Patents Represented by Attorney Muserlian, Lucas and Mercanti

Find this attorney in the Justia Lawyer Directory

  • Sensitizing dye and silver halide photographic material
    Patent number: 6677113
    Abstract: Spectral sensitizing dyes represented by the following formulas (1) to (4) are disclosed; silver halide photographic materials and thermally developable photosensitive materials containing the dyes are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kagawa, Noriyasu Kita, Tatsuo Tanaka, Hiroshi Kashiwagi
  • Mainframe structure of image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 6678487
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having an image forming unit that forms an image on an image bearing member, and a mainframe that firmly supports and positions the image bearing member and the image forming unit. The main frame has two side walls which are opposed to each other and substantially support the image bearing member and the image forming unit, a bottom wall to which the two side walls are rigidly connected, and a stay which is rigidly connected to the two side walls and is spaced away from the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the stay have a box type structure with an inner hollow room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Tashiro, Satoshi Hamaya
  • Echinocandin derivatives, preparation method and application as anti-fungal agents
    Patent number: 6677429
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I in which R1 and R2=H, OH, alkyl optionally substituted, or NR1 forms with the carbon bearing NR1R2 a double bond and R2 is Xra, X being O, NH or N-alkyl and Ra being H, alkyl optionally substituted; R=a chain containing up to 10 carbon atoms, optionally comprising one or several heteroatoms, one or several heterocycles; T=H, CH2, CH2CONH2, CH2C≡, (CH2)2NH2; Y=H, OH, halogen; W=H, OH; Z=H or CH3; said products have antifungal properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma S.A.
    Inventors: Olivier Courtin, Patrick Fauveau, Astrid Markus, Dominique Melon Manguer, Jean-Marc Michel, Laurent Schio
  • Image forming apparatus and method for removing a non-transferred toner image
    Patent number: 6678484
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus and method using a toner containing toner particles having a coefficient of shape falling within a range of 1.0 to 1.6 of an amount of at least 65% by number, and having no protrusion of an amount of at least 50% by number, the image forming apparatus including a charging device for uniformly charging a photoreceptor, a developing device for developing an image obtained by imagewise exposure with the toner, a transfer device for transferring a toner image onto a transfer material, a fixing device for fixing, and a cleaning device for cleaning the photoreceptor after the transfer of a toner image, wherein when a toner image which is not to be transferred is formed on the photoreceptor, image formation is performed after cleaning is done a plurality of times for an area on which the toner image has been formed in the previous process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Koshimura, Yukiko Omori, Junichi Hamada, Mitsugu Nemoto
  • Multiple antigen glycopeptide carbohydrate vaccine comprising the same and use thereof
    Patent number: 6676946
    Abstract: A carbohydrate peptide conjugate containing: (i) a carrier containing a dendrimeric poly-lysine enabling multiple epitopes to be covalently attached thereto, (ii) at least one peptide containing one T epitope or several identical or different T-epitopes, (iii) at least one carbohydrate moiety which is tumor antigen, or a derivative thereof, containing a B epitope, provided it is not a sialoside, or several identical or different epitopes, wherein said conjugate containing at least 3-lysines and up to 15 lysine covalently linked to one another, and wherein: (a) to the NH2 and of at least two lysine residues is bound at least one carbohydrate residue being not a sialoside, optionally substituted and containing an epitope and wherein the peptide containing one T epitope is covalently bound to the end of said carbohydrate which induces immune responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Institut Pasteur
    Inventors: Sylvie Bay, Daniele Cantacuzene, Claude Leclerc, Richard Lo-Man, Sophie Vicher-Guerre
  • SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, PREPARATION METHOD OF SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, SILVER HALIDE LIGHT-SENSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL, SILVER HALIDE LIGHT-SENSITIVE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
    Patent number: 6677112
    Abstract: A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains comprising silver chlorobromide grains or silver chloroiodobromide grains, wherein each of silver halide grains has a silver chloride content of not less than 98% and comprises a silver bromide-containing layer having a silver bromide content of 0.5 to 5%, and the silver bromide-containing layer is located at a depth of 0 to 0.01 &mgr;m from the surface of the grain. A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains containing Compound A having adsorptivity to silver, wherein each of the silver halide grains has a silver chloride content of not less than 90% has a core-shell structure comprised of a core and shell having different contents of Compound A each other, and the content of Compound A in the shell is smaller than the content of Compound A in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Murakami, Yuji Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Kubotera, Koichiro Kuroda
  • Toner for developing static image and an image forming method
    Patent number: 6677097
    Abstract: A toner for developing a static image comprising at least a resin, colorant and crystalline substance is disclosed. The toner particle has a domain-matrix structure and the domain has an average of the ratio of the major axis to the minor axis of from 1.5 to 2.5 when the domain is approximated by an ellipse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Ohmura, Asao Matsushima, Shiro Hirano, Yoshiki Nishimori, Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Procedure for embroidering by creating forms and closing the margins of cut and pre-shaped bra cups
    Patent number: 6672938
    Abstract: A process for creating shapes enclosing the margins of cut and pre-shaped bra cups to embroider the same with a design without sewing or riveting any other external decorative element with a reduced production time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: David Sanchez del Olmo
  • Method of forming robust metal, metal oxide, and metal alloy layers on ion-conductive polymer membranes
    Patent number: 6673127
    Abstract: An ion beam-assisted deposition process for preparing a membrane-electrode structure is described wherein a layer of liquid ionomer is applied to the surface of a carbon cloth gas diffusion electrode structure. The coated structure is heated to form an ionomer film on the cloth electrode and the resulting structure is treated with a metal or metal oxide ion-beam having an energy between 500-2000 eV. The process forms a carbon cloth supported metal or a carbon metal oxide ionomer film membrane-electrode structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: DeNora S.p.A.
    Inventors: Robert J. Allen, James R. Giallombardo, Emory S. DeCastro
  • Self stabilizing track system
    Patent number: 6672515
    Abstract: A rail track structure for securing railway rails on a ballast track or a solid track includes a standard sleeper used on the ballast track; consisting of a plurality of gabions holding ballast and a resiliently compressible pad placed below the sleeper typically below the rail seat between the sleeper and the gabions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Konkan Railwary Corporation Ltd.
    Inventor: Bojji Rajaram
  • Planographic printing plate material and method of preparing planographic printing plate
    Patent number: 6673508
    Abstract: A planographic printing plate material and a method of preparing a planographic printing plate are disclosed, the planographic printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, one or more structural layers containing light sensitive silver halide grains, organic silver salt grains, a reducing agent, a contrast-increasing agent and a physical developing nucleus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Sampei
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 6671490
    Abstract: This invention relates to an image forming apparatus that can correct a curl of a transfer medium correctly and smoothly. This image forming apparatus includes a curl correcting mechanism, including a rotatable sponge roller and a fixed press member which presses the sponge roller while biting into part of the outer surface of the sponge roller, and provided downstream of a fixing processing unit, and a regulating unit, provided immediately before the curl correcting means, so as to guide the leading end of the transfer medium to that position on the outer surface of the sponge roller which is tilted, within the range of 5° to 10° (both inclusive) from a reference line that connects the center of the sponge roller and the press start position of the press member with respect to the sponge roller, to a direction opposite to the rotating direction of the sponge roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Takenori Suenaga
  • Phenoxyethylamine derivatives having high affinity for the 5-HT1A receptor, preparation thereof, use thereof as drugs, and pharmaceutical compositions containing said derivatives
    Patent number: 6670400
    Abstract: Phenoxyethylamine derivatives of general formula (I) having high affinity for the 5-HT1A receptor, methods for preparing same, pharmaceutical compositions containing said derivatives, and their use, in particular as gastric acid secretion inhibitors or as antiemetics, are disclosed. In general formula (I), Ar is phenyl substituted by one or more substituents; and R is a C1-10 hydrocarbon radical selected from straight or branched alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl radicals, saturated or unsaturated mono- or polycyclic cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl or alkylcycloalkyl radicals; a pyridyl or isoquinolyl radical, phenyl optionally substituted by one or more substituents, and salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et D'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S.)
    Inventors: Dennis Bigg, Jacques Pommier, Christiane Martin, Pierre Roubert, Jean Pierre Defaux
  • Device for hydraulically adjusting the angle of rotation of a shaft relative to a driving wheel
    Patent number: 6669567
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for the hydraulic adjustment of the angular position of a shaft (1) relative to a drive pinion (14), said device comprising a plate (2) fixed to the shaft to cooperate with the drive pinion (14) or with a component fixed to the drive pinion. The device comprises at least one ring-segment shaped section (2a) in the plate (2) and a means (4a) arranged on the drive pinion (14) or on said component to cooperate with the shaped section (2a) so as to divide the shaped section into two separate chambers (10, 11). The device further comprises a means for a selective hydraulic pressurization of the chambers (10, 11) for adjusting the relative angular position of the drive pinion (14) and the shaft (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Ina-Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Martin Scheidt, Jens Schafer, Dieter Neller
  • Macrocyclic antibiotics as separation agents
    Patent number: 6669842
    Abstract: Macrocyclic antibiotics having ring structures with at least 10 members act as separation agents in crystallization, precipitation, filtration, electrophoresis, and chromatography. The macrocyclic antibiotics include ansamacrolides, macrolides, macrocyclic peptides, polyenes and derivatives thereof. The process has been found to be especially advantageous for separation of optical isomers by electrophoresis and chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventor: Daniel Armstrong
  • Laser-induced thermal transfer ink sheet, production method of the same, and image recording method
    Patent number: 6667144
    Abstract: A laser-induced thermal transfer ink sheet for forming a transfer image, comprising a support having thereon a light-to-heat converting layer containing a light-to-heat converting compound, an interlayer containing a resin, and an ink layer in that order, wherein the light-to-heat converting compound and the resin satisfy one of the following requirements (a) and (b); (a) the light-to-heat converting compound is soluble in an organic solvent and the resin is soluble in water; and (b) the light-to-heat converting compound is soluble in water and the resin is soluble in an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Maejima, Tomohisa Ohta, Taro Konuma, Tatsuichi Maehashi
  • Derivatives of erythromycin, their preparation process and their use as medicaments
    Patent number: 6664398
    Abstract: A subject of the invention is the compounds of formula in which Y represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, n represents an integer comprised between 1 and 8, Z represents a hydrogen atom or the remainder of a carboxylic acid, optionally substituted on the heterocycle by one or more alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, O-alkyl, O-alkenyl, O-alkynyl, S-alkyl, S-alkenyl, S-alkynyl radicals containing up to 8 carbon atoms, one or more OH, NH2, C═N, NO2, CF3 radicals or one or more aryl radicals containing up to 14 carbon atoms or heteroaryl radicals containing one or more nitrogen oxygen or sulphur atoms, the aryl or heteroaryl radicals themselves being able to be substituted as well as their addition salts with acids, The products of formula (I) have antibiotic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma S.A.
    Inventor: Alexis Denis
  • Height adjustable picture hanger
    Patent number: 6663075
    Abstract: A picture hanger with a height adjustable hook allows the height of the picture to be adjusted from time to time. The hanger uses a back plate on which two opposed crenelated tracks are positioned. Two spring biased crenelated cars are housed in a frame and move on the tracks. The hook is attached to the frame. The frame is either a traveling plate which moves between the tracks and the back plate or a traveling block which is slidably mounted in a channel in the back plate and on a rod positioned in the channel of the back plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Michael Zuller
  • Separator for liquid suspension
    Patent number: 6660162
    Abstract: There is described a liquid treatment installation including a tank which defines a substantially vertical flow channel of circular cross section. Disposed coaxially in the flow channel there is a spiral separator plate pack 20 which comprises one or more conical helical plates which define at least one helical flow passage between axially facing surfaces of the plate or plates. The conical helical plate or plates of the separator plate pack 20 consist of a plurality of platelets 10, which have dimensions that allow them to pass through an opening 21 which runs axially through the centre of the spiral separator. The invention also relates to a method of constructing the above liquid treatment installation and to a method for assembling the spiral separator plate pack 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Southern Water Services Ltd.
    Inventor: David de Hoxar
  • Thienyl substituted acylguanidines as inhibitors of bone resorption and vitronectin receptor antagonists
    Patent number: 6660728
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thienyl substituted acylguanidine derivatives, such as compounds of formula (I) in which R1, R2, R4, R6, A, B and D have the meanings indicated in the claims, their physiologically tolerable salts and their prodrugs. The compounds of the present invention are valuable pharmaceutical active compounds. They are vitronectin receptor antagonists and inhibitors of bone resorption by osteoclasts. They are suitable, for example, for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases which are caused at least partially by an undesired extent of bone resorption, for example of osteoporosis. The invention furthermore relates to processes for the preparation of thienyl substituted acylguanidines, their use, in particular as active ingredients in pharmaceuticals, and pharmaceutical preparations comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH, Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Scheunemann, Jochen Knolle, Amuschirwan Peyman, David William Will, Denis Carniato, Jean-Francois Gourvest, Thomas Gadek, Robert McDowell, Sarah Catherine Bodary, Robert Andrew Cuthbertson