Patents Assigned to "A" Company
  • Low profile layered coil and cores for magnetic components
    Patent number: 7791445
    Abstract: A low profile magnetic component with planar coil portion, polymer-based supporting structure and methods of fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Daniel Minas Manoukian, Robert James Bogert
  • Dual chamber aerosol container
    Patent number: 7789278
    Abstract: An aerosol spray dispenser is disclosed that includes an outer housing that is circular, oval, or non-oval and in which an active composition to be dispensed is provided and a closure sleeve housing within the outer housing. An inner receptacle is provided within the closure sleeve housing and within the volume of the outer housing and contains a propellant to be dispensed. The inner housing may be concentrically located within the outer housing. An actuator assembly houses a nozzle that has a venturi constriction. A tube extends within the outer housing to provide the passage of active composition from within the outer housing by the venturi effect. A conduit for the passage of a propellant from the inner receptacle to the nozzle is provided. The propellant and the active composition are mixed and dispensed as a spray at a nozzle by action of the venturi effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Clorox Company
    Inventors: Ricardo Ruiz de Gopegui, Marcus Wang
  • Remote client remediation
    Patent number: 7792990
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may include network devices, systems, and methods, including executable instructions and/or logic, for remote client remediation. One method includes identifying a client needing remediation, tunnel-encapsulating packets originating from the client during remediation, and forwarding the tunnel-encapsulated packets to a remote remediation functionality different from an original destination address of the packets and having membership in a remediation VLAN different from the original VLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Gooch, Bruce E. LaVigne, Mauricio Sanchez, Steven G. Jorgensen, Alan R. Albrecht
  • Agricultural harvester with dual engines and electrical power coupling
    Patent number: 7788889
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a first power unit having a first rated output. The first power unit is couplable with a first primary load, including a threshing system load. A second power unit has a second rated output. The second power unit is couplable with a second primary load, including a propulsion load. A first motor/generator is mechanically coupled with the first power unit, and a second motor/generator is mechanically coupled with the second power unit. The second motor/generator is configured to electrically drive at least one external load. The second motor/generator and the first motor/generator are electrically coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Alan Sheidler
  • Technique for automating code generation in developing software systems
    Patent number: 7793257
    Abstract: Programming the creation of a software system is facilitated by automating the generation of some of the program code that is necessary for the software system. The generation of program code may be automated based on a software design specification that can be created by developers. The software design specification may be scanned and code may be generated for implementing the software system based on information obtained from scanning the software design specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Motoyama, Avery Fong
  • Lightweight node based network redundancy solution leveraging rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP)
    Patent number: 7792056
    Abstract: A method for dynamic path failover in a network with two or more redundant and interconnected bridges, is described. A first bridge operates as a root bridge and each node includes two ports where each port is coupled to a respective one of the bridges. The method includes defining a bridge identifier at a node which presents the node as a capable bridge to the two or more fully compliant, RSTP enabled MAC bridges, forwarding a BPDU message from the node that defines the node as an inferior alternate path to the root bridge, facilitating the dynamic sensing of the absence of communication between the root bridge and the node, receiving a topology change message at the node from the second redundant bridge, and sending an agreement message from the node to the second redundant bridge such that the node automatically begins receiving messages from the second redundant bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Sullivan, David A. Naumann
  • Ink jet printing using a combination of non-marking and marking inks
    Patent number: 7789504
    Abstract: An ink jet device selectively ejects droplets of non-marking liquid ink into cells of a printing member in a desired latent negative image pattern. Certain cells of the printing member are filled with pigmented ink to create a desired image. An electrical bias is applied for fractionating pigment in the pigmented ink from liquid and transferring an image-wise pigmented ink pattern from the printing member to a receiving member, leaving behind a substantial portion of liquid. The receiver can be an intermediate member whereby the image-wise ink pattern is transferred from the intermediate member to a final receiver, while such receiver is in operative association with said intermediate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas Nathaniel Tombs, Donald Saul Rimai, Robert Edward Zeman
  • Cylinder head gasket for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 7789060
    Abstract: A gasket (122) includes a first plurality of cylinder openings (402) arranged to correspond, one each, to a corresponding first plurality of cylinder bores (106) formed in a crankcase (102) of an internal combustion engine (100). A second plurality of coolant openings (404) and a third plurality of oil openings (406) are formed in a substrate sheet of material that makes up the gasket (122). A fourth plurality of pushrod openings (408) is formed in the substrate material of the gasket (122). Each of the fourth plurality of pushrod openings (408) includes a pass through portion (302) that has a semicircular shape with an internal diameter, D, and an alignment portion (304) that has a semicircular shape with an internal diameter, d. The diameter d is smaller than the diameter D. The pass-through portion (304) is located adjacent to the alignment portion (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Courtney T. Brown, Matthew J. Clarke, Wence Prikazsky
  • Paper substrates useful in wallboard tape applications
    Patent number: 7789996
    Abstract: This invention relates to paper products and/or substrates suitable for being made and/or converted into wallboard tape; which also may be known as joint tape and/or drywall tape, having a pH of at least 7.0 and containing a plurality of cellulose fibers, a wet strength additive, an alkaline sizing agent, and an anionic promoter, as well as methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Stephen A Buzza, Dennis W. Anderson, Yufeng Xu, Bruce Richard McGaffin, Christopher Michael Wilson
  • Redundant power beneath circuit board
    Patent number: 7791889
    Abstract: One embodiment includes an electronic assembly having a first printed circuit board (PCB) and a second PCB. The second PCB has at least two processors and is coupled to and disposed on a first side of the first PCB. A thermal dissipation device dissipates heat away from the processors. First and second power modules are coupled to and disposed on a second side of the first PCB, the first and second power modules providing redundant power to the two processors on the second PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christian L. Belady, Eric C. Peterson, Shaun L. Harris, Steven A. Belson, Gary W. Williams
  • Expression vector, a transformant carrying the same and a method for producing heterologous protein
    Patent number: 7790450
    Abstract: To provide a heterologous protein expression system which enables the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a host to produce of a heterologous protein which is almost impossible to express, or if possible, produced at low levels, under control of conventional promoters. The present invention provides an expression for use in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a transformant carrying the expression vector, a method for producing a heterologous protein using the transformant, in particular a method for producing a heterologous protein in which a heat shock protein gene promoter in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is used to regulate gene expression by application of a specific form of stress, whereby the timing of the production of the desired heterologous protein can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasuko Fujita, Hideki Tohda, Yuko Hama
  • N-alkyl-4-methyleneamino-3-hydroxy-2-pyridones
    Patent number: 7790748
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I): are effective in the treatment of a microbial infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Warner Chilcott Company, LLC
    Inventors: Namal Chithranga Warshakoon, Rodney Dean Bush
  • Digital cinema system hub for multiple exhibitor distribution
    Patent number: 7793323
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a media program comprising audiovisual data. The method comprises the steps of transmitting the audiovisual data from a ground center to a satellite; transponding the audiovisual data to a ground-based hub; and transmitting the audiovisual data from the ground-based hub to a display entity if the satellite is obscured from the display entity. The apparatus comprises a ground transmitter transmitting the audiovisual data from a ground center to a satellite; satellite for transponding the audiovisual data; and a ground-based hub, having a receiver for receiving the transponded audiovisual data and a hub transmitter for transmitting the audiovisual data from the ground-based hub to a display entity if the satellite is obscured from the display entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mark L. Powell, David Confair, Michael David Repp
  • Portable friction testing device
    Patent number: 7788965
    Abstract: A portable device for measuring friction, especially friction between tire treads and road surfaces is disclosed. The portable friction tester is shaped as an equilateral triangle providing three points of contact for samples in the road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company, Inc.
    Inventors: William Allen Arnold, Chenghsiung Lin, Christopher Aldrich Brown, Torbjorn Stansen Bergstrom, Douglas Jeffrey Geiger
  • Brazing process and material for repairing a component
    Patent number: 7789288
    Abstract: A process and braze paste suitable for filling and closing voids in relatively thin wall sections of high temperature components, such as an impingement plate of a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The process entails applying at least a first braze paste to the crack to form a braze paste patch comprising powders of first and second alloys and an organic binder. The first alloy has a higher melting temperature than the second alloy, and the powders of the first and second alloys are present in the braze paste patch at a weight ratio of about 30:70 to about 70:30 weight percent. The braze paste patch is then heated to burn off the binder and melt at least the powder of the second alloy to form a brazement within the crack that contains particles of the first alloy dispersed in a matrix formed by the second alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jere A. Johnson, Timothy Channel
  • Method and system for reconstructing cone-beam projection data with reduced artifacts
    Patent number: 7792238
    Abstract: A method for generating an image of an object is provided. The method comprises acquiring projection data at one or more projection views along a circular scan trajectory and generating a corrected projection dataset based upon a weighted derivative applied to a subset of the projection data. The method further comprises backprojecting the corrected projection dataset along one or more projection rays associated with one or more of the projection views, to generate a reconstructed image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jed Douglas Pack
  • Methods and apparatus for generating images
    Patent number: 7792365
    Abstract: A method of generating an image comprising a position identifying pattern 6 and content 7 comprises the steps of: defining criteria relating to a region where the content and the pattern are superimposed, the criteria determining whether the pattern 6 will be distinguishable over the content 7 when applied to a product; identifying such a region 7 in the image; and selecting a characteristic of the pattern or the content in the region on the basis of the criteria, such that the image in the region meets the criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Patrick Brouhon
  • Sequenced response image stabilization
    Patent number: 7791643
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described wherein the composition responsiveness of a camera comprising an image stabilization system is adjusted. In example embodiments, the composition responsiveness may be adjusted in response to a particular photographic situation, including a scene condition, a camera optical configuration, a camera mode setting, or any combination of these. In another embodiment of the invention, the composition responsiveness is adjusted during a capture sequence used to take a photograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Donald J. Stavely
  • Composition for aqueous coating material and process for its production, and two-component curable aqueous coating material kit
    Patent number: 7790794
    Abstract: A composition for aqueous coating material which has a low content of an organic solvent and presents little burden on the environment and which is excellent in storage stability. A composition for aqueous coating material, which comprises a synthetic resin containing a fluorinated copolymer comprising from 40 to 60 mol % of a fluoro-olefin unit, from 3 to 50 mol % of an alkyl vinyl ether or alkyl vinyl ester unit, from 4 to 30 mol % of a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl ether unit and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoko Sumi, Takashi Morizumi, Isao Kimura
  • Eyeglass nosepiece
    Patent number: D623218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Navajo Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: HoiKwan Wong, Gordon Levy