Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • Film-forming material, group IV metal oxide film and vinylenediamide complex
    Patent number: 9371452
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a Group IV metal oxide film useful as a semiconductor element or an optical element at a low temperature. The present invention relates to a method for producing a Group IV metal oxide film, comprising coating a surface of a substrate with a film-forming material dissolved in an organic solvent, and subjecting the substrate to a heat treatment, an ultraviolet irradiation treatment, or both of these treatments, wherein a film-forming material obtained by reacting a vinylenediamide complex having a specific structure with an oxidizing agent such as oxygen gas, air, ozone, water and hydrogen peroxide is used as the film-forming material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: TOSOH CORPORATION, Sagami Chemical Research Institute
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Kohei Iwanaga, Sachio Asano, Takahiro Kawabata, Noriaki Oshima, Satori Hirai, Yoshinori Harada, Kazuyoshi Arai, Ken-ichi Tada
  • Electric discharge machine and electric discharge machining method
    Patent number: 9370836
    Abstract: An electric discharge machine performs a hole machining on a workpiece by applying a voltage between an electrode and the workpiece to generate an electric discharge therebetween and moving the electrode to a position of a command depth. The electric discharge machine comprises: a storage unit; a current-coordinate detection unit; an electric-discharge-voltage detection unit a penetration detection unit; and a calculation unit. The storage unit stores therein a penetration determination voltage, a penetration determining duration, and a first projecting amount. The current-coordinate detection unit detects a current position of the electrode. The electric-discharge-voltage detection unit detects a minimum voltage of the electric discharge for each predetermined period. The penetration detection unit determines the electrode has penetrated through the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Asai, Masahiro Okane, Hidetaka Katougi
  • Wirebonding fixture and casting mold
    Patent number: 9370337
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves a method and apparatus for attaching two electrical dies by wire bonding and then encasing the assembly in a protective casting that works by arranging two dies into a fixture conducive to wire bonding. Doped epoxy may be immediately dispensed over the assembly to form a near-net-shape protective cover, or Drive Can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Volcano Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Reiter
  • Circuit layout method and circuit layout apparatus
    Patent number: 9372950
    Abstract: A circuit layout method and a circuit layout apparatus are disclosed. The circuit layout apparatus comprises a display apparatus, an input device, a stack up database and a processor. The display apparatus shows a system interface. The input device inputs a user request in response to the system interface. The processor selects a stack up data table, corresponding to the user request, from the stack up database, and generates a design rule of a computer aided design (CAD) according to the stack up data table. The processor checks whether a circuit board design complies with the design rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xian-Feng Mai, Zheng-Wei Wu, Hsiao-Ming Wang
  • Method for treating surface of diamond thin film, method for forming transistor, and sensor device
    Patent number: 9373506
    Abstract: A method for treating a surface of a diamond thin film according to one aspect of the present invention performs one of a first substitution process for substituting part of hydrogen-terminals of a diamond thin film with fluorine-terminals in the absence of a fluorocarbon deposition on the surface of diamond thin film and a second substitution process for substituting part of hydrogen-terminals of a diamond thin film with fluorine-terminals in the presence of the fluorocarbon deposition on the surface of diamond thin film based on required surface properties of the diamond thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION, WASEDA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shintani, Toshiyuki Saruya, Hiroshi Kawarada
  • Polymorphic forms of 3-(4-amino-1-oxo-1,3 dihydro-isoindol-2-yl)-piperidine-2,6-dione
    Patent number: 9371309
    Abstract: Polymorphic forms of 3-(4-amino-1-oxo-1,3 dihydro-isoindol-2-yl)-piperidine-2,6-dione are disclosed. Compositions comprising the polymorphic forms, methods of making the polymorphic forms and methods of their use are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Celgene Corporation
    Inventors: Markian S. Jaworsky, Roger Shen-Chu Chen, George W. Muller
  • Wavelength variable interference filter, manufacturing method of wavelength variable interference filter, optical filter device, optical module, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 9372337
    Abstract: A movable substrate of a wavelength variable interference filter includes a movable portion and a groove which is provided outside of the movable portion, in a plan view when the movable substrate is seen from a substrate thickness direction, the groove includes a bottom surface having an even groove depth dimension and a side surface which is continued to the bottom surface, and the side surface is configured with arc-like first curved surface portion and second curved surface portion, in a cross-sectional view when the movable substrate is cut along the substrate thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuji Arakawa
  • Connectors
    Patent number: 9373909
    Abstract: A connector includes a receptacle having a body defining apertures and having a mating face and socket contacts each defining an opening aligned with an aperture. The connector also includes a plug having an outer casing defining a cavity and having a mating end and contacts positioned within the cavity and coupled to the outer casing, each having a pin tip. The plug also includes a pin protection plate slidably coupled to the outer casing, enclosing at least a portion of each contact within the cavity, and defining pin guides each aligned with one of the contacts. When the mating end is aligned with the mating face and force is applied to the outer casing towards the body, the pin protection plate slides into the cavity and the pin tip of the contacts extends beyond the pin protection plate into a socket contact via one of the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: Hypertronics Corporation, Interconnect Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Salomon, Francesco A. Nania, Timothy E. Marshall, Donald A. Marx
  • Conferencing device self test
    Patent number: 9374652
    Abstract: A plurality of acoustic sensors in a non-anechoic environment are calibrated with the aim of removing manufacturing tolerances and degradation over time but preserving position-dependent differences between the sensors, The sensors are excited by an acoustic stimulus which has either time-dependent characteristics or finite duration. The calibration is to be based on diffuse-field excitation only, in which indirect propagation (including single or multiple reflections) dominate over any direct-path excitation. For this purpose, the calibration process considers only a non-initial portion of sensor outputs and/or of an impulse response derived there-from. Based on these data, a frequency-dependent magnitude response function is estimated and compared with a target response function, from which a calibration function is derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy J. Neal, Glenn N. Dickins
  • AC LED lamps and control methods thereof
    Patent number: 9374863
    Abstract: A LED lamp has LED groups, a path controller, a power bank, and a bank controller. The LED groups are arranged in series between a rectified input voltage and a ground voltage. The path controller controls path switches, each path switch for coupling a corresponding LED group to the ground voltage. The power bank is coupled between the rectified input voltage and the ground voltage, having a capacitor and a discharge switch. The capacitor is configured to be charged when the rectified input voltage exceeds a capacitor voltage of the capacitor. The discharge switch is connected between the capacitor and the rectified input voltage. The bank controller determines a connection period and controls the discharge switch in response to a signal turning ON one of path switches, in order to make the capacitor capable of being discharged to the rectified input voltage during the connection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Analog Integrations Corporation
    Inventor: Jing-Chyi Wang
  • Methods and arrangements for direct current estimation of a wireless communication packet
    Patent number: 9374197
    Abstract: Logic for direct current (DC) estimation of a wireless communication packet. Logic may determine a first DC estimation based upon a first set of sequences in a preamble of the wireless communication packet. Logic may determine a second DC estimation based upon a second set of sequences in the preamble. Logic may select one of the DC estimations based upon a frequency-offset estimation. Logic may remove one of the DC estimations from the packet. Logic to null DC bins that result from a Fourier transform of the packet to mitigate transmitter DC bias. And logic to determine a correction for the packet based upon a difference between a predetermined guard interval value and a received guard interval value and to apply the correction to the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Moshe Teplitsky, Michael Genossar, Elan Banin
  • Rapidly deployable surgical heart valves
    Patent number: 9370418
    Abstract: A quick-connect heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The heart valve includes a substantially non-expandable, non-compressible prosthetic valve and a plastically-expandable stent frame, thereby enabling attachment to the annulus without sutures. The prosthetic valve may be a commercially available valve with a sewing ring and the stent frame attached thereto. The stent frame may expand from a conical deployment shape to a conical expanded shape, and may have a cloth covering its entirety as well as a plush sealing flange around its periphery to prevent paravalvular leaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Rafael Pintor, Michael J. Scott, Qinggang Zeng, Grace Myong Kim, Visith Chung, Louis A. Campbell, David S. Lin, Peng Norasing, Edwin T. Ta
  • Non-disruptive code update of a single processor in a multi-processor computing system
    Patent number: 9372702
    Abstract: Updating code of a single processor in a multi-processor system includes commencing of a self-reset of a first processor if a bit is found in a first state, and interrupts associated with the first processor are disabled. Only those system resources exclusively associated with the first processor are reset, and memory transactions associated with the first processor are disabled. An image of the new code is copied into memory associated with the first processor, registers associated with the first processor are reset and the new code is booted by the first processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen L. Blinick, Chiahong Chen
  • Dynamic tracing framework for debugging in virtualized environments
    Patent number: 9372782
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for a dynamic tracing framework for debugging in a virtualized environment. Embodiment of the present invention can include selecting a home node and a set of remote nodes to which apply a set of probes. Data collection is performed by a tracing agent of each node and the collection of data is shared across multiple software systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kavana N. Bhat, Shajith Chandran, Prateek Goel, Sivakumar Krishnasamy
  • Wearable electronic apparatus, data analyzer, and travel record control method
    Patent number: 9372096
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus refers to location measurement information measured in the past at each time when the latest location measurement information is output from a location measurement module with a predetermined measurement period, if measurement accuracy is good and it is regarded that a direction change has been made, determines the latest location measurement information as saving “necessary” and stores the information. If the measurement accuracy is no good or it is regarded that a positioning point shown by the latest location measurement information is an intermediate point during linear traveling, the latest location measurement information is not saved. Therefore, a data size to be saved is made smaller than that in related art and draining of a battery taken for writing of data is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Maezawa, Junichi Otsuka, Kazunori Shimoda
  • Curing compositions having low-free amounts of methylenedianiline
    Patent number: 9371409
    Abstract: A process for preparing a curing composition of a coordination complex comprising methylenedianiline (MDA) and a salt, and less than 1000 of free MDA. The curing composition may be used in curing polyurethanes and epoxy resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Chemtura Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas R. Doyle, Ronald O. Rosenberg
  • Micrometer
    Patent number: 9372059
    Abstract: A micrometer with good usability is provided. A micrometer has a frame with an anvil at one end and a spindle at another end, the spindle moving closer to or further away from the anvil. The frame is covered with a heat shield cover. The heat shield cover has a first anti-slip part. The first anti-slip part preferably has a plurality of protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Asano, Sadayuki Matsumiya, Shigeru Ohtani, Atsuya Niwano, Shozaburo Tsuji
  • Program subset execution and debug
    Patent number: 9372781
    Abstract: In response to identification of an error in operation of a system, a debugging module determines where to set a debug entry point for a program subset debug session. An initial file state is captured for at least one file accessed by the system in response to initiation of a subsequent execution of the system. Prior to detection of execution of the system at the debug entry point, any file inputs and file outputs (I/Os) detected during the subsequent execution of the system are queued. Debug entry point metadata, including the captured initial at least one file state, the queued file I/Os, and an image of all instantiated objects at the debug entry point, is stored in response to detection of execution of the system at the debug entry point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard A. Brunkhorst, Joel Duquene, David S. Myers
  • CAPTCHA challenge incorporating obfuscated characters
    Patent number: 9372974
    Abstract: A method for determining if a user of a computer system is a human. A processor receives an indication that a computer security program is needed and acquires at least one image depicting a first string of characters including at least a first and second set of one or more characters. A processor assigns a substitute character to be used as input for each of the second set of one or more characters. A processor presents the at least one image and an indication of the substitute character and when to use the substitute character to the user. A processor receives a second string of characters from the user. A processor determines whether the second string of characters substantially matches the first string of characters based on the substitute character assigned to each of the second set of one or more characters and determines whether the user is a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Brown, Carlos F. Franca da Fonseca, Neil I. Readshaw
  • Topload washing appliance
    Patent number: D759912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Seth E. Bixby, Richard K. Gresens, John W. McConnell, Patrick J. Schiavone, Samuel B. Breneman