Patents Assigned to B
  • Method and device for automatically measuring the yarn length fed to a rectilinear machine
    Patent number: 8418506
    Abstract: A method and device for automatically measuring the yarn length absorbed by a rectilinear machine adapted to produce an article and including a carriage movable to-and-fro over a needle bed between two ends of a working path, needles moving towards the carriage to cooperate with the yarn (F) and form an article, the yarn unwinding from a feeder with elements for measuring the yarn quantity fed at constant tension towards the needle bed. The feeder measures and constantly monitors the yarn feed velocity, this monitoring enables the fed and knitted yarn quantity to be obtained in real time and each measurement to be associated with the respective carriage travel stroke, this information enabling precise regulation of the knitting cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: B.T.S.R. International S.p.A.
    Inventor: Tiziano Barea
  • Catheter assembly and components thereof
    Patent number: 8419688
    Abstract: Catheter assemblies are generally discussed herein with particular discussions extended to catheter assemblies having a tip protector, a valve, a valve opener, and optionally a needle wiper. The valve opener is disposed inside a catheter hub and is configured to be pushed by an IV set luer connector to open a valve following successful catheterization to pass fluids or other solutions through the catheter. A tip protector is incorporated to block the needle tip and prevent the same from accidental needle stick. A wiper is optionally included to wipe blood deposits on the needle when the same is retracted from the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Kevin Woehr, Michael Zerbes
  • Voltage control circuit for phase change memory
    Patent number: 8422281
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a voltage control circuit, semiconductor memory device, and method of controlling a voltage in a phase-change memory, wherein the voltage control circuit generates a controlled voltage which can be above the logic supply voltage. This voltage can limit the bit line voltage in a phase-change memory to allow the use of smaller transistors in the memory cells and in the program current part of the circuit. This results in smaller memory cells and modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Roger Cuppens
  • Magnetic write head having a self-aligned side wrap-around shield with multi-angle slanted bump
    Patent number: 8422168
    Abstract: A method for forming a magnetic write head having a trailing shield with a tapered and stepped, self aligned trailing magnetic shield. The shield has a tapered portion that tapers away from the write pole as it extends away from the ABS. This tapered portion helps to channel flux to the pole tip portion of the shield, while preventing the loss of write field to the shield. The stepped portion of the shield further helps to prevent the loss of write field and also defines a secondary throat height of the shield that can be accurately located relative to the air bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Aron Pentek, Sue Siyang Zhang, Yi Zheng
  • Planar inductive unit and an electronic device comprising a planar inductive unit
    Patent number: 8421577
    Abstract: A planar inductive unit having at least one operating frequency is provided. The inductive unit comprises at least one inductor winding (120) having a first width (121) and a centre (122) and being arranged in a first plane. The inductive unit furthermore comprises at least one ground path (200) having a first section (205) extending in the first plane and at least a second section (210) with a second width (211) extending in at least a second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Lukas Frederik Tiemeijer
  • Aerosol container
    Patent number: 8419411
    Abstract: An aerosol container (1), comprising:—a reservoir (2) containing a propellant and a foodproduct;—operable discharge means (3) to discharge the foodproduct;—a dispensing head (10) defining a foodproduct receiving space (11) to receive the foodproduct from the discharge means (3), a distal part (15) of the head (10) having foodproduct shaping projections (12), wherein the foodproduct receiving space comprises an upstream foodproduct receiving space (11A, 11B) that widens, viewed in a foodproduct discharge direction, wherein a maximum diameter (D1) of the foodproduct receiving space of the dispensing head is larger than about 2 cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Friesland Brands B.V.
    Inventors: Werner Marie Camiel Clauwaert, Annick Albertine Alfons Dumon, Luc Bart Spelmans, Marcel Braakhekke
  • Closed retort charcoal reactor system
    Patent number: 8419901
    Abstract: A reactor is provided for converting organic material to charcoal, with the reactor having a furnace and a retort extending through the furnace. The retort has an auger extending therethrough, with the auger having a flight with gaps therein. Members project inwardly from the walls of the retort at the gaps in the flight to unplug blockages in the retort. A gas collection system is provided which has a branched portion having two or more venting tubes, each with valves so that each may be shut off independently to allow to off-line cleaning without requiring shutdown of the system. A method for converting organic material may be practised by introducing combustible materials into the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: 0752831 B.C. Ltd.
    Inventor: John Flottvik
  • Fast powering-up of data communication system
    Patent number: 8422615
    Abstract: A data communication system has a transmitter with a first clock-generation circuit, and a receiver with a second clock generation circuit. At least a specific one of the clock-generation circuits is powered-down between consecutive data bursts. The system expedites the starting up of operational use of the system upon a power-down of the specific clock-generation circuit. The system presets at a predetermined value an operational quantity of the specific clock-generation circuit at the starting up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Gerrit W. Den Besten
  • Information storage device with multiple-use fields in servo pattern
    Patent number: 8422161
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention implements some or all major servo subfunctions for a storage device in integrated servo fields comprising sequences of encoded bits having selected mathematical properties. The integrated servo field is composed of a number of encoded sequences, which are members of a selected sequence set that is constrained to preferably provide some or all of the following functions: the Servo Track Mark (STM), the Position Error Signal (PES) and positional information such as the track-ID. In one embodiment the plurality sequences encoding a location identifier such as a track-ID are distributed across a set of servo wedges. A method of encoding the location identifier using a Chinese Remainder Theorem is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Yuval Cassuto, Jonathan Darrel Coker, David Timothy Flynn
  • Stable needle-shaped crystals of natamycin
    Patent number: 8420609
    Abstract: The present invention describes natamycin comprising needle shaped crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: DSM IP Assets, B.V.
    Inventors: Ben Rudolf de Haan, Ferdinand Theodorus Jozef van Rijn
  • Image forming apparatus and methods thereof
    Patent number: 8422918
    Abstract: An ink tank apparatus usable with an image forming apparatus and methods of mixing ink in an ink tank apparatus are disclosed. The ink tank apparatus and methods include directing ink particles against at least one of an impeller and an interior surface of a head housing to reduce a particle size of the respective ink particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.
    Inventor: Jonathan Nir
  • Personal GPS navigation device
    Patent number: 8423291
    Abstract: A navigation device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the navigation device includes a storage device to store map information and points of interest (POIs), the POIs including description information and location information; and a display to display stored POIs at a location of the map information, based upon the location information, POIs being selectively retrievable from a remote location for subsequent storage and display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: TomTom International B.V.
    Inventor: Pieter Geelen
  • 5 substituted hydantoins
    Patent number: 8420683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 5-substituted hydantoins, a process for the preparation of 5-substituted hydantoins and the use of 5-substituted hydantoins in the preparation of enantiomerically enriched ?-amino acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the preparation of pharmaceutically active products such as perindopril and ramipril using the novel 5-substituted hydantoins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Georgios Sarakinos, Wilhelmus Hubertus Joseph Boesten, Dennis Heemskerk, Ben De Lange
  • PARTICULATE, EXPANDABLE POLYMER, A METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME AS WELL AS THE USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130087735
    Abstract: Particulate, expandable polymer which can be processed into a foam having a fine cell structure and a low density and which, in order to improve the thermal insulation value thereof, contains a carbon-based thermal insulation value-increasing material. A method for preparing particulate, expandable polymer as well as to a foam material obtained therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Synbra Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Matthijs Gebraad, Franciscus Petrus Antonius Kuijstermans, Jan Noordegraaf
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING TISSUE AND MOULD FOR PRETREATING TISSUE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20130087945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing tissue material. The method comprises placing a quantity of tissue material in a closable but liquid-permeable assembly of a mould and enclosing element, enclosing the tissue material, guiding the tissue material placed in the receiving space at least through a hydrophilic liquid such as an alcohol solution, wherein water is extracted from the tissue material; and embedding the tissue material placed in the receiving space by at least partially filling the receiving space with a matrix material; wherein the assembly of mould and enclosing element has an orientation relative to a reference direction, and the orientation in one treatment step differs from the orientation in another treatment step. The invention also relates to a device and mould for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: KLINIPATH B.V.
    Inventors: Ronald Johannes Wilhelmus KUSTERS, Maricus Johannes VAN DIJK
  • Oscillator circuit and method of providing an oscillator output signal
    Publication number: 20130088301
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an oscillator circuit comprising an oscillator input for providing an input signal, a first integrator circuit comprising a first integrator capacitor and a first integrator output, a comparator, a discharge circuit for discharging said first integrator capacitor once per cycle of said oscillator circuit, and an oscillator output for providing an output signal, wherein said oscillator circuit further comprises a second integrator circuit comprising a second integrator capacitor and a second integrator output, and wherein said oscillator circuit is arranged for allowing said input signal to be subsequently integrated by said first and second integrator circuit in an alternating manner, and for providing said integrated output signal of said first and second integrator circuit subsequently to said comparator in said alternating manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: ANAGEAR B.V.
    Inventors: Petrus Johannes Maria Kamp, Hermanus Johannes Nijrolder
  • COLLECTOR MIRROR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
    Publication number: 20130088697
    Abstract: A collector mirror assembly includes a collector mirror that includes a reflective surface and a hole having an edge. The hole extends through the reflective surface. The assembly also includes a tubular body having an inner surface and an outer surface. The tubular body is constructed and arranged to guide a gas flow in a direction substantially transverse to the reflective surface. The outer surface of the tubular body and the edge of the hole form an opening arranged to guide a further gas flow that diverges with respect the gas flow substantially transverse to the reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Dzmitry Labetski, Erik Roelof Loopstra, Antonius Theodorus Wilhelmus Kempen
  • INPUT-INDEPENDENT SELF-CALIBRATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH CHARGE-REDISTRIBUTION DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20130088375
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting the offset and linearity error of a data acquisition system. A charge redistribution digital to analog convertor (CDAC) is connected to one of the differential inputs of a comparator whose second input comes from a function CDAC. The calibration algorithm is built into a digital control unit. The digital control unit detects the offset and capacitor mismatch errors sequentially, stores the calibration codes for each error in calibration mode and provides the input-dependent error correction signals synchronized with the binary search timing to adjust the differential input of the comparator and compensate the input-dependent errors present at the output of the non-ideal function CDAC during normal conversions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Qiong Wu, Kevin Mahooti
  • REDIRECTION OF MESSAGE FROM MOBILE STATION BASED ON IDENTITY OF MOBILE STATION
    Publication number: 20130090139
    Abstract: An application service utilizes a single short code for messaging service through a mobile network, even though the one service is actually supported by multiple servers or the like, typically operated by different service providers. In the examples, a third party application service type platform is associated with the common short code of the application service. The third party platform performs intelligent routing/address changes to re-direct mobile station originated messages among the equipment of the service providers. The platform may also provide short code translations of source addresses, during processing of messages directed to mobile stations from the various application servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS
    Inventor: Cellco partnership d/b/a verizon wireless
  • MOTION PLATFORM SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130087005
    Abstract: A motion platform system comprising a motion platform which is supported above a base by displacement units. Displacement units comprise a drive unit which drives a crank. A connecting arm is connected between the crank and the motion platform, so that translational and tilting movement of the motion platform is achieved by appropriate operation of the drive units. Each connecting arm has a curved profile which enables a full range of movement of the motion platform to be achieved using connecting arms of relatively short length. The connection between the connecting arm and the crank arm can be brought close to, or within, the crank arm. The height of the motion platform above the base, and bearing loads within the drive units, can thus be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: E2M TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: E2M TECHNOLOGIES B.V.