Patents Represented by Law Firm Bacon & Thomas
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Patent number: 8319699Abstract: A multi-channel display system comprises a plurality of display devices, each display device having a non-pixel addressable light output part, e.g. a backlight, and a pixel addressable light output part, e.g. an LCD panel, in an optical path. The non-pixel addressable light output part and the pixel addressable light output part are arranged to both have a temporal modulation, so that a perceivable optical output of the display device is a combination of the outputs of the temporal modulation of the pixel addressable light output part and the temporal modulation of the non pixel addressable light output part. At least two of the display devices are arranged for displaying adjacent image parts. The display system furthermore comprises a linking means for linking the driving of the non pixel addressable light output part of at least the two display devices being arranged for displaying adjacent image parts.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Barco N.V.Inventor: Robert Mark Clodfelter
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Patent number: 8319125Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: National Cancer CenterInventors: Yung Ho Jo, Du-Jin Bach, Hye Won Im, Young Woo Kim
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Patent number: 8318842Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Nan Ya Plastics CorporationInventor: Zo-Chun Jen
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Patent number: 8319421Abstract: An organic light-emitting laminate for use in an organic electroluminescent device, characterized in comprising: a first light-emitting layer, including a first main light-emitting material and a first phosphorescent material, a second light-emitting layer, including a second main light-emitting material and a second phosphorescent material, formed on the first light-emitting layer, and a carrier-transporting material, which is included in at least one of the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer; wherein the first main light-emitting material, the second main light-emitting material and the carrier-transporting material each have a triplet energy level higher than that of the first phosphorescent material and the second phosphorescent material. The present invention also provides an organic electroluminescent device containing the organic light-emitting laminate.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Meng-Ting Lee, Jin-Sheng Lin
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Patent number: 8319101Abstract: A polymer bushing includes a conductor bar, a conductor insertion hole at a lower end, a rigid insulator around the outer circumference of the conductor bar and having a receiving port for a cable termination, a polymer covering around the outer circumference of the insulator and a number of shades 4a formed separately along the longer dimension at the outer circumference. A large diameter part is provided above the conductor insertion hole which is in the vicinity of the lower end part of the insulator. A cylindrical shielding metal fitting is concentrically embedded together with the conductor bar in the large diameter part. An electric-field stress-control layer is provided at the interface between the large diameter part and the polymer covering.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: SWCC Showa Cable Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhisa Adachi, Nobuyuki Sema, Hitoshi Shintate, Miyuki Ogishima, Junichi Shinagawa
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Patent number: 8316722Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Alfred Rieder, Martin Anklin, Christof Huber, Michael Kirst
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Patent number: 8317407Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sanwa Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasusuke Hioki, Norio Iguchi
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Patent number: 8316711Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KGInventors: Alexander Müller, Sascha D'Angelico, Walter Rombach
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Patent number: 8313981Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventor: Thomas Tarantino
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Patent number: 8314186Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Nan Ya Plastics CorporationInventors: Dein-Run Fung, Sen-Huang Hsu, Hung-Hsun Wu, Huei-Jiun Juang
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Patent number: 8316362Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Wistron Neweb Corp.Inventors: Chih-Hung Pan, Hung-Hsiang Hsu, Shih-Chieh Tzeng
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Patent number: 8313040Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Fujikoki CorporationInventors: Kinya Okutsu, Akinori Nanbu, Mafumi Morita
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Patent number: 8315809Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: National Tsing Hua UniversityInventors: Ann-Shyn Chiang, Yung-Chang Chen, Hsiu-Ming Chang
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Patent number: 8313206Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Inventors: Wen-Chiun Ing, Wei-Hsin Hou
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Patent number: 8314413Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Mamadi Keita, Antoine Simon
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Patent number: 8313672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Leader Well Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu-Wen Tan, Jie-An Zhu, Li-Yun Zhang
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Patent number: 8314000Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Force Mos Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fu-Yuan Hsieh
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Patent number: 8309609Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of compounds of general formula (I) as ligands to the melanocortin receptors and/or for treatment of disorders in the melanocortin system: wherein X is H or OH; R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are the same or different and are selected from hydrogen, halogen, alkyl having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, electron donor groups such as alkoxy having 1-5 carbon atoms or hydroxy, electron acceptor groups selected from cyano, nitro, trifluoroalkyl or amide; alkylamino, benzoyloxy, nitroxy, phenyl or sulpho; and the pharmacologically active salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Anamar ABInventors: Torbjörn Lundstedt, Anna Skottner, Elisabeth Seifert
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Patent number: D671275Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Ossur HFInventors: Gil David Manalo, Duane Romo, Concetta Maria Huffa
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Patent number: D671410Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Kose CorporationInventor: Akemi Asakawa