Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems inventions 11/07

20070273287 - Magnetron: To provide a magnetron capable of reducing noises in a low frequency band of 30 MHz or less without deteriorating the stability of a load depending on phases, and also ensuring the precision of assembly dimensions without increasing the number of components, a coiled filament 3 is arranged between an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070273288 - Thermal control plate for ion source: A thermal control plate is easily removable and replaceable in an ion source. The ion source has a removable anode assembly, including the thermal control plate, that is separable and from a base assembly to allow for ease of servicing consumable components of the anode assembly. The thermal control plate... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070273289 - Gas distributor for ion source: A gas distributor is easily removable and replaceable in an ion source. The ion source has a removable anode assembly, including the gas distributor, that is separable and from a base assembly to allow for ease of servicing consumable components of the anode assembly. The gas distributor may be mounted... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070273290 - Integrated modular light unit: The present invention provides an integrated self-contained lighting module which can be used on its own, or in conjunction with other modules to produce white light, or light of any other colour within the colour spectrum. Each module comprises one or more light-emitting elements, a drive and control system, a... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070273291 - Organic light-emitting display device: An organic light emitting display device including: a substrate having a pixel region and a non-pixel region; a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer formed over the substrate; a thin film transistor formed over the second buffer layer; an organic light emitting device formed in the pixel region... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070273292 - Organic light-emitting display device: An organic light emitting display device, which has a photo diode for receiving light of blue wavelengths. In one embodiment, an organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate having pixel and non-pixel regions; first and second buffer layers disposed over the substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) disposed over... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070273295 - Electro-optical device and image forming apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a first electro-optical element, a second electro-optical element, and a third electro-optical element. A first node is electrically connected to the first electro-optical element, a second node is electrically connected to the second electro-optical element, and a third node electrically connected to the third electro-optical element.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070273293 - Electronic device sliding mechanism: The invention relates to an sliding mechanism, and in particular an electronic device sliding mechanism. The invention provides an electronic device sliding mechanism comprising a first part and a second part, the first and second parts being slidably movable relative to one another between a first configuration and a second... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070273294 - Organic elecroluminescence display apparatus, method of producing the same, and method of repairing a defect: Provided is an organic EL display apparatus capable of opening and breaking a defective portion without degrading a normal portion of a pixel, and a method of producing the same. The method of producing an organic EL display apparatus in which a plurality of pixels including organic EL devices are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070273296 - Led light strings: Light emitting diode (LED) lights are mixed with incandescent lights in a light string, e.g., for Christmas or other holiday season lighting. In an incandescent light string, such as a mini-light string, in which the incandescent lights are wired in series, LED lights are wired in parallel in one or... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070273298 - Current-transformed power source connecting circuit device: A current-transformed power source connecting circuit device comprises a power source plug-in, in connection with an external power source; a current transformer, having a primary and a secondary windings, the primary winding of which is connected in series to a current path of the power source plug-in for detection of... Agent: Bucknam And Archer

20070273297 - Driver system and method with cyclic configuration for multiple cold-cathode fluorescent lamps and/or external-electrode fluorescent lamps: System and method for driving a plurality of cold-cathode fluorescent lamps. The system includes a subsystem configured to receive at least a DC voltage and generate a first AC voltage in response to at least the DC voltage, a power converter configured to receive the first AC voltage and convert... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070273299 - Ac light emitting diode and ac led drive methods and apparatus: An AC LED package and circuits are disclosed along with an AC LED driver. The AC LED circuit may include as few as one LED or an array of anti-parallel LEDs driven with AC power sources and AC LED drivers at various voltages and frequencies. The AC LEDs are pre-packaged... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20070273300 - Discharge-lamp lighting apparatus: A discharge-lamp lighting apparatus includes first and second cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) and first and second transformers. The first transformer has a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding receives an AC voltage generated by turning on/off a first switching element pair that is connected to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070273301 - Discharge-lamp lighting apparatus: A discharge-lamp lighting apparatus includes first and second cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) and first and second transformers. The second transformer has a primary winding connected in parallel to one of primary and secondary windings of the first transformer, a first secondary winding, and a second secondary winding. Each of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070273302 - Discharge lamp lighting circuit: A discharge lamp lighting circuit 1 includes an electric power supply part and a control part. The control part generates a control signal (Sc) for controlling the magnitude of electric power based on a lamp voltage (VL) of a discharge lamp. The electric power supply part supplies the electric power... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070273303 - Current balancing circuit for a multi-lamp system: The present invention uses one or more transformers disposed between an inverter driver to drive a plurality of lamps. Each transformer has a first coil and a second coil magnetically coupled to each other. Each of the first and second coils has an input end and an output end. The... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070273304 - High intensity discharge lamp ballast: A low current loss ballast operates a high intensity discharge lamp with or without radioactive krypton. A by-pass capacitor in conjunction with a resonant strike circuit limits high frequency ripple applied to a lamp during continuing operation. Different resistor combinations are connected to drive dual buck converters of the ballast.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070273307 - Distributed intelligence automated lighting systems and methods: A distributed intelligence lighting system is comprised of a global controller, one or more local controllers, wall stations, sensors and lighting fixtures. In one aspect, the lighting system provides schedule-based, occupancy-based, and/or daylight-responsive automated control and multi-level or ON/OFF manual control of lighting loads. System components communicate over a topology-free... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070273306 - Led lighting apparatus: An LED lighting apparatus can be configured to supply a number of LEDs connected in series with a requisite voltage and power even if an amount of forward voltage of the LEDs connected in series is larger than a supply voltage of a battery. The LED lighting apparatus can include... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20070273305 - Light-emitting device, method for making the same, and electronic apparatus: A light-emitting device includes an element array portion and an auxiliary interconnect. The element array portion includes a plurality of element groups. Each element group includes a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction. Each light-emitting element has a structure such that a light-emitting layer lies between a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070273308 - Method for producing radioactive isotopes for positron emission tomography: A method for producing radioactive isotopes for positron emission tomography is provided. The method includes generating radioactive isotopes by the acceleration of a projectile in a linear accelerator that is operative to accelerate at least two different projectiles.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070267976 - Led-based light bulb: A light source (10) comprises a light engine (16), a base (24), a power conversion circuit (30) and an enclosure (22). The light engine (16) comprises at least one LED (12) disposed on a platform (14). The platform (14) is adapted to directly mate with the base (24) which a... Agent: Scott A Mccollister Fay Sharpe Fagan Minnich & Mckee

20070267977 - Brightness control circuit and backlight control module: A brightness control circuit is used to control brightness of a light emitting module. A light sensor module generates a first current through itself according to a light intensity. A charging module is coupled between the light sensor module and the ground, and generates a charging voltage at a voltage... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070267978 - Digitally controlled current regulator for high power solid state lighting: b

20070267979 - Primary side current balancing scheme for multiple ccf lamp operation: A backlight system drives multiple lamps using balanced groups of serially-connected lamp transformers. A plurality of lamp transformers is divided into multiple transformer groups. Primary windings of the lamp transformers are coupled in series in each transformer group. Lamps are coupled to secondary windings of the lamp transformers. The transformer... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070267980 - Driving circuit for multiple discharge lamps: Presented is a driving circuit for multiple discharge lamps, including a plurality of transformers having a plurality of primary windings and secondary windings, in which each secondary winding is connected in series with a resonance circuit and each resonance circuit is coupled to a discharge lamp. The driving circuit further... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070267982 - Discharge lamp lighting apparatus: A discharge lamp lighting apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp includes a power control circuit for detecting a lamp voltage and a lamp current of the discharge lamp and controlling a lamp power, and an input voltage changeover circuit for changing over an input voltage to be input to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070267981 - Power-saving and stabilizing ballast: A power-saving and stabilizing ballast includes a bridge rectifier circuit, an electrolytic capacitive filter circuit, a half bridge inverter circuit, and an LC output circuit, all of which are sequentially and electrically connected. An EMC filter circuit is electrically connected between a voltage input port and the bridge rectifier circuit... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20070267983 - Lighting device and lighting method: A lighting device comprising first and second groups of solid state light emitters, which emit light having peak wavelength in ranges of from 430 nm to 480 nm, and first and second groups of lumiphors which emit light having dominant wavelength in the range of from 555 nm to 585... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070267984 - System and method for selectively dimming an led: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an LED ballast circuit for dimming one or more LEDs using a phase controlled dimmer switch. The LED ballast circuit has a power conditioning unit which includes a substantially fixed duty cycle clock for outputting a clock cycle and a transformer configured to store... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070267985 - Flat panel display having backlight module: A display includes a backlight module having elongated lamps. At least a pair of the lamps has a first lamp and a second lamp that are electrically connected in series. The first lamp and the second lamp are spaced apart with at least a third lamp positioned between the first... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070262721 - Composite spark plug: A composite ignition device includes a positive electrode having a tip formed thereon that is bonded to a first insulator to form a firing cone assembly. A second insulator having a negative capacitive element embedded therein is attached to the firing cone assembly. A positive capacitive element is disposed in... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070262722 - Method and circuit for supplying a hot cathode fluorescent lamp: A hot cathode fluorescent lamp (2) comprises a vessel (4) containing two electrodes (8, 9) at a distance from each other with each electrode having two connection leads (10, 11, 12, 13) extending to the outside of the vessel. Across each electrode a heating voltage is applied to have a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070262723 - Plasma processing apparatus control method for plasma processing apparatus and evaluation method for plasma processing apparatus: A plasma processing apparatus comprises: an RF generator operable to output RF power; an impedance matching network operable to receive the RF power; a plasma chamber operable to receive an output from the impedance matching network; a storing unit operable to store information relating to an S parameter of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070262724 - Shunting type pwm dimming circuit for individually controlling brightness of series connected leds operated at constant current and method therefor: A dimming circuit for driving a string of LEDs at constant current has a power converter. A control circuit is coupled to the power converter. A plurality of shunt switches is provided. An individual shut switch is coupled to each LED. Each LED can be shunted individually by the individual... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070262725 - Modular lighting system: A modular light system such as for a spa is provided. The light system has a robust coupler with a quick-connect mechanism. The controller can have a single output to provide for daisy-chaining of the lighting components. A lens housing is provided that can accept an LED that is connected... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070262726 - Synchronous light emitting diode lamp string: The present invention provides a light emitting diode lamp, which includes at least a light emitting diode and a control circuit. The light emitting diode lamp has an anode pin, a cathode pin, and a synchronous pin. The anode pin and the cathode pin receive a DC voltage, and the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070262727 - Backlight inverter and method of driving same: A backlight inverter to light a plurality of CCFLs is provided which supplies a stable clamp current without influence of the CCFL temperature, and which stabilizes the LCD surface brightness immediately from the start of lighting the CCFLs, and a method of driving the backlight inverter is also provided. In... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070262728 - Optical element driving circuit: Optical element driving circuits flexibly configure energy sources to cause a flash tube to produce illumination at one of multiple output intensities. The driving circuits allow a single strobe alarm to take the place of multiple strobe alarms individually dedicated to specific output intensities. The driving circuits may also mitigate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070262729 - High pressure discharge lamp lighting device: To shorten the luminous flux rise time and prevent melting/deformation of the projections in the initial ignition period of high pressure discharge lamps that have a sealed mercury volume of no less than 0.20 mg/mm3, a power supply device feeds a current that exceeds the maximum current value of the... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070262730 - Electrodeless discharge lamp: In an electrodeless discharge lamp suitable for use at a place with unfavorable environmental conditions or at a place where lamp replacement is difficult, the replacement of a lamp unit is facilitated and the lamp unit is prevented from falling off from a power coupler unit even if there is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070262731 - Regulating a light source using a light-to-frequency converter: An apparatus and method thereof for regulating a light source are described. The apparatus includes a light-to-frequency converter that converts light received from the light source into a signal having a corresponding frequency. A circuit coupled to the light-to-frequency converter uses the frequency to regulate light that is emitted from... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070262733 - Control method and control driving device for backlight module: A control method for a backlight module having a driving circuit and at least one lighting element includes the steps of controlling the driving circuit to drive the lighting element according to a first-type control signal before a first time instant, controlling the driving circuit to drive the lighting element... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070262732 - Method for controlling led-based backlight module: The method of the present invention turns off the line of LEDs of a backlight module behind the currently enabled scanline of a LCD device so that the transient behavior of the liquid crystal molecules are less obvious, thereby enhancing the dynamic response of the LCD device. For one type... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070262734 - Filament cutout circuit: The invention provides a filament cutout circuit for a fluorescent lamp (60). The filament cutout circuit includes a filament transformer (20) with a primary winding (22) and at least one secondary winding (24, 26, 28), and a cutout transistor (30) serially connected to the primary winding (22). The secondary winding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070257620 - Coupled nano-resonating energy emitting structures: A nano-resonating structure constructed and adapted to couple energy from a beam of charged particles into said nano-resonating structure and to transmit coupled energy outside the nano-resonating structure. A plurality of the nano-resonant substructures may be formed adjacent one another in a stacked array, and each may have various shapes,... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070257621 - Plated multi-faceted reflector: A nano-resonating structure constructed and adapted to include additional ultra-small structures that can be formed with reflective surfaces. By positioning such ultra-small structures adjacent ultra-small resonant structures the light or other EMR being produced by the ultra-small resonant structures when excited can be reflected in multiple directions. This permits the... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070257619 - Selectable frequency light emitter: We describe an ultra-small resonant structure that produces electromagnetic radiation (e.g., visible light) at selected frequencies that can also be used or formed in conjunction with passive optical structures. The resonant structure can be produced from any conducting material (e.g., metal such as silver or gold). The passive optical structures... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070257622 - Coupling energy in a plasmon wave to an electron beam: A device for coupling energy in a plasmon wave to an electron beam includes a metal transmission line having a pointed end; a generator mechanism constructed and adapted to generate a beam of charged particles; and a detector microcircuit disposed adjacent to the generator mechanism. The generator mechanism and the... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070257623 - Highly efficient series string led driver with individual led control: A current source generates, with high efficiency, a current that is substantially constant over a wide range of output voltages. This current is injected into the first end of a series-connected string (hereinafter referred to as string) of LEDs, with the second end of the string connected through a resistor... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070257624 - Sine wave light-adjusting apparatus: A sine wave light-adjusting apparatus adjusts the input sine wave voltage and output a desired output sine wave voltage to a lamp according to the desired brightness of the lamp to achieve the light-adjusting effect by adjusting the switching period of a switch and utilizing a flywheel effect. The apparatus... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070257625 - Apparatus and method of power control: A power controller for controlling power delivery to a light, the power controller having a control unit in a weather proof casing responsive not only to remote power control signals, but also to be responsive to a remote stimulus with which the mode of operation of the power controller may... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070252528 - Lighting fixtures incorporating rf antennae: A lighting fixture, such as for street lighting, comprises an external housing (11) which has a radio frequency antenna (26, 26a, 27) integrally formed therewith. The RF antenna enables telemanagement signals to be passed to the lighting fixture, and for the telemanagement signals to be passed between lighting fixtures in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070252529 - Capacitively coupled rf-plasma reactor: An RF plasma reactor is provided for depositing semi-conductive layers on to very large glass areas. The RF plasma reactor includes a vacuum chamber, a reactor chamber, RF power supply, a matching network, first and second metallic plates located inside the vacuum chamber and a plasma-discharge region defined between the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070252530 - Efficient lighting: A method for efficient lighting includes supplying power to a light source to control the intensity of light emitted from the light source according to an intensity waveform. The amplitude of the waveform over one period is at a high level for a first time interval and at or below... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070252531 - Backlight device capable of increasing luminance efficiency: A backlight device capable of increasing luminance efficiency includes a power transformation device having a primary end and a secondary end for transforming current received by the primary end and outputting transformed current from the secondary end. The backlight device further includes a double-wind coupling element including a first coupling... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070252533 - Device for driving light source module: A voltage sensing circuit (230) for sensing voltage signals of input alternating current (AC) signals includes a plurality of voltage dividing circuits (23n (n=1, 2, 3, . . . , n)) and a charging circuit (232). The voltage dividing circuits are used for dividing voltage signals of the input AC... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070252534 - Light control fluorescent lamp and circuit thereof: A light control circuit for use in light control fluorescent lamps comprises a filter and rectifier circuit (1), a frequency control and resonant circuit (2) and an ambient brightness signal sampling and control circuit (4); wherein the ambient brightness signal sampling and control circuit (4) advantageously adopts an integrated circuit... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070252535 - Inverter apparatus: A switching circuit includes a plurality of transistors connected to a primary winding of the transformer and alternately applies an input voltage and a ground voltage to the primary winding according to turning-on and turning-off of each of the transistors. A plurality of capacitors are provided to the respective fluorescent... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070252532 - Plasma lamp with stable feedback amplification and method therefor: A plasma lamp with a positive-loop feedback topology, having a resonating waveguide body and at least one amplifier critically coupled to the body which is stable under all operating conditions both before a plasma is formed and after the plasma reaches steady state. An iterative method for configuring the lamp... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070252537 - Bicycle lighting system: The bicycle lighting system includes a primary lighting circuit and at least one electrically operated component connected in parallel to a rectifying circuit that receives electricity from a hub dynamo. The electrically operated component can be a supplemental lighting circuit, an electric transmission component and/or a tail lamp. The lighting... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070252536 - Display with illuminator lamp: A display with illuminator lamp includes a case, a display control circuit, a control unit, a display unit, and an illuminator lamp. The display is electrically connected to a personal computer; and the illuminator lamp includes three R, G, B LED lamps, an adjusting resistance, and a controlled switch assembly.... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm