Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Oliffe & Berridge, PLC
  • Patent number: 8349533
    Abstract: A resist lower-layer composition configured to be used by a multi-layer resist method used in lithography to form a layer lower than a photoresist layer acting as a resist upper layer film. The resist lower-layer composition is insoluble or poorly-soluble in an alkaline developer after formation of the lower layer, and the resist lower-layer composition comprises, at least, a thermal acid generator for generating an acid by heating at a temperature of 100° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youichi Ohsawa, Jun Hatakeyama, Takeru Watanabe, Takeshi Kinsho
  • Patent number: 8349970
    Abstract: A phase change composition including at least one crystalline polyester and at least one acrylate monomer. Examples of suitable crystalline polyesters include aliphatic crystalline polyesters and polylactones. A method of making the phase change composition, and a method for applying the phase change composition to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Santiago Faucher, Stephan V. Drappel, Christopher A. Wagner
  • Patent number: 8349973
    Abstract: A thermosetting epoxy resin composition can be cured rapidly at low temperature with an aluminum chelate-based latent curing agent without the use of a cycloaliphatic epoxy compound. The thermosetting epoxy resin composition includes an aluminum chelate-based latent curing agent, a silanol compound of the formula (A), and a glycidyl ether-type epoxy resin: (Ar)mSi(OH)n??(A) wherein Ar is an optionally substituted aryl group, and m is 2 or 3, provided that the sum of m and n is 4. Examples of the silanol compound of the formula (A) include triphenylsilanol, diphenylsilanol, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Chemical & Information Device Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunobu Kamiya
  • Patent number: 8345346
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display includes first electrodes, a second electrode placed opposite the first electrodes, and a microcapsule layer placed between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The microcapsule layer contains microcapsules containing a dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles and a binder for retaining the microcapsules between the first electrodes and the second electrode. The electrophoretic particles are sealed in each microcapsule in such a state that the electrophoretic particles are dispersed in the dispersion medium. The following inequality is satisfied: (?2·?2)/(?1·?1)<1??(?) where ?1 is the resistivity of the dispersion medium, ?1 is the dielectric constant of the dispersion medium, ?2 is the resistivity of the binder, and ?2 is the dielectric constant of the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 8341903
    Abstract: A separation element including a panel and a connecting device for use with an adhesive. The connecting device includes at least one profile strip and a separation profile. The profile strip includes a back element, a first side element and a second side element that together define a mounting channel, and an anchor channel defined by the profile strip. The anchor channel is connected to the mounting channel by a through slot. The mounting channel is configured such that the edge of the panel is held within the mounting channel by means of the adhesive. The separation profile separates the profile strip from the panel, and it includes a middle part, a first side part, and a second side part and defines at least one window opening that functions to allow the adhesive to penetrate into the anchor channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hawa AG
    Inventors: Gregor Haab, Stefan Hagger
  • Patent number: 8341792
    Abstract: The brush head of the toothbrush has filaments that are pointed at one end and led through clearances in the bristle carrier. These filaments have a length of about 10-20 mm. The tips of the pointed filaments produce a height profile other than that of a plane and the ends of the pointed filaments that are remote from the tips are melted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Trisa Holding AG
    Inventors: Franz Fischer, Peter Gross
  • Patent number: 8344082
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new molecularly imprinted polymers which are suitable for the selective recognition of glutathione GSH and/or of an analog thereof, and in particular which are of use for the treatment of media comprising in particular a mixture of glutathione GSH, and/or of an analog thereof, with GSH adducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Polyintell
    Inventors: Celine Perollier, Sami Bayoudh
  • Patent number: 8342473
    Abstract: Mounting of gas turbine engines in aircraft requires use of thrust struts associated with mountings. It is important should there be failure that a load path is maintained. Furthermore, on a wing or in-situ inspection is highly desirable with respect to reducing maintenance costs. Of particular concern is failure as a result of cracking both sideways and vertical which may result in loss of all load paths through the mounting. By provision of independent cranks which are associated through crank pivots in apertures of the cranks and then articulation about central pivots provided in apertures and a central element along with pivot association of the struts through pivots created about apertures in the cranks load paths are maintained. By independent provision of the cranks sideways and vertical cracking cannot cause failure in both load paths to the arrangement from the struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Lawrence D Foster, Michael H Young
  • Patent number: 8343883
    Abstract: A dielectric porcelain composition contains a major component represented by a composition formula (BaO.xTiO2). The dielectric porcelain composition contains also contains a first minor component represented by a composition formula raB2O3 and a second minor component represented by a composition formula rbCuO. In the formulae, x is a molar ratio of TiO2 to BaO and is within a range of 4.6 to 8, ra is a weight ratio of B2O3 with respect to the major component and is within a range of 0.5 to 5% by mass, and rb is a weight ratio of CuO with respect to the major component and is within a range of 0.1 to 3% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Miyauchi, Tomoko Nakamura, Toshiyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8344688
    Abstract: A power reception control device provided in a power reception device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-reception-side control circuit that controls an operation of the power reception device, and a power supply control signal output terminal that supplies a power supply control signal to a charge control device, the power supply control signal controlling power supply to a battery. The power-reception-side control circuit controls a timing at which the power supply control signal (ICUTX) is output from the power supply control signal output terminal. The operation of the charge control device is compulsorily controlled using the power supply control signal (ICUTX).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Yoda, Takahiro Kamijo, Kota Onishi, Masayuki Kamiyama, Nobutaka Shiozaki
  • Patent number: 8344494
    Abstract: A layered chip package includes a main body and wiring. The main body includes a main part including a plurality of stacked layer portions, and a plurality of terminals disposed on the top and bottom surfaces of the main part. The wiring includes a plurality of lines electrically connected to the plurality of terminals. The plurality of lines include a plurality of common lines and a plurality of layer-dependent lines. Each of the plurality of layer portions includes: a plurality of common electrodes electrically connected to the plurality of common lines; a plurality of non-contact electrodes that are electrically connected to the layer-dependent lines and are not in contact with the semiconductor chip in the layer portion; and a selective connection electrode selectively electrically connected to only the layer-dependent line that the layer portion uses among the plurality of layer-dependent lines. The layer-dependent lines are greater than the common lines in maximum width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Headway Technologies, Inc., SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Sasaki, Hiroyuki Ito, Hiroshi Ikejima, Atsushi Iijima
  • Patent number: 8344244
    Abstract: A solar cell includes a p-type semiconductor substance, and an n-type semiconductor substance. The p-type semiconductor substance and the n-type semiconductor substance form a pn junction or a pin junction, and the p-type semiconductor substance or the n-type semiconductor substance includes a structure film having a plurality of carbon nanotubes electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Shimotani, Chikara Manabe, Takashi Morikawa
  • Patent number: 8346505
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining which one or more time series parameters of a plurality of time series parameters relating to operation of a system are correlated with a first operation state of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: European Space Agency
    Inventors: José Antonio Martinez-Heras, Alessandro Donati, Kar Lam Yeung
  • Patent number: 8345260
    Abstract: A method of detecting a movement of a measuring probe provided between an objective lens adapted to image an object plane on a predetermined image plane and the object plane is disclosed. Additionally, a measuring instrument comprising an objective lens and a measuring probe is disclosed. An input beam of light is split into a measurement beam and a reference beam. The measurement beam is focused on a reverse focal plane of the objective lens such that the measurement beam is collimated by the objective lens. The collimated measurement beam is reflected at the measuring probe. The reflected measurement beam is directed towards the objective lens such that the objective lens focuses the reflected measurement beam on the reverse focal plane. The reflected measurement beam is collimated. The collimated reference beam and the reference beam are superimposed to form a superimposed beam and an interference between the reflected measurement beam and the reference beam is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Mitutoyo Corporation, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Endvertreten Durch den Prasidenten der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesan
    Inventors: Hartmut Illers, Kazuhiko Hidaka, Akinori Saito, Hans Ullrich Danzebrink
  • Patent number: 8346745
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for retrieving information. The process includes an extracting process, an executing process, a first creating process, a second creating process, a determining process. The extracting process extracts, from a first composition that is an object to be searched for and that includes first sentence elements and a second composition that indicates a retrieval condition and that includes second sentence elements, the first sentence elements, the second sentence elements, and sentence element relations indicating relations between the first sentence elements and relations between the second sentence elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Umemoto
  • Patent number: 8344566
    Abstract: A drive device includes a rotating electrical machine; a control device that controls the rotating electrical machine; and a case that accommodates the rotating electrical machine and the control device. The case includes a machine chamber that accommodates the rotating electrical machine, and an electric chamber that accommodates the control device. The machine chamber and the electric chamber are separated from each other by a partition wall, and a connection member that electrically connects the rotating electrical machine and the control device to each other is provided so as to extend through the partition wall in a fluid-tight state. Each of the machine chamber and the electric chamber has an opening on one axial end side of the rotating electrical machine, and a cover that covers the openings in a separated state from each other is mounted to the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takafumi Koshida
  • Patent number: 8346384
    Abstract: A cutting machine of the present invention for cutting a material to be cut, which is placed on a table, with a rotating saw blade, includes an imaging device, a determination device and a stopping device. The imaging device takes a video image of an area on the table and outputs the video image. The determination device makes a determination on whether or not a number of pixels of a specific color, which is previously set, exceeds a predetermined threshold in one frame of image constituting the video image outputted from the imaging device. The stopping device stops rotation of the saw blade when it is determined by the determination device that the number of pixels of the specific color exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Murakami, Kazutoki Otake, Hiroshi Murata, Yutaka Matsunaga, Takeshi Nishimiya
  • Patent number: 8345382
    Abstract: A magnetic head includes a coil, a main pole, a gap part, a write shield, and a return path section. The return path section includes a yoke part with a first coupling layer connected to the write shield and a second coupling layer magnetically coupling the first coupling layer to the yoke part. The second coupling layer has an end face facing toward a medium facing surface and located away from the medium facing surface. The coil includes i) a first coil element disposed with the first coupling layer interposed between the medium facing surface and the first coil element and ii) a plurality of second coil elements aligned perpendicularly to the medium facing surface and disposed with the second coupling layer interposed between the medium facing surface and the second coil elements. The first coil element being interposed between the main pole and the second coil elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Headway Technologies, Inc., SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Sasaki, Hiroyuki Ito, Kazuki Sato, Atsushi Iijima
  • Patent number: 8343669
    Abstract: An electrochemical device comprises an electrode matrix including a multilayer structure composed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a first separator, and first and second dummy electrodes electrically connected to the positive and negative electrodes, respectively. The first and second dummy electrodes have respective opposing parts opposing each other through a second separator at an outer peripheral part of the electrode matrix. One or each of the first and second dummy electrodes has a resistance control layer at least on a side where the opposing parts oppose each other. The resistance control layer has such a resistance value that an estimated internal short circuit current between the first and second dummy electrodes is equivalent to 0.09 C to 1.00 C. The first and second dummy electrodes are adapted to short-circuit each other at a lower temperature than the positive and negative electrodes do.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuo Naoi, Kenji Nishizawa, Mitsuo Kougo
  • Patent number: D673603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Suzuki, Yusaku Seki