3132 results about "Plane parallel" patented technology

A semiconductor light emitting device includes a crystal layer formed on a substrate, the crystal layer having a tilt crystal plane tilted from the principal plane of the substrate, and a first conductive type layer, an active layer, and a second conductive type layer, which are formed on the crystal layer in such a manner as to extend within planes parallel to the tilt crystal plane, wherein the device has a shape formed by removing the apex and its vicinity of the stacked layer structure formed on the substrate. Such a semiconductor light emitting device is excellent in luminous efficiency even if the device has a three-dimensional device structure. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating the above semiconductor light emitting device.

An integrated system for baking and chilling wafers includes a heater for heating a wafer to an elevated temperature, a chiller for cooling the wafer, and a shuttle operatively connected to the heater and the chiller for transferring the wafer between the heater and the chiller. The chiller further includes a low thermal mass wafer support for providing support to a bottom surface of a wafer and a chill plate coupled to the low thermal mass wafer support for cooling the wafer. The low thermal mass wafer support has a higher thermal conductivity in the plane parallel to the bottom surface of the wafer than in the direction perpendicular to the bottom surface of the wafer. The low thermal mass wafer support can further include a plurality of proximity pins for supporting the wafer.

A lighting device comprises a heat sink, a housing mounted to and / or thermally coupled to the heat sink, a basket assembly attached to the housing, a solid state light emitter thermally coupled to the heat sink, and a baffle assembly attached to the housing. Also, a lighting device comprising a basket assembly and a baffle assembly. In some embodiments, the basket assembly comprises a first member defining a first opening, a second member, a space between the first and second members, and lenses in the opening and in the space. In some embodiments, the heat sink extends farther in a first direction in a first plane than a largest dimension of the housing in any plane which is parallel to the first plane. In some embodiments, at least one additional component (e.g., a power supply module or a junction box) is in contact with the heat sink element.

A method for installing tiles includes the steps of positioning a base in overlying relation to cementitious material. First and second spacer arms are formed on the base in normal relation to one another. Preselected corners of four tiles are positioned in overlying relation to the base and are spaced apart from one another by the spacer arms. A post having ratchet teeth is formed integrally with the base at the center of the base. A disc receives the post and a pawl formed in the disc prevents displacement of the disc away from the base. The disc is positioned in overlying relation to the four corners of the tiles so that it overlies and holds the tiles level between the base and the disc. After curing of the cementitious material, an installer twists the disc in a plane parallel to the tiles until the post breaks off.

An additive manufacturing apparatus having a three-dimensional movement system comprising a first part; a second part coupled to the first part and movable relative to the first part; a third part coupled to the first part and the second part and movable relative to the first part and movable relative to the second part wherein the three-dimensional movement system moves an assembly in three dimensions relative to a base; a rotatable build table coupled to the base, and rotatable in a first plane parallel to the base; and a nozzle, wherein the assembly comprises the nozzle, wherein the nozzle is rotatable in a second plane not parallel to the base, wherein the nozzle comprises an opening for passing a printer filament through the nozzle, and for depositing the printer filament onto the build plate.

GaN single crystal substrates are produced by slicing a GaN single crystal ingot in the planes parallel to the growing direction. Penetration dislocations which have been generated in the growing direction extend mainly in the bulk of the GaN substrate. A few of the threading dislocations appear on the surface of the GaN substrate. GaN substrates of low-dislocation density are obtained.

A near field antenna adapted to an object detecting device, for sensing a plurality of units under test of at least an object under test. The near field antenna comprises a periodic guided-wave structure, a metallic reflection portion and at least two near field magnetic coupling antennas. The periodic guided-wave structure disposed below the object under test has a plurality of conductive units periodically arranged on a first plane. The metallic reflection portion is disposed under the periodic guided-wave structure to form an enclosed space. The near field magnetic coupling antennas are disposed on a second plane parallel to the periodic guided-wave structure, and are located in the enclosed space. The feed point and the ground point of each near field magnetic coupling antenna are fed by a coaxial cable with a feeding direction parallel to the periodically arranged conductive units.

A controller measures positional information of a stage within an XY plane using three encoders which at least include one each of an X encoder and a Y encoder of an encoder system, and the stage is driven in the XY plane, based on measurement results of the positional information and positional information (p1, q1), (p2, q2), and (p3, q3) in a surface parallel to the XY plane of a head (an encoder) used for measurement of the positional information. Accordingly, it becomes possible to control the movement of the stage with good precision, while switching the head (the encoder) used for control during the movement of the stage using the encoder system which includes a plurality of heads.

A near field transducer (NFT) for use in an energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) head and configured to direct energy to a recording media is disclosed. The NFT comprises a disk section; and a pin section extending towards an air bearing surface (ABS) from the disk section. The pin section has a proximal end adjoining the disk section and a distal end opposite to the proximal end and facing the ABS, wherein at least the distal end of the pin section has a non- rectangular cross section in a plane parallel to the ABS.

There is provided a light fixture, comprising a heat sink element and an upper housing mounted to the heat sink element, the heat sink element extending farther in a first direction in a first plane than a largest dimension of the upper housing in any plane parallel to the first plane. In addition, a light fixture, comprising a heat sink element, an upper housing mounted to the heat sink element and an additional component (e.g., a power supply module or a junction box) in contact with the heat sink element. Also, a light fixture, comprising a heat sink element, an upper housing thermally coupled to the heat sink element and at least one solid state light emitter thermally coupled to the heat sink element.

A patellar implant for total or partial prosthesis of the knee joint incorporates an outer articular surface and an inner articular surface provided to cooperate respectively with an outer side and an inner side of a femoral trochlea or of a femoral prosthetic component. The inner and outer articular surfaces are separated by a transition ridge which is curved, as viewed from a front of the implant, so as to be concave facing the outer articular surface. The outer articular surface is concave in a plane parallel to a sagittal plane and in a transverse plane of the knee joint.

A control unit of a station concentrically rotates a plurality of unit replacing units by a motor on a first horizontal plane parallel to a floor bearing the station when arrival of the self-propelled cleaner is detected. The control unit activates, as a unit for removing an old battery unit from the self-propelled cleaner, the unit replacing unit included among the plurality of unit replacing units and opposed to the self-propelled cleaner located on the station. After the old battery unit is removed from the self-propelled cleaner, the control unit activates the motor. By the rotation of this motor, another unit replacing unit opposed to the self-propelled cleaner is activated as a unit for attaching a new battery unit to the self-propelled cleaner instead of the unit replacing unit previously activated as the removing unit.

A ceramic thermal barrier coating (TBC) (18) having first and second layers (20, 22), the second layer (22) having a lower thermal conductivity than the first layer for a given density. The second layer may be formed of a material with anisotropic crystal lattice structure. Voids (24) in at least the first layer (20) make the first layer less dense than the second layer. Grooves (28) are formed in the TBC (18) for thermal strain relief. The grooves may align with fluid streamlines over the TBC. Multiple layers (84, 86,88) may have respective sets of grooves (90), Preferred failure planes parallel to the coating surface (30) may be formed at different depths (A1, A2, A3) in the thickness of the TBC to stimulate generation of a fresh surface when a portion of the coating fails by spalling. A dense top layer (92) may provide environmental and erosion resistance.

A near field transducer (NFT) for use in an energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) head and configured to direct energy to a recording media is disclosed. The NFT comprises a disk section; and a pin section extending towards an air bearing surface (ABS) from the disk section. The pin section has a proximal end adjoining the disk section and a distal end opposite to the proximal end and facing the ABS, wherein the distal end of the pin section has a non-rectangular cross section in a plane parallel to the ABS and the proximal end of the pin section has a rectangular cross section in the plane parallel to the ABS.

There is provided a vapor deposition system including a vapor depositing source, holding means for holding a substrate, moving means, and an opening member having an opening, the moving means moving at least one of the substrate, and, the vapor depositing source and the opening member, in one direction in a plane in parallel with a plane including the substrate, and the opening member being disposed between the vapor depositing source and the substrate and having an opening having a width at a center of the opening in a direction of movement which is smaller than that at ends the opening. In the system, the plurality of vapor depositing sources are arranged along a direction in a plane, which is a direction intersecting the direction of movement, and the opening member has a plurality of openings each independently disposed so as to correspond to each of the plurality of vapor depositing sources.

Disclosed herein is a display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.

The invention relates to a locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards (1, 1′) which have a body (30), a lower balancing layer (34) and an upper surface layer (32). A strip (6) is integrally formed with the body (30) of the floorboard (1) and extends under an adjoining floorboard (1′). The strip (6) has a locking element (8), which engages a looking groove (14) in the underside of the adjoining floorboard (1′) and forms a horizontal joint. A tongue (38) and a tongue groove (36) form a vertical joint between upper and lower plane-parallel contact surfaces (43, 45) and are designed in such manner that the lower contact surfaces (45) are on a level between the upper side of the locking element (8) and a plane containing the underside (3) of the floorboard. The invention also relates to a floorboard having such a locking system, a floor made of such floorboards, as well as a method for making such a locking system.

An improved connector capable of transferring both energy and electrical signals between an energy generator and an energy transfer device is disclosed. The connector attaches the energy transfer device to the energy generator by rotation about a longitudinal axis. The connector carries at least one contact pad that has a surface on a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis. A line passing through the surface of the contact pad perpendicular to the plane is skew to the longitudinal axis, so that rotation of the connector engages the contact pad with conductive contacts associated with the energy generator in a direction substantially perpendicular to the contact pad.

An accelerometer is fabricated as a MEMS device and includes an array of capacitive electrode plates mechanically coupled to a common proof mass.The proof mass is constrained to move or vibrate in the plane parallel to the first array of plates. The capacitance between the first array of plates is measured with respect to additional arrays of capacitive plates inter-digitated in a comb like pattern.

The liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a reflective polarizer, mounted on the first substrate and having a first transmission axis and a first reflection axis at right angles to each other, for transmitting linearly polarized light vibrating in a plane parallel to the first transmission axis and for reflecting linearly polarized light vibrating in a plane parallel to the first reflection axis, a polarizer, mounted on the second substrate and having a second transmission axis, for transmitting linearly polarized light vibrating in a plane parallel to the second transmission axis, and a liquid crystal layer, provided between the first and second substrates, having a first mode which causes the direction of polarization of incident light to change by utilizing birefringence and a second mode which does not utilize birefringence and therefore does not cause the direction of polarization of incident light to change, wherein a display state is switched between a bright display state and a dark display state by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, and the bright display state is produced by driving the liquid crystal layer in the second mode.

A head-mounted optical direct visualization system has at least one optical deflecting device (120) with an optical end element (128) for deflecting a virtual image generated by an image source (230) onto the optical end element (128). The virtual image is emitted through the optical end element into the field of view in front of the eyes of the user. The optical deflecting device (120) is attached to the head of the user with the aid of a frame (130). The task of the invention is to configure such a conventional direct visualization system so as to be better adaptable to the requirements of the anatomical and optical features of the user and the application-specific viewing requirements. This task is solved with an adjusting device (140), which is fixed to the frame (130), for variably changing the position of at least the optical end element (128) essentially in a plane parallel to the field of view of the user.

A system and method describes an inertial sensor assembly, the assembly comprises a substrate parallel to the plane, at least one in-plane angular velocity sensor comprising a pair proof masses that are oscillated in anti-phase fashion along an axis normal to the plane. The first in-plane angular velocity sensor further includes a sensing frame responsive to the angular velocity of the substrate around the first axis parallel to the plane and perpendicular to the axis normal to the plane. The assembly also includes at least one out-of-plane angular velocity sensor comprising a pair of proof masses that are oscillated in anti-phase fashion in the plane parallel to the plane. The out-of-plane angular velocity sensor further comprises a sensing frame responsive to the angular velocity of the substrate around the axis normal to the plane.

Disclosed herein is a touch panel display apparatus including: a display panel; a movable panel unit including a touch panel and being flat plate-like in shape; a movable support section for supporting the movable panel unit on a support structure so as to permit the movable panel unit to be moved along a plane parallel to the panel surface of the movable panel unit; an actuator configured to drive the movable panel unit to vibrate; an actuator drive control section for outputting an actuator drive signal to drivingly control the actuator; an acoustic pressure generating member configured to generate an acoustic pressure by being driven by the actuator to vibrate; and a superposing section for superposing an acoustic signal on the actuator drive signal outputted by the actuator drive control section.

A camera is described having a display device for displaying one or more stored images after acquisition. The camera has a motion detector which enables the selection and / or display of a stored image to be controlled (at least partly) by physical movement of the camera. Scrolling (or panning) of an image in the display can be effected by moving the camera in a plane parallel to the plane of the camera display, or tilting the camera. Zooming can be effected by moving the camera is a direction generally perpendicular to the plane of the camera display. The movements are generally similar to those which the user would make if viewing the image through a window or lens, which leads to a highly intuitive manner of operation.

GaN single crystal substrates are produced by slicing a GaN single crystal ingot in the planes parallel to the growing direction. Penetration dislocations which have been generated in the growing direction extend mainly in the bulk of the GaN substrate. A few of the threading dislocations appear on the surface of the GaN substrate. GaN substrates of low-dislocation density are obtained.

The invention relates to a locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards (1, 1′) which have a body (30), a lower balancing layer (34) and an upper surface layer (32). A strip (6) is integrally formed with the body (30) of the floorboard (1) and extends under an adjoining floorboard (1′). The strip (6) has a locking element (8), which engages a looking groove (14) in the underside of the adjoining floorboard (1′) and forms a horizontal joint. A tongue (38) and a tongue groove (36) form a vertical joint between upper and lower plane-parallel contact surfaces (43, 45) and are designed in such manner that the lower contact surfaces (45) are on a level between the upper side of the locking element (8) and a plane containing the underside (3) of the floorboard. The invention also relates to a floorboard having such a locking system, a floor made of such floorboards, as well as a method for making such a locking system.

An improved steerable catheter with in-plane deflection comprises a catheter body having proximal and distal ends and a lumen extending therethrough and a tip section at the distal end of the catheter body. The tip section comprises a flexible plastic tubing having a pair of diametrically-opposed lumens extending therethrough. The catheter also provides two puller wires manipulated through a control handle at the proximal end of the catheter body. Each puller wire extends through one of the pair of lumens in the tip section and through the lumen of the catheter body and is anchored to the control handle at its proximal end and anchored to the tip section at its distal end. The deflection mechanism is configured to generally define a plane along which deflection most readily occurs and an edge along which deflection is most readily avoided. The deflection mechanism extends longitudinally along a centerline of the tip section between the first and second puller wire and is configured generally with a cross section having a thinner dimension and a thicker dimension to bias the tip section to deflect in a plane parallel with the thinner dimension of the deflection mechanism and to resist deflection in a plane perpendicular to thicker dimension.

An improved gutter shield device includes a first connecting plane of roll formed metal, a second filtering plane of roll formed metal and metallic or polymer cloth, and a third connecting plane of roll formed metal combined into an integral unit.An elongated strip of roll formed metal includes a rear vertical plane adapted to seat beneath shingles of a roof structure. The rear vertical plane is crimped by roll forming onto the second and rear longitudinal edge of a forward extending plane that combines a fine filtering membrane with an underlying skeletal support of expanded metal as an integral unit. The expanded metal and filtering membrane so joined contain two or more v-shaped downward extending longitudinal channels within the forward extending plane that transverse the length of the forward extending plane parallel to it's first edge. The forward extending plane is bound on a first and forward longitudinal edge by a first plane of that comprises a roll formed angled z-shaped connecting metal strip for securing the gutter shield to an inwardly extending flange of a k-style gutter.