Patents Represented by Attorney Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
  • Patent number: 7808474
    Abstract: A light control circuit that makes it possible to, when the light intensity of the area surrounding a display screen varies in a relatively short time, prevent the brightness of a backlight from being erroneously adjusted as the result of the variation being detected is provided. The light control circuit controls the backlight of a display panel. This light control circuit is provided with functions of performing the following operation: detection signals from multiple optical sensors are taken into a common sampling means in a time division manner to acquire multiple sampling values temporally dispersed; a surrounding light intensity is determined by majority decision based on the multiple sampling values, and the result of determination is externally outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Mizuno, Takesada Akiba, Kazuo Okado
  • Patent number: 7805970
    Abstract: An assembly for can manufacture includes a toolpack having coolant dies (3,4,5,6) adjacent and either side of ironing dies (1,2) so that coolant may be circulated around cavities in the coolant dies so as to cool the ironing die inserts (12). Generally, the toolpack is used in conjunction with a ram (20), coolant tube assembly (30) and ram guidance assembly (60) which together ensure that the ram is cooled along its entire length, up to and including the punch nose (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: William Woulds
  • Patent number: 7807681
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds for inhibiting the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), which have high bioavailability and oral administerability, and also to the use thereof as therapeutic active compounds for the treatment of urokinase- or/and urokinase receptor-associated disorders such as, for example, tumors and metastasizing. The invention relates in particular to compounds containing hydroxyamidine or hydroxyguanidine groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Wilex AG
    Inventors: Stefan Sperl, Markus Buergle, Wolfgang Schmalix, Katja Wosikowski, Bernd Clement
  • Patent number: 7808045
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high speed and low power consumption LSI operable in a wide temperature range in which a MOS transistor having back gates is used specifically according to operating characteristics of a circuit. In the LSI, an FD-SOI structure having an embedded oxide film layer is used and a lower semiconductor region of the embedded oxide film layer is used as a back gate. A voltage for back gates in the logic circuits having a small load in the logic circuit block is controlled in response to activation of the block from outside of the block. Transistors, in which the gate and the back gate are connected to each other, are used for the circuit generating the back gate driving signal, and logic circuits having a heavy load such as circuit block output section, and the back gates are directly controlled according to the gate input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kawahara, Masanao Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 7804443
    Abstract: In a millimeter waveband transceiver using an antenna and a waveguide for a connection line, it is necessary to perform transmission mode line conversion between TEM waves of a microstrip line and VTE01 mode waves of the waveguide. There is a limit to reducing the conversion loss using only a matching box for connecting the microstrip line with the waveguide. In a transmission mode line transducer for converting between the TEM waves of the microstrip line and the VTE01 mode waves of the waveguide, if the cross-sections are substantially the same size, in the case of a 50? microstrip line when the characteristic impedance of the waveguide is about 80%, i.e., 40?, the line conversion loss can be optimized. Therefore, the microstrip line is connected with the waveguide using a ?/4 matching box via a ridged waveguide having a low impedance and a length of ?/16 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nagaishi, Hiroshi Shinoda, Kazuo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 7805463
    Abstract: This patent application is for a method and system that takes any arbitrary pre-existing geometric data and builds ISO 19107 compliant 3-Dimensional (3D) topology rather than requiring an incremental build of the topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Laser-Scan, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy D. C. Bevan, Michael J. Martin, Paul J. Watson
  • Patent number: 7805562
    Abstract: A microcomputer capable of on-board programming of dedicated user communication protocols without requiring a serial interface on the mounted board, and that will not destroy the dedicated user communication protocol code even if the system runs out of control. A user boot mat other than a user mat is provided for programming control programs for the user in the on-chip non-volatile memory of the microcomputer. The user boot mat serves as the mat for programming the dedicated user communication protocol and also provides a user boot mode for running the program. The user boot mat cannot program or erase in this user boot mode. By separating the user boot mat and user mat, an interface capable of programming and erasing the user-specified programming can be achieved without having to program a dedicated communication protocol on the user mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignees: Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi Hokkai Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yada, Eiichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7799264
    Abstract: A base of a container may include a standing surface, a first wall, a second wall, a first hinge, and a second hinge. The first hinge may be positioned between the standing surface and the first wall, the first wall being rotateable about the first hinge relative to a longitudinal axis of the container. The second hinge may be positioned between the first wall and the second wall, the second wall being rotateable about the second hinge relative to the longitudinal axis of the container, where rigidity of the base prevents substantial net distortion of the base during rotation of the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Gregory Trude
  • Patent number: 7798656
    Abstract: A projector device, includes: a projector unit, including a light source and a projection lens whose focal position is variable, that projects an image upon a projection surface with a light flux outputted from the light source that passes through the projection lens; an image-capturing unit, including a photographic lens whose focal position is variable, that captures an image of a subject with a light flux from the exterior that passes through the photographic lens; and a single drive source that generates drive force for changing both the focal position of the projection lens and the focal position of the photographic lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotake Nozaki, Nobuhiro Fujinawa
  • Patent number: 7801878
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of matching a data record with a reference record. The method includes receiving a data record; searching stored reference records for a reference record that is an exact match for the received data record; and, if an exact matching reference record is not found, calculating a distance between the received data record and at least one stored reference record, and determining the at least one stored reference record to be an approximate match, if the calculated distance is less than a pre-determined threshold. The inventive method and system can be used for, but not limited to, invoice processing in an Accounts Payable system, record conciliation in a securities trading system, finding preferred bonds in a bond trading system. Approximate matching records are ranked, and the closest match, or highest ranking match, may be automatically processed, if within a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Powerloom Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Hayes, Eugene Fink, Ganesh Mani
  • Patent number: 7798048
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a blast-resistant panel may include a layer of a pre-cured elastomeric material having a predetermined thickness, a body portion, and a plurality of flanges, each of the plurality of flanges having a substantially equal width and depending away from a same side and at approximately equivalent right angles to the body portion. The blast-resistant panel may also include a plurality of fastener elements for securing the pre-cured elastomeric material layer to a surface of a structure through the plurality of flanges of pre-cured elastomeric material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Life Shield Engineered Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce Hall
  • Patent number: 7798314
    Abstract: A sealing strip comprising a part of a configuration for fastening to a guide wall of a conveyor, the fastening configuration allowing for interlocking via elastic deformation of one of two parts of the fastening configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Societe Financiere de Gestion
    Inventor: Hervé Simoens
  • Patent number: 7800200
    Abstract: A wireless IC tag is provided with a memory circuit including a ROM in which an identification number is written, and a pulse width detection circuit having divided resistors and a capacitor for detecting a signal waveform from a reader. In order to prevent the increase in the number of process steps and photomasks, a resistance value of the pulse width detection circuit is adjusted by an electron beam writing method while utilizing a step of writing an identification number unique to the wireless IC tag into the ROM of the memory circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Usami
  • Patent number: 7796426
    Abstract: A technique capable of improving speed of a set operation, which controls writing rate in a semiconductor device including a memory cell using a phase-change material. The technique uses means for setting a set-pulse voltage to be applied to the phase-change material to have two steps: the first-step voltage sets a temperature of the phase-change memory to a temperature at which the fastest nucleation is obtained; and the second pulse sets the temperature to a temperature at which the fastest crystal growth is obtained, thereby obtaining solid-phase growth of the phase-change material without melting. Moreover, the technique uses means for controlling the two-step voltage applied to the phase-change memory by a two-step voltage applied to a word line capable of reducing the drain current variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Osamu Tonomura, Norikatsu Takaura, Kenzo Kurotsuchi, Nozomu Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 7795741
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which stores a plurality of semiconductor chips, having planar sizes which differ, in the same sealing body in a state in which they are accumulated via an insulating film which has an adhesive property. In the semiconductor device, the thickness of DAF of the back surface of the uppermost semiconductor chip with which the control circuit is formed is thicker than each of DAF of the back surface of the lower layer semiconductor chip with which the memory circuit is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Kikuchi, Koichi Kanemoto, Chuichi Miyazaki, Toshihiro Shiotsuki
  • Patent number: 7790554
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a plurality of first MISFETs in a first region and a plurality of second MISFETs in a second region, which comprises forming a first insulating film between two adjacent regions of the first MISFET forming regions in the first region and the second MISFET forming regions in the second region; forming a second insulating film over the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the first insulating films in each of the first and second regions; depositing a third insulating film over the second insulating film; forming a first conductive film over the third insulating film in the second region; forming, after removal of the third and second insulating films from the first region, a fourth insulating film over the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the first region; and forming a second conductive film over the fourth insulating film; wherein the third insulating film remains over the first insulating film in the se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Hideki Yasuoka, Masami Kouketsu, Susumu Ishida, Kazunari Saitou
  • Patent number: 7789209
    Abstract: The present invention provides a friction plate having a friction surface formed by adhering a friction material to a substantially annular core plate and wherein the friction surface is provided with an oil passage communicated with inner and outer peripheral edges of the friction plate, a first oil groove having an opening portion opened to the inner peripheral edge of the friction plate and an end portion terminating at a position between the inner and outer peripheral edges, and a second first oil groove having an opening portion opened to the outer peripheral edge of the friction plate and an end portion terminating at a position between the inner and outer peripheral edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: NSK Warner K.K.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Miyazaki, Ritsuo Toya, Tsuyoshi Hirayanagi, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7790478
    Abstract: In remote plasma cleaning, it is difficult to locally excite a plasma because the condition is not suitable for plasma excitation different from that at the time of film formation and a method using light has a problem of fogginess of a detection window that cannot be avoided in a CVD process and is not suitable for a mass production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Fujii, Minoru Hanazaki, Gen Kawaharada, Masakazu Taki, Mutsumi Tsuda
  • Patent number: RE41705
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and a device for handling the execution of a job in an open data processing system as a function of the resources. The process comprises the steps of: determining system resources available in virtual memory, real memory, temporary file space, and central processing unit utilization time during a given interval; computing the amount of resources preallocated to other requests and not yet used; comparing the amount of resources required for the execution of a job for which the request has been presented to the current amount of resources available minus the total amount of resources preallocated to other requests, in order to determine as a function of the result of this comparison the start, the deference or the denial of the start of the job requested The present invention relates to a process and a device for handling the execution of a job in an open data processing system as a function of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Bull S.A.
    Inventors: Daniel Lucien Durand, Gerard Sitbon, Francois Urbain
  • Patent number: D623869
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Innovation U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Per Weiss Andersen