Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner
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Patent number: 8327622Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided to desorb predetermined components contained in exhaust gas from an adsorption device for adsorbing the components and to purify the desorbed components, even during the stop of the internal combustion engine. A main exhaust passage and a bypass passage bypassing the main exhaust passage are provided. An exhaust switching valve is capable of switching a flow target into the exhaust gas flows between the main exhaust passage and the bypass passage. An adsorbent for adsorbing the predetermined components is provided in the bypass passage. An underfloor catalyst including a catalyst with a heater is provided at a downstream side of the bypass passage in the main exhaust passage. A pump and a heater are provided in an air supply passage which branches from the bypass passage at an upstream portion of the adsorbent.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keisuke Sano, Takaaki Itou, Kimikazu Yoda, Kazuhiro Wakao
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Patent number: 8332438Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for monitoring a technical object during, for example, a handover and/or takeover of the technical object. In one embodiment, a business partner may receive an XML file for a technical object. The business partner may generate a new structure, to represent the technical object, based on the XML file. The business partner may retrieve a corresponding structure from a backend component. The business partner may preprocess the new structure by performing a consistency check. The consistency check may include comparing the new structure to the corresponding structure. The business partner may store the new structure in a backend component after the preprocessing is complete.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Stephan Bantlin, Alexander Bekhter, Kai Finck, Frank Hoerlin, Janos Kis, Gudrun Leonhard Marquard, Feng Li, Karin Matthai, Marek Poledna, Jens Schoeneberg, Hermann Weinmann
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Patent number: 8329031Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes a first treatment tank forming thereon a first, fixed bed includes a powdery phosphorus adsorbent includes an inorganic layered compound, wherein the first bed separates phosphorus and solid matter from the water, and recovers the phosphorus in a state adsorbed on the phosphorus adsorbent in the first bed, a second treatment tank forming a second, fluidized or fixed bed includes the phosphorus adsorbent, wherein the second bed separates phosphorus from the water received from the first treatment tank, and recovers the phosphorus in a state adsorbed on the phosphorus adsorbent in the second bed, and a transferring line configured to transfer the phosphorus adsorbent, having phosphorus adsorbed thereon in the second treatment tank, from the second treatment tank to the first treatment tank.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinobu Moniwa, Masahiko Tsutsumi, Hidetake Shiire, Nobuyuki Ashikaga, Satomi Ebihara, Katsuya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8331306Abstract: Method and system for setting up a bearer are disclosed. The bearer setup method includes these steps: a packet data network gateway (PGW) obtains first quality of service (QoS) information and a first bearer identifier (ID), and sets up a bearer between the PGW and a radio access network (RAN) according to the first QoS information, where the bearer is associated with the first bearer ID; the RAN sets up a radio bearer (RB) with a user equipment (UE) according to second QoS information associated with the first QoS information, where the RB is associated with a second bearer ID associated with the first bearer ID.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jinyi Zhou, Lan Liu, Xiaolong Guo, Ming Li, Zhe Chen, Qi Yu
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Patent number: 8331770Abstract: A recording apparatus includes first identification means for identifying, in accordance with information read from a disk medium and related to a format of data recorded on the disk medium, the format defined from a purpose of the recorded data and a version of the format; storage means for storing data in which the version and information on whether processing that can be executed is executable are associated; determination means for determining, in accordance with the version and by referring to the data stored in the storage means, whether processing that can be executed is limited; generation means for generating first image data for displaying a first image representing that the processing that can be executed is limited when the determination means determines that the processing that can be executed is limited; and display control means for controlling display of the first image in accordance with the first image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsuhiro Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8331130Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first resistive-change element, a second resistive-change element and a first switching element. The first resistive-change element includes one end having a first polarity connected to a first power source. The first resistive-change element includes another end having a second polarity connected to an output node. The second resistive-change element includes one end having the second polarity connected to the output node. The first switching element includes a first terminal connected to another end of the second resistive-change element. The first switching element includes a second terminal connected to a second power source.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shinichi Yasuda, Keiko Abe, Shinobu Fujita
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Patent number: 8331986Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication system and a communication method for simply and quickly starting communication. A cellular phone is loaded with a non-contact IC card that communicates with a reader/writer of a personal computer using an electromagnetic wave. When the non-contact IC card receives the electromagnetic wave emitted from the reader/writer with the cellular phone placed close to the personal computer, the cellular phone notifies the personal computer of a card ID set in the non-contact IC card. When the personal computer acquires Bluetooth device names of the cellular phone and PDA with intra-piconet synchronization established between the cellular phone and the PDA, the personal computer identifies the cellular phone as a communication partner based on the Bluetooth device names already notified of as the card ID. The present invention is applicable to an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer and a cellular phone.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: SONY CorporationInventors: Takeo Inagaki, Haruo Oba, Taku Sugawara, Junichi Rekimoto, Nobuyuki Matsushita, Yuji Ayatsuka
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Patent number: 8329789Abstract: The present invention relates to a stabilizer composition for halogen-containing polymers comprising titanium dioxide and at least one nitrogen-containing compound, wherein the titanium dioxide has a photo-electromotive force (photo-EMK) in the ?s-range >?15 mV and a photo-electromotive force in the ms-range >+5 mV.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Chemson Polymer-Additive AGInventors: Bernhard Pelzl, Michael Schiller, Cornelia Damm
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Patent number: 8331432Abstract: A transmitting and receiving system includes a transmitting apparatus that delivers a main stream for performing a streaming broadcast and an auxiliary stream generated from the main stream and a receiving apparatus that receives the main stream and the auxiliary stream from the transmitting apparatus. The transmitting apparatus includes a main-stream storing unit, a bit-rate-reducing converting unit, an auxiliary-stream storing unit, and a delivery control unit. The receiving apparatus includes a main-stream-reception control unit, an auxiliary-stream-reception control unit, a data processing unit, and an inter-stream-error storing unit. When tuning operation by a user is received, the main-stream-reception control unit selects, from data of an auxiliary stream of a tuned broadcast, data at such a time that the auxiliary stream is possible to be switched to a main stream without shift of scenes when the auxiliary stream is switched to the main stream later and supplies the data to the data processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Kei Matsubayashi
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Patent number: 8329385Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to one embodiment, includes: forming a first mask material film on a workpiece film formed on a semiconductor substrate; forming a resist pattern on the first mask material film; forming a second mask material film having a desired film thickness on the first mask material film so as to cover the resist pattern; carrying out etchback of the second mask material film so as to expose the resist pattern and the first mask material film; processing the resist pattern and the first mask material film simultaneously which are exposed, while leaving the second mask material film of which etchback is carried out; and processing the workpiece film which exposes under the first mask material film.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Eishi Shiobara, Keisuke Kikutani, Kazuyuki Yahiro, Kentaro Matsunaga, Tomoya Oori
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Patent number: 8327912Abstract: An automatic pouring method without using a servomotor having a vertical output shaft, establishing the pouring at a low level, eliminating the unstable pouring, sand inclusion, and gaseous defects. An automatic pouring method using a ladle to be tilted for pouring molten metal into a pouring cup of a flaskless or tight-flask mold in at least one pouring device movable along an X-axis parallel to a molding line in which the mold is transferred, wherein the ladle is moved along a Y-axis perpendicular to the molding line in a horizontal plane and is tilted about a first axis of rotation and further about a second axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., Fujiwa Denki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideto Terada, Chiaki Kato
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Patent number: 8329680Abstract: The invention relates to a novel sustained release pharmaceutical formulation adapted for administration by injection containing the compound 7?-[9-(4,4,5,5,5-pentafluoropentylsulphinyl)nonyl]oestra-1,3,5(10)-triene-3,17?-diol, more particularly to a formulation adapted for administration by injection containing the compound 7?-[9-(4,4,5,5,5-pentafluoropentylsulphinyl)nonyl]oestra-1,3,5(10)-triene-3,17?-diol in solution in a ricinoleate vehicle which additionally comprises at least one alcohol and a non-aqueous ester solvent which is miscible in the ricinoleate vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: AstraZeneca ABInventors: John R Evans, Rosalind U Grundy
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Patent number: 8327652Abstract: To provide a more comfortable vehicle cabin space for a passenger. In a vehicle humidifying/dehumidifying device 10, when a control unit 26 is switched to an “intermittent operation mode”, a pair of heat exchange elements 28A and 28B are heated simultaneously and intermittently. Additionally, this allows humidified air to be generated by both of the pair of heat exchange elements 28A and 28B when the pair of heat exchange elements 28A and 28B are being heated simultaneously by a heater 30. Consequently, in comparison to a case where the humidified air is generated alternately by the heat exchange elements 28A and 28B, the humidifying amount imparted to the humidified air when the humidified air is generated by a humidifying/dehumidifying unit 16 can be increased. Thus, it becomes possible to perform humidifying amount control corresponding to various situations in a vehicle cabin, and it becomes possible to provide a more comfortable vehicle cabin space for a passenger.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takanobu Nakaguro
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Patent number: 8332502Abstract: A network management system includes an automatic reconnaissance (resolution) component which, in one embodiment, includes four main operational components, namely a real-time parse/analysis component, a data merge component, a data analysis component, and a response capability component. These four components interact to provide real-time event recognition and response. The network management system efficiently receives, parses, and comprehends a large amount of event and statistical data that could be indicative of a network systems operation failure with resultant response actions initiated through such an infrastructure improving mean time to recovery.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Metavante CorporationInventors: Scott E. Neuhaus, Scott D. Swessel, Alexander A. Senkevitch
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Patent number: 8329173Abstract: A process for the selection of anti c-Met antibodies capable of inhibiting both ligand-dependent and ligand-independent activation of c-Met, wherein said process is based on the inhibition of the c-Met dimerization. The present invention also concerns such antibodies and compositions comprising antibodies for the preparation of a medicament to treat cancer including diagnosis process and kits.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Pierre Fabre MedicamentInventor: Liliane Goetsch
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Patent number: 8332247Abstract: Methods and systems optimize travel costs both on and off a sequence of one or more networks used to represent travel, communication, or transport of anything within a spatial medium. Such systems and methods can develop a data structure for optimizing travel costs for a region having an embedded network. The data structure includes a grid representation of the region having an array of cells covering the region, an optimal-cost grid dataset containing optimal costs for travel between an initial location in the region and cells in the grid, a hybrid grid-network dataset representing travel costs within the network, within the grid, and between the network and the grid, and back-links among elements of the hybrid grid-network dataset, reflecting optimal travel routes originating at the initial location. Methods and systems also include querying the datasets of the data structure to generate a route with an optimal travel cost from the initial location to a query point.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Inventors: G. William Bailey, William A. Huber
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Patent number: 8328783Abstract: A drug container of a multilayer film including a first layer (1) composed of a linear ethylene/?-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.930 to 0.950 g/cm3, a second layer (2) and a fourth layer (4) each composed of a mixture containing a linear ethylene/?-olefin copolymer having a density of 0.860 to 0.920 g/cm3 in a weight ratio of 95:5 to 40:60, a third layer (3) composed of a polycycloolefin, and a fifth layer (5) composed of a mixture containing a polyethylene and a polypropylene, the fifth layer 5 serving as an innermost layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc.Inventors: Fujio Inoue, Isamu Tateishi, Yasushi Morimoto, Tatsuro Tsuruoka, Yasushi Nagata
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Patent number: 8329693Abstract: A method for the prevention of thrombotic, embolic and/or hemorrhagic disorders, such as cerebral infarction (stroke) or myocardial infarction, by administering levosimendan or its metabolite (II) or any of their pharmaceutically acceptable salts to a mammal in need of such prevention.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Orion CorporationInventors: Heimo Haikala, Jouko Levijoki, Piero Pollesello, Carola Tilgmann
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Patent number: 8331212Abstract: According to one embodiment, a MEMS memory microprobe includes a probe tip, a lever, and a base. The probe tip is arranged to oppose a recording medium and is brought into contact with the recording medium to perform recording or reproduction of information when a current or voltage is applied between them. In the probe tip, a plurality of electrodes used in the recording or reproduction and a plurality of support portions which form the probe tip together with the electrodes are alternately arranged, and the electrodes and the support portions form a single plane which opposes the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, The University of TokyoInventors: Yongfang Li, Yasushi Tomizawa, Gen Hashiguchi, Masakazu Sugiyama
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Patent number: D672295Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Yamada, Junichi Toura