Patents Represented by Attorney Drinker, Biddle & Reath

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  • Digital photographing apparatus having two display panels, and method of controlling the same
    Patent number: 7526195
    Abstract: A digital photographing apparatus includes: a first display panel; and a second display panel which performs a first motion that moves the second display panel between a first position, where the second display panel covers the first display panel, and a second position, where the first display panel is exposed, and performs a second motion in a generally perpendicular direction to the first motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-min Oh
  • Sewing machine
    Patent number: 7523712
    Abstract: A sewing machine includes a looper formed with a thread hole, a looper shaft holding the looper, and a thread pipe fixed to the looper shaft. The thread pipe includes a thread inserting port at one end and a thread discharging port at the other end. The sewing machine further includes a nozzle from which air is sprayed toward the thread inserting port, a switching mechanism operable to disconnect the looper from the looper shaft when the looper is at a front position, and a moving member which moves the looper to a rear position when the looper is disconnected from the looper shaft by the switching mechanism. When the looper is disconnected from the looper shaft and is moved to the rear position, the thread discharging port matches the thread hole, and the thread inserting port becomes close to the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Juki Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuya Sadasue
  • System and method for minimizing the charge time of a battery
    Patent number: 7525279
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for charging a battery in the least possible time in the presence of competing energy demands. A single source of energy is used to charge a battery and also to provide energy to one or more devices. Circuitry insures that the maximum possible amount of energy is being delivered to the battery at all times, consistent with the energy demands of the other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas B. Breen
  • X-ray tube
    Patent number: 7526069
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an X-ray tube capable of efficiently extracting X-rays of low energy and provided with a structure having excellent durability. The X-ray tube is provided with a silicon foil having a thickness of 3 ?m or more but 30 ?m or less as a part of a vessel body. The silicon foil is directly or indirectly affixed on the closed vessel in a state that the silicon foil covers the opening provided in the closed vessel, and functions as a transmission window of the closed vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Matsumura, Tomoyuki Okada, Tooru Yamamoto, Hidetsugu Takaoka, Tetsuro Endo
  • Gas membrane sampling device and gas sensor device for geological investigations
    Patent number: 7523680
    Abstract: A gas membrane sampling device, particularly for geological investigations, comprises a membrane element including a liquid-tight, gas-permeable membrane, a filler material contained in and stabilizing the membrane element, and a connection cable being adapted for conducting gas out of the membrane element through a bore hole to a surface of the earth's. A gas sensor device for geological investigations, comprises the gas membrane sampling device and an analyzing device connected with the connection cable of the gas membrane sampling device. Furthermore, a method for the investigation of a geological formation is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum-GFZ
    Inventors: Martin Zimmer, J{hacek over (o)}rg Erzinger
  • Electronic group signature method with revocable anonymity, equipment and programs for implementing the method
    Patent number: 7526651
    Abstract: A ring-signature scheme is adapted so that at least one of the variability parameter values used is an identity trace of the anonymous signatory, determined as a function of anonymity withdrawal data stored and held secret by an anonymity withdrawal entity in connection with an identification of the anonymous signatory. This provides a subsequent controlled capacity of withdrawing the anonymity of the signatory, either by an authority, or by the signatory himself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: David Arditti Modiano, Laurent Frisch, Dimitri Mouton
  • Information recording medium having first and second synchronization signals recorded thereon, and information reproducing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 7522503
    Abstract: On an optical disc, a record mark having a variable length according to pit data DP is formed at a displaced position to which the record mark is displaced, in a direction crossing the reading direction thereof, according to a wobble signal WB obtained by modulating wobble data DW in a predetermined modulating method. A second wobble synchronization signal D-SYNCw, as a dummy, is recorded on the optical disc, away from the start position of the wobble data DW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Kuroda, Toshio Suzuki
  • Milling cutter and cutting insert therefor
    Patent number: 7520700
    Abstract: A milling cutter for sharpening welding electrodes includes a tool body, and a plurality of cutting inserts fastened to the tool body. The inserts include a center cutting insert and at least two peripheral cutting inserts. Each peripheral cutting insert includes at least one cutting edge. The center cutting insert defines: two oppositely facing principle planes, two cutting edges disposed adjacent respective ones of the principle planes, and a concave surface extending between such cutting edges. The center cutting insert can cut (sharpen) the end surfaces of two welding electrodes simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Åke Johansson, Kenneth Lundberg
  • Exhaust inlet metallic foam trap coupled to a downstream monolithic precious metal catalyst
    Patent number: 7521033
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved apparatus and method of minimizing catalyst poisoning from exhaust gas streams containing inorganic deposits and particulate matter. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an upstream metallic foam trap and a downstream monolithic precious metal catalyst, wherein the trap physically blocks inorganic deposits and particulate matter from poisoning the downstream catalyst. The present invention is also directed to a metallic foam trap containing a coat comprising a first metallic thermal arc sprayed layer and optionally a second refractory metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Galligan, Joseph Charles Dettling
  • Semiconductor laser device
    Patent number: 7522643
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor laser apparatus having a metal body which efficiently cools a semiconductor laser element, in which joining of copper-made members coated with DLC layers and prevention of corrosion in the vicinity of joined portions are possible. The semiconductor laser apparatus has a metal body as a heat sink for cooling the semiconductor laser element. The metal body is constituted by a plurality of copper-made members, and the surfaces of each copper-made members are continuously coated with a diamond carbon layer except for regions corresponding to an exposed region in which the semiconductor laser element is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Miyajima, Hirofumi Kan
  • Encrypted table indexes and searching encrypted tables
    Patent number: 7519835
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a variety of methods for building and searching secure, indexed database tables. Sensitive portions of the database tables and database indexes are encrypted, ordered and searched according to Boolean functions arranged to work with encrypted data. Also disclosed is a database management system that allows authorized users to build and search encrypted tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: SafeNet, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Koyfman
  • Method and damping device for damping a torsional vibration in a rotating drivetrain
    Patent number: 7518344
    Abstract: A method and a damping device are proposed for damping a torsional oscillation in a rotating drive train. Arranged on the drive train is an electrical machine (13), which is connected to an electrical multipole (31). A damping torque is generated in the electrical machine (13) by an electrical damping member connected to the electrical machine (13). It is proposed that the damping torque has a predetermined damping frequency and is antiphase to the angular velocity of the torsional oscillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventor: Christof Sihler
  • Immunological test and diagnostic kit for prostate adenocarcinoma
    Patent number: 7517653
    Abstract: This invention concerns a test method for the purposes of diagnosis, prognosis or therapeutic monitoring in male patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate or benign prostatic hyperplasia, which does not require a biopsy of prostate tissue, and which exploits the combination of at least one tissue-specific marker and at least one marker for inflammation in order to arrive at a diagnosis. The invention also concerns a process using such a method, an immunological test to implement such a process, and a diagnostic kit. The invention is applied to the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Biomerieux S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Charrier
  • Denture fixative composition
    Patent number: 7517920
    Abstract: A denture fixative composition containing lower alkyl vinyl ether-maleic anhydride copolymers, water-insoluble and water-swelling polymers, and at least one additional adhesive material which can be used as a denture fixative paste, liquid, powder, aerosol, dissolving tablet, liner or adhesive-like strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Sunstar Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro Sudo
  • Transgenic animal model of bone mass modulation
    Patent number: 7514594
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and materials used to express the HBM protein in animal cells and transgenic animals. The present invention also relates to transgenic animals expressing the high bone mass gene, the corresponding wild-type gene, and mutants thereof. The invention provides nucleic acids, including coding sequences, oligonucleotide primers and probes, proteins, cloning vectors, expression vectors, transformed hosts, methods of developing pharmaceutical compositions, methods of identifying molecules involved in bone development, and methods of diagnosing and treating diseases involved in bone development. In preferred embodiments, the present invention is directed to methods for treating, diagnosing and preventing osteoporosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: G. Roger Askew, Philip Babij, Frederick James Bex, III, Peter Van Nest Bodine
  • Tool and a detachable body for chip removing machining
    Patent number: 7513724
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a basic body having a geometrical center axis, a loose top having a rear male element, and a drawbar having a front part in which a coupling means is included, which by engagement in a coupling means of the male element of the loose top can transfer axial forces. The coupling means form an interface between the loose top and the drawbar. Each coupling means includes two axially separated ridges, a front ridge in the male element is between a front groove and a rear groove, the front groove being shallower than the rear groove such that the bottom thereof is situated at a greater radial distance from the center axis than the bottom of the rear groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Isak Kakai
  • Face milling insert
    Patent number: 7513717
    Abstract: A face milling insert comprising a pair of main cutting edges which are spaced apart from a center and meet at a corner where they transform into a surface wiping secondary edge, which is intersected by a bisector defining the corner between the main cutting edges, inside each main cutting edge a slope surface being formed, which slopes towards a countersunk bottom surface in a chip surface. A shoulder, having a top side situated at a higher level than the bottom surface, extends inwardly from the secondary edge, the slope surface of the main cutting edge that actively co-operates with the secondary edge, terminating at the shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Tord Engström, Magnus Åström
  • Energy ray detecting element
    Patent number: 7514687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy ray detecting element having a structure for reducing noise effectively. The energy ray detecting element comprises an energy ray sensitive region, an output section, a plurality of electrodes, and a voltage dividing circuit. The energy ray sensitive region generates charges in response to the incidence of energy rays. On the surface of the energy ray sensitive region, each of the plurality of electrodes is arranged so as to cover a part of the energy ray sensitive region. Each electrode is electrically connected to the voltage dividing circuit that includes a plurality of voltage dividing resistors serially connected to each other. The voltage dividing circuit divides a DC output voltage from a DC power supply by using the voltage dividing resistors, and thereby providing a corresponding DC output potential to each of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Akahori, Tatsuki Kasuya
  • Method of making submicron cemented carbide
    Patent number: 7514061
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making tungsten carbide powder by dissolving at least one organic or inorganic metal salt or compound of at least one of the groups IV, V, and VI of the periodic system preferably Cr, V, Mo and W in at least one polar solvent. Powder of WO3 is added to the solution, the solvent is evaporated, the remaining powder is heat treated in reducing atmosphere, mixed with carbon and carburized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Rickard Sandberg, Mathias Tillman, Mats Waldenström
  • Digital timer
    Patent number: D591181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Inventor: Maurice S. Kanbar