12th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 18 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090072609 | Dynamic cinching latch plate - A seat belt system comprises a seat belt, a tongue, and a buckle. The seat belt includes webbing with a lap portion and a shoulder portion. The buckle receives and latches the tongue. The tongue includes a slot to receive the webbing. The webbing slides within the slot to connect the webbing to the tongue. The tongue further includes a cinching mechanism to cinch the webbing in the slot. The system also includes a cinching control module that initiates the cinching mechanism to cinch the webbing in the slot when a load of about 3.0 kN or more is exerted on the seat belt. The cinching mechanism prevents translation of the seat belt from the lap portion to the shoulder portion. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072610 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A DECORATIVE MEMBER ON A TOOTHBRUSH - A method of providing a decorative member on a toothbrush includes the steps of forming an opaque first portion of a handle, putting a decorative member on the opaque first portion; and securing a transparent second portion to the first portion, with the decorative member being positioned between the first and second portions and visible through the second portion. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072611 | Vehicle wheel with pressure sensor - A wheel body includes a wheel body including a disk and a rim fixed to an outer circumference of the disk for supporting a tire for the vehicle; an air pressure sensor unit for detecting a pressure in an air chamber in the tire with transmitter; a sub air chamber member on the rim, having a for reducing a magnitude of a resonance sound generated by an air column defined by the air chamber defined by the rim and the tire. The air pressure sensor unit and the sub air chamber member are disposed in a circumferential direction of the wheel so as to cancel out one unbalance mass distribution of the vehicle wheel in the circumferential direction of the wheel caused by disposing the air pressure sensor by another unbalance mass distribution of the wheel in the circumferential direction caused by disposing sub air chamber member. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072612 | Spoke wheel protector - A Spoke Seal Protector that comprises a visually pleasing outer shape with an internal cavity, where the internal cavity has a lower portion shaped complimentary to the industry standard wheel adjusters on the wheel spokes of either motorcycles, bicycles, or other motor conveyances using spoked wheels. The Spoke Seal Protector is adhered onto the spoke adjustor and the internal cavity encases the spoke adjuster. A common automotive or industry sealant is placed in the lower counterbored portion of the Spoke Seal Protector and “glues” the Spoke Seal Protector to the spoke adjuster nut and creates an environmental seal between the components. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072613 | BICYCLE WHEEL SECURING STRUCTURE - A bicycle wheel securing structure includes a bicycle fork, an adapter and a holding member. The bicycle fork has two axle support portions that are spaced apart for receiving a bicycle hub therebetween. The adapter is disposed in an adapter receiving bore in one of the axle support portions. The adapter includes a threaded axle mounting opening. The holding member is operatively coupled between the adapter and the one of the axle support portions with the adapter. The holding member prevents both rotational movement of the adapter with respect to the bicycle fork and axial movement of the adapter with respect to the bicycle fork along an axis of the axle mounting opening when the holding member is in a retaining position. The adapter is rotatable within the adapter receiving bore without moving axially with respect to the bicycle fork when the holding member is in a releasing position. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072614 | Connection Element and Brake Pliers - A connection element ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072615 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING BRAKES - An apparatus for controlling brakes, includes a first brake circuit for supplying brake fluid, pressure-increased by a booster, to a wheel-brake cylinder, a first control valve disposed in the first brake circuit for establishing and blocking fluid communication between a master cylinder and the wheel-brake cylinder, a second brake circuit arranged in parallel with the first brake circuit for supplying brake fluid, pressure-increased by a fluid-pressure source, to the wheel-brake cylinder, and a second control valve disposed in the second brake circuit for establishing and blocking fluid communication between the fluid-pressure source and the wheel-brake cylinder. Also provided is a control unit, which is configured to selectively control the first and second control valves when building-up wheel-cylinder pressure, and further configured to build-up the wheel-cylinder pressure by operating the fluid-pressure source when at least the second control valve is controlled to a valve-open position. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072616 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM - The invention relates to a hydraulic braking system having a device for controlling brake slip, drive slip, and/or the driving stability of a vehicle. Among other things, such devices use pumps, valves, and reservoirs to control brake pressure in the wheel brakes in accordance with wheel slip occurring at the particular wheels. These components are in contact with each via a hydraulic circuit. The hydraulic circuit is built into a hydraulic block that has spaces for installing the components and channels for hydraulic contact. The invention makes possible a particularly compact and reduced-weight design of the hydraulic bloc and at the same time low manufacturing costs. For this purpose an advantageous layout and sealing of channels relative to each other and to the surrounding area is provided. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072617 | Automatic Track Tensioning System - An automatic track tensioning system is provided for use with a track-type work vehicle for automatically tensioning an endless track chain of the work vehicle. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072618 | Track for Crawler Vehicles - A metal track for crawler vehicles, the track having a metal chain hinged with substantially rectangular metal shoes, each of which has a work surface with arrow-shaped teeth defined by a front portion of one arrow-shaped tooth and a rear portion of another arrow-shaped tooth spaced apart on the work surface and complementary in shape; each portion of arrow-shaped tooth cooperating with a complementary portion on a respective adjacent shoe to define a complete arrow-shaped tooth. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072619 | SIGNALLING INTERCONNECT - A connector assembly for supplying power and transmitting signals from a vehicle to a towed trailer or other towed equipment. The connector assembly comprises a trailer hitch having a cross tube extending horizontally behind the vehicle. The cross tube has a wall separating an inside cavity from an outside surface of the cross tube. A first connector attached to the outside surface or mounted in a first opening in the wall of the cross tube has a connecting portion outwardly of the outside surface. Likewise, a second connector mounted at the outside surface or in a second opening in the wall of the cross tube has a connecting portion outwardly of the outside surface of the trailer hitch. One or more conduits extend across the inside cavity between the first and second connectors for interconnecting the vehicle to the towed trailer for supplying power and transmitting signals between them. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072620 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESISTIVE POWER DISTRIBUTION - An electrical power distribution method and apparatus are disclosed, the apparatus comprising a first power distribution member section receiving electrical power from a power supply and a second high resistivity power distribution member section, electrically connected to the first section for supplying the electrical power to an electrical device in electrical communication with the high resistivity section. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072621 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER CABLE DISTRIBUTOR, POWER SUPPLY SUBRACK AND INTEGRATED EQUIPMENT - A power supply system is provided, which includes a power supply subrack (PSS) and a power cable distributor (PCD). The PSS includes one or more power modules and a third connector ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072622 | LOAD DRIVE CIRCUIT, DELAY CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A level shift | 2009-03-19 |
20090072623 | UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A controlling method of uninterruptible power supply system comprising a first UPS and a second UPS for continuously providing power to a load is disclosed. The controlling method includes the steps of (a) determining if the first UPS is normal; (b) providing power to the load via the first UPS when the first UPS is normal and determining if the second UPS is normal when the first UPS is abnormal; and (c) providing power to the load through the second UPS when the second UPS is normal and providing the power to the load through a bypass route when the first UPS and the second UPS are both abnormal. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072624 | Green Data Center And Virtual Power Plant - A power system for cooling backup computer storage facilities having eight independent levels of redundancy for the power supply to allow the storage facility to survive even extreme and debilitating events and having redundant communications. If power from the existing gas or electric grid is lost, a series of back-up energy sources provide energy to run the micro-turbines and generate the power to run the servers and the HVAC system that cools the servers. In the event that the existing power grid is interrupted, the redundant power supplies are automatically engaged without disruption of the load. If the existing gas and/or electric power grids are disrupted, the storage facility is powered/cooled by a micro-grid having its own independent redundant sources of power. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072625 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - In an electric power supply system, a plurality of batteries ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072626 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS HAVING SWITCHABLE SWITCHING REGULATOR AND LINEAR REGULATOR - A control circuit is provided in which two power sources can be efficiently switched, for a power supply apparatus provided with a step down switching regulator and a linear regulator. A PWM controller generates a pulse width modulation signal with which a duty ratio is controlled so that output voltage of the switching regulator approaches a predetermined reference voltage. A compulsory OFF circuit monitors a switching voltage, and when a first threshold voltage is exceeded, switches a synchronous rectifier transistor OFF. A minimum ON time setting circuit limits the duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal, so that ON time of the switching transistor is longer than a predetermined minimum value. A selector circuit monitors an error voltage, and when a predetermined state continues for a predetermined first period, puts the linear regulator in an operating state, and the step down switching regulator in a halt state. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072627 | Maximizing Power Yield from Wireless Power Magnetic Resonators - Magneto mechanical systems used for wireless power reception. A miniature moving magnet is placed in an oscillating magnetic field. Movement of the magnet causes power to be generated. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072628 | Antennas for Wireless Power applications - Receive and transmit antennas for wireless power. The antennas are formed to receive magnetic power and produce outputs of usable power based on the magnetic transmission. Antenna designs for mobile devices are disclosed | 2009-03-19 |
20090072629 | High Efficiency and Power Transfer in Wireless Power Magnetic Resonators - Techniques for wireless power transmission at levels that induce high power transfer and/or high efficiency of coupling. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072630 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATOR - A semiconductor device controls an electrostatic actuator having first and second electrodes. A voltage generation unit generates different types of voltages applied to the first and second electrodes. A control unit controls voltages generated by the voltage generation unit to be applied to the first and second electrodes. A capacitance detection unit detects a voltage of the first or second electrode to detect a capacitance between the first and second electrodes. The control unit applies a first voltage between the first and second electrodes and then a second voltage smaller than the first voltage between the first and second electrodes. Thereafter, the control unit switches one of the first electrode or the second electrode to a high impedance state and then changes a voltage applied to the other. The capacitance detection unit detects the amount of change in voltage of the first or second electrode to detect a capacitance between the first and second electrodes. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072631 | WORKER SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Task—To provide a worker safety management system that can adapt itself to changes in the conditions of the workers and the machines in a flexible manner and can finely manage the safety of the worker. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072632 | Magnetohydrodynamic Engergy Conversion Device Using Solar Radiation as an Energy Source - A magnetohydrodynamic energy conversion device has a tungsten housing containing a working fluid and a conduit leading from and reentering the housing under pressure developed by heating the fluid with by an optical concentrator which directs rays from the sun at the housing. A voltage is developed across electrodes spaced within the conduit as the heated fluid passes therethrough. The fluid may be directed to turn a gas turbine for driving an electric generator. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072633 | HIGH PERFORMANCE LINEAR MOTOR AND MAGNET ASSEMBLY THEREFOR - A magnet assembly includes a back iron and an array of magnets. The back iron is in the form of a plate having opposed surfaces. The magnets are arranged along one of the surfaces, with the other surface being dimensioned and configured according to the magnetic field distribution associated with the magnets. The back iron geometry provides for reduced mass, reduced leakage flux, and high flux densities to improve performance of a linear motor that employs such a magnet assembly. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072634 | ELECTRICAL MACHINE - The invention relates to an electrical machine ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072635 | LINEAR MOTOR GEOMETRY FOR USE WITH PERSISTENT CURRENT MAGNETS - An electrically powered launcher is disclosed that can accelerate small payloads to orbital velocities. The invention uses a novel geometry to overcome limitations of other design, and allows full exploitation of existing superconducting materials. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072636 | ADJUSTABLE MID AIR GAP MAGNETIC LATCHING SOLENOID - A magnetic latching solenoid comprises a housing, a moveable magnetically permeable member, a stationary magnetic assembly, a counter flux generator; and, a spring. A substantially equal extent of the moveable magnetically permeable member and stationary magnetic assembly along results in an air gap interface being essentially mid-way between the opposite axial extremities of the moveable magnetically permeable member and stationary magnetic assembly, thereby enhancing an attracting force of a permanent magnet that comprises the stationary magnetic assembly. In an example embodiment, the stationary magnetic assembly comprises a pole member which is adjustably positionable to minimize air gaps. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072637 | AIRFLOW GENERATOR - The airflow generator includes a plate having a pivot and a swinging end. The invention also includes a first magnetic induced portion assembled nearby the pivot opposite to a second magnetic induced portion. With magnetic induced change, the first and second magnetic induced portions generate magnetic attraction or repulsion to drive the swinging end. The innovative airflow generator of the present invention can be applied to a compact structure and yield a satisfactory heat radiation effect and widely applied to the heat-radiating structure of various small-sized electronic devices. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072638 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A brushless motor includes a motor drive unit, a circuit board arranged to drive the motor drive unit having through holes formed in the upper surface and the lower surface; and a motor attachment plate including a plate-shaped base portion and plate-shaped fixing portions to fix the circuit board in place. Herein, each fixing portion includes a support portion for making contact with a surface of the circuit board; an arm portion bent in a direction that is substantially parallel to the rotational axis; and a protrusion portion inserted into a through hole, having at least one overhang extension protruding from the through hole. The overhang extension of the protrusion is bent in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the rotational axis. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072639 | Segmented composite rotor - A composite rotor for an axial airgap, permanent magnet dynamoelectric machine comprises a plurality of magnet subassemblies adhesively bonded together to form the rotor. Each magnet subassembly comprises a rotor permanent magnet and an optional spacer. A fibrous belt is wrapped around the periphery of each subassembly to provide high tensile strength at least along the radial sides of the subassembly. The belt is preferably infiltrated with an adhesive agent, such as an epoxy resin, that is used to bond the subassemblies. The rotor is thereby provided with high strength and low mass, making it suitable for use in a high-speed, high pole count electric machine. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072640 | AXIAL GAP-TYPE ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric motor includes a stator, at least one rotor, an output shaft engaged with the at least one rotor, and a contact area changing device configured to change an area of contact between the at least one rotor and the output shaft, wherein the area of contact between the at least one rotor and the output shaft affects a characteristic resonant frequency of the at least one rotor. A method to reduce vibrations in an electric motor includes engaging an output shaft into at least one rotor, rotating the output shaft and the at least one rotor with respect to a stator, changing an area of contact between the at least one rotor and a radial protrusion of the output shaft, and shifting the resonant frequency of the at least one rotor with the changed area of contact. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072641 | GENERATOR HAVING A COOLING FLOW BIFURCATION MEMBER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COOLING FLOW - A cooling flow bifurcation member is positioned in an outside radial flow passage of a generator between an end portion of a stator core and a stator flange. The flow bifurcation member includes a main body portion having a tapered surface that transforms a first flow having a first velocity passing into the outside radial flow passage into at least one other flow having another velocity. The at least one other flow is directed along at least one of an outer surface of the end portion of the stator core and the stator flange. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072642 | SPINDLE MOTOR AND DISK DRIVE DEVICE USING THE SAME - A spindle motor and a disk drive device are provided that has a high operation efficiency of the motor, that does not leak oil, and that has an improved stability by decreasing a runout component in the direction of the rotation axis. The spindle motor includes rotor hub ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072643 | BEARING UNIT, MOTOR USING THE BEARING UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT USING THE MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a bearing unit including a shaft; a radial bearing for supporting the outer circumferential surface of the shaft; a housing for accommodating the radial bearing, the housing having an open end from which the shaft is inserted and a closed end opposite to the open end in the axial direction of the shaft; a lubricating oil filled in the housing to reduce rotational friction of the shaft; a holding member provided at the open end of the housing for holding the lubricating oil; and a sealing member for closing the open end of the housing to prevent the leakage of the lubricating oil; wherein the sealing member having a side wall portion interposed between the holding member and the shaft and opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the shaft. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072644 | THRUST MAGNETIC BEARING SYSTEM - A thrust magnetic bearing system separates magnetic circuits of electromagnets from those of permanent magnets so that each permanent magnet produces a bias magnetic field while each electromagnet functions only to control the position of a rotating body, thereby achieving desired displacement and current stiffness without flowing a bias current through the electromagnet. The magnetic bearing system includes a thrust displacement sensor and a thrust magnetic bearing to float a disk floating body based on displacement information detected through the displacement sensor. The magnetic bearing includes a donut permanent magnet, a pair of electromagnets connected in series to form an inductor at both sides of the donut permanent magnet, and a pair of magnetic poles provided opposite each other outside the pair of electromagnets. The magnetic bearing floats the floating body through a bias magnetic flux generated by the permanent magnet and a control magnetic flux generated by the electromagnets. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072645 | Composite electromechanical machines with gear mechanism - Embodiments of the present invention include a composite electromechanical machine which can operate as a motor or a generator (including dynamo or alternator). In an aspect, the present composite electromechanical machine comprises at least two rotating elements (rotor) and one stationary element (stator) where the two rotating elements are coupled through a gear mechanism. The gear mechanism can combine the torque of the inner and the outer rotor, preferably using helical gears which have lower noise level and higher contact area. The gear mechanism can also act as a locking mechanism to keep the outer rotor in place. The gear mechanism can comprise a first gear coupled to the inner rotor and a second gear coupled to the outer rotor. In an embodiment, the first and second gears are coupled together to connect the inner and the outer rotors. The gear mechanism can further comprise a third gear coupled to the double-sided stator. In an embodiment, the first and third gears and the second and third gears are coupled to each other, respectively. Other embodiments can also be included. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072646 | Spindle Motor - A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072647 | Electric Rotating Machine and Automobile Equipped with It - An electric rotating machine includes a stator having a stator core provided with a teeth unit and a coil wound around each tooth in the teeth unit in a concentrated fashion and a rotor rotatably supported with air gap against the teeth unit of the stator, the rotor having a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets held by the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet is a rare earth magnet made of rare earth magnetic particles bound with SiO | 2009-03-19 |
20090072648 | OUTWARD TURNING MOTOR ROTOR FOR A CEILING FAN - An outward turning motor rotor for a ceiling fan includes a stator and a rotor positioned around the outer circumference of the stator. The rotor contains a circular-case base having its circumference disposed with a circumferential wall having plural permanent magnets equidistantly and annularly secured thereon. Each permanent magnet has one side facing the stator tapered gradually from an intermediate portion toward a left end and a right end, letting the opposite ends of each permanent magnet respectively formed with a comparatively thin pole portion and lengthening a distance between the pole portions of each permanent magnet and the stator. In change-over motion, a comparatively small magnetic force produced by the pole portions of the rotor will stabilize vibration produced, greatly lowering noises caused by rotation of the rotor. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072649 | BRUSHLESS ELECTRIC MOTOR - The invention relates to a brushless electric motor, comprising a stator and an armature with armature teeth and permanent magnets in accumulative order, the armature being made from a laminated core with grooves and the armature teeth and grooves have a particular embodiment. The commutation time for the phase windings of the stator is selected such that subsequent control of the commutation time is not necessary, the torque being approximately equal at the start and the end of an armature stage. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072650 | MOTOR - A motor includes a stator with an annular stator yoke, a stator core having a plurality of inner and outer teeth projecting from the stator yoke toward inside and outside respectively, a plurality of coils wound on the stator core, and an inner rotor and an outer rotor confronting the inner and outer teeth respectively via an air-gap, and having an permanent magnet respectively. The number of slots “S” and the number of poles “P” establish a relation of S:P=3:2N−1, where N is an integer equal to 1 or more, and a case when 2N−1 becomes a multiple of 3 is excluded. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072651 | SLOTLESS WINDING FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a slotless winding for a rotating electric machine and a manufacturing method thereof. The slotless winding includes at least one flexible printed circuit board having at least one circuit, and one piece of flexible printed circuit board(s) is curved or a plurality of pieces of flexible printed circuit board(s) is mutually combined to form a barrel shape, thereby simplifying the procedure of manufacturing the slotless winding, improving production speed and reliability, and enabling diversified designing schemes to meet the demands of the rotating electric machine. In addition, it is not necessary for the coil winding to be cured for assembling, and assembling yield is thus enhanced. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072652 | Electric rotating machine - The electric rotating machine includes a rotor around which a field coil is wound, and a stator including a stator core around which an armature winding is wound. The armature winding includes a first three-phase winding whose phase coils are delta-connected to form a delta winding, and a second three-phase winding whose phase coils are connected to corresponding nodes of the delta winding to form a star winding. The delta winding and the star winding are wound around the stator core such that the phase coils of the delta winding and the phase coils of the star winding share the same slots of the stator core. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072653 | Stator Structure of Rotary Electric Machine and Method of Manufacturing the Same - A stator of rotary electric machine includes a plurality of winding bodies of a concentrated winding type in which two conductive wires are wound in rows. Assuming that the number of conductive wires supplied to each winding body is P, the number of slots (winding bodies) of the entire stator is T, and the number of neutral points (the number of stars) is S, winding wires extending between the winding bodies are twisted at spacing intervals of N winding bodies (N is a natural number) determined to satisfy the following relation: T=3×S×P×N. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072654 | COIL INSULATOR, ARMATURE COIL INSULATED BY THE COIL INSULATOR AND ELECTRICAL ROTATING MACHINE HAVING THE ARMATURE COIL - A coil insulator of an electrical rotating machine used as a main insulator for insulating a bundle of conductors formed of a plurality of insulated wires to form an armature coil provided in a slot of a rotor core or a stator core of an electrical rotating machine, wherein the coil insulator includes a mica layer including at least one of a peeled-off mica and a composite mica, a woven- or unwoven cloth including at least one of inorganic and organic materials, hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles having a graphitization index of 1.8 or more, and thermosetting polymer organic resin which integrally connects the mica layer and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles to each other, and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles is oriented in a longitudinal direction of the coil. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072655 | DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINE - A first laminate layer block having a bolt fixing unit laminated/fixed by caulking a plurality of steel plates having lug metals protruding diametrically and a second laminate layer block laminated/fixed by caulking a plurality of steel plates not having lug metals are rolled and laminate on part of a steel plate, and are welded on the surfaces of their side surface in a laminate direction to be laminated and integrated. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the axial force of the fixed bolt from being lowered due to thermal shock of a stator to decrease the occurrence of vibration or noise, and reduce vibration or noise by increasing the fixing levels of the stator and a case. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072656 | Four-pole electric motor drive with hammer brush holder system - The invention relates to a four-pole electric motor drive which has a stator and a rotor. The rotor contains a rotor shaft, a laminated rotor core containing rotor teeth, and a commutator fitted with segments. Furthermore, the drive has a hammer brush holder system which has a frame, brush support arms, one end of each arm having a brush receiver, and the other end of each arm being connected to the frame via a rotatable bearing arrangement, and carbon brushes, each of which is inserted in one of the brush receivers. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072657 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND FUEL PUMP HAVING THE SAME - A permanent magnet has magnetic poles being circumferentially different from each other. An armature is rotatable at a radially inside of the permanent magnet and has a laminated core and a coil. The laminated core includes magnetic plates laminated in an axial direction so as to interpose an insulating layer. The magnetic plates include end magnetic plates located at most distant ends. At least one of the end magnetic plates has an outer circumferential side provided with a collar, which extends in the rotation axis direction so as to be opposed to pole faces of the permanent magnet. The at least one of the end magnetic plates has a thickness t, and the collar has a length h. The thickness t and the length h have a relationship of h/t≦10. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072658 | DIELECTRIC COMPOSITE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A DIELECTRIC COMPOSITE - A composite for a transducer facilitates an increased actuation force as compared to similar prior art composites for transducers. In accordance with the present invention, the composite also facilitates increased compliance of the transducer in one direction and an improved reaction time as compared to similar prior art composites for transducers, as well as provides an increased lifetime of the transducer in which it is applied. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072659 | SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE - A surface acoustic wave device has a duty that is greater than about 0.5, attenuation outside the pass band is increased, and an undesirable spurious response is effectively suppressed. The surface acoustic wave device includes an LiNbO | 2009-03-19 |
20090072660 | Slider That Utilizes Surface Acoustic Waves - An apparatus includes a slider having a projection extending therefrom wherein the projection includes a transducer formed thereon. The apparatus also includes a surface acoustic wave generator positioned to direct a surface acoustic wave toward the projection. The transducer may be structured and arranged for performing a data storage read and/or write operation. The surface acoustic wave propagates along a surface of the projection in order to provide for the projection to be in contact with a data storage media. A related method is also provided. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072661 | TIRE WITH ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION DEVICE - The invention provides a tire with an electric power generation device for supplying sufficient electric power which has a simple and small-sized construction. An electric power generation device for converting strain occurring in a tire into electric energy includes at least one electric power generation element and a device body. The electric power generation element has at least two stretchable electrodes and a dielectric elastomer, arranged between the electrodes, and producing a potential difference between the electrodes according to the strain applied from the tire. The device body has an electrical condenser for accumulating electric energy produced by the electric power generation element. The length, in the circumferential direction of the tire, of the electric power generation element is set so that strain by contraction and strain by expansion that are caused by the rotating tire coming into contact with the ground surface are not simultaneously applied to the single power generation element. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072662 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CIRCUIT FOR PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK - A circuit ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072663 | SINGLE-RESONATOR DUAL-FREQUENCY LATERAL-EXTENSION MODE PIEZOELECTRIC OSCILLATORS, AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF - Oscillators include a resonator having first and second electrodes and configured to resonate at a first frequency at which the first and second electrodes carry in-phase signals and at a second frequency at which the first and second electrodes carry out-of-phase signals. A driver circuit is configured to selectively sustain either the in-phase signals on the first and second electrodes or the out-of-phase signals on the first and second electrodes so that the resonator selectively resonates at either the first frequency or the second frequency, respectively. Related oscillator operating methods are also disclosed. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072664 | DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus comprises: an electromechanical conversion element that expands or contracts along an expanding and contracting direction; a driving member attached to one end of the electromechanical conversion element in the expanding and contracting direction; a driven body frictionally engaged with the driving member; and a printed circuit board that transmits an electrical signal for driving the electromechanical conversion element, wherein the electromechanical conversion element is mounted on a surface of the printed circuit board such that the expanding and contracting direction becomes substantially parallel to the surface of the printed circuit board, and the electromechanical conversion element is electrically connected to the printed circuit board. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072665 | ULTRASONIC ACTUATOR - An ultrasonic actuator includes: a piezoelectric element 10 for generating various kinds of vibrations having different vibration directions; a driver element provided on the piezoelectric element 10 and actuated in accordance with the vibration of the piezoelectric element 10 to output driving force toward a certain driving direction; feeding electrodes 8 provided on the piezoelectric element 10 and electrically connected to the piezoelectric element 10; and feeding-supporting parts 6A, 6B, 7A, 7B and 9A abutting the feeding electrodes to elastically support the actuator body and serving as feeding terminals for supplying a voltage to the feeding electrodes 8. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072666 | Ultrasonic Actuator - It is an object to provide a small ultrasonic actuator whose voltage control is easy. The ultrasonic actuator acts on a rotatable rotor to rotate the rotor, the ultrasonic actuator includes: a plate vibrator having one end which contacts the rotor, a corner portion bent at a midpoint in the vibrator, and the other end which is fixed; and a piezoelectric device which contacts a part of the vibrator between the one end and the corner portion, and transmits a vibration to the vibrator by vibrating in response to application of an alternating voltage between one of electrodes provided respectively on both surfaces or the plate vibrator serving as the one of the electrodes and the other of the electrodes. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072667 | PIEZOELECTRIC/ELECTROSTRICTIVE FILM ELEMENT - A piezoelectric/electrostrictive film element | 2009-03-19 |
20090072668 | Method and apparatus for optimized dematching layer assembly in an ultrasound transducer - A method for manufacturing an acoustical stack for use within an ultrasound transducer comprises using a user defined center operating frequency of an ultrasound transducer that is at least about 2.9 MHz. A piezoelectric material and a dematching material are joined with an assembly material to form an acoustical connection therebetween. The piezoelectric material has a first acoustical impedance and *at least one of* an associated piezoelectric rugosity (Ra) and piezoelectric waviness (Wa). The dematching material has a second acoustical impedance that is different than the first acoustical impedance and at least one of an associated dematching Ra and dematching Wa. The piezoelectric and dematching materials have an impedance ratio of at least 2. The assembly material has a thickness that is based on the center operating frequency and at least one of the piezoelectric Ra, piezoelectric Wa, dematching Ra and dematching Wa. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072669 | FLEXTENSIONAL VIBRATION-FREE PRESSURE OSCILLATOR - An apparatus for producing pressure oscillation of a fluid, incorporating hermetically sealed casing including a housing, a cover, a hermetic seal, a cylindrical flextensional transducer driven by piezoelectric or magnetostrictive driving member positioned in the inner cavity of the transducer and secured between two endplates, two springs providing for axial preloading and centering of the cylindrical flextensional transducer, two internal seals preventing fluid leakage between swept volume and other structure volumes; hermetic connectors for electrical connecting of the actuation member to energizing means, and fluid flow channel. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072670 | INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING USER INPUT ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The invention relates to an input device comprising a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a piezoelectric material layer arranged in between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072671 | Measurement system for measuring cylinder pressure in an internal combustion engine - A plurality of exchangeable, different piezoelectric pressure sensors ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072672 | SUPPORT MEMBER OF VIBRATOR - The present invention provides, in a physical quantity measuring system using a vibrator, a supporting structure of a vibrator for reducing the zero-point temperature drift of detection signal. It is provided a supporting member for supporting a vibrator with bonding wires. The supporting member has a supporting plate with an opening formed therein to be positioned direct under a vibrator, and a bonding wire comprising a bonding end to be bonded with the vibrator, a fixed portion fixed on the supporting plate and a bent portion direct under the opening. A distance “L | 2009-03-19 |
20090072673 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE USING THE PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE - A piezoelectric device having a piezoelectric film formed over a substrate through an electrode by vapor phase deposition using plasma, and constituted by columnar crystals of one or more perovskite oxides Pb(Ti | 2009-03-19 |
20090072674 | Stepping Motor - A stepping motor has stators arranged at both end sides in the direction of a shaft of a rotor magnet, each of the stators includes inner and outer yokes having pole teeth opposed to the outer peripheral surface of the rotor magnet, at least the outer yoke among the inner and outer yokes has a tubular bending part, and the bending part is fixed to a cylindrical core made of a magnetic material. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072675 | PULSE MOTOR - A pulse motor includes: a first iron core having a plurality of iron core teeth; a second iron core having a plurality of iron core teeth, the second iron core being arranged to oppose to the first iron core through an air gap; and commutating pole teeth formed between the iron core teeth; wherein a level difference is provided between a tooth tip of the iron core tooth and a tooth tip of the commutating pole tooth | 2009-03-19 |
20090072676 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE HAVING SWITCHED OR VARIABLE RELUCTANCE WITH FLUX TRANSVERSE TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION - An electric machine, such as a switched reluctance motor (SRM), having one or more transverse flux axes is described. The rotor and stator of the electric machine have more than one phase, not necessarily of even number. Flux guidance regions within the stator are angularly and spatially located such that they may be transverse, or not coinciding with, the plane perpendicular to the axis of shaft rotation. The flux guidance regions are composed so as to contain a magnetic field whose flux is guided in either a loop or coupled configuration. In the loop configuration, multiple flux guidance paths that are able to operate simultaneously exist within each chuck arrangement. In the coupled configuration, a single primary flux guidance path exists within the chuck arrangement. Transverse flux guidance allows for the removal and replacement of stator windings without significant disassembly or removal of the motor. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072677 | MOTOR DRIVING APPARATUS - In a motor driving apparatus, an incline of boundary lines of magnetic poles with respect to a rotating shaft of a rotor and an incline in a movable direction of a magnetic detection unit with respect to the rotating shaft of the rotor are different. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072678 | Display - A display has a front cabinet provided with a holding structure including plurality of bosses protruding from a boundary of a display panel holding area on the back surface of the front cabinet and provided with axial threaded holes, respectively, positioning ribs protruding from the back surface of the front cabinet so as to be in contact with a perimeter of a display panel placed in the front cabinet to position the display panel in the front cabinet, and screwing members each having a threaded part capable of being screwed into the threaded hole of the boss, and a pressing part extending about the axis of the threaded part. The bosses of the holding structure are divided into sets each of the adjacently arranged bosses respectively having different lengths respectively for display panels respectively having different thicknesses. A desired one of display panels respectively having different thicknesses can be fixedly held in the front cabinet without using additional holding members. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072679 | GLASS DOOR FOR REFRIGERATED MERCHANDISER - A thermal insulating glass door includes a multi-panel glass panel assembly having a non-structural, protective trim abutting the peripheral edge of the glass panel assembly and extending along the perimeter of the glass panel assembly, and a pair of hinge brackets mounted to one side of said glass panel assembly in spaced relationship, and a handle on the glass panel assembly on the free-swinging side of the door. The non-structural, protective trim, the handle and the hinge brackets are adhesively bonded to the glass panel assembly using double sided adhesive tape. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072680 | Jewelry display and storage device - A jewelry display and storage device includes a base member for supporting such jewelry display and storage device. Such base member is manufactured from a first predetermined material and has a first predetermined size and a first predetermined shape. A first jewelry support member is rotatably disposed on such base member at a predetermined location thereon. Such first jewelry support member is manufactured from a second predetermined material and has a second predetermined size and a second predetermined shape. A second jewelry support member is disposed at a first end thereof on such first jewelry support member. Such second jewelry support member is manufactured from a third predetermined material and has a third predetermined size and a third predetermined shape. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072681 | RECEIVING DEVICE - A receiving device is provided, comprising a chamber, a plurality of spacers, a plurality of positioners and a spacer moving module. The spacers are disposed in the chamber, wherein the spacers define a plurality of receiving spaces. The positioners are disposed in the chamber, wherein the spacers are detachably disposed on the positioners. The spacer moving module is disposed in the chamber, wherein the spacer moving module moves the spacers relative to the positioners to change sizes of the receiving spaces. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072682 | Protective boot for an electronic device - A protective boot that protects a vehicle diagnostic device from damaging a vehicle to which is attached. The protective boot also helps to prevent the diagnostic device from being damaged when dropped from a distance off of the floor. The protective boot includes strap receiving members at various locations on the housing of the protective boot so that strapping members can be fed therethrough to attach the diagnostic device to the vehicle, such as a motorcycle. The protective boot also includes openings for access to controls or connections of the diagnostic device. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072683 | Clothes refreshing apparatus - A clothes refreshing apparatus is disclosed. The clothes refreshing apparatus includes a cabinet forming an external appearance, a drum which is installed in the cabinet and provides a space in which clothes are loaded and refreshed, a front panel which forms a front surface of the cabinet and has a loading port through which the clothes are loaded into the drum, and a door which is installed to open and close the loading port, wherein the door is formed to have a vertical length equal to or larger than a vertical length of side surfaces of the front panel. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072684 | LAUNDRY TREATING MACHINE - A laundry treating machine is provided which includes a cabinet that forms an external appearance of the laundry treating machine, a washing tub mounted in the cabinet, a housing mounted in the cabinet below the washing tub, the housing defining a predetermined space, and a movable body received in the housing such that the movable body can move in forward-and-rearward directions with respect to the cabinet. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072685 | Flush to grade underground cabinet - Flush to Grade Underground Cabinet is an underground, heat dissipating, electronics cabinet/enclosure that employs remotely vented above-ground atmospheric air to meet electronics cooling and moisture control requirements, including existing and anticipated future battery technology. The preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes a vault having air ducts passing through it leading to an above-ground ventilation pedestal on one end and an enclosure inside the vault that houses batteries and electronic equipment on the other end. The preferred embodiment also is a hybrid system utilizing a closed loop heat-exchanger that cools electronics while managing moisture and eliminating dust/pollution with filters while using tubes to vent battery compartment gases. Alternative embodiments of the invention may incorporate different heat-exchangers, different ventilation pedestals or points, different heat-exchanger locations, different techniques for moisture control air ducts, sumps for moisture control, dehumidifiers, and a variety of latching devices for the vault and enclosure and lifting devices for the various components. To use the preferred embodiment of Flush to Grade Underground Cabinet, an individual would install the vault and enclosure underground, preferably six inches to one foot below grade. The ventilation pedestal would be placed above-ground and connected to the enclosure through the vault via the first air duct and the second air duct attached to the first pressure coupling and the second pressure coupling. The enclosure is preferably bolted down to an optional concrete pad to secure it from forces during flooding conditions. The heat-exchanger on the enclosure has fans to pull cool air coming from the ventilation pedestal through the first air duct and into the enclosure through the heat-exchanger and into a battery tube connected to a battery tray within the enclosure. A separate battery tube also permits warm air and gases from the battery tray to travel into the heat-exchanger and out of the enclosure through a second air duct connected to the ventilation pedestal. When servicing is required, the lid of the vault is unbolted and the enclosure cover is opened to access the various components. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072686 | COUNTERBALANCE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISHWASHER DOOR AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A dishwasher is provided, comprising a door pivotably engaged with a body and a counterbalance assembly coupled therebetween for facilitating pivoting of the door. The counterbalance assembly includes a first and second biasing member, each coupled to the body and serially engaged with a respective first and second flexible element coupled to the door. A guide member is secured to the body and includes a fixed arcuate member defining a first guide track, and a pulley rotatable about an axis and defining a second guide track. The first flexible element is at least partially wrapped about each of the fixed arcuate member and the pulley so as to serially engage the first and second guide tracks. The second flexible element is at least partially wrapped about a second side of the fixed arcuate member so as to engage the first guide track. An associated apparatus and method are also provided. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072687 | Drive mechanism for a furniture part which is mounted movably in or on an item of furniture - Drive mechanism for a furniture part, in particular a drawer or door, which is mounted moveably in or on an item of furniture, having a drive apparatus which is guided moveably with respect to a base and is loaded by a force accumulator, having a dampening apparatus and a pulling-in apparatus, wherein the drive apparatus has a pushing-out element for moving the furniture part from a closed end position into an open position and a locking element which is guided by a preferably heart-shaped guide track which is formed on the base, and wherein the damping apparatus, the force accumulator which loads the drive apparatus and the pulling-in apparatus are connected in series. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072688 | RECEIVING DEVICE - A receiving device is provided, comprising a chamber, a first cover unit and a second cover unit. The chamber has an opening and a plurality of receiving spaces. The first cover unit comprises a first cover element. The second cover unit comprises a second cover element, wherein the opening is closed when the first cover element and the second cover element contact each other, and the opening is opened when the first cover element and the second cover element separate from each other. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072689 | Fast Mounting Mechanism for a telescoping slide - A fast mounting mechanism for a telescoping slide, the slide includes an inner rail to receive the mounting of a drawer or the like and an outer rail. The inner rail comprises mounting holes. Each mounting hole contains a vertical channel and a horizontal channel connecting through each other. A positioning member and a release member are provided on the inner. side of the inner rail adjacent to one of the mounting holes. The positioning member has a first end locked to the inner side of the inner rail and a second end provided with a protruding bit facing the horizontal channel of the mounting hole. The release member disposed on the inner rail slides in relation with and pushes against the positioning member for its protruding bit to move away in opposite direction relatively to the inner side of the inner rail. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072690 | Mounting System for a Drawer Track Assembly - A mounting system for attaching a guide member of a drawer track assembly to either a back panel or an inner side panel of a piece of furniture includes a mounting bracket and a pin. The mounting bracket defines an L-shaped configuration with a vertical portion and a horizontal portion, wherein the vertical portion includes at least one fastener opening for fastening the mounting bracket to either the inner side panel or the back panel of the piece of furniture and the horizontal portion defines an elongate slot. The pin is slidably disposed within the elongate slot and also rotationally disposed with respect to the mounting bracket such that, when the mounting bracket is attached to the guide member via the pin, the mounting bracket being both rotatable and translationally slidable with respect to the guide member. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072691 | Interlocking Connector Strip For Assembling Drawers - A connector strip comprising a first mounting plate having spaced apart first projections with first pockets between adjacent projections, a second mounting plate having at least one second projection with second pockets between each adjacent second projection, wherein the first projections and the first pockets slidingly interlock with each second projection and the second pockets to form a joint, and at least one fastener laterally securing together the interlocking projections and pockets. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072692 | System for Fastening a Furniture Front - A system for fastening a furniture front to a door of a built-in refrigerator is provided and includes at least two retaining fittings interposed between the back of the furniture front and the front of the door of the built-in refrigerator. An ice/water dispenser is provided on the door of the built-in refrigerator, the dispenser being actuatable through a recess in the furniture front, and one of the retaining fittings is arranged directly next to the dispenser between the door and the furniture front. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072693 | LED DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED LIGHT OUTPUT - A white light-emitting microcavity light-emitting diode device, comprising:
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20090072694 | Sparkplug having improved heat removal capabilities and method to recycle used sparkplugs - Here in is disclosed a system of heat removal for the electrode part of a sparkplug that is used in the internal combustion engine. This is so as to use electrodes that have a very large mass as compared to the smaller, to very small electrodes, as in the case of using precious metals. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072695 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - This is to provide an image display device using a spacer | 2009-03-19 |
20090072696 | CERAMIC LAMP HOLDER - A ceramic lamp holder for connecting a bulb and communicating with a filament of the bulb includes a cylinder and a conductive terminal. The cylinder is made of ceramic material with its one side formed into a closed end. The closed end is provided with a through hole for allowing one end of the filament to pass through. The outer surface of the cylinder is formed with an outer thread and a trough recessed into the surface of the outer thread. The conductive terminal is fixedly received in the trough to be partially exposed to the surface of the outer thread. One end of the conductive terminal is connected to the other end of the filament. Via the above arrangement, the wear caused by the friction between the conductive terminal and the lamp socket can be reduced, and the contact effect and the life time of the lamp holder can be increased. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072697 | ELECTRON-EMITTING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A convex portion | 2009-03-19 |
20090072698 | Microwave coupled excitation of solid state resonant arrays - An electronic receiver array for detecting microwave signals. Ultra-small resonant devices resonate at a frequency higher than the microwave frequency (for example, the optical frequencies) when the microwave energy is incident to the receiver. A microwave antenna couples the microwave energy and excites the ultra-small resonant structures to produce Plasmon activity on the surfaces of the resonant structures. The Plasmon activity produces detectable electromagnetic radiation at the resonant frequency. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072699 | CATHODE RAY TUBE WITH IMPROVED MASK ASSEMBLY - A cathode ray tube including a shadow mask. The shadow mask includes an aperture portion including a plurality of beam guide holes, a non-aperture portion surrounding the aperture portion, and a skirt portion that is bent from an edge of the non-aperture portion toward an electron gun. The non-aperture portion includes a pair of longer sides, a pair of shorter sides, and four corner portions, and a first width of the non-aperture portion measured at the longer side and a second width of the non-aperture portion measured at the shorter side are formed to be less than a third width of the non-aperture portion measured at the corner portions. The shadow mask satisfies the following conditions: 2 mm≦w | 2009-03-19 |
20090072700 | PHOSPHOR-CONTAINING MOLDED MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - In a method of manufacturing a phosphor-containing molded member, an inorganic powder in a mixture with a phosphor powder is melted by using Spark Plasma Sintering method, and then cooled. In a phosphor-containing molded member, a content of the phosphor therein is 5% by weight or more. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072701 | LUMINESCENT SCREEN - A cathodoluminescent mosaic screen on a light-transparent substrate wherein the light-emitting components of the screen are implemented as light-guiding single-crystalline columns. A method for preparation of the screen by vapor deposition of the luminescent material onto the substrate coated by a localized liquid phase has been proposed. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072702 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A DISCHARGE ELECTRODE SHEET USED THEREIN - A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first and the second substrates are flexible and face each other. A discharge electrode sheet is disposed between the first and second substrates to configure a plurality of discharge cells and includes a plurality of patterned discharge electrodes. A phosphor layer is formed in each of the discharge cells. An exhaust gas pathway is formed in the discharge electrode sheet and connects the discharge cells. The exhaust gas pathway that connects adjacent discharge cells is formed in the film shape discharge electrode sheet between the first and second substrates. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072703 | LOW-PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP - The invention relates to an improved low-pressure gas discharge lamp comprising a gas discharge vessel ( | 2009-03-19 |
20090072704 | PHOSPHOR AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - The present invention provides a phosphor that has high luminance, a property of low luminance degradation during PDP driving, and chromaticity y comparable to that of BAM:Eu. The present invention is the phosphor that is represented by the general formula xAO.y | 2009-03-19 |
20090072705 | Electron emission device, electron emission type backlight unit including the electron emission device, and method of manufacturing the electron emission device - An electron emission device includes a base substrate, at least one isolation layer on the base substrate, the isolation layer having a first lateral side and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side, first and second electrodes on the base substrate along the first and second lateral sides of the isolation layer, respectively, a first electron emission layer between the first electrode and the first lateral side of the isolation layer, and a second electron emission layer between the second electrode and the second lateral side of the isolation layer. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072706 | FIELD EMISSION LIGHT SOURCE - A field emission light source includes a substrate, a cathode conductive layer, a plurality of electron emitters, a transparent substrate, an anode layer and a fluorescent layer. The cathode conductive layer is formed on the substrate. The electron emitters are disposed on the cathode conductive layer. The transparent substrate is spaced from the cathode conductive layer. The anode layer is formed on the transparent substrate facing the electron emitters and includes a carbon nanotube film structure having carbon nanotubes arranged in a preferred orientation. The fluorescent layer is formed on the anode layer facing the electron emitters. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072707 | ELECTRON EMISSION DEVICE, LIGHT EMISSION APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ELECTRON EMISSION DEVICE - Electron emission devices include first electrodes on a substrate extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other. Second electrodes are on the substrate alternating between the first electrodes and extending in a second direction opposing the first direction. First electron emitters and second electron emitters are on side surfaces of the first electrodes and the second electrodes, respectively. Gaps are formed between the first electron emitters and second electron emitters. | 2009-03-19 |
20090072708 | Nitride phosphor and production process thereof, and light emitting device - To provide a phosphor containing a comparatively much red component and having high light emitting efficiency, high brightness and further high durability, the nitride phosphor is represented by the general formula L | 2009-03-19 |