Patents Represented by Law Firm Harness, Dickey & Pierce
  • Patent number: 8349227
    Abstract: A motheye mold fabrication method of at least one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) preparing an Al base in which an Al content is less than 99.99 mass %; (b) partially anodizing the Al base to form a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of very small recessed portions; (c) after step (b), allowing the porous alumina layer to be in contact with an etchant which contains an anodic inhibitor, thereby enlarging the plurality of very small recessed portions of the porous alumina layer; and (d) after step (c), further anodizing the Al base to grow the plurality of very small recessed portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Ihara
  • Patent number: 8350685
    Abstract: A collision detecting device includes a chamber member providing a chamber, a pressure sensor connected to the chamber member, and a bumper absorber absorbing an impact generated by collision of an object with the vehicle. The bumper absorber has a region, which has a thickness in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The thickness of the region is equal to or smaller than a predetermined thickness. The region is in contact with at least a portion of the chamber member. The collision is detected based on the pressure of the chamber detected by the pressure sensor. Hereby, a collision detecting device in which the bumper absorber has sufficient rigidity, and the chamber has sufficient deformability in case of collision can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Takatoshi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8350935
    Abstract: A color filter array includes a plurality of white filters, a plurality of yellow filters, a plurality of cyan filters and a plurality of green filters. The plurality of white filters transmits incident light. The plurality of yellow filters transmits a green component and a red component of the incident light. The plurality of cyan filters transmits the green component and a blue component of the incident light. The plurality of green filters transmits the green component of the incident light. An image sensor including the color filter array has high sensitivity and high SNR by increasing transmittance of the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Hak Kim, Tae-Chan Kim, Bum-Suk Kim, Jung-Hoon Jung, Tae-Sub Jung
  • Patent number: 8347702
    Abstract: A testing machine tests the durability of backer pads on the track shoe assembly and the surface of the road wheel. The test machine utilizes two eccentric drives to move a section of a road wheel to simulate actual vehicle conditions. A positioning system positions the track shoe assembly with respect to the road wheel to adjust the loading between the two components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: The Pullman Company
    Inventor: Kenneth A. McGill
  • Patent number: 8352380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a list signature for a message to be signed, said method comprising steps which are carried out by an electronic material support of a member of a list. During said step, the electronic material support only generates an electronic signature according to a sequence number supplied to the electronic material support by a certifying authority, according to evidence of belonging to the list of members, to data relating to the electronic material support, and optionally to a key of an authority qualified to lift the anonymity of the generated signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Sebastien Canard, Marc Girault, Jacques Traore
  • Patent number: 8352020
    Abstract: The inventive method for processing an RR series comprises a plurality of (RR) samples representing time intervals (dti) between two successive heart beats or the inverse (1/dti) of said time intervals consists in selecting (N) (RRi) samples in a main time window having a predetermined length (n), in cutting said main window into (m) subwindows (Fj), in calculating an intermediate parameter (A1) for each subwindow (Fj) on the basis of the (RRi) samples contained in the subwindow (Fj) and in calculating a final parameter as a function of the intermediate parameters (Aj). The invention is used for analysing a cardiac rhythm variability, in particular for assessing a patient's pain or stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Lille, Uiversite de Droite Et de la Sante de Lille II
    Inventors: Régis Logier, Mathieu Jeanne, Benoît Tavernier
  • Patent number: 8348218
    Abstract: A compressor assembly may include a hermetic shell, a base and a mounting assembly. The hermetic shell may include a lower cover defining a first aperture. The base may define a second aperture. The mounting assembly may include a first isolation member and a fastener. The first isolation member may define a third aperture and may be located on a first side of the base. The third aperture may have a first portion defining a first inner diameter. The fastener may extend through the first, second and third apertures. The fastener may include a shank having a first radial protrusion defining a first outer diameter greater than the first inner diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kent E. Logan
  • Patent number: 8350158
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to a tape wiring substrate including a film having an upper surface including a chip mounting area, the chip mounting area further including an inner area and a peripheral area, the film further including a lower surface, and vias penetrating the film, the vias being located in the inner area, an upper metal layer on the upper surface of the film and connected to electrode bumps of a semiconductor chip, and a lower metal layer on the lower surface of the film. Example embodiments are directed to a tape wiring substrate including a film having an upper surface including a chip mounting area, a lower surface, and vias penetrating the film, an upper metal layer on the upper surface of the film and connected to electrode bumps of a semiconductor chip, and a lower metal layer on the lower surface of the film, the vias being located outside of the chip mounting area. Example embodiments are directed to packages including tape wiring substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yechung Chung, Chulwoo Kim, Eunseok Song, Kyoungsei Choi
  • Patent number: 8350315
    Abstract: Memory devices include a tunneling insulating layer disposed on a substrate, a charge storage layer disposed on the tunneling insulating layer, a blocking insulating layer disposed on the charge storage layer and a control gate electrode disposed on the blocking insulating layer. The control gate electrode may have an edge portion spaced farther apart from the blocking insulating layer than a central portion of the control gate electrode to concentrate charge density distribution on a central portion of a memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang-soo Seol
  • Patent number: 8350922
    Abstract: A method to create a video sequence of a plurality of resultant images is disclosed. The video sequence is produced from images originating from a rolling shutter acquisition sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    Inventors: Emmanuel Pierre Aimé D'Angelo, Pierre Vandergheynst
  • Patent number: 8351564
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for displaying image data of a large intestine of a patient on the basis of tomographic examination data. In at least one embodiment, the method includes scanning of the patient, after ingestion of a contrast agent, in at least two differently aligned positions using a tomography system and generating a tomographic image data record for each position; segmenting the large intestine in the tomographic data records; detecting and marking regions of the segmented large intestine with adjacent remaining stool in the intestine (covered regions); registering the segmented large intestine in the at least two tomographic image data records; displaying a tomographic display of the segmented large intestine including markings of the covered regions; and displaying a selection menu in which tomographic displays of the segmented large intestine in the at least two differently aligned positions of the patient, including a marking of the covered regions, can be selected alternatively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellachaft
    Inventor: Lutz Gündel
  • Patent number: 8348632
    Abstract: A compressor shaft has a fluid inlet that leads into a fluid inlet tube, is perpendicular to a longitudinal hole in the length of the shaft. An intermediate inlet into the longitudinal hole is located between the fluid inlet and an outlet at an end of the longitudinal hole. A drive plate mounted to the compressor shaft has a protruding drive arm, which uses a holding mechanism to connect to a swash plate. At certain swash plate angles, the intermediate inlet is covered and sealed by the swash plate, or uncovered. The drive arm defines an internal bore and a through slot. At opposite ends, the bore merges into the longitudinal hole and open into the through slot. The holding mechanism and/or swash plate guide covers the bore in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Craig Soliz, Christopher Carleton Bartholomew
  • Patent number: 8350143
    Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument provides plural keys of a keyboard to be driven by an automatic playing system; although the automatic playing system selectively drives the keys in accordance with a performance rule expressing a music tune, a motion controller of the automatic playing system changes the performance rule if the human player drives the keys different from those defined in the performance rule so that the automatic playing system changes a part of the music tune in real time fashion during the automatic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Fujiwara, Tsutomu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8352045
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for stimulating living tissue, comprising an array of stimulating microelectrodes that are placed in a defined configuration side by side and able to be selected by applying an electrical signal for stimulation by one of the microelectrodes. According to the disclosure, an additional conducting surface for application against the living tissue, is provided in the vicinity of a defined plurality of sections for local application of microelectrodes, connecting structures being provided for electrical connection between the zones, and the additional conducting surface being also connected to a lead and being formed so as to ensure local stimulation via a microelectrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Group Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique, Universite de Bordeaux 1
    Inventors: Sébastien Joucla, Blaise Yvert, Lionel Rousseau
  • Patent number: 8351817
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling roller having a dual tube structure including an inner tube disposed inside an outer tube, an outside flow passage and an inside flow passage in which a cooling medium flows, and an opening that allows the outside flow passage to communicate with the inside flow passage, a cooling medium transport unit, and a rotating tube joint unit mounted to one end side of the cooling roller. One end of the outer tube is coaxially rotatably fitted to a first fitting section of the rotating tube joint unit. One end of the inner tube is coaxially fitted into and rotatably or fixedly supported to a second fitting section of the rotating tube joint unit, and the other end is coaxially fitted into and rotatably or fixedly supported to a fitting section on the other end of the outer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Saitoh, Satoshi Okano, Tomoyasu Hirasawa, Shingo Suzuki, Kenichi Takehara, Yasuaki Iijima, Takayuki Nishimura, Hiromitsu Fujiya, Keisuke Yuasa
  • Patent number: 8352734
    Abstract: A method for updating the firmware of a security module allowing it to “jump” towards a dedicated separate patch message stream thanks to a trigger messages stream broadcasted in a main stream of management messages. The trigger messages comprise version information allowing establishing whether the security module is up-to-date, and an identifier indicating to the security module the suitable patch stream. If the current version of the firmware of the security module is inferior to the patch version, the security module is directed towards the stream of patch messages designated by the identifier included in the trigger messages. Once the update of the firmware is complete, the security module is again directed towards the main stream. This return can be carried out automatically, namely with a switch message comprising an identifier of the first stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Nagravision S.A.
    Inventors: Xavier Carrel, Olivier Brique, Henri Kudelski, Nicolas Fisher
  • Patent number: 8348695
    Abstract: A power tool having a housing, a motor disposed in the housing, a power cord connected to the motor, and a cord protector operably engaging the power cord for movement therewith. The cord protector comprises a cam follower bracket having a camming slot sized to receive a cam follower. The cam follower bracket being biased into an initial position and exerting a biasing force upon the power cord in response to a load being applied to the power cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Puzio, Robert Opsitos, Richard C. Nickels, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8351507
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be located temporally before or after the current picture. The method further includes deriving at least one motion vector of the bi-predictive block by applying a bit operation to the selected list 0 motion vector. The bit operation includes 8 bits right shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Byeong Moon Jeon
  • Patent number: D673805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seonju Lee
  • Patent number: D674157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: An Taewan, Kim Youngjae