Patents Represented by Attorney Nixon & Vanderhye, PP.C.
  • Patent number: 7169998
    Abstract: A sound generation device is composed of a main unit and a game cartridge storing a sound generation program. The game cartridge includes an XY-axes acceleration sensor for detecting a tilt in two respective directions of a game device housing. When a button of the main unit is pressed, a CPU of in the main unit reads waveform data corresponding to one syllable in lyrics from human voice sound waveform data stored in a program ROM, changes a frequency and an amplitude of the waveform data in accordance with the obtained amounts of tilts in two directions, and outputs the processed waveform data from a loudspeaker as a sound. Thus, it is possible to provide a sound generation device capable of outputting a sound by changing its pitch and volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kondo, Yasushi Ida
  • Patent number: 6983607
    Abstract: A method to ventilate a rotary machine housed in a compartment having a ventilation air inlet and air exhaust, a variable speed ventilation fan and a temperature sensor, wherein the method includes: sensing a temperature level of the rotary machine; applying the sensed machine temperature level to a controller for the fan; drawing ventilation flow through the compartment and over the machine; determining whether the sensed machine temperature level is above a desired temperature level of the rotary machine, wherein the desired temperature level is determined by the controller, and the controller setting an operational condition of the fan to increase the ventilation flow through the compartment if the sensed machine temperature level is above the desired temperature level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gerald Wilson Grove, Mark David D'Ambruoso, Michael John Barno, William Andrew Parker, David Martin Johnson, Gregory Allan Crum, Stephen Chiaco