Patents Represented by Attorney Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP
  • Patent number: 6837958
    Abstract: A process for placement of indicator elements in a disposable wearing article includes a step in which indication sheets each having a pair of indicator elements are placed on an outer web, a step in which the indication sheets are joined to the outer web, a step in which an inner web is placed upon and joined to the outer web to form a composite web, a step in which the composite web is divided into first and second composite webs and thereby the paired indicator elements are divided into the individual indicator elements, a step in which the first and second composite webs are separated from each other, a step in which a liquid-absorbent laminated panel is joined to respective upper surfaces of the first and second composite webs and a step in which the first and second composite webs and the panel are cut together to obtain individual articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6837411
    Abstract: In the apparatus, a fastening element is driven into a support under the action of the gases from an explosive charge via a piston (2) that can move in a gun between a firing position and a fastening position, and a plug guide (5) in which a piston-braking ball (6) mechanism is mounted, which comprises arms (7) mounted to pivot on the plug-guide (5) arranged to modulate the radial force of the balls (6), depending on the relative displacement of the gun (3) and of the piston (2), between a maximum force when the piston (2) moves forward in the gun, and a non-zero minimum force, when the piston (2) moves back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Societe de Prospection et d'Inventions Techniquestspit
    Inventors: Roland Almeras, Patrick Herelier, Emmanuel Vallon
  • Patent number: 6837543
    Abstract: A seat for an automobile includes a backrest fitted with a frame, an adjusting device inside the backrest in the region of the lumbar vertebral column, an elongated, resiliently bending element running transversely inside the frame, two bowden cables each with a sheath and a traction wire, a drive device at the backrest one rest for each bowden cable sheath in each end zone off the elongated element and through which the traction wire is made to pass in longitudinally displaceable manner, an affixation of the free end of the traction wire at a part of the backrest frame facing it whereby the elongated element is suspended in such manner in the frame that, when a tension is exerted on the traction wire, the elongated element shall be moved forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: ITW Automotive Products GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Och, Gerd Fischer
  • Patent number: 6839850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a Security Indications and Warning (SI&W) Engine usable in conjunction with an audit agent. The audit agent forwards normalized audits to the SI&W Engine. The SI&W Engine groups the normalized audits into related groupings. Gauges are used to count the number of occurrences of audited events. A statistical engine provides statistical representations of the number of events per user, per session and per node. A predetermined number of criteria are defined a particular gauge or gauge pair. There may be many criteria for a particular network. When a predetermined number of criteria within a criteria set are triggered, an indicator is triggered. More complex indicators can use combinations of lower level indicators to provide further indications of potential security threads. Thus, a hierarchical system of gauges, criteria and indicators is used to measure boundary violations and breaches of different barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: PRC, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Campbell, Jeffrey H. Walker
  • Patent number: 6836256
    Abstract: A wideband antenna system is capable of radiating or receiving signals in a low-frequency band [Fbb, Fbh] covering more than one octave and a high-frequency band [Fhb, Fhh] with Fhb>=2Fbh comprising at least one power supply device (4) powering at least one upper radiating element (1) and at least one lower radiating element (2). The lower radiating element (2) is provided with at least one antenna assembly (10) adapted to radiating in the high-frequency band [Fhb, Fhh]. Application to RF signals. FIG. 3 to be published.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Frédéric Ngo Bui Hung
  • Patent number: 6835722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of metabolic bone disease and the method of preparation thereof, and more particularly, to an improved pharmaceutical composition for the therapeutic treatment of metabolic disease and the method of preparation thereof, wherein said composition is prepared as a composite pharmaceutical agent which comprises calcitriol; which reduces the rate of spine fractures and increases bone density; alendronate, a bone resorption inhibitor, as two main active ingredients in an optimal mixing ratio to exert the greatest synergistic therapeutic effect; and adequate amount of other additives such as a resorption fortifier of alendronate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyu Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung An Kang, Kyung Hee Lee, Chung Shil Kwak, Chang Jong Kim, Yong Oh Lee
  • Patent number: 6835429
    Abstract: A part for a motor vehicle intended to come into contact with hydrocarbons has a polytetrafluoroethylene coating (3) adapted to make the part (1) impermeable. Use of a polytetrafluoroethylene coating for making impermeable parts of a motor vehicle on the fuel system, in order to limit the emission of hydrocarbons through these parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: I.T.W. de France
    Inventor: Michel Roger
  • Patent number: 6836725
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of utilizing waypoints for a vehicle is provided. A first waypoint relating to a first vehicle position is added to a second waypoint relating to a second vehicle position. The waypoints are saved as a route. Waypoint information relating to the waypoints and route information relating to the route may be manipulated. The method also includes displaying at least a portion of the route on a display screen and indicating a desired direction of vehicle travel from a current vehicle location to one of the waypoints. According to the present invention, the drive may be alerted when the vehicle has come within a particular distance of the waypoint or if the vehicle has veered from the route by a particular distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Magellan DIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Millington, Chandiran Palanisamy, Rhonda Marie Paprocki, Anthony Albert Slominski
  • Patent number: 6834618
    Abstract: A gate assembly for an animal passageway has two barriers that, when in use, are in close proximity to each other in a closed position and can be moved in opposing directions to each other to be in an open position. The operation of the gate assembly to the open position is achieved by an operator using an operator-activated control mechanism. At least one barrier is configured so that when in the open position it does not intrude into the passageway and activation of the control mechanism is external to the passageway. The gate assembly is maintained in the open position until the operator operates the control mechanism to close the grate assembly. When the assembly is in the open position one barrier is in an upper position with respect to the other. The barrier are pivotally attached to a support at separate pivot points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Douglas Pickin, James Arthur Harris, John Peter Van Amsterdam
  • Patent number: 6832941
    Abstract: A surface treatment process for fabricating a panel of an organic light emitting device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Ritek Corporation
    Inventor: Tien-Rong Lu
  • Patent number: 6833653
    Abstract: A housing having lead frames which are protruded to contact and to resiliently support a piezoelectric transformer and a method of manufacturing the housing is disclosed. The housing has an upper housing part having at least two first lead frames protruded to resiliently contact input and output portions of an upper surface of the piezoelectric transformer, and a lower housing part having at least two second lead frames protruded to resiliently come into contact with the input and output portions of a lower surface of the piezoelectric transformer. The first and second lead frames are outwardly extended from the upper and lower housing parts, and the piezoelectric transformer is received in the upper and lower housing parts such that the piezoelectric transformer is resiliently supported by the first and second lead frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bu Whan Hyun, Wook Hee Lee, Gi Lyong Na
  • Patent number: 6832743
    Abstract: The in-flight refueling of a squadron of aircraft by a tanker by means of the same refueling hose requires the formation of a queue and the determination of the number of passes, one or possibly two, by each aircraft to the refueling hose, which constitutes a refueling sequence. Although the order in the queue is simple to establish, since it often corresponds to a classification by decreasing quantities of fuel demanded, the same does not apply to the number of passes to the refueling hose, which must be minimized while still respecting the endurances of the aircraft to be refueled before their actual refueling starts. The method described, which may be implemented by a computer, automates the search for a refueling sequence that satisfies the endurance requirements of the various aircraft to be refueled, while still having the minimum number of passes to the refueling hose by the aircraft in the squadron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Catherine Schneider, Dominique Morin
  • Patent number: 6834271
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a combination software and/or hardware system that provides consumers and merchants with a secure method for making and accepting credit card and ATM card payments over the Internet. Using various software and/or hardware implementations, the system operates by: 1) creating (at the consumer's Internet access device) a Data Encryption Standard (DES) encrypted Personal Identification Number (PIN) Block meeting American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Kryptosima
    Inventors: Robert B. Hodgson, Harry Hargens
  • Patent number: 6831416
    Abstract: This invention is directed to crossed-field devices such as magnetrons to an inductive insert for a magnetron that compensates for the natural increase in cavity inductance with temperature which causes the output frequency to decline with increasing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation
    Inventor: Neil G. Whyman
  • Patent number: 6831610
    Abstract: An antenna system comprises a Gatelink antenna (1), a Satcom Ku antenna (2), a Satcom Inmarsat antenna (3) positioned on a support that is mobile (5) in rotation and/or in translation and a device for the protection (6) of the antennas. Application to an airliner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Gilles Quagliaro
  • Patent number: 6830856
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for fabricating a color filter by using the theory of surface tension. The surface tension is very small when hydrophobic material is on hydrophobic surface and the surface tension is very large when hydrophobic material is on hydrophilic surface. It avoids to blurry with the printed hydrophobic color materials and can get fine color filter with excellent color reappearance when the surface of pixel area is a hydrophobic surface and the surface of non-pixel area is a hydrophilic surface. This invention comprises: forming a dielectric layer on substrate; forming a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines on substrate to define a plurality of pixel areas and a non-pixel area; forming a hydrophobic surface on the plurality of pixel areas; forming a hydrophilic surface on the non-pixel area; and using ink-jet printing method to print the hydrophobic color materials on the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Toppoly Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yaw-Ming Tsai, Shih-Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 6828705
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vibration motor having an improved support structure between a rotor for generating eccentric rotation and a stator for supporting rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon Choi, Ki Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 6827804
    Abstract: A process for making a pants-type diaper without generation of waste material. The pants-type diaper is composed of a body fluid absorbent pad member curved in a U-shape, a front waist member and a rear waist member extending around front and rear waist-halves, respectively. The front and rear waist members are obtained by feeding first and second elastic members in parallel to each other in a machine direction so as to describe substantially sinusoidal curves, respectively, securing these elastic members to one surface of a web fed in the machine direction and then transversely bisecting the web between the first and second elastic members. The first and second elastic members are symmetric to each other about a center line bisecting the web but phase-shifted with respect to each other in the machine direction by half a cycle of the substantially sinusoidal curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6826530
    Abstract: A plurality of tasks are set in a speech synthesizing process, in which at least one of speakers, emotion or situation at the time speeches are made, and contents of the speeches, is different, and word dictionaries, prosody dictionaries, and waveform dictionaries corresponding to respective tasks are organized. When a character string to be synthesized is input with the task specified through, for example, a game system, a speech synthesizing process is performed using the word dictionary, the prosody dictionary, and the waveform dictionary corresponding to the specified task. Therefore, a speech message can be generated depending on the personality of a speaker, the emotion or situation at the time when a speech is made, and the contents of the speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignees: Konami Corporation, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Kasai, Toshiyuki Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: D499961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: The Snack Factory Inc.
    Inventor: Warren Wilson