Patents Assigned to E
  • Transmission with pinion for reduced backlash
    Patent number: 9903460
    Abstract: A transmission can include a first gear, a shaft, a second gear, a third gear and a first biasing member. The first gear can be disposed about a first rotational axis. The shaft can be disposed about a second rotational axis. The second gear can be fixedly coupled to the shaft and can be configured to meshingly engage the first gear. The third gear can be non-rotatably coupled to the shaft. The third gear can be axially slidable along the shaft and can be configured to meshingly engage the first gear. The first biasing member can bias the third gear axially away from the second gear and into engagement with the first gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: e-AAM Driveline Systems AB
    Inventors: Gabriel Trönnberg, Thomas Bengtsson
  • DGAT genes from yarrowia lipolytica for increased seed storage lipid production and altered fatty acid profiles in soybean
    Patent number: 9902967
    Abstract: Transgenic soybean seed having increased total fatty acid content of at least 10% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of non-transgenic, null segregant soybean seed are described. DGAT genes from Yarrowia Lipolytica are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Howard Glenn Damude, William D Hitz, Knut Meyer, Narendra S Yadav
  • Polymorphisms in ABCB1 associated with a lack of clinical response to medicaments
    Patent number: 9901582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, compositions, kits and reagents for determining the prognosis of a clinical response in a human patient to a medicament which acts in the central nervous system (CNS) and which is a substrate of the ABCB1 protein. Further, the invention relates to a combination of medicaments for the treatment of human patients having specific polymorphisms in the ABCB1 gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
    Inventors: Manfred Uhr, Florian Holsboer, Bertram Müller-Myhsok
  • Membrane separation process and membrane plant for energy-efficient production of oxygen
    Patent number: 9901866
    Abstract: The invention relates to a membrane separation process for energy-efficient generation of oxygen from fresh air. In the process, mixed conducting membranes in vacuum operation are used, the fresh air is discharged as waste air after separation of the oxygen, at least 85% of the thermal energy required for heating the fresh air is acquired by utilizing the waste heat of the waste air and/or of the obtained oxygen, the rest of the heating of the fresh air being realized through external energy supply, and a ratio of fresh air to generated oxygen in normal operation is adjusted to a range of from 6:1 to 25:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V.
    Inventor: Ralf Kriegel
  • Device having preformed triple junctions to maintain electrode conductivity and a method for making and using the device
    Patent number: 9903016
    Abstract: In systems where insulating deposits form during normal operation, electrodes are configured with a preformed dielectric thereon, wherein the preformed dielectric is formed with a geometric feature that preforms a triple junction. These triple junctions enhance low level discharge activity to facilitate localized breakdown of the deposits and maintain electrode conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: E/G Electro-Graph, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Vella
  • Production of and drying of copolymer fibers
    Patent number: 9903051
    Abstract: The present invention concerns processes for reducing water in never-dried fiber comprising copolymer derived from the copolymerization of para-phenylenediamine, 5(6)-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl)benzimidazole; and terephthaloyl dichloride, the process having the following steps in a continuous process, (a) a step of drying a never-dried fiber at less than 100 C until the moisture content of the fiber is less than 60 weight percent; and (b) a step of further drying the fiber above 150° C. while the moisture content of the fiber is no more than 40 weight percent; and the fiber being further heated to at least 350° C. in either an additional continuous or separate step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven R. Allen, Christopher William Newton
  • System controlled by data bearing records
    Patent number: 9904829
    Abstract: A system controlled responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records is operative to cause vehicle repair parts to be determined and furnished. Data read by a reader from a tag associated with a damaged vehicle is used to determine vehicle identifying data. A repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC) operates responsive to the read data to produce a needed parts record (NPR). The records produced by the RECC are operative to cause a vehicle repair entity (VRE) to be furnished the vehicle repair parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: O E CONNECTION LLC
    Inventors: Igor Bondarenko, Scott Morman, Mike Folk, Guillermo Lopez, Sarah Truman, Katherine Golden
  • Advertisement management system for digital video streams
    Patent number: 9906819
    Abstract: An Ad Management System (AMS) for managing sales and insertion of targeted advertisements into advertising opportunities (“avails”). The AMS provides advertisers an ability to describe their advertisements (ad characteristics) in terms of target market demographics, required ad bandwidth, ad duration, and other ad specific parameters. The AMS receives the ad characteristics and matches the ads to the avails. The AMS tracks different avails including duration and bandwidth of the avail, and uses a number of schemes to determine if the ad can be placed in the avail including comparing bandwidth requirements. The AMS targets advertisements by correlating subscriber characteristics to the ad characteristics. The subscriber characteristics may be associated with groups of subscribers (e.g. nodes in cable television environments) or to individual subscribers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: PRIME RESEARCH ALLIANCE E, INC.
    Inventors: Charles A. Eldering, Gregory C. Flickinger, Jeffrey S. Hamilton
  • Reflective display device
    Patent number: 9904141
    Abstract: A reflective display device includes an electrophoretic display (EPD) module, a supporting member, a first anti-reflective layer, and a color filter (CFA) layer. The EPD module includes an array substrate, a protective layer, and an electronic ink (e-ink) layer. The e-ink layer is between the array substrate and the protective layer. The supporting member has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first anti-reflective layer is located on the first surface of the supporting member and in contact with the supporting member. The thickness of the first anti-reflective layer is ¼ wavelength of a visible light. The CFA layer is between the protective layer and the second surface of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Yuan Lo, Wei-Chen Tsai
  • Aircraft water heating tank air vent valve
    Patent number: 9903503
    Abstract: An aircraft water heating tank air vent valve includes an air vent valve housing having an upper vent valve body and a lower valve adapter sealingly mated together to define an interior chamber. A tubular collar is disposed within the interior chamber between an upper planar valve seat member and a lower notched valve seat member, and a ball float is movable within the tubular collar between first and second positions seated on the upper planar valve seat member or the lower notched valve seat member, respectively. The lower notched valve seat member includes oblique notches and frustoconical projections providing upper shoulders upon which the tubular collar is positioned, and providing outwardly flaring radially inner oblique edges upon which the ball float can be seated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke E. Kelly, Stuart A. Dietz
  • Telescopic ladder for firefighting vehicle
    Patent number: 9896884
    Abstract: An telescopic ladder for a vehicle. The telescopic ladder comprises a first ladder section and a second ladder section, with each ladder section comprising a front portion and a rear portion and each including opposing sides extending from the front portion to the rear portion. The second ladder section is configured to telescopically extend from the first ladder section. The telescopic ladder further includes an extension support for facilitating the extension of the second ladder section from the first ladder section. The extension support includes at least one front roller assembly positioned adjacent to a front portion of the first ladder section, at least one pair of side roller assemblies positioned on the sides of the first ladder section, and at least one pair of cam-follower assemblies positioned on the sides of the second ladder section adjacent to the rear portion of the second ladder section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: E-One, Inc.
    Inventors: James Salmi, Oliver Bruhn
  • Wearable light assembly and method for controlling same
    Patent number: 9897299
    Abstract: A wearable light assembly includes an opaque housing that is open towards the ground and is configured to reflect light emitted from a first light source downward onto a first location that is close to the wearer and reflect light from a second light source downward onto a second location on the ground that is farther away from the wearer than the first location. In an embodiment, the wearable light assembly senses motion of the wearer and switches between the first light source and the second light source depending on whether the wearer is moving slowly (in which case it activates the first light source) or moving quickly (in which case it activates the second light source).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Dunn, Eric Johannessen
  • Co-registration—simultaneous alignment and modeling of articulated 3D shapes
    Patent number: 9898848
    Abstract: Present application refers to a method, a model generation unit and a computer program (product) for generating trained models (M) of moving persons, based on physically measured person scan data (S). The approach is based on a common template (T) for the respective person and on the measured person scan data (S) in different shapes and different poses. Scan data are measured with a 3D laser scanner. A generic personal model is used for co-registering a set of person scan data (S) aligning the template (T) to the set of person scans (S) while simultaneously training the generic personal model to become a trained person model (M) by constraining the generic person model to be scan-specific, person-specific and pose-specific and providing the trained model (M), based on the co registering of the measured object scan data (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
    Inventors: Michael Black, David L. Hirshberg, Matthew Loper, Eric Rachlin, Alex Weiss
  • Apparatus and method for bonding substrates including changing a stoichiometry of oxide layers formed on the substrates
    Patent number: 9899223
    Abstract: A device and method for producing an electrically conductive direct bond between a bonding side of a first substrate and a bonding side of a second substrate with the following features: a workspace that can be closed, gas-tight, against the environment and can be supplied with a vacuum, the workspace comprises: a) at least one plasma chamber for modifying at least one of the bonding sides and at least one bonding chamber for bonding the bonding sides, and/or b) at least one combined bonding/plasma chamber for modifying at least one of the bonding sides and for bonding the bonding sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Wimplinger, Viorel Dragoi, Christoph Flotgen
  • Moulding machine for production of pasta-filata cheese sticks
    Patent number: 9894919
    Abstract: A molding unit comprises a chamber supplied with pasta-filata and having outlets A mold has two rows of channels opening on a first surface of the mold facing downwards and arranged adjacent to the outlets. Driving elements drive the mold with reciprocating motion between a first position and a second position. A consolidation tub is arranged below the molding unit. A first chute and a second chute are arranged between the molding unit and the consolidation tub. Each chute has an inlet end substantially parallel to the plane defined by the axes of the channels, and an outlet end slanting with respect to the horizontal plane by a delivery angle in the range 0° to 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: CMT COSTRUZIONI MECCANICHE E TECNOLOGIA SPA
    Inventor: Stefano Tomatis
  • Optical module, display device containing the same and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9897745
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical module. The optical module includes a light guide plate and a decorative layer. The light guide plate includes at least one light-entering inclined surface, a first light-emitting inclined surface adjacent to the light-entering inclined surface and a second light-emitting inclined surface opposite to the first light-emitting inclined surface. The decorative layer is covered the second light-emitting inclined surface of the light guide plate by an injection molding process. A display device containing the optical module and a method for manufacturing the optical module are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: I-Jeng Chen, Sheng-Chieh Tai
  • Multi-layered electrophoretic displays
    Patent number: 9897891
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for forming a composite electrophoretic display comprised of multiple, stacked electrophoretic displays are described. The individual electrophoretic displays that form the composite display may be driven separately using different driving signals. The electrical connections for the individual displays may be configured to minimize the impact of the electrical connections on the overall aesthetic of the composite display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: George G. Harris, Olga Vladimirovna Barykina-Tassa, Brandon MacDonald
  • Resin composition, layered product, multilayer printed wiring board, multilayer flexible wiring board and manufacturing method of the same
    Patent number: 9896546
    Abstract: A resin composition containing (A) a polyimide having acidic functional groups and (B) a compound having functional groups that react with the acidic functional groups, where (a) a solution rate in 3 mass % aqueous sodium hydroxide at 45° C. is 0.95 or more after a heat history of 90° C. for 10 minutes with the solution rate before the heat history assumed to be 1, (b) the solution rate in 3 mass % aqueous sodium hydroxide at 45° C. ranges from 0.001 ?m/sec to 0.02 ?m/sec after the heat history of 180° C. for 60 minutes, (c) a bleed-out amount is 50 mg/m2 or less in storing at 40° C. for 2 weeks after the heat history of 180° C. for 60 minutes, and (d) a thermogravimetric decrease at 260° C. is 2.0% or less in measuring on a temperature rising condition of 10° C./min from 40° C. by thermogravimetric analysis (TG).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI E-MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Shimoda, Yasuhito Iizuka, Masaki Yamamoto, Yoro Sasaki, Hiroaki Adachi, Shuji Kashiwagi
  • COMPOUND COMPOSITION FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR MATERIAL USING NATURAL FIBER
    Publication number: 20180044512
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound composition for a vehicle interior material using a natural fiber, which has use for enhancing physical properties, such as shock resistance, tensile strength, flexural strength, elongation, flexural modulus of elasticity, and heat deflection temperature, while realizing a reduction in weight of a vehicle. The compound composition is composed of a base resin obtained by mixing a high-fluidity polypropylene resin and a high-impact polypropylene resin, the base resin being a thermoplastic resin, a reinforcing filler that is a lightweight, eco-friendly, and low-density natural fiber, an impact modifier that is ethylene-propylene-octene rubber, an inorganic filler that functions as a nuclear agent, and a maleic-anhydride compatibilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicants: SEOYON E-HWA CO., LTD., HANYANG ADVENCED MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHEOL WOO KIM, DEUK KI JOO, KI WOONG LEE
  • Bracket for brake caliper cover
    Publication number: 20180045257
    Abstract: Disclosed is a caliper cover and associated bracket. The bracket includes a surface configuration that guides the bracket along the caliper and/or that applies an elastic force against the caliper for more stable assembly. The bracket also includes an engagement structure with an engagement tab that couples the bracket to the caliper, and an opening for allowing a bolt or other fastener to fasten the caliper cover to the bracket and caliper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: E&G Corporation, LLc
    Inventor: Lynn Eash