Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems inventions 10/09

20090243488 - Microwave energized plasma lamp with dielectric waveguide: A plasma lamp including a waveguide body comprising at least one dielectric material. The body is coupled to a microwave power source which causes the body to resonate in at least one resonant mode. A lamp chamber integrated with the body contains a bulb with a fill forming a light-emitting... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090243489 - Electric power generation control device for motor vehicle: An electric power generation control device for a motor vehicle is provided which ensures a satisfactory regenerative effect without entailing flickering of or reduction in life of headlights even if the headlights are turned on at all times. The electric power generation control device lowers the power generation voltage of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090243490 - Unbalanced ion source: A dual unbalanced indirectly heated cathode (IHC) ion chamber is disclosed. The cathodes have different surface areas, thereby affecting the amount of heat radiated by each. In the preferred embodiment, one cathode is of the size and dimension typically used for IHC ionization, as traditionally used for hot mode operation.... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090243491 - Fluorescent lamp driving device and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: A fluorescent-lamp-driving device contains a driving control circuit that receives direct current power voltage and a lamp control signal for performing drive control on fluorescent lamps and converts the direct current power voltage to alternating current power voltage, and a transformer containing a winding at its primary side and windings... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090243492 - Ultraviolet output stabilization by fluorescent bulb temperature monitoring: A controller measures a temperature at which an ultraviolet (UV) fluorescent lamp is operating and, in response, controls heat transfer between a heat-generating portion of the fluorescent lamp power supply circuitry, such as the ballast, and the interior of the curing chamber to maintain the fluorescent lamps operating at a... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20090243493 - Camera flash with reconfigurable emission spectrum: A method and an apparatus for spectrum synthesis for use in a flash unit, wherein the spectrum synthesis includes combining a plurality of emissive light sources in order to provide a combine output beam and producing the output spectrum for the combined output beam at least based on a reference... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090243494 - Light source device and image display apparatus: A light source device includes: a plurality of light emission units which emit light; a scattering unit which scatters at least a part of light received from the plural light emission units; a light detecting unit which detects a part of light emitted from the plural light emission units and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090243495 - Adjustable lighting device: A lighting device is disclosed. The lighting device can be battery-powered and can include one or more LEDs within a light assembly. The device also can include a battery compartment, a first frame element, and a second frame element. The light assembly can be supported by the first frame element... Agent: Theodore W. Baker

20090243496 - Apparatus and method of driving backlight unit and display apparatus employing the same: An apparatus and a method of driving a backlight unit and a display apparatus employing the same. Wherein a driving current, which is divided in a step-by-step fashion, is sequentially changed and output according to a current control signal. The current control signal is divided into low levels and high... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090243497 - Image display apparatus and method for driving the same: An image display apparatus includes a rear plate including electron-emitting devices, a face plate including an anode electrode, a voltage applying unit configured to apply a voltage to the anode electrode, a switching unit configured to switch between a display state of displaying an image and a non-display state of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090243498 - Electroluminescent display devices: The pixels of an active matrix display device have a current-driven light emitting display element, a drive transistor for driving a current through the display element, a storage capacitor for storing a pixel drive voltage to be used for addressing the drive transistor, a light-dependent device for detecting the brightness... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090243499 - Methods for driving an oled panel: A method for driving an organic light emitting display (OLED) panel having a plurality of organic light emitting diodes is provided. The organic light emitting diodes are coupled to a plurality of segment lines and a plurality of common lines in a matrix structure. The organic light emitting diodes coupled... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090243500 - Lcd and backlight module thereof: A backlight module includes fluorescent lamps, an inverter for supplying power for the lamps, dimming circuits each connecting the lamp in series, a signal processor for converting a video signal into a dimming signal, and a control unit. The lamps are disposed as an array having more than two columns... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090243501 - Combined serial/parallel light configuration: Exemplary embodiments connect lights in both series and parallel. The lights can be LEDs, organic light emitting diodes (OLED), field emitting display (FED), light emitting polymer (LEP), or organic electro-luminescence (OEL). Exemplary embodiments also mount the lights on a printed circuit board (PCB) which has low thermal resistivity between the... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090243503 - Discharge lamp lighting device: A discharge lamp lighting device includes: a first series circuit unit in which a primary coil is connected in series to a capacitor; a second series circuit unit in which a secondary coil is connected in series to a discharge lamp, the secondary coil being a winding wound on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243502 - Display device: A light-emitting device is provide, which includes a first substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode, which are disposed above the first substrate and insulated from each other, enabling a difference in electrical potential to be given between the first electrode and the second electrode, a second substrate disposed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243504 - Backlight unit: The present invention relates to a backlight unit that includes at least one first light emitting diode (LED) package and at least one second LED package, wherein the first LED package includes a blue LED chip, a green LED chip, and a first phosphor, the first phosphor being excited by... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090243505 - Frequency synchronizing method for discharge tube lighting apparatus, discharge tube lighting apparatus, and semiconductor integrated circuit: (1) An oscillator generates a triangular wave signal whose inclination for charging a capacitor and inclination for discharging the same are the same and which is used to turn on/off FETs Qp1 and Qn1, (2) a signal generation part generates first drive signal in a period shorter than a half... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090243506 - Method and device for driving a lamp: A method for driving a lamp with a variable duty cycle in a timing relationship with an input image signal (Si) comprises the steps of: receiving the image signal having a predetermined frame period (t3−t1); generating a high-frequency inverter signal (Sv); based on the received image signal, generating a dimming... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090243508 - Ballast circuit: A ballast circuit is provided. The ballast circuit comprises a first lamp set, a second lamp set, a detection circuit, and a latch circuit. The first lamp set comprises a first inductor and a plurality of containing areas. The second lamp set comprises a second inductor and at least one... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090243507 - Sunny-cloudy scale for setting color temperature of white lights: A control (410) for adjusting (420) the color output of a white light (430) provides an interface (210, 220, 301) that does not refer to, or depend upon an understanding of, color-temperature. The user interface control (210, 220, 301) uses the analogy (260, 270) of the light produced on cloudy... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090243509 - User interface for wireless lighting control: A system apparatus for controlling a lighting environment having one or more remote switches that control one or more lighting loads, has an active mode under which the system operates for a user, a linking mode to connect one or more switches to one or more lighting loads, an unlinking... Agent: Masco Corporation

20090243513 - Backlight assembly and liquid crystal display including the same: A backlight assembly including: a plurality of lamp sockets each having a socket electrode; a plurality of lamps inserted into the plurality of lamp sockets, respectively, and each of the plurality of lamps comprising a lamp electrode connected with the socket electrode of the lamp socket in which the lamp... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090243510 - Circuit arrangement and method for controlling an electrical load: A circuit arrangement (10) for driving an electrical load (2) comprises an input (11) for feeding a power-supply voltage (Vs) with an AC component and an output (13) for providing an output signal (Sout) for driving a connectable electrical load (2). The circuit arrangement (10) further comprises a frequency processing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090243512 - Drive circuit, light emitting diode head, and image forming apparatus: A drive circuit includes a drive element for supplying a drive current to a driven element; a control voltage generation circuit for outputting a control voltage to the drive element to generate the drive current through inputting a reference voltage; and a switch section for shutting down the reference voltage... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090243514 - Power supply apparatus for lighting device: The apparatus is provided with a plurality of lighting devices whose light sources are one or more solid light emitting elements which are supplied with current from a single direct-current power source, lit, and driven respectively, a single main controller 2 which generates a control signal for controlling dimming with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090243511 - Stabilized high power led module: A stabilized high power LED module includes a supporting frame and an illuminating unit. The supporting frame is made of thermal conductive material for radiating heat produced by the illuminating unit. The illuminating unit includes a light circuit supported by the radiating supporting frame, and a plurality of illuminators which... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090243516 - Light emitting apparatus: A light emitting apparatus includes a clock generating circuit and a light-emitting module. The clock generating circuit is for generating a clock control signal. The light emitting module includes a current supplying unit and a light emitting unit. The current supplying unit is for controlling a driving current flowing through... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090243515 - Motion adaptive ambient lighting: A method for controlling an ambient lighting element including receiving a content signal, analyzing the content signal to determine a motion vector of an object (120A) depicted in the content signal, presenting the content signal on a display device, and adjusting an ambient lighting effect provided by the ambient lighting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090243517 - System and method for controlling lighting: A controller for controlling a plurality of devices configured for wireless communications in a facility includes a data communications interface communicating with at least one of the devices. The controller further includes a control module configured to provide a control signal to the data communications interface for communicating to a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP