Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pearne & Gordon
  • Patent number: 8316600
    Abstract: A wall molding for a suspended ceiling comprising a roll-formed sheet metal body having a generally upright component to be fixed to a wall and a projecting component extending generally transversely to the upright component and adapted to underlie and support the edges of ceiling tiles and ends of grid runners, the projecting component in a free state extending across a plane defined by the upright component to a line adapted to abut the wall when the upright component is drawn towards the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: USG Interiors, LLC
    Inventor: Alan C. Wendt
  • Patent number: 8320828
    Abstract: In a multiuser MIMO system, entire system throughput achieved during retransmission is significantly enhanced. When an interference signal addressed to another user equipment (UE2) 200b has been demodulated successfully, a user equipment (UE1) 200a holds the demodulated data pertaining to the interference signal, and feeds back ACK information about the UE2 and CQI information achieved after elimination of the interference signal to a radio base station (BS) 100. When the UE2 performs retransmission after ended in a receiving failure and when the UE1 has demodulated the interference signal addressed to the UE2 successfully, the BS changes the distribution of communication resources in such a way that communication resources for the UE2 become larger than those for the UE1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Imai, Masayuki Hoshino, Yasuaki Yuda, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 8319399
    Abstract: A technology is disclosed for actualizing an ultrasound probe that can obtain a high-resolution diagnostic image and is highly reliable. In the technology, a piezoelectric element has a predetermined thickness, a ground electrode is formed on one surface in a thickness direction, and a signal electrode is formed on the other surface. When an acoustic matching layer is laminated on a ground electrode formation surface of the piezoelectric element, the acoustic matching layer is configured by a composite material made of a plurality of materials including at least a conductive member. The conductive member has portions penetrating in a layer thickness direction at a plurality of sections on the one electrode formation surface of the piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Koetsu Saito
  • Patent number: 8317896
    Abstract: A method of recycling useful metals is provided. The method enables useful metals including indium, zinc, yttrium, europium, lanthanum, terbium, gadolinium, antimony, lead, copper, tin, and silver to be recovered from wastes, such as wasted flat panel displays, and recycled economically with small energy consumption. The method of recycling useful metals includes: a step in which wastes comprising various flat panel displays, e.g., liquid-crystal display panels, are crushed/powdered; a step in which the resultant particles are dissolved in an aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution; and a step in which various metal oxides and various metal fluorides which remain undissolved are filtered off and the aqueous hydrofluoric acid solution containing various metal ions is electrolyzed to deposit and recover metals for transparent-electrode oxides, such as indium and zinc, and other useful metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Shibaura Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Tetsuya Homma, Tomoyuki Ubusawa, Tomoyuki Furuyama, Akihiro Morikaku, Kumpei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8321513
    Abstract: A computer network-based messaging system includes a multiple-layer chat filtering system for controlling the content of messages sent by users. A computer receives a message including a plurality of words entered by a sender. A word database includes a plurality of permitted words which are allowed to be transmitted. A phrase database includes a plurality of prohibited phrases which are not allowed to be transmitted. At least one of the plurality of prohibited phrases consists of a plurality of individual words that are each included in the word database. A message sending part that transmits the message over a computer network only if all of the plurality of words entered by the sender are contained in the word database and none of the plurality of prohibited phrases are contained in the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Ganz
    Inventors: Howard Ganz, Karl Joseph Borst
  • Patent number: 8320051
    Abstract: A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising 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 subsequent lens units including a fourth lens unit having optical power, wherein any one of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the subsequent lens units includes a lens element having a reflecting surface that bends a light beam incident from an object, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, the first lens unit and the third lens unit do not move along an optical axis, and wherein the condition is satisfied: 1.42<nd4ave<1.58 (nd4ave is an average of refractive indices to the d-line of the lens elements constituting the fourth lens unit), an imaging device and a camera are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Matsumura, Tsutomu Iwashita, Yoshiaki Kurioka, Shinji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8320643
    Abstract: A face authentication device is provided that can perform personal identification with high accuracy regardless of an imaging environment for an input face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakanowatari, Ryuuji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8321882
    Abstract: A disk device configured in such a manner that, in addition to tilt adjustment, the adjustment of the distance between a disk and an optical pickup can be easily performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Honda, Tetsuya Okubo, Kenji Urushihara, Yoshikazu Ohmura, Tomomi Nishikata
  • Patent number: 8316754
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a short recoil firearm (1) comprising a main body (2); a barrel (7) slidingly mounted on the main body (2) and movable between a forward percussion position and a backward recoil position; a slider (17) slidingly mounted on the main body (2) and movable between a forward position of closure of the barrel (7) and a backward stop position. The firearm (1) further comprises a plurality of cylindrical rollers (22) operatively connected to a spirally wound tape spring (26). The cylindrical rollers are movable between a first configuration, in which they lie mutually side by side between the slider (17) and the barrel (7), to prevent the relative movement thereof and to allow the integral displacement of same, and a second configuration, in which they lie in a recovery chamber (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventor: Giovanni Gugliada
  • Patent number: 8314336
    Abstract: A rectangular ceiling tile proportioned for use in a standard rectangular ceiling grid module formed by grid tees, the tile having a pair of conductors arranged to feed low voltage electrical power from the grid elements to an electric or electronic device carried on the tile, the conductors each extending to an edge or edges of the tile and adapted to make physical contact with a conductor carried on a grid element when supported on such grid element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: USG Interiors, LLC
    Inventors: Ying (Lora) Liang, Daniel Boss, Graeme Gee
  • Patent number: 8314776
    Abstract: [Problems] A highly convenient maintenance screen needs to be displayed on a display panel when performing a maintenance while considering a correlation between a plurality of processing chambers. [Means for Solving the Problems] Since task buttons are displayed on a second display region 312 by arranging them from the left in an order of a time sequence in which each task button has been clicked, a highly convenient maintenance screen can be displayed on a touch panel 300 when performing a maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosokawa, Ryoji Sakai, Masashi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8314201
    Abstract: Ceramic oxide aerogels incorporating periodically dispersed flexible linkages are provided. The flexible linkages impart greater flexibility than the native aerogels without those linkages, and have been shown to reduce or eliminate the need for supercritical CO2-mediated drying of the corresponding wet gels. The gels may also be polymer cross-linked via organic polymer chains that are attached to and extend from surface-bound functional groups provided or present over the internal surfaces of a mesoporous ceramic oxide particle network via appropriate chemical reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ohio Aerosapce Institute
    Inventors: Mary Ann B. Meador, Baochau N. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8316271
    Abstract: Information on other code words can be utilized at the time of retransmitting, and transmission characteristics of the case of using multiple code words are improved. In a radio communication apparatus for transmitting data using multiple code words, as response time taken by a transmitting station to receive a response signal (Ack/Nack signal) after the data is transmitted from the transmitting station (BS) to a receiving station (UE), a cycle of second response time (RTT2) corresponding to a low-order code word is longer than a cycle of first response time (RTT1) corresponding to a high-order code word. In the receiving station, received data of the low-order code word is decoded using at least one of retransmission data and the first received data of the high-order code word and response signals are respectively generated according to a decoding result of each of the code words and notification of the response signal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 8316097
    Abstract: A computer network-based messaging system includes a multiple-layer chat filtering system for controlling the content of messages sent by users. A computer receives a message including a plurality of words entered by a sender. A word database includes a plurality of permitted words which are allowed to be transmitted. A phrase database includes a plurality of prohibited phrases which are not allowed to be transmitted. At least one of the plurality of prohibited phrases consists of a plurality of individual words that are each included in the word database. A message sending part that transmits the message over a computer network only if all of the plurality of words entered by the sender are contained in the word database and none of the plurality of prohibited phrases are contained in the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Ganz
    Inventors: Howard Ganz, Karl Joseph Borst
  • Patent number: 8316149
    Abstract: A server includes a request information receiving section which receives request information, a correspondence information storage section which stores correspondence information indicating the correspondence of a plurality of content holding devices with content information including fragment content information held by each of the plurality of content holding devices, a specifying section which specifies two or more content holding devices and a plurality of fragment content information elements included in the content information held by the two or more content holding devices, using the correspondence information, so that a series of content information elements requested in the request information can be configured by the plurality of fragment content information elements, and an instruction information transmitting section which transmits instruction information, instructing that specified fragment content information be transmitted to the content receiving device, to a specified content holding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Maekawa, Kenichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D670970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Elizabeth Cho
  • Patent number: D670974
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Elizabeth A. Cho
  • Patent number: D670975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Phaysouk Xayoiphonh
  • Patent number: D671370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Phaysouk Xayoiphonh, Elizabeth Cho
  • Patent number: D671371
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon H. Goodman, Phaysouk Xayoiphonh, Jennifer K. Case