Patents Represented by Attorney Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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Patent number: 8328059Abstract: A gas combustion type driving tool (A) has a cylinder (4) for slidably receiving a piston (5), a cylinder head (8) provided above the cylinder (4), a tubular movable sleeve (15) movably placed in a vertical gap between the cylinder (4) and the cylinder head (8), and an annular sliding section (17) formed below the upper opening end of the cylinder (4) and sliding against an opening section at the lower end of the movable sleeve (15).Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8327756Abstract: An oven system is disclosed that includes an oven housing. A door is hingedly attached to the housing through a locking assembly designed to lock and seal an opening in the housing. The locking assembly includes floating latch and hinge systems which can be translated into and away from the opening of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Kitchen Concepts LLCInventors: Steve Hoffman, Jesus Cordero
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Patent number: 8330050Abstract: A wiring board comprises a first pad which is provided on a first surface side of a substrate and on which a first electronic component is to be mounted, and a second pad which is provided on the first surface side of the substrate and on which a second electronic component having a larger amount of heat generation in an operation than that of the first electronic component is to be mounted, a first through electrode which penetrates the substrate and has one of ends connected electrically to the first pad, a second through electrode which penetrates the substrate and has one of ends connected electrically to the second pad, a through trench penetrating the substrate in a portion positioned between a first mounting region for the first electronic component and a second mounting region for the second electronic component, and a heat intercepting member provided in the through trench.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Sakaguchi, Kei Murayama
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Patent number: 8330364Abstract: The present invention relates to a photomultiplier that realizes a significant improvement of response time characteristics by a structure enabling mass production. The photomultiplier comprises a sealed container, and, in the sealed container, a photocathode, an electron multiplier section, and an anode are respectively disposed. The electron multiplier section includes multiple stages of dynode units, and each of the multiple stages of dynode units is fixed with one end of the associated dynode pin while being electrically connected thereto. In particular, the dynode pin, whose one ends are fixed to the multiple stages of dynode units, are held within an effective region of the electron multiplier section contributing to secondary electron multiplication, when the electron multiplier section is viewed from the photocathode side.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Takayuki Ohmura, Hiroyuki Kyushima, Hideki Shimoi, Tsuyoshi Kodama
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Patent number: 8330140Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device including a semiconductor substrate and an active layer which is formed on the substrate and has a cascade structure formed by multistage-laminating unit laminate structures 16 each including an emission layer 17 and an injection layer 18 is configured. The unit laminate structure 16 has a first upper level L3, a second upper level L4, and a lower level L2 in the emission layer 17, and an injection level L1 in the injection layer 18, an energy interval between the levels L3 and L4 is set to be smaller than the energy of an LO phonon, the layer thickness of the exit barrier layer is set in a range not less than 70% and not more than 150% of the layer thickness of the injection barrier layer, light is generated by emission transition in the emission layer 17, and electrons after the emission transition are injected from the level L2 into the level L4 of the emission layer of a subsequent stage via the level L1.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Tadataka Edamura, Kazuue Fujita, Akira Higuchi, Naota Akikusa, Masamichi Yamanishi
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Patent number: 8322940Abstract: A binder is configured such that a plane portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of at least one ring part at a portion intersecting with a back part of the binder, and such that, when a binder holding member of a binding processing machine holds the binder, the plane portion of the binder contacts with a plane table provided on the binder holding member. Because the binder contacts the plane table on the binder holding member when the binder holding member holds the binder, the binder is held in such a state that the binder cannot incline or rotate. Thus, a binding processing operation can be carried out in the binding processing machine while the binder is held in a regular orientation. Accordingly, a mounting failure due to an inclined orientation of the binder and be resolved.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Igata, Masashi Shimamura
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Patent number: 8326460Abstract: A robot system calculates positional information of a workpiece with respect to a visual sensor and calculates positional information of an arm tip at a second time based on first times stored by a storing section and the second time at which the visual sensor measures the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventors: Kazunori Ban, Fumikazu Warashina, Makoto Yamada, Yuuta Namiki
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Patent number: 8326329Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method for localization, i.e. finding positions and orientations of nodes communicating in wireless networks. The method is based on using directional information (angle-of-arrival, AOA), and optionally distance information, combined with estimation by recursive filters such as e.g., Kaiman filters, recursive least squares filters, Bayesian filters, or particle filters. The method expresses the localization problem as set of linear equations and ensures stability and convergence by imposing a partial order on the nodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science ABInventor: Martin Nilsson
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Patent number: 8324190Abstract: Methods of treating cancer using compounds according to Formula (I) are disclosed herein, wherein X, X1, X2, Ra, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, g, M, y, a, b, d, e, V, W, Z and Q are as defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignees: Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Onconova Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: E. Premkumar Reddy, M. V. Ramana Reddy, Stanley C. Bell
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Patent number: 8325380Abstract: A method of printing an image and a photo printing system and a digital camera adapted for the printing method are provided. The method of printing an image is a printing method for outputting through a photo printer an image stored in an image storage device. The method includes: setting a temporary printing area on an image to be printed; determining whether or not an option for Paper-full printing in which no space is left on a printing material, is selected; if the Paper-full print option is selected, detecting a face area photographed on the image; determining whether or not the detected face area is included in a printing area; and according to the determination result, adjusting a printing area so that the face area can be included in the printing area.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung-cheol Bae, Won-jung Kim
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Patent number: 8325258Abstract: A determination unit 70 determines whether there is incident light, based on an output value from an integrating circuit 62, and generates a determinated signal indicating a determinated result. A control unit 80 controls charge accumulating portions of an imaging light-receiving unit 10 whether or not to start accumulation of an electric charge, based on the determinated signal, and changes a charge accumulation capacitance value of the integrating circuit 62 of an output unit 60. Specifically, the control unit 80 varies the capacitance value for accumulation of an electric charge generated in a trigger light-receiving unit 20, depending upon the detection result on the presence/absence of incident light, to switch the sensitivity of the integrating circuit 62 to the trigger PD, thereby enabling optimal utilization of the trigger PD.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Yukinobu Sugiyama, Seiichiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 8323453Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the combination of at least two plies of tissue paper without glue and by pressure marking, characterized in that it involves embossing at least one first ply according to an embossing design by passage between a first cylinder and a second cylinder covered externally with a rubber blanket, then combining at least one second ply with the first ply by causing both plies to pass between the first engraved steel cylinder of axis CC? and at least one first series of small externally smooth coaxial cylinders of axis XX?. Both plies are then passed between the first cylinder and a second series of small externally smooth coaxial cylinders of axis YY?, the axes of CC?, XX?; and YY? being horizontal and parallel. The invention also includes the apparatus for carrying out the disclosed method.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific FranceInventors: Sebastien Jeannot, Benoit Hoeft, Pierre Probst
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Patent number: 8322896Abstract: An example of this light bulb has a light emitting element (which may be an LED array) mounted on a circuit board. The circuit board is mounted on one end of a heat-conducting frame. An Edison screw or other suitable connector, for attaching the light bulb electrically and mechanically to a receptacle, is mounted on the other end of the frame. A transparent phosphor-coated ball has a flat chord face optically bonded to said array. A light-permeable globular enclosure is mounted on the frame, surrounding the ball and both homogenizing the white light output of the bulb but also concealing the yellowing unlit appearance of the remote phosphor ball centrally located within it.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLCInventors: Waqidi Falicoff, Yupin Sun
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Patent number: 8322961Abstract: A fixing assembly is adapted to be secured to a workpiece with a fastener that is struck out from a nose part of a nailer. The fixing assembly includes a fixing formed with an insertion hole through which the fastener is to be inserted, and a guide member. The guide member includes a base part fixed to the insertion hole, and a guide part adapted to be elastically engaged with the nose part. An outer diameter of a distal end portion of the guide part is larger than an inner diameter of the nose part.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Akiyama, Masahiro Aigami, Yasushi Nakagawa, Kunitaka Kobayashi, Susumu Hayashi, Takao Houjyou
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Patent number: 8324561Abstract: A photodetecting device 1 includes an integrating sphere 20 for observing light to be measured generated according to irradiation of a sample with excitation light and a sample holder 60 removably attached to the integrating sphere 20, the integrating sphere 20 has an excitation light introducing hole 201 for introducing the excitation light and a sample introducing hole 205 for introducing a cell C held by the sample holder 60, the sample holder 60 is locked to the sample introducing hole 205 and holds the cell C for accommodating the sample, and the cell is disposed so that an entrance surface of the cell C, through which the excitation light enters the cell C, inclines relative to the surface perpendicular to the optical axis L of the excitation light.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Kazuya Iguchi, Kengo Suzuki
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Patent number: 8324529Abstract: A laser machining device 1 includes a laser light source 10, a spatial light modulator 20, a controller 22, a converging optical system 30, and a shielding member 40. The phase-modulating spatial light modulator 20 inputs a laser beam outputted from the laser light source 10, displays a hologram modulating a phase of the laser beam at each of a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally, and outputs the phase-modulated laser beam. The controller 22 causes the spatial light modulator 20 to display a plurality of holograms sequentially, lets the converging optical system 30 converge the laser beam outputted from the spatial light modulator 20 at converging positions having a fixed number of M, selectively places N converging positions out of the M converging positions into a machining region 91, and machines an object to be machined 90.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Naoya Matsumoto, Takashi Inoue, Norihiro Fukuchi, Haruyasu Ito, Yuu Takiguchi
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Patent number: 8323167Abstract: A method for facilitating the alignment of first and second side panel portions of a pants-type diaper whilst feeding a pants-type diaper precursor in a machine direction through processing apparatus. The pants-type diaper precursor includes a leading edge region, a trailing edge region and first and second side edge regions, each of the first and second side edge regions having a first side panel portion at the leading edge region and a second side panel portion at the trailing edge region. The method includes applying elastic elements under tension to a flat continuous web having a predetermined width in the cross-machine direction, the web forming either the backsheet or the topsheet of the pants-type diaper. The elastic element in the trailing edge region is adapted to generate a greater gathering force than the elastic element in the leading edge region such that the first and second panels are better aligned when brought into overlapping relationship.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Ulf Berggren, Lennart Nilsson
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Patent number: 8322786Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided comprising a seat back frame having right and left side frames, a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant, and a back-and-forth movable body provided inside a backrest that is positioned at a rear of the seat occupant, wherein a backward movement of the back-and-forth movable body forwardly moves the headrest to support the head of the seat occupant. The back-and-forth movable body is attached to each side frame through a link member and is provided with a backward protrusion protruding backward, and the backward protrusion extends laterally.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichi Niitsuma, Hirooki Negishi, Jinichi Tanabe, Koji Sano, Koji Uno, Tatsuya Terauchi, Tomoki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8322009Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating or spreading flanges of pipes is disclosed and includes two bolt hole engaging devices and a force transmission system. The force transmission system selectively couples with a bolt hole engaging device and is capable of exerting a force thereon for selective movement of the flanges relative to one another. The bolt hole engaging device comprises an expandable member that is arranged to be at least partially accommodated within the bolt hole before expansion, and an expander means arranged to expand the expandable member such that at least a portion of an outer surface of the expandable member is expanded to contact the bolt hole. The expander means may include at least one wedge shaped member and an actuator means for causing relative movement between the wedge shaped member and the expandable member.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Equalizer International LimitedInventor: Robert Stephen
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Patent number: D672008Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: VWS (UK) LimitedInventor: Lee Underwood