Patents Represented by Attorney Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7657278
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for deriving a combined transmit power control (TPC) command during handover are disclosed. During handover, a combined TPC command is generated from two or more TPC commands. The combined TPC command is set to ?1 for decrease of the transmit power if a soft symbol of the TPC signal from any cell indicates decrease of the transmit power and the signal-to-interference ratio for the cell is greater than a reliability threshold. Otherwise, the combined TPC command is set to ?1 if the function ? is not greater than the combining threshold, and set to +1 if the function ? is greater than the combining threshold, where the function ? represents a log-likelihood ratio of a probability density function of the combined TPC command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Chang-Soo Koo, Donald M. Grieco, Jaeyoung Kwak
  • Patent number: 7654289
    Abstract: A double layer forming fabric for a papermaking machine is warp-tied, all the warp yarns comprising binder pairs which forming a single combined path in the paper side surface. The pair members exchange positions at an exchange point between successive path segments and are laterally displaced in relation to each other at and between each exchange point. For each successive pair, an order of insertion of the first and second members in relation to each other into the weave is inverted in relation to the order of insertion for members of the immediately preceding pair, such that each first member is adjacent to the first member of the adjacent pair at the closest exchange point, and each second member is adjacent to the second member of the adjacent pair at the closest exchange point. The fabric has improved drainage uniformity leading to improved paper formation and reduced sheet marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: AstenJohnson, Inc.
    Inventor: Rex Barrett
  • Patent number: 7654255
    Abstract: A paintball agitator for use with a paintball loader is provided. The paintball agitator includes a rotatable shaft having a drive end and a second end opposite the drive end. A base portion extends radially from the shaft adjacent the second end of the shaft. The base portion is rotatable in combination with the shaft. At least one fin is pivotally affixed to the base portion and extends radially from the shaft. The at least one fin is rotatable in combination with the base portion and the shaft. The paintball agitator further includes at least one sensor mounted to the base portion that detects movement of the at least one fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kee Action Sports I LLC
    Inventor: Louis Spicer
  • Patent number: 7657288
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system using dynamic beam forming for wireless communication signals in a wireless network. Base stations and/or UEs are provided with antenna systems having a range of beam forming selections. Relative base station and UE locations are one type of criteria used to make beam forming decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Steven Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7655896
    Abstract: An optical sensor having a light source (3) and a structured front plate (11), which expands the focused light beam (9) of the light source (3) at least in one direction. In one advantageous construction, the structure includes an array with several cylindrical lenses (11). They are preferably constructed by hot stamping the surface the front plate (11). The expanded light beam (9) is suitable, in particular, for detecting narrow objects (1) or edges. The light source (3) and the front plate (11) are each aligned relative to the sensor housing (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Baumer Electric AG
    Inventors: Andres Asper, Peter U. Halter
  • Patent number: 7656899
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods and wireless communication devices that are configured to enhance communication capacity in a wireless network. In one aspect of the invention various scheduling processes and schedulers for the transmissions of data packets are disclosed. In another aspect of the invention, the selection of appropriate transmission rates to advertise by a common unit which provides wireless service to different types of wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs) is addressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Arty Chandra
  • Patent number: 7650861
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster for adjusting the relative angular positions of a camshaft and a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine in accordance with a setting shaft is provided. In which the setting shaft is driven by a setting assembly and has a driving connection with an adjusting gear through a coupling. The drive moment is transmitted in the coupling by a radial extension (21) of a first coupling half (19), which contacts a second coupling half (25) without play in a circumferential direction and which is movable in a direction of a Y-Y axis relative to a second coupling half (25). This permits compensation of eccentricities between the setting shaft of the setting assembly and the adjusting gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Jens Schafer, Martin Steigerwald, Jonathan Heywood
  • Patent number: 7650655
    Abstract: An expandable sleeping bag or bunting bag includes features in which the size of the bag is adjustable to accommodate the growth of the child. To expand or contract the sleeping bag in width, one or more additional tapes of zipper teeth are sewn to the front of the garment adjacent to, and parallel to, the regular zipper. To expand or contract the sleeping bag in length, a pair of parallel zippers permits the removal or insertion of a length expansion strip extending around the circumference of the sleeping bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Inventor: Chantal Celine Narboni-Campora
  • Patent number: 7651172
    Abstract: A hub body of a spoked bicycle wheel comprises spoke attachment holes made in the hub body in a direction substantially parallel to a rotation axis of the hub body. Said holes comprise a first set of holes at a first radial distance from the rotation axis and a second set of holes at a second radial distance from the rotation axis, greater than the first radial distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Campagnolo S.r.l.
    Inventor: Mario Meggiolan
  • Patent number: 7652595
    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: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Scalado AB
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Johan Stén
  • Patent number: 7651015
    Abstract: A concentrate/extract cartridge for a beverage dispenser for dispensing a liquid concentrate/extract and a diluent is provided. The cartridge includes a hollow body and a dispensing tube connected to the hollow body. A piston is slideably contained by the dispensing tube. The cartridge includes a valve having a valve stem that passes through a port of a valve seat connected to the dispensing tube. The port defines a flow passage through the dispensing tube. The valve stem is connected to the piston at a first end of the valve stem, and a valve body is located at a second end of the valve stem in removable contact with the valve seat for alternately opening and closing the port. A beverage dispenser having a removably insertable concentrate/extract cartridge and a method of dispensing a beverage made from concentrate/extract and a diluent are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Intelligent Coffee Company, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Girard, Nasser Pirshafiey, Mario E. Vassaux, Heather B. Kay, Shlomo Greenwald, Zipora Greenwald
  • Patent number: 7652172
    Abstract: This invention provides a practical synthesis route for 4,5-dihydroxypentane-2,3-dione (DPD), an unstable small molecule which is proposed to be the source of universal signaling agents for quorum sensing in bacteria. The synthesis route includes new intermediates and allows preparation of isotopically-labeled DPD and ent-DPD. The method provides sufficient quantities of DPD for study of spontaneous binding of borate to DPD, the signal for the marine bacteria V. harveyi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Martin F. Semmelhack, Shawn R. Campagna, Bonnie L. Bassler, Michael J. Federle
  • Patent number: 7651654
    Abstract: A bicycle wheel rim and a method of making a bicycle wheel rim are provided. The rim provided is made of a single part using structural fiber based material, preferably carbon fiber material, with two circumferential wings for anchoring the tire, which extend radially outwards from the two sides of the outer peripheral wall of the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Campagnolo S.r.l.
    Inventor: Mario Meggiolan
  • Patent number: 7651571
    Abstract: The present invention provides a susceptor including a plate member having an upper surface on which a substrate is placed and a lower surface, a base member bonded to the lower surface of the plate member with a bonding layer, and an annular protective member disposed in an annular recess formed along a rim of a bonding portion of the plate member and the base member, in which a space is formed between the lower surface of the plate member and an upper surface of the protective member and/or between an upper surface of the base member and a lower surface of the protective member. The susceptor can inhibit generation of particles resulting from plasma corrosion, and can suppress extensive leakage of gas from a space or a gap between the plate member and a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Yasushi Migita
  • Patent number: 7652147
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of Irbesartan of formula (I) using the steps of: (i) reacting 4? aminomethyl-2-cyano biphenyl of formula (VI) with 1-veleramido cyclopentane carboxylic acid of formula (V) in an organic solvent and in the presence of an acid, without activating the —COOH group of compound of formula (V) to give 1-(2?cyanobiphenyl-4-yl-methylaminocarbonyl)-1-pentanoylamino cyclopentane of formula (VII). converting the compound of formula (VII) obtained in step (i) to Irbesartan of formula (I) by reacting the compound of the formula (VII) with tributyl tin azide in o-xylene to give Irbesartan of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Alembic Limited
    Inventors: Pandurang Balwant Deshpande, Parven Kumar Luthra, Dhiraj Mohansinh Rathod, Hitesh Kantilal Patel, Pinky Tarak Parikh
  • Patent number: 7649208
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an LED package including photo diode. The LED package includes a silicon substrate, and a photo diode is formed in an upper part thereof. Also, an insulation layer is formed on the silicon substrate excluding at least a light-receiving area of the photodiode. In the LED package, an LED terminal is formed on the insulation layer to be connected to the photo diode. First and second LED connecting pads are formed on the insulation layer, and arranged on both sides of the photo diode. In addition, an LED chip is mounted on the silicon substrate, and connected to the first and second LED connecting pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jun Lee, Woong Lin Hwang, Seog Moon Choi, Ho Joon Park, Sang Hyun Choi, Chang Hyun Lim
  • Patent number: 7647910
    Abstract: A compensating shaft (1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) for compensating mass forces and/or mass moments of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine (13) is provided, with at least one bearing journal (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d), on whose outer casing surface (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) the compensating shaft is supported in the radial direction in a housing support (10) of the reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, and with at least one unbalanced section (4) bordering the bearing journal in the axial direction. The outer casing surface of the bearing journal is formed on the side of the unbalanced section facing away from the unbalanced direction by a cylindrical section (5) of the bearing journal and by one or more axial projections (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d), wherein these axial projections extend like a collar from the cylindrical section while forming a radial undercut (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventor: Peter Solfrank
  • Patent number: 7649564
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit for outputting an electronic subject image, a metering unit for computing a metering value from the subject image, a brightness distribution chart generation unit for generating a brightness distribution chart from the subject image, and a display unit for overlaying the brightness distribution chart on the subject image and displaying them, and provides the brightness distribution chart for the display unit in various styles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Suekane, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Masami Totsuka, Takashi Fujii, Akira Yukitake, Koh Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 7650115
    Abstract: A method of protecting an apparatus from radio frequency interference, comprises a policing terminal (PT) detecting the presence of an interfering radio terminal (16) in the protected environment and actively rendering ineffective or terminating transmissions by the interfering radio terminal. Various options can be followed by the policing terminal (PT) including (a) attempting to become the master station of a network of which the interfering terminal is a member and instructing the members to close down or (b) failing to become the master station and transmitting interference signals for at least a selected portion, for example preamble and sync, of the duration of a data packet transmitted by the interfering station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: IPG Electronics 503 Limited
    Inventors: Richard J. Caldwell, Adrian W. Payne
  • Patent number: D609785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Grether, Manfred Gilcher