Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
  • Patent number: 8350091
    Abstract: A potassium fluoride dispersion essentially consisting of potassium fluoride and an aprotic organic solvent having a boiling point higher than that of methanol, which is obtainable by mixing a mixture containing potassium fluoride and 5 to 50 parts by weight of methanol per 1 part by weight of potassium fluoride with the aprotic organic solvent followed by concentrating the obtained mixture, and a process for producing a fluorine-containing organic compound comprising contacting an organic compound having at least one group capable of being substituted nucleophilically with a fluorine atom with the potassium fluoride dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Koji Hagiya, Kazuaki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8349720
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a memory cell string having a plurality of memory cell transistors connected in series, a selection gate transistor connected in series with one end of the memory cell string, and having a gate electrode provided on a gate insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, and an element isolation insulating layer which is provided in the semiconductor substrate. The gate electrode includes a first gate electrode provided on the gate insulating film, a first and second insulating films provided on the first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode provided on the second insulating film and the element isolation insulating layer, and electrically connected to the first gate electrode. An first upper surface portion of the element isolation insulating layer below the second gate electrode is leveled with an upper surface of the first gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Mutsuo Morikado
  • Patent number: 8347493
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring board with a built-in electronic component including providing a first base material having a support body and a first metal foil detachably adhered on the support body, forming a connection terminal for mounting an electronic component on the first metal foil of the first base material by an additive method, mounting an electronic component to the connection terminal such that the electronic component is electrically connected to the connection terminal and mounted on the first base material, covering the electronic component with an insulative material structure having a hollow portion such that the electronic component is accommodated in the hollow portion of the insulative material structure after the mounting and detaching the support body from the first metal foil such that a substrate having the first base material and the insulative material structure is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Taniguchi, Toshiki Furutani, Takeshi Furusawa, Takashi Kariya
  • Patent number: 8347807
    Abstract: A dashboard indicator module including a rotating actuator including a hollow output shaft controlling movement of an indicator with a light conducting path, connected to a light source, diffusing a light at an angle, and a reduction gear set. The external diameter of the conducting path is between 2.6 and 5.5 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sonceboz SA
    Inventors: Daniel Sigg, Corinne Zuppigger-Lachat
  • Patent number: 8350892
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to convert an image input through a lens system into image data, a stitching unit configured to generate a panoramic image from a plurality of the image data items of images captured during a time period from when a panoramic image capture is started to when the panoramic image capture is ended, an imaging direction detecting unit configured to detect an imaging direction during the time period from when a panoramic image capture is started to when the panoramic image capture is ended, a clock unit configured to detect image capture time information regarding image capture times of the panoramic image, and a recording unit configured to record, in association with the panoramic image generated by the stitching unit, the image capture time information detected by the clock unit and the imaging direction detected by the imaging direction detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8351991
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, including a touch panel detecting a touch position; a vibration generation device configured to generate vibration; an assignment device configured to assign different vibration area patterns that define vibration areas generating the vibration on the touch panel, to a plurality of internal states, respectively; and a control device configured to activate, according to a current internal state, the vibration area pattern assigned to the internal state and to control the vibration generation device so as to generate the vibration while the vibration area is being touched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communication AB
    Inventor: Kozo Komiya
  • Patent number: 8351122
    Abstract: An illumination arrangement for a projection system is proposed including a light source device and a light collecting, integrating and redirecting device. The light source device comprises at least one solid state light source device. The light collecting, integrating and redirecting device comprises at least one light integrating device, which is adapted to directly receive and to integrate at least a part of primary illumination light generated by and emitted from at least one associated of at least one sold state light source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Juan Manuel Teijido, Frederic Ludley
  • Patent number: 8347938
    Abstract: According to the invention, a multilayer or insulating window pane (1) having at least two rigid panes (1P) and a spacer frame (1S) which connects these panes so as to form a tightly sealed intermediate space between the panes, and also an electrical component (3; for example motor, valve) which is arranged in the intermediate space between the panes, and also an associated electrical connection device is equipped with a detection device (4) for operating data of the component (3), which detection device cannot be manipulated from the outside but can be at least indirectly read off or read out. As a result, switch-on processes or times, maximum current consumption or operating temperature or the like, for example, can be detected and checked for servicing and/or monitoring purposes by reading out the operating data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Franz Schaumberger, Wolfgang Dirisamer
  • Patent number: 8349206
    Abstract: A process to lubricate a refrigerator preferably having a sliding portion which is made of an engineering plastic material, or provided thereon with an organic coating film or an inorganic coating film is provided. The process includes contacting sliding parts of the refrigerator with a refrigerating machine oil composition having a base oil containing a polyvinyl ether and/or a polyoxyalkylene glycol derivative as a main component and having a kinematic viscosity of 1 to 8 mm2/s as measured at 40° C. The refrigerating machine oil composition has a low viscosity, an improved energy saving performance, a good sealability and an excellent compatibility with a refrigerant and, therefore, the process can be suitably used in various refrigerating application fields, in particular, in closed-system refrigerators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masato Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8350562
    Abstract: A device including: an actuation unit that is a rotatable ring including a permanent magnet affixed to an inner periphery of the ring, wherein the ring is capable of assuming several predetermined angular positions and the permanent magnet moves with the ring; an integrally closed enclosure on which the actuation unit is mounted enabling adjustment of a parameter or operating mode of the device, wherein the ring surrounds the enclosure; one or more sensors that can be guided by magnetic effect according to an angular position of the ring, each sensor being capable of sending at least one signal corresponding to a modification of the parameter or of the operating mode of the device; and means for processing each signal and for changing the parameter or the operating mode of the device depending on each signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventor: Joel Gailledrat
  • Patent number: 8351528
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Athol Taylor, Samuel Asanbeng Atungsiri, John Nicholas Wilson
  • Patent number: 8350319
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate pad, a gate wiring conductor connected to the gate pad, and a gate electrode formed under the gate pad and the gate wiring conductor. Portions of the gate electrode closer to the gate pad have a higher resistance per unit area than portions of the gate electrode farther away from the gate pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Fujita, Khalid Hassan Hussein, Junichi Yamashita, Hisao Kondo
  • Patent number: 8352238
    Abstract: A method for integration of a GPS emulator in a simulation environment includes operating a computer adapted for using a simulation timer and configured to receive a signal of x_PPS type. For each pulse detected on the x_PPS signal, a counter is updated with a number of detected pulses and a value of the simulation timer is stored. A given simulation time moment is evaluated according to the detected and counted number of pulses, a current value of the simulation timer, and the stored value of the simulation timer. A related device and computer readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Patrice Casse
  • Patent number: 8348353
    Abstract: A brake control device that controls braking forces applied to wheels to stabilize the behavior of a vehicle turning a corner, and includes a turning condition detection unit detecting a turning condition of the vehicle; a braking amount setting unit setting braking amounts for the respective wheels based on the turning condition detected by the turning condition detection unit; a brake control unit applying braking forces to the wheels according to the braking amounts set by the braking amount setting unit; and a road surface friction coefficient estimation unit estimating a road surface friction coefficient of the road on which the vehicle is running. The braking amount setting unit changes upper limits of the braking amounts for the respective wheels according to the road surface friction coefficient when the vehicle is in a center differential lock mode or a direct four-wheel drive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamada, Yasushi Kobayashi, Tatsushi Takasu, Kota Shimoga
  • Patent number: 8353051
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus provided with an interface for a portable information recording medium, has an access control part carrying out access control, for respective ones of a plurality of resources which the image forming apparatus has, based on access control information defining whether or not usage thereof by a user is allowed, wherein the access control part carries out access control based on the access control information stored in the portable information recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Ohishi
  • Patent number: 8351764
    Abstract: A network system includes a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a network. The recording apparatus includes a record-scheduling-state storing section that stores data of a record scheduling state of a program and a record-scheduling-state providing section that transmits the data of the record scheduling state stored in the record-scheduling-state storing section through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8350976
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate and a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a direction normal to a surface of the substrates under a condition where no electrical voltage is supplied between a picture electrode and a counter electrode. An alignment control device is provided at the counter substrate and configured to control the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules under a condition where an electric field is applied between the picture electrode and the counter electrode. A scanning line crossing a pixel is divided into first and second segments. The array substrate includes a connecting element to connect the first and second segments opposite the alignment control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display Central Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Harada, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 8352650
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first unit having a first power switch for turning on/off a data processing part, a hard disk drive device, a power supply part and the electronic apparatus, a second unit that is separated from the first unit, is supplied with the power from the power supply part in the first unit, and has a drive device of a detachable recording media and a second power switch having the same function as that of the first power switch, and a cable for communicating data between the first unit and the second unit and supplying power from the power supply part of the first unit to the second unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Kurosu, Katsunori Kitaru, Takayuki Momose, Akira Inoue, Sumio Otsuka, Masazumi Kaino, Masao Araya, Norio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8349452
    Abstract: Microcapsules, comprising (A) in the range from 50 to 95 parts by weight, lipophilic core material which has a solid/liquid phase transition in the temperature range from ?20 to 120° C., (B) in the range from 4 to 50 parts by weight, capsule wall, and (C) in the range from 0.01 to 10 parts by weight, at least one colored or color-imparting substance selected from oil-soluble dyes and oil-soluble brighteners, where data in parts by weight are based on the total weight of the microcapsules in question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marc Rudolf Jung, Juergen Reichert
  • Patent number: 8348583
    Abstract: A loader is provided, which is disposed in a low cleanliness room along a border between the low cleanliness room and a high cleanliness room, for transporting a dust free article between an inside of a container receiving the dust free article and the high cleanliness room, comprising a movable stage for mounting the container; an opening portion through which the dust free article is transported between the container and the high cleanliness room; a door for opening and closing the opening portion; a unifying means for unifying a cover of the container and the door when the container approaches the door; and a driving apparatus for moving the cover and the door unified within the loader to open and close the opening portion and the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Rorze Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Fujii, Osamu Horita, Koji Ohyama, Toshiya Nakayama, Fumio Sakiya, Mineo Kinpara