Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Millen White Zelano & Branigan
  • Patent number: 8047372
    Abstract: The invention relates to a case for receiving a blister pack, comprising a first case half and a second case half. The halves are hinged on one another. The first case half is designed as a pocket for receiving the blister pack and has an outer part and an inner viewing part and also first apertures in the viewing part and second apertures in the outer part. The first apertures are at least partially aligned with the second apertures, specifically at least where the receptacles are located after the blister pack is received in the pocket. The second case half has a first compartment for receiving a first display displaying days of the week, and first windows for displaying the days of the week in an inner viewing surface of the second case half in the area of the first compartment. The first windows are arranged in such a way that they are aligned with the columns of the receptacles of a medicament pack received in the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Bayer Pharma AG
    Inventor: Sabine Leifeld
  • Patent number: 8048195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), and to processes for the recycling thereof. The processes according to the invention are characterised in that the LCDs are employed at least partly as replacement for other raw materials. In general, the LCDs are thermally treated here at a temperature in the range from 900 to 1700° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Roland Martin
  • Patent number: 8049055
    Abstract: Process for separation of a feedstock F by adsorption in a simulated moving bed in an SMB device that comprises a zone 1 for desorption of compounds produced by extraction, a zone 2 for desorption of compounds produced with a raffinate, a zone 3 for adsorption of compounds produced by extraction, and a zone 4 that is located between the draw-off of the raffinate and the supply of the desorbent, whereby the device comprises external bypass lines Li/i+1 directly joining two successive plates Pi, Pi+, that are equipped with non-automated means for adjusting flow rate and closing means, in which the degree of opening of the restriction means of the scavenging flow rate of the bypass lines Li/i+1 is adjusted so as to obtain the best performance of the SMB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Xavier Decoodt, Gerard Hotier, Philibert Leflaive, Damien Leinekugel Le Cocq
  • Patent number: 8048216
    Abstract: The invention provides an anti-corrosive package which can be added to release agents used in preparing textiles and molded articles from lignocellulosic materials, concrete and polyurethane foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Inventors: Joseph F. Massidda, Allan P. Short
  • Patent number: 8049022
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fatty acid alkanolamides or polyolamides containing at least one group Y, where Y stands for CF3—(CH2)a—O—, SF5—, CF3—(CH2)a—S—, CF3CF2S—, [CF3—(CH2)a]2N— or [CF3—(CH2)a]NH—, where a stands for an integer selected from the range from 0 to 5, or formula (I), where Rf stands for CF3—(CH2)r—, CF3—(CH2)r—O—, CF3—(CH2)r—S—, CF3CF2—S—, SF5—(CH2)r— or [CF3—(CH2)r]2N—, [CF3—(CH2)r]NH— or (CF3)2N—(CH2)r—, B stands for a single bond, O, NH, NR, CH2, C(O)—O, C(O), S, CH2—O, O—C(O), N—C(O), C(O)—N, O—C(O)—N, N—C(O)—N, O—SO2 or SO2—O, R stands for alkyl having 1 to 4 C atoms, b stands for 0 or 1 and c stands for 0 or 1, q stands for 0 or 1, where at least one radical from b and q stands for 1, and r stands for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, to processes for the preparation of these compounds, and to uses of these surface-active compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hierse, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Martin Seidel, Elvira Montenegro, Peer Kirsch, Andreas Bathe
  • Patent number: 8048820
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shaped catalyst body for preparing maleic anhydride, which comprises mixed oxides of vanadium and of phosphorus as catalyst components. To develop a generic shaped catalyst body further so that it has improved properties, it is proposed that the basic geometric body enveloping the shaped catalyst body (100; 200) be a prism (180) having a first triangular face and a second triangular face and the shaped catalyst body (100; 200) be provided with three through openings (111, 121, 131; 211, 221, 231) which extend from a first face of the shaped body (100; 200) which contacts the first triangular face of the prism (180) to a second face of the shaped body (100; 200) which contacts the second triangular face of the prism (180).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sud-Chemie AG
    Inventors: Willi Brandstädter, Leopold Streifinger, Marvin Estenfelder
  • Patent number: 8049035
    Abstract: This invention is directed to the crystalline potassium salt of a lipoxin A4 analog of Formula (I): processes for preparing the crystalline potassium salts, methods for using them to treat disease-states characterized by inflammation, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such crystalline potassium salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Bayer Pharma AG
    Inventors: Tilo Haag, Danja Grossbach, Gabriele Winter, Michael Sander, Wolfgang Beckmann, Klaus Bartel, Christian Dinter
  • Patent number: 8043775
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive body having a photosensitive layer on a conductive base, in which at least the outermost layer thereof contains particles having a double structure composed of a core member and a shell member having a larger rubber hardness than the core member. The electrophotographic photosensitive body has excellent mechanical strength such as wear resistance, abrasion resistance, and scratch resistance as well as excellent electrophotographic characteristics such as cleaning properties over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Miyamoto, Takaaki Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 8043988
    Abstract: The invention relates to a FAU-type zeolite membrane that comprises a FAU-type zeolite crystal layer incorporated in the surface porosity of at least one selected face of a porous substrate, in which the ratio between the thickness of said zeolite layer incorporated in the surface porosity of said selected face of the substrate and the total thickness of said zeolite layer is at least 70%. It also relates to processes for preparation and application of these membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Florent Guillou, Gerhard Pirngruber, Loïc Rouleau, Valentin Valtchev
  • Patent number: 8043670
    Abstract: The invention relates to new polymerizable mesogenic or liquid crystalline compounds comprising a terminal cyclohexylphenyl group wherein the phenyl group has polar substituents, to polymerizable mesogenic or liquid crystalline mixtures and anisotropic polymers prepared thereof, and to the use of the new compounds and the mixtures and polymers prepared thereof in optical and electrooptical devices, adhesives, synthetic resins with anisotropic mechanical properties, cosmetics, diagnostics, liquid crystal pigments, decorative and security applications, nonlinear optics, optical information storage, electronic devices like organic field effect transistors (FET or OFET) or electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Klein, Stephan Derow
  • Patent number: 8043671
    Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of dielectrically negative polar compounds of each of formulae I and II and the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in a display with passive matrix addressing, based on a VA, ECB, PALC, FFS or IPS effect, and such displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Masahiro Iijima, Nobuo Kubo
  • Patent number: 8044240
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, is a crystalline polymorph form A of N-(S)-(3,4-difluoro-2-(2-fluoro-4-iodophenylamino)-6-methoxyphenyl)-1-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)cyclopropane-1-sulfonamide. Further disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline polymorph form A of N-(S)-(3,4-difluoro-2-(2-fluoro-4-iodophenylamino)-6-methoxyphenyl)-1-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)cyclopropane-1-sulfonamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Ardea Biosciences Inc.
    Inventor: Stuart Dimock
  • Patent number: 8044065
    Abstract: Compounds of a certain formula I, in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and X have the meanings indicated in the description, are novel effective compounds with Eg5 inhibitory, anti-proliferative and/or apoptosis inducing activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Altana Pharma AG
    Inventors: Matthias Vennemann, Thomas Baer, Gudrun Groegor
  • Patent number: 8039094
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine-readable security element for security products, containing at least one particulate substance that has electroluminescent properties and a transparent, electrically conductive pigment. Also disclosed are a printing ink for producing such a security element and a security product comprising said security element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, Bundesdruckerei GmbH
    Inventors: Burkhard Krietsch, Matthias Kuntz, Oliver Muth, Manfred Paeschke, Jakob Kuen
  • Patent number: 8038911
    Abstract: An oxide target including indium (In) and an element (A) selected from the following group A, wherein it contains an oxide shown by AInO3, Group A: lanthanum (La), neodymium (Nd), ytterbium (Yb), erbium (Er) and dysprosium (Dy).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Inoue, Nobuo Tanaka, Tokie Tanaka, legal representative
  • Patent number: 8038982
    Abstract: An EUO-structural-type zeolite that comprises at least one element X that is selected from among silicon and germanium and at least one element T that is selected from among aluminum, iron, gallium, vanadium, zirconium, molybdenum, arsenic, antimony, chromium and manganese is described. It contains at least one alkyl quinuclidinium cation in its intracrystalline pores and has an N/X atomic ratio of more than 0.065, whereby N represents the nitrogen element. This invention also relates to a process for preparation of said zeolite and the use of the latter as an acidic solid in a process for conversion of hydrocarbon feedstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Loic Rouleau, Sylvie Lacombe
  • Patent number: 8038857
    Abstract: Provided are a thin film transistor substrate having a transparent electroconductive film in which residues and so on resulting etching are hardly generated; a process for producing the same; and a liquid crystal display using this thin film transistor substrate. A thin film transistor substrate, comprising a transparent substrate, a source electrode formed over the transparent substrate, a drain electrode formed over the transparent substrate, and a transparent pixel electrode formed over the transparent substrate, wherein the transparent pixel electrode is a transparent electroconductive film which is made mainly of indium oxide, and further comprises one or two or more oxides selected from tungsten oxide, molybdenum oxide, nickel oxide and niobium oxide, and the transparent pixel electrode is electrically connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode; a process for producing the same; and a liquid crystal display using this thin film transistor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Inoue, Shigekazu Tomai, Masato Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8037769
    Abstract: A pressure gauge includes a pressure measurement-display portion (11) for measuring a pressure and displaying the pressure by a pointer, a fitting portion (21) extending from the pressure measurement-display portion and having a pressure detection passage (22) formed therein, and an orifice member (60) arranged in the pressure detection passage and having an orifice (62) formed therein. This pressure gauge prevents breakage of an internal mechanism of the pressure gauge owing to a pressure change phenomenon. Incidentally, an orifice may be formed at a part of the pressure detection passage in place of the orifice member. A pressure gauge assembly (1) includes a pressure gauge (10) having a fitting portion having a pressure detection passage formed therein, and a joint (30, 40) for connecting the fitting portion of the pressure gauge to a conduit line, wherein an orifice (49) is formed at a part of an internal passage of the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Surpass Industry Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Masahiro Hasunuma
  • Patent number: 8034230
    Abstract: A reconstituted non-asphaltenic oil Pa comprising at least 28% by weight of naphtha N, having a ratio R of 1.5 or more and a gasoline potential, POTg, in the range 47 to 70, in which: R=(0.9 N+0.5 VGO+)/(MD+0.1 VGO+), POTg=0.9N+0.5 VGO+, with in % by weight: N=naphtha: [30° C./170° C.]; MD=middle distillates: ]170° C./360° C.] and VGO+=fraction boiling above 360° C. R indicates the relative gasoline potential of a non residual oil over middle distillates during its subsequent refining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventor: Eric Lenglet
  • Patent number: 8034864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to opaque plastics comprising effect pigments which are distinguished by the fact that they have high gloss and virtually no visible or no visible flow lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Kieser, Markus Schum