Patents Represented by Attorney Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC
  • Patent number: 8321607
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a semiconductor memory device including: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of pads formed on the semiconductor substrate and configured to permit data input and output; and a memory core block and an I/O block integrated on the semiconductor substrate. The data items are input and output to and from the plurality of pads at twice a maximum access rate in effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masami Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8313501
    Abstract: A surgical cutting instrument for cutting tissue includes an outer cannula with a cutting opening and a cutting member within the cannula. The cutting member is connected to a source of reciprocation, and as the cutting member reciprocates the cutting member head is guided by a sloped member within the cannula to essentially a zero clearance position relative to a cutting edge of the cutting opening of the cannula. The instrument cleanly severs tissue extending through the cutting opening into the outer cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Nico Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Miller, Dan C. Ireland
  • Patent number: 8313697
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cartridge 1 including a plurality of analyzing tools 3 arranged lined in a plane direction and a case 2 for accommodating the plurality of analyzing tools 3, and being configured to take out the analyzing tool 3 one at a time from the case 2. The plurality of analyzing tools 3 further include engagement means 32, 33 for restricting the analyzing tools 3 adjacent to each other in the plane direction and allowing removable attachment in a thickness direction D1, D2 of the analyzing tool 3. The present invention further relates to an analyzer and an analyzing system for analyzing a sample using the cartridge 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Arkray, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Sato
  • Patent number: 8314868
    Abstract: A solid state imaging device includes: an AD conversion section having a comparing section, which receives a reference signal from a predetermined reference signal generating section and which compares the reference signal with an analog signal to be processed, and a counter section, which receives a count clock for AD conversion and performs a count operation on the basis of a comparison result of the comparing section, and acquiring digital data of the signal on the basis of output data of the counter section; a count operation period control section controlling an operation period of the counter section on the basis of the comparison result; and a driving control section controlling the reference signal generating section and the AD conversion section such that for the signal to be processed, data of upper N?M bits is acquired in first processing and data of lower M bits is acquired in second processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8313107
    Abstract: A rolling boot is proposed that has a first fastening region and a fold region with at least a first fold having a first fold peak region and a first fold flank near the first fastening region and, opposite this first fold flank, a second fold flank which is adjoined by a fold trough, wherein a transition region having a base surface is arranged between the first fastening region and fold region, and an angle a having a range from approximately 90° to approximately 140° is formed between the base surface and an outer side of the first fold flank, and the fold trough has a depth T which is, at most, approximately 65 percent of a height H of the first fold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: GKN Driveline International GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas Hoets, Markus Deisinger, Ralf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 8309392
    Abstract: A back-illuminated type solid-state image pickup device (1041) includes read circuits (Tr1, Tr2) formed on one surface of a semiconductor substrate (1042) to read a signal from a photo-electric conversion element (PD) formed on the semiconductor substrate (1042), in which electric charges (e) generated in a photo-electric conversion region (1052c1) formed under at least one portion of the read circuits (Tr1, Tr2) are collected to an electric charge accumulation region (1052a) formed on one surface side of the semiconductor substrate (1042) of the photo-electric conversion element (PD) by electric field formed within the photo-electric conversion element (PD). Thus, the solid-state image pickup device and the camera are able to make the size of pixel become very small without lowering a saturation electric charge amount (Qs) and sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Iwabuchi, Kazuhide Yokota, Takeshi Yanagita, Yasushi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8310473
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, includes a plurality of film transistors, and a buffer circuit, wherein the buffer circuit includes an outputting stage; a first inputting stage; a second inputting stage; a second outputting stage; and a transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seiichiro Jinta
  • Patent number: 8308747
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a puncture device 1 for moving a puncture element 21 in a piercing direction N1 and for piercing a target site with the puncture element 21. The puncture device 1 is for moving a second member 42 retaining the puncture element 21 in the direction N1 and in a direction N2 by the rotational motion of a third member 40 as a first member 41 moves in the directions N1 and N2. The puncture device 1 further comprises a piercing depth adjusting mechanism 6 of adjusting a piercing depth of the puncture element 21 to the target site by regulating a rotation angle of the third member 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Arkray, Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 8310470
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: an available pixel section; a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of capacitor lines; a plurality of signal lines; a driving circuit; a monitor circuit having a first monitor pixel section and a second monitor pixel section; at least two of following three correction systems of a capacitor-signal correction system, a video-signal correction system and the second monitor pixel section, and a common-voltage correction system; and a switch for selectively supplying pixel electric potentials detected by the first monitor pixel section and the second monitor pixel section to a desired one of the two or three correction systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Toyoshima, Naoyuki Itakura, Tomoyuki Fukano
  • Patent number: 8310303
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a demodulator, including: a frequency synchronization section adapted to synchronize a frequency of a local oscillation signal to be produced on the demodulator side with a local oscillation frequency of a modulation signal transmitting from a modulator side; a demodulation signal production section adapted to produce a demodulation signal based on the local oscillation signal synchronized by the frequency synchronization section and the modulation signal transmitted from the modulator; and a direct current correction section adapted to detect a direct current voltage of the demodulation signal from the demodulation signal produced by the demodulation signal production section and correct the direct current voltage of the demodulation signal so that the direct current voltage becomes equal to a reference voltage set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Komori
  • Patent number: 8311598
    Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus includes a first cabinet; a second cabinet; a slide holding mechanism for holding a first cabinet and a second cabinet slidable during a shift from an closed state to an open state; a keyboard held within the second cabinet, the keyboard being disposed movable in slide directions of the first cabinet and the second cabinet; a hook disposed at a retraction side end; a keyboard lock member including a projection and a notch engaged with the hook; and a sliding groove that is disposed in the first cabinet in the slide direction of the first cabinet to slide the projection. The keyboard is held within the second cabinet when the first cabinet and the second cabinet are placed in the closed state or the keyboard ejects from the second cabinet when the first cabinet and the second cabinet are placed in the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Endo, Kazuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 8310418
    Abstract: A self-luminous display device includes: pixel circuits; and a drive circuit, wherein each of the pixel circuits includes a light-emitting diode, a drive transistor connected to a drive current channel of the light-emitting diode, and a holding capacitor coupled to a control node of the drive transistor, the drive circuit applies a light emission enabling bias to the light-emitting diode after correcting the drive transistor and writing a data voltage to the control node, provides, during a light emission enabled period in which the light emission enabling bias is applied, a light emission interruption period adapted to change the light emission enabling bias to a non-light emission bias with the data voltage held by the holding capacitor, and performs a light emission disabling process, adapted to reverse-bias the light-emitting diode to stop the light emission, for a constant period after the light emission enabled period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 8305429
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having a simple configuration and being capable of performing switching between an image pickup mode based on a light field photography technique and a normal high-resolution image pickup mode is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup lens 11, a microlens array section 12 where light passing through the image pickup lens 11 enters, and an image pickup device 13 sensing light emitted from the microlens array section 12, and the focal length of each of microlenses constituting the microlens array section 12 is variable in response to an applied voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junji Kajihara, Kenji Yamamoto, Isao Ichimura
  • Patent number: D670240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yujin Morisawa
  • Patent number: D670265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Motoishi
  • Patent number: D670751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Koyama, Nobuharu Murashima, Yoshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: D671026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Horst Thurau
  • Patent number: D671119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Taichi Nokuo
  • Patent number: D671153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventor: Andreas Harder
  • Patent number: D671319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hitomi Tai, Yuko Hirayama