Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Plotkin & Kahn PLLC
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Patent number: 6614686Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-bits non-volatile memory circuit having a cell transistor with non-conductive trap gate which has a cell array capable of reading a plural data simultaneously. The present invention is a non-volatile memory circuit in which a plurality of cell transistors M having a non-conductive trapping gate TG are arranged, comprising: a plurality of source-drain lines SDL, which are connected commonly with the source-drain regions SD1, SD2 of cell transistors adjacent in row direction, wherein these adjacent source-drain lines are set to a floating state F, a read-out voltage application state BL, a reference voltage state OV, a read-out voltage state BL, and a floating state F, and the source-drain lines SDL in the read-out voltage state is caused to function as bit lines, such that a plurality of data are read out simultaneously. The above states are generated by the page buffer P/B connected to the source-drain line. The data read and hold are performed by the page buffer.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Shoichi Kawamura
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Patent number: 6612884Abstract: An outboard motor is provided which includes, in an engine compartment defined by an engine hood, an engine, an intake manifold including a plurality of intake branch pipes connected to a plurality of intake ports of the engine, and a throttle body connected to an intake inlet of the intake manifold. A negative pressure detection hole that opens within the intake manifold, is provided in the outer wall of the intake manifold, and a negative intake pressure sensor that is fixed to the outer wall is positioned in the negative pressure detection hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishhaInventors: Tetsu Wada, Tomonori Ikuma, Kazuyoshi Sato
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Patent number: 6612593Abstract: A suspension structure includes a subframe and a suspension arm. The suspension structure has strength lower than that of the subframe. When an excessive external force acts from a road surface on a wheel, the suspension arm is deformed before the subframe is, thereby preventing the excessive external force from directly acting on the subframe.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Mikasa, Tsutomu Ogawa, Nobuo Kubo, Fumiaki Fukuchi, Haruyuki Iwasaki
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Patent number: 6614712Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes isolation circuits disconnecting cell arrays from sense amplifiers, and isolation signal generating circuits generating isolation signals that control the isolation circuits. The isolation signal generating circuits are hierarchically divided into main isolation signal generating circuits and sub isolation signal generating circuits. The sub isolation signal generating circuits generate sub isolation signals having a first potential on a high-potential side. The main isolation signal generating circuits generate main isolation signals having a second potential on the high-potential side, the second potential being lower than the first potential.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toshiya Uchida, Kota Hara, Shinya Fujioka
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Patent number: 6612591Abstract: A multi-function truck of the present invention has a load-carrying platform, a pump having a motor driven by electric power from an AC power supply and mounted in a space below the load-carrying platform, and a liquid collector loaded on the load-carrying platform. The load-carrying platform also has thereon a hose having the length enough to connect one pipe-end of a suction or a delivery of the pump to the liquid collector and a hose having the length enough to connect the other pipe-end of the pump to a on-site liquid container placed at a collection site, containing an accumulated liquid, wherein a switch is disposed between a plug connected to the AC power supply and the motor, and when a load current exceeds a specified value due to a cause on the side of the truck, the electric current of the AC power supply borrowed is automatically intercepted by the side of the truck.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Inventor: Fumio Watanabe
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Patent number: 6613784Abstract: Organic or inorganic salts of compounds of general formula: A—X1—N(O)z for use as medicaments having anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antithrombotic activity, wherein A is R(COXu)t wherein t is 0 or 1; u is 0 or 1 and X is O, NH, NR1c wherein R1c us a C1-C10 alkyl and R is, for example, (Ia) wherein R1 is acetoxy, preferably in ortho position with respect to —CO— and R2 is hydrogen or acetylsalicylsalicylic acid derivatives; and X1 is the formula (B), Y being a ring containing at least one salified nitrogen atom.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Nicox S.A.Inventors: Francesca Benedini, Piero Del Soldato
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Patent number: 6612126Abstract: An ice making machine of the open-cell type including a box-type housing, a water storage tank mounted to the bottom of the housing, a sprinkler mounted within the bottom portion of the housing and having a plurality of nozzles for spouting upward ice making water supplied to the water storage tank, and a plurality of ice making cell casings mounted wit an ice making chamber formed in an upper portion of the housing and located above the nozzles of the sprinkler to supplied with the ice making water spouted therefrom, wherein the box-type housing is composed of a pair of spaced side wall panels and front and rear wall panels jointed at their opposite side ends to front and rear end portions of the side wall panels respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaaki Kawasumi, Masahiro Kodani, Shinichi Nagasawa, Chiyoshi Toya, Shinsaku Hayakawa
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Patent number: 6612107Abstract: A one-way clutch includes poles and springs accommodated in pockets defined in an inner peripheral surface of an outer race. The poles are urged toward an outer peripheral surface of the inner race by resilient forces of the springs, thereby inhibiting the relative rotation of the inner race and the outer race relative to each other in one direction, and permitting the relative rotation of the inner race and the outer race relative to each other in the other direction. Each of the poles has a partially columnar support projection, and an engage portion comprising a convex curved surface. The support projection is swingably supported in and substantially in face contact with a partially columnar support recess defined in the pocket. The engage portion is in line contact with the outer peripheral surface of the inner race comprising the columnar surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Yutaka Giken Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Sato
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Patent number: 6613334Abstract: A belt for continuously variable transmission, wherein the relationship between the thickness of the metal ring assembly and the groove width of the ring slot is established so that a limit rolling angle &agr; defined as a rolling angle of the metal elements provided when a radially outer peripheral surface of the metal ring assembly contacts a radially outer edge of the ring slot in the metal element is in a range of 0.7°<&agr;<2.5°. The upper limit value 2.5° of the angle &agr; is set as a rolling angle at which the driving force transmitting efficiency is a predetermined value or more, and the lower limit value 0.7° of the angle &agr; is set as a rolling angle generated following the deformation of a V-face due to an axial thrust on a drive or driven pulley.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Hirofumi Akagi, Ken Kanokogi, Takamichi Shimada
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Patent number: 6612698Abstract: A video imaging device obtains the eyeball image of a cornea using light emitted from an imaging light source to the cornea. On the basis of the obtained eyeball image, a video processing device calculates the X- and Y-axis shift amounts and torsion angle of the cornea with respect to the reference position and causes a coordinate indicating device to indicate the calculated X- and Y-axis shift amounts and torsion angle. With this arrangement, the position and torsion angle of the cornea of the patient can be accurately detected and measured without forming any mark on the eyeball to measure the position of the cornea, and the measured position and torsion angle of the cornea can be indicated.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Explorer Inc.Inventors: Seiji Saito, Shuichiro Eguchi, Yasuko Ise
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Patent number: 6609412Abstract: A sensor probe and method of use for determining the temperature, velocity, and/or liquid volumetric fraction of gas laden with droplets. In one variation, the probe includes a single heating element used in a well-characterized flow. The heating element is maintained above the Leidenfrost transition for the droplets, which prevents cooling effects from the droplets from impacting the temperature measurement. In another variation, the probe includes two or more heating elements arranged in similar flow environments. The property of interest is derived by relying on thermodynamic and heat transfer principles, which are not usable in conjunction with conventional devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: University of MarylandInventors: Marino Dimarzo, Paolo Ruffino
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Patent number: 6609975Abstract: The progress of each player in playing an auxiliary incentive game simultaneously with a primary card game is controlled and displayed at a gaming table. A prize display is attached to the table and the prize display indicates at least one prize available to the player who accumulates a predetermined number of-bonus points playing the auxiliary game. A player interface unit is positioned on the table adjacent to each player. The player interface unit displays the number of bonus points received by the associated player. A dealer interface unit is positioned on the table adjacent to the dealer. The dealer interface unit includes control elements to allow the dealer to display the bonus points awarded to each player on the associated player interface unit and to activate a prize award control element on the player interface unit. The winning player selects a randomly indexed prize indicated on the prize display by manipulating the prize award control element on his or her player interface unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1997Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Inventors: Thomas E. Sawyer, Tony A. Crawford
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Patent number: 6610589Abstract: A semiconductor lamination including an n-type layer and a p-type layer composed of a gallium nitride based compound semiconductor and forming a light emitting region is formed on the surface of a substrate. A p-side electrode is formed through a diffusion metal layer on the surface of the semiconductor lamination. Also, an n-side electrode is formed on the n-type layer exposed by etching off a part of the semiconductor lamination. The n-side electrode is formed of an ohmic contact electrode and a bonding electrode. The bonding electrode is formed in such a manner as to cover the surface and the sides of the ohmic contact electrode. As a result, a semiconductor light emitting device made of a gallium nitride based compound semiconductor is produced having an electrode structure of a superior ohmic contact characteristic and a superior wire bonding characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Tsutsui
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Patent number: 6611497Abstract: A TS data filtering circuit in a digital broadcasting receiver comprises storage means for storing, when it cannot be judged whether or not a data row in a TS packet is a data row to be acquired by making matching judgment by hardware, data in the TS packet in a memory, matching judgment means for making matching judgment by software on the data stored in the memory by the storage means, and means for starting the matching judgment in the matching judgment means at a stage where data corresponding to the number of effective bytes previously determined are stored in the memory in the process of storing the data in the memory by the storage means.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2000Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyomi Yamagata, Yoshikazu Mihara
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Patent number: 6611464Abstract: A semiconductor memory device has 2n word lines, a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells disposed at each intersection of the word lines and the bit lines, a write circuit for writing data to a memory cell located at an intersection of selected ones of the word lines and the bit lines, and a sense amplifier for reading data out of the memory cells. Further, the semiconductor memory device comprises a first unit for simultaneously selecting a block of 2m (n>m) word lines among the 2n word lines, and a second unit for not selecting a block of 2k (m>k) word lines among the 2m word lines. The second unit does not select the block of 2k word lines, and selects a block of 2k word lines prepared outside the 2n word lines when any one of the 2k word lines among the 2m word lines is defective. Consequently, redundant word lines are effectively employed, write and verify operations are stable, and thereby the yield and performance of the semiconductor memory device are improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takao Akaogi, Nobuaki Takashina, Yasushi Kasa, Kiyoshi Itano, Hiromi Kawashima, Minoru Yamashita, Shouichi Kawamura
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Patent number: 6611132Abstract: A DC-DC converter for decreasing power consumption and quickly increasing an output voltage. The converter includes a voltage generation circuit, a switching control circuit, a current detection circuit, and a step control circuit. An output transistor performs switching to generate the output voltage of the switching control circuit. The current detection circuit is connected to the voltage generation circuit to detect a load current, which is derived from the output voltage, and to generate a detection signal. A stop control circuit maintains the output transistor in an activated state in accordance with the detection signal and stops the operation of the switching control circuit when the load current is less than or equal to the load current.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shinichi Nakagawa, Hidenobu Ito
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Patent number: 6611472Abstract: The present invention is that, in a memory circuit comprising a cell array and peripheral circuit, the cell array power source is supplied to a circuit which operates during the power-down mode in addition to the cell array. The circuit which operates during the power-down mode is, for example, a self-refresh circuit. A dynamic memory requires refreshing operations in fixed intervals even during the power-down mode. Therefore, the self-refresh circuit is operating even during the power-down mode. Thus, by supplying the cell array power source to the self-refresh circuit, it is possible to consume a prescribed quantity of current from the cell array power source generation circuit to an extent of being able to maintain the level thereof even during the power-down mode. The cell array power source may be maintained within an appropriate voltage range thereby.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2001Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Ayako Kitamoto, Kaoru Mori
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Patent number: 6608138Abstract: Processes for wood treatment using mono- and bifunctional perfluoropolyether compounds as additives in formulations for the wood treatment, said perfluoropolyether compounds having the structures: Rf—O—CFY—L—W (C) W—L—YFC—O—RfO—CFY—L—W (D) wherein: L is an organic group selected from —CH2—(OCH2CH2)n—, —CO—NR′—, with R′═H or C1-C4 alkyl group; n=0-8; Y═F, CF3; W is selected from C1-C50 alkyl groups, optionally containing one or more ether O, C6-C50 aryl groups, C7-C50 alkyl-aryl or aryl-alkyl groups; Rf is a perfluoropolyether radical.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Ausimont S.p.A.Inventors: Gabriella Carignano, Mattia De Dominicis
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Patent number: 6607712Abstract: An essential oil composition from Coleus forskohlii is used in compositions and methods for the treatment of skin infections and in the prevention and treatment of dental caries.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Sabinsa CorporationInventors: Muhammed Majeed, Subbalakshmi Prakash
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Patent number: 6608456Abstract: An integral term component generating unit 21 integrates a d-axis current difference &Dgr;Id and a q-axis current difference &Dgr;Iq using an integral gain Ki which is determined to stabilize a system where the d-axis current difference &Dgr;Id and the q-axis current difference &Dgr;Iq are multiplied by the integral gain Ki, integrated, and inputted, with respect to a steady gain M which approximates, including proportional gains Kp, the steady input-to-output relationship of a motor 2 to which the voltage applied to a d-axis armature and the voltage applied to a q-axis armature are inputted and from which the current flowing through the d-axis armature and the current flowing through the q-axis armature are outputted, thereby a d-axis integral term component Vd_i which is an integral term component of a d-axis command voltage Vd_c and a q-axis integral term component Vq_i which is an integral term component of a q-axis command voltage Vq_c are generated.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuyuki Imai, Toshinori Tsukamoto