Patents Represented by Attorney Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7851735
    Abstract: An auto focus device and method are provided. The device comprises a beam splitter set; a laser emitting device disposed at a first side of the beam splitter set for providing a laser beam to the beam splitter; a lens set disposed at a second side of the beam splitter set and opposing to the testing subject positioned at a third side of the beam splitter set for refracting a reflected beam from a testing subject for generating a light spot; and a photo detecting device disposed with respect to the lens set for receiving the light spot and generating a driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Technology Research Center National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Wei-Yao Hsu, Chien-Shing Lee, Nien-Tsu Chen, Po-Jui Chen, Cheng-Fang Ho, Fang-Hsuan Su, Fong-Zhi Chen, Chien-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 7852825
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining whether attach procedures between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a network should proceed based on whether the internet protocol (IP) version, (i.e., packet data protocol (PDP) type), of the WTRU is compatible with the network. In one embodiment, the WTRU receives a network compatibility message from the network which indicates the network's IP version. If the network's IP version is determined by the WTRU to be compatible, the WTRU and the network proceed with the attach procedures. In another embodiment, the network receives an attach request message from the WTRU which indicates the IP version of the WTRU. If the IP version of the WTRU is determined by the network to be compatible, the network and the WTRU proceed with the attach procedures. For both embodiments, another network is selected if the IP versions of the WTRU and the network are not compatible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 7850559
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning system (10) for an endless drive (1) of an internal combustion engine (2). In an operating mode, the piston (9) of the tensioning system (10), which is supplied with a hydraulic fluid, is supported against a tensioning rail (6) with a non-positive fit, with the rail pre-tensioning the traction drive element (4). If the hydraulic fluid in the tensioning system (10) is not sufficient, the tensioning rail (6) is supported on an elastic end stop (13a) of the system (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lucian Botez, Brandon Glass, Bolko Schuseil
  • Patent number: 7850485
    Abstract: A plug connector having a housing located at a plate opening in an operating position, and the plug connector contains wires and/or braids of a cable and electrical contacts. Assembly on the plate is realized by a flange plate attached to the outside of the housing having an interior recess with an interior dimension for engaging the housing of the plug connector. The flange plate is constructed as a single piece, and one of the interior recesses has a continuous slot extending to the outside, which slot acts as a clamp slot with the interior dimension of the interior recess being made smaller by narrowing the slot, and an arrangement is provided, by which the flange plate can be pressed in and thus clamped onto the outside of the housing. Preferably, the slot is reduced by at least one clamp screw with locking threads, or a lock nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs - GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Volker Gotz, Philipp Gerber, Gunter Reich
  • Patent number: 7845853
    Abstract: A hydrostatic bearing for supporting horizontal and vertical forces, with a guide rail (2) and a support element (1) with a hydrostatic mounting on the guide rail, whereby the angle ? between the head side and the lateral guide surfaces (6, 8) of the guide section (3) is greater than or equal to 35 degrees and less than or equal to 75 degrees, and the angle ? between the mounting surface (7) and the lateral foot surface (9) of the mounting section (4) is greater than or equal to 10 degrees and less than or equal to 25 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Rudy, Wolfgang Bauer
  • Patent number: 7847841
    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: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 7847427
    Abstract: To shorten a startup interval to reach a synchronizing condition, a phase difference and an amplitude difference between the grid voltage and the stator voltage of one phase of a winding are obtained. The difference in amplitude is decreased prior to or in parallel to synchronizing the stator voltage with the grid voltage. The calculated compensation phase compensation value is used as an initial value for synchronizing at the next synchronizing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Ichinose, Motoo Futami, Hiromitsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 7849260
    Abstract: Proposed is a storage controller and its control method for speeding up the processing time in response to a command in a simple manner while reducing the load of a controller that received a command targeting a non-associated logical volume. This storage controller includes a plurality of controllers for controlling the input and output of data to and from a corresponding logical unit based on a command retained in a local memory, and the local memory stores association information representing the correspondence of the logical units and the controllers and address information of the local memory in each of the controllers of a self-system and another-system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahide Okuno, Mitsuhide Sato, Toshiaki Minami, Hiroaki Yuasa, Kousuke Komikado, Koji Iwamitsu, Tetsuya Shirogane, Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7848291
    Abstract: The present invention proposes an infrastructure to enable seamless mobility for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) and to provide for management of spectrum and network resources. An WMAN reference model is introduced where the radio resource management (RRM) and handover (HO) sub-layer is introduced into the protocol stack. The WMAN management plane is responsible for the RRM and HO management. Several physical and logical network architecture options for WMAN management are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Gregory Kiernan, Maged Zaki
  • Patent number: 7847711
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating a data stream encoded by means of a Variable Length Coding scheme. Code words for a data stream including a plurality of code words are encoded in accordance with a Variable Length Coding scheme. A separation marker is inserted between encoded data blocks in the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Scalado AB
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Johan Sten
  • Patent number: 7849058
    Abstract: There is provided a storage system providing a storage volume and being coupled via a network to a secondary storage system for storing a backup of data stored in the storage volume, the storage system copies data stored in the storage volume to the secondary storage system, upon receiving an instruction to create a backup; records the size of the data copied; predict the size of data to be copied in the future based on the recorded size of the copied data; records a usable bandwidth of the network at a time when the data is copied to the secondary storage system; predicts a usable bandwidth in the future based on the recorded usable bandwidth of the network; and predicts a time period required for copying data to the secondary storage system based on the predicted size of data to be copied and the predicted usable bandwidth of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Azusa Sudo, Kenta Shiga
  • Patent number: 7848580
    Abstract: The present image encoding method and the like represents a pixel block prior to performing spatial frequency transformation in processing such as JPEG or the like as a matrix, calculates sum data sc (i) of pixel values in a column i in the matrix and sum data sr (j) of pixel values in a row j in the matrix, calculates nc (i) and nr (j) such that the sc (i) and sc (j) are arrayed in descending order respectively, and when a predetermined condition that permutation is considered reasonable is satisfied, performs permutation of the matrix, generates header information Ph (n) including the nc (i) and nr (j) necessary for subjecting the matrix to permutation in the original state, and adds this to the header of a compressed image file such as JPEG or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Horie, Seiichiro Sakata
  • Patent number: 7843875
    Abstract: Method of and apparatus for searching for enhanced dedicated channel transport format combinations (E-TFCs) in a table is disclosed. A transmission time interval (TTI) and an E-TFC data are received. An appropriate E-TFC table is selected based on the received TTI and E-TFC data. The E-TFC table is split into a plurality of sub-tables. All the E-TFCs in each of the sub-tables have the same maximum power reduction value and are continuous in the table. Each sub-table is searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shankar Somasundaram, Ana Lucia Pinheiro
  • Patent number: 7842721
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition having a cytotoxic effect to a cancer cell is provided. The pharmaceutical composition includes a flavonoid compound having a formula as wherein B ring is a 4-oxo-cyclohexa-2,5-dienyl group, and any one of R1-R12 is one selected from a group consisting of hydrogen group, hydroxyl group, C1-C20 alkyl group, C1-C20 ether group, C1-C20 ester group, carboxyl group, halogen and sugar. The flavonoid compound is obtained from a chemical method being one of a total synthesis method and a semi-synthesis method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Kaohsiung Medical University
    Inventors: An-Shen Lin, Yang-Chang Wu, Kuo-Hsiung Lee, Fang-Rong Chang
  • Patent number: 7843309
    Abstract: A resistor includes first and second opposite terminations, a resistive element formed from a plurality of resistive element segments between the first and second opposite terminations, at least one segmenting conductive strip separating two of the resistive element segments, and at least one open area between the first and second opposite terminations and separating at least two resistive element segments. Separation of the plurality of resistive element segments assists in spreading heat throughout the resistor. The resistor or other electronic component may be packaged by bonding to a heat sink tab with a thermally conductive and electrically insulative material. The resistive element may be a metal strip, a foil, or film material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Vishay Dale Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Zandman, Clark L. Smith, Todd L. Wyatt, Thomas L. Veik, Thomas L. Bertsch
  • Patent number: 7842000
    Abstract: A posture vest for improving body posture has an elastic waist strap; an elastic back strap having a first portion connected to the waist strap; and a pair of length-adjustable elastic shoulder straps connected from a second portion of the back strap to the first portion of the back strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventors: Weichun Lai, Kangsong Mao
  • Patent number: 7839043
    Abstract: A rotary structure of a permanent magnet electric machine including a stator and a rotor is provided. The stator has K salient teeth peripherally spaced with equal intervals for forming K winding slots, wherein K is a natural number greater than 1. The rotor has an annular inner surface and has P pairs of permanent magnets peripherally spaced with equal intervals along the inner surface for rotating around the stator, wherein P is a natural number. Each permanent magnet having two sides along a peripheral direction of the rotor includes a pair of inclined surfaces on the two sides, the pair of inclined surfaces is symmetric with respect to a radial plane of the each permanent magnet, and an inclined angle ? between the inclined surface and the radial plane is selected from a range of 90(1?1/(4P))<?<90(1+1/(4P)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Ming Huang, Wen-Shi Huang, Li-Jian Wu, Wan-Bing Jin, Jian-Ping Ying
  • Patent number: 7840746
    Abstract: A encoding method for a flash memory is provided, which can be used for reducing the memory wear and extend the endurance of the memory. The encoding method includes the steps as follows (A) receiving a set of information bits; (B) counting an amount of the information bits needed to be programmed in the set; (C) reversing the set of information bits if the amount of information bits needed to be programmed is less than half of the amount of whole information bits in the set, so that there are more than half of the information bits needed to be programmed in the reversed set; and (D) programming the information bits needed to be programmed in the reversing set, including the reverse flag bit for read out check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yung Hsu Chen
  • Patent number: D628711
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Raymaster Holding AG
    Inventors: Frank Mathis, Hannes Obernosterer
  • Patent number: D628712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Raymaster Holding AG
    Inventors: Frank Mathis, Hannes Obernosterer