Patents Assigned to B
  • Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
    Patent number: 7872244
    Abstract: A source configured to generate radiation for a lithographic apparatus is disclosed. The source includes an anode, and a cathode. The cathode and the anode are configured to create a discharge in a fuel in a discharge space between the anode and the cathode so as to generate a plasma, the cathode and the anode positioned relative to each other so that, in use, current lines extending between the anode and the cathode are substantially curved so as to create a force that substantially radially compresses the plasma only in a region proximate an upper surface of the cathode or of the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Vladimir Vitalevich Ivanov, Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine, Arno Jan Bleeker, Konstantin Nikolaevich Koshelev, Pavel Stanislavovich Antsiferov, Vladimir Mihailovitch Krivtsun, Dmitriy Victorovich Lopaev
  • Diffractive multifocal lens having radially varying light distribution
    Patent number: 7871162
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved ophthalmic lenses and methods for their design and use. Monofocal and multifocal diffractive ophthalmic lenses having reduced light scatter and/or improved light energy distribution properties are provided. These properties are provided by the diffractive profiles of the invention, often having subtlely shaped echelettes with appropriately curving profiles. Light scatter may be generated by the sharp corners associated with vertical steps between adjacent conventional diffractive echelettes. Smooth diffractive profiles of the invention reduce light scatter. Light energy directed towards non-viewing diffractive orders may have a unwanted effects on vision quality. Diffractive profiles of the invention may limit the light energy in certain, selected orders, thereby improving viewing quality and mitigating unwanted effects such as dysphotopsia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventor: Henk A. Weeber
  • Method and apparatus for providing a magnetic read sensor having a thin pinning layer and improved magnetoreistive coefficient
    Patent number: 7872837
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a magnetic read sensor having a thin pinning layer and improved magnetoresistive coefficient ?R/R is disclosed. A thin IrMn alloy pinning layer is disposed adjacent a composite pinned layer, wherein the percentage of iron in the pinned layer adjacent the thin IrMn alloy pinning layer in the range of 20-40% to provide maximum pinning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Hardayal Singh Gill
  • Awning comprising an integrated spraying installation
    Patent number: 7871017
    Abstract: Awning of the type that is to be mounted on or in a facade or a wall of a building or on a vehicle, comprising a frame and sunshade means in the form of a screen which, in mounted condition, is movable with respect to the facade or wall. With the frame a spraying installation is integrated for dispersing a spray from the frame. The spraying installation comprises at least one nozzle mounted in the frame for dispersing the spray mainly under the screen. Furthermore, impeller means may be provided for effecting an improved dispersion of the spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Alcre (Best) B.V.
    Inventor: Petrus Egbertus Wilhelmus Van Zutven
  • Drug delivery system comprising a tetrahydroxylated estrogen for use in hormonal contraception
    Patent number: 7871995
    Abstract: A method of contraception in mammalian females, which method comprises the parenteral or rectal administration of an estrogenic component and a progestogenic component to a female of childbearing capability in an amount effective to inhibit ovulation, wherein the estrogenic component is selected from the group consisting of substances represented by the following formula (1) in which R1, R2, R3, R4 independently are a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group with 1-5 carbon atoms; each of R5, R6, R7 is a hydroxyl group; and no more than 3 of R1, R2, R3, R4 are hydrogen atoms; precursors capable of liberating a substance according to the aforementioned formula when used in the present method; and mixtures of one or more of the aforementioned substances and/or precursors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Pantarhei Bioscience B.V.
    Inventors: Evert Johannes Bunschoten, Herman Jan Tijmen Coelingh Bennink, Christian Franz Holinka
  • Synthetic geomaterials with transponder technology
    Patent number: 7872580
    Abstract: Synthetic geomaterials, such as geotextiles, geocomposites or geogrids (woven, knitted or of monolithic strips), characterized in that the synthetic geomaterial comprises at least one transponder applied thereon for storing and for calling up data related to product and/or state and condition and/or project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignees: Tencate Geosynthetics Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H., Schreiner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Konrad Hubert Dorfner, Rainer Günter Lugmayr
  • Disk storage device and control method for the same
    Patent number: 7872826
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a disk storage device and a control method for the disk storage device, which are capable of precluding an off-track write resulted from stick-slip caused by thermal distortion. A magnetic disk device is provided with a magnetic disk, a head that makes a writing to the magnetic disk, and a temperature sensor that detects the temperature inside of the magnetic disk device. Moreover, the magnetic disk device 1 changes determination requirements for use to make a determination whether or not to prohibit the writing by the head to the magnetic disk based on a measurement temperature detected by the temperature sensor and an amount of temperature change calculated using the measurement temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Sumie Takeda, Katsumoto Onoyama, Yosuke Hamada, Hiroyuki Oosawa
  • Apparatus and process for producing thin films and devices
    Patent number: 7871940
    Abstract: A silicon nitride thin film formation apparatus is provided for stationary and moving substrates and a process for forming such films. The process provides high uniformity of film thickness and film properties as well as a high deposition rate. The film properties are adequate for application as an antireflection layer or passivation layer in solar cell devices or as dielectric layer in thin film transistors. The apparatus includes a number of metal filaments. In the space within the formation apparatus opposite to the substrate with respect to the filaments, a gas dosage system is arranged at a predetermined distance of the filaments. The film formation apparatus for stationary substrates also contains a shutter to control the starting and ending conditions for film formation and to control the film thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Universiteit Utrecht Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Rudolf Emmanuel Isidore Schropp, Catharina Henriette Maria Van Der Werf, Bernd Stannowski
  • Nitrile hydratases from metagenome libraries
    Patent number: 7872100
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with the preparation of novel nitrile hydratases. These latter are preferably obtained from nonculturable organisms by means of a PCR-based screening, in metagenome DNA libraries, using special degenerate primers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: B.R.A.I.N. Biotechnology Research and Information Networks AG
    Inventors: Stefan Verseck, Klaus Liebeton, Jurgen Eck
  • Method and apparatus for write enable and inhibit for high density spin torque three dimensional (3D) memory arrays
    Patent number: 7872905
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for write enable and write inhibit for high density spin torque three dimensional (3D) memory arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Sylvia Helena Florez Marino, Liesl Folks, Bruce David Terris
  • Vehicle alarm device
    Patent number: 7872571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for placement in a vehicle, comprising a housing, at least one lighting element, an acceleration and/or deceleration circuits and/or a moisture sensor, the device being arranged for operatively switching on the lighting element when the device, in particular the acceleration and/or deceleration circuit, experiences an acceleration or deceleration which exceeds a pre-set maximum value and/or if the device comes at least partly under water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Life Safety Products B.V.
    Inventors: Arend Michiel van der Meer, Mattheus Jacobus van der Meer
  • Device for manufacturing injection moulding pieces with turret having holders
    Patent number: 7871260
    Abstract: Device (1) for manufacturing injection molding pieces (2) which mainly consists of a stack mold (3) with a central cubical part (4) and two mold impressions (9,10), whereby the device (1) is provided with a cooling station (15) and an ejection station (16) as well as four holders (17-20) for holding an injection molding piece (2), which are formed as a piece (17-20) which can be taken out of the cube and which partly co-determines a mold impression (9,10), and with means (24) to detach the holders (17-20) from the cube faces (5, 13, 6, 14) with mold impressions (9, 10) and to put them in the latter again, as well as means (25) to each time move the holders (17-20) a quarter of a turn to a following cube face (13, 6, 14, 5) after the injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Firma G.B. Boucherie Naamloze Vennootschap
    Inventor: Bart Gerard Boucherie
  • Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
    Patent number: 7872731
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus includes a polarization changing element including at least two wedge-shaped optically active members configured to rotate the polarization direction of at least a portion of the radiation beam with a predetermined angle with respect to the first direction and an optical propagation length adaptor associated with the wedge-shaped optically active members to adjust the predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Michel Fransois Hubert Klaassen, Hendrikus Robertus Marie Van Greevenbroek, Heine Melle Mulder, Erik Martijn Greijdanus
  • Device for transforming input in output signals with different voltage ranges
    Patent number: 7872501
    Abstract: Arrangement for accepting an input signal in a first voltage range and producing an output signal in a second voltage range. A transition detection circuit (230) detects a transition from a high level to a low level of the input signal and a control circuit (245) operates a first FET to produce the low level of the output signal. A second FET is operated by the high level of the input signal to output the high level of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Harold Garth Hanson
  • Dialysis machine with servicing indicator
    Patent number: 7873489
    Abstract: A dialysis machine that monitors an elapsed time and a number of accumulated hours during a current servicing interval is disclosed. The machine executes a machine-servicing algorithm on at least the elapsed time and the accumulated operating hours to generate a projected servicing interval duration. A servicing event indicator displays servicing event schedule information based on the projected servicing interval duration. A transfusion pump, similarly equipped, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: B. Braun Medizintechnologie GmbH
    Inventors: Sándor Dolgos, G. Róbert Schin, Stefan Moll
  • Apparatus and method for energy recovery
    Patent number: 7871458
    Abstract: There is provided a heating system for a building comprising; i) a heater; ii) a media flow passage through which a medium heated by the heater passes in order to distribute heat through the building; and iii) a heat recovery apparatus for recovering latent heat of adsorption from a humid gas. The heat recovery apparatus comprises a) a gas flow passage connected at one end to a source of humid gas; b) a desiccant material provided within the gas flow passage such that the humid gas contacts the desiccant material and water vapor is adsorbed releasing latent heat of adsorption; wherein the media flow passage and gas flow passage are in heat exchanging relationship, such that when the desiccant material adsorbs water vapor from the exhaust gas the latent of the adsorption is at least partially transmitted to the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Xsorb Eco Technology B.V.
    Inventor: Ari Antero Minkkinen
  • Accommodating intraocular lenses and associated systems, frames, and methods
    Patent number: 7871437
    Abstract: An intraocular lens for providing accommodative vision to a subject includes a frame disposed about an optical axis, a first optical element, a second optical element, and a connecting element operably coupling the frame to the optical elements. The frame comprises an anterior frame element and a posterior frame element. The connecting element is configured to convert a first displacement between the frame elements in a direction that is substantially parallel to the optical axis into a second displacement between the optical elements that is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis. The second displacement may be translational and/or rotation. In some embodiments, the optical elements are two varifocal lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Erik Ad Hermans, Gerrit Ludolph van der Heijde, Thomas Henricus Marie Terwee
  • Coating composition for offset paper
    Patent number: 7871681
    Abstract: Coating for an offset paper comprising a catalyst for fixing polymerisable or crosslinkable constituents of the offset ink. The chemical drying time can be substantially reduced if such a catalyst system is added to the coating, wherein preferentially such a catalyst is a transition metal complex/salt, like Mn (2-ethylhexanoate, bpy).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: SAPPI Netherlands Services B.V.
    Inventors: Bert Scholte, Jean-Pierre Haenen
  • Exercise device
    Patent number: D631106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mr. Bar-B-Q-, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Zemel
  • Lily plant named ‘Sunny Borneo’
    Patent number: PP21644
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lily plant named ‘Sunny Borneo’, characterized by its compact and upright plant habit; vigorous growth habit; densely-foliated habit; freely flowering habit; upright flower buds; large pink and white-colored flowers; and good postproduction longevity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mak Breeding Rights B.V.
    Inventor: Pieter Cornelis Schenk