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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6999297 | Breakdown-resistant thin film capacitor with interdigitated structure The invention relates to a thin film capacitor with a carrier substrate, at least two interdigitated electrodes, and a dielectric. A staggered arrangement of at least one interdigitated electrode below the dielectric with respect to an interdigitated electrode above... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6388863 | Electronic part An electronic part enabling a further efficient attenuation of high-frequency noises is provided. The first dielectric paste is applied onto a PET film (30) to form a ceramic sheet (31) having a dielectric constant .di-elect cons.1 thereupon; and ceramic ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6366335 | Polarization-sensitive beam splitter, method of manufacturing such a beam splitter and magneto-optical scanning device including such a beam splitter A polarization-sensitive beam splitter comprising at least one transparent wedge-shaped element of a birefringent material is made by providing each one of two substrate plates with an orientation layer, whereafter the substrate plates are arranged with t... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6337790 | Thin-film capacitor The present invention provides a new type of thin-film capacitor which is insensitive to breakdown voltages during its mounting on a printed circuit board. Said capacitor has an insulating substrate having at least two internal electrode layers which are ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6333500 | Method of inspecting a substrate furnished with a phosphor layer A property of a layer of a phosphor screen on a substrate is determined by sending a beam of infrared radiation through the substrate and the layer and measuring, after the passage, the intensity of the beam. The radiation can be measured by a CCD camera.... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6326631 | Ion implantation device arranged to select neutral ions from the ion beam An ion implantation device includes at least two successive deceleration stages the first deceleration stage, looking in the downstream direction, being arranged to decelerate the ion beam, to deflect the ion beam, and to form an intermediate crossover, w... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6323591 | CRT with specific envelope thickness Picture display device with an evacuated tube comprising, around a longitudinal axis, a display window, a conical portion and a neck portion, said conical portion being connected to an upstanding wall of the display window. The wall thickness of the conic... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6321429 | Method of manufacturing an enveloped multilayer capacitor Method of manufacturing an enveloped multilayer capacitor and an enveloped multilayer comprising a method of manufacturing enveloped multilayer capacitors, in which a flat supporting plate of an electrically insulating material is provided with through-ho... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6316059 | Method of providing a metal pattern on glass in an electroless process Metal patterns (15) can be provided on a glass substrate (1) in an electroless process by modifying the substrate with a silane layer (3), locally removing said layer with a laser or UV-ozone treatment and selectively nucleating the remaining silane layer... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6313718 | High frequency dielectric device A dielectric device for high frequency application with a reduced loss of a high frequency component has at least a first dielectric on which a conductor is disposed and a second dielectric laminated on this dielectric and an additional dielectric with a ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6304030 | Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp A low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp with a discharge vessel (10) having first and second end portions (11). The discharge vessel encloses a discharge space provided with a filling of mercury and an inert gas in a gastight manner. Each end portion ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6297556 | Electrically resistive structure An electrically resistive structure comprising a substrate (11) which is provided on at least one side with a first resistive film (13) and a second resistive film (17), the materials of these first and second films (13, 17) being mutually different, wher... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6285127 | Plasma addressed liquid crystal display with etched glass spacers A flat display device, preferably of the PALC type, in which the plasma channels are formed by etching laterally-spaced slots in a spacer plate, attaching a thin dielectric sheet over the etched spacer plate, and bonding the etched spacer plate to a trans... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6280838 | Optical element, a display device provided with said optical element, and a method of manufacturing the optical element An optical element comprising a substrate which is provided with a transparent coating (9) containing a photochromic material, the transmission of said optical element varying in the visible region in response to a variation in light. The optical element ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6248666 | Process of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a buried channel field effect transistor A process of manufacturing a semiconductor device with a double-recessed gate field effect transistor, comprising the formation, on a substrate (1), of an active layer (3) of a semiconductor material and a first dielectric layer (D1), and furth... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6246460 | Active matrix liquid crystal display devices In an active matrix liquid crystal display device of the kind having an array of pixel electrodes supported on an insulating film provided over active matrix circuitry, comprising switching devices, e.g. TFTs, and address lines, carried on a substrate wit... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6238749 | Method of providing a metal pattern on an electrically insulating substrate in an electroless process Metal patterns (11, 11', 11") can be provided on a glass substrate (1) in an electroless process by modifying the substrate with a silane monolayer (3), nucleating said momolayer with a polymer-stabilized Pd sol (5) and, subsequently, locally removing the... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6233126 | Thin film magnetic head having low magnetic permeability layer, and method of manufacturing the magnetic head Thin film magnetic head has magnetoresistive element (23) and flux-guiding elements (117a,117b) of a material having a relatively high magnetic permeability, and an intermediate layer between the magnetoresistive element and the flux-guiding elements, the... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6227684 | Luminaire The luminaire has a concave reflector (1) with an optical axis (3) in a plane of symmetry (2), suitable to receive an elongate light source transverse to said plane (2). The reflector (1) is composed of flat facets (10,10') which are bounded by first para... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6226170 | Thin-film capacitor A thin-film capacitor comprises an electrically insulating substrate which is provided with at least two inner electrodes which are separated from each other by means of the dielectric layer. The capacitor also includes two end contacts which each electro... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6208389 | Display device comprising a display screen having an antistatic and light-absorbing coating The display screen 3 of a cathode ray tube 1 is provided with an antistatic, light-absorbing coating 8 which consists of ATO (Sb:SnO2) particles and polypyrrole particles. The coating may be provided with additional layers of silicon dioxide to... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6205008 | Magnetic-resistance device, and magnetic head employing such a device A magneto-resistance device comprising two layers of ferromagnetic material mutually separated by at least one interposed layer of non-ferromagnetic material, in which at least one of the layers of ferromagnetic material comprises half-metallic material, ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6202444 | Producing a glass object having an encodable layer A method of providing an encodable layer on a glass object and on the resultant product. Said layer is formed by providing a paste containing glass frit, pigment and a binder, on the hot glass. As a result, the glass frit melts, causing the pigment to adh... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6201682 | Thin-film component A thin-film component, for example a capacitor, a resistor and a coil, as well as combinations thereof. A substrate of an electrically insulating material (preferably glass), is provided with two U-shaped side contacts and with an electrical structure whi... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6190750 | Rewritable optical information medium A rewritable single-sided double layer optical information medium having a first recording stack with a phase change recording layer sandwiched between two dielectric layers. The recording stack is sufficiently transmissive to ensure proper reading/writin... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6174831 | Dielectric ceramic composition An object of the present invention is to provide a dielectric ceramic composition in which a volume changing ratio of the electrostatic capacity is within &#b1;0.3% over a wide temperature range of -55 to +125° C., it satisfies the NPO characteristics re... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6169531 | Liquid-crystal control circuit display device with selection signal In display devices based on ferroelectric liquid-crystal material with deformable helix, ferroelectric liquid-crystal material with a twisted smectic structure, monostable ferroelectric liquid-crystal material, electroclinic smectic A liquid-crystal mater... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6159573 | Rewritable optical information medium A description is given of a rewritable optical information medium having an IPIAIM stack comprising a phase-change recording layer sandwiched between two dielectric layers, a light-absorbing layer of a material like Si, Ge, Mo, or W, a third dielectric la... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6150757 | Method of coating a luminescent material A luminescent material coated with a crystalline layer of a metal oxide M.sub.2 O.sub.3 wherein a metal M is chosen from the group formed by Y and Al is shown. According to this method the luminescent material is first introduced into a solution of a salt... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6128177 | Multilayer capacitor A capacitor comprises a number of ceramic layers on the basis of barium titanate as well as a number of electrode layers of palladium or a silver-palladium alloy, the ceramic layers and the electrode layers being alternately stacked to form a multilayer, ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6127049 | Rewritable optical information medium A rewritable optical information medium has a phase-change recording layer on the basis of an alloy of Ge--Sb--Te, which composition is situated within the pentagonal area PQRST in a triangular ternary composition diagram. These alloys show a complete era... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6125026 | Electric component which can be mounted on the surface of a printed circuit board as well as a method of manufacturing such components The invention relates to an electric component (surface mountable component) which can be mounted on the surface of a printed circuit board. Such a component includes a thin, electroconductive layer or stack of layers which is provided with end contacts a... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6094336 | Enveloped multilayer capacitor Enveloped multilayer capacitors, which has a flat supporting plate of an electrically insulating material is provided with through-holes, and dielectric layers and electrode layers are provided in the holes and on both surfaces of the flat supporting plat... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6093073 | Frit jig assembly A method of manufacturing a cathode ray tube employs an assembly of a frit jig and a flexible bolt for use during the aligning and sealing process of the glass cone and display screen components of a cathode ray tube. The flexibility provided by the bolt ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6093492 | Phosphor composition with a hydroxycarboxylic-acid coating A phosphor composition of a sulphide-containing phosphor with a coating comprising a hydroxycarboxylic acid can be stored as a dry substance in the desagglomerated state and can be readily resuspended.... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6091184 | Optical element and display device provided with said optical element The optical element (29) comprises a substrate (28) provided with a light-transmitting layer (20) whose transmission in the visible range varies in response to a variation in light. The optical element (29) is characterized in that an anti-reflective laye... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088375 | Semiconductor device comprising p-type ZnMgSSe layer A II-VI semiconductor device has a p-doped quaternary ZnMgSSe layer formed of undoped sublayers and p-doped sublayers.... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6084343 | Display device comprising an anti-static, anti-reflection filter and a method of manufacturing an anti-reflection filter on a cathode ray tube A display window of a display device is provided with an anti-static, anti-reflection filter. Said filter comprises a conductive layer including metal particles and transparent particles, which layer is covered with a further transparent layer. The metal ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6078494 | Multilayer capacitor comprising barium-titanate doped with silver and rare earth metal A capacitor including a ceramic dielectric of a dielectric ceramic composition including a doped barium-calcium-zirconium-titanate of the composition (Ba1--μ-.nu. Aμ D.nu. Ca) [Ti1-x-δ-μ | 06/20/2000 |
| 6072688 | Ceramic multilayer capacitor The invention relates to a ceramic multilayer capacitor having a number of ceramic layers on the basis of a doped (Ba,Ca)[Ti,Zr]O3 as well as a number of electrode layers of Ni, the ceramic layers and the electrode layers being alternately stac... | 06/06/2000 |
