Patents Represented by Attorney Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7189108
    Abstract: In a terminal connection apparatus by which the space between terminals, such as the terminals of two adjacent electromagnetic contactors, is bridged by three-phase terminal connection conductors arranged in the order of the phases or in the order of phase switching to realize a motor reversing operation, load switching, power source switching or the like, the three-phase terminal connection conductors are housed in a box-shaped insulation case for unitization. As a result, the terminal connection conductors are collectively surrounded by the insulation case to protect the insulation. At the same time, the terminal connection conductors are connected to an electrical device in a unitized manner, thus preventing wrong wiring operation when they are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Fa Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouetsu Takaya, Hideki Daijima
  • Patent number: 7187876
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a mechanism that controls the replenishment amount of toner to a predetermined value. A toner cartridge holds toner therein. The toner cartridge is detachably attached to a process cartridge. The process cartridge has a toner reservoir that holds the toner supplied from the toner cartridge, a photoconductive drum and a developing roller that supplies the toner to the photoconductive drum. A valve is located between the toner cartridge and the process cartridge and supplies the toner from the toner cartridge to the process cartridge. When the valve rotates, the valve supplies a volume of toner in such a way that the toner in the toner reservoir fills a volume not more than a predetermined fraction of a maximum capacity of the toner reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Ito, Tetsu Koyama, Shinichi Otani
  • Patent number: 7187561
    Abstract: A wind fender to isolate heat sources of a mainboard and direct heat to air vents includes a plurality of notches on the wind fender to allow cables on the mainboard to pass through and confine the movement of the cables along the X axis. The wind fender further has retaining sections normal to the wind fender to prevent the cables from moving along the Y axis. Hence heat of the mainboard may be dispelled quickly and the cables may be laid according to a preset wiring layout to accelerate heat dissipation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventor: Lin-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 7187739
    Abstract: A timing recovery circuit and related method is disclosed. The timing recovery circuit encompasses a converter, an interpolator, a phase error detector, an adjustment circuit, and a calculation circuit. The converter samples an input signal to generate an intermediate signal carrying samples of the input signal, while the interpolator inserts an interpolating sample into the intermediate signal in response to a control value to generate an output signal. The phase error detector outputs a phase error of the output signal. The adjustment circuit updates an over-sampling ratio according to a pair of first and second thresholds, and a counting value adjusted in response to the phase error and a median reference value. Finally, the calculation circuit derives the control value from the updated over-sampling ratio, and transferring the control value to the interpolator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Via Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ching-Wen Ma
  • Patent number: 7185862
    Abstract: A mounting platform assembly for a stand device includes a connecting platform having two parallel engaging blocks projecting from a bottom surface thereof, each having a positioning hole and forming a slope on an outward face thereof; and a fixing base having two engaging ribs projecting from a top surface thereof, each forming a sliding groove on the top surface of the fixing base corresponding to the slope of each engaging block, and the fixing base having a positioning means including an engaging button and a push rod. When a conical portion of the push rod abuts against a bottom end of the engaging button, the other end of the engaging button projects from the top surface of the fixing base to engage with the positioning hole of the engaging block, thereby achieving the positioning and fixing of the connecting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventor: Jen Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 7181838
    Abstract: A method of fabricating identifiable flexible printed circuit board (PCB) disposed to an inkjet cartridge includes, providing a flexible substrate having a first surface. A conductive layer is formed on the first surface. A printing ink layer is coated over the first surface. The printing ink layer is exposed and developed to uncover parts of the conductive layer and form at least one identifiable area on the printing ink layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Benq Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Ching Chen, Yi-Jing Leu
  • Patent number: 7182592
    Abstract: A piezoelectric lighter of model R with a safety device includes a casing, a storage, a gas emitting nozzle, a piezoelectric unit, a fixed cover, and a safety device. The safety device comprises a blocking stopper; an ignition cap having a cover, a guiding groove and a guiding aperture; a safety button comprising a button portion, a locking arm, a spring and a guiding retaining shaft that is movably arranged in the guiding aperture to push by the spring force the safety button right to form a locked position that the blocking stopper is located in the traveling way of the locking arm; only if the button portion is pushed left, the locking arm is moved away from the stopper to form an unlocked position that the blocking up is released to ignite the piezoelectric lighter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Polyconcept Hong Kong Limited
    Inventor: Jose Perez
  • Patent number: 7182023
    Abstract: A guideway structure for the high-speed track-bound transportation is composed of the lower-layer main load-bearing girders and the guideway-surface structure elements. The structural elements are connected by the steel elements at the functional zones and the reinforced concrete plates on the guideway body to form an integral. The invention is one of the guideway structures especially suitable for the guideway structure across a river of medium- or small-width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangming Wu, Zhong Wu
  • Patent number: 7182930
    Abstract: A method of fabricating barium titanate powders uses titanium tetrachloride and barium hydroxide as reactants in a reaction solution. The pH value of the reaction solution is adjusted to strongly alkaline range by adding potassium hydroxide. Nitrogen is charged into a reaction tank at normal pressure, and the reaction solution is heated at 80–102°. The solution is intensively stirred at constant temperature, and then subjected to a hydro-thermal reflux. Then, the solution is treated through an ion exchange resin and dried to obtain a cubic BaTiO3 powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ming-Tseh Tsay, Zong-Whie Shih, Pao-Yen Lin
  • Patent number: 7184494
    Abstract: A regenerated data signal generation circuit includes a receiving circuit, first and second binarization circuits and a signal preparation circuit. The receiving circuit receives a modulated signal and demodulates the modulated signal. The first binarization circuit receives the demodulated signal and binarizes the demodulated signal while compensates for offset deviation of the demodulated signal by a first method as to output a first binarization signal. The second binarization circuit receives the demodulated signal and binarizes the demodulated signal while compensates for offset deviation of the demodulated signal by a second method that is different from the first method so as to output a second binarization signal. The signal preparation receives the first and second binaraization signals and selectively outputs a regenerated data signal prepared from one of the binarization signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masato Umetani
  • Patent number: 7184675
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus which has a medium thickness detecting unit for detecting a thickness of print medium and forms an image by an electrophotographic process, the apparatus has a unit for detecting the thickness of print medium that is used after a predetermined operation and a unit for detecting the thicknesses of print media on a paper feed tray at a period of a predetermined number of print pages. A target temperature of a fixing device is set on the basis of the thickness of print medium that is used after the predetermined operation and the thicknesses of print media detected at the period of the predetermined number of print pages. A waiting time is reduced and print quality can be maintained by this apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Toyokazu Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 7182178
    Abstract: Disclosed is a brake caster with stroke adjustment mechanism, including a retainer, a king pin, a catch spring, a catch/release button, a plunger block, and a brake pad. The upper part of the king pin is fitted with the spring coil; the catch/release button is fitted with the catch spring; and a threaded polygonal lock nut is placed over the catch/release button in the hollow space of the plunger block, which has the brake pad installed on the bottom end; the plunger block being coupled with the catch/release button is slipped onto the king pin lengthwise along the threads. By twisting the plunger block in and out around the neck of the plunger block, the stroke distance can be adjusted according to different levels of rubber on the wheel, so that the service life of the caster can be effectively prolonged without numerous replacements of the wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: Chia-Liang Chung
  • Patent number: 7184001
    Abstract: A method of frame processing which includes the following steps: 1) an input frame is input into the frame processing device, 2) according to the input frame and the previous input frame, the frame processing device selects a multiple number of output frames, and 3) the output frames are output by the frame processing device at a refresh rate greater than the first refresh rate. When the voltage value of the input frame is greater than the previous frame's voltage value, the voltage value of the output frame is greater than that of the input frame. When the voltage value of the input frame is less than the previous one's, the voltage value of the output frame is less than that of the input frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: CHI MEI Optoelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Li-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 7180194
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which enables favorable back-surface grinding of a semiconductor substrate with preventing a warp in the substrate, thereby manufacturing a thickness-reduced semiconductor device. A projection electrode is formed on a surface of a wafer. A resin layer is formed on the wafer surface to a thickness to bury a top of the projection electrode. A cut groove is formed in the resin layer along a scribe line formed on the wafer. Thereafter, grinding is made on a back surface of the wafer by the use of a grinder or the like. A surface portion of the resin layer is removed by etching or the like, to expose the top of the projection electrode. The wafer is cut along the cut groove to obtain individual semiconductor chip pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazutaka Shibata
  • Patent number: 7181671
    Abstract: A method and system for CRC calculation to an input message is provided while improving the process time and simple to implement. A linear mapping matrix corresponding to the LFSR to generate the CRC is planning, and the computation of the LFSR to the input message for the CRC generation becomes a simplified matrix multiplication. In the word-wise and doubleword-wise CRC32 cases, the input messages are padded with specific dummies before the prefix of the input message in accordance with their length types on the transmission side, or the CRC outputs derived from the received messages are compared with specific patterns in accordance with their length types on the reception side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kovsky T. J. Tsai, Joe Chang
  • Patent number: 7178514
    Abstract: A crossbow with a vibration-damping device has a stock assembly, a bow assembly, a bushing and at least one resilient element. The stock assembly has a front end. The bow assembly is attached to the front end of the stock assembly. The bushing is clamped between the stock assembly and the bow assembly. The at least one resilient element serves as a vibration-damping device and is clamped between the bushing and the bow assembly. By adding the resilient element, vibrations of the bow assembly are greatly reduced, and the bushing can be selectively made of rigid material to keep the structure of the crossbow sturdy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Poe Lang Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chu-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 7181088
    Abstract: A method for constructing a Gamma table to perform Gamma correction according to the Gamma table. First, select (2M+1) major sampling pixel data, which divide a Gamma curve into 2M major segments. Next, obtain the maximum difference between the n-th major sampling line and the n-th major Gamma segment; according to the maximum difference, select (2Rn?1) minor sampling pixel data from the n-th major Gamma segment. Last, store the Gamma corresponding relationship of all major and minor sampling pixel data in the Gamma table. The execution of Gamma correction includes the following steps. First, select the a-th major sampling pixel datum according to the first M bits of an input pixel datum. Next, select the b-th and the (b+1)-th minor sampling pixel data according to the (M+1)-th bit to the (M+Ra)-th bit of the input pixel datum. Finally, obtain the Gamma corresponding relationship of the input pixel datum via interpolation using the b-th and the (b+1)-th minor sampling pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Avision Inc.
    Inventor: Hsing-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 7180961
    Abstract: The receiving device of the invention contains a correlational operation unit that executes a correlational operation between a first modulated signal having a spread-spectrum modulation applied and a first spread-spectrum signal string to output a correlational signal, and a decision circuit that decides an amplitude value of the correlational signal to output a decision signal. The decision circuit is composed of: a first detector that outputs a first detection signal when it detects that a value of the first correlational signal exceeds the first threshold, a second detector that outputs a second detection signal when it detects that the value of the first correlational signal exceeds the second threshold, and a detected signal selector that outputs the decision signal of a first value when the first detection signal is inputted, and outputs the decision signal of a second value when the second detection signal is inputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Matsuno, Masayuki Kashima
  • Patent number: D537224
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Jiangmen Goodyear Appliances Mfg. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Ping Chen
  • Patent number: D537820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Inventec Multimedia & Telecom Corporation
    Inventor: Kao-Yu Hsu