Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik
  • Patent number: 8327976
    Abstract: The invention pertains to an insulation structure for thermally and acoustically insulating an aircraft that features at least one heavy layer, wherein the insulation structure according to the invention is characterized in that the insulation structure comprises an additional absorption layer, in that the heavy layer is perforated at least in certain areas, and in that the perforated area ratio of the heavy layer is adapted in such a way that the heavy layer is essentially transparent to sound for frequencies below a double-wall frequency of the insulation structure. This makes it possible to dampen sound with low frequencies below the double-wall frequency as effectively as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Müller, Benjamin Grenzing, Christian Thomas
  • Patent number: 8328137
    Abstract: The invention relates to an emergency exit hatch for exiting a cabin module for an aircraft in an emergency and entering the cabin module. Said emergency exit hatch comprises a first mechanism for visually inspecting a zone below the emergency exit hatch by at least partly opening the emergency exit hatch by means of the first mechanism, and a second mechanism for entirely opening the emergency exit hatch . The first mechanism is not the same as the second mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Sütthoff, Alexander Stendel
  • Patent number: 8329875
    Abstract: Provided is a monoclonal antibody, or an antigen binding fragment thereof, which binds specifically to an epitope within the sequence KPGAKKDTKDSRPKL (Sequence ID No. 2) of AGR2. Such monoclonal antibodies are of prognostic and diagnostic utility in the investigation of cancer, particularly metastatic cancer. The antibodies described may also be used in prognosis or diagnosis of inflammatory diseases. Also provided are kits and solid supports comprising such antibodies, as well as the therapeutic use of antibodies of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: The University Of Liverpool
    Inventors: Roger Barraclough, Dong Liu Barraclough, Philip Rudland
  • Patent number: 8330874
    Abstract: A video signal conversion device performs the process of: selecting a selected video signal out of two or more video signals input; recognizing the signal type of the selected video signal; converting, in accordance with the result of recognition, the selected video signal into a display signal format suitable for a display section and supplying it to the display section; selecting a target video signal from a group of unselected video signals not including the selected video signal, and recognizing the signal type of the target video signal; generating a piece of video information from the result of recognition and storing the piece of video information in a storage section; and reading out, when accepting a switching instruction that instructs to select another video signal as a selected video signal, a piece of video information corresponding to it from the storage section and converting it into the format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shuzo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8329581
    Abstract: A microelectronic package includes a microelectronic element having faces and contacts, the microelectronic element having an outer perimeter, and a substrate overlying and spaced from a first face of the microelectronic element, whereby an outer region of the substrate extends beyond the outer perimeter of the microelectronic element. The microelectronic package includes a plurality of etched conductive posts exposed at a surface of the substrate and being electrically interconnected with the microelectronic element, whereby at least one of the etched conductive posts is disposed in the outer region of the substrate. The package includes an encapsulating mold material in contact with the microelectronic element and overlying the outer region of the substrate, the encapsulating mold material extending outside of the etched conductive posts for defining an outermost edge of the microelectronic package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Tessera, Inc.
    Inventors: Belgacem Haba, Masud Beroz, Teck-Gyu Kang, Yoichi Kubota, Sridhar Krishnan, John B. Riley, III, Ilyas Mohammed
  • Patent number: 8325519
    Abstract: A programmable non-volatile device is operated with a floating gate that functions as a FET gate that overlaps a portion of a source/drain region and allows for variable coupling through geometry and/or biasing conditions. This allows a programming voltage for the device to be imparted to the floating gate through variable capacitive coupling, thus changing the state of the device. Multi-state embodiments are also possible. The invention can be used in environments such as data encryption, reference trimming, manufacturing ID, security ID, and many other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Invensas Corporation
    Inventors: David Liu, John Nicholas Gross
  • Patent number: 8324364
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for the rapid and sensitive detection of a carbapenemase in a sample are provided. The compositions include novel primer and probe compositions for use in detecting the presence of this enzyme in a sample, particularly using PCR methods. These primers and probe sets can be used in amplification methods (such as PCR, particularly quantitative PCR) and packaged into kits for use in amplification methods for the purpose of detecting carbapenemase in a test sample, particularly a patient sample, particularly a direct sample. Thus, in one embodiment, the present invention provides for novel oligonucleotide primers set forth in SEQ ID NOs:1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, and 20, and the novel oligonucleotide probe sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs:3, 6, 9, 16, and 19. These sequences can be used in a method of detecting carbapenemase in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Craig C. Whiteford, Charles Yu
  • Patent number: 8322656
    Abstract: A wing-fuselage section of an aircraft, which wing-fuselage section comprises a wing root at which the wing of the aircraft is connected to the fuselage, a fuselage region with fuselage frame elements that extent across the longitudinal direction of the aircraft, and a wing region with spars that extend in the direction of the wingspan. According to the invention, the spars of the wing region and the fuselage frame elements of the fuselage region form part of an integral assembly that extends at least over a middle part of the wing and the fuselage region, including the wing roots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Pahl
  • Patent number: 8325067
    Abstract: The invention relates to a console (1) and a safety console (101) having dual-stage functionality. The console (1) has a key (21) and a contact plate (41). According to one exemplary embodiment, the key (21) has a dual-stage safety shutdown mat (23) on which electrically conductive layers (25, 27) are located. The contact plate (41) has two contact arrangements having electrically conductive safety contact elements (43, 45) and key contact elements (47, 49). The console (1) is configured to connect the electrically conductive safety contact elements (43, 45) by means of the safety contact layer (25) in an inactive state, thus continuously monitoring the presence and active contact state of the key (21) via a safety switch (37). In an active state, the key (1) is configured to also connect the key contact elements (47, 49) via the key contact layer (27) on the safety shutdown mat (23) such that the activation can be registered by an evaluation circuit (53).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: VeriFone GmbH
    Inventors: Ottmar Möller, Michael Ostermöller, Torsten Ide, Thomas Wahl
  • Patent number: 8324291
    Abstract: A method of producing an improved polyethylene, especially an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene utilizes a sequential irradiation and annealing process to form a highly cross-linked polyethylene material. The use of sequential irradiation followed by sequential annealing after each irradiation allows each dose of irradiation in the series of doses to be relatively low while achieving a total dose which is sufficiently high to cross-link the material. The process may either be applied to a preformed material such as a rod or bar or sheet made from polyethylene resin or may be applied to a finished polyethylene part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Aiguo Wang, John H. Dumbleton, Aaron Essner, Shi-Shen Yau
  • Patent number: 8327251
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes: a CRC encoding processing unit configured to include a plurality of generating polynomials for an CRC encoding processing with each of a plurality of data of which the code lengths differ as a target, and employ the optimal generating polynomial out of the plurality of generating polynomials to perform the CRC encoding processing; and a transmission unit configured to transmit data obtained by the CRC encoding processing unit performing the CRC encoding processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Shinagawa, Makoto Noda, Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Keitarou Kondou
  • Patent number: 8325834
    Abstract: A filter apparatus extracts a specific signal from a group of multi-carrier modulated signals. A complex sine wave signal is outputted in accordance with a channel to be selected. The complex sine wave signal and an input group of signals are multiplied. A specific group of signals is selected from a result of the multiplication and is rearranged along a frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Sakoda
  • Patent number: 8322673
    Abstract: A television mounting system includes a wall plate, at least one monitor arm mountable on the wall plate, and a locking mechanism including a rotating locking element permanently connected with the monitor arm. The rotating element is moveable, by rotation of the rotating element a portion of a revolution, between an unlocked position for enabling dismounting of the at least one monitor arm from the wall plate, and a locked position for preventing dismounting of the at least one monitor arm from the wall plate. The rotating element includes a first side having a different height than a second side. In the locked position of the locking element, the first side is less of a distance from a contact portion of the wall plate than a distance the monitor arm must be moved for dismounting the monitor arm from the wall plate, such that the locking element contacts the contact portion before the monitor can be moved for being dismounted from the wall plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Bell'O International Corp.
    Inventor: Steven J. Sculler
  • Patent number: 8325264
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a first display panel unit for executing display toward a user side; a second display panel unit for executing display toward a subject side; an imaging processing unit for subjecting incident light from the subject side to photoelectric conversion to obtain a captured image signal; a recording processing unit for executing a recording process to a recording medium regarding the captured image signal obtained at the imaging processing unit; and a control unit for controlling the display states of the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit for each of a plurality of various types of operation periods changing along with the operation of the imaging processing unit or the recording processing unit, and executing display control wherein the first display panel unit and the second display panel unit can have different display content during at least a single operation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Akita, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Sho Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8322997
    Abstract: The invention relates to an eccentric pump including a frame, a pump shaft which can be driven using a driving device and is mounted to be rotatable about a main axis that is stationary relative to the frame, an eccentric sleeve which is mounted in an axially movable manner on a pump shaft section, an anti-rotation element which is effective between the pump shaft section and the eccentric sleeve), several pump elements which are stationary relative to the frame and are provided with displacement elements that can be moved in a radial direction relative to the main axis, act upon a fluid contained in swept volumes of the pump elements, and are moved against a fluid pressure by an external surface of the eccentric sleeve, and at least one spring element which acts upon the eccentric sleeve in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Weber-Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Auer, Stefan Kopf
  • Patent number: 8324536
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for igniting an aluminothermic composition, characterized in that it comprises an electric resistor for connecting two electrodes and to be supplied by an electric current source of in order to generate heat by a Joule effect, said electric resistor being exposed to a medium comprising oxygen and carbon so that the temperature rise of the medium by the resistor results in the formation of carbon monoxide, and then in an exothermal reaction of the latter with oxygen, thus generating a flame capable of igniting of the aluminothermic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Railtech International
    Inventors: Francis Viseur, Jean-Jacques Thuru, Lionel Winiar
  • Patent number: 8323292
    Abstract: An adjustable pin drill guide and method for using an adjustable pin drill guide to prepare a vertebral body space to receive an implant are disclosed. The method includes providing an adjustable pin drill guide, producing a gap by removing tissue between a first vertebral body and a second vertebral body, inserting into the gap first and second extensions of the guide in a first position, moving the first extension and the second extension to a second position, drilling a first hole in the first vertebral body through a first opening in the guide, drilling a second hole in the second vertebral body through a second opening in the guide, placing a first pin into the first hole, and placing a second pin into the second hole. The first and second extensions are preferably in parallel planes when in the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: SpineCore, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Dudasik, Zoya Royt, Jean-Jacques Abitol, Joseph P. Errico
  • Patent number: 8325238
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a test pattern signal generator for outputting a video signal adapted to display, on a display device, a test pattern of a color chart according to a standard for a first color gamut and a color chart of a test pattern according to a standard for a second color gamut which is wider than the first color gamut, the test pattern signal generator including: a color chart recording section configured to record color chart information of the standard for the first color gamut and color chart information of the standard for the second color gamut; and a test pattern signal generation section configured to generate, based on the information recorded in the color chart recording section, a video signal adapted to display test patterns in which the color charts according to the respective standards are arranged in a predetermined layout on the same screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Imai, Naoya Katoh
  • Patent number: 8322833
    Abstract: The invention describes an ink supply system (2) for an inkjet printer (1) with a print head arrangement (6) for at least one color, wherein the print head arrangement (6) comprises several print heads (7) each with several jets, and wherein the print heads (7) are arranged in a row next to one another to form a complete printing area width (10) corresponding to a multiple of a printing area width (9) of an individual print head (7). Each of the print heads (7) is connected by a line to an intermediate tank (12) for ink of the respective color, wherein several print heads (7) are connected to a common intermediate tank (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Durst Phototechnik—A.G.
    Inventor: Georg Grossrubatscher
  • Patent number: D672021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Niagara Conservation Corp.
    Inventor: Todd Michael Bradford