Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.
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Patent number: 6726904Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a gel mass based on reaction products of polyols and polyisocyanates, wherein the polyol component consists of one or more polyols with hydroxyl numbers below 112 and where appropriate other polyols and additives known from polyol chemistry, the isocyanate number of the reaction mixture lies in the range of 15 to 59.81 and the product of the isocyanate functionality and the functionality of the polyol components is at least 6.15, as a coupling medium for transmitting acoustic waves from a sound source onto the body of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignees: Richard Wolf GmbH, TachnoGel GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Werner Krauss, Peter Jaggy, Edgar Bauer, Hermann Benkhoff
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Patent number: 6722588Abstract: A pin jet nozzle for providing an evaporative fog in evaporative cooling systems or the like has a body member with an internal bore for receiving fluid under pressure, and an orifice receiving chamber integrally formed in the upper surface of the body member. The orifice receiving chamber is unitary with the body member and in fluid communication with the internal bore. An orifice member is directly secured in the orifice receiving chamber so that an orifice of the orifice member is coaxial with the internal bore. A pin member has an impingement pin with an impingement face that is spaced from, and in alignment with, the orifice.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Atomizing Systems, Inc.Inventor: Michael V. Elkas
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Patent number: 6723157Abstract: A material is provided for capturing a chemical substance comprising fibers which carry metal alkoxide particles on the surfaces thereof. The metal alkoxide particles are made from an oligosilica, an oligozirconia, an oligotitiania, or the like. The fibers may include inorganic fibers, regenerated fibers and/or synthetic fibers. The material for capturing a chemical substance is produced by a method comprising steps of subjecting the fibers to a surface treatment for facilitating adhesion of the metal alkoxide particles to the surfaces of the fibers, forming the metal alkoxide particles on the surfaces of the fibers, and fixing the metal alkoxide particles to the surfaces of the fibers. A chemical substance-capturing tube, capable of capturing a trace of a chemical substance in a liquid or a gas, can be produced by placing the fibers, i.e., the material for capturing a chemical substance, in a hollow tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignees: Sun Plastics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao Tsuda, Motonori Munesue
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Patent number: 6722647Abstract: A medium transporting apparatus transports a medium along a predetermined transport path. A medium-transporting section is movable between a loading position and an unloading position and has a first transport path. A medium-holding section is movable between the loading position and the unloading position, holds a stack of medium therein, and has a second transport path continuous to the first transport path. A first locking mechanism locks the medium-transporting section to the loading position and unlocks the medium-transporting section from the loading position. A coupling mechanism brings the medium-transporting section and the medium-holding section into coupled engagement with each other and brings the medium-transporting section and the medium-holding section out of coupled engagement with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Norihisa Isaka
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Patent number: 6724708Abstract: An optical disk medium includes a track groove thereon. On the optical disk medium, information is recorded along the track groove on a block unit basis. The block unit has a predetermined length. The block unit having the predetermined length includes a number of sub-blocks that are arranged along the groove. A sub-block mark is provided within each of the sub-blocks and used to identify the sub-block.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Ishibashi, Shigeru Furumiya, Atsushi Nakamura, Junichi Minamino, Takashi Ishida
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Patent number: 6719887Abstract: A biosensor includes: an insulating base plate; an electrode system which is provided on the base plate and has a measurement electrode and a counter electrode; a reaction layer including at least oxidoreductase and an electron mediator; a sample solution supply pathway which includes the electrode system and the reaction layer and has an air aperture on the termination side thereof; a sample supply portion; and a filter which is disposed between the sample solution supply pathway and the sample supply portion and filters hemocytes, where plasma with the hemocytes therein filtered with the filter is sucked into the sample solution supply pathway due to capillarity, the central part of a secondary side portion of the filter is protruded into the sample solution supply pathway more than both the right and left ends thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miwa Hasegawa, Motokazu Watanabe, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Shin Ikeda, Shiro Nankai
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Patent number: 6720300Abstract: A liquid cleansing agent or detergent compositions which separates into at least two aqueous phases contains at least one surfactant in a concentration or less than 10% and at least one electrolyte in the concentration of less than 15%. Optionally, the composition contains less than 10% of organic solvent and less than 6% of sodium hexametaphosphate.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.Inventors: Edgar Endlein, Mike Kosub, Karl-Ludwig Gibis, Alexandra Hary, Roger Kaiser
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Patent number: 6711997Abstract: Device to produce electronic circuits of the type comprising at least a base support (12) on which electrically conductive material is deposited able to embody the conductor tracks, said device comprising at least a printing station (13) able to deposit said electrically conductive material on said base support (12), a drying oven (14) and first feed means (35, 60) to feed each base support (12) from said printing station (13) to said drying oven (14), stacking means (52) being provided to stack the base supports (12) one on top of the other so that said base supports (12) can be introduced in vertical piles into said drying oven (14), spacer means (18, 20) being provided to keep said base supports (12) separate from each other when stacked.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2000Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Inventor: Gisulfo Baccini
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Patent number: 6714692Abstract: An image scaling method and apparatus converting an input image into an aimed image with suitable resolution for application, in the case that the input image and the aimed image are different in resolution, using continuous domain filtering and interpolation method. The invention utilizes domain filter of regular square type and generates filter coefficient based on area occupancy ratio of filter window according to the area of corresponding pixel extending the applied filter window and then obtains scaled image through the method of computing weighted average value, which is determined through multiplication of the generated filter coefficient and value of each pixel. By using image scaling method of the invention, there is an advantage of much lower cost in hardware implementation of an image scaler in comparison with conventional image scaling methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Lee Sup Kim, Jin Aeon Lee
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Patent number: 6714493Abstract: An optical disk apparatus of the present invention includes: a light irradiator operable to converge a light beam and to irradiate an information carrier (a recording medium) with the converged light beam; a moving means operable to move a converging point of the light beam in a direction substantially perpendicular to a surface of the information carrier; and a focusing controller operable to control the moving means to place the converging point of the light beam at a predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2000Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kishimoto, Takeharu Yamamoto, Kenji Fujiune, Katsuya Watanabe
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Patent number: 6711116Abstract: To provide a disk drive apparatus that suppresses undesirable vibrations due to the unbalance of a loaded disk and achieves high-speed data transfer, the disk drive apparatus of the present invention comprises a hollow ring member (23) that contains therein a plurality of spherical bodies (24) or a liquid (26) to form a balancer, wherein the balancer is formed so as to be rotatable in integral fashion with a disk, thereby suppressing the vibrations generated when an unbalanced disk is rotated at high speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Masaki, Kazuhiro Mihara, Shuichi Yoshida, Sachio Fukuyama, Noriaki Urayama, Masaaki Kikugawa
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Patent number: 6705426Abstract: Acoustic diffuser comprising a containing element able to contain at least a loudspeaker, wherein the containing element is formed by a monocoque made with granules of solid mineral held together by a cohesion material.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Inventor: Alessandro Copetti
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Patent number: 6704611Abstract: An automated computer-implemented method for generating commands for controlling a computer numerical control machine to fabricate an object from a workpiece. The method includes the steps of: (1) determining a first set of Z coordinates for machining a first set of Z level planar slices with a first tool; and (2) determining a second set of Z coordinates for machining a second set of Z level planar slices with the first tool. The second set of Z coordinates is partitioned into one or more subsets. Each subset corresponds to a pair of adjacent Z coordinates belonging to the first set of Z coordinates. A distance between the Z coordinates of each subset is a unit fraction of a distance between the Z coordinates of the pair of adjacent Z coordinates which corresponds to each subset.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Surfware, Inc.Inventors: Glenn I. Coleman, Kenneth D. Merritt
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Patent number: 6698369Abstract: An embroidery machine includes a plurality of heads installed above a working table and spaced apart from each other. A needle holder inside each head is slidingly movable up and down and includes a plurality of hooks at a lower part vertically opposite to the needle holder. A plurality of embroidery frames are installed between the needle holder and the hook. A guide rail is disposed in the X direction with respect to each embroidery frame, and an X-axis driver linear motor moves the embroidery frame in the X direction. A guide rail is disposed in the Y direction with respect to each embroidery frame, and a Y-axis driver linear motor moves the embroidery frame in the Y direction. A controller controls a plurality of X-axis and Y-axis driver linear motors and actuates or stops only one of the plurality of embroidery frames.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2001Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Sunstar Precision Co., Ltd.Inventor: Su Moon Kwak
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Patent number: 6697942Abstract: A data formatting method for embedding diverse data types in an electronic mail message includes the step of forming a network compliant electronic mail message header. Command blocks representing diverse data types are also generated. The command blocks representing the diverse data types are combined with a network compliant electronic mail message header into an electronic mail message. The electronic mail message is constructed to conform to network standards such that the command blocks representing the diverse data types are processed as textual information.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1999Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Earthlink, Inc.Inventors: David L'Heureux, Craig Hackerd
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Patent number: 6696258Abstract: Mesoporous materials and a method for making such materials is disclosed in which the mesoporous materials are made by forming an aqueous solution having an organometallic compound; adding a solution comprising a pore forming material selected from the group consisting of monomeric polyols, polyacids, polyamines, carbohydrates, oligopeptides, oligonucleic acids, carbonyl functional organic compounds, and mixtures and derivatives of these materials to form a sol get matrix by polycondensation; drying the sot gel matrix; and removing the pore forming material from the dried sot-gel matrix to thereby form a mesoporous material. The mesoporous materials have pore diameters of from about 20 Å to about 100 Å and may be used with a biologically active agent immobilized within the pores of the mesoporous material and introduced into a biological system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2000Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Drexel UniversityInventors: Yen Wei, Danliang Jin, Tianzhong Ding, Jigeng Xu
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Patent number: 6695142Abstract: A tool storage unit includes left and right walls, and a bottom wall. A left protrusion projects from an upper segment of the left wall toward the right wall for urging a front end wall of a socket. A right protrusion projects from an intermediate segment of the right wall toward the left wall for abutting against a central depressed area in a rear end wall of the socket. A plurality of the tool storage units are interconnected in a row for storing a plurality of sockets, in which the left protrusions on the left walls of the tool storage units are formed as a continuous projection that extends across the left walls.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Stanley Chiro International, Ltd.Inventors: Derek Chen, Steve Huang, Wesley Lee
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Patent number: D487165Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.Inventors: Geoffrey Robert Hammond, William John McCarthy, Richard Rogers
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Patent number: D487601Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser N.V.Inventors: Karl-Ludwig Gibis, Monica Gomez, Gareth Jones, Ralf Wiedemann
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Patent number: RE38504Abstract: A CNC machine for producing spiral-toothed bevel gears is described, which has a first carriage supporting a tool spindle and is displaceable in height, and whose guide is disposed on a lateral surface of a machine housing, which is horizontally guided in a straight coordinate axis on a machine base. The tool spindle axis is parallel with the lateral surface and with the coordinate axis. Furthermore, the machine has a workpiece spindle support having a second carriage and a pivoting device with a vertical axis and is also horizontally guided on the machine base. The parallel arrangement of the tool spindle axis results in a new machine concept with a compact structure and optimal chip flow. Therefore the machine is particularly suited for heavy-duty dry milling. Since the tool spindle is not located above the area of the machine having a horizontal guide, it is possible to arrange a chip collector underneath the tool spindle, which can be reached by the chips essentially under the force of gravity.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbHInventors: Norbert Käsler, Dieter Krause, Harald Lamsfuss, Klaus Ozdyk, Dieter Wiener