Patents Represented by Attorney Osha Liang

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  • Employer agency enrollment
    Patent number: 8234187
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enrolling an employer with an agency. The method includes obtaining employer data from the employer, evaluating a requirement to enroll with the agency based on the employer data, accessing a customized interface associated with the agency based on the requirement, transmitting the employer data to the customized interface, and receiving an employer enrollment credential from the agency to confirm enrollment with the agency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Martin, Arun Varshney, Jeff A. Zias
  • Magnetic screen clamping
    Patent number: 8231009
    Abstract: A magnetic clamping system for a shale shaker including at least one screen having at least two side ends extending between a first side and a second side and at least one attachment surface. The system further includes at least one mating surface of the shale shaker configured to receive the at least one screen, and at least one magnet disposed between the at least one screen and the shale shaker, wherein the at least one magnet is configured to magnetically couple the at least one screen directly to the shale shaker. Additionally, the system includes at least one decoupling apparatus, the decoupling apparatus having a handle disposed proximate a perimeter of a shale shaker, and at least one shaft that extends horizontally between the handle and one of the at least one magnet, wherein the handle is rotatable to reverse the polarity of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michael A. Timmerman, Benjamin L. Holton, James A. Marshall, Jr., Brian S. Carr
  • Solder printing inspection apparatus and component mounting system
    Patent number: 8233700
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a solder printing inspection apparatus and a component mounting apparatus. The solder printing inspection apparatus includes an ideal solder position generation unit, an ideal loading position generation unit, an image processing unit, and an ideal solder inspection standard generation unit. The ideal solder position generation unit generates ideal solder position information, and the ideal loading position generation unit generates ideal loading position information. The image processing unit generates actual solder position information and loading estimate position information. The ideal solder inspection standard generation unit generates ideal solder inspection position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: CKD Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Mamiya
  • Approach for allocating resources to an apparatus
    Patent number: 8234650
    Abstract: An approach for allocating resources to an apparatus generally involves a resource allocator receiving a request that specifies one or more characteristics for the apparatus. A resource allocator determines the logical devices to be included in the apparatus so that the apparatus has the specified characteristics. For at least one logical device, the resource allocator determines whether a physical device is available that corresponds to the logical device. If a physical device is available, the resource allocator allocates the physical device to the apparatus. If a physical device is not available, the resource allocator does not allocate the physical device to the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M Eppstein, Ashar Aziz, Thomas Markson, Martin Patterson
  • Error checking for data entry
    Patent number: 8234562
    Abstract: A method for displaying a form involves checking an input to determine whether an error exists, where the input corresponds to a field within the form, updating a tally of errors for the form reflecting the error when the error is contained in the field within the form, and visualizing the tally of errors by concurrently displaying the tally of errors and the form, where the field corresponding to the error is identified within the form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel L. Evans, Leslie A. Skelly, Matthew G. Rice, John A. Dryden, Morris Neer, Celia M. Lynn
  • Switch circuit, filter circuit and test apparatus
    Patent number: 8232808
    Abstract: There is provided a switch circuit for switching whether to output an input signal, including: a transmission path that transmits the input signal from an input end to an output end of the switch circuit; a first semiconductor switch that is provided on the transmission path and switches whether to transmit the input signal; a second semiconductor switch that is opened when the first semiconductor switch is short-circuited, and that is short-circuited when the first semiconductor switch is opened, thereby grounding, to a ground potential, a high-frequency signal leaked to the transmission path between the first semiconductor switch and the output end; and a voltage controller that causes a potential difference on both ends of the second semiconductor switch when the second semiconductor switch is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kimura, Chisato Maeda
  • Method for managing a torque applied to an output shaft of a combustion engine when one combustion chamber is deactivated, and corresponding management system
    Patent number: 8234052
    Abstract: A method for managing a torque applied to an output shaft of a combustion engine, the combustion engine including combustion chambers, in each of which there is mounted a piston connected to the output shaft in order to apply a torque to it, the output shaft being connected to a rotary machine associated with a management member. The method involves detecting conditions of deactivation of one combustion chamber and controlling the rotary machine so as to apply to the output shaft, prior to the deactivation of one combustion chamber, a compensating torque which tends to cause a resultant torque applied to the output shaft to tend towards a deactivation torque applied by the combustion engine to the output shaft after deactivation of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes de Controle Moteur
    Inventors: Vanessa Picron, Claudine Rochette, Claudiu Vasilescu, Anthony Girardin, Benoit Bizet
  • Method and system using a portable object for providing an extension to a server
    Patent number: 8229997
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for executing at least a portion of a server operation. The method includes providing an extension to a client connected to the server, where the extension includes a portable object connected to the client. The method further includes performing at least the portion of server operation by the extension, where performing at least the portion of the server operation includes executing a copy of at least a portion of server software stored on the portable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Laurent Castillo, Christoph Siegelin
  • Mobile communication method
    Patent number: 8229120
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention communicates between a mobile station (UE) and a radio base station (eNB) by using a certain key. The method includes the step of: (A) acquiring, at a radio base station managing a re-establishment target cell for the mobile station (UE), a first key (KeNB[n+1]) for generating a certain key from a switching center (MME) in a procedure for re-establishment of the mobile station (UE), the certain key to be used for communication between the mobile station (UE) and a next re-establishment target cell for the mobile station (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Shogo Yabuki, Alf Zugenmaier
  • Acceleration shock reduction apparatus for vehicle
    Patent number: 8226531
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a prime mover, a power transmission apparatus disposed between the prime mover and at least one wheel, an engaging element configured to selectively engage and disengage the prime mover from the at least one wheel, and a torque limiter configured to restrict an output torque of the prime mover to a selected percentage when in transition between an unloaded state and a loaded state, wherein the torque limiter is configured to restrict the output torque of the prime mover while the engaging element is disengaged between the prime mover and the power transmission apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Maekawa, Masahiro Iriyama
  • Device for positioning and holding an emergency key
    Patent number: 8225634
    Abstract: A device for positioning and holding a key in a container including a cover and a casing. The device includes an opening/closing mechanism enabling the cover and the casing to be mobile in relation to each other at least in rotation, about a rotational axis, between an open position providing access to a housing of the container and a closed position. The device also includes a locking/unlocking mechanism of the cover and the casing, at least in a closed position, comprising a locking/unlocking control device which is mobile in translation following a translation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Securite Habitacle
    Inventors: Fabrice Giacomin, Louis Canard
  • Sampling apparatus, sampling method and recording medium
    Patent number: 8229706
    Abstract: Provided is a sampling apparatus that samples a signal under measurement, including a clock control section that generates a plurality of sampling clocks at a plurality of sampling phases at determined non-uniform intervals, so as to cancel out replicas in a sampling band that are not observation targets, from among the replicas of the signal under measurement and the replicas of the negative frequency component of the signal under measurement, in each sampling repetition cycle; and a sampling section that samples the signal under measurement with each of the plurality of sampling clocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawabata, Takayuki Akita, Eiji Kanoh
  • Controller of multi-phase electric motor
    Patent number: 8228012
    Abstract: A controller of a multi-phase electric motor has a drive section having an upper arm switching element and a lower arm switching element for driving the multi-phase electric motor, a single current detection section for detecting a current value of the multi-phase electric motor, a pulse width modulation signal generation section for generating plural pulse width modulation of each phase within one control period based on the current value detected by the current detection section and a carrier signal, and a phase movement section for moving the pulse width modulation signal of a predetermined phase generated by the pulse width modulation signal generation section by gradually changing a movement amount of the phase in one control period, and outputting the resultant pulse width modulation signal to the drive section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masamitsu Hamasaki, Shinichi Kuratani, Takenobu Nakamura
  • Use of emphasis to equalize high speed signal quality
    Patent number: 8229048
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for minimizing ringing in a high speed channel between a transmitter and a receiver in a circuit, including a component for initializing an n-tap equalization filter. The n-tap equalization filter includes numerous taps, each associated with each of numerous jitter pulses received from the transmitter at the receiver and over the channel. Many of the jitter pulses are greater than two. Further, each tap occurs at a time-domain point related to a time of a corresponding jitter pulse included within the numerous jitter pulses. Moreover, a component for applying the n-tap equalization filter to a subsequent signal sent over the channel is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel C. Risk, Drew G. Doblar, Pruthvi A. Chaudhari
  • Switched current resistor programmable gain array for low-voltage wireless LAN and method using the same
    Patent number: 8229382
    Abstract: A switched current resistor (SCR) PGA for constant-bandwidth gain control includes an inverting amplifier, a feedback resistor forming a feedback loop between an output side and an input side of the inverting amplifier, and a switched current resistor (SCR) array connected in parallel to the feedback resistor, and configured to tune a gain range between a maximum and a minimum. The SCR array includes a plurality of switched resistors, each comprising a switch in series with a resistor. When the plurality of switched resistors are switched by a gain-control logic, a plurality of switched current sources and a plurality of grounded resistors are switched correspondingly to deliver a transient current, an equivalent of which flows through the plurality of grounded resistors out from the input side of the inverting amplifier, leading to a feedback factor of the PGA being constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: University of Macau
    Inventors: Pui-In Mak, Seng-Pan U, Rui P. Martins
  • Engine starting device
    Patent number: 8229656
    Abstract: An engine starting device for controlling an engine start of a vehicle by driving a starter relay of the vehicle with a battery of the vehicle as a power supply has a control processing unit and a step-up circuit for stepping up the output of the battery and outputting a drive voltage for driving the control processing unit and the starter relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ikushima, Kenichi Kinbara
  • Culture apparatus
    Patent number: 8227239
    Abstract: A culture apparatus comprising: a housing including a culture chamber inside, culture being cultured in the culture chamber; a door configured to seal the culture chamber; an ultraviolet lamp configured to generate an ultraviolet ray for disinfecting air in the culture chamber; a lighting device configured to allow the ultraviolet lamp to be on for a predetermined time period, when the air in the culture chamber is disinfected; a detecting device configured to detect deterioration of disinfection capability of the ultraviolet lamp; and a controller configured to correct the predetermined time period, during which the ultraviolet lamp is on, so as to be longer according to the deterioration of the disinfection capability of the ultraviolet lamp detected by the detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Busujima, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Kenichi Ito, Kuniyoshi Kobayashi
  • Breaker fluids and methods of using the same
    Patent number: 8227382
    Abstract: A method of cleaning a wellbore drilled with a drilling fluid that forms a filter cake that includes emplacing a breaker fluid into the wellbore, the breaker fluid comprising: an aqueous fluid; a fragmentation agent; and an amphoteric chemotrope; and shutting in the well for a period of time sufficient to initiate breaking of the filter cake is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Eugene Dakin, Andrey Reznichenko, Hui Zhang
  • Recording device and recording method allowing recording over time limit
    Patent number: 8229279
    Abstract: A recording control unit records program data for a second time period, from the time point the second time period before the lapse of a first time period from the start of recording, not only under a first title but also at a start portion of a second title. A combining unit identifies identical CM portions in the program data recorded redundantly under the first and second titles, connects the portion immediately preceding the start of the identified CM portion of the first title to the portion immediately succeeding the end of the identified CM portion of the second title, to form one title. An editing unit edits the program data to make shorter the length of the combined title, when the time of program data recorded under the combined title exceeds the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Kawanishi
  • Vehicle lamp
    Patent number: 8226282
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light guide including: a first end surface; a second end surface opposite to the first end surface; a front side surface; and a back side surface opposite to the front side surface; a light source disposed to face the first end surface of the light guide so as to emit light toward the first end surface; and a reflector disposed to face the back side surface of the light guide. The light is incident on the first end surface and travels toward the second end surface along an longitudinal direction of the light guide. A first beam of the light is output from the front side surface of the light guide. A second beam of the light is output from the back side surface, and reflected by the reflector to travel toward a forward area of the vehicle lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kazaoka, Masahiro Fukumuro, Kyouhei Akiyama