Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
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Patent number: 6204506Abstract: An n-type buried channel, a silicon oxide film, a poly-Si transfer electrode, a PSG film as an insulating interlayer, an aluminum interconnection, and a silicon nitride film are stacked on one surface of a p-type silicon substrate to form a CCD. The other surface is protected by a silicon oxide film, and a p+-type accumulation layer is formed on the silicon oxide film, thereby forming a back-illuminated CCD on which light, electromagnetic wave, charged particles, or the like is incident through the other surface. A glass substrate is anodically bonded on the CCD via an insulating polyimide film, and a conductive aluminum film. Therefore, the mechanical strength of the device is kept high, and the sensitivity can be increased by thinning the silicon substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1998Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.Inventors: Hiroshi Akahori, Masaharu Muramatsu
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Patent number: 6202882Abstract: An elastic arm part is provided on an outer periphery of a cylinder part of a cap, and a projection is formed in an outer periphery of an opening part. When the cap is loosened, the arm part engages the projection and is elastically deformed and after releasing the engagement of the arm part and the projection, an engagement between a first screw part and a second screw part is released. Even if an engaging distance between a first screw part and a second screw part is short, the cap is prevented from rapidly opening, and it is possible to lengthen a time a fuel steam is slowly discharged from the opening part.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Hagano, Masayuki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 6204293Abstract: Compounds having the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein R1 is (a) hydrogen, (b) loweralkyl, (c) alkenyl, (d) alkoxy, (e) thioalkoxy, (f) halo, (g) haloalkyl, (h) aryl-L2—, and (i) heterocyclic-L2—; R2 is selected from (b) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)—C(O)OR15, (d) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)—C(O)NHSO2R16, (e) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)-tetrazolyl, (f) —C(O)NH-heterocyclic, and (g) —C(O)NH—CH(R14)—C(O)NR17R18; R3 is heterocyclic, aryl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl; R4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, haloalkyl, halogen, aryl, arylakyl, heterocyclic, or (heterocyclic)alkyl; L1 is absent or is selected from (a) —L4—N(R5)—L5—, (b) —L4—O—L5—, (c) —L4—S(O)n—L5— (d) —L4—L6—C(W)—N(R5)—L5—, (e) —L4—L6—S(O)m—N(R5)—L5 —, (f) —L4—N(R5)&mType: GrantFiled: May 7, 1998Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: University of PittsburghInventors: Said M. Sebti, Andrew D. Hamilton, David J. Augeri, Kenneth J. Barr, Stephen A. Fakhoury, David A. Janowick, Douglas M. Kalvin, Stephen J. O'Connor, Saul H. Rosenberg, Wang Shen, Rolf E. Swenson, Bryan K. Sorensen, Gerard M. Sullivan, Andrew S. Tasker, James T. Wasicak, Lissa T. J. Nelson, Kenneth J. Henry, Le Wang, Gang Liu, Indrani W. Gunawardana
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Patent number: 6204366Abstract: A reshaped human antibody or reshaped human antibody fragment having specificity for human polymorphic epithelial mucin (PEM) is produced by transferring the complementarity determining regions (CDRS) from a murine anti-HMFG hybridoma cell line HMFG1 into a human antibody variable region framework. The reshaped molecule can be used in the treatment or diagnosis of cancer.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1993Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings B.V.Inventor: Martine Elisa Verhoeyen
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Patent number: 6202493Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a first parameter(s) of an object is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Christopher Joseph Cantrall, Barry Victor Holcombe, Graham John Higgerson, Roger Neil Caffin, William Humphries
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Patent number: 6202511Abstract: A hammer includes a rigid elongated support structure, a head carried at one end of the support structure, and a manually engageable gripping portion. An end of the elongated support structure includes a pair of vibration-receiving portions terminating in spaced apart relation with respect to each other and spaced from each other in a direction parallel to a swing plane of the hammer. The manually engageable gripping portion is formed from a resiliently deformable material molded around a portion of the support structure including the vibration-receiving portions so as to fill the space between the vibration-receiving portions. Vibration forces acting in a direction parallel to the swing plane of the hammer are generated by striking a striking surface of the head against an object.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: The Stanley WorksInventors: John C. Murray, David B. Scott
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Patent number: 6203882Abstract: A cordierite honeycomb body is produced by forming a cordierite material including kaoline into a honeycomb shape and sintering it. The kaoline included in the cordierite material is at least partly composed of kaolinite having a Hinckley crystallinity index of 0.5 or more thereby having a less amorphous phase portion in a kaolinite particle. Therefore, when the cordierite material is sintered, the number of micropores generated in the cordierite is decreased due to the less amorphous phase portion in the kaolinite particles. As a result, density of the cordierite is increased without increasing a C.T.E. thereof. Thus, the cordierite honeycomb body has sufficient strength even when thickness of a cell wall thereof is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Koike, Kojiro Tokuda, Tomohiko Nakanishi
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Patent number: 6199908Abstract: The horn switch assembly includes a fixed plate on a connector arm and a movable plate in an air bag module. When those plates are electrically continuous, a horn sounds. The movable plate is urged upward apart from the fixed plate. The movable plate is disposed such that a distance from the movable plate to the fixed plate is set at a fixed distance by two mounting bolts, screwed into the connector arm. Fore-spoke arm sections include torsional deformation parts, torsionally deformable, located outside the mounting seats of an air bag module. Back-spoke arm sections include first bending deformation parts located on the inner side of the mounting seats of the air bag module, and second bending deformation parts located on the outer side of the mounting seats and a column cover. The first bending deformation part has a lower bending rigidity than the second bending deformation part. A lower cover is made of synthetic resin, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motoi Isomura, Yoshiyuki Fujita
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Patent number: 6200354Abstract: A method of dyeing cellulosic fibers or fabrics using pre-metallized acid dye by pretreating the fabric with a cationic agent having a plurality of cationic centers and optionally after treating the dyed material with a cationic polymer is disclosed. The cationic polymer is desirably a polyquaternary amine material especially a poly(DADMAC) or polyvinylpyridine. Material dyed by the method has a “washed out” appearance similar to fabrics dyed using the “Jarofast” process, but the availability of a wide range of pre-metallized dyes gives a wider color range, and the method enables a wider range of substrates to be dyed successfully, including lyocell fiber materials e.g. those sold under Courtauld's trademark “Tencel” and blend/union materials with polyamides, easier processing and superior wash and light fastness.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Geoffrey William Collins, Stephen Martin Burkinshaw, Roy Gordon
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Patent number: 6201822Abstract: A parallel optical signal transmission apparatus suppresses a power source noise, a drift, and timing jitter and drift caused by changes in temperature. The parallel optical signal transmission apparatus has a reference current source 4, which outputs as a direct current reference current a current value that corresponds to a prescribed proportion of a drive current of the laser driver 11, installed on the transmission side and a reference laser diode 121, which emits a standard reference optical signal driven by the direct current reference current, installed on the transmission side. A voltage signal that corresponds to the direct current reference current, which has been converted by the current-voltage conversion circuit 21, is applied as the reference voltage Vref to the comparator 24.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Okayasu
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Patent number: 6201102Abstract: A method of producing an aromatic polyester by distilling a low-boiling fraction from a polycondensation vessel containing a reaction product obtained by acetylating raw monomers of the aromatic polyester with acetic anhydride, wherein the polycondensation vessel is provided with a partial condenser, and controlling a temperature of the low-boiling fraction distilled from the partial condenser within a range from 80 to 150° C. while the amount of the low-boiling fraction distilled from the partial condenser is within a range from 50% to 90% based on a theoretical recovery amount is provided; and according to this method, adhesion of low-molecular compounds to a partial condenser in the production can be prevented and an improvement in yield of the aromatic polyester and stabilization of product quality can be accomplished.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2000Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Hayatsu, Koichi Mizumoto, Hiroshi Harada
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Patent number: 6201286Abstract: A multilayer wiring substrate has a passive circuit element disposed on an insulating base substrate, and an insulating layer is disposed on the insulating base substrate with the passive circuit element interposed therebetween. The insulating layer is formed to have via holes for exposing specific portions of the passive circuit element, and a terminal electrodes are disposed in the via holes. Accordingly, the entire area of the multilayer wiring substrate can be reduced, and cracks caused by residual stress produced by a firing step can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Takashi Nagasaka
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Patent number: 6200327Abstract: The apparatus for taking hold of a tendon comprises an instrument and a needle. The instrument (20) has a pair of inner prongs (34, 36) designed to be inserted in the peritendinous sheath on either side of the tendon. The instrument also has an outer handle in the form of two outer prongs (33, 37) situated on either side of the inner pair of prongs and in the same plane. These prongs all have orifices on common alignments passing through the tendon. The eye (12) of the needle is of reduced thickness.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Inventor: Mathieu Assal
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Patent number: 6201602Abstract: The present invention relates to a detector (1) of foreign fibres and to a corresponding detection method, which can be used for detecting foreign fibres and foreign materials in a measurement object (5) in the textile industry, for example in yarns, slithers and unformed fiber bands on, for example, weaving machines, spinning machines, bobbin winding machines, doubling machines, cards, drawing benches and bobbin frames . . . . The principle of the detection is based on the fact that a measurement object (5) and foreign fibres or materials which are situated in the measurement object (5) absorb the light emitted into the measurement volume (4) by a light source (2) to different extents. All the light in the measurement volume (4), or a representative sample thereof, is measured by photodetectors (3) and converted into a photoelectric signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Barco B.V.Inventor: Patrick Bouvyn
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Patent number: 6201191Abstract: A solid DC cable is made of a conductor having multilayered insulating layer around the outer circumference of the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yorita, Ryosuke Hata, Hiroshi Takigawa
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Patent number: 6200772Abstract: Sensor devices, and analytical methods using them, employing a detector protected from direct contact with samples being examined by a membrane made of a polyurethane modified with a non-ionic surfactant. The detector is preferably an electrode of conventional type (e.g. plantinum metal, optionally with pseudo, counter or reference electrodes) but especially an enzyme electrode. The surfactant may be incorporated into the polyurethane by admixture or by reacting chemically with the polyurethane, and is preferably a condensate of ethylene oxide with a compound containing a hydrophobic moiety—especially with a hydroxy-compound, e.g. an alkylated phenol, fatty alcohol or a sorbitan ester. Conveniently, the polyurethane membrane may contain up to 20 parts per 100 of polyurethane and be up to 10 microns thick, and formed by dip-coating an electrode. Measurements, using electrodes, may be made amperometrically.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2000Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Sensalyse Holdings LimitedInventors: Pankaj Maganlal Vadgama, Geraldine Patricia Rigby, Sayed Ahmed
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Patent number: 6199524Abstract: A shoe housing 3 is connected to and rotatable together with an input shaft. A vane rotor 9 is connected to an output shaft and accommodated in shoe housing 3 so as to cause a rotation within a predetermined angle with respect to shoe housing 3. Vane rotor 9 and shoe housing 3 cooperatively define hydraulic chambers 10, 11, 12 and 13 whose volumes are variable in accordance with a rotational position of vane rotor 9 with respect to shoe housing 3. A locking member 7 is accommodated in vane rotor 9 and shiftable in a direction parallel to a rotational axis common to shoe housing 3 and vane rotor 9. And, an engaging bore 20, formed on a front plate 4 secured to shoe housing 3, receives locking member 7 through a tapered surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayasu Ushida
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Patent number: 6200974Abstract: The present invention provides a phenanthroline derivative of formula (I) wherein, for example, R1 is hydrogen, carboxy, cyano, nitro, (1-4C)alkyl, (1-6C)alkoxycarbonyl, (1-4C)alkylamino, (2-4C)alkanoyl, (1-4C)alkoxy-(2-4C)alkoxy-(2-4C)alkoxycarbonyl or N-[amino-(2-8C)alkyl]carbamoyl; R2 is, for example, hydrogen, carboxy, (1-6C)alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl, N-(1-8C)alkylcarbamoyl, N,N-di-(1-8C)alkylcarbamoyl, N-(1-4C)alkylcyclohexylcarbamoyl, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-isoquinolin-2-ylcarbonyl or N,N-[di-(1-4C)alkyl]thiocarbamoyl; R3 and R4, which may be the same or different, are, for example, hydrogen or halo; and R5 is, for example, hydrogen, di-(1-4C)alkylamino or halo; or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising phenanthroline derivatives, processes for making the same and their use in producing an anti-fibroproliferative effect.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Zeneca LimitedInventors: Philip Neil Edwards, Michael Stewart Large, Neil James Hales
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Patent number: 6201137Abstract: Tetrahydrofurans suitable for use as starting materials in the synthesis of polyether polyols without causing coloration in the product polyether polyols can be obtained by contacting crude tetrahydrofurans with a mineral acid or a strongly acidic cation-exchange resin, followed by isolation through a simple distillation and/or rectification to obtain purified tetrahydrofurans.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakaoka, Toshiro Kubota
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Patent number: 6200785Abstract: The invention relates to L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with amplified lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are amplified and, in particular, overexpressed, and to a process for the preparation of L-lysine.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Degussa-Huls AktiengesellschaftInventors: Caroline Kreutzer, Stephan Hans, Mechthild Rieping, Bettina Mockel, Walter Pfeffere, Lothar Eggeling, Hermann Sahm, Miroslav Patek