Patents Represented by Attorney Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane
  • Patent number: 7942382
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical cable laying device comprising a mechanism for fixing a rotary motor (i0), at least one friction drive roller (60, 70) for driving the cable (200), and a compressed air inlet (130) for driving the cable (200), the device being characterized in that the motor fixing mechanism, the at least one roller (60, 70) and the compressed air inlet (130) are disposed so that the axis of the motor (10), the compressed air arrival direction (130), and the cable (200) driven by the roller (60, 70) are substantially parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Daniel Lecoq, Céline Jevic, Anne-Cécile Reau-Thomas
  • Patent number: 7945502
    Abstract: A method and system for trading electric power on a spot market and dynamically matches bids and asks and routes the electric power in accordance with the matches to effect the settled trades. A control node is arranged for receiving bids and asks via a wide area network. The control node is also connected to a transmission system and a central control of the transmission system to dynamically switch the transmission system to effect the matched bids and asks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: AIP Acquisition LLC
    Inventors: Alex Mashinsky, Chi K. Eng
  • Patent number: 7943484
    Abstract: A method for laterally dividing a semiconductor wafer (1) comprises the method steps of: providing a growth substrate (2); epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer sequence (3), which comprises a functional semiconductor layer (5), onto the growth substrate (2); applying a mask layer (10) to partial regions of the semiconductor layer sequence (3) in order to produce masked regions (11) and unmasked regions (12); implanting ions through the unmasked regions (12) in order to produce implantation regions (13) in the semiconductor wafer (1); and dividing the semiconductor wafer (1) along the implantation regions (13), wherein the growth substrate (2) or at least one part of the growth substrate (2) is separated from the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Eichler, Volker Härle
  • Patent number: 7944701
    Abstract: A housing for a power semiconductor module in which load-connecting elements having contact devices are arranged. The contact devices are arranged in housing troughs on the exterior of the housing. The housing troughs are formed at an associated lateral wall of the housing. The housing is closed off by a cover. The housing is preferably formed as a unitary piece of material having a circumferential sealing frame and the cover includes an outer rim that extends over the circumferential sealing frame, to prevent the penetration of fluid or moisture into the power semiconductor module when the cover is closed. On its inner rim, each housing trough includes a sealing rib formed of a section of the sealing frame. The associated load-connecting element is crimped about the sealing rib, so that the contact device is disposed within the trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Semikron Elektronik GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Rainer Popp, Marco Lederer
  • Patent number: 7945720
    Abstract: In a terminal apparatus, the central control section 1-10 judges whether or not a function accompanied with an audio output is in operation when a change in a folding opening/closing state of the terminal apparatus is detected by the folding open/close detecting section 1-6, and changes the priority of the function in operation while maintaining the audio output of the function in operation when the function accompanied with the audio output being in operation is judged. Then, the system controls a reporting method reporting that the interrupt event is generated, based on the priority of an operating state in the terminal apparatus and the priority of the changed interrupt event, when the interrupt event is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Matsunagi, Haruhisa Takayanagi, Hiroyuki Kuriko
  • Patent number: 7943944
    Abstract: A radiation-emitting thin-film semiconductor component with a multilayer structure (12) based on GaN, which contains an active, radiation-generating layer (14) and has a first main area (16) and a second main area (18)—remote from the first main area—for coupling out the radiation generated in the active, radiation-generating layer. Furthermore, the first main area (16) of the multilayer structure (12) is coupled to a reflective layer or interface, and the region (22) of the multilayer structure that adjoins the second main area (18) of the multilayer structure is patterned one- or two-dimensionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Eisert, Berthold Hahn, Volker Härle
  • Patent number: 7945005
    Abstract: A method and a module for estimating transmission channels in a multi-antenna system. A matrix A is calculated which is constructed in the form of blocks from training sequences and an appropriate Fourier matrix. For a receive antenna RXj concerned, the method and the module calculate Nt impulse responses in the time domain by multiplying Np pilot symbols extracted from a frequency-domain signal Rj(n) obtained after demodulation of a time-domain signal received by the receive antenna RXj concerned by a product of matrices comprising the pseudo-inverse matrix of the product of the Hermitian matrix of the A matrix with the A matrix enabling decorrelation of modulated carriers adjacent null carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Benoit Le Saux, Maryline Helard, Xenophon Doukopoulos
  • Patent number: 7941196
    Abstract: A waterproof structure for a casing has a first casing, a second casing to be put together with the first casing, and a waterproof member formed of an elastic material to prevent water from penetrating between the first casing and the second casing. The second casing has a recess. The waterproof member has a peripheral part which, when fitted into the recess, prevents penetration of water. The peripheral part is provided at the periphery of the waterproof member, which is laid out all around space between the first casing and the second casing. A projection engages with a dent. A restriction part of the first casing, provided at a position facing the peripheral part and protruding toward the second casing, prevents the peripheral part from coming out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kawasaki, Takeru Baba, Toshiyuki Murakami, Shigeru Kato, Tsutomu Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7938037
    Abstract: A gearbox arrangement for a drive train of a motor vehicle, such as a double clutch gearbox arrangement or a power shift gearbox arrangement, has at least one group of gear-shifting elements (1, 2) which can be actuated for engaging and disengaging at least one respective gear of the gearbox arrangement in that they are moved relative to a gearbox housing between at least one neutral position, in which no gear associated with the gear-shifting element is engaged, and at least one engaged-gear position, in which a gear associated with the gear-shifting element and the engaged-gear position is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignees: ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas John, Dieter Kraxner
  • Patent number: 7938148
    Abstract: A method of thermally insulating the annular space in an element of an assembly of two coaxial pipes, the space being filled with a porous thermally insulating material, under low absolute gas pressure in which method the following steps are performed: a) the pipe element is inclined, preferably at an angle ? of 5° to 30°, the annular space being closed at each end by respective closure pieces; and b) substantially all of the annular space is filled with the insulating material in the form of particles in bulk; and c) preferably said particles of insulating material are shaken, at least intermittently, as the annular space is filled in order to compact the insulating material, the annular space being maintained under high vacuum during filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Saipem S.A.
    Inventors: Boris Carlier, Benoit Landreau
  • Patent number: 7941517
    Abstract: A domain server that comprises: means (10) for receiving a query transmitted from a client device (CL1) for obtaining DNS data; a zone file (FZ1, zone) comprising one or more distribution rules defining a partitioning of the domain into sub-zones, DNS data of said sub-zones being associated with a pair of partition keys specific to said sub-zone; means (20) for obtaining from said zone file a useful piece of information sufficient for identifying the pair of the partition keys associated with the required DNS data; and means (10) for transmitting to the client device (CL1): the required DNS data, the value of the signature of said data produced by means of the private component (ZSK2[pr]) of the pair of partition keys; and the useful piece of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Daniel Migault, Jean-Michel Combes, Anne-Sophie Duserre
  • Patent number: 7938064
    Abstract: A printing unit of a web-fed rotary press has a plurality of press units, each press unit having a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an inking unit and optionally a damping unit, and having at least one impression cylinder. Each form cylinder rolls on the respective transfer cylinder and each transfer cylinder rolling on an impression cylinder in a thrown-on position of the printing unit, in order to apply single-color printed images onto a printing material which is moved through between the transfer cylinders and the or each impression cylinder. Each form cylinder bears a plurality of printing images next to one another in the axial direction, by which corresponding single-color printed images are applied to the printing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Stefan Albrecht, Rainer Burger, Norbert Dylla, Helmut Stuhlmiller
  • Patent number: 7939140
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for applying single and multiple coatings of a liquid coating material to a continuously moving backing web, in which a free-falling, vertical curtain is formed out of the coating material and strikes the backing web along a wetting line. In particular, the present invention pertains to a process for producing heat-sensitive recording material. The backing web is pushed down over its entire width by at least one guide element before it passes through the wetting line, and is lifted by a support in the form of round element extending transversely to the direction of movement of the backing web after the web has passed through the wetting line, where the support also includes an air guide with an angle of 2-15° between the backing web and the top surface of the air guide means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Bielefeld GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Elsner
  • Patent number: 7937077
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, such as a mobile phone, that has a plurality of applications, displays an icon menu listing icons corresponding to the plurality of applications on its display section. The electronic apparatus stores an application operation setting table, which stores, for each of the plurality of applications, setting information regarding whether or not an RF block is to be driven in parallel with execution of the application. When displaying the icon menu, the electronic apparatus displays an icon corresponding to an application which is set not to drive the RF block in parallel with execution of it, by adding an icon indicating that the RF block is not to be driven, based on the setting information stored in the application operation setting table or setting information input from an input section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Horie
  • Patent number: 7937708
    Abstract: A computer system having at least one hardware unit, a control device and a plurality of virtual computer units, and a method for allocating total available computational power within such a computer system, wherein a plurality of virtual computer units can be respectively associated with a group. The computational power is allocated in a plurality of stages by using prescribed rules and taking into account allocation parameters so as to, first, split the available computational power and to allocate the split computational power to the groups and those virtual computer units which do not belong to a group, and then to split the computational power allocated to a group and to allocate the split computational power to each of the plurality of virtual computer units which belong to this group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Kasek, Jaroslav Verner, Diogenis Avramidis, Rolf Dammann
  • Patent number: 7933616
    Abstract: The method comprises a phase, applied by the first equipment (A), for estimating a first time of flight between the two equipments (A, Z) corresponding to the signal transmission time to go from one equipment to the other along a propagation path, called the “strongest path”, taken by a main part of the energy of the signals, a phase for estimating a difference in time of flight comprising the sending of a channel sounding frame by the first equipment to the second and, from the received radio signals corresponding to said channel sounding frame, estimating a difference in time of flight between the strongest propagation path and a first propagation path, performed by the second equipment, and a phase for calculating the distance between the two equipments (A, Z) comprising the determination of a second time of flight by subtracting the estimated difference in time of flight from the estimated first time of flight (E30) and calculating the distance between the two equipments from the duly determined second ti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Jean Schwoerer, Benoît Miscopein
  • Patent number: 7932747
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for shifting a voltage level comprises a data-current converter (2) that is connected to a first connection (K1) and that has an input for feeding a digital input data signal (DIN), a first output for providing a current (I), and also a second output for providing a reference current (I1), and a current-data converter (3) that is connected to a second connection (K2) and that has a first input for feeding the current (I), a second input for feeding the reference current (I1), and also an output for providing a digital output data signal (DOUT). Here, a voltage level of the digital output data signal (DOUT) is different from a voltage level of the digital input data signal (DIN). In addition, a method for shifting a voltage level is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: austriamicrosystems AG
    Inventors: Vincenzo Leonardo, Mark Niederberger
  • Patent number: 7932526
    Abstract: An LED semiconductor body comprising a first radiation-generating active layer and a second radiation-generating active layer, the first active layer and the second active layer being arranged one above another in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Windisch, Günther Grönninger, Peter Heidborn, Christian Jung, Walter Wegleiter
  • Patent number: 7933302
    Abstract: A laser arrangement has at least one laser diode apparatus with a side surface which laterally limits the laser diode apparatus. The laser arrangement has a plurality of active regions arranged laterally side by side and configured to generate radiation. The laser diode apparatus is arranged on a mount. The distance between the side surface and an edge which laterally limits the mount on the part of the side surface is shorter than the distance between the side surface and the active region closest to the side surface. Additionally or alternatively, the distance between the side surface and the edge is shorter than one of the distances between two adjacent active regions of the laser diode apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Harald König, Peter Brick, Jürgen Moosburger
  • Patent number: 7929385
    Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information onto/or from information recording surface, the optical pickup apparatus comprises a laser light source, an objective lens for converging light beams from the laser light source onto the information recording surface through a protective layer of an optical information recording medium, an optical device for changing a divergence angle of incident light beams by moving in an optical axis direction, the optical device being arranged between the laser light source and the objective lens, a light receiving device for receiving light beams reflected by the information recording surface and passed through the objective lens, and a driving device capable of moving the optical device in a direction crossing the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsumi Fujiwara, Tatsuji Kurogama, Katsuya Yagi, Hideyuki Fujii