Patents Represented by Attorney Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
  • Patent number: 8250309
    Abstract: A data processor comprising: a control register operable to store a cache control value; and data accessing logic responsive to a data access instruction and to said cache control value to look for data to be accessed in a cache if said cache control value has a predetermined value and not to look for said data to be accessed in said cache if said cache control value does not have said predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Patrick Gerard McGlew, Andrew Burdass
  • Patent number: 8250171
    Abstract: In a content delivery method in a P2P network, a node managing a content causes a downstream node to manage a volume of a divided content; this volume is according to a situation of the downstream node (for example, a line speed to which a node is connected). A node managing a content holds, as management information, partial information of the divided content managed by its own node, and location information indicative of a location at which a content itself is presented. Next, when a content transfer request is sent to a node managing a content, the node accesses a content holding node in accordance with the held location information, downloads a volume of a divided content indicated by the partial information, and uploads the volume of the divided content to a node that sends the content transfer request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoichi Terao, Itaru Takemura
  • Patent number: 8249212
    Abstract: A method for attaching a core spray sparger T-box clamp for a sparger T-box in a shroud of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel assembling the anchor plate, bearing plate and saddle bracket; positioning the assembly of the anchor plate, bearing plate and saddle bracket in front of the T-box such that the saddle bracket is below a sidewall of the T-box; elevating the assembly to seat the saddle bracket against a lower surface of the sidewall and sliding a locating pin on the saddle bracket into an aperture in the sidewall; lowering a carrier plate onto an upper surface of the sidewall and attaching the carrier plate to the anchor plate, wherein a locating pin on the carrier plate slides into an aperture on the upper surface, and advancing the bearing plate to the T-box to bias a bearing plate against a cover plate of the T-box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Grant Clark Jensen, Robert W. Whitling
  • Patent number: 8246750
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting C5 sugars including pentose and/or C6 sugars including hexose from a slurry of cellulosic material comprising cellulose, water, and optionally acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz Inc.
    Inventors: Namhee Shin, C. Bertil Stromberg, Thomas Pschorn
  • Patent number: 8246458
    Abstract: As an example, a value obtained by adding the magnitudes of a plurality of angular velocities around respective axes indicated by angular velocity data obtained from an input device including gyroscopic sensors, is used to calculate a rotation parameter indicating a rotation amount. A predetermined object which is rotated, depending on the rotation amount corresponding to the rotation parameter, is displayed on a display device. As another example, when it is determined, based on the angular velocity data, that the attitude of the input device is stable, a stability flag which indicates that the attitude of the input device has been at least once stable is set and updated to ON. When there is an input device whose stability flag is OFF, the aforementioned determination is performed and a screen including a result of the determination is displayed on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Souichi Nakajima, Kenichi Nishida, Yoshikazu Yamashita, Takayuki Shimamura
  • Patent number: 8248087
    Abstract: A liquid concentration measuring device has first and second switches, which are turned on and off at two frequencies. When the first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off, a detection electrode pair is charged. When the first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on, the positive side of the detection electrode pair is grounded so that the charged detection electrode pair discharges. The difference between the output voltages of an amplifier produced by charging and discharging the detection electrode pair at the two frequencies is used to determine an alcohol concentration in gasoline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Ishino, Jun Tarui
  • Patent number: 8248957
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Inventors: Ajay Joseph, Hwan Tang, Lizhong Zhang, Paul A. Skelly
  • Patent number: 8249487
    Abstract: According to an electron emitting element of the present invention, an electron acceleration layer sandwiched between an electrode substrate and a thin-film electrode contains (i) insulating fine particles and (ii) at least one of (a) conductive fine particles having an average particle diameter smaller than an average particle diameter of the insulating fine particles and (b) a basic dispersant. The electron acceleration layer has a surface roughness of 0.2 ?m or less in centerline average roughness (Ra). The thin-film electrode has a film thickness of 100 nm or less. As such, according to the electron emitting element of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the thickness of the thin-film electrode to an appropriate thickness. Accordingly, it is possible to increase electron emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Imura, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, Ayae Nagaoka, Tadashi Iwamatsu
  • Patent number: 8250411
    Abstract: A data processing system 1 has a processor core 2 which is programmable to act as one of a plurality of virtual machines each identified by a virtual machine identifier, each virtual machine acting in one of a plurality of contexts each identified by a context identifier, each context executing a sequence of program instructions, each program instruction having one or more associated memory addresses. The data processing system has diagnostic circuitry 10 for performing diagnostic operations on the processor core. Diagnostic control circuitry 12 is provided which is responsive to current values of the virtual machine identifier, the context identifier and at least one of the one or more associated memory addresses to trigger the diagnostic circuitry 10 to perform diagnostic operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Michael John Williams, Richard Roy Grisenthwaite, Andrew Brookfield Swaine, John Michael Horley
  • Patent number: 8246460
    Abstract: Provided is a game system executing a game by performing communication between a plurality of hand-held game apparatuses, each having a display section for displaying an image and an operation section, and a stationary game apparatus. In each of the plurality of hand-held game apparatuses, a plurality of directional signs indicative of operations performed by a player using the operation section is displayed on the display section. Operation data indicative of a content of the operation performed by using the operation section is transmitted to the stationary game apparatus. The stationary game apparatus receives the operation data transmitted from each of the plurality of hand-held game apparatuses. The stationary game apparatus obtains, from sound data storage means storing therein a plurality of pieces of sound data, sound data corresponding to the operation data, and at the same time, outputs a sound based on each piece of the obtained sound data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Kitahara
  • Patent number: 8246457
    Abstract: In an acceleration value obtaining step (S2), an acceleration value which changes in accordance with a state of the input device is sequentially obtained as the input value. In an increase/decrease direction inversion detection step (S3, S17), it is detected that an acceleration value increase/decrease direction has inverted. In an acceleration value difference calculation step (S41 through S44), when the acceleration value increase/decrease direction has inverted, a difference between at least two acceleration values obtained immediately before the inversion is calculated. In a game processing step (S12 through S15), when the calculated difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, first game processing is executed, and when the calculated difference is smaller than the predetermined value, second game processing different from the first game processing is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Misuzu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8245872
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rigid or semirigid plastic part designed to form the bottom of a package whose side wall consists of a laminated film. The plastic part has a central axis and includes the following features: a peripheral welding zone designed to contact and be welded to the inside surface of the side wall; a convex inside face and a concave outside face; the inside face and the outside face each comprise a zone whose centre is on the axis and which is designed to contact a tool used to attach the part to the side wall; and a profile at least partially defined by a curve. The invention also relates to a package having a bottom consisting of the plastic part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Aisapack Holding S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Hanot, Stéphane Mathieu
  • Patent number: 8248348
    Abstract: A level shift circuit includes first and second level shifters which respectively output first and second output signals that are produced by level shifting two kinds of input clock signals whose high level periods do not overlap. The level shift circuit also includes control transistors and control lines which, together, prevent a feedthrough current from flowing into the second level shifter when the first output signal is high level, and prevent a feedthrough current from flowing into the first level shifter when the second output signal is high level, so as to suspend the level shift operation of the first and second level shifters. With the level shift circuit, power consumption during a specific time period in a non-active period of the clock signal can be eliminated, where the specific time period of one clock signal is the active period of the other clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhichiroh Murakami, Seijirou Gyouten, Hajime Washio, Eiji Matsuda, Sachio Tsujino, Shunsuke Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8247475
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided hydrotalcite-based compound particles surface-treated with an organic compound having not less than 3 carbon atoms, have a specific surface area of 5 to 150 m2/g, wherein a conceptual value x corresponding to micropores and ultramicropores, and a conceptual value y corresponding to volumes of macropores and micropores, both calculated from a water vapor adsorption curve thereof when exposed to a temperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 50% for 250 hours, are respectively within specific ranges. The hydrotalcite-based compound particles of the present invention are capable of capturing even a very small amount of halogens contained in various resins, and exhibiting an excellent effect of preventing deterioration of the resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Toda Kogyo Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Kobayashi, Torayuki Honmyo
  • Patent number: 8250346
    Abstract: A processor 2 supporting register renaming has a rename table 20 in which the flag register has multiple tag values associated therewith. These tag values indicate which virtual register corresponds to a destination flag register of the oldest instruction which wrote a still up-to-date value of a subset of the flags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventor: James Nolan Hardage
  • Patent number: 8248219
    Abstract: Information is displayed by irradiating a visible light on a specific position based on at least one of vehicle state information, vehicle surrounding information, and vehicle interior information. For example, the visible light is irradiated on a target switch based on signals indicating an on/off state of a headlamp operation switch and an on/off state of a key switch. A user 5 can easily confirm the target switch and unerringly operate the target switch. A visible light irradiator 6 is arranged in a vehicle compartment and irradiates the visible light to display information in the vehicle compartment. The information can be provided for the user 5 in a novel manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Sato, Tetsuya Enokizaka, Kenichi Mori, Seiji Kawai
  • Patent number: 8250549
    Abstract: A computer implemented tool is provided for assisting in the mapping of a computer program to a data processing apparatus wherein multiple physical instances of a logical variable in the computer program are required. A computer program is provided as the input to the tool which analyses the data flow of the program and identifies multiple physical instance requirement for logical variables. The tool adds mapping support commands, such as instantiation commands, Direct Memory Access (DMA) move commands and the like as necessary to support the mapping of the computer program to a data processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Alastair David Reid, Edmund Grimley-Evans, Simon Andrew Ford
  • Patent number: 8246842
    Abstract: A centrifuge (2) for separating solids from liquid of a slurry with a conveyor (12) having a hub (14) rotatable about an axis (34) and at a helical blade (16) extending axially and radially from the hub. A bowl (4) including a cylindrical section (6) extending from an upstream end of the conveyor and a conically diverging screen section (10) extending to a downstream end of the conveyor extends about the conveyor and is rotatable about the axis. The conically diverging screen section includes an angle (40) that reduces the coefficient of friction of the solids to allow a cake formed of the solids to slide in a controlled manner forward on the conically diverging screen section with minimal back pressure, but without allowing the solid cake to break loose from the conically diverging screen section and slide out of the centrifuge in an uncontrolled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz Separation, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Robert Frohlich, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8250351
    Abstract: Reset control circuitry is disclosed, for controlling a first reset signal for resetting at least a first portion of a circuit and a further reset signal for resetting at least a second portion of said circuit, said reset control circuitry comprising: an input for receiving an input first reset signal; an input for receiving an input further reset signal; an output for outputting an output first reset signal; and an output for outputting an output further reset signal; said reset control circuitry being responsive to detecting deassertion of said input first reset signal when said input further reset signal is asserted to delay deassertion of said output first reset signal so that said output first reset signal is deasserted at a same time or later than said input further reset signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: David Michael Gilday, Peter Logan Harrod
  • Patent number: 8246469
    Abstract: A communication game system includes a first computer and at least one second computer. When an operational designation has been performed, the second computer transmits to the first request a request for permission to perform an action corresponding to the operation. Until a conclusion to the request is received, the second computer produces an image in which a character performs a first act of the action. The first computer determines whether the action is permitted and transmits its conclusion to the second computer. When receiving the conclusion before the end of the first act, the second computer produces an image in which the player character performs a second act according to the conclusion. On the other hand, when the conclusion is received after the end of the first act, the second computer produces, at the end of the first act, an image in which the player character performs a third act until the reception of the conclusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nogami, Ryuji Kobayashi, Kunihiro Komatsu, Toshinori Kawai