Patents Represented by Law Firm Olbon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
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Patent number: 7949966Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.Inventors: Akihito Anpo, Jun Kasahara, Hitoshi Higurashi, Shigehiro Hara
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Patent number: 7778560Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 7508636Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Societe Techique Pour l'Energie Atomique TechnicatomeInventors: Pierre Sellier, Ronan Besrest, Claudio Zimmermann
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Patent number: 7492192Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Ichiro Kumata
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Patent number: 7471641Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii
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Patent number: 7224343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Junichi Rekimoto
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Patent number: 7035637Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masayuki Motegi, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 6963758Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Narahashi, Kunihiro Kawai, Kei Satoh, Toshio Nojima
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Patent number: 6806703Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignees: Snecma Moteurs, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Yann Le Bihan, Olivier Lespinet, Alain Mourenko, Franck Paul Dominique Vital Panizzoli, Dominique Marc Bruno Placko, Edouardo-Agapito Santander-Rojas
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Patent number: 6705295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignees: Renault, Siemens Automotive S.A.Inventors: Francis Rene Henri Tarroux, Bertrand Hauet, Alain Aubourg
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Patent number: 6331074Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 16, 1998Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuteru Kimura
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Patent number: 6076460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideyuki Kagawa
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Patent number: 6077045Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Minoru Kawada
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Patent number: 6072206Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 1999Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hirofumi Yamashita, Ikuko Inoue, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Hisanori Ihara, Hidetoshi Nozaki
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Patent number: 6056897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 1998Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Assignee: Great Lakes Chemical (Europe) GmbHInventors: Luciano Pallini, Silvestro Costanzi, Carlo Neri, Francesco Groppelli
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Patent number: 6051212Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Sapporo Breweries LimitedInventors: Hisao Kado, Takumi Shibata, Fujio Kobayashi, Masaki Kubota
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Patent number: 6040760Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Ichiro Kataoka, Kunimitsu Aoki, Yoshiyuki Furuya, Junichi Matsushita, Hiroshi Nishiyama, Katsutoshi Nakajima, Akira Norizuki, Katsumi Murakami, Takeyuki Amari
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Patent number: 5999036Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naoki Itoh, Manabu Nakayama
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Patent number: 5705597Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 1995Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: Huels AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martina Ortelt, Werner Freitag, Christina Machate
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Patent number: 5576324Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 1994Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: 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