Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pearne & Gordon
  • Patent number: 8098625
    Abstract: A wireless terminal involving small redundancy that can be reconfigured to a configuration compatible with a plurality of systems using the hardware resources compatible with one system is provided. A wireless terminal 100A is compatible with an OFCDM system and has a signal processing section 151, a synchronous detection section 162, etc. The signal processing section 151 performs Fourier transform when the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFCDM system; the signal processing section 151 performs Fourier transform and inverse Fourier transform compatible with an OFDM system when the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFDM system and a CDMA system. When the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFCDM system, the synchronous detection section 162 uses taps used in the systems when the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFDM system and the CDMA system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Miyano, Katsuaki Abe, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8096933
    Abstract: A centrifuge with an electric motor (46), composed of a centrifuge outer frame (47), a heavy liquid collecting tank (18), a lower hollow shaft (22), centrifugal units, an upper hollow shaft (38), and a light liquid collecting tank (41). The heavy liquid collecting tank, the lower hollow shaft, the upper hollow shaft, and the light liquid collecting tank are all fixed to the centrifuge outer frame, the centrifugal units are fixed between the upper hollow shaft and the lower hollow shaft, the motor is connected to the upper hollow shaft and drives the upper hollow shaft to rotate, the upper hollow shaft is fixed to two or more centrifugal units connected in series and drives the centrifugal units to rotate, a hollow portion of the upper hollow shaft communicates with the light liquid collecting tank, centrifugal units are fixed to the lower hollow shaft and drive the lower hollow shaft to rotate, the heavy liquid collecting tank is a casing formed between the centrifuge outer frame and the centrifugal units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Inventor: Shujiang Song
  • Patent number: 8096327
    Abstract: A system for filling pre-charged aerosol cans comprising a frame, a power actuator on the frame having an output member that extends forcibly downwardly through a stroke of fixed length and retracts upwardly, a combined reservoir and filling head supported in the frame generally below the output member, the filling head having a cylindrical dispensing bore and an outlet below the bore adapted to be coupled to the valve of the aerosol can, a dispensing piston with a lower face operable in the bore to create hydraulic pressure on liquid received in the bore from the reservoir, a set of cooperating elements for coupling a dispensing piston to the output member selectively at a plurality of predetermined fixed spacings from the output member, whereby the volume of fluid displaced from the dispensing chamber by the dispensing piston is regulated to fill cans of different capacity while the output member of the power actuator traverses its stroke of constant length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Tungsten Capital Partners, LLC
    Inventor: Donald J. Hirz
  • Patent number: 8098626
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for eliminating buffer and transfer of a packet which is not required for an MN in a handover mechanism in which a packet to be sent to the MN performing handover is buffered and the buffered packet is supplied to the MN after the handover. Before handover, a mobile terminal (MN) notifies an access router (nAR) to be newly connected after the handover of information (buff_time/flow) indicating a correspondence between a flow label of a packet concerned with packet communication and a buffer time based on a delay allowance time of an application using the packet having the flow label. The nAR buffers the packet while the MN performs the handover. When performing packet transfer to the MN connected after the handover, the nAR does not transfer, to MN, the packet stored for a predetermined buffer time or more among the packets stored in the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Makis Kasapidis
  • Patent number: 8098983
    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, in order from an object side to an image side, comprises at least: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having negative 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: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoichi Miyazaki, Katsu Yamada, Takuya Imaoka, Masaki Sampei
  • Patent number: 8099739
    Abstract: A method for managing Java applets in HTML pages, the HTML pages being rendered by a web browser, includes: browsing a page having an applet, the applet being loaded into the page and creating a connection to a server; leaving the page, the applet providing an idle message to the server and being stored in a cache of applet objects, each object having a connection ID; and returning to the page, the applet being retrieved from the cache based on the connection ID, the applet reloading and providing an activate message to the server to reuse the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Keithley Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Peterson
  • Patent number: 8098869
    Abstract: A loudspeaker damper, a manufacturing method thereof, and a loudspeaker, electronic equipment and device using the loudspeaker damper. The damper has flexibility. Therefore, even if a large input is applied and the damper oscillates with a large amplitude, a resin layer provided on the surface of the damper base material is not cracked due to partial interface peeling. Thus, the damper follows such a large amplitude and realizes high input-resistance. This loudspeaker damper material is obtained by impregnating a material with thermosetting resin including 2 to 20 wt % of flexibility imparting agent and heat-curing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Okazaki, Kazuyoshi Mimura, Shinya Mizone, Masahide Sumiyama
  • Patent number: 8094862
    Abstract: A speaker having smaller distortion and driven at higher efficiency is disclosed. The speaker includes a frame, a magnetic circuit supported by the frame, a voice coil unit placed movable with respect to magnetic gap provided to the magnetic circuit, a diaphragm of which outer rim is coupled to the frame via a first edge, and of which inner rim is coupled to the voice coil unit, and a damper placed on the magnetic circuit side with respect to the diaphragm, and which damper has an outer rim coupled to the frame and an inner rim coupled to the voice coil unit. The outer rim of the damper is coupled to the frame via a second edge, which includes a first protrusion protruding toward the diaphragm and a second protrusion protruding oppositely to the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Funahashi
  • Patent number: 8093968
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical element of a hydrophobic surface structure with a long life and high reliability and an electromechanical switch using the microelectromechanical element are provided. The surface of an electrode has a composite surface structure of a first area made of a first material forming the electrode and a second area made of a second material at least having hydrophobicity. The surface structure is the composite surface structure of the electrode material and a monolayer, whereby physical compression of the monolayer is avoided. A structure wherein the monolayer is not formed on the propagation path of a radio frequency signal is adopted, so that an increase in an insertion loss and electric field damage are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Naito
  • Patent number: 8094864
    Abstract: A diaphragm unit is arranged to be used in a loudspeaker including a frame. The diaphragm includes a diaphragm and an edge joined to an outer periphery of the diaphragm. The diaphragm extends in a longitudinal direction and has a first center line extends along the longitudinal direction. The edge has an outer periphery being arranged to join to the frame, and an inner periphery joined to the outer periphery of the diaphragm. The edge has a convex surface having substantially a semi-circular cross section. The convex surface of the edge has grooves provided therein. The grooves extend from the inner periphery of the edge to the outer periphery of the edge. The grooves have cross sections each having a U-shape or a V-shape, and are arranged symmetrically about the first center line of the diaphragm. This diaphragm unit provides an elongated loudspeaker reproducing bass sounds with small distortions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Inaba, Hiroyuki Takewa
  • Patent number: 8091989
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wide format print head composed of X inkjet print devices intended to print on a moving support and for which the print quality is to be improved over the entire width. The solution according to the invention consists of inputting a single air flow passing through the internal cavity of the print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Markem Imaje
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Desse
  • Patent number: 8092642
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma processing apparatus capable of generating a uniform plasma by preventing a nonuniformity of a current flow in a slot antenna. A dielectric plate is disposed to close a top opening of a plate cover and a slot antenna for generating plasma is disposed on the dielectric plate. By allowing an outer periphery of the slot antenna to make direct contact with an inner wall portion of the plate cover by using a conductive member having elasticity, when a microwave is supplied to slot antenna, it is possible to make an electrical resistance between the inner wall portion of the processing vessel and the outer periphery of the flat plate antenna substantially the same at any point in the entire circumference of the processing vessel, so that magnitude of the microwave current flowing in the slot antenna can be made approximately the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Toshiaki Hongo, Masaki Hirayama, Tadahiro Ohmi
  • Patent number: 8094082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polarization diversity multi-antenna system comprising a first slot type antenna (20) and at least one second patch type antenna (30), said first and second antennas sharing the same ground plane (10), the slot of the first antenna being laid out in said ground plane and the patch of the second antenna being at least partly plumb with said slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Lionel Rudant, Christophe Delaveaud
  • Patent number: 8091195
    Abstract: A trigger device is mounted on a rivet gun. The rivet gun has a barrel, a handle and a pneumatic cylinder. The trigger device has an inlet channel defined in the handle, an outlet hole defined through the handle and communicating with the barrel, a valve-driving channel defined in the handle and communicating with the pneumatic cylinder, a space defined in the handle and communicating with the inlet channel, outlet channel and valve-driving channel. A trigger member is mounted on the handle. A two-step pressing assembly is mounted in the space and may be activated to control the rivet gun to eject a core pin of a used rivet or rivet pieces with an unused rivet. High-pressure air from an air source connected to the rivet gun is output only during the ejection operation of the rivet gun to prevent unnecessary air consumption and noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Inventor: Yu-Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 8091216
    Abstract: An electric parts mounting apparatus includes rotary type multi-nozzle mounting heads. Each of the mounting heads has a plurality of suction nozzles disposed in a radial manner on a rotor mechanism, which rotates around a rotation shaft. A parts mount mechanism is configured such that the axial direction of the rotation shaft coincides with an arrangement direction of tape feeders. A shaft-to-shaft distance of the suction nozzles is set to be plural times as large as a pitch of the feeder arrangement. In a pick up process, a plurality of electronic parts can be simultaneously picked up from the tape feeders. In a parts mounting process, while one of the mounting heads mounts the part, the other mounting head can complete a nozzle changeover operation such that the suction nozzle holding an electronic part to be mounted next is moved to an operation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hidehiro Saho
  • Patent number: 8094645
    Abstract: A network controller for facilitating roaming of a mobile wireless communications device between access points communicates with at least one access point over a wired network which, in turn, communicate with a mobile wireless communications device over a wireless network. The network controller includes a data processing system including a protocol stack that facilitates a communication session between the mobile device and a network device on the wired network, and a session table identifying session information for each said communication session. The session information identifies the current access point with which the mobile device is currently associated. The protocol stack updates the session table from session information received from the current access point, maintains a first virtual circuit with the network device, maintains a second virtual circuit with the current access point, and bridges communication between the virtual circuits in accordance with the session information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Psion Teklogix Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Fantaske
  • Patent number: 8092168
    Abstract: A compressor case, and an associated method, repaired from damage to a segment of a stator ring hook. Two halves are engaged together at flange faces that define parting lines and that define a hollow interior, the ring hook being located at the interior, compressor case material having been removed at the stator ring hook location and a location of one of the flange faces to provide a space. A patch plug is slid into the space from the one flange face, the shape of the patch plug being complementary to a shape of the missing material space and inter-fitting therein, with an end of the patch plug being located at the one flange face to face an opposed half of the case with the two halves together. A fastener fastens the patch plug to the case and extending from the interior, through the patch plug, to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sivaraman Vedhagiri, Jeffery C Moree, Erik Scot Velthaus
  • Patent number: 8091576
    Abstract: A by-pass and pressure regulator valve exhibiting: an inlet mouth and an outlet mouth set in reciprocal communication by a main conduit; a by-pass mouth. The by-pass and pressure regulator valve comprises: an obturator, mobile between at least a closed position, in which it interrupts fluid communication between the main conduit and the by-pass mouth, and at least an open position, in which the fluid communication is not interrupted; operating pressure control means, predisposed to move the obturator from the closed position; means for determining a flow pressure loss in fluids crossing the main conduit, arranged along the main conduit in order to separate a first tract upstream of the main conduit from a second tract downstream thereof; obturator command means governed by a fluid pressure difference between the first tract and the second tract of the main conduit, distinct from the operating pressure control means but operatively connected to the obturator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: P.A. S.p.A.
    Inventor: Arnaldo Benetti
  • Patent number: 8093339
    Abstract: Silicone composites subject to reticulation or reticulated, particularly for creating a coating or water-repellent and anti-adhesive film for flexible substrates such as paper or similar in the form of natural or synthetic polymer films. These compounds contain reticulating polyorganosiloxanes that have SiH units and unsaturated polyorganosiloxanes, preferably vinylated, suitable for reacting with the reticulating agent in an addition reaction and in the presence of platinum to form the reticulated anti-adhesive coating on the flexible substrate, plus at least one additive (D) to promote adhesion to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Bluestar Silicones France SAS
    Inventors: John White, Michel Feder, Alain Pouchelon, Yassine Maadadi, Lucile Gambut-Garel
  • Patent number: D652220
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Inventor: Bruce Pitot