Patents Represented by Attorney Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8148920
    Abstract: A method of controlling a ballast for a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp and related system. The method includes setting initial operating parameters of the ballast to turn on the HID lamp, generating starting transient electric characteristic values of the HID lamp by measuring actual electric parameters at a predetermined time during a transient process after the HID lamp is turned on, searching stored data for a rated power corresponding to the starting transient electric characteristic value range of the HID lamp after determining that the starting transient electric characteristic value is within stored starting transient electric characteristic value ranges of the HID lamp, and searching the stored data for a corresponding ballast operating parameter, to allow the HID lamp to operate in the corresponding rated power, and realize that a single ballast can be adapted to and control the HID lamps to operable in their respective specific rated power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Li-Ling Lee, Ching-Ran Lee, Jia-Hong Chen, Chin-Sien Moo, Sheng-Yi Tang
  • Patent number: 8149501
    Abstract: Excitation light is split into two components with mutually orthogonal polarization. One component is fed clockwise and the other component is fed counterclockwise into a polarization maintaining loop. A second-order nonlinear optical medium disposed in the loop generates up-converted light from each excitation component by second harmonic generation, and generates down-converted light from the up-converted light by spontaneous parametric down conversion. A polarization manipulation unit manipulates the polarization direction of at least one of the excitation or down-converted components. The clockwise and counterclockwise components of the down-converted light are recombined and output as quantum entangled photon pairs having substantially the same wavelength as the excitation light. The optical components can be optimized for operation at this wavelength without the need to consider the shorter wavelength of the up-converted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin Arahira
  • Patent number: 8150263
    Abstract: An optical code division multiplexing signal generator provided with an optical pulse light source, a first encoder to an Nth encoder, a first optical modulator to an Nth optical modulator, and a first optical circulator to an Nth optical circulator. The first optical circulator inputs an input optical pulse train to a first encoder, and inputs a first encoded optical pulse train output by Bragg reflection from the first encoder to the first optical modulator. The kth optical circulator inputs an input (k?1)th optical pulse train which has passed through the (k?1)th encoder to a kth encoder, and inputs a kth encoded optical pulse train output by Bragg reflection from the kth encoder to the kth optical modulator. Herein k takes all integers from 2 to N, and N is a positive integer of 2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industtry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuko Kobayashi, Kensuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8146276
    Abstract: An insulation cover for iron comprises a bag-shaped body for containing the iron; the body is provided with an opening which is used as an entrance for the iron; the opening of the body is provided with a zip-fastener for closing the opening; the body is provided with a hanger. After the iron being placed into the body via the opening, zip up the opening, then the iron is covered inside the insulation cover and thus it can be placed on a horizontal surface directly; or be hanged with the cover by the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Tsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Pan, Lo Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 8148066
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid hybridization method and in particular to a method using a microfluidic chip-based hybridization device with modified procedures which shows the advantages of simplicity and efficiency. The method of the present invention is to mix the test nucleic acid and the probe nucleic acid in advance, feed the solution into a hybridization device with a porous substrate, let the nucleic acid to be analyzed absorb into the substrate. The washing solution is then injected into the same device to wash out the unhybridized probes and the signals of hybridization absorbed on the substrate are detected for analysis. The conventional 2-step approach for the hybridization of the nucleic acid to be analyzed and the probe is combined into one step by the method of the invention provided here, which simplifies the necessary steps and shorten the time needed for hybridization reaction and detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventors: Chung-Cheng Chang, Jau-Der Chen, Pei-Tai Chen
  • Patent number: 8151002
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an information conversion apparatus provided to a relay device for relaying between a server to which a first network address is allocated and a client terminal to which a second network address is allocated, the information conversion apparatus including: an analyzer which analyzes a message corresponding to Layer 7 of an OSI basic reference model of a received packet and determines whether a URL expressed as a literal network address is included; and an address converter which mutually converts, when a URL expressed as a literal network address is included, the literal network address in the URL between the first network address and the second network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Networks Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Suzuki, Kazuto Okada
  • Patent number: 8149095
    Abstract: A gateway device includes a base processor which converts a signal input from an IP network to a signal which can be handled by the gateway device, and a home appliance control processor having a controller which converts the signal which can be handled by the gateway device to a control signal in compliance with the communications protocol of a home appliance to be controlled. The controller stores, on a table, information about the communications protocol, driver, controllable setting condition and status of respective appliances to be controlled in association with each other. The controller also includes a conversion functional block which converts information supplied to the control information of the communications protocol of the respective appliances to be controlled on the basis of the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jun Hayashi, Takaaki Horibuchi, Mitsuharu Ozawa, Yoshinobu Kimura, Masahide Nakamura, Yusuke Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8143974
    Abstract: A coplanar waveguide includes a signal line formed on a major surface of a high-resistivity silicon substrate, a pair of ground conductors placed on opposite sides of the signal line, and a pair of trenches formed in the substrate between the signal line and the ground conductors. Because of the trenches, the attenuation characteristics of the coplanar waveguide are highly uniform, and are comparable to the attenuation characteristics of coplanar waveguides formed on compound semiconductor substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takehiko Makita
  • Patent number: 8144139
    Abstract: In a display panel module, a first group and a second group of data driver chips are separately cascaded on a first side of a display panel. A scan driver chip is disposed on a second side of the display panel. A first flexible printed circuit (FPC) is connected between a printed circuit board (PCB) and the display panel for transmitting signals to the first group of data driver chips, the second group of data driver chips and the scan driver chip, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Sheng-Kai Hsu, Chih-Hsiang Yang
  • Patent number: 8143513
    Abstract: A solar cell with a superlattice structure and a fabricating method thereof are provided, which includes fabricating a superlattice structure of GaAsN/GaInAs, GaAsN/GaSbAs, or GaAsN/GaInSbAs between a base and an emitter of a middle cell of a triple junction solar cell by a strain-compensation technology. The provided solar cell not only decreases crystalline defects and increases the critical thickness of the crystal, but also makes the energy bandgap of GaAsN and GaInAs reach around the energy of 1.0 eV (electron volt). Hence, the absorption region can be raised to around the energy of 1.0 eV to enhance the efficiency of the solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, Atomic Energy Council—Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
    Inventors: Chih-Hung Chiou, Pei-Hsuan Wu, Shang-Fu Chen, I-Liang Chen, Jung-Tsung Hsu, Andrew-Yen C. Tzeng, Chih-Hung Wu
  • Patent number: 8143670
    Abstract: Provided is a self aligned filed effect transistor structure. The self aligned field effect transistor structure includes: an active region on a substrate; a U-shaped gate insulation pattern on the active region; and a gate electrode self-aligned by the gate insulation pattern and disposed in an inner space of the gate insulation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Lee-Mi Do, Kyu-Ha Baek
  • Patent number: 8142326
    Abstract: A multi-gear mechanism includes first and second gear sets, an output set, multiple first planet gears pivotably connected between the first and second gear sets, a first gear ring having internal teeth and external teeth, multiple second planet gears cooperated with the internal teeth of the first gear ring, a second gear ring having internal teeth and side teeth, an operation gear ring and a motor gear. The motor gear extends through two central holes of the first and second gear sets, and the first and second planet gears are engaged with the motor gear. The operation gear ring is connected with the second gear ring which drives the operation gear ring to move axially. The motor gear drives the output set at low speed, constant speed or high speed when the operation gear ring and the second gear ring are operated to engage with different gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Power Network Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ting-Kuang Chen
  • Patent number: 8142227
    Abstract: A multifunctional base for energy saving lamps includes a base body defining an inner receiving space and provided with a bottom through hole and a side opening; a circuit board vertically mounted in the receiving space of the base body and having a power conversion circuit provided thereon; and a set of spring conductive strips including at least a first and a second spring conductive strip. The first spring conductive strip has an end electrically connected to the circuit board and another end protruded from the base body via the bottom through hole; and the second spring conductive strip has an end electrically connected to the circuit board and another end protruded from the base body via the side opening. The first and second spring conductive strips act to enable increased contact tightness between the lamp base and a lamp socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventor: Fang Puo Kuo
  • Patent number: 8141691
    Abstract: An operating lever, for example for use in a vehicle, is provided. The operating lever may comprise a lever holder, and an operating component pivotably coupled to the lever holder. Manipulation of the operating component may regulate or control a “pulling margin” of a wire that operates a device such as a clutch. The operating component and the lever holder may contact each other circumferentially at a contact portion. At the contact portion, projections on respective surfaces of the operating component and lever holder may engage each other in such a way that when the operating component is turned to regulate the pulling margin, the operating component undergoes elastic deformation in a radial direction. In this way, a definite operating feel is transmitted to a person operating the operating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Fujinaka
  • Patent number: 8142334
    Abstract: Provided is an early rehabilitation training system that increase the intensity of patient rehabilitation training to shorten the time it takes for patients to progress to a secondary rehabilitation training stage by allowing patients incapable of self-ambulation to be artificially rehabilitated in a prone, bed-ridden position. The system includes a treatment bed (2) configured with a mattress (2a), a base (2b) disposed below the mattress (2a) and coupled through a hinge to one end of the mattress (2a), and a tilting unit (2c) provided between the mattress (2a) and the base (2b) to adjust an upright angle of the mattress (2a); and a rotating unit (10) provided below the mattress (2a) of the treatment bed (2) to secure a patient's feet and provide artificial exercising of the patient's feet through gravity when the upright angle of the mattress (2a) is changed by the tilting unit (2c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Cooperation Foundation Chonbuk National University
    Inventors: Nam Gyun Kim, Mun Ho Ryu, Tae Kyu Kwon
  • Patent number: 8136461
    Abstract: A table includes legs, each of which includes a tube and a long screw rod passing through the tube. The tube has a limit step at a first end. The long screw rod has a protruding step at the first end and a screw at a second end. The table also has a tabletop with screw holes. Each screw hole is for receiving the screw of the long screw rod. The screw is lock-connected with the screw hole when the legs are perpendicularly joined to the tabletop at the second end. The protruding step of the long screw rod engages the limit step of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: New-Tec Integration (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Luhao Leng
  • Patent number: 8136299
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sliding door opening/closing device for a vehicle that applies a sufficient opening/closing drive force to the left and right sliding doors and reduces a force necessary to lock and unlock the latch, despite a simple configuration of the device, and that facilitates the manufacturing process, improves operability and safety, and reduces noise. A lock device, against both sides of which locking portions abut, rotates a columnar permanent magnet so as to form magnetic locking circuits and fixes the locking portions by magnetic forces of the locking magnetic circuits. The rotational operation of the columnar permanent magnet is converted into the downward operation of a latch, and the lowered latch restrains the locking portions with respect to the lock device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Inage
  • Patent number: 8139300
    Abstract: This invention provides a magnetic recording medium evaluation apparatus and evaluation method which yield results having good correlation with error rate measurements even when comparing media with different structures. Signals from a function generator are recorded in a magnetic recording medium. The recording signals are also passed through a first digital filter to obtain ideal restored signals. Reproduced signals from the magnetic recording medium are sampled in synchronization with the output from the function generator, and the discrete signals are passed through a second digital filter to obtain restored signals. The outputs from the first and second digital filters are input to an operational amplifier, and the difference between the restored signals and the ideal restored signals is taken for each sampling of the recording signals. The signal-to-noise ratio of the ideal restored signal to the average of the absolute value of this difference is used to evaluate signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8139643
    Abstract: Provided is a motion estimation apparatus for moving picture coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jin Ho Han, Suk Ho Lee, Seong Mo Park, Nak Woong Eum
  • Patent number: D656545
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fulon Development Limited
    Inventor: Peter M. H. Hung