Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Oliff & Berridge
  • Patent number: 8339030
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an effective display region including a pixel, the pixel including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a wiring line connected to the second electrode at a position to the periphery of the effective display region, the wiring line including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer that are electrically connected to each other and that overlap each other, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer both extending in a direction in which an edge of the effective display region extends, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer extending in the direction a distance that is longer than a distance in which the edge of the effective display region extends in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Nakanishi, Masahiro Furusawa, Mitsuru Kuribayashi, Toshimitsu Hirai
  • Patent number: 8337552
    Abstract: An intraocular lens adapted for deployment within a lens capsule. At least part of a lens surface of the intraocular lens constitutes a cell inducing region in which are directly formed a multitude of microgrooves. The microgrooves take a form of minute linear grooves and lands of depth dimension between 0.01 and 1.0 ?m and width dimension between 0.1 and 2.0 ?m extending with prescribed length in a circumferential direction on the lens surface. The minute linear grooves and lands are formed with a chained pattern connected in the circumferential direction of the lens surface and with a periodic pattern arrayed periodically in a diametrical direction so that the minute linear grooves and lands are formed without intervening spaces throughout the entire cell inducing region and impart visible light transmittance of 60% or above to the cell inducing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Kowa Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Katsunori Yamada, Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8336755
    Abstract: A weld enclosure and welding apparatus including a weld enclosure. Also a method of welding. The apparatus has first and second opposed tooling faces adapted to receive and hold respective first and second weld elements. The weld enclosure comprises a housing that allows relative movement between the weld elements and a change in a physical dimension of at least one of the weld elements. The weld enclosure also comprises locating means for locating the housing relative to the welding apparatus and includes heating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce, PLC
    Inventors: Simon E. Bray, Tony J. Sweeting
  • Patent number: 8338890
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of external terminals; a plurality of semiconductor substrates that are layered; a through electrode penetrating through at least one of the semiconductor substrates and electrically connected with any of the external terminals; and a plurality of electrostatic discharge protection circuits provided on any one of the semiconductor substrates. In the device, the through electrode is electrically connected with the plurality of electrostatic discharge protection circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Saiki, Shinya Sato, Hiroyuki Takamiya
  • Patent number: 8337747
    Abstract: In a process for manufacturing composite sintered machine components, the composite sintered machine component has an approximately cylindrical inner member and an approximately disk-shaped outer member, the inner member has pillars arranged in a circumferential direction at equal intervals and a center shaft hole surrounded by the pillars, and the outer member has holes corresponding to the pillars of the inner member and a center shaft hole corresponding to the center shaft hole of the inner member. The process comprises compacting the inner member and the outer member individually using an iron-based alloy powder or an iron-based mixed powder so as to obtain compacts of the inner member and the outer member, tightly fitting the pillars of the inner member into the holes of the outer member, and sintering the inner member and the outer member while maintaining the above condition so as to bond them together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Imazato, Koichiro Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8339500
    Abstract: A video sharing system, accumulating various videos and enabling a plurality of users to utilize these accumulated videos, includes a plurality of cameras that photograph any one of a plurality of photographic subjects present within a facility, a video collection unit that collects photographed videos photographed by the plurality of cameras, a photographic subject identification unit that identifies the photographic subjects in the photographed videos, for each photographed video; and an accumulation unit that accumulates the photographed videos collected by the video collection unit, and photographic subject information specifying the photographic subjects identified by the photographic subject identification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Hattori, Junko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8340850
    Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle in which a fixed speed change mode can be realized by the locking of a rotational element, the mislocking of the rotational element is prevented. A hybrid drive apparatus which has an engine, a MG1 and a MG2 and which functions as a power unit of a hybrid vehicle is provided with a brake mechanism of a cam-lock type which can control the MG1 in a lock state and a non-lock state by changing the state of a sun gear between the lock state and the non-lock state. In mislocking prevention control, an ECU calculates MG1 angular acceleration D?g, which is the absolute value of angular acceleration of the motor generator MG1, on the basis of a MG1 rotational speed Ngm1 and judges that the sun gear S1 is in a mislocking state if the MG1 angular acceleration D?g is greater than a criterion value D?gth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Muta, Hiroyuki Ogura, Naofumi Magarida
  • Patent number: 8337867
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a new metal lactate powdery product and to the resulting product itself with new properties. The metal lactate powder of the present invention is made via spray-drying and has a higher flowability, is less sticky and dusty, has an improved dissolution rate and is very suited for tabletting purposes. The invention is also directed to product applications in which said spray-dried metal lactate product may be applied, wherein the metal is selected from zinc and magnesium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Purac Biochem B.V.
    Inventors: Marcus J. A. W. Vorage, Martijn Janissen
  • Patent number: 8339352
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth circuit blocks (N is an integer of two or more) disposed along the long side of the integrated circuit device. One circuit block of the first to Nth circuit blocks is a logic circuit block, and another circuit block of the first to Nth circuit blocks is a programmable ROM of which at least part of data stored therein can be programmed by a user. The logic circuit block and the programmable ROM block are adjacently disposed along a first direction. At least part of information stored in the programmable ROM block is supplied to the logic circuit block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kanji Natori, Takashi Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8338277
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an SOI substrate including at least: an oxygen ion implantation step of ion-implanting oxygen ions from one main surface of a single-crystal silicon substrate to form an oxygen ion implanted layer; and a heat treatment step of performing a heat treatment with respect to the single-crystal silicon substrate having the oxygen ion implanted layer formed therein to change the oxygen ion implanted layer into a buried oxide film layer, wherein acceleration energy for the oxygen ion implantation is previously determined from a thickness of the buried oxide film layer to be obtained, and the oxygen ion implantation step is carried out with the determined acceleration energy to manufacture the SOI substrate. Thereby, it is possible to provide an SOI substrate manufacturing method that enables efficiently manufacturing an SOI substrate having a continuous and uniform thin buried oxide film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takeno, Tohru Ishizuka, Nobuhiko Noto
  • Patent number: 8337616
    Abstract: A single-crystal manufacturing apparatus comprises a chamber, a crucible in the chamber, a heater arranged around the crucible, a lifting mechanism for lifting a seed crystal, and a guide passage for the seed crystal and a grown single crystal. In the single-crystal manufacturing apparatus, a material polycrystal contained the crucible is melted by a heater, and the seed crystal is made to contact the molten polycrystal and is lifted. The single-crystal manufacturing apparatus comprises a cylindrical quartz tube having a curved bottom portion, and a dome-shaped quartz plate. The curved bottom portion faces the crucible from the upper portion of the chamber through the guide passage. The quartz plate is arranged to enclose the quartz tube. The quartz tube has a reflecting structure for reflecting a heat ray from at least its bottom portion whereas the quartz plate has a reflecting structure for reflecting the heat ray to the crucible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Abe
  • Patent number: 8337467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety device (1) for a syringe (2), the device comprising a protective sheath (20) in which the syringe (2) can slide, said sheath (20) presenting an opening (36) at a distal portion (33), which opening is suitable for allowing the syringe (2) to project beyond the sheath (20). According to the invention, the sheath (20) presents radial resilience at its distal portion (33) suitable for enabling the sheath (20) to receive a cylinder (3, 19) of diameter greater than that of said opening (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Rexam Healthcare La Verpilliere
    Inventors: Thierry Rimlinger, Michel Pouget, Philippe Dodier
  • Patent number: 8339076
    Abstract: An electric motor drive control apparatus includes a detection angle obtaining section that obtains the detection angle of the resolver; a correction information storage section that stores correction information for correcting the detection angle, in association with a modulation ratio that is a ratio of an effective value of a fundamental wave component of the AC voltage to the system voltage; and a detection angle correcting section that obtains the correction information from the correction information storage section, based on the modulation ratio at the time the detection angle obtaining section obtains the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Aoki, Subrata Saha
  • Patent number: 8337452
    Abstract: A fluid injection device includes: a pulse generation section that includes a fluid chamber whose volume is changeable, and an inlet flow passage and an outlet flow passage that are connected to the fluid chamber; a first connection flow passage connected to the outlet flow passage, having an end portion; a second connection flow passage connected to the inlet flow passage; a fluid injection opening formed at the end portion of the first connection flow passage, having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the outlet flow passage; a connection flow passage tube including the first connection flow passage and having rigidity adequate to transmit pulses of fluid flowing from the fluid chamber to the fluid injection opening; and a pressure generation section that supplies fluid to the inlet flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Takeshi Seto, Kazuo Kawasumi, Kazuyoshi Takayama, Seyed Hamid Reza Hosseini
  • Patent number: 8339614
    Abstract: A method of measuring shot shape includes sequentially exposing a substrate with main scale marks (32) in compliance with a predetermined map, and forming a reference grid including a plurality of the main scale marks (32) arranged in the predetermined map in at least one shot region, exposing a shot for measuring, via a projection optical system, that includes a plurality of auxiliary scale marks (34) arranged in the predetermined map in the shot region, measuring a relative positional relationship between adjacent main scale marks (32), measuring an amount of deviation between the main scale marks (32) and the auxiliary scale marks (34), and correcting the reference grid based on the relative positional relationship, and calculating a shot shape of the shot for measuring based on the corrected reference grid and the amount of deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Shinjiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8336296
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology that enables reduction of NOx stored in an NOx catalyst with improved efficiency in an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine. According to the present invention, when NOx stored in the NOx catalyst is to be reduced, if the temperature of the NOx catalyst is lower than a specific temperature, the air-fuel ratio of the ambient atmosphere around the NOx catalyst is decreased only by decreasing the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, and if the temperature of the NOx catalyst is not lower than the specific temperature, the air-fuel ratio of the ambient atmosphere around the NOx catalyst is decreased either only by adding reducing agent through reducing agent addition means, or by decreasing the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine and adding reducing agent through the reducing agent addition means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Nakatani, Terutoshi Tomoda, Shinobu Ishiyama, Tomoyuki Ono, Tomoyuki Kogo, Katsuhiro Ito, Masayoshi Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Hisataka
  • Patent number: 8337714
    Abstract: The present invention provides ferrite powders for bonded magnet capable of suppressing increase of SFD, while widening a particle size distribution for obtaining flowability and compressed density, and also capable of suppressing deterioration of orientation and magnetizability, and provides a process for a production magnetoplumbite-type ferrite powders containing an oxide of at least one or more kinds of transition metals selected from a group consisting of Zr, Ti, Zn, Co, Mn, and Ni, having a mean particle size of 0.20 ?m or more and less than 5.00 ?m, being the ferrite powders for bonded magnet with the ratio of particles having particle size of 1 ?m or less being 20 mass % or more in the magnetoplumbite-type ferrite powder size distribution obtained by a laser diffraction type particle size distribution analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Dowa F-Tec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Nakaue, Shinichi Suenaga, Masahiro Kojima, Hiroya Ikeda, Satoru Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 8338108
    Abstract: A novel pharmaceutical application of an extract from a vaccine virus-inoculated and inflamed tissue and relates to a thioredoxin production promoting agent containing the extract as an active ingredient. The extract has an excellent thioredoxin production promoting action against an oxidative stress caused by a stimulus by such as a tobacco smoke extract or hydrogen peroxide and showed a significant lung cell protective effect. Therefore, the pharmaceutical of the invention containing the extract as an active ingredient is highly useful as a preventive or therapeutic agent for a chronic obstructive lung disease considered to be mainly caused by a continuous oxidative stress such as chronic smoking and the pharmaceutical with less side effects and high safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Kyoto University, Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakamura, Junji Yodoi, Yuma Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8339509
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to enable reliable supply of oxygen which is necessary for a fuel cell to generate electric power, to the fuel cell. In a bottom surface of a casing of a camera, a tripod socket for mounting a tripod is disposed in the vicinity of the right end portion, and air orifices for linking the space inside a cell compartment for accommodating a fuel cell with the outside of the casing is disposed in the vicinity of the left end portion, respectively. As a result, even when the tripod is connected to the camera, the air orifices are not closed by the pan head of the tripod, oxygen (air) can be constantly supplied to the fuel cell accommodated inside the cell compartment, and the fuel cell can continuously generate a sufficient quantity of electricity. The present invention can be employed in a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Nishzawa, Takayuki Shirotani
  • Patent number: D673202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Takizawa