Patents Represented by Attorney Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
  • Patent number: 8348621
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vane (200) for an aircraft turbine engine receiver. The vane is a blade (14) having an aerodynamic shell (24) enveloping a principal hollow structure core (34) extending in the direction of wingspan of the blade. The vane further has a secondary structural assembly (34?) enveloped by the hollow core (34) and extending also in the direction of wingspan, as well as a first coating made of shock-absorbing material (50) arranged between a longeron (44) of the core (34) and the assembly (34?), and a second coating made of shocking-absorbing material (52) arranged between another longeron (38) of the core (34) and this same assembly (34?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Laurent Lafont
  • Patent number: 8351541
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus communicates data bits on a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processing apparatus comprises a parity interleaver operable to perform parity interleaving on Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoded data bits obtained by performing LDPC encoding according to a parity check matrix of an LDPC code including a parity matrix corresponding to parity bits of the LDPC code, the parity matrix having a stepwise structure, so that a parity bit of the LDPC encoded data bits is interleaved to a different parity bit position. A mapping unit maps the parity interleaved bits onto data symbols corresponding to modulation symbols of a modulation scheme of the OFDM sub-carrier signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mathew Paul Athol Taylor, Samuel Asanbeng Atungsiri, Takashi Yokokawa, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8351823
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member having a photosensitive layer and the surface including concave portions having a concave diameter of from 5 to 200 ?m, an irradiation device that irradiates the surface of the image bearing member with light to form a latent electrostatic image thereon, a development device that develops the latent electrostatic image with a development agent containing toner to obtain a visualized image, a transfer device that transfers the visualized image to a transfer medium, a first cleaning brush to which a bias is applied with a polarity reverse to that of the toner remaining on the surface of the image bearing member after the visualized image is transferred, and a second cleaning brush to which a bias is applied with the same polarity as that of the toner remaining on the surface of the image bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd
    Inventors: Shinji Nohsho, Mayumi Yoshihara, Mihoko Matsumoto, Yukio Fujiwara, Kohsuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8349455
    Abstract: Glass comprising, as represented by mole percentage based on the following oxides, from 50 to 75% of SiO2, from 1 to 15% of Al2O3, from 6 to 21% of Na2O, from 0 to 15% of K2O, from 0 to 15% of MgO, from 0 to 20% of CaO, from 0 to 21% of ?RO (wherein R is Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and/or Zn), from 0 to 5% of ZrO2, from 1.5 to 6% of Fe2O3, and from 0.1 to 1% of Co3O4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuki Kondo, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Makoto Sano, Kazutaka Hayashi, Shusaku Akiba
  • Patent number: 8347914
    Abstract: System for filling a tank comprising a pipe head and a fill pipe extending between the pipe head and the tank. The pipe head comprises a chamber with an inlet opening that connects to the atmosphere and an outlet opening that connects to the fill pipe and a stopper being movable between open and closed positions to open or close the access to the fill pipe, the head inlet and outlet openings being sized and arranged to allow introduction of a filling nozzle into the fill pipe through the pipe head when the stopper is in its open position. The fill pipe comprises or is preceded by a local restriction designed so that the cross section of the passage for the nozzle is substantially reduced to the outer diameter of the nozzle. A degassing connection links the fill pipe and the pipe head outside of its outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Inergy Automotive Systems Research (Société Anonyme)
    Inventors: Hervé Runarvot, Patrick Ganachaud, Mickaël Charrier
  • 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: 8352672
    Abstract: A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of data blocks each of which is a unit of data erase and has a plurality of pages, each of the pages being a unit of data write, and a controller which checks whether or not the nonvolatile memory has been affected by power interruption at power-on time and, if the nonvolatile memory has been affected by power interruption, writes data to that first page in a first data block which has not been affected by power interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takaya Suda
  • Patent number: 8351845
    Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
  • Patent number: 8351820
    Abstract: An electrophotographic imaging unit includes a photoconductor housing, a developer housing, and a support. The photoconductor housing is configured to rotatably support a photoconductor drum. The developer housing is configured to accommodate developer and a developer roller. The support is configured to rotatably support the developer roller at opposite ends thereof. The photoconductor housing and the developer housing are hinged together at one side, and movable relative to each other at another side to open and close the imaging unit to sandwiched the support between the photoconductor housing and the developer housing when the imaging unit is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shinichi Kato
  • Patent number: 8349022
    Abstract: A two-part hair dye composed of a first part containing an alkali agent, a second part containing hydrogen peroxide, and a non-aerosol foamer container for discharging a liquid mixture of the first part and the second part in the form of a foam, the liquid mixture containing the following components (A) and (B): (A) a polymer or copolymer containing 70% or more mole fraction of diallyldimethyl quaternary ammonium salt monomer, and (B) an N-acylamino acid salt, an N-acyl-N-alkylamino acid salt, or an ether carboxylic acid salt, wherein, an equivalent ratio of the anion site of the component (B) to the cation site of the component (A) (anion/cation) is more than 1, and a viscosity of the liquid mixture at 25° C. is 1 to 300 mPa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Iijima, Naohiro Ando, Takashi Matsuo, Yuko Nobuto
  • Patent number: 8349911
    Abstract: Production of a composition based on silanes for the scratch-resistant, hydrophobic, aqueous coating of metals, plastics, chemical products, ceramic materials, concrete and glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventor: Adolf Kuehnle
  • 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: 8349698
    Abstract: An integrated semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same includes leaving one part of a semiconductor layer so that an inclined surface is formed on a trench when forming the trench on a SOI wafer. A thick silicon oxide film (second insulation film) is formed along this incline surface. This thick silicon oxide film prevents oxygen entering a boundary surface between an insulation layer and the semiconductor layer of the SOI wafer within the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Aoki, Eiichi Kikkawa
  • 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: 8351470
    Abstract: A signal receiver including an input that receives a plurality of signals from a respective plurality of channels; a multiplexer unit that receives the plurality of signals from the input and that selects, in a time-division manner, one of the plurality of signals; and at least one phase difference detector that receives the selected signal from the multiplexer unit, a number of the at least one phase difference detectors being less than a number of the plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Awata, Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8349027
    Abstract: A process which enables a plastic lenses having a refractive index of 1.7 or greater and, in particular, plastic lenses having a refractive index of 1.7 to 1.8 to be dyed uniformly to a great density without unevenness, which is, specifically, a process for producing a dyed plastic lens which comprises conducting following steps (1), (2) and (3) in this order: Step (1): a step comprising coating a substrate at 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: HOYA Corporation
    Inventors: Misa Mishina, Takaaki Kubotera, Shinya Miyajima, Yoko Sakai, Shinichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8348468
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a light emitting device in which a semiconductor laser diode is used as a light source to emit visible light in a wide range. The light emitting device includes a semiconductor laser diode that emits a laser beam; and a luminescent component that is provided while separated from the semiconductor laser diode and absorbs the laser beam to emit the visible light. In the light emitting device, the luminescent component includes an optical path through which the laser beam is incident to a center portion of the luminescent component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasushi Hattori, Shinji Saito, Shinya Nunoue, Masaki Tohyama
  • Patent number: 8349283
    Abstract: A metal recovery apparatus recovers metal components from an exhaust gas exhausted from a processing chamber in which a thin film is formed on the surface of a target substrate by using a source gas formed of an organic metal compound serving as a source, and scrubs the exhaust gas. The metal recovery apparatus 66 includes a trap unit having an adsorption member for attaching thereon metal components included in the source gas by heating the exhaust gas and thus thermally decomposing an unreacted source gas included in the exhaust gas; and the scrubbing unit including a catalyzer for oxidizing and thus scrubbing harmful gas components included in the exhaust gas that has flowed through the trap unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Masamichi Hara, Atsushi Gomi, Tatsuo Hatano
  • Patent number: 8349134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing paper, board and cardboard of high dry strength by separately adding a polymer comprising vinylamine units and a polymeric anionic compound to a paper pulp, dewatering the pulp and drying the paper products, which comprises using as polymeric anionic compound at least one copolymer obtainable by copolymerizing (a) at least one N-vinylcarboxamide of the formula in which R1 and R2 are H or C1- to C6 alkyl, (b) at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising acid groups, and/or the alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salts thereof, and if appropriate (c) other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, and if appropriate (d) compounds having at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds in their molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Anton Esser, Hans-Joachim Haehnle, Martin Ruebenacker, Norbert Schall, Jacques Dupuis, Josef Neutzner, Manfred Niessner, Berthold Sturm
  • Patent number: 8349158
    Abstract: A method for pumping through an orifice of a first substrate, a first volume of liquid in contact with a first hydrophobic surface of said substrate, wherein a pressure variation between the first volume of liquid and a second volume of liquid, located in contact with said orifice and a second hydrophobic surface of said substrate, is achieved by electrowetting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Fabien Sauter-Starace, Jean Berthier