Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pearne & Gordon
  • Patent number: 8091543
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a cooking oven, which is provided with a cooking cavity and a door adapted to close the cooking cavity. The door is provided with an outer frame and one or more glass panes supported by such frame along the periphery thereof. On the surface of at least one of the glass panes there are applied heating means, which include a layer of substantially clear, e.g. transparent resistive material, and means adapted to connect two sides of such layer of resistive material to appropriate terminals energizable by an electric voltage supplied from a source available inside the oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Electrolux Professionals S.p.A.
    Inventors: Udo Baumann, Dragan Raus
  • Patent number: 8094847
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustical device, especially a hearing device. A device casing is provided with an acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement with an electric output. An audio signal processing unit establishes audio signal processing of the device according to individual needs and/or purpose of the device. At least one electrical/mechanical output converter is provided. A filter arrangement with adjustable high-pass characteristic has a control input for the characteristic. The following operational connections are established: between the output of the input converter arrangement and the input of the filter arrangement, between the output of the filter arrangement and the control input, between said output of the filter arrangement and the input of the processing unit, between the output of the processing unit and the input of the at least once output converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Phonak AG
    Inventors: Hans-Ueli Roeck, Silvia Allegro-Baumann, Franziska Pfisterer
  • Patent number: 8087353
    Abstract: The machine (4) having an improved drainage grid (1) for compacting humid waste (2) comprises at least an Archimedes screw (7) which rotates internally of a containing structure (11) in which a support structure (13) is afforded for the grid (1). The drainage grid (1) comprises a perforated structure (16) shaped and connected to the fixed structure (13) in such a way as to maintain the perforated structure (16) continuously in contact with the helix (10) of the Archimedes screw (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Wam S.p.A.
    Inventor: Massimo Passerini
  • Patent number: 8087592
    Abstract: A pressure-thermostat (1) includes a body (2) having a cavity (5), a conduit (6) for a fluid and at least a couple of electric switches (8a, 8b) arranged from the opposite part with respect to said conduit (6). An elastic membrane (9) separates, in a fluid-tight manner, the conduit (6) relative to the cavity (5) and is deformable for bending towards this latter. The pressure-thermostat (1) includes a thermostat (12) having a first electric switch (13) activable owing to a thermal deformation of a disk with a diameter higher or equal to 15 mm, arranged in correspondence with the bottom. The thermostat (12) is movable under the action of the elastic membrane (9) away or approaching with respect to the conduit (6). The pressure-thermostat (1) also includes transmission means (34) interposed between the elastic membrane (9) and the thermostat (12) for displacing this latter under the action of the elastic membrane (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Euroswitch S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giorgio Silva
  • Patent number: 8089950
    Abstract: A mobile station 200 includes a receiving field level detecting unit 213 to convert a level of a wireless signal into an RSSI output, and a wireless frame timing deciding unit 214 to decide a wireless frame timing from the transient characteristic of the RSSI output. By deciding the wireless frame timing from the RSSI output, synchronous establishment can be realized even when the mobile station 200 does not include a demodulation circuit. The mobile station can perform the synchronous establishment without being increased in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Motoshi Suzuki, Shohei Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8090127
    Abstract: A method for: Adjusting a hearing device in a computer-aided manner towards the needs of an individual, and storing a workflow data of the adjusting. The workflow data may include adjusting steps, fitting operations, timing of performing of the adjusting steps or fitting operations, or a time sequence of the adjusting steps or fitting operations. The adjusting can be performed in dependency of the workflow data of adjusting hearing devices, as performed and stored previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Phonak AG
    Inventors: Michael Boretzki, Manfred Duerst, Elmar Fichtl
  • Patent number: 8087899
    Abstract: An electric fan has a driving assembly, a stand and an impeller assembly being connected to and being driven by the driving assembly. The driving assembly has a positioning panel having multiple indentations and two connectors being formed on the positioning panel. The stand is mounted into the driving assembly and around the connector of the driving assembly and has at least two resilient positioning protrusions engage two of the indentations of the driving assembly. With the at least two positioning protrusions engaging different indentations, the driving assembly and the impeller assembly are pivoted and are held in different angles. Therefore, the angle of the impeller assembly is easily adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Inventor: Ching-Feng Hsu
  • Patent number: 8090460
    Abstract: A method and system for examining, auditing, and safely evaluating process systems, including fluid pressure systems, to aid overpressure design and/or sizing of overpressure equipment. The system includes a server subsystem, a storage subsystem, an assessment subsystem, and optionally a report generation subsystem, including computer hardware and application software for supporting these subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corporation
    Inventors: Josh Kolenc, H. James Hoover, Antony G. Olekshy, Paulette Meaux Saunders
  • Patent number: 8087828
    Abstract: There is provided a synthetic resin bag having an easy-opening function in which an opening operation can be easily made on a side of an opening section of a bag body while it is prevented on a side of an interior section of the bag body and comprising two front and back panel films 1a and 1b of the bag body and two easy peel tapes 4a and 4b each including an easy peel layer and a thermally adhesive layer and disposed inside of the panel films of the bag body in an opening section 2 thereof over the whole lateral widths thereof, the easy peel layers of the two easy peel tapes faced to each other being weakly adhered to each other as indicated by a reference numeral 6 and the thermally adhesive layers of the two easy peel tapes being strongly adhered as indicated by reference numerals 5a and 5b to the inner faces of the panel films 1a and 1b of the bag body, respectively, so that the thermally adhesive layers have adhesion width difference of long and short widths C1 and C2 in a direction perpendicular to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Inventors: Takayuki Noguchi, Toshiyuki Murofushi
  • Patent number: 8087576
    Abstract: A data storage device comprises a memory in which a collection of prostate cancer screening data is stored. The screening data is obtained from a selection of the general male population without medical pre-selection. A device for indicating a risk for a disease of an individual, comprises an indicator for indicating a determined value for said risk. The indicator comprises a risk scale representing a range of values of said risk, and at least one dialler for entering a value of a diagnostic parameter of an individual. The dialler comprises a parameter scale representing a range of values of said diagnostic parameter. The dialler is movable with respect to said indicator such that when a parameter value on said parameter scale is selected, an associated risk value is indicated on said risk scale according to a predetermined mathematical relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Prostaatkanker (SWOP)
    Inventors: Ewout Steyerberg, Monica Joanne Roobol-Bouts, Marinus Kranse, Fritz Heinrich Schröder
  • Patent number: 8088501
    Abstract: A hard coating layer system comprises at least a main layer (3) on a surface of a substrate (1), a buried layer (4) and an outer surface layer (5), wherein the surface layer (5) comprises AlCrZ, where Z stands for N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO, or CBNO In such innovative coating triplex system and corresponding coated tools and components the buried comprises any one of the following materials or their combinations: a metal nitride, carbide or carbonitride a metal silicon nitride, carbide, or carbonitride, wherein the metal is at least one transition metal of the IVB, VB or VIB group or a multilayer of the materials or a material or a combination or a multilayer of the materials comprising at least one metal or carbon, preferably a diamond like carbon layer. The main layer comprises a nitride, carbide or carbonitride or a multilayer of nitride, carbide or carbonitride material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Oerlikon Trading AG, Trubbach
    Inventor: Jose Endrino
  • Patent number: 8088002
    Abstract: A first website earns rewards, e.g. points and items, for carrying out activities. Those rewards can be transferred to a second website. For example, a parent's website allows the parent to carry more adult tasks and also earn points. The points can be transferred to the child's website. A center of the universe website allows obtaining rewards for any of these websites. A social networking component operates across multiple websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Ganz
    Inventor: Howard Ganz
  • Patent number: 8089701
    Abstract: A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, the lens units are moved such that an interval between the first lens unit and the second lens unit should decrease and that an interval between the second lens unit and the third lens unit should increase, so that magnification change is achieved, and wherein the condition is satisfied: 1.5<LT/(Ir×Z)<2.6 where, Z=fT/fW>4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Keiki Yoshitsugu, Takakazu Bito
  • Patent number: 8089018
    Abstract: A movable contact unit, of which an upper surface of a movable contact made of a conductive metal plate is adhesively fixed to an adhesive layer formed on the underside of a base film, an upper surface of a separator is affixed to the adhesive layer in a manner to sandwich the movable contact between them, and the periphery of the movable contact is heated and pressed in a circular shape from above of the base film to form a convex-shaped portion in an area of base film corresponding to the movable contact in a manner to fit along a dome-like shape of the movable contact and to make a peripheral area or a base of the convex-shaped portion pressed circularly to close adhesion to the separator with the adhesive layer. By virtue of this structure, there can be an improvement of manufacturing efficiency of the movable contact unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Mitsuoka
  • Patent number: 8089981
    Abstract: MAC addresses of information devices on a network are collected using a broadcast frame or multicast frame of Ethernet®. If duplicate MAC addresses are detected, an Ethernet® frame, including a device identifier of information device and a MAC address to be set, is sent by broadcast transmission or multicast transmission. The information devices receiving this Ethernet® frame compare the above device identifier with their own device identifiers. If they match, the MAC address is changed to that designated. Duplicate MAC addresses are thus resolved, enabling correct Ethernet® communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsushi Hiraki
  • Patent number: 8086861
    Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an information processing terminal, a status notification system, and a status notification method that can protect both privacy and security when a status of the information processing terminal is notified to a server. An information processing terminal 10 has a disclosure/nondisclosure determination section 1001 that determines a notifiable server for each entry; a log concealing section 1002 that conceals an entry; a multi-log measurement section 1003 that commands to update hashes as to a plurality of parties; a log configuration section 1004 that configures a log directed at a notified party and that causes performance of signing action; a verification request section 1005 that requests verification; a policy storage section 1006 that stores a policy used for determining a party that can be notified; and a log storage section 1007 for storing the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takekawa, Hisashi Takayama
  • Patent number: 8086401
    Abstract: A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector shape on a digital map and a receiving side execute map matching by the coordinate series information to thereby identify the vector shape on the digital map, the coordinate series information is transmitted by adding azimuth information of a coordinate point included in the coordinate series information thereto. By transmitting shape data by adding the azimuth information thereto, accuracy of matching can be promoted and necessary time for matching can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya Adachi
  • Patent number: 8085475
    Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. A zoom lens system of the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, includes, a first lens unit G1 having negative optical power, a second lens unit G2 having positive optical power, a third lens unit G3 having positive optical power, and a fourth lens G4. Condition (10): 1.4<DL/YM<2.5 and condition (11): 1.2<BFW/YM<1.6 are satisfied (where, 100<2?W<140, DL is an effective diameter of the lens surface closest to the image side, BFW is the back focus at a wide-angle limit, YM is the maximum image height at a wide-angle limit, and ?W is a half view angle (°) at a wide-angle limit).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoichi Miyazaki, Keiichi Zaitsu
  • Patent number: D651501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Max Mara S.r.l.
    Inventor: Luigi Maramotti
  • Patent number: D651857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Elizabeth A. Cho