Patents Represented by Attorney Safran & Cole, P.C.

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  • Pretensioner
    Patent number: 8132829
    Abstract: In the pretensioner, a guiding wall is provided in a generator-side passing portion of a gas passing portion, and an inner portion of the generator-side passing portion at a portion where the guard wall is set is located to a base end rather than a tip end of a wire protective cylinder. Further, a gas generator mounting hole and the generator-side passing portion is inclined to be directed the base end of the wire protective cylinder. For this reason, gas that is jetted from a gas generator is blown to the base end of the wire protective cylinder or a surrounding portion thereof. As a result, even though the thickness of the wire protective cylinder is not set to be large, it can be against pressure of the blown gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Motoki Sugiyama, Masaru Ukita, Tetsushi Muromachi
  • Light emitting device and method for producing the light emitting device
    Patent number: 8134166
    Abstract: A light emitting device that has a radiant efficiency that does not decline in use, enables luminous flux to be increased by a high electric current, and produces white light with good color rendering and a method for producing a light emitting device capable of smoothly transmitting heat generated by LED elements to a carrier substrate. The radiation emitting device has first LED elements for emitting UV radiation, second LED elements for emitting visible light, a substrate made of an inorganic material and which carries the first LED elements and the second LED elements, a body made of inorganic material containing the first LED elements, the second LED elements and the substrate, and an SiC fluorescent screen that is doped with at least one of B and Al as well as N and emits visible light when excited by radiation emitted from the first LED elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Imai, Satoshi Kamiyama
  • Solder mold plates used in packaging process and method of manufacturing solder mold plates
    Patent number: 8132775
    Abstract: Solder mold plates and methods of manufacturing the solder mold plates are provided herein. The solder mold plates are used in controlled collapse chip connection processes. The solder mold plate includes a plurality of cavities. At least one cavity of the plurality of cavities has a different volume than another of the cavities in a particular chip set site. The method of manufacturing the solder mold plate includes determining susceptible white bump locations on a chip set. The method further includes forming lower volume cavities on the solder mold plate which coincide with the susceptible white bump locations, and forming higher volume cavities on the solder mold plate which coincide with less susceptible white bump locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Lewis S Goldmann
  • Method of preparing an antimicrobial packaged medical device
    Patent number: 8133437
    Abstract: A method for making an antimicrobial suture comprising the steps of positioning an antimicrobial agent source within a package comprising an inner surface, said antimicrobial agent being selected from the group consisting of halogenated hydroxyl ethers, acyloxydiphenyl ethers, and combinations thereof; positioning a medical device within the package; and subjecting the package, the antimicrobial agent source and the medical device to time, temperature and pressure conditions sufficient to vapor transfer an effective amount of the antimicrobial agent from the antimicrobial agent source to the medical device, thereby substantially inhibiting bacterial colonization on the medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Scalzo, Jerome A. Fischer, Stephen Rothenburger, Robert Cerwin, James R. McDivitt
  • Apparatus and computer program product for semiconductor yield estimation
    Patent number: 8136066
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product that performs yield estimates using critical area analysis on integrated circuits having redundant and non-redundant elements. The non-redundant elements are ignored or removed from the critical area analysis performed for undesired opens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeanne Paulette Spence Bickford, Jason D. Hibbeler, Juergen Koehl, William John Livingstone, Daniel Nelson Maynard
  • Ultrasonic transducer
    Patent number: 8127613
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer for installation in an instrument housing, the ultrasonic transducer having a transducer housing and a housing fixture, the transducer housing being put under pressure by a medium in its installed state on its emitting and/or receiving side. To provide an ultrasonic transducer for installation in an instrument housing, which implements a measure for avoiding crosstalk of ultrasonic signals and avoids the disadvantages known from the prior art—at least partially, the ultrasonic transducer is wherein the transducer housing indirectly forms at least one contact area in its installed state with the housing fixture, the transducer housing and the housing fixture being at least indirectly pressed against one another in a first contact area with existing, but as slight as possible, surface pressure by a pre-loading mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Jereon Martin van Klooster, Arie Huijzer
  • Jumper and structural unit comprising at least two electrical modular terminals and one jumper
    Patent number: 8128430
    Abstract: A jumper that has a housing and is used for bridging two modular electric terminals which are arranged next to one another and are each equipped with a busbar. At least one opening is formed in the busbars. In order to be able to easily actuate the jumper according to the invention and flexibly and easily insert the same into multiple modular terminals, two mutually insulated contact elements are arranged in the housing so as to engage into an opening in a respective busbar, and a jumper rail is movably retained in the housing. The jumper rail, which has two contact zones and a connection zone that connects the contact zones, can be moved from a first final position in which the contact zones do not contact the contact elements into a second final position in which the contact elements are interconnected in an electrically conducting manner via the jumper rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thorsten Diessel
  • Dynamic critical path detector for digital logic circuit paths
    Patent number: 8132136
    Abstract: Method for correcting timing failures in an integrated circuit and device for monitoring an integrated circuit. The method includes placing a first and second latch near a critical path. The first latch has an input comprising a data value on the critical path. The method further includes generating a delayed data value from the data value, latching the delayed data value in the second latch, comparing the data value with the delayed data value to determine whether the critical path comprises a timing failure condition, and executing a predetermined corrective measure for the critical path. The invention is also directed to a design structure on which a circuit resides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serafino Bueti, Kenneth J. Goodnow, Todd E. Leonard, Gregory J. Mann, Peter A. Sandon, Peter A. Twombly, Charles S. Woodruff
  • Method of producing of fatty acid alkyl esters and system of producing fatty acid alkyl esters
    Patent number: 8129553
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing fatty acid alkyl esters at high reaction efficiency, wherein the impurities inhibiting the reaction such as water are removed sufficiently. The fatty acid alkyl esters are produced efficiently, by a method of producing fatty acid alkyl esters, at least comprising (A) a step of removing at least water from an oil/fat raw material, (B) a step of converting the fatty acid glycerides contained in the oil/fat raw material into fatty acid alkyl esters and reducing the triglyceride content in the fatty acid alkyl esters obtained to 0.1 wt % or less by fine-particle dispersion and agitation, and (C) a step of separating at least glycerol from the mixture containing fatty acid alkyl esters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignees: Wakamatsu Corporation, Toyota Tsusyo Corporation, Toyota Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikito Wakamatsu, Teruhiro Isayama, Makoto Hattori, Hiroshi Murakami, Nobuaki Hamanishi, Takeshi Sakakibara
  • Reducing effective dielectric constant in semiconductor devices
    Patent number: 8129286
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device structure, including the steps of providing a structure having an insulator layer with at least one interconnect, forming a sub lithographic template mask over the insulator layer, and selectively etching the insulator layer through the sub lithographic template mask to form sub lithographic features spanning to a sidewall of the at least one interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Edelstein, Matthew E. Colburn, Edward C. Cooney, III, Timothy J. Dalton, John A. Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Elbert E. Huang, Michael W. Lane, Vincent J. McGahay, Lee M. Nicholson, Satyanarayana V. Nitta, Sampath Purushothaman, Sujatha Sankaran, Thomas M. Shaw, Andrew H. Simon, Anthony K. Stamper
  • Device for separating regions of a space
    Patent number: 8127508
    Abstract: A device (1) for separating regions of a space, with at least one ceiling rail (3) for pressing on the ceiling (4) of the space, with at least one wall rail for making contact with the wall (7) of the space and with at least one floor rail (8) for resting on the floor (9) of the space. In order to prevent passage of dust through the separated region of the space, there is least one diagonal brace (36) for detachable mounting on the wall rail (5) and the floor rail (8) outside of the corner region (37) between the wall rail (5) and the floor rail (8) and for applying pressure to the middle region (38) of the wall rail (5) and that the diagonal brace (36) has a length which is greater than half the length of the wall rail (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Proverum AG
    Inventor: Moritz Mühlebach
  • Composition and method for treating post-surgical pain
    Patent number: 8129359
    Abstract: A composition for reducing pain at a surgical wound site or trauma site comprising oxidized regenerated cellulose and a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, where the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug is an acid having a secondary amine group; and a method of reducing localized pain at a surgical wound site or trauma site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Herzberg, Robert A. Rousseau, J. Jenny Yuan, Dwayne Looney, Hock S Tan
  • On chip slow-wave structure, method of manufacture and design structure
    Patent number: 8130059
    Abstract: An on-chip slow-wave structure that uses multiple parallel signal paths with grounded capacitance structures, method of manufacturing and design structure thereof is provided. The slow wave structure includes a plurality of conductor signal paths arranged in a substantial parallel arrangement. The structure further includes a first grounded capacitance line or lines positioned below the plurality of conductor signal paths and arranged substantially orthogonal to the plurality of conductor signal paths. A second grounded capacitance line or lines is positioned above the plurality of conductor signal paths and arranged substantially orthogonal to the plurality of conductor signal paths. A grounded plane grounds the first and second grounded capacitance line or lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guoan Wang, Wayne H. Woods, Jr.
  • Method of creating an extremely thin semiconductor-on-insulator (ETSOI) layer having a uniform thickness
    Patent number: 8124427
    Abstract: A method for creating an extremely thin semiconductor-on-insulator (ETSOI) layer having a uniform thickness includes: measuring a thickness of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) layer at a plurality of locations; determining a removal thickness at each of the plurality of locations; and implanting ions at the plurality of locations. The implanting is dynamically based on the removal thickness at each of the plurality of locations. The method further includes oxidizing the SOI layer to form an oxide layer, and removing the oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nathaniel C. Berliner, Kangguo Cheng, Toshiharu Furukawa, Douglas C. La Tulipe, Jr., William R. Tonti
  • System and method of using location based systems for providing services
    Patent number: 8126478
    Abstract: A location based system is provided for providing messages to a user and, in particular, to a location based advertising system using multiple geo-boundaries and which is configured to provide advertisements to a user and to track the effectiveness of such advertisements. The method includes defining a zone with a plurality of geo-boundaries and detecting when a mobile user has crossed a first boundary of the plurality of geo-boundaries and a second boundary of the plurality of geo-boundaries. The method further includes sending a message to the mobile user upon the determining that the mobile user has crossed the first boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tedrick N. Northway, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
  • Structure, design structure and method of manufacturing a structure having VIAS and high density capacitors
    Patent number: 8125013
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and design structure includes at least a first trench and a second trench having different depths arranged in a substrate, a capacitor arranged in the first trench, and a via arranged in the second trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David S. Collins, Kai D. Feng, Zhong-Xiang Ile, Peter J. Lindgren, Robert M. Rassel
  • Semiconductive polymer composition
    Patent number: 8124877
    Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductive polymer composition for use in power cables. The composition comprises a multimodal ethylene homo- or copolymer produced in a polymerization process comprising a single site catalyst whereby the polymer composition has a density of 870 to 930 kg/m3, a MFR2 of 1 to 30 g/10 min and a Mw/Mn of less than or equal to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Borealis Technology Oy
    Inventors: Claes Broman, Lena Lindbom, Ulf Nilsson, Annika Smedberg, Alfred Campus, Roger Carlsson, Ola Fagrell, Jan-Ove Bostrom, Anders Gustafsson, Andreas Farkas, Peter Carstensen, Anders Ericsson
  • Floor boards having interlocking tongue and groove connection with pre-applied adhesive layer
    Patent number: 8117795
    Abstract: Flooring panels having a tongue and groove locking mechanism. The tongue-and-groove configuration principle are provided at the areas being connected. The sides of the groove diverge from the groove base and converge at the end away from the groove base. The opening width of the groove is greater than the foremost area of the tongue in the direction of insertion. The tongue exhibits wedge-shaped areas that diverge from front to back which areas exhibit an undercut in the back area of the tongue that conforms to the groove cross-section. The undercut's borders, adjoining the wedge-shaped areas, converge at the same angle as the groove sides toward a connecting bridge that is part of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventor: Franz Knauseder
  • Webbing winder
    Patent number: 8118249
    Abstract: In a webbing winder, when a webbing belt is wound around a spool, a V gear is rotated in a winding direction together with a W pawl, a friction spring, and a contact member, thereby generating a frictional force between the contact member and a sensor holder. As a consequence, the friction spring and the contact member are located at a restriction position, so that the friction spring engages with an engaging surface of the W pawl. Therefore, even if the spool and the V gear are rapidly and slightly rotated in a withdrawal direction in reaction when the webbing belt is completely wound by the spool, the W pawl cannot mesh with a ratchet gear formed at the sensor holder due to the restriction of oscillation of the W pawl, thus preventing any end lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Aihara, Akira Sumiyashiki
  • Torsion spring, elastic device and sliding apparatus and portable appliance utilizing the device
    Patent number: 8121658
    Abstract: Disclosed is an elastic device which is suitable for a sliding opening/closing apparatus of a portable appliance. The elastic device includes a first torsion spring including a first spiral part which is wound as a spiral shape without a vertical overlapping portion and a first extension arm extending from an outer portion of the first spiral part; a second torsion spring including a second spiral part which is wound as a spiral shape without a vertical overlapping portion thereof and a second extension arm extending from an outer portion of the second spiral part. The elastic device also includes a connection member connecting one of both ends of the first torsion spring and one of both ends of the second torsion spring with each other. The elastic device may have a smaller thickness in comparison with that of a conventional torsion spring having a vertical overlapping portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: P & Tel Inc.
    Inventor: Han Sang Lee