Patents Represented by Attorney Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
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Patent number: 8258653Abstract: Power saving is promoted by oscillating only power transmission coil contributing to contactless charging without using any communication means.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Kitamura, Tomohiro Ota, Seiichi Iwao
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Patent number: 8257097Abstract: A connector housing conducting power to a coil is integrated straddling adjacent relay housings on external peripheral surfaces thereof and utilizing a peripheral wall of the adjacent relay housings, the adjacent relay housings being separated by and sharing a partition wall as a portion of a wall portion. A bus bar straddling the connector housing and the adjacent relay housings forms a conductive path from an external power supply terminal provided in the connector housing to a relay coil power supply terminal provided in each of the adjacent relay housings.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Kiyofumi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 8251232Abstract: An article advancing device and an article arrangement shelf with simple structures can be securely operated without electric power. The article advancing device includes elongated drawer members with flexible band-shaped sheets and stopper structures disposed at distal ends of the flexible band-shaped sheets to allow articles to be arranged on the elongated drawer members when pulled-out, rollers for fixing proximal ends of the band-shaped sheets in position and winding up the band-shaped sheets by predetermined driving force while allowing the band-shaped sheets to be freely pulled out, and a main body for housing the rollers and the wound up band-shaped sheets. The rollers are disposed in parallel to each other within the main body, and the elongated drawer members are disposed on the rollers respectively so as not to overlap each other in a width direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Sekisui Plastics Co., Ltd., Arakawa Kinzoku Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Nakaya, Koichi Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Ono, Tatsuo Arakawa
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Patent number: 8253783Abstract: An electronic endoscope signal-processing device is provided that includes a gradation compensation processor. The gradation compensation processor compensates for R, G, and B gradations by controlling R, G, and B tone curves defining relationship between input values and output values of each of the R, G, and B signals. The R tone curve is shaped so as to squash the output values of the R Signal when the R signal input values are in a relatively low range and to expand the output values when the input values are in a relatively high range.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventor: Shinichi Takayama
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Patent number: 8254468Abstract: A coding distortion removal method for removing coding distortion in an image which was has been divided in to a plurality of macroblocks. The method operates under the following conditions such that: (i) a size of a pixel in a motion compensation block is smaller than a size of a pixel in said macroblock; (ii) a size of a pixel in a motion compensation block is larger than a size of a pixel in a coding unit; and (iii) a pixel difference between two adjacent motion compensation blocks located inside the macroblock is zero. The method disables the coding distortion removal at a boundary between blocks located inside each of the two adjacent motion compensation blocks, and enables the coding distortion removal at a boundary between the two adjacent motion compensation blocks.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Zhong Xue, Sheng Mei Shen, Teck Wee Foo, Chak Joo Lee, Shinya Kadono
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Patent number: 8253131Abstract: An organic EL display panel includes pixels and an interlayer insulation film on a thin film transistor layer. The interlayer insulation film includes contact holes which each correspond to one of the pixels. A bank is a grid that defines apertures. One of the contact holes is beneath each of the apertures. A first organic light-emitting layer is disposed in each of the apertures that corresponds to one of the pixels of a first color. A second organic light-emitting layer is disposed in each of the apertures that corresponds to one of the pixels of a second color. In each of the apertures in which one of the first and second organic light-emitting layers is disposed, a contact hole region is above the contact hole. A first-material layer comprising a same material as the first organic light-emitting layer and a second-material layer comprising a same material as the second organic light-emitting layer are superimposed in each contact hole region.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Takayuki Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8255213Abstract: A sound decoding device is capable of improving the lost frame compensation performance and improving quality of the decoded sound. A rise frame sound source compensation unit generates a compensation sound source signal when the current frame is a lost frame and a rise frame. An average sound source pattern update unit updates the average sound source pattern held in an average sound source pattern holding unit over a plurality of frames. When a frame is lost, an LPC synthesis unit performs LPC synthesis on a decoded sound source signal by using the compensation sound source signal inputted via a switching unit and a decoded LPC parameter from an LPC decoding unit and outputs the compensation decoded sound signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Koji Yoshida, Hiroyuki Ehara
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Patent number: 8255210Abstract: An audio/music decoding device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal generated by conceal processing of a frame erase using a scalable encoding method. The audio/music decoding device includes a frame loss detector that determines whether encoded information is normally received and generates frame loss information indicating the result of the determination. According to the frame loss information, a first decoder performs decoding by using at least one of the following encoded information: the first encoded information on the frame immediately before, the first encoded information on the current frame, and the second encoded information on the current frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kaoru Sato, Toshiyuki Morii, Tomofumi Yamanashi
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Video game processing apparatus, a method and a computer program product for processing a video game
Patent number: 8251823Abstract: Game information delivered from other video game processing apparatus different from a player's own video game processing apparatus is received via radio communication. Conditional read data and unconditional read data are stored in an information storage as the game information received by the information receiver. The conditional read data cannot be read when a specific condition is met, while the unconditional read data can be read unconditionally. It is determined whether or not the specific condition is met during progress of the video game. When the game information indicates the unconditional read data, the unconditional read data are set to readable in the case where the unconditional read data are stored in the information storage. On the other hand, when the game information indicates the conditional read data, the conditional read data are set to readable in the case where it is determined that the specific condition is met.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square EnixInventors: Tatsuya Kando, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Takeshi Arakawa -
Patent number: 8251460Abstract: Device including an inner shaft and an outer body rotatably mounted about an axis with respect to the shaft via at least one rolling bearing, the rolling bearing including an inner ring mounted on the inner shaft and an outer ring mounted in a housing of the outer body, the device including an automatic backlash elimination mechanism. The automatic backlash elimination mechanism includes a first washer having a tapered surface, and an elastic element in contact with the tapered surface of the first washer, the elastic element structured and arranged to generate a radial return force that is converted, by means of the tapered surface, into an axial force in order to eliminate the backlash related to the mounting of the rolling bearing. The first washer can be mounted on the shaft, in which case the elastic element generates a centripetal return force, or it can be mounted in the bore of the outer body, in which case the elastic element generates a centrifugal return force.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Salomon S.A.S.Inventor: Jean-Luc Veux
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Patent number: 8253544Abstract: An apparatus and a method of remote control which can enable real time operation of a device in home from a terminal device at remote location through a network are provided. A first server communicates with a terminal device through the Internet and generates device control data for controlling the device. A second server communicates with the device in a predetermined manner to acquire and store a specific address of the device, generates transmission data for transmission of the received device control data from the first server to the device based on the specific address, and transmits the transmission data to the device. This allows real time control of the device from the terminal device through the network to be realized.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Koji Hirose, Ryuichi Sakai
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Patent number: 8254209Abstract: In an acoustic wave sensor for detecting a distance to an object and an orientation where the object is located with using acoustic waves, an acoustic wave generating device generating an acoustic wave by applying thermal impact to the air with no mechanical vibration is used as a wave transmitting device, and an electric capacitance microphone converting variation of pressure due to acoustic wave to variation of an electric signal is used as each wave receiving device. Therefore, dead zone caused by reverberation component included in the acoustic wave transmitted from the wave transmitting device and dead zone caused by reverberation component included in wave receiving signals outputted from the wave receiving devices can be shortened and angular sensitivity of the acoustic wave sensor can be increased, in comparison with a conventional acoustic wave sensor using piezoelectric devices as the wave transmitting device and the wave receiving devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yoshifumi Watabe, Yoshiaki Honda, Kousaku Kitada, Hiroshi Kawada, Tomoo Ohtsuka, Kazuo Sawada, Hiromichi Goto
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Patent number: 8253332Abstract: An excimer lamp has a single tubular discharge chamber configured to enclose a discharge gas that is a noble gas or a mixing gas consisting of a noble gas and a halogen gas; a pair of electrodes configured to be arranged along opposite sides of the exterior surface of the discharge chamber; and an outer tube configured to cover the discharge chamber and the electrodes. Excimer molecules are produced by either dielectric barrier discharge or capacitive-coupled high-frequency discharge. An interior of a space formed between the outer tube and the discharge chamber is either in a vacuum state that is necessary and sufficient for preventing discharge, or is filled with an arc-suppression gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: ORC Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Yasuda, Go Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8251778Abstract: A double-side grinding apparatus is designed to be capable of minimizing thermal expansion of hydrostatic pad members and reducing nanotopography in performing wafer grinding. The double-side grinding apparatus is a double-side grinding apparatus for wafers that can simultaneously grind either surface of a wafer to be ground by pressing a grindstone against either surface of the wafer to be ground while hydrostatically supporting either surface of the wafer to be ground in a noncontact manner. Each hydrostatic supporting unit is formed with a hydrostatic pad member facing the wafer to be ground, and a base member placed on the back surface of the hydrostatic pad member. The hydrostatic pad member is made of a ceramic member, and the base member is made of a metal member.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sumco Techxiv CorporationInventor: Hiroyasu Futamura
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Patent number: 8252021Abstract: A surgical tool assembly includes a pair of opposing jaws pivotally connected to each other. Further, at least one viewing opening may be provided in at least one of the opposing jaws. In this regard, the at least one viewing opening may extend from an upper to a lower surface of the opposing jaw in which the viewing opening is provided. Additionally, the at least one viewing opening may include a material retainer provided proximate the lower surface of the opposing jaw in which the at least one viewing opening is provided. Further, the material retainer may include an inclined surface inclined towards a central axis of the at least one viewing opening. Further, a grasping insert may be molded onto a lower surface of the opposing jaw in which the viewing opening is provided and an elastomeric material of the grasping inserts may within the at least one viewing opening, the material of the grasping inserts covering the inclined surface of the first material retainer.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microline Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Luc Boulnois, Richard C. Kowalski
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Patent number: 8249429Abstract: When the number of requests for recording is more than the number of tuners by the extension of a broadcast time period of a program that has been timer-recorded as a reserved program, recording instruction information relating to the reserved program that is extended is transmitted to a mobile communication device from an information transmitter in a digital broadcasting receiver. In this case, the recording of the reserved program that is extended is started in the mobile communication device, and another reserved program is recorded by a program recorder in the digital broadcasting receiver. Further, when the number of requests for recording is more than the number of tuners by timer-recording other program or programs within the broadcast time period of the reserved program, recording instruction information relating to the one reserved program is transmitted to the mobile communication device from an information transmitter in the digital broadcasting receiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Takanori Iwamoto
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Patent number: 8247791Abstract: A compound semiconductor light emitting element is provided with a substrate which is provided on a side of one electrode; a plurality of columnar crystal structures of nanometer scale extending in a vertical direction on the substrate; and another electrode which interconnects top portions of the plurality of columnar crystal structures. On the substrate are provided a first region, and a second region having a step between the first region and the second region and having a substrate thickness greater than that in the first region; a porous first mask layer is formed on the surface of the first region on the substrate; and the plurality of columnar crystal structures are formed by sequentially layering an n-type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer, in the first and second regions on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Robert David Armitage
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Patent number: 8248327Abstract: A scan IC includes a switch circuit and a logic circuit. The switch circuit includes first and second transistors and a level shift circuit. First and second control signals that change between a logical “1” and a logical “0” are applied to an input terminal of the logic circuit. The logic circuit applies a third control signal to the first transistor and applies a fourth control signal to the second transistor based on the applied first and second control signals. A detection circuit is connected to the input terminal of the logic circuit. An abnormality of the scan IC is detected by the detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masaaki Kuranuki, Tosikazu Nagaki, Manabu Inoue, Tomohisa Sakaguchi, Kazuo Oohira
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Patent number: 8245868Abstract: Lock mechanisms are provide between a first case part and a second case part, which are openable and closable. Projections are formed on an outer side surface of the first case part. Each projection has a stopper hole that extends along a circumferential direction of the outer side surfaces of the case parts. U-shaped deformable pieces are formed with the outer side surface of the second case part and each deformable piece can be deformed in a direction perpendicular to the outer side surface of the second case part. A hook portion is formed with a distal portion of each deformable piece. Guide portions are formed at an edge of an entrance of the stopper hole and guide the hook portion toward the stopper hole. Holding portions are formed at an edge of an exit of the stopper hole and hold claw portions of the hook portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Ikeda, Hirotsugu Kojima
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Patent number: 8248331Abstract: An image display device includes a driver having a gate connected to a first electrode of a first capacitor and a source connected to an anode of a luminescence element. A second capacitor is connected to a second electrode of the first capacitor. A first switch supplies a reference voltage to the first electrode of the first capacitor. A second switch supplies a signal voltage to the second electrode of the first capacitor. A third switch connects the anode of the luminescence element to the second capacitor. A method of controlling the image display device includes: supplying the signal voltage to the first capacitor by switching ON the first and second switches when the third switch is OFF; switching OFF the first and second switches to turn ON the third switch after the first capacitor holds a capacitor voltage; and causing the second capacitor to hold a source potential of the driver while the third switch is ON.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Shinya Ono