Patents Represented by Attorney Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8247270
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor component of the present invention has: obtaining a semiconductor wafer having stud electrodes formed on a functional surface thereof, and a circuit board having solder bumps on one surface and having electrode pads on the other surface thereof; bonding the semiconductor wafer and the circuit board, while providing a resin layer having a flux activity between the semiconductor wafer and the circuit board, and so as to bring the stud electrodes into contact with the solder bumps, while penetrating the resin layer having a flux activity, to thereby obtain a bonded structure; applying a solder material onto the electrode pads of the bonded structure; and dicing the bonded structure to obtain a plurality of semiconductor components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nikaido, Mitsuo Sugino
  • Patent number: 8249783
    Abstract: A vehicle automatic transmission includes a plurality of gears provided on an input shaft, a countershaft, and an output shaft and are meshed with one another. A plurality of hydraulic clutches are each configured to couple any of the gears to the input shaft, the countershaft, or the output shaft to establish a predetermined shift stage. An engagement unit is configured to couple a reverse gear to the input shaft or the countershaft to establish a reverse shift stage. A shift-position detection unit is configured to detect a shift position. A vehicle-speed detection unit is configured to detect a vehicle speed. A control unit is configured to detect, based on an output of the shift-position detection unit, a first time and a second time. The control unit is configured to delay a timing when the engagement unit operates after the shift position changes to an R-position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishikawa, Joko Karasawa, Makoto Kobayashi, Yuji Koga
  • Patent number: 8247481
    Abstract: A photosensitive insulating resin composition includes a block copolymer, a crosslinking agent, a photosensitive compound, and a solvent. The block copolymer includes a first structural unit shown by a following formula (1) and a second structural unit shown by a following formula (2), wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Shigehito Asano, Hirofumi Goto, Takayoshi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8244288
    Abstract: A method for communicating data between devices, comprising the steps of: receiving data at a first user device; the first user device automatically selecting, in dependence on the nature of an activity being made available to a user by the first user device, a way of integrating the data with a functionality of the first user device; and integrating the transmitted data with the functionality in the selected way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Jan Chipchase
  • Patent number: 8240445
    Abstract: A multiplate clutch includes at least one driving friction plate configured to be rotated by a driving portion, at least one driven friction plate provided to face the at least one driving friction plate and configured to rotate the driven portion, a pressure applying unit configured to apply a pressing force to the at least one driving friction plate and the at least one driven friction plate to transmit the driving force from the driving portion to the driven portion via the at least one driving friction plate and the at least one driven friction plate, a first cam unit including first concave-convex cams and configured to increase the pressing force in accordance with an increase of the driving force, and a second cam unit configured to function as a back torque limiter mechanism and including second concave-convex cams which are different from the first concave-convex cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Gokan, Yoshinobu Shiomi
  • Patent number: 8241804
    Abstract: A method includes determining, if an instruction to stop a operation of a fuel cell is detected, whether an in-stop-mode power generating process has been executed, a fuel gas being to be stopped and an oxide gas being to be supplied to the fuel cell to generate power from the oxide-gas supply apparatus in the in-stop-mode power generating process, and shortening a time for a diluting process to be executed by a scavenging apparatus when it is determined that the in-stop-mode power generating process has been executed, as compared with a case where it is determined that the in-stop-mode power generating process has not been executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Matsumoto, Koichiro Miyata
  • Patent number: 8243482
    Abstract: A control device for a matrix converter includes an input voltage detector, an output current detector, a pulse width modulator, and an input voltage command calculator. The input voltage detector is configured to detect an input voltage of the matrix converter. The output current detector is configured to detect an output current of the matrix converter. The pulse width modulator is configured to generate a PWM pulse command signal by using the input voltage, the output current, and an output line voltage command. The input voltage command calculator is configured to calculate an input voltage command of the matrix converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Yozo Ueda, Ryuji Suenaga, Eiji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8243447
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a casing and an inverter unit housed in the casing. The inverter unit includes a unit case, a capacitor block removably provided at a position on an inner side of a detachable side plate of the unit case, and a fan block placed in the unit case in such a manner as to be removable from a front side. The capacitor block includes a capacitor case having a plurality of capacitor insertion holes, a plurality of electrolytic capacitors placed in the capacitor insertion holes, respectively, and a laminated bus bar connected to the electrolytic capacitors. The fan block includes a fan case and a cooling fan provided in the fan case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fujiki, Sumiaki Nagano, Tomohiro Shigeno
  • Patent number: 8243251
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the provision of a liquid crystal Fresnel lens that achieves high focusing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8242653
    Abstract: A rotor surface has magnetic salient poles and island-shaped magnetic poles alternately in circumferential direction, and the island-shaped magnetic pole is constituted so that a magnetic flux coming from an external source does not flow through. A magnetic excitation part magnetizes the island-shaped magnetic poles and the magnetic salient poles collectively in the same direction, and then control a flux amount flowing through an armature. The armature has armature coils that face the magnetic salient pole and the island-shaped magnetic pole simultaneously so that driving torque fluctuation or power generation voltage waveform distortion is controlled. The magnetic excitation part changes magnetization state of a field magnet irreversibly, or changes an excitation current to an excitation coil to control a flux flowing through the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kura Laboratory Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Ichiyama
  • Patent number: 8237559
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sending environmental data by means of a mobile terminal device, comprising the steps of detecting said environmental data, evaluating said environmental data, determining if said evaluated environmental data is to be sent, and sending said environmental data in case of an affirmative determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Theimer, Thomas Schetelig
  • Patent number: 8238693
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for tying items of information to features in an area associated with a captured media object. An information provider may associate physical coordinates and temporal information with an item of information. When a media object is captured, metadata indicating the location and direction from which, and the time at which, the media object was captured, and/or, in the instance where the media object is an image, a focal and zoom setting of the device that captured the image, may be generated and stored with the media object. When the media object is viewed, this information, as well as other metadata associated with the capturing and/or reproducing of the media object, as well as the media object itself, may be used to estimate the area corresponding to the media object and to determine item(s) of information corresponding with features in the estimated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jukka K. Nurminen, Olli Karonen
  • Patent number: 8234858
    Abstract: A particulate matter concentration measuring apparatus configured to measure a particulate matter concentration in exhaust gas includes an exhaust gas extraction line that is branched from an exhaust line and has a flow passage cross-sectional area smaller than that of the exhaust line, a particulate matter detection filter provided in the exhaust gas extraction line and configured to catch particulate matter, a heating unit configured to heat the caught particulate matter, and a differential pressure detection unit configured to detect a differential pressure generated between an inlet and an outlet of the particulate matter detection filter. The heating unit is configured to apply about 50% or more of a calorific value for heating the particulate matter to an area making up about 30% of the particulate matter detection filter on an upstream side of an exhaust gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos, Fumishige Miyata, Takafumi Kasuga, Kazuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8235855
    Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes linear solenoid valves each configured to control a line pressure in accordance with an electromagnetic force of a solenoid. The linear solenoid valves each include a spool and are controlled under a normal hydraulic control mode or a current consumption decrease mode. The spool is actuated in accordance with the electromagnetic force. An output fluid pressure is controlled to be a maximum output fluid pressure from a minimum output fluid pressure with the spool at a balanced position under the normal hydraulic control mode. A current consumption for generating the electromagnetic force is decreased to make the fluid pressure equal to or lower than the minimum output fluid pressure under the normal hydraulic control mode and to hold the fluid pressure within a range corresponding to the balanced position under the current consumption decrease mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Deishi, Shunji Kamo, Shinya Abe
  • Patent number: 8238215
    Abstract: A recording medium includes: at least one recording layer on which information is recorded by multi-photon absorption; and a servo layer disposed in a laminated direction with respect to the recording layer and having a track for guiding a beam spot of laser light having a first wavelength and a beam spot of laser light having a second wavelength along a scanning trajectory, wherein the servo layer and the at least one recording layer constitute a set of layers, and a plurality of sets of layers is formed in the laminated direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Nakatani, Kenji Nagatomi, Yoshiyuki Matsumura, Seiichiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8238221
    Abstract: An optical pickup device includes: a first light source for emitting recording laser light; a second light source for emitting reproducing laser light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the recording laser light; an objective lens for converging the recording laser light and the reproducing laser light. A quarter wavelength plate is disposed between the first light source and the second light source, and the objective lens. A wavelength-selective polarized beam splitter is disposed between the quarter wavelength plate, and the first light source and the second light source. The reproducing laser light alone out of the recording laser light and the reproducing laser light reflected on recording medium is guided to a photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Nakatani, Kenji Nagatomi, Yoshiyuki Matsumura, Seiichiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8236608
    Abstract: The semiconductor device package structure includes a first die with a through silicon via (TSV) open from back side of the first die to expose bonding pads; a build up layer coupled between the bonding pads to terminal metal pads by the through silicon via (TSV); a substrate with a second die embedded inside and top circuit wiring and bottom circuit wiring on top and bottom side of the substrate respectively; and a conductive through hole structure coupled between the terminal metal pads to the top circuit wiring and the bottom circuit wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: King Dragon International Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Kun Yang
  • Patent number: 8230782
    Abstract: A stamp die assembly for a self-inking stamping device has a die bracket and a replaceable stamp die. The replaceable stamp die is mounted detachably on the die bracket via the engagement between the median tab of the replaceable stamp die and the transverse recess of the die bracket, and via the engagement between the side strips of the replaceable stamp die and the keyed recesses of the die bracket. The die bracket has two elongated keyed protrusions parallel with each other and near two side edges. The replaceable stamp die has two guiding channels engaging with the keyed protrusions. Therefore, the related position of the die bracket and the replaceable stamp die is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Warm Sun Enterprises Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsu-Shen Shih
  • Patent number: 8231117
    Abstract: The present invention provides a robot system in which a robot and a positioner are combined with each other. In the robot system, footprint is reduced and a production line having a short tact time between steps is formed. The robot system includes a work object, robots that perform a work operation on the work object, and positioners that position the work object, wherein the robots are provided on frame members of the positioners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Seigo Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Shiraki, Hiroyasu Hirota, Tomohiro Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8233881
    Abstract: In a portable communications device, information provided by an identification means is used to establish communication between communication means and a second device, such as a point of sale machine, to ensure that the correct portable communications device is connected to the second device where there may be a large number of second devices and a large number of portable communications devices in close proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Matti Kantola, Jukka Parkkinen