Patents Represented by Attorney Bacon and Thomas
  • Patent number: 8319125
    Abstract: A pedal input device includes a base plate; a rotation center portion provided at the center of the base plate; a contacting plate having a yaw switch contacting portion protruding downwards from lower surface of the contacting plate; a pedal plate carried by the contacting plate and foot-operated so as to cause a drive member to make three-degree-of-freedom movement; a pair of pitch switches installed on the base plate in an opposing relationship with each other; a pair of roll switches installed on the base plate in an perpendicular relationship to the pitch switches so that the roll switches can be alternately contacted to the contacting plate of the pedal plate; and a pair of yaw switches installed on the base plate in an spaced-apart relationship with each other so that the yaw switches can be alternately contacted to the yaw switch contacting portion as the pedal plate rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: National Cancer Center
    Inventors: Yung Ho Jo, Du-Jin Bach, Hye Won Im, Young Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 8316722
    Abstract: The measuring system comprises: a measuring transducer, through which medium flows during operation and which serves for producing oscillatory signals dependent on a viscosity of the flowing medium and/or a Reynolds number of the flowing medium; transmitter electronics for driven the measuring transducer and for evaluating oscillatory signals delivered by the measuring transducer. The measuring transducer includes: an inlet-side flow divider; an outlet-side flow divider; at least two, mutually parallel, straight, measuring tubes, connected to the flow dividers; as well as an electromechanical exciter mechanism for exciting and maintaining mechanical oscillations of the at least two measuring tubes. Each of the at least two measuring tubes opens with an inlet-side measuring tube end into a flow opening and with an outlet-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Alfred Rieder, Martin Anklin, Christof Huber, Michael Kirst
  • Patent number: 8316711
    Abstract: An apparatus including: a mechanically oscillatable unit; an exciting/receiving unit; and an electronics unit having an input amplifier and an output amplifier. The amplification factors of the output amplifier and the input amplifier are tunable. The control unit tunes the amplification factor of the output amplifier as a function of damping of the mechanically oscillatable unit in such a manner that the amplitude of the electrical, input signal lies within an amplitude band and that the amplification factor of the output amplifier decreases in the case of lessened damping by the medium and increases in the case of greater damping by the medium, and the control unit tunes the amplification factor of the output amplifier and the amplification factor of the input amplifier in such a manner that the total amplification factor of the electronics unit equals a predeterminable value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Müller, Sascha D'Angelico, Walter Rombach
  • Patent number: 8318520
    Abstract: The present invention provides a “microminiaturizing method of nano-structure” with fabricating process steps as follows: First deposit the material of molecule or atom state on the top-opening of the nano cylindrical pore, which having formed on the substrate, so that the diameter of said top-opening gradually reduce to become a reduced nano-aperture, whose opening diameter is smaller than that of said top-opening; Then, directly pass the deposit material of gas molecule or atom state through said reduced nano-aperture; thereby a nano-structure of nano quantum dot, nano rod or nano ring with smaller nano scale is directly formed on the surface of said substrate, which being laid beneath the bottom of said nano cylindrical pore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventor: Ming -Nung Lin
  • Patent number: 8317407
    Abstract: For a less load to a shutter and secure motions of the shutter without damaging a ferrule, a rear stopper guide (22) and an intermediate spring guide (23) covering an upper side of a hold of an optical plug, and an outer cover (24) covering a front outer periphery of the hold are provided; the outer cover (24) is pushed by an optical connector adapter (Q) to move from a front end position of the hold to a rear end position, an inner side of the outer cover (24) is provided with a shutter (21) which can be swung from a lid close position to a lid open position, and the shutter (21) is automatically opened and closed by a shutter automatic opening and closing mechanism (S) in accordance with a rack and pinion system, working with rearward and forward movements of the outer cover (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sanwa Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasusuke Hioki, Norio Iguchi
  • Patent number: 8318842
    Abstract: A titanium-containing PET copolyester has an intrinsic viscosity of 0.72-0.90 dl/g and a maximum amount of heat released during crystallization transition through a DSC analysis at a given heating rate of 20° C./min being less than 10 joules/gram, which contains polyethylene terephthalate as a major component and contains titanium component in an amount of 2-25 ppm based on the total copolyester weight, X mole % of isophthalic acid based on the copolyester, Y mole % of diethylene glycol based on the copolyester, Z mole % of 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylic acid based on the copolyester, wherein X, Y, Z conforms to the following conditions: 0?X?2.5; 1.0?Y?2.5; 0?Z?2.5; 2.5?X+Y+Z?7.5; and the PET copolyester is suitable for manufacturing an injection stretch blow molded refillable container having an inner volume of greater than 10 litters and capable of being returnable and refillable up to 20 loops of returning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Zo-Chun Jen
  • Patent number: 8317194
    Abstract: There is described an apparatus for guiding a value document along a portion of a transport path in a specified transport direction, having a film forming device which is configured for respectively forming on mutually opposing sides of the transport path portion a film of gas flowing in the transport direction, the film extending at least over the total width of the transport path portion and thus the total width of value documents transported along the transport path, so that the value documents are guided between the gas films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Werner, Hans Lochbihler
  • Patent number: 8316699
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for accurately measuring and adjusting a valve clearance value to a desired value in an engine having a rocker-arm-type valve. According to a valve clearance measuring and adjusting method of the present invention, a pair of probes 60 each having a round tip end 611 are brought into direct contact with a valve clearance CV of an engine having a rocker-arm-type valve 105, and a center-to-center distance between the two tip ends 611 is measured. An actual valve clearance value is calculated and measured on the basis of the center-to-center distance between the tip ends 611. The actual valve clearance value is adjusted to a desired valve clearance value, while the actual valve clearance value is measured in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hirata Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayuki Sueoka, Yasuyoshi Miyauchi, Yasuo Morise, Tatsumi Otomura, Hiroya Mitsushima
  • Patent number: 8316362
    Abstract: A method for updating a program section is disclosed; the method is used for an electronic system. The electronic system comprises a control unit and a storage device; the control unit is electrically connected with the storage device; the storage device comprises a program section; the program section comprises an application section and a boot section; the application section comprises a first bootloader and application information, wherein the first bootloader comprises a first driver. The method comprises the following steps of: connecting a data source device, wherein the data source device comprises update data; determining whether the first driver is able to drive the data source device or not; and if the first driver is able to drive the data source device, the first driver performs an updating procedure according to the update data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Wistron Neweb Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Pan, Hung-Hsiang Hsu, Shih-Chieh Tzeng
  • Patent number: 8313040
    Abstract: To provide a temperature sensing tube for an expansion valve in which a hunting can be prevented by slowing of a temperature reaction rate of an expansion valve, a ceramic sintered member serving as a heat transfer delay member (3) in a temperature sensing tube (1) is fixed so as not to directly contact with a tubular member (2) by fixing springs (4, 4) provided at both end portions (13, 13), whereby a heat transfer from the tubular member (2) to the ceramic sintered member becomes slow, temperature is not transferred from a mated piping directly via the tubular member, whichever outer surface of the temperature sensing tube 1 contacts with the piping, and a reaction rate with respect to a temperature rise of the expansion valve can be made slow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikoki Corporation
    Inventors: Kinya Okutsu, Akinori Nanbu, Mafumi Morita
  • Patent number: 8313206
    Abstract: A lighting device and a method for manufacturing the lighting device are provided. The lighting device comprises a light source module and a plurality of light spreading plates. The light spreading plates are secured onto the light source module by stick objects which are sheathed with hollow caps. The lighting device provides uniform surface light within an ultra thin configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventors: Wen-Chiun Ing, Wei-Hsin Hou
  • Patent number: 8314000
    Abstract: A LDMOS with double LDD and trenched drain is disclosed. According to some preferred embodiment of the present invention, the structure contains a double LDD region, including a high energy implantation to form lightly doped region and a low energy implantation thereon to provide a low resistance path for current flow without degrading breakdown voltage. At the same time, a P+ junction made by source mask is provided underneath source region to avoid latch-up effect from happening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Force Mos Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8314413
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device for transmission of an electrical signal of an input electrical current circuit to an output electrical current circuit galvanically isolated from the input electrical current circuit. The device includes a housing. The input electrical current circuit contains, for producing an optical signal, an optical transmitting unit, which is arranged in the housing. The output electrical current circuit contains, for receiving the optical signal, an optical receiving unit, which is arranged in the housing. At least one fuse mechanism is provided in the housing, which interrupts transmission of the electrical signal in the case of an electrical current flow, which lies above a predetermined electrical current level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Mamadi Keita, Antoine Simon
  • Patent number: 8313672
    Abstract: A kind of manufacturing method for dual functions with varistor material and device has one of the characteristics among capacitance, inductance, voltage suppressor and thermistor in addition to surge absorbing characteristic, which microstructural compositions include a glass substrate with high resistance and three kinds of low-resistance conductive or semiconductive particles in micron, submicron and nanometer size uniformly distributed in the glass substrate to provide with good surge absorbing characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Leader Well Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Wen Tan, Jie-An Zhu, Li-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8315809
    Abstract: A method of generating standard brain model from a bio-expression system includes performing steps of registration to input standard surface and individual surface into affine registration; recording a transformation parameters from the affine registration; performing steps of inputting a individual neuropil and transform parameters into an affine transformation; applying the data of the affine transformation to transform individual neuropil to achieve transformed individual neuropil; and performing a step of affine registration to register a standard neuropil to the transformed individual neuropil to achieve a resulting transformation, wherein the resulting transformation can be output as a position and orientation of standard neuropil within the standard surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Ann-Shyn Chiang, Yung-Chang Chen, Hsiu-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 8313981
    Abstract: A chip card in the form of an ID-1 card, a plug-in SIM or a USB token has a layered compound with two or three layers extending over the complete chip card. The chip card including an exterior foil layer has on its outward facing front side a communication contact layout and on its back side a flip chip, as well as a flip chip contact layout which is electroconductively connected with the communication contact layout on the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Tarantino
  • Patent number: 8314186
    Abstract: An adhesive composition for use in bonding of a polarizing plate is prepared from acrylic-based polymer graft-polymerized and modified by a reactive silane coupling agent with a specific grafting position and an ordinary cross-linking agent. Compared with unmodified acrylic-based copolymers, the adhesive composition thus synthesized demonstrates high adhesion property, cohesion property, elasticity property and high durability and, when used in bonding of the polarizing plate, flexibly follows dimensional changes of the polarizing plate in a high-temperature high-humidity atmosphere, alleviates the phenomenon where the polarizing plate demonstrates uneven distribution of residual stress due to dimensional changes of the polarizing plate, and prevents light leakage and uneven color which might otherwise occur to the polarizing plate due to the aging, cracking, or peeling of a conventional adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Dein-Run Fung, Sen-Huang Hsu, Hung-Hsun Wu, Huei-Jiun Juang
  • Patent number: 8309632
    Abstract: The invention provides an epoxy nanocomposite material for dental therapy, which can be applied to direct or indirect clinical restoration, dental core-post system, and dental brace etc. The epoxy nanocomposite filling material provided by the invention can be polymerized with various curing agents to form the polymer with low shrinkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Wei-Fang Su, Sheng-Hao Hsu, Yun-Yuan Tai, Min-Huey Chen
  • Patent number: D671275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Ossur HF
    Inventors: Gil David Manalo, Duane Romo, Concetta Maria Huffa
  • Patent number: D671410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kose Corporation
    Inventor: Akemi Asakawa