Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner
  • Patent number: 8327622
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Sano, Takaaki Itou, Kimikazu Yoda, Kazuhiro Wakao
  • Patent number: 8332438
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Stephan Bantlin, Alexander Bekhter, Kai Finck, Frank Hoerlin, Janos Kis, Gudrun Leonhard Marquard, Feng Li, Karin Matthai, Marek Poledna, Jens Schoeneberg, Hermann Weinmann
  • Patent number: 8329031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinobu Moniwa, Masahiko Tsutsumi, Hidetake Shiire, Nobuyuki Ashikaga, Satomi Ebihara, Katsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8331306
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinyi Zhou, Lan Liu, Xiaolong Guo, Ming Li, Zhe Chen, Qi Yu
  • Patent number: 8331770
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8331130
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Yasuda, Keiko Abe, Shinobu Fujita
  • Patent number: 8331986
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: SONY Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Inagaki, Haruo Oba, Taku Sugawara, Junichi Rekimoto, Nobuyuki Matsushita, Yuji Ayatsuka
  • Patent number: 8329789
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Chemson Polymer-Additive AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Pelzl, Michael Schiller, Cornelia Damm
  • Patent number: 8331432
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kei Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: 8329385
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Eishi Shiobara, Keisuke Kikutani, Kazuyuki Yahiro, Kentaro Matsunaga, Tomoya Oori
  • Patent number: 8327912
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignees: Sintokogio, Ltd., Fujiwa Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto Terada, Chiaki Kato
  • Patent number: 8329680
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: John R Evans, Rosalind U Grundy
  • Patent number: 8327652
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanobu Nakaguro
  • Patent number: 8332502
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Metavante Corporation
    Inventors: Scott E. Neuhaus, Scott D. Swessel, Alexander A. Senkevitch
  • Patent number: 8329173
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Pierre Fabre Medicament
    Inventor: Liliane Goetsch
  • Patent number: 8332247
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Inventors: G. William Bailey, William A. Huber
  • Patent number: 8328783
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Fujio Inoue, Isamu Tateishi, Yasushi Morimoto, Tatsuro Tsuruoka, Yasushi Nagata
  • Patent number: 8329693
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Orion Corporation
    Inventors: Heimo Haikala, Jouko Levijoki, Piero Pollesello, Carola Tilgmann
  • Patent number: 8331212
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yongfang Li, Yasushi Tomizawa, Gen Hashiguchi, Masakazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: D672295
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamada, Junichi Toura