Patents Represented by Attorney Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP
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Patent number: 7415000Abstract: In base station 100, TA control amount calculating section 106 calculates a time alignment control amount based on a signal received from communication terminal station 150. Then, TA control amount rounding section 107 performs rounding on the time alignment control amount to obtain a time aliment control amount of the predetermined number of significant digits and a rounding error amount. Reception timing correcting section 109 corrects the reception timing detected in reception timing detecting section 103, using the rounding error amount. Receiving section 104 obtains demodulated data from a received signal at the corrected reception timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kimihiko Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7404400Abstract: A spacer device for an inhaler is made of a non-metallic antistatic material, preferably polyamide. The device may comprise two frustoconical members joined at their wider ends, with an inlet and outlet at, respectively, the two narrower ends. A measured dose of medicament is injected through the inlet, and then inhaled from the chamber through the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Cipla LimitedInventors: Amar Lulla, Xerxes Rao
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Patent number: 7406036Abstract: A radio communication apparatus, base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus capable of predicting an accurate transmission rate before starting data communications to know download time and the like. In the apparatus, a packet CH demodulation section (103) demodulates received packet data. A pilot CH demodulation section (104) demodulates a received signal of a pilot channel. A reception state measuring section (105) measures the SIR from the received signal of the pilot channel. A transmission rate candidate selecting section (106) stores a calculation expression that associates CQI with SIR, and selects CQI by the calculation expression using the measured SIR. A transmission rate predicting section (108) averages selected CQI for a predetermined time to output a transmission rate prediction value. A transmission rate prediction control section (110) outputs information of the transmission rate prediction value to a display section (111) when detecting a key input.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Imaizumi, Kazuyuki Miya
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Patent number: 7363486Abstract: A method and system for authenticating an end user to one or more remote computer systems using a communications pipe to send authentication codes from a personal security device to one or more remote computer systems and limiting authentication transactions to a secure hub.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: ActivcardInventors: Yves Louis Gabriel Audebert, Olivier Clemot
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Patent number: 7362172Abstract: Low distortion is implemented even in a high input level, and a smooth change in gain is maintained. A first amplifier (10) with high gain and low noise that can be gain-controlled by a first gain control signal, and a second amplifier (20) with low gain and low distortion that can be gain-controlled by a second gain control signal are provided, and a third amplifier (30) is further coupled with an outputs of the first and the second amplifiers (10, 20). An input terminal of the first amplifier (10) and an input terminal of the second amplifier (20) are coupled with each other, and an output terminal of the first amplifier (10) and an output terminal of the second amplifier (20) are coupled with each other. The output of the first amplifier (10) is then turned on or off by a mode switching signal. A change in gain resulting from turning on and off the first amplifier (10) is corrected by the third amplifier (30).Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LtdInventors: Takatoshi Tanaka, Takuo Hino
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Patent number: 7362142Abstract: A current source apparatus includes a first MOS transistor having a drain serving as current input terminals with the gate connected to the drain, a first switch connected to the source of the first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor having a drain serving as a current output terminal, a second switch connected to the source of the second MOS transistor, a third switch having one end connected to the gate of the first MOS transistor, and the other end connected to the gate of the second MOS transistor, and a drive circuit which controls the second switch and the third switch.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Ozasa, Manabu Ohkubo
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Patent number: 7355954Abstract: It is an object to provide a laser module in which the position and the posture of a laser beam source can be adjusted even in a small space so that an optical intensity necessary for recording and reproducing information can be ensured and the laser module is seldom affected by an ambient temperature. It is another object of the present invention to provide an optical pickup device, an optical disk device, a focus error detection method and a tracking error detection method. The laser beam source adjustment member 55 and the laser beam source shift member 56 are attached to the laser beam source 52 so that the lead 51 can penetrate them. Further, FPC 57 is fixed to the lead 51 being soldered. The laser beam source 52 and the laser beam source adjustment member 55 are fixed between the holding plate 54 and the laser beam source shift member 56 being pushed by the pushing spring 53.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2004Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Haruguchi, Junichi Mutoh, Susumu Uragami, Masaharu Fukakusa
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Patent number: 7351840Abstract: A pharmaceutically acceptable salt of perindopril of formula (I) is made from a protected precursor compound of formula (II) wherein R represents a carboxyl protecting group, which process comprises subjecting a compound of formula (II) to deprotection of the carboxylic group COOR attached to the heterocyclic ring so as to yield the corresponding free acid, which deprotection is carried out in the presence of a base which forms a pharmaceutically acceptable salt with the free acid formed by the deprotectionType: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Cipla LimitedInventors: Dharmaraj Ramachandra Rao, Rajendra Narayanrao Kankan
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Patent number: 7349713Abstract: A type-2 hybrid ARQ data communication device having an improved quality of transmitted data while an increase of power consumption is avoided. The communication device transmits the same information bits (S) plural times (N times) and controls (changes) the transmission power of each transmission packet so that the sum of the transmission power needed for N transmissions of the same information bits may be constant, for example, the transmission power (b) of one packet of the information bits at each transmission may be one N-th (1/N) of the transmission power (a) of one normal packet (b=a/N).Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, LtdInventor: Kenichi Miyoshi
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Patent number: 7349773Abstract: A device includes a first unit for defining a main trajectory, which is followed by the aircraft, and an optional trajectory which deviates from the main trajectory, which exhibits at least one common point shared with said main trajectory and which is able to be followed by the aircraft if the trajectory is activated. The device also includes a second unit for automatically determining a decision point which indicates the last position of the aircraft along the main trajectory, where the optional trajectory can still be activated so as to allow the aircraft to follow it. The device further includes a third unit for automatically presenting the decision point to a pilot of the aircraft, and an actuatable unit which allows a pilot to activate the optional trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2005Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Airbus FranceInventor: Jérémy Berard
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Patent number: 7350106Abstract: A device for aiding the location of a failure within a complex system may include a database that stores diagnostic aid rules; a detector that detects a failure, if any, of the complex system and provides, upon a failure, information relating to the origin of this failure; and a central unit that determines, for any failure detected, on the basis of the diagnostic aid rules and the failure origination information, the element or elements of the complex system that may have caused the failure. Additionally, the central unit determines the corresponding probability that each element caused the failure for presentation to a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: EurocopterInventor: Jean-Yves Longere
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Patent number: 7347328Abstract: Collapsible container which includes a base member, collapsible side walls, which adjacent side walls are inter-connectable. The base member is provided with feet members, a circumambient edge and a mainly horizontal load surface. The load surface is provided with recesses extending downwards from the load surface, said recesses being arranged adjacent the edge. At least one side wall is provided with downwards extending protrusions, said protrusions being arranged to interact with said recesses. Said at least one side wall engages the base member through vertical motion.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Arca Systems AGInventor: Peter Hartwall
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Patent number: 7344085Abstract: Multilayer expansion card for connecting an apparatus or device to an electronic apparatus, particularly for association to a mother card of a Personal Computer. The card comprises a first part, intended principally for connection, having a thickness coherent with the requirements of size for connection to the standard slots of the mother card, and a second part, intended principally for the management of the card functions and for processing, and hence the electronics, having a greater thickness with respect to the first part in order to contain a correspondingly greater number of layers intended for the management of a high density of electronic-type signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2005Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Eurotech SpAInventor: Mauro Rossi
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Patent number: 7344624Abstract: A cathode plate and method for electro-refining or electro-winning of metal. The cathode includes a cathode blade and hanger bar. A quantity of electrically conductive material is wrapped around the hanger bar and along the cathode blade to a position, in use, proximate the level of electrolyte in the electrolytic bath. The provision of a deeper and preferably thicker coating of electrically conductive material, as compared with conventional cathode plates, reduces power consumption in the electrolytic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Mount Isa Mines LimitedInventors: Nigel James Aslin, Wayne Keith Webb, Reville Wayne Armstrong, Tim Robinson
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Patent number: 7341096Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a continuously cast metal slab or strip, in which the slab or strip is passed between a set of rotating rolls of a rolling mill stand in order to roll the slab or strip. According to the invention, the rolls of the rolling mill stand have different peripheral velocities, and the difference in peripheral velocity is at least 5% and at most 100%, and the thickness of the slab or strip is reduced by at most 15% for each pass. The invention also relates to metal plate or strip produced using this method.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Corus Technology BVInventor: Menno Rutger Van Der Winden
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Patent number: 7341289Abstract: This invention relates to an emergency unlocking system for a motor vehicle trunk (2), with a trunk lock (6) which comprises at least one lock latch (7) and an interacting locking part (8), with a catch means (14) which limits the trunk opening motion and which comprises a catch hook (15) which can be actuated from outside the trunk (2) and an interacting catch hook engagement element (16) for canceling the motion limitation, and with an emergency unlocking means (20) which is located in the trunk (2) and which acts to open the trunk lock (6) and to release the catch means (14) when actuated. In order to offer an increased safety standard with a simple structure and to meet safety stipulations with respect to the speed-dependent allowability of emergency unlocking, the actions applied by the emergency unlocking means (20) to the trunk lock (6) and the catch means (14) are decoupled from one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2006Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Audi AG, Federal Republic of GermanyInventors: Werner Schretzlmeier, Marco Ikker, Sven Seidler, Ralf Monnig
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Patent number: 7340767Abstract: An image server includes: a focus position control unit for determining a focus position based on a maximum value of focus evaluation detected by a picture signal level detection unit; and a focus lens driver for moving the focus lens in predetermined control volumes based on an instruction from the focus position control means; characterized in that, in case the exposure time is changed to a longer cycle than a predetermined cycle, the focus position control unit determines a large control volume corresponding to the change in exposure time and moves the focus lens with the control volume to detect the maximum value of focus evaluation and performs focus control.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Kikuchi, Toshihiro Fujiki
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Patent number: 7338011Abstract: A method for preventing vibration of a rudder of an aircraft may have, on a lateral aerodynamic surface of the aircraft's rudder, a protruding aerodynamic element capable of generating an aerodynamic effect tending to rotate the rudder about its articulation axis. An actuator of the rudder is controlled such that it counters the action of the protruding aerodynamic element and such that it imposes on the rudder a position of equilibrium in aerodynamic extension of the fixed vertical stabilizer.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Airbus FranceInventor: Bernard Pauly
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Patent number: RE40229Abstract: An optical disc apparatus for recording, reproducing or erasing an information signal by converging a light flux onto a recording layer through a transparent substrate. The apparatus includes one or a plurality of optical heads having a plurality of objective lenses whose aberrations have respectively been corrected for a plurality of disc substrates of different thicknesses, a cartridge for enclosing the optical disc, a discrimination hole which is formed on the cartridge, and a sensor for detecting the opening/closing state of the discrimination hole and for generating a discrimination signal. In accordance with the result of the discrimination as to the thickness of the loaded optical disc, the objective lens, in which the occurrence of the aberration is smallest, is used, so that the information signal can preferably be recorded, reproduced or erased onto/from the optical discs having different substrate thicknesses.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1999Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoyasu Miyagawa, Yasuhiro Gotoh
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Patent number: D573667Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Dolce & Gabbana S.r.L.Inventors: Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana