Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Stite & Harbison, PLLC
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Patent number: 8264481Abstract: To implement brightness change of pixels due to variations in environmental temperatures with low electric power, the display device includes a display part having a display area arrayed with plural pixels, a display scanning circuit and a signal driving circuit for driving the plural pixels, and a power circuit that supplies a current for illuminating each of the plural pixels with brightness corresponding to a display signal from the signal driving circuit; and a detection unit that includes: a monitor element for driving a constant current that detects environmental temperatures; and plural constant current sources, detects a voltage value relating to the luminous intensity of the pixels by the monitor element to generate a signal to control an output voltage of the power circuit, and changes over a constant current source of the monitor element according to a voltage value detected in the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Kohno, Mitsuhide Miyamoto, Hajime Akimoto, Naruhiko Kasai, Masato Ishii
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Patent number: 8265072Abstract: A header processing unit includes a key information supply unit that manages MAC addresses and MAC key information having a short bit length that corresponds to the addresses, and decides key information corresponding to a source MAC address and a destination MAC address of an input frame. A destination decision unit performs destination decision processing based on corresponding key information instead of destination MAC addresses. A flow decision unit decides a flow based on key information corresponding to a destination MAC address and a source MAC address. Since the key information supply unit does not need to set plural identical MAC addresses, the header processing unit becomes inexpensive. Thus, this invention achieves an inexpensive switch that performs output decision processing and flow decision processing.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeki Yazaki, Shinichi Akahane
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Patent number: 8263642Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds and methods useful for activating heme sensor systems; for decreasing virulence of bacteria, for example, Staphylococcus aureus; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating microbial-related disorders. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Vanderbilt UniversityInventors: Eric Skaar, Devin Stauff, Olusegun O. Aranmolate
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Patent number: 8262136Abstract: A holding device to protect a movable connector part of a hydraulic system on work equipment, which mates with a fixed connector part of a hydraulic system on a work vehicle. The holding device is fixedly mounted on the work equipment and has recesses which receive and protect the hydraulic connections of the movable connector part when they are not engaged with the fixed connector part. The holding device may have a contact surface which mates with the hydraulic connectors of the movable part. The recess or recesses can receive a multipart hydraulic connector or a plurality of individual connectors. The holding device may include an electrical connector dummy for attachment to an electrical connector on the work equipment. A cover fits over the holding device when it is not engaged by a movable connector part; and it also mates with the fixed connector part when it is not engaged by the movable connector part.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nordhydraulic ABInventor: Bertil Lundgren
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Patent number: 8257424Abstract: The present invention is directed to a radially expandable vessel support having a multitude of annular elements flexibly connected to each other, defining a vascular support with a proximal and a distal end and a longitudinal axis. The annular elements are arranged side by side transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vascular support and connected to each other by means of bending elements. At least two marginally standing annular elements each are linked among each other by a pair of dumbbell shaped bending elements and centrally standing annular elements are linked among each other and to marginally standing annular elements by two S-shaped bending elements each, with at least the centrally standing annular elements being of a zigzag-shaped configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Eurocor GmbHInventor: Michael Orlowski
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Patent number: 8257085Abstract: The invention relates to a device for simulating the stomach of a monogastric mammal or of a human being that includes at least two compression chambers (C2, C3) connected together by an intermediate chamber. Each compression chamber (C2, C3) includes a piston (72, 73) adapted for urging the content of a compression chamber (C2, C3) towards the other compression chamber (C2, C3). The device includes means (20) capable of generating turbulent flow of the device content when passing through the intermediate chamber (C8). The intermediate chamber (C8) is formed in an intermediate block (8) provided with an access means (11a, 12, 16) for supplying products (12) and/or tapping the content of the device at any moment of the operation cycle thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Universite d'Auvergne Clermont IInventors: Monique Alric, Sylvain Georges Jean Denis
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Patent number: 8259951Abstract: Conventionally, an encryption key for encrypting data to be backed up in a tape cannot be allocated for each logical data management unit. To solve the problem, provided is a storage system including: a disk storage device; a tape storage device in which a tape storage medium is loaded; and a controller for controlling the disk storage device and the tape storage device, in which the controller is configured to: generate, upon reception of a request for setting a tape group including one or more tape storage media, a first encryption key used for encrypting data stored in the tape group set by the request; and hold information for correlating the generated first encryption key with the tape group.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Computer Peripherals Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoichi Mizuno
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Patent number: 8256850Abstract: Pivotally mounted doors forming the floor of a railroad car are prevented from opening inadvertently through not allowing fluid pressure to be applied to a door opening piston until the fluid pressure exceeds a predetermined amount. A control valve can control the position of a spool.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Lexair, Inc.Inventor: Theodore P. O'Canna
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Patent number: 8259055Abstract: A display device comprises a driver circuit having a shift register circuit having a level conversion function is provided with a simple circuit configuration of first, second, and third basic circuits connected in tandem at multistages. A common clear signal is supplied to a control electrode or a third transistor of each basic circuit, a first clock is supplied to a control electrode of a first transistor of each of the first and third basic circuits, a second cock different in phase from the first clock is supplied to a control electrode of a first transistor of the second basic circuit, outputs of the first and second basic circuit are respectively supplied to control electrodes of second transistors of the second and third basic circuits, and an inversion output of the third basic circuit is supplied to a control electrode of a fourth transistor of the first basic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Sato, Shigeyuki Nishitani, Takayuki Nakao, Masahiro Maki
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Patent number: 8260703Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for costing a roster. The method includes preparing a roster in a roster preparing means of the apparatus, said roster comprising a work schedule or list of duties for one or more work periods, each work period being populated by one or more workers, providing award information in a database of the apparatus for calculating a payroll for each of said workers in said roster, and calculating a roster wage cost in a processing means of the apparatus that would result from implementation of said roster, based on said roster and said award information. A respective pay-rate for a respective worker in the database of award information may depend on the work period populated by said respective worker, and a respective worker may be rostered in more than one of said work periods.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Third Millennium Management Pty LtdInventor: Russell Bode
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Patent number: 8257124Abstract: Swimming fins of the kind comprising a foot pocket provided with a outsole and an upper closed at the tip and open at the heel zone, for lodging with slight clearance the feet of a scuba diver wearing diving booths, characterized by the fact that the outsole and/or the upper sections of the said fins are provided with a number of through holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: MARES S.p.A.Inventors: Giovanni Garofalo, Aristide Barone
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Patent number: 8259714Abstract: In the case of a “distributed” integrated network node (architecture), a specific judgment process cannot be executed in any routing and transferring unit. The routing and transferring unit has been required to share such judgment process related information with an enhanced processing unit or with other routing and transferring units. Thus the manufacturing cost has increased when using an enhanced processing unit and the processing speed has been lowered unavoidably when cooperation is required among routing and transferring units. Those have been conventional problems. Furthermore, if any flow is disposed during a transfer from a packet transferring unit provided in a routing and transferring unit to a processing unit, the packet is disposed regardless of the packet priority. This has also been another conventional problem.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Alaxala Networks CorporationInventors: Masaki Yamada, Mitsuru Nagasaka, Takayuki Muranaka, Yoshihiro Nakao, Shinichi Akahane
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Patent number: 8255312Abstract: An issuing system for issuing unmodifiable and/or unforgeable hardcopy documents or securities includes a server and a plurality of issuing machines connected to the server via a network. Each of the issuing machines receives an ID recording medium provided by a potential purchaser, retrieves an identification recoded in the received ID recording medium, requests the potential purchaser to input request for a transaction of the security or fixed rate financing instrument, processes the requested transaction by retrieving information via a network from the server, and prints out on demand a hardcopy of the security or fixed rate financing instrument as purchased by the potential purchaser and a checksum thereon. A method for forming a new market with the issuing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Michihiro SatoInventors: Michihiro Sato, A. Udaya Shankar
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Patent number: 8252740Abstract: Elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) serves as a vector for thermally-targeted delivery of therapeutics, including cytotoxic chemotherapeutic drugs such as doxorubicin. Examples of an ELP-based delivery vehicle can comprise: (1) a cell penetrating peptide, such as a Tat peptide, (2) ELP, and (3) the lysosomally degradable glycylphenylalanylleucylglycine (GFLG) (SEQ ID NO: 3) spacer and a cysteine residue (SEQ ID NO: 4) conjugated to therapeutic such as doxorubicin, or an analog thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: The University of Mississippi Medical CenterInventors: Drazen Raucher, Gene Bidwell, III, Waldemar Priebe, Izabela Fokt
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Patent number: 8253670Abstract: The present invention prevents deterioration of image quality by lowering a heat value of a data driver connected to a liquid crystal display panel. In a liquid crystal display device, a pixel which connects a TFT thereof to one of two neighboring scanning signal lines and a pixel which has a TFT thereof connected to the other scanning signal line are alternately arranged in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines, two pixels which are arranged close to each other with one video signal line sandwiched therebetween have respective TFTs connected to the video signal line, and the connection relationship between the TFT of each pixel and the scanning signal line is inverted for every pair of two pixels arranged in the extending direction of the video signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kikuo Ono
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Patent number: 8252289Abstract: The invention relates to N protein-protein of interest fusion proteins, optionally in the form of soluble N protein-protein of interest/P protein complexes, the N and P proteins being proteins of a virus of the Paramyxoviridae family. When the protein of interest is an antigen, the invention relates also to vaccinal compositions and diagnostic reagents comprising those N protein-antigen fusion proteins or those N protein-antigen/P protein complexes. The N protein-protein of interest fusion protein can also be used as a “vector” for transporting into cells therapeutic molecules of interest, such as antivirals or anticancer agents.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)Inventors: Jean-François Eleouët, Sabine Riffault
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Patent number: 8253873Abstract: To form a sufficiently large storage capacitor, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal held between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display panel having multiple pixels arranged in matrix. The first substrate has, in a transmissive display area provided in each of the pixels, a laminated structure containing a first transparent electrode, a first insulating film, a second transparent electrode, a second insulating film, and a third transparent electrode which are laminated in this order. The first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a first storage capacitor through the first insulating film, and the second transparent electrode and the third transparent electrode are electrically insulated from each other and together form a second storage capacitor through the second insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Takahiro Ochiai
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Patent number: D666403Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: F.W.D., LLCInventors: Cortland Finnegan, Joshua Ward, Christopher Dixon
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Patent number: D666775Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: E.D. Bullard CompanyInventors: Ulf Junker, Stefan Roemer
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Patent number: D666920Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Inventor: Fang-Pin Chen