Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • Patent number: 8484514
    Abstract: A fault cause estimating system includes: an initial model generating section which creates an initial fault derivation model indicating a derivation among faults and an initial event derivation model indicating a derivation among the faults and events, based on a basic model definition; an extended Baum-Welch calculating section which creates a fault derivation model which is a transition of a combination of device classes and faults and an event derivation model which is a transition of a combination of device classes and events, based on a instance definition, a class definition, the initial fault derivation model, the initial event derivation model and an event sequence for learning; an instance derivation probability calculating section which creates an instance deviation model of a derivation of an occurrence device based on the event sequence for learning; and an extended Viterbi calculating section which estimates an event cause fault based on the instance definition, the fault occurrence location cla
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Tonouchi
  • Patent number: 8479533
    Abstract: An appliance includes a cabinet and a cabinet door and an ice maker. A primary ice bin is disposed in the cabinet door of the appliance. A secondary ice bin is disposed in the cabinet of the appliance. A routing device is disposed inside the cabinet. The routing device includes a stationary base that supports an adjustable ramp. The ramp is operable between a first position that directs ice to the primary ice bin and a second position that directs ice to the secondary ice bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin M. Chase, Tony L. Koenigsknecht, John A. Williams
  • Patent number: 8482814
    Abstract: Provided is a traveling unit driving apparatus where a driving belt of the traveling unit is manufactured with ease, and concurrently therewith, can be coupled reliably to the unit in a state with high durability. A driving belt extended between a pair of pulleys is formed using a belt with ends and teeth, and a belt fixing means is comprised of a first and second engagement portions provided in the traveling unit, a concave recess portion disposed between the portions, and a lock fixing member that is fitted into the concave recess portion. Then, the first and second engagement portions and the concave recess portion are provided with a first and second mount surfaces for bending and supporting the belt opposite end portions, the lock fixing member is fitted into the concave recess portion, and the belt opposite end portions are thereby sandwiched and held in a bent state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirokawa, Shinnosuke Enomoto, Mamoru Dohi
  • Patent number: 8484204
    Abstract: A computing device having a dynamic metadata model includes an interface module, an algorithm module and a registration module. The interface module includes an interface that defines one or more API functions for obtaining metadata using an algorithm. At least one of the API functions is used with a plurality of algorithms. Each of the plurality of algorithms is associated with a business system. The algorithm module includes one or more algorithms that implement the API functions defined in the interface. The one or more algorithms provide metadata without accessing a metadata database. Each of the one or more algorithms is associated with a business system. The metadata is associated with API functions of the business system. The registration module registers the one or more algorithms on the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Arshish C. Kapadia, Tarkan Sevilmis, Mohammed Nazeeruddin, Targo Tennisberg
  • Patent number: 8479845
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to cutting element assemblies including a superabrasive cutting element that may be axially compressed to enhance the damage tolerance thereof, enclosed in an enclosure that exposes the superabrasive cutting element therethrough, enclosed in an enclosure that restricts rotation of the superabrasive cutting element, or combinations of the foregoing. Additionally, some embodiments relate to cutting element assemblies in which a superabrasive cutting element is mechanically fastened to a base, such as a substrate or directly to a bit body of a rotary drill bit. Some embodiments also relate to cutting element assemblies including one or more superabrasive cutting elements that are rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the cutting element assembly, that may be axially compressed to enhance the damage tolerance thereof, that may be enclosed in an enclosure that exposes the superabrasive cutting element therethrough, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: US Synthetic Corporation
    Inventors: Jiang Qian, Debkumar Mukhopadhyay, Jason Wiggins, Kenneth E. Bertagnolli, Shawn C. Scott, Kevin Duy Nguyen, Michael A. Vail
  • Patent number: 8479855
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for a vehicle includes a cooling module connected to the cooling apparatus through a cooling line to cool a driving system. The cooling module includes, according to the amount of heat transfer and operation temperature, an aircon condenser disposed behind of a radiator grill. A radiator for an electromotive device is disposed in parallel under the aircon condenser behind of a bumper hole through which a large amount of outside air is introduced. A radiator for a stack is disposed behind of the aircon condenser, and a radiator for an electromotive device is disposed in parallel. A cooling fan is disposed behind of the radiator for a stack. The cooling apparatus includes an air guide unit mounted in front of the aircon condenser and the radiator for an electromotive device, the air guide unit preventing the bypassing of outside air introduced during operation of a vehicle while distributing and introducing the outside air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Yeon Kim, Wan Je Cho, Su Whan Kim, Man Hee Park
  • Patent number: 8484307
    Abstract: A data processing system enables global shared memory (GSM) operations across multiple nodes with a distributed EA-to-RA mapping of physical memory. Each node has a host fabric interface (HFI), which includes HFI windows that are assigned to at most one locally-executing task of a parallel job. The tasks perform parallel job execution, but map only a portion of the effective addresses (EAs) of the global address space to the local, real memory of the task's respective node. The HFI window tags all outgoing GSM operations (of the local task) with the job ID, and embeds the target node and HFI window IDs of the node at which the EA is memory mapped. The HFI window also enables processing of received GSM operations with valid EAs that are homed to the local real memory of the receiving node, while preventing processing of other received operations without a valid EA-to-RA local mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Ravi K. Arimilli, Robert S. Blackmore, Chulho Kim, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, William J. Starke, Hanhong Xue
  • Patent number: 8484604
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for constructing a clock tree for an integrated circuit design is disclosed, the method comprising: extracting the path delays between the sequential devices in a placed netlist by performing timing analysis on the placed netlist; and constructing a clock tree for driving the sequential devices according to the path delays between the sequential devices so as to make the sum of the products of the timing delay between any two sequential devices and a clock tree branch weight of the two sequential devices minimum, wherein the clock tree branch weight of the two sequential devices is positively correlated with the number of clock tree levels from the branch point of the clock tree relative to the two sequential devices to the two sequential devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guofan Jiang, Yi Fan Lin, Yang Liu, Hao Yang
  • Patent number: 8482329
    Abstract: A high voltage input receiver with hysteresis using low voltage transistors is disclosed. In one embodiment, an input receiver circuit includes a hysteresis comparator circuit, based on a plurality of low voltage transistors, for generating a first output voltage by comparing an external voltage and a reference voltage and a stress protection circuit for preventing the plurality of low voltage transistors of the hysteresis comparator circuit from exceeding their reliability limits. In addition, the reference voltage is used to set a positive trip point and a negative trip point. Moreover, the input receiver circuit includes a source follower circuit for transferring the first output voltage to an output node of the source follower circuit from a voltage level of a VDDIO to a voltage level of a VDD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Vani Deshpande, Anuroop Iyengar, Pramod Elamannu Parameswaran, Pankaj Kumar
  • Patent number: 8483449
    Abstract: There is proposed a registration apparatus, a verification apparatus, and a program capable of improving authentication accuracy and an identification data structure capable of improving reliability. A blood vessel line included in an image is divided into a plurality of partial lines on the basis of end points and a diverging point of the blood vessel line. Coefficients of terms corresponding to degrees included in a polynomial equation for an n-th order curve representing each of the partial lines are extracted. Data including points at both ends of each of the partial lines and the coefficients is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Abdul Muquit, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 8483470
    Abstract: An image area extracting device includes a low-frequency image generating unit for generating a low-frequency image from a radiological image by a frequency filter process lower than a spatial frequency inside an object area, a luminance variation image generating unit for generating a luminance variation image by detecting luminance variations of the low-frequency image, and a boundary selecting unit for selecting boundary pixels located on a boundary of an area of interest based on pixel values of the luminance variation image and the low-frequency image. Influences of noise components or fine structural components inside a patient M are reduced by generating the low-frequency image, which facilitates recognition of a contour shape of the patient M. The boundary pixels are selected based on the low-frequency image and the luminance variation image generated from the low-frequency image. This assures highly accurate and stable area extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohno
  • Patent number: 8483148
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting a TFC in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The WTRU estimates a transmit power for each of a plurality of available transport format combinations (TFCs). A TFC is selected for an uplink dedicated channel and a TFC is selected for an enhanced uplink (EU) channel. The TFC for the dedicated channel is selected first and independently of the TFC selection of the EU channel. The TFC for the EU channel is selected within a remaining WTRU transmit power after the TFC selection for the dedicated channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 8483466
    Abstract: Plural blood vessels different in blood flow velocity are depicted with high image quality in blood vessel imaging using PC-MRA method. For this purpose, the present invention performs a measurement of an echo signal based on application of a positive-polarity flow encode pulse and a measurement of an echo signal based on application of a negative-polarity flow encode pulse on an examinee with each of plural phase encodes while varying the flow encode, and a blood vessel image of the examinee is reconstructed by using the plural echo signals having different flow encode absolute values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Abe, Tetsuhiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8484747
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product and a data processing system for managing electronic messages is disclosed. The contents of an electronic messages are segmented based on the recipients receiving the message and access control authorizing access to the segmented contents is provided to the segmented contents and transmitted to a list of recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manish Anand Bhide, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Mukesh Kumar Mohania
  • Patent number: 8480216
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a pressure control unit provided in a liquid flow path so as to control pressure. The pressure control unit includes a liquid introduction unit, a liquid chamber having a diaphragm, a communication hole that allows communication between the liquid introduction unit and the liquid chamber, a movable member including an opposing surface disposed on the side of the liquid chamber so as to oppose the communication hole, the movable member being disposed so as to move in response to the displacement of the diaphragm unit, and a displacement member that displaces the opposing surface between a first posture of opposing the communication hole and a second posture in which the opposing surface is tilted with respect to the communication hole in an angle different from the first posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Hitotoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 8479557
    Abstract: A shock simulation test apparatus and method utilize a test plate and formed explosive charges to sever or penetrate one or more portions of a suspended test plate in order to subject any attached test item(s) to a realistic pyroshock stimulus. One or more shock measurement sensors, such as accelerometers, may be attached to the test plate or the test item(s) to measure the response to this shock stimulus. The apparatus and method is flexible in that many different scenarios can be simulated from different test plate materials, charge sizes and types. This method replicates actual end-use source shock environments typical in aerospace applications, but can be extended to any industry having a pyroshock environment and test requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Orbital Sciences Corporation
    Inventors: Esteen Bottlinger, Jr., Patrick Grosserode, Krzysztof Zbigniew Pennar, Gary Ronald Burnside
  • Patent number: 8481993
    Abstract: A semiconductor composite film includes a semiconductor thin film layer containing an organic semiconductor material, an insulating thin film layer formed from a polymer material phase-separated from the organic semiconductor material in the film thickness direction, and a fine particle material dispersed in at least one of the semiconductor thin film layer and the insulating thin film layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kawashima, Takahiro Ohe
  • Patent number: 8483020
    Abstract: A path mechanism and an information processing device having the path mechanism can guide disc media to a predetermined position without the data recording area of the disc being affected. The path mechanism has a stacker tray 101 that forms a guide path 130 through which media M having an annular data recording area can move by sliding. The stacker tray 101 has a pair of guide surfaces 125c and 126c that support an outside circumference part of the media M slidably in the direction of media M travel. The guide surfaces 125c and 126c are formed to a width W that is less than the width A of the non-data-recording area Y rendered on the outside circumference side of the annular data recording area on the data recording surface of the media M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Nishioka, Koji Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8483263
    Abstract: A receiver circuit includes an equalizer circuit that adjusts reception intensity of an input signal based on an intensity adjustment value to generate a correction input signal; a first holding unit that holds a plurality of data items sampled based on a sampling clock for sampling values of the data items transmitted by the correction input signal in a receiving order; a second holding unit that holds a plurality of values of the correction input signal sampled based on a complementary sampling clock for sampling a boundary value of the data items in a receiving order; and an equalizer control circuit that judges the strength of reception intensity of the correction input signal based on a plurality of output signals of the first holding unit and a plurality of output signals of the second holding unit to update the intensity adjustment value based on the judgment result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yasushi Aoki
  • Patent number: 8483467
    Abstract: Extracting a lung field area and a branch structure area from a three-dimensional medical image, dividing a branch structure local area representing a portion of the branch structure area into a plurality of branch structure local sub-areas and estimating a lung field local sub-area in the lung field area functionally associated with each divided branch structure local sub-area based on the branch structure area, obtaining a pulmonary evaluation value in each estimated lung field local sub-area, and displaying, in a morphological image representing morphology of at least a portion of the branch structure local area, the pulmonary evaluation value in each lung field local sub-area functionally associated with each branch structure local sub-area in the morphological image superimposed such that correspondence relationship between the pulmonary evaluation value and the branch structure local sub-area in the morphological image is visually recognizable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Mizuno