Patents Represented by Attorney Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
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Patent number: 8336559Abstract: A hair extension system provides a skin weft of flexible material having hair like fibers uniformly displaced thereon. Micro rings are fixed to the skin weft and provide an anchoring feature for strands of human hair from a scalp to be secured thereto. The micro rings are deformable and include a flexible protectant so as to minimize damage to the strands of hair. The hair system may be reused by re-opening the micro rings and reinstalling the hair extension system to another location.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Klix Hair, Inc.Inventors: Kennice Kallabat, Maysoon Kattula
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Patent number: 8339132Abstract: A magnetic detection device of the present invention includes at least one pair of first magnetosensitive bodies each comprising a soft magnetic material extending in a first axis direction and being sensitive to an external magnetic field oriented in the first axis direction; and a magnetic field direction changer comprising a soft magnetic material and changing an external magnetic field oriented in a different axis direction from the first axis direction into a measurement magnetic field having a component in the first axis direction which can be detected by the at least one pair of first magnetosensitive bodies. With this magnetic detection device, the external magnetic field oriented in the different axis direction can be detected by way of the first magnetosensitive bodies. As a result, while attaining magnetic detection with high accuracy, the magnetic detection device can be reduced in size or thickness by omitting a magnetosensitive body extending long in the different axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Aichi Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Norihiko Hamada, Akihiro Shimode, Masayuki Kato
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Patent number: 8336318Abstract: A cryopump is provided with: a refrigerator that generates a cold state by a heat cycle in which an operating gas inhaled inside is expanded and discharged; a heat shield thermally connected to the refrigerator so as to be cooled to a target temperature; and a control unit that determines a command value for a heat cycle frequency such that a temperature of the heat shield follows the target temperature, and provides the command value to the refrigerator. The control unit estimates whether the refrigerator outputs a refrigerating capacity corresponding to the command value for the frequency based on a flow rate of the operating gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiro Koyama
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Patent number: 8333610Abstract: A battery connector includes a housing, a contact, a lid housing, and a pair of rotor rods. The housing includes at a bottom portion a pair of slit apertures into which a positive electrode and a negative electrode can be inserted. At the contact, a pair of movable strips contacts opposing surfaces of the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes. The lid housing fits to the housing. The pair of the rotor rods is supported so as to be rotatable at and adjoining with or spaced from both end portions of the lid housing. The contact includes a guide strip provided with a pair of cam grooves of a V-shape at both end portions, and when the lid housing is inserted into the housing, the contact moves the pair of the rotor rods to be adjoining each other and presses the positive and negative electrodes to the pair of the movable strips.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Osada
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Patent number: 8334823Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a pixel array in which pixel circuits each having a light emitting element, a driving transistor for applying a current corresponding to a gate-to-source voltage to the light emitting element connected to a source side by applying a drive voltage across a drain and a source, a sampling transistor for inputting a signal line voltage to a gate of the driving transistor by being caused to conduct, and a sustaining capacitor connected between the gate and the source of the driving transistor for sustaining a video signal voltage inputted thereto are disposed in a matrix; a signal selector; a drive control scanner; and a write scanner.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naobumi Toyomura, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 8334591Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a semiconductor chip with a surface facing down mounted on the substrate; a reinforcement material provided on the substrate in a peripheral region of a region on which the semiconductor chip is mounted; and a heat sink coupled to the semiconductor chip via a highly thermally conductive material. The heat sink is disposed on the semiconductor chip and the reinforcement material by being coupled to the reinforcement material via an adhesive material, and is provided with an uneven area on a side coupled to the reinforcement material.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hidetoshi Kusano
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Patent number: 8332999Abstract: An improved method and device for securely inserting a tubular element (30) into a through-aperture (40) in a flexible wall (60) accessible from one side only. The tubular element has a retainer (31, 32) projecting transversely at each end thereof, said retainer being resiliently foldable towards the axis of said tubular element. The element is inserted into a loading tube (11), wherein the retainers are automatically folded into the correct orientation by an automatic bending means (18). The bending means is part of a self-contained device for inserting said tubular element (30) into said through-aperture (40).Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Atos Medical ABInventors: Jonas Karling, Gregory Margolin
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Patent number: 8334864Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns, and a number of power supply lines and scanning lines equal to the number of the rows of the pixels, each of the power supply lines being wired commonly to those of the pixels which are juxtaposed in a direction of a row.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Keisuke Omoto, Masatsugu Tomida
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Patent number: 8334518Abstract: The invention presents a drinking water server having a configuration capable of suppressing generation of bacteria in a cold water tank, in a cold water pour tube, and in a pour valve. An opening part (2c) is formed in bottom side of a cold water tank (2), and a straight cold water pour tube (6) disposed horizontally in this opening part (2c) by way of a bent part (6b). An ultraviolet lamp (8) is disposed so as to reach up to a bottom part of the bent part (6b) by way of the opening part (2c) from inside of the cold water tank (2), so that ultraviolet rays emitted from the ultraviolet lamp (8) may be emitted uniformly both in the cold water tank (2) and in the duct of the cold water pour tube (6). As a valve body of a cold water pour valve (7), a diaphragm (71) for clogging the leading end of the cold water pour tube (6) is used, and dead angle of ultraviolet rays is eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Noritz CorporationInventors: Masaaki Matsuda, Hidehiro Takano, Takao Morigaki
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Patent number: 8335117Abstract: Disclosed herein is a memory device including: first and second wires; memory cells including a variable-resistance storage element having a data storage state making a transition by a change of a voltage applied and an access transistor connected in series between the first and second wires; driving control sections controlling a direct verify sub-operation by applying a write/erase pulse between the first and second wires in a data write/erase operation respectively for causing a cell current to flow between the first and second wires through the memory cell for a transition of the data storage state; sense amplifiers sensing an electric-potential change occurring on the first wire in accordance with control on the direct verify sub-operation; and inhibit control sections determining whether or not to inhibit a sense node of the sense amplifier from electrically changing at the next sensing time on the basis of an electric potential appearing at the sense node at the present sensing time.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Makoto Kitagawa, Tsunenori Shiimoto
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Patent number: 8335353Abstract: A low-profile biometrics authentication system capable of achieving high security level authentication is provided. A biometrics authentication system 1 includes a light source 10, a light guide section 11A, a diffraction section 11B, a microlens array 12, an image pickup device 13, an image processing section 14, a pattern storing section 15, an authentication section 16, a voltage supply section 17, a light source driving section 181, an image pickup device driving section 182 and a control section 19. When light L0 emitted from the light source 10 propagates through the light guide section 11A by total reflection, and then enters the diffraction section 11B, light L1 diffracted at a different angle from an incident angle is generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Isao Ichimura
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Patent number: 8334822Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section configured to have a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix thereon, each of the pixels including an electro-optical element, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, and a storage capacitor connected between the gate electrode and the source electrode of the driving transistor for storing an image signal written by the writing transistor, each of the pixels carrying out a mobility correction process for applying negative feedback to a potential difference between the gate and the source of the driving transistor with a correction amount determined from current flowing to the driving transistor; a detection section configured to detect variation of a characteristic of any transistor in the pixels; and a control section configured to control the period of the mobility correction process based on a result of the detection by the detection section.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuo Minami
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Patent number: 8334884Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value used when signal value correction is performed with respect to an image signal supplied to a display panel includes setting a target luminance value, which is not uniform in an overall surface of the display panel, as a target luminance value of one image signal value such that at least a portion of a distribution of target luminance values at each plane position of the display panel becomes a curved distribution, and calculating a correction value at each plane position of the display panel using luminance observed at each plane position of the display panel when one image signal value is given to the overall surface of the display panel and the target luminance value at each plane position of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasunobu Kato
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Patent number: 8334880Abstract: A image processing apparatus includes a first image converting section for converting an original image into an output resolution image, a second image converting section for converting the original image into an intermediate resolution image, a similarity information generating section for detecting a plurality of similar areas, in a block in the intermediate resolution image corresponding to a predetermined partial area in the output resolution image, that resemble the partial area, and for generating similarity information including a position of each of the plurality of similar areas in the intermediate resolution image and a weight of the position, a texture generating section for generating a texture image by combining high-frequency components of the intermediate resolution image at the position according to the weight, and a texture blending section for blending the output resolution image and the texture image to generate output image.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunari Hatasawa, Shinichiro Gomi, Masami Ogata
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Patent number: 8335144Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laser driving apparatus, including: a driving unit adapted to current drive a laser device with a current value in accordance with a level of a signal supplied thereto; and an emission light waveform correction unit adapted to receive supply of a pulsed reference signal and generate, based on a correction timing pulse interlocked with a rising edge and/or a falling edge of a pulse, a correction signal having a level different from that of the reference signal and then supply the correction signal to the driving unit so that the shape of the emission light waveform of the laser device becomes close to that of a rectangular wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Chiba, Motoi Kimura
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Patent number: D672261Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Ishizuka, Hiroshi Nishida
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Patent number: D672713Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kirio Masui
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Patent number: D672752Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yosuke Shimizu, Masaaki Ohara
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Patent number: D672765Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kirio Masui, Shinpei Hirano, Yasuaki Isonaga, Soichi Tanaka
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Patent number: D672869Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Noritz CorporationInventors: Takashi Akiyama, Itsuo Nagai