Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Oliff & Berridge
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Patent number: 8335849Abstract: When acquisition processing of content information starts, a terminal apparatus executes acquisition permission determination processing of content information where permission probability is increased along with a lapse of time from starting of the acquisition processing of the content information for every predetermined period. When a result of the determination processing allows the acquisition of the content information, the terminal apparatus acquires the content information from another terminal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kentaro Ushiyama
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Patent number: 8333386Abstract: A seal structure for connection sections, which facilitates installation and removal of a seal member from the connection sections. The seal member is placed in the connection sections between a first part and a second part. A first groove-ridge section is formed at the connection section of the first part, and a second groove-ridge section is formed at the connection section of the second part. The seal member has, on one face, a first fitting section fitting to the first groove-ridge section, and also has, on the other face, a second fitting section fitting to the second groove-ridge section. Press-fitting interferences in the wall-thickness direction are provided at the first and second fitting sections. The seal member has an extended section protruding radially outward from an annular body section where the first and second fitting sections are provided. The extended section protrudes to a position outside the connection sections of the first and second parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: CKD CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Takeda, Fumihito Tsuchiya, Tetsuya Ishihara
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Patent number: 8335603Abstract: Upon the occurrence of the abnormality that the inverter for driving the motor is in the one-phase short circuited state, this inverter is stopped in the three-phase short circuited state and sets the execution torque by subtracting the counter electromotive force application torque that is applied the driveshaft due to the counter electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor and the steering angle application torque corresponding to the steering angle from the torque demand according to the step-on amount of the accelerator pedal. The engine and the inverter for driving the motor is controlled so that the vehicle is driven with the set execution torque. This enables the driving force output to the driveshaft from the engine and the motor to be in accordance with the torque demand.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noritake Mitsutani, Wataru Shiraishi
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Patent number: 8333563Abstract: Blade arrangements formed in a blisk configuration include a number of blades secured integrally or through welds or similar bonding to a rotor disc. The blades may be subject to vibration and it would be desirable to provide heat protection to junctions between the blades and the rotor. By providing insert elements between adjacent platform sections of a blade pair, vibrational damping as well as heat shielding and capability with regard to aerodynamic profiling is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLCInventor: Anthony G. Razzell
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Patent number: 8334009Abstract: An electrode producing method by an electrode producing apparatus has an inclining step of pressing a surface of a current collector sheet with projections extending outwardly from the surface, which is conveyed in a definite direction, to incline the projections in a direction opposite to the definite direction of the current collector sheet; and an applying step of applying a coating solution onto the current collector sheet, the projections of which have been inclined in the inclining step and which is conveyed in the definite direction, by a slit die. After the surface of the current collector sheet is pressed to incline the projections on the sheet surface in the opposite direction to the conveyance direction, the coating solution is applied onto the surface. Therefore, the coating solution can be uniformly applied onto the current collector sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Emoto, Katsuo Naoi, Kiyonori Hinoki, Masahiro Saegusa, Masayoshi Hirano
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Patent number: 8334215Abstract: A substrate can be appropriately oxidized, while oxidation of the substrate can be suppressed. The present invention includes a step of generating mixed plasma by causing a mixed gas of hydrogen (H2) gas and oxygen(O2) or oxygen/containing gas supplied to a processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the starting substrate by the mixed plasma; and a step of generating hydrogen plasma by causing hydrogen (H2) gas supplied to the processing chamber to form a plasma discharge, and processing the substrate by the hydrogen plasma.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.Inventors: Tatsushi Ueda, Tadashi Terasaki, Unryu Ogawa, Akito Hirano
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Patent number: 8334949Abstract: An optical recording display medium comprises: a display layer whose display changes according to an applied voltage; a photoconductive layer that is provided opposing the display layer and changes a voltage applied to the display layer according to irradiated light; and a selective transmission layer that is provided on a light path to where light irradiated toward the photoconductive layer arrives at the photoconductive layer, and whose transmissivity with respect to the irradiated light increases as an intensity of the irradiated light increases.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Morikawa, Hiroshi Arisawa, Haruo Harada, Chisato Urano, Yasunori Okano, Atsushi Hirano, Taijyu Gan
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Patent number: 8335041Abstract: A head mounted display includes a display unit, a concave mirror, an optical unit that is arranged between the display unit and the concave mirror, transmits a part of incident light from the display unit and reflects the other part of the incident light from the display unit, a first optical system that guides light reflected by the concave mirror to the left eye, and a second optical system that guides light reflected by the optical unit to the right eye. In the head mounted display, on the concave mirror, a right end is closer to the display unit in comparison with a left end. Further, the curvature of the concave mirror at the right end is larger than the curvature of the concave mirror at the left end.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takehiko Kubota
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Patent number: 8334112Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting and/or identifying Escherichia coli (E. coli) in a biological sample, that comprises inoculating the biological sample liable to contain E. coli on a detection medium that comprises tryptophan and a substrate for an enzyme A, expressed by the majority of E. coli, in order to obtain bacterial colonies; detecting the colonies expressing the activity of the enzyme A and identifying them as being E. coli; and detecting the colonies that do not express the activity of the enzyme A, carrying out an indole test, and identifying the colonies having a positive indole test as being E. coli.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: BiomerieuxInventors: Daniel Monget, Sylvain Orenga, John Perry, Michel Peyret, Celine Roger-Dalbert
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Patent number: 8335583Abstract: An embroidery data generating apparatus that generates embroidery data for an embroidery pattern includes a boundary line acquisition device that acquires boundary line data that is data that specifies a boundary line that surrounds a closed region, a unit area arrangement device that contiguously arranges first unit areas over the entire closed region, each of the first unit areas being a rectangular area that includes a unit line segment, a coverage rate computation device that computes a coverage rate that is a ratio of the closed region in each of the first unit areas, a determination device that determines whether a stitch will be formed on the unit line segment in each of the first unit areas, based on the coverage rate, and an embroidery data generating device that generates the embroidery data for the embroidery pattern that is formed by the cross-stitches.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomotaka Katano
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Patent number: 8334077Abstract: A fuel cell system capable of suppressing noise caused by backflow of air when a compressor stops. Also, there is provided a fuel cell vehicle provided with this fuel cell system. A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell and a compressor that compresses air taken in from outside and supplies compressed air to the fuel cell. Operation of the compressor is stopped after a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side of the compressor has become equal to or smaller than a predetermined value by using a control unit. In this case, the predetermined value can be a pressure difference corresponding to a predetermined noise level.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Kitamura
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Patent number: 8336096Abstract: An access control apparatus including a memory section that stores information; an authentication information memory section that stores at least first stored user authentication information and second stored user authentication information corresponding to a user; an input section in which first inputted user authentication information and second inputted user authentication information are inputted; a judgment section that judges whether the first inputted user authentication information matches the first stored user authentication information; a registration section that stores a second inputted authentication information in the authentication information memory section, if the judgment sections judges that the first inputted authentication information matches the first stored user authentication information; and an approval section that approves access to the information stored in the memory section for a predetermined time period if the judgment section judges that: (1) the first inputted authenticationType: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Atsushi Narusawa, Yasuhito Nagatomo, Masanori Morita, Nobutake Ishii, Mamoru Sakai
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Patent number: 8334360Abstract: A structured organic film comprising a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be a multi-segment thick structured organic film.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Matthew A. Heuft, Adrien Pierre Cote, Kathy L. De Jong
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Patent number: 8335052Abstract: A plasmon antenna of the present invention is used in a thermally assisted magnetic head that includes: a medium-facing surface set, parallel to an XY plane; a magnetic pole for writing, extending toward the medium-facing surface, and a plasmon antenna comprising a pair of small metal bodies irradiated with excitation light for near-field light generation propagating in a Z-axis direction. Respective corners of the small metal bodies are spaced apart opposite each other along a TE mode direction of the excitation light. A distance between the corners gives the shortest distance between the small metal bodies, and a distance from each corner to the leading end of the magnetic pole gives a shortest distance from the small metal bodies to the leading end.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Seiichi Takayama, Eiji Komura, Yasuhiro Ito, Kosuke Tanaka, Koji Shimazawa
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Patent number: 8335584Abstract: An embroidery data generating apparatus includes a thread color acquisition device that acquires available thread colors for an embroidery pattern, a line segment data generating device that generates line segment data, a dividing device that divides a whole area of an image into divided areas, a determining device that determines a representative color for each of the divided areas, an area thread color allocating device that allocates to the divided area at least one area thread color satisfying a predetermined condition, an associating device that associates the line segment data and the divided area, an embroidery thread color allocating device that allocates, from among the at least one area thread color, an embroidery thread color to each piece of the line segment data, a connecting line segment data generating device that generates connecting line segment data, and an embroidery data generating device that generates embroidery data.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenji Yamada
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Patent number: 8333425Abstract: A vehicle front structure related to the invention includes a front side member having a kick section extending obliquely downward toward the rear, a member front half section, and a member rear half section. A sub-frame juxtaposed below the front side member abuts on the member rear half section. A rear end portion of the sub-frame is formed with a first inclination portion which extends obliquely downward toward the rear and abuts on the front side member. The front side member 1 is formed with a second inclination portion which abuts on the first inclination portion. The first inclination portion is held so as to be movable relative to the second inclination portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Yoshida
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Patent number: 8334817Abstract: An image display system includes a data processing device and an image display device. The data processing device includes a display item detection unit that detects display items running on a display screen, a display/non-display selection unit that selects whether or not to display the display items detected by the display item detection unit on the image display device. The image display device includes a display image data forming unit that forms display image data on the basis of the image data of the display items selected by the display/non-display selection unit to be displayed on the image display device among the image data received by a receiving unit, and an image display unit that displays an image on the basis of the display image data formed by the display image data forming unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Toshiki Fujimori
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Patent number: 8333100Abstract: A press machine able to press-work a strip-shaped material during which it can prevent the strip-shaped material from moving or warping or can prevent the strip-shaped material from partially cracking and a processing method using that press machine. A multi-process press machine provided with a drive source M, a camshaft 1 driven by the drive source M and having a plurality of independent first cams 1a, 1b, and 1c and second cams 1h, 1i, and 1j, a plurality of die sets each comprised of a pair of a punch 2 and a die 3 connected with the first cam, a material holding member 7 pressing the strip-shaped material W against the die 3 when connecting with and pressing the second cam, and a base 5 supporting the dies.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kengo Takeshita, Takeshi Kurosawa, Nobuyuki Morikawa
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Patent number: 8333132Abstract: A cutting edge portion intermediate form that is a pre-sintered body of the cutting edge portion and a supporting portion intermediate form that is a fully sintered body of the supporting portion are manufactured separately. Full sintering is then performed where front end portion of the supporting portion intermediate form is inserted into an insertion hole of the cutting edge portion intermediate form. During sintering, cobalt particles in powdered materials are converted into a liquid phase, and contracting occurs. Because the supporting portion intermediate form has already been fully sintered, only the cutting edge portion intermediate form contracts. The front end portion of the supporting portion intermediate form is squeezed by the cutting edge portion intermediate form. The carbide tip is therefore created in which the cutting edge portion and the supporting portion are strongly bonded.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Youichiroh Shimoda, Mikio Fukuda
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Patent number: 8335460Abstract: A tubular body 101 includes a layer containing a resin and conductive particles 112, the layer having a first region 111C that is free of conductive particles and lies at the outermost surface, and a second region 111B that has higher conductivity than other regions and lies closer to the innermost surface than the first region. A coating film of a coating liquid containing the conductive particles and resin material is dried, and then an eluting solvent for eluting the resin material from the film is applied thereto. As a result of this, the conductive particles are localized in the coating film at the side coated with the eluting solvent. Thereafter, upon drying the eluting solvent, the resin material dissolved in the eluting solvent deposits on the region where the conductive particles are localized, whereby a particle-free resin region free of the conductive particles is formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., LtdInventors: Nobuyuki Ichizawa, Masato Ono, Tomoko Suzuki