Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Griffin & Szipl, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8142605
    Abstract: A circuit-connecting material which is interposed between circuit electrodes facing each other and electrically connects the electrodes in the pressing direction by pressing the facing electrodes against each other; the circuit-connecting material comprising as essential components (1) a curing agent capable of generating free radicals upon heating, (2) a hydroxyl-group-containing resin having a molecular weight of 10,000 or more and (3) a radical-polymerizable substance. Also provided are a circuit terminal connected structure and a circuit terminal connecting method which make use of such a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Itsuo Watanabe, Tohru Fujinawa, Motohiro Arifuku, Houko Kanazawa, Atsushi Kuwano
  • Patent number: 8142069
    Abstract: The invention includes a device for securing a back cover on a middle part of a watchcase, characterized in that it includes an intermediate element to which the back cover is connected, the intermediate element being screwed onto the middle part of the watch, an element arranged to allow the back cover to drive the intermediate element in rotation until the latter reaches a locked position on the middle part, the back cover also being pivotable relative to the intermediate element without the latter being unscrewed for alignment with the 12 o'clock-6 o'clock axis of the watch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Management Services AG
    Inventors: Jacques Müller, Clément Meyrat, David Apotheloz, Luciano Eleuterio, Bertrand Carrard, Rocco Catanese, Domenico Leo
  • Patent number: 8137056
    Abstract: An impingement cooled structure includes a plurality of shroud members disposed in a circumferential direction to constitute a ring-shaped shroud surrounding a hot gas stream, and a shroud cover mounted on radial outside faces of the shroud members to form a cavity therebetween. The shroud cover has a first impingement cooling hole which communicates with the cavity and allows cooling air to be jetted to an inside thereof so as to cool an inner surface of the cavity by impingement. The shroud members each has a hole fin. The hole fin divides the cavity into a plurality of sub-cavities. Further, the hole fin has a second impingement cooling hole which allows the cooling air having flowed through the first impingement cooling hole to be jetted obliquely toward a bottom surface of the sub-cavity adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Shu Fujimoto, Youji Ohkita, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Takashi Yamane, Masahiro Matsushita, Toyoaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8137902
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing parts of a first material able to be etched from a substrate including at least one superficial layer of the first material, includes (a) forming a substantially uniform superficial layer of a second material at the surface of the superficial layer of the first material, wherein the second material resists a selective etch of the first material, (b) forming a bead of second material at the periphery of the superficial layer of second material, (c) structuring the layer of second material and the bead by a photolithographic process including an etch step of sufficient duration to etch the superficial layer of second material over the entire thickness thereof, but insufficient to etch the bead over the entire thickness thereof, so as to obtain a mask, and (d) cutting out parts made of the first material through the mask of the second material, by directional etching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic-Marin S.A.
    Inventors: Yvan Gonin, Vittorio Emilio Marsico
  • Patent number: 8138678
    Abstract: A charged particle beam decelerating device includes a high-frequency cavity 34 provided on an orbit of a charged particle beam 1, and a phase synchronizing device 40 for synchronizing the charged particle beam 1 in the high-frequency cavity with a phase of a high-frequency electric field 4. By moving the high-frequency cavity 34 or changing an orbit length of the charged particle beam 1, the charged particle beam in the high-frequency cavity is synchronized with a phase of the high-frequency electric field 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Daisuke Ishida, Hiroyuki Nose, Namio Kaneko, Yasuo Sakai, Masashi Yamamoto, Mitsuru Uesaka, Katsuhiro Dobashi, Fumito Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8132319
    Abstract: The invention provides a circuit connecting method that can satisfactorily reduce connection resistance between circuit electrodes electrically connected via an anisotropic conductive film for circuit connection. The circuit connecting method comprises a step of preparing a circuit member 12 having circuit electrodes 12b formed on a glass substrate 12a, a step of preparing a flexible wiring board 14 having circuit electrodes 14b formed on a base 14a and provided with a solder resist 18 at the sections of the circuit electrodes 14b other than the sections that are connected to the circuit electrodes 12b, and a step of bonding the circuit member 12 to the flexible wiring board 14 via an anisotropic conductive film for circuit connection 16 so that part of the anisotropic conductive film for circuit connection 16 overlaps with part of the solder resist 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Arifuku, Kazuyoshi Kojima, Kouji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8130596
    Abstract: The electronic circuit (1) controls the operation of the peripheral members of a watch. The circuit (1) includes a processor (2) connected to a non-volatile memory (3), which contains instructions to be carried out, peripheral member controllers (4) for interacting with peripheral members of the watch and connecting means (6a, 6b, 7). These connecting means (6a, 6b, 7) are arranged to enable the peripheral member controllers (4), the non-volatile memory and the processor (2) to communicate data relating to the operation of said watch to each other. This electronic circuit (1) further includes initializing means (8) able to act on the peripheral member controllers (4) to initialize said controllers so that they can execute operations independently of the processor (2) and/or the non-volatile memory (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic-Marin S.A.
    Inventor: Yves Godat
  • Patent number: 8125201
    Abstract: The DC-DC converter (21) is for integration in a low power transceiver (100). The converter is able to supply an output voltage that is higher than the input voltage. The converter includes two distinct variable voltage regulator circuits (3 and 4). The first variable voltage regulator circuit (3) is arranged to operate at a first frequency and a second variable voltage regulator circuit (4) is arranged to operate at a second frequency, which is lower than the first frequency. The converter further includes switching means connected to each variable voltage regulator circuit for selecting one of the two regulator circuits to switch on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic-Marin SA
    Inventor: Arthur Descombes
  • Patent number: 8125466
    Abstract: Capacitive touch screen including first and second substrates (2, 4) that extend parallel to and at a distance from each other, said first and second substrates (2, 4) being made of a transparent, dielectric material, a first series of electrodes (6), made of a transparent, electrically conductive material, being arranged on at least the surface (2a) of the first substrate (2) that faces the second substrate (4), said touch screen being characterized in that it includes means for keeping the space between the two substrates (2, 4) constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: EM Microelectronic-Marin S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Hamm, Emile Grosjacques
  • Patent number: 8121157
    Abstract: To provide a terahertz beam scanning apparatus and method that can scan a terahertz beam at high speed over a wide angle. The terahertz beam scanning apparatus includes: a laser device 12 that generates a first laser beam 1 and a second laser beam 2 having different wavelengths; a laser optical system 14 that focuses the first laser beam 1 and the second laser beam 2 on a same common focal point 14b; and a terahertz generator 16 that is located at the common focal point and generates a terahertz beam 4 by difference frequency mixing. The laser optical system 14 is configured to be capable of changing a relative incidence ?i between the first laser beam and the second laser beam to the terahertz generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Riken
    Inventors: Ken-ichiro Maki, Takayuki Shibuya, Chiko Otani, Kodo Kawase
  • Patent number: 8117978
    Abstract: A sailing ship comprises a hard sail assembly. The hard sail assembly comprises a plurality of hard sails of wing-shaped hollow cross section. The hard sails are vertically stacked so that each except the lowermost is received in the one immediately below. The sailing ship further comprises an apparatus for driving the hard sails to move each except the lowermost toward and away from the one immediately below, a post extending vertically to support the lowermost hard sail, and a second apparatus for rotating the post around its longitudinal axis. Overlapping lengths between vertically adjacent hard sails are variably controlled to make the hard sail assembly expand and contract vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Ouchi Ocean Consultant, Inc., GH Craft Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Ouchi, Gaku Kimura
  • Patent number: 8118591
    Abstract: A heat shield plate for a substrate annealing apparatus is provided with a horizontally supported flat-plate-like substrate 1, a heater 5 positioned above the substrate to heat the upper surface of the substrate with radiation heat, and a heat shield plate 10 horizontally movable between a shielding position where the substrate is shielded from heater and an open position out of the shielding position. The heat shield plate 10 is composed of a structural member 12 made of a low thermal expansion material (carbon composite material) which is hardly deformed due to a temperature difference in the shielding position, and a heat insulating member 14 which covers the upper surface of the structural member and keeps the surface at an allowable temperature or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Terumasa Ishihara, Takaharu Hashimoto, Masayuki Mizuno, Masaru Morita
  • Patent number: 8121399
    Abstract: The invention includes a step S1 for inputting into a computer coordinate values on a three-dimensional shape; a step S4 for structuring an environment model that partitions a spatial region, in which a three-dimensional shape exists, into a plurality of voxels of rectangular solids, and stores each position; and a step S5 for setting and recording a representative point and an error distribution thereof, within the voxel corresponding to the coordinate value. If there is no data in a previous measurement position, position matching is performed in a fine position matching step S7 so as to minimize an evaluation value regarding the distances between adjacent error distributions by rotating and translating a new measurement data and error distribution for the environment model for a previous measuring position, or rotating and translating an environment model for a new measuring position, relative to an environment model for a previous measuring position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hayashi, Yukihiro Kawano, Hideo Terada
  • Patent number: 8115137
    Abstract: In laser annealing using a solid state laser, a focus position of a minor axial direction of a rectangular beam is easily corrected depending on positional variation of a laser irradiated portion of a semiconductor film. By using a minor-axis condenser lens 29 condensing incident light in a minor axial direction and a projection lens 30 projecting light, which comes from the minor-axis condenser lens 29, onto a surface of a semiconductor film 3, laser beam 1 is condensed on the surface of the semiconductor film 3 in the minor axial direction of a rectangular beam. The positional variation of a vertical direction of the semiconductor film 3 in a laser irradiated portion of the semiconductor film 3 is detected by a positional variation detector 31, and the minor-axis condenser lens 29 is moved in an optical axis direction based on a value of the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kawaguchi, Ryusuke Kawakami, Kenichiro Nishida, Miyuki Masaki, Masaru Morita, Atsushi Yoshinouchi
  • Patent number: 8116558
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data position matching method for measuring a static three-dimensional shape from a plurality of measuring positions, and for combining and position matching the distance data thereof, including: a data inputting step S1 for inputting, into a computer, coordinate values on a three-dimensional shape at a new measuring position; a model structuring step S4 for structuring an environment model that partitions a spatial region in which the three-dimensional shape exists, into a plurality of voxels formed from rectangular solids, of which the boundary surfaces are mutually perpendicular, and stores the positions of the individual voxels; a matching step S5 for setting and recording a representative point and an error distribution thereof, within the voxel corresponding to the coordinate value; a fine matching step S7 for position matching so as to minimize the summation of the distances between adjacent error distributions by rotating and translating a new measured data and error distribu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Hayashi, Yukihiro Kawano, Hideo Terada
  • Patent number: 8106362
    Abstract: A surface contamination examining device includes a radiation detector 11 and an arithmetic/display device 13 for displaying radiation intensity in form of a counting rate. The arithmetic/display device has a boundary detecting device 10 that detects the boundary of contamination 14 of an object to be measured by a radioactive material while the radiation detector moves along a surface 18 of the object to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: National Institute of Radiological Sciences
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 8105759
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition comprising (A) a binder polymer, (B) a photopolymerizing compound with a polymerizable ethylenic unsaturated bond, (C) a photoradical polymerization initiator containing a 2,4,5-triarylimidazole dimer or its derivative, and (D) a compound represented by the following general formula (1) (wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent C1-20 alkyl, etc., and R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 each independently represent hydrogen, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Miyasaka, Takashi Kumaki
  • Patent number: 8102968
    Abstract: A high brightness X-ray generator and a high brightness X-ray generating method are provided which are able to promote an increase in X-ray brightness (i.e., an increase in an X-ray output) while suppressing an excessive increase in the cost of optical elements such as a laser unit, a mirror, and a lens. A high brightness X-ray generator generates an X-ray by inverse Compton scattering by colliding an electron beam with pulse laser light. There are provided a plurality of pulse laser units (32A, 32B) which emits a plurality of pulse laser lights (3a, 3b ) in predetermined periods, an optical-path matching unit (34) which matches optical paths of the plurality of pulse laser lights, and a timing control unit (40) which controls timings of the optical-path matching unit and the pulse laser units, wherein the plurality of pulse laser lights is emitted from the same optical path at different timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nose, Daisuke Ishida, Namio Kaneko, Yasuo Sakai, Mitsuru Uesaka, Fumito Sakamoto, Katsuhiro Dobashi
  • Patent number: 8101339
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition according to the invention comprises (A) a binder polymer, (B) a photopolymerizing compound with an ethylenic unsaturated group and (C) a photopolymerization initiator, wherein component (B) contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I). [Wherein R1-R3 each independently represent a group represented by the following general formula (II): or the following general formula (III): and at least one of R1-R3 is a group represented by general formula (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Ajioka
  • Patent number: D655341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yanagawa, Kazuyuki Watanabe