢   ⁢ ( d L ) L being the longitudinal extent of the optical conductor plate in the direction of the optical axis (A) and d being its thickness.

Abstract: A motor vehicle headlight has a light source, a reflector and a mask. The mask has one or more sets of masking elements, such as fins or annular rings, that face each other to form a passage. The passage extends through the mask in a direction away from the light source, thereby allowing heat to escape from the light source without optical leakage.

Abstract: A lamp comprises a glass substrate and a shading film. The shading film is formed by applying a greensheet comprising an inorganic pigment and an inorganic matrix compound to a surface of the glass substrate and then, firing the greensheet. The formed shading film has a portion whose thickness is 90% or more of the maximum thickness of the shading film within the range of 0.5 mm from an edge of the shading film.

Abstract: This discharge lighting device is directed to a high efficiency, long-life neon discharge lamp with a unique channel configuration.

Abstract: A conventional black oxide colorant used for the shielding coat membrane of the D2R type discharge lamps for automobiles has a problem that its wettablity with the granulated glass is not good so that a strong membrane is difficult to be obtained. A paint for the shielding coat membrane comprises polycrystalline silica and Mn-doped ferric oxide as a black colorant, which has a good wettability with the granulated glass and a shielding characteristics so as to improve the membrane strength, thereby providing a lamp with the shielding coat membrane that passes all evaluation test in the view point of the membrane strength, the light transmissivity, the discoloration, the suppression of pealing-off and cracking.

Abstract: An arc lamp includes a housing; an inert gas in the housing; a pair of spaced electrodes in the housing for establishing an arc in the gas to generate a radiation output; a window in the housing for transmitting forward radiation generated by the arc; and a spherical reflector on the opposite side of the electrodes from the window and having its center disposed in the arc for redirecting rearward radiation through the center to add to the forward radiation transmitted through the window.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device in accordance with the present invention includes a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on a dielectric layer and coupled to control circuitry. An electroluminescent stack and a transparent electrode are included wherein the electroluminescent stack is disposed between the transparent electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes. A plurality of guides are disposed between each of the pixel electrodes for guiding light from the electroluminescent stack when the pixel electrodes are activated by the control circuitry and reducing internal reflections of light within the electroluminescent stack. Another device and method include a dielectric layer disposed between the pixel electrodes for absorbing light and reducing a threshold voltage of the stack.

Abstract: A barium/lead-free ceramic glaze includes by weight:(i) between about 44 and 50% SiO.sub.2 ;(ii) between about 7 and 13% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 ;(iii) between about 22 and 26% B.sub.2 O.sub.3 ;(iv) between about 3 and 9% CaO;(v) between about 1 and 3% SrO;(vi) up to about 2% ZnO;(vii) between about 2 and 4% K.sub.2 O;(viii) up to about 2% Li.sub.2 O; and(ix) between about 5 and 9% Na.sub.2 O.This barium/lead-free glaze can be effectually applied to a ceramic substrate at firing temperatures on the order of 1550 to 1650.degree. F. (843 to 899.degree. C.).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an electric incandescent p which has at least one incandescent filament (31) and an anti-dazzle device (20). According to the invention, in the course of the method, an end (31a) of an incandescent filament (31) is threaded into a notch (23) on the edge of the anti-dazzle device (20) and fused with the anti-dazzle device (20) by melting the material of the anti-dazzle device (20) in the region of the notch (23) so that the melt wets the incandescent filament end (31a) arranged in the notch (23) and the incandescent filament end (31a) is embedded in the solidified material (20a) of the anti-dazzle device (20) after the melt has solidified.

Abstract: An automobile dashboard display device including a panel that includes indicator numerals and letters that are printed with an acrylic resin bound phosphor pigment wherein the display is illuminated with ultraviolet light.

Abstract: A light source for backlighting a display panel comprises a light-emitting device such as an incandescent light bulb or LED array disposed within a cavity having diffusely reflecting walls and an aperture. A diffuser and brightness enhancing film are situated proximate the opening of the aperture which illuminates the display to be backlit. Preferably, light emerging from the aperture is substantially uniform in intensity and color, and in one embodiment, a color filter is employed to whiten the light emerging from the aperture. One embodiment has an aperture in which the ratio of the area of the aperture to the sum of such area and the surface area of the cavity is at least 0.05. In this embodiment, the ratio of the depth of the cavity to an edge to edge dimension of the cavity is at least 0.1.

Abstract: The invention concerns an electrical incandescent lamp with a low-beam cap, articularly a two-filament halogen incandescent lamp and a production process for such a lamp, as well as a low-beam cap. Low-beam screening cap (12) has an opening (14), through which one end (6a) of low-beam filament (6) is threaded. This filament end (6a) is welded to the back side of low-beam screening cap (12) or to a current lead wire (8a), which is attached by a projection welding to the back side of low-beam screening cap (12). The fastening of low-beam filament (6) according to the invention makes possible materials savings in the case of a low-beam screening cap (12) and lower cost lamp manufacture.

Abstract: A transparent thin-film EL display apparatus has a transparent thin-film EL element formed on a glass substrate. A rear substrate consisting of photochromic glass and the glass substrate on which the EL element is formed are disposed facing each other with the EL element located in between. A light-transmitting insulation material is inserted in a space between the two substrates and hermetically sealed. When the display on the EL element becomes hard to see due to light entering from the rear of the display apparatus, the photochromic glass reacts in response to the light and darkens the rear of the EL element, thereby blocking the light.

Abstract: A display screen include a plate, a plurality of microspheres and a mask. The plate has a plurality of holes arranged in a matrix array. Each microsphere has fluorescence behavior and is disposed in one of the holes in the plate. The mask has a plurality of light valves. Each light valve is aligned with the holes of the plate and is optically coupled to one of the microspheres. An ultraviolet light source is optically coupled to the microspheres through the mask. Each light valve is a liquid crystal mechanically coupled to the plate and electrically coupled to a display electronics of a display unit.

Abstract: The capped high-pressure discharge lamp suitable for use in a vehicle headlight has a discharge vessel which is surrounded by an outer envelope. Current conductors extend from a respective electrode to a respective contact at a cap in which a first neck-shaped portion of the discharge vessel is secured. A return portion of one current conductor extends along an outside surface of the outer envelope. The outer envelope has a light-absorbing coating in a region near the first neck-shaped portion, at a side which is remote from the return portion. The outer envelope may have band-shaped coatings at either side, aside from the discharge path between the electrodes, at its side which faces the return portion. Stray light in the beam formed by the reflector and the lens of a head-light in which the lamp is used, is obviated. The bands provide for a rectilinear light/dark transition in said beam.