Patents Represented by Attorney Oblon, Spivak, McCelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
  • Patent number: 6116721
    Abstract: An ink jet recording device comprises an ultrasonic generating element array having a plurality of ultrasonic generating elements, a driving circuit for emitting ink droplets for each of element groups by setting a predetermined number of the ultrasonic generating elements out of the plurality of ultrasonic generating elements as one element group to drive individually each of the ultrasonic generating elements in the element group in accordance with the driving data corresponding to the image data, a driving data series buffer for storing a driving data series comprising at least one set of driving data for driving each of the ultrasonic generating elements in the element group, and a driving data generation circuit for reading repeatedly the driving data series which is stored in the driving data series buffer to generate the driving data corresponding to the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Higuchi, Chiaki Tanuma, Isao Amemiya
  • Patent number: 6114981
    Abstract: There is provided an over-sampling D/A converter which has a mute function for fixing an average DC potential of an analog output signal to a predetermined potential, and comprises a .SIGMA. .DELTA. modulator for receiving a multibit digital signal to which a DC offset value is added and then outputting a one-bit non-return-to-zero signal, a signal generator for receiving the non-return-to-zero signal and the clock signal, then generating a return-to-zero signal which is a logical multiplication of the non-return-to-zero signal and the clock signal and a complementary signal of the return-to-zero signal which is a logical addition of the non-return-to-zero signal and an inverted signal of the clock signal, and then adding the return-to-zero signal to the complementary signal of the return-to-zero signal to thus output a polar-return-to-zero signal, and an analog filter for receiving the polar-return-to-zero signal and then outputting an analog signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Mitsuru Nagata
  • Patent number: 6084716
    Abstract: A single light emitted from a laser source is split into multiple beams. The multiple beams are illuminated by a multi-beam scanner to scan a substrate of interest. An optical system is provided for focusing the multiple beams independently on the substrate and directing a reflected light or a transmitted light of the multiple beams on the substrate. Aperture regulating members are disposed at equal intervals corresponding to the interval between the multiple beams for controlling the multiple beams directed from the substrate by the optical system. The multiple beams passed through their respective aperture regulating members are received by an optical detector assembly which detect a change in the amount of the multiple beams. The substrate is continuously moved by a movable table on a plane substantially vertical to the multiple beams and in a direction arranged at substantially a right angle to the scanning direction of the multiple beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sanada, Toru Tojo, Mitsuo Tabata, Kyoji Yamashita, Hideo Nagai, Noboru Kobayashi, Hisakazu Yoshino, Makoto Taya, Akemi Miwa
  • Patent number: 6073385
    Abstract: A fish hook A1 includes a shaft 5 and an eye 4 formed on one end of the shaft. The eye 4 can be connected with a split ring 2 connected with a lure 1. The eye 4 is thinner toward its end opposite to the shaft 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Gamakatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori Sano
  • Patent number: 6042752
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film of tin oxide containing gallium and indium, which contains, when gallium is calculated as Ga.sub.2 O.sub.3, indium is calculated as In.sub.2 O.sub.3 and tin is calculated as SnO.sub.2, gallium in an amount of from 0.1 to 30 mol % and indium in an amount of from 0.1 to 30 mol %, based on the total amount of Ga.sub.2 O.sub.3, In.sub.2 O.sub.3 and SnO.sub.2, a sputtering target and a transparent conductive film bonded substrate. The transparent conductive film of the present invention exhibits chemical resistance and abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Mitsui
  • Patent number: 5997998
    Abstract: Concerning a resistance element comprising a laminated and sintered article of an insulating material substrate layer and a conductor layer formed on or embedded in the insulating material substrate layer, a material which is constituted of tungsten and carbon and has an atomic ratio of tungsten to carbon equal to 1:0.4 to 1:0.98 is used as said conductor layer. Such resistance element can be used at a temperature of 1400.degree. C. or more and even further at a temperature of 1500.degree. C. or more. The resistance element can increase its temperature rapidly to 1100.degree. C. or more within about 3 seconds without any control circuit. The resistance element is a rapid temperature-rise resistance element with a high ignition performance constituted of ceramics with superior durability including resistance to repetitions of temperature increase and decrease, and resistance to oxidation at a high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Sawamura
  • Patent number: 5873915
    Abstract: Electrolytic membrane for light rechargeable batteries essentially consisting of:1) polymer deriving from the photopolymerization of a mixture essentially consisting of a vinyl ether having the general formula (I) R--?--O--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --!.sub.n --O--CH.dbd.CH.sub.2, and a divinyl ether having the general formula (II) CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--?--O--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --!.sub.m --O--CH.dbd.CH.sub.2, in a quantity of between 15 and 60% by weight;2) plasticizer in a quantity of between 35 and 75% by weight;3) Lithium salt in a quantity of between 5 and 20% by weight;4) photopolymerization initiator in such a quantity as to photopolymerize (I) and (II);5) zeolite in a quantity of between 3 and 30% by weight;the percentage sum of components (1) to (5) being equal to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignees: Eniricherche S.p.A., Olivetti Personal Computers S.p.A.
    Inventors: Maria Andrei, Federico Capuano, Massimo Soprani
  • Patent number: 5864733
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a photoconductive drum, a charger which charges the photoconductive drum, an exposing device which irradiates light to the charged photoconductive drum for forming an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive drum, a developing device which has two component developer which includes magnetic toner and magnetic carriers and a transfer charger to transfer the developed image to a sheet of paper. The bias voltages of the charger, the developing device and the transfer charger are applied from a common high voltage power source. A developing starting voltage of the developing device is higher than a residual voltage of the photoconductive drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Asami Mae, Manabu Mochizuki, Kentaro Matsumoto, Kenji Karashima, Kazuhiko Yuki, Chikara Imai, Hajime Oyama, Noriyuki Usui
  • Patent number: 5857976
    Abstract: A thermodilution catheter having a heating filament which is fabricated so as to be thin and flexible enough to avoid contact with the patient's blood. The heating filament is either inserted in a preformed catheter lumen, incorporated into a wall of the catheter body itself, or wrapped around the catheter body wall and surrounded by an external sheath. Generally, the covering of the heating filament is minimally thin so as to allow the heat from the heating filament to be transferred to the surrounding blood and to minimally increase the overall cross-sectional area. Since the heating filament does not directly touch the patient's blood, the outer surface may be made smooth so as to prevent inducement of blood clots. In addition, the heating filament may be maintained at a safe temperature by forming the heating element of a flexible material having a high temperature coefficient of resistance, low thermal capacitance and high thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Quinn, Mark L. Yelderman
  • Patent number: 5851655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a receiving paper for melt-type heat transfer recording suitable for use in, for example, a copying machine, a printer and a fascimile machine employing heat transfer recording system using heat meltable ink, which paper is excellent in ink receptivity and dot reproducibility and high in performance and quality in recorded image. The receiving paper of the present invention for melt-type heat transfer recording comprises a base paper and an image receiving layer thereon, the receiving layer containing a binder and a pigment and receiving a heat-meltable ink, wherein the receiving layer contains spherical precipitated calcium carbonate having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 .mu.m as a pigment, and wherein the surface of the receiving layer has a surface roughness (Rmax) of 0 to 15 .mu.m as measured according to JIS K 0601, a pore open area ratio of 30 to 85% and an average pore open area of 0.5 to 20.0 .mu.m.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: OJI Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Hitoshi Ishizawa, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 5844534
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a plurality of signal lines and scanning lines which are arranged so as to extend in directions orthogonal to each other and cross each other at cross portions, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively provided at the cross portions so as to form a matrix arrangement, and a plurality of thin film transistors respectively provided between the pixel electrodes and the signal lines and respectively having gates connected with the scanning lines, for functioning as switches for writing image signals which are supplied from the signal lines into the pixel electrodes, picture change detecting means for detecting a change between still and moving pictures in a direction of time-axis included in a display image, and gate signal change means for changing the number of interlaced scanning lines in accordance with a change component detected in the picture change detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Haruhiko Okumura, Hisao Fujiwara, Go Ito
  • Patent number: 5812845
    Abstract: A computer of a pipeline type is provided in which a processing of exchanging data stored in two data storing portions can be performed at a high speed by adding a comparatively simple circuit structure without increasing the operation processing time of an instruction executing portion. An exclusive-OR gate executes the exclusive-OR of the ordinary operation result (ALU operation result) on the E-stage stored in an operation result register and data stored in a bus register, and outputs the EXOR operation result to a selector. The selector outputs one of the EXOR operation result and the ALU operation result stored in the operation result register based on SWAP indication information stored in a register for SWAP instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirohisa Machida
  • Patent number: 5798588
    Abstract: In a vibrating motor, an eccentric weight is attached to one end of a rotation shaft that projects linearly from a motor housing. The vibrating motor causes the gravity center of the weight to rotate about the rotation shaft so as to produce a vibration. A disk-shaped anti-bending piece is provided on the rotation shaft coaxial with it. This anti-bending piece faces an anti-bending surface provided on some kind of supporting member when the housing is supported by the member, the piece being situated at a predetermined distance from this surface. If the shaft bends, the piece strikes the surface and the linear shape of the shaft is restored due to its own elasticity. Hence, even if the motor suffers an unexpected load, the rotation shaft does not buckle due to the weight of the eccentric weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Sayama Precision Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihide Okuyama, Masahiro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5721723
    Abstract: An optical disk drive which is a data recording device or a data reproducing device having two movable members. The first movable member has two objective lenses on it. A magnetic circuit is secured to the second movable member to apply a magnetic field to the tracking coil attached to the first movable member. The first and second movable members can rotate around a shaft. The first objective lens or the second objective lens is selected and used in accordance with the type of the disk used. The device can therefore record data on or reproduce data from disk of different types. Further, since the angle at which the second movable member is inclined to the shaft remains unchanged, the device can record data on or reproduce data from a disk, without causing coma-aberration or the like, no matter whether the first object lens or the second objective lens is selected and used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Uchimaru, Akihiro Kasahara, Koichi Nagai, Naomasa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5703610
    Abstract: A drive circuit for an image display device capable of permitting anode lead-out wires to be led out without using a three-dimensional wiring structure and an image free of color bleeding to be displayed. Two-divided first and second anode electrodes are arranged opposite to stripe-like gate electrodes and are alternately driven. During driving of the first anode electrodes, cathode electrodes are scanned and only gate electrodes opposite to the anode electrodes are fed with image data. Then, the second anode electrodes are driven and scanning is likewise carried out. Thus, an image for one frame is displayed. Electrodes arranged on both sides of each of the anode electrodes and gate electrodes in a manner to be adjacent thereto have a potential kept at a ground level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Futaba Denshi Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Takao Kishino, Koji Onodaka, Mitsuru Tanaka, Satoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5700860
    Abstract: A liquid crystal aligning agent, which contains (1) at least one polymer selected from a polyamic acid and an imidized polymer therefrom; (2) at least one first solvent selected from the group consisting of N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidones, lactones and 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinones; (3) at least one second solvent from (a) a phenyl ether solvent of the formula (I): ##STR1## and (b) an ester ether solvent of the formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 -R.sup.6, a, b and c are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michinori Nishikawa, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Shigeo Kawamura, Kyouyu Yasuda, Yasuaki Mutsuga, Yasuo Matsuki
  • Patent number: 5689919
    Abstract: A house 2 is isolated from the foundation 1 by a rolling bearing 3. A vibration control device 6 with a releasable rigid connector 5 is added in parallel to the rolling bearing 3. Further, a release controller 8 of the rigid connector 5 is connected to the output end of an earthquake detector 7 on the house 2, so as to release the rigid connector 5 in response to output signal from the earthquake detector 7. Thus, the building 2 normally stands without vibration against wind by rigid connection to the foundation 1 through the rigid connector 5. On the other hand, when earthquake occurs, the rigid connector 5 is released by the release controller 8 by the output from the earthquake detector 7, so as to control the vibration of the building 2 by a combination of the rolling bearing 3 and the vibration control device 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Kajima Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Yano
  • Patent number: 5683208
    Abstract: A material intended to form grounds, layers or sublayers of terrains or of carriageways.It contains an ungraded granulated material such as sand or pulverulent materials of industrial origin to which bundles of glass filaments are added in a proportion from 0.01 to 0.1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Orgel
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Fage, Claude Choudin, Jean-Baptiste Rieunier, Jean-Marc Letalenet
  • Patent number: 5586860
    Abstract: Turbo aero engine including a heating arrangement for the internal portions (12) of turbine disks on revving up so as to reduce the temperature gradient in the disks. Heating gas passes through pipes (11) integral with the stator and reheats the disks by passing through a gasket (13) designed with the tongues (18) and orifices (20 and 22) which allow the gas to circulate towards the zones to be heated when the revving up has firstly heated the portions of the machine close to the pipes (11) and then makes it possible to interrupt the communication when the temperatures even out and the original heat expansions become uniform and offset the orifices (20 and 23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation "Snecma"
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bertrand, Gilles A. Charier, Xavier J.A. Guyonnet, Jean-Louis Picard
  • Patent number: 5563049
    Abstract: 2',3'-Dideoxy purine nucleosides represented by following general formulae [I] and/or [II] ##STR1## (wherein X and Y indicate nitrogen atoms or carbon atoms and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 indicate each independently any of hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, amino group, alkyl group, halogen atom, alkoxy group and mercapto group) are produced by bioconversion with strains of E. coli, K. pneumoniae and E. herbicola.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kojima, Hidetoshi Yoshioka, Hidenori Fukinbara, Kunichika Murakami