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Article: California Inventor Develops Fault-Tolerant Electroluminescent Lighting Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 12, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 12 -- Florian Pschenitzka of San Jose, Calif., has developed a fault-tolerant electroluminescent lighting device.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention pertains to an electroluminescent lighting device for area illumination. The lighting device is fault tolerant due, in part, to the patterning of one or both of the electrodes into strips, and each of one or more of these strips has a fuse formed on it."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The fuses are integrated on the substrate. By using the integrated fuses, the number of external contacts that are used is minimized. The fuse ...