Patents Represented by Attorney Volpe and Koenig
  • Patent number: 8240236
    Abstract: A guide for a saw band or blade of a sawing machine is provided. The guide includes a bracket and high-strength sliders, which are mounted to a bracket for a lateral guide of the saw band or saw blade and which serve for gliding contact to a side face of the saw band or blade. The sliders are high-strength guide plates, provided with an edge upstream in reference to the direction of motion of the saw blade or saw band, which is at least partially arranged in a straight manner or with a constant curve, with the edge or its tangents extending tilted at an angle from approximately 0° to 90°, preferably from 20° to 70°, in reference to the direction of motion of the saw blade or the saw band. Furthermore, several guide plates are mounted to the bracket at a distance from each other, forming clear spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: KEURO Besitz GmbH & Co. EDV-Dienstleistungs KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang-Gottfried Benz
  • Patent number: 8240262
    Abstract: A method and the device for displaying sewing processes to allow simulation of the formation of stitch patterns and embroidery patterns in sewing machines (1) and embroidery machines or in sewing simulators close to reality is provided. In the representation on the monitor (3) features, such as colors and the structure of the sewing material (2), are considered. By activating a simulation mode, the drive for the stitch formation unit can be disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: BERNINA International AG
    Inventors: Stefan Zeiger, Boris Zickenberg
  • Patent number: 8244997
    Abstract: A storage controller of the present invention can specify an updated file based on an updated block detected when a differential backup is carried out for a plurality of generations, and can carry out a virus scan for the updated file only. Difference data generated between a primary volume and a backup volume is managed in difference volumes of different generations. A file updated by the host is specified based on an updated block in which the difference data is stored. A virus scan, which makes use of the latest virus pattern file, is executed for this updated file. Furthermore, search information related to the updated file can be created, and this search information can also be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mika Teranishi, Hiroji Shibuya, Takahisa Kimura
  • Patent number: 8243250
    Abstract: A unit including lenses and a liquid crystal optical element located inside a lens barrel frame, an optical image-electric signal converting element located on a converting element holder, a driving mechanism relatively driving the holder to a board on a base of the barrel frame in directions perpendicular to an optical axis of the lenses, and a holder fixed to the barrel frame and holding the optical element by first and second facing portions of two retention members. The first facing portion includes a first surface and a second surface crossing the first surface, these surfaces contact with a first side and a second side crossing the first side of at least one transparent electrode plate of the optical element to position the optical element perpendicular to the optical axis. The second facing portion presses and positions the optical element on the first facing portion in an optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Kunio Yamamiya
  • Patent number: 8242878
    Abstract: A metal strip resistor is provided. The metal strip resistor includes a metal strip forming a resistive element and providing support for the metal strip resistor without use of a separate substrate. There are first and second opposite terminations overlaying the metal strip. There is plating on each of the first and second opposite terminations. There is also an insulating material overlaying the metal strip between the first and second opposite terminations. A method for forming a metal strip resistor wherein a metal strip provides support for the metal strip resistor without use of a separate substrate is provided. The method includes coating an insulative material to the metal strip, applying a lithographic process to form a conductive pattern overlaying the resistive material wherein the conductive pattern includes first and second opposite terminations, electroplating the conductive pattern, and adjusting resistance of the metal strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Vishay Dale Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Clark L. Smith, Thomas L. Bertsch, Todd L. Wyatt, Thomas L. Veik, Rodney Brune
  • Patent number: 8240700
    Abstract: The stroller includes a frame having at least one front leg, at least one rear leg, and at least one wheel mounted on each leg. The frame defines front and rear portions and right and left sides. The stroller also includes a seat having a seat base and a seat back pivotally mounted to the frame. The seat back has a front surface, a rear surface, a top portion and a bottom portion and is rotatable relative to the frame between at least one substantially upright or reclined back support position and a travel seat support position wherein the top portion of the seat back extends towards the front portion of the frame and is capable of supporting a travel seat thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Artsana USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Greger, Michael Longenecker
  • Patent number: 8241634
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a carbon supply device for supplying carbon dioxide during large scale cultivation of micro-algae in open pond, and its application method and use. The device comprises a trap container in which a partition plate is installed vertically and has a 10-50 cm gap from the container bottom, and the partition plate is higher than the wall of the trap container; and a gas distributor is positioned at the bottom of the container. In use, the trap carbon supply device is embedded in bottom of an open pond, wherein the partition plate is above the liquid level of the culture solution in the open pond such that the culture solution driven by a stirrer flows into the trap carbon supply device from one side thereof, and flows out of the device from the other side thereof, wherein the culture solution is mixed with carbon dioxide at the bottom of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Wei Cong, Zhenfeng Su, Ruijuan Kang, Chengyan Yang, Zhaoling Cai
  • Patent number: 8243725
    Abstract: A method for implementing a fallback procedure from a packet switched (PS) radio access technology (RAT) to a circuit switched (CS) RAT is disclosed. A paging message is received at a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) via the PS RAT, the paging message including a WTRU identifier and a domain indicator, wherein the domain indicator indicates whether the paging message is related to a service on the CS RAT. If the WTRU identifier in the paging message matches a stored identifier of the receiving WTRU, then a fallback procedure to the CS RAT is performed. The WTRU responds to the paging message using a CS RAT-based identifier assigned to the WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Behrouz Aghili, Rajat P. Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 8245073
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include a method and system for synchronizing clocks between coupled integrated circuits (ICs) in a computer system. According to an embodiment, a dedicated timing pin is provided on a first IC. The first IC configures a second IC to change a pin assignment, so that the second IC interprets a signal sent on the timing pin by the first IC and received on the reassigned pin as a request to transmit a return signal. The return signal is received on the timing pin. The return signal is used to determine whether timing should be adjusted by the first IC. In an embodiment a clock and data recover (CDR) circuit compares the signal sent to the signal received in order to make the determination. In an embodiment the first IC is a processor-based device, and the second IC is a memory device controlled by the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Nygren, Ming-Ju Edward Lee, Shadi Barakat, Xiaoling Xu, Toan Duc Pham, Warren Fritz Kruger, Michael Litt
  • Patent number: 8236278
    Abstract: An indium oxide-based particle is provided. The indium oxide-based particle has a mono-dispersive and spherical non-crystalline structure (spherical morphology with amorphous phase). The diameter of particle is ranged between 0.10 ?m and 0.70 ?m, and the content of an indium oxide is ranged between 10.0 percent by mass and 99.9 percent by mass. The indium oxide-based particle is generated by the precursor with indium ion reacting with alpha hydroxyl acid in an aqueous solution with alkali-modifier additive at a constant temperature. The indium-oxide based particle can be further calcinated as a crystalline indium oxide particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Wen-Cheng Wei, Sung-En Lin
  • Patent number: 8237732
    Abstract: In a color reproduction system for displaying an image subjected to color conversion processing by a server side system on a monitor device of a user side system, the server side system comprises a first storage unit for storing a multi-spectrum image, a second storage unit for storing color reproduction characteristic information, which is information relating to a color reproduction characteristic when the image is displayed on the monitor device, a server side communication unit for receiving the color reproduction requirement information transmitted from the user side communication unit via the network, and a color conversion processing unit for obtaining, from the second storage unit, color reproduction characteristic information corresponding to the color reproduction requirement information, and performing color conversion processing on the multi-spectrum image on the basis of the obtained color reproduction characteristic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Komiya, Yasuto Ikeda, Akira Matsushita, Takuji Horie
  • Patent number: 8238958
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for selecting a modulation and coding scheme. In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may receive information representative of a first normalized channel characteristic power associated with a downlink and receiving information representative of a second normalized channel characteristic power associated with an uplink. A predicted normalized channel characteristic power of the uplink may be determined based on the first normalized channel characteristic power and the second normalized channel characteristic power. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.
    Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Srikanth Gummadi, Xiaolong Huang
  • Patent number: 8236161
    Abstract: An apparatus for electrolyzing sulfuric acid, the apparatus comprising an electrolytic cell comprising a cathode chamber having a cathode and an anode chamber having an anode, the cathode chamber and the anode chamber being separated by a diaphragm, a sulfuric acid tank configured to store the sulfuric acid, a supply pipe connecting the sulfuric acid tank to an inlet port of the anode chamber, a connection pipe connecting an outlet port of the cathode chamber to the inlet port of the anode chamber, a first supply pump provided on the supply pipe and configured to supply the sulfuric acid from the sulfuric acid tank to the cathode chamber through the supply pipe, and a drain pipe connected to an outlet port of the anode chamber and configured to supply to a solution tank a solution containing an oxidizing agent generated by electrolysis in the anode chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Chlorine Engineers Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kobayashi, Yukihiro Shibata, Naoya Hayamizu, Masaaki Kato
  • Patent number: 8238479
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing a receiver to a received signal begins by down-converting the received signal to a first baseband signal. A coarse frequency offset (CFO) of the first baseband signal is determined and is applied to the down-converting of the received signal to a second baseband signal. A fine frequency offset (FFO) of the second baseband signal is determined. The receiver is synchronized to the received signal using the CFO and the FFO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Gillyoung Jung, Azzedine Touzni, Xiaoqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 8236433
    Abstract: An antireflection structure is provided. The antireflection structure includes a substrate layer having a substrate refractive index; a first inorganic layer disposed on the substrate layer and having a first refractive index different from the substrate refractive index, where a thickness of the first inorganic layer is in a range of 1 to 40 nm; and a second inorganic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer and having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories
    Inventors: Po-Kai Chiu, Wen-Hao Cho, Hung-Ping Chen, Han-Chang Pan, Chien-Nan Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8236165
    Abstract: A method for operating a measuring meter for an electrochemical test strip is provided. The method comprises steps of applying a voltage to electrodes of the test strip at least during one of a sample presence detection period and an incubation period; and repeatedly increasing and decreasing the voltage during at least one of the sample presence detection period and the incubation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Bionime Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Mu Huang
  • Patent number: 8235018
    Abstract: A tappet (1), either for a high-pressure fuel pump or for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, with a housing (2) whose driven side (3) used for a contact of a tappet-following part forms a contact on a bottom side (4) of a bridge part (6) projecting through an inner casing (5) of the housing (2). An anti-rotation locking device (10) projects past the outer casing (8) of the housing with a first cylinder section (9) and sits in a window (7) of the housing (2), with this anti-rotation locking device (10) being provided as a cylindrical element, and tab-like projections (13) project from peripheral walls (11) of the window (7) and the anti-rotation locking device (10), standing “loose” in the window (7), snaps behind these projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Dorn, Norbert Geyer, Karsten Kucht
  • Patent number: 8239721
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus utilize hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions and retransmissions that are usable on multiple carriers, i.e. joint HARQ processes. For example, a downlink (DL) shared channel transmission of a joint HARQ process is received on one of the carriers. A first part of an identity of the joint HARQ process is determined by using HARQ process identity data received on a shared control channel. A second part of the joint HARQ process identity is determined using additional information. The joint HARQ process identity is then determined by combining the first part and the second part. A WTRU is provided that is configured to receive the DL shared channel and to make the aforementioned determinations. A variety of other methods and apparatus configurations are disclosed for utilizing joint HARQ processes, in particular in the context of DC-HSDPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Pelletier, Jean-Louis Gauvreau, Diana Pani, Christopher R. Cave, Paul Marinier, In H. Kim, Philip J. Pietraski
  • Patent number: 8238075
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a ceramic capacitor body having opposite ends and comprised of a plurality of electrode layers and dielectric layers and first and second external terminals attached to the ceramic capacitor body. The internal active electrodes within the ceramic capacitor body are configured in an alternating manner. Internal electrode shields within the ceramic capacitor body are used to assist in providing resistance to arc-over. The shields may include a top internal electrode shield and an opposite bottom internal electrode shield wherein the top internal electrode shield and the opposite bottom internal electrode shield are on opposite sides of the plurality of internal active electrodes and each internal electrode shield extends inwardly to or beyond a corresponding external terminal to thereby provide shielding. Side shields are used. The capacitor provides improved resistance to arc-over, high voltage breakdown in air, and allows for small case size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Vishay Sprague, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bultitude, John Jiang, John Rogers
  • Patent number: 8237161
    Abstract: Amorphous semiconductor films with enhanced charged carrier transport are disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating and treating the film to produce the enhanced transport. Also disclosed are semiconductor p-n junctions fabricated with the films which demonstrate the enhanced transport. The films are amorphous and include boron, carbon, and hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: North Dakota State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Anthony N. Caruso, Joseph A. Sandstrom, David A. Bunzow