US 5432526

Patent Overview — US5432526A

Title: Liquid crystal display having conductive cooling

Patent number: US5432526A
Application number: US07/515,881
Inventor: Gilbert P. Hyatt
Original assignee / current assignee (as listed): Individual
Filing date: 1990-04-27
Publication/grant date: 1995-07-11
Priority date (listed as an assumption): 1970-12-28
Legal status: Expired – Lifetime; anticipated expiration 2012-07-11
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US5432526](/patent/US5432526)/en

Purpose and plain-language scope (from the supplied text):
The title and prior-art keywords — illumination, liquid crystal, controller, source, generating — indicate a liquid crystal display in which heat is managed by conductive cooling. Beyond that, the supplied excerpt does not contain the abstract, specification, or claims, so the precise mechanism, the conductive path, and the illumination/controller arrangement cannot be described from this text alone.

What the excerpt does establish:

• Bibliographic data above, plus a chain of "external-priority" claims from earlier Hyatt applications (e.g., US05/230,872 filed 1972-03-01; US05/232,459 filed 1972-03-07; and others running through 1977-10-25), each linked to a granted US patent.
• Classification data, including B60R16/00–B60R16/0373 (vehicle electric circuits; occupant comfort; voice control) and an F21 (lighting) class entry that is truncated in the provided text.

What the excerpt does not establish:

• The actual claims, their number, or their scope.
• The detailed description, drawings, or embodiments — the images region of the source is blank in the supplied text.
• Whether the listed priority chain was perfected, or what subject matter each parent contributed.
• The accuracy of assignee, priority, or legal-status entries; the source itself labels these as assumptions, not legal conclusions.

Nothing here should be read as a statement about validity, enforceability, ownership history, or prior art.