Patents Represented by Attorney Kaplan Breyer Schwarz & Ottesen, LLP
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Patent number: 8315721Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for parameterizing an automation device, in which at least one control parameter is defined (101) in order to specify a control characteristic of the automation device and a device parameter is assigned (103) to the at least one control parameter in order to specify a device characteristic of the automation device.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Steffen Horn
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Patent number: 8316168Abstract: The invention relates to a method according to which a cycle-oriented control program generated for a programmable logic controller (110) is at least partially converted into a code that may be executed by a logic component (80) of a communications module (10), such that at least the converted program segment of the cycle-oriented control program may be executed in a cycle-free manner. Cycle-free or virtually cycle-free means that at least some of the implemented control functions and system functions may be executed in a parallel fashion and therefore more quickly than would be the case if the cycle-oriented control program were executed by the PLC (110).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Claus Peter Kuehnl, Klas Hellmann, Johannes Kalhoff, Holger Meyer, Dietmar Krumsiek
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Patent number: 8312845Abstract: A wireless fencing system comprises a tetherless leash, a programming fixture, and, optionally, a terminal. The tetherless leash, which is attached to an animal that is to be monitored, establishes a “virtual” (i.e., barrier-free) perimeter based on geo-coordinates. The tetherless leash also monitors the position and movement of an animal relative to the perimeter, and delivers warnings, corrections, and praise to the animal in accordance with its programming. The programming fixture serves as a user interface during programming operations, since there are no exposed buttons by which a user can directly program the tetherless leash.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2004Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: PeTrak, LLCInventor: Salvatore John Giunta
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Patent number: 8298857Abstract: A single-photon avalanche detector is disclosed that is operable at wavelengths greater than 1000 nm and at operating speeds greater than 10 MHz. The single-photon avalanche detector comprises a thin-film resistor and avalanche photodiode that are monolithically integrated such that little or no additional capacitance is associated with the addition of the resistor.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Princeton Lightwave, Inc.Inventor: Mark Allen Itzler
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Patent number: 8299761Abstract: Apparatus and method for dense energy storage is disclosed. The inner tube of a multi-wall nanotube is reversibly withdrawn from the outer tube thereof via a facing electrode that is biased with respect to the nanotube by an external voltage source. As the inner tube is withdrawn, the potential energy of the van der Waals field between the inner tube and the outer tube increases, which manifests as a force that is directed opposite to the electrostatic force of attraction between the electrode and the inner tube. The storage apparatus is discharged by decreasing the applied voltage, which enables the van der Waals force to overcome the electrostatic force. As a consequence, the inner tube is drawn back into the outer tube. The electrode and nanotube define a variable capacitor and, as such, the change in capacitance based on movement of the inner tube results in a flow of charge to a load.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: InterStellar Technologies CorporationInventor: Fabrizio Pinto
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Patent number: 8297077Abstract: In order to provide a particularly homogeneous pressure and temperature profile in a gas cushion for the levitating support of glass or glass ceramic, the invention provides a device (19) for transporting or supporting glass ceramic or glass, which comprises at least one diaphragm (1, 2) that has at least one continuous bearing surface (3) and at least one gas feed chamber (51-55) and at least one gas discharge chamber (71-75), the gas feed chamber (51-55) and the gas discharge chamber (71-75) having a gas-permeable connection to the bearing surface (3).Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Sybill Nüttgens, Ulrich Lange, Michael Clauss, Andreas Langsdorf, Gerhard Hahn
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Patent number: 8294522Abstract: This is disclosed an amplification stage including a first amplifier stage, a second amplifier stage, and a power supply unit, in which the output of the first stage provides the input to the second stage, and the power supply unit provides a power supply for both amplifier stages, wherein the voltage of the power supply is continuously varied in dependence of the amplitude of the signal being amplified.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Nujira LimitedInventors: Shane Flint, Gerard Wimpenny
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Patent number: 8291142Abstract: A method is disclosed in which data is exchanged via a bus coupler (500) between a network (410) designed for transmitting Ethernet telegrams and a lower-level bus system (420), wherein the bus coupler (500) is connected via a first interface (520) to the network (410) and via a second interface (530) to the lower-level bus system (420), and wherein process data is read in and/or output through at least one bus node (610, 620, 630) of the lower-level bus system (420). Furthermore, a bus coupler (500), a bus node (610, 620, 630), and a control system (10) that are designed for execution of the method are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Detlev Kuschke, Michael Hoffmann
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Patent number: 8286485Abstract: A gravimeter that utilizes an electromagnetic launcher for enabling a free-fall of a test mass is disclosed. The electromagnetic launcher propels the test mass upward such that the test mass begins to free-fall once it has reached the apex of its flight. In addition, in some embodiments, the test mass comprises only non-ferromagnetic materials so that the free-fall of the test mass is unperturbed by magnetically induced influences.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Vincent P. Benischek, Peter F. Brand
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Patent number: 8290197Abstract: An electrostatic speaker system including at least one electrostatic speaker element having a pair of stators and a diaphragm therebetween, each of the stators and the diaphragm having an least one electrically conductive portion. The conductive portion of the diaphragm is patterned as a mesh, which may include gaps, and a conforming layer overlying the conducting portion of the diaphragm and disposed so as to cover gaps in the mesh. A speaker drive circuit provides soft clipping of the audio input signal so that the audio signal applied between the diaphragm and the stators does not exceed the maximum acceptable level that can be applied between the diaphragm and the stators of at least one speaker element.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Transparent Sound Technology B.V.Inventors: Ronald Buining, Gaston Bastiaens, Hidde de Haan, Ton Hoogstraaten, Uwe Kempe, Karl-Heinz Fink, James Tuomy
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Patent number: 8282281Abstract: A vertically and horizontally effective air bearing comprising a base, an interface part that is movably arranged on the base, a piston that is movably arranged inside the interface part and supports a load, and a coupling element that couples the piston with the load. The load is supported in a manner to be isolated from vibration in the horizontal and vertical directions with respect to the base, and the coupling element preferably comprises a pin that is coupled to the piston. The coupling element is spaced from the load by at least one quarter of the length of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Integrated Dynamics Engineering GmbHInventor: Peter Heiland
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Patent number: 8281911Abstract: The invention relates to an active vibration isolation system in which at least one sensor is provided for detection of ground vibration, and the system has a control device which calculates compensation signals in at least two degrees of freedom, based on movements of the ground.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Integrated Dynamics Engineering GmbHInventor: Peter Heiland
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Patent number: 8284109Abstract: A mobile, telescoping radar array is disclosed. In some embodiments, the radar array has a plurality of support stages that fully nest when stowed and assume a telescoped form when deployed. A plurality of radiating elements depend from each stage. The support stages, as deployed, have a geometry that supports 360 degrees of radar coverage without rotating or otherwise repositioning the radar array.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Mark R. Alberding, Tushar K. Shah, John F. Strempel, Edward P. Olszewski
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Patent number: 8284104Abstract: A Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) receiver is disclosed that comprises a plurality of resonant structures arranged to form an antenna. The resonant structures are interconnected in series and are arranged, relative to one another, so as to achieve a received electrical signal with an increased voltage, when the antenna is exposed to an incident electromagnetic signal. This occurs for a majority of all possible incident electromagnetic signals and, therefore, an RFID receiver based on such an antenna provides, in a majority of cases, an improved performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Inventor: William N. Carr
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Patent number: 8274997Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission method in which at least two Ethernet data frames are combined to form one Ethernet telegram and the Ethernet telegram is transmitted via a communications network.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Juergen Weczerek, Andreas Pape, Gunnar Lessmann
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Patent number: 8271708Abstract: Method and device in which a data set that is relevant for a safety-critical process is processed by at least two redundant processing channels according to identical laws for each safe protocol and the redundant safe protocols are assembled into a common safe protocol, in that each processing channels accesses a common buffer register. For each register location, a write authorization is allocated only once such that the common safe protocol is assembled proportionally by writing different portions of the corresponding safe protocols. The contents of each register location of the buffer register is read before the transfer of the common safe protocol from the buffer register for verification of the safe protocol formed in common from each of the redundant processing channels. The safe protocol formed in common is released only as a reaction to a release for transmission by each redundant processing channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Esch, Steffen Horn, Johannes Kalhoff
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Patent number: 8268410Abstract: In the case of CVD methods, comprising PECVD and PICVD methods, the aim of the invention is to improve the impurity-free and, as far as possible, temporally and quantitatively precise feeding of process gases for the targeted layer systems. To this end, the invention provides a coating system and a method for coating articles with alternating layers, in the case of which process gases are introduced in an alternating fashion into a gas mixing point and mixed with a further gas and led to the reaction chamber, in which the deposition is carried out by producing a plasma.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Christoph Moelle, Lars Bewig, Thomas Kuepper
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Patent number: 8270054Abstract: A beam-steering system having high positional resolution and fast switching speed is disclosed. Embodiments of the beam-steering system comprise a diffraction limited optical system that includes a reflective imager and two controllably rotatable MEMS elements. The optical system is characterized by a folded optical path, wherein light propagating on the path is incident on each MEMS element more than once. Each MEMS element imparts an optical effect, such as angular change, on the output beam. By virtue of the fact that the optical system is multi-bounce optical system, the optical effect at each MEMS element is multiplied by the number of times the light hits that MEMS element.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Duke UniversityInventor: Jungsang Kim
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Patent number: 8264241Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for measuring an electrical property of fluid flowing through a pipe, comprising at least a first measuring electrode and a second measuring electrode placed in spatial contact with the pipe, wherein the first measuring electrode is received in a body placed inside the inner wall of the pipe, and the first measuring electrode is separated from the inner wall of the pipe by a gap, this gap extending over at least a part of the periphery of the inner wall of the pipe. As a result of these measures the distance between the measuring electrodes is greatly reduced, so that the measurement accuracy increases considerably. The measuring circuit is preferably adapted for repeated successive measurement of the resistance value and the capacitance of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Fluid Well Instruments, B.V.Inventors: Marian Jozef Walter Slezak, Cornelis Wijnand Petrus Schoenmakers
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Patent number: 8256747Abstract: A system and method for closed-loop testing of a biological or chemical sensor is disclosed. The tester is fluidically coupled to the input port and exhaust port of a sensor. A mixture of a chemical or biological simulant and air is generated by the tester and is delivered to the sensor. The mixture of simulant and air exiting the sensor is delivered to a collection device.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventor: Kevin J. Tupper