Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pearne & Gordon
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Patent number: 7995781Abstract: In order to switch between different hearing programs to adjust to a momentary acoustic scene, a method for adjusting a hearing device, in which one of several possible hearing programs can be selected in order to adjust to a momentary acoustic scene, the method comprising the steps of detecting a desired hearing program change, changing parameters (b1, . . . , bm) of a transfer function provided between a microphone (M1) and a receiver of the hearing device in order to adapt it to the detected hearing program change, adjusting the parameters (b1, . . . , bm) to be changed from a momentary value to a desired value in such a manner that a smooth transition is perceived by the hearing device user while changing from a momentary hearing program to the desired hearing program, whereas each of the smooth transition is individually adjustable.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Phonak AGInventors: Silvia Allegro Baumann, Stefan Daniel Menzl, Hilmar Meier
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Patent number: 7996116Abstract: A method of monitoring voltage stability within an electrical power system comprises the steps of establishing a dynamic power system stability margin based on an operating characteristic of the power system; indicating that the power system has become unstable when the dynamic power system stability margin falls below a predetermined value; and initiating dynamic load shedding and/or restoration depending on stability margin.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Areva T & D UK LimitedInventors: Andrzej Wiszniewski, Waldemar Rebizant, Andrzej Klimek
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Patent number: 7992833Abstract: An adjustable hanger device includes an adjustable mounting bracket that may be sized for mounting the hanger to support members of various dimensions. The hanger device has a composite structure including both metallic and polymeric components. The mounting bracket is formed of primarily metallic components to provide adequate hang strength, and a thin profile for use in so-called over-the-door hanger devices supported on the top edge of a door below the lintel or frame member when the door is in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Omer I. Sazir
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Patent number: 7995788Abstract: A leader line of a voice coil from a conductive wire part is drawn out from a part between a diaphragm coupling part and a part disposed in the magnetic gap toward a frame in a non-contact state with a diaphragm. One end side of the second edge made of an elastic body is coupled to a part between a drawing part of the leader line on the voice coil and a part of the voice coil disposed in the magnetic gap. The other end side of the second edge is coupled to the frame. A suspension holder is integrated with the proximity of a coupling part of the second edge to the voice coil. The suspension holder is stuck to the voice coil using an adhesive. The disturbance of the movement of the voice coil can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Osamu Funahashi, Hiroyuki Morimoto, Kazuyoshi Umemura
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Patent number: 7991372Abstract: A radio receiver for diversity has a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit for diversity-receiving a signal of a radio frequency. The first receiving unit has a first mixer for converting the received signal of the radio frequency into an IF signal of a first intermediate frequency by an upper local method, and a first filter coupled to the output side of the first mixer. The second receiving unit has a second mixer for converting the received signal of the radio frequency into an IF signal of a second intermediate frequency by a lower local method, and a second filter coupled to the output side of the second mixer. The radio receiver can improve receiving sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Pansonic CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fujii, Hiroaki Ozeki
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Patent number: 7988832Abstract: A work piece or structural component is coated with a system of film layers at least one of which is composed of (AlyCr1-y)X, where X=N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO or CBNO and 0.2?y<0.7, with the composition within said film being either essentially constant or varying over the thickness of the film continually or in steps, as well as a process for producing it.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Oerlikon Trading AG, TrubbachInventors: Volker Derflinger, Andreas Reiter, Christoph Gey
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Patent number: 7991275Abstract: Digital camera is provided with face detection section that detects faces of a plurality of photographing objects, microcomputer performs continuous shooting in optimum photographing conditions in accordance with the number of faces of the photographing objects for each face of the plurality of photographing objects by a single shutter operation and performs control by assigning serial photographing object numbers to the images of the plurality of photographing objects taken by continuous shooting and recording the images in a single continuous-shooting image folder. Furthermore, microcomputer performs continuous shooting in predetermined order in accordance with the number of faces of the photographing objects and detects, when the photographing object speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the photographing object speed again after photographing other photographing objects.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Naoto Yumiki
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Patent number: 7988655Abstract: A catheter pump includes a catheter channel communicating with a distal end portion of the catheter for alternatingly leading fluid in proximal and distal directions. At least one outlet passage is distally spaced from the inlet passage or passages. The catheter pump further includes a displacement structure communicating with the proximal end portion of the catheter for alternatingly applying suction and pressure for driving the fluid displacement. At least in operating condition, the inlet passage or passages are continuously open. A catheter and fittings for such a catheter pump and method of using a catheter pump are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Pulsecath B.V.Inventors: Gerhard Rakhorst, Jan-Paul Van Loon, Martijn John Van Der Bom
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Patent number: 7990681Abstract: An aluminum electrolytic capacitor having an excellent short-circuit resistance, high capacitance, long life, and low equivalent series resistance (ESR) is provided. For this purpose, the aluminum electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element having a positive electrode foil, a first separator, a negative electrode foil, and a second separator, which are sequentially laminated one on another and wound together. After the capacitor element is impregnated with a driving electrolyte solution and housed in a metallic case, an open end of the metallic case is sealed with a sealing material. A ratio of B/A, i.e. a ratio of total thickness B of the first and second separators after winding with respect to total thickness A of the first and second separators before winding, is set in the range from 0.5 to 0.8.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hisao Nagara, Kazunari Imamoto, Shigetaka Furusawa, Hiroyuki Matsuura
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Patent number: 7987875Abstract: A flexible, typically un-bonded, armored pipe, and a method manufacturing a flexible pipe. The pipe has a center axis and comprises an inner liner surrounded by a radial armoring and an axial armoring, the radial and axial armoring each comprising at least one armoring layer of armoring profiles wound with winding angles ?i relative to the center axis. The winding angle of the innermost armoring layer ?innermost is larger than the winding angle of the outermost armoring layer ?outermost. The outer radial armoring layer has sufficient strength and flexibility to prevent prohibitively large radial deformations of underlying axial armoring layers without considerably increasing the radial contact pressure on underlying axial armoring layer. At least one fibrous layer, comprising at least two fibrous cords wound on an underlying layer, surrounds the outermost armoring layer. The flexible pipe is useful in terrestrial and/or subsea transport of fluids at elevated temperature and/or pressures.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: NKT Flexibles I/SInventor: Jan Rytter
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Patent number: 7987543Abstract: In a working method for a cleaning device (2) that moves back and forth in a swimming pool (1), control thereof is such that the cleaning device (2) moves from a starting position at a low speed in a forward direction V in a first pass in a first cleaning path (4) until it runs up to a pool wall (3), wherein the distance D1 traversed along the first cleaning path is measured or determined. The cleaning device (2) is then guided to a second cleaning path (5) deviating from or offset relative to the first cleaning path (4) in a second pass, initially at a low speed, whereupon the cleaning device then moves in a backward direction along the second cleaning path (5) at a high speed until the distance Dz traversed is smaller than the distance D1 traversed in the previous pass by an amount A.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: 3S Systemtechnik AGInventors: Hans Rudolf Sommer, Peter Sommer
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Patent number: 7987715Abstract: An angular velocity sensor includes a vibrator vibrating, first and second differential circuits for outputting first and second difference signals, respectively, and a synchronous detector circuit for synchronously detecting the first and second difference signals. First and second sensors outputs first and second detection signals in response to a distortion produced due to an inertial force. The second detection signal has a phase reverse to a phase of the first detection signal. The first difference signal corresponds to a difference provided by subtracting the first detection signal from the second detection signal. The second difference signal corresponds to a difference provided by subtracting the second detection signal from the first detection signal. This angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity of the vibrator accurately.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Takeshi Uemura
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Patent number: 7989327Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semi-conductor on insulator substrate from an SOI substrate, wherein a Si1-xGex layer is formed on a superficial layer of silicon having a buried electrical insulating layer. A silicon oxide layer is formed on the Si1-xGex layer. The resulting stack of silicon, Si1-xGex and silicon oxide layers is etched up to the buried insulating layer leaving an island of the stack, or up to the superficial layer leaving a zone of silicon and an island of the stack. A mask is formed to protect against oxidation on the etched structure, wherein the protective mask only leaves visible the silicon oxide layer of the island. The germanium of the Si1-xGex layer is condensed on the island to obtain an island comprising a layer that is enriched in germanium, or even a layer of germanium, on the insulating layer, with a silicon oxide layer on top of it.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Benjamin Vincent, Laurent Clavelier, Jean-Francois Damlencourt
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Patent number: 7988743Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor in which a capacitor element has conductive polymer solid electrolyte on a dielectric oxide film layer. The method includes the following processes: forming a manganese oxide layer on the dielectric oxide film layer; and chemically polymerizing a reaction solution containing a monomer, aromatic sulfonic acid, and a solvent using the manganese oxide layer as an oxidizing agent. Here, polyhydric alcohol capable of being coordinated to manganese ions released from the manganese oxide layer is made to coexist with the chemical polymerization reaction.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yukari Shimamoto, Yasunobu Tsuji, Ayumi Kochi, Seiji Takagi
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Patent number: 7988770Abstract: A jacket material into which a gas adsorbing device and core material are inserted is decompressed in a vacuum chamber, the opening is sealed, and then the jacket material is exposed to the atmosphere. In the atmospheric pressure, a pressure of about 1 atm which is equivalent to the pressure difference between the inside and outside is applied to the jacket material of the heat insulator. The jacket material is made of a plastic laminated film and is deformed by pressure. A protruding portion is plunged into a container to drill through holes, and a gas adsorbent in the container communicates with the inside of the jacket material. Thus, both during holding and in applying to the vacuum heat insulator, the gas adsorbent can be applied to the vacuum heat insulator without degradation, and the high degree of vacuum can be kept for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masamichi Hashida, Kazutaka Uekado, Akiko Yuasa
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Patent number: 7990040Abstract: A fluorescent lamp including a phosphor layer including (Y1-x-yGdx)AlO3:EU3+y, wherein 0.4?x?0.7 and 0?y?0.1, and at least one of each of a green and blue emitting phosphor. The resulting lamp will exhibit a white light having a color rendering index of preferably 90 or higher with a correlated color temperature of from 2500 to 10000 Kelvin. The use of (Y1-x-yGdx)AlO3:Eu3+y in phosphor blends of lamps results in high CRI light sources with increased stability and acceptable lumen maintenance over, the course of the lamp life.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alok Srivastava, Holly Comanzo, Venkatesan Manivannan
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Patent number: 7989354Abstract: Disclosed is a patterning method including: forming a first film on a substrate; forming a first resist film on the first film; processing the first resist film into a first resist pattern having a preset pitch by photolithography; forming a silicon oxide film on the first resist pattern and the first film by alternately supplying a first gas containing organic silicon and a second gas containing an activated oxygen species to the substrate; forming a second resist film on the silicon oxide film; processing the second resist film into a second resist pattern having a preset pitch by the photolithography; and processing the first film by using the first resist pattern and the second resist pattern as a mask.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Shigeru Nakajima, Kazuhide Hasebe, Pao-Hwa Chou, Mitsuaki Iwashita, Reiji Niino
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Patent number: 7985852Abstract: Disclosed is a novel substance capable of regulating the expression of a telomerase reverse transcriptase gene in a cell of a mammal. A gene capable of regulating the expression of hTERT, comprising a nucleotide sequence depicted in SEQ ID No: 1 or 2. The expression of a telomerase reverse transcriptase gene can be inhibited by inhibiting the expression of the gene. By utilizing this mechanism, the expression of a telomerase reverse transcriptase gene can be regulated.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: National University Corporation Tottori UniversityInventor: Norimasa Miura
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Patent number: D641979Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Omer I. Sazir, Elizabeth A. Cho
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Patent number: D642468Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Tablecraft Products CompanyInventor: Charles P. Maxwell