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  • Electronic endoscope signal-processing device and electronic endoscope system
    Patent number: 8274558
    Abstract: An electronic endoscope system is provided that includes an RGB transformer, an R-signal amplifier, and a GB-signal amplifier. The RGB transformer transforms image signals to RGB signals. The R-signal amplifier changes the amplitude of the R signals of the RGB signals to a predetermined gain value. The GB-signal amplifier nonlinearly changes the amplitude of the G signals and B signals of the RGB signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Takayama
  • Method for stabilizing leuco-type colorant
    Patent number: 8268017
    Abstract: Provided are a method of stabilizing a leuco dye storable as a liquid for a long time, a method of reducing nonspecific color development thereof at a time of a color development reaction, and a stable liquid reagent composition using the methods. The inventors of the present invention found that coexistence of the leuco dye with a specific reducing agent resulted in suppression of self color development and its remarkably improved stability in a solution, and that when a color development reaction of the leuco dye with hydrogen peroxide was performed, coexistence of the leuco dye, in a reaction solution, with another dye which had an absorption spectrum not influencing a measurement wavelength of the leuco dye and did not react with hydrogen peroxide suppressed nonspecific color development and lowered a reagent blank value, which was applied to an analytical reagent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Ueda, Takeshi Matsuoka, Akihiko Kan
  • Cylinder type bistable permanent magnetic actuator
    Patent number: 8269588
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cylinder type bistable permanent magnetic actuator, the bistable actuator including, a cylinder formed by rolling a thin plate so as to form an inner space, a mover reciprocatingly installed within the cylinder in a lengthwise direction of the cylinder, first and second coils installed near both end portions of the cylinder, respectively, by interposing the mover therebetween, and a permanent magnet installed between the first and second coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong-Mahn Sohn
  • Vehicle seat reclining device
    Patent number: 8267476
    Abstract: Each of the pawls that are capable of rotationally locking a reclining device has a hardness greater than a slide cam that is capable of pressing the pawls to engage a ratchet. When a large load capable of forcibly rotationally displacing the ratchet is applied thereto while the pawls mesh with the ratchet, the pawls are pressed by the ratchet in a radially inward direction in which the pawls are disengaged therefrom, so as to press the slide cam with an increased buckling strength and plastically deform the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kumazaki, Shinji Nonaka
  • Phenyl-substituted 1,3,5-triazine compound, process for producing the same, and organic electroluminescent device containing the same as component
    Patent number: 8268997
    Abstract: A phenyl-substituted 1,3,5-triazine compound represented by the general formula (1); wherein Ar1 and Ar2 independently represent substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, naphthyl or biphenylyl group; R1, R2 and R3 independently represent hydrogen atom or methyl group; X1 and X2 independently represent substituted or unsubstituted phenylene, naphthylene or pyridylene group; p and q independently represent an integer of 0 to 2; and Ar3 and Ar4 independently represent substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl or phenyl group. This compound is suitable for an organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: Tosoh Corporation, Sagami Chemical Research Institute
    Inventors: Tetsu Yamakawa, Hidenori Aihara, Naoko Yanai, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Yoko Honma, Masaru Sato
  • Network-based storage system capable of allocating storage partitions to hosts
    Patent number: 8271606
    Abstract: A network-based storage system comprises one or more block-level storage servers that connect to, and provide disk storage for, one or more host computers. In one embodiment, the system is capable of subdividing the storage space of an array of disk drives into multiple storage partitions, and allocating the partitions to host computers on a network. A storage partition allocated to a particular host computer may appear as local disk drive storage to user-level processes running on the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Summit Data Systems LLC
    Inventors: Douglas E. Jewett, Adam J. Radford, Bradley D. Strand, Jeffrey D. Chung, Joel D. Jacobson, Robert B. Haigler, Rod S. Thompson, Thomas L. Couch
  • Tulip contacting device for vacuum circuit breaker
    Patent number: 8269127
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tulip contacting device for a vacuum circuit breaker employed to quickly break off an electric power system, in which contact fingers are bidirectionally rotatable in a state of being restricted at an outer diameter portion of a mover holder, such that the flexibility of the contact fingers can be increased, whereby it is possible, upon connecting the vacuum circuit breaker to a case, to flexibly deal with the variation of axial angles of terminals inserted in both sides of the tulip contacting device, and also springs may be coupled to the contact fingers, respectively, so as to effectively prevent separation and overall destroy of the contact fingers from the mover holder during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Kwan Seo
  • Method for filling a container with gas
    Patent number: 8267128
    Abstract: Gas container and method for filling a container with gas. The method includes inserting an electrically conducting stretched material into the container before inserting gas into the container, electrically connecting to an electrical ground and at least one of the electrically conducting stretched material and an area in a vicinity of an outlet opening of a filling pipe for inserting the gas into the container, and inserting gas into the container under compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: FuXS GmbH iGr
    Inventors: Franz Stuhlbacher, Erich Stuhlbacher, Peter Konradt, Georg Kocevar
  • Material for aneurysm curing
    Patent number: 8268300
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a polymer material, the histocompatibility of which has been improved by irradiation of ion beam, which prevents an aneurysm having a risk of rupture from actually rupturing. The present invention provides a material for treating aneurysms, which is composed of a polymer material containing carbon as a constitutional element, and which is produced by modifying at least a portion of the surface thereof by ion bombardment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: RIKEN, The Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ujiie, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Masaya Iwaki, Takanori Uchida
  • Method of marking a product, marked product resulting thereof, and method of identifying same
    Patent number: 8268623
    Abstract: A method and means for identifying the authenticity and the genuine nature of a solid or liquid bulk material, by incorporating a marking composition containing at least one trace ion into the said bulk material, whereby the total concentration of the incorporated trace ions in the market bulk material is chosen to be lower than the corresponding concentration of the same ions in standard sea water. The authenticity and the genuine nature or the adulteration level of the marked bulk material can be tested in-the-field using electrochemical sensors, and confirmed in the laboratory using a method such as atomic absorption spectroscopy, ion chromatography or mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: SICPA Holding SA
    Inventors: Thomas Tiller, Sylvain Jaquier, Xavier Marguerettaz
  • Aqueous film coating solution, film coated granule and tablet using the same
    Patent number: 8268356
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous film coating solution, and the like, which has good acid resistance and sustained release properties as well as the flexibility suitable for the tablet compression force and are highly productive and cost efficient. The aqueous film coating solution of the present invention comprises an ethyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate copolymer dispersion, a methacrylic acid copolymer LD, a plasticizer, titanium oxide and water, wherein the solid mass ratio of the ethyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate copolymer dispersion, the methacrylic acid copolymer LD, the plasticizer and the titanium oxide is 100:(40 to 100):(5 to 50):(5 to 30) and the solid content thereof is 5 to 20 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Yoshida, Yoshihito Yaginuma
  • Display sheet
    Patent number: 8268427
    Abstract: A display sheet includes a substrate; front-side and rear-side synthetic resin composition layers formed on front and rear surfaces, respectively, of the substrate; and an ink layer formed by ink-jet on the front-side synthetic resin composition layer. The substrate is made of sailcloth having projections and depressions on front and rear surfaces thereof. A surface of the front-side synthetic resin composition layer is formed on an irregular surface having projections and depressions attributed to the projections and depressions of the surface of the substrate. The ink layer is formed by causing a fine ink to cover the projections and permeate the depressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Koyo Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Nomura, Senichirou Araki, Yasuyo Omori, Naomi Kuwakubo, Atsushi Nagakura, Soichi Funayama
  • Surgical microscope system
    Patent number: 8270073
    Abstract: A surgical microscope system is disclosed. The surgical microscope is comprised of a stand which is comprised of a movable base and a support capable of free motion with keeping a particular orientation relative to the movable base; a stereoscopic surgical microscope linked with the support, which is comprised of a pair of first optical systems so as to provide a first stereoscopic magnified view; and a stereoscopic display device having a movable link with the stand, which is comprised of a display screen for displaying stereoscopic image taken by the first optical systems and a pair of second optical systems as to show the stereoscopic image as a second stereoscopic magnified view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Mitaka Kohki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsushige Nakamura, Masao Doi, Masakazu Nakamura
  • Diagnostic kit for detecting urinary protein of a cat after cauxin removal
    Patent number: 8268639
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a kidney disease in a cat by detecting a cat urinary protein without being affected by cauxin, and a diagnostic agent therefor are provided. A method of detecting a urinary protein derived from renal dysfunction in a cat according to claim 1, wherein cauxin is removed from cat urine by bringing the cat urine into contact with a lectin or an anti-cauxin antibody that specifically binds to cauxin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: Incorporated National University Iwate University, Nippon Zenyaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamashita, Yasuyuki Suzuta
  • Scalable encoding device, and scalable encoding method
    Patent number: 8271275
    Abstract: A scalable encoding device capable of reducing an encoding rate to reduce a circuit scale while preventing sound quality deterioration of a decoded signal. An extension layer is coarsely divided into a system for processing a first channel and a system for processing a second channel. A sound source predictor for processing the first channel predicts a drive sound source signal of the first channel from a drive sound source signal of a monaural signal, and outputs the predicted drive sound source signal through a multiplier to a first CELP encoder. A sound source predictor for processing the second channel predicts the drive sound source signal of the second channel from the drive sound source signal of the monaural signal and the output from the first CELP encoder, and outputs the predicted drive sound source signal through a multiplier to a second CELP encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Michiyo Goto, Koji Yoshida
  • Proton acceptance type sensor, hydrogen gas sensor and acid sensor
    Patent number: 8268250
    Abstract: The present invention provides a low-cost hydrogen gas sensor, which exhibits high sensory selectivity for protons and operates at room temperature, and can also provide a highly sensitive sensor capable of fulfilling the important functions of detecting hydrogen gas and preventing leakage accidents in production plants that use hydrogen gas as a carrier, in hydrogen gas storage facilities, and in so-called fuel cells that use hydrogen gas as an energy source. In addition, the sensor is also effective as an acid sensor for hydrofluoric acid and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin Mizuguchi
  • Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and objective lens for the same
    Patent number: 8270279
    Abstract: An objective lens for an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, at least one of optical surfaces of the objective lens comprising a diffraction surface having a diffraction structure defined by an optical path difference function, and wherein: the diffraction surface has a first region contributing to converging first and second light beams and having a diffraction structure configured such that diffraction orders at which the diffraction efficiencies are maximized for the first and second light beams are 1st order; the diffraction surface has a second region located outside the first region, and the second region is configured to contribute to converging the first light beam and not to contribute to convergence of the second light beam; and the objective lens satisfies a condition: 35<P2×f2<200 ??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Shuichi Takeuchi
  • High resistivity silicon wafer and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8263484
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a high resistivity silicon wafer includes pulling a single crystal such that the single crystal has a p-type dopant concentration at which a wafer surface resistivity becomes in a range of 0.1 to 10 k ?cm, an oxygen concentration Oi of 5.0×1017 to 20×1017 atoms/cm3 (ASTM F-121, 1979), and a nitrogen concentration of 1.0×1013 to 10×1013 atoms/cm3 (ASTM F-121, 1979) by using a Czochralski method, processing the single crystal into wafers by slicing the single crystal, and subjecting the wafer to an oxygen out-diffusion heat treatment process in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sumco Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunari Kurita
  • Can-shaped container
    Patent number: D666873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Gordon Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: J. Robert Gluck
  • Set of building blocks
    Patent number: D667507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Taranto Estudios e Inversiones, S.L.
    Inventor: Pilar Moran Reyero