Patents Represented by Attorney Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
  • Patent number: 8342565
    Abstract: In order to drastically reduce the effort and time required for the alignment adjustment over a conventional case to significantly alleviate the work burden, a cross member-integrated trunnion bracket 20 includes a cross member 16 coupling left and right frames and a pair of trunnion brackets 19 integrally formed on lower faces at opposite ends of the cross member 16 to open downward and outward in a vehicle width direction. The trunnion brackets 19 have bosses 18 for pivotally supporting trunnion shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hata
  • Patent number: 8345551
    Abstract: There is provided a transmission rate control method. In this method, data is transmitted to a receiver at the most recent transmission rate RSNDt?1, and an RTCP packet including a reception rate RRCVt of the data is received from the receiver. When a network is in a congestion state, or when the network is in a non-congestion state and the most recent reception achievement rate RARt?1 is higher than the reception rate RRCVt, a reception achievement rate RARt is calculated as a long-term EWMA of the reception rate RRCV. When the network is in the non-congestion state and the most recent reception achievement rate RARt?1 is lower than the reception rate RRCVt, or when a time-out of the RTCP packet occurs, the reception achievement rate RARt is calculated as a short-term EWMA of the reception rate RRCV. A transmission rate RSNDt is set based on the reception achievement rate RARt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kensaku Wakuda, Tomoya Oikawa
  • Patent number: 8344093
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficient continuous production of aliphatic polyester having good quality. The invention relates to a continuous production method of aliphatic polyester, wherein the polyester is obtained through a preparation step of slurry containing aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and aliphatic diol, an esterification reaction step and a polycondensation reaction step, wherein temperature range of the slurry during the preparation step thereof is from the coagulation point of the aliphatic diol to 80° C., and moisture content in the slurry is from 0.01 to 10% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Matsuzono, Toshiyuki Hamano, Hiromichi Matsui
  • Patent number: 8346034
    Abstract: An optical selector includes: an optical waveguide which includes a first light guide section having a first refractive index, a second light guide section having a second refractive index provided to the side of and along the entire circumference of the first light guide section, and a reflector provided at opposing positions on both surfaces of each of the first and second light guide sections while exposing the outer circumferential surface of the second light guide section; a single or plurality of LDs that are placed on the outer circumference of the optical waveguide, and emit light toward the first light guide section; and a single or plurality of photodetectors that are placed on the outer circumference of the optical waveguide, and receive light emitted from the outer circumference of the optical waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Hayakawa, Kazuo Haraoka, Masaaki Hattori, Naoki Kaneko, Tetsujiro Kondo, Hidehiko Sekizawa, Nozomu Ozaki, Seiji Wada, Toshiyuki Sekiya, Shinji Sangawa
  • Patent number: 8346062
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a modified data generating unit for generating modified data obtained by modifying content configuration data; a fix-up table generating unit for generating a fix-up table in which transformation data serving as an object to be replaced with the modified data is registered; and a data recording unit for recording content including the modified data and the fix-up table in an information recording medium; wherein the modified data generating unit is configured so as to execute data modification processing with the configuration units of MPEG encoded data included in a TS packet making up content as data modification processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Takashima
  • Patent number: 8346150
    Abstract: In a fixing device, an opposing member contacts a heating member to form a fixing nip between the heating member and the opposing member. A driver rotatively drives at least one of the heating member and the opposing member. A sheet supplier supplies and conveys a sheet to the fixing nip. A recording medium bearing an unfixed toner image is conveyed through a gap between the sheet and the opposing member at the fixing nip with a side of the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image facing the sheet. At least one of the rotating heating member and the rotating opposing member applies a driving force to the sheet supplied to the fixing nip while the sheet contacts the sheet supplier to apply tension to the sheet at a position upstream from the fixing nip in a sheet conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Inoue, Shuuichi Nakagawa, Hidekazu Shono
  • Patent number: 8342911
    Abstract: A wheel truing apparatus adapted for use in a cylindrical grinding machine wherein a work head with a work spindle for support of a workpiece and a wheel head with a grinding wheel for grinding the workpiece are mounted on a bed for relative movement in a Z-axis direction parallel with the rotation axis of the work spindle and in an X-axis direction crossing the Z-axis direction, characterized in that the wheel truing apparatus comprises a rotary drive portion mounted on the work head or a member united therewith, and a wheel truing tool supported on the rotary drive portion for rotation therewith, the wheel truing tool being provided at its outer periphery with a truing portion for truing a grinding surface of the wheel brought into contact therewith, wherein the rotary drive portion is placed in a position adjacent to said work head in a tooling area defined by a stroke of the relative movements of said wheel head and said work head in the Z-axis direction and apart from said work spindle radially outward a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morita, Tomoyuki Kasuga, Takafumi Furutate, Akira Makiuchi
  • Patent number: 8346149
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first member and a second member. The first member extends along a first longitudinal axis, and has a first elastic layer whose thickness varies along the first longitudinal axis to define at least one first convex portion and at least one first concave portion. The second member extends along a second longitudinal axis parallel to the first longitudinal axis, and has a second elastic layer whose thickness varies along the second longitudinal axis to define at least one second convex portion and at least one second concave portion. At least one of the first and second members is heated, and at least one of the first and second members is pressed against the other, with the first convex portion engaging the second concave portion and the first concave portion engaging the second convex portion, to define a fixing nip therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Fukuhata
  • Patent number: 8344442
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory fabrication method including forming a first insulating film and a floating gate electrode material on a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate insulating film and a floating gate electrode by etching the first insulating film and the floating gate electrode material, respectively, and forming a groove for an element isolation region by etching the semiconductor substrate; and forming an element region and the element isolation region by burying a second insulating film in the groove and planarizing the second insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yuji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8343052
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of measuring a three-dimensional motion of a biological tissue in a short time. An image processor creates volume data based on image data of a B-mode image of a biological tissue and creates image data of a series of tomographic images in time series for the respective two or more sectional positions based on the volume data. A controller displays one tomographic image for each sectional position on a display part. A user operates an operation part to designate a measurement image region on the displayed tomographic image. A displacement calculating part calculates a displacement in time series of the designated measurement image region for each sectional position. A motion information calculating part calculates motion information of the biological tissue based on the displacement of the measurement image region calculated for each sectional position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawagishi, Yasuhiko Abe
  • Patent number: 8343665
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a negative electrode active material includes a compound having a crystal structure of monoclinic titanium dioxide. The compound has a highest intensity peak detected by an X-ray powder diffractometry using a Cu-K? radiation source. The highest intensity peak is a peak of a (001) plane, (002) plane, or (003) plane. A half-width (2?) of the highest intensity peak falls within a range of 0.5 degree to 4 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Harada, Norio Takami, Hiroki Inagaki, Keigo Hoshina, Yuki Otani
  • Patent number: 8343623
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gas-barrier film laminate having at least two gas-barrier film layers laminated via an adhesive layer, wherein the gas-barrier film layer has a substrate film, and at least one constitutive unit layer comprising an anchor coat layer and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate film in that order, and wherein the number of the bubbles having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm and the impurities having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm existing between the gas-barrier film layers is at most 3 in total per 100 cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Matsui, Shigenobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8343691
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material which is not required to be subjected to pre-exposure treatment at the time of recording, attains high refractive index change, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, durability, low dimensional change, and high multiplicity, and is suitable for volume hologram recording. Also, the present invention provides a hologram recording medium. A hologram recording material comprising a matrix material having a softening temperature of 50° C. or higher, and a photopolymerizable monomer which is in a liquid phase state at room temperature. The matrix material is preferably contained in an amount of 50% by weight or more and 90% by weight or less of the whole of the hologram recording material. A softening temperature of the hologram recording material is preferably 0° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Mizushima, Jiro Yoshinari, Takuya Tsukagoshi, Hideaki Miura, Hideki Sunohara, Rie Ihara
  • Patent number: 8346801
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for video retrieval by providing a first audio video file, determining a first identifier of a first piece of music in the first audio video file, looking up for the first identifier first meta data in a music database, in which said first meta data are associated with said first identifier, providing second meta data of a second piece of music from the music database. The second piece of music is included in a second audio video file. Further the method is conducted by determining a similarity measure by comparing the first and second meta data, and providing the second audio video file or an identifier thereof depending on the similarity measure. Further embodiments relate to a server, a user device and a system and a computer program product for video retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wilhelm Hagg, Jana Eggink, Thomas Kemp, Franck Giron, Javier Alonso Garcia
  • Patent number: 8343664
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a positive-electrode material, which has high capacity and high output and is inhibited from suffering a decrease in output with repetitions of charge and use. The invention provides a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, which comprises a secondary particle of a lithium/transition metal composite oxide containing boron and/or bismuth, and wherein the atomic ratio of the sum of boron and bismuth to the sum of the metallic elements other than lithium, boron, and bismuth in a surface part of the secondary particle is from 5 times to 70 times the atomic ratio in the whole secondary particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Koji Shima
  • Patent number: 8344441
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor substrate; an element isolation insulator formed in an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate and dividing the upper portion into first and second active areas extending in a first direction; a first contact connected to the first active area; and a second contact connected to the second active area. Each of the first and second active area includes: a first portion connected to one of the first contact and the second contact; and a second portion having an upper surface being placed lower than an upper surface of the first portion. The first contact and the second contact are mutually shifted in the first direction. The first portion of the first active area is disposed adjacent to the second portion of the second active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kiyohito Nishihara
  • Patent number: 8343261
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a porous metal organic framework comprising at least a first organic compound and, if appropriate, a second organic compound, in which at least the first organic compound is at least partially coordinated in a bidentate fashion to at least one metal ion, where the at least one metal ion is Mg(II) and the first organic compound is derived from formic acid and the second organic compound is derived from acetic acid, for storing or isolating methane. Furthermore, the invention relates to a porous metal organic framework based on magnesium formate and acetate and also its preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Emi Leung, Ulrich Mueller, Gerhard Cox, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken
  • Patent number: 8345823
    Abstract: An X-ray image diagnosing apparatus has a radiating unit, a placement unit, a detecting unit, a supporting unit, a moving control unit, an obtaining unit, a calculating unit, and a frame rate control unit. The placement unit is placeable an object. The supporting unit supports the radiating unit and the detecting unit in opposing relationship across the placement unit. The moving control unit relatively moves the supporting unit and the object on a longwise direction of the placement unit so as to perform an X-ray imaging at different imaging positions along the longwise direction. The obtaining unit obtains X-ray image by performing the X-ray imaging. The calculating unit calculates blood-vessel data on the basis of the X-ray image and calculates a frame rate on the basis of the blood-vessel data. The frame rate control unit configured to change the frame rate on the X-ray imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuji Zaiki
  • Patent number: 8344321
    Abstract: An infrared imaging device according to an embodiment includes: an imaging area formed on a semiconductor substrate, the imaging area having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, the plurality of pixels including a plurality of reference pixels arranged in at least one row and a plurality of infrared detection pixels arranged in remaining rows to detect incident infrared rays, each of the reference pixels having a first thermoelectric conversion element, each of the infrared detection pixel having a thermoelectric conversion unit, the thermoelectric conversion unit having an infrared absorption film to absorb the incident infrared rays and convert the incident infrared rays to heat and a second thermoelectric conversion element to convert the heat obtained by the conversion conducted by the infrared absorption film to an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroto Honda, Hideyuki Funaki
  • Patent number: D673499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Hirakawa