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  • Catalytic gas phase fluorination of 1230xa to 1234yf
    Patent number: 8158836
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for preparing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1234yf), comprising: (i) contacting 1,1,2,3-tetrachloropropene (1230xa) with hydrogen fluoride HF in gas phase in the presence of a fluorination catalyst under conditions sufficient to produce a reaction mixture; (ii) separating the reaction mixture into a first stream comprising HCl, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1234yf) and a second stream comprising HF, 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene (1233xf) and 1,1,1,2,2-pentafluoropropane (245cb); (iii) recycling at least a part of the second stream at least in part back to step (i).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Anne Pigamo, Dominique Deur-Bert, Laurent Wendlinger
  • Thin film magnetic head having heating element
    Patent number: 8159782
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic head is provided, in which the amount of protrusion in the periphery of an element portion can be reduced or a local temperature increase of electrode leads of a heating element can be prevented. The thin film magnetic head includes a playback element disposed between lower and upper shield layers, a recording element laminated on the upper shield layer, a heating element which is disposed below a coil layer and which generates heat to allow the playback element to protrude toward the recording medium side through thermal expansion, and a pair of electrode leads including overlapping regions, which are in contact with rear ends of the heating element and which overlap with the upper shield layer, and heat dissipation regions. Furthermore, connection wiring portions of the pair of electrode leads are disposed in a region sandwiched between the upper shield layer and a magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Sumihito Morita, Tomoo Otsuka
  • Heteromeric T1R2/T1R3 taste receptors
    Patent number: 8153763
    Abstract: Heteromeric taste receptors are provided. These receptors comprise a first polypeptide containing extracellular domains and transmembrane domains wherein the extracellular domains are at least 95% identical to the extracellular domains of specific T1R2 polypeptides and the transmembrane domains are at least 95% identical to the corresponding transmembrane domains of the specific T1R2 polypeptide or a different GPCR; and a second polypeptide comprising extracellular and transmembrane domains wherein the extracellular domains are at least 95% identical to the extracellular domains of specific T1R3 polypeptides and the transmembrane domains are at least 95% identical to the corresponding transmembrane domains of the specific T1R3 polypeptide or a different GPCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Zoller, Xiaodong Li, Lena Staszewski, Shawn O'Connell, Sergey Zozulya, Jon Elliot Adler, Hong Xu, Fernando Echeverri
  • Method for separating off coloring components from aqueous plant extracts
    Patent number: 8153011
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for separating off coloring components from aqueous plant extracts in which magnesium ions (Mg2+) are added to the plant extract, at least one alkaline component is added to the plant extract, a precipitate is formed, and the precipitate formed is separated off from the plant extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Friedrich Meuser, Ingo Bauer
  • System and method for control of aeroelasticity effects
    Patent number: 8155794
    Abstract: A system is provided for control of a structure immersed in a fluid flow regime. The system comprises a plurality of flow sensors disposed on a surface of the structure, the flow sensors including at least one flow bifurcation point sensor. The system further comprises at least one structural sensor attached to the structure for measurement of a structural parameter. A data processor in communication with the flow sensors and the at least one structural sensor is configured for processing the data signals and for generating and transmitting one or more actuator command signals to effect a desired flow and structural state for the structure. The system also comprises at least one actuator in communication with the data processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tao of Systems Integration, Inc.
    Inventors: Arun S. Mangalam, Siva M. Mangalam
  • Human T2R64 taste receptor and related assays for identifying human bitter taste modulators
    Patent number: 8153386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery of a specific human taste receptor in the T2R taste receptor family, hT2R64 that responds to particular bitter compounds The present invention further relates to the use of this receptor in assays for identifying ligands that modulate the activation of this taste receptor. These compounds may be used as additives and/or removed from foods, beverages and medicinals in order to modify (block) T2R-associated bitter taste. A preferred embodiment is the use of the identified compounds as additives in foods, beverages and medicinals for blocking bitter taste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventor: Jon Elliot Adler
  • Automated elevator loading and unloading system
    Patent number: 8146729
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with exemplary embodiments for assisting cargo onto and from elevators. The system may include deck subsystems comprising rollers, a motor, and a gearbox. The motor may drive the gearbox which may drive the rollers to assist in loading cargo onto an elevator and/or assist in unloading cargo from an elevator. Deck subsystems may be located on multiple deck levels. The system may include an elevator subsystem having rollers. The deck subsystem may include a telescopic driveshaft which may extend and drive the rollers on the elevator subsystem to assist in loading and/or unloading cargo onto and from the elevator subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Paul Wagner, Lloyd L. Ellison, Jr., James Michael Haley, Robert Merrill Alsop
  • Chemical detection system and method
    Patent number: 8146404
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide a method, system, and device for identifying chemical species in a sample. According to one embodiment, the method, system, and device may include introducing a sample gas into a differential ion mobility device, ionizing at least a portion of the sample gas to generate at least one ion species, filtering the at least one ion species between a pair of filter electrodes, generating a detection signal in response to the at least one ion species depositing a charge on a collector electrode, and detecting a spectral peak associated with the at least one ion species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Chemring Detection Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Griffin, John Michael Alfred Petinarides, Paul Joseph Rauch, Jerome Paul Dahl, Robert Francis McAtee
  • Phosphorylated waxy potato starch
    Patent number: 8148517
    Abstract: The invention relates to potato starches having an amylose content of less than 10% by weight, a phosphate content in the C6 position of between 35 and 100 nmol of phosphate per milligram of starch and a content of side chains having a DP of from 12 to 19 which is elevated as compared with that in potato starch from corresponding wild-type potato plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Stephan Soyka, Jens Pilling, Claus Frohberg
  • Glycerol vaporization method
    Patent number: 8148582
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention relates to a vaporization method of aqueous glycerol solutions in a fluidized bed containing an inert solid. The invention provides a method for vaporizing, in a single step, an aqueous glycerol solution and simultaneously eliminating the impurities present in this solution or generated during the evaporation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Dubois
  • Compounds that inhibit (block) bitter taste in composition and methods of making same
    Patent number: 8148544
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery that specific human taste receptors in the T2R taste receptor family respond to particular bitter compounds present in, e.g., coffee. Also, the invention relates to the discovery of specific compounds and compositions containing that function as bitter taste blockers and the use thereof as bitter taste blockers or flavor modulators in, e.g., coffee and coffee flavored foods, beverages and medicaments. Also, the present invention relates to the discovery of a compound that antagonizes numerous different human T2Rs and the use thereof in assays and as a bitter taste blocker in compositions for ingestion by humans and animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Senomyx, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Andrew Patron, Catherine Tachdjian, Hong Xu, Qing Li, Alexey Pronin, Guy Servant, Lan Zhang, Thomas Brady, Vincent Darmohusodo, Melissa Arellano, Victor Selchau, Brett Weylan Ching, Donald S. Karanewsky, Paul Brust, Jing Ling, Wen Zhao, Chad Priest
  • Printer and method of adjusting conveying distance of recording sheet
    Patent number: 8149257
    Abstract: A printer includes printing unit provided on a conveying path of a recording sheet and sheet feed unit provided on the downstream and upstream sides of the printing unit in a conveying direction of a recording sheet. The printer includes a platen roller, a first sheet feed roller, a second sheet feed roller, a first branch transmission gear group, a second branch transmission gear group, and thrust amount adjusting unit. A tooth trace of one of the gears of each of the first and second branch transmission gear groups has an inclination angle with respect to an axial direction, and the first and second branch transmission gear groups are formed of first and second idler gears including inclined gear portions of which inclined directions of tooth traces are the same as each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zenko Motoki, Minoru Sato, Hitoshi Funaki, Keigo Wakana
  • Methods and means for removal of a selected DNA sequence
    Patent number: 8148607
    Abstract: A method is described for the exact removal of a selected subfragment from a DNA molecule by intrachromosomal recombination between two directly repeated DNA sequences using a rare-cleaving double stranded break inducing DNA endonuclease expressed under control of a micro-spore specific promoter. This method can be applied in a method for the exact exchange of a target DNA fragment for a DNA fragment of interest in plant cells and plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Kathleen D'Halluin, Rene Ruiter
  • Fe-based amorphous magnetic alloy and magnetic sheet
    Patent number: 8147622
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an Fe-based amorphous magnetic alloy and method that includes 4 at. % or less of a low temperature annealing-enabling element M and 10 at. % or less of nickel (Ni). The total amount of the low temperature annealing-enabling element M and nickel (Ni) may be 2 at. % or more and 10 at. % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Alps Green Devices Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisato Koshiba, Keiko Tsuchiya, Kinshiro Takadate
  • Cotton variety FM 840B2F
    Patent number: 8143499
    Abstract: The cotton variety FM 840B2F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 840B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 840B2F and to plants of FM 840B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 840B2F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Bayer CropScience AG, Cotton Seed International Proprietary Limited
    Inventor: Michael Swindle
  • Bearing structure for a reciprocating shaft in a reciprocating saw
    Patent number: 8141444
    Abstract: A reciprocating shaft assembly in a reciprocating saw moves in a reciprocal motion and drives a saw blade via a blade holder. At least one bore is formed in an end of the reciprocating shaft assembly opposite the blade holder. A pin fixed to the saw passes through the bore and acts as a bearing to support the reciprocating shaft assembly in its reciprocating motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Lagaly, Thomas Amold Mooty, James Pierce Nichols, Jr., Earl Roger Clowers, Matthew George Popik
  • (3-amino-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9 -carbazol-9-yl)-acetic acid derivatives
    Patent number: 8143304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (3-amino-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9H-carbazol-9-yl)-acetic acid derivatives of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as described in the description and their use as prostaglandin receptor modulators, most particularly as prostaglandin D2 receptor modulators, in the treatment of various prostaglandin-mediated diseases and disorders, to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and to processes for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Actelion Pharmaceutical Ltd.
    Inventors: Heinz Fretz, Julien Pothier, Philippe Risch
  • System and method for establishing or modifying an account with user selectable terms
    Patent number: 8145522
    Abstract: Techniques for administering an account with a financial institution are disclosed. The financial institution may establish the account for the account holder. An account holder may execute purchase transactions using the account. A first and second affiliate may be associated with the account. Rewards information associated with the first affiliate may be calculated based on use of the account for purchase transactions. A compensation, to be provided by the financial institution to the second affiliate, may be calculated based on use of the account for purchase transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Mary Carter Warren, Donna M. Barrett, Donald H. Schmitt, Karen R. Ehemann
  • System and method for offering risk-based interest rates in a credit instutment
    Patent number: 8145549
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating an offer to apply for a credit instrument is provided. A processing allows for processing credit history data. A calculating step allows for calculating a first plurality of interest rates based on the credit history data. A determining step allows for determining a second plurality of interest rates based on the first plurality of interest rates, wherein the second plurality of interest rates corresponds to a plurality of credit risk scores. Finally, a communicating step allows for communicating the offer to apply for a credit instrument in an initial communication with an offeree, the offer disclosing the second plurality of interest rates. An apparatus that calculates the interest rates used in the offer is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Jayanta Das
  • Methods for increasing the resistance of plants to hypoxic conditions
    Patent number: 8143192
    Abstract: Methods are provided for increasing the resistance of plants to hypoxic or anoxic conditions. Such methods may be applied to increase the penetrance of plant roots in the growth medium or into soil. The methods according to the invention may include providing plants with a stress tolerance gene. Similar effects can be obtained by applying chemical compounds, including neonicotinoid compounds, to the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience N.V.
    Inventors: Michael Metzlaff, Marc De Block