Patents Represented by Attorney Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

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  • Device and method for treatment with magnetic fields
    Patent number: 7857747
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for treatment with magnetic fields, which provides an easily transportable and storable device for the treatment with magnetic fields, which is also convenient for patients and in particular is economical to produce. The device comprises: a first device for generation of a first magnetic field, a second device for generation of a second magnetic field and a support with an upper side and a lower side, whereby the support is embodied for applying the treated body regions of the patient thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Inventor: Axel Muntermann
  • Housing for inductive coupler for power line communications
    Patent number: 7859378
    Abstract: There is provided an inductive coupler. The inductive coupler includes (a) a housing having an aperture that extends lengthwise through the housing, a gap that extends lengthwise along a side of the housing, and a flexible region that enables the gap to be opened or closed, wherein the gap, when opened, permits the inductive coupler to be installed on a conductor by having the conductor routed through the aperture. The inductive coupler also includes (b) a magnetic core; and (c) a winding wound around a portion of the magnetic core. The magnetic core and the winding are secured to the housing such that a position of the magnetic core and a position of the winding are maintained relative to one another. The inductive coupler, when installed on the conductor, couples a signal between the conductor and the winding via the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Ambient Corporation
    Inventors: Erik S. Merck, Ram Das S. Rao, David Goldblatt, Kokou A. Amefia
  • Method and apparatus for positioning a feeder needle, and feeder
    Patent number: 7860588
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for positioning a feeder needle, and to a production line for optical components, in which a feeder needle of an apparatus for portioning fluid material, preferably softened glass, in particular of a needle feeder, has its position relative to a seat for the feeder needle recorded by means of a force-measuring device, and to further apparatuses which realize this method and to objects produced by the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Ralf Bonitz, Peter Duerolf
  • Vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 7854782
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum cleaner body, a cyclone unit which is mounted at the vacuum cleaner body, and separates dust from drawn air, a dust separating unit which is engaged with a lower end of the cyclone unit, said dust separating unit being configured to collect separated dust, said dust separating unit being detachable from the cyclone, and said dust separating unit comprising a compressing plate compressing the collected dust; and a driving unit which is disposed at a lower end of the dust separating unit, said driving unit being configured to ascend and descend the dust separating unit to be detachably connected to the cyclone unit and drives the compressing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang-Keun Oh, Seung-Yong Cha, Min-Ha Kim, Hyoun-Soo Kim, Hyun-Ju Lee
  • Exhaust gas throttle means
    Patent number: 7849684
    Abstract: An exhaust gas throttle means for motor vehicles comprises a housing in which an exhaust gas throttle is arranged. The exhaust gas throttle is connected with a throttle shaft which is supported in bearing elements. Inside the housing two stopper elements are provided which are arranged in recesses of the housing to be received in correct positional arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Pierburg GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Gerards, Tobias Wagner, Stephan Chassée
  • Eyeglass temple having an adjustable length and eyeglasses including the eyeglass temple
    Patent number: 7845793
    Abstract: An eyeglass temple includes a temple body, an insert, and a fixing component. The temple body has a groove-forming portion, and a branch portion connected to a rear portion of the groove-forming portion. The groove-forming portion has a sleeving wall defining a sleeving space extending in a lengthwise direction of the temple body. The sleeving wall has a hole communicating with the sleeving space. The insert has an arm portion inserted into the sleeving space and movable back and forth therein, and a hinge portion connected to a front portion of the arm portion. The arm portion has an adjusting hole. The adjusting hole has at least two positioning hole portions spaced apart from each other in a lengthwise direction of the arm portion, and a reduced hole portion disposed between and interconnecting the positioning hole portions. The fixing component includes a pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Inventor: Tsung-Meng Tsai
  • Dust collecting unit for vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 7836546
    Abstract: A dust-collecting unit for a vacuum cleaner is provided which detachably connected with a cleaner body of the vacuum cleaner. The dust-collecting unit includes a dust receptacle which is disposed under a dust separator disposed in the cleaner body, for collecting dust separated from air by the dust separator and dropping down from the dust separator, a dust receptacle ascending/descending part which is disposed under the dust receptacle and is pivoted in a direction or a reverse direction to ascend or descend the dust receptacle and to press-lock or unlock the dust receptacle to or from the dust separator, and a handle which extends from one side of the dust receptacle ascending/descending part along a lengthwise direction of the dust receptacle and has a gap with respect to a circumferential surface of the dust receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangiu Electronics co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-hun Yoo, Myoung-sun Choung
  • Centrifuge with removable core for scalable centrifugation
    Patent number: 7837609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a centrifuge apparatus. The centrifuge apparatus is operable at certain predetermined parameters depending upon a product to be separated and is useable with a plurality of rotor assemblies. For example, a first rotor assembly of said plurality of rotor assemblies includes a first core having a first core configuration which is contained within a rotor housing of the first rotor assembly to define a first volume capacity such that the product passing through the first rotor assembly having the first volume capacity during rotation of the first rotor assembly in the centrifuge apparatus achieves a first particle separation of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Alfa Wassermann, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Patricia Meriño, Steven J. Dalessio, Robin Roy Louis Rudy Otten
  • Satellite radio navigation receiver
    Patent number: 7839314
    Abstract: In a satellite radio navigation receiver receiving a transmitted radio navigation signal, a method of removing I/Q-mismatches in the received signal, comprising: resolving the received signal into I and Q signal component, and providing them as inputs to a demixing stage which removes unwanted signals, the demixing stage including first and second cross-coupled adaptive filters, whose coefficients are updated by the outputs of the demixing stage, the outputs of the demixing stage representing an IQ mismatch corrected signal. The coefficients are updated only by the polarity values of the outputs, resulting in great simplification. The receiver may be a zero-IF or low-IF receiver, and may operate on time domain or frequency domain signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: University of Westminster
    Inventors: Ediz Cetin, Izzet Kale, Richard Charles Spicer Morling, Andrew Graham Dempster
  • Brassiere
    Patent number: 7833082
    Abstract: A brassiere has two cups of fabric connected to each other and two side bands, which extend from the cups and are suitable for connecting to each other. Reinforcing portion has at least one layer of chemical material suitable for being applied along at least an edge portion of the cups and for forming an integral part of the fabric. The material has a polyurethane mix or a silicone mix. The layer is applied at least along a side portion of the edge of each cup which faces towards the respective band and extends with no break in continuity at least as far as the point of connection to a shoulder strap, wrapping around the respective cup at the side. Moreover, the layer is applied at least along a lower portion of the edge of each cup, wrapping around the respective cup at the bottom and at the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: DBA Lux 1 Sarl
    Inventor: Andrea Bugada
  • Drawing apparatus for displaying image data about a plurality of objects including semitransparent object and opaque object on computer display screen
    Patent number: 7834879
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus which can display image data about a plurality of objects including opaque objects and semitransparent objects, each having information about a depth direction, on a computer display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Komooka, Kazuhiko Hasegawa
  • Hot formed articles and method and apparatus for hot-forming
    Patent number: 7832234
    Abstract: A method of hot forming of at least a part of an article is provided. The article includes a material selected from the group consisting of transparent and semitransparent materials. The method includes semi-homogeneously heating at least a part of the article by radiation and forming the heated part of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Bernd Hoppe, Andreas Hirsch, Ulrich Fotheringham, Michael Weisser, Paulette Onorato, Edward Skowron, Vijay Shanbhag
  • Method for the butt joining of two textile pieces
    Patent number: 7828925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for flat edge-to-edge assembly of two portions of textile parts by means of a gluing ribbon overlapping the two edges. According to this process, before the gluing ribbon is put into place, two borders adjacent to the edges are glued onto each other, so as to hold the edges close to each other. The two glued borders are shorn close to where the two edges are fixed together, and the gluing ribbon (28) is applied overlapping the two edges that are brought together. The shorn glued borders, are flattened when applying the gluing ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: HBI Branded Apparel Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Maurice Perron, Philippe Nectoux, Pascal Roy
  • Method for fabricating electrical contact buttons
    Patent number: 7823278
    Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gareth G Hougham, Keith E Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul A Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter, Jr.
  • Signal reproducing method, magnetic head and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus
    Patent number: 7826160
    Abstract: A magnetic head, includes a magnetic oscillation element, the oscillation frequency of which is modulated by a medium magnetic field, and a reproducing device configured to detect a phase difference between the adjacent oscillation signals derived from the magnetic oscillation element and output a phase difference signal as a reproduced signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rie Sato, Koichi Mizushima
  • Carbothermic processes
    Patent number: 7824468
    Abstract: A carbothermic process for producing an aluminium carbide containing mass by injecting carbon and alumina into molten aluminium superheated above 1400° C. The carbon reacts with molten aluminium to produce an aluminium carbide and alumina mass. The mass can be heated in the range of 1700° C. to 2000° C. to produce aluminium metal and carbon monoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Thermical IP Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaghoub Sayad-Yaghoubi
  • Non-aqueous microelectronic cleaning compositions containing fructose
    Patent number: 7825078
    Abstract: Back end photoresist strippers and residue compositions are provided by non-aqueous compositions that are essentially non-corrosive toward copper as well as aluminum and that comprise a polar organic solvent, a hydroxylated amine, and as a corrosion inhibitor fructose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji Inaoka
  • Process for making contact with and housing integrated circuits
    Patent number: 7821106
    Abstract: A process for producing electrical contact connections for a component integrated in a substrate material is provided, the substrate material having a first surface region, and at least one terminal contact being arranged at least partially in the first surface region for each component, which is distinguished in particular by application of a covering to the first surface region and production of at least one contact passage which, in the substrate material, runs transversely with respect to the first surface region, in which process, in order to form at least one contact location in a second surface region which is to be provided, at least one electrical contact connection from the contact location to at least one of the terminal contacts is produced via the respective contact passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Florian Bieck, Jürgen Leib
  • Flat display panel having exhaust holes within display area
    Patent number: 7821205
    Abstract: A flat display panel comprising exhaust holes in a display region is provided. In the flat display panel, a front substrate comprising X and Y electrodes a rear substrate comprising an address electrode are sealed at a predetermined interval in parallel. Vacuum exhaust and gas discharge are performed on a space between the sealed substrates through the exhaust holes in the display area, thereby reducing a non-radiation area of the panel to less than 1 mm. As a result, the flat display panel is effective in formation of an indefinite extension multi-PDP because a seam between the panels is removed when a multi-PDP comprising a plurality of panels is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Orion PDP Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Keun Chu, Sang Yong Ahn
  • System and method for providing enhanced information
    Patent number: 7822757
    Abstract: A data integration method involves a unique method of collecting raw business data and processing it to produce highly useful and highly accurate information to enable business decisions. This process includes collecting global data, entity matching, applying an identification number, performing corporate linkage, and providing predictive indicators. These process steps work in series to filter and organize the raw business data and provide quality information to customers. In addition, the information is enhanced by quality assurance at each step in this process to ensure the high quality of the resulting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra L. Stoker, Ahmad Tariq Sharif, Michael E. Prevoznak, Christopher John Lucas, Charles R. Benke, Maria P. Seckler, Alan Duckworth