Electroluminescent lamp designs
First Claim
1. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a first electrically conductive layer that includes one or more channels dividing the first electrically conductive layer into two or more electrically conductive elements; and
(b) depositing an electroluminescent material between or onto at least a portion of the electrically conductive elements;
wherein a portion of at least one of the conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.005 inches.
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Abstract
Electroluminescent lamp designs and methods of fabricating electroluminescent lamps. Lamp designs provide laminar style lamps that include an electrically conductive layer with one or more openings therethrough separated by conductive elements. The openings preferably have a minimum edge to edge distance of less than about 0.005 inches and the conductive elements have a width of less than about 0.002 inches. Lamp designs also include "iso-planar" lamps that contain an electrically conductive layer with one or more channels separating the layer into two or more electrically conductive elements and an electroluminescent material disposed between the electrically conductive elements. The laminar style lamps and iso-planar lamps may be fabricated using printing techniques and the iso-planar lamps may also be fabricated using etching techniques. Both printed laminar and iso-planar lamps may be permanently reshaped using sheet forming techniques such as vacuum-forming or drape-forming.
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42 Claims
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1. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a first electrically conductive layer that includes one or more channels dividing the first electrically conductive layer into two or more electrically conductive elements; and (b) depositing an electroluminescent material between or onto at least a portion of the electrically conductive elements; wherein a portion of at least one of the conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.005 inches. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements, wherein the openings have edges and at least one of the openings has a minimum edge to edge distance of less than about 0.005 inches. - View Dependent Claims (31)
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32. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements, and wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.002 inches. - View Dependent Claims (33)
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34. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements, wherein the shape of the openings is approximately square and the length of a side of at least one of the openings is less than about 0.003 inches and at least a portion of one of the electrically conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.005 inches.
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35. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein at least a portion of both of the electrically conductive layers includes one or more openings through the layer, the openings being separated by electrically conductive elements.
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36. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein at least one of the electrically conductive layers is deposited in a pattern including a plurality of elongated electrically conductive elements separated by one or more channels and wherein at least a portion of one of the elongated electrically conductive elements has a width of less than about 0.005 inches. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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38. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein at least one of the electrically conductive layers is deposited in a pattern including a plurality of elongated electrically conductive elements separated by one or more channels and wherein at least a portion of one of the channels has a width of less than about 0.005 inches. - View Dependent Claims (39)
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40. An electroluminescent lamp produced by a process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a substrate; (b) printing a first electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the substrate; (c) depositing an electroluminescent material onto at least a portion of the first electrically conductive layer; (d) printing a second electrically conductive layer onto at least a portion of the electroluminescent material; wherein the substrate provided in step (a) includes a translucent or transparent electrically conductive material and in step (b) the first electrically conductive layer is printed onto at least a portion of the translucent or transparent electrically conductive material. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42)
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