Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Oliffe & Berridge, PLC
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Patent number: 8336972Abstract: The displacement device serves to hold a separation element, which is pivotally connected to a bracket, which is held slideably by a first beam of a scissor assembly and firmly by a second beam of the scissor assembly with a scissor assembly bearing. The scissor assembly bearing comprises a profile body that is adapted to the bracket and can be connected thereto, which profile body comprises a profile part which is connected articulated to the first end element of an adjusting lever, of which the second end element is connected on the one hand pivotally with the second beam and on the other hand is held by an adjusting bolt, of which the threaded shank is rotatably mounted in a threaded channel of the profile body.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Martin Frei, Alfred Stutz, Rolf Heisig, Wladyslaw Wasilewski
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Patent number: 8339091Abstract: A communication apparatus for robots is provided. A controller and drivers controlling each joint are serially connected to a serial transmission line. A final driver positioned at the last stage, among the drivers, is connected to an I/O module connected to a driver of a hand. When control signals for each driver and the driver of the hand are serially transmitted from the controller to the serial transmission line, the driver connected to the I/O module receives a control signal for the driver itself and a control signal for the driver of the hand, among the serially transmitted control signals, and transmits the control signal for the driver of the hand to the I/O module.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Denso Wave IncorporatedInventor: Koji Kamiya
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Patent number: 8337262Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has a parallelogram-shaped opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes a pair of first opening edges that are parallel to each other and a pair of second opening edges that are parallel to each other and different from the first opening edges. The recesses are spaced in the extending direction of the first opening edges and are spaced in the extending direction of the second opening edges.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
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Patent number: 8337467Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Rexam Healthcare La VerpilliereInventors: Thierry Rimlinger, Michel Pouget, Philippe Dodier
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Patent number: 8339436Abstract: An exposure unit containment mechanism includes an exposure unit and a frame that defines a space into which the exposure unit is inserted, the exposure unit including: first protrusions protruding in left and right directions at a position spaced apart from a center of gravity of the exposure unit in a direction of insertion; and a second protrusion protruding in a downward direction, and the frame including: a guide member that contacts the first protrusions from above to limit upward movement of the first protrusions during insertion of the exposure unit; a first limiting member that limits movement of the second protrusion in left and right directions; a second limiting member that contacts the first protrusions from underneath to limit downward movement of the same; and a first pressing member that presses the first protrusions from above when the first protrusions are in contact with the second limiting member.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Junichi Morooka
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Patent number: 8336316Abstract: A noise reduction device, for example for use in a bleed assembly of a gas turbine engine, comprises partitions having apertures which provide contractions and sudden expansions of flow passing through the device, turbulators being provided between the partitions to break up jets issuing from the Apertures. Breaking up the jets before impact with the partitions enables the partitions to be disposed closer together, so enabling adequate noise reduction to be achieved in a device of relatively small thickness.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLCInventor: Stuart J. Kirby
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Patent number: 8339623Abstract: A paper document processing apparatus includes: a document image acceptance unit that accepts an image acquired; a document image recording unit that records a document image in a storage; an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information based on the document image; an acquisition result evaluation unit that evaluates whether an acquisition result of the acquired attribute information is affirmative or negative; a medium output unit that outputs information indicating a scan status of the paper document that is formed on a medium while specifying the document image for which the acquisition result of attribute information is evaluated negative; a medium acceptance unit that accepts the information formed on the medium; and an attribute information reacquisition unit that reacquires the attribute information of the document image by specifying the document image in accordance with the accepted information.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Katsuhiko Itonori, Daisuke Tatsumi, Yuya Konno
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Patent number: 8337323Abstract: A golf club head includes a striking face having a face center, a bottom portion, a top portion including an exterior surface, a hosel including an imaginary vertical hosel plane, a forwardmost point, and a rearwardmost point. In an imaginary vertical plane perpendicular to the hosel plane and passing through the face center, the exterior surface includes a path having a first point and a second point rearward of the first point. An imaginary infinite straight line passes through the first point and the second point, but does not penetrate the exterior surface. A segment of the imaginary straight line is delimited by the first point and the second point. A maximum distance between the segment and the exterior surface of the top portion is no greater than 0.70 mm and a distance between the first point and the second point is no less than 22 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: SRI Sports LimitedInventors: Jimmy H. Kuan, Samuel G. Lacey, Dan S. Nivanh, Nathaniel J. Radcliffe
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Patent number: 8339509Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Akio Nishzawa, Takayuki Shirotani
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Patent number: 8336755Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Rolls-Royce, PLCInventors: Simon E. Bray, Tony J. Sweeting
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Patent number: 8339500Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Yuko Hattori, Junko Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8336846Abstract: It is necessary to support and manipulate such bulky items as gas turbine engines through appropriate cradle arrangements. It is necessary to allow robust presentation of the gas turbine engine upon a base such that it can be lifted to a position whereby the engine can be rotated to adjust the configuration of the engine within an arrangement. Such manipulation may minimize height or width dependent upon requirements. By provision of lever assemblies comprising lever arms linked together through a pivot link and a cross link rotation by an actuator of one assembly gives consistent presentation of the locator elements defining a center of rotation for the engine. The arrangement can be locked in a lowered condition for transportation or lifted to allow rotation and re-orientation of the engine with regard to external protuberances to limit width or height.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLCInventors: Anthony Fernley, Richard J. R. Evans
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Patent number: 8339808Abstract: The switching power supply unit includes: a transformer having a primary winding and two secondary windings; and a rectifying-smoothing circuit having two rectifying elements, three choke coils and a capacitive element. A first rectifying element is between a junction of ends of the first secondary winding and the second choke coil, and one end of the capacitive element. A second rectifying element is between a junction of ends of the second secondary winding and the third choke coil, and the one end of the capacitive element. The other end of the first secondary winding and the other end of second secondary winding are connected to the one end of the first choke coil. The other end of the first choke coil, the other end of the second choke coil, and the other end of the third choke coil are connected to the other end of the capacitive element.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Wataru Nakahori
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Patent number: 8336294Abstract: An exhaust emission purifier able to suppress overheats of an exhaust emission purifying catalyst and execute fuel addition promptly when fuel addition to the exhaust emission purifying catalyst is requested is provided. In the exhaust emission purifier of an internal combustion engine including exhaust emission purifying catalyst of purifying exhaust emission of an internal combustion engine and a fuel addition valve of adding fuel from upstream of the exhaust emission purifying catalyst, cycles are repeated in order that the exhaust emission purifying catalyst is to be regulated at a target temperature, the cycle being a combination of an addition period during which fuel is added from the fuel addition valve and a halt period during which fuel addition is halted, and the fuel addition valve is manipulated such that the halt period is disposed so as to sandwich the addition period in the cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichiro Fukuda, Taro Aoyama
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Patent number: 8339766Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thin film capacitor, having: a base electrode; dielectric layers consecutively deposited on the base electrode; an internal electrode deposited between the dielectric layers; an upper electrode deposited opposite the base electrode with the dielectric layers and the internal electrode being interposed therebetween; and a cover layer deposited on the upper electrode, has depositing an upper electrode layer which is to be the upper electrode, and a cover film which is to be the cover layer on the unsintered dielectric film which is to be the dielectric layer, to fabricate a lamination component, and sintering the lamination component.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Yano, Yasunobu Oikawa
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Patent number: 8337452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Tohoku UniversityInventors: Takeshi Seto, Kazuo Kawasumi, Kazuyoshi Takayama, Seyed Hamid Reza Hosseini
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Patent number: 8339389Abstract: A method of driving an electro-optical device having scanning lines, data lines, a switching transistor and a pixel electrode. The device also has an electro-optical layer interposed between the pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The method includes: supplying a data signal alternate between a positive and a negative voltage to the pixel electrode. The positive voltage has a potential greater than a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode and the negative voltage is a potential lower than the counter electrode potential; setting the counter electrode potential to reduce a flicker; supplying a first voltage that is either the positive or negative voltage to the pixel electrode in a first period; the other voltage to the pixel electrode in a second period. A ratio of the first period to the second period is variable.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Takashi Toyooka
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Patent number: 8338704Abstract: To provide an electrical junction box having a new structure that can prevent an unused fuse from being broken and can easily house and remove the unused fuse. A casing body 12 is provided with an unused fuse containing section 24 that is open in the same direction as an opening direction of the casing body 12. The unused fuse containing section 24 is provided on a periphery with at least one protective wall 28. A cover member 14 for closing an opening 16 in the casing body 12 is provided at a position opposed to the unused fuse containing section 24 with a presser portion 66 for preventing an unused fuse 36 from disconnecting from the unused fuse containing section 24.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Shunsuke Mizukami
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Patent number: 8336293Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification system provided with two or more exhaust gas purification devices each having an oxygen occlusion ability arranged in series in an exhaust passage, a technique is provided in which the degradation of each of the exhaust gas purification devices can be detected in a distinguished manner with a simple structure. In an exhaust gas purification system having an NSR and a filter with an oxygen occlusion ability arranged in series from an upstream side, an NSR outflow gas air fuel ratio is estimated based on an NSR inflow gas air fuel ratio and an oxygen occlusion ability in the NSR, and a filter outflow gas air fuel ratio is estimated based on the NSR outflow gas air fuel ratio (filter inflow gas air fuel ratio) and an oxygen occlusion ability in the filter.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuki Bisaiji
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Patent number: D673202Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takahiro Takizawa