Patents Represented by Attorney Crowell & Moring LLP
  • Patent number: 8303324
    Abstract: A receiving unit is provided for a circuit board carrier, wherein the receiving unit has at least one electric contact. The circuit board carrier is insertable into the receiving unit at an angle to an end position of the circuit board carrier. The receiving unit is designed in such a manner that in an inserted state of the circuit board carrier there are in essence no bending forces that act on the circuit board carrier by way of the at least one electric contact. Furthermore, a connection system and an electric machine with such a receiving unit, as well as a motor vehicle with such a corresponding electric machine, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Torsten Franke
  • Patent number: 8305435
    Abstract: The present invention achieves the process of easily registering a template which is prepared for a size change in pattern matching for specifying a measurement point, and high-speed pattern matching by which adequate position accuracy can be obtained in measurement. The present invention includes means for automatically calculating the size and position of a positioning template different from a measurement point itself when the measurement point is designated, to display a template having the calculated size and position. The present invention further includes means for performing pattern matching by using all or some of a plurality of divided templates and extracting templates having a similar positional relationship to the original positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Sato, Mitsuji Ikeda, Fumihiro Sasajima
  • Patent number: 8302444
    Abstract: According to the invention, folding a sheet edge at high folding speed with no faults may be achieved, wherein a conically contoured folding roller is used with an inclined attitude to the direction of movement thereof, firstly engaging the edge of the sheet for folding with the front region of the largest diameter thereof and then continuously folding the edge of the sheet until contact is made with the limiting part of the sheet component continuously over the conical region until the region of the smallest diameter thereof is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Hermann
  • Patent number: 8302275
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an iron core comprising: a plate thickness measurement unit for measuring a thickness of the strip as an intermediate product of the iron core; an inlet guide for positioning the strip in a widthwise direction thereof; a mil roll unit for performing a rolling-bending process to the strip fed out of the inlet guide; a restraint jig for shaping the strip fed out of the mil unit and holding a curvature thereof constant; and a curvature measurement unit for measuring a curvature of the strip to which the rolling-bending process has been performed by using said mill roll. Position control of the inlet guide, the pressure roll unit, and the restraint jig is performed based on at least one of the plate thickness and the curvature of the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Koshizaka, Toshiaki Ueda, Yuichi Kirihara, Keiji Kawahara, Susumu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8302660
    Abstract: A feed block unit for a hot-runner feed system of a pressure die-casting machine includes a block body in which is incorporated at least one melt-conveying channel running out of the block body by way of a sprue orifice close to the gate, and a heating system, integrated into the block body, for the at least one melt-conveying channel. The feed block unit is designed as a structural unit which is insertable independently into a respective casting mold, and/or the heating system integrated therein includes at least a first heating device for supply channel heating and a second heating device, which can be controlled independently of the first heating device, for sprue channel heating. With this modular hot-runner feed system, individual temperature profiles can be predetermined and set for the respective feed block unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Oskar Frech GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Erhard, Dietmar Gerwig, Herbert Trebes
  • Patent number: 8302476
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an angular velocity measuring device including: first and second oscillators elastically supported on a substrate; an elastic connecting beam elastically connecting the first and the second oscillator; and an oscillating means for oscillating the first and the second oscillator for differential oscillation, wherein a viscous force generating means for suppressing in-phase oscillation of the first and the second oscillator is incorporated into the elastic connecting beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsumoto, Yasushi Okada, Hisao Sonobe
  • Patent number: 8305869
    Abstract: Bandwidth is secured for a read signal transmission line by matching the characteristic impedance of the read signal transmission line with the output impedance of a photodetector of an optical pick up, while at the same time securing bandwidth for the photodetector. In an optical disc drive according to an embodiment of the present invention, each line forming a differential transmission line is divided into a plurality of lines of the same quantity, the quantity being two or more, at or near a connection point between a flexible line and the optical pick up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc., Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kitayama, Toshimitsu Kaku, Hajime Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8303192
    Abstract: A resin snap cage 4 comprises a resin-made circular main part 10, a plurality of pockets 11 provided in one axial end face of the circular main part 10, and a circular reinforcing member 12 installed concentrically at the other end face in an axial direction of the circular main part 10. While this reinforcing member 12 is circular along the circular main part 10, a sectional shape in a plane parallel to an axial direction is a rectangle. The reinforcing member 12 is embedded in a recessed portion formed at the other end face in an axial direction of the circular main part 10 to be integrated, an outside diameter surface 12a, an inside diameter surface 12b, and a pocket-side surface 12c of the reinforcing member 12 are covered with the circular main part 10, and a surface 12d thereof opposite to the pocket side is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Takiyoshi Yamada, Takahiko Uchiyama, Kenichi Iso, Junji Ono, Masahiro Harunaga, Kinji Yukawa, Makoto Yasuda, Jianjun Zhan, Nariaki Aihara
  • Patent number: 8302756
    Abstract: A clutch actuation device, particularly for a manual transmission of a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, includes a clutch actuation setting device that can be placed in various settings, based on which a corresponding actuation of the clutch takes place. The clutch actuation setting device is suitable for generating electrical signals as a function of the setting, based on which the clutch is correspondingly actuated. A method controls/regulates such a clutch actuation device, particularly for a manual transmission of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Doerr
  • Patent number: 8305269
    Abstract: A radio signal-based positioning device includes a receiver that receives a plurality of radio-transmitted positioning signals, a frequency determiner that determines a frequency of each of the plurality of positioning signals, a send time determiner that determines a send time of each of the plurality of positioning signals, and an evaluation unit that determines a position location from the determined frequencies and send times of the plurality of positioning signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Astrium GmbH
    Inventors: Jan M. W. Krueger, Hans L. Trautenberg
  • Patent number: 8305019
    Abstract: When output voltage V1 of an electric power converter reaches a prescribed voltage V1*ref, a difference between V1 and V1*ref is integrated to correct a commanded torque to ?o* (?*=?o*+??).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tobari, Shigehisa Aoyagi, Kentaro Oi
  • Patent number: 8302517
    Abstract: To increase the cutting quality and to improve the operation of a press, in particular in punching high-strength martensitic materials or when punching thick sheet metal, a sheet metal holding device is provided for securely clamping the respective workpiece during the punching operation. The clamping force is increased to 40% or more of the ram force. The force exerted by the sheet metal holding device during the penetration of the workpiece can be further increased. The increase in the clamping force preferably takes place in a controlled manner as a function of the press angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Schuler Pressen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Juergen Fahrenbach
  • Patent number: 8305568
    Abstract: Light from a light source becomes two illumination beams by a beam splitter. The beams are irradiated onto a semiconductor wafer from two mutually substantially orthogonal azimuthal angles having substantially equal elevation angles to form illumination spots. When the sum of scattered, diffracted, and reflected lights due to the illumination beams is detected, influence of the anisotropy which a contaminant particle and a defect existing in the wafer itself or thereon have with respect to an illumination direction, can be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsui, Masayuki Hachiya
  • Patent number: 8305238
    Abstract: A man-machine interface for assisting a pilot during takeoff or landing of an airborne vehicle in reduced external visibility includes a display which represents a virtual scenario from the perspective of a virtual observer who is himself located behind the airborne vehicle and is in the same flight attitude as the airborne vehicle itself. The virtual scenario includes a base plane which symbolizes an idealized ground surface, calculated from the instantaneous value of the altitude above ground and the instantaneous flight attitude data of the aircraft. The base plane is bounded by an artificial horizon and is continuously updated with the instantaneous flying state data and the instantaneous height above ground. The virtual scenario also includes a symbol which represents the airborne vehicle, and the position of the symbol relative to the base plane represents the current flight attitude and the instantaneous height of the airborne vehicle above ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Wegner, Thomas Muensterer, Patrick Kramper, Peter Kielhorn
  • Patent number: 8303113
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a progressive spectacle lens and to a corresponding apparatus, a computer program product, a storage medium and to the use of a progressive spectacle lens. The invention also relates to a method for producing a progressive spectacle lens for correcting defective vision of a spectacle wearer, comprising the following steps: the vertical and/or the horizontal spatial position of a distance reference point and/or a near reference point is specified or determined in accordance with individual data of the spectacle wearer; the spectacle lens is optimized or calculated such that the required dioptric effect of the spectacle lens is obtained in the individually determined distance reference point and/or the near reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Rodenstock GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Esser, Helmut Altheimer, Wolfgang Becken, Robert Bichler, Anne Seidemann, Martin Zimmerman, Werner Mueller, Jochen Brosig, Dietmar Uttenweiler
  • Patent number: 8305119
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit includes a first divider, a loop unit that has a second divider and generates an output clock which is in phase synchronization with a reference clock of the first divider and has a frequency that is F times the reference clock, a clock switching unit that selects one input clock among a plurality of input clocks and supplies the selected input clock to the first divider, and a timing control unit. The timing control unit switches the clock selection command in accordance with switching of clock selection information, switches at least one of a setting of the number R of the input clocks and a setting of the number F of the output clocks, and starts both of a count operation by using the first divider and a count operation by using the second divider after switching of the setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Junya Ura
  • Patent number: 8305496
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scaling process system including a replay apparatus and a video output apparatus which are connected via a HDMI, wherein each of the video output apparatus and the replay apparatus respectively comprises a between-pixel interpolation method table, wherein the video output apparatus including a request signal transmission device to transmit a request signal, a between-pixel interpolation method information receiving device to receive the between-pixel interpolation method information, a determining device to determine which of between-pixel interpolation method information of the replay apparatus or between-pixel interpolation method information of the video output apparatus is more high-performance, a deciding device to decide an apparatus to be used for the scaling process, and a control device to control the apparatus which is decided by the deciding device so as to carry out the scaling process, and wherein the replay apparatus including a request signal receiving device to receive the reque
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiji Wanaka
  • Patent number: D670202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Juliane Blasi
  • Patent number: D670203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christopher Weil
  • Patent number: D670213
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Steffen Koehl, Minchul Koo, Toru Nakano, Frank Pfisterer, Il Hun Yoon