Patents Represented by Attorney Keating & Bennett, LLP
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Patent number: 8321103Abstract: In a transmission control system for a vehicle, in a torque return period at the time of up-shifting of a transmission, an engine torque and a clutch torque are increased in parallel. A target engine torque value and a target clutch torque value are set such that the clutch torque changes at a value higher than the engine torque. The target clutch torque value is set such that a difference between an amount of energy generated in a clutch and an amount of energy generated in an engine substantially coincides with an amount of energy required to reduce the rotation speed of the engine to a target rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaya Sakaue
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Patent number: 8319791Abstract: A display device has a pixel that is defined by a plurality of sub-pixels. The sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel representing red, a green sub-pixel representing green, a blue sub-pixel representing blue and a yellow sub-pixel representing yellow. When the pixel represents white, the luminance of the red sub-pixel is lower than its luminance corresponding to the highest gray scale level. In one embodiment, when the pixel represents white, the luminance of the red sub-pixel is preferably in the range of 25% to 96% of its luminance corresponding to the highest gray scale level. Also, the color temperature of white represented by the pixel is preferably higher than 4200 K, more preferably higher than 5000 K.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shun Ueki, Kozo Nakamura, Tokio Taguchi, Akiko Itou
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Patent number: 8317653Abstract: A continuously variable transmission of an engine unit. A driving side pulley is mounted on a crankshaft. A driven side pulley is mounted on a driven shaft. A belt is looped around the driving and driven side pulleys. The continuously variable transmission is housed in a transmission case. The transmission case includes a drive shaft supporting portion supporting an end portion of the crankshaft, a driven shaft supporting portion supporting an end portion of the driven shaft 27, and a support column portion bridged between the drive shaft supporting portion and the driven shaft supporting portion. The engine unit thereby has a simple structure and increaes the strength of supporting a crankshaft and a driven shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Sadao Nogi
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Patent number: 8319763Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of display lines provided in each of blocks and extending in parallel with each other, a plurality of drive circuits provided outside a display region and connected to the display lines in the respective blocks, a plurality of first lines provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions closer to the drive circuits of the display lines in the respective blocks, the first lines being insulated from the display lines, and a second line provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions farther from the drive circuits of the display lines of all the blocks, the second line being insulated from the display lines. The second line is configured to intersect the first lines while being insulated from the first lines, and be supplied with a display signal from each of the drive circuits via an amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadatoshi Ozeki, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida, Kazuyori Mitsumoto
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Patent number: 8317941Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet according to the present invention has a composition including: 27.3 mass % to 29.5 mass % of R; 0.92 mass % to 1 mass % of B; 0.05 mass % to 0.3 mass % of Cu; 0.02 mass % to 0.5 mass % of M; and T as the balance, and has an oxygen content of 0.02 mass % to 0.2 mass %. The main phase of the sintered magnet is an R2T14B type compound. The crystal grain size of the main phase is represented by an equivalent circle diameter of 8 ?m or less. And crystal grains with equivalent circle diameters of 4 ?m or less account for at least 80% of the overall area of the main phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Rintaro Ishii
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Patent number: 8319585Abstract: An elastic wave filter device in which elastic wave filters and parallel resonators are provided on a piezoelectric substrate includes a plurality of ground ports. The elastic wave filters include input-side resonators and output-side resonators. The input-side resonators are connected between a reception input port and a first one of the ground ports. The output-side resonators are connected between reception output ports and the first ground port. The parallel resonators are connected in parallel to output lines and are connected to second and third ground ports.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Miyake
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Patent number: 8316907Abstract: Substrate material processing equipment includes: a substrate material conveying section receiving a substrate material from a first line and conveying it to a second line; a first substrate material dividing section dividing the substrate material; a substrate material recovery section recovering the substrate material from its start edge formed by division; a substrate material supply section supplying a substrate material to an end edge of the substrate material which is formed by division; a first substrate material joining section joining the end edge of the substrate material to a start edge of the substrate material supplied from the substrate material supply section; a second substrate material dividing section provided between the substrate material supply section and the first substrate material joining section; a third substrate material dividing section provided between the first line and the substrate material recovery section; and a second substrate material joining section joining a start edgeType: GrantFiled: November 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akitsugu Hatano, Yoshiki Nakatani, Hisao Ochi
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Patent number: 8321159Abstract: According to some embodiments, a controller 100 of this remaining liquid amount meter 200 performs cumulative processing that increases a cumulative value T when a display level (Rm1) specified based on the liquid surface level detected by a first detection section 141 is higher than a display level (Rm) displayed by the remaining liquid amount meter 200, and that decreases the cumulative value (T) when the display level (Rm1) is lower than the display level (Rm) (S9 to S15). Then, when the cumulative value (T) becomes larger than a predetermined threshold value (Tc), the controller 100 performs display processing that changes the display level (Rm) displayed by the remaining liquid amount meter 200 (S16 to S19).Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Watase
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Patent number: 8317556Abstract: A boat propulsion system includes a power source, a propulsion section, a shift position switching mechanism arranged to switch among a first shift position, a second shift position, and a neutral position, a gear ratio switching mechanism, an actuator, and a control section. When switching is to be performed from the neutral position to the first shift position and the high-speed gear ratio, the control section is arranged to cause the actuator to, maintain the low-speed gear ratio, switch to the first shift position, and then establish the high-speed gear ratio when the current gear ratio of the gear ratio switching mechanism is the low-speed gear ratio, and cause the actuator to establish the low-speed gear ratio before switching to the first shift position, switch to the first shift position, and then establish the high-speed gear ratio when the current gear ratio of the gear ratio switching mechanism is the high-speed gear ratio.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayoshi Suzuki, Hideaki Matsushita, Daisuke Nakamura, Tsugunori Konakawa
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Patent number: 8321207Abstract: For postprocessing spectral values which are based on a first transformation algorithm for converting the audio signal into a spectral representation, first a sequence of blocks of the spectral values representing a sequence of blocks of samples of the audio signal are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Bernd Edler, Ralf Geiger, Christian Ertel, Johannes Hilpert, Harald Popp
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Patent number: 8316639Abstract: An internal combustion engine capable of improving cleaning efficiency by preventing an increase in the temperature of the exhaust gas to lessen the deterioration of the catalyst. The internal combustion engine includes a convergent section, a divergent section, and a branch section. The branch section branches a shock wave, propagating in a downstream direction at a higher velocity than exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust path from a combustion chamber when an exhaust valve is opened, from a portion of the exhaust path which is upstream with respect to the divergent section, and propagates the shock wave back to the exhaust path. The exhaust gas is caused to pass the convergent section and to collide against the shock wave between the branch section and the divergent section, so as to increase the pressure of the exhaust gas in the convergent section. Such exhaust gas is caused to pass the divergent section to generate a new shock wave and to decrease the temperature of the exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Tsugunori Konakawa
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Patent number: 8320101Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a multilayer electronic component, after a plating layer for forming an external electrode is formed on an end surface of a laminate, conditions for heat-treating the laminate are set such that interdiffusion layers have ends which face internal electrodes and which are spaced from the end surface of the laminate at a distance of about 0.5 ?m to about 1.9 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunsuke Takeuchi, Kenichi Kawasaki, Akihiro Motoki, Makoto Ogawa
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Patent number: 8320280Abstract: An apparatus for determining a coincidence of a position with a reference position, wherein radio signals from fixedly positioned radio transmitters can be received at the position, having a provider for providing properties of the radio signals of the fixedly positioned radio transmitters at the position, wherein the provided properties of the radio signals include transmitter identifications identifying the radio transmitters, a separator for separating the radio transmitters into a first number of radio transmitters previously recorded transmitter identifications of which at the reference position are identical with transmitter identifications provided at the position, and into a second number of radio transmitters previously recorded transmitter identifications of which at the reference position and transmitter identifications provided at the position are different, and a determiner for determining a measure of matching for the position on the basis of the provided properties of the radio signals, whereinType: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Steffen Meyer, Juergen Hupp, Thorsten Vaupel, Stephan Haimerl, Frank Mueller, Karin Loidl, Renata Kitti Zahonyi
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Patent number: 8317008Abstract: A clutch 44 has a clutch boss 441, a clutch housing 442, a friction plate 64, a clutch plate 65, and a pressure plate 450. The clutch boss 441 is attached to the main shaft 41 so as to be integrally rotated therewith. The clutch housing 442 encloses the periphery of the clutch boss 441 and is attached to the main shaft 41 so as to be rotated with respect to the main shaft 41. The friction plate 64 has a plate main body and a friction material and rotates together with the clutch housing 442. The clutch plate 65 faces the plate main body via the friction material and rotates together with the clutch boss 441. The pressure plate 450 rotates together with one of the clutch boss 441 the clutch housing 442 which is engaged with the friction plate 64.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshinori Inomori, Yousuke Ishida
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Patent number: 8317212Abstract: To provide a motorcycle having a rear fender that effectively prevents a rear wheel, for example, from splashing mud and may support a light stably in accordance with various embodiments. For example, a motorcycle is disclosed for an embodiment having a rear fender that covers a rear wheel, and lights supported by the rear fender. The rear fender includes a support portion that supports the lights, and a lower mudguard extending downward from the support portion, and a dented portion is formed on a surface thereof between the support portion and the lower mudguard to extend to one edge of the rear fender in a motorcycle width direction from the other edge.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuuta Kobayashi, Tetsuya Hanai
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Patent number: 8319576Abstract: A magnetic resonance isolator includes a ferrite member, a junction conductor that is arranged on the ferrite member and that includes a first port, a second port, and a third port, a permanent magnet that applies a direct current magnetic field to the ferrite member, a capacitor as a reactance element, and a mounting substrate. A main line arranged between the first port and the second port does not resonate, and an end of a sub-line branching from the main line defines the third port. The capacitor is connected to the third port and to the ground. The phase of a wave reflected from the sub-line is adjusted so as to be shifted by about 90 degrees at the intersection of the junction conductor.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8314531Abstract: In a piezoelectric-actuator driving circuit for driving a piezoelectric actuator, an amplifier circuit amplifies a signal output from a feedback circuit and supplies the amplified signal to a non-inverting amplifier circuit and an inverting amplifier circuit. The non-inverting amplifier circuit amplifies the output voltage of the amplifier circuit with a predetermined gain and applies the amplified voltage to a first terminal of the piezoelectric actuator. The inverting amplifier circuit inverts and amplifies the output voltage of the amplifier circuit with the same gain as that of the non-inverting amplifier circuit and then applies the amplified voltage to a second terminal of the piezoelectric actuator through resistors. The feedback circuit amplifies a difference between voltages at respective ends of the resistor and supplies the amplified difference to the amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Midori Sunaga, Toshinari Tabata, Gaku Kamitani
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Patent number: 8313207Abstract: A support unit (11) includes a support pin (12) passing through both a sheet opening (21H) and a chassis opening (63H) which are superposed on each other and making contact with a diffusion plate (64), a shield section (13) for covering the sheet opening (21H), and members, such as a latch body (14) and the shield section (13), making the support unit (11) unmovable relative to a backlight chassis (63).Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
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Patent number: 8315010Abstract: A hub includes first and second side surfaces respectively opposed to inner and outer circumferential surfaces of an upper portion of a magnetic member, and a ceiling surface arranged to interconnect an upper ends of the first and second side surfaces. The adhesive agent is interposed between the inner circumferential surface of the upper portion of the magnetic member and the first side surface of the hub and between the upper surface of the magnetic member and the ceiling surface of the hub. Radial distance between the inner circumferential surface of the upper portion of the magnetic member and the first side surface of the hub and axial distance between the upper surface of the magnetic member and the ceiling surface of the hub are smaller than radial distance between the outer circumferential surface of the upper portion of the magnetic member and the second side surface of the hub.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Keita Hamakawa, Daisuke Adachi, Takuro Jimbu, Takayuki Iwase
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Patent number: 8314663Abstract: A directional coupler that has a degree of coupling that is close to constant and is to be used in a predetermined frequency band includes a main line between a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode. A sub-line is provided between a third outer electrode and a fourth outer electrode and is electromagnetically coupled with the main line. A low pass filter is provided between the third outer electrode and the sub-line and has a characteristic in which attenuation increases with increasing frequency in a predetermined frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ikuo Tamaru, Kiyoshi Aikawa