Patents Represented by Attorney Cantor Colburn

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  • Light source driving apparatus and light source apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 8198822
    Abstract: A light source driving apparatus includes; a boosting part which boosts an input voltage received from an input part and generates a driving voltage, a boosting transistor which controls an operation of the boosting part, a rectification part connected between the boosting part and an output part and which transmits the driving voltage to the output part, an integrated circuit which generates a gate signal which controls the boosting transistor, and a protection circuit which generates a protection signal which controls a voltage level of the gate signal according to an output current of the boosting transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Chul Byun, Gi-Cherl Kim, Byung-Choon Yang, Byoung-Dae Ye
  • Self supporting implant in a human body and method for making the same without capsular contracture
    Patent number: 8197542
    Abstract: A self supporting breast implant includes a generally cone shaped partially absorbable medical mesh support member and a silicone shell defining a hollow core that is preferably filled or partially filled with a silicone gel. The support member is made of a polypropolene/poliglecaprone monofilament and may be attached to a patient's tissue by sutures or by absorbable hooks. A textured outer surface or shell is formed around the relatively smooth implant or inner shell and the inner shell is reduced in size to provide a small space between the inner shell and the outer shell to eliminate or at least minimize the adverse effects of capsular contraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Hilton Becker
  • Brake apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8196720
    Abstract: The disclosed apparatus relates to a liquid cooled brake apparatus comprising: a housing, a brake cooling pump mounted to said housing, a braking force actuator mounted to said housing, said actuator being driven by a first driven member; and a braking force applicator in operable communication with said braking force actuator and a brake rotor, the rotor rotationally fixed to said first or a second driven member. The disclosed method relates to a method of retarding a driven member comprising: driving a braking force actuator with a first driven member, actuating a braking force applicator; and retarding the rotation of a rotor rotationally fixed to said first or a second driven member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: D-Brake LLC
    Inventor: John Deconti
  • Apparatus for generating electrical energy and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8198789
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for generating electrical energy that includes; a first electrode, and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and an energy generation layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the energy generation layer comprises a photoelectric conversion layer and a plurality of piezoelectric nanowires, and wherein when an external force is applied to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, the plurality of piezoelectric nanowires are transformed to generate electrical energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Kumoh National Institute of Technology Industry-Academic Cooperation
    Inventors: Duk-Hyun Choi, Jae-Young Choi, Sang-Yoon Lee, Sang-Woo Kim
  • Cyclical redundancy code for use in a high-speed serial link
    Patent number: 8201069
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a cyclical redundancy code (CRC) for use in a high-speed serial link. The system includes a cascade interconnect memory system including a memory controller, a memory hub device and a downstream link. The downstream link is in communication with the memory controller and the memory hub device and includes at least thirteen signal lanes for transmitting a multiple transfer downstream frame from the memory controller to the memory hub device. A portion of the downstream frame includes downstream CRC bits to detect errors in the downstream frame. The downstream CRC bits capable of detecting any one of a lane failure, a transfer failure and up to five bit random errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Dell, Kevin C. Gower, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Display panel, display device having the same and method of detecting touch position
    Patent number: 8199116
    Abstract: A display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate. The array substrate includes pixels, first signal lines, and second signal lines. The opposite substrate is combined with the array substrate, interposing a liquid crystal layer there between. The opposite substrate includes an opposite base substrate and first and second protruded electrodes. The first and second protruded electrodes are formed in regions corresponding to the first and second signal lines, respectively, and are electrically connected to the first and second signal lines, respectively, based on an externally provided pressure. Therefore, a thickness of the display panel is decreased, and a touch position is easily detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Jeon, Hyung-Guel Kim, Jun-Ho Song
  • Forming method of etching mask, control program and program storage medium
    Patent number: 8198183
    Abstract: A feedforward control is performed so that a line width of a mask constituted by an Si3N4 layer 102 formed by using a photoresist 105b as a mask is to be the same as a line width of a mask pattern constituted by an SiO2 layer 103 based on a measured line width of the photoresist 105b and the measured line width of the mask pattern constituted by the SiO2 layer 103. For example, a control of a trimming amount of the line width of the photoresist 105b is performed so that the line width of the photoresist 105b is to be the same as the line width of the mask pattern constituted by the SiO2 layer 103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Yatsuda, Eiichi Nishimura
  • Method of manufacturing liquid crystal display
    Patent number: 8199293
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes; disposing a thin film transistor having an output terminal on a first substrate, disposing a pixel electrode in connection with the output terminal, disposing an inorganic layer on the pixel electrode, and converting the inorganic layer to a first alignment layer by disposing a mask on the inorganic layer and radiating an ion beam in a plurality of directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Soon-Joon Rho, Jang-Sub Kim, Baek-Kyun Jeon, Hee-Keun Lee, Jae-Chang Kim, Tae-Hoon Yoon, Phil-Kook Son, Bong-Kyun Jo
  • Simple one-pass W3C XML schema simple type parsing, validation, and deserialization system
    Patent number: 8201083
    Abstract: A method for validating simple type data in XML documents, the method comprising: identifying data via an Extensible Markup Language (XML); developing schema for specifying formal data typing and validation of element content in terms of data types; generating a parser for parsing the collection of elements in a first stage where the schema is read and modeled in terms of abstract schema components, a second stage where the schema is augmented with a set of calculated schema components and properties used to drive code generation, and a third stage where the schema is traversed to generate a validation code for each of the collection of elements, and generate simple type validator modules which perform well-formedness checking the data; validating the simple type data against specific type information; and converting the data to datatype-specific form, all in a single pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret Gatatzes Kostoulas, Moshe E. Matsa, Eric Perkins
  • Hair brush for hot curling
    Patent number: 8196592
    Abstract: A hair brush for hot curling includes a body, a closing cap, a connection member and a brush part. The body made of ceramic coated aluminum includes holes through which a steel teeth of the brush part protrudes. The closing cap engages with the body formed by assembling segmented portions. The connection member for connecting the segmented portions of the body includes a body part and an insertion groove to which the body is inserted. The brush part includes a handle part and a fastening part, a first end of which is connected to the handle part and a second end is engaged with one end of the assembled body. An iron core is formed by twisting two or more wires, one end of which is securely engaged within the fastening part, a plurality of the steel teeth being formed on the iron core in a circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Inventor: Jin Ho Choi
  • Backlight assembly, display device having the same, and method of manufacturing the display device
    Patent number: 8197081
    Abstract: A backlight assembly includes a light guide plate, a light source assembly disposed adjacent to at least one side of the light guide plate and supplies light to the light guide plate, a container receiving the light guide plate and the light source assembly and including a bottom portion and a first sidewall extended from edges of the bottom portion to form a receiving space, and a coupling member disposed inside the receiving space of the container, and overlapping an upper surface of the light source assembly. The light source assembly is disposed adjacent to the first sidewall, the bottom portion, the coupling member and the light guide plate. The insertion direction of the coupling member is substantially perpendicular to the bottom portion of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Woan Cho, Yong-Woo Lee, Seong-Sik Choi
  • Display substrate and liquid crystal display device having the same
    Patent number: 8194216
    Abstract: A display substrate includes an insulation substrate, an (n)-th gate line, a data line, first and second source electrodes, first and second drain electrodes, a pixel electrode, a third drain electrode, and a storage line. The first source electrode overlaps a first portion of the (n)-th gate line and is electrically connected to the data line. The first and second drain electrodes overlap a second portion of the (n)-th gate line. The pixel electrode is connected to the first drain electrode. The second source electrode overlaps a first portion of an (n+1)-th gate line, while the third drain electrode overlaps a second portion thereof. The storage line overlaps a portion of each of the pixel electrode and the second and third drain electrodes. The second source electrode is formed by extending the second drain electrode in a direction substantially from the (n)-th gate line towards the (n+1)-th gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-Sung Um, Jae-Jin Lyu, Seung-Beom Park
  • Interlocking retention strip
    Patent number: 8191373
    Abstract: An impingement shield assembly for a turbine includes a first impingement shield portion and a second impingement shield joined to the first impingement shield portion. The assembly also includes a first connection portion formed on the first impingement shield portion, a second connection portion formed on the first impingement shield portion and first and second wedge weld portions that mate with and hold the first and a second connection portions in a fixed relationship to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Timur Rustemovich Repikov, Heath Michael Ostebee
  • Method and apparatus for modeling and managing quality of service (QoS) in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment
    Patent number: 8195803
    Abstract: A method is provided for implementing data-driven QoS control in design and development of an SOA solution. The method comprises implementing a QoS layer having a first set of architectural building blocks (ABBs) and configured to specify a QoS requirement definition to be propagated through a set of components of the SOA solution to generate QoS data for controlling and managing QoS in a unified form; and implementing a data architecture layer having a second set of ABBs and configured to facilitate propagation of generated QoS data through the set of components in the SOA solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang
  • Optimized bulk computations in data warehouse environments
    Patent number: 8195645
    Abstract: A method including extracting data spanning a computational interval from a plurality of database tables in an optimized manner, creating an array of each column of data that is extracted, accessing each array via a standardized programmatic interface to manipulate the data, if needed to perform computations, normalizing the accessed data to a common interval or interpolating the accessed data to derive missing items based on the common interval, performing the computations on the accessed data, and outputting results of the computations to a storage medium or an output device. A corresponding system and computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Thiebaut-George
  • Capped poly(arylene ether) composition and method
    Patent number: 8192649
    Abstract: A method of preparing a capped poly(arylene ether) resin includes reacting a capping agent with a blend of two or more poly(arylene ether) resins having different intrinsic viscosities. Cured compositions prepared from these capped poly(arylene ether) resins exhibit improved balances of stiffness, toughness, and dielectric properties compared to compositions with two or more separately capped and isolated poly(arylene ether) resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Gary William Yeager, Hua Guo, Zhiqing Lin, Shahid Murtuza
  • Methods for separating carbon nanotubes
    Patent number: 8193430
    Abstract: Disclosed herein too is a method that includes dispersing nanotubes in media that comprises flavin moieties substituted with solubilizing side chains, and/or non-flavin containing molecular species; self-assembling the flavin moieties and other non-flavin containing molecular species in a pattern that is orderly wrapped around the nanotubes to form a composite; introducing desired amounts of an optional reagent that competes with self-assembly in order to disturb the wrapping around nanotubes with moderate order; and centrifuging the mass of the nanotubes and the composites to extract the composite from other nanotubes that are not in composite form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, Sang-Yong Ju
  • Light sensor test unit, method of testing light sensor using the same and display apparatus
    Patent number: 8193478
    Abstract: In a light sensor test unit, a test circuit is built in a display panel and connected to an output node of a light sensor which senses an intensity of an external light. When external light having a predetermined intensity is provided to the light sensor, the test circuit outputs a driving signal in response to a sensing signal output from the output node. A test pixel part includes pixels selected from a plurality of pixels arranged in the display panel and receives the driving signal from the test circuit to display a gray-scale corresponding to the driving signal. A brightness measurer measures a brightness corresponding to the gray-scale displayed in the test pixel part to compare the measured brightness with a predetermined brightness, thereby testing whether the light sensor built in the display panel is normally operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Jin Pak, Kee-Han Uh, Ho-Suk Maeng, Man-Seung Cho, Young-Ok Cha
  • Radiation image detector
    Patent number: 8193509
    Abstract: A radiation image detector including: an internal power supply section, which is capable of being charged, to supply power to each section; an external power supply terminal to receive power from an external power source to allow the internal power supply section to be charged; and a power supply control section to control supply of the power to the internal power supply section, the power being received from the external power source via the external power supply terminal, wherein when detecting that the external power supply terminal receives power from the external power source, the power supply control section judges an operating state of each section, and controls supply of the power to the internal power supply section according to the operating state of each section, the power being received from the external power source via the external power supply terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Niekawa, Yoshihiko Eguchi
  • Early instruction text based operand store compare reject avoidance
    Patent number: 8195924
    Abstract: A method and system for early instruction text based operand store compare avoidance in a processor are provided. The system includes a processor pipeline for processing instruction text in an instruction stream, where the instruction text includes operand address information. The system also includes delay logic to monitor the instruction stream. The delay logic performs a method that includes detecting a load instruction following a store instruction in the instruction stream, comparing the operand address information of the store instruction with the load instruction. The method also includes delaying the load instruction in the processor pipeline in response to detecting a common field value between the operand address information of the store instruction and the load instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Khary J. Alexander, Fadi Y. Basuba, Bruce C. Giamei, David S. Hutton, Chung-Lung K. Shum