Patents Represented by Attorney Tolpin & Partners, PC
  • Patent number: 8343425
    Abstract: A user-friendly multi-layer micro/nanofluidic flow device and micro/nano fabrication process are provided for numerous uses. The multi-layer micro/nanofluidic flow device can comprise: a substrate, such as indium tin oxide coated glass (ITO glass); a conductive layer of ferroelectric material, preferably comprising a PZT layer of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) positioned on the substrate; electrodes connected to the conductive layer; a nanofluidics layer positioned on the conductive layer and defining nanochannels; a microfluidics layer positioned upon the nanofluidics layer and defining microchannels; and biomolecular nanovalves providing bio-nanovalves which are moveable from a closed position to an open position to control fluid flow at a nanoscale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Hao Li, Leonidas E. Ocola, Orlando H. Auciello, Millicent A. Firestone
  • Patent number: 8302618
    Abstract: A liquid tank connector for preventing leakage of contents in a liquid tank when removing a socket from a plug fixed to the liquid tank is provided. The liquid tank connector which includes a plug to be fixed to a liquid tank where liquid is stored, a socket which is able to be connected and disconnected with respect to the plug, and a sleeve for releasing a connected state between the plug and the socket by a relative movement with respect to the socket, and in which a liquid flow channels and gas flow channels are formed in a liquid deliverable state in which the plug and the socket are connected, and which includes: a cock which forms a gas flow channel in the liquid deliverable state, and the relative movement of the sleeve is controlled by the position of the cock in the liquid deliverable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Surpass Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Takanohashi, Masahiro Hasunuma
  • Patent number: 8205419
    Abstract: A self-propelled bagging machine for storing grain in a sleeve (unfolding plastic film pipe or silo bag) made up of an upper receiving hopper which outlet leads to a grain discharge tunnel over which such folded sleeve fits, all of this mounted on a chassis equipped with running gear and dragging pole, where such hopper outlet comprises a wall that is transversally connected to the hopper according to a downward slant plane leading to the discharge tunnel arranged under the vertical projection of the mouth of said hopper, and where such running gear comprises a back single-shaft running gear that is connected to the wheels, and a smaller front steering running gear; such grain bagging machine further includes: a dual compensated braking device made up of an adjustable primary hydraulic braking mechanism and an adjustable secondary hydraulic braking mechanism which act simultaneously on the back shaft of the bagging machine, and where a mechanic articulation mounted on the chassis in such a way that it is sens
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Inventor: Carlos Alberto Martínez
  • Patent number: 8102272
    Abstract: A signal inspection system for a rotation control device and a method thereof are disclosed. The signal inspection system comprises a signal capturing device, a determining module, a signal transforming device, and a processing module. A first signal and a second signal outputted by the rotation control device are captured by the signal capturing device, and the state of the first signal is determined by the determining module. Based on the state of the first signal, the machine language transformed from the first signal and the second signal are assembled by the processing module by use of a preset mode, and the assembled result is deciphered by the processing module for outputting a rotational direction of the rotation control device. Therefore, the accuracy of inspection result may be effectively improved up to one hundred percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventor: Li-Yan Ma
  • Patent number: 7863929
    Abstract: The invention discloses an active back-end termination circuit, which comprises a first resistor, a first transistor, a second resistor, and a second transistor. The first resistor and the first transistor are connected in series for forming a first impendence unit. A first source of the first transistor is connected to a working voltage with VTT. The second resistor and the second transistor are connected in series for forming a second impendence unit. A second gate and a second drain of the second transistor are connected to the working voltage with VTT. Wherein, the first impendence unit and the second impendence unit are connected in parallel. The first transistor or the second transistor is switched on through a power source, and the first transistor and the second transistor change the impedance actively for matching a load according to the voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Min-Sheng Kao, Yu-Hao Hsu, Jen-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 7861574
    Abstract: A user-friendly photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) system and process (technique) provides an open-field PAS instrument, unit and device to remotely sense explosives, chemicals and biological agents. The PAS system and process can include: a pulsed tunable laser, such as a CO2 laser, a reflector, such as a parabolic reflector, an acoustic reverberant resonator in which a microphone is installed, and a data acquisition and analysis system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Shuh-Haw Sheen, Apostolos C. Raptis, Hual-Te Chien
  • Patent number: 7856892
    Abstract: A measurable flow-rate range is increased to enhance usability. A flow-rate measuring method for measuring the flow rate of a fluid inside a tube is provided. This method uses a thermal-marker generator that heats the fluid flowing through the tube from the outside thereof to generate a thermal marker in the fluid inside the tube and a thermal-marker detector disposed downstream of the thermal-marker generator and configured to detect the thermal marker in the fluid inside the tube generated by the thermal-marker generator, so as to measure the flow rate on the basis of the distance between the thermal-marker generator and the thermal-marker detector, a time period between a point at which the thermal marker in the fluid inside the tube is generated by the thermal-marker generator and a point at which the thermal marker is detected by the thermal-marker detector, and the cross-sectional area of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Surpass Industry Co, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Ohtake
  • Patent number: 7855878
    Abstract: A mobile phone or other electronic device is provided with side keys inside the goalpost compartment at a location offset from the axis of rotation to optimize the use of internal limited space inside the goalpost. In the preferred form, side keys comprise keycaps positioned in the goalpost area, while the switches are located inside the hardware compartment and engaged by the keycaps via a pin providing a cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachid Alameh, Thomas Gitzinger
  • Patent number: 7818993
    Abstract: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are decorated with metal nanoparticles to form high-performance flexible hydrogen sensors. The special process to form the high-performance flexible hydrogen sensors can combine a dry transfer printing technique and modification of SWNTs with palladium (Pd) nanoparticles to provide high-performance hydrogen sensors with excellent mechanical flexibility on plastic substrates. Two approaches can be used to decorate the SWNTs. One is physical deposition, such as electron beam evaporation (EBE) and the other is electrochemical deposition which can selectively grow palladium nanoparticles on the surface of the SWNTs, resulting in significantly decreasing the use of palladium. Preferably, the Pd nanoparticles are deposed on the SWNTs in a discontinuous arrangement so that the Pd nanoparticles are spaced away from each other to form individual discontinuous Pd nanoparticles rather a continuous Pd film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Yugang Sun, Hsien-Hau Wang
  • Patent number: 7644606
    Abstract: A user-friendly photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) system and process (technique) provides an open-field PAS instrument, unit and device to remotely sense explosives, chemicals and biological agents. The PAS system and process can include: a pulsed tunable laser, such as a CO2 laser, a reflector, such as a parabolic reflector, an acoustic reverberant resonator in which a microphone is installed, and a data acquisition and analysis system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Shuh-Haw Sheen, Apostolos C. Raptis, Hual-Te Chien
  • Patent number: 7647254
    Abstract: At least one or more customized solutions for setting up a computer system for a customer may be provided. A customer may select a new computer system, or upgrade or set up a current computer system based at least in part on customer identification information. A customer solutions advisor computer program may query the customer and/or may retrieve databases to determine a likely computer configuration, preference, and need of the customer. The customer solutions advisor computer program may launch a polling program on at least one or more of computer systems of the customer to determine the configuration of equipment and software in the computer system. The customer solutions advisor computer program may recommend hardware and/or software solutions to the customer. The customer interactively customizes the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Cool
  • Patent number: 7628618
    Abstract: A flexible cable positioning device is disclosed. The flexible cable positioning device comprises a baseboard, a positioning housing, a cover and a flexible cable. The baseboard has a plurality of contact points. The positioning housing is located on the baseboard and corresponded to the contact points. The cover is mounted on the positioning housing, and has a plurality of protruding parts corresponding to the contact points. The flexible cable is accommodated removably in the positioning housing, and the flexible cable has a contact part disposed between the contact points and the protruding parts. The cover is for pressing and fixing the flexible cable into the positioning housing, and the protruding parts are for fixing the contact part of the flexible cable to the contact points of the baseboard. Therefore, the contact part of the flexible cable is electrically connected with the contact points of the baseboard firmly and stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: P-Two Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien Chun Wang, Jing Heng Lin
  • Patent number: 7602105
    Abstract: A compact large density memory piezoactuated storage device and process for its fabrication provides an integrated microelectromechanical (MEMS) and/or nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) system and structure that features an integrated large density array of nanotips made of wear-resistant conductive ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) in which the tips are actuated via a piezoelectric thin film integrated with the UNCD tips. The tips of the special piezoactuated storage device effectively contact an underlying metal layer (top electrode) deposited on a polarizable ferroelectric layer that is grown on top of another metal layer (bottom electrode) to form a ferroelectric capacitor. Information is imprinted in the ferroelectric layer by the polarization induced by the application of a voltage pulse between the top and bottom electrodes through the conductive UNCD tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventor: Orlando H. Auciello
  • Patent number: 7480595
    Abstract: It is possible to establish an estimation method capable of logically and optimally deciding a forgetting coefficient and develop an estimation algorithm and a high-speed algorithm which are numerically stable. Firstly, a Processing section reads out or receives an upper limit value ?f from a storage section or an input section (S101). The.processing section decides a forgetting coefficient ? by equation (15) (S103). After this, according to the forgetting coefficient ?, the processing section executes a hyper H? filter of equations (10-13) (S105). The processing section (101) calculates the existence condition of equation (17) (or equation (18) which will be given later) (S107). When the existence condition is satisfied at all the times (S109), ?f is decreased by ?? and the same processing is repeated (S111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: D627923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventor: Roy Korach
  • Patent number: D654374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Oxford Shirt Company Limited
    Inventor: Hamish Lauder
  • Patent number: D672075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Comercial Luxia Ltda.
    Inventor: Ximena Muñoz Abogabir