Patents Represented by Attorney Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7039408
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for facilitating high level handoff decisions performed by a gateway device of a personal area network (PAN) which examines criteria regarding both the devices making up the PAN as well as the enterprise networks which are the subject of the potential handoff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Steven Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7036444
    Abstract: A locking device for bobbins (3) in the hook base (1) of a sewing machine is provided by a locking element (21) that can move in the axial direction. The locking element (21) is spring-loaded and lies in an ejection and loading position inclined to the rotational axis (X) of the hook base (1), so that the bobbin (3) can be placed or removed. As soon as the bobbin (3) is inserted into the hook base (1), the locking element (21) tips and locks on the bobbin rod (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Fritz Gegauf Aktiengesellschaft BERNINA-Nahmaschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Hans Flückiger
  • Patent number: 7033211
    Abstract: An electrical angular pin-and-socket connector (1) is provided which includes two individual, separate angle legs (2) and (5). The second angle leg (5) includes a receiving opening (8) which opens perpendicularly to the profile of the angle leg, and in which a plug-in section (9) of the first angle leg (2) can be plugged and fitted, the two angle legs (2) and (5) being intermated in a functional position. In order to mutually lock the two angle legs in the functional position, an opening (10) extending perpendicularly to the axial extension of the first angle leg (2) is created through the second angle leg (5), in the cover or contact region inside the receiving opening (8), and part of the cross-section of the opening is respectively present in the contact region of the two angle legs, in such a way that a fixing screw (6) passing through the opening (10) or borehole positively grips the two angle legs and mutually locks the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholomä, Achim Hoch, Frank Köhler, Manfred Stratz, Günter Reich
  • Patent number: 7032552
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for releasably connecting and adjusting the positions between a crankshaft and a cam shaft of an internal combustion engine, which includes a setting gear (1) configured as a three-shaft gear, which has a drive shaft (4) connected to the crankshaft, an output shaft (5) connected to the camshaft, and an adjusting shaft connected to an electric adjusting motor (2). A stationary transmission ratio io, which has a base or emergency running position, is present between the drive and output shafts when the adjusting shaft (6) is idle, the magnitude of the gear transmission ratio determining the gear type (positive or negative) and the direction of adjustment of the camshaft (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Jens Schäfer, Martin Steigerwald
  • Patent number: 7035079
    Abstract: The present invention provides an MLCC and an MLCC array. The MLCC has desirably low ESL properties by forming the first and second internal electrodes to be spaced apart from each other on the same dielectric layer while overlapping with other first and second internal electrodes on the neighboring dielectric layers, and connecting the first and second internal electrodes to the external terminals provided on the top surface or the bottom surface of the capacitor body through conductive via holes formed in the capacitor body in a stacking direction of the capacitor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Soo Park, Dong Seok Park, Byoung Hwa Lee, Min Cheol Park, Hyun Ju Yi, Min Kyoung Kwon, Hae Suk Chung, Chang Hoon Shim, Seung Heon Han
  • Patent number: 7035242
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for delivery of UMTS services to a dual mode mobile station through a WLAN when the mobile station is operating within a WLAN environment. UMTS services are transmitted to a WLAN through a UMTS repeater tuned to receive services addressed to registered IDs and transmit these services to that (those) WLAN(s) having mobile stations registered with the UMTS. The WLAN format converter converts the UMTS format into a WLAN message format and communicates the message to the registered users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Interdigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kamel M. Shaheen, Leonid Kazakevich
  • Patent number: 7034343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dipolar LED and a dipolar LED module incorporating the same, in which an upper hemisphere-shaped base houses an LED chip therein and adapted to radiate light from the LED chip to the outside, and a pair of reflecting surfaces placed at opposed top portions of the base in a configuration symmetric about an imaginary vertical plane. The vertical plane passes through the center of the LED chip perpendicularly to a light-emitting surface of the LED chip. The reflecting surfaces are extended upward away from the top portions of the base to reflect light from the LED chip away from the imaginary vertical plane. A pair of radiating surfaces are placed outside the reflecting surfaces, respectively, to radiate light from the reflecting surfaces to the outside. In this way, light emission from the LED chip can be concentrated in both lateral directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Ha Kim, Hun Joo Hahm, Hyung Suk Kim, Jin Jong Kim, Joo Hee Jun, Sang Hyuck Lee, Chon Su Kyong, Ho Seop Jeong
  • Patent number: 7034513
    Abstract: A power supply has a normal operation mode and a standby operation mode. The power supply includes a main circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, and a switching controller. The main circuit has at least one output port for converting an input voltage into an output voltage at the output port. The first control circuit is used for controlling the main circuit under the normal operation mode. The second control circuit is used for controlling the main circuit under the standby operation mode. And, the switching controller processes a control signal to control the first control circuit and the second control circuit under either of the normal operation mode and the standby operation mode in response to a load status of the output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongjian Gan, Qinggang Kong, Alpha J. Zhang, Jian Jung Chang
  • Patent number: 7032875
    Abstract: A bag closing apparatus including a frame structure, a cinching assembly and an actuator assembly. The cinching assembly includes at least three pivot arms, each pivot arm including an arcuate portion and pivotably connected to the frame structure. The pivot arms are located relative to each to define a confined closure area. The actuator assembly includes a plurality of actuators for moving the pivot arms between spread positions and closed positions wherein the closure area has a smaller area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Flexicon Corporation
    Inventors: Keith W. Sterner, Dennis E. Graham, John F. Simonof, Jr., David R. Gill
  • Patent number: 7032704
    Abstract: An electrically assisted, power steering system for motor vehicles having an input shaft (6) connected to a pinion shaft (2) by a torsionally elastic member (5) is supported in a steering housing (1) by a rolling bearing. The rolling bearing is formed as an elastic, flexible roller bearing (13), whose cylinder rollers (13.5, 13.6) have at least at one peripheral position an elastically deformable cylinder roller (13.6), having a diameter that is slightly greater than a diameter of the other cylinder rollers (13.5). In this way, an exact guidance of the input shaft (6) is achieved, so that the applied steering torque can be used accurately by an evaluation unit (15) for controlling the servo motor (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Alexander Zernickel, Jörg Wagner
  • Patent number: 7035656
    Abstract: A network controller for controlling a message over a communication network constantly monitors actually transmitted message from or to a particular user. If the controller determines a particular phrase is transmitted more than a predetermined number of times, the controller updates support data and transmits the data in a compressed format with support data. The network controller may send an updated support data in response to a request from a user equipment. In this way, the present invention reduces the amount of traffic over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7031284
    Abstract: Multi-user detection (MUD) performance is optimized to eliminate redundant use of power during processing. An overbuilt A-matrix, i.e., a system response matrix, is provided. The overbuilt A-matrix uses all possible codes, e.g., all codes identified in a candidate code list (CCL) provided by blind code detection (BCD). The overbuilt A-matrix is passed to the MUD which extracts only those rows or columns required for codes that have actually been received, thus eliminating the need to recompute whitening matched filter (WMF) outputs that do not correspond to the actually received code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephan Shane Supplee, Chayil S. Timmerman, Ryan Samuel Buchert, Peter Edward Becker, Tonino Nasuti, Robert A. DiFazio, John W. Haim
  • Patent number: 7031732
    Abstract: A wireless communication system implements wireless communications between a base station and a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs by initially processing paging indicator information. A first embodiment involves a UE's physical layer L1 being configured for interpreting a paging indicator (PI) to activate a preset decoding configuration to process paging data in a pre-specified paging channel (PCH). A second embodiment involves the physical layer control of a next higher level, L2, interpreting the paging indicator and configuring the physical layer L1 to process paging data in a pre-specified PCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Kearney, George W. McClellan, Ryan E. Drummond, Alan M. Levi
  • Patent number: 7029250
    Abstract: A pulsation damper which is used for damping pressure variations in an oscillating positive-displacement pump connected thereto is provided. The pulsation damper includes an inlet connection element, an outlet connection element and a line connecting the elements whereby these three components are connected to at least two damper chambers inside the pulsation damper, the damper chambers being connected in series inside the damper housing. One section of the line connected to the inlet connection element includes a connection channel to a first damper chamber and is joined to a second damper chamber via an inlet throttle element. The second damping chamber is connected to the outlet connection element via an outlet throttle. Damper elements made of an elastic material are disposed within the damper chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: KNF Flodos AG
    Inventor: Robert Käch
  • Patent number: 7031570
    Abstract: A device and a method of temperature compensating are disclosed. The device and method are employed for temperature compensation of a section of optical fiber. The device and method are useful for limiting any change in optical properties of the section of optical fiber or optical structures that can be corrected by changing the linear dimension accordingly. Such optical properties include the characteristic wavelengths of FBGs, Fabry-Perot cavities, and the like. The device includes a composite plate comprising plural fiber laminae, each of which has a designed orientation, and having a specific temperature-dependent characteristic in a direction for compensating an optical component positioned thereon having a temperature-dependent deformation, wherein said specific temperature-dependent characteristic is determined by said designed orientations of said plural fiber laminae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Chow-Shing Shin, Chiu-Hao Lin, Chia-Chin Chiang, Shien-Kuei Liaw, Yu-Chang Tseng, Hsuan-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 7029129
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus comprises luminous bodies, a luminous body driving portion which drives to turn on each of the luminous bodies, light leading members which optically separately lead and project light beams exiting from the luminous bodies, a movable portion which enables relative movement of the light leading members and the luminous bodies, and a light selection control portion which controls the movable portion and/or the luminous body driving portion in such a manner that light beams which enter the light leading members are selected. The apparatus further comprises a light modulation element which performs light modulation, an illumination member which illuminates the light modulation element with light beams from the light leading members, and a display control portion which controls the light selection control portion and the light modulation element in such a manner that the element suitable for light beams from the light leading members is illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Naoto Shimada
  • Patent number: 7028353
    Abstract: An adjustable bed rail capable of gripping a mattress either alone or together with a bedspring to hold the protective side rail in place. A locking assembly is adjustable to adjust for the height of the mattress either alone or together with the bedspring. Friction pads and/or friction surfaces may be mounted along the bed rail to further enhance the locking of the side rail to the mattress. The bed rail may be provided with a rail that drops down to facilitate climbing on to or off of the bed and can be locked into the upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Simplicity, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Waldman, Jerome Drobinski
  • Patent number: 7032160
    Abstract: A system, components and methods provide FEC decoding in a wireless communication system in which signal to noise ratio estimation is used for scaling information captured by a demodulator in processing received wireless communication signals. A preferred wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) has a channel rate estimation device configured to process the received communication signals for the particular communication channel and to produce channel change rate estimates. A signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation device of the WTRU is configured to produce SNR estimates based on observation windows of a calculated number of samples of the received signal where the number of samples used for each observation window is calculated a function of the channel change rate estimates produce by the channel rate estimation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory S. Sternberg, Rui Yang, Philip J. Pietraski, Robert Lind Olesen
  • Patent number: D518965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Scott Paper Limited
    Inventor: Sandra Ann Enderby
  • Patent number: D519157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Copernicus Educational Products Inc.
    Inventor: Aldo F. Balatti