Patents Assigned to A & A Corporation
  • Patent number: 7847910
    Abstract: A display panel according to the present invention includes: a common wiring (4) formed above a TFT array substrate (30) and having a first terminal (5); a first transparent conductive film (6) formed above the common wiring (4); an interlayer insulating film (15) formed above the first transparent conductive film (6) and having a first terminal portion contact hole (17) formed outside a display area (54) and inside a sealing material (50); and a terminal pad (20) formed above the interlayer insulating film (15) and electrically connected to the common wiring (4) through the first transparent conductive film (6) in the first terminal portion contact hole (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Miyakawa, Toshio Araki
  • Patent number: 7849347
    Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method for automatically and transparently determining the time required to migrate a logical partition. This determined latency may be used to update clocks and other time-related values of the migrated logical partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Adam Charles Lange-Pearson, Naresh Nayar
  • Patent number: 7848536
    Abstract: A voice coil assembly capable of realizing a flat thin loudspeaker having a high efficiency, reduced divided vibrations, a flat frequency response, and reduced operation defects. The voice coil assembly includes a plurality of internal-winding voice coils, each including a rectangular bobbin having a rectangular cross section and defining a rectangular space therein and an internal rectangular coil fixed to an inner wall surface of the rectangular bobbin defining the rectangular space, wherein an outer wall surface of the rectangular bobbin of one internal-winding voice coil is adhered and fixed to an outer wall surface of the rectangular bobbin of another internal-winding voice coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Sadaie, Hiroyasu Kumo, Yoshihide Toyoshima, Satofumi Nagaoka, Yoshinori Ujimoto, Kouichi Abe
  • Patent number: 7848930
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling rate adjustment of audio data to prevent underflow or overflow. In a dual audio/video system, a device can receive two input transport streams. To prevent underflow or overflow of audio data when audio data from a first transport stream is displayed in accordance with a sample rate derived from a second transport stream, a control for rate adjustment is used to match the source sample rate with the display rate. This rate adjustment module can be designed to add or drop audio samples based on a time base comparison or on a STC, PTC, and display rate comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Cam Minh Luu
  • Patent number: 7847418
    Abstract: Input/output cells are formed so as to be peripherally arranged adjacent to a corner cell on a surface of a semiconductor chip, and electrode pads are formed on the respective input/output cells. The electrode pads are configured in a zigzag pad arrangement so as to form inner and outer pad arrays. However, of the electrode pads forming the inner pad array, those electrode pads in predetermined areas adjacent to the two sides of the corner cell are not disposed, such that an interconnect pattern of a carrier which is bump-bonded to the semiconductor chip and vias are prevented from becoming complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Ohnishi, Koji Takemura, Noriyuki Nagai, Hoyeun Huh, Tomoyuki Nakayama, Atsushi Doi
  • Patent number: 7847068
    Abstract: The present invention includes fully human, neutralizing, monoclonal antibodies against human Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor-I (IGFR1). The antibodies are useful for treating or preventing cancer in a subject. Also included are methods of using and producing the antibodies of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Robert Greenberg, Leonard Presta, Jonathan A. Pachter, Judith Hailey, Peter Brams, Denise Williams, Mohan Srinivasan, Diane Feingersh
  • Patent number: 7847871
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of storage capacitors each in a corresponding pixel. Each storage capacitor includes a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode with a dielectric film therebetween. The first capacitor electrode is made of the same film as one of the semiconductor films in pixel transistors. The second capacitor electrode is provided at a layer over the gate electrode of the pixel transistors. The second capacitor electrode has a first main portion opposite to the first capacitor electrode and an extending portion that extends from the first main portion to at least partially cover the second junction region. An interlayer insulation film insulates the extending portion from the pixel transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 7845438
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to PDCs, methods of fabricating PDCs, and applications for such PDCs. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a pre-sintered PCD table including an interfacial surface that is bonded to the substrate. The pre-sintered PCD table may be substantially free of leaching by-products in a region at least proximate to the interfacial surface. In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a PDC includes providing an at least partially leached PCD including an interfacial surface. The method includes removing at least some leaching by-products from the at least partially leached PCD table. After removing the at least some leaching by-products, the method includes bonding the interfacial surface of the at least partially leached PCD table to a substrate to form a PDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: US Synthetic Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Vail, Kenneth E. Bertagnolli
  • Patent number: 7846010
    Abstract: A method of grinding a slot base of a blade retention slot within a rotor disk includes rotationally aligning a grind wheel about an axis of rotation to align a first notch with a first and second opposed lobe of the blade retention slot of the rotor disk; transiting the grind wheel along the blade retention slot that the first notch is passed between a lobe width defined by the first and second opposed lobe of the blade retention slot; rotating the grind wheel about the axis of rotation; and transiting the rotating grind wheel along the blade retention slot to grind a slot base with a rim of the grind disk, the slot base having a width greater than the lobe width of the blade retention slot. A grind wheel includes a rim having at least one notch formed in the rim to grind a slot base of a blade retention slot within a rotor disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Krzysztof Barnat
  • Patent number: 7847076
    Abstract: An oligonucleotide probe is disclosed, the probe including an oligonucleotide, a fluorescer molecule attached to a first end of the oligonucleotide and a quencher molecule attached to the opposite end of the oligonucleotide. The probe is rendered impervious to digestion by the 5??3? exonuclease activity of a polymerase and the 5??3? extension of by a polymerase. The invention also includes methods for performing combined PCR amplification and hybridization probing, one such method including the steps of contacting a target nucleic acid sequence with PCR reagents and an oligonucleotide probe as described above, and subjecting these reagents to thermal cycling. One preferred refinement of the above method further includes the addition of a strand displacer to facilitate amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Life Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Paul E. Mayrand
  • Patent number: 7848030
    Abstract: In an image forming optical system having a positive lens group, a negative lens group, and an aperture stop, the positive lens group being disposed at an image-plane side of the aperture stop and having a cemented lens, and when a straight line indicated by Nd=?×?d+? (where, ?=?0.017) is set, Nd and ?d of at least one lens forming the cemented lens are included in both an area which is determined by a line when a lower limit value is in a range of a following conditional expression (1), and a line when an upper limit value is in a range of the following conditional expression (1), and in an area determined by following conditional expressions (2) and (3) 1.45<?<2.15??(1) 1.30<Nd<2.20??(2) 3<?d<25??(3) Here, Nd denotes a refractive index, and ?d denotes an Abbe's number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Mihara, Kanato Adachi, Keisuke Ichikawa, Yasunobu Iga, Koji Matsumoto, Kazuaki Murayama, Keigo Matsuo, Hideki Nagata
  • Patent number: 7844457
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for automatic accent labeling without manually labeled data. The methods are designed to exploit accent distribution between function and content words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: YiNing Chen, Frank Kao-ping Soong, Min Chu
  • Patent number: 7844756
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein a set of communication paths between a plurality of data movers and a plurality of storage devices is maintained. A request to transfer data from a source storage device to a target storage device is received, wherein the source storage device and the target storage device are included in the plurality of storage devices. At least one data mover from the plurality of data movers is selected based on the set of communication paths, wherein the selected at least one data mover can transfer the data from the source storage device to the target storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Maxwell Cannon, Barry Fruchtman, Yu-mei Una Hsiao, Erick Christian Kissel, Michael Harry Segapeli
  • Patent number: 7844723
    Abstract: Described herein is technology for, among other uses, performing playback of dynamic content using protocols designed for playback of fixed-length files. The technology involves strategically updating the duration of the content during playback under various conditions. During playback, as the playback position approaches the duration, the duration is refreshed. Also, during playback the rate at which the duration is increasing is used to predict the duration and thus smoothly report the duration to the user. Upon receiving a seek request, if the request is beyond the current duration, the duration will be refreshed to avoid unnecessarily limiting the seek request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Todd Bowra, Nicholas Fang, Ashley Speicher
  • Patent number: 7844860
    Abstract: An apparatus and computer program product are disclosed for performing in-memory hardware tracing in a processor using an existing system bus. The processor includes multiple processing units that are coupled together utilizing the system bus. The processing units include a memory controller that controls a system memory. Information is transmitted among the processing units utilizing the system bus. The information is formatted according to a standard system bus protocol. Hardware trace data is captured utilizing a hardware trace facility that is coupled directly to the system bus. The system bus is utilized for transmitting the hardware trace data to the memory controller for storage in the system memory. The memory controller is coupled directly to the system bus. The hardware trace data is formatted according to the standard system bus protocol for transmission via the system bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ra'ed M. Al-Omari, Alexander E. Mericas, William J. Starke
  • Patent number: 7843160
    Abstract: A motor driving control method in which when the steering angular velocity is lower than a predetermined reference angular velocity, an actual motor drive current is inferred from a back electromotive voltage and an applying voltage in a three-phase brushless motor, and a limitation on the peak level of each of three-phase alternating current command waves is mitigated by permitting the interval between a pair of intersection points of a peak area of each of the three-phase alternating current command waves with a peak point neighborhood of a triangle wave to become approximately the same length as a dead time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Toshie Sasaki, Yutaka Mori, Toshio Kohno
  • Patent number: 7844597
    Abstract: An electronic device provide a database application that enables a user to access personal data organized as a plurality of entries in a database, where each of the plurality of entries is associated with a different person and has one or more alphanumeric text fields and an image field. According to one embodiment, a camera control application is arranged to enable the user to control the device using a user input device to capture an image via a digital camera and to present a user selectable option, after capturing an image, for using the captured image as an image field of an entry of the database. According to another embodiment, a messaging application is arranged to display a received message including an image and to present a user selectable option for using the image as an image field of an entry of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Dam Nielsen, Christian Kraft
  • Patent number: 7842034
    Abstract: Methods and devices for cutting or coagulating. A device comprises a) an elongate member having a distal end, b) at least one foot member extending from the distal end of the elongate member, said foot member having a upper surface and a lower surface, c) an electrically and thermally insulating covering formed on at least the lower surface of the foot member and d) at least one electrode on the upper surface of the foot member. In operation, the at least one electrode is energized so as to cause cutting or coagulation of tissue located above the upper surface(s) of the foot member(s) while not causing substantial damage to tissue located below the lower surface(s) of the foot member(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Neomedix Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Mittelstein, John T. Sorensen, Soheila Mirhashemi, James B. Gerg
  • Patent number: 7843974
    Abstract: The present invention relates to media synchronization. The invention is mainly addressed to synchronization of continuous media streams that are provided in data transfer systems. In a sending device, at least one of media components being transferred is provided, by means of data hiding, with synchronization information relating to one other of the media components. In a receiving device the media components are received, and synchronization information relating to one of the media component and being hid in at least one other media component is recovered from the at least one other media component, by means of which synchronization information the at least two media components are synchronized to be played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Miska Hannuksela
  • Patent number: 7844978
    Abstract: A solution for managing a set of artifacts for a runtime environment is provided, which enables improved tooling that supports runtime extensions to a runtime environment. In one embodiment, an extension handler is obtained for a runtime extension to the runtime environment. The runtime extension comprises a program code that can be included in the runtime environment to extend the default capabilities of a runtime engine/framework. The extension handler provides tooling support for extension artifacts that use/require the runtime extension. When a tooling request for an extension artifact is obtained, the tooling request is processed using the extension handler. In this manner, a tooling solution is shielded from needing to know the specifics of the extension artifact or corresponding runtime extension. Similarly, the developer of the extension handler for the runtime extension is shielded from needing to know any specifics of the tooling environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuji, Sebastian Carbajales, Vladimir Klicnik, Lok T. Loi