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Patent No. 5871518

Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method

A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning.

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Inventor: Huan-Wun Yen


Address: Westlake Village, CA
No. of patents: 9
Last patent issue date: 07/25/1995

NumberTitleIssue Date
5436805Thermally insulated distributed light network from a central light source
A thermally insulated distributed light network employs an array of discrete, thermally insulative light guides that are spaced slightly away from a central light source and provide optical coupling to optical fibers that have a lower thermal capability. ...
07/25/1995
5434756Distributed lighting system with fiber optic controls
A vehicle lighting system includes one or more central light sources, a plurality of optical loads including headlight lenses, an optical fiber network that extends from the light sources to illuminate the headlight lenses and other optical loads, and opt...
07/18/1995
5373526Apparatus and method for optical energy amplification using two-beam coupling
A diffraction limited working beam at a given frequency is amplified without degrading its diffraction limited quality by diverting a minor portion of the beam as a probe beam, and amplifying the remaining portion of the working beam with a high power pum...
12/13/1994
5311410Distributed lighting system with fiber optic controls
A vehicle lighting system includes one or more central light sources, a plurality of optical loads including headlight lenses, an optical fiber network that extends from the light sources to illuminate the headlight lenses and other optical loads, and opt...
05/10/1994
4701009Spectral filter for integrated optics
A spectral filter for an integrated optic application, such as in an optical demultiplexer (14), is provided and includes a common input waveguide (20) integrally connected to a pair of optical output waveguides (22, 24). The material selected for the out...
10/20/1987
4416053Method of fabricating gallium arsenide burris FET structure for optical detection
A GaAs FET structure with a high electric field region, or active region, contacted by source, gate and drain electrodes is provided which can be used for high speed optical detection or for microwave oscillator optical injection locking. The device provi...
11/22/1983
4360246Integrated waveguide and FET detector
A GaAs FET structure with a high electric field region, or active region, contacted by source, gate and drain electrodes is provided which can be used for high speed optical detection or for microwave oscillator optical injection locking. The device provi...
11/23/1982
4346394Gallium arsenide burrus FET structure for optical detection
A GaAs FET structure with a high electric field region, or active region, contacted by source, gate and drain electrodes is provided which can be used for high speed optical detection or for microwave oscillator optical injection locking. The device provi...
08/24/1982
4264875System for optical injection phase locking and switching of microwave oscillators
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a microwave signal is used to modulate a laser diode and the resultant modulated light output energy from the laser diode is applied through an optical fiber waveguide to the active solid state component...
04/28/1981
 
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