Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch and Birch, LLP
  • Patent number: 8348439
    Abstract: An enclosure of a dichroic mirror system that synthesizes a plurality of monochromatic laser beams emitted from a laser light source to output synthesized light is a structure having a dichroic mirror system lower enclosure and a dichroic mirror system upper enclosure joined to each other, and includes a light-leakage protecting structure that is formed by a convex portion formed at an end of the dichroic mirror system lower enclosure and a concave portion formed at an end of the dichroic mirror system upper enclosure engaged with each other at a joint therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Taisuke Murata
  • Patent number: 8350965
    Abstract: A portable terminal device includes: an operation part 7 including operation keys 71 that are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form; an image enlarging part 91 that, in a state where a plurality of enlargement target areas 93 are preliminarily set as partial areas of an image, generates an enlarged image by, on the basis of an operation of any of the operation keys 71, enlarging an image within an enlargement target area 93 preliminarily related to the operation key 71; a display image generating part 92 that generates a display image including the image in a normal or an enlargement browsing mode generates a display image including the enlarged image; and a display part 5 that displays the display image. The respective enlargement target areas 93 respectively correspond in an arrangement order to the operation keys 71, and form overlap areas with their adjacent enlargement target areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Mohri, Kei Okuda
  • Patent number: 8351365
    Abstract: A method for retransmitting a multicast frame in a wireless network and a method for determining whether or not a received multicast frame is a duplicated frame are disclosed. In determining whether or not the received multicast frame is the same duplicated frame as a previously received multicast frame, a receiver address value and a sequence number of the multicast frame may be used. When fragmentation of a multicast frame is allowed, the value of a fragment number of the multicast frame may be also used, and if it includes a traffic ID, the value of the traffic ID can be also used for determining whether or not the multicast frame is a duplicated frame. If a multicast frame is transmitted in a wireless mesh network, it is determined whether or not the multicast frame is a duplicated one by using a mesh source address, a mesh destination address, and a sequence number. The fragment number and/or the traffic ID may be also used in the determining step as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 8349867
    Abstract: A kind of quinoline compounds as formula A, pharmaceutical accepted solvates, optical isomers or polymorphisms thereof. The intermediates of formula D. in which, R1, R2 and R3 is independently H, halo or the subustitents of formula H, in which, R is H, halo, C1˜C4alkyl, C1˜C4alkoxyl. The preparation methods and the uses for the manufacture of a medicament of inhibiting the HMG CoA reductase and treating the diseases relating to the high blood fat. Compared with the fluvastatin, rosuvatatin, pitavastatin disclosed in the prior arts, present quinoline compounds have better activity of inhibiting HMG CoA reductase. Present quinoline compounds can be used for treating the diseases relating to the high blood fat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry
    Inventors: Zhengyan Cai, Weicheng Zhou, Qun Hao
  • Patent number: 8349958
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition for the golf ball that suppresses the bleed out of the low molecular weight material component, as well as improves the fluidity and repulsion performance. The present invention provides a golf ball forming resin composition comprising as a resin component, (A) a high melt viscosity resin; (B) a low melt viscosity ionomer resin having a melt viscosity (190° C.) ranging from 1 Pa·s to 10 Pa·s measured by a brookfield viscometer, in a ratio of (A) the high melt viscosity resin/(B) the low melt viscosity ionomer resin being 55 mass % to 99 mass %/45 mass % to 1 mass %; and (C) a metal ion source capable of neutralizing carboxyl groups of (A) the high melt viscosity resin and (B) the low melt viscosity ionomer resin, in an amount of from 0.1 part to 10 parts with respect to 100 parts by mass of a sum of (A) the high melt viscosity resin and (B) the low melt viscosity ionomer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Shigemitsu, Satoko Okabe
  • Patent number: 8348729
    Abstract: A method for processing a carcass part of slaughtered poultry includes performing a process on the carcass part using a processing device, in which the carcass part has a predefined position and orientation in relation to the processing device, during the processing at least a harvestable part of the carcass part is separated from the rest of the carcass part, conveying the harvestable part to a tray using a feed device, where the orientation of the harvestable part relative to the feed device is known beforehand based on the orientation of the harvestable part relative to the processing device, and depositing the harvestable part of the carcass part in the tray in a predefined position and in a predefined orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Stork PMT B.V.
    Inventors: Petrus Christianus Hendrikus Janssen, Gerardus Johannes Catharina Van Bussel, Adrianus Josephes Van Den Nieuwelaar
  • Patent number: 8350501
    Abstract: DC/DC bridge for controlling a direct-current load (M1), which bridge is provided with controllable semiconductor switches (S11-S14, S21-S26) and with a control unit (BC1). The bridge comprises two bridge sections (B11, B12), at least the first bridge section (B11) of which is controlled with pulse-width modulation (PWM) to regulate the current magnitude, and which bridge comprises a determination of the current of the direct-current load (M1). The second bridge section (B12) conducts direct current when the determined value (2) of the current of the direct-current load differs from zero by more than the limit value (1) of the current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventor: Esa Putkinen
  • Patent number: 8348649
    Abstract: In a screw rotor (40), a first suction-side area (45) is formed in a first side wall surface (42) of a spiral groove (41). In the first side wall surface (42), a portion extending from a start point to a point until immediately before a compression chamber (23) is in a completely-closed state defines the first suction-side area (45). The first suction-side area (45) is thinner than a portion of the first side wall surface (42) other than the first suction-side area (45), and does not contact a gate (51) of a gate rotor (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Harunori Miyamura, Tadashi Okada, Takayuki Takahashi, Kaname Ohtsuka, Toshihiro Susa, Hiromichi Ueno, Takanori Murono
  • Patent number: 8348304
    Abstract: An airbag jacket activating system includes radio communications transceivers configured to make RF communications and LF communications, respectively. An acceleration sensor configured to detect acceleration of a motorcycle. An update unit configured to update an LF communications ID, to code the updated LF communications ID together with an RF communications ID, and to transmit the coded updated LF communications ID and the coded RF communications ID to an airbag jacket through RF communications. An update unit configured to store the updated LF communications ID in a case where the LF communications ID is received together with the RF communication ID. A control unit configured to cause the coded RF communications ID and an ignition signal to be transmitted through the RF communications, and to cause the LF communications ID and the ignition signal to be transmitted through the LF communications when the acceleration exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kojima, Sumitaka Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8350088
    Abstract: To provide a gelling agent containing a fluoroalkyl derivative, a small amount of which can gelatinize or solidify various organic solvents. The gelling agent for organic liquids contains a fluoroalkyl derivative represented by the following formula: wherein each of m, n and x is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: National University Corporation Yamaguchi University
    Inventors: Hiroaki Okamoto, Yuki Morita
  • Patent number: 8348013
    Abstract: An exhaust device of an internal combustion engine for reducing exhaust sound and for suppressing the occurrence of a torque valley. A sound-deadening and pressure-dissipating device connected to the downstream end of an exhaust pipe includes a spherical member having an opening portion opening toward a downstream edge of the exhaust pipe. Exhaust gas from the exhaust pipe is reflected by an inner spherical surface of the spherical member to reduce exhaust pressure in the spherical member and then is discharged from the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Uneta, Taichi Honda, Tomoya Matsuo, Yoshihisa Hirano
  • Patent number: 8349593
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel process for producing a compound represented by the general formula (1) by using a microorganism, wherein the compound is useful as a plant growth stimulant. Specifically disclosed is a process for producing a succinic acid amide compound represented by the general formula (1) [wherein Ar represents a phenyl, naphthyl or indolyl group which may have a substituent; and n represents a numeral value ranging from 1 to 4] or a salt thereof, which is characterized by culturing a microorganism of the genus Pseudomonas that is capable of synthesizing a succinic acid amide in a culture medium containing an arylalkylamine represented by the general formula (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toru Kitamura, Hiroshi Soejima, Tamizi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8351937
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with wireless devices to be connected with the mobile terminal, a display unit configured to display information about the wireless devices, an input unit configured to input search information including at least one of a distance range to search for the wireless devices and a type of the wireless devices, and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit to search for the wireless devices based on the input search information and to control the display unit to display responding wireless devices that responded to the search by the wireless communication unit according to the input search information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Dong-Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 8350506
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to start a frequency converter equipped with a direct current intermediate circuit, particularly when a permanent magnet motor whose rotor is rotating at the start-up time is connected to it, wherein the frequency converter has a network bridge (10) and load bridge (11), and the load bridge has controllable power semiconductor switches of the upper and lower branch (V1-V6) and parallel connected zero diodes (D1-D6), and a direct current intermediate circuit between them, and the said frequency converter uses a current transducer placed in the direct current intermediate circuit, and the analogue current signal composed by it features samples of the measured output currents, and the diverter switches of the frequency converter's upper branch are controlled using the bootstrap method, wherein start-up is initiated by controlling the controllable power semiconductor switch of the lower branch of at least one output phase to a conductive state for one or several periods of time, preferably of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Vacon Oyj
    Inventors: Andreas Doktar, Stefan Strandberg, Jaakko Ollila
  • Patent number: 8348786
    Abstract: An iron-type golf club head is assembled from a front component (4) made of a metal material having a specific gravity ?1, a rear component (5) made of a fiber reinforced resin having a specific gravity ?2 lower than the specific gravity ?1, a toe-side component (6) made of a metal material having a specific gravity ?3 higher than the specific gravity ?1, and a heel-side component (7) made of a metal material having a specific gravity ?4 higher than the specific gravity ?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Takashi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8351554
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptive method of extracting at least of desired electro magnetic wave signals, sound wave signals (40, 42), and any other signals from a mixture of signals (40, 42, 44, 46) and suppressing noise and interfering signals to produce enhanced signals (50) corresponding to desired (10) signals, and an apparatus (70) therefore. It relies on the concept of at least one of an attenuation of input signals in each sub-band for signals in such a manner that all desired (10) signals are attenuated less than noise or interfering source signals, and/or an amplification of input signals in each sub-band for source signals in such a manner that all desired (10) signals are amplified, and that they are amplified more than the noise and interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Exaudio AB
    Inventors: Nedelko Grbic, Ingvar Claesson, Per Eriksson
  • Patent number: 8349743
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a light emitting device. The method includes forming an oxide including gallium aluminum over a gallium oxide substrate, forming a nitride including gallium aluminum over the oxide including gallium aluminum and forming a light emitting structure over the nitride including gallium aluminum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Tae Moon
  • Patent number: 8349763
    Abstract: A carbon monoxide reduction catalyst for smoking articles includes particles, 90% by volume or more of which have a particle diameter within a range of 1 to 100 ?m. Each particle includes a transition metal oxide generated by heating a transition metal salt of an organic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Sugai, Yasunobu Inoue, Kiyohiro Sasakawa, Mitsuru Kondo, Tsutomu Sakai, Sadako Imai, Fumiko Murata
  • Patent number: 8349952
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball which is excellent in abrasion-resistance and durability. The golf ball of the present invention comprises a cover using a cover composition containing thermoplastic polyurethane (A) and a polyisocyanate mixture (B) in which a urethane prepolymer (b-1a) having at least two isocyanate groups or a polyisocyanate (b-1b) having at least three isocyanate groups is dispersed in a thermoplastic resin (b-2) which does not substantially react with the isocyanate groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Tarao
  • Patent number: D674068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungho Baek, Hyein Jung, Joogyeom Kim, Gangui Cho