Patents Represented by Attorney Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • Patent number: 8242400
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data input device produced by means of a switch operated by a stem. A return spring enables the stem to return to a stable position. According to the invention, the device comprises a circular element that can be displaced roughly perpendicularly to the displacement of the stem, a cam attached to the stem, and elastic means holding the circular element pressed against the cam, the cam comprising a slope, a high point and a counter-slope on which the circular element bears in succession when the stem is operated from its stable position to a position in which the switch is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Bigand
  • Patent number: 8242264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 4-acetyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-benzo[1,4]diazepine and the intermediates thereof. The present invention provides a compound represented by formula I and a compound represented by formula II, and processes for preparing 4-acetyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-benzo[1,4]diazepine by using the compound represented by formula I, the compound represented by formula II and o-nitrobenzaldehyde. The invention has the advantages of the shorter synthesis steps, easily available raw materials and simple operation. Moreover, the process is economic and safe by avoiding the use of expensive and dangerous lithium aluminum hydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Topharman Shanghai Co., Ltd., Weifang Tehua Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuqiang Zhu, Haihong Li, Wenzhong Wang, Hui Zhang, Jingshan Shen
  • Patent number: 8240418
    Abstract: A pivot-steered vehicle, in particular a pivot-steered construction vehicle or machine, is provided. The vehicle includes a front frame and a rear frame which are connected to each other via a pivot steering gear and a steering drive. The pivot steering gear has a first and a second vertical pivot axis which are arranged opposing each other with respect to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle in a neutral position, the pivot steering gear being embodied in a first steering range for relative swiveling of the front frame and the rear frame about the first pivot axis and in a second steering range for relative swiveling of the front frame and the rear frame about the second pivot axis, the first and the second steering ranges being separated from each other via the neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Bomag GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Ponstein
  • Patent number: 8235365
    Abstract: An air cooled condenser apparatus has a tubular shell having an open upper end and an open lower end, a ring of tube bundle panels disposed generally vertically and at an angle to each other, with each of the tube bundles having a primary condenser region and a secondary condenser region, and adapted for air flow therethrough to condense fluid in the panels, and configured so that air flow through the panels passes through and exits the open upper end of the shell, and a duct disposed at the ground level of the shell, and a non-condensable extraction system with active or passive devices to control the local rate of the evacuated mixture of non-condensables and attached steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans Georg Schrey, Richard Leitz, Michel Vouche, Philippe Nagel
  • Patent number: 8239388
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing a consumer to search a database containing used vehicles from a variety of sellers that can be queried to provide search results that include only vehicles having clean title histories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Carfax, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Raines
  • Patent number: 8236081
    Abstract: An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a water dissipation device to remove water vapor from a humidified gas traveling through a breathing circuit between a patient and a ventilator, or a ventilator and a patient. The present invention includes a water dissipation device having a housing defining entry and exit ports for coupling to the breathing circuit and a breathable medium permeable to water vapor and impermeable to liquid water bacteria, viruses and other gases enclosed within said housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Teleflex Medical Incorporated
    Inventors: Gary James Roth, Daniel Patrick Dwyer
  • Patent number: 8239094
    Abstract: A diagnostic system for a vehicle, including a memory receiving and storing vehicle specific information, and storing diagnostic test requirements of a plurality of diagnostic sequences, and a processor identifying the test requirements for a selected diagnostic sequence according to the vehicle specific information in advance of executing the diagnostic sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Olav M. Underdal, Harry M. Gilbert, Oleksiy Portyanko, Randy L. Mayes, Gregory J. Fountain, William W. Wittliff, III
  • Patent number: 8235363
    Abstract: A cooling tower module features at least one heat exchange panel, a central column, a horizontal beam extending outward from the central column, and a first side structure connected to the horizontal beam to support the horizontal beam and connected to the panel to provide support to the at least one heat exchange panel. A cooling tower facility has one or more modules. The facility can cool fluid or condense steam by interaction with ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe Samyn, Miguel Paternostre, Francois Van Rechem, Ben Verbeeck, Michel Vouche
  • Patent number: 8235705
    Abstract: A sulfur-containing material in a melt state is stored in material hopper 1 heated to a temperature within a preset temperature range of which a lower limit is equal to or above a melting point of sulfur. The stored sulfur-containing material is sucked by pressure generators 2a, 2b and pulled out into cylinders 11a, 11b heated to a temperature within the preset temperature range. The pulled out sulfur-containing material is pushed out from the cylinders under predetermined pressure applied by the pressure generator, and thereafter, the resultant material is injected from injection port 24 into mold 5 having therein a cavity which can be hermetically sealed and the mold being heated to a temperature within the preset temperature range. The injection port of the mold after the sulfur-containing material is fully injected in the cavity is closed. By stopping heating of the mold, the sulfur-containing material injected in the cavity is slowly cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Nippon Oil Corporation, Fuji Concrete Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Kurakake, Masaaki Chatani, Yoshifumi Tominaga, Yasunori Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8237606
    Abstract: A system includes a pulsed UHF radar for integrating the signal received over a given integration time. The integration time for the received signal and the size of the distance bin are defined in such a way that, taking into account the range of speeds of the targets of interest, a moving target of interest travels only a distance shorter than the size of the distance bin from one integration period to another. Furthermore, the UHF radar implements a method of forming radar blips from the received signal to form elementary blips from the signals received over the chosen integration time and to store them from one burst to another. The method also confirms that the elementary blips formed probably correspond to targets of interest and then forms, from the confirmed elementary blips, aggregate blips, the attributes of an aggregate blip depending on the attributes of the confirmed elementary blips from which the aggregate blip stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Thales Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Molin, Yves Ricci
  • Patent number: 8234685
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and a method for receiving digital broadcasts by using a mobile communication terminal. The system includes a digital broadcast receiving device for receiving digital data from a contents provision unit by using a wired/wireless communication network and transmitting the digital data; and a mobile communication terminal for receiving the digital data from the digital broadcast receiving device, decoding the digital data, creating video and audio signals, and outputting the video and audio signals. The mobile communication terminal replaces circuits of the digital broadcast receiving device, which are in charge of predetermined functions. This simplifies the construction of the digital broadcast receiving device and reduces the cost for implementing the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In-Seong Hwang, Hoo-Jong Kim
  • Patent number: 8234541
    Abstract: A method for controlling access to data in a Flash is provided, including steps as follows: outputting at least one main data block to a buffer area of the Flash continuously, the buffer area of the Flash being adapted to buffer data to be inputted to a storage area of the Flash; generating and buffering checksum data for each main data block while outputting the at least one main data block; and outputting the buffered checksum data of the at least one main data block to the buffer area of the Flash. Another method for controlling access to data in the Flash, apparatuses corresponding to the methods and methods for controlling data access by a controller are also provided. The efficiency of data access in the Flash is raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Artek Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiangxun Tang
  • Patent number: 8232750
    Abstract: A traction drive system comprising a plurality of electric motors selectably connected to a main shaft by engagement devices, each motor or combination of motors provides distinct performance characteristics along a broad spectrum of performance characteristics; and a method of managing a traction drive system including sensing physical parameters of the fraction drive system, selecting an electric motor having well-suited performance profile based on pre-selected criteria against which the sensed parameter is compared, and engaging one or more of the corresponding motors to the main shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Steven Smugeresky, Derrin Lynn Olischefski
  • Patent number: 8230514
    Abstract: A method for preventing a key logger from hacking the keyboard data typed on keyboard through authorization of keyboard data according to the present invention involves transmitting a seed and hash counter, which were created according to a ready-to-input signal in an application program to be protected from hacking, to a device driver; creating a first key data on the basis of the seed and hash counter or a keyboard data created by a keyboard interrupt created from outside in the device driver; creating a second key data on the basis of the seed and hash counter when the application program receives the first key data or a keyboard event data equivalent to the keyboard data; comparing the keyboard event data with the second key data; and receiving the keyboard event data as the data typed on keyboard when the keyboard event data is not identical with the second key data according to the result of the comparison of the prior step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: AHN Lab, Inc.
    Inventor: Hee An Park
  • Patent number: 8228793
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for adaptive delay threshold-based priority queueing for packet scheduling in a mobile broadband wireless access system, which corresponds to a resource allocation method capable of satisfying Quality of Service (QoS) requested by realtime and non-realtime users in a mobile communication environment, and simultaneously maximizing the capacity of the mobile broadband wireless access system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Kim, Seunghoi Kim, Chankoo Kang, Chunggu Kang, Jinmo Ku, Sungkyung Kim
  • Patent number: 8226008
    Abstract: An alternator and starter tester system having a bar code reader. The bar code can contain information regarding the component being tested and can direct the tester to conduct the appropriate test. The bar code can also encode the results of the test on a second bar code. The second bar code can then be coupled to the tested component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt Raichle, Scott Krampitz, Weixing Xia
  • Patent number: 8226599
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for applying wave energy of an ultrasonic frequency to agitate particles in a sample. The agitated sample is then delivered via a syringe or a resonating syringe plunger attachment of an applicator. More particularly, the present invention relates to establishing and maintaining a liquid suspension delivery system that prevents dispersed particles from precipitating out of suspension while the sample is delivered through to various applicators, such as resonating syringe plungers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sono-Tek Corporation
    Inventor: Robb W. Engle
  • Patent number: D664722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Innovative Design & Sourcing, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas McCann
  • Patent number: D665106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Nexxus Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Zdenko Grajcar
  • Patent number: D665432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Hanson Jacob, Jose Barrios