Patents Represented by Attorney Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
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Patent number: 7926326Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing rheological measurements of interfaces located at the top of fluid sub-phases. In one configuration, a rotating rheometer is provided with a chamber wall whose inner surface defines an outer chamber radius and an inner cylinder disposed within the cylindrical chamber and having an inner chamber radius. The rotating rheometer is configured to hold a liquid sub-phase and interface layer that can be probed using a circular ribbon that is concentric with and suspended between the inner cylinder and chamber wall. The ratio of the ribbon radius, inner chamber radius, and outer chamber radius is designed to yield an average shear rate in the inner region that is the same as an average shear rate in the outer region. In one configuration, an interface-pinning feature is provided on at least one of the inner cylinder and the chamber wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Aloyse Franck, Jan Vermant, Gerald G. Fuller
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Patent number: 7922601Abstract: A golf club head according to the present invention comprises a plurality of score lines on a face, and a stair-shaped portion comprising a plurality of steps formed on a side wall of the score line from a face side end of the side wall in a depth direction of the score line.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., LtdInventors: Wataru Ban, Fumiaki Sato, Kozue Wada
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Patent number: 7901297Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head including a plurality of score lines on the face. The golf club head includes a plurality of striations formed on the face and extending from a toe side to a heel side. A depth Dp of each striation satisfies 10 ?m?Dp?40 ?m. A cross-sectional shape of each striation is an isosceles trapezoid having an upper base at the face side and a lower base at the back side of the golf club head. The upper base and lower base satisfy the upper base>the lower base. A width Pb of the bottom portion of each protrusion formed between the striations and a width Wb of the lower base satisfy Pb<Wb.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Ban, Fumiaki Sato, Kozue Wada
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Patent number: 7896761Abstract: A lacrosse head having at least one of a flexible stringing member and a recessed scoop is provided. In one embodiment, a slot is formed in a head along a stop member, a sidewall, and/or a scoop to provide the flexible stringing member. In another embodiment, the flexible stringing member is a flexible stringing bar that extends from a stop member to a scoop. In another embodiment, the flexible stringing member is more flexible in one direction than another. Through these embodiments, a flexible stringing member can dampen and dynamically narrow the pocket, enhance ball retention, increase pass/shot accuracy, and satisfy pocket-forming preferences. In another embodiment, a scoop has a recess that curves toward a stop member to increase the amount of surface area that contacts a ball when scooping.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: WM. T. Burnett IP, LLCInventors: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr., Joel F. Price
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Patent number: 7878923Abstract: The present invention provides a golf club head that can hit a ball with a sufficiently large amount of backspin. The golf club head according to the present invention is an iron type golf club head made of a metal and including a flat face. A plurality of traces are formed by milling on the face. The pitch of the traces is between 0.1 mm and 1 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Yamagishi, Yasunori Imamoto
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Patent number: 7882555Abstract: The invention provides an application layer security method and system to secure trusted computer applications from executing out of their intended and authorized scope caused by illegal or harmful operation requests received from a distrusted environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a protective layer is implemented in between a trusted application and distrusted application operation requests. In operation, the protective layer identifies an application path of each operation request. Depending on the application path identified, one or more security pipes scrutinize the application contents of the operation request to determine if the operation request is illegal or harmful to the application or a surrounding environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Kavado, Inc.Inventor: Yuval Ben-Itzhak
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Patent number: 7853795Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for guaranteeing a data transaction over a network are disclosed. When a data transaction between at least a server and a client is detected on a network, data transmitted via the network between the server and client during the data transaction is captured. At least one identifier is associated with the captured data. A timestamp is also generated for the captured data. The timestamp includes information therein identifying at least a portion of the identifier(s). The captured data, the identifier(s) and the timestamp are stored in one or more data stores. The identifier(s) associated with the stored captured data is also mapped to an entry in an index to permit retrieval of the stored data from the data store via the index.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Network Resonance, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Stewart Dick, Eric Kenneth Rescorla
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Patent number: 7846040Abstract: A golf club head of this invention includes a face, a plurality of score line grooves formed on the face, and a plurality of striations formed on the face. The angle formed by an arrangement direction of the plurality of striations and the score line grooves is between 40 degrees and 70 degrees, inclusive, as viewed clockwise from a toe side end of the score line grooves.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wataru Ban
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Patent number: 7837428Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for use thereof for loading bulk material into freight containers. One apparatus comprises a hopper configured to receive bulk material that is sized and shaped to be at least partially enclosable by a container to occupy a substantial volume of the container and a ram. The ram comprises a plate and a driver configured to move the plate from a back end of the hopper to an open end of the hopper to expel material into a container. Another apparatus comprises a hopper configured to receive bulk material that is sized and shaped to be at least partially enclosable by a container to occupy a substantial volume of the container and a reciprocating conveyor floor system. Optionally, the apparatuses further include a stand and/or collapsible legs to further support the hopper.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: SA Recycling LLCInventors: George Adams, Terry Scot Adams, Michael J. Adams
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Patent number: 7833116Abstract: A lacrosse head having a skeletal member and an outer skin that encapsulates the skeletal member. In an embodiment of the invention, the outer skin is made of a material that is more energy absorbing than the material of the skeletal member. Corresponding methods for making the lacrosse head are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: WM. T. Burnett IP, LLCInventors: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr., Richard B. C. Tucker, Jr.
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Patent number: 7828671Abstract: A golf club head of this invention includes a face, a plurality of score line grooves formed on the face, and a plurality of striations formed on the face. The angle formed by an arrangement direction of the plurality of striations and the score line grooves is between 40 degrees and 70 degrees, inclusive, as viewed clockwise from a toe side end of the score line grooves.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wataru Ban
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Patent number: 7824279Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head including a plurality of score lines on a face. In the golf club head according to this invention, the angle between each side surface of the score lines and the face is 48° or more. Edges of the score lines are formed to be positioned within a second virtual circle with a radius of 0.011 inches, the second virtual circle being concentric with a first virtual circle which internally touches the side surface of the score line and the face with a radius of 0.010 inches.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., LtdInventors: Wataru Ban, Fumiaki Sato, Kozue Wada
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Patent number: 7823282Abstract: A method for connecting at least one wire to a contact element to facilitate connection of the wire to a power source comprising the following steps: a) preparation of the contact element which is fitted with a groove for receiving at least one wire; b) insertion of the wire into the groove of the contact element; c) lowering an electrode onto the contact element; and d) heating of the area around the groove by means of the electrode while simultaneously deforming the area around the groove thereby embedding the wire lying in said groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Friatec AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andre Heinzel, Andreas Hojenski
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Patent number: 7819756Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head including a plurality of score lines on the face. The golf club head includes a plurality of striations formed on the face and extending from a toe side to a heel side. The cross-sectional shape of each of the striations is a triangle asymmetric with regard to a virtual center line in the width direction, and the smallest interior angle among three interior angles of the triangle is placed at the sole side of the golf club head. A depth D from the face to the deepest portion of each of the striation satisfies 10 ?m?D?40 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Ban, Fumiaki Sato, Kozue Wada
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Patent number: 7819758Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head including a face member. The face member includes a face portion forming a face, and a crown extending portion extending backward from the upper edge of the face portion. The width of the crown extending portion in a face to back direction at the toe side is larger than that in the face to back direction at the heel side.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2008Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Matsunaga, Makoto Kubota, Masaomi Hiruta
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Patent number: 7815521Abstract: The present invention provides a golf club head comprising, a face, a plurality of score line grooves formed in the face, traces formed in the face by milling; and a pair of side surfaces of the score line groove including a first surface that is contiguous with the face and a second surface that is contiguous with the first surface in the depth direction of the score line groove. A first angle that is formed by each first surface of the pair of side surfaces is larger than a second angle that is formed by each second surface of the pair of surfaces. The face in which the traces are formed has the arithmetic mean deviation of the profile (Ra) of not less than 4.00 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone Sports, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Ban, Vinh-Duy Thai Nguyen
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Patent number: 7818750Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling data-processing software modules (4, 5, 6, 7), wherein the data to be processed are organized in files, and wherein the processing is performed in a plurality of successive processing sections and the files in one processing section are processed by at least one software module (4, 5, 6, 7). To prevent the propagation and spreading of deviations occurring during the processing in the software modules (4, 5, 6, 7) in subsequent processing sections, information about the data processed are collected in the software modules (4, 5, 6, 7) of the processing sections and are signalized to a control system (8), said control system (8) comparing the information signalized and stopping the processing in a subsequent processing section if the comparison of the information revealed that a predetermined, admissible maximum deviation has been exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: USB AGInventors: Peter Dunki, Hansbeat Loacker, Markus Wietlisbach
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Patent number: 7816133Abstract: Disclosed is a method for in vitro growing of connective tissue substitute, said connective tissue substitute being populated with fibroblasts, a connective tissue substitute obtainable by such a method, as well as a method for closing of a wound, wherein such connective tissue substitute is applied onto a wound.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Vereniging Voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek En PatentienzorgInventors: Susan Gibbs, Edith Margaretha de Boer, Gudula Kirtschig, Riekeld Johannes Scheper, Derk Pieter Bruynzeel
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Patent number: 7803300Abstract: A multi-component lacrosse stick head, made of at least two materials, including a base lacrosse head structure of one material and one or more overlays made of one or more other materials strategically located on the base structure. The base structure and overlays provide particular performance characteristics for the lacrosse head. An embodiment of the invention includes a base lacrosse head structure, and at least one of a ball stop overlay, a sidewall overlay, an edge overlay, a thread opening overlay, and a scoop overlay. The overlays are affixed to the base lacrosse head structure by, for example, insert molding, over molding, reaction injection molding, spray application, rotational molding, dual extrusion, casting, or an interference fit.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Wm. T. Burnett IP, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr.
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Patent number: 7800746Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying refractive-index fluctuations of a target are described in this application. One embodiment includes identifying one or more properties of emergent light, the emergent light to be emergent from a target, and determining refractive-index fluctuations of the target based on the one or more properties of the emergent light. The determining refractive-index fluctuations further comprises determining one or more of the variance of the refractive-index fluctuations and the spatial correlation length of the refractive-index fluctuations. The determining refractive-index fluctuations further comprises determining one or more of the variance of the refractive-index fluctuations and the spatial correlation length of the refractive-index fluctuations.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignees: Northwestern University, NorthShore University HealthSystemInventors: Vadim Backman, Yang Liu, Young Kim, Hemant Roy, Michael Goldberg, Randall Brand, Prabhakar Pradhan, Hariharan Subramanian