Patents Represented by Attorney Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
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Patent number: 8350174Abstract: A pole part of a switchgear assembly having a vacuum interrupter chamber is provided. To ensure that heat is dissipated to the exterior for convection, a thermally conductive heat transmission element in the form of a cylindrical casing is provided between the vacuum interrupter chamber, a contact holder and an encapsulation casing. An inner surface of the heat transmission element rests on the vacuum interrupter chamber and the contact holder, and an outer surface of the heat transmission element rests on an inner surface of the encapsulation casing inner surface. The heat transmission element can be produced from a thermally conductive plastic using an injection-molding or molding-compound production process. The heat transmission element can be connected to the pole part through openings. The heat transmission element can be arranged before the encapsulation of with an encapsulation compound, and be cast in the encapsulation casing.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventor: Dietmar Gentsch
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Patent number: 8349957Abstract: The present invention provides a polyolefin resin composition which is excellent in mechanical properties and dimensional stability and is particularly excellent in heat resistance, a film which is excellent in mechanical properties, dimensional stability and heat resistance because it is obtained from the polyolefin resin composition and which is particularly excellent in meltdown properties, a macroporous membrane which is excellent in permeability and shutdown properties in addition to the above properties, and uses thereof. The polyolefin resin composition of the present invention (C) comprises 85 to 50% by mass of ultrahigh-molecular weight polyethylene (A) having a specific intrinsic viscosity and 15 to 50% by mass of a polymer (B) containing a repeating unit derived from 4-methyl-1-pentene, in 100% by mass of the polyolefin resin composition (C).Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shota Abe, Atsushi Morita, Kazuoto Sugiyama, Mineo Kubo
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Patent number: 8348860Abstract: A method of making a guide wire involves butting a connection end face at a proximal end of a first wire against a connection end face at a distal end of a second wire while applying voltage and a pressing force to weld together the first and second wires at a welded portion. The welded portion forms a projection that projects outwardly in an outer peripheral direction relative to portions of the first and second wire adjacent the projection. The outer dimension of the projection at the welded portion is adjusted so that upon completing adjusting the outer dimension of the projection the projection still projects outwardly in the outer peripheral direction relative to the portions of the first and second wire adjacent the projection.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiraku Murayama, Akihiko Umeno, Jun Iwami, Yutaka Itou, Youki Aimi
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Patent number: 8349451Abstract: To provide capsular fine particles comprising an olefinic polymer which have a uniform particle size distribution and a uniform particle size, and which are spherical and free from the coagulation between particles. Capsular fine particles comprising the olefinic polymer, of which the ratio (L/M) of the outer diameter (L) to the inner diameter (M) is 1.1 to 6.0, and the average diameter is 0.6 to 40 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yasushi Nakayama, Naoto Matsukawa, Junji Saito, Susumu Murata, Makoto Mitani, Terunori Fujita
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Patent number: 8350995Abstract: A production method of an optical film, including: a stretching step of stretching a film, wherein the film has a longitudinal direction, a width direction and a thickness direction, wherein the stretching is in either of the longitudinal direction or the width direction of the film; and a shrinking step of shrinking the film in either of the longitudinal direction or the width direction of the film, that is not the direction in which the film is stretched, wherein the film thickness in the thickness direction is increased as compared with the film thickness before at least one of the stretching step and the shrinking step.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hajime Nakayama, Yoji Ito
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Patent number: 8348232Abstract: A hydraulic device includes a housing and a solenoid valve to be mounted to the housing. The solenoid valve includes a plunger and a plunger-mounting sleeve in which the plunger is mounted. The plunger-mounting sleeve includes a sleeve member and a sleeve flange having a flange portion and a cylindrical portion provided at the radially outer edge of the flange portion. The plunger-mounting sleeve is fixed to the housing by seating a flange portion of the sleeve flange on a shoulder formed on a mounting hole formed in the housing, press-fitting a mounting ring loosely fitted around the sleeve member into the cylindrical portion of the sleeve flange, thereby pressing the flange portion against a seating surface of the shoulder, and further wedging the cylindrical portion into the inner periphery of the mounting hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fumitoshi Koyama
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Patent number: 8349989Abstract: A method of sealing a semiconductor element which involves applying an epoxy resin composition including an epoxy resin and a phenolic resin obtained by reacting phenol, a biphenyl compound represented by the general formula (3) and benzaldehyde to a semiconductor element and curing the composition to seal the semiconductor element: wherein X in the formula (3) is a halogen, an OH group or an OCH3 group. The molar ratio of the total of the biphenyl compound and benzaldehyde relative to the phenol is from 0.27 to 0.40, and the molar ratio of benzaldehyde/biphenyl compound is from 5/95 to 40/60.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Air Water Inc.Inventors: Kiyotaka Murata, Yoshihisa Sone
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Patent number: 8347587Abstract: A roofing system includes at least one row of tiles extending across a surface in a row direction, a first tile of the at least one row of tiles including a rain lock adapted to interlock with a second tile adjacent to and within the same row as the first tile, wherein the rain lock has a lower end, an upper end, and a weakened portion proximate the lower end to allow for removal of a predetermined portion of the rain lock. The second tile of the roofing system includes a corner at the upper end of the rain lock of the first tile, the corner including a notch and a second weakened portion to allow for lengthening of the notch.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Ludowici Roof TileInventor: Derek P. Thomas
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Patent number: 8347796Abstract: A furniture system, method of assembling furniture for a work space, and a fastening apparatus for interconnecting furniture components include one or more fastening devices. Each fastening device includes a body that has a channel sized and configured to receive a first rail. Each fastening device also includes at least one of a connector assembly and an opening formed in the body for attaching the fastening device to at least one other furniture component. The connector assembly and the opening in the body are sized and configured so that the other furniture components are positioned such that at least one of their height and length extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the length of the first rail, such as a direction that is mostly perpendicular to the length of the first rail. Other embodiments of the fastening device may include variations in configurations to the connector assembly or body.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Knoll, Inc.Inventors: Masamichi Udagawa, Sigrid Moeslinger, Wallace Bullwinkle
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Patent number: 8352618Abstract: A method of enabling host devices having an IPsec policy to communicate with one another via an IPv6 communication network, which includes the following steps: extracting a Media Access Control identifier (MAC ID) for a target host from a security policy for an IPv6 address for the target host; searching for the MAC ID of the target host in an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table on a source host; upon locating the MAC ID of the target host, creating a temporal neighbor cache entry in a neighbor cache table for the target host; and enabling a security association between the source host and the target host based on the temporal neighbor entry in the neighbor cache table, which allows IPv6 communications to be exchanged between the target host and the source host.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Maria Perez
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Patent number: 8348859Abstract: A guide wire includes a first wire disposed on the distal side of the guide wire and a second wire disposed on the proximal side. The second wire has an elastic modulus larger than the first wire. The first wire is joined to the second wire at a welded portion by welding. A coil is disposed on the distal side of the first wire. A cover layer is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the wire member in such a manner as to cover at least the welded portion. The cover layer is made from a material capable of reducing the friction of the cover layer, for example, a fluorocarbon resin or a hydrophilic material, to thereby improve the sliding performance of the guide wire. Such a guide wire is excellent in operationality and kink resistance.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiraku Murayama, Akihiko Umeno, Jun Iwami, Yutaka Itou, Youki Aimi
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Patent number: 8348044Abstract: A conveyor apparatus is provided that includes a frame and a cross conveyor. The cross conveyor has a moveable belt sized and configured to receive and move material. The cross conveyor is supported by the frame. The frame has a base and a plurality of rotatable members attached to the base. The rotatable members are configured to rotate to move the frame. The frame is sized and configured to be positionable adjacent to a mobile bridge conveyor having a tripper conveyor device such that a portion of the cross conveyor is positionable under an upper end portion of the tripper conveyor device to receive material from the tripper conveyor device and move the material to a storage area or stacking area for stacking the material. The tripper is preferably constrained to the frame of the mobile bridge conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: FLSmidth A/SInventors: Nicholas R. Tebbe, Glenn Davis
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Patent number: 8342521Abstract: A double sheet detector includes a pair of rollers forming a nip through which a fed sheet passes, causing the rollers to separate. The amount of separation is transmitted to a transducer which generates a signal proportional to the sheet thickness. Signals from the transducer are frequently sensed and averaged over one or more full revolutions of the rollers, so that signal variations resulting from irregularities in the shape of the rollers are canceled out.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Epic Products International Corp.Inventor: Max W. Dahlgren
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Patent number: 8343709Abstract: Provided are a processed pigment excellent in dispersibility and dispersion stability, a pigment-dispersed composition excellent in dispersibility and dispersion stability of a pigment that uses the processed pigment, a colored photosensitive composition using the pigment-dispersed composition, and a color filter having improved color properties that uses the colored photosensitive composition, in which a pigment is covered with at least one of a specific polymer compound selected from the following (SP-1) to (SP-3); (SP-1) A polymer compound having a heterocycle on a side chain, (SP-2) A graft polymer compound having a weight average molecular weight of from 1,000 to 100000, (SP-3) A polymer compound represented by the following formula (3-1), wherein, RC, RD, A1 and P1 respectively represent an organic linkage group, a single bond or a divalent organic linkage group, a monovalent organic group containing such as an organic dye structure, and a polymer skeleton.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Fujimaki, Koichi Sugihara, Shigekazu Suzuki, Hidenori Takahashi
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Patent number: 8345297Abstract: In order to facilitate updating of information on a destination of data, a data communication system includes a server and an MFP capable of communicating with each other. The MFP transmits to the server an update requesting signal including a source address of an e-mail received from another apparatus and related information on the source, transmits an address request to the server and receives user address data from the server, and transmits data to at least one destination address included in the received user address data. The server stores the user address data having destination addresses and related information on the destinations associated with each other, and in receipt of the update requesting signal from the MFP, rewrites the related information associated with the source address included in the update requesting signal by the user address data with the related information included in the update requesting signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yoichi Kawabuchi, Toshiya Shozaki, Junichi Hase, Keisuke Teramoto
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Patent number: 8344063Abstract: The present invention relates to a monomodal coupled diene elastomer having a silanol functional group in the middle of the chain, to its process of preparation and to a rubber composition which can be used in particular in the manufacture of tire covers, having improved hysteresis and physical properties in the vulcanized state and an improved processing in the raw state, comprising a monomodal diene polymer having a silanol functional group in the middle of the chain and a reinforcing inorganic filler. The process for obtaining this elastomer having a silanol functional group in the middle of the chain comprises a reaction of the diene monomer(s) and of the polymerization initiator in the presence of a chelating polar agent, a reaction of the living diene polymer with a coupling agent and then, after hydrolysis, a recovery of the coupled diene polymer having a functional group in the middle of the chain.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignees: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.A., Compahnie Generale des Establissements MichelinInventors: Jean-Marc Marechal, Philippe Chaboche, Jean-Michel Favrot
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Patent number: 8344840Abstract: A transformer is provided with at least one core leg on which three windings are arranged side by side, whose discharges are designed to be mutually insulated. Each winding is formed by a near-core low-voltage winding, which are each wound by an associated high-voltage winding, and the discharges of the low-voltage windings are axially designed, so that the lateral spacing of the windings to each other is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Karl-Heinz Zillmann, Wolfgang Mö nig, Benjamin Weber
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Patent number: 8345453Abstract: The object is to effectively reduce the resonant current flowing inside a converter unit and an inverter unit in a power conversion apparatus for an electric vehicle. The power conversion apparatus includes a converter unit that converts an alternating-current power into a direct-current power, an inverter unit that converts the direct-current power into an intended alternating-current power and supplies the intended alternating-current power to an electric motor that drives an electric vehicle, a housing that accommodates the converter unit and the inverter unit and a part of which is connected to ground, and a magnetic core that is disposed inside the housing and that suppresses the resonant current flowing between the converter unit and the inverter unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Daisuke Itoh, Satoshi Azuma, Kengo Sugahara, Masataka Yabuuchi
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Patent number: 8341924Abstract: An apparatus and a method of supplying gas or a gas mixture to the inside of partly formed packages in a filling machine before a subsequent filling and sealing of the packages involves supplying the gas or gas mixture as at least one flow into the package via an opening in the package. The supply is made such that the at least one flow flows into the package to the inner region of the package and thereafter returns back through the opening. The method also involves temporarily catching the return flow from the package in a delimited space outside the opening, and directing the return flow out from the space in such a way that a substantially vertical flow along the outer envelope surface of the package is formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Ulf Lindblad, Jenny Karolina Olsson
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Patent number: D674122Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.Inventor: Aaron Sims