Abstract: A light assembly includes a fixture housing, a gesture sensor assembly, a light source supported by the fixture housing, and a reflector supported by the fixture housing and operative to control direction of light emitted from the light source. The gesture sensor assembly includes a gesture sensor operable to provide a sensing electrical field sensitive to gestures executed a predetermined distance from the gesture sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a process controller and more specifically to a process controller with integrated optical sensing.

Abstract: A high intensity discharge lighting assembly capable of instant ON/OFF operation with a lamp housing having therein an HID lamp, an instant ON igniter circuit and lamp driver circuitry. The housing may have a screw in base or may be configured for fixed mounting on an open receptacle box. In one version, a non-replaceable HID lamp has leads permanently connected to the instant ON circuitry. In another version, the HID lamp has an integral base with pins which are plugged in to a socket provided in the housing.

Abstract: An optics module for determining at least one physical or chemical, process variable, especially concentration of at least one component of a medium, comprising: at least one light source; at least one data memory, wherein at least one characteristic of the light source is stored in the data memory; at least one interface, wherein the interface is designed for data transmission and/or energy transmission; and a platform. The light source, the data memory and the interface are arranged on/in the platform.

Abstract: An embodiment of a light source comprises a first lead and a second lead. The first lead comprises a first mounting surface wherein a first light emitter is connectable to the first mounting surface, a support member attached to the first mounting surface, a conductor portion attached to the support member, and at least one tab extending from the first mounting surface, the at least one tab being used to hold the first lead during fabrication. The second lead is second lead located adjacent the first lead and comprises a second mounting surface wherein a second light emitter is connectable to the second mounting surface, at least two support members attached to the second mounting surface, and a conductor portion attached to each of the support members.

Abstract: A safety lamp, which comprises a lamp body and two electric connecting portions. The lamp body has a light emitting module. The two electric connecting portions are respectively disposed on two sides of the lamp body, and each of the electric connecting portions further comprises a first electric connecting terminal, a pressing switch unit, an elastic conductive unit and a second electric connecting terminal. Each of the pressing switch units must sustain a pressing force to urge against the corresponding elastic conductive unit to deform and to electrically connect the corresponding first electric connecting terminal to the corresponding second electric connecting terminal through the elastic conductive unit. Alternatively, when the pressing switch unit is released from the pressing force, the deformed elastic conductive unit reforms back to an opposite direction of the pressing force to form an open circuit.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a box tool for repairing glasses including a box bottom and a box cover. A hanging ring is disposed on an end of the box bottom in order that consumers can hang the tool box at different place they want. The box bottom interconnects the box cover with a pivoting axle; the box cover can rotate in a range of 360° about the pivoting axle; a first fastener is disposed on a first end of the box bottom; a second fastener is disposed on a first end of the box cover. The box cover is made of transparent material with a megaloscope disposed in the middle thereof. A lamp and a battery are also disposed on a second end of the box bottom.

Abstract: A hollow cathode lamp is described with an end cap, an anode, and a cathode. A data storage device is part of the end cap and communicates data to and from a computing device. The data communicated with the computing device may include identification information and usage information corresponding to the hollow cathode lamp. Additionally, a method is described that includes activating a power supply to a hollow cathode lamp and communicating data with a memory device located in the hollow cathode lamp. The data communicated with the memory device includes usage information about an amount of time the hollow cathode lamp has been in use.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device (200) comprising a tag element (201) that encodes operating information about the device, for example its maximal driving current, such that this information can be read out wirelessly and/or electrically by wire but approximately without Ohmic losses. The invention further comprises a socket (600) with a read-out unit (601) for reading out the operating information from such a tag element (201). The tag element may for instance comprise a tag electrode (201) that can capacitively couple to a counter-electrode (601) in the socket.

Abstract: An embodiment of a light source comprises a first lead and a second lead. The first lead comprises a first mounting surface wherein a first light emitter is connectable to the first mounting surface, a support member attached to the first mounting surface, a conductor portion attached to the support member, and at least one tab extending from the first mounting surface, the at least one tab being used to hold the first lead during fabrication. The second lead is second lead located adjacent the first lead and comprises a second mounting surface wherein a second light emitter is connectable to the second mounting surface, at least two support members attached to the second mounting surface, and a conductor portion attached to each of the support members.

Abstract: A convenient-used energy-saving ceiling lamp comprises a lamp base, a lamp head, a ballast, a light tube, a lampshade and a lamp holder. The lamp holder is directly mounted on the lamp base. The ballast is made to form a concave or hollow area in the center of it, which is big enough to allow the lamp head to be mounted in there and to be plugged easily into the lamp holder, thereby reducing the whole height of the light tube. The light tube is connected with the ballast via ribs. The lamp head and lamp holder can use the screw type, bayonet type, double-ended bayonet type applied in glow starters, and pin type plug and socket applied in double D type ordinary light tubes. The obvious advantage is the convenience to install, use and maintain it.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may have active components such as display pixels formed on a display substrate layer. The display substrate layer may be formed from a glass substrate layer. Thin-film transistors and other components for the display pixels may be formed on the glass substrate. An encapsulation glass layer may be bonded to the glass substrate using a ring-shaped bond structure. The ring-shaped bond structure may extend around the periphery of the encapsulation glass layer and the substrate glass layer. The bond structure may be formed from a glass frit, a solid glass ring, integral raised glass portions of the glass layers, meltable metal alloys, or other bond materials. Chemical and physical processing operations may be used to temper the glass layers, to perform annealing operations, to preheat the glass layers, and to promote adhesion.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display device having RFID includes a substrate including a pixel region having at least one organic light emitting device and a non-pixel region formed on the outer circumference of the pixel region, a sealing substrate that seals at least the pixel region of the substrate, an RFID antenna pattern on the sealing substrate, and an RFID chip electrically coupled to the RFID antenna pattern.

Abstract: A high intensity discharge lighting assembly capable of instant ON/OFF operation with a lamp housing having therein an HID lamp, an instant ON igniter circuit and lamp driver circuitry. The housing may have a screw in base or may be configured for fixed mounting on an open receptacle box. In one version, a non-replaceable HID lamp has leads permanently connected to the instant ON circuitry. In another version, the HID lamp has an integral base with pins which are plugged in to a socket provided in the housing.

Abstract: A lamp assembly includes a housing that selectively receives a removable, plug-in high intensity discharge (HID) lamp. A transformer and electrical circuit are received in the housing for providing an instant start, hot re-strike ignition of the lamp at less than 25 kilovolts. A circuit for an instant start, hot re-strike of an HID lamp supplies an ignition voltage to the HID lamp that includes pulses having an amplitude of less than 25 kilovolts and a frequency ranging from approximately 20 hertz to approximately 500 hertz. Preferably, the frequency is greater than 100 hertz, more preferably the frequency is approximately 150 hertz. The amplitude of pulses are preferably less than approximately 15 kilovolts, and more preferably approximately 8-10 kilovolts. The pulse width is approximately 200 nanoseconds and the peaks of the pulses are periodic with a period of approximately 2 milliseconds.

Abstract: A method of forming a display device is provided.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display and a method for making the same includes protection circuitry to avoid damage from static electricity. The display and method allow performing a lighting test during display manufacturing. The organic light emitting display includes a substrate, a display region on the transparent substrate with a matrix of pixels, and a signal transfer unit on the transparent substrate for transferring lighting test signals to the pixels. The signal transfer unit includes transistors for transferring the lighting test signals and a resistor coupled to drains and gates of the transistors for protecting the transistors against damage from static electricity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an active matrix display and an image display system using the active matrix display. The image display system includes the active matrix display and a power supply apparatus. The active matrix display includes an active matrix substrate, a reflective layer and a sidewall-protective structure. The reflective layer is formed above the active matrix substrate and has first and second surfaces. The second surface faces the active matrix substrate. The sidewall-protective structure is formed above the active matrix substrate and surrounds the sidewalls of the reflective layer adjacent to the first and second surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical system (1) with a light emitting device (10) with a first (11) and a second electrode (12) and a light emitting element (13) being provided between the first (11) and the second electrode (12), a heating device (20) with a heating element (21,11,12), wherein the light emitting device (10) and the heating device (20) are placed between a first (30) and a second panel (31), wherein at least one panel (30,31) is transparent, wherein the heating element (21,11,12) is disposed in an electric circuit in order to emit heat radiation (41), which is generated by the heating element (21,11,12) and directed to the first and/or the second panel (30,31), wherein the light (40), which is generated by the light emitting device (10), and the heat radiation (41) are released at one outer surface (33,34) leaving the electrical system (1).

Abstract: A spiral pulse generator is used to start a high-pressure discharge lamp and is accommodated directly in the external bulb of the lamp. The spiral pulse generator comprises two parts which are manufactured jointly as an LTCC component.

Abstract: A three-dimensional miniaturized power supply is composed of at least two of a first circuit board and a second circuit board which are assembled in a chamber of a container in a three-dimensional spatial form, wherein an insulation spacing, which is in compliance with an ITE safety regulation, is provided between a circuit of the first circuit board and a circuit of the second circuit board, allowing an area and a volume of the power supply to be miniaturized, such that the power supply can be emplaced in a small container.

Abstract: An optical resonator is provided, and methods for making the same, as well as devices and sub-assemblies including the same. For example, such an electronic device (FIG. 4) may include a first electronic component (172) designed to be photoactive to radiation having a first wavelength and a second electronic component (174) designed to be photoactive to radiation having a second wavelength. The device may also include a cavity that defines an optical resonator having a cavity length such that the optical resonator resonates in successive resonant modes that locate at the first and second wavelengths.

Abstract: A controllably displayable motor vehicle window is (20) disclosed provided with at least one optically transmittable glass or plastic panel (22) and an electrically actuated variable light transmission medium (24, 25) disposed in close proximity to the at least one glass or plastic panel. The image displayed on the vehicle window (20) is controllable in response to the electric field generated by a control device (95) in communication with the variable light transmission medium and with a user input device (101-105, 107) A method of advertising or messaging using the controllably displayable motor vehicle window is also disclosed.

Abstract: A light source device includes a discharge lamp having a tubular transparent bulb with sealed opposite ends for generating discharged light near a light emission center thereof, and a reflecting mirror having a reflecting surface which has a curved surface approximating a paraboloid whose focal point is positioned at the light emission center of the transparent bulb. The reflecting surface is divided by a boundary into a first curved surface extending from the boundary toward a closed end of the reflecting mirror and a second curved surface extending from the boundary toward an open end of the reflecting mirror. The first curved surface is shaped such that the angle of incidence of a ray of light emitted from the light emission center and applied to the first curved surface is progressively smaller toward the closed end, and changes of the angle of incidence are greater than changes of the angle of incidence of a ray of light on the paraboloid.

Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp includes an external tube, and two luminescent tubes which extend in the tube axis direction in such a manner that one tube twists with respect to the other or vice versa and which are close to each other at least at one end of each tube and are more separate in the middle of the tubes than the ends close to each other.

Abstract: An electroluminescent display in which a dielectric breakdown of a luminescent element is suppressed has luminescent elements disposed between first and second substrates, where the first and second substrates are deformed into a convex shape to improve breakdown characteristics.

Abstract: A spark plug with an insulating body held in a casing and containing an inner electrode is provided with a force-measuring element for measuring the pressure acting on the spark plug, the insulating body resting against the casing via the force-measuring element when pressure is applied in an axial direction. To prevent the entrance of noise signals an axially-elastic sealing element is provided on a side adjacent to the combustion space, the sealing element additionally lending radial support to the insulating body resting against the casing of the spark plug.

Abstract: The disclosure describes a high-temperature optical transducer capable of acquiring input variables for closed-loop control of combustion systems. The key components of the innovation are a high-temperature, embedded photodiode, the use of low-cost, integral absorption filters; and the use of an embedded high-temperature preamplifier circuit. These components are combined in an optical-to-electrical signal transducer deployed in the high-temperature combustion environment, thus avoiding the high costs of optical signal transmission. The optical signals to the transducer are employed to recognize events in real-time such as the ignition spark, the start of combustion, end of combustion, misfires, and knocking. The outputs from the transducer may be used in a statistical fashion to control engine roughness and cyclic stability. By resolving specific colors in the flame, the optical sensors may also be used to determine the temperature and the emission production in the combustion chamber.

Abstract: An arc discharge lamp including an electrically insulative base member securely positioned at opposite ends of the lamp without the need for basing cements or the like. The base member includes at least one internally-protruding segment for positioning within a detent formed in the press seal region of the lamp. The base member functions to securedly retain the external portions of the lamp's electrical leads in a predetermined alignment.

Abstract: A fluorescent lamp system including a pair of fluorescent lamp socket bars, a pair of ballast transformers, and a wiring harness. Each lamp socket bar consists of a sandwich of a molded plastic plate which holds the lamp socket contacts and the wiring connector pins, and a printed circuit wiring plate which makes electrical contact with the socket contacts and connector pins through mechanical pressure contact, and which wiring plate contains the circuit wiring excepting for the interconnections with the ballast transformers, such interconnections being effected either by means of a wiring harness having plug connectors which pluggingly connect to pins on the lamp socket bar and to the ballast transformers or by quick-wire connections from the ballast transformers themselves. If a cable harness is used, the ballasts are also pluggably engageable with the fluorescent lamp socket bars.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improvement in shadow mask type color picture tubes. The improvement comprises a ferromagnetic member located within a tube and means for holding the ferromagnetic member within the tube. The invention also encompasses a method of utilizing the ferromagnetic member to remove particles from a shadow mask of a color picture tube. The method includes the use of a magnet to release the ferromagnetic member from the holding means and to move the ferromagnetic member over a surface of the shadow mask.

Abstract: A vehicle headlight is disclosed comprising a dirt sensor for sensing dirt on a diffuser disk of the headlight. The dirt sensor receives the light of a lamp of the headlight scattered back due to dirt on the diffuser disk and is shielded against the light emanating directly from the lamp and emanating indirectly via a reflector. The dirt sensor of the headlight is arranged at a point outside of the reflector to which the scattered-back light passes via reflection on the reflector whereby changes to the reflector for accommodating the dirt sensor and the concomitant reduction of the effective surface area of the reflector are avoided.