Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Birch, Stewart, Kolash & Birch, LLP
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Patent number: 8334394Abstract: A solid phase reaction system for oxidation of an organic compound, having high industrial value in which an organic solvent exerting a reverse influence on earth environments is not necessary, reuse of a catalyst is possible, and high yield can be attained, comprising a mixture of a powdery dispersion medium and a powder of a solid catalyst for the above-described oxidation reaction, and the above-described organic compound and aqueous hydrogen peroxide, wherein the above-described organic compound, the above-described solid catalyst and the above-described aqueous hydrogen peroxide are dispersed in the above-described mixture so that they get into contact mutually.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Osaka UniversityInventors: Jyunko Ichihara, Syunrou Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8283020Abstract: A laminate film having excellent barrier property is provided. The laminate film comprises a substrate film, an organic layer and an inorganic layer in that order, wherein the organic layer has a thickness of 300 nm to 2000 nm, the inorganic layer comprises silicon oxide represented by SiOx, wherein x is in a range from 0.9 to 1.5, and the organic layer has a surface satisfying Ra (100 ?m square)<50 nm, Ra (10 ?m square)<2 nm, and 75 nm<Rz (100 ?m square)<300 nm.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Shigehide Itou
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Patent number: 8273999Abstract: A chassis 2 as a first sheet-metal part has an L-shaped hooking section 27 formed at a cover mounting opening end of each side plate thereof, and an assembly guide section 28 dimpling inwardly the opening end of the chassis 2 by the thickness of a cover 8; the cover 8 as a second sheet-metal part has a hooking claw 81 extending from each side edge of the cover to the mounting side thereof and engaging with the L-shaped hooking section 27, and a guide lug 82 engaging with the assembly guide section 28, wherein an engaging claw 85 and an engaging hole 102, and a tapped hole 101 and a screw passing-through hole 84 are relatively provided on the abutment faces between the chassis 2 and the cover 8, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Hirota
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Patent number: 8239926Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for obtaining a limited ID cookie for ad targeting are disclosed. A client requests a limited ID cookie from a cookie making module (CMM), which sends a personal cookie to a verification module for verification. After verification, verification module sends a user ID with user information to CMM. CMM creates the limited ID cookie, and the limited ID cookie is sent to the client. The limited ID cookie is sent to an ads server which utilizes the limited ID cookie to target ads towards the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jennifer W. Lin, Neha Pattan
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Patent number: 8145246Abstract: A system includes a transmitting device, an intermediate communications device, and a receiving device. The system establishes a first synchronous wireless link between a transmitting device and the intermediate device, and a second synchronous wireless link between the intermediate device and the receiving device. The transmitting device may include a wireless audio transmitter, a sampling unit configured to convert an incoming audio signal to a stream of digitized audio samples, an encoder unit configured to code the stream of digitized audio samples according to an audio codec based on a sample oriented audio compression algorithm to provide a stream of coded digitized audio samples, and a signal transmitting unit transmitting the stream of coded digitized audio samples over the first synchronous wireless link to the intermediate device. The intermediate device transmits the stream of coded digitized audio samples to the receiving device through the second synchronous wireless link.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Oticon A/SInventor: Crilles Bak Rasmussen
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Patent number: 8104525Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread-reinforcing band made of at least one spirally wound cord, wherein the band cord consists of materially identical high-strength high-modulus organic filaments, and the band cord is formed by first twisting each of filament bunches, subjecting the first twisted bunches to a dip-and-stretch treatment, and then twisting the treated bunches together, whereby the load-elongation curve of the band cord comprises a low-modulus zone and a high-modulus zone whose boundary point is in an elongation range of from 1 to 7%, and the ratio EH/EL of a nominal elastic modulus EH of the high-modulus zone and a nominal elastic modulus EL of the low-modulus zone is in a range of from 2.0 to 10.0. Therefore, high-modulus aramid cords, PEN cords and the like can be used to reduce the tire weight.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Touru Fukumoto
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Patent number: 8009067Abstract: Discussed are a method and an apparatus of encoding/decoding by using a bit precision. In accordance to an aspect of the present invention, it is possible to encoding and decoding an image or a video by using a bit precision. Accordingly, compression efficiency can be improved and the decoding complexity can be reduced by encoding/decoding video data by use of the bit precision.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Humax, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Euee-Seon Jang, Sun-Young Lee, Gi-Seok Son, Chung-Ku Lee
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Patent number: 7991266Abstract: To provide the possible largest number of representative images of the image data recorded on the recording medium on the surface of a recording medium which is limited in size. When recording image data recorded on two DVD-Rs on a new DVD-R, a lenticular image synthesis is carried out on the representative images D1 and D2 provided on the surface of the original DVD-Rs and a representative image D3 of the new DVD-R to generate one synthetic representative image D10 and the synthetic representative image D10 is printed on the surface of the new DVD-R.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Akira Yoda
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Patent number: 7847479Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element including an organic layer including a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes, wherein the light-emitting layer contains at least two light-emitting materials having different Ea values and at least one host material, a concentration of a light-emitting material having a larger Ea value in the light-emitting layer gradually decreases from a cathode side toward an anode side, and a concentration of a light-emitting material having a smaller Ea value in the light-emitting layer gradually decreases from the anode side toward the cathode side.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Tasuku Satou, Masaru Kinoshita, Manabu Tobise
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Patent number: 7836727Abstract: A method of cutting a glass substrate to form a plurality of flat panel displays. The method includes forming a scribe line or a line of weakness on a surface of a mother material; treating the mother material with chemical to further weaken the mother material; and cutting the mother material. The scribe line may be formed using a masking technique. The mother material may be treated with chemical by putting the mother material into a chemical solution. Alternatively, the chemical may be sprayed, blown, or exposed to the mother material. The cutting of the mother material may be done by applying mechanical and/or thermal stress along the scribe line.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Nishiyama Stainless Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiyama
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Patent number: 7741514Abstract: A catalyst of the invention includes an imide compound having a N-substituted cyclic imide skeleton represented by following Formula (I): wherein R is a hydroxyl-protecting group. Preferred R is a hydrolyzable protecting group. R may be a group obtained from an acid by eliminating an OH group therefrom. Such acids include, for example, carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids, carbonic acid, carbamic acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acids and boric acids. The catalyst may include the imide compound and a metallic compound in combination. In the presence of the catalyst, (A) a compound capable of forming a radical is allowed to react with (B) a radical scavenging compound and thereby yields an addition or substitution reaction product of the compound (A) and the compound (B) or a derivative thereof. This catalyst can produce an organic compound with a high selectivity in a high yield as a result of, for example, an addition or substitution reaction under mild conditions.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasutaka Ishii, Tatsuya Nakano, Takahiro Iwahama, Naruhisa Hirai
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Patent number: 7650172Abstract: A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability and convenience. Cellular phone includes a first display portion at a surface of a first body opposed to a second body in the folded state, and includes a second display portion, an image taking portion and a plurality of operation portions arranged at a rear surface of the first body remote from the first display portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyasu Hamamura, Yoshitaka Suzuki
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Patent number: 7552158Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital filter capable of computing a tap without output delay due to the filter operation in a symbol time, and a digital broadcasting receiver having the same. Particularly, filter output is obtained within a clock period, one multiplier and one adder are used to perform coefficient update for a plurality of taps, and the multiplier performs the output operation for each tap, whereby the number of multipliers and adders is reduced inversely proportional to the number of taps being operated for one clock period. Thus, the digital filter of the present invention can be very advantageously used for resolving the filter size problem in multi-tap filters.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Woo Chan Kim
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Patent number: 7336743Abstract: An automatic gain control and its method are disclosed. An average power computing unit computes the power of a received signal. A power range monitoring unit monitors its change. If the signal power fluctuates around a threshold, the system enters an acquisition mode and the gain is tuned back to a default value. If the signal power is above an upper limit of a tracking range, a gain decreasing unit reduces the gain. If the signal power goes below a lower limit of the tracking range, a gain increasing unit raises the gain. Once the power falls in the tracking range, the system enters a tracking mode to make immediate responses toward the gain of the received signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Intergrated Systems Solution Corp.Inventors: Kuang-Ping Ma, Chia-Yung Chiu, Wen-Tso Huang, Albert Chen
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Patent number: 7313282Abstract: The present invention is a method and an apparatus for digital signal processing. The method extracts a plurality of data which is not zero or repeated and recognizes a plurality of coordinate data corresponding to the extracted data. The method saves memory space and makes digital signal processing more efficient.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Winbond Electronics CorporationInventor: Rong-Fuh Shyu
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Patent number: 7308875Abstract: An intake control apparatus of an internal combustion engine including respective intake valves 5 opened when intake air reaching respective branch intake paths r1 from a main intake path Rim of the internal combustion engine is introduced to respective combustion chamber 2, and respective intake control valves 15 respectively arranged upstream from the intake valves on the respective branch intake paths for adjusting an intake introducing time period Tq for introducing intake air into the combustion chamber 2 in which both of the valves are brought into an opened state by controller 17.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Murata
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Patent number: 7277132Abstract: A method for motion vector de-interlacing decodes macro blocks in a picture, calculates motion vectors of the each MB, produces de-interlacing flag according to the threshold, realizes a Temporal Extension action and performs a Devour action. The Temporal Extension action checks multiple flag buffers, determines if a de-interlace flag should be set as WEAVE or BOB2 based on whether there exists a predetermined number of BOB flags in those flag buffers The Devour action determines if the de-interlace flag is BOB. If positive, it calculates the amount of BOB data within a predetermined area around the current MB, determines if the result is smaller than the BOB threshold and sets the de-interlace flag as WEAVE. Otherwise, it calculates the amount of the WEAVE data, determines if the result is smaller than the WEAVE threshold and sets the de-interlace flag as BOB2.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Ali CorporationInventors: Yueyong Chen, Jian Zhu
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Patent number: 7179904Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventor: Shing Kwok
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Patent number: D635949Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Sung Lyong Kim
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Patent number: D647430Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomoyuki Nemoto