Patents Represented by Law Firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Brich
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Patent number: 8265704Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a display screen to display a screen image of a particular character and a virtual keypad, and to detect touch inputs; and a controller to detect a first touch input of touching the particular character and a second touch input of touching a particular key of the virtual keypad, and to control display of display characters on respective key buttons of the virtual keypad, the display characters having at least one attribute of the particular character, if the first and second inputs are a multi-touch. Because a font of particular character is applied to the display character of the virtual keypad or to a newly input character, characters or numbers can be easily input using the display screen of the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Seung-Woo Nam
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Patent number: 8053998Abstract: An inverter for driving at least one light-emitting unit includes a switching circuit, an electric-isolated circuit and a transforming circuit. The switching circuit generates at least one switching signal according to a DC signal and at least one switching control signal. The electric-isolated circuit has an electric-isolated side and a non-electric-isolated side, which is electrically connected to the switching circuit electrically and generates a first power signal according to the switching signal. The transforming circuit is electrically connected to the electric-isolated side of the electric-isolated circuit, and generates a second power signal to drive the light-emitting unit according to the first power signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Gigno Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Feng-Li Lin
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Patent number: 8043179Abstract: A drive chain adjustment mechanism for simplifying the tension adjustment work of a drive chain of an all terrain vehicle. The drive chain is wound around a driven sprocket connected to the rear wheels of the vehicle. The mechanism includes a case to which the driven sprocket is coupled; a cam which moves the case in a fore and aft direction with respect to a vehicle body frame; and a bolt which is located rearward of a shaft portion of the driven sprocket, and which attaches the cam and the case to the vehicle body frame. When the case is moved in the fore and aft direction of a vehicle body, the tension of the drive chain is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bunzo Seki, Tomoaki Yamagata, Shigeto Inami
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Patent number: 7878013Abstract: A trailer refrigeration system comprising: an electricity generator (22); an electricity-generator engine (21) for driving the electricity generator (22); a converter (23) for converting ac electric power generated by the electricity generator (22) into dc electric power; an inverter (24, 25, 26) including inverters (24), (25), (26) each for converting dc electric power from the converter (23) into ac electric power; a refrigerant circuit (30) having an electric compressor (31) and a fan (35, 36) including fans (35), (36), the electric compressor (31), the fan (35), and the fan (36) being driven respectively by ac electric power from inverters (24), (25), (26); and a control means (40) for individually controlling the speed of rotation of the electric compressor (31), the fan (35), and the fan (36).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Dalkin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sumikazu Matsuno, Tetsuo Nakata, Yuzo Sawada, Fumiaki Yakushiji, Yukio Nishihama, Keisuke Kudou, Yasutoshi Mizutani
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Patent number: 7808597Abstract: Provided is a display module. The display module includes a panel, a printed circuit board (PCB), a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), and a support member. The panel displays images. The PCB supplies driving signals to the panel. The FPCB electrically connects the PCB to the panel. The support member is formed on the FPCB.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Myong Rock Oh
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Patent number: 7072529Abstract: A product with stored non-sequential data may be provided using a method that codes the data to a coding pattern using at least one sequence with symbols. The coding pattern may be configured such that an arbitrary subsequence of a predetermined magnitude of the sequence unambiguously defines the position of the subsequence in the sequence. The coding pattern may be reproduced on a product. An apparatus may be adapted to record and decode the coding pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2001Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Anoto ABInventors: Ola Hugosson, Petter Ericson
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Patent number: 6953220Abstract: A hood apparatus for a vehicle has a hood member which closes an opening of an engine room, a lifting mechanism, and a driving portion. The lifting mechanism has a link mechanism and a gas spring. The link mechanism is structured so as to be able to raise up and bring down the hood member by including a first link member and a second link member shorter than the first link member which bridge the hood member and a top end portion of a strut house panel of the engine room. The gas spring urges the hood member upward. The driving portion uncouples the second link member from the hood member when an impact force greater than or equal to a predetermined value is inputted from an front end portion of a automobile.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2004Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makoto Takehara
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Patent number: 6718929Abstract: In an internal combustion engine provided with a decompression mechanism, a decompression cam that is rotatable with respect to a camshaft between first and second stop positions has a cam profile so that an exhaust valve is opened at the first stop position and is closed at the second stop position. The decompression cam is rotated in the reverse direction to the first stop position by rotating a crankshaft in the reverse direction by an electric motor at startup (position P1). Only the crankshaft is then rotated in the reverse direction (position p3), and the decompression cam is rotated in the normal direction by rotating the crankshaft in the normal direction by the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiji Onozawa, Atsushi Ogasawara, Kuniaki Ikui
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Patent number: 5684468Abstract: An illuminating display device for limiting the travel direction of beams. This device includes a main body which is transparent; a display layer disposed on the surface of the main body and including a display mark composed of a cut-out section; a reflective layer formed in the cut-out section on the surface of the main body and having a pattern including light beams reflecting parts and light beams transmitting parts respectively scattered thereover; and a light source disposed in the main body. In this construction, the main body includes a refracting medium, disposed in a passage for light beams emitted from the light source, for regulating the direction of beams which travel outside the device by refracting the beams.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1994Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki SeisakushoInventors: Masakazu Gotoh, Takeshi Kojima
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Patent number: 5333741Abstract: A display case for compact discs includes a plurality of album seat grooves having a slanted connecting support, an upper support, a lower hook, a lower support, and an upper hook, whereby it is easy for the customer to read and find the title of the albums displayed in the display case.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1993Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Inventor: Kyung H. Yang
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Patent number: 5059532Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing an unsaturated fatty acid or derivative thereof which comprises culturing an unsaturated fatty acid-producing microorganism belonging to the genus Rhodococcus in a medium containing a saturated fatty acid or a derivative thereof, or causing the resting cells of the microorganisms to act on a saturated fatty acid or a derivative thereof. Also disclosed herein is a process for producing an alkene or derivative thereof which comprises culturing an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound-producing microorganism belonging to the genus Rhodococcus in a medium containing an alkane or derivative thereof, or causing the resting cells of the microorganism to act on an alkane or derivative thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1987Date of Patent: October 22, 1991Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science & TechnologyInventors: Yoshiharu Kimura, Shigehito Adachi, Katsutoshi Ara, Shigeo Inoue, Kenzo Koike
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Patent number: 5044557Abstract: A high volume, low pressure air system for atomizing a fluid, such as paint, includes, among other things, a variable jet venturi induction pump located within a sealed low pressure air tank for holding a relatively large volume of low pressure air generated by the induction pump which is coupled to a source of compressed air as well as ambient air and having a plurality of outlets which are adapted to be coupled to and feed low pressure air for powering a respective plurality of individual atomizing devices, such as spray guns, with the air tank being located a predetermined distance away from the atomizing devices so that overspray produced thereby is prevented from being fed along with the ambient air into the induction pump. The system also controls the supply of compressed air and can be equipped with a compressed air driven intake fan for turbo charging the ambient air fed to the jet venturi induction pump.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1990Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Inventor: William C. Smith
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Patent number: D562936Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Toto Ltd.Inventor: Pierre Garner
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Patent number: D570812Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Min Sung Bae
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Patent number: D642419Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Soo Yeon Kim, Kyoung Ha Lee, Na Jung Cho, Kyung Ah Lee