Patents Represented by Attorney Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
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Patent number: 8350814Abstract: A terminal including a first body, a second body connected to the first body, a first display disposed on the first body, a second display disposed on the second body and having a transparency such that information displayed on the first display can be seen though the second display having the transparency when the first and second displays overlap each other, and a controller configured to control a movement of a displayable object between the first and second displays based on a particular condition occurring on the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jong-Hwan Kim, Nam-Yong Park
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Patent number: 8348304Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kojima, Sumitaka Ogawa
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Patent number: 8351718Abstract: An image data processing apparatus including: a compression processing section that divides image data into a plurality of partial data in a prescribed size, generates link information showing a mutual arrangement of each of the divided partial data, and generates compressed partial data by compressing each of the divided partial data; a plurality of expansion sections that expand the compressed partial data respectively; a data controller that assigns each of the compressed partial data to any one of the expansion sections, and operates the expansion sections to expand the compressed partial data substantially simultaneously; and an image data storage section that stores each of the expanded partial data, wherein the data controller determines an area of the image data storage section, in which each of the expanded partial data ought to be stored, and an output order of the stored partial data, based on the link information and the prescribed size of the partial data, so as to restore the original image dataType: GrantFiled: October 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Maeda
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Patent number: 8350982Abstract: Disclosed is a display device. The display device comprises a liquid crystal panel, a backlight assembly disposed below the liquid crystal panel, a frame receiving at least a part of the liquid crystal panel and the backlight assembly, and a chassis disposed at the frame. At least a part of the chassis is inserted into the frame, so that the strength of the frame and the chassis can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Ho Choi, Han Young Kim
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Patent number: 8348719Abstract: Embodiments of a polisher for chemical mechanical planarization. The polisher includes a polishing pad structure containing a first reactant therein, and a second reactant in a polishing environment over the polishing pad structure. The first reactant and the second reactant react endothermically upon contact when polishing a wafer surface between the polishing pad structure and the polishing environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hsin-Hsien Lu, Liang-Guang Chen, Tien-I Bao, Shau-Lin Shue
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Patent number: 8351734Abstract: In an X-Y conversion chart, a threshold Th is defined as Y=0, that is, defined on the X axis, a range from ?Th to +Th is defined as a range in which smoothing processing is performed, and a range outside ?Th to +Th is defined as a range in which sharpening processing is performed. Among equations denoted by Y1 and Y2 expressed by two linear straight lines, intersections of both the equations Y1 and Y2 are set to the maximum value and the minimum value of an X-Y conversion equation in this case. The threshold is expressed by an intersection of Y2 and the X axis. This algorithm is formed by three factors of: a coefficient ? indicating the strength of smoothing; a coefficient ? indicating the strength of sharpening; and a threshold Th on the X axis for determining switching between the smoothing processing and the sharpening processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Otsuka, Osamu Manba, Yasufumi Hagiwara, Daisuke Koyama
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Patent number: 8342639Abstract: A head cleaning method of wiping and cleaning a nozzle surface of a head with a band-shaped liquid absorbing body by, while pressing and abutting a pressing member on which the liquid absorbing body that travels is wrapped against the nozzle surface of the head, sliding the pressing member over the nozzle surface of the head, includes: a first cleaning step of wiping and cleaning the nozzle surface of the head with a non-wet region of the liquid absorbing body; a wet region forming step of forming a wet region on the liquid absorbing body; and a second cleaning step of wiping and cleaning the nozzle surface of the head with the wet region of the liquid absorbing body.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 8342985Abstract: An iron-type golf club head 1 having excellent durability and weight distribution design and comprising a metallic head body 1A having a face 2 for hitting a golf ball and a recess portion 13, and a metallic weight member 1B having a larger specific gravity than the head body 1A, the member 1B being fitted to and welded to the recess portion to form a part of the outer surface of the head body 1A, wherein at least one closed space 14 surrounded by the weight member 1B and the surface of the recess portion 13 is formed inside the head body.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: SRI Sports LimitedInventor: Tomoya Hirano
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Patent number: 8345340Abstract: A method of adjusting a resonance frequency in an optical scanning device containing: providing the optical scanning device having a substrate composed of a substrate main body and two cantilever beam portions, a drive source, a mirror portion, and a supporting component for fixing the substrate main body at a fixed end; and reducing an area of the substrate which protrudes from the fixed end to an outside of the supporting component, thereby to increase the resonance frequency; or alternatively, increasing the area of the substrate which protrudes from the fixed end to the outside of the supporting component, thereby to reduce the resonance frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Jaehyuk Park, Jun Akedo
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Patent number: 8343265Abstract: An air cleaner apparatus includes a lid that covers an opening formed in an air cleaner box is provided with an intake port communicating with the opening. In addition, a regulator is attached to an upper wall portion of the air cleaner box, the intake port is extended to the upper wall portion of the air cleaner box so as to cover the regulator, and the regulator is placed facing inside an intake passage connecting between the intake port and the opening. The air cleaner apparatus so configured provides a sufficient cooling effect, and is excellent in ease of maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sho Yamamoto, Shigeru Kodaira, Tatsuya Shiokawa, Masaki Yamazaki, Hiromitsu Shiina, Shun Fujitsu, Yukinori Kurakawa
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Patent number: 8342152Abstract: A flow controlling method for an auxiliary intake flow passage for use in a power unit which includes a starter clutch which is automatically engaged and disengaged in response to the engine speed. An intake air control valve (IACV) carries out changeover from water temperature dependent control (open loop control of adjusting the flow rate of the auxiliary intake flow passage in response to the warming up state of an engine) to target engine speed feedback control when the actual engine speed NE [rpm] drops to a clutch disengagement engine speed NEout (engine speed at which the centrifugal clutch is disengaged) (S3: Yes) and the opening ?1 [degree] of the throttle valve becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value (throttle valve opening threshold value TH—?1 (S4: Yes).Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasutaka Usukura, Hiroshi Noda, Kenichi Machida
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Patent number: 8342837Abstract: There are provided a first mold 2 and a second mold 1 that can be brought into and released from contact with the first mold 2. A substrate 70 provided in both the molds 1, 2 and mounted with electronic components is subjected to resin sealing and molding by filling with resin of cavities formed by both the molds 1, 2. The second mold 1 is placed on a base plate 9 so as to be capable of horizontally reciprocating, and has a cavity block 7 that can be brought into and released from contact with the first mold 2 and a mold clamping mechanism 16 that supports the cavity block 7 and that brings and releases the cavity block 7 into and from contact with the first mold 2 so as to perform mold clamping. On the base plate 9 is provided a horizontal actuation mechanism 11 for moving the second mold 1 to a facing position where the second mold 1 faces the first mold 2 and to a non-facing position where the second mold 1 has been moved sideways from the facing position.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Ogata, Shin Nagaoka
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Patent number: 8343720Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying a set of target nucleotide sequences capable of identifying a member of a group of related nucleotide sequences, the method comprising the step of dividing the nucleotide sequence of each member of the group into a plurality of subsequences, wherein at least two of the subsequences overlap. The method is useful in generating probe sets capable of assigning alleles at HLA or KIR loci.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Haplomic Technologies Pty LtdInventor: Malcolm James Simons
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Patent number: 8343784Abstract: The embodiment of the present invention provides an LED device, a manufacturing method of the LED device and a mounting structure of the LED device. In order to manufacture the LED device with low manufacturing cost through simple process capable of overcoming thermal fatigue due to heat generation, breaking of wire due to mechanical stress, the method comprises etching a wafer; forming a conductive metal layer from an upper surface to a lower surface of the wafer; bonding a light emitting diode chip to the metal layer which is disposed on the upper surface of the wafer; filling a resin into a space over the light emitting diode chip; and forming an electrode pad on the metal layer which is disposed on the lower surface of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Wook Park
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Patent number: 8344329Abstract: Provided is a radiation sensor comprising: a phosphor layer that converts incident radiation into converted light containing a first light component having a first wavelength region that includes a maximum peak wavelength different from a maximum peak wavelength of the radiation, and a second light component having a second wavelength region of 400 nm to 460 nm, different from that of the radiation and the first wavelength region; an organic photoelectric conversion layer; and an insulating substrate provided with a charge detection layer, and that includes a storage capacitor and a thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor active layer, wherein the first and second light components each pass through the organic photoelectric conversion layer and arrive at the oxide semiconductor active layer, and wherein an intensity of the second light component is lower than an intensity of the first light component.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinji Imai
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Patent number: 8345356Abstract: An objective lens for converging light emitted from a light source onto an optical recording medium to record and reproduce information consists of a single lens that has at least one aspheric surface. The following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: ?0.90<R1/R2<?0.45??(1) 0.70<d/f<1.40??(2) where R1 denotes a radius of curvature (mm) of a light source side surface near an optical axis, R2 denotes a radius of curvature (mm) of an optical recording medium side surface near the optical axis, d denotes a thickness (mm) on an optical axis, and f denotes a focal length (mm).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Fujinon CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Katsuma, Masao Mori, Tetsuya Ori, Yu Kitahara
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Patent number: 8345163Abstract: Motion blur at a pixel of interest in a video signal is corrected adaptively by detecting a motion vector of the pixel of interest, estimating the direction and magnitude of the motion blur from the motion vector, and filtering the video signal at the pixel of interest. The filtering process uses the pixel values of the pixels in a neighborhood of the pixel of interest, clipped so that they do not differ too greatly from the pixel value of the pixel of interest, and low-pass filtering coefficients selected according to the estimated direction and magnitude. The filtered value is used to calculate a gain factor for correcting the pixel value of the pixel of interest. The strength of the correction is adjusted according to the difference between the pixel value of the pixel of interest and the mean pixel value in its vicinity. The adjustment and clipping prevent overcorrection.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Fujiyama, Yoshiki Ono
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Patent number: 8343244Abstract: Dust collection structure for collecting the dust removed from an air filter of an indoor unit has been devised to reduce user's labor in collecting the dust as much as possible. An indoor unit includes, in a casing, an indoor heat exchanger, an indoor fan for sucking air from inside of a room, and blowing the air to the inside of the room, and an air filter arranged on an inlet side of the indoor fan. The dust trapped on the air filter is removed by the dust removing means, and is contained in the dust containing part. A nozzle connector for arranging a nozzle of a cleaner at a predetermined position where suction of the contained dust is allowed is provided at a downstream outlet of a dust collection path as a transfer path for transferring the dust in collecting the contained dust.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko Sakashita
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Patent number: D673524Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Sennheiser Communications A/SInventor: Jörg Brennwald
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Patent number: RE43893Abstract: A method and communication system is provided to identify a calling/called party when the call is being set up but before the call is answered. In the method, a first terminal and a second terminal are respectively provided with opposing terminal's image data before the call is answered. The image data of the first and second terminals can be registered in a media server disposed between the first and second terminals, and the image data can be transmitted between the first terminal and the media server and between the second terminal and the media server in accordance with an SIP protocol.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jin Soo Lee, Yong Kyoung Shin