Patents Represented by Attorney Nugent & Smith, LLP
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Patent number: 8293141Abstract: An electronic device including electronic circuit structures formed with an electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) with low and stable contact resistance including at least one melt-processable reactive resin, at least one reactive diluent, at least one rheological additive, at least one curing agent, at least one organic acid catalyst, and copper particles. The ECA is useful for filling vias, and bonding together components of electronic circuit structures.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Gaynes, Jeffrey D. Gelorme, Luis J. Matienzo, Rebecca S. Northey, Michael B. Vincent
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Patent number: 8256215Abstract: A hydraulic power steering system that maintains proportional pressure control between an input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear by relying upon a control valve. A pressure differential is maintained between the input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear throughout certain events. Those events include running the pump to fully charge the accumulator, idling the pump after fully charging the accumulator, discharging pressure from the fully charged accumulator at an onset of a steering event having a demand for steering load, recovering the discharged pressure of the accumulator by running the pump after turning on the pump at the onset of the steering event, and opening the relief valve in the valve manifold during the steering event.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Todd Robert Miller
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Patent number: 8260518Abstract: Reverse proximity sensors are used to determine an angle between a towed trailer and the towing vehicle. The trailer sway control determines a trailer angle of sway based upon proximity sensor readings from the reverse proximity sensors and from a sensor reading of an angle of turn of a steering wheel of the towing vehicle. Provided the determined trailer angle of sway exceeds a range that can be tolerated, a controller sends instructions to apply necessary braking to the vehicle or trailer to mitigate the trailer sway.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Kirk Matthew Englert
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Patent number: 8239109Abstract: An anti-lock braking system (ABS) calculates driven wheel speed without any sensors on the driven axle assembly. A powertrain control module (PCM) receives signals from an output shaft speed (OSS) sensor and adds the speed and axle ratio information to a control network bus. Access to the CAN bus is provided to enable calculation of the rear wheel speed based on such information so that ABS may implement anti-lock braking functionality by taking into account such information.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel Dunn, Charles Bannon, Douglas Marsden
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Patent number: 8181457Abstract: A hydraulic power steering system that maintains proportional pressure control between an input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear by relying upon a control valve. A pressure differential is maintained between the input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear throughout certain events. Those events include running the pump to fully charge the accumulator, idling the pump after fully charging the accumulator, discharging pressure from the fully charged accumulator at an onset of a steering event having a demand for steering load, recovering the discharged pressure of the accumulator by running the pump after turning on the pump at the onset of the steering event, and opening the relief valve in the valve manifold during the steering event.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Todd Robert Miller
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Patent number: 8151564Abstract: A hydraulic power steering system that maintains proportional pressure control between an input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear by relying upon a control valve. A pressure differential is maintained between the input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear throughout certain events. Those events include running the pump to fully charge the accumulator, idling the pump after fully charging the accumulator, discharging pressure from the fully charged accumulator at an onset of a steering event having a demand for steering load, recovering the discharged pressure of the accumulator by running the pump after turning on the pump at the onset of the steering event, and opening the relief valve in the valve manifold during the steering event.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Todd Robert Miller
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Patent number: 7997428Abstract: A support rod for curtains and the like has telescoping sections the ends of which are threaded for being screwed onto respective receivers mountable on facing walls in axial alignment. The receivers are fixed to the walls by fasteners which are concealed within the bore of at least one of the rod section or its mating receiver. A decorative flange may be mounted between each receiver and its respective rod section.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: EMSA Sales CorporationInventor: Allan Goldstein
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Patent number: 7947907Abstract: An electronic structure including a substrate having a having a dielectric layer with at least one metallic interconnect structure within and a dielectric barrier layer above the dielectric layer, and a multi-layer hardmask stack coated with a self-assembled layer, where the self-assembled layer is a pattern of nanoscale and/or microscale voids which are generated into the dielectric barrier layer and into the dielectric layer next to the metallic interconnect structure to create columns in the dielectric barrier layer and dielectric layer therein. Electronics structures prepared with the process are useful to prepare electronics devices, such as computers and the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Earl Colburn, Ricardo Alves Donaton, Conal E Murray, Satyanarayana Venkata Nitta, Sampath Purushothaman, Sujatha Sankaran, Thedorus Eduardos Standaert, Xiao Hu Liu
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Patent number: 7863150Abstract: A structure and method to produce an airgap on a substrate having a dielectric layer with a pattern transferred onto the dielectric layer and a self aligned block out mask transferred on the dielectric layer around the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Earl Colburn, Daniel C. Edelstein, Satya Venkata Nitta, Sampath Purushothaman, Shom Ponth
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Patent number: 7838954Abstract: A semiconductor solder bump structure having a solder bump with at least a first solder and a second solder attached to the first solder, producing one solder bump having at least two different solders with different melting temperatures. A method of fabricating the solder is included.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stephen L Buchwalter, Peter A Gruber, Jae-Woong Nah, Da-Yuan Shih
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Patent number: 7763188Abstract: An electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) with low and stable contact resistance includes at least one melt-processable reactive resin, at least one reactive diluent, at least one rheological additive, copper particles, at least one curing agent and at least one organic acid catalyst. The ECA is useful for filling vias, and bonding together components of electronic circuit structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Gaynes, Jeffrey D. Gelorme, Luis J. Matienzo, Rebecca S. Northey, Michael B. Vincent
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Patent number: 7743610Abstract: A hydraulic power steering system that maintains proportional pressure control between an input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear by relying upon a control valve. A pressure differential is maintained between the input side of a gear and assist pressures internal to the steering gear throughout certain events. Those events include running the pump to fully charge the accumulator, idling the pump after fully charging the accumulator, discharging pressure from the fully charged accumulator at an onset of a steering event having a demand for steering load, recovering the discharged pressure of the accumulator by running the pump after turning on the pump at the onset of the steering event, and opening the relief valve in the valve manifold during the steering event.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Todd Robert Miller
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Patent number: 7648111Abstract: An end of a curtain rod is provided with a hook for grasping a mounting tube extending transversely from a wall-mounted flange. The hook may be offset from the longitudinal axis of the curtain rod to permit two rods with similar offset hooks to the mounted end to end, in axial alignment, on a common mounting tube. Alternatively, one rod may be provided with a centrally mounted hook and the other rod with a claw having spaced hooks for receiving the single centrally mounted hook of an axially aligned rod therebetween. Each hook an claw may be mounted on a connector which can be fitted over the end of a segment of a tubular curtain rod, with or without an adapter, depending upon whether the segment is an inner segment or outer segment of a telescoping curtain rod.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Source Global Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Allan Goldstein
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Patent number: 7628363Abstract: An end of a curtain rod is provided with a hook for grasping a mounting tube extending transversely from a wall-mounted flange. The hook may be offset from the longitudinal axis of the curtain rod to permit two rods with similar offset hooks to the mounted end to end, in axial alignment, on a common mounting tube. Alternatively, one rod may be provided with a centrally mounted hook and the other rod with a claw having spaced hooks for receiving the single centrally mounted hook of an axially aligned rod therebetween. Each hook and claw may be mounted on a connector which can be fitted over the end of a segment of a tubular curtain rod, with or without an adapter, depending upon whether the segment is an inner segment or outer segment of a telescoping curtain rod.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Source Global Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Allan Goldstein