Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7495376 | Light source device, lighting device, and liquid crystal display device A light source device has an internal electrode (24) disposed at an end portion inside a bulb (23), and an external electrode (25) disposed outside the bulb (23). A holder member (27) holds the external electrode (25) so as ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7414355 | Charged particle beam extraction and formation apparatus A charged particle apparatus, with multiple electrically conducting semispheric grid electrodes, the grid electrodes mounted in a dielectric mounting ring, with hidden areas or regions to maintain electrical isolation between the grid electrodes as sputter deposits ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7078854 | Image display apparatus having spacer with fixtures An image display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a spacer provided therebetween and providing an atmospheric pressure resistant structure of a vacuum container formed between the first and second substrates. First and second support memb... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7034443 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel configuration helps to prevent unwanted discharge generation in cells adjacent to excited discharge cells and to improve picture quality of the plasma display panel. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes barrier ribs for pa... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6902454 | Process for laminating electrically addressable display A process laminates a flexible electrically addressable display and includes steps of: providing a flexible, electrically addressable liquid crystal display having two surfaces, placing a protective sheet over one of the surfaces, and heating and pressing the protec... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6870317 | Gas discharge tube In a gas discharge tube 1 of the present invention, a focusing electrode portion 14 and a discharge limiting portion 30 are electrically insulated, and the discharge limiting portion 30 comprises a discharge limiting opening 31 whi... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6853119 | Double layer electrode coil for a HID lamp and method of making the electrode coil A double-layer electrode coil for a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp and a method of making the electrode coil are provided. A more stable layer of coils is made by front winding, instead of back winding, the layers of wire. The second layer of wire is entirely w... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6843698 | Arc tube and method of producing the same Before an electrode assembly is inserted into a quartz glass tube, a reinforcement bending process is applied to a metal foil. Even when a vibration load acts on the electrode assembly during the insertion of the electrode assembly into the quartz glass tube, the me... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6590319 | Flat fluorescent discharge lamp A flat fluorescent discharge lamp is disclosed, which includes a first glass substrate having a plurality of electrodes to apply a voltage, a second glass substrate deposited with a first phosphor film on a surface opposite to the first glass substrate, a... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6577060 | Display device A display device has a screen made of a substrate and a group of elongated illuminators that are arranged on the substrate. Elongated electrode supporters are arranged on at least one side of the illuminators in the width direction. The elongated electrod... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6525462 | Conductive spacer for field emission displays and method A display includes a baseplate and an emitter formed on the baseplate. The display also includes a faceplate having a cathodoluminescent coating on a surface facing the baseplate and the emitter. A plurality of spacers separate the faceplate and the basep... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6369509 | Short arc lamp with crack-preventing electric mounting arrangement A short arc lamp in which cylindrical retaining bodies can be easily and reliably attached in upholding parts of the electrodes on a temporary basis and in which also the disadvantages which are caused by an anomalous discharge immediately after starting ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6222318 | Low-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp Low-pressure mercury vapour discharge lamp is provided with a discharge vessel (10) and a first and a second end portion (12a; 12b). The discharge vessel (10) encloses a discharge space (13) provided with a filling of mercury and a rare gas in a gastight ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6177757 | Image display apparatus with integrally rear plate and support bodies An envelope of a cathode ray tube includes a substantially rectangular flat face plate, and a substantially rectangular flat rear plate opposed to the face plate with a side wall being interposed therebetween, a plurality of funnels extending from the rea... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6133689 | Method and apparatus for spacing apart panels in flat panel displays An inventive spacing structure is a unitary structure of uniform height including a multitude of rail members framed by and interconnected with a multitude of frame members. The frame and rail members project between a flat panel display's face and base p... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6078132 | Miniature deuterium arc lamp The present invention broadly provides an improvement in a deuterium arc lamp having structure (e.g., anode 27, baffle 28, etc.) mounted on the distal end of an electrical conductor (26) within an elongated tubular glass envelope (21) in spaced relation t... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5892322 | Electron gun having spacer placed between first and second electrode An electron gun without deviation of diameter between grids, having a good object point diameter shape, and having a high cut-off voltage, which is cheap and has high performance, and a cathode ray tube provided with the same. The electron gun is provided... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5886458 | Lamp bulb with two filaments for Christmas tree light A lamp bulb for a Christmas tree light set including two filaments connected between two lead-in wires thereof at different elevations above a mica disc.... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5859492 | Electrode rod support for short arc lamp The present invention relates to a short arc discharge lamp having a quartz envelope with a bulb and a support for supporting at least one electrode rod within the quartz envelope for specific alignment. The support includes a collar surrounding the at le... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5821689 | Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus comprises a back plate carrying thereon a plurality of electron-emitting devices, a face plate arranged vis-a-vis the back plate and carrying thereon a fluorescent member and an anti-atmospheric-pressure spacer. The longitudinal... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5811926 | Spacer units, image display panels and methods for making and using the same The present invention provides image display panels, spacer units for the same and methods for making and using the same. The spacer units include an assembly having at least one layer of generally parallel fibers which form passageways which permit the p... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5726529 | Spacer for a field emission display A spacer (200) for a field emission display (201) is disclosed. The spacer (200) includes a lower resistive region (220) and an upper insulative region (222). The spacer (200) has a member (210) which is coated with a resistive coating (212) extending bet... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5619101 | Gas discharge tube A gas discharge tube includes an envelope for sealing a gas, lead pins and a light-emitting assembly. The light-emitting assembly includes: a focusing electrode support member of a conductive material; a hot cathode for emitting thermoelectrons; an anode ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5416376 | Aerogel-supported filament The present invention is a thin filament embedded in a low density aerogel for use in radiation detection instruments and incandescent lamps. The aerogel provides a supportive matrix that is thermally and electrically nonconductive, mechanically strong, h... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5144197 | Display device having walls for passage of electron beams A display device having a row of emitting elements and an electron-optical system for the electron beams emitted by the said elements. The electron-optical system includes bodies to which common row electrodes are secured so that the assembly of the elect... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5019709 | Electrode arrangement for cheating corona An electrode arrangement for creation of a corona over an area. The arrangement includes a corona driving portion and a corona emitting portion in electrical contact with the corona driving portion. The corona driving portion is much larger in size than t... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4748369 | Electron gun assembly useful with traveling wave tubes An electron gun for a vacuum tube employs a mounting element having an inner annular section with a defined thickness made to predetermined dimensional tolerances. The cathode subassembly is positioned on one surface of the annular section and a grid elec... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4724352 | Short-arc lamp with alternating current drive A short-arc lamp of the type having an internally integral reflector including electrodes mounted to extend along a central axis of symmetry of the lamp and having distal ends of similar shape which are spaced apart to define a short-arc gap such that the... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4693869 | Electrode arrangement for creating corona An electrode arrangement for creation of a corona. The arrangement includes a corona driving portion and a corona emitting portion in electrical contact with the corona driving portion. The corona driving portion is much larger in size than the corona emi... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4405863 | Detector array retaining and positioning system Improved end blocks for the electrode array of a multicell radiation detector support the array and isolate it from the interior walls of an enclosed ionization chamber. A plunger extends from the rear wall of each end block and is biased by a spring with... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4400644 | Self-indexing insulating support rods for an electron gun assembly A novel electron gun assembly having at least one generally longitudinally-extending electron beam path includes a plurality of electrodes attached to at least two electrically-insulating support rods. Each of the support rods has a surface having at leas... | 08/23/1983 |
