Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch
  • Patent number: 8345618
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a plurality of transmit antennas, a processor configured to process user data, and a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) signal generator configured to receive the user data and generate SC-FDMA symbols transmitted through the plurality of transmit antennas. The SC-FDMA signal generator independently performs inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) for each transmit antenna, and each of the plurality of transmit antennas is associated with each of a plurality of carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byoung-Hoon Kim, Jung Hoon Lee, Jae Hoon Chung, Young Seob Choi, Seung Hee Han, Hyunsoo Ko
  • Patent number: 8342837
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Ogata, Shin Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8344090
    Abstract: Methods for preparing functionalized polyvinylpyrrolidones with polymerizable functions. Also, amphipathic polydimethylsiloxane-PVP block copolymers, such as and (meth)acrylated and (meth)acrylamide-functionalized polyvinylpyrrolidone compounds, such as The block copolymers are useful as biomaterial components in biomedical devices. They provide improved wettability, lubricity, and material compatibility to the biomedical device, e.g., ophthalmic lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: James Parakka, Keith R. McCrea, Robert S. Ward
  • Patent number: 8343960
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel 1,4-diaza-bicyclo[3.2.2]nonyl pyrimidine derivatives and their use in the manufacture of pharmaceutical compositions. The compounds of the invention are found to be cholinergic ligands at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and modulators of the monoamine receptors and transporters. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Neurosearch A/S
    Inventors: Dan Peters, Daniel B. Timmermann, Elsebet Ostergaard Nielsen, Gunnar M. Olsen, Tino Dyhring, Jeppe Kejser Christensen, John Paul Redrobe, Jens Damsgaard Mikkelsen
  • Patent number: 8342184
    Abstract: A non-combustion flavor inhalation article includes a heating device including a heater to be heated to a temperature between 80 and 140° C., and a roll including a tobacco sheet to be disposed in contact with the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Michihiro Inagaki, Morio Yajima, Manabu Yamada, Hiroshi Sasaki, Manabu Takeuchi, Kota Takeda
  • Patent number: 8346309
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a case forming an outer appearance of the mobile terminal, a window formed at one surface of the case, a touch sensor located at the window, the touch sensor being configured to detect a touch input through the window, at least one pattern formation unit disposed in the case, the at least one pattern formation unit being configured to project a light pattern in one direction when the touch sensor is activated, and a path variation unit configured to vary the direction of the projected light such that the projected light pattern is directed toward the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong-Youp Han, Young-Woo Yang
  • Patent number: 8343924
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition which may be ingested orally in a small dose for the purpose of improving brain function, and a method for improving brain function. The present invention is a composition for improving brain function, comprising, as an active ingredient, X-Val-Arg-Gly-Pro-Phe-Pro-Ile-Ile-Val (SEQ ID NO: 5), wherein X is absent or represents Pro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Calpis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Ohsawa, Naoto Uchida, Kohji Ohki
  • Patent number: 8346194
    Abstract: A radio broadcast receiver includes a front end unit for tuning by changing a local oscillation frequency; and a control unit for managing by dividing the receiving band into a third frequency domain including a third frequency obtained by subtracting the intermediate frequency from an upper end frequency of the receiving band, a first frequency domain including a first frequency obtained by adding the intermediate frequency to a lower end frequency of the receiving band, and a second frequency domain where the first frequency domain and third frequency domain overlap, and for switching, when tuning is made across the frequency domains, the local oscillation frequency to an upper local oscillation frequency when the tuning frequency is higher than the third frequency by controlling the front end unit, and to a lower local oscillation frequency when it is lower than the first frequency by controlling the front end unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electronic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Nakata
  • Patent number: 8342286
    Abstract: In a normally-open type clutch structure operatively connected to a vehicle which includes an engine, a drive wheel driven by the engine, and an automatic transmission arranged between the engine and the drive wheel. A clutch operating mechanism is provided having an actuator for engaging or disengaging a clutch connected to the automatic transmission. The clutch operating mechanism performs a control so as to bring the clutch into an engaged state when the actuator is operated, and clutch operating mechanism operates the clutch so as to bring the clutch into a disengaged state when the actuator is not operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tsukada, Takashi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 8346379
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal is disclosed. The present invention includes receiving a downmix signal generated from plural channel signal and spatial information indicating attribute of the plural channel signal to upmix the downmix signal; obtaining inter-channel phase difference (IPD) coding flag indicating whether IPD value is used to the spatial information from header of the spatial information; obtaining IPD mode flag based on the IPD coding flag from the frame of the spatial information, the IPD mode flag indicating whether the IPD value is used to a frame of the spatial information; obtaining the IPD value of parameter band of parameter time slot in the frame, based on the IPD mode flag; smoothing the IPD value by modifying the IPD value by using IPD value of previous parameter time slot; and generating plural channel signal by applying the smoothed IPD value to the downmix signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Kook Lee, Sung Yong Yoon, Dong Soo Kim, Jae Hyun Lim
  • Patent number: 8343125
    Abstract: An absorbent article (100) includes a topsheet (101), a backsheet (102), and an absorbent core (10). The absorbent core (10) includes a number of discretely and independently arranged absorbent members (30) located across a planar direction of the article (100). An intermediate sheet (20) is disposed between the topsheet (101) and the absorbent core (10) or between the backsheet (102) and the absorbent core (10). The absorbent members (30) are fixed to the intermediate sheet (20). It is preferable that an absorption rate of physiological saline solution measured by D/W method of each of the topsheet (101), the intermediate sheet (20), and the absorbent core (10) satisfies the following relationship: the topsheet (101)<the intermediate sheet (20)<the absorbent core (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Kawazoe, Takuya Kouta, Takeshi Miyamura
  • Patent number: 8344952
    Abstract: A portable terminal with an antenna for receiving broadcast signals, includes an antenna module having a chip antenna patterned on a dielectric chip so as to define a physical length of the antenna module that enables the chip antenna to operate within a broadcast band, and a conductive plate connected to the chip antenna and having an area such that conductive plate leads a main radiation of the antenna module on the broadcast band, whereby the physical length of the antenna module can be reduced as short as possible by employing the chip antenna. Accordingly, the chip antenna facilitates making the antenna module and the portable terminal be smaller in size. Also, the chip antenna is configured to lead a main radiation on the conductive plate, thereby increasing radio reception quality and improving radio performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hack Yi, Dong-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8345109
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a MOS image sensor that shoots an image of a subject, and a control unit that selects one of plural shutter drive modes and drives the MOS image sensor in the selected shutter drive mode. The control unit analyzes a through image of a subject that is obtained by the MOS image sensor before main shooting (step S3) and performs the selection automatically based on a result of the analysis (steps S6, S9, and S10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Takane
  • Patent number: 8343784
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Wook Park
  • Patent number: 8344329
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Imai
  • Patent number: 8344211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Maxim Troukhan
  • Patent number: 8347170
    Abstract: A method of performing decoding using an LDPC code is disclosed. The method of performing decoding an encoded codeword using a parity check matrix, comprises decoding the codeword using the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check matrix includes a plurality of layers, each of which includes at least one or more rows split exclusively from a specific row of a base parity check matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Wook Chung, Suk Woo Lee, Min Seok Oh
  • Patent number: 8342100
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas generator including a combustion chamber formed inside a housing having a gas discharge port, a disk-shaped gas generating agent stacked and loaded or a single tubular gas generating agent loaded in the combustion chamber in the axial direction of the housing, an igniter disposed inside the combustion chamber to enclose the igniter and fixed to a bottom surface of the housing by a fixing member, the fixing member including a fixing portion for the igniter and a plurality of elastic rod-like gas generating agent support portions extending in the radial direction of the housing from the fixing portion, the gas generating agent support portions abutting against a surface of the gas generating agent opposing the bottom surface of the housing, and the gas generating agent being pressed and fixed between the gas generating agent support portions and a top surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamazaki, Naoki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8342527
    Abstract: A five-by-five cube puzzle has a central shaft assembly mounted around by center blocks in predetermined numbers, first intermediate blocks, second intermediate blocks, first edge blocks, second edge blocks and corner blocks. Each center shaft of a multi-axis shaft unit of the central shaft assembly is combined with a movable inner shield. An outer shield is mounted on an outside of a corresponding inner shield with a spring and a screw. The inner shields and the outer shields are combined with the first intermediate blocks, second intermediate blocks, first edge blocks, second edge blocks and corner blocks to form the cube puzzle. Based on rotation of those blocks with respect to the relative movement between inner shields and outer shields and sufficient gap among each block and a corresponding inner shield and outer shield, smooth rotation of each block can be achieved without being affected by slightly skew block alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventor: Cheng-Han Wu
  • Patent number: 8343925
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition which may be ingested orally in a small dose for the purpose of improving brain function, and a method for improving brain function. The present invention is a composition for improving brain function, the composition comprising, as an active ingredient, Xaa-Pro-Pro (wherein Xaa represents Ile, Leu or Ser).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Calpis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Ohsawa, Naoto Uchida, Kohji Ohki