Patents Represented by Attorney Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC
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Patent number: 8348862Abstract: A muscular energy state analysis system and method for a swing motion and a computer program product thereof are provided. The system includes: a swing implement, for a user to perform the swing motion, and including an acceleration sensor for sensing acceleration of the swing implement when the swing implement is swung, so as to generate a swing speed data; a plurality of signal detection modules, for detecting electromyographic (EMG) signals generated by a muscles of the user; a database, for storing a muscular energy sample value,; a muscular energy analysis module, for analyzing the EMG signals and the swing speed data so as to obtain a plurality of muscular performance values; and a comparison module, for comparing the swing speed data and the muscular performance values with the at least one muscular energy sample value in the database, so as to generate a comparison result data.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventor: Tun-Hsiao Chu
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Patent number: 8350949Abstract: A method for transmitting a man-machine operation picture, a mobile video device thereof, and a video system using the same are provided, which are applicable to a first mobile video device and a second mobile video device wirelessly connected to each other, and the first mobile video device includes a first screen. A display picture data is obtained from a video buffer of the first screen. The first screen displays a first picture according to the display picture data. The first mobile video device converts the display picture data into a video data compliant to a video format, and transfers the video data to the second mobile video device according to a video communication protocol. The second mobile video device displays a second picture according to the received video data, and a displaying content of the second picture substantially includes a displaying content of the first picture.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corp.Inventors: Yung-Ping Cheng, Huafeng Mai, Tony Tsai
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Patent number: 8348869Abstract: An upper limbs rehabilitation device includes a main body, a rail, a movable member and a grip, wherein the main body has a first link and a second link pivotably connected to the first link. The rail is connected to the second link. The user holds the grip that is pivotably connected to the movable member and swings the upper limb to move the movable member along the rail so as to exercise the upper limb in multiple degrees of freedom.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: SU, Fong-ChinInventors: Fong-Chin Su, Wei-Jr Lin, Chih-Han Chang, Li-Chieh Kuo, Cheng-Chun Chen, Chung-Ying Tsai
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Patent number: 8348365Abstract: An inkjet printing system includes: a liquid supply tank; a print device with at least one print cartridge, wherein there is an altitude difference between the print cartridge and the liquid supply tank; an internal pressure-adjusting device connecting to the liquid supply tank and the print cartridge; and working software for calculating a preliminary altitude, and a predetermined liquid supplementing altitude of the print cartridge. When a liquid level of a liquid inside the print cartridge is lower than the preliminary altitude and below an lower limit of the predetermined liquid supplementing altitude, the working software controls the internal pressure-adjusting device to suck partial gas from the print cartridge into the liquid supply tank to increase a negative pressure inside the print cartridge, and the liquid stored in the liquid supply tank is introduced into the print cartridge to balance the negative pressure inside the print cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Microjet Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ke Ming Huang, Hung Chuan Lo, Chin Tsung Chen, Kwo Yuan Shi
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Patent number: 8347896Abstract: An artificial eyelash structure includes a mounting member having a bonding portion for adhering to an eyelid and a bendable portion for enabling the bonding portion to be curved into a smoothly arched shape when bending the bonding portion upwards or downwards, and multiple eyelashes connected with the mounting member. The artificial eyelash structure is prepared by: forming a mounting member from a thin film, and then processing the thin film of the mounting member into a bonding portion and a bendable portion such that the bendable portion enables the bonding portion to be bent upwards or downwards, and then connecting eyelashes with the mounting member.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventor: Chun-Wei Liao
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Patent number: 8351701Abstract: A method recognizing dice dots comprises the steps: projecting at least one dice with a plurality of different angle light sources; capturing a plurality of images of the dice according to the projecting times of the light sources on the dice; and recognizing dice dots based on the images through calculation methods. When recognized results obtained through the calculation methods are judged same by the recognizing module the dice dots are confirmed and accepted. If the recognized results done through the calculation methods are different, the dice is rolled anew.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventors: Ying-Nan Lai, Shun-Tsung Hsu, Chang-Yi Wang, Ming-Tien Tsai
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Patent number: 8352649Abstract: Disclosed is a storage virtualization subsystem (SVS) architecture comprising a plurality of SVSs, each SVS comprising at least one storage virtualization controller (SVC), and, in some cases, a physical storage disk (PSD) array attached to the SVC. A first and a second data access path is configured passing through the SVSs to form the SVS architecture such that when one path is failed, the other can be taken as a substitution. The SVSs in the first path are connected in a first sequence and the SVSs in the second path are connected in a second sequence different from the first one. In another embodiment, each SVS comprises a plurality of redundantly-configured SVCs rather than one SVC. The first path is formed passing through a first set of SVCs and the second path is formed passing through a different second set of SVCs.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Infortrend Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ling-Yi Liu, Cheng-Yu Lee, Ching-Hua Fang
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Patent number: 8348480Abstract: An adjustable structure for lamp stand, in which a swivel mount is fitted to the upper portion of a base, thereby enabling ends of a first bar support and a telescopic link to be pin connected to the swivel mount, while the other ends are pin connected to a second bar support. A lamp swivel component is disposed on the end of the second bar support. Accordingly, relative positions between the first bar support, the second bar support and the telescopic link can be freely adjusted, while still providing stable support to the structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventor: Tsung-Chang Chang
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Patent number: 8351120Abstract: A method for designing an optical device which includes a lens and a microlens array is disclosed. A point spread function (PSF) of the lens including rotationally symmetrical aberration coefficients is formulated, wherein the PSF presents various spherical spot sizes. A virtual phase mask having phase coefficients is provided and the phase coefficients are added to the PSF of the lens, such that the various spherical spot sizes are homogenized. The virtual phase mask is transformed into a polynomial function comprising high and low order aberration coefficients. A surface contour of the lens is determined according to the rotationally symmetrical aberration coefficients and the low order aberration coefficients, and a sag height of each microlens in the microlens array is determined according to the high order aberration coefficients. An optical device using the design method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignees: VisEra Technologies Company Limited, OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jau-Jan Deng, Yu-Shu Kao, Yun-Chiang Hsu
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Patent number: 8350193Abstract: An oil water mixture heating apparatus comprises a metal outer barrel with a helical trough formed inside, a metal inner barrel held in the metal outer barrel to form a helical passage with the helical trough, a first and a second guide cap coupled on two sides of the metal outer and inner barrels, a first and a second seal cap coupled respectively on the first and second guide caps, a first and a second holder fixedly located on outer sides of the two seal caps and an electric heater encasing the metal outer barrel. When combustible oil or oil water mixture enters the helical passage and are heated by the electric heater, the oil or oil water mixture also is constantly blended in the helical passage so that it is heated rapidly to a required temperature and forms a finer oil water mixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventor: Feng-Hui Lu
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Patent number: 8351419Abstract: A method for billing a subscriber to a cellular telephone service for a VoIP call made by the subscriber, the method including determining when a subscriber to a cellular telephone service places a telephone call to a remote device using a local device associated with the subscription, where the telephone call has at least one VoIP call leg, capturing session information related to the telephone call, including information identifying the subscriber, and providing the information to a provider of the cellular telephone service, thereby enabling the cellular telephone service provider to bill the subscriber for the VoIP call.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Qualcomm Iskoot, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Guedalia, David Guedalia
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Patent number: 8350898Abstract: A head-mounted visual display device for low-vision aid, which features 2 models, they are analog signal model and digital signal model. Said analog device contains at least an analog video extractor, a video decoder, an ITU-R.656 decoder, a de-interlacing unit, an image processor, two YCbCr to RGB converter, two color enhancement units, two video D/A converter, a head mounted display, a signal voltage controller and a wireless communication module. Said digital device consists of a digital video signal extractor/capturer, a RGB to YCbCr converter, an image processor, two YCbCr to RGB converter, two color enforcement units, a head-mounted display, a signal voltage controller and a wireless communication module.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: National Yang-Ming UniversityInventors: Yin Chang, Yen-Liung Lai, Ji-Min Li, Yu-Wei Du
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Patent number: 8348785Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club head having a striking plate made of a high-strength aluminum alloy including at most 0.06 wt % of Si, at most 0.1 wt % of Fe, 2 to 2.5 wt % of Cu, 1.5 to 2.5 wt % of Mg, 5 to 9.5 wt % of Zn, at most 0.05 wt % of Mn, 0.1 to 0.2 wt % of Zr, at most 0.05 wt % of Cr, at most 0.05 wt % of Ti, 0.01 to 0.1 wt % of Sc, and balance Al, wherein the weight ratio of Zn over Mg is from about 3.2 to about 4.4.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Fusheng Precision Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chan-Tung Chen, Chun-Yung Huang, Ching-Fen Lee, Chun-Wei Chen
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Patent number: 8347725Abstract: An oil pressure includes a housing, a pressure sensing unit mounted in the housing and a first signal generator. Because the pressure sensing unit is provided with a pusher and an elastic piece that is able to uniformly receive a force exerted from the pusher such that the pusher can uniformly drive a swing member of the first signal generator, the oil pressure sensor can output an accurate oil pressure signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Cub Elecparts Inc.Inventors: San-Chuan Yu, Yu-Shun Lin, Chih-Wei Yen
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Patent number: 8348517Abstract: A fiber optic component includes a body having at least one receptacle configured to receive a fiber optic connector, a shutter base mounted to the body at a mounting location adjacent to the at least one receptacle, and a first shutter connected to the shutter base by a first hinge. The first shutter, first hinge and shutter base are unitarily formed, and the first shutter is shiftable from a first position biased against the body and covering the at least one receptacle to a second position biased to an angularly spaced position relative to the first position.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventors: Ronald Mudd, Joseph Livingston, Brad Billman, Thomas Crain, Aly Fahd, Gary Gibbs, Jeffrey Dale Nielson, Gil Ruiz, Wade James Womack
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Patent number: 8347515Abstract: The present invention proposes an external-coupled electronic angle measurement apparatus including a housing, a display element, an angle detection system and a coupling portion. The housing is movable through the coupling portion to fasten the external-coupled electronic angle measurement apparatus to a desired location of different hand tools to accurately measure turning angles of a screw driven by the hand tool through the angle detection system and display the result on the display element.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Eclatorq Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ming-Hwa Lee, Xiu Jiang
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Patent number: 8350710Abstract: An enclosed space monitoring system includes a controller and a plurality of sensors. The sensors may include a humidity sensor, a water presence sensor, a water pump operation sensor, a temperature sensor, a radon gas detector, a propane or natural gas detector, a smoke sensor, a carbon monoxide detector and a motion sensor. Environmental parameter data obtained by the sensors is stored within a memory connected to the controller. The controller sends the data to a remote facility periodically and/or when the data indicates a potential condition within the space needing attention or remediation. The sent data is stored at the remote facility and may be accessed by a technician or an owner of the space. Also, the data may be comparatively studied relative to earlier data from the same space and to data collected in similar spaces to discern a potential condition needing attention or remediation.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventors: James A. C. Logan, Alvin C. West
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Patent number: 8348573Abstract: A versatile fastener including at least two flat areas formed on a cutting part, and an accommodating area disposed between any two of the flat areas. At least two cutting faces are convergent to form the accommodating area, and first and second cutting edges are respectively formed at a connection between each cutting face and flat area. In operation, the flat areas facilitate the first and the second cutting edges to promote a stable balance with the object, thereby allowing the debris to be swiftly guided out of the accommodating areas. Consequently, it is difficult to crack the object while imparting forces thereon, so as to lower the screwing resistance and the fastening torque as well as increase the combining efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Essence Method Refine Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ching-Hsiang Chang
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Patent number: 8347882Abstract: A diving snorkel-mounted water stopper includes a sleeve unit defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced receiving chambers and a plurality of separated air valve openings corresponding to the tops of the receiving chambers; a ring-shaped housing externally located around the sleeve unit and having a plurality of air intakes formed at positions separately corresponding to the receiving chambers and the air valve openings; a plurality of float units separately disposed in the receiving chambers to normally locate below the air valve openings, and a cap closed onto a top of the ring-shaped housing. The separated air valve openings are independently controllable to open or close by the float units arranged in one-to-one correspondence thereto. When one of the air valve openings is closed, other air valve openings are not affected and air from above water surface can still be supplied via the remaining open air valve openings to a diver.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Inventor: Chien-Rung Chen
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Patent number: D674090Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rudi Campo, Frank Doll