Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pearne & Gordon
  • Patent number: 8247930
    Abstract: An acoustic exciter comprises a suspension made of an elastic material, which is coupled to the opening part of a frame, and a vibrator to which a voice coil disposed in the magnetic gap of a magnetic circuit connected to the suspension is coupled. An elastic body is so disposed between the frame and the vibrator as to be pressed against the frame and the vibrator. Thereby, the exciting efficiency of the vibrator can be increased, and the performance and tone quality of the acoustic exciter can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 8248759
    Abstract: A capacitor has a capacitor element, an open-topped case on which terminals joined to a pair of electrode lead sections of the capacitor element are disposed facing each other, and a cover combined with the open surface of the case. Each terminal has a pair of intermediate conductive sections and a pair of terminal sections. The joint has a joint surface to which one of the electrode lead sections of the capacitor element is joined. The intermediate conductive sections are L-shaped, and are extendedly disposed in directions opposite to each other from both ends of the joint. The terminal sections are disposed further extendedly from the intermediate conductive sections and placed symmetrically about the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Yukiyasu Sugihara, Yasuyuki Ito, Nario Niibo
  • Patent number: 8246184
    Abstract: A novel method makes it possible to form cavities intended to contain a liquid with determined optical properties within a film for optical use. The walls (38) of the cavities (40) are formed by plasma etching of a layer of transparent or light absorbent material (30, 34) transferred onto a microtechnological substrate, the walls (38) having a structured profile in order to limit the parasitic phenomena of light diffusion and diffraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Souriau, Nicolas Sillon, Jean-Pierre Joly
  • Patent number: 8250039
    Abstract: Method for generating information processing Systems wherein informative Containers and Contents are created, identified, stored, modeled, communicated, modified and deleted by creating, modifying or deleting Links. The whole information entered by the users and the information for describing the System takes the form of Links having identical sizes and stored by a Links Base. The Links can be provided with attributes, notably time attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Inventor: Richard Chappuis
  • Patent number: 8241750
    Abstract: A functional multilayer anisotropic conductive adhesive film, capable of bonding and package 0.18-0.13 micron IC chips and high density COF, includes a monomer layer, a reinforcing layer, a low-temperature, hot-melt resin layer, and a conductive particle layer, successively bonded by coating and drying processes. The monomer layer comprises a copolymer of butyl acrylate, methyl acrylate, glycol acrylate, and tetramethyl butyl peroxy-2-ethyl hexanoate. The reinforcing layer comprises long chain imidazole derivatives. The hot-melt resin layer comprises polymer of tocopheroxyl, novolac epoxy, acrylic rubbers and elastic mixture of acrylic rubbers and styrene-butadiene rubbers. The conductive particle layer comprises conductive particles and micro-encapsulating resin for receiving the conductive particles. Diameter of the conductive particles is selected from the group consisting of 3.00 ?m±0.05, 3.25 ?m±0.05, 3.50 ?m±0.05, 3.75 ?m±0.05 and 4.00 ?m±0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Guangdong Dongbond Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 8240938
    Abstract: An over cap brush for a squeeze dispensing bottle comprising a body injection molded as a single piece, the body being formed of a relatively soft elastomeric material, the body including a circular end wall, a generally cylindrical skirt at an outer periphery of the end wall defining a central axis and extending in one direction along the axis, the end wall having a central through hole and an outer face with a multitude of bristles distributed about the hole and extending axially from said face in a direction opposite the one direction, the skirt being of sufficient length so as to extend along the threads of a screw-on cap to retain the over cap brush on the cap by frictionally engaging the exterior of the skirt of the cap while the cap is disposed on a squeeze dispensing bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Tablecraft Products Company
    Inventor: Charles P. Maxwell
  • Patent number: 8242162
    Abstract: Aromatic molecules that can be used as sensors are described. The aromatic sensors include a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon core with a five-membered imide rings fused to the core and at least two pendant aryl groups. The aromatic sensor molecules can detect target analytes or molecular strain as a result of changes in their fluorescence, in many cases with on-off behavior. Aromatic molecules that fluoresce at various frequencies can be prepared by altering the structure of the aromatic core or the substituents attached to it. The aromatic molecules can be used as sensors for various applications such as, for example, the detection of dangerous chemicals, biomedical diagnosis, and the detection of damage or strain in composite materials. Methods of preparing aromatic sensor molecules are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Ohio Aerospace Institute, The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Michael A. Meador, Daniel S. Tyson, Ulvi F. Ilan
  • Patent number: 8241497
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stirring and/or aerating fluids, particularly sewage, having the following cyclically repeated steps: aerating the fluid by means of an immersed aerator for a predetermined first period of time (t1) using an aeration device (1) disposed on a carrier (3, 43) designed as a floodable hollow body (2, 42), the hollow body (2, 42) being flooded and air being brought into the fluid by the aeration device, whereby the potential for nitrification is created in the fluid; stirring the fluid by means of the immersed aerator for a predetermined second period of time (t2), the air infeed by the aeration device (1) being throttled or turned off, and previously flooded hollow body being evacuated in order to fill the hollow body (2, 42) with gar or air, the immersed aerator assuming the function of mixing device in which fluid rises upward, thus mixing the fluid, where in the potential for denitrification is created in the fluid; and an immersed aerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Bioworks Verfahrenstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Buch, Peter Kröner
  • Patent number: 8240543
    Abstract: Regarding electronic component mounting in which an electronic component having plural solder bumps for external connection on its lower surface is mounted on a board, in an electronic component mounting operation of previously measuring the height position of solder paste on the board on which the solder paste has been printed, and mounting the electronic component on the board on which the solder paste has been printed by a loading head, whether the transfer of the solder paste to the solder bumps is necessary or not is judged on the basis of the measurement result of the height of the solder paste. In case that it is judged that the transfer is necessary, the transfer of the solder paste is executed, and thereafter the electronic component is mounted on the board. Hereby, it is possible to prevent the poor joint in case that a thin-sized semiconductor package which causes easily warp deformation is mounted on the board by soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Syoichi Nishi, Mitsuhaya Tsukamoto, Masahiro Kihara, Masafumi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8243170
    Abstract: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, comprises: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having positive optical power; and an aperture diaphragm. At the time of zooming, the zoom lens system moves the first to third lens units so that intervals between these lens units vary. At the time of focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-point object in-focus condition, the zoom lens system moves the third lens unit to the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoichi Miyazaki, Katsu Yamada, Takuya Imaoka, Masaki Sampei
  • Patent number: 8243938
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a hearing device, by registering characteristics of an individual (I) a personality vector (K(CI)) is established in a fitting machine. The personality vector (K(CI)) of the individual (I) momentarily involved is compared with stored personality vectors (K1(C) to Kn(C)). That stored personality vector which is most similar to that of the individual (I) is selected and therefrom a personality profile (PP) which is assigned to such personality vector. There is assigned to the personality profile which accords to the most similar personality vector, a respective fitting vector which controls subsequent manufacturing of the hearing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Phonak AG
    Inventors: Michael Boretzki, Stefan Launer, Valentin Chapero-Rueda, Hilmar Meier
  • Patent number: 8244197
    Abstract: In an image rejection mixer, when a signal in the first radio frequency band is inputted to an input terminal, the first mixer and the second mixer convert the input signal in the first radio frequency band to a signal in the first intermediate frequency band by using the first local signal from a local signal oscillator, and a filter circuit attenuates an image interfering signal existing in the first intermediate frequency band by means of the first attenuation band. Also, when a signal in the second radio frequency band is inputted to the input terminal, the first mixer and the second mixer convert the input signal in the second radio frequency band to a signal in the second intermediate frequency band by using the second local signal from the local signal oscillator, and the filter circuit attenuates an image interfering signal existing in the second intermediate frequency band by means of the second attenuation band that is narrower than the first attenuation band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujii, Hiroaki Ozeki, Mineyuki Iwaida
  • Patent number: 8243673
    Abstract: Overhead of signaling for retransmission control using a multiple codeword is decreased and throughput is improved. A radio communication apparatus performs data transmission by using the multiple codeword, and includes a reception device having a MIMO demodulation section 15 for demodulating data transmitted by the multiple codeword and an ACK/NACK generation section 21 for generating an ACK/NACK signal corresponding to the demodulation result of the demodulated data of respective codewords. The ACK/NACK generation section 21 allocates less resource to a signal corresponding to a low-order code word having a lower quality, and allocates more resource to a signal for a high-order codeword having a higher quality, thereby generating the ACK/NACK signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8243702
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a wireless communication system which can allow a wireless LAN terminal device (1000) to establish a connection to a wireless LAN through a simplified procedure. In the wireless communication system, a wireless LAN access point (1100) performs wireless communication with a wireless LAN terminal device (1000) having personal identification information (1005) necessary to identify a person as a registered user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoaki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8243136
    Abstract: A position identifying system (1) is comprised of a radio terminal device (2) carried by a monitoring target and a sensor device (3) provided with a radio communication unit (9) for communicating by radio with the radio terminal device (2) and a camera unit (10) for taking an image of the monitoring target. In the sensor device (3), the position (tag position) of the radio terminal device (2) is detected on the basis of a detection signal from the radio terminal device (2), and the position (image position) of the monitoring target is calculated on the basis of the image taken by the camera unit (3). By linking the tag position with the image position, the position of the monitoring target is identified. Thus, there is provided the position identifying system capable of identifying the position of the monitoring target and keeping track of the movement of the monitoring target even if the image of the monitoring target cannot be taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Aota, Yasunari Kimura, Mikio Morioka, Masataka Sugiura, Junko Ueda, Arata Mukai
  • Patent number: 8240089
    Abstract: Described is a carriage (7) for sliding doors and windows (2) comprising a fixed frame (3), at least one sash (4) that is slidable horizontally relative to the fixed frame (3) by means of a carriage unit (1), and a handle (9) mounted on the sash (4) for controlling the carriage (7); the latter is provided with a supporting frame (11), mobile on wheels, and with a connecting member (13) interposed between the supporting frame (11) and a bottom sash (4) rail (8); the connecting member (13) is movably constrained to the supporting frame (11) to enable the sash (4) to be lifted and lowered relative to the supporting frame (11) under the action of the handle (9); a helical spring (44) is interposed between the supporting frame (11) and the connecting member (13) to lessen the effort required of the user to lift the sash (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: GSG International S.p.A.
    Inventor: Marco Lambertini
  • Patent number: 8240784
    Abstract: The flexible glove holder (1) includes a flat structure (13) with three branches (2, 3 and 4) forming an S-shape on which the glove is wound. The holder (1) is then pushed into the opening of the glove box. This rapid action method makes it possible to avoid knotting the gloves when they must be drawn toward the outside for an operation within the box and also allows the implementation of biological protection on the opening of the glove box as well as a protection of the agents against radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Areva NC
    Inventors: Francis Hebuterne, Pierre Riba
  • Patent number: 8243180
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus has an optical system that forms an optical image of a subject field and can vary a magnification of the optical image; an imaging section that converts the optical image formed by the optical system, into an electrical image signal; a display section that displays an image taken by the imaging section; a subject detecting section that detects a main subject in the image taken by the imaging section; a framing controlling section that controls framing based on information about a position of the main subject detected in the subject detecting section; a controlling section that selectively executes one of a first framing support mode that presents on the display section a display that supports the framing based on the information about the position of the main subject detected in the subject detecting section, and a second framing support mode that operates the framing controlling section based on the information about the position of the main subject detected in the subject detecting sect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichi Sugino
  • Patent number: D665727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kumho Tire Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Moon Lee, Uk Seo, Hae Dong Jung, Chang Jung Park, Jae Phil Park, Christopher T. Baker, Edward P. Cercek, Terry M. Edwards
  • Patent number: D665940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: GE Lighting Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Alden Lane, Adrian Slattery, David Mark Johnson