Patents Represented by Attorney Volp and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8041301
    Abstract: An ultra wide band wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) communication includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first indicator of a multi-radio band transmission, and a receiver configured to receive a second indicator of a multi-radio band transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Zuniga, Sudheer A. Grandhi, Mohammed Sammour, Catherine M. Livet, Inhyok Cha
  • Patent number: 8040696
    Abstract: The configurations of a resonant converter system and a controlling method thereof are provided. The proposed resonant converter system includes a resonant converter receiving an input voltage for outputting an output voltage, a rectifying device having a first rectifying switch and a synchronous rectification control circuit coupled to the resonant converter and including a signal generation apparatus generating a weighted turn-off signal to turn off the first rectifying switch at a zero crossing point of a first current flowing through the first rectifying switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongyang Wu, Bin Wang, Jianhong Zeng, Jianping Ying, Xiaoni Xin
  • Patent number: 8038556
    Abstract: A tensioning device for a traction mechanism, particularly a belt or a chain, including a tensioning lever over which the traction mechanism is guided and on which a tensioning spring is disposed with one end thereof, the other end thereof being provided on a spring holder by which the tensioning device can be fastened to an external object. A holding pin (11) extends through the tensioning spring (4), with the pin at one end (11) thereof being disposed in a fixed position on the tensioning lever (2) and at the other end thereof having a locking section (22) disposed on a locking element (17) provided on a spring holder (6). The locking element can be adjusted between a locking position of the holding pin end (16), in which the tensioning device (1) is fixed in a position with the pretensioned tensioning spring (4), and a released position of the holding pin end (16), in which the holding pin (10) is axially displaceable in the locking element (17), and limited by a stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Schmidl, Stefan Mack, Rainer Pflug
  • Patent number: 8040834
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and apparatus for reporting traffic volume measurement (TVM) information used to support enhanced uplink (EU) data transmissions between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), i.e., a mobile station, and a Node-B. After storing EU data in a buffer, the WTRU sends an initial TVM information request message to the Node-B indicating that the WTRU has EU data available to send to the Node-B. In response, the Node-B schedules one or more allowed EU data transmissions. The WTRU transmits at least a portion of the stored EU data to the Node-B via the allowed EU data transmissions. In one embodiment, the initial TVM information request message is sent by the WTRU only after the quantity of EU data stored in the buffer of the WTRU exceeds an established threshold. Otherwise, all of the stored EU data is transferred to the Node-B without requiring scheduling by the Node-B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 8037649
    Abstract: A step assembly that is specifically adapted to assist pets in reaching and/or descending from elevated surfaces is provided. The step assembly has two sidewalls having a plurality of openings in which pegs formed on the sides of individual treads and risers are engaged. The pegs are removably insertable into the openings and include protrusions which create an interference fit upon insertion. Because the treads, risers and side walls are joined by interlocking pegs and openings, the step assembly can be flat packed for shipping, and is easily assembled and disassembled for transportation and/or cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Vermont Juvenile Furniture Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Jakubowski, Scott S. Jakubowski, Todd M. Jakubowski, Guang-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 8040226
    Abstract: A vehicle surveillance system has a plurality of side-light units mounted on opposite sides of a truck, bus, train or a similar long vehicle. The side-light units form an RF communication network on the vehicle. Each side-light unit comprises a day-running light source, a sensor for defining a surveillance zone on the side of said vehicle, said the sensor being arranged to detect an object or a movement of an object within the surveillance zone, and an RF transmitter which is controlled by said sensor and arranged to transmit an RF detection signal from said side-light unit. Existing day-running side-light units of a vehicle may be replaced with the inventive vehicle day-running side-light units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Datachassi DC AB
    Inventors: Torbjörn Birging, Werner Hilliges
  • Patent number: 8040401
    Abstract: An image pickup system according to the present invention includes an extracting unit for extracting a block area with a predetermined size from a signal of an image pickup device, a transforming unit for transforming the signal in the extracted block area into a signal in a frequency space, an estimating unit for estimating the amount of noises of a frequency component except for a zero-order component based on the zero-order component in the transformed signal in the frequency space, a noise reducing unit for reducing noises of the frequency component except for the zero-order component based on the estimated amount of noises, and a compressing unit for compressing the zero-order component and the frequency component except for the zero-order component from which the noises are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 8037244
    Abstract: A storage apparatus comprises a disk device and a disk controller for controlling the disk device. The disk controller provides a data volume including an actual volume and virtual volume with a volume capacity virtualization function. The virtual volume is associated with a pool volume for storing the actual data and the actual data is stored in the pool volume. In response to a write command from a host computer, the disk controller compresses write data under RAID 5 control and stores the compressed data in a storage area in the actual volume. If the entire compressed data cannot be stored in that storage area, the disk controller stores the remaining portion of the compressed data in the virtual volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Muto, Isamu Kurokawa, Ran Ogata, Kazue Jindo
  • Patent number: 8036000
    Abstract: The configurations of a resonant converter system and a controlling method thereof are provided. The proposed resonant converter system includes a resonant converter and a hybrid control apparatus coupled to the resonant converter for generating a driving signal to adjust a phase angle and a frequency of the resonant converter such that the resonant converter would reach a relatively lower voltage gain and have a relatively lower loss during an abnormal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianping Ying, Yiqing Ye, Chao Yan, Jianhong Zeng
  • Patent number: 8036181
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for reducing multi-user processing at the receiver in wireless communication systems. Detected codes are grouped according to channel impulse response and a parent code is identified for each group of detected codes. A matrix A is constructed and joint detection is performed using the identified parent codes. Data symbols of the detected codes are obtained from the data symbols of the identified parent codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jung-Lin Pan, Jaeyoung Kwak, Donald M. Grieco
  • Patent number: 8036076
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system including: a computer running as a DB server; a storage system including a plurality of disk drives for storing data; and a management module, in which: at least one of the plurality of disk drives stores data of a DB schema written by the computer; the management module specifies the DB schema to be accessed based on a received query, transmits, to the storage system, an instruction to copy at least a portion of the data of the specified DB schema from the disk drive to a memory, and transmits, to the storage system, an instruction to control an rpm of the disk drive that stores the data of the specified DB schema; and the storage system controls the rpm of the disk drive based on the instruction. Accordingly, power consumption of the storage system can be reduced even if installed disks increase in number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideomi Idei, Kazuhiko Mogi, Norifumi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8033821
    Abstract: A premix burner is provided, with a swirl generator and a downstream mixer tube for combusting gaseous and liquid fuel which during entry of combustion air is introduced into the burner interior space of the swirl generator and/or is introduced into the burner interior of the swirl generator on a burner axis, and also with a fuel lance which is arranged on the burner axis. The premix burner, in the transition section from the swirl generator to the mixer tube, includes at least one additional feed for introducing gaseous and/or liquid premix fuel from the wall region into the burner interior space of the mixer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Adnan Eroglu
  • Patent number: 8036325
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cancelling interference in received signals are disclosed. A receiver includes a knowledge-based interference cancellation unit, a blind interference cancellation unit and a trade-off management unit. The knowledge-based interference cancellation unit cancels interference in the received signals based on pre-known knowledge and the blind interference cancellation unit cancels interference in the received signals without the pre-known knowledge. The trade-off management unit determines a trade-off between knowledge-based interference cancellation and blind interference cancellation, whereby at least one of the knowledge-based interference cancellation and the blind interference cancellation is selectively preformed based on the trade-off. The interference cancellation may be performed by implementing at least one of a successive interference cancellation (SIC), a principal component analysis (PCA) and an independent component analysis (ICA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Steven Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Patent number: 8037160
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and data transfer arrangement for executing consecutive instructions in a client device (21) in a mobile user application—device management server—client device environment (23, 22, 21). The invention also relates to an instruction execution module utilized in the implementation of the method. In the procedure according to the invention, the user application (23) forms the instructions to be executed in the client device (21) into an instruction sequence (200), which is transmitted to the device management server (22) controlling the client device (21). The instruction execution module in the device management server breaks up the instruction sequence into command sequences and control structures. The command sequences are executed in the client device (21). The conditional commands belonging to the instruction sequence, specified by the control structures, are executed by the instruction execution module individually, without the help of the user application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Capricode Oy
    Inventors: Jarkko Oikarinen, Lasse Koskela
  • Patent number: 8037274
    Abstract: A path creation support apparatus acquires either a portion of the parameters required for path creation or parameter decision information for deciding this portion of the parameters from a storage system or a host. The path creation support apparatus decides the portion of the parameters based on the parameter decision information. Upon receiving an access path creation start request, the path creation support apparatus sends an access path creation indication to the host and the storage system which specifies the parameters together with the access path creation start request, and either the parameters acquired beforehand or the acquired parameters decided based on the parameter decision information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8034159
    Abstract: A method for cleaning hydrocarbons from a gas-vapor medium ejected to the atmosphere, formed while storing oil or gasoline or filling a container therewith is provided. The medium is pumped out and compressed in a gas-liquid jet apparatus due to energy of oil or gasoline supplied by a pump. The formed mixture is separated in a separator, where a pressure of 0.7 to 2.5 MPa is maintained, and gas from the separator is compressed in a jet apparatus by oil or gasoline supplied by a pump. The gas medium cleaned from the hydrocarbons is outputted and the saturated absorbent is directed to a desorber where a pressure is generated to be lower than the pressure in the separator. The liquid medium is removed from the separators and to a container or to a storage tank from which oil or gasoline is simultaneously supplied to pump inlets or to the separators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Inventor: Valery Grigorievich Tsegelsky
  • Patent number: 8034211
    Abstract: It is the object of the present invention a thermoplastic element for the protection against corrosion in the thermofused splicing of a thermoplastic tube to a thermoplastic connection, which element has the shape of a fully thermoplastic tubular sleeve, able to be introduced into a socket mouth formed by the expansion of the tube end, said splice element bearing only one internal diameter and two external diameters which define a cylindrical external portion of larger diameter and a tubular projection which diameter is smaller than the former, and which is introduced into the thermoplastic tube, a lateral wall of the external portion defining a front butt of said thermoplastic element against the end of the thermoplastic tube. Said splicing element also exhibits an auxiliary ring which operates as a reference point for the assembly thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Inventor: Florencia Andersen
  • Patent number: 8037362
    Abstract: One or more switches are interposed between a controller portion and a storage device. When transmission of a command to a certain storage device fails, a command is transmitted starting from an upstream side to a downstream side of a path between the controller portion and the switch to which the certain storage device is connected, and when command transmission fails while transmitting a command from a kth switch (k is an integer of 0 or more) which is connected to a (k+1)th switch and is one level upstream of the (k+1)th switch or from any port of the controller portion, it is determined that a failure has occurred in a power source that supplies power to the (k+1)th switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Tsutomu Koga, Tetsuya Inoue, Tomokazu Yokoyama, Kenji Jin
  • Patent number: 8035253
    Abstract: The method of controlling a multi-converter having N converters with series-connected inputs and parallel-connected outputs is provided in the present invention. The proposed controlling method includes steps of: causing each of the N converters to have an intermittent operating period, an intermittent operating time interval and an intermittent operating duty ratio equal to a value of the intermittent operating time interval divided by a value of the intermittent operating period; and causing the N converters to operate alternately with the intermittent operating period, wherein N is an integer larger than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Haoyi Ye, Jianhong Zeng, Hongyang Wu, Chao Yan, Teng Liu, Jianping Ying
  • Patent number: RE42817
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine having a device for hydraulically adjusting the angle of rotation of the camshaft thereof relative to the crankshaft thereof is provided, which also includes a vacuum pump for a servo load. The device includes a drive unit that is connected in a driving manner to the crankshaft and an output unit which is connected in a torsion-proof manner to the camshaft. The lubricating oil of the internal combustion engine, which is fed from a radial bearing of the camshaft in the cylinder head, is used as a hydraulic pressurizing medium for the device. Thee vacuum pump includes a housing that has a flanged connection to the cylinder head cover, and a rotor that is disposed therein and is provided with a drive shaft via which the vacuum pump is driven and lubricated. The vacuum pump is arranged in an axial direction relative to the device, while the device is provided with additional coupling elements via which the drive shaft od the vacuum pump is connected in a driving manner to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Joachim Dietz