Patents Represented by Attorney Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
  • Patent number: 8348354
    Abstract: A vehicle braking system including an input piston and a pressure piston that are moveably supported within a cylinder. The input piston is allowed to depress the pressure piston and is connected to the a brake pedal. Pressure chambers to the front and to the rear of the input piston are communicated through a communication passage such that the control hydraulic pressure in accordance with the operation amount to the brake pedal is applied to the second pressure chamber via first and second linear valves. The control hydraulic pressure in accordance with the operation amount to the brake pedal that has been transmitted to the pressure piston through the input piston is regulated by a pressure regulating valve so as to be applied to the second pressure chamber. The braking hydraulic pressure may be output from the pressure chambers, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Isono, Yasuji Mizutani
  • 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: 8347656
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: an introducer to introduce a glass optical fiber that has passed a pulling mechanism pulling, to draw the glass optical fiber, one end of an optical fiber preform that has been fused by heating; a shredder including a casing connected to the introducer and a shredding mechanism to shred the glass optical fiber introduced by the introducer in the casing into glass optical-fiber pieces; a pipe connected to the casing of the shredder and to carry the glass optical-fiber pieces; and a suction unit connected to the pipe and to suction the glass optical-fiber pieces via the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Aoki, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Kiyoshi Arima, Hirokazu Sato, Yoshiharu Taga, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8351447
    Abstract: A data communication system includes a portable electronic apparatus, a server apparatus, a cradle apparatus, and a home apparatus. The portable electronic apparatus includes a communication section, a reception control section, a storage section, and a utilization control section. The cradle apparatus includes a first communication section, a second communication section, a connection detection section, a notification control section, and a relaying control section. The server apparatus includes a first communication section, a second communication section, a first transmission control section, and a relaying control section. The home apparatus includes a communication section, a preparation section, and a transmission control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Habuto, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Nobuki Furue
  • Patent number: 8350160
    Abstract: A structure includes a conductive film (12) provided in an underlying layer (10); and a carbon nanotube bundle (20) including a plurality of carbon nanotubes each having one end connected to the conductive film (12), wherein, at other end side of the carbon nanotube bundle (20), at least carbon nanotubes allocated at outer side of the carbon nanotube bundle (20) extend with convex curvatures toward the outside of the carbon nanotube bundle (20), and the convex curvatures of the carbon nanotubes allocated at the outer side of the carbon nanotube bundle are larger than those of inner side of the carbon nanotube bundle (20), and diameters of the carbon nanotube bundle (20) decrease toward the other end of the carbon nanotube bundle (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Sakai, Naoshi Sakuma, Masayuki Katagiri, Mariko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8350929
    Abstract: When picked up images picked up by an image pickup apparatus are accessed, the contents of the picked up images are grasped readily. A dynamic picture storage section 200 stores image data produced by an image pickup section 110. A metadata storage section 210 stores transformation information regarding a first picked up image and a second picked up image. An image memory 180 retains images as history images. An image transformation section 150 transforms the second picked up image based on the transformation information. An image synthesis section 170 synthesizes the transformed second picked up image with the history images to form a synthesized image. An operation acceptance section 160 accepts a designation operation which designates a display magnification of the second picked up image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 8347995
    Abstract: A motor vehicle including a structure including a bottom and which bears a motor powered by a removable power supply battery, the structure further including an element for receiving the battery and an attachment mechanism for attaching the battery onto the receiving element. The receiving element and the attachment mechanism are adapted to enable installation of the battery in the receiving element from the underside of the structure by an upward movement towards the structure, and removal of the battery under the structure by a downward movement in a direction opposite to the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventor: Jose Fernandez-Mateo
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8350081
    Abstract: The invention relates to processes for production of methacrylic acid and to processes for production of methyl methacrylate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Evonik Roehm GmbH
    Inventor: Torsten Balduf
  • Patent number: 8349935
    Abstract: To obtain injection molded objects having biodegradability and excellent flame retardance and mechanical strength, the injection molded object includes a lactic acid based resin; and a metal hydroxide in a ratio of 5 to 40 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the lactic acid based resin. The metal hydroxide is surface-treated, and Na2O (w-Na2O) present on a surface of grains of the metal hydroxide is 0.1 mass % or less based on the total mass of the metal hydroxide. Preferably, the injection molded object contains an aliphatic polyester other than the lactic acid based resin or an aromatic-aliphatic polyester in a ratio of 20 to 80 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the lactic acid based resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Ohashi, Kazuya Tanaka, Yukio Kato, Jun Takagi, Shinichiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Mori, Yuko Fujihira
  • Patent number: 8349024
    Abstract: Provided is a hair treatment composition capable of imparting good manageability and excellent hair feel to the hair upon finishing permanent wave or hair dye treatment. The hair treatment composition has the following components (A) and (B): (A) a compound represented by the following formula (1): R1O—(PO)n(EO)m—R2 (1) wherein R1 represents a linear or branched C8-12 alkyl or alkenyl group, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, n represents an average addition mole number and is from 1.5 to 5.0, m represents an average addition mole number and is from 0 to 1.0, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and (B) at least one selected from keratin reducing agents, oxidizing agents, alkaline agents, and dyes for hair dye, wherein a content of an R1OH wherein R1 represents a linear or branched C8-12 alkyl or alkenyl group is 300 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Juri Sata, Tomoko Uchiyama, Yoshinori Tamura
  • Patent number: 8350331
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a body thick film transistor and a body thin film transistor having a different body film thickness are formed on the same SOI substrate (silicon support substrate, buried oxide film and silicon layer). The body film is formed to be relatively thick in the body thick film transistor, which has a recess structure where the level of the surface of the source/drain regions is lower than the level of the surface of the body region, and thus, the SOI film in the source/drain regions is formed to be as thin as the SOI film in the body thin film transistor. On the other hand, the entirety of the SOI film is formed to have a relatively thin film thickness in the body thin film transistor. In addition, the source/drain regions are formed to penetrate through the silicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Tsujiuchi, Toshiaki Iwamatsu, Shigeto Maegawa
  • 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
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    Patent number: 8348075
    Abstract: A cap which has a female screw in the inner peripheral surface and which is to be screwed on a port neck part of a container main body holding a predetermined liquid, wherein a plurality of ribs radially extending astride from an inner surface of a top surface part of the cap to an inner surface of a peripheral wall part and integrally projecting inwards are formed on a peripheral edge part of the inner surface part. A female screw is a screw in the form of two threads composed of spiral mated ridges of two threads, for example. The liquid held in the container main body is, for example, a chlorine-based bleach which contains a surface active agent and a sodium hypochlorite. The mated ridges each are 80 to 120 degrees in thread angle ? and 1 to 15% of a valley radius of the female screw in thread height H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Yashima, Takeshi Omi, Mitsuo Yamanoi
  • 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: 8349519
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a titanium electrode material which is low in cost and is excellent in electric conductivity, corrosion resistance and hydrogen absorption resistance, and a surface treatment method of a titanium electrode material. A titanium electrode material includes: on the surface of a titanium material including pure titanium or a titanium alloy, a titanium oxide layer having a thickness of 3 nm or more and 75 nm or less, and having an atomic concentration ratio of oxygen and titanium (O/Ti) at a site having the maximum oxygen concentration in the layer of 0.3 or more and 1.7 or less; and an alloy layer including at least one noble metal selected from Au, Pt, and Pd, and at least one non-noble metal selected from Zr, Nb, Ta, and Hf, having a content ratio of the noble metal and the non-noble metal of 35:65 to 95:5 by atomic ratio, and having a thickness of 2 nm or more, on the titanium oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Sato, Jun Suzuki, Yoshinori Ito, Jun Hisamoto
  • Patent number: 8350766
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna-embedded laminated glass including glass sheets affixed together through an intermediate film to embed an antenna element between the glass sheets, the intermediate film containing a resin; and the antenna element being configured to have such a shape as to have an intersection where a plurality of antenna-forming strips intersect, and the antenna element comprising a conductor strip stamped in such a shape from a sheet-like conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventor: Katsumi Hisaeda
  • Patent number: 8347495
    Abstract: End segments of cables are stripped of their individual shielding coverings so as to form unit shielding pigtails extending from a terminal portion of the strand from which shielding has not been removed and around which a conductive packing strip has been wound so as to reach a predetermined diameter. The pigtails are folded back and distributed uniformly around the circumference of the terminal portion of the strand in the successive turns of the packing strips. The packing strip is clamped by an annular reinforcing spring blade, and then the assembly is surrounded within two half-shells that are coupled to each other and connected to the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Labinal
    Inventors: Jean-luc Biesse, Sébastien Guerrero, Didier Laurent
  • Patent number: 8352170
    Abstract: A traveling apparatus is provided. The traveling apparatus includes: a driver configured to independently drive two wheels disposed in parallel; a chassis configured to connect the two wheels; a detector provided in the chassis configured to detect a posture angle of the chassis, rotating speed of the two wheels being set respectively based on information on the detected posture angle; and an empty vehicle controller configured to control a posture of a vehicle to stand the vehicle independently in a state of no rider on board. The empty vehicle controller limits or controls the posture angle at the start of the posture control of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Gousuke Nishikawa