Patents Represented by Law Firm Darby and Darby
  • Patent number: 7660303
    Abstract: A method for communication includes coupling a group of switches in a Layer-2 bridged network. The interfaces of the switches are configured so that at least one interface of at least one of the switches is configured as a first interface type, and a plurality of other interfaces are configured as a second interface type. Upon receiving frames through the interfaces of the first and second types for transmission over the network, the received frames are labeled with corresponding first and second type indications. The frames are forwarded through the Layer-2 bridged network using the switches responsively to the type indications. Frames labeled with the second type indication are permitted to be transmitted through the interfaces of the first type and prevented from being transmitted through the interfaces of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Corrigent Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Ronen Solomon, Leon Bruckman, Rafi Ram, David Zelig, Shachar Katz
  • Patent number: 7658244
    Abstract: A device for driving boreholes in the ground, having a rotationally driven main shaft with a shaft journal whose axis (B) forms an acute angle with respect to the axis (A) of the main shaft. A drill head is mounted such that it can rotate about the axis (B) of the shaft journal and has a circumferential region which runs on a complementary circumferential region, wherein the complementary circumferential region can be set rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Wirth Maschinen-und Bohrgerate-Fabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Mohrmann
  • Patent number: 7660234
    Abstract: A network element includes a backplane, which includes a backplane memory holding first medium access control (MAC) address values. The network element further includes multiple tributary modules coupled to the backplane, which include network interfaces that are configured to communicate over network trunks using MAC addresses that are respectively assigned to the network interfaces. The network element further includes a common function module (CFM), which communicates with the tributary modules and the backplane memory via the backplane, and which includes a CFM memory holding second MAC address values. The CFM is arranged to assign the MAC addresses to the network interfaces by selecting the MAC addresses from among the first MAC address values when the CFM is able to access the backplane memory, and by selecting the MAC addresses from among the second MAC address values when the CFM is unable to access the backplane memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Corrigent Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Shmuel Ilan, Leon Bruckman
  • Patent number: 7659312
    Abstract: This invention relates an inhibitory modulator of AQP4 protein regarding its transmembrane water transport properties, wherein the modulator selectively binds to the AQP4 protein, and inhibits AQP4 mediated water transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Niigata University
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nakada, Vincent J. Huber
  • Patent number: 7658290
    Abstract: A substrate storage container includes a container body for accommodating and aligning semiconductor wafers, a door which opens and closes the front of the container body and a pair of valve units disposed at the bottom of the container body for controlling gas flow. Each valve unit includes a fixed sleeve for gas flow, fitted in a rib of a through-hole of the container body, a holding sleeve fitted in the through-hole of the container body with an o-ring interposed therebetween and mated and threaded with the fixed sleeve, a check valve built between the fixed sleeve and the holding sleeve, leaving a clearance, an elastically deformable element for opening and closing the check valve, an interior lid sleeve for gas flow, opposing the check valve and supporting the elastically deformable element, and a filter interposed between the holding sleeve and the interior lid sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumi, Junya Toda, Takayuki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7659778
    Abstract: A class D amplifier is provided. The class D amplifier includes an interpolator, a sampling rate converter, a pulse width modulator, a sigma-delta modulator, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) pulse generator (PPG). The sampling rate converter interpolates the output of the interpolator such that the sampling rate converter up-samples the interpolator output by a factor that is greater than one and less than two. The pulse width modulator outputs a multi-bit digital signal. The sigma-delta modulator performs sigma-delta modulation on the pulse width modulator output, the order of the sigma-delta modulation is programmable, and the output of the sigma-delta modulator is a multi-bit, digital signal. At least one of the orders to which the sigma-delta modulator can be programmed is greater than two. The PPG provides a pulse signal such that the width of each pulse is based on the value of the sigma-delta modulator output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Zoran Corporation
    Inventor: Leonardo Vainsencher
  • Patent number: 7659165
    Abstract: A field effect transistor in which at least one vertically arranged semiconductor column, with a diameter in the nanometer range, is located between a source and a contact and has an annular surround of a gate contact with retention of an insulation gap. A simplified production method is disclosed and the transistor produced thus is embodied such that the semiconductor columns are embedded in a first and a second insulation layer, between which a metal layer, running to the outside as a gate contact, is arranged, the ends of which, extending upwards through the second insulation layer, are partly converted into an insulator, or removed and replaced by an insulation material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Koenenkamp
  • Patent number: 7659131
    Abstract: Because a restricting plate 27 is disposed using a spacer 25, an upper plate 15 is allowed to expand upward when resin is injected, but unnecessary overexpansion is restricted by the restricting plate 27. Therefore the injection of a slightly larger amount of resin 37 does not cause a distortion or breakage of the upper plate 15 and a large amount resin 37 than the predetermined amount may be injected. As a result, damage to the upper plate 15 by the injection of the resin 37 and damage to the upper plate 15, the exfoliation of the radiation sensitive layer, and the like caused by the curing of the resin 37 may be prevented and damage to the flat panel radiation detector 1 may be prevented thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Suzuki, Nobuya Nagafune, Kenji Sato, Toshinori Yoshimuta, Toshiyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 7658944
    Abstract: The invention provides stable, solid dosage forms and pharmaceutical compositions in particulate form comprising a fibrate, for example fenofibrate, dissolved in an non-aqueous vehicle in order to ensure improved bioavailability of the active ingredient upon oral administration relative to known fibrate formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: LifeCycle Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Per Holm, Tomas Norling
  • Patent number: 7654797
    Abstract: A blade for a turbo machine has a blade section and a shroud element terminating the blade section in the blade section longitudinal direction. The blade section has a suction face and a pressure face. The shroud element extends essentially at right angles to the blade section longitudinal direction and has a first platform section projecting beyond the blade section and a second platform section projecting beyond the blade section. The platform sections are asymmetric with respect to one another. At least the first platform section of the shroud element is arranged at an additional inclination angle with respect to a normal alignment of the first platform section, with the additional inclination angle being in the opposite direction to the bending torque which acts on the first platform section during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Andreas Boegli, James Ritchie
  • Patent number: 7657403
    Abstract: A method for reducing digital data of an electro magnetic acoustic transducer pig that travels through a pipeline so as to detect defects by measuring an analog ultrasonic echo includes determining a size of a defect and determining a background noise at the defect. The size of the defect is determined by selecting peak values of the digital data based on a plurality of amplitude/transit time vectors indicating maxima of an ultrasound envelope, each vector being determined by three amplitude/transit time pairs. The ultrasound envelope is generated by determining a width of a respective vector ultrasound envelope for each vector. The background noise at the defect is determined by summing peak values of the digital data in time intervals so as to form an interval-specific summation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Stripf, Matthias Balzer
  • Patent number: 7657895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a real time-capable control system essentially consisting of a software-implemented SPS application that exchanges the output data and input data by means of a field bus connecting module. The SPS application runs on a computer under the control of a non-real time-capable operating system, whereby the full functionality of the non-real-time-capable operating system is maintained. The real time capability makes the field bus connecting module ready for use, and the data are exchanged between the field bus connecting module and the SPS application via the host interface located inside the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Claus Vothknecht, Werner Pollmann
  • Patent number: 7654559
    Abstract: An airbag apparatus equipped with an airbag, a garnish, a hinge, a protector and a bracket fixed to a vehicle body. An upper side of the garnish is supported by the bracket via the hinge. An engaging part protruding from the lower part of a garnish main part is engaged with an engagement receiving part disposed at the protector. Normally, the engaging part is engaged with the engagement receiving part, thereby retaining the shape of the garnish. On expansion of the airbag, the airbag presses the engaging part, by which the engaging part is disengaged from the engagement receiving part, and the garnish is opened smoothly. The airbag can be covered with the garnish, thereby allowing the garnish to move smoothly on expansion of the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hidaka, Takeru Fukuda, Tadashi Inazu, Takashi Honda, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Kenichi Kamio
  • Patent number: 7654769
    Abstract: According to a method for constructing a cover layer S on a planum M by using a paving screed B the elevation of the paving screed B above the planum M is measured using a reference RZ on the planum M by at least one elevation sensors H and/or the lateral inclination of the paving screed B with respect to the planum M is measured by at least one lateral inclination sensor N. Upon occurrence of a deviation from the target elevation pulling points P of pulling bars 6 of the paving screed B are displaced vertically at a road paver F by levelling cylinders Z. Each levelling cylinder Z is exclusively adjusted over an absolute stroke starting from a selected zero point NP. The absolute stroke is calculated from a measuring result of a reference measurement and by consideration of a construction ratio factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Joseph Voegele AG
    Inventor: Jens Herrmann
  • Patent number: 7657398
    Abstract: A method of detecting an error in a measurement cycle. The method includes wirelessly transmitting a sequence of electrical signals sweeping through a predetermined frequency band from a transmitter to the receiver of an electric evaluation circuit of household appliance controller. The levels of the signals are measured, and a parameter is calculated from the signal levels in the evaluation circuit. The parameter is compared to an upper and lower limit, and the quality of the measurement cycle is determined as a function of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Miele & Cie. KG
    Inventor: Dominic Beier
  • Patent number: 7655820
    Abstract: A method for producing a molecular compound which comprises mixing and kneading a solid host compound and a solid or liquid guest compound by using a kneader and optionally followed by extruding and granulating, wherein the method further comprises one or more of the steps of holding the product at a temperature which is 50° C. or higher and not higher than the emission temperature for the guest compound, washing the formed molecular compound with a solvent capable of dissolving the guest compound, pulverizing in advance the solid host compound, and adding a poor solvent such as water prior to mixing and kneading. The method allows the production of a molecular compound having improved stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Amaike, Seiji Sasaoka, Shigeru Kawamuko, Yasuaki Hashimoto, Eiji Takemura
  • Patent number: 7657122
    Abstract: Using image data on a plurality of reduced object images to calculate a shift amount in regard to the gap of relative positions between the reduced object images by a correlation calculation between the reduced object images. A conversion equation is obtained from the shift amount for geometric projection process from the object image to each of the reduced object images. Initial image data on a single object image is generated using image data on the plurality of reduced object images. The above are used to estimate images of each of the reduced object images. A difference between the estimated image of the reduced object images and the reduced object images is projected in the reverse process of the geometric projection process, updating the image data on the single object image. The processes are repeated until the difference satisfies a predetermined condition and a high resolution object image is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Jun Tanida, Kouichi Nitta
  • Patent number: 7654488
    Abstract: A door arrangement for an aircraft that has a fuselage with a fuselage structure includes a door to be arranged inside a door frame of the fuselage structure and a door joint mechanism attached to the door of the door frame and to the fuselage structure. The door joint mechanism has a seven-joint linkage provided with first to seventh joints by means of which the door, guided exclusively in a rotationally articulated manner, is moveable over a predefined pivoting angle range from a closed position inside the door frame to an open position outside of the door frame and fuselage, and back again. In addition, an aircraft, especially a fixed-wing aircraft, encompassing at least one aircraft door arrangement is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Steffen Obst
  • Patent number: D609689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasushi Obata
  • Patent number: D609729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuto Yoshii