Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Jordan and Hamburg LLP
  • Patent number: 8302870
    Abstract: The invention relates to a personal document that can be read contactlessly and which includes a laminate having a chip film and a chip, a substrate covering the chip film on the structure side of the chip and a covering layer covering the chip film on the rear side, the chip having an integrated circuit, said chip being thinned to the thickness defined herein. The personal document includes a polymeric carrier film that connects to the chip through a coupling reagent possessing functional groups compatible with functional groups of the semiconductor material of the chip and of the polymer carrier film layers of the chip film. Also, the chip is connected to an antenna provided on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bundesdruckerei GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Paeschke, Malte Pflughoefft, Joerg Fischer, Guenter Beyer-Meklenburg, Oliver Muth
  • Patent number: 8302215
    Abstract: A glove which can ensure flexibility thereof and can prevent peeling-off of a resin film formed on a surface of a glove base body is provided. Also provided is a manufacturing method of the glove. The glove (G) includes a glove base body (1) constituted of a knitted glove, a first resin film layer (2) formed on a surface of the glove base body (1), and a second resin film layer (3) formed on the first resin film layer (2). The first resin film layer (2) and the second resin film layer (3) cover a palm portion and side portions of the glove base body (1), a palm side and side parts of respective fingers, and areas ranging from fingertip portions to a back portion of the glove base body (1) including the fingertip portions. An uncovered back portion (4) where a resin film layer is not present is formed on a remaining portion of the back portion. The second resin film layer (3) is formed on the first resin film layer (2) in an overlapping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Towa Corporation Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Matsunobu, Nobuyoshi Koga, Yukiko Tsuchimochi
  • Patent number: 8300363
    Abstract: A wiring structure of a flexure includes wiring that includes a trace of first polarity and a trace of second polarity and transmits signals to and from a head that is supported with the flexure and writes and reads data to and from a recording medium and an interleaved section formed at least partly in the wiring where the traces are each divided into sub-traces, the sub-traces being alternated in a width direction of the wiring, the sub-traces of each trace being connected to each other on each side of the interleaved section, an outer one of the sub-traces of each trace being narrower than an inner one of the same. The wiring structure reduces partial dips in the frequency characteristic of signal transmission loss (loss-to-frequency characteristic) of the wiring at the interleaved section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Kiyotaka Fukushima
  • Patent number: 8300364
    Abstract: A head suspension including a base plate, a load beam, an actuator element to be deformed to move the load beam relative to the base plate, and a jumper having a first end electrically connected to the actuator element, an intermediate part extending over a base plate edge of the base plate, and a second end electrically connected to a flexure, to supply power from the flexure to the actuator element. The jumper is composed of an insulating cover layer, a conductor layer, an insulating layer, and a metal layer that are laid one on another. The conductor layer is diverged in a direction in which the layers of the jumper are laid one on another, to form an escape recess to avoid an edge of the base plate edge to protect the insulating cover layer of the jumper from being abraded by an edge of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidenori Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8300808
    Abstract: In an arithmetic operation method and an arithmetic operation device arithmetic operations such as exponentiation or scalar multiplication can be performed at high speed. In the case where there exists a plurality of different elements Y and each element Y is represented by tuples in which a plurality of different elements X are combined with an operator, an arithmetic operation method for calculating each element Y by using an electronic computer, associates each element Y with the element X by setting each element X, sets temporary data having an index indicating whether or not each element Y has an identical element X for each element X, and represents each element Y by the temporary data combined with the operator. When there is a combination of temporary data which is common in plurality of elements Y in temporary data contained in each element Y, new temporary data is set by combining the common temporary data and each element Y consisting of each tuple is calculated using the new temporary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Nogami, Hidehiro Kato, Yoshitaka Morikawa, Kenta Nekado
  • Patent number: 8299654
    Abstract: A high frequency electric wire is provided in such a manner that a large number of wires are bundled, twisted and insulated with an outer sheath S. Each wire has an extra-fine hollow pipe structure of a capillary shape. The wire is provided to make its hollow section with the extra-fine hollow pipe structure an air cavity or to cause its hollow section to house an insulating material. In the latter case, the wire is provided by causing a metal conductor to adhere to the outer periphery of an extra-fine insulating yarn, which serves as the insulating material, by plating or vapor-deposition. The electric wire is used as a circuit cable or a coil in a non-contact power feeding device which supplies power based on a mutual induction action of the electromagnetic induction. In this manner, the electric wire fulfills its function to suppress and reduce an increase of the alternating current resistance due to a high frequency alternating current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Showa Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kitao Yamamoto, Takeshi Sato, Keisuke Abe, Masashi Mochizuki, Yasuyuki Okiyoneda
  • Patent number: 8298241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a universal extractor for total endoprostheses (TEP) of the knee joint. The object of the invention, namely to make available a universal extractor for artificial knee joints that avoids the disadvantages of the prior art, is achieved by the fact that the universal extractor comprises the following parts: a T-piece with an extraction plate and with a securing arm, the securing arm being fork-shaped and slotted at its distal end and supporting the extraction plate at its proximal end; a scissor mechanism with clamping jaws located at its free distal ends, said securing arm holding the scissor mechanism by means of a securing pin about which the scissor mechanism can move; and an eyebolt which is mounted on the proximal end of the scissor mechanism and has a knurled nut, the eyebolt being adjustable and connecting the ends of the scissor mechanism to each other, so as to permit fixing or release of the clamping jaws which have a shovel-shaped, U- to V-shaped geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Christian Arnhold
    Inventor: Michael Arnhold
  • Patent number: 8298486
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention is to provide a piezoelectric resonator having high frequency stability and a sensing sensor using the piezoelectric resonator. In the present invention, a piezoelectric resonator 1 has: a first oscillation area 105 which is provided in a piezoelectric piece 100 and from which a first oscillation frequency is taken out; a second oscillation area which is provided in an area 105 different from the first oscillation area 106 via an elastic boundary area 107 and from which a second oscillation frequency is taken out; and excitation electrodes 101 to 103 provided on one surface side and another surface side of the oscillation areas 105, 106 across the piezoelectric piece 100, and a frequency difference between the first oscillation frequency and the second oscillation frequency is not less than 0.2% nor greater than 2.2% of these oscillation frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Watanabe, Takeru Mutoh, Mitsuaki Koyama
  • Patent number: 8298700
    Abstract: A prismatic sealed rechargeable battery includes a substantially prismatic battery case that accommodates an electrode plate assembly and an electrolyte solution. The battery case is formed of metal. On a side face of the battery case, a thin plate is provided which has a plurality of protruding portions formed in parallel at appropriate intervals. The protruding portion and the side face form spaces opened at both ends therebetween. The thin plate is bonded to the side face of the battery case by making flat portions between the protruding portions into surface-contact with the side face, thereby improving cooling capability of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Asahina, Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto
  • Patent number: 8297603
    Abstract: A spring retainer is made from an iron-based material to improve the strength and abrasion resistance of the spring retainer and reduce the thickness and weight thereof. The spring retainer includes a retainer body having a tapered support hole to be supported with a valve stem and a flange-like spring seat circumferentially formed on a periphery at a first side of the retainer body to receive and support a valve spring. The retainer body and spring seat are integrally formed from resilient steel with grain flows continuously formed from the retainer body to the spring seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Imaizumi, Noritoshi Takamura
  • Patent number: 8301222
    Abstract: Provided is a device for measuring biomedical data from a testee, with a recording system for taking the data and a first hardware component for displaying the data. A device for electrical separation of the data is arranged in a connector line for transmitting the data from the recording system to the first hardware component for displaying the data. At least a duplication of the data for data processing purposes is thus guaranteed. The data processed in said manner are used for a method for real-time stimulation of a testee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Rongen, Karl Ziemons, Michael Schiek, Peter Alexander Tass
  • Patent number: 8297867
    Abstract: A container for a viscous cosmetic, in which upper and lower sections respectively positioned above and below an inner tray are air-tightly sealed off from each other so as to reduce leakage of a viscous cosmetic received in a receiving body from the upper section to the lower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Shiseido Co., Ltd., Yoshino Kofyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mieko Nasu, Takao Kishi, Hiroshi Mizushima
  • Patent number: 8290422
    Abstract: A main body control part of an image forming device switches select signals to a unicast mode by a communication mode switching part at least when stopping a recording paper that is being transported on a paper feeding path or when transporting a recording paper stopped on the paper feeding path, and switches the select signals to the broadcast mode after transmitting control data. Each of the paper feeding control parts executes a paper feeding control based on the control data received with the unicast mode, upon detecting the broadcast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8288925
    Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a quartz resonator element having a small CI value, a quartz resonator element manufactured by this method, a quartz resonator, and a quartz oscillator. In a method of manufacturing a quartz resonator element in which on a surface of a plate-shaped quartz piece, a thin film-shaped electrode in order to excite the quartz piece is provided, a first metal layer that is composed of chromium and whose thickness is not less than 20 ? nor more than 45 ? is formed on the surface of the quartz piece (P4), and next, a second metal layer that is composed of gold or silver and whose thickness is not less than 500 ? nor more than 950 ? is formed on an upper surface of the first metal layer (P5), and then, the electrode made up of the first metal layer and the second metal layer is provided (P6). Thereafter, a quartz substrate on which the electrode is formed is heated at a temperature range of not less than 200° C. nor more than 400° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takehiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8287350
    Abstract: A game management method is for executing a competition game among a plurality of client terminal devices. Players are identified before the start of the game. If an occurrence of an unusual end of the game is judged during the game, it is judged whether or not the unusual end is an unauthorized end of the game due to an unauthorized operation by the player and it is judged whether or not a penalty is to be given to the player having ended the game in an unauthorized manner. By judging with high accuracy whether or not the unusual end of the game was caused by the unauthorized operation by the player, unauthorized operations of players are suppressed and fairness is better maintained among honest players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Konishi, Masakazu Shibamiya, Yasuyuki Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8288006
    Abstract: An artificial leather comprising a protective layer, a surface layer, and a fibrous substrate, successively laminated, wherein a polyurethane resin forming the surface layer is obtained by reacting a urethane polyisocyanate prepolymer (A) and a polyol component (C) containing a urethane polyol prepolymer (B), the (A) has an equivalent ratio (isocyanate groups/hydroxyl groups) of from 2.0 to 6.0, and has a number average molecular weight of from 3,000 to 30,000, the (B) has an equivalent ratio (isocyanate groups/hydroxyl groups) of from 0.2 to 0.8, and has a number average molecular weight of from 3,000 to 30,000, an equivalent ratio between the urethane polyisocyanate prepolymer (A) and the polyol component (C) (isocyanate groups/active hydrogen groups) is from 1.01 to 2.0, and a weight ratio between the urethane polyisocyanate prepolymer (A) and the polyol component (C) ((A)/(C)) is from 0.7 to 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Seiren Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Tsubota
  • Patent number: 8289093
    Abstract: To provide a voltage controlled oscillator capable of being treated as a lumped constant circuit, having small size and capable of obtaining an oscillation frequency in a high frequency band. A resonance part in a voltage controlled oscillator has variable capacitance elements whose electrostatic capacitance varies in accordance with a control voltage for frequency control input from the outside and an inductance element, an amplifying part amplifies a frequency signal from the resonance part, and a feedback part, having feedback capacitance elements, forms an oscillation loop together with the amplifying part and the resonance part by making the frequency signal amplified in the amplifying part to be fed back to the resonance part. Further, the resonance part and the feedback part are provided on a quartz-crystal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tsuda, Tatsunori Onzuka, Kenji Kawahata, Hiroshi Hoshigami, Ryouichi Fujiyama
  • Patent number: 8287925
    Abstract: Provided are more effective cell-proliferating and tissue-repairing agents derived from rice containing, as an active ingredient, an internal solution produced by the dialysis of a water-treated product of a raw rice material essentially including a white rice fraction with an 8K dialysis membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Takahito Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 8287378
    Abstract: When the game machines (2100, 2110 and 2120) join the same network game, display images necessary for the users playing in a common virtual space are displayed in the displays (2105, 2115 and 2125) of the game machines. The game machines are connected with the controllers (2109, 2119 and 2129). The users operate various operations by means of the controllers for executing the game. The user can play match against or cooperate with the users participating in a common network game, and can also communicate with the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventor: Yojiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: D669794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Hodi International Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: Arno Hoorn