Patents Represented by Attorney Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

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  • Alignment apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method using exposure apparatus
    Patent number: 7298457
    Abstract: An alignment apparatus includes driving means having a movable element and a stator, a measurement unit which measures a position of a moving member moved by the driving means using measurement light, and a discharging unit to discharge gas existing in an optical path of the measurement light. The discharging unit is provided to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Maruyama
  • Driving apparatus for vibration type actuator and driving method for vibration type actuator
    Patent number: 7298100
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a vibration type actuator is disclosed, which can boost the power source voltage and can reduce the cost and the size of the apparatus. The driving apparatus comprises an inductor being connected to a power source, a pulse generation circuit generating a first and second pulse signals that have a phase difference; a first switching element switching a supply operation for supplying the energy accumulated in the inductor to the electro-mechanical energy conversion element according to the first pulse signal; and a second switching element switching a discharge operation for discharging the energy accumulated in the electro-mechanical energy conversion element according to the second pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Kataoka
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 7298502
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming stations each having an image carrier and forming an image on the image carrier; a mark detecting unit for detecting a plurality of registration correction marks formed on a recording medium by the plurality of image forming stations; a correction mechanism for correcting a position difference between images formed by the plurality of image forming stations in accordance with a detection result by the mark detecting unit; and a controller for independently controlling an image forming operation of each of the plurality of the image forming stations so that the image density of each of the registration correction marks formed by the plurality of image forming units has a different predetermined image density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhito Kataoka, Hirokazu Kodama
  • Camera and program
    Patent number: 7295232
    Abstract: A camera which can obtain an image without image blur is disclosed. The camera which obtains a synthesized image whose exposure has been corrected by synthesizing a plurality of images obtained through successive image-taking, comprising: a detection unit which detects, with respect to a reference image, amounts of displacement on other images; a coordinate conversion unit which applies coordinate conversion to the other images based on the results of detection of the detection unit; and a synthesis unit which synthesizes the other images subjected to coordinate conversion and the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Washisu
  • Electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 7295240
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus wherein, when a video camera is employed as a TV telephone or a portable telephone is employed as a TV telephone and when the direction of the display face of an LCD panel is directed (the display direction) is the opposite of that of a lens (the photographing direction), the image of an object photographed through the lens is displayed as the main picture on the LCD panel, and wherein, when the direction of the display face of the LCD panel is directed (the display direction) is the same as that of the lens (the photographing direction), an image transmitted by a communication partner is displayed as the main picture on the LCD panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Masamichi Ito
  • Manifold gasket accommodating differential movement of fuel cell stack
    Patent number: 7294427
    Abstract: A gasket for use in a fuel cell system having at least one externally manifolded fuel cell stack, for sealing the manifold edge and the stack face. In accordance with the present invention, the gasket accommodates differential movement between the stack and manifold by promoting slippage at interfaces between the gasket and the dielectric and between the gasket and the stack face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignees: FuelCell Energy, Inc., United States of America Department of Energy
    Inventors: Dana A. Kelley, Mohammad Farooque
  • Lens drive mechanism and image-taking apparatus
    Patent number: 7292783
    Abstract: A lens drive mechanism, enabled to move lens holding member in a stable state, is disclosed. The lens drive mechanism comprises: first and second guide members, each extending in a predetermined direction; a first lens holding member holding a first lens and including a first cam follower portion and a first sleeve portion which engages with the first guide member and is guided in the predetermined direction; a second lens holding member holding a second lens and including a second cam follower portion and a second sleeve portion, which engages with the second guide member and is guided in the predetermined direction; and a cam member engaging with the first and second cam follower portions and driving the first and second lens holding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Wada
  • Zoom lens and image projection apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 7289281
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens which is telecentric on a reduction side, including a plurality of lens units, in which the zoom lens satisfies the following conditions: ?dp>75 fw/fp<0.6 where ha indicates a height of a paraxial marginal ray passing through the zoom lens, and hb indicates a height of a paraxial chief ray passing through the zoom lens, where, among a plurality of positive lenses in the zoom lens, a positive lens whose hb/ha is the smallest is defined as a smallest positive lens in at least a part of a zoom range from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, and where ?dp indicates an Abbe constant of a material of the smallest positive lens, fp indicates a focal length of a lens unit including the smallest positive lens, and fw indicates a focal length of an entire system at the wide-angle end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigenobu Sugita
  • Camera
    Patent number: 7286754
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a camera capable of reducing the size by reducing the range of movement of a view finder driving member which operates interlocked with an image-taking lens barrel. The camera includes an image-taking lens barrel which performs a operation in a collapse region and performs a zooming operation in an image-taking region, a view finder optical system including a movable lens unit and a view finder driving member having a cam which drives the movable lens unit. The image-taking lens barrel operates interlocked with the view finder driving member in the image-taking region and the interlock between the image-taking lens barrel and the view finder driving member is released in the collapse region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryuichi Nagae
  • Alignment apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method
    Patent number: 7282874
    Abstract: An alignment apparatus which moves a object comprises a first structure having a holding member which holds the object, a second structure having a magnet which constitutes a linear motor, the linear motor drives the first and second structure, and a flow passage formed between the holding member and the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yugo Shibata, Atsushi Kimura
  • Adhesive enhancing support bra
    Patent number: 7278899
    Abstract: An adhesive bra element comprising a support member having an outer surface and an inner surface, and comprising at least one of a foam and a gel, an adhesive layer disposed over a substantial area of the inner surface of the support member, wherein the bra element includes a shaped cup portion and an upper extension portion extending from an upper end of the cup portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Brazabra Corporation
    Inventor: Theodore L. Davis
  • Fuel cell system including a unit for electrical isolation of a fuel cell stack from a manifold assembly and method therefor
    Patent number: 7276304
    Abstract: A fuel cell system with improved electrical isolation having a fuel cell stack with a positive potential end and a negative potential, a manifold for use in coupling gases to and from a face of the fuel cell stack, an electrical isolating assembly for electrically isolating the manifold from the stack, and a unit for adjusting an electrical potential of the manifold such as to impede the flow of electrolyte from the stack across the isolating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: FuelCell Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana A. Kelley, Mohammad Farooque, Keith Davis
  • Radiographic device and radiographic method
    Patent number: 7277525
    Abstract: An object is rotated by a rotation device 15 in X rays 25 generated by a X-ray generation device 11. The rotation device 15 makes constant the integration value of the X rays 25 reaching a two-dimensional X-ray sensor 12 during each charge integration time during which a plurality of image data are acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Tsujii
  • Image processing system, method and program for image sensing using plural image sensing devices, wirelessly transmitting plural image data and processing the image data
    Patent number: 7277125
    Abstract: An image processing system or image processing method for performing image sensing by an image sensing unit having plural image sensing devices then outputting plural image data, wireless-transmitting the plural image data, and generating a combined image based on the wireless-transmitted plural image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Nishimura, Kenji Saitoh
  • Gathering data concerning publication usage
    Patent number: 7272982
    Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Arbitron Inc.
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
  • Image information managing system
    Patent number: 7272641
    Abstract: An information managing system for browsing or transferring images between apparatuses is connected to a network. In this system, an information storage apparatus such as an image pickup apparatus, an information managing apparatus such as an image server, and an information processing apparatus or client computer such as a PC are interconnected by the network. The information storage apparatus uploads only related information such as an index of image data stored therein to the information managing apparatus to publicize the related information on the network. Only when the information processing apparatus for browsing the public information issues a transmission request for original information, the original information is transmitted from the information storage apparatus to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoichi Yamagishi
  • Car including toy-car, motor car, replica car and scale-model-car
    Patent number: D551126
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Ferrari S.p.A.
    Inventor: Maurizio Manfredini
  • Front bumper
    Patent number: D551136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Ferrari S.p.A.
    Inventor: Maurizio Manfredini
  • Belt
    Patent number: D551427
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Beijo Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Susan V. Handley
  • Warmer steamer
    Patent number: D554935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Mastrad SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Lion, Lucas Bignon