Patents Represented by Attorney McGinn & Gibb, PLLC

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  • Fuel cut-off apparatus for fuel tank
    Patent number: 6827098
    Abstract: The first seal seat is disposed in a first passage of a case. The first float valve body is disposed in the case and closes the first seal seat in response to the liquid level of the fuel. The second seal seat is disposed vertically above the first seal seat, in a second passage of the case. The second valve body is disposed on one side of the second seal seat communicating to the outside of the second passage, with being resiliently urged upwards from below. The second float is disposed in the case and regulates an upper end position of the second valve body to open the second valve seat in response to movement of the liquid level of fuel at least until the liquid level is higher than the liquid level at which the first float valve body closes the first seal seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Piolax Inc.
    Inventors: Harumitsu Sugiyama, Morihiko Kishi, Shinichi Matsuo
  • Method for discovering problem resolutions in a free form computer helpdesk data set
    Patent number: 6829734
    Abstract: A method and structure for discovering problem resolution in a helpdesk data set of problem tickets is based on using an enumerated set of phrases that have been identified as indicating diagnosis, instruction, or corrective action. A count of these phrases is then obtained and used along with any accompanying structured information to score each problem ticket. The tickets are then sorted so that the most useful problem tickets appear first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, William Scott Spangler, Hovey Ramond Strong, Jr.
  • Four-point contact ball bearing
    Patent number: 6827496
    Abstract: A four-point ball bearing includes: an inner ring and an outer ring defining raceway grooves, respectively. Each of the raceway grooves is constituted by two circular arcs different in curvature provided on opposite sides of a widthwise center of the raceway groove. A plurality of balls are arranged between the inner and outer rings so that the balls can roll. In at least one of the raceway grooves, a center of curvature of one of the circular arcs and a center of curvature of the other circular arc are displaced from each other at least in a radial direction so that spin is generated in each of the balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Iwata, Yoshitaka Nakagawa
  • Image forming apparatus with transfer bias inverting function
    Patent number: 6829449
    Abstract: A transfer member transporting section is disposed so as to bring a tip end of a transfer member into contact with a peripheral face of a transfer rotary member before the tip end of the transfer member enters a nip area. A bias power supply has a polarity inverting function of, during a period from a timing when the tip end of the transfer member is brought into contact with the transfer rotary member by the transfer member transporting section, to that when the tip end of the transfer member enters the nip area, applying a voltage of a polarity which is identical with that of a toner, to the transfer rotary member, and after the tip end of the transfer member enters the nip area, applying a voltage of a polarity which is opposite to that of the toner, to the transfer rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Printing Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Matsumoto, Teruaki Mitsuya, Tsuneaki Kawanishi, Hisao Okada, Natsuki Kuribayashi, Masayoshi Ishii, Keisuke Kubota
  • Dual gate material process for CMOS technologies
    Patent number: 6828181
    Abstract: A method and structure for a method of manufacturing a device having different types of transistors, wherein gates of the different types of transistors in the device comprise different materials. The method comprises depositing a silicon layer on a gate dielectric layer, depositing a first-type gate material on the silicon layer, removing the first-type gate material from areas where a second-type gate is to be formed, depositing a second-type gate material on the silicon layer in areas where the first-type gate material was removed, and simultaneously patterning the first-type gate material and the second-type gate material into first-type and second-type gates, and anneal and transform the two types of gate materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jia Chen, Andreas E. Grassmann
  • Data recording and reproducing method and apparatus capable of recompressing individual data blocks
    Patent number: 6827276
    Abstract: In a data recording and reproducing method, data blocks are recorded in a storage unit. Priority levels each for one of the data blocks are set and stored. It is determined whether or not a vacant area of the storage unit is expected to be short. When the vacant area of the storage unit is expected to be short. The data blocks recorded in the storage unit are recompressed in accordance with the stored priority levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Itoi
  • Method an congestion control system to allocate bandwidth of a link to dataflows
    Patent number: 6829649
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for allocating bandwidth of a limited bandwidth link to dataflows containing packets. In the method, the number of buckets is adaptively adjusted dependent upon the number of active dataflows. Each bucket has a number of tokens allocated to the bucket for use by the corresponding dataflow. The number of tokens is dependent upon a weighted value for the corresponding dataflow. Queueing of the packets for utilization of the limited bandwidth link is dependent upon the tokens. Tokens are then adaptively-reallocated to one or more buckets in accordance with a weighted value for each of the dataflows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rajev Shorey, Huzur Saran, Abhinav Kamra, Sundeep Kapila, Varun Khurana, Vikas Yadav
  • Automatic transmission
    Patent number: 6826974
    Abstract: An automatic transmission having gear trains provided between an input shaft and an output shaft, the gear trains including drive gears mounted on the input shaft and driven gears mounted on the output shaft, includes a start clutch provided between a crankshaft of an engine and the input shaft for transmitting or shutting off an engine power from a crankshaft of the engine to the input shaft, a changeover mechanism for selecting a desired gear train through which power is transmitted from a plurality of gear trains, two bypass clutches, one is provided between third gear transmission gear trains and another is provided between sixth gear transmission gear trains for transmitting a different torque from the input shaft to the output shaft respectively, on gearshiftings and a bypass clutch control means for selecting at least one desired bypass clutch through which power is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshio Kobayashi
  • CMOS device on ultrathin SOI with a deposited raised source/drain, and a method of manufacture
    Patent number: 6828630
    Abstract: A method and structure for a CMOS device comprises depositing a silicon over insulator (SOI) wafer over a buried oxide (BOX) substrate, wherein the SOI wafer has a predetermined thickness; forming a gate dielectric over the SOI wafer; forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) region over the BOX substrate, wherein the STI region is configured to have a generally rounded corner; forming a gate structure over the gate dielectric; depositing an implant layer over the SOI wafer; performing one of N-type and P-type dopant implantations in the SOI wafer and the implant layer; and heating the device to form source and drain regions from the implant layer and the SOI wafer, wherein the source and drain regions have a thickness greater than the predetermined thickness of the SOI wafer, wherein the gate dielectric is positioned lower than the STI region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Heemyong Park, Byoung H. Lee, Paul D. Agnello, Dominic J. Schepis, Ghavam G. Shahidi
  • Variable detail automatic invocation of transistor level timing for application specific integrated circuit static timing analysis
    Patent number: 6829755
    Abstract: A method and system for designing static timing analysis for application specific-type integrated circuits (ASIC). The method includes use of transistor level timing (TLT) methods that are used only when open channel circuit inputs are detected during the generation of the timing graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul T. Gutwin, Peter J. Osler
  • Optical semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 6828589
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor device comprising a plurality of semiconductor lasers formed on a single substrate is provided, in which each of said semiconductor lasers emits a laser lights having designed different oscillating wavelength. This optical semiconductor device is provided by maintaining the coupling coefficient of each of said semiconductor lasers at a constant value by adjusting the composition of an optical guide layer or the mask width for the MOVPE growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Compound Conductor Devices, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Sakata
  • Semiconductor device on a combination bulk silicon and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate
    Patent number: 6825534
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a combination substrate having a bulk silicon region, and a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) region. The SOI region includes a crystallized silicon layer formed by annealing amorphous silicon and having isolation trenches formed therein so as to remove defective regions, and isolation oxides formed in the isolation trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Howard H. Chen, Louis L. Hsu, Li-Kong Wang
  • Two-dimensional beam writing position detecting device and image forming apparatus using the detecting device
    Patent number: 6825457
    Abstract: A two-dimensional beam writing position detecting device for providing an optical system for scanning on a photoconductor by laser beams emitted from a semiconductor laser to form an electrostatic latent image and arranging a plurality of the laser beams in two dimensions and slantingly scanning each the laser beam for forming the electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor at a predetermined angle and detecting the laser beams for determining the first writing position on the photoconductor of the laser beams is characterized in that a longitudinal direction of a beam light receiving surface of the detecting device 1 inclines at the substantially same angle as the slant scanning angle with respect to the perpendicular of a scanning direction of the plural beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Printing Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Junshin Sakamoto
  • Arrayed waveguide grating, arrayed waveguide grating module, arrayed waveguide grating module waveguide compensation method, optical communication system
    Patent number: 6826334
    Abstract: An arrayed waveguide grating 101 is shown, which comprises at least one input waveguide 103, a plurality of output waveguides 104, at least one wavelength compensation output waveguide 105 disposed adjacent to the output waveguide 104, a channel waveguide array 107, an input side slab-waveguide 108, and an output side slab-waveguide 109. The wavelength compensation output waveguide 105 has a tapering connecting portion connected to the output side slab-waveguide 105. Thus, the outputted light has a sharp spectrum, thus permitting ready wavelength compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Yoneda
  • Illumination device
    Patent number: 6824290
    Abstract: An illumination device is composed by arranging a shutter member on a light emitting side of an LED light source, capable of changing a condition of light illuminating the outside when a position or the shutter member is changed by slide or rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Noda, Hiroshi Ito
  • Method of compensating for an eccentricity of an optical disk and apparatus for doing the same
    Patent number: 6826135
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for compensating for an eccentricity of an optical disc, including a driver on which an optical disc is mounted for rotation, an optical head for emitting optical beams to the optical disc and receiving optical beams reflected from the optical disc, a mover to which the optical head is secured and which moves in a radius-wise direction of the optical disc, a track cross generating circuit which receives a track error signal from the optical disc and transmits a track cross pulse, and a controller which receives the track cross pulse to thereby determine an eccentricity of the optical disc in view of the optical beams reflected from the optical disc, and controls a rotational frequency of the optical disc in accordance with the thus determined eccentricity. The apparatus provides an advantage that an average transfer rate is increased for the long run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Fukamachi
  • File manager for storing several versions of a file
    Patent number: 6823348
    Abstract: A file manager (and method) provided for locating a file identified by a path referring to a logical unit and an identifier, includes a table associating the file with a priority list of physical units. The file manager can be incorporated into the controller of peripheral devices in a computer system or an operating system of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alain Benayoun, Jacques Fieschi, Jean-François Le Pennec, Patrick Michel
  • Optical waveguide device manufacturing jig, method of manufacturing optical waveguide device by use of the same jig, and the same optical waveguide device
    Patent number: 6823116
    Abstract: An optical fiber, a mixture solution of the photosetting resins polymerizing in two different polymerization types, and a transparent container are prepared. The photosetting resins are not copolymerized, and have different activation wavelengths of the photopolymerization initiators for hardening. Employing a combination in which the activation wavelength of a photopolymerization initiator for a photosetting resin with higher refractive index after hardening is longer than the activation wavelength of a photopolymerization initiator for a photosetting resin with lower refractive index after hardening, a core portion can be only formed by hardening the photosetting resin with higher refractive index due to a difference between two wavelengths. Thereafter, a clad portion can be formed by hardening two kinds of photosetting resins, whereby an optical transmission device can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukitoshi Inui, Kuniyoshi Kondo, Manabu Kagami, Tatsuya Yamashita, Akari Kawasaki, Hiroshi Ito
  • Semiconductor light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 6821800
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor light-emitting device involving the steps of: forming a first semiconductor layer; forming a light-emitting layer of superlattice structure by laminating a barrier layer being made of InY1Ga1-Y1N (Y1≧0) and a quantum well layer being made of InY2Ga1-Y2N (Y2>Y1 and Y2>0) on the first semiconductor layer; and forming a second semiconductor layer on the light-emitting layer, an uppermost barrier layer, which will become an uppermost layer of the light-emitting layer, is made thicker than the other barrier layers. Further, at the time of forming the second semiconductor layer, an upper surface of such uppermost barrier layer is caused to disappear so that the thickness of the uppermost barrier layer becomes substantially equal to those of the other barrier layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikatsu Koide, Shinya Asami, Junichi Umezaki, Masayoshi Koike, Shiro Yamasaki, Seiji Nagai
  • Personalized system for providing improved understandability of received speech
    Patent number: 6823312
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for providing improved understandability of received speech characterized in that it includes input interface adapted to capture received speech signals connected to a speech recognition means for identifying the contents of the received speech connected to one input of a data processor adapted to perform improvement in understandability, a user profile storage connected to another input of said data processor for providing user specific improvement data, and an output generator connected to the output of said data processor to produce personalized output based on an individual's needs. The instant invention also provides a configured computer program product for carrying out the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Parul A. Mittal, Pradeep Kumar Dubey