Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Morgan & Finnegan
  • Patent number: 7485729
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel organometallic complexes as catalysts for the reaction of compounds with isocyanate and hydroxyl functional groups to form urethane and/or polyurethane and the process employing such catalysts. More particularly, the present invention is directed to novel complexes of zinc(II) with substituted amidines. These novel catalysts are useful for the production of urethanes and polyurethanes which are important in many industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: King Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Bing Hsieh, Ramanathan Ravichandran, Farouk Abi-Karam
  • Patent number: 7486383
    Abstract: A direct exposure apparatus having a light source for projecting light onto an exposure target or, more specifically, an exposure target substrate, comprises: measuring means for measuring the illuminance distribution of light on an area corresponding to the exposure surface of the exposure target substrate; and control means for controlling, based on the measurement result supplied from the measuring means, the light source so that the intended illuminance distribution can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunari Sekigawa, Hiroaki Samizu, Takahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7486640
    Abstract: A time slicing digital broadcast system includes a dynamic handover process switching a handheld terminal receiving services in a first signal to a second signal providing the same services, while roaming among cells in the digital broadcast system. The terminal takes into account the varying intervals between bursts in the current cell and the target cell. The terminal identifies possible handover signals from a MPE/FEC frame in a data stream. A table in the MPE/FEC frame transmitted once on each transport stream contains the mapping of the real-time handover signaling to the handovers that are possible from signals that are transporting the actual transport stream. The table contains a calculated retune interval specifying the guaranteed interval for the MPE/FEC frame. In another embodiment, the MPE/FEC frame contains MAC addressing bits in the MPE section for real-time parameters in time slicing. The bits may be converted into signaling scenarios for guaranteed handover time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: András Borsos, Dominique Müller
  • Patent number: 7484943
    Abstract: A screw pump includes a housing and a pair of intermeshing screw rotors. The housing has an inlet port and an outlet port. Each rotor has a first portion whose lead angle decreases. The first portion and the housing form an inlet space and a pump space. Winding angle of the first portion has a first region and a second region. The first region is located in a predetermined range from the end on the first portion adjacent to the inlet port toward the outlet port. The second region is located adjacent to the first region. Reduction rate of the lead angle of the first portion in the first region is set smaller than that in the second region. The maximum lead angle of the first portion is set smaller than a lead angle which decreases at a constant rate in the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Yuya Izawa, Shinya Yamamoto, Masahiro Inagaki, Makoto Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 7481865
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the removal of mercury from gas containing sulphur dioxide and oxygen and from the sulphuric acid vapour contained in the gas. According to the method, the gas is washed with a water solution that contains selenium ions, whereby metallic selenium is formed in the presence of oxygen, which precipitates the mercury in the gas and vapour either as a selenide or in a chlorine-containing environment, as a dichloride of mercury and selenium. Gas washing occurs at a low temperature, below 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Outotec Oyj
    Inventors: Heljä Peltola, Pekka Taskinen, Heikki Takala, Jens Nyberg, Harri Natunen, Jorma Panula
  • Patent number: 7483073
    Abstract: Image sensing apparatus having an image sensing element for sensing an object of shooting is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, when a cleaning mode is designated and executed to remove a foreign substance in the neighborhood of and on the image sensing element, the remaining amount of a battery which supplies electric power to the image sensing apparatus is detected by a voltage detector. If the remaining amount of the battery declines to a first predetermined value or less, a warning is issued by a lamp or a sound production unit. Moreover, if the remaining amount of the battery is the first predetermined value or less, a shift to the cleaning mode is prohibited. Furthermore, if the remaining amount of the battery declines to a second predetermined value or less, which is a lower value than the first predetermined value, mirror-down processing is performed so that cleaning operation cannot be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junji Takai
  • Patent number: 7484086
    Abstract: Information relating to heat-release value of a processing circuit or amount of input data applied to the processing circuit is detected and the processing circuit is reconfigured in accordance with result of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeki Hasui
  • Patent number: 7478909
    Abstract: In an ophthalmologic apparatus, the coordinates of three illuminated spots on a cornea-reflected image calculated from a front eye part image picked up by a two-dimension image pickup element and a pupil diameter are calculated, and the position of the centroid of the pupil is calculated from the front eye part image. When the pupil diameter is smaller than a predetermined value, alignment is effected from the shift from the center of the pupil, and when the pupil diameter is larger than the predetermined value, alignment is effected on the basis of the shift amounts from the illuminated spots on the cornea-reflected image. Also, a controlling method is changed over by the difference between the positions of the illuminated spots on the cornea-reflected image and the position of the centroid of the pupil. Also, the tolerance level of alignment is varied by the size of the pupil diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshifumi Masaki
  • Patent number: 7480133
    Abstract: A head mounted apparatus mounted on a head of a user includes an apparatus body to be mounted on a front side of the head, a frame for supporting the apparatus body, the frame extending in a longitudinal direction at both sides of the head when the frame is mounted on the head, a front compressing portion provided on the frame or the apparatus body, and compressed against a frontal region of the head, first and second adjusters provided at both sides of the frame so that the first and second adjusters can move in the longitudinal direction relative to the frame, a back member that includes a back compressing portion compressed against an occipital region of the head, and is held by the first and second adjusters, and an interlock mechanism for enabling, as one of the first and second adjusters moves relative to the frame, the other of the first and second adjusters to move with the same moving amount relative to the frame in the same direction as the one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Nakabayashi, Yoshihiro Saito, Toshiyuki Okuma, Toshiki Ishino
  • Patent number: 7479512
    Abstract: An ink composition in which particles of a functional substance comprising a dye or a pigment included in polymer micelles comprising a block polymer are dispersed in a solvent, wherein the particles have an average particle size of not more than 200 nm and a particle size distribution (index of dispersion degree ?/G2) of not more than 0.1, a method of forming an image and an image forming apparatus using the same are provided. The main component of the polymer micelle is an amphiphilic block polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sakae Suda, Koichi Sato, Ikuo Nakazawa, Masayuki Ikegami, Keiichiro Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 7475753
    Abstract: When a determination result of a limitation determining section during a driving of a forklift is positive, a control section limits a vehicle speed and adjusts an engine speed. If a limitation canceling condition is met while the vehicle speed is limited, a control section cancels a vehicle speed limitation state, and executes a loading priority control in which an actuation of a loading device is prioritized. Thus, when a loading device is actuated during driving with a speed limit, the stability of the forklift is ensured while improving the workability of the loading operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hidenori Oka, Tadashi Yamada, Toshikazu Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7477743
    Abstract: A hybrid method for a service provider to transmit decryption information (e.g., algorithms, parameters, keys) to clients in a secure manner and at low cost for use in decrypting broadcast services. The service provider uses a bi-directional channel (e.g., a GPRS channel) to receive service requests, authenticate clients and transmit currently valid decryption information (and, optionally, future decryption information) necessary to decrypt a broadcast service. The service provider transmits the encrypted service on a unidirectional channel (e.g., a DVB-T channel). The service provider preferably also changes the encryption of the service with time, and, as it does, transmits updated decryption information to its clients on the unidirectional channel. The updated decryption information is encrypted using the currently valid decryption information and may also include future decryption information and synchronization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tomi Hakkarainen, Rod Walsh
  • Patent number: 7477432
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a structure which meets a high-quality reading requirement and realize high-speed color reading when the reading section of a color image forming apparatus adopts a color contact image sensor using CCDs as reading elements. In order to achieve this object, the image sensor of a color image reading section uses a color contact image sensor in which a plurality of CCDs are aligned as reading elements in the main scanning direction. In this case, each CCD has one analog shift register for RGB time-division reading, and three R, G, and B reading apertures arranged parallel to each other at a pitch corresponding to the reading resolution. The pixel pitch in the main scanning direction is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Hiromatsu
  • Patent number: 7477796
    Abstract: A method for carrying out a step of extracting a portion of a predetermined size from the image data, and a step of preparing a predetermined number of compressed partial data compressed with different compression parameter values by repeating preparation of compressed partial data by compressing the partial data in predetermined format for the predetermined number of times with the compression parameter value used in the predetermined format changed for each compression, on the entire image data. The method also calculates the total of the data sizes of all of the compressed partial data compressed with the same compression parameter value for each of the compression parameter values and prepares the compressed image data file from compressed partial data compressed with a compression parameter value for which the total is not larger than a given threshold and which is the closest value to the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sasaki, Eiji Atsumi
  • Patent number: 7478282
    Abstract: A log acquisition method which can easily acquire processing logs of software, and can reduce the number of processes required to analyze bugs is provided. More specifically, a log acquisition method for a program having functions, includes a step of identifying a designated one of functions in an OS which are called upon execution of the program, and a step of rewriting the address of the loaded functions that execute predetermined processes and the address of the designated function in the OS to that of a function for log acquisition. The function for log acquisition includes a step of calling the functions that execute predetermined processes and the designated function in the OS and passing the execution result of the called functions to the program, and a step of recording predetermined information upon calling the functions that execute predetermined processes and the designated function in the OS, and predetermined information upon receiving the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7477313
    Abstract: A light-quantity adjusting apparatus which can temporarily suppress an MTF (contrast) from being deteriorated by small-aperture diffraction is disclosed. The light-quantity adjusting apparatus comprises a main body in which an opening is formed, a light-blocking member moved with respect to the opening to change an area of a light-passing aperture, an optical filter moved with respect to the opening to insert and remove with respect to a region opposed the light-passing aperture, an actuator serving as a drive source, a drive mechanism for driving the light-blocking member and the optical filter by drive force from the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuji Umezu
  • Patent number: 7474413
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of analyzing an interference fringe, with which method the optical characteristics of an optical system to be examined can be analyzed very precisely. In one preferred form of the invention, the analyzing method includes a step of detecting information related to a first interference fringe produced by interference of two light fluxes, a step of detecting information related to a second interference fringe produced while changing a phase of one of the two light fluxes by ? as multiplied by an odd number (e.g., 1?, 3?, . . . ), and a step of detecting averaged information of phase information of the two interference fringes, on the basis of the detected information of the first and second interference fringes and by use of Fourier transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Seima Kato
  • Patent number: 7472994
    Abstract: With respect to image data generated by plural kinds of eye fundus cameras, device information used for image pickup is added to picked-up-image information, and different image processings such as image reverse and aperture synthesization are performed based on the added device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 7474380
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection optical system which projects an image on a first object plane onto a second object plane, comprising a plurality of optical members inserted in turn from a side of the second object plane, said plurality of optical members being made of an isotropic crystal and including a first optical member and second optical member in each of which <1 1 1> crystal axes are oriented in a direction of an optical axis and a third optical member in which <1 0 0> crystal axes are oriented in the direction of the optical axis, wherein maximum angles ?1, ?2, and ?3 between the optical axis and light beams passing through said first optical member, said second optical member, and said third optical member, respectively, satisfy |?i??j|<5° (i, j=1, 2, 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamada
  • Patent number: D585624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroki Mori, Tomomichi Miura, Masanori Shinoda, Takahito Miyake