Patents Represented by Attorney Bacon and Thomas
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Patent number: 8346441Abstract: A motor vehicle has a body, a wheel rotatably supported and coaxially disposed on the body, and an occupant riding portion supported by the body. The motor vehicle is provided with a body attitude detector for detecting an attitude of the body and a body attitude controller for controlling the body attitude detected by the body attitude detector, wherein, in response to an inertial force or a centrifugal force generated by acceleration, deceleration or a turning motion of the motor vehicle, the occupant riding portion is moved so as to balance the inertial force or the centrifugal force. The motor vehicle further includes an occupant attitude controller for controlling an attitude of the occupant riding portion in accordance with a detection value detected by the body attitude detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: KabushikiKaisha Equos ResearchInventors: Nobuaki Miki, Munehisa Horiguchi, Katsunori Doi
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Patent number: 8344675Abstract: A rechargeable electric power tool includes a motor driven by a secondary battery, a switching element for regulating power distribution to the motor, a motor control unit for controlling rotation of the motor through the switching element, a lead wire for supplying a drive current to the motor therethrough and a trigger switch changed over by a user for turning on or off the drive current supplied to the motor through the lead wire. In the rechargeable electric power tool, upon changeover of the trigger switch, a microcomputer determines a magnitude relation between a detected temperature outputted from a first thermistor and a first temperature threshold value. If the detected temperature is determined to be greater than the first temperature threshold value, the microcomputer is set in a limited operation mode in which a revolution number of the motor is limited to a predetermined value or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Power Tools Co., LtdInventors: Tatsuya Miwa, Atsumasa Kubota, Masaki Ikeda, Kazuhiko Nishii
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Patent number: 8342739Abstract: The horological movement comprises a regulating device having an oscillation frequency f and an escapement (11, 12) for maintaining the oscillations of the regulating device. The escapement comprises an escape wheel (11) having N teeth. The frequency f is at least equal to about 5 Hz, and the ratio between the number N of teeth and the frequency f is substantially equal to 5.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Chopard Technologies SAInventors: Christophe Gigandet, Francisco Dias, Armin Behrend
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Patent number: 8343808Abstract: A method of making a stackable semiconductor assembly that includes a semiconductor device, a heat spreader, an adhesive, a terminal, a plated through-hole and build-up circuitry is disclosed. The heat spreader includes a bump, a base and a flange. The bump defines a cavity. The semiconductor device is mounted on the bump at the cavity, electrically connected to the build-up circuitry and thermally connected to the bump. The bump extends from the base into an opening in the adhesive, the base extends vertically from the bump opposite the cavity and the flange extends laterally from the bump at the cavity entrance. The build-up circuitry provides signal routing for the semiconductor device. The plated through-hole provides signal routing between the build-up circuitry and the terminal. The heat spreader provides heat dissipation for the semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Bridge Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Charles W. C. Lin, Chia-Chung Wang
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Patent number: 8342689Abstract: A display system comprises illumination means for providing a light beam; at least one color channel, each color channel being adapted for providing at least part of the light beam to a spatial light modulator panel comprising at least a first and a second zone; the spatial light modulator panel being for selectively modulating an impinging beam of light to form an image light beam. The display system further comprises splitting means for splitting the at least part of the light beam so that a split light beam is provided on the spatial light modulator panel, the split light beam comprising at least a first and a second sub-beam, and driving means for driving the first and second sub-beams such that the first sub-beam scrolls over the first zone and the second sub-beam scrolls over the second zone. A corresponding method to the display system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Barco N.V.Inventor: Koen Malfait
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Patent number: 8346215Abstract: The invention relates to a method for subsequently implementing a SIM functionality, with the help of which a mobile telephone (1) is enabled to use a mobile radio network, in a security module (3). Within the context of the method according to the invention the SIM functionality is realized in the form of an application, of which at least a first part is loaded into the security module (3). Furthermore, personalizing data, which are required for a use of the mobile radio network by the mobile telephone (1), are transmitted from a provider (2) to the security module (3) in encrypted form on the direct or indirect way. The encrypted personalizing data are decrypted by the security module (3) by means of a secret key of a user stored in the security module (3). The security module (3) is personalized by means of the decrypted personalizing data.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventors: Dieter Weiss, Wolfgang Rankl
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Patent number: 8344931Abstract: The present invention provides an n-bits successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converting (ADC) circuit, comprising: an n-bits SAR control logic, a p-type capacitor network including a DACp array and a sampling capacitor CSp, an n-type capacitor network including a DACn array and a sampling capacitor CSn; and a comparator for comparing outputs from the p-type capacitor network and the n-type capacitor network, wherein a power supply and ground are directly connected to the p-type capacitor network and the n-type capacitor network without using reference voltages produced by a reference voltage generator. The n-bits SAR control logic comprises n shift registers, n bit registers, and a switching logic. The comparator comprises a first pre-amplifier, a second pre-amplifier and a dynamic latch. Alternative, the comparator comprises a four-input pre-amplifier and a dynamic latch.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: University of MacauInventors: Yan Zhu, Chi-Hang Chan, U-Fat Chio, Sai-Weng Sin, Seng-Pan U, Rui Paulo Da Silva Martins, Franco Maloberti
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Patent number: 8343323Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for determining particle properties. Such properties may for example be charge, size, drift, etc. The method comprises determining (110) an electric mobility distribution based on detection of individual particles. The latter may be performed for a single particle over time, for a plurality of particles at the same time or in a combination thereof. The method also comprises deriving a particle property based on a periodicity in the electric mobility distribution.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Universiteit GentInventors: Kristiaan Neyts, Filip Strubbe
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Patent number: 8346473Abstract: A lane determining device includes: a feature information obtaining unit for obtaining feature information F of a target feature existing in each lane in the traveling direction of a vehicle 30, based on vehicle position information; an image recognizing unit for conducting image recognition processing of a feature type of the target feature in a vehicle lane, with respect to image information; and a lane accuracy determining unit for determining a vehicle lane accuracy for the respective lanes based on a type of a recognized feature fa shown in an image recognition result, feature types Ft1 to Ft4 of the target feature of the respective lanes shown in the feature information F, in accordance with a level of probability for each of the feature types Ft1 to Ft4 of the target feature of the respective lanes is recognized as the type of the recognized feature fa.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Nakamura, Tomoaki Ishikawa, Koichi Nakao, Osamu Aisaka, Motoki Kanba, Kiyokazu Okada
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Patent number: 8336396Abstract: A measuring transducer has a transducer housing, has a transducer housing, having a housing end is formed by means of, a flow divider having exactly four flow openings and an outlet-side, housing end is formed by means of, a flow divider having exactly four flow openings, and four straight, measuring tubes connected to the flow dividers. Each measuring tube opens into one of the flow openings and with an outlet-side, measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the outlet-side, flow divider. Also included is an electromechanical exciter mechanism embodied, so that the measuring tubes are excitable pairwise to execute opposite phase bending oscillations in, in each case, a shared imaginary plane of oscillation (XZ1, XZ2).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Alfred Rieder, Martin Anklin, Christof Huber
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Patent number: 8340787Abstract: In a monitoring and control device for use in a remote monitoring and control system, a device housing has a socket located behind a display panel and an external storage medium including a rewritable memory is removably mounted in the socket. The device housing is attached in an attachment hole formed in a wall in a state that the external storage medium is mounted in the socket. A control unit performs a setting operation for a graphic image displayed on the display panel and for the load control in accordance with setting information stored in the external storage medium. The external storage medium is inserted in the socket through an insertion slot formed in a side portion of the device housing, at least a portion of the insertion slot being received in the attachment hole in a state that the device housing is attached to the wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Keisuke Yoshikawa, Tomoaki Sasaki, Katsuhiko Kimura, Kei Miura, Akihiro Hiroishi, Satoshi Kitamura, Yulchiro Naoi, Mototsugu Kawamata, Yuichi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8339035Abstract: An organic EL light emitting module includes an organic EL light emitting panel 5 including an organic EL light emitting unit 52 formed on a substrate 51 and electrode terminals 53 for supplying power to the organic EL light emitting unit 52; a circuit substrate 3, electrically connected to the electrode terminals 53, for supplying power to the electrode terminals 53; and a casing 4 to which the organic EL light emitting panel 5 and the circuit substrate 3 are attached. The electrode terminals 53 are disposed at left and right end portions of the organic EL light emitting panel 5 having a substantially rectangular shape when viewed from the top, and extended portions 4a protruding by a predetermined width are formed at side surfaces of the casing 4 where the electrode terminals 53 of the organic EL light emitting panel 5 are absent.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Satoshi Fukano, Hideharu Kawachi, Shigetsugu Sumiyama
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Patent number: 8339211Abstract: This invention provides a voltage-controlled oscillator, comprising a first voltage-controlled oscillator circuit and a second voltage-controlled oscillator circuit. The first voltage-controlled oscillator circuit comprises a plurality of inductors, a plurality of variable capacitors, and a plurality of MOS transistors. The circuit configuration of the second voltage-controlled oscillator circuit is symmetrical to that of the first voltage-controlled oscillator circuit. The inductors of the first voltage-controlled oscillator circuit are cross-coupled to the inductors of the second voltage-controlled oscillator circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: National Taiwan UniversityInventors: Shey-Shi Lu, Hsien-Ku Chen
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Patent number: 8339045Abstract: The lighting structure of the present invention can be installed in a cupboard, a wardrobe, a filing cabinet or another structural object requiring an auxiliary light source. The lighting structure comprises: a body provided with a lamp and an electrical circuit; and a base adapted to be installed on the structural object and joined with the body. The electrical circuit comprises a vibration sensing element, a control element and an electric power supplying portion. The electric power supplying portion is configured to supply electric power necessary for operation of the electrical circuit. When the lighting structure is vibrated, the vibration sensing element outputs an electrical signal to the control element so that the control element chooses to turn on or off the lamp correspondingly.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Feton LimitedInventors: Chih Chun Li, Cheng Hsiu Wu
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Patent number: 8337167Abstract: Method for controlling a compressed air unit having one or several compressed air networks, as well as a number of communicating controllers for controlling components that are part of the compressed air networks. The control of the above-mentioned components is such that none of the communicating controllers determines the operational condition of any component that is controlled by other controllers.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze VennootschapInventors: Tine Maria Antoinette Lefebvre, Johan Georg Urban Pettersson
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Patent number: 8340900Abstract: The present invention discloses a navigation device and the alerting method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Mitac International CorporationInventor: Matt Broadbent
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Patent number: 8340859Abstract: A shift-by-wire system, connected to a manual shaft in a vehicle, includes: an electric motor having a rotary shaft which rotates the manual shaft; an angle-of-rotation sensor that detects angle position of the rotary shaft for control of the electric motor; a shaft position sensor that detects angular position of the manual shaft; and a control unit that, when the angle-of-rotation sensor functions normally, controls the electric motor according to the sensed angular position of the rotary shaft, so that the sensed angular position of the shaft comes within a predetermined range, and when the angle-of-rotation sensor does not function normally, initiates sensor-less control of the electric motor while estimating the direction of rotation of the rotation shaft, based on the sensed angular position of the shaft, and ceases sensor-less control when the sensed angular position is within the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Ito, Tomohiro Aritake
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Patent number: 8336395Abstract: Measuring transducer of the vibration type for measuring a mass flow of a flowing medium. The measuring transducer includes two straight measuring tubes for conveying the medium, wherein the measuring tubes are arranged in parallel to one another and the measuring transducer is embodied with micromechanical construction. The measuring transducer of the vibration type of the invention permits reliable measurement of the smallest mass flows of a flowing medium in the form of, for example, a liquid or a gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Mamadi Keita, Christian Schütze, Jenish Gheewala
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Patent number: D673026Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sugatsune Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Harunobu Kubota
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Patent number: D673280Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: OSSUR HFInventor: Palmi Einarsson