Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Nixon & Vanderhye
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Patent number: 8348761Abstract: In a game played by a plurality of game machines through teamwork, an evaluation is performed according to the correlation among operation information obtained through communications with each of the game machines. A plurality of game machines communicate with one another to establish timing synchronization. After the game, input timings at which buttons are operated during the game are collected and then evaluated so as to determine an absolute and relative timing coincidence in a predetermined period (unison part). A predetermined number of points are added to its game score based on the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akito Nakatsuka, Yuichi Ozaki
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Patent number: 8349503Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery, including a case, a positive electrode housed in the case, a negative electrode housed in the case, and a nonaqueous electrolyte containing an ionic liquid and lithium ions of which molar amount is no smaller than 1.8×10?5 mol per mAh of the battery capacity.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hidesato Saruwatari, Takashi Kishi, Takashi Kuboki, Norio Takami
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Patent number: 8351648Abstract: An apparatus is provided to control an angle of a light axis of light from headlights mounted on a vehicle. In the apparatus, images of a field of view in front of the vehicle are captured, and the captured images are used to detect taillights of a preceding vehicle. A illumination target position is set by using, as a positional reference, a position of the detected taillights in the captured images, and the angle of the light axis so that the light axis is directed to the illumination target position. The command is provided to an angle changing device, where the provided command depends on the angle calculated. The angle changing device changes the direction of the light axis of the light at an angle commanded by the command.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Takahiro Kamioka, Yasutoshi Horii, Junichi Hasegawa, Kenji Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8352579Abstract: Certain example embodiments concern a gateway server system including a gateway server for making at least one SOAP and/or XML-based web service accessible to at least one RPC client using at least one mapping file. The at least one mapping file includes definitions for translating at least one first RPC request message from the at least one RPC client to at least one web service call. The gateway server includes a configuration interface to receive and store the at least one mapping file. The gateway server is configured to create at least one first sub-program for processing the at least one first RPC request message in accordance with the at least one mapping file. The configuration interface is further configured to receive at least one updated mapping file and overwrite the corresponding at least one stored original mapping file, without affecting the processing of the at least one first subprogram.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Software AGInventor: Thomas Ludwig Mohr
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Patent number: 8351164Abstract: An example magnetoresistive element includes a first magnetic layer whose magnetization direction is substantially pinned toward one direction; a second magnetic layer whose magnetization direction is changed in response to an external magnetic field; and a spacer layer. At least one of the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer includes a magnetic compound layer including a magnetic compound that is expressed by M1aM2bOc (where 5?a?68, 10?b?73, and 22?c?85). M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, and Ni. M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, and Cr.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshihiko Fuji, Hideaki Fukuzawa, Hiromi Yuasa
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Patent number: 8350510Abstract: In a voltage booster apparatus, a charge control transistor is turned on to charge a coil output capacitor and a booster output capacitor and then turned off, thereby confirming rise of a coil output voltage and a booster output voltage. A power supply relay is turned on to restore a booster operation thereby to check rise of the booster output voltage. If both of a step-up FET and a step-down FET are not in short-circuit failure, ON state of the power supply relay is fixed thereby to restore a power steering system operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Terumoto Ogasawara
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Patent number: 8351421Abstract: A system and method for sending long distance telephone calls over the Internet utilizes cost and quality of service data to optimize system performance and to minimize the cost of completing the calls. The system utilizes a network of gateways connected to the Internet. The gateways receive calls from various service providers and convert the analog calls into data packets which are then placed onto the Internet. Similarly, the gateways take data packets off the Internet, convert the data packets back into analog format, and provide the analog telephone calls to the same or another service provider. Then system periodically checks the quality of communications between each of the gateways, and uses this information, in combination with cost information, to determine how to route the calls over the Internet. Special addressing protocols can be used by a system embodying the invention to reduce or eliminate unnecessary signaling between gateways as call setup procedures are carried out.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: iBasis, Inc.Inventors: Ajay Joseph, Hwan Tang, Lizhong Zhang, Paul A. Skelly
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Patent number: 8348575Abstract: A self-countersinking screw (10) is capable of full penetration into wood, plastic veneered wood, and cementaceous products. An alternating sequence of peripheral cutters (A, B) extend from the periphery of the underside of the screw head (11), acting in conjunction with countersink cutting edges (24) and debris receiving recesses (20). Cutter (A) has an arcuate notch (30) in the cutting face (28), cutter (B) has a rectangular notch (31) in the trailing edge. Full countersinking without tearing, cracking or dimpling of the surface is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Mirco Walther
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Patent number: 8352068Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for processing food wherein food items are conveyed through processing stations where they are cut into pieces and optionally mixed with items originating differently. In particular, the invention relates to a system wherein information related to each food item and the positions of the food items throughout the processing are traced so that the origination of a food item is preserved.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Marel HFInventors: Petur Gudjonsson, Kristinn A. Kristinsson, Kristjan Hallvardsson, Bjorn Thorvaldsson
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Patent number: 8349947Abstract: Process for polymerising, in a loop reactor, at least one olefin monomer in a liquid diluent to produce a slurry comprising solid particulate olefin polymer and said diluent, wherein the ratio between the actual volumetric solids concentration of the slurry and the maximum possible geometric volume solids concentration of the slurry as measured by the bulk density of an unpacked settled bed of particles, SVCR, is V*0.065 or greater, and the ratio of the cumulative settling distance of an average size particle at any point in the reactor in any direction perpendicular to the direction of the flow, to the internal diameter of the loop reactor, is maintained below [0.084*(V?6.62)+(0.69?SVCR)* 1.666], where V is the circulation velocity of the slurry in m/s and “cumulative settling distance” is defined as the cumulative distance, expressed as a fraction of the diameter, travelled by a particle in any direction perpendicular to the direction of the flow since the previous upstream pump.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Ineos Manufacturing Belgium NVInventor: Daniel Marissal
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Patent number: 8348628Abstract: A system and method enable monitoring of a mechanical condition of a reciprocating compressor. The compressor includes a compressor frame, a pressure chamber, and a pressure head. A plurality of tie bolts are secured between the compressor frame and the pressure chamber head. A sensor assembly is secured to one of the plurality of tie bolts. The sensor assembly includes an elongation member positioned to extend in concert with extension of one of the tie bolts. A sensor measures extension of the elongation member to thereby monitor cylinder pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Roger A. Hala
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Patent number: 8351816Abstract: An ion generating unit comprises a duct, an ion generating device, a mounting plate and a fan. The duct is configured so as to have an air intake port at a first end and so as to have an exhaust port at a second end. The ion generating device is disposed inside the duct. The mounting plate is configured so as to serve to attach the duct to the housing. The mounting plate has an opening aperture communicating with the duct, and is configured so as to be attachable to the housing and so as to function as a part of the housing when it is attached to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuhi Akagawa
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Patent number: 8350817Abstract: A display device provided with a touch panel for detecting a contact position on a touch surface of the panel at which a contact object is brought into contact with the touch surface, the touch panel including an in-panel-surface electrode with a plurality of openings formed in a display area.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Asahi Yamato, Kazuki Takahashi, Jun Nakata
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Patent number: 8347621Abstract: The present invention provides a method of controlling a fluid working machine (12) having a plurality of working cylinders (14) having pistons (16) therein and arranged to drive a shaft (18), in which said cylinders are supplied with pressurized working fluid via a manifold (24), the contents of which may be 5 purged by a de-pressurizer taking one of a number for forms such as to allow re-activation of said machine (10).Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss APSInventors: Win Rampen, Onno Kuttler, Niall James Caldwell
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Patent number: 8348734Abstract: A game system moves a player character in a virtual game space in accordance with an operation by a player. Further, the player character's moving amount per predetermined unit time is detected at each predetermined time interval. A predetermined parameter (gage amount) value is calculated at each predetermined time interval based on the moving amount detected at each predetermined time interval. Also, the game system adds the predetermined parameter value calculated at each predetermined time interval for accumulation. In response to a predetermined operation performed by the player, the game system causes the player character to perform a predetermined motion (e.g., special shot) on a condition such that a value obtained as a result of the addition reaches a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi, Haruki Kodera, Yusuke Sugimoto, Toru Takamatsu, Toshiharu Izuno
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Patent number: 8352267Abstract: A plurality of input devices each includes a speaker, an operation data transmitter, a voice data receiver, and a voice controller. An information processing apparatus includes a voice storing area, object displaying programmed logic circuitry, operation data acquiring programmed logic circuitry, pointing position determining programmed logic circuitry, object specifying programmed logic circuitry, voice reading programmed logic circuitry, and voice data transmitting programmed logic circuitry. The pointing position determining programmed logic circuitry specifies, for each of the input devices, a pointing position on a screen based on operation data transmitted from the operation data transmitter. The voice reading programmed logic circuitry reads voice data corresponding to the pointing position for each of the input devices. The voice data transmitting programmed logic circuitry transmits the voice data to each of the input devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 8348076Abstract: A collapsible container includes a main frame and at least one pivotable side wall that is pivotable between a collapsed position and an opened position. The pivotable side wall is provided with a spring lock insert secured therein and biased toward a lock position in which a lock portion of the spring lock insert extends beyond an end edge of the pivotable side wall. The main frame includes a latch opening that receives the spring lock insert when the pivotable side wall is in the opened position.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Monoflo International, Inc.Inventors: Henning Rader, Hans Niemann
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Patent number: 8351875Abstract: A distortion compensator for reducing a level of a distortion component included in an output analog signal of an amplifier, includes: an A/D converter to convert the output analog signal of the amplifier into a digital output signal; a comparator to generate a distortion characteristic of the amplifier based on a digital input signal and the digital output signal; a rate controller to control a sampling rate of the A/D converter based on the digital input signal and the digital output signal; a predistorter to multiply the digital input signal and a compensation value for compensating the amplifier, the compensation value being calculated based on the digital input signal and the distortion characteristic of the amplifier; and a D/A converter to convert multiplication result of the predistorter into an analog input signal to input the analog input signal to the amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayuki Kato, Atsushi Yamaoka, Keiichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: D673961Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi Matsui, Kazuhiko Koriyama
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Patent number: D674079Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukishige Shiraichi, Masaki Ohtsuka, Masaya Takahashi