Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7667394 | Display apparatus Provided is a display apparatus that improves luminous efficiency and reduces a driving voltage. The display apparatus includes: a first electrode and a second electrode separated from each other; an electron accelerating layer interposed between the first and secon... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7663307 | Light-emitting device A light-emitting device is provided, which includes a supporting member, a light-emitting element disposed on the supporting member to emit a light, the light-emitting element having a semiconductor substrate and a polygonal top surface, an electrode pad formed on t... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663308 | Plasma display panel A plasma display panel may include a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate with a predetermined space therebetween, the space being partitioned into a plurality of discharge cells, a phosphor layer formed in the discharge cells, address... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663309 | Organic electroluminescent element having plurality of light emitting layers with specific thicknesses In an organic EL element, a light-emitting layer is divided into at least three layers in a thickness direction including a light-emitting layer A close to an anode, a light-emitting layer C close to a cathode and a light-emitting layer B between the light-emitting ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663304 | Organic electroluminescence element An organic electroluminescence element comprising: an anode; a first emitting layer comprising at least a first host material and a first dopant; a second emitting layer comprising at least a second host material and a second dopant; and a cathode in the order menti... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663305 | Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same In a top emission structure, there has been a problem in that a wiring, a TFT, or the like is provided in regions other than a light emitting region so that light reflected by the wiring reaches eyes of an observer. The present invention prevents light that is refle... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663306 | Electrooptic device, method for producing the same, and elecronic apparatus An electrooptic device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes an electrooptic element in which an electrooptic substance is interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode, the electrooptic element being disposed ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7659661 | Full color OLED and method of fabricating the same A full color organic light emitting display device (OLED) and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The OLED includes an element substrate and an encapsulating substrate. The element substrate includes a color filter layer or a color conversion layer, as we... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659665 | OLED device with metal foil An OLED device includes a substrate, electrode layers and organic layers arranged on the substrate and at least one metal foil on top thereof. The first metal foil is electrically connected to one of the electrode layers. An enclosure of at least the organic layers ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659662 | Electroluminescence display device with microlens An electroluminescence (EL) display device is disclosed with a microlens layer positioned between a light-emission layer and a color converting layer or a color filter layer. The microlens layer can be formed separately or integrally with an electrode of the EL disp... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659663 | Organic light-emitting display device and method for fabricating the same Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display device capable of blocking the infiltration of oxygen and moisture, etc. by encapsulating an array of pixels by interconnecting first and second substrates with a frit. The organic light-emitting display device includes... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659664 | System for displaying image A system for displaying an image includes a plurality of pixels each having a first organic light-emitting device (OLED), a second OLED and a third OLED. The pixel includes a first electrode layer, a first organic light-emitting layer, a second organic light-emittin... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7659660 | Organic EL panel having film layers with overlap deviations The present invention is to ensure that when it has been judged that film-formation areas of a plurality of layers laminated on the same luminescent areas of organic EL devices involve a defect, it is possible to exactly find which layer of the multi-laminated layer... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656086 | Organic light emitting diode display and method of manufacture thereof An organic light emitting diode display having a driving circuit portion for driving an organic light emitting diode portion that includes a thin film transistor that has a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and is disp... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652423 | Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device includes a transparent substrate, a light-emitting layer which is provided on one surface of the substrate and which emits light in response to an electrical signal, a conductive portion which transmits the electrical signal to the light-emit... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652422 | Organic electro luminescence device in which an amorphous silicon thin film transistor is employed as a driving element and a fabrication method thereof Provided is a method of fabricating an organic electro luminescence device, the method comprising: forming a thin film transistor on a substrate; forming a passivation layer and a first electrode on the substrate including the thin film transistor; forming a contact... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649312 | Display device with improved hole injection efficiency and method of making the same An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device with improved hole injection efficiency is presented, along with a method of making the display device. A thin film transistor (TFT) is formed on an insulating substrate. A pixel electrode is electrically connect... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646146 | OLED display with planar contrast-enhancement element An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, comprising: a first electrode and a second electrode. One or more organic layers are formed there-between, including an organic light-emitting layer. The second electrode is transparent. A contrast enhancement element i... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7642712 | Display device and fabricating method thereof A display device including a substrate, a first electrode formed over the substrate, and a partition member having a first aperture is provided. The display device further includes an emitting control layer covering a portion of the first aperture, thereby providing... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642713 | Electroluminescence element and a light emitting device using the same An EL element which is thicker and lower-voltage drive without doping acceptor or donor than the conventional one. An EL element in which an electroluminescent film 103 containing an organic compound which can provide electroluminescent, a floating electrode ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642711 | Functional layer having wiring connected to electrode and barrier metal between electrode and wiring A functional device having very good operation durability characteristics, high reliability and satisfactory performance is provided. The functional device provided is a functional device having: at least one functional layer deposited over a substrate wherein an or... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7638940 | Organic electro-luminescence display having protective films An organic electro-luminescence display (OLED) is provided. The OLED comprises a substrate, a plurality of organic electro-luminescence devices, a first protective film, a second protective film, and a third protective film. The electro-luminescence devices are disp... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7638941 | Lamp with multi-colored OLED elements Solid-state area illumination stems and method for forming such systems are provided. The illumination system comprises: a plurality of OLED devices each device formed on a separate substrate and each device emitting light at a plurality of angles relative to the su... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7635948 | Light emitting apparatus and light emitting method A light emitting apparatus of the present invention includes: an EL emitting unit including at least a light emitting layer which generates an EL light; and a pair of light blocking layers arranged such that they sandwich the light emitting layer so that the layers ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635947 | Organic electro-luminescence device comprising uniform thickness light-emitting layer An organic electro-luminescence device and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. Wherein, the manufacturing method of an organic electro-luminescence device includes sequential steps of: providing a substrate first; forming a first electrode layer on the sub... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633222 | Electroluminescence device, an electronic equipment, and methods of manufacturing the same An electroluminescence device having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a luminescent layer, and a buffer layer. The luminescent layer is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The buffer layer is disposed between the luminescen... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7633221 | Organic light-emitting device with meandering electrode surface, and method for manufacturing same An organic electroluminescent element has a substrate, a first electrode formed above the substrate, an emissive layer, and a second electrode formed above the emissive layer. In the first electrode, at least a surface opposite to the other surface facing the substr... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7629743 | Organic light-emitting display device The present invention provides OLEDs of the top emission type comprising organic light-emitting (LE) elements by preventing the problems such as the widening of the power lines, the reduction in the aperture ratio caused by the widening of the upper and the lower ca... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7629740 | Display device with stacked layer body A display device includes a substrate having, on a major surface thereof, a display area including a plurality of pixels for displaying an image, and a stacked layer body that is formed by stacking a first thin film, which is disposed to cover the display area, a se... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7629741 | OLED electron-injecting layer An OLED includes an anode, a light-emitting layer disposed over the anode, and a first electron-injecting layer disposed over the light-emitting layer, wherein the first electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic host material having a reduction potentia... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7629742 | Electroluminescent displays, media, and members, and methods associated therewith Electroluminescent (EL) displays, media, and members, and methods associated therewith. One such display includes an EL material, conductor layers, and a reflective image formed by a pattern of imaging substance applied adjacent at least one of the conductor layers.... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626332 | Luminance uniformity enhancement methods for an OLED light source An electroluminescent device utilizes a plurality of embodiments to minimize the variation in luminance due to changes in the voltage across the device. These include a highly conductive hole injection layer in a bi-layer device, a thick hoe transporting interlayer ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7622863 | Light-emitting device and electronic device including first and second light emitting elements The present invention provides a light-emitting device whose volume is small and that has plural display screens, and a personal digital assistant that realizes higher added value by using the same. A light-emitting device of the present invention has a plurality of... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7622862 | Light-emitting device with water-and/or oxygen-absorbing layer and its production A light-emitting device comprises a laminate structure having an anode substrate, an anode, at least one organic layer comprising a light-emitting layer, a cathode and a cathode substrate in this order, wherein a water- and/or oxygen-absorbing layer is located betwe... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7622864 | Method of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode A manufacturing method of an organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) includes forming an anode on a substrate, forming an inorganic buffer layer on the anode, forming a hole transport layer on the buffer layer, forming a light emission layer on the hole transport ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7622865 | Light-emitting device, image forming apparatus, display device, and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a light reflection layer that is formed on the substrate and reflects light; a first electrode that is formed on the light reflection layer and transmits light; a light-emitting layer that is formed on the first electro... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7619357 | Electroluminescent display device The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device. There is provided an organic electroluminescent device with a good luminescence property and high luminous efficiency in which the organic electroluminescent device has a diffraction grating 2... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7615924 | Organic electroluminescence device panel There is provided an organic electroluminescence (EL) device panel including a heat dissipation member formed on a lead-out wiring electrically connected to a first electrode or a second electrode. According to the organic EL device panel of the present invention, t... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7615925 | Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and electronic device The light-emitting element includes: a light-emitting layer and a layer for controlling the movement of carriers between a first electrode and a second electrode. The layer for controlling the movement of carriers contains a first organic compound and a second organ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7615921 | Organic EL device and organic EL panel A transparent electrically conductive film comprising one of In2O3—ZnO, In2O3—SnO2, ZnO, and SnO2 is provided on a surface of a metal electrode of an organic EL (electroluminescent) device on the ... | 11/10/2009 |
