Patents Assigned to "A" Company
  • Antenna
    Patent number: 7245263
    Abstract: An antenna supplied with power by a coaxial line including an inner conductor, an outer conductor, and a dielectric provided between the inner conductor and the outer conductor is disclosed. The antenna includes an antenna part including a first conductor and a second conductor, the second conductor including a conical shape having an apex thereof opposing the first conductor; and a transition area having an effective dielectric constant different from the dielectric constant of the dielectric in the coaxial line, the transition area being provided in the end part of the coaxial line connected to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumikazu Hoshi
  • Electret article having high fluorosaturation ratio
    Patent number: 7244291
    Abstract: An electret article that includes a polymeric material that has electric charge imparted thereto, that has a CF3:CF2 ratio of at least 0.15 and that has a fluorosaturation ratio greater than about 200. The electret article may be in the form of a porous web of polymeric fibers suitable for use as a filter. The inventive electret article is resistant to charge degradation upon exposure to high temperatures for prolonged time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gerald R. Spartz, Seth M. Kirk, Marvin E. Jones, Hyacinth L. Cabibil, Alan D. Rousseau, Steven J. Pachuta
  • Center-filled chewing gum containing a deliverable form of calcium
    Patent number: 7244455
    Abstract: A centerfill chewing gum composition having a shell portion and a centerfill portion, the centerfill portion containing an effective amount of a calcium-containing compound suspended therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Jesse John Kiefer, Hector Olaya, Carolina Buitron Kellstein, Blake Henderson Glenn
  • Method and apparatus for object identification, classification or verification
    Patent number: 7245767
    Abstract: There is provided a method for classifying, identifying or verifying an object by representing the object by a respective sequence of vectors, modeling the sequence of vectors with a respective generative model such that the object is represented by the generative model, computing the distances between the generative models to form one or many kernel matrices based on the distance metric, and using the kernel matrices to classify, identify or verify the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pedro J. Moreno, Purdy Ho
  • Sheet recording apparatus with dual nip transport
    Patent number: 7244072
    Abstract: An apparatus for recording an image onto a sheet medium (12) has an entrance nip (14) for transporting the sheet medium (12) into an image recording section (20). A write head (56) records onto a portion of the sheet medium (12) between the entrance nip (14) and exit nip (24). The exit nip (24) is formed by a drive roller (26) paired with a corresponding exit pressure roller (28). A motor (60) provides rotary motion to either the entrance drive roller (16) or the exit drive roller (26). A coupling apparatus (54) has a coupling roller (36) and a loading mechanism providing a loading force to nest the coupling roller (36) into continuous rotational contact against the entrance and exit drive rollers (16,26), whereby rotation is transferred between the exit drive roller (26) and the entrance drive roller (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jeffery R. Hawver, Mark D. Bedzyk, Scott C. Milton
  • Nanowires for surface-enhanced Raman scattering molecular sensors
    Patent number: 7245370
    Abstract: A SERS-active structure is disclosed that includes a substrate and at least two nanowires disposed on the substrate. Each of the at least two nanowires has a first end and a second end, the first end being attached to the substrate and the second end having a SERS-active tip. A SERS system is also disclosed that includes a SERS-active structure. Also disclosed are methods for forming a SERS-active structure and methods for performing SERS with SERS-active structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexandre Bratkovski, M. Salf Islam, Theodore I. Kamins, Zhiyong Li, Shih-Yuan Wang
  • Mooring line for an oceanographic buoy system
    Patent number: 7244155
    Abstract: A mooring line for an oceanographic buoy system includes four sections. The first section is a protected cable that is connectable to the buoy. The second section is an energy absorbing cable. The third section is a weighted cable. The fourth section is a buoyant cable that is connectable to the anchor. The four sections are connected in series by smooth transitional connections. When the mooring line is deployed, it has an inverse catenary lay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Cortland Cable Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Nye, Hugh B. Milburn
  • Sonar
    Patent number: 7245557
    Abstract: A sonar emits an ultrasonic wave into the water from a transducer on the basis of a transmission signal outputted from a transmission circuit, receives an echo reflected in the water with the transducer and converts the echo into an electric signal, and displays underwater information on a display unit on the basis of an echo signal extracted by processing the electric signal. A tailing signal removing unit for removing a tailing signal and extracting only the echo signal is provided in the sonar such that a video of a surface layer fish shoal is clearly displayed on a screen of the display unit without being hidden by a video of the tailing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinji Ishihara, Takanori Satoh, Mitsuhiro Inouchi, Osamu Kubota, Yuriko Onishi
  • Process to prepare a hydrocarbon product having a sulphur content below 0.05 wt
    Patent number: 7244350
    Abstract: A process to continuously prepare a hydrocarbon product having a specified desired sulphur content lower than 0.05 wt %, starting from at least two or more high-sulphur hydrocarbon feedstocks having a sulphur content of above 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Bernard Martin, Jean-Luc Christian Rouby, Wouter Frederik Timmermans, Frederic Viel
  • System and method for modifying new message retransmission within a system for harvesting community knowledge
    Patent number: 7246121
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for knowledge management. The method discloses the elements of: generating a client profile on a client computer connected to a network; storing the profile on the computer; receiving a new message; scoring the new message with respect to the client profile; counting a number of message responses to the new message; and re-transmitting the new message to a first sub-set of client computers on the network, based on the response count. The system discloses means for implementing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eytan Adar, Rajan Mathew Lukose, Joshua Rogers Tyler, Caesar Sengupta
  • System and method for providing sealing arrangement in X-ray tube
    Patent number: 7245700
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a sealing arrangement in an X-ray tube are provided. The X-ray tube includes a rotating portion having a plurality of ball bearings and a liquid metal within a housing having the ball bearings therein. The rotating portion is configured to rotate an anode. The X-ray tube further includes a sealing portion formed by a liquid metal vacuum interface configured in a radial direction to resist flow of liquid metal from the housing to a vacuum portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harith Vadari, Ram Turaga, Mayank Tiwari, Hombe Gowda, Mark Ernest Vermilyea, Frédéric Dahan, Thomas Saint Martin
  • Method for fabricating a body contact in a Finfet structure and a device including the same
    Patent number: 7244640
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a Finfet device with body contacts and a device fabricated using the method are provided. In one example, a silicon-on-insulator substrate is provided. A T-shaped active region is defined in the silicon layer of the silicon-on-insulator substrate. A source region and a drain region form two ends of a cross bar of the T-shaped active region and a body contact region forms a leg of the T-shaped active region. A gate oxide layer is grown on the active region. A polysilicon layer is deposited overlying the gate oxide layer and patterned to form a gate, where an end of the gate partially overlies the body contact region to complete formation of a Finfet device with body contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Nan Yang, Yi-Lang Chen, Hou-Yu Chen, Fu-Liang Yang, Chenming Hu
  • Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 7245410
    Abstract: An even number of reflection mirrors reflecting a light beam in the sub-scanning direction are disposed on an optical path from a deflecting reflection surface of an optical deflector to a corresponding surface to be scanned, for a light beam that is incident on the deflecting reflection surface from one side of a line normal to the deflecting reflection surface in the sub-scanning direction. An odd number of reflection mirrors reflecting the light beam in the sub-scanning direction is disposed on the optical path, for a light beam that is incident on the deflecting reflection surface from the other side of the line normal to the deflecting reflection surface in the sub-scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Miyatake
  • Composite compositions including polymeric nanoparticles and clay nanoparticles
    Patent number: 7244781
    Abstract: Composite compositions that include polymeric nanoparticles and clay nanoparticles, and a method for forming the compositions are provided. The polymeric nanoparticles of particular compositions have a mean diameter from 1 to 50 nm. Also provided are polymeric compositions including the composite compositions and a method for forming them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Newman Mayer Bortnick, Dennis Paul Lorah
  • Outsole for a shoe
    Patent number: D546530
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventor: Thomas E. McClaskie
  • Fishing line package
    Patent number: D546667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Shakespeare Company, LLC
    Inventor: Peter M. Sexton, Jr.
  • Container with a surface indicia
    Patent number: D546673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Murphy Greene Mongeon, Amy Bridgman, Donald Wilfred Robert Williams
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D546686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Miller Products Company
    Inventor: Jim F. Warner
  • Battery pack for use with handheld electronic game device
    Patent number: D546758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Storm Electronics Company Limited
    Inventor: Po Ling Tse
  • Sanitary napkin
    Patent number: D546945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Yoko Munakata