Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Griffin & Szipl, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7098866
    Abstract: The reader or transmitter and/or receiver (22) includes a sheathed antenna formed of two groups of turns or coils (6, 8, 9; 16, 17). The first group of turns or coils forms a sheathed antenna. The second group includes two coils (16, 17) arranged between the central coil (6) and respectively the two end coils (8, 9) of the first group. The second group of coils is powered in phase quadrature relative to the first group of coils, the set of coils being arranged so as to obtain a magnetic field (H) whose amplitude (A) is approximately constant along the central axis (24) of the antenna inside the overall inner volume of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: EM Microelectonics-Marin SA
    Inventors: Olivier Desjeux, Laurent Neveux
  • Patent number: 7095134
    Abstract: A power ring device that includes: a ring conductor; a plurality of controllers, each controller being connected to the ring conductor and includes a first control unit; a plurality of paired pick ups, wherein each pair connects either an electrical consumer device or an electrical power supply to the ring conductor and to one of the plurality of controllers, wherein a first pair of pick ups of a first controller is connected to a first power supply; and a plurality of current sensor signal lines connecting each control unit to form a data connection; wherein each controller has a right and left side, a right sided and left sided switch elements; and a right sided and left sided current sensors connected so that a first current value measured by the left sided current sensor of the first controller is transmitted as data to the first control unit of a second controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Bodo Sauer, Ralf Rehder
  • Patent number: 7093473
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a band plate has a rolling mill that includes a pair of upper and lower work rolls that roll a slab material having edge drop portions at both ends thereof, and a pair of backup rolls that contact non-rolling side surfaces of the pair of upper and lower work rolls, respectively to prevent the work rolls from being deformed. The work roll includes a reverse taper portion where a roll diameter gradually increases towards a barrel end portion thereof corresponding to the edge drop portion. The upper and lower work rolls are configured to be shiftable individually in the axial direction thereof. The backup roll includes an escape portion whose diameter gradually decreases towards an axial end thereof so as not to contact the reverse taper portion of the work roll, within a shifting range of the work roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Honjo, Takayuki Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 7094375
    Abstract: A method for producing a window glass for a vehicle provided with an ornamental braid comprises steps of setting an ornamental braid on a lower mold of an injection molding machine, fixing an ornamental braid connection member on the lower mold, setting a glass plate on the lower mold, closing an upper mold, thereby locking the molds, and injecting molten resin into a cavity formed between the lower mold and the upper mold, thereby integrally molding a resin frame, the ornamental braid and the ornamental braid connection member along a periphery of the glass plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Osamu Nakata
  • Patent number: 7091470
    Abstract: A purge air flow passage structure has an air flow passage for ventilating the purge air, a separation space that is provided in the air flow passage and separates dust in the purge air therefrom, and a filter that is provided in the air flow passage, is positioned upstream of the separation space, and collects dust in the purge air. The filter includes two or more shielding parts each of which has a plurality of passing holes r slits arranged in the width direction of the filter. The shielding parts are successively arranged in the air flow passage to be separated from each other by a predetermined distance in the air flow direction. Each of the shielding parts includes a wall portion facing upstream that is positioned such that the wall portion is struck by the purge air that passed through the passing hole of the neighboring upstream shielding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Horikawa, Takurou Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7091916
    Abstract: The portable electronic device comprises a movement which is formed by a printed circuit board on the upper surface of which a digital display cell is disposed. At the side of the upper surface of the display cell, an antenna coil is disposed which covers the peripheral part of the cell. The electrical connection between the antenna coil and the printed circuit is produced by means of a connector which is formed by two corresponding male connectors and two female connectors. The male connectors are formed by elastically deformable blades which penetrate into two metallized holes of the board which define the two female connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogére Suisse
    Inventor: Daniel Paratte
  • Patent number: 7091534
    Abstract: The semiconductor device is capable of coping with speedup of operation using a low dielectric constant material film other than silicon. The base (10) formed by the substrate (11) and the low dielectric constant material film (12) whose relative dielectric constant is lower than silicon is provided. The semiconductor element layer including the MOS transistor (30) is adhered onto the surface of the base (10) for stacking. The transistor (30) is formed by using the island-shaped single-crystal Si film (31) and buried in the insulator films (15), (16) and (17). The multilayer wiring structure (18) is formed on the semiconductor element layer and is electrically connected to the transistor (30). The electrode (20) functioning as a return path for the signals is formed on the back surface of the base (10). Instead of forming the electrode (20) on the base (10), the electrodes (20A) may be arranged on the back surface of the base (10A), configuring the base (10A) as an interposer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: ZyCube Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsumasa Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 7086607
    Abstract: In an electrical dispenser (10) for deodorant or insecticide which contains electric heating means (40) placed near the first end (76A) of a wick (76) the second end (76B) of which is dipped into a deodorant or insecticide liquid (72) contained in a small bottle (70), the electric heating means (40) consist of a resistive heating strip (40) wrapped around the first end (76A) of the wick (76).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: ALPER srl
    Inventors: Valerio Bresolin, Daniele Ragazzon
  • Patent number: 7087158
    Abstract: Filtration-function-equipped cooling water equipment that includes: filtration equipment connected to water-purifying, oxygen-supply-capable cooling water equipment, wherein the filtration equipment includes a filtration space for a filter, wherein the water-purifying, oxygen-supply-capable cooling water equipment comprises a cooling oxidation unit disposed inside of a tank body and comprising a honeycombed or latticed porous material, wherein the filtration-function-equipped cooling water equipment operates to enlarge a contact area between water and air when untreated water drips onto the cooling oxidation unit and flows through the cooling oxidation unit while forced air flows in a counter current against the flow of water in the cooling oxidation unit, thereby facilitating solubility of oxygen in the untreated water and augmenting a cooling capability due to evaporation provided by the water-purifying, oxygen-supply-capable cooling water equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Hisashi Miyamoto, Akira Nakano
  • Patent number: 7088363
    Abstract: A method of storing substantial data integrating shape and physical properties comprising (A) inputting external data 12 consisting of boundary data of an object 1, (B) dividing, by modified Octree division, the external data into cubical cells 13 which boundary surfaces are orthogonal to each other, and (C) storing the values of various physical properties for each of the cells. Furthermore, in step (B), each of the divided cells 13 is classified to non-boundary cells 13a located in the interior of the object or in a region outside of the object, and boundary cells 13b including boundary surfaces. Thereby, substantial data integrating shape and physical properties can be stored in small storage capacity, thus enabling the integration of CAD and simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Kiwamu Kase, Hideo Tashiro, Ryutaro Himeno, Akitake Makinouchi
  • Patent number: 7083498
    Abstract: When a forming a bevel on a lens, the value of the bevel curve is calculated based on the value of the curve of the concave face, a reference axis of the bevel curve is determined to be in the same direction as the curvature of the concave face, a reference position on the peripheral edge of the lens in the first portion having the minimum thickness is determined based on the thickness of the first portion, a correction for the initial reference axis of the bevel curve is obtained, an angle of inclination from the direction of the initial reference axis of the bevel curve is obtained based on the correction and the locus of the bevel is determined based on the value of the bevel curve, the reference position and the angle of inclination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Jinbo, Takashi Daimaru
  • Patent number: 7083859
    Abstract: Disclosed are conductive powder having a packing density of 68% by volume or more with a relative value preferably comprising 60 to 92% by weight of roughly spherical and silver-plated copper powder part of the surface of which has been coated with 3 to 30% by weight of silver based on an amount of roughly spherical copper powder with exposing at least a surface of a portion of an alloy of copper with silver, and the surface of which is coated with 0.02 to 1.0% by weight of an aliphatic acid based on an amount of the roughly spherical and silver-plated copper powder, and 8 to 40% by weight of silver powder, and a method for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideji Kuwajima
  • Patent number: 7083499
    Abstract: When a forming a bevel on a lens, the value of the bevel curve is calculated based on the value of the curve of the concave face, a reference axis of the bevel curve is determined to be in the same direction as the curvature of the concave face, a reference position on the peripheral edge of the lens in the first portion having the minimum thickness is determined based on the thickness of the first portion, a correction for the initial reference axis of the bevel curve is obtained, an angle of inclination from the direction of the initial reference axis of the bevel curve is obtained based on the correction and the locus of the bevel is determined based on the value of the bevel curve, the reference position and the angle of inclination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Jinbo, Takashi Daimaru
  • Patent number: 7085628
    Abstract: A pressure sensor, a pressure control apparatus, and a flow rate control apparatus are provided to automatically correct temperature drift of the pressure sensor and accurately detect pressure despite changes in temperature. An embodiment includes an upstream side pressure sensor between an orifice and a control valve, to control flow rate through the orifice by a regulating control valve, while calculating the flow from the upstream side pressure. With a temperature sensor, a memory means, and a temperature drift correcting means which calculates drift of the upstream side pressure sensor from data in the memory means when the temperature of the fluid changes and offsets the output drift of the upstream side pressure sensor with the calculated amount of the output drift, temperature drift of the pressure sensor is automatically corrected, enabling accurate control of flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignees: Fujikin Incorporated, Tokyo Electron Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Tomio Uno, Osamu Nakamura, Nobukazu Ikeda, Ryousuke Dohi, Kouji Nishino, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 7080658
    Abstract: A fluid passage is emergently-closed in a short time without causing a water hammer by an extremely simple device and operation. A water hammerless closing device includes an actuator operated valve provided in a fluid passage, an electro-pneumatic conversion device for supplying a 2-step actuator operating pressure Pa to an actuator operated-type valve, a vibration sensor removably secured to the pipe passage on the upstream side of the actuator operated-type valve, and a tuning box receiving a vibration detection signal Pr from the vibration sensor and delivering a control signal Sc to the electro-pneumatic conversion device for controlling the step operating pressure Ps? of the 2-step actuator operating pressure Pa so that, with the control signal Sc being regulated, the electro-pneumatic conversion device outputs the 2-step actuator operating pressure Pa with the step operating pressure Ps? capable of bringing the vibration detection signal Pr substantially to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignees: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Nobukazu Ikeda, Kouji Nishino, Masaaki Nagase, Kyousuke Dohi, Ryutaro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 7081731
    Abstract: A translatory actuator unit including a translatory actuator module that moves an object straightly, a force sensor that detects a load applied to the translatory actuator module, and a servo control module that controls a speed, a position and/or output power of the translatory actuator module. The translatory actuator module, the force sensor and the servo control module are integrally configured. The servo control module has a two-way network means of receiving a control command concerning the speed, the position and/or the output power from a network, and transmitting information of the speed, the position and/or the output power to the network, a control means of controlling the speed, the position and/or the output power, and a self-diagnosis means of confirming safety and detecting an abnormal state based on detected information of the speed, the position, the load, and/or an electric current of the translatory actuator module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Hajime Asama, Kuniaki Kawabata, Hayato Kaetsu, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Yasuhiro Hirata
  • Patent number: 7077114
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation system for a combustion engine is proposed that includes all important functions within a housing. For this purpose an exhaust gas recirculation valve, an exhaust gas cooling device with a heat exchanger unit, as well as a bypass channel with a bypass flap likewise embodied in the housing, form a unit. In addition, the exhaust gas recirculation valve in the area of its valve seat is cooled by the coolant of the exhaust gas cooling device. Thus a solution is proposed that, in comparison with known exhaust gas recirculation systems, greatly reduces construction space and weight, at the same time features low-cost assembly, and is also to be implemented very cost-effectively by the possibility of producing all housing parts in the die-casting method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Pierburg GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Hüsges
  • Patent number: 7078151
    Abstract: A photosensitive element comprising a support film and a photosensitive resin layer formed on the support film is provided, wherein the support film is a multilayer support film comprising at least three layers; and wherein the photosensitive resin layer comprises a photosensitive resin composition comprising (A) a binder polymer, (B) a photopolymerizable compound having at least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated group within a molecule, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Aoki, Taku Kawaguchi, Tatsuya Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7078094
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip is attached to a lead frame with a filmy organic die-bonding material having a water absorption of 1.5% by volume or less; having a saturation moisture absorption of 1.0% by volume or less, having a residual volatile component in an amount not more than 3.0% by weight, having a modulus of elasticity of 10 MPa or less at a temperature of 250° C. The semiconductor device thus obtained can be free from occurrence of reflow cracks during reflow soldering for the packaging of semiconductor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Takeda, Takashi Masuko, Masami Yusa, Tooru Kikuchi, Yasuo Miyadera, Iwao Maekawa, Mitsuo Yamasaki, Akira Kageyama, Aizou Kaneda
  • Patent number: D526368
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Inventors: Urs Giger, Sonja Giger, Adrian Giger, Thomas Giger, Martin Giger