Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157606 | Fabricating method of electron-emitting device A fabricating method of an electron-emitting device is provided. The fabricating method of the electron-emitting device includes at least following procedures. Firstly, a substrate is provided. Next, a first electrode and a second electrode are formed on the substra... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8113903 | Fabrication method of light-emitting device A flip-chip type light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof provides a curved surface formed on the transparent electrode layer and a reflective layer transferred with the curved surface of the transparent electrode layer is additionally formed on the tr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8011988 | Method for assembling indirectly-heated cathode assembly A width of a groove of a cathode holder and a thickness of a cathode conductor are determined so that a dimension which is obtained by subtracting the thickness from the width is equal to a gap length which has a predetermined length, and which is between a filament... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7985114 | Method for making field emission lamp A method for making a field emission lamp generally includes the steps of: (a) providing a cathode emitter; (b) providing a transparent glass tube having a carbon nanotube transparent conductive film and a fluorescent layer, wherein the carbon nanotube transparent c... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7815481 | Plasma display panel, method of manufacturing electrode burying dielectric wall of display panel and method of manufacturing electrode burying dielectric wall of the plasma display panel A plasma display panel, a method of manufacturing an electrode burying dielectric wall of a plasma display panel, and a method of manufacturing an electrode burying dielectric wall of the plasma display panel. The plasma display panel comprises a front substrate, a ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7695337 | Organic light-emitting diode and method of fabricating the same An organic light-emitting diode and method of fabricating the same. The organic light-emitting diode includes a first substrate, a first electrode installed on an inner surface of the first substrate, an organic light-emitting layer installed on the first electrode,... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7559820 | Organic electroluminescent device and method for fabricating the same An organic EL device based on top emission and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The organic EL device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) formed on the substrate, a planarization film formed on the entire surface of the substrate inclu... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7394199 | Homogeneous cathode unit Cathode unit for installation in a fluorescent tube body (3) belonging to a fluorescent tube (1), which cathode unit (5) comprises a cathode screen (15a, 15, 15′-15″″) which partially surrounds an electrode (... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7358658 | Amorphous diamond materials and associated methods for the use and manufacture thereof An electroluminescence device having improved luminescence per volt input is provided. The device can include a first electrode, a second electrode, a diamond-like carbon layer electrically coupled to at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode, and ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7297041 | Method of manufacturing microdischarge devices with encapsulated electrodes A method for fabricating dielectric encapsulated electrodes. The process includes anodizing a metal to form a dielectric layer with columnar micropores; dissolving a portion of the dielectric layer and then anodizing the resultant structure a second time. The nanopo... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7264530 | Method of driving electron-emitting device, electron source, and image-forming apparatus Provided is a manufacturing method capable of manufacturing an electron-emitting device in which a variation in device current at the time of manufacturing is suppressed and thus uniformity thereof is high. The electron-emitting device includes a substrate, a first ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7247341 | Method for forming electrodes of flat panel display The present invention provides a method for forming an electrode of a flat panel display device using ink for ink jet printing and an ink jet printer. The ink for ink jet printing is prepared by a method comprising the first step of contacting the vapor of a metal w... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7155812 | Method for producing a tube A method is described for producing tubular substrates having parallel spaced concentric rings of electrical conductors that can be used as the drift tube of an Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS). The invention comprises providing electrodes on the inside of a tube tha... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154086 | Conductive tube for use as a reflectron lens A reflectron lens and method are provided. The reflectron lens comprises a tube having a continuous conductive surface along the length of the tube for providing an electric field interior to the tube that varies in strength along the length of the tube. The tube ma... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7138335 | Method of forming electrode for flat display panel A reducing agent is discharged by an ink-jet method into a groove between partition walls of a glass substrate formed by sandblasting, that is, a desired region where an electrode is to be formed. After fixing the reducing agent to the glass substrate, the entire su... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135687 | Thermoelectrically controlled X-ray detector array statement regarding federally sponsored research Disclosed is an X-ray detector assembly for use in a computed tomography system. The X-ray detector assembly comprises an array of detector cells coupled between two rails. A thermoelectric cooler is coupled to an end of each of the rails, and is controlled to alter... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7122129 | Fluorescent substance and fluorescent composition containing the same The present invention provides a fluorescent substance represented by the following general formula: (A1−xBx)2Si2O7, wherein A is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Gd, Y, Lu and La, B i... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120998 | Fabrication of chopper for particle beam instrument A technique for providing a grid for a gate such as utilized in gating a stream of ions or other particles in a spectrometer instrument. The grid of wires may, for example, be a so-called Bradbury-Nielson Gate that consists of a set of two electrically isolated sets... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7067789 | Method and device for producing X-ray image detector, and X-ray image detector An X-ray light emitting phosphor film (22) such as a CsI film that converts an X-ray to light is formed on an input substrate (21) constituting an input part of an X-ray image detector. A surface portion of the X-ray light emitting phosphor film (22... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7056180 | Manufacturing method of organic electroluminescent device, organic electroluminescent device, and electronic apparatus A method manufactures an organic EL device by forming cathodes by a liquid phase process depositing a dispersion liquid containing ultra-fine ytterbium (Yb) particles using an inkjet method, followed by drying. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7023134 | Dynode producing method and structure An inner surface of an electron-multiplier hole (14) includes a first curved surface (19a) and a second curved surface (19b) that face each other. The first curved surface (19a) extends from an edge of an input openin... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7018260 | Electrode, manufacturing method thereof, and metal vapor discharge lamp A first electrode part in a rod shape is placed on an upper side, and a second electrode part in a rod shape having a higher melting point than that of the first electrode part is placed on a lower side, so that ends of the first and second electrode parts are broug... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6989630 | Electrode for election gun, method of manufacturing electrode for electron gun, and electron gun assembly A surface of a first grid electrode, which is located on a cathode side and is one of a plurality of electrodes for an electron gun used in an electrode gun assembly, is formed to be a rough surface having a higher degree of surface roughness than a surface of a sec... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6902457 | Electrode for electron gun and electron gun using same An electrode for an electron gun and an electron gun using same are provided which make use of stable carbon material having small work function and which permit orientation control to be achieved and which can be manufactured at a low cost. An electrode for an elec... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6849846 | Precision multiple electrode ion mirror A method of constructing an ion mirror having an axial axis which includes arranging electrode plate elements in parallel alignment along the axial axis and attaching a rigid structure to all of the electrode plate elements with adhesive, thereby fixing the electrod... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6848960 | Method for manufacturing color selection electrode structure and color cathode ray tube having the color selection electrode structure To provide a method for manufacturing a color selection electrode structure easily capable of measuring a tension amount of the color selection electrode in the process for manufacturing the color selection electrode structure and a color cathode ray tube using the ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6805601 | Method for producing plasma display panel and the plasma display panel A method for producing a high-luminance and high-image-quality plasma display panel (PDP) reduced in panel yellowing, and the PDP obtained by the method. The method for forming electrodes in the PDP includes a base layer formation step for forming a base layer conta... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6805603 | Electrode, manufacturing method thereof, and metal vapor discharge lamp A first electrode part in a rod shape is placed on an upper side, and a second electrode part in a rod shape having a higher melting point than that of the first electrode part is placed on a lower side, so that ends of the first and second electrode parts are broug... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6800011 | Electrode producing method A flash discharge tube includes a pin-shaped cathode. The pin-shaped cathode has an electrode core of tungsten having a first end portion. A lead of nickel has a second end portion connected with the first end portion. In the electrode producing method, the electrod... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6781296 | Method and apparatus for use with an electron gun employing a thermionic source of electrons A method includes providing an electron gun having a first head with a thermionic electron source and an accelerating electrode, and further includes replacing the first head with a second head having a power rating substantially different than that of the first hea... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6769947 | Method for manufacturing a lamp electrode An electrode E is manufactured through a series of steps that lend themselves to implementation on a machine tool. Electrode components 100, 158, 190 are joined or welded to other electrode components 62, 100, 158 and then cut to length from a continuo... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6729926 | Method for making magnetrons A magnetron has an anode cylinder, a plurality of vanes arranged radially within the anode cylinder, a magnetic piece disposed at an open end section of the anode cylinder, an anode vacuum container including a metal container disposed to cover an upper surface of t... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6626725 | Electrode treatment surface process for reduction of a seal cracks in quartz The invention relates to a tungsten electrode which causes minimal cracking when sealed in a quartz glass envelope. The invention includes forming a substantially uniform oxide coating on a selected portion of the shank of a tungsten electrode followed by... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6607414 | Method of making an ion reflectron comprising a flexible circuit board A novel technique utilizing the precision of printed circuit board design and the physical versatility of thin, flexible substrates is disclosed to produce a new type of ion reflector. A precisely defined series of thin conductive strips (traces) are etch... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6409567 | Past-deposited carbon electron emitters Patterned ion-bombarded carbon electron emitters and the processes for producing them. The electron emitters are produced by forming a layer of composite of carbon particles and glass on a substrate then bombarding the composite with an ion beam. The elec... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6320315 | Ceramic electron collector assembly having metal sleeve for high temperature operation A collector structure comprises a heat sink having a cylindrical opening, a sleeve disposed within the cylindrical opening of the heat sink, and a collector core disposed within the sleeve. The sleeve is comprised of a material having a rate of thermal ex... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6222319 | Magnetron apparatus having a segmented anode edges and manufacturing method In a magnetron apparatus and a manufacturing method of the present invention, the magnetron apparatus comprises an anode cylinder, and a plurality of plate-form anode segments radially arranged around a central axis of the anode cylinder inside the anode ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6208079 | Circumferentially-segmented collector usable with a TWT A TWT collector has axially-positioned collector stages in which at least one of the stages includes a plurality of annularly-arranged stage segments. The collector enhances electron beam velocity sorting by facilitating a combination of (a) selecting axi... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6196889 | Method and apparatus for use an electron gun employing a thermionic source of electrons A method includes providing an electron gun having a first head with a thermionic electron source and an accelerating electrode, and further includes replacing the first head with a second head having a power rating substantially different than that of th... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6171165 | Precision alignment of microcolumn tip to a micron-size extractor aperture A method and an accompanied apparatus for aligning an electron emitter with an extractor hole of a microcolumn. Four V-grooves, defined together with the window for forming the membrane and having bottoms situated on two axis are microfabricated on a chip... | 01/09/2001 |
