Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Plotkin & Kahn PLLC
  • Patent number: 6307806
    Abstract: A command receiving circuit receives a command signal for determining a circuit operation, in synchronization with a clock signal and it outputs the received command signal as an internal command signal. An address switching circuit permits transmission of an address signal to an internal circuit upon receiving the command signal. The internal circuit receives the address signal before the reception of the command signal, thereby to start its operation. As a result, the internal circuit can be operated at high speed. Besides, the address switching circuit inhibits the transmission of the address signal to the internal circuit upon receiving the internal command signal or the clock signal. Therefore, even when the level of the address signal has changed after the reception of the command signal, the change does not lead to operating the internal circuit. Accordingly, the power consumption of the semiconductor integrated circuit is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Tomita, Naoharu Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 6306966
    Abstract: A moisture curable composition excellent in transparency, operating efficiency and storage stability, and is suitable for use as an adhesive and a sealing material is provided. The moisture curable composition produced by blending 100 parts by weight of a mixture (A) and 2 parts by weight to 300 parts by weight of amorphous powder (B). The mixture (A) comprises (1) a copolymer having reactive silicon groups which can be cross-linked by hydrolysis, whose molecular chain substantially consists of (i) alkylacrylate and/or alkylmethacrylate monomeric units having an alkyl group with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and (ii) alkylacrylate and/or alkylmethacrylate monomeric units having an alkyl group with 10 or more carbon atoms, and (2) a polymer substantially consisting of oxyalkylene including reactive silicon groups which can be cross-linked by hydrolysis. The amorphous powder (B) has a grain diameter ranging from 0.01 &mgr;m to 300 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Cemedine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Horie, Yoshinobu Egawa, Yuichi Oshima, Hideharu Hashimukai, Tomokazu Wakaume, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Patent number: 6306796
    Abstract: A titanium dioxide photocatalyst having a monoclinic crystal structure is prepared by subjecting a titanium dioxide hydrate fiber to a heat treatment at a temperature of 80 to 350° C., and then further heat treatment at a temperature of 360 to 650° C., and a multifunctional material is obtained by use of the photocatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Otsuka Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Suzue, Minoru Aki, Katsura Torii
  • Patent number: 6305568
    Abstract: A component attaching hole 5 is opened in the tank main body 1 constructed by laminating an inner shell 3 and an outer shell 4 via a fuel permeation preventing layer 2, and the auxiliary component 6 is welded to the external surface of the tank main body 1 in such a manner as to cover the component attaching hole 5. The component attaching hole is formed so as to be tapered in such a manner that the component attaching hole gets wider toward the external surface of the tank main body 1, and a boss portion 9 is formed on the auxiliary component 6 which is tapered so as to fit in the component attaching hole 5, whereby a fuel permeation preventing layer 8 laminated on the internal surface of the auxiliary component 6 is made to extend over the external surface of the boss portion 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Toshiaki Ichitani, Makoto Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6308123
    Abstract: A vehicle steering control system for conducting a steering assistance control in which a basic steering assist torque is determined based on a structural parameter relating to the lane structure such as its curvature. In parallel, corrective steering assist torques are determined based on positional parameters of the vehicle relating to the lane such as a lateral deviation from the lane center line and a vehicle heading angle, and are added to the basic steering assist torque to correct the same. Since the positional parameters are determined based on the image information at or close to the vehicle, this enables to determine the steering assist torque adequately, thereby enhancing the accuracy of the steering assistance control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Ikegaya, Shinnosuke Ishida, Satoshi Kondo, Jun Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6305954
    Abstract: A substantially cylindrical ceramic protector that thermally insulates a silicone sparkplug boot surrounding a silicone covered sparkplug ignition wire connected to a sparkplug. An air gap between the protector and boot provides additional thermal insulation and evacuates leaked combustion gases to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Metro Motorsports, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph R. Aluise, Sr.
  • Patent number: 6305270
    Abstract: An electric fryer with an elevating mechanism, includes a housing, a top cover, a fryer body, heating elements, a food basket assembly, a temperature controller, a cutout fuse and a timer. The electric fryer also includes an elevating mechanism. It is capable of lifting or lowering the food basket automatically, thus realizing the automation of the frying process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventor: Donglei Wang
  • Patent number: 6306274
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for making both coarse-sided electrodeposition blades for cutting, for instance, semiconductor wafers. The apparatus comprises at least an electrolyte bath containing an electrodeposition object and pulverized grindstone in the electrolyte, an electrolytic metal immersed in the electrolyte, and an electric source whose positive and negative terminals are connected to the electrolytic metal and electrodeposition object, and the surface of the electrodeposition object, on which a required electro-deposit is to be formed, is of a predetermined coarseness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Disco Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Kajiyama
  • Patent number: 6307826
    Abstract: An information recording medium using a substrate having light transmittancy permitting high density recording to be achieved and a recording method permitting such an information recording medium using a substrate having light transmittancy to be recorded in a high density are provided. The information recording medium is formed by layering an ITO film and EB resist on a transparent insulating substrate formed of a glass material having light transmittancy. At the time of recording information, as the ITO film is set at a ground potential, an electron beam having recording information is irradiated upon a surface of the EB resist for a prescribed scanning to perform electron beam exposure, and pits corresponding to the information to be recorded are formed at the exposed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Katsumura, Tetsuya Iida
  • Patent number: 6302715
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved card connector comprising a casing for accommodating a card, a rotary lever pivoted in the casing, and an ejection lever slidably attached to one side of the casing. The ejection lever is so operatively connected to the rotary lever that the inserting of the card in the casing may drive the ejection lever toward the front side of the casing through the agency of the turning rotary lever, and that the pushing of the ejection lever toward the rear side of the casing may eject the card out of the front side of the casing through the agency of the turning rotary lever. The rotary lever is pivotally mounted to the ceiling of the casing by a tongue-like piece extending across the rotary lever from one lateral side of a window opening of the ceiling plate. The window opening is made by cutting a selected area of the ceiling plate, and is somewhat wider than the rotary lever, and the tongue-like piece is depressed the thickness of the ceiling plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Tsushin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sato, Kinzo Narumo, Yuji Hirai
  • Patent number: 6303623
    Abstract: A bicyclolactam compound of the formula (1) is disclosed, which has an excellent anxiolytic effect, is high in safety, and is useful as an effective component of medicinals which are greatly diminished in side effects such as hypnotic, muscle relaxant and sedative effects A bicyclolactam derivative represented by the following formula (1) is also disclosed, and is useful as an effective component of an anxiolytic agent
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventors: Junji Yamamoto, Takashi Arima, Nobuo Kasahara, Masato Nanri, Kazuo Ogawa, Ichiro Yamawaki, Manabu Kaneda
  • Patent number: 6302133
    Abstract: A fuel tank T has a seal member 18 provided at a fuel entry port 16 provided at an upper end of a filler pipe 12 extending continuously to a tank main body 11 for sealing the outer circumference of a nozzle of a fuel filling gun G. A first relief valve 27 and a second relief valve 29 which are adapted to open when the internal pressure of the filler pipe 12 reaches or exceeds a predetermined value are provided along a first relief passage 26 and a second relief passage 28, respectively, which continuously extend to the filler pipe 12. When excessive fuelling occurs, the first relief valve 27 is made to open so that fuel inside the filler pipe 12 is allowed to be discharged to the outside thereof, and the second relief valve 29 is made to open so that part of fuel inside the filler pipe 12 is allowed to flow out into the fuel entry port 16 located above the seal member so as to inform the operator of a fuel filling pump of the occurrence of an abnormal situation to thereby prompt him or her to stop fueling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Toshiaki Ichitani, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Takeshi Suzuki, Ryuji Fujino
  • Patent number: 6304931
    Abstract: In a bus control system for generating a series of access requests from an access requesting unit, such as a CPU connected to a common bus including a data bus or an address bus, to a specific access request responding unit, the specific access request responding unit includes a next-address enable signal generating unit for sending a next-address enable signal which represents that a next address can be received, to the access requesting unit before data is transferred or inputted, in accordance with an address representing the access request from the access requesting unit when a read operation or a write operation is executed. Preferably, the access requesting unit includes a next-address enable signal receiving unit for receiving the next-address enable signal from the specific access request responding unit and for sending the next address to the specific access request responding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Noriaki Ono
  • Patent number: 6304181
    Abstract: This invention provides an antitheft system comprising an antitheft gate 2 installed in the vicinity of an exit of a store, and an alarm unit 1 attached to a commodity. The gate 2 has incorporated therein a signal generator 21 for producing a notifying signal, and an alarm device 22 capable of producing an alarm. The alarm unit 1 comprises an electronic buzzer 11, a receiving antenna 15 for receiving the notifying signal from the signal generator 21 of the gate 2, and a control circuit 17 for operating the buzzer 11 upon the antenna 15 receiving the notifying signal. The alarm device 22 of the gate 2 comprises an alarm producing circuit 225 capable of producing an alarm, a receiving antenna 221 for receiving electromagnetic waves generated by the buzzer 11 by operating the buzzer 11, and a control circuit 224 for operating the alarm producing circuit 225 upon the antenna 221 receiving the electromagnetic waves. The construction described renders the alarm unit 1 compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Sanyo Electronics Co., LTD
    Inventor: Shinji Matsudaira
  • Patent number: 6304492
    Abstract: A synchronous semiconductor memory device for switching an output route of read data based on latency information includes a read amplifier, a register block, a first signal route, a second signal route, and a switching circuit. The read amplifier amplifies the data read from a memory cell. The register block latches the amplified data and outputs the latched data at a timing corresponding to latency information. The first signal route is connected to the read amplifier to bypass the register block. The second signal route is connected to the read amplifier via the register block. The switching circuit is connected to the first and second signal routes and outputs either the amplified data or the latched data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Jun Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6303113
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for the production of well-tolerated, preserved injection or infusion solutions containing human protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Woog, Werner Gruber, Hans-Jörg Markl, Gerhard Winter, Fritz Demmer
  • Patent number: 6304288
    Abstract: A head tracking stereoscopic display includes a first combining light source composed of two line-shaped light sources and a second combining light source composed of two line-shaped light sources. The first combining light source is used when the head of a viewer is shifted a distance between the eyes E in a horizontal direction on the basis of a predetermined position. The second combining light source is used when the head of the viewer is shifted a distance between the eyes E in the horizontal direction on the basis of a position that shifts E/2 from the predetermined position. When the first combining light source is selected, the two line-shaped light sources in the first combining light source are alternately turned on and off. When the second combining light source is selected, the two line-shaped light sources in the second combining light source are alternately turned on and off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Goro Hamagishi
  • Patent number: 6302970
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a thin-film magnetic head with a spin valve effect MR read sensor includes a temperature-annealing step of firmly fixing the direction of the pinned magnetization in the spin valve effect MR sensor. The temperature-annealing step is executed by a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Shimazawa, Manabu Ohta, Tetsuro Sasaki
  • Patent number: 6302071
    Abstract: In an oil passage system of a valve moving control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a hydraulic valve phase variable mechanism and a hydraulic valve characteristic changing mechanism, an oil pressure changing valve for changing operation of the valve characteristic changing mechanism is attached to a rear surface on exhaust side of a cylinder head, and a working oil supply passage is disposed at the exhaust side of the cylinder head. A phase operating oil passage leading to an oil pressure control valve for controlling operation of the valve phase variable mechanism is connected with the working oil supply passage at a downstream position of a branching portion where a change operating oil passage leading to the oil pressure changing valve branches from the working supply passage. In the phase operating oil passage formed in the cylinder head, flow of the phase operating oil is reversed by a cover which is provided at a front surface on suction side of the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tosihiki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6303819
    Abstract: Compounds which are substituted 2-benzylamino-2-phenyl-acetamide compounds of formula (I) wherein: n is zero, 1, 2 or 3; X is —O—, —S—, —CH2— or —NH—; each of R, R1, R2 and R3, independently, is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, halogen, hydroxy, C1-C6 alkoxy or trifluoromethyl; each of R4 and R5, independently, is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl or C3-C7 cycloalkyl; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful in treating conditions such as chronic or neuropathic pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Pevarello, Mario Varasi, Patricia Salvati, Claes Post