Patents Represented by Attorney Studebaker & Brackett PC
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Patent number: 8188705Abstract: The present invention is a charge method of a battery for an electric motor vehicle, in which a battery is charged by an outside electric source. A residual charge quantity of the battery is detected before charging. A maximum-quantity charge time Ttotal which is required for the residual charge quantity of the battery becoming the maximum quantity is calculated based on detection result. A driving-start time tds of the electric motor vehicle is estimated. A first charge is executed so as to be started from a driving stop of the electric motor vehicle, continued for a period of time which is shorter than the maximum-quantity charge time Ttotal, and completed before the driving-start time tds. A second charge is executed so as to be started after the first charge is completed and completed at the driving-start time tds.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Norihira Wakayama
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Patent number: 8188828Abstract: A multilayer electronic component that can suppress the formation of projections and depressions on a surface, and an electronic component unit including the multilayer electronic component, are provided. In the multilayer electronic component, coil electrodes (8) having a shape of ring-shaped wiring with a part removed therefrom are electrically connected to each other to constitute a coil (L). Magnetic layers (4) are stacked together with the plurality of coil electrodes (8). The coil electrodes (8a, 8c, 8e) having a radius r1 and the coil electrodes (8b, 8d) having a radius r2 that is smaller than the radius r1 may be alternately arranged in a stacking direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Noma, Jun Sasaki, Kosuke Yamada
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Patent number: 8187548Abstract: A catalyst layer formed on the walls of exhaust gas channels in a particulate filter contains a catalyst material containing at least two kinds of primary particles selected from the group consisting of primary particles of activated alumina, primary particles of a ZrNd-based mixed oxide and primary particles of a CeZr-based mixed oxide. The catalyst material is formed so that primary particles of one of the ZrNd-based mixed oxide and the CeZr-based mixed oxide are dispersedly carried on the surface of each of secondary particles. Each secondary particle is formed by cohesion of at least one kind of primary particles selected from the group consisting of primary particles of activated alumina and primary particles of the other of the ZrNd-based mixed oxide and the CeZr-based mixed oxide.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Kenji Suzuki, Koichiro Harada, Kenji Okamoto, Akihida Takami
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Patent number: 8187295Abstract: The invention provides a lancing apparatus for moving a lancet holder (32) retaining a lancet in a lancing direction (N1) from a standby position to a lancing position together with the lancet so as to cause the lancet to stick into an object. In the lancing apparatus the lancet is inserted into the lancet holder (32) in a retreating direction (N2), thus to be retained by the lancet holder. The lancet holder (32) includes a first member and a second member (33, 34) relatively movable with respect to each other, so that the first and the second members (33), (34) are relatively moved so as to fix the lancet. Preferably, the lancet holder (32) is constructed such that at least either of the first and the second members (33, 34) applies a pressing force to the lancet, so as to fix the lancet.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Arkray, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiharu Uehata, Masahiro Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 8184771Abstract: A radiation phase contrast imaging apparatus, including a radiation emission unit having a plurality of electron sources for emitting electron beams, and a target for emitting radiation through collision of electron beam emitted from each electron source, a first grating in which grating structures for diffracting radiation are disposed periodically, a second grating in which grating structures for transmitting and shielding radiation are disposed periodically, and a radiation image detector for detecting radiation transmitted through the second grating, in which the first and second gratings are disposed in an optical axis direction of the radiation so as to be able to substantially superimpose each image of the first grating formed based on radiation corresponding to each electron source on a surface of the second grating, and the radiation corresponding to each electron source forms each phase image of the same subject on the radiation image detector.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Dai Murakoshi, Kenji Takahashi
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Patent number: 8181571Abstract: A printing device capable of improving the printing accuracy by preventing positional displacement of a stencil applies paste on a stencil onto a substrate by spreading the paste by sliding a squeegee along a surface of the stencil disposed on the substrate. Outer attracting means for holding the stencil by attracting an undersurface side thereof is provided on the outside of a squeegee sliding region in which the squeegee slides over the stencil.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Kusunoki, Hidetoshi Sato, Masataka Aiba
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Patent number: 8182450Abstract: The label is executed as strip-shaped and adhered as directed in a self-overlapping fashion to a syringe body (1) which is inserted in a syringe protector formed from an insert (5) and a receiver (4). In the longitudinal direction of the strip it successively has a base section (11), two voucher sections (12a, 12b), a protective section (13), a holding section (14) and a grip tab (15). The label can be unrolled and pulled out from the syringe protector by a grip tab (15) so that the voucher sections (12a, 12b) are freely accessible. If necessary, after inserting the syringe body (1) into the syringe protector, the grip tab (15) can be extracted through lateral openings (24, 25) to a certain extent by gently turning the syringe body (1) relative to the syringe protector and then gripped since the grip tab (15) is at some distance after sticking the label onto the syringe body (1).Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Ulrich Moosheimer, Peter Seidl
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Patent number: 8176885Abstract: A system and method for reducing fouling. In one embodiment, the system includes a housing and a plurality of channels contained within the housing. The system also includes a fouling reduction element that passes through at least one channel of the plurality of channels, wherein the fouling reduction element is movable such that it reduces fouling inside of the at least one channel. According to the system and method disclosed herein, the fouling reduction element efficiently cleans the inside of the channels of the cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Cummins Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventor: Patrick M Pierz
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Patent number: 8178947Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device in which an amount of fluctuations in output capacitance and feedback capacitance is reduced. In a trench-type insulated gate semiconductor device, a width of a portion of an electric charge storage layer in a direction along which a gate electrode and a dummy gate are aligned is set to be at most 1.4 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Yoshifumi Tomomatsu
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Patent number: 8175048Abstract: A multi-hop wireless communication system which synchronizes a time signal generated by a timer device included in each of the wireless terminals and sets a different active timing to a wireless terminal connected to each of a plurality of multi-hop routes. The wireless terminal monitors the time signal of the timer device included in the wireless terminal and activates wireless communication of the wireless terminal when it is detected that the time signal matches an active timing set in the wireless terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Akiyama
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Patent number: 8173775Abstract: A novel human collagen-like protein CLAC occurring in brain amyloid and its precursor CLAC-P; genes encoding the same; cDNA of mouse CLAC-P and its deduced amino acid sequence; antibodies specific to these proteins; and methods of diagnosing treating and preventing Alzheimer's disease by using the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignees: Eisai R & D Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Iwatsubo, Tadafumi Hashimoto, Yasuo Nagai
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Patent number: 8171922Abstract: The invention relates to a blow-by gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine. An oil separation cover 10 has a surge-tank mounting portion 400 integrally formed therewith in a columnar shape having a cam-shaped cross-section and a height approximately equal to that of an oil separation space OS. The surge-tank mounting portion 400 has a flat upper surface serving as a mounting seat surface 401 capable of coming into surface contact with an attaching seat surface 7a of a surge tank 7. A first opening 403 of a gas passage from a chamber 300 is opened in a vicinity of an opening of a support through-hole 402 on the mounting seat surface 401.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Fusatoshi Tanaka, Katsunori Kuremiya, Kenichi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 8175431Abstract: An optical fiber connection structure includes a single-core plug holding a single-core ferrule, a multi-core plug holding a multi-core ferrule, and an adaptor having a tubular sleeve. The single-core ferrule made of zirconia (ZrO2) has a cylindrical shape and is held in a holder made of stainless steel (SUS). The single-core ferrule has a convex end surface whose curvature radius R1 is at least 50 mm. The multi-core ferrule made of zirconia (ZrO2) has a cylindrical shape and is held in a holder made of stainless steel (SUS). The multi-core ferrule has a convex end surface whose curvature radius R2 is at least 18.3 mm and at most 38.7 mm. When the first and second plugs are attached to the adaptor, the singe-core ferrule and the multi-core ferrule are respectively inserted from the opposite ends into the sleeve, and both of the end surfaces of the ferrules are pressed against each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Yuuki Imada, Shinichi Shimotu
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Patent number: 8175176Abstract: The present invention provides an FFT window spread generating method used in the modulation of an OFDM system. When OFDM-modulated received signals each having a time length greater than or equal to an effective symbol length are demodulated by FFT processing using a spread FFT window, the spread FFT window makes use of received signals each having the time length greater than or equal to the effective symbol length. Spreading windows spread before and/or after the effective symbol length are provided. Received signals lying within the spreading windows are added to their corresponding received signals lying within the effective symbol length and different in time position by the effective symbol length, and the amplitudes of the added received signals are reduced to half respectively, thereby generating the spread FFT window.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroji Akahori
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Patent number: 8172303Abstract: A link mechanism capable of setting any desirable speed of opening/closing a lid during a series of the opening/closing operation and capable of exerting a strong driving force is provided. A lid (6) is attached to a lid bracket (31). The lid bracket (31) is pivotally connected to a driving lever (14) and a coupled-driving lever (15) with which the lid (6) is opened or closed. The driving lever (14) is provided with a cam having an elongated hole (34), into which a driving pin (36) provided to a sector gear (13) is fitted. The sector gear (12) is driven by a motor through a pinion (22). According to rotation of the sector gear (13), the driving pin (36) moves in the elongated hole (34) and drives the driving lever (14). Since the distance between the center of the sector gear (13) and the driving pin (36) is larger than the radius of the pinion (22), such mechanism exerts a strong driving force.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Webasto AGInventors: Kozo Odoi, Minoru Okamura, Tomoaki Matsunobu
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Patent number: 8171620Abstract: A component supplying apparatus and a reel can be easily and integrally managed when not supplying components, and the component supplying apparatus can be made to be compact when the component supplying apparatus and the reel are not integrally managed. The component supplying apparatus (50) has an apparatus main body section (53), provided with a feeding apparatus (52) for pulling out a tape (TP), which holds components at fixed intervals, from a reel (80) toward a prescribed component supplying position, and a main body frame (500) on which the feeding apparatus (52) is mounted. The component supplying apparatus (50) is removably mounted on a surface mounting machine (10). The component supplying apparatus (50) is provided with an engaging section (100) as reel holder, which is mounted on the apparatus main body section (53) and is displaced between a holding position where the reel (80) is held and a storing position where the reel (80) is not held.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Yonemitsu, Tomokazu Ohnuki
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Patent number: 8170205Abstract: The control unit includes a CPU which generates an access signal for performing writing or reading on the external memory, encryption/decryption means which, when the access signal is used for writing, encrypts an address designated by the CPU to generate a write address and encrypts write data contained in the access signal to generate write encrypted data, and which, when the access signal is used for reading, encrypts an address designated by the CPU to generate a read address and decrypts the encrypted data read from the external memory to generate plaintext data, and external control means which writes the write encrypted data in a position designated by the write address generated by the encryption/decryption means and which reads the encrypted data from a position designated by the read address generated by the encryption/decryption means and supplies the same to the encryption/decryption means for its decryption.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koichi Takeda
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Patent number: 8167749Abstract: A tensioner arm comprises a tool-engagement portion for engaging with a tensioner-arm rotation tool, and a jig-holding portion which has a through hole for accepting a tensioner-arm fixation bar jig being inserted thereinto from above at a portion of the tensioner arm extending upward from the base end portion. A bearing case comprises a contact face portion which is provided at a face located below the jig-holding portion of the bearing case so as to accept the bar jig being inserted into the through hole of the tensioner arm, and an engagement stair portion which is provided at the contact face portion so as to engage with the bar jig such that move of the tensioner arm toward the belt by the biasing mechanism is restricted. A belt tensioner which enables an easy belt exchanging even by a single worker without detaching surrounding components of the engine can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Tomomi Miyamoto
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Patent number: D658321Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kohei Takeda, Kazuhiro Ito
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Patent number: D660754Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yasushi Nakamuta, Cho Yong Wook, Takahiro Matsui