Patents Represented by Attorney Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neusadt, L.L.P.
  • Patent number: 8142148
    Abstract: A diffuser-nozzle assembly mounted at the outlet from a centrifugal compressor is disclosed. The assembly includes a plurality of vanes carried by a radially inner wall forming a surface of revolution and surrounded by an outer casing, elastically deformable devices interposed between the radially outer ends of the vanes of the nozzle and the outer casing. The elastically deformable devices prevent air from passing between the outer casing and the radially outer ends of the vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 7904301
    Abstract: An original digital audio signal represents unimpaired audio information. The digital audio signal is compressed and encrypted without substantial impairment to produce a first audio signal. A second, unencrypted, audio signal is produced. The first and second audio signals are combined. Preferably the first audio signal is losslessy compressed. The second audio signal may be an impaired version of the original digital audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Europe Limited
    Inventors: Rodney Hugh Densham, William Edmund Cranstoun Kentish, Nicholas John Haynes, Peter Charles Eastty