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  • Sound emitting device
    Patent number: 7995787
    Abstract: A sound emitting assembly inserted into a body or frame (106) or handgrip of a personal transport means (90) said assembly comprising: (i) a package comprising an electronically actuated sound generator, an electronic circuit to feed a signal to the sound generator and a source of stored electric power, and (ii) an actuating switch (118) separated from the package and linked to the package by an electric pathway (119) such that when the switch (118) is activated by the user, a sound is emitted from said body or frame (106) or handgrip distant from the switch (118).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Sonic Grip Limited
    Inventors: Frank Anthony Ierfone, Robert Ian Edgar
  • Clamping drive with mechanical damping for a traction mechanism drive
    Patent number: 7993226
    Abstract: A clamping device with mechanical damping for a traction mechanism drive is provided. The device includes a clamping arm which carries a tension roller on one end thereof and is rotatably mounted in a housing at the other end thereof via a shaft connected thereto in a rotationally fixed manner, and is elastically supported on the housing by a torsion spring. A free end of the shaft is connected to a friction disk in a rotationally fixed manner, and a friction lining is arranged between the friction disk and an axial abutment surface of the housing. The invention reduces the friction lining wear and increases the damping capacity thereof. To accomplish this, a separate friction disk (7??) is connected to a separate friction lining (8??) in a positively locked manner without play, and the separate friction lining ((8??) is in frictional contact with the axial abutment surface (10) of the housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Mack, Bernd Hartmann, Thomas Mennerat, Jorg Kaiser, Manfred Wilhelm
  • Data transfer controller, data consistency determination method and storage controller
    Patent number: 7996712
    Abstract: A data transfer controller of the present invention can determine whether or not data has been correctly stored in a cache memory even when the data is not transferred to the cache memory in sequential order. Data inputted from a host is transferred to and stored in a prescribed area of the cache memory. First check data is created and stored for each block. A data consistency determination module reads out the data from the cache memory subsequent to the end of a data write, and creates second check data anew. By comparing the second check data against the first check data, it can be determined whether or not the data has been stored normally in the cache memory. The data consistency determination module can also determine the consistency of the data on the basis of the data address written to the cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Tsuruta
  • Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method for fabricating the same
    Patent number: 7993766
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided in the present invention. The magnetic recording medium including a substrate; a base layer disposed on the substrate; an intermediate layer disposed on the base layer; and a recording layer disposed on the intermediate layer and including a magnetic matrix and a plurality of non-magnetic particles percolated in the magnetic matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Ching-Ray CHANG
    Inventors: An-Cheng Sun, Po-Cheng Kuo, Jen-Hwa Hsu, Huei-Li Huang, Ching-Ray Chang
  • Storage controller and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 7996605
    Abstract: A storage controller and a method for controlling a storage controller, including a plurality of nonvolatile memory modules having a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips for storing data from a host computer and a nonvolatile memory control unit for controlling data input to and output from the host computer by controlling a power source for the nonvolatile memory modules. The nonvolatile memory control unit, when reading or writing data from or to a designated nonvolatile memory module at a specified time in response to a data read/write request from the host computer, controls the power source for only the designated nonvolatile memory module to be turned on that can maintain its performance and reduce power consumption and thereby realize large capacity and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Koga
  • Error detection in high-speed asymmetric interfaces
    Patent number: 7996731
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting errors in high-speed asymmetric interfaces are described. Embodiments include transmitting digital data between a first system component and a second system component over a bidirectional interface, wherein the first component is significantly more intelligent than the second component. The first component controls many operations of the second component, including receiving a signature from the second component over an existing line of the interface. The signature received is compared to a signature stored by the first component. Both signatures correspond to a transaction over the interface. Based on the comparison, the first component determines whether the transaction was successful, and directs the second component as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Macri, Stephen Morein, Claude Gauthier, Ming-Ju E. Lee, Lin Chen
  • Bone fastening plate
    Patent number: 7993379
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a fastening plate to be used in bones, more specifically, to a plate whose shape and arrangement of screws promote the fastening and keeping of fractured bones or bones that have undergone osteotomy in adequate position, angle and inclination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Inventor: Eduardo Da Frota Carrera
  • Method and arrangement for the production of composite work pieces comprising layers laminated to each other
    Patent number: 7992613
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for the production of composite work pieces of layers laminated to each other, with at least one layer representing a glass plate. First, at least one composite work piece is laminated in a lamination press under the effects of pressure and heat in order to at least activate the adhesive material used for lamination. Then the composite work piece is removed from the lamination press and transported into a curing station and/or cooling station for curing and/or cooling. A testing device for detecting broken glass in the composite work piece is arranged between the lamination press and the curing station or between the lamination press and the cooling station, which detects potentially present broken glass by testing the inherent stability of the composite work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Burkle GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Damm, Gerhard Dolker, Michael Pojtinger, Wolfgang Renz, Matthias Zufle
  • Apparatus for depositing fluids in a solids flow of a spouted bed apparatus
    Patent number: 7993595
    Abstract: An apparatus for introducing fluids into a solids flow of a spouted bed apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a spray nozzle which opens into a reaction space of the spouted bed apparatus. A lower region of the reaction space is provided with a rectangular cross section for the spouted bed apparatus and is limited in an axial direction by at least one inclined stream return flow wall and an oppositely inclined stream inlet wall with the formation of an axial gap through the reaction space for supplying inlet air. At least one nozzle is also provided for introducing fluid above the gap opens into the reaction space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Jacob, Karlheinz Rumpler, Mike Waskow
  • Method and device for determining the phosphorus content of an aqueous sample
    Patent number: 7993930
    Abstract: Method for determining the phosphorus content of an aqueous sample, in particular drainage-water sample, wherein the sample is subjected to thermal-oxidative decomposition and the orthophosphate content of the decomposed sample is determined photometrically in an aqueous analysis solution, such that the thermal decomposition is carried out in a single step by catalyzer-free burning of the sample as batch-decomposition in a combustion oven, the resulting combustion gas is transferred out of the combustion oven in a carrier-gas stream and the combustion/carrier gas stream is cooled to obtain the aqueous analysis solution as a condensate therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignees: Lar Process Analysers AG, Werner Arts
    Inventor: Wolfgang Genthe
  • Digital television transmission with error correction
    Patent number: 7992068
    Abstract: In a transmitter, a standard stream of encoded multi-media data and uniform error correction data is transmitted through a first channel. The uniform error correction data provides substantially the same error correction for all portions of the encoded multimedia data. Simultaneously, additional unequal error correction data is generated for critical portions of the standard stream and not for other portions of the standard stream, and the additional error correct data is transmitted through a second channel. In a receiver, the additional error correct data is used to error correct just the critical portions of the standard stream, and then the uniform error correction data is used to error correct all the portions of the encoded multimedia data of the standard stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: IPG Electronics 503 Limited
    Inventors: Yingwei Chen, Dagnachew Birru, James Wallace Wendorf
  • Early energy measurement
    Patent number: 7991085
    Abstract: In a described implementation of early energy measurement, a wireless device adjusts a receiver gain during each current symbol time responsive to a signal energy level measured in a previous symbol time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Wi-Lan, Inc.
    Inventor: Ron Shalev
  • Circuit and method for controlling DRAM column-command address
    Patent number: 7990800
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit for controlling a column-command address corresponding to a specific column of a DRAM array. The circuit includes a control unit and a FIFO register. The control unit determines a period number, and synchronously produces an input pointer and an output pointer, wherein the output pointer is lagged behind the input pointer by the period number. The FIFO register utilizes the input pointer to store the column-command address, and utilizes the output pointer to output the column-command address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Nanya Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Yu-Wen Huang
  • Circuit and method for transmitting data stream
    Patent number: 7990990
    Abstract: A circuit including a first data selection circuit and a second data selection circuit for transmitting a data stream is provided. The first data selection circuit having first controllable channels turns on a first operating channel being one of the first controllable channels in an odd-numbered period and turns off the first controllable channels in an even-numbered period adjacent to the odd-numbered period for transmitting a first bit datum of the data stream. The second data selection circuit having second controllable channels turns off the second controllable channels in the odd-numbered period and turns on a second operating channel being one of the second controllable channels in the even-numbered period for transmitting a second bit datum of the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung-Kuang Chen, Chun-Hsiung Hung, Yi-Te Shih
  • Contention-based communication
    Patent number: 7990944
    Abstract: For an example embodiment, a method for a communication device operating in a synchronous communication system is described. The method includes performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure prior to the start of a downlink subframe of a synchronous frame and determining if a transmission from another communication device of another communication system is detected during the LBT procedure. In the case that a transmission is detected during the LBT procedure, the communication device refrains from transmitting during the downlink subframe. In the case that a transmission is not detected during the LBT procedure, the communication device transmits during the downlink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Paul W. Piggin, Lei Wang, Brian D. Petry, Roger Marks, Yair Bourlas
  • Method of extension of storage capacity and storage system using the method
    Patent number: 7991952
    Abstract: Provided are a storage system and a method of controlling a storage system in which respective real storage areas of a plurality of disk drives contained in the storage system contain management units, and a control device of the storage system assigns a real storage area of a plurality of first disk drives to the virtual storage area, distributedly stores the data in the plurality of management units of the assigned real storage area, distributedly stores, upon receiving a request for adding a second disk drive, the data stored in the plurality of management units of the plurality of first disk drives in the plurality of management units of the plurality of first disk drives and the second disk drive, and assigns the real storage area of the plurality of first disk drives and the second disk drive to an unused virtual storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Shiga, Akira Nishimoto
  • Using watermarking to reduce communication overhead
    Patent number: 7987369
    Abstract: A method for reducing overhead when transmitting an Internet Protocol (IP) packet begins by selecting a watermarking signature based on the IP address of the packet. The watermarking signature is applied to the packet and the IP address is removed from the packet. The packet is sent to a receiver, which looks up the IP address of the packet by using the watermarking signature. The watermarking signature can be a radio frequency watermarking signature or a digital watermarking signature. A similar method employing watermarking can be used to reduce medium access control header overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
  • Wave charger
    Patent number: D642522
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Hot Doc, Inc.
    Inventor: Lothar Budike, Jr.
  • Flow regulator
    Patent number: D642662
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Grether
  • Premix gas burner
    Patent number: D642675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Sit La Precisa S.p.A. Con Socio Unico
    Inventors: Gianfranco Scribano, Antonio Ranalli