Patents Represented by Attorney Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
  • Patent number: 8306406
    Abstract: The video and audio reproduction apparatus according to the present invention is a video and audio reproduction apparatus that decodes a video and audio stream and reproduces the decoded video and audio stream and that includes a reconstructing unit which reconstructs a packet in an inputted video and audio stream; a decoding unit which decodes the video and audio stream having the reconstructed packet, the video and audio stream being received from the reconstructing unit; and an output unit which outputs the decoded video and audio stream, wherein, when the packet to be reconstructed contains a plurality of payloads in the inputted video and audio stream, the reconstructing unit reconstructs the packet in the video and audio stream so that each packet contains one payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Morita
  • Patent number: 8303585
    Abstract: A medical device for simultaneously cutting tissue with a heating element, cauterizing the tissue with sealing elements, and stapling the tissue together. The heating elements comprise bipolar RF electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Microline Surgical, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer
  • Patent number: 8306411
    Abstract: A photographic apparatus comprises an information obtaining unit and a controller. The information obtaining unit obtains information regarding a photographic subject image. The controller performs a switching control that changes a first use mode to a second use mode on a basis of the information. The first use mode is set by a user, and the second use mode is different from the first use mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Maeda
  • Patent number: 8303850
    Abstract: A rust preventive oil composition includes at least one base oil selected from the group consisting of mineral oils and synthetic oils, having a 5%-distillation temperature of not less than 140° C. and not more than 250° C., a 95%-distillation temperature of 250° C. or less, a difference between the 5%-distillation temperature and the 95%-distillation temperature of 90° C. or less, an aromatic content of 5% by volume or less, a naphthene content of not less than 30% by volume and not more than 95% by volume, a density at 15° C. of 0.75 g/cm3 or more, and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of not less than 0.3 mm2/s and not more than 5.0 mm2/s; at least one base oil selected from the group consisting of mineral oils and synthetic oils; and a rust-preventing additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Shibata, Tadaaki Motoyama, Kazuhiko Endou
  • Patent number: 8305449
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a focus state has an optical image-forming system that forms an object image, a plurality of line sensors that is arranged on a projected area of the optical image-forming system; a plurality of monitor sensors that is arranged on the projected area along the direction of a line-sensor array, each monitor sensor being adjacent to a corresponding line sensor and monitoring an amount of light incident on the corresponding line sensor; and a signal processor that outputs image-pixel signals corresponding to the object image on the basis of electric charges accumulated in the plurality of line sensors. At least an endmost monitor sensor corresponding to an endmost line sensor is arranged on the center-facing side of the endmost line sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sato, Yutaka Takakubo, Kazuo Sugitani
  • Patent number: 8304472
    Abstract: A method for producing a conductive polyamide-polyphenylene ether resin composition comprising (A) 10 to 90 parts by mass of a polyphenylene ether resin, (B) 5 to 85 parts by mass of a polyamide having a (terminal amino group)/(terminal carboxyl group) ratio falling within the range from 0.20 to 4.0, (C) 5 to 85 parts by mass of a polyamide having a (terminal amino group)/(terminal carboxyl group) ratio falling within the range from 0.05 to 0.19 and (D) 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a conductive filler, the method comprising the step of melt-kneading of the component (A), the component (B), a compatibilizer (F) and a master batch (E) obtained by melt-kneading of the component (D) and the component (C) in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Mutsumi Maeda
  • Patent number: 8305308
    Abstract: The display device including pixels has formed therein at least two drive blocks each made up of pixel rows. Each of the pixels includes: a drive transistor; a capacitor element, a luminescence element; a first switching transistor which causes conduction between the gate of the drive transistor and a fixed potential line; and a second switching transistor which causes conduction between the source of the drive transistor and the capacitor element. Each of the pixels further includes a third switching transistor which connects a pixel in a k-th drive block and a first signal line or a fourth switching transistor which connects a pixel in a (k+1)-th drive block and a second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 8302282
    Abstract: Placing device for placing a fastener. The device includes a housing, a mounting surface for a fastener and comprising an opening, a drive mandrel comprising a rotation axis and a portion which passes through the opening and that is structured and arranged to engage the fastener, and a fork-shaped receptacle arranged at least one of in an area of the mounting surface, adjacent the mounting surface, and associated with the mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Gesipa Blindniettechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Lothar Wille
  • Patent number: 8306209
    Abstract: A method is provided for customizing a call control rule by a subscriber at a graphical user interface. The method includes providing a first display, including multiple conditions relating to identifying calls involving the at least one telephone number, and receiving a first selection of at least one identifying condition. The method further includes providing a second display, including multiple call dispositions relating to processing the calls based on the at least one selected condition, and receiving a second selection of at least one call disposition. The identifying condition and the call disposition are stored as the call control rule in association with the telephone number, and calls involving the telephone number are processed in accordance with the stored call control rule. The method may also include providing a third display describing the call control rule contemporaneously with receiving the first and second selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Larry B Pearson, Jeffrey L. Brandt, James T. Miller, James M Doherty, Stephen M. Mueller
  • Patent number: 8302388
    Abstract: After adjusting an exhaust gas temperature at an exit of a heat recovery unit (11) of an exhaust gas treating apparatus to not more than a dew point temperature of sulfur trioxide (SO3), a heavy metal adsorbent is supplied from a heavy metal adsorbent supply unit (16) disposed in an exhaust gas at an entrance of a precipitator (4) or an intermediate position within the precipitator (4), and the exhaust gas containing the heavy metal adsorbent is supplied into the precipitator (4). Preferably at this stage, the heavy metal adsorbent is supplied into the exhaust gas at the entrance of the precipitator (4) 0.1 seconds after the exhaust gas temperature at the exit of the heat recovery unit (11) has been adjusted to not more than the dew point temperature of SO3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuki Kobayashi, Hirofumi Kikkawa, Hiroshi Ishizaka, Hiroshi Takezaki, Hiroyuki Nosaka
  • Patent number: 8303120
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a projector receiving an image signal and projecting image light and a screen including a projection plane of arbitrary shape. The projector and screen are connected with link mechanisms and link mechanisms. The relative position and posture between the projector and the screen are automatically or manually changeable. The relative position and posture between the projector and the screen are measured, and correction parameters for correcting distortion of image light projected from the projector onto the screen are calculated from the previously set viewing position of the viewer and the shape of the projection plane of the projector. Based on the calculated correction parameters, the image signal inputted into the projector is subjected to distortion correction processing. It is therefore possible to allow the viewer to see a clear image even if the position of the screen is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hoshino, Ryo Kawamura, Atsuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8302557
    Abstract: A device and a method which is capable of uniformly coating, without waste, any flow passages formed in a raw material with a slurry even if a slurry having high viscosity is fed thereto by an amount required for the use of coating without excess and shortage. When the slurry (S) fed to one end of the base material (M) in which a large number of flow passages (2 . . . ) are formed parallel with each other is forced into the flow passages (2 . . . ) by an air pressure to coat the inner walls (2w) of the flow passages, the slurry (S) is fed from a slurry feeding device (6) by a required amount to a slurry storage part (5) formed at the upper surface part of the base material (M) disposed so that both ends of the flow passages (2 . . . ) can be opened in the upper and bottom surfaces thereof. Then, before the slurry (S) is forced into the flow passages (2 . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Cataler Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Goshima, Shigeji Matsumoto, Kosuke Shinomiya
  • Patent number: 8302322
    Abstract: A detector includes a stylus, a holding portion that holds a proximal end portion of the stylus, a body portion that supports the holding portion rotatably about a rotational axis, and a sensor that detects a rotational displacement of the holding portion. The holding portion includes an abutting member, on which the proximal end portion of the stylus abuts, and a plate spring that biases the proximal end portion of the stylus against the abutting member. The abutting member includes a groove portion on which the proximal end portion of the stylus abuts, and a semispherical portion that extends toward the plate spring, compared with a bottom of the groove portion. The stylus includes a proximal end inclined portion at the proximal end portion of the stylus. The proximal end inclined portion is inclined toward the plate spring, with a decreasing distance from the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Junsuke Yasuno, Hideki Sindo
  • Patent number: 8305694
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group, in this order from an object. Upon zooming from the short focal length extremity to the long focal length extremity, the distance between the first and the second lens groups increases, and the distance between the second and the third lens groups decreases. The third lens group includes a positive first sub-lens group and a negative second sub-lens group, in this order from the object. The first sub-lens group comprises a positive lens element provided at the most object-side thereof and a cemented lens provided at the most image-side thereof. The cemented lens includes a positive lens element and a negative lens element, in this order from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Saori
  • Patent number: 8307190
    Abstract: The memory control device according to the present invention includes a command generating unit which divides the memory access request issued by the master into access commands each of which is for one of the memory devices, a command issuing units which issue each of the access commands to the memory devices, a data control unit which switches data between a master and memories, and the command generating unit switch between control for outputting an identical physical address to the memory units and control for outputting different physical addresses to the memory devices, depending on when the physical addresses of the memory devices are identical and when the physical addresses of the memory devices are different, each of the memory devices corresponds to one of the divided access commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Daisuke Imoto, Koji Asai, Nobuyuki Ichiguchi, Tetsuji Mochida
  • Patent number: 8303545
    Abstract: Fluid delivery device includes a body, a cannula adapted to extend into subcutaneous tissue, and a septum member adapted to allow a needle to puncture the septum member and to reseal the puncture once the needle is withdrawn from the puncture. The septum member is at least one of; a cap-shaped member, a member having at least two non-parallel walls that can each be punctured by a needle, and a member having a generally planar wall and a generally cylindrical wall which can each be punctured by a needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Stat Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Schraga
  • Patent number: 8299380
    Abstract: Disclosed are a position indicating apparatus for a circuit breaker and a circuit breaker having the same. The circuit breaker having a position indicating apparatus comprises a cradle having a bus bar terminal and a load terminal; a main body having a bus bar connection unit and a load connection unit respectively connected to the bus bar terminal and the load terminal, and configured to be movable to a run position that the terminals and the connection units are connected to each other, and to a test position that the terminals and the connection units are separated from each other; and a position indicating apparatus configured to outwardly display a position of the main body by interworking with motion of the main body, wherein the position indicating apparatus comprises: a movable pin interworking with motion of the main body; and a display unit configured to display a position of the main body corresponding to a position of the movable pin by interworking with motion of the movable pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: In-Kyum Kim, Kil-Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 8300334
    Abstract: A variable power lens, having first and second lens groups, includes first and second lens group support frames, a linear guide ring, first and second lens group drive rings which rotate to move the first and second lens group support rings in the optical axis direction relative to the linear guide ring, a drive ring coupler which couples the first and second lens group drive rings with each other to prevent relative rotation therebetween while allowing relative movement therebetween in the optical axis direction; and a drive-ring movement controller which integrally rotates the first and second lens group drive rings via the drive ring coupler without relatively moving in the optical axis direction when a power-variation operating member is operated, and moves one of the first and the second lens group drive rings in the optical axis direction without rotating when a focus operating member is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8297202
    Abstract: To join vertically and horizontally arranged frame members to the interior face of an outer panel, the horizontal frame members are disposed on the outer panel so as to take precedence over the vertical frame members and are weld-joined to the outer panel. The vertical frame members are placed on the horizontal frame members from the interior side and are weld-joined to the horizontal frame members. The vertical frame member includes a standard-width frame member and a wide-width frame member having a width greater than the width of the standard-width frame member. The vertical frame members are joined to and in contact with the outer panel at a reduced number of points, so that the appearance of the outer panel is maintained in a good condition. With this configuration, a low cost vertical and horizontal frame structure is achieved, which has sufficiently high joint strength that provides the required strength of the outer panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kono, Tomonori Sumikawa, Hiroshi Yonetani, Eiichi Kato
  • Patent number: D670247
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sulzer Metco (US), Inc.
    Inventor: Robert F. Savill, Jr.