Patents Assigned to "A" Company
  • Cylinder valve having a device for reducing or closing off the flow in the event of a rise in temperature
    Patent number: 9151402
    Abstract: A cylinder valve for pressurized gas with a body including a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a passage connecting the inlet to the outlet. The valve also includes a closing/opening valve, a pressure reducer and a device for reducing or closing the gas passage between said valve and a pressure reducer. The device includes an element that is made of shape-memory alloy and positioned in a cavity of the passage. The element includes an active deformable portion, the circular outer edge of which is capable of engaging with the inner surface of the cavity in order to close the passage following a rise in temperature caused by combustion. The combustion can be generated by adiabatic compression during the opening of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Luxembourg Patent Company S.A.
    Inventor: Claude Risse
  • Writing and reading encrypted data using time-based encryption keys
    Patent number: 9152814
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method to manage encrypted data includes configuring a first portion of a storage medium to store encrypted data. The encrypted data is encrypted using a time-based encryption key. The method also includes configuring a second portion of the storage medium to include metadata identifying the time-based encryption key and storing the time-based encryption key in a location other than the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: EMC International Company
    Inventor: Assaf Natanzon
  • Rubber composition for tire tread
    Patent number: 9150712
    Abstract: A rubber composition for a tire tread contains styrene-butadiene rubber in a compounding amount of 100 parts by weight, silica in a compounding amount of 90 to 170 parts by weight, and an aromatic modified terpene resin in a compounding amount of 10 to 30 parts by weight. The styrene-butadiene rubber contains 40 to 100% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR1) and 60 to 0% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR2), the total content thereof being 100% by weight. The S-SBR1 has a styrene content of 30 to 38% by weight and a vinyl content of 60 to 80% by weight, the total content thereof being 100% by weight, a glass transition temperature of ?20 to ?5° C., and a weight average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 1,800,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventors: Youichi Takizawa, Naoki Kushida
  • Authenticated delivery of premium communication services to trusted devices over an untrusted network
    Patent number: 9154955
    Abstract: A mobile communication device. The device comprises a cellular radio transceiver, a processor, a memory, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application receives an input that initiates access to a premium communication service via an untrusted network, determines whether an authentication payload is stored in the memory. When the application determines it is not stored in the memory, it transmits via the cellular radio transceiver to a media gateway a request to execute a service provided by an authorization server, receives an authentication payload from the media gateway via the cellular ratio transceiver, stores the authentication payload in the memory, and accesses the premium communication service initiated by the input based on the authentication payload stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Robert H. Burcham, Robin D. Katzer, Brian D. Mauer
  • Wireless scheduler bandwidth estimation for quick start
    Patent number: 9154992
    Abstract: A method, wireless system, and medium are provided for estimating capacity for a new communication session initiated by a wireless device. The wireless system includes a base station and wireless devices that wirelessly connect to the base station. The base station executes a wireless scheduler that coordinates wireless transmission over wireless networks. The base station also executes a bandwidth estimation component to estimate available bandwidth for a new communication session. The estimated available bandwidth is used in a quick configuration message communicated from the base station to a wireless device to notify the wireless device of the capacity available at the base station and of a transmission rate for the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Soshant Bali, Jing Yea
  • Methods for configuration management using a fallback configuration
    Patent number: 9152522
    Abstract: A method of configuring a network managed device in a network is described herein. A fallback configuration is determined. The fallback configuration is identified as a configuration that enables the network managed device to be manageable. A working configuration is determined. The working configuration is described by a working set of configuration data that has been updated based on a management command. A commit command is received. The working configuration is saved as a running configuration and verification of the running configuration is initiated. It is determined whether the verification of the running configuration is successful. Where it is not successful, the running configuration is saved as a failed configuration and the running configuration is replaced with the fallback configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Shaun Wackerly
  • Method of removing a metal detail from a substrate
    Patent number: 9150980
    Abstract: A method of removing a metal detail from a dielectric material of an article may include placing the article in an electrolyte bath such that at least a portion of the metal detail is submerged. The metal detail may be coupled to a dielectric material. The method may further include positioning at least one cathode in the electrolyte bath in spaced relation to the metal detail, and passing electrical current through the metal detail. The method may additionally include deplating the metal detail from the dielectric material in response to passing the electrical current through the metal detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert T. Loftus, Jr., Robert L. Knicely, Nicklaus C. Kimball
  • Providing data for predicting aircraft trajectory
    Patent number: 9153136
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method of producing a description of the flight intent of an aircraft expressed using a formal language. The description may be used to generate a predicted aircraft trajectory, for example by air traffic management. Rules are used in association with information provided to express the flight intent of the aircraft in a formal language. The flight intent describes a flight in terms of flight segments, and provides information of the path to be flown and how it is to be flown. The flight intent does not necessarily define unambiguously the aerodynamic configuration of the aircraft and the motion of the aircraft during the flight. The flight intent is used alongside other information to generate the aircraft intent that does describe unambiguously the aircraft's trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Javier Lopez Leones, Enrique Casado, Miguel Vilaplana, Francisco A. Navarro
  • Hydraulic timing chain tensioner and timing chain system
    Patent number: 9151365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a timing chain system including a hydraulic pressure timing chain tensioner autonomously controlling a hydraulic pressure for maintaining tension of a timing chain to effectively operate. The system may include: a crankshaft sprocket; a camshaft sprocket controlling exhaust or intake timing of the engine; a timing chain operably connecting the crankshaft and camshaft sprockets; a chain guide for the timing chain; a chain tensioner pushing the chain guide inward; and an oil supply unit for the chain tensioner. The chain tensioner may include a housing, an operating unit case fixed to the housing, a reciprocating plunger inserted into the operating unit case, a high pressure chamber, a low pressure chamber, a supply hydraulic path supplying oil from the oil supply unit to the low pressure chamber, and a regulator controlling hydraulic pressure of the low pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventors: Chung Han Oh, Dae Sung Kim, Kyoung Pyo Ha, Joong Soo Kim, Eui Chul Choi, Young-Taek Sun, Won-Jung Kwon
  • Dual-series feeder lubrication system
    Patent number: 9151444
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a centralized combination grease and/or oil lubricating system for lubricating bearings where a dual line parallel system is connected to a series progressive system with an inlet designed not to halt the flow of lubrication to the entire system if a single lubrication point becomes blocked but where a single terminal sensor will still alert the user of the blockage to the single lubrication point and a method of using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: FD Johnson Company
    Inventor: John Powell
  • Stretched film, polarizing stretched film, method for producing the stretched film, and method for producing the polarizing stretched film
    Patent number: 9151983
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a stretched film obtained by uniaxially stretching a laminated film which comprises a base film and a polyvinyl alcohol resin layer laminated on one surface of the base film, wherein the base film has a multilayer structure of resin layers including two resin layers which comprise different resins from one another; a polarizing stretched film obtained by imparting polarizing performance to the stretched film; and a method for producing a polarizing plate using the polarizing stretched film. It is preferable that the resins constituting the above-described two resin layers show different phase transition temperatures from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuichiro Kunai
  • Toner, and full-color image forming method and full-color image forming apparatus using the toner
    Patent number: 9152069
    Abstract: A toner including a binder resin, a colorant and a phenol multimer represented by the following General Formula (1): where R1 to R6, R11, R12, R14 to R16, R21, R22, and R24 to R26 each are a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and n is an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Satoyuki Sekiguchi
  • Lattice-mismatched semiconductor structures with reduced dislocation defect densities and related methods for device fabrication
    Patent number: 9153645
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming an opening in a dielectric layer, forming a recess in an exposed part of a substrate, and forming a lattice-mismatched crystalline semiconductor material in the recess and opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jizhong Li, Anthony J. Lochtefeld
  • Breast coil for use in magnetic resonance imaging
    Patent number: 9149205
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a receive coil assembly for use in magnetic resonance imaging of breast tissue. In certain embodiments the assembly comprises separable parts: a configurable mechanical support and a flexible receive coil array. The adjustability and separability of the receive coil array relative to the mechanical support allows the receive coil array to substantially conform to the breasts of the patient during imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ileana Hancu, Kenneth William Rohling, Luca Marinelli, Eric William Fiveland, Seung-Kyun Lee, Keith J. Park
  • Static synchronous compensator and voltage control method
    Patent number: 9154050
    Abstract: A static synchronous compensator that generates a second axis voltage command from the difference between the DC voltage converted by a single-phase voltage AC-DC conversion circuit and a set DC voltage command. When the voltage (the voltage of an AC terminal) of the single-phase AC power system increases, since the difference between the voltage of the AC terminal and an internal electromotive force increases, the static synchronous compensator carries out a PWM control to decreases the voltage of the AC terminal side of the single-phase voltage AC-DC conversion circuit. Since the voltage of the single-phase voltage AC-DC conversion circuit becomes lower than the voltage of the single-phase AC power system, an ineffective current flows from single-phase AC power system in the static synchronous compensator so that the voltage of the single-phase AC power system can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: ORIGIN ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuichi Ushiki, Masaaki Ohshima
  • Information processing system that includes multiple information processors and executes process according to request received via network, and information processing method therein
    Patent number: 9152343
    Abstract: An information processing system includes multiple information processors. Each of the information processors includes a control part configured to periodically store a duplicate copy of at least part of predetermined information stored inside the information processor in a first storage part. The control part is configured to cause the first storage part to be operable from the information processor prior to storing the duplicate copy in the first storage part, store the duplicate copy after causing the first storage part to be operable, and cause the first storage part to be inoperable from the information processor after completion of storing the duplicate copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Michiko Fujii, Tatsuya Shirai
  • Valve for a sippy cup
    Patent number: 9151398
    Abstract: A replaceable valve member for a sippy cup assembly is disclosed. The valve member is a flexible, resilient member for releasable mounting in the lid of the sippy cup. It includes a normally closed, but openable slit located within the sippy cup's spout when the valve member is in its operative position. The valve member includes another normally closed, but openable slit located at a vent in the sippy cup's lid when the valve member is in the operative position. The two slits open when suction is applied to the spout to enable liquid to be withdrawn through the spout. A recess is provided in a portion of the periphery of the valve member to preclude the trapping of residual liquid in the sippy cup. The valve member also includes an opening for releasably mounting it on a handle of the sippy cup in a storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Tervis Tumbler Company
    Inventor: Steve Wharton
  • Portion of a powder container
    Patent number: D740356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kikuchi, Shinji Tamaki
  • Disposable absorbent garment having stretchable side waist regions
    Patent number: RE45716
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent garment includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The topsheet, backsheet and absorbent core are assembled together to form a layered assembly including a front region, a back region, and a crotch region disposed between the front region and the back region. The layered assembly has a longitudinal plane that extends substantially centrally through the front, back and crotch regions. Each of the front and back regions further includes a pair of ear portions extending in substantially opposite lateral directions with respect to the longitudinal plane. Further, each of the ear portions includes a layered section of a material layer and a stretchable member extendible between a contracted configuration and an extended configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Walter V. Klemp
  • Projection optical system, magnification projection optical system, magnification projection apparatus, and image projection apparatus
    Patent number: RE45728
    Abstract: In a projection optical system for use in an image projection apparatus illuminating an image display panel forming an image in accordance with a modulating signal with illumination light from a light source, the projection optical system includes first and second optical systems arranged along an optical path defining an upstream-downstream direction in the order described from upstream to downstream on the downstream side of the image display panel. The first optical system includes at least one dioptric system and has positive power. The second optical system includes at least one reflecting surface having power and has positive power. The image formed by the image display panel is formed as an intermediate image in the optical path, and the intermediate image is magnified and projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Takaura, Kazuhiro Fujita, Nobuo Sakuma