Tektronix, Inc.

Philips Electronics North America Corporation

Other

Paul C Martin

Thomas S Buzak

Kevin J Ilcisin

Babar Ali Khan

Jacob Bruinink

Karel E Kuijk

Adrianus Leonardus Burgmans

Petrus Franciscus Bongaerts

Henri R Van Helleputte

Mark Windsor Roberson

Robert D Hinchliffe

Henri R J R Van Helleputte

Petrus F G Bongaerts

Adrianus L J Burgmans

Roger R Lee

Dennis W Prince

William W Stein

H Wayne Olmstead

Daryl L Nishida

John J Horn

Henri Roger Van Helleputte

Hans J Den Biggelaar

A decedent communication assembly for playing audio and video in a casket includes a casket for containing a deceased person. A display is mounted to a lid of the casket such that the display faces into the casket when the lid is closed. A plurality of speakers is each mounted to the casket to emit audible sound into the casket. A storage unit is coupled to the casket and the storage unit is in electrical communication with the display and each of the speakers. The storage unit stores video data and audio data. Moreover, the storage unit is in communication with an extrinsic electronic device for receiving the video data and the audio data from the extrinsic electronic device.

Decedent communication assembly

The present invention will provide a mobile device retention unit which combines the protective quality of a case as well as the utility of an adjustable mount onto a desk and will enhance the quality of the audio produced. Furthermore, the present invention will allow for the integration of the rising popularity of mobile devices into a school or work setting. This is accomplished by creating a case that mounts onto a desk, while allowing for an adjustable angle and easy accessibility.

Mobile device retention system

A flat display device, preferably of the PALC type, in which the plasma channels are formed by etching laterally-spaced slots in a spacer plate, attaching a thin dielectric sheet over the etched spacer plate, and bonding the etched spacer plate to a transparent substrate such that each channel is formed by the portion of the substrate between flanking walls formed by the etched slots in the spacer plate, adjacent flanking walls in the spacer plate, and the overlying portion of the thin dielectric sheet. In a modification, strengthening crossbars are formed between adjacent flanking walls.

Plasma addressed liquid crystal display with glass spacers

A flat panel liquid crystal display ( ) has an addressing structure ( ) that uses an ionizable gaseous medium captured within channels ( ) in a first electrode structure ( ). An electro-optical material ( ) structure positioned between the first electrode structure and a second electrode structure ( ) has thickness that is determined by spacers ( , and ) that are formed on second electrode structure at points directly opposite support structures ( ) between the channels. Such spacers provide support for the second electrode structure and do not intrude into the active area ( ) of the display. The spacers are preferably formed of a polyimide resin layer using a photoetch process. Particulate spacers ( ) can also be entrained in a black surround material ( ) before it is applied to achieve spacers confined to inactive regions. Alternately, spacers ( ) can be formed of the black surround material using a two-step photoetching process.

Spacers for use in an electro-optical addressing structure

The cover sheet of a PALC display panel is spaced from the ribs of the channel member.

PALC display panel with spacers between the channel member and the cover sheet

A plasma addressed liquid crystal display panel includes a channel substrate, a cover sheet sealed to the channel substrate and extending over the channels in the channel substrate, helium in the sealed volume defined by the channel substrate and the cover sheet at a partial pressure within the range from about 50 mB to about 350 mB, and a body of a storage material that reversibly absorbs and releases hydrogen, the hydrogen being present at a partial pressure in the sealed volume within the range from about 0.02 mB to about 36 mB.

Plasma addressed liquid crystal display device with integrated source of

An anode in a channel of a PALC display panel is composed of an electrically conductive core and a protective coating made of a material that is electrically conductive and is non-reactive with hydrogen.

Conductive anode for a PALC display panel using hydrogen-doped helium gas

A PALC panel is filled with LC material by creating a partial vacuum in the LC space and a peripheral receiving space inward of an attachment bead which secures the lower substrate assembly to the upper substrate assembly and introducing sufficient LC material into the receiving space to fill the LC space. The receiving space is then sealed. The volume of the receiving space is substantially greater than the volume of the LC space.

PALC display panel with LC receiving space having a volume substantially

A channel subassembly for a PALC display panel comprises a channel member having spaced, substantially parallel, linear channels in its upper surface and a cover sheet (6) attached to the channel member. Islands of transparent conductive material are disposed in a row on a surface of the cover sheet over each channel. The islands in each row are spaced apart along the channel over which they are disposed and are bounded in directions perpendicular to the length of the channel such that they do not extend laterally substantially beyond the channel.

Channel subassembly for a plasma addressed liquid crystal display panel

A channel member for a PALC panel is fabricated from a substrate of hard transparent material by forming a layer of conductive material over an upper surface of the substrate, forming a layer of insulating material over the layer of conductive material, removing the layer of insulating material in accordance with a predetermined spatial pattern so as to expose predetermined portions of the layer of conductive material, and removing exposed portions of the layer of conductive material by erosion until parts of the upper surface of the substrate are exposed.

Method of fabricating a channel substrate for a palc display panel

An anode in a channel of a PALC display panel has an upper surface of a material that is electrically conductive and is non-oxidizing.

Structure for a PALC display panel having a helium filling doped with

A channel member for a PALC panel has a channel in its surface and a wire in the channel as an electrode of the PALC panel.

PALC panel with wire electrodes

A plasma addressed liquid crystal display system (10) includes improved electrode structures (90, 100, 130) that are nonuniform parallel to their surfaces and may also be nonuniform perpendicular to their major surfaces. The nonuniformities include surface nonuniformities (92, 94), bulk nonuniformities (108, 110, 112, 112), and geometric nonuniformities (132, 134). Electrodes having such nonuniformities provide localized sites of preferential and nonpreferential surface and bulk properties of the electrodes, which, in turn, provide improved and locally tailored plasma discharge characteristics. PALC displays having the nonuniform electrodes have improved quality because of reduced firing voltages in one plasma channel region compared to another, reduced sputtering damage, reduced total current between electrodes, decreased discharge initiation time, and decreased ionized gas decay time.

Electrode structures for plasma addressed liquid crystal display devices

A display device for displaying an image represented by an incoming raster scan video signal comprises a PALC display panel having a rectangular array of addressable panel elements. A frame buffer stores a frame of video and a comparator compares the incoming video signal with the frame stored in the frame buffer on a line-by-line basis. In the event that a line of the incoming video signal is different from the corresponding line of the stored frame, the line of the incoming video signal is supplied to the display panel and is used to update the corresponding line of the frame buffer. Otherwise, the line of the incoming video signal is not supplied to the display panel.

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Paul C Martin