Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
  • Electromagnetic surveying for hydrocarbon reservoirs
    Patent number: 7675290
    Abstract: A method of electromagnetic surveying of an area of seafloor that is thought or known to contain a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir is described. The method includes broadcasting an EM signal from a horizontal electric dipole (HED) transmitter and obtaining vertical electric dipole (VED) response data at a remote receiver in response thereto. Survey data are analyzed by comparing the VED response data with background data which are not sensitive to the postulated hydrocarbon reservoir. Accordingly, differences between the VED response data and the background data allow for the identification of buried hydrocarbon reservoirs. The background data may be provided by magneto-telluric surveying, controlled source electromagnetic surveying or from direct geophysical measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: OHM Limited
    Inventors: Lucy M. MacGregor, Martin C. Sinha
  • Sheet carrying unit, image forming apparatus and sheet carrying control method for double feed detecting of accepted sheets
    Patent number: 7673875
    Abstract: Based on the type of sheet and the detection result of double feed, carrying a sheet is stopped. Carrying of a predetermined type of sheet is not stopped even when double feed is detected. The predetermined type of sheet is a sheet having air space inside thereof (an envelope, an OHP sheet, Kent paper, or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Muneyuki Motohashi, Tsuyoshi Iwamoto
  • Wide gap semiconductor power device with temperature independent resistivity due to channel region resistivity having negative temperature dependence
    Patent number: 7671409
    Abstract: A field-effect transistor power device includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a wide gap semiconductor including a channel region and a drift region, the channel region and the drift region forming a series current path between the source electrode and the drain electrode, a gate insulating film that covers the channel region, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. In the series current path which is electrically conducting when the field-effect transistor power device is in an ON state, any region other than the channel region has an ON resistance exhibiting a positive temperature dependence, and the channel region has an ON resistance exhibiting a negative temperature dependence. A ratio ?Ron/Ron(?30° C.) is 50% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kitabatake, Osamu Kusumoto, Masao Uchida, Kunimasa Takahashi, Kenya Yamashita, Koichi Hashimoto
  • Sliding door for motor vehicles and method for the assembly thereof
    Patent number: 7669368
    Abstract: Sliding door for motor vehicles, having an outer door skin, an inner door skin and a door inside trim, supported on a guide rail on a vehicle body and movable between opened and closed positions. The sliding door includes a cable guide assembly for accommodating and guiding electric cables, which connect first electric elements provided in or on the vehicle body to second electric elements provided on the sliding door, whereby on moving the sliding door, the cable guide assembly is movable in a plane including the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and whereby a guide channel for guiding the cable guide assembly is provided on moving the sliding door. Guide surfaces of the guide channel are formed or integrated at least in sections on the inner door skin, in a door module support and/or on the door inside trim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten Kuhnen, Patricia Cruz, Arnd Herwig, Olaf Kriese
  • Apparatus for pattern replication with intermediate stamp
    Patent number: 7670127
    Abstract: The invention relates to an imprint apparatus for carrying out a two-step process for transferring a pattern from a template to a target surface of a substrate. The apparatus works by creating an intermediate disc, e.g. from a flexible polymer stamp, by imprint from the template in a first imprint unit. A feeder device is then operated to feed the intermediate stamp to a second imprint unit, where it is used to make an imprint in a target surface of a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Obducat AB
    Inventor: Bakak Heidari
  • Separation apparatus and method
    Patent number: 7670452
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for separating two objects attached to each other in a sandwich structure, such as a stamp and a substrate pressed together in an imprint process. The apparatus includes a support structure, carrying first fastening means having a base surface and first gripping means for supporting and holding a first object, second fastening means, positioned opposite to the first fastening means, having second gripping means for holding a second object, and a pulling force mechanism to provide a pulling force at an angle to the normal direction of the base surface for displacing the two fastening means away from each other. Preferably, the second object is gripped at a periphery portion, and the pulling force is angled inwardly from said periphery portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Obducat AB
    Inventors: Babak Heidari, Mattias Habenicht
  • Method of producing glycogen
    Patent number: 7670812
    Abstract: A method of producing glycogen comprising a step of: allowing a branching enzyme having the ability to synthesize glycogen to act on a substrate in a solution to produce a glycogen, wherein the substrate is an ?-glucan being linked mainly with ?-1,4-glucosidic bonds and having a degree of polymerization of 4 or more, and the number-average molecular weight of saccharides in the solution before initiation of the reaction is more than 180 but not more than 150,000. (The branching enzyme activity of the branching enzyme)/(the molecular-weight-decreasing activity of the branching enzyme) can be 500 or less. The branching enzyme can be a thermostable branching enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kajiura, Hiroki Takata, Takeshi Takaha, Takashi Kuriki
  • Display
    Patent number: 7671935
    Abstract: A display comprises: a transmissive pixellated spatial light modulator (21); and a backlight (22). The backlight has a light-transmissive waveguide (26), with a first face of the waveguide being opposed to the spatial light modulator (21). The first face of the waveguide comprises a plurality of regions that are not totally internally reflective for at least one polarisation of light propagating within the waveguide, and the remainder of the first face of the waveguide is totally internally reflective for light propagating within the waveguide. Light is extracted from the waveguide at the regions where first face of the waveguide is not totally internally reflective. The pitch of the regions where first face of the waveguide is not totally internally reflective is substantially an integer multiple of the pitch of the pixels of the spatial light modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jonathan Mather, Etienne Lesage, David James Montgomery
  • User guidance in adjusting bone incision blocks
    Patent number: 7670345
    Abstract: A bone incision block includes an incision guide, a localization reference adjustably attached to the incision guide, a fastener for fastening to a bone, and an adjustment device. The incision guide defines an incision plane, and the localization reference enables the incision plane to be spatially determined. The adjustment device is operatively coupled between the fastener and the incision guide, wherein the incision plane can be set relative to the bone via the adjustment device, and a spatial position of the adjustment device can be determined via a registration element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: BrainLAB AG
    Inventors: Norman Plassky, Timo Neubauer, Christian Brack, Hubert Götte
  • Hydraulic energy recovery system with dual-powered auxiliary hydraulics
    Patent number: 7669414
    Abstract: A power transfer system for a vehicle that comprises a an internal combustion engine, one or more drive wheels, and power transfer apparatus transfers power from the prime mover to the wheels for propelling the vehicle. The system further comprises an auxiliary hydraulic pump that has a drive shaft that coupled to a power take-off unit driven by engine, and to an auxiliary hydraulic motor powered by hydraulic fluid supplied from a hydraulic energy storage device such as an accumulator. As a result, the auxiliary hydraulic pump can be powered by hydraulic fluid from the accumulator when the prime mover is not operating, or by the prime mover when operating. A tandem arrangement of one way clutches can be employed to avoid the need to disconnect the auxiliary hydraulic pump from the prime mover during operation of the auxiliary hydraulic motor, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventor: John M. Loeffler
  • Post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 7669847
    Abstract: There provided is a post-processing apparatus which has a simple structure and makes more than one sheet of recording paper easily slide down a slope of a post-processing tray, has no irregularity in the alignment of the sheets of recording paper in the discharging direction, and makes the alignment of sheets of recording paper easier after that. A finisher unit is provided with conveyance rollers for discharging sheets to a processing tray, aligning plates for guiding both sides of the sheets discharged by the conveyance rollers, and a control CPU for controlling an operation of the aligning plates. When the sheets guided by the pair of aligning plates slide down a slope of the processing tray, the control CPU causes the pair of aligning plates to vibrate in the cross direction of the sheet and in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kouzou Yamaguchi
  • System for oscillating a micromechanical cantilever
    Patent number: 7671511
    Abstract: This invention relates to a system for exciting oscillations of micromechanical cantilever sensors and for measuring and evaluating the corresponding oscillations. Such sensors can e.g. be used to detect chemical substances, biomolecules, microorganisms or viruses, or to analyze surface-related phenomena and processes such as conformational changes or phase transitions in thin layers, or to measure physical properties of their surrounding, such as viscoelastic properties of liquids. In the so-called dynamic operation mode, cantilever oscillations are excited and the frequency shift of the ground frequency and/or of one or some higher harmonics, occurring because of a process taking place at the cantilever surface, are measured. In the so-called static mode, the deflection of the cantilever is determined. The setup described in this invention allows measurements in gases as well as liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Concentris GmbH
    Inventor: Felice Mauro Battiston
  • Melody generator
    Patent number: 7671267
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatic generation of melodies where from one step to a following a new parameter value is generated that is sent to a unit emitting sound. The parameters comprise a new note pitch, a new window width, a life span for the window width, a window offset and a life span for the window offset. The new note pitch is selected according to a given probability distribution within the interval of note pitches given by the note pitch in a previous step, the window width and the window offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Inventor: Mats Hillborg
  • Radio communication equipment and method used in said equipment
    Patent number: 7672688
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio communication equipment comprising a first antenna 1, a first RF unit 2 for wireless communication, the first RF unit 2 being connectable to said first antenna 1, wherein a first frequency band is used by said first RF unit 2 for reception of a signal via said first antenna 1 and a second frequency band is used by said first RF unit 2 for transmission of a signal via said first antenna 1, said first and second frequency bands being used alternatively by said first RF unit 2 and a second RF unit 3 for wireless communication, the second RF unit 3 being connectable to said first antenna 1, wherein a third frequency band is used by said second RF unit 3 for reception of a signal and a fourth frequency band 3T is used by said second RF unit 3 for transmission of a signal, said third and fourth frequency bands being used simultaneously by said second RF unit 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Andreas Glatz
  • Short range connectivity usability by using contact information
    Patent number: 7668507
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method and computer application for local communication between electronic equipment in a user-friendly manner. In one aspect of the invention, a mobile telephone initiates a search for electronic equipment having a predetermined modality and within communication range of the mobile telephone. Electronic equipment capable of responding to the request transmit information through a local interface adapter. Such information may include, for example, a unique identifier that may include a telephone number, session initiation protocol (SIP) address of the electronic equipment, user social security number, user and/or contact biometric information, and the like. By receiving the unique identifier of the electronic equipment, the mobile telephone may search an associated electronic phonebook application to identify contact information associated with the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Fredrik Ramsten, Emil Hansson
  • Mobile phone
    Patent number: D611030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Shinsaku Hirano
  • Central processing unit for an automated teller machine
    Patent number: D611223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: WRG Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Kuhn
  • Surface for a ground decking panel
    Patent number: D611624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Inventor: Fergus Johnathan Ardern
  • Surface for a ground decking panel
    Patent number: D611625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Inventor: Fergus Johnathan Ardern
  • Surface for a ground decking panel
    Patent number: D611627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Inventor: Fergus Johnathan Ardern