Patents Represented by Attorney Dickinson Wright PLLC
  • Patent number: 8289924
    Abstract: A technique is disclosed, according to which it is possible to efficiently use network resources, to reduce the burden on a control device, and to control the communication between radio terminals by the control device when a transmitting side radio terminal and a receiving side radio terminal are connected to the same radio relay device. According to this technique, when a transmitting side UE1 and a receiving side UE2 are connected to the same E-Node B 103, the transmitting side UE1 divides a transmission packet addressed to UE2 into a first packet to be transmitted via a route not passing through ACGW 105 and a second packet to be transmitted via a route passing through ACGW 105, and the packets are transmitted to E-Node B 103. E-Node B 103 transmits the first packet to UE2 and also transmits the second packet to ACGW 105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Morimoto, Takashi Aramaki, Hiroyuki Ehara
  • Patent number: 8286321
    Abstract: A wiper arm assembly and method of construction thereof includes a mounting head and a wiper arm configured for relative rotation during assembly from a disassembled position to a shipping position, wherein the wiper arm and mounting head are locked against rotation toward the disassembled position once in the shipping position. The mounting head and wiper arm have locking surfaces configured for locked engagement with one another while in the shipping position. The locking surfaces are brought into engagement with one another by a force imparted by a spring while rotating the mounting head relative to the wiper arm from the disassembled position toward the shipping position. When in the shipping position, the locking surfaces confront each other and prevent the mounting head and the wiper arm from rotating back toward the disassembled position from the shipping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan J. Stahlhut
  • Patent number: 8289117
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a device for energy storage and transformation that allows an increased level of energy storable in an ignition coil, using a coil that has a permanent magnet inside of a primary magnetic core, with a second magnetic core that closes the magnetic path of the primary magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Massimo Augusto Dal Re, Giuseppe Fulchini, Paolo Pignatti
  • Patent number: 8286763
    Abstract: A magnetorheological (MR) fluid-based device including an MR piston assembly. The MR piston assembly includes a ferromagnetic MR piston core and an electric coil. The MR piston core has a central longitudinal axis and has an outer circumferential surface substantially coaxially aligned with the central longitudinal axis. The electric coil is positioned in the MR piston core and is substantially coaxially aligned with the central longitudinal axis. A portion, or at least a portion, of the electric coil is buried in the MR piston core under the outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: BWI Company Limited S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Wolfgang Nehl, Alexander A. Alexandridis, Robert T. Foister, William C. Kruckemeyer, Fang Deng
  • Patent number: 8287946
    Abstract: Conventional techniques for forming ultraviolet- or infrared-screening coating films have the problem of requiring several recoating steps in order to attain a desired coating weight and therefore failing in forming high-strength coating films and the problem of causing uneven coating, mottling, spotting, blushing, partial breakage, or cracking in some working atmospheres. In order to solve the problems, a coating fluid comprising at least an ultraviolet-screening agent and/or an infrared-screening agent, a binder and a polyhydric alcohol base solvent and having a polyhydric alcohol content of 50 to 95 wt % is applied to a substrate with a coater whose ejection nozzle has a tip diameter of 0.5 to 3.0 mm and which is equipped with a blower for forming an air curtain at an ejection pressure of the nozzle of 0.01 to 0.098 MPa and then dried to form a film containing an ultraviolet-screening agent and/or an infrared-screening agent on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Fumin Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuo Yagisawa
  • Patent number: 8283563
    Abstract: A hybrid yarn filament and sleeve constructed therefrom for protecting elongate members against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD is provided, along with methods of constructing the hybrid yarn filament and sleeves. The hybrid yarn filament has a nonconductive filament and at least one conductive wire filament overlying an outer surface of the nonconductive filament. The hybrid yarn filament is arranged in electrical communication with itself or other hybrid yarn filaments during construction of the sleeve to provide uniform shielding against EMI, RFI, and and/or ESD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Inc.
    Inventors: David Harris, Michael Piotrowski, Cassie M. Malloy, Ming-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 8282150
    Abstract: A fold flat seat and more specifically a cable control system for engaging and disengaging various actuators and latches to allow a vehicle seat to move between an upright position and various stowed or folded positions, as well as a method for stowing a vehicle seat with a single motion by the operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Michael B. Clor, Dan Neaga, Aleksandar Malusev, M. Omer Dagcioglu
  • Patent number: 8281475
    Abstract: The invention provides a sheet metal joint and a method for forming a sheet metal joint. The sheet metal joint includes first and second metal sheets disposed in parallel relation to one another. Each of the first and second metal sheets has a plurality of perforations with a tang extending from each perforation. The tangs of the second sheet and the tangs of the second metal sheet are curled together in opposite rotational directions. The tangs of the first metal sheet space the first and second metal sheets from one another and the tangs of the second metal sheet substantially fixedly engage the first and second metal sheets with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventors: John L. Cabanski, Thomas O. Zurfluh
  • Patent number: 8286050
    Abstract: A decoding device allowing a high-speed decoding operation. In a decoding section (215), if a degree of a check equation by a check matrix is D and the relationship between the check equation of the j+first row of the check matrix and the check equation of the jth row is shifted by n-bit, row processing operation sections (405#1 to 405#3) and column processing operation sections (410#1 to 410#3) perform the operation of a protograph in which the columns of the check matrix are delimited for each “(D+1)×N (N: natural number),” and the rows of the check matrix are delimited for each “(D+1)×N/n,” and formed as the processing unit of the row processing operation and column processing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yukata Murakami, Shutai Okamura, Masayuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 8284493
    Abstract: There is provided a projection lens unit for a pico-projector which comprises a lens array, a color composition prism, a cover glass and an image panel, the projection lens unit characterized in that: the lens array includes 1st to 6th lenses sequentially arrayed from a screen on which an image is projected, the 1st lens includes a stop side formed on a 1st side of the 1st lens, the stop side stops the passage of light, to perform the function of a diaphragm aperture, light passing from the 1st lens to the 6th lens travels in only one direction of the lens sides based on the diaphragm aperture, and parts of the lens sides through which the light does not pass are cut so that the whole height of the lens array is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sekonix Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Joong Lee, Young-Hun Lee, Sung-Hoon Hwang, Seung-Ki Hong
  • Patent number: 8284866
    Abstract: A MIMO-OFDM transmission and reception apparatus is provided which allows high accuracy estimation of frequency offset, high accuracy estimation of a transmission path fluctuation and high accuracy synchronization/signal detection. A mapping section generates a plurality of OFDM signals. In these OFDM signals, some pilot carriers are assigned to the same carrier position and orthogonal sequences are assigned to the same time slot in the same carrier position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Masayuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 8277865
    Abstract: A snack chip comprising from about 15% to about 60% of vegetable material; from about 40% to about 65% of starch material made from materials selected from the group consisting of tapioca, rice and mixtures thereof; from about 0.1% to about 3.0% water; and from about 1% to about 20% of optional ingredients. At least about 40% of the starch material is pre-gelatinized. The snack chip can be made by combining the vegetable material and dry ingredients with water to form a dough which is then sheeted, dried without the use of a heated extruder to form a half product, which is cooked to form the snack chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Ralph Bunke, Athula Ekanayake, Priscilla G Hammond, Robert Lawrence Prosise, Peter Yen-Chih Lin, Sharon Lee Schnur
  • Patent number: 8279953
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and a wireless communication method for suppressing interference between codes, while further reducing the ratio of redundant components occupying a signal to improve the transmission efficiency. The transmitting apparatus (100) transmits a signal having a frame structure in which a plurality of symbols follow a pilot symbol to which a guard interval has been added. In the receiving apparatus (200) that receives that signal, a long FFT target section acquiring part (202) acquires, from the received OFDM signal, a long FFT target section that is a target section in which delay waves are to be removed by use of a pilot symbol. A long FFT part (203) performs a fast Fourier transformation of the long FFT target section to convert it to a frequency domain signal. A frequency equalizing part (204) performs a frequency equalization of the long FFT target section by use of an interpolation result of communication line estimation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Uesugi, Eiji Ota, Atsushi Sumasu, Keisuke Ebiko
  • Patent number: 8276239
    Abstract: A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade (2) of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade (2) includes opposing longitudinal grooves (3) on its longitudinal sides, in which grooves spaced-apart longitudinal strips (4) of the carrier element are disposed, wherein neighbouring ends (5) of said longitudinal strips (4) are interconnected by a respective connecting piece (6), which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device (7) for an oscillating arm (8), as well as a spoiler (11) detachably connected to the wiper blade (2), with the special feature that said spoiler (11) comprises a less-flexible profile (13) which is slidably mounted on a mounting portion of the wiper blade (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul S.A.
    Inventors: Xavier Boland, Pierre Henin
  • Patent number: 8280562
    Abstract: A method and device automatically controls the driving of an aircraft along a ground path of an airport domain. A guidance system is configured to determine, with the aid of at least one current value of the aircraft and a ground rolling trajectory, a yaw rate setpoint enabling the aircraft to follow the ground rolling trajectory by application of a yaw rate command. The guidance system, with the aid of measured current values of parameters of the aircraft, the determined ground rolling trajectory and a speed profile that incorporates a variation of the longitudinal speed along the ground trajectory, a longitudinal speed setpoint that represents a longitudinal speed command to drive the aircraft along the ground trajectory, while complying with the speed profile. A piloting aid system calculates setpoints from the yaw rate command and applies the setpoints to control yaw motion of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Fabrice Villaume, Pierre Scacchi
  • Patent number: 8276843
    Abstract: A rear landing gear for an aircraft includes a strut configured to have a variable height at a lowered position. The strut is variable between a maximum height at which the aircraft has a substantially horizontal trim and a minimum height at which the aircraft has a nose-up trim, and includes a barrel and a shock absorber. The shock absorber bears a set of wheels and is slidably mounted in a passage of the barrel, the passage defining a variable-volume internal fluidic chamber. A source of fluidic power connects to the variable-volume internal chamber via a controllable shut-off member and is configured to fill or empty the variable-volume internal chamber with fluid, varying the height of the strut between the maximum height and the minimum height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus
    Inventor: Richard Wilby
  • Patent number: 8279994
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tokamak reactor. The reactor includes a first toroidal chamber, current carrying conductors, at least one divertor plate within the first toroidal chamber and a second chamber adjacent to the first toroidal chamber surrounded by a section that insulates the reactor from neutrons. The current carrying conductors are configured to confine a core plasma within enclosed walls of the first toroidal chamber such that the core plasma has an elongation of 1.5 to 4 and produce within the first toroidal chamber at least one stagnation point at a perpendicular distance from an equatorial plane through the core plasma that is greater than the plasma minor radius. The at least one divertor plate and current carrying conductors are configured relative to one another such that the current carrying conductors expand the open magnetic field lines at the divertor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Michael T. Kotschenreuther, Swadesh M. Mahajan, Prashant M. Valanju
  • Patent number: 8276347
    Abstract: A transportable container for flowable bulk goods is formed by disposing an outer wrap around a bottom support and a portion of a vertically spaced slip frame former. One of the slip frame former and the bottom support moves vertically relative to other in response to the fill level of the bulk goods. As bulk goods are added to the transportable container, the position of the slip frame former is radially adjusted to modify the shape of the transportable container. As the fill level increases in the transportable container, previously disposed portions of outer wrap are disengaged from the slip frame former to squeeze the filled portions of the transportable container. Additional portions of outer wrap are disposed around a portion of the slip frame former to maintain the transportable container for receiving bulk goods as the previously disposed portions of outer wrap are disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Kellogg Company
    Inventors: Dave Ours, Sharon Juntunen
  • Patent number: 8279807
    Abstract: A technology is disclosed with which a mobile terminal moving in a PMIP domain receives various types of prefixes and selects a type of an address to be configured, and route optimization is performed without adding a signaling load on the PMIP domain. According to the technique, when connecting with a home domain, a MN (310) requests a plurality of prefixes. When a MAG (320) makes an AAA server (340) authorize the MN and receives a notification instruction of the plurality of prefixes from the AAA server, the MAG 320 makes a notification of the plurality of prefixes with a RA message (364), for example. The MN configures a plurality of addresses (for example, a PMIP address including a PMIP domain prefix or a global address including an on-link prefix) from the plurality of prefixes received and notifies the MAG of the same. The MAG registers a plurality of bindings relating to the plurality of addresses with a LMA (330).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Hirano, Mohana Dhamayanthi Jeyatharan, Chan Wah Ng, Pek Yew Tan
  • Patent number: 8277576
    Abstract: A steel material composition, in particular for producing piston rings and cylinder sleeves, contains the following elements in the cited fractions relative to 100% by weight of the steel material: 0.5-1.2% by weight C, 0-3.0% by weight Cr, 72.0-94.5% by weight Fe, 3.0-15.0% by weight Mn and 2.0-10.0% by weight Si. It can be produced by melting the starting materials and casting the melt into a pre-fabricated mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH
    Inventor: Laszlo Pelsoeczy