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  • Surgical instrument comprising an instrument handle and zero point adjustment
    Patent number: 8267958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical instrument comprising an instrument handle linked to a proximal end portion of a tube shaft to the distal end portion of which an instrument head is linked so as to be bendable, in which instrument head an effector including at least one pivotal engaging element is rotatably supported. The instrument handle has a number of manipulators and/or operating mechanisms for operating the instrument head and/or the effector via gear trains. According to the invention, a clutch which permits a zero point adjustment individual at least over a predetermined pivoting range of the instrument handle is interposed in the gear train effecting the bending motion of the instrument head. The zero point is defined as a relative position of the instrument handle with respect to the tube shaft in which the instrument head adopts a predetermined bending position with respect to the tube shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Tuebingen Scientific Surgical Product GmbH
    Inventor: Marcus Braun
  • Intake control system and method for internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8271180
    Abstract: An intake control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of suppressing a change in an intake pressure caused by a change in a target intake air amount even in a transient operating condition in which the target intake air amount is varied, thereby making it possible to control the intake pressure stably and accurately. The intake control system controls an intake air amount by an intake valve lift, and controls intake negative pressure by a throttle valve. The system limits a target intake air amount based on upper and lower limit values set according to the intake valve lift and an intake cam phase, and corrects the target intake air amount by averaging the same using averaging calculation such that the change therein is delayed. A throttle valve opening is set according to the corrected target intake air amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Takamiya
  • Switched reluctance linear motor/generator
    Patent number: 8269378
    Abstract: The invention consists on a linear switched reluctance electrical machine that may be operated indistinctly as a generator or a motor, with a series of characteristics that allow the optimization of the mass to power ratio, as well as the manufacturing cost. The machine has several air gaps, crossed by a single magnetic flux, in which the magnetic force is obtained. This flux is fed by a set of coils (6) placed in the active parts, these active parts are two yokes (4) and (5) in which the magnetic flux closes, there might be other active parts in the mentioned magnetic circuit through which the magnetic flux does not close. A set of passive elements, normally the translators (1) and (2), produce, while moving relatively to the active part, a variation of the reluctance of the circuit with respect to the position which causes a magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Wedge Global, S.L.
    Inventors: Julio Lucas Torralba, Manuel Pinilla Martin
  • Compounds derived from 2-(3-methylenedioxy)-benzoyl indol
    Patent number: 8268831
    Abstract: The present invention describes a series of derivatives of 2-(3-methylenedioxy)-benzoyl indol, their mixtures, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, their enantiomers, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, processes for preparing them, use in the prophylactic and/or curative treatment of sexual dysfunction. More specifically, the invention describes derivatives (R)-3-((2-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-carbonyl)-1H-indol-3-yl)methyl)-1-methylpiperazine-2,5-dione, and S)-3-((2-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-carbonyl)-1H-indol-3-yl)methyl)-1-methylpiperazine-2,5-dione.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Biolab Sanus Farmaceutica Ltda.
    Inventors: Sérgio Luiz Sacurai, Carlos Eduardo Da Costa Touzarim, Marcio Henrique Zaim
  • Phase-locked loop circuit and delay-locked loop circuit
    Patent number: 8264259
    Abstract: A phase-locked loop circuit includes a phase comparator that compares phases between a reference signal and a feedback signal and outputs a phase difference signal indicating a phase difference therebetween; a charge pump that outputs a charge pump current according to the phase difference signal; a low-pass filter that includes a resistor and a capacitor and that smoothes the charge pump current and converts the smoothed current into a control voltage; a voltage-controlled oscillator that generates an oscillation signal with a frequency according to the control voltage; and a frequency divider that generates a frequency-divided signal by frequency-dividing the oscillation signal and outputs the frequency-divided signal to the phase comparator as the feedback signal, wherein the resistor in the low-pass filter is a variable resistor that is changed according to the control voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventor: Hirohito Higashi
  • Method and system for health care coding transition and implementation
    Patent number: 8265952
    Abstract: Methods and systems for implementing coding changes for a transaction are provided. At least one transaction in an original format is received and normalized into a different format. The normalized transaction may be processed and the processing results may be associated with the original format to transmit the processing results in the original format to a recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
    Inventor: Joseph S. Smith
  • Semiconductor memory including pads coupled to each other
    Patent number: 8264881
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory is provided which includes: a first pad; a second pad disposed adjacent to the first pad; a first output buffer coupled to the first pad; and a second output buffer coupled to the second pad. The first pad is coupled to the second pad by metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Toshiya Uchida
  • Method and system for timestep stochastic simulation for networks
    Patent number: 8264973
    Abstract: A method and system for analytically simulating the state of a 802.11 WLAN network having a plurality of stations at discreet timesteps, including analytically generating a plurality of sample paths of a network state, including obtaining probability distribution values for aspects of the network. The probability distributions may be precomputed and stored in a cache to be accessed during a simulation of a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: University of Maryland
    Inventors: Arunchandar Vasan, Ajjampur Udaya Shankar
  • Shower head, device and method for manufacturing thin films
    Patent number: 8262798
    Abstract: The present invention herein provides a shower head whose temperature can be controlled in consideration of the film-forming conditions selected and a thin film-manufacturing device which permits the stable and continuous formation of thin films including only a trace amount of particles while reproducing a good film thickness distribution and compositional distribution, and a high film-forming rate and which is excellent in the productivity and the mass-producing ability as well as a method for the preparation of such a film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ULVAC, Inc.
    Inventors: Takakazu Yamada, Takeshi Masuda, Masahiko Kajinuma, Yutaka Nishioka, Masaki Uematsu, Koukou Suu
  • Electronic camera
    Patent number: 8264545
    Abstract: It is enabled to check a detail of a subject being a tracking object more rapidly and easily by including an image-capturing unit capturing a subject image and generating an image, a selecting unit continuously selecting a focus detection object area at the time of image-capturing by the image-capturing unit based on the image generated by the image-capturing unit, a displaying unit capable of displaying the image generated by the image-capturing unit, a generating unit cutting out a part corresponding to the focus detection object area from the image generated by the image-capturing unit and generating a tracking object checking image, and a controlling unit displaying on the displaying unit by overlapping a through image for a composition checking based on the image generated by the image-capturing unit and the tracking object checking image at the time of image-capturing by the image-capturing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Maki Suzuki
  • System for locking a first shaft with respect to a second shaft eliminating clearances between said shafts
    Patent number: 8262312
    Abstract: A system for locking, with respect to rotation and translation, the engagement of a first shaft with a second shaft, the first shaft being disposed in an axial bore in the second shaft. The system includes a locking device movable between a locking position and a release position, the first shaft having an end part which includes two walls inclined towards each other in a transverse direction, the axial bore having two corresponding walls opposite the inclined walls of the first shaft wherein changing the locking position of the locking device causes a transverse movement of the end part which puts the inclined walls of the first shaft in abutment against the corresponding walls of the axial bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ZF Systemes de Direction Nacam SAS
    Inventors: André Laisement, Vincent Emery, Pascal Millet
  • Onboard radar device and program of controlling onboard radar device
    Patent number: 8264398
    Abstract: An onboard radar apparatus includes a transmission wave generating unit configured to generate a transmission wave, a vertically polarized wave transmitting antenna configured to vertically polarize and transmit the transmission wave, a horizontally polarized wave transmitting antenna configured to horizontally polarize and transmit the transmission wave, a receiving antenna configured to receive a reflection wave, a switch control unit configured to perform a switching between the vertically polarized wave transmitting antenna and the horizontally polarized wave transmitting antenna, and a receiving unit configured to receive one of the reflection waves based on receiving levels of the reflection waves, which have been received by the receiving antenna before and after the switching is performed by the switch control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Elesys Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kamo
  • Amplifier
    Patent number: 8264278
    Abstract: An amplifier is realized by a distributed-constant-type amplifier including an input-side transmission line and an output-side transmission line, and a plurality of unit circuits coupled between the input-side transmission line and the output-side transmission line, in which each of the plurality of unit circuits is formed by including an amplification circuit having a gain equal to or greater than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kouichi Kanda, Takuji Yamamoto
  • Semiconductor storage device
    Patent number: 8264869
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array in which a memory cell including an MOS capacitor is arranged; a power supply unit that supplies a plate voltage to a plate line that is coupled to a gate electrode of the MOS capacitor; and a switch that couples the plate line to a first power supply line when an access to the memory cell array is caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Toshiya Miyo, Atsumasa Sako
  • Dimples lifting pipe for mining deep-sea mineral resources
    Patent number: 8256846
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lifting pipe which is used in a manganese nodule mining system including a collection device for collecting deep-sea manganese nodules and a lifting pump and which has a structure in which dimples are formed on the surface of the lifting pipe so as to reduce drag so that the lifting pipe is less influenced by flows of ocean current. The dimpled lifting pipe includes dimples that are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the dimpled lifting pipe, so that turbulent flows are generated, thereby reducing drag caused by ocean currents of a deep sea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Chi-Ho Yoon, Jong-Myung Park, Yong-Chan Park
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: 8259459
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a coil that has a spiral shape and is provided on the substrate, and a conductive pattern that is provided inside of the coil, has optical reflectivity higher than that of a surface of the coil, and is divided into pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Ueda, Takeo Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Xiaoyu Mi
  • Exhaust flow control device for exhaust muffler
    Patent number: 8256570
    Abstract: An exhaust flow control valve includes: a valve plate hinged to a downstream exhaust pipe to be pivotable, inside the pipe, between a fully closed position where a short-cut hole is closed and a fully open position where the short-cut hole is opened, the valve plate having a tip end directed toward a downstream side of the downstream exhaust pipe when at the fully open position; a spring receiving member provided to the downstream exhaust pipe to traverse the short-cut hole; and a valve spring having one end portion fastened to a tip end portion, which is located on the downstream side of the downstream exhaust pipe with respect to the spring receiving member, of the valve plate, and having an opposite end side being slidably in pressure contact with the spring receiving member, thereby generating a repulsive force to bias the valve plate toward the fully closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Yutaka Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Miike, Kazuhiro Tsuda, Katsunori Okoshi, Takatoshi Goto
  • Fluorinated lubricants
    Patent number: 8258090
    Abstract: Fluorinated lubricants of formula: T-O-[A-B]z-[A-B?]z?-A-T???(I) wherein: A=—(X)a—O-A?-(X?)b wherein A? is a perfluoropolyether chain comprising units (CF2O), (CF2CF2O), (CF2CF2CF2O), (CF2CF2CF2CF2O); X, X?=—CF2—, —CF2CF2—; a, b=0 or 1; B derives from olefins, of which at least one homopolymerizable by radical route, of formula: —[(CR1R2—CR3R4)j(CR5R6—CR7R8)j?]—??(Ia) wherein j=1-5, j?=0-4 and 2<(j+j?)<5; R1-R8=halogen, H, C1-C6 (per)haloalkyl, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 oxy(per)-fluoroalkyl; z?2; z? is 0 or an integer; z, z? are such that the number average molecular weight of the polymer of formula (I) is in the range 500-500,000; B?=(Ia) but at least one of R1-R8 has a meaning different than that in B and 2?(j+j?)<5; T, T?=C1-C3 perfluoroalkyl, C1-C6 alkyl and compositions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Solvay Solexis S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Avataneo, Pier Antonio Guarda, Giuseppe Marchionni, Patrizia Maccone, Giovanni Boccaletti
  • Clock signal distributing device
    Patent number: 8258882
    Abstract: A clock signal distributing device includes a plurality of LC resonant oscillators, each resonating at a frequency conforming to values of a first inductor and a first capacitor to oscillate a signal, an injection locked LC resonant oscillator that resonates at a frequency conforming to values of a second inductor and a second capacitor to oscillate a signal which is synchronous with an input clock signal, and transmission lines that connect oscillation nodes of the plurality of LC resonant oscillators and the injection locked LC resonant oscillator with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Shibasaki, Hirotaka Tamura
  • Package
    Patent number: D667298
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas White, Brent Lindberg