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  • Upper receiver gas control for direct impingement firearms
    Patent number: 8316756
    Abstract: A gas control mounted in an upper receiver of a weapon. A valve communicates with a gas tube of the weapon to receive gas under pressure from the barrel of the weapon. The valve has a first orifice and a second orifice. The position of the valve is selectable between the first orifice and the second orifice by rotation of a knob positioned on an exterior surface of the upper receiver of the weapon. The orifices are of different sizes to allow regulation of the volume of gas flow to the receiver of the weapon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventors: Phillip Lynn Woodell, Jenny Rebekah Woodell
  • Use of nucleating agents to increase the flexural modulus of ionomers
    Patent number: 8318840
    Abstract: A golf ball composition having a copolymer with an acid content modified by a nucleating agent is described. The nucleating agent modifies the flexural modulus of the acid copolymer and is preferably selected from the group consisting of sodium succinate, sodium glutarate, sodium caproate, sodium 4-methylvalerate, aluminum phenyl acetate, sodium cinnamate, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventor: Michael D. Jordan
  • Power tool with a light for illuminating a workpiece
    Patent number: 8317350
    Abstract: A power tool having a light for illuminating an area proximate a movable end effector. The light may be mounted in such a way as to transmit light through a rotatable collar on the power tool, through or through a member of a housing of the power tool, or from the moving end effector. The light may be powered by a power source that is used for moving the end effector or from a generator that generates electrical power when the power tool is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Friedman, Stephen P. Osborne, Eva J. Dixon, Eric E. Hatfield, Daniel Krout, Robert Kusmierski, Corey G. Robertson, Jeffrey Delcamp, Daniel Puzio, Robert S. Gehret, Stuart Garber, Joerg Zellerhoff, Joao Norona, Aris C. Cleanthous, Amanda Miller
  • Electronic package having down-set leads and method
    Patent number: 8319323
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a leadless package includes down-set conductive leads having base portions. The base portions include stand-offs that attach to electrodes on an electronic chip using, for example, a solder die attach material. An optional encapsulating layer covers portions of the down-set conductive leads and portions of the electronic chip while leaving pad portions of the down-set conductive leads and a surface of the electronic chip exposed. The pad portions and the surface of the electronic chip are oriented to attach to a next level of assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: James P. Letterman, Jr., Joseph K. Fauty, Jay A. Yoder, William F. Burghout
  • 9 Cr— 1 Mo steel material for high temperature application
    Patent number: 8317944
    Abstract: One or more embodiments relates to a high-temperature, titanium alloyed, 9 Cr-1 Mo steel exhibiting improved creep strength and oxidation resistance at service temperatures up to 650° C. The 9 Cr-1 Mo steel has a tempered martensite microstructure and is comprised of both large (0.5-3 ?m) primary titanium carbides and small (5-50 nm) secondary titanium carbides in a ratio of. from about 1:1.5 to about 1.5:1. The 9 Cr-1 Mo steel may be fabricated using exemplary austenizing, rapid cooling, and tempering steps without subsequent hot working requirements. The 9 Cr-1 Mo steel exhibits improvements in total mass gain, yield strength, and time-to-rupture over ASTM P91 and ASTM P92 at the temperature and time conditions examined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Department of Energy
    Inventors: Paul D. Jablonski, David Alman, Omer Dogan, Gordon Holcomb, Christopher Cowen
  • Pyrrolopyrimidines and pyrrolopyridines
    Patent number: 8314112
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I in free or salt or solvate form, wherein X, T1, T3 and T4 have the meanings as indicated in the specification, are useful for treating diseases mediated by the ALK-5 and/or ALK-4 receptor. Pharmaceutical compositions that contain the compounds and processes for preparing the compounds are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Catherine Leblanc, Robert Alexander Pulz, Nikolaus Johannes Stiefl
  • Method for operating C-arm systems during repeated angiographic medical procedures
    Patent number: 8315355
    Abstract: A method (100) for positioning and operating components (18, 22) of an X-ray C-arm system (10) during repeated angiographic medical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ashraf Mohamed
  • Method of making an improved balloon cuff tracheostomy tube
    Patent number: 8313687
    Abstract: There is provided a method of making a balloon having a differential thickness. The method uses a raw tube composed of a thermoplastic polymer which is placed in an asymmetrical mold. The tube is preheated in the mold to a temperature sufficient to soften the material of the tube and inflated with a gas to generally uniformly stretch the material of the tube while allowing the tube to retract lengthwise, thus forming a balloon. The resulting completed balloon has a differential wall thickness wherein the upper region has a thickness of from about 15 to about 30 micrometers and the lower region has a thickness of from about 5 to about 15 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Sleva, James F. Schumacher, Scott M. Teixeira, Michael A. Kenowski
  • Data detector for UHF RFID tags
    Patent number: 8314685
    Abstract: A method of detecting a signal in radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder (FIG. 1) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a signal (FIG. 7) having a first time in a first logic state (high) and having a second time in a second logic state (low). A weight (700, 702) is determined in response to the first time and the second time. An output signal (from A2D) is produced in response to the weight and one of the first and second logic states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Ganesh Balachandran, Raymond Barnett
  • Catalysts, activating agents, support media, and related methodologies useful for making catalyst systems especially when the catalyst is deposited onto the support media using physical vapor deposition
    Patent number: 8314048
    Abstract: Use of physical vapor deposition methodologies to deposit nanoscale gold on activating support media makes the use of catalytically active gold dramatically easier and opens the door to significant improvements associated with developing, making, and using gold-based, catalytic systems. The present invention, therefore, relates to novel features, ingredients, and formulations of gold-based, heterogeneous catalyst systems generally comprising nanoscale gold deposited onto a nanoporous support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Larry A. Brey, Thomas E. Wood, Gina M. Buccellato, Marvin E. Jones, Craig S. Chamberlain, Allen R. Siedle
  • Carbon brush holder with improved air vents
    Patent number: 8314530
    Abstract: A carbon brush holder with improved air vents includes a body, a housing, and an exhaust lid, which are provided with corresponding fixing structures for their convenient assembly or disassembly. The exhaust lid is formed with a diverging air channel. By the exquisite configurations of the fixing structures provided on its components, the carbon brush holder is easy to assemble and disassemble so as to facilitate replacement or repair of parts settled in the carbon brush holder. Besides, since the exhaust lid in the present invention has the diverging air channel opened at two sides thereof as the air vents, it significantly improves the efficiency in dust expelling and heat dissipating, thereby effectively preventing the air vent from blocked and preventing overheat caused by poor exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Victory Industrial Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Fung Tsai, Fu-Sheng Liang
  • Heterogeneous, composite, carbonaceous catalyst system and methods that use catalytically active gold
    Patent number: 8314046
    Abstract: Heterogeneous catalyst systems, methods of making these systems, and methods of using these systems, wherein catalytically active gold is deposited onto composite support media. The composite support media is formed by providing nanoporous material on at least a portion of the surfaces of carbonaceous host material. In representative embodiments, relatively fine, nanoporous guest particles are coated or otherwise provided on surfaces of relatively coarser activated carbon particles. Catalytically active gold may be deposited onto one or both of the guest or host materials either before or after the guest and host materials are combined to from the composite host material. PVD is the preferred catalyst system of depositing gold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: John T. Brady, Marvin E. Jones, Larry A. Brey, Gina M. Buccellato, Craig S. Chamberlain, John S. Huberty, Allen R. Siedle, Thomas E. Wood, Badri Veeraraghavan, Duane D. Fansler
  • MIP-map for rendering of an anisotropic dataset
    Patent number: 8314811
    Abstract: Mip-map construction is provided for three-dimensional rendering from an anisotropic dataset. One or more mip-map levels are generated by down sampling in the world space rather than texture space. The down sampling may be by an arbitrary scale factor rather than a power of two. For example, the voxels may be down sampled along one dimension by less than half (e.g., 16 to 12). The scale factors may be different along different dimensions. This non-uniform reduction in voxels may result in the mip-map being more isotropic than the anisotropic dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, inc.
    Inventor: Wei Li
  • Electrical internal combustion engine actuating arrangement
    Patent number: 8314524
    Abstract: An electrical internal combustion engine actuating arrangement includes a housing cover with a position sensor and a housing body having disposed therein an electric drive motor and an output shaft having a position transducer. The housing cover and the electric drive motor are connected via at least one electrical plug connection arrangement including a plug blade and an opposite plug clamp having a plug-in slot. The housing body and the housing cover include a positioning arrangement having a positioning pin and a positioning bore configured to receive the positioning pin. The at least one electrical plug connection arrangement includes, on a side of the plug clamp, a plug blade guide with a guide slot arranged in parallel with the plug-in slot and a plug-in axis of the positioning arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Pierburg GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Neise, Thomas Schroeder
  • Methods and apparatus for decentralized rapid recovery for Ethernet rings
    Patent number: 8315158
    Abstract: A telecommunications system including a plurality of switches defining an Ethernet ring; a plurality of virtual local area networks defined on the Ethernet ring, defining a number of virtual local area networks (VLANs) equal in number to the number of links; and a ring recovery system configured to recover from a link failure by rerouting traffic to a destination on the Ethernet ring via a VLAN not including a failed link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stuart Goose, Minh Huynh, Raymond Rui-Feng Liao
  • Device and method for treating skin disorders with thermal energy
    Patent number: 8313480
    Abstract: A device and a method for thermal treatments of target material with various thermal interactions are disclosed. A preferred treatment includes Thermal Heat Shuttle that transports a predetermined known quota of energy to the target surface. In particular, the launching of thermal energy quanta from various energy sources in lumps of energy quanta and leading to the treatment and healing of a variety of skin conditions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Joseph Neev
  • Energy absorber
    Patent number: 8313129
    Abstract: An energy absorber for damping the impact upon the body of a motor vehicle includes energy absorbing bodies that include successively arranged support walls with a number of energy absorbing structural elements that are each separately arranged at the support wall and are firmly connected to the support wall. Upon impact, each of the structural elements absorb energy by moving towards an opposite support wall while adjoining neighboring structural element until the structural elements are compacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Peguform GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Schuler, Florian Danzeisen, Norbert Tschiggfrei, Robert Basile
  • Finger controlled bow for violin
    Patent number: 8314316
    Abstract: A novel bow for playing a violin, including a stick of 12 inches in length, more or less; a string attached to the bow and a ring or the like, suitable for receipt of a musician's finger disposed transversely on the stick so that the musician can play the violin in a variety of attitudes. The stick is selectively adjustable to vary the tension on the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Ethan Erwin
  • Hook
    Patent number: D670997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Craig D. Thompson, Jameel R. Qiblawi, Angela L. Pan
  • Boat fender
    Patent number: D671046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Direct Store Delivery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Marcus N. May