Patents Assigned to A & A Company
  • Obtaining a digital image of a physical object
    Patent number: 7652778
    Abstract: Selecting a digital image. A method embodiment includes obtaining a first digital image of the first side of a physical object and obtaining a second digital image of a second side of the physical object. The first digital image is examined to determine if it is substantially blank. If the first digital image is determined to be blank, the second digital image is sent for processing. Otherwise, the first digital image is sent for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Richard G. Sevier
  • Acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives with aziridine crosslinking agents
    Patent number: 7652103
    Abstract: A pre-adhesive composition is described comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and an aziridine crosslinking agent, which when crosslinked provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Maureen A. Kavanagh, Kelly S. Anderson, Belma Erdogan, Larry R. Krepski, Sanat Mohanty, Timothy D. Filiatrault, Babu N. Gaddam
  • Image forming apparatus capable of efficiently controlling light radiation to read an image
    Patent number: 7652804
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, capable of efficiently controlling light radiation to read an image, includes at least one lighting tube and at least one reflector. Each one of the lighting tubes includes an aperture. Each one of the reflectors is arranged at a position in a vicinity to and corresponding to the lighting tube on a one-to-one basis. Each one of the reflectors is configured to gather light emitted through the aperture by the corresponding lighting tube to focus the light on a point in a reading area in a surface of an original document to be read. Each one of the reflectors includes an elliptical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsui, Susumu Mikajiri
  • Foam-generating kit containing a foam-generating dispenser and a composition containing a high level of surfactant
    Patent number: 7651992
    Abstract: A foam-generating kit contains a non-aerosol container with a foam-generating dispenser and a high surfactant composition, preferably within the container. The high surfactant composition comprises, by weight of the high surfactant composition, at least 20% of a surfactant system. When the foam-generating dispenser is employed with the high surfactant composition, the foam-generating dispenser generates a foam having a foam to weight ratio of greater than about 2 mL/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Guy Hubert Stephane Sylvain Culeron, Howard David Hutton, III, Raphael Louis Mangin, Akiko Taneko
  • Information recording method and apparatus, information reproducing method and apparatus, and recording medium
    Patent number: 7652966
    Abstract: A clock mark for extracting a clock when reproducing information from a recording medium and a synchronization mark for detection a bit-slip are recorded so that a part of the synchronization mark is identical to a pattern of the clock mark. A bit-slip detection and a clock detection are performed simultaneously with a single mark by multi-value recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kadokawa
  • Semiconductor laser apparatus and method for mounting semiconductor laser apparatus
    Patent number: 7653110
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor laser apparatus including: a laser device including: a semiconductor substrate, first and second resonators formed on the semiconductor substrate, and first and second electrodes that are respectively connected with the first and the second resonators and extend away from each other; and a submount including: third and fourth electrodes respectively adhered with the first and the second electrodes; wherein each of the first and the second electrodes includes: an energizing portion covering the corresponding resonator, an adhering portion being disposed separately from the energizing portion and having a height larger than that of the energizing portion, and a stress-absorbing portion formed in the adhering portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakatsuka, Tsukuru Ootoshi
  • Golf club head with progressive face stiffness
    Patent number: 7651412
    Abstract: A metal wood golf club head adapted for attachment to a shaft, with a body comprising of a first body portion and a second body portion, each portion constructed of a different density material. Combining a high density material in the first body portion with a low density material in the second body portion, creates an ultra-low center of gravity relative to the geometric face center, resulting in higher launch angles and spin rate ratios. Thickening the lower area of the front face lowers the center of gravity and upwardly shifts the coefficient of restitution to the geometric center of the face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Meyer, Christopher D. Harvell, Stephen S. Murphy, Douglas C. Jorgensen
  • Variable density core golf balls
    Patent number: 7651415
    Abstract: A golf ball is provided having a modified density gradient among the inner layers to produce a desired high or low moment of inertia and controlled spin rate is disclosed. The golf ball has three or more inner layers in addition to a cover, and the density of the inner layers is selected such that the layers inside the cover have a density progression from the core to the cover or from the cover to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Derek A. Ladd, Michael J. Sullivan, Antonio U. DeSimas, Edmund A. Hebert
  • Terminating a non-clustered workload in response to a failure of a system with a clustered workload
    Patent number: 7653833
    Abstract: The present invention provides for check-pointing an non-clustered workload to make room for a clustered workload that was running on a computer system that has suffered a hardware failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Troy Don Miller, Isom Lawrence Crawford, Jr.
  • Automatic transmission of a vehicle
    Patent number: 7651435
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic of a vehicle comprising: a rotating shaft; a sun gear included at a circumference of the rotating shaft; a plurality of pinions engaged with the sun gear and rotated along an exterior circumference of the sun gear; a ring gear configured to be rotated as inscribed with an exterior circumference of the plurality of pinions; a case forming an exterior of the automatic transmission; and a supporting unit between the ring gear and an interior circumference of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jaehyuk Choi
  • Apparatus for leading to normal tearing of instrument panel having built-in passenger air bag
    Patent number: 7651122
    Abstract: An apparatus for leading to normal tearing of an instrument panel having a built-in passenger air bag (PAB). The apparatus includes an instrument panel having an air bag module located thereinside, a tear line formed on the instrument panel in a predetermined shape such that the air bag easily comes out of the instrument panel when deployed, and a heating device installed inside the instrument panel so as to heat a surrounding area of the tear line and at least one predetermined area of the instrument panel which acts as a hinge section when the air bag is deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Hyun Kim
  • Metal oxide coatings
    Patent number: 7652157
    Abstract: Compounds of formula I may be hydrolyzed to produce metal oxides wherein M is Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, As, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, La, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Th, U, or Pu; X is O1/2 or OR; R is alkyl; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 are independently H, alkoxy, C1-C10 alkyl, phenyl or R10, R11, R12, R13, R14 and R15 are independently C1-C10 alkyl or phenyl; n is equal to the the value of the oxidation state of M minus q; m and p are independently 0 or an integer from 1 to 5; and q is 0, 1, 2, or 4; with the proviso that when q is 1, X is OR; and when q is 2, X is O1/2, and M is V, Cr, Mn, Fe, As, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Sb, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Bi, Th, U, or Pu; and when q is 4, X is O1/2, and M is Cr, Mo, W, Ru, Re, Os, U, or Pu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sergei Kniajanski, Aharon Yakimov
  • Enhanced isotropic 2D and 3D gradient method
    Patent number: 7653258
    Abstract: A system and method use 2D and 3D numerical gradient operators for reducing anisotropic inaccuracies in digital image processing. Enhanced isotropic operators are derived by first parameterizing corresponding numerical operators, followed by determining the parameters for the operators by matching analytical gradients with numerical gradients, which produces generic frequency-independent operators. The system and method also optimize the design of operators for use at any given frequency range needed for any special purpose application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Yuchun Eugene Wang, Yi Luo, Mohammed N. Alfaraj
  • Core-shell carbon black pellets and method of forming same
    Patent number: 7651772
    Abstract: A carbon black pellet comprising an inner core of de-aerated carbon black and an outer surrounding shell of an encapsulating material, the shell of the encapsulating material having an average thickness of from about 1% to about 10% of the average thickness of the pellet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Continental Carbon Company
    Inventor: Chang H. Lee
  • Heterocyclic CETP inhibitors
    Patent number: 7652023
    Abstract: Compounds of formula Ia and Ib wherein A, B, C and R1 are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Yufeng Wang, Wu Yang
  • Apparatus and method of establishing optical communication channels between a steerable array of laser emitters and an array of optical detectors
    Patent number: 7653108
    Abstract: An array of light beam emitter sections comprises: a substrate having a surface divided into an array of sections; and a grouping of light emitters disposed at each surface section and configured to emit light beams at different emission angles with respect to the surface. Also disclosed is apparatus for establishing optical communication channels between the array of light beam emitter sections and an array of light detectors. The apparatus comprises a controller coupled to the arrays of emitter sections and detectors for mapping at least one light emitter of each grouping with a light detector of the detector array to establish optical communication channels between the arrays based on the mappings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Terrel L. Morris, David Martin Fenwick, Richard John Luebs, Duane A. Wegher, Jeffry D. Yetter
  • Durable hold hair styling compositions and method of use
    Patent number: 7651693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved hair styling compositions and methods of using such compositions. More particularly, the present invention relates to hair styling compositions with improved durability performance of the hair fixative resins, including resistance to high humidity, low tackiness, and good hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Melissa Lee Merlau, Alan Isamu Nakatani, Curtis Schwartz, Fanwen Zeng
  • Polymerization catalysts for producing high molecular weight polymers with low levels of long chain branching
    Patent number: 7652160
    Abstract: This invention relates to catalyst compositions, methods, and polymers encompassing at least one Group 4 metallocene compound comprising bridging ?5-cyclopentadienyl-type ligands, typically in combination with at least one cocatalyst, and at least one activator. The compositions and methods disclosed herein provide ethylene polymers with low levels of long chain branching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Cheveron Phillips Chemical Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Qing Yang, Michael D. Jensen, Joel L. Martin, Matthew G. Thorn, Max P. McDaniel, Youlu Yu, David C. Rohlfing
  • Electric vehicle charging station
    Patent number: D608733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Portland General Electric Company
    Inventor: Stephan J. Smith
  • Lamp
    Patent number: D608925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: The Daylight Company (Holdings) Limited
    Inventor: Fraser Milbourne Hodgson