Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tuttle
  • Semiconductor device with double-sided electrode structure and its manufacturing method
    Patent number: 7884466
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a recess portion is formed in a package substrate which is formed of a multilayer organic substrate having a multilayer wiring, and an LSI chip is accommodated within the recess portion. Wiring traces are formed on the upper surface of a resin which seals the LSI chip connected to the multilayer wiring. The wiring traces are connected to terminal wiring traces connected to the multilayer wiring on the front face of the package substrate and to front-face bump electrodes for external connection on the upper surface of the resin. On the back face side of the package substrate, back-face bump electrodes for external connection are formed and connected to the multilayer wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamichi Ishihara, Fumihiko Ooka, Yoshihiko Ino
  • Process and device for monitoring a patient during anesthesia and for determining the combined effect of a plurality of anesthetics
    Patent number: 7878982
    Abstract: A process is provided for monitoring a patient being anesthetized, as well as a process for determining a combined effect of different anesthetics used. Devices for carrying out the processes are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignees: Dräger Medical GmbH, Inselspital Bern, Direktion Lehre und Forschung
    Inventors: Franz Frank, Maral Haar, Jürgen Manigel, Kai Kück, Susanne Stahlkopf, Marcel Voigt, Thomas Bouillon, Martin Luginbühl, Peter Schumacher
  • Quinophthalone compound, mixed colorant, laser ray transmitting colored resin composition, and laser-welded product
    Patent number: 7879929
    Abstract: Quinophthalone compound of Formula (1) or (2), mixed colorant, laser ray transmitting colored resin composition containing thereof, and laser-welded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Orient Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Sugawara, Yoshiteru Hatase
  • Stacking column
    Patent number: 7878343
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stacking column for holding warehouse items, in particular bodywork parts, on the support arms of ratchet levers, which pivot about a rotational axis from a resting position into a working position. Several ratchet levers are located above one another or next to one another and cooperate with one another. A supporting element, which in the working position lies on or against a preceding ratchet lever, rotates with the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: MTS Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Gustav Strobel
  • Wheel suspension
    Patent number: 7878511
    Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle is described, in which at least a first and at least a second control arm (1, 2) are coupled in an articulated manner to a wheel carrier (4) carrying a vehicle wheel (3). The wheel suspension has a compensating device (5, 6) for correcting wheel positions, and each control arm (1, 2) has a portion of the compensating device (5, 6) or is connected to a portion of the compensating device (5, 6). The compensating device portions (5, 6) of one wheel are connected to one another by at least one coupling member (7, 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Felix Haeusler, Christoph Elbers, Knut Heidsieck, Simon Aramah
  • Directional change twin-belt conveyor
    Patent number: 7878320
    Abstract: A directional-change conveyor (1) is provided for conveying piece goods (2) along a first conveying strip and a second conveying strip oriented in a different direction. A transfer structure (3) is provided for transferring conveyed piece goods from the first to the second conveying strip. The first and second conveying strips are twin-belt conveyors (4, 5). The transfer structure (3) is provided with tilted non-driven guide rollers (11) in an angle sector (10) between the two revolving belts (6, 7) of the first twin-belt conveyor (4). The lateral revolving belts (6, 7; 8, 9) of the two twin-belt conveyors (4, 5) are provided as the only drive of the conveyor (1). The tilted non-driven (first) guide rollers (11) are the exclusive deflection elements in the angle sector (10) and deflect conveyed piece goods (2) from the first twin-belt conveyor (4) on a curved strip to the second twin-belt conveyor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Knapp Logistik Automation GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Freudelsperger
  • Turbo-lag compensation system having an ejector
    Patent number: 7877996
    Abstract: A boost system for an engine is described. In one example, the boost system provides air to an engine cylinder via a converging-diverging valve seat. The system can reduce turbocharger lag during some conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Al Berger, Thomas Leone
  • Control strategy for turbocharged diesel engine
    Patent number: 7877981
    Abstract: The description relates to a control strategy for assisting regeneration of a particulate filter for a turbocharged diesel V-engine. The engine has two cylinder banks, a first cylinder bank coupled to a first exhaust pipe and a second cylinder bank coupled to a second exhaust pipe. The two exhaust pipes are in communication with one another by a connecting pipe and have two exhaust gas turbochargers each connected in a respective one of the exhaust pipes. The first exhaust pipe being provided with an exhaust shut-off valve in order to operate the engine either with a single turbocharger when the valve is in its closed position or with the two turbochargers when the valve is in its open position. The first exhaust pipe is connected to a diesel particulate filter (DPF) and the second exhaust pipe is connected to a diesel oxidation catalyst and to the DPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Philip James Edward Newman
  • Power unit for a vehicle
    Patent number: 7878285
    Abstract: A power unit for a vehicle including an engine configured to drive the vehicle, a transaxle coupled to a drive wheel, a power transmission system which is coupled to the engine and to the transaxle and is configured to transmit a rotational force output from the engine to the transaxle, and a base plate fastened to the engine and to the transaxle so as to cover a lower surface of the engine and a lower surface of the transaxle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaoru Oda, Taisuke Morita, Izumi Takagi
  • Fuel mass control for ethanol direct injection plus gasoline port fuel injection
    Patent number: 7877189
    Abstract: A method is described for an engine having a delivery system configured to deliver fuel and a fluid to an engine cylinder, said fluid containing at least some water. In one example, an engine operating parameter may be varied based on an amount of water in said fluid, where said amount is determined based on an operating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas G. Leone
  • Gas sensor with at least one catalytic measuring element
    Patent number: 7875244
    Abstract: A gas sensor has shock resistance and temperature resistance attributes. The gas sensor includes at least one catalytic measuring element (3), which is arranged in a sensor housing (1) forming a combustion chamber (2). The sensor housing (1) has at least one gas-permeable housing opening (4) for the gas exchange between the environment and the combustion chamber (2). The catalytic measuring element (3) is arranged between at least two disk-shaped support elements (5) made of a heat-insulating and temperature-resistant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Mladen Schlichte, Erik Stender
  • Distance estimation based on image contrast
    Patent number: 7876424
    Abstract: The determination of an apparent distance between an object and a surface is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises illuminating the object with a spatially inhomogeneous irradiance from the surface, an intensity variation in the spatially inhomogeneous irradiance in a plane parallel to the surface responsive to a distance between the plane and the surface. Next, an image of the object is acquired while the object is illuminated by the spatially inhomogeneous irradiance, and the apparent distance of the object from the surface is determined based on a brightness contrast in the image of the object due to the spatially inhomogeneous irradiance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Nigel Keam
  • Hinge device
    Patent number: 7874045
    Abstract: Provided is a hinge device for connecting one member and another member so that the hinge device allows opening and closing, including: a movable shaft; a first bracket non-rotatably fixed to the movable shaft and fixed to the one member; a second bracket rotatably and axially movably installed on the movable shaft and fixed to the other member; and a plate spring member formed in a curved configuration, having at a top of the curved configuration of the plate spring member a projection whose surface in contact with the second bracket is flat, and non-rotatably and axially movably installed on the movable shaft, in which the second bracket and the plate spring member are pressed against and held in contact with each other and make relative rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Kitamura, Makoto Saito, Yohei Nakahara
  • Reducing a visible presence of an optically readable tag
    Patent number: 7874495
    Abstract: Various embodiments of substantially visibly transparent optically readable tags are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, a tag formed on a substrate comprises a first bit value structure that comprises a higher reflectance than transmittance at one or more infrared wavelengths and a higher transmittance than reflectance at one or more visible wavelengths, and a second bit value structure that comprises a higher absorbance than transmittance at one or more infrared wavelengths and a higher transmittance than absorbance at one or more visible wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Prafulla Masalkar
  • Optically readable tag
    Patent number: 7874496
    Abstract: Embodiments related to the identification of objects via optically readable tags. One embodiment includes an optically readable tag having a data region comprising a two-dimensional array of optically contrasting data features, one or more orientation features located on the tag outside of the data region, and a tracking feature located outside of the data region and having a larger size than the orientation features and the data features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Nigel Keam
  • Exhaust muffler for exhaust system
    Patent number: 7874401
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler (1) is provided for an at least partly dual-flow exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle. The exhaust muffler has a housing (2), which encloses an interior space (3), with two exhaust pipes (6), through which exhaust gas can flow in parallel, and which are each led through the interior space (3), and which have a side opening (8) each within the housing (2). A neck body (9) connects the two side openings (8) of the exhaust pipes (6) in a communicating manner to form a Helmholtz resonator with the interior space (3) of the housing (2), which interior space (3) acts as a resonance volume (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Uhlemann, Peter Gorke
  • Vehicle and motor controller for vehicle
    Patent number: 7874279
    Abstract: A motorcycle includes an engine in which angle intervals of crank angles respectively corresponding to expansion strokes of a plurality of cylinders are unequal, a motor configured to generate a torque applied to a driving power transmission system including a crankshaft of the engine, and a motor controller configured to drive the motor to add the torque of the motor to a torque of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoji Fukami, Takeshi Nakajima
  • System and method to operate fuel cell in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7870723
    Abstract: A method for operating an international combustion engine, the engine also includes a first cylinder, a second cylinder, an exhaust system, and a fuel cell in the exhaust system. The method comprises operating the first cylinder lean to provide air to the fuel cell during at least one condition; and operating the second cylinder rich or stoichiometric to provide torque output and fuel to the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Elwart, James Kerns, Gopichandra Surnilla, David Bidner
  • Air exit guidance
    Patent number: 7871317
    Abstract: An air exit guidance which in particular is provided for arrangement in the personal service unit of an passenger aircraft. The guidance includes an air inlet and an air outlet as well as an adjustable throttle which is arranged at the inflow side of the air exit guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Meckes, Wolfgang Rittner
  • Utility vehicle with cabin frame
    Patent number: RE42086
    Abstract: A utility vehicle having a cabin-frame assembly coupled to the vehicle body so as to cover rows of seats is provided. Typically, the assembly includes a main frame extended in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle substantially arcuately over the rows of seats, and an intermediate frame extended substantially arcuately and laterally across the vehicle body between the seat rows to support the main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Saito, Kazumasa Hisada, Aaron Bahner