Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Joseph Levi, Esq.
  • Patent number: 6637954
    Abstract: A lens shutter comprises shutter blades capable of moving within a shutter chamber of a camera to open and close a lens aperture. A stopper capable of entering into movement loci of the shutter blades selectively takes a position for aperture restriction that stops the shutter blades immediately before they reach positions for full opening of the lens aperture, or a position for restriction release that allows the shutter blades to reach the positions for full opening of the lens aperture. The stopper is urged by a spring toward the position for aperture restriction and is retracted by a releasing member to the position for restriction release when the lens aperture is to be fully opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Kato
  • Patent number: 6545680
    Abstract: A method and system for computer-aided design and more particularly to the computer-aided design of sheet parts is presented. The method includes defining a feature in a definition view based on a specification defined by a user and generating the feature in the definition view. The alternative view is then updated. This updating includes analyzing the defined feature to determine if it can be made available to an alternative view, and representing the defined feature in the alternative view. The definition view and the alternative view include a folded view and an unfolded view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Dessault Systemes S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Delas, Gilles Lancien
  • Patent number: 6358053
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for providing online language instruction to a student. A student client computer logs into a host system to commence an instruction session. The host assigns an instructor to the instruction session. A scene is simultaneously displayed on a student client computer and a client computer operated by the assigned instructor. A voice communication link is also provided. A predetermined lesson plan can be executed during the instruction session. The lesson plan can be selected according to a student profile stored on the host system. Study goals can also be listed on the computer operated by the instructor. Completion of a study goal can also be stored in the student profile. The student profile can be used to determine a next study goal for a particular student. The scene can be an interactive scene manipulated via the student client computer or via the client computer operated by the instructor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: UNext.com LLC
    Inventors: Andrew M. Rosenfield, Edwin Eisendrath, Brian M. Freeman, Maximilian A. Grant, Enio Ohmaye, Patrick Keating
  • Patent number: 6347333
    Abstract: A Virtual Campus including interactive work plans and administrative resources presented online through a WEB interface. Through the Virtual Campus a learner can communicate with others, create and update an individual work plan, access required resources, store work, and be apprised of Virtual University announcements. While online, learners may create work groups with other learners, use a suite of business tools, interact with a registrar, or open a library data base. In addition, an online Virtual Campus can assess those skills a student has successfully mastered by analyzing progress through the aggregate of course modules completed. Academic and career guidance can be formulated referencing the accumulated detail of the students learning experience. Each software module and element can have a list of skills associated with it. The database of skills can reflect a students capabilities in greater detail than is possible using only a final course grade or grade point average.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: UNext.com LLC
    Inventors: Edwin Eisendrath, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Enio Ohmaye, Patrick Keating
  • Patent number: 6301462
    Abstract: A collaborative learning system and method for implementing innovative criteria fashioned into an electronic learning experience that can be utilized at great distances. Learners can participate in the learning experience asynchronously thereby taking advantage of diverse schedules. A system is provided for offering network based education including software running on a computer or a plurality of computers for delivering educational services online. The network can include an internet protocol network wherein the servers can be accessed via a WEB interface. Software operative with a processor can cause an adaptive assessment tracking the learning style and progress of an individual learner. The system can also be responsive to an online assessment with remediation and guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: UNEXT. COM
    Inventors: Brian M. Freeman, Maximilian A. Grant, Edwin Eisendrath, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Enio Ohmaye, Patrick Keating
  • Patent number: 6286453
    Abstract: A device for reducing the contamination of a disc being coated during an ion beam deposition process. The ion beam deposition process is performed in a chamber having an upper portion and a lower portion with the disc being disposed in the lower portion of the chamber. An ion source is introduced into the lower chamber for generating an ion beam for depositing ions on the disc. In the upper portion of the chamber is a pump for creating negative pressure in the chamber. A portion of the ion beam contacts the pump forming contaminants on the pump which cause the contamination of the disc. A baffle assembly is disposed in the chamber between the pump and the ion source. Said baffle assembly includes a baffle that reduces the portion of the ion beam contacting said pump thereby reducing the forming of contaminants on the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Seagate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin John Grannen, Jeffrey Arthur McCann, Xiaoding Ma, Jing Gui, Mark Anthony Shows