Patents Represented by Attorney Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
  • Patent number: 8003156
    Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and devices for coating stents are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Van Sciver
  • Patent number: 8000825
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system and method for automatically converting a plurality of events in a plurality of channels in a structured representation sequence into haptic events. The method comprises calculating an event score for each event of the sequence in one or more channels. The method also comprises calculating a cumulative score based on the event scores in the one or more channels. The method includes selectively designating haptic events to the events based on the event scores in one or more selected channels, wherein the haptic events are output by a haptic actuator. This may be done by the system by calculating properties of the sound or by taking already existing values associated with those properties to efficiently produce haptic events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Ullrich, Stephen D. Rank, Munibe M. Bakircioglu
  • Patent number: 7997567
    Abstract: A stage apparatus, includes a holding member configured to hold a subject; an elevation supporting member configured to support the holding member so that the holding member can go up and down; a rotation supporting member configured to support the elevation supporting member so that the elevation supporting member can be rotated with respect to a Z axis; and a Z axis driving part configured to elevate the holding member in a Z axial direction; wherein the Z axis driving part is located on the rotation supporting member and makes the holding member go up and down relative to the rotation supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuta Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7998404
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reduced temperature radiation sterilization of stents are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Huang, Abigail Freeman, Daniel Castro, David C. Gale
  • Patent number: 7998524
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed to improved adhesion of polymer coatings over polymer surfaces of stents which include plasma treatment, applying an adhesion promoting layer, surface treatments with solvents, and mechanical roughening techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yunbing Wang, Daniel A. Castro, Stephen D. Pacetti
  • Patent number: 7995978
    Abstract: A method provides controlling operation of a memory device. The method includes receiving activity information relating to at least one electromagnetic field external to the memory device. The method further includes controlling storing data to and reading from the memory device based on the activity information. A memory device and a communication device are configured to execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Marko Leinonen, Teemu Hannula
  • Patent number: 7993128
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the axial dimension of an injection apparatus, melt a molding material uniformly, and improve the quality of molded products. A screw (20) comprises a plasticizing portion which comprises a body portion (45a) and a flight (53) projectingly formed on an outer circumferential surface of the body portion (45a). A groove-depth setting region is defined over a predetermined section of the plasticizing portion, and in the groove-depth setting region, the ratio ?1 of a groove depth ?1 to a diameter ?1 of pellets of a molding material falls within the range of 1??1?1.5 where the groove depth ?1 is a depth of a groove (67) formed along the flight (53). In the groove (67), pellets are arranged laterally and caused to advance while rolling along the groove (67). Since the pellets do not aggregate, no solid bed is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Spiral Logic Limited
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Marumoto, Munekatsu Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7994751
    Abstract: A fuel cell power supply device capable of externally supplying electric power in a stable manner is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Noguchi, Mitsuaki Hirakawa, Takeshi Fujino, Eisuke Komazawa
  • Patent number: 7995165
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention discloses a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) display unit, in which a Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor consisting of a micromirror layer, a insulation layer and a light shielding layer is formed by grounding the light shielding layer on a pixel switch circuit layer. Therefore the pixel switch circuit and the capacitor are in vertical distribution, that is, the switch circuit and the capacitor both have an allowable design area of the size of one pixel. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method for forming a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Xianyong Pu, Jianhong Mao, Yiqun Chen, Jing Fu, Zhongshan Hong, Yanghui Xiang
  • Patent number: 7994745
    Abstract: A power supply device for vehicles, output units (10a, 10b) thereof are connected to a motor (5), includes a fuel cell (1) which is connected to the output units (10a, 10b), a capacitor (2) which is connected in parallel to the fuel cell (1), a lithium ion battery (21) which is connected in parallel to the capacitor (2) through a DC/DC converter (20), and a current control means (32) which limits an output current of the lithium ion battery (21) to at most an output upper-limit current (Ibout_lmt) when power is supplied to the motor (5) from the lithium ion battery (21) during a power running operation of the motor (5), and limits an input current into the lithium ion battery (21) to at most an input upper-limit current smaller than the output upper-limit current (Ibin_lmt) through the DC/DC converter (20) when regenerative power of the motor (5) is recovered into the lithium ion battery (21) during a regenerative operation of the motor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujino, Mitsuaki Hirakawa, Minoru Noguchi, Eisuke Komazawa
  • Patent number: 7989252
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for fabricating a pixel cell of CMOS image sensor, comprising: preparing a semiconductor substrate divided into region I and region II; forming an insulation layer on the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the region I and a gate dielectric layer on the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the region II; forming a poly-silicon gate on the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the region II; forming a deep doped well in the region I through an ion implantation with high energy; performing an ion implantation with low energy in the region I and an ion implantation for lightly doped source/drain in the region II simultaneously; and forming source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate in the region II.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventors: Jianping Yang, Jieguang Huo
  • Patent number: 7988728
    Abstract: A demand responsive physiological control system for use with a rotary blood pump; said system including a pump controller which is capable of controlling pump speed of said pump; said system further including a physiological controller, and wherein said physiological controller is adapted to analyse input data relating to physiological condition of a user of said pump; and wherein said physiological controller determines appropriate pumping speed and sends a speed control signal to said pump controller to adjust pump speed; said system further including a physiological state detector which provides said input data indicative of at least one physiological state of said user, in use, to said physiological controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Thoratec Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Joseph Ayre
  • Patent number: 7989018
    Abstract: A method for modifying a polymeric coating on an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is disclosed. The method includes application of a fluid to a wet or dry polymeric coating with and without drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew F. McNiven, Thomas D. Esbeck, Ni Ding, Stephen Pacetti, Syed F. A. Hossainy
  • Patent number: 7991413
    Abstract: A method for controlling a number of simultaneous radio connections in a communication device is presented. The control of a number of simultaneous radio connections is carried out in the communication device. Parameters of the radio connections are controlled such that interference between the radio connections is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Mauri Honkanen, Mika Kasslin, Pasi Katajainen, Niko Kiukkonen
  • Patent number: 7991059
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and computer program product, wherein frequency co-variances or correlations of a measured power delay profile or frequency correlation function are estimated at two different non-zero sub-carrier lags of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing channel. A ratio of squared magnitudes of the two estimated frequency co-variances is calculated and a delay spread or coherence bandwidth of said channel is estimated based on the calculated ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Pedro Hoejen-Soerensen
  • Patent number: 7991074
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program is presented for use in a radio transmitter using a polar transmitter structure in which a transmission signal is separated into an amplitude component and a phase component. The transmission signal includes transmission symbols distributed to a number of transmission resource blocks allocated to the radio transmitter for transmission. The amplitude component of the transmission signal is low-pass filtered in a low-pass filter configured by filtering parameters selected according to the number of transmission resource blocks allocated to the radio transmitter. Then, the low-pass filtered amplitude component is used in power supply of a power amplifier configured to power-amplify a phase component of the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Markus Nentwig
  • Patent number: 7986191
    Abstract: A self-biased PLL includes a first charge pump and a second charge pump, an output terminal of the first charge pump is connected with a discharge-charge capacitor to output a control voltage, an output terminal of the second charge pump is connected with an output terminal of a bias generator for outputting a first bias voltage equal to the control voltage, wherein, a current output from the first charge pump is equal to a value obtained through dividing the production of a first constant with a bias current of a voltage control oscillator by a frequency division factor of a frequency divider; a current output from the second charge pump is equal to a value obtained through dividing the bias current of the voltage control oscillator by a second constant; and a multiple relation exists between an output resistance of the bias generator and an equivalent resistance of a differential buffer delay stage in the voltage control oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventors: Jinzhong Peng, Zhigang Chiachi Fu
  • Patent number: 7985441
    Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and devices for coating stents are described herein. Among these embodiments are methods of manufacturing an implantable medical device by purifying a polymer with a fluid capable of swelling the polymer, and subsequently coating a device with the purified polymer or fabricating a device from the purified polymer. A preferred polymer is poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventors: Yiwen Tang, Stephen D. Pacetti, Qing Lin, Ni Ding
  • Patent number: 7985440
    Abstract: A method of applying a coating to a stent supported by a mandrel is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen D. Pacetti, Mohammed E. Moein
  • Patent number: 7984705
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are disclosed for converting an internal combustion engine from a normal engine operation (20) to an engine braking (or retarding) operation (10). The apparatus has an actuation means (100) containing two braking pistons (160) slidably disposed in the valve bridge (400) between an inoperative position (0) and an operative position (1). The apparatus also has a flow control valve (50) for supplying control fluid to the actuation means (100) with two levels of pressure. At the first level or lower pressure, the braking pistons (160) will stay in the inoperative position (0), and a gap (234) is formed between the valve bridge (400) and the exhaust valves (300) to skip the motion from the lower portion of the cam (230) for the normal engine operation (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventor: Zhou Yang