Patents Represented by Attorney Studebaker & Brackett PC
  • Patent number: 8096823
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising a manipulative lever operative to engage with a mating electrical connector, which has a body portion and a pair of end portions connected respectively with both ends of the body portion and supported respectively by a pair of supporting structures provided in a conductive shell covering partially an insulated housing, wherein each of the end portions of the manipulative lever comprises an elongated portion stretching to be bent from the body portion and a top end portion stretching further from the elongated portion so as to extend as a whole in a first direction from an end portion to a central portion of the insulated housing, the top end portion protrudes from the elongated portion in a direction perpendicular to an imaginary central axis of the elongated portion to form a stepped portion between the elongated portion and the top end portion, and a stopper member provided in the supporting structure engages with the stepped portion so as to prevent the end portion of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: I-Pex Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tagawa, Hiroharu Ikari
  • Patent number: 8096289
    Abstract: Separation of an air compression supply port from exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in internal combustion engines. In one aspect, an air intake connector includes an entry port for an EGR gas, and an air intake elbow is connected to the air intake connector, the elbow receiving air. The elbow includes a first passage for routing a first portion of the air to the air intake connector to be mixed with the EGR gas, and a second passage for routing a second portion of the air to the air intake connector and out an exit port to an air compressor. The second passage is attached to the elbow and extends through a bend in the elbow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Cummins Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Braun, Robert E. Dehner
  • Patent number: 8098116
    Abstract: An LC composite electronic component, having a large noise suppression effect without increasing in size, includes a multilayer structure in which first and second capacitor units (10), (20) and first and second coil units (30), (40) are stacked and incorporates four LC resonance circuits. A noise circulating capacitance (C21) is formed between a coil electrode (31a) and a resonance adjusting electrode (51a), and a noise circulating capacitance (C22) is formed between a coil electrode (31c) and a resonance adjusting electrode (51b). A noise circulating capacitance (C23) is formed between a coil electrode (42a) and a resonance adjusting electrode (53a), and a noise circulating capacitance (C24) is formed between a coil electrode (42c) and a resonance adjusting electrode (53b). A noise circulating capacitance (C25) is formed between lead-out electrodes (32a), (41b), and a noise circulating capacitance (C26) is formed between lead-out electrodes (32d), (41d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Haruhiko Ueno
  • Patent number: 8091215
    Abstract: When a component (X) is fed to a pickup position (53) but no suction action is carried out due to a variety of reasons, a reverse feeding action is carried out to return the component (X), which has been fed to the pickup position (53), to a position upstream of the pickup position (53) in the tape feeding direction. The same component (X) is thus not wasted but is resupplied to the pickup position (53) in the following pickup action, whereby the amount of waste of components is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 8092565
    Abstract: Disclosed is a particulate filter 10, which comprises a filter body 8 including a plurality of filter segments F1, F2 joined to each other by a joining material 7, wherein each of the filter segments includes a plurality of inflow cells each having a closed end on a downstream side in an exhaust-gas flow direction, and a plurality of outflow cells each having a closed end on an upstream side in the exhaust-gas flow direction. The filter segments include a first filter segment located in a central region of the particulate filter and designed to form each of the inflow cells to have an opening area approximately equal to that of each of the outflow cells, and a second filer segment located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region of the particulate filter and designed to form each of the inflow cells to have an opening area greater than that of each of the outflow cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Koichiro Harada, Kenji Suzuki, Kenji Okamoto, Akihide Takami
  • Patent number: 8094753
    Abstract: A PHS mobile phone set is provided with an offset estimation device which estimates an offset of a signal received through digital communication and makes use of the estimated offset as correction information for offset correction. The received signal is corrected in offset by use of the estimated offset and then demodulated. In the offset estimation device, the estimated offset is updated on the basis of the control signal indicating whether or not the demodulated digital signal is reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takamitsu Hafuka
  • Patent number: 8072306
    Abstract: A multilayer body is formed by laminating multiple insulating layers. External electrodes are provided on the opposed side surfaces of the multilayer body and extend in the z axis direction. Coil conductors are laminated together with the insulating layers and form a coil. Coil conductors other than coil conductors connected to the external electrodes are made up of pairs of adjacent coil conductors having an identical shape, and coil conductors forming each pair are connected in parallel to each other. None of the coil conductors connected to the external electrodes is connected in parallel to coil conductors with an identical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sugiyama, Kaori Takezawa, Hiromi Miyoshi, Masayuki Yoneda
  • Patent number: 8070218
    Abstract: To get out a roof (2) retracted in a storage space (7) therefrom, a link mechanism carries out pushing-out operation of push-pull cable (90) so that a grip member with the roof (2) gripped thereby is moved by an elastic force of a main spring (79) along a rail (74) from a retracted position to a gripping position, where the roof (2) is then released from gripped condition by the grip member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Webasto AG
    Inventors: Frank Hinrichs, Tomoaki Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 8066516
    Abstract: There is provided a coaxial connector having a good radio-frequency characteristic includes a main body having a hole, or opening for allowing a probe to be inserted, a fixed terminal is fixed to the main body, a movable terminal including a fixed portion fixed to the main body and a plate spring portion extending from the fixed portion toward the fixed terminal. The plate spring portion is in contact with the fixed terminal and in contact with the main body at its tips. The plate spring portion can be displaced by the probe in a direction away from the fixed terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hoshiba, Chikara Uratani
  • Patent number: 8063414
    Abstract: A standard cell, placed between a power rail and a ground rail in an integrated circuit, has active areas with connecting arms that extend beneath the power rail and ground rail. The connecting arms conduct current between the power and ground rails and the source regions of transistors in the active areas. The connecting arms include segments extending from these source regions to points beneath the power and ground rails, and segments running longitudinally beneath the power and ground rails. The connecting arms replace metal wiring that would otherwise be required, enabling the size of the standard cell to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Uchida
  • Patent number: 8056587
    Abstract: The fabric for textile structures and/or coverings, consisting of warp threads and weft threads of PTFE-yarn, in which the number of warp threads is at least approximately twice the number of weft threads. A method for producing a fabric, in which during the weaving through the warp threads at least two parallel extending individual threads are led simultaneously through a shed of the warp threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sefar AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8059199
    Abstract: The present invention provides a synchronizing signal detection circuit capable of always stably detecting a synchronizing signal. The synchronizing signal detection circuit predicts detection positions of synchronizing pulses every synchronization cycle peculiar to an input video signal. The synchronizing signal detection circuit further supplies the input video signal to a plurality of unnecessary signal eliminating paths in common and extracts synchronizing signals of every path respectively from video signals of every path obtained by eliminating unnecessary signals according to the characteristics of the paths every path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamichi Nakano, Ryota Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 8056671
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas purification device disposition structure of a vehicle, comprises a fuel tank with a fuel supply port which is disposed so as to be open to an outside of a vehicle compartment, and a urea tank to accommodate urea water solution as deoxidizer to purify exhaust gas. The urea tank is disposed outside the vehicle compartment, and a pouring port of the urea tank is provided inside the vehicle compartment. Accordingly, the urea water solution can be surely prevented from entering into the vehicle compartment even in case of the breakage of the urea tank, and the mistake of supplying the wrong liquid into the wrong supply (pouring) port tank which may be made by confusing the ports can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ikegami, Yukiichirou Shimada, Noritaka Sakiyama, Noriyoshi Sahashi, Kota Matsue, Chikara Ishihara, Shinya Matsumoto, Yoshikazu Nishimura, Yoshiaki Murakami, Masamitsu Tanaka, Ken Ueki
  • Patent number: 8052936
    Abstract: In a particulate filter, a catalyst layer containing Pt-carried activated alumina particles, CeZr-based mixed oxide particles and ZrNd-based mixed oxide particles is formed, the proportion of the total amount of the CeZr-based mixed oxide particles and the ZrNd-based mixed oxide particles in the total amount of the Pt-carried activated alumina particles, the CeZr-based mixed oxide particles and the ZrNd-based mixed oxide particles is 10% to 60% by mass, both inclusive, and the mass ratio of the CeZr-based mixed oxide particles to the ZrNd-based mixed oxide particles is 20/80 to 80/20, both inclusive. This configuration enhances the particulate burning property and the low-temperature exhaust gas conversion efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Harada, Kenji Suzuki, Kenji Okamoto, Hiroshi Yamada, Akihide Tamani
  • Patent number: 8054201
    Abstract: A real-image picking-up means picks up a real image of a blind area. A moving object detecting means recognizes a moving object from the real image and detects a moving state of the moving object. An imaginary-image specifying means specifies an indication manner of an imaginary image which is to be indicated for showing the moving state of the moving object. An indicating means indicates the imaginary image of the moving object in the indication manner which is specified by the imaginary-image specifying means such that the imaginary image of the moving object indicated by the indicating means overlaps the real image picked up by the real-image picking-up means. There can be provided a surroundings monitoring device for a vehicle which can easily recognize the state of the moving object in the image of the blind area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Okugi, Masaki Chiba, Kazuyuki Okuda, Yuka Ohe
  • Patent number: 8052942
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an analytical tool cartridge comprising a case having therein a storage space and a retrieval port that communicates the storage space with an external space, and a plurality of analytical tools stored in the storage space in a stacked state. This analytical tool cartridge further has a retrieval mechanism for retrieving the analytical tools one at a time from the case via the retrieval port. The analytical tool cartridge may also further have an opening/closing mechanism for opening and closing the retrieval port. The present invention also provides a set of the analytical tool cartridge, and an analyzer that is constituted so as to have installed therein an analytical tool retrieved from the analytical tool cartridge, and analyze a specific component in a specimen liquid supplied onto the analytical tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Arkray, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Sato
  • Patent number: 8051646
    Abstract: Disclosed is a particulate filter regenerating system which comprises a fuel injection device (7) adapted to inject fuel into a combustion chamber of an engine body (1), and an exhaust gas temperature-adjusting device (33) adapted, when a PM deposit amount which is an amount of particulate matter (PM) deposited in a DPF (particulate filter) 13 provided in an exhaust passage of an engine, reaches a predetermined value X, to cause the fuel injection device (7) to perform a post-injection for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber during an expansion stroke of the engine, so as to execute a filter regeneration process of raising a temperature of exhaust gas flowing into the DPF 13 to burn the deposited PM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Harada, Hiroshi Yamada, Akihide Takami
  • Patent number: 8049800
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a solid state imaging element that includes a plurality of pixels; and a driving unit; wherein each pixel includes: a photoelectric converting element includes a pair of electrodes stacked above a semiconductor substrate and a photoelectric converting layer arranged between the electrodes; a connecting portion that is arranged in the semiconductor substrate; a potential barrier portion; a first charge accumulating portion; and a signal output circuit, and wherein the driving unit executes such a same potential driving that the connecting portion and the potential barrier portion are set to have a same potential by varying the potential of the potential barrier portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Motoari Ota
  • Patent number: 8047871
    Abstract: An L-shaped coaxial connector manufacturable at low costs includes a housing having a cylinder portion and a back portion. The cylinder portion includes a first opening and a second opening, and the cylinder portion is in contact with an external conductor of a receptacle inserted from the first opening. The back portion is connected to the cylinder portion and covers the second opening. The housing is made of a metal plate. The diameter of a part of a bushing contained in the cylinder portion is equal to or smaller than the diameter of the first opening. The housing further includes a crimping portion extending from the back portion. The crimping portion fixes the bushing to the housing by being bent so as to face the back portion with the bushing therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Kohnishi, Susumu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D652386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: I-Pex Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kosuke Ozeki