Patents Represented by Attorney Hill, Steadman & Simpson
  • Patent number: 6896255
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cassette for receiving a stack of sheets, with a pressing element which bears against a first end face of the stack of sheets and is movable in the pressing direction, with a drive motor for displacing the pressing element so that a second end face the stack of sheets facing away from the pressing element can be brought to bear against extracting elements of a sheet extracting device, and with a measuring device for determining the pressing force of the stack of sheets against the extracting elements an output signal of the measuring device serving for controlling the drive motor in order to generate a predetermined pressing force. The stack of sheets and the pressing element are arranged in a slide which is accommodated in the cassette movably in the direction of displacement of the pressing element, the pressing element being displaceable with respect to the slide by the drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fick, Günter Baitz, Wolfgang Malke
  • Patent number: 6072208
    Abstract: In a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a step produced by forming a stacked capacitor can be prevented from being produced and increased, thereby facilitating the patterning of an upper layer (wiring, etc.). Further, the pattern layout can be made with freedom and the DRAM itself can be highly integrated. This dynamic random access memory is constructed such that stacked capacitors (C.sub.1), (C.sub.2) composed of accumulation node electrodes (7a), (7b), a dielectric layer (8) and a sub-plate electrode (9) are formed on the under layers of a switching element (Tr1) composed of a word line (4a) and two source-drain regions (5a), (5b) and a switching element (Tr2) composed of a word line (4b) and two source-drain regions (5a), (5c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Nishihara
  • Patent number: 5967108
    Abstract: A complete rotary valve assembly and system is disclosed. The rotary valve includes a generally elongated valve body having first and second ends and a longitudinally extending axis of rotation. The rotary valve is mounted in a housing positioned above a head port of an engine. The rotary valve includes an intake port and an exhaust port defined by a valve body arranged for periodic communication with the head port and combustion chamber as the valve rotates along the axis of rotation. The rotary valve system of the present invention includes a secondary intake port for controlling the flow of intake gases into the rotary valve, a fuel injection system, an improved sealing system, a cooling and reduced emissions gas exhaust control system, and an adjustable throttle control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventor: Iskender Kutlucinar
  • Patent number: 5907311
    Abstract: A liquid crystal cell and a plasma cell are layered together with a dielectric sheet in between. Data electrodes (column electrodes) are constructed to form parallel columns on the underside of an upper substrate in a display cell. Discharge channels filled with ionizable gas are constructed in parallel rows in a plasma cell. Row electrodes are constructed on the upperside of a lower substrate corresponding to each of the discharge channels, and reference electrodes to which reference voltages are applied, are constructed inside each of the discharge channels. Data voltages are applied to the data electrodes and drive pulses are applied to the row electrodes. The polarities of the data voltages are changed so as to be opposite to the polarities of the drive pulses with respect to the reference voltages. Each time the polarities of the drive pulses are inverted, plasma discharges are generated in the discharge channel corresponding to the row electrodes to which the drive pulses are applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Yano
  • Patent number: 5857359
    Abstract: In a knit slide fastener in which a continuous fastener element row is knitted in a fastener element attaching marginal portion of each of fastener tapes simultaneously with the knitting of the fastener tape, the fastener element attaching marginal portion includes a plurality of parallel binding chain stitch yarns extending longitudinally of the marginal portion for holding the fastener element row to the marginal portion. One of the binding chain stitch yarns, which is adjacent to coupling heads of fastener elements, is larger in size than the remaining binding stitch yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Matsuda, Hidenobu Kato, Yoshito Ikeguchi
  • Patent number: 5846264
    Abstract: A back-up pulse generator for a pacemaker having a first energy storing component for storing energy to be delivered in a stimulation pulse and connectable to means for conducting the stimulation pulse to the heart, the back-up pulse generator including a back-up pulse energy storing component for emitting a back-up pulse after a failure to sense an evoked response from a preceding stimulation pulse. The back-up pulse energy storing component substantially permanently stores energy at a higher voltage than the energy stored in the first energy storing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Pacesetter AB
    Inventors: Peter Andersson, Nils Holmstrom, Gunbritt Skog
  • Patent number: 5842240
    Abstract: A fitting for an appliance such as a sink extends between an anchor means (16,112) on the appliance and another anchor means (32,114) on a worktop. The appliance can be fitted easily to the worktop, and can aslo be removed quickly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Hisanori Kato, Ryunosuke Takahashi, Klaus Steinmetz, Joachim NieHaus
  • Patent number: 5839172
    Abstract: A surface fastener molded of synthetic resin, comprises a substrate sheet, and a multiplicity of hook elements molded on at least one surface of the substrate sheet, each hook element having a hook body having a stem and a curved portion. Each of the hook elements has first and second reinforcing ribs projecting from opposite side surfaces of the hook body. The first reinforcing rib is greater in height than the second reinforcing rib. In the presence of the first and second reinforcing ribs different in height, compression stresses developed in the hook body are dispersed at two or more points when a companion engaging element is removed off the hook element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takizawa, Keisuke Sakakibara, Mitsuru Akeno, Ryuichi Murasaki, Tsuyoshi Minato
  • Patent number: 5840155
    Abstract: A blower arrangement for detachment of a metallized belt from a sheet and for creating a braking force on a sheet, which belt and sheet are situated between platens of a press in a machine for printing sheet elements which comprises a bar arrangement near the exit of the press in which is provided a series of nozzles having the form of flattened parallelpipeds, each of these nozzles being sealed by a translational mobile cylindrical valve member movable perpendicular to an air supply duct with the valve member having a communication passage. The plane of the jets coming from the nozzles is directed approximately horizontally between the metallized belt and the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Bobst SA
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Rebeaud
  • Patent number: 5839675
    Abstract: A housing including a support arm arrangement for a basket mounted paper shredder wherein the support arms have curved or rounded outside perimeters and at least one of the support arms has a curved or rounded inside support rib arrangement to more closely conform to a rounded waste paper basket. The support arm arrangement allows the paper shredder to be mounted to both round and rectangular waste paper baskets. The housing also provides a streamlined shape including a tapered generally triangular motor wiring compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: General Binding Corporation
    Inventors: Todd Henreckson, Tim Bohn, Mark Dziersk
  • Patent number: 5836375
    Abstract: A continuous casting mold for casting a strand has side walls defining an open-ended mold cavity. In order to increase the casting speed while maintaining a simple mode of construction of the continuous casting mold, the latter has the following characteristic features: at least two oppositely arranged side walls are rigidly fixed relative to each other about a pour-in section of the mold cavity and have a conicity decreasing in the running direction of the strand and, in a run-out section of the mold cavity arranged to follow the pour-in section in the running direction of the strand, include side wall sections movable relative to the strand and pressable at the strand by pressing devices, which side wall sections are arranged at a slighter conicity than the slightest conicity of the side walls of the pour-in section of the mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Thone, Franz Wimmer
  • Patent number: 5830803
    Abstract: The method produces liquid contacts in contact holes on a top side of a semiconductor component. The top side is not wettable by material provided for the liquid contacts. The walls and edges of the contact holes are wettable by the material. The contact holes are filled as follows. The material provided for the liquid contacts is applied to the top side by a doctor blade. There is situated on a longitudinal edge of the doctor blade an adhesion strip which is made of a material which is wettable by the material provided for the liquid contacts. The longitudinal edge of the doctor blade is guided at a distance over the top side. The material provided for the liquid contacts is moved in the form of a cylinder between the adhesion stip and the surface of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Holger Hubner
  • Patent number: 5828090
    Abstract: A charge transfer device comprises a quantum wire and a one-dimensional quantum dots array extending helically, for example, and including quantum dots which are aligned in close relation to couple with each other and to surround the quantum wire. By applying an external field within a plane normal to the quantum wire and by rotating the direction of the application of the external field, charges are transferred along the quantum wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuichi Ugajin
  • Patent number: 5828076
    Abstract: In its gate region (10), a silicon MOS technology component has a surface structure (6) having edges and/or vertices at which inversion regions, suitable as quantum wires or quantum dots, are preferentially formed when a gate voltage is applied. The surface structure is preferably formed as a silicon pyramid (6) by local molecular beam epitaxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Harald Gossner, Ignaz Eisele, Lothar Risch, Erwin Hammerl
  • Patent number: 5828086
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device ccomprises a first cladding layer, an active layer and a second cladding layer which are stacked on a semiconductor substrate. At least a part of the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer has a superlattice structure comprising II-VI compound semiconductor. Another semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first cladding layer, a first guide layer, an active layer, a second guide layer and a second cladding layer which are stacked on a semiconductor substrate. At least a part of the first cladding layer, the first guide layer, the second cladding layer and the second guide layer has a superlattice structure. Still anothr semiconductor light emitting device comprises a defect decomposing layer, a defect blocking layer, a first cladding layer, an active layer, a second cladding layer which are stacked on a semiconductor substrate. The defect decomposing layer and the defect blocking layer comprise a superlattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ishibashi, Satoshi Matsumoto, Masaharu Nagai, Satoshi Ito, Shigetaka Tomiya, Kazushi Nakano, Etsuo Morita
  • Patent number: 5824885
    Abstract: In order to keep a patient from being administered an incorrect anaesthetic, an erroneous concentration of an anaesthetic or a mixture of anaesthetics, an anaesthetic system can be equipped with a device for identifying anaesthetics in anaesthetic system. The device identifies anaesthetics by determining a parameter related to a physical property, such as density, of liquid anaesthetics. A floating body can be immersed in the anaesthetic fluid. The floating body then sinks to a depth which depends on the fluid's density. The identity of the anaesthetic can then be read off a measurement stick arranged on the floating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Elema AB
    Inventor: Anders Lekholm
  • Patent number: 5823690
    Abstract: A printer apparatus in which a multi-nozzle print head can be produced at low cost and which can deal with changes caused with lapse of time. With the printer apparatus, effective resolution can be improved and a more accurate gradation level in picture printing can be achieved for assuring uniform printing quality. The printer apparatus has a shading correction unit 14 for correcting the picture printing data signal for printing using shading correction data previously found and stored in the EE-PROM 10 and shading correction data entered from a man/machine interfacing unit 2 and for generating a head impression signal for driving a print head 16 based on the corrected picture printing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Narushima, Koichiro Kakinuma, Masao Araya, Shinichiro Mikami, Junko Ikegami
  • Patent number: 5819391
    Abstract: A surface fastener comprising: a substrate sheet; a multiplicity of engaging elements projecting from on surface of the substrate sheet; and an elastic member laying over the one surface of the substrate sheet. The elastic member has an upper surface normally in contact with lower ends of locking portions of the engaging elements so as to support circumferential surfaces of stem portions of the engaging elements. The upper surface of the surface fastener is therefore less rough so that waste pieces of yarn and nap cannot be caught by the locking portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Matsushima, Hitomi Minato
  • Patent number: D402189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Izumi
  • Patent number: D405808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Bankier Companies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack D. Bankier