Patents Represented by Attorney Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
  • Patent number: 8236474
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a toner is provided. The method for manufacturing a toner uses a rotary stirring apparatus. The rotary stirring apparatus includes at least a circulation section, a temperature regulation section and a spraying section composed of a two-fluid nozzle. The two-fluid nozzle includes a liquid pipe and an air pipe, the liquid pipe is inserted in the air pipe such that an axis of the liquid pipe coincides with an axis of the air pipe, and at least a part of the liquid pipe and the air pipe is fixed such that the centers of those pipes do not move. A substance in liquid form is sprayed in constant rate from the two-fluid nozzle while regulating temperature and circulating the toner base particles and the fine resin particles in a powder passage, thereby forming a film on the surface of the toner base particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kawase, Takashi Hara, Yoshiaki Akazawa
  • Patent number: 8237899
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a high contrast ratio and no coloring during black display, over a wide viewing angle range. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a reverse wavelength dispersion-type biaxial retardation film having R0(B)/R0(G) and Rth(B)/Rth(G) not greater than 0.965 and R0(R)/R0(G) and Rth(R)/Rth(G) not smaller than 1.015; and a vertical alignment liquid crystal cell that has a blue, a green, and a red color filter layer and that satisfies Rth_LC(B)/Rth_LC(G)?1.000 and Rth_LC(R)/Rth_LC(G)?1.000. R0(B), R0(G) and R0(R) denote the in-plane retardations of the retardation film at wavelengths 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm. Rth(B), Rth(G) and Rth(R), and Rth_LC(B), Rth_LC(G) and Rth_LC(R) respectively denote the thickness-direction retardations of the retardation film and the liquid crystal cell at wavelengths 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ikuo Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 8236473
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin-layer coated toner is provided. The method for manufacturing the resin-layer coated toner uses a rotary stirring apparatus including a circulating section, a temperature regulation section, a spraying section and an exhausting section, sprays a liquid substance to particles of toner materials and particles of coating materials in a fluidized state to plasticize such particles from a spraying section by carrier gas and gasifies the liquid, circulates the carrier gas in the powder passage and continuously exhausts the carrier gas including the gasified substance through the exhausting section to the outside of the powder passage, and pressure P1 in the powder passage and pressure P0 outside the powder passage satisfy the following formula (1): 0 atm<(Pressure P1 in the powder passage?Pressure P0 outside the powder passage)?0.3 atm??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kawase, Takashi Hara, Yoshiaki Akazawa
  • Patent number: 8237044
    Abstract: A concentrating solar power generation unit (10) comprises a solar cell element (1), a mounting plate (3) on which is mounted the solar cell element (1), which is bonded to a receiver (2), a light shield (4) that covers the mounting plate (3), a frame (5) disposed perpendicularly from the ends on two facing sides of a light shield (4), a concentrating lens (7) that is disposed corresponding to the upper end of the frame (5) across from the light shield (4) and that concentrates sunlight (Ls) on a light receiving region of the solar cell element (1), and a translucent substrate (6) that fixes (fastens) the concentrating lens (7) and is mounted to the upper end of the frame (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Anzawa, Kosuke Ueda, Masao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8238060
    Abstract: A magnetic recording head includes: a main magnetic pole; a laminated body; and a pair of electrodes. The laminated body includes a first magnetic layer having a coercivity lower than magnetic field applied by the main magnetic pole, a second magnetic layer having a coercivity lower than the magnetic field applied by the main magnetic pole, and an intermediate layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. The pair of electrodes are operable to pass a current through the laminated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yamada, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Junichi Akiyama, Masayuki Takagishi, Tomomi Funayama, Masahiro Takashita, Mariko Shimizu, Shuichi Murakami, Tadashi Kai
  • Patent number: 8236292
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pre-formulations comprising low viscosity, non-liquid crystalline, mixtures of: a) at least one neutral diacyl lipid and/or at least one tocopherol; b) at least one phospholipid; c) at least one biocompatible, oxygen containing, low viscosity organic solvent; wherein at least one bioactive agent is dissolved or dispersed in the low viscosity mixture and wherein the pre-formulation forms, or is capable of forming, at least one liquid crystalline phase structure upon contact with an aqueous fluid. The preformulations are suitable for generating parenteral, non-parenteral and topical depot compositions for sustained release of active agents. The invention additionally relates to a method of delivery of an active agent comprising administration of a preformulation of the invention, a method of treatment comprising administration of a preformulation of the invention and the use of a preformulation of the invention in a method for the manufacture of a medicament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Camurus AB
    Inventors: Krister Thuresson, Fredrik Tiberg, Markus Johansson, Ian Harwigsson, Fredrik Joabsson, Markus Johnsson
  • Patent number: 8237896
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate (30) of the present invention includes (i) a plurality of TFT elements (2) provided on an insulating substrate (10), and (ii) pixel electrodes (7) electrically connected to the plurality of TFT elements (2), respectively. The pixel electrodes (7) has (i) a first transparent electrode layer (7a), (ii) a reflective electrode layer (7b) stacked on the first transparent electrode layer (7a), which reflective electrode layer (7b) has a smaller area than that of the first transparent electrode layer (7a), and (iii) a second transparent electrode layer (7c) stacked so as to cover at least the reflective electrode layer (7b). Hence, it is possible to realize a transflective liquid crystal display device which suppresses occurrence of a flicker, thereby having high display quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fujita, Yukinobu Nakata
  • Patent number: 8237348
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting device including a light-emitting element emitting primary light, and a light converter absorbing a part of the primary light emitted from the light-emitting element and emitting secondary light having a longer wavelength than the primary light. The light converter contains a green light-emitting phosphor and a red light-emitting phosphor. The green light-emitting phosphor is composed of at least one phosphor selected from a divalent europium-activated oxynitride phosphor substantially represented by the following formula: EuaSibAlcOdNe and a divalent europium-activated silicate phosphor substantially represented by the following formula: 2 (Ba1-f-gMIfEug)O.SiO2, while the red light-emitting phosphor is composed of at least one phosphor selected from tetravalent manganese-activated fluoro-tetravalent metalate phosphors substantially represented by the following formulae: MII2(MIII1-hMnh)F6 and/or MIV(MIII1-hMnh)F6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatsugu Masuda, Kenji Terashima
  • Patent number: 8238058
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a main magnetic pole, a shield, and a stacked structure body. The shield is provided to oppose the main magnetic pole. The stacked structure body is provided between the main magnetic pole and the shield. The stacked structure body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer. The first magnetic layer has coercivity lower than a magnetic field applied from the main magnetic pole. A size of a film surface of the second magnetic layer is larger than a size of a film surface of the first magnetic layer. The intermediate layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer and is made of a nonmagnetic material. A current is configured to pass between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mariko Shimizu, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Kenichiro Yamada, Katsuhiko Koui, Masayuki Takagishi, Tomomi Funayama, Masahiro Takashita, Soichi Oikawa
  • Patent number: 8239303
    Abstract: A market system that includes an internal execution process is described. The system includes an order execution process that receives orders and matches orders against quotes posted in the system on a time priority basis and an order match-off process that checks if a market participant identification associated with a received order matches a market participant identification representing a quote in the system that is at the best bid or best offer price in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Martyn, Stuart Serkin, John Malitzis
  • Patent number: 8236742
    Abstract: A metal working oil composition which is used for a very small amount of oil-feeding type metal working methods comprising a base oil selected from the group consisting of natural fats, derivatives thereof and synthetic ester oils, and a phospholipid is disclosed. The metal working oil composition of the present invention has good lubricating properties and is suitable for processing metallic materials such as cast irons steel, stainless steel and the like by the very small amount of oil-feeding type metal working method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Goto, Kazuyoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 8239743
    Abstract: The technology in this application provides for efficient use of a common uplink radio resource, like the common E-DCH resource. A UE lacking a valid radio network identifier, e.g., a UE in an idle mode, receives a data unit and adds error detection bits to generate a new data unit. The new data unit is divided into segments at a lower protocol layer which are provided for transmission to the network via the common uplink radio resource. A network node detects lower protocol layer data unit segments received on the common uplink radio resource and assembles them into an assembled data unit at a higher protocol layer. Error detection bits included with the assembled data unit are used to determine if the assembled data unit includes correctly received data unit segments, e.g., data unit segments from the same UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 8235991
    Abstract: An apparatus for electrosurgery (1) comprising a plurality of adjacent electrodes (2-5) arranged aligned and an electrosurgical current generator (6), connected or connectable to the electrodes (2-5) to induce the flowing of an electrosurgical current through the tissue portions interposed thereamong, wherein said generator (6) powers the electrodes (2-5) so that each electrode lies at a potential (V3-V5) greater than that of the electrode preceding it in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: LED S.p.A., Consorzio I.P.O.TE.S.I.
    Inventors: Aldo Mauti, Paolo Mauti, Adriano De Majo, Piero Rossi
  • Patent number: 8235669
    Abstract: A hydraulic turbine has a runner blade fixedly mounted to a runner hub. The runner blade has a mounting flange having a generally rectangular shape held in contact with a complementary generally rectangular shaped outside surface portion of the runner hub. The complementary rectangular shapes increases surface contact area between the blade mounting flange and the hub over that of circular shaped flanges and thereby reduces the stress levels between the blade flange and the hub. Further, the surface contact area between the blade mounting flange and the blade root is increased to thereby reduce the stress level in the blade root fillets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz Technology and Asset Management GmbH
    Inventors: Benoit Des Roches, Vincent Francou, Christine Monette, Eric Ferland
  • Patent number: 8239309
    Abstract: A method for determining a closing price of a security traded in an electronic market includes receiving a trade price of an executed trade of the security wherein the executed trade is executed during a trading session of the electronic market, comparing the received trade price to a market parameter of the security to determine the closing price of the security, and reporting the determined closing price of the security to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Davin, III, James T. Platts, James M. Lastoskie, Timothy E. Cox, Michael E. Edleson
  • Patent number: 8237046
    Abstract: The present invention aims to improve the photoelectric current of a dye-sensitized solar cell module and produce a high power dye-sensitized solar cell. The present invention provides a dye-sensitized solar cell module comprising at least two photoelectric conversion elements each comprising a transparent conductive layer, a porous photoelectric conversion layer adsorbing a dye, an electrolytic layer, a catalyst layer, and a conductive layer on a transparent substrate, wherein the respective photoelectric conversion elements are different in at least one among the layering order of the respective layers composing the photoelectric conversion elements; the type and composition of the materials for the respective layers; the particle diameter in the case the materials of the respective layers are granular; the thickness and width of the respective layers; the form of the respective layers; and the open circuit voltage of the photoelectric conversion elements, and thereby the aim is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohsuke Yamanaka, Nobuhiro Fuke, Atsushi Fukui, Naoki Koide, Liyuan Han
  • Patent number: 8235775
    Abstract: A bone breaking or crushing tool for use by a hunter is designed to break the pelvic bone of a game animal. The bone breaking tool includes a U-shaped body having first and second arms joined by a front end. A handle projects at an angle from an outer side of a first arm of the U-shaped main body. A projection is formed on an inner side of the first arm of the U-shaped main body. The bone breaking tool is configured so that the first and second arms of the U-shaped main body can be slid around either side of a portion of the pelvic bone of a game animal. A hunter can then apply a force to an end of the handle to drive the projection on the inner side of the first arm into the pelvic bone to break or crush the pelvic bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Inventor: Yuey S. Moy
  • Patent number: 8236189
    Abstract: An etching and recovery method is described, wherein articles made of copper are etched with an acid aqueous solution of etching chemicals containing Cu2+ for oxidizing Cu0 to Cu+, chloride ions, oxidizing agent which oxidizes Cu+ to Cu2+, and pH-adjusting hydrochloric acid. The technical problem to be solved is to make it possible to circulate the etching solution between the etching process and the recovery process during the recovery of used etching solution in such a manner that a closed circuit can be maintained between the processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sigma Engineering AB
    Inventor: Harald Ottertun
  • Patent number: 8236978
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing sphingomyelin and plasmalogen-form glycerophospholipid, which comprises the step (A) of extracting a total lipids from a chicken skin powder and drying the extract, the step (B) of subjecting the dried total lipids obtained in said step (A), to extraction treatment with a solvent mixture of an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent and a water-soluble ketone solvent to separate an insoluble portion composed mainly of sphingomyelin and a soluble portion, the step (C) subjecting the insoluble portion composed mainly of sphingomyelin, obtained in said step (B), to extraction treatment with a solvent mixture of water and a water-soluble ketone solvent to remove a non-lipid component contained in the soluble portion, and the step (D) of drying the soluble portion obtained in said step (B), and subjecting the thus-obtained dried product to extraction treatment with a water-soluble ketone solvent to separate and recover an insoluble portion composed mainly of plasmalogen-form giycerophosp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Umeda Jimusho Ltd., Fujino Brain Research, Ltd., Marudai Food Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Fujino, Keita Yunoki, Shiro Mawatari, Yoshitaka Nadachi
  • Patent number: 8238920
    Abstract: Automatic setting and/or adjusting of the threshold(s) for triggering measurements of signal strength/quality of other RATs that are needed for IRAT mobility is described. The setting and/or adjusting of the threshold(s) triggering IRAT measurements is automatically optimized and preferably performed for each BS. Initially, constraints on the optimization of the IRAT measurement triggering threshold(s) are set, and a start value for the optimization of the IRAT measurement triggering threshold(s) is provided or determined. Input information needed for the optimization of the IRAT measurement triggering threshold(s) are then collected, and new IRAT measurement triggering threshold(s) are determined and set or existing IRAT measurement triggering threshold(s) are adjusted if appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kristina Zetterberg, Jose Alonso-Rubio