Patents Represented by Law Firm Olbon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
  • Patent number: 7949966
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input writing data for writing a plurality of cell patterns including at least one cell pattern in which an identifier is added to each of data defining the at least one cell pattern extending over at least two small regions in a plurality of small regions obtained by virtually dividing a writing region, an extraction unit configured to extract the at least one cell pattern to which the identifier is added from the plurality of cell patterns, an output unit configured to output an error result when only one cell pattern is extracted, and a writing unit configured to write the plurality of cell patterns by irradiating a target workpiece with a charged particle beam, based on the writing data for which the error result is not output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Anpo, Jun Kasahara, Hitoshi Higurashi, Shigehiro Hara
  • Patent number: 7778560
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier configured to carry an image and a charger to which a direct current voltage overlapped with an AC voltage is applied as a charging bias to charge the image carrier. The charger is positioned in contact or contactlessly with the image carrier. A controller performs an adjustment to the AC voltage multiple times to gradually bring the AC voltage to a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishibashi, Kohta Fujimori, Shin Hasegawa, Yushi Hirayama, Nobutaka Takeuchi, Shinji Kato, Kayoko Tanaka, Naoto Watanabe, Kentaroh Tomita, Satoru Komatsubara, Akio Kosuge
  • Patent number: 7508636
    Abstract: This invention relates to a circuit breaker device comprising a main branch (1) comprising a mechanical switch element (2) and an auxiliary branch (3) containing a semiconductor breaking cell (4), this auxiliary branch (3) being mounted in parallel with the main branch (1). The main branch (1) comprises a serial switching assistance module (M2) in series with the mechanical switch element (2), comprising a semiconductor breaking cell (5) controllable in opening in parallel with an impedance (Z1). The auxiliary branch (3) comprises a parallel switching assistance module (M4) comprising an impedance (Z2), this impedance (Z2) including at least one capacitor type element (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Societe Techique Pour l'Energie Atomique Technicatome
    Inventors: Pierre Sellier, Ronan Besrest, Claudio Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 7492192
    Abstract: A logic processing circuit including a plurality of flip-flop including a front stage flip-flop and a rear stage flip-flop, a logic gate circuit network adapted to process data stored in the front stage flip-flop, a result of the process being stored in the rear stage flip-flop, and switching means for switching between a power-on period and a power-off period, the power-on period being a period in which power is being provided to the logic gate circuit network, the power-on period corresponding to either a low-level state period of a clock signal or a high-level state period thereof, the power-off period being a period in which the power is being turned off, the power-off period corresponding to the state period other than the state period corresponding to the power-on period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Kumata
  • Patent number: 7471641
    Abstract: A transmission controller which controls downlink transmission rates of multiple communications terminals based on corresponding downlink transmission qualities of the communications terminals is disclosed. The controller includes a transmission-quality obtaining unit configured to obtain the downlink transmission qualities of the communications terminals. A communications-terminal selecting unit is configured to select out of the communications terminals one which has the need to change the downlink transmission rate in accordance with the downlink transmission qualities obtained at the transmission-quality obtaining unit. A transmission-rate changing unit changes the downlink transmission rate of the communications terminal selected at the communications-terminal selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 7224343
    Abstract: There is provided an input apparatus which makes it possible to reduce the size and weight of the apparatus on which it is mounted while improving the ease of use through its jog dial functionality. On a joint section for allowing a first housing and a second housing to be opened to a predetermined angle is provided the input apparatus (jog dial function section) that functions as a jog dial. This input apparatus is formed on at least a part of a cylindrical section of a structure in which the cylindrical section, which is part of the second housing, is fitted between a pair of shoulder portions of the first housing. As used above, “at least a part” refers to an area that can be touched by a user's finger when the first housing and the second housing are opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
  • Patent number: 7035637
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to make improvement in the configuration of location registration areas. When a base station 13P is newly installed in a location registration area 30A, the base station 13P recognizes a location of its own with GPS or the like and performs communication with a plurality of surrounding base stations 13Q to select a location registration area 30A to which it should belong, based on the belonging status of the surrounding base stations 13Q and the location of its own.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Motegi, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
  • Patent number: 6963758
    Abstract: In a high sensitive radio receiver system for a diversity reception from two antennae per each of three sectors (SC1, SC3, SC3), a series connection of a bandpass filter (31 to 36) and a low noise amplifier (41 to 46) is contained in each of a plurality of vacuum chambers (81 to 86), the interior of which is cooled by a distinct, separate cooling unit (91 to 96). The two antennae per sector are connected to bandpass filters contained in different vacuum chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Narahashi, Kunihiro Kawai, Kei Satoh, Toshio Nojima
  • Patent number: 6806703
    Abstract: An eddy current detector includes two poles aligned in the direction of extension of partitions located behind a wall, wherein the thickness must be measured, but which interfere with the measurements. The influence of the partitions is decreased by the core of the detector including two poles aligned in the direction of the extension of the partitions and by using a logical system to correct the results obtained according to preliminary results obtained on a reference surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignees: Snecma Moteurs, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Yann Le Bihan, Olivier Lespinet, Alain Mourenko, Franck Paul Dominique Vital Panizzoli, Dominique Marc Bruno Placko, Edouardo-Agapito Santander-Rojas
  • Patent number: 6705295
    Abstract: The injectors (6i) allocated to the cylinders are supplied with fuel by a common injection train and their opening time is calculated and controlled by a computer. According to the invention, a) any possible overlap in the opening time of at least two injectors (6i) is detected, b) in the absence of an overlap, the fuel pressure in the train outside the opening time of the injector concerned is determined, c) if an overlap is present, the pressure of the fuel when the injector concerned is opened is determined and d) the measurement established is corrected according to a predetermined variation in the pressure of the fuel caused by the injector(s) opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignees: Renault, Siemens Automotive S.A.
    Inventors: Francis Rene Henri Tarroux, Bertrand Hauet, Alain Aubourg
  • Patent number: 6331074
    Abstract: A thermal analyzer scans temperature by thermally altering a sample and measuring a thermal change based on physical and chemical changes of the sample as a function of time and/or temperature. The thermal analyzer includes a heat-generating section for heating a sample. The heat-generating section includes a first semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type forming a thin-film heater with a cavity section in a lower section thereof and a second semiconductor substrate of a second conductivity type connected to the first substrate. The cavity section forms a sample holding section for holding the sample. The thermal analyzer further includes a temperature detecting section for detecting a temperature of the sample holding section. The sample holding section and the temperature detecting section are monolithically formed on the thin-film heater or an area proximate the thin-film heater in a thin-film supporting section for supporting the thin-film heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuteru Kimura
  • Patent number: 6076460
    Abstract: A master making device of the present invention includes a support member supporting a stencil roll such that a stencil can be paid out from the roll. A thermal head perforates the stencil paid out from the roll while a platen roller rotates while pressing the stencil against the head. The support member, thermal head and platen are constructed into a master making unit. The master making unit is removably mounted to the body of a printer via rails. A broader space than is conventional is available for the stencil to be set or replaced or for a jam to be dealt with without a document reading section being displaced relative to the printer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 6077045
    Abstract: A scroll-type compressor which prevents seizure or scuffing due to tight contact between spiral laps and end plates of fixed and revolving scrolls is provided. The compressor comprises two thermocouples, the contact point of one thermocouple being with a central portion of the end plate of the fixed scroll, while the contact point of the other thermocouple being with the housing. The operation of the scroll-type compressor is terminated when a difference between temperature values detected by the thermocouples reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Kawada
  • Patent number: 6072206
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solid state image sensor constructed in such a manner that, even if the impurity concentration of the wells of a transistors is increased, the junction leakage current does not increase, and thus, the picture quality of the reproduced picture is not deteriorated. On a p-type substrate, there are formed a first p-type well for a photoelectric conversion portion comprising a photodiode, and a second p-type well for a signal scanning circuit portion. In the surface portions of the first and second p-type wells, a first and a second n-type diffused layers are formed, respectively. The drain of a reset transistor and the drain of an amplifying transistor which constitute the second n-type diffused layer are connected to a power supply line. Further, the source of an address transistor which is an n-type diffused layer is connected to a vertical signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hirofumi Yamashita, Ikuko Inoue, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Hisanori Ihara, Hidetoshi Nozaki
  • Patent number: 6056897
    Abstract: Solid form of a stabilizer for organic polymers consisting of one or more tocopherols, as such or in formulation, absorbed on porous polypropylene with a high crystallinity, in a quantity ranging from 30% to 85% by weight. The above tocopherols, as such or in formulation, can also be used in a mixture with other stabilizers such as, for example, secondary antioxidants containing phosphorous or sulfur, sterically hindered phenols and sterically hindered amines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Great Lakes Chemical (Europe) GmbH
    Inventors: Luciano Pallini, Silvestro Costanzi, Carlo Neri, Francesco Groppelli
  • Patent number: 6051212
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, it is provided a method for producing a yeast extract with the improvement in the color and odor characteristic to yeast extract and with no modification of the useful substances such as amino acid, etc. compared with conventional yeast extract.By a simple method in accordance with the present invention, color and characteristic odor can be removed, with almost no loss of the contents of useful substances such as amino acid, etc. from the yeast extract solution produced in a conventional manner. Because the resulting yeast extract can be mixed with other materials for use, the yeast extract is applicable to various fields, for example for cosmetic products and healthy foods other than seasonings, which expectantly enlarges the applicable range of the yeast extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Sapporo Breweries Limited
    Inventors: Hisao Kado, Takumi Shibata, Fujio Kobayashi, Masaki Kubota
  • Patent number: 6040760
    Abstract: Multiple pieces of equipment installed in a vehicle are freely installed and removed to equipment connection slots. A bus line interconnects the multiple pieces of electrical equipment installed in the equipment connection slots. Multiple operating switches arranged in a single unit on an operating section are provided in correspondence to the multiple pieces of electrical equipment for producing control signals to control each of the multiple pieces of electrical equipment. When any one of the operating switches is manipulated, a head unit controls, via the bus line, the electrical equipment corresponding to the manipulated operating switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Kataoka, Kunimitsu Aoki, Yoshiyuki Furuya, Junichi Matsushita, Hiroshi Nishiyama, Katsutoshi Nakajima, Akira Norizuki, Katsumi Murakami, Takeyuki Amari
  • Patent number: 5999036
    Abstract: An output circuit including an input inverting buffer circuit, and an output transistor circuit controlling a voltage of an output terminal by a current flowing therein. A control terminal of the output transistor is coupled to an output of the buffer circuit and to a current divider. The current divider is controlled by a voltage level of the output terminal and diverts current flowing from the output of the buffer circuit to the output transistor. The output circuit reduces overcurrent that flows at a rise of a voltage level of an output terminal, and thereby prevents a ground voltage level from floating up and noise from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naoki Itoh, Manabu Nakayama
  • Patent number: 5705597
    Abstract: Ketone-aldehyde resins with wide compatibility, process for their preparation, and their use. The invention relates to ketone-aldehyde resins with wide compatibility comprising cycloaliphatic ketones and, in particular, formaldehyde and, if desired, further monomers, to a process for their preparation and to their use as hard resin in paints, printing inks and other coatings, especially in pigment preparations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martina Ortelt, Werner Freitag, Christina Machate
  • Patent number: 5576324
    Abstract: A quinoline derivative represented by general formula (1), a medicinally acceptable salt thereof, and a remedy for cardiac diseases containing the same: ##STR1## [wherein ring A represents a furan, dihydrofuran or dioxolane ring, and R.sup.1 represents an aminoalkyl group].The compound (1) has a positively inotropic effect on myocardia and an antiarrhythmic effect, and can dilate blood vessels without extremely increasing the heart rate. Therefore, a remedy for cardiac diseases containing the same as the active ingredient is remarkably useful for treating cardiac insufficiency, arrhythmia, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Kowa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kyotani, Tadaaki Ohgiya, Tsutomu Toma, Yuji Kurihara, Takahiro Kitamura, Takashi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Onogi, Seiichi Sato, Hiromichi Shigyo, Tomio Ohta, Mitsuo Kawada, Yasumi Uchida