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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049400 | Surface light source apparatus with dual-side emitting light A surface light source apparatus with dual-side emitting light includes a transparent cathode structure, a transparent anode structure, a fluorescent layer and a low-pressure gas layer. The transparent cathode structure and the transparent anode structure are opposi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8030836 | Illuminator for photodynamic therapy An apparatus and method for photodynamic therapy or photodynamic diagnosis using an illuminator comprising a plurality of light sources generally conforming to a contoured surface and irradiating the contoured surface with substantially uniform intensity visible lig... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8013507 | Cold cathode fluorescent lamp with phosphor layer formed of phosphor particles and a bonding agent including boron oxide, formed on an inner surface of a glass tube thereof A cold cathode fluorescent lamp which makes a step dedicated to the acquisition of advantageous effects unnecessary without lowering an optical flux maintaining factor and, at the same time, prevents peeling-off of a phosphor layer in a step of bending light transmi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7990039 | Liquid crystal display device with cold cathode fluorescent lamp having phosphor film A cold cathode fluorescent lamp for a backlight of a liquid crystal display device includes a light-transmitting glass tube in which a rare gas and mercury are sealed, and a phosphor film which is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the glass tube. The phosphor... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7902735 | Gas discharge tube, and display device having gas discharge tube arrays A gas discharge tube includes: a elongated tube within which an electron-emissive film is formed, and which is filled with a discharge gas and sealed; a plurality of pairs of display electrodes disposed on a display side of the elongated tube; a signal electrode dis... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7800291 | Low wattage fluorescent lamp A low-wattage mercury vapor discharge fluorescent lamp is provided. The lamp has a discharge sustaining fill of mercury vapor and an inert gas having 1-100 mole % xenon, balance comprising a rare gas or rare gas mixture, such as krypton or argon. The fill gas has a ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7723910 | Method of photodynamically diagnosing or treating a contoured surface A method of photodynamically diagnosing or treating a contoured surface includes topically applying 5-aminolevulinic acid to the contoured surface and irradiating the contoured surface with substantially uniform intensity visible light from a plurality of light sour... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7701124 | White light-emitting device having a cap layer formed from a mixture of silicon and a phosphor blend A white light source has a substrate with a blue light-emitting diode placed thereon and a cap layer enclosing the blue light-emitting diode. The cap layer includes a mixture of silicon and phosphor blend at ratio of 1:0.2-0.5. The phosphor blend includes a red phos... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7659657 | Flat fluorescent lamp with improved capability of luminance and reduced initial operational voltage A flat fluorescent lamp which can be used with an LCD display includes a plurality of discharge channels. Pairs of electrodes are formed on both ends of the discharge channels. Each of the plurality of channels has an emitting section at the middle, and electrode se... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656082 | Color display device In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a color display device (10) includes a plurality of gas discharge tubes disposed side by side. The gas discharge tubes have respective phosphor layers (4R, 4G, 4B) of different materi... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652416 | Lamp having good maintenance behavior of brightness and color coordinations Disclosed herein is a lamp including a specific phosphor and having good ability to maintain brightness and color coordinates. Particularly, this invention provides a lamp using a phosphor in which a magnetoplumbite phase is epitaxially formed on the surface of a ph... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7638934 | Fluorescent substance and light-emitting device A fluorescent substance is provided, with includes a matrix composed of a compound having an AlN polytypoid structure represented by the following general formula (1), and a luminescence center element: (Al,M)a(N,X)b (1) ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7619352 | Fluorescent lamp and method for manufacturing the same Fluorescent lamp (1) comprising a glass discharge vessel (2) in which a gas is present, which discharge vessel (2) is on two sides provided with a tubular end portion (3) having a longitudinal axis, which end portion (3) includes a... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7586252 | Phosphor screen and imaging assembly A phosphor admixture includes a phosphor powder and a number of radiation capture electron emitters. The emitters are dispersed within the phosphor powder. A phosphor screen includes phosphor particles, radiation capture electron emitters and a binder. The emitters ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7579765 | Orange-emitting phosphor An orange-emitting phosphor that emits at a high luminance when being excited by blue light emitted by a blue light-emitting diode is provided. This orange-emitting phosphor is an alkaline-earth metal silicate-based phosphor represented by a general formula of a(Sr | 08/25/2009 |
| 7554254 | Flat fluorescent lamp The present invention provides a flat fluorescent lamp. The flat fluorescent lamp comprises a single plate. Consequently, the flat fluorescent lamp is structurally safe, brightness of the flat fluorescent lamp is high, and efficiency of the flat fluorescent lamp is ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7541728 | Display device with aluminate-based green phosphors Novel aluminate-based green phosphors are disclosed having the formula M1−xEuxAlyO1+3y/2, where M is at least one of a divalent metal selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr, Ca, Mg, Mn, Zu, Cu, Cd, Sm, and Tm; 0.1 | 06/02/2009 |
| 7442326 | Red garnet phosphors for use in LEDs Phosphor compositions having the formula LlMmAaGgPpQqNnZz:Ce3+, where L is at least one of Li, Na, K, Rb, and/or Cs; M is at least one of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Mn, Sn, P... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436108 | Red phosphor for plasma display panel and plasma display panel including phosphor layer formed of the red phosphor A red phosphor for a plasma display panel (PDP) including (Y,Gd)Al3(BO3)4:Eu3+, a paste composition including the same and a plasma display panel including a phosphor layer made out of the red phosphor. The red phosphor fo... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429340 | Phosphor paste composition and method of manufacturing flat display device using the same Provided are a phosphor paste composition, a flat display device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the flat display device. The phosphor paste composition contains a phosphor with at least a heat-resistant material selected from a Group II atom-conta... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427829 | Fluorescent lamp having improved barrier layer A mercury vapor discharge fluorescent lamp having a barrier layer and a phosphor layer. The barrier layer comprises yttria-coated alumina particles. The barrier layer is preferably at least 11 weight percent yttria. Preferably the yttrium-coated alumina particles ar... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7408301 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel includes first and second substrates that face each other, a barrier rib structure that is disposed between the first and second substrates to divide a plurality of discharge cells, first and second electrodes that are formed to surround the d... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402955 | Lamp with multi-layer phosphor coating A lamp envelope is provided with an alumina layer and a multilayer phosphor coating on the alumina layer. The phosphor coating includes a top phosphor layer with a first weight percent of rare earth activators and a middle phosphor layer with a second weight percent... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394190 | Luminous lamp having an ultraviolet filtering and explosion proof thin film A luminous lamp having an ultraviolet filtering and explosion-proof thin film is disclosed. An outside of a lamp is coated by a transparent layer which comprises phosphor powder. Energy generated by the lamp is absorbed by the phosphor powder while the lamp is shini... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385349 | Light emitting module and lighting unit for vehicle A light emitting module for generating a light includes a semiconductor light emitting unit for generating a light, a plurality of nanophosphor particles having diameters which are smaller than a half-wavelength of the light generated from the light emitting module ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382095 | PDP provided with green phosphor layer having a height difference in relation to red/blue phosphor layers and corresponding barrier ribs A PDP includes a barrier rib formed between an upper substrate and a lower substrate to define discharge regions, and a phosphor layer including red, green, and blue phosphor layers corresponding to the discharge regions. A height of the green phosphor layer is lowe... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7371593 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor light emitting device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device can result in a device that includes a housing having a cavity, a light emitting element on a bottom face of the cavity, and a wavelength conversion layer provided within the cavity. The wavelength con... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372212 | Lamp, method of driving the lamp, backlight assembly and liquid crystal display device having the backlight assembly A lamp, a method of driving the lamp, a backlight assembly having the lamp, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device having the backlight assembly are disclosed. The lamp includes a tube that contains gas and first through fourth electrodes. The first and second el... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365369 | Nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device used chiefly as an LD and an LED element. In order to improve the output and to decrease Vf, the device is given either a three-layer structure in which a nitride semiconductor layer doped with n-type impurities serving as an n-type co... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361417 | Phosphor layer, image display device employing the same and method for making the phosphor layer A phosphor layer having improved contrast and brightness characteristics and a display device including the same are provided. The phosphor layer is made out of an ultra-fine pigment, a dispersant, a phosphor, a photosensitizer and a binder. The phosphor has a unifo... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362049 | Blue-enriched incandescent lamp A blue-enriched incandescent lamp having on the interior surface of its light transmissive glass envelope a coating in accordance with an aspect of the invention. The coating contains a phosphor that is energized by the ultraviolet/violet emission ( | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355333 | Flat-type fluorescent lamp, liquid crystal display having the same, and method thereof A flat-type fluorescent lamp and liquid crystal display having minimum pin-shaped holes include a first substrate, a second substrate forming a plurality of discharging spaces together with the first substrate, and external electrodes that cover the outer edge surfa... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352129 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel having higher light-emitting luminance and efficiency of a discharge cell includes: plurality of first barriers successively formed on a substrate at predetermined intervals; a plurality of first sustain electrodes formed at a width more than ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341497 | Flat-type fluorescent lamp device and method of fabricating the same A flat-type fluorescent lamp device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a plurality of first electrodes on the first substrate disposed along a first direction, each first electrode having protrusions extending from both sides of the first electr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339312 | Gas discharge tube and display device having a protrusion having a surface facing towards display surface A gas discharge tube includes a thin tube having a discharge space therein and an electron emissive coating formed within the thin tube. The thin tube has a display surface on which a pair of display electrodes is adapted to be disposed, and has a rear surface on wh... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338181 | Eye protecting table lamp having an air purification function An air purification apparatus and an illuminating apparatus which provide an eye protecting table lamp that emits gentle light and has an air purification function. The eye protecting table lamp comprises a lamp body unit, a lamp base unit, a focus lamp unit and an ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339313 | Flat fluorescent lamp for display devices A flat fluorescent lamp (FFL) for display devices, which has an improved electrode structure for plasma discharge, thus being efficiently operated using a low voltage and having high optical efficiency, is disclosed. The FFL of the present invention is provided with... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336027 | Plasma tube array and gas discharge tube A plasma tube array according to the present invention includes plural light emitting tubes that have fluorescent material layers inside and are mutually lined up in parallel. The plasma tube array includes pairs of display electrodes that are formed along the respe... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332866 | Arc tube and low-pressure mercury lamp that can be reduced in size An arc tube includes an arc tube body and a pair of electrodes. The arc tube body is formed from a glass tube which is double-spirally wound from a middle portion to both ends around a spiral axis. The pair of electrodes are sealed at both ends of the arc tube body.... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329991 | Plasma display panel provided with thinned crystal phosphor material and its corresponding method of manufacturing A plasma display panel operated at a high luminous efficiency even with a fine cell structure and its manufacturing method. An AC type PDP1 has a phosphor film 31 comprising a thinned crystal over the surface of a dielectric protecting film 14 i... | 02/12/2008 |
