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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120045171 | Light Guide Bar and Optical Touch Panel Having the Same A light guide bar and an optical touch panel utilizing the light guide bar are provided. The light guide bar is applied to an optical touch panel with a sensing area. The light guide bar includes a bar body and a plurality of prisms. The bar body has a first receiving e... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120020622 | PLANAR NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE COMPRISING A STRUCTURE FOR OPTICAL COUPLING WITH AN OPTICAL FIBRE A single-mode planar nanophotonic waveguide includes an optical core, a cladding coating the optical core, and a structure for the optical coupling of the core of the waveguide with the core of a single-mode optical fibre. The coupling structure includes an adaptation e... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110286699 | LIGHT GUIDE BODY AND LIGHTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME The present invention provides a light guide body that has a light incidence portion through which light enters the light guide body; a light reflecting portion positioned opposite a light emitting surface that extends from the light incidence portion in a longitudinal ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110243502 | OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER MODULE AND PRISM USING FOR THE SAME An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer module comprises: a plurality of prisms, each having an inclined surface that is formed by one of the four orthogonal corners of a transparent rectangular solid glass plate being cut and removed at a 45° angle with respect to the en... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234121 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CONTROLLING ILLUMINATION CHARACTERISTICS OF A PLURALITY OF LIGHTING SEGMENTS The invention provides a method and system of controlling illumination characteristics of a plurality of lighting segments. According to the invention, there is provided an illumination system, comprising: a plurality of lighting segments; a detecting subsystem configur... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110222309 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE Provided are an optical element and a light-emitting device with which the illuminated area can be expanded in spite of a small light-emitting area, and that also enable the device to be downsize. The light-emitting device is equipped with sheet-like light-guide section... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110176768 | OPTICAL SPECTRAL FILTER, ANGULAR FILTER AND POLARISER A filter and fabrication process for a thin film filter that is based on frustrated total internal reflection and multiple waveguide layers, in which the waveguide modes are resonantly coupled. The physics of the design is related to prism coupling of light into planar ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110123152 | Optical Splitter Device An optical splitter device and method are provided. The device can include a waveguide having walls forming a large hollow core. The waveguide can be configured to direct an optical signal through the large hollow core. An optical tap can be formed through at least one ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110069927 | OPTICAL FIBER COUPLER A coupling device includes a fiber collimator, a wedge window pair and a plane window for coupling a light beam provided by a beam source to optical fiber. The fiber collimator is mounted to a base plate and includes a collimator lens, an end of the optical fiber being ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069725 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATION AND AMPLIFICATION OF LIGHT IN A SEMI-GUIDING HIGH ASPECT RATIO CORE FIBER A planar laser gain medium and laser system. The novel laser gain medium includes an active core having a high aspect ratio cross-section with a fast-axis dimension and a slow-axis dimension, signal claddings adapted to form reflective boundaries at fast-axis boundaries... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110002143 | LIGHT GUIDE PLATE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF A light guide plate (100) has an input face (11) to couple light (B0) emitted by a light source (50) into said light guide (100), and an out-coupling grating (30) to couple light (B2) out of said light guide (100).... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100329606 | LATERAL GUIDE OPTICAL FIBER A lateral guide optical fiber is revealed. The lateral guide optical fiber includes a transparent optical fiber body covered by a refraction layer and a reflector connected with one side of the optical fiber body. Thereby after light emitted into the optical fiber body ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100296777 | OPTICAL ROTARY JOINT WITH ACTIVE MOVEMENT COMPENSATION An optical rotary joint includes a first collimator arrangement for coupling on first light-waveguides, and a second collimator arrangement for coupling on second light-waveguides, with the second collimator arrangement being supported to be rotatable relative to the fi... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100278480 | LIGHT COLLECTION AND ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS EMPLOYING PLANAR WAVEGUIDE An apparatus for distributing light from a waveguide through a collimating array, or collecting light over a given area into a waveguide. Light received within a waveguide is propagated transmissively and retained by total internal reflection, except in response to impi... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100260454 | LASER TO OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING DEVICE AND METHOD A missile defense system (20) for aircraft includes a laser (12) for generating infrared light, a turret (22) that can direct the light toward a missile to blind its infrared sensors, and an optical fiber (14) for delivering the light to the ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260455 | OPTICAL GUIDE AND OCULAR VISION OPTICAL SYSTEM The invention relates to optical guides and more precisely to guides for conveying an image without deforming the same. These guides can particularly be used in the production of ocular-vision optical systems more currently named informative spectacles. The optical guid... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100247038 | Coupling Device for Coupling Optical Waveguides A coupling device for coupling optical waveguides comprises a first side for coupling first optical waveguides to the coupling device, and a second side for coupling second optical waveguides to the coupling device, and an optical system arranged between the first and s... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100220326 | Fluorescence Detection Instrument with Orthogonal Laser Entry A detector assembly for analysis of light emitted form a fluorescent material, an optical alignment assembly for introducing an output beam into a detector array or demultiplexer, and methods of demultiplexing a beam of light into wavelength bands. The detector assembly... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100215312 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR An optical connector includes an optical element to be optically connected to an optical fiber; and an optical component. The optical component includes an element fixation part configured to fix the optical element to the optical component; a ferrule attachment part to... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100202157 | LIGHT GUIDE FILM AND BACKLIGHT UNIT HAVING THE SAME A backlight unit includes a light source for emitting light; and a light guide film for directing light emitted from the light source toward a liquid crystal display panel. In the backlight unit, the light guide film includes a polycarbonate (PC) film comprising a plast... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100150498 | Flat-Panel Optical Projection Apparatus A light guide of the tapered-waveguide type includes an input slab (30) for expanding a projected image between an input end and an output end, and an output slab (10) arranged to receive rays from the said output end, and to emit them at a point on its fa... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100046889 | Apparatus and Method For Coupling Light to a Thin Film Optical Waveguide An apparatus comprises an optical waveguide, a grating for coupling light into the waveguide, and an optical element for splitting a light beam into a plurality of beams that strike the grating at different angles of incidence.... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046249 | OPTIC FILM AND BACKLIGHT MODULE USING SAME An optic film includes a body and a condensation layer. The body is formed by stacking a plurality of substrates made of different materials. By means of the different physical characteristics of the different materials, the optic film realizes excellent optic performan... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090274415 | Compact, Low-Loss Optical Wavelength Multiplexer/Demultiplexer The multiplexer/demultiplexer has a planar reflector, a planar first filter element and a planar second filter element offset from the first filter element in a first direction to receive light reflected and transmitted from a first location on the first filter element.... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090274419 | MANIFOLD-TYPE LIGHTGUIDE WITH REDUCED THICKNESS A light guide includes a body having an elongate shape and a plurality of light-reflecting faces and light-emitting faces extending along the body. The light-reflecting faces extend in a stepped fashion along the body in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the light... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090269008 | LIGHT-DIFFUSIVE METHACRYLIC RESIN LIGHT GUIDE AND SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME This invention provides a methyl methacrylate resin light guide for use in a surface light source device. The methyl methacrylate resin light guide can reduce the occurrence of dark lines and can improve the screen image quality of a surface light source device. The lig... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090154876 | WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION The invention relates to fiber-optic wavelength dispersive devices incorporating a wavelength dispersive reflector that provides auto-compensation of variations of output spectral characteristic with temperature and includes a transmissive dispersion that is followed by... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090074357 | SURFACE WARP RESISTANT OPTICAL DEVICES In at least one example, an optical component includes a central optical surface proximate an optical axis, a peripheral portion extending radially from the central optical surface, and a stepped portion between the central optical surface and the peripheral portion. Th... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090041061 | Method and apparatus for generation and amplification of light in a semi-guiding high aspect ratio core fiber A planar laser gain medium and laser system. The novel laser gain medium includes an active core having a high aspect ratio cross-section with a fast-axis dimension and a slow-axis dimension, signal claddings adapted to form reflective boundaries at fast-axis boundaries... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080247191 | Thin and flexible light guide element The subject invention provides a thin and flexible light guide element, which comprises a first optical layer composed of a flexible transparent material; a second optical layer formed on the lower side of the first optical layer and having a light-adjusting structure t... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080152282 | COMPOSITE POLYMER FIBERS A composite polymer fiber comprises a polymer filler material and a plurality of polymer scattering fibers disposed within the filler material. At least one of the filler material and the scattering fibers is formed of a birefringent material. The refractive indices of ... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080137343 | Method and apparatus for improving light quality emitted from an HMD lightsource A method and apparatus for improving the quality of light emitted from an HMD lightsource. A backlight-type lightsource is disclosed that utilizes a reflective end-wall 17 to reflect light within the lightguide. Light emitted from an illumination source and refle... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080112669 | Two-dimensional Planar photonic crystal superprism device and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a two-dimensional planar photonic crystal superprism device and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a manufacturing process is simplified using a nanoimprint lithography technique, and thus price-reduction and mass production are facilitated. The t... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080085078 | MANAGING BACKREFLECTION In one example, an optical device includes a body having a first surface and a second surface. At least a portion of the body is formed from a material that is transmissible to light. The body is configured to be positioned in an optical sub-assembly along an axis defin... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080037943 | Light pipe having a structure of enhancing an emission of a light The present invention is directed to a light pipe having a structure of enhancing an emission of a light. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a hollow light pipe comprises a base pipe comprising a structured inner surface and a substantially smooth out... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080025667 | Optical Device for Light Coupling There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate having two major surfaces parallel to each other and two edges, optics for coupling light into the substrate by internal reflection. One of the edges is slanted with respect to the major surfa... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070253663 | Optical coupling structure An optoelectronic coupling structure, a method of manufacture, and a method of operation are described. The optical coupling structure includes a waveguide that is formed within a device layer of an SOI substrate. A prism is located on a bottom side of the SOI substrate... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070140616 | Optical element, laser light source, and two-dimensional image forming apparatus An optical element (10) according to the present invention is provided with a plurality of waveguides (11)˜(13) and a plurality of light path coupling parts (21), (22) coupling adjacent waveguides so as to optically couple said plural... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070133936 | Optical element and optical-loss measurement apparatus An optical deflection element is composed of a substrate 1 and an optical waveguide 2 formed on the substrate 1 and made of an electrooptic material. The optical waveguide 2 is composed of a lower clad layer 3, an upper clad layer 5... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070127869 | Wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer comprising an optically dispersive stratified body The present invention provides a wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer comprising a plurality of regions of optically permissive material. The plurality of regions are disposed adjacent one another in a side by side relationship in order to define a stratified body. The ... | 06/07/2007 |
