Patents Represented by Attorney Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

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  • Electroless nickel plating liquid
    Patent number: 8182594
    Abstract: An electroless nickel plating liquid capable of forming an underbarrier metal for metal bumps or solder bumps by electroless nickel plating with a uniform film thickness on silicon wafers composed of multiple IC chips contains a water-soluble nickel salt, a reducing agent, a complexing agent, and a pH buffer, wherein_lead ion is contained at 0.01-1 ppm, cobalt ion is contained at 0.01-1 ppm, and a sulfur compound is contained at 0.01-1 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Hino, Masashi Kumagai
  • Method for electroless plating and metal-plated article
    Patent number: 8182873
    Abstract: A method for metal plating with good adhesion to materials that are difficult to plate wherein a material to be plated is surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having in a molecule thereof a functional group with a metal-capturing capability, is heat treated at a high temperature of at least 150° C. in air or an inert gas atmosphere, surface treatment is performed with a solution containing a noble metal compound, and electroless plating is performed. Alternatively, a metal plating method is provided wherein a material to be plated is surface-treated with a liquid in which a noble metal compound and a silane coupling agent having in a molecule thereof a functional group with a metal-capturing capability have already been mixed or reacted, is heat treated at a high temperature of at least 150° C. in air or an inert gas atmosphere, and electroless plating is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Imori, Junnosuke Sekiguchi, Atsushi Yabe, Yoshihisa Fujihira
  • Engine oil pan structure
    Patent number: 8176890
    Abstract: An engine oil pan structure includes a lower case having a pair of side walls and a plurality of bearing cap sections for connection between the side walls. A balancer device provided under the lower case, mounts on a mounting section formed at positions of the bearing cap section adjoining the side walls. An oil pan covering the balancer device is joined to lower end portions of the side walls. A reinforcing rib having a horseshoe-shaped form and surrounding the balancer device is provided on an external surface of the oil pan, and two end portions of the reinforcing rib are joined or monolithic with portions of a flange section for joining the oil pan to the side walls adjoining the mounting section to reduce noise of an engine having a balancer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Norifumi Sugiyama
  • Canister mounting structure
    Patent number: 8177259
    Abstract: A canister that adsorbs evaporated fuel in a fuel tank is protected from an impact force and is mounted sufficiently at a height above the ground to eliminate the need for a protection member. A pair of left and right side members extend in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle on a lower side of a rear floor of the vehicle. The canister is disposed between the fuel tank and the spare tire housing. A pair of front and rear cross members extending in the widthwise direction of the vehicle connect to the side members between the fuel tank and the spare tire housing. The canister is disposed directly below the rear floor between the pair of front and rear cross members, and the canister is mounted to the front and rear cross members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Minao Ohara
  • Gripper
    Patent number: 8172290
    Abstract: A gripper has a pair of supports 22A, 22B positioned on opposite sides of a bottle made of resin, and abutments 24A, 24B disposed respectively on the supports 22A, 22B for holding the bottle 4 made of resin, each of the abutments 24A, 24B have two thin plates 26A, 28A, 26B, 28B which are vertically spaced from each other. The abutments 24A, 24B hold the bottle 4 by gripping a neck 4a of the bottle 4 on its opposite sides. While holding the bottle 4, the supports 22A, 22B are held out of contact with an outer surface of the bottle 4, allowing the electron beam to travel around the neck 4a to sterilize the entire surface of the bottle 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nishino, Tokuo Nishi, Yukihiro Yamamoto
  • Junction between two components of a rotating tool system
    Patent number: 8172490
    Abstract: A junction between two components of a tool system, that rotates about an axis of rotation, includes a conical seat, on the first component, coaxial to the axis of rotation and which is defined by an annular front face. The second component carries a coupling having a conical surface complementary to the conical seat and an annular end face resting against the front face. A tie bolt axially projects beyond the free end of the coupling pin and engages, in a cavity adjacent to the seat. The junction also has tensioning elements that are actuated from the exterior for mutually bracing the components, which are radially guided in the first component, and which act upon the tie bolt and are functionally linked with joint actuating means for adjustment between detached and tensioned positions. The tensioning elements include ejection portions that can be fitted with a rotatably received rolling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Komet Group GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Kretzschmann, Jacek Kruszynski, Benno Spors, Wolfgang Bierl
  • System for preventing unintended activation of a medical device by a portable remote control console
    Patent number: 8175590
    Abstract: A network system prevents portable wireless remote control consoles from unintended activation of a medical device by determining if the console is located in a working space within a medical care room. Transceiver locator devices determine the position of the remote control consoles and send information to room control units indicating when a console is within the desired working space. The room control unit receives signals from the remote control console in the working space to control medical devices. The room control unit can also determine which of multiple remote control consoles within the working space is permitted to operate the medical devices. Each room control unit can send a presence output to the remote control console to enable use thereof. The remote control console can have an orientation sensor or a grip detector to prevent unintended operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Hamel, Brannon P. Wells, Michael G. Hilldoerfer
  • Modular electrical distribution system for a building
    Patent number: 8172588
    Abstract: A universal power distribution system is provided for routing electrical circuits within a building structure to comprehensively provide electrical power to the building in ceiling configurations, wall-mounted configurations, raised floor configurations and in office furniture configurations. The system components for all of these configurations have common plug connectors that are engagable with each other so as to be readily usable in a wide variety of applications. The system is readily adaptable to form virtually any conventional circuit configuration found within conventional hard-wired systems yet is formed simply through the routing of the cables through the building cavities and interconnection is accomplished merely by plugging components together rather than through labor-intensive manual wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross Johnson, Harold R. Wilson, Bryan Gingrich
  • Cup made of a paper material
    Patent number: 8172127
    Abstract: A cup made of a paper material having a fillable interior is described, which cup is formed by a conical sleeve and a bottom. The bottom is attached to the sleeve at the lower end of the interior with a bottom skirt in an essentially liquid-tight way. The sleeve and/or the bottom in the area of the bottom skirt and/or the bottom skirt itself comprises, at least in one area along the periphery, an outwardly projecting widening. A lower edge of the widening forms a standing surface for the cup. The widening can form means for holding another cup of the same type, which means can act together with a similar cup during stacking. The cup can comprise a heat-insulating outer sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: PTM Packaging Tools Machinery Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Frost, Uwe Messerschmid, Werner Stahlecker
  • Yarn tension monitoring and setting system
    Patent number: 8175740
    Abstract: Yarn processing system for simultaneously processing a plurality of yarns in a processing machine, such as a twisting machine, a texturizing machine, or a dyeing machine. A yarn tensioning assembly is provided and has, for each yarn entering the processing machine, at least an individual controlled tensioner and an individual tensiometer. The controlled tensioner and the tensiometer are integrated into a closed yarn tension feedback regulation loop for regulating and maintaining a set yarn tension. The tensiometer is connected in parallel to one superimposed common tension monitoring and setting system for centrally setting and monitoring the yarn tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: IRO AB
    Inventor: Stefano Lamprillo
  • Modular electrical distribution system for a building
    Patent number: 8172589
    Abstract: A universal power distribution system is provided for routing electrical circuits within a building structure to comprehensively provide electrical power to the building in ceiling configurations, wall-mounted configurations, raised floor configurations and in office furniture configurations. The system components for all of these configurations have common plug connectors that are engagable with each other so as to be readily usable in a wide variety of applications. The system is readily adaptable to form virtually any conventional circuit configuration found within conventional hard-wired systems yet is formed simply through the routing of the cables through the building cavities and interconnection is accomplished merely by plugging components together rather than through labor-intensive manual wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross Johnson, Harold R. Wilson, Bryan Gingrich
  • Vehicle air cleaner mounting structure
    Patent number: 8172021
    Abstract: A vehicle air cleaner mounting structure is disposed in a space between a shelf portion of a fender apron and a hood. The mounting structure has support portions at at least three points. A protruding portion of the air cleaner protrudes farther inward in a vehicle width direction than a vertical wall of the fender apron. The support portions are disposed outside the protruding portion in the vehicle width direction, the first support portion and the second support portion positioned inside in the vehicle width direction out of the support portions are disposed on a phantom axis line extending in a vehicle front-rear direction in a plan view. The air cleaner is supported to be able to turn about the phantom axis line, and the third support portion is disposed outside the phantom axis line in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotaka Setoguchi
  • Stretch wrap machine with top corner film transfer
    Patent number: 8166732
    Abstract: A stretch wrap machine for wrapping a product comprising a base, a turn table on the base for rotating the product, a source of stretch wrap connected to the base, and a wrapping assembly configured to bring an end of the stretch wrap above the product, cut the stretch wrap at a position above the product after the product has been wrapped and/or hold an end of the stretch wrap at a position above the product as the turntable begins rotating the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Cousins Packaging Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Cousins, Boris Radovanovic
  • Method of making heat-resistant transparent container
    Patent number: 8163217
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of making a heat-resistant transparent container which involves the steps of: a primary stretching and heat-setting process wherein an amorphous polyethylene terephthalate sheet is heated, primarily stretched and then primarily heat-set and a secondary stretching and heat-setting process wherein the sheet treated in the primary stretching and heat-setting process is molded with heating in a mold of a thermoforming machine while secondary stretching is performed, followed by secondary heat-setting in the same mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nakamoto Packs Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Takaoka, Hiroshi Shibano, Jun Kawata
  • Protection device for a vehicle interior
    Patent number: 8162370
    Abstract: A protection device of this type includes a flexible sheetlike structure which is mounted movably between a compactly stored inoperative position and at least one at least partially extended functional position and is provided at the end thereof which is in front in the extension direction with a planar and dimensionally stable contour part which extends substantially over an entire width of the sheetlike structure. Control kinematics are assigned to a movement end region of the contour part shortly before the extended end position is reached, the control kinematics shifting the contour part forwards in the extension direction by an additional extension distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Bos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Hintennach, Thomas Schleef
  • Dispensing device for media
    Patent number: 8162183
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing device for a preferably liquid or pulverulent medium, preferably for a pharmaceutical medium, having a housing, a media store for accommodating the medium, a dispensing opening for discharging the medium, and an actuating handle which, by relative movement in relation to the housing, can bring about a dispensing operation. The housing has a removable protective covering by which the actuating handle or the dispensing opening is covered in a storage state, wherein, in the storage state, the protective covering is connected to the housing by a coupling device, and the coupling device can be uncoupled by engagement of at least one functional portion of the dispensing device, it being possible for the functional portion to be moved in relation to the housing and the protective covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Koenig, Peter Stadelhofer
  • Endoscopy device with integrated RFID and external network capability
    Patent number: 8162822
    Abstract: A unit of equipment designed for use in endoscopic surgery includes radio frequency identification (RFID) circuitry and a network interface. The RFID circuitry can be used to store information of various types, such as component usage tracking information, user preferences, usage logs, error logs, device settings, etc. The network interface allows the unit to communicate over an external network with a remote server. Information, such as information stored in the RFID circuitry or in a separate memory, may be sent over the network to a desired destination, such as a server operated by the manufacturer of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Hasan Ertas, Ruzbeh Shariff, Sohail Desai, Brannon P. Wells, Rajeshwari Srinivasan
  • Set top box
    Patent number: D658610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Il Bang, Kyoung-Hoon Kim, Yeon-Moo Chung
  • Set top box
    Patent number: D658611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Il Bang, Kyoung-Hoon Kim, Yeon-Moo Chung
  • Television receiver
    Patent number: D658613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ok-Keun Lee, Jun-Ho Yang, Yun-Je Kang