Patents Represented by Attorney McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
  • Patent number: 8268508
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a fluid tank used as a water controller system for fuel cells, wherein the fluid tank includes a housing defining an inner space for receiving a liquid-phase component and a gas-phase component, discharging carbon dioxide and air of the gas-phase component, and supplying the liquid-phase component into a fuel cell stack, and wherein the housing is constructed in a dual structure in which a hermetically-sealed type inner case is disposed inside a hermetically-sealed type outer case such that a space defined between the hermetically-sealed type cases is filled with water, the housing is provided on the outer case and the inner case at one side surface thereof with one or more gas and liquid separation membranes, respectively, and the housing is provided on the outer case and the inner case at the other side surface thereof with one or more gas and liquid separation membranes, respectively, whereby the gas-phase component passes through the water filled in the space defined between the inner
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taegeun Noh, Goyoung Moon, Wonho Lee
  • Patent number: 8268108
    Abstract: In order to maintain adequate bond strength of a composite in which a gas barrier coating comprising a clay dispersion and a polymer solution or dispersion of a PVA and/or EVA is positioned between two flexible plastics films using an adhesive, it is necessary that the clay dispersion and the polymer solution or dispersion should be kept separate until shortly before they are to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Limited
    Inventors: Derek Ronald Illsley, Asad Aslam Khan, Michael William Leonard, Graham Trevor Street
  • Patent number: 8269933
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes first and second substrates with a liquid crystal material therebetween; a first alignment film formed on the first substrate and a second alignment film formed on the second substrate; a first align mark on the first substrate, the first align mark formed of the same material as the first alignment film and formed in a shape of any one of a circle, square and cross; and a second align mark to be aligned with the first align mark on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Guk Kim
  • Patent number: 8270361
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of managing a radio bearer is disclosed. A relay node (RN) sets up at least one UuRB for a Uu interface between a user equipment (UE) and the RN and a UnRB for a Un interface between the RN and a base station (BS). The at least one UuRB is mapped to the UnRB according to quality of service (QoS) guaranteed by the at least one UuRB to setup a RB between the UE and the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung June Yi, Sung Duck Chun, Sung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 8271274
    Abstract: The invention aims at constructing improved dictionaries of CELP excitation vectors for coding/decoding digital audio signals. Usually, each vector of dimension N comprises pulses capable of occupying N valid positions. The invention concerns the construction of dictionaries with particular structure by: providing a common sequence of pulses forming a base pattern; and assigning the base pattern to each excitation vector of the dictionary, based on one or more occurrences at one or more respective positions among said N valid positions. The invention also concerns a combination of dictionaries thus constructed with optionally standard multipulse dictionaries, by union or summation or cascading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Dominique Massaloux, Romain Trilling, Claude Lamblin
  • Patent number: 8270078
    Abstract: Dual-function laser systems and methods are disclosed. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a laser source configured to emit a beam; a collimating optical system spaced apart from the laser source; and a diffractive element positioned to diffract the beam to provide a diffracted beam to the collimating optical system such that the collimating optical system refracts the diffracted beam to form an approximately collimated central portion and a diverging outer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: B.E. Meyers
    Inventors: Bran E Meyers, David C Shannon, Miles F Elledge
  • Patent number: 8269740
    Abstract: A multi-touch sensing method and apparatus are described. The multi-touch sensing method includes: storing, in a memory, coordinate values of a first dead zone and coordinate values of a second dead zone existing between first and second pair of image sensors, respectively; calculating coordinate values of touch points from images obtained by the first and second pairs of image sensors; comparing the coordinate values of the touch point and the coordinate values of the dead zones to identify the location of the dead zone to which the touch point belongs; selecting the coordinate values calculated in the third step if the coordinate values of the touch point belong to the first dead zone; and selecting the coordinate values calculated in the second step if the coordinate values of the touch point belong to the second dead zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minho Sohn, Jongseong Choi, Hyunguk Jang, Sangrae Lee, Jaejung Han, Sanghyuck Bae, Byungchun Yu
  • Patent number: 8266925
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a float glass, including a float bath for storing a molten metal on which a molten glass flows, wherein the molten metal flows in the float bath, comprises an discharge opening formed through a wall of a downstream end of the float bath at the center of the wall to discharge a molten metal crashing against the wall and dross floating on the molten metal; and a pair of side channels formed inside of the wall and communicated with the discharge opening and both sides of the float bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Oeb Na, Yang-Han Kim, Hyung-Young Oh, Young-Sik Kim, Won-Jae Moon, Kil-Ho Kim, Heui-Joon Park, Chang-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8261500
    Abstract: A wall panel system including a retractable floor anchor for converting a wall panel assembly between a sliding configuration and a pivoting configuration. The wall panel system includes a sliding wall panel assembly and a pivoting wall panel assembly that may be configured to slide or pivot. A retractable floor anchor configured to be included in the pivoting wall panel assembly includes retractable spindle that is coupled to a base member by a linear actuator. The spindle is rotatably coupled to a door closer included in the retractable floor anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: C.R. Laurence Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Sprague
  • Patent number: 8264435
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes pixels having a plurality of subpixels. The pixels include data displaying subpixels having a first pixel electrode receiving red, green, and blue data voltages to display an image, and a common electrode to which a common voltage is applied. The pixels further a viewing angle controlling subpixel driven in response to a voltage applied to the common electrode, a side electrode separated from the common electrode, and a second pixel electrode. Each of the subpixels includes a rib distorting an electric field applied to the corresponding liquid crystal layer. The viewing angle controlling subpixel delays a phase of the light from the data displaying subpixels when a voltage having a voltage difference from the common voltage is applied to the side electrode during a narrow viewing angle mode of the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Suk Jin
  • Patent number: 8261389
    Abstract: A control method of the same are disclosed. A control method of a laundry treating machine comprising an accommodating space receiving laundry therein, the control method includes selecting one of at least two sanitary courses to sanitize objects, and supplying steam to the objects, with controlling a temperature of the accommodating space and a steam supplying time to maintain a temperature of the object to be at a predetermined sanitary standard temperature or higher for a predetermined sanitary standard time according to the selected course. According to the control method of the present invention, steam may be supplied appropriately according to the load amount of the laundry treating machine such that damage of laundry fabric may be prevented, sanitizing, or sterilizing the laundry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hea Kyung Yoo, Sog Kie Hong, Dong Won Kim, Jong Seok Kim, Dae Yun Park
  • Patent number: 8261569
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes: a compressor configured to compress refrigerant; an indoor heat exchanger configured to condense the refrigerant compressed by the compressor; an outdoor heat exchanger configured to evaporate the refrigerant condensed by indoor heat exchanger; a heater configured to transfer heat to the refrigerant condensed by the indoor heat exchanger; a first pipe configured to flow fluid towards the heater; a second pipe configured to flow fluid away from the heater; and a bypass pipe configured to flow fluid between the first pipe and the second pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Song Choi, Yun Ho Ryu, Beom Soo Seo
  • Patent number: 8263971
    Abstract: The OLED display device includes a first stack and a second stack that are separated from each other between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, with a charge generation layer sandwiched between the first stack and the second stack, each of the first stack and the second stack having an emission layer. The first stack includes a blue emission layer formed between the anode electrode and the CGL. The second stack includes a fluorescent green emission layer and a phosphorescent red emission layer formed between the cathode electrode and the CGL. The blue emission layer includes one of a fluorescent blue emission layer and a phosphorescent blue emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Hoon Pieh
  • Patent number: 8261390
    Abstract: Disclosed is the operation method for a towel-washing course in a washing machine, in which the towel is dehydrated at the spin speed of 900 rpm and 1100 rpm, which is greater than the spin speed (800 rpm) of the drum in the main dehydration process for general laundry, a water level of 22 kHz or 23 kHz, higher than a water level (23.2 kHz) for the general laundry, is supplied to the towel, the towel has a rinse time of 8 or 12 minutes, which is longer than that of 4 minutes for the general laundry, and rinse temperature for the towel is in the range of 50° C.˜60° C., relatively higher than that of 40° C. used to rinse the general laundry. Further, the rinse process having the remaining water removal process is performed between the main dehydration and the water supply, thereby removing detergent solution with a certain concentration from the inside of the washing machine after completing the main dehydration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Deug-Hee Lee, Pyoung-Hwan Kim, Eun-Jin Park, Hyung-Yong Kim, Seong-Hae Jeong
  • Patent number: 8264652
    Abstract: A fringe field switching thin film transistor substrate includes a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a source electrode connected to the data line, a drain electrode opposed to the pixel electrode and a semiconductor layer defining a channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode. A common electrode extends from the common line into the pixel area. A pixel electrode extends from the drain electrode into the pixel area overlapping the common electrode with the gate insulating film. The gate line and the common line are formed from a first conductive layer group having double conductive layers, and the common electrode is formed by an extension of the lowermost layer of the common line. The data line, the source electrode and the drain electrode are formed of a second conductive layer group having double conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byung Chul Ahn
  • Patent number: 8261467
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid storage container and a clothes dryer having the same. The clothes dryer comprises: a body; a front supporter which forms a part of a front surface of the body, and configured to fix the drum; a door installed at the front supporter; a liquid storage container comprising a reservoir configured to store liquid therein, and an inlet unit through which liquid is introduced into the reservoir; and a remaining amount indicator configured to indicate a remaining amount of the liquid stored in the reservoir, wherein the remaining amount indicator is installed on a rear surface of the front supporter, and is exposed to the front surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang-Hun Bae, Min-Ji Kim, Ye-Ji Um, Myung-Shik Kim, Young-Soo Ha
  • Patent number: 8266668
    Abstract: A host is configured to communicate with a video data recording device. The host includes a host controller configured to receive a video data recording device diagnostic information request originated external to the host. The host controller further configured to collect the video data recording device diagnostic information from the video data recording device in response to the external request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Sang Hoon Cha
  • Patent number: 8265268
    Abstract: A converter uses a predetermined parameter a. A generating unit accepts generated inputs x1, . . . , xn, and generates generated outputs, y1, . . . , yn, using recurrence formulas, y1=F1(x1, a) and yi+1=Fi+1(xi+1, y1)(1?i?n?1). A key accepting unit accepts key inputs, k1, . . . , kn, and gives them as generated inputs to said generating unit. A repetition controller gives the generated outputs as generated inputs to said generating unit, for an “m” (m?0) number of times, and sets one of the generated outputs to be given at the end as a random number string, r1, . . . , rn. The data accepting unit accepts data inputs, d1, . . . , dn. The converting unit converts data using, ei=di?ri, and, outputs data outputs, e1, . . . , en. The converter can be used both for encrypting and decrypting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Incorporated Administrative Agency
    Inventor: Ken Umeno
  • Patent number: 8263237
    Abstract: A red phosphorescent compound, includes a host material being capable of transporting an electron or a hole; and a dopant material represented by the following formula 1: wherein each of R1 to R4 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atom (H), C1 to C6 alkyl and C1 to C6 alkoxy, and at least one of R1 to R4 is C1 to C6 alkyl, and wherein each of R5 to R7 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1 to C6 alkyl and pyrrole, and at least one of R5 to R7 is pyrrole, and wherein each of X and Y is selected from the group consisting of H, non-substituted C1 to C6 alkyl and C1 to C6 alkyl substituted by fluorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jung-Keun Kim, Do-Han Kim, Chun-Gun Park, Jong-Kwan Bin, Soon-Wook Cha, Seung-Jae Lee, In-Bum Song
  • Patent number: 8264945
    Abstract: A signal mapping method and a signal transmission method applying a subcarrier shift method are described. A signal mapping method using shifted subcarriers includes shifting positions of data subcarriers by as much as a frequency band corresponding to half of spacing between data subcarriers on a frequency axis, and shifting positions of random access preamble subcarriers by as much as a frequency band corresponding to half of spacing between the data subcarriers and to a specific ratio of spacing between the random access preamble subcarriers, and mapping data and a random access preamble to the data subcarriers and the random access preamble subcarrier, respectively. Even when the spacing between the data subcarriers is a multiple of the spacing between the random access preamble subcarriers, DC distortion can be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dragan Vujcic, Hyun Woo Lee, Seung Hee Han, Min Seo Hon, Jin Sam Kwak, Dong Cheol Kim, Yeong Hyeon Kwon