Patents Represented by Attorney Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
  • Patent number: 8028119
    Abstract: A memory system including a non-volatile memory, a cache memory, a control circuit, and a data processing device is configured. The high speed can be achieved by transferring data in the non-volatile memory to the cache memory to retain the same therein. When the data in the non-volatile memory is transferred to the cache memory, error correction is performed so as to improve the reliability. Since the cache memory and the non-volatile memory can be accessed from the data processing device independently, improvement in usability can be achieved. The memory system including the plurality of chips is configured as a memory system module where respective chips are arranged in a stacked manner and wired by a ball grid array (BGA) and wire bonding between chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Miura
  • Patent number: 8025537
    Abstract: An access control device (10) has an electronic/electric control unit (19) fed with electrical current via an electrically conductive fastener (28), such as the ones that also function to clamp the outdoor and indoor housings (15, 17) of the device (10) together against the opposed sides of a door (12) or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kaba Ilco Corp.
    Inventor: Clark Edgar Craig
  • Patent number: 8026658
    Abstract: A display screen, characterized in that the pixels of the image are generated by individual light-emitting capsules, said capsules constituting miniature cathodic tubes cold-cathode and being assembled in a matrix on a least one substrate of supple support, optionally transparent. The material emitting electrons of the capsules may be constituted by carbon nanotubes. The assembly of the capsules may be realized by forced insertion of the prefabricated capsules into a supple support, with or without previously cutting out placements of the capsules in the supports. Assembly of the capsules may likewise be done by moulding the prefabricated capsules in a supple support. Advantageously, the size of the capsules is optimized to ensure optimum matricial assembly of the pixels or correct balance of the non-printing areas, with for example a larger size for the capsules emitting its green light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Newstep
    Inventors: Jean-Chrétien Favreau, Jean-François Peyre, Matthieu Mauger
  • Patent number: 8024996
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic power wrench comprising a ratchet lever (16) driven by a hydraulic cylinder. According to the invention, said power wrench is provided with a friction brake (20) which operates continuously between the housing (10) and the output shaft (14). In this way, reversed rotations of the output shaft following the individual working strokes are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Wanger Vermögensverwaltungs-GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Paul-Heinz Wagner, Bernd Thelen, Andreas Niemietz, Klaus Rüssmann
  • Patent number: 8026570
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a control signal system for avoiding failure to check an indefinite signal propagation prevention circuit, for facilitating a check included in an automated tool, and for facilitating a power shutdown control inside a chip. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, power shutdown priorities are provided by independent power domains (Area A to Area I). A method for preventing a power domain having a lower priority from being turned OFF when a circuit having a high priority is turned ON is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kanno, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yoshihiko Yasu, Kenji Hirose, Takahiro Irita
  • Patent number: 8027100
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, which are disposed in order from an object. The first lens group has a first lens component having a negative refractive power and a second lens component having a positive refractive power, which are disposed in order from the object, and conditions expressed by the expressions 0.12<f/f1<0.47 and 0.016<D12/f<0.079 are satisfied, when f1 is a focal length of the first lens group, f is a focal length of the imaging lens, and D12 is an air distance between the first lens component and the second lens component of the first lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Toshinori Take
  • Patent number: 8026163
    Abstract: When relatively hard Au bump electrodes are mass-produced by electrolytic plating while ensuring usually required properties such as a non-glossy property and shape-flatness, combination of conditions, such as low liquid temperature, high current density, and low concentration of added Tl (thallium) that is an adjuvant, will be selected by itself. However, in such conditions, there is a problem that it is difficult to maintain the Tl concentration in a plating solution and, when the Tl concentration is reduced, defective appearance of the Au bump electrodes is generated by anomalous deposition. Conventionally, there has been no means to directly monitor minute Tl concentration and the Tl concentration has been controlled by analyzing the plating solution periodically. However, this can not prevent generation of a lot of defective products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Kanaoka, Tota Maitani
  • Patent number: 8026575
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that makes it possible to enhance the gain and the efficiency of an RF bipolar transistor. Device isolation is given between a p+ type isolation region and an n+ type collector embedded region and between a p+ type isolation region and an n type collector region (an n+ type collector extraction region) with an isolation section that surrounds the collector extraction region in a plan view and is formed by embedding a dielectric film in a groove penetrating an isolation section, a collector region, and a collector embedded region and reaching a substrate. Further, a current route is formed between an emitter wiring (a wiring) and the substrate with an electrically conductive layer formed by embedding the electrically conductive layer in a groove penetrating a dielectric film, silicon oxide films, a semiconductor region, and the isolation regions and reaching the substrate, and thereby the impedance between the emitter wiring and the substrate is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Toyoda
  • Patent number: 8026165
    Abstract: A process for producing at least one air gap in a microstructure, including supplying a microstructure having at least one gap filled with a sacrificial material that decomposes starting from a temperature ?1, this gap being delimited over at least one part of its surface by a non-porous membrane, composed of a material that forms a matrix and of a pore-forming agent that decomposes at a temperature ?2<?1 by at least 20° C. and that is dispersed in this matrix, then treating the microstructure at a temperature ??2 but <?1 in order to selectively decompose the pore-forming agent, then treating the microstructure at a temperature ??1 in order to decompose the sacrificial material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Aziz Zenasni
  • Patent number: 8023198
    Abstract: A lens system includes, in order from an object: a first lens group having negative refractive power; and a second lens group having positive refractive power, the first lens group including, in order from the object, a lens having a negative refractive power, a plastic aspherical lens, and a lens having a positive refractive power, and the following conditional expression |fp/f1|>4.0 being satisfied, where fp denotes a focal length of the plastic aspherical lens, and f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Saburo Masugi
  • Patent number: 8024512
    Abstract: A memory controller and data processor have their operation mode switched from the page-on mode for high-speed access to a same page to the page-off mode in response to consecutive events of access to different pages, so that the memory access is performed at a high speed and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Miura, Kazushige Ayukawa
  • Patent number: 8022373
    Abstract: An observing apparatus includes: a photographic unit that takes a region where cells are present as an observation object region based upon a macro image captured at low magnification of an interior of a cell culture vessel, and photographs the cells in the observation object region; an illuminating unit that irradiates light upon the cells only during photography by the photographic unit; and an output unit that outputs a fluorescent image photographed by the photographic unit while irradiating light only during photography by the illuminating unit. A recognition section recognizes at least one observation object region, within the macro image, in which cells are present. A selection unit selects a tiling mode or a random mode. A controller points an objective lens at an observation object region in which the recognition unit has recognized that cells are present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Maiya
  • Patent number: 8023995
    Abstract: There is provided a radio frequency circuit device for multi-band and multi-mode which is low in a circuit loss, and a mobile communication terminal using the radio frequency circuit device. The radio frequency circuit device has a first path 110 that includes an amplifier 10a that amplifies signals of at least two modulation techniques in power, a matching network 20 that is connected to the amplifier and a duplexer 50 and allows the matching network to be coupled with an antenna, and a second path 111 that does not include the duplexer and allows the matching network to be coupled with the antenna. The first path is selected when the amplifier amplifies one of the signals of at least two modulation techniques, and the second path is selected when the amplifier amplifies another signal. An output impedance of the amplifier is matched with an impedance when viewing the antenna side from the amplifier in the first path and the second path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kuriyama, Taizo Yamawaki, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8021318
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to devices, systems and methods for removing undesirable materials from a sample fluid by contact with a second fluid. The sample fluid flows as a thin layer adjacent to, or between, concurrently flowing layers of the second fluid, without an intervening membrane. In various embodiments, a secondary separator is used to restrict the removal of desirable substances and effect the removal of undesirable substances from blood. The invention is useful in a variety of situations where a sample fluid is to be purified via a diffusion mechanism against an extractor fluid. Moreover, the invention may be used for the removal of components from a sample fluid that vary in size. When blood is the sample fluid, for example, this may include the removal of ‘small’ molecules, ‘middle’ molecules, macromolecules, macromolecular aggregates, and cells, from the blood sample to the extractor fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Edward F. Leonard, Alan C. West, Nina C. Shapley, Zhongliang Tang
  • Patent number: 8024210
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for managing ground assistance teams of a transport vehicle in a parking zone (19), wherein a management center (3) determines the tasks for the respective assistance teams and provides each team with data specifying its task, comprising the following steps: the management center (3) transmits task data over a radiotelephone network (10); the teams receive the respective data over terminals (15, 16) of the network, which presents the data to them; and after executing the tasks, the teams transmit back to the center (3), from the terminals (15, 16) task performance reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sagem Defense Securite
    Inventor: Francis Weiss
  • Patent number: 8024364
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification, extraction, linking, storage and provisioning of data that constitute the captioned components of published or “print ready” literature for computerized information discovery activities including search, browse and data mining. These components, or objects, include the tabular presentation of data (“tables”) and graphics such as “figures”, “images” and “illustrations” typically used to supplement the textual narrative of the publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Proquest LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Dunie, Craig W. Emerson
  • Patent number: 8022537
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate, and transistors formed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein control electrode terminals constituting external electrode terminals of the transistors, and first electrode terminals which transmit output signals, are provided on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the control electrode terminals are provided at least one, and a plurality of the first electrode terminals are arranged on one side and a plurality of the first electrode terminals are arranged on the other side with the control electrode terminals being interposed therebetween, wherein a portion including the control electrode terminals and a plurality of the first electrode terminals located on one side of the control electrode terminals constitute a first transistor portion, and wherein a portion including the control electrode terminals and a plurality of the first electrode terminals located on the other side of the control electrode
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Akamine, Masashi Suzuki, Masao Yamane, Tetsuaki Adachi
  • Patent number: 8018447
    Abstract: To provide an input interface technique of display data which can contribute to improvement of reliability and high performance of a system in which a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a RAM and a display driver circuit is incorporated. A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first high-speed serial interface circuit which has one differential serial data channel and a second high-speed serial interface circuit which has a plurality of differential serial data channels, the first high-speed serial interface circuit performs interface with the outside for control information, and a control circuit performs an internal operation on the basis of the control information. Both of the high-speed serial interface circuits share a RAM for storage of display data information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shusaku Miyata, Hirofumi Sonoyama
  • Patent number: D645675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Belly-Bean Group, LLC
    Inventors: C. Michael Rice, Cynthia C. Barlow, Jennifer R. Wiegand
  • Patent number: RE42735
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling air conditioning and transfer air in an occupied space are described. The example of a commercial restaurant is provided. Features of model based control and integration of load predictors is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Oy Halton Group Ltd.
    Inventors: Rick Bagwell, Andrey Livchak