Patents Assigned to E
  • Multi-branch stimulation electrode for subcutaneous field stimulation
    Patent number: 9433779
    Abstract: A multi-branch stimulation electrode is disclosed herein. The multi-branch stimulation electrode can include a plurality of branches that extend from a hub. The branches can each include one or several stimulation contacts that can deliver an electrical current to tissue contacting the stimulation contacts. The stimulation contacts can be electrically connected with the lead. The lead can extend from the hub and can be connected with the pulse generator. The branches can include features to facilitate implantation including, for example, one or several removable stiffening elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
    Inventors: Brian M. Shelton, Morten Hansen
  • Visualization device
    Patent number: 9433140
    Abstract: A device for visualizing control operations of an agricultural working machine includes a visualization device that visualizes at least one driving path to be traveled is assigned to the agricultural working machine. Control operations are stored in graphic images and the graphic images are displayed in the visualization device along the driving path to be traveled in the order in which they are carried out, to maintain an operator in an informed state with respect to the control processes that are taking place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Lars Peter Meyer Zu Helligen, Kalle Weiland
  • METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND OF SCENERY AND ALSO METHOD FOR REPLACING A BACKGROUND IN IMAGES OF A SCENERY
    Publication number: 20160255283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for differentiating between background and foreground in images or films of scenery recorded by an electronic camera. The invention relates in addition to a method for replacing the background in recorded images or films of scenery whilst maintaining the foreground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Vonolfen, Rainer Wollsiefen
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING UNIFORM FILMS ON MOVING SUBSTRATES AND FILMS PRODUCED IN THIS WAY
    Publication number: 20160254127
    Abstract: The invention relates to the deposition of optical precision films with high uniformity, precision, particle freedom and low absorption on the substrate. For this purpose, a method and a device are proposed. The approach is the use of target materials and also possibly of surfaces in the sputtering field. Particularly high uniformity and also particularly low residual absorption are achieved with these materials. The invention is suitable for the production of optical thin-film filters, as are used for example in laser material machining, laser components, optical sensors for measuring technology, or in medical diagnostics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Michael VERGÖHL, Daniel RADEMACHER, Tobias ZICKENROTT
  • Laminated Separator, Polyolefin Microporous Membrane, and Separator for Electricity Storage Device
    Publication number: 20160254513
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated separator including a first polyolefin microporous layer and a second polyolefin microporous layer which is laminated on the first polyolefin microporous layer and which is different from the first polyolefin microporous layer, wherein at least one of the first microporous layer and the second microporous layer includes an inorganic particle having a primary particle size of 1 nm or more and 80 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei E-materials Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ohashi, Keitaro Ameyama, Yuzuru Sakakibara
  • ANALOG TO INFORMATION CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20160252552
    Abstract: A method of identifying a spectrum and extracting features thereof for RF signals in an ultra-wide bandwidth comprising the steps of (a) obtaining said RF signal to be analyzed; (b) high-pass filtering said obtained signal; (c) digitizing said high filtered signal; and (d) analyzing said digitized signal. The method further comprises a step of spectrum compressing (SC) including splitting said high pass filtered signal into two channels and Phase true-time delay modulating (shifting) said signal within one of said channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicants: E.I.M. DISTRIBUTION LTD.
    Inventors: Roman RABINOVICH, Boris OKLANDER, Asaf ZVIRAN
  • SUPPORT FOR ELECTRONIC POWER COMPONENTS, POWER MODULE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SUPPORT, AND CORRESPONDING PRODUCTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20160254210
    Abstract: This substrate for power electronic components comprises a colaminated multilayer composite material containing at least one internal layer (8) made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient chosen depending on the expansion coefficient of said components, and external layers (6, 7) made of a thermally conductive material covering on either side said internal layer and connected together by wells (P) made of a thermally conductive material, said wells being arranged in the internal layer. Each interior layer forms an insert localized in a zone for mounting the components so that the external layers extend laterally beyond the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicants: GRISET, LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE METROLOGIE ET D'ESSAIS, Association pour la recherche et le developpment des methodes et processus industriels (A.R.M.I.N.E
    Inventors: Jonathan Idrac, Abderrahmen Kaabi, Yves Bienvenu, Bertrand Pierre
  • A SOYBEAN U6 POLYMERASE III PROMOTER AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20160251667
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean U6 polymerase III gene and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, mutated plants, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Saverio Carl Falco, Zhongsen Li, Zhan-Bin Liu, Joshua K. Young
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING SOUND FIELD DATA OF AN AREA
    Publication number: 20160255452
    Abstract: An apparatus for compressing sound field data of an area includes a divider for dividing the sound field data into a first portion and into a second portion, and a converter for converting the first portion and the second portion into harmonic components, wherein the converter is configured to convert the second portion into one or several harmonic components of a second order, and to convert the first portion into harmonic components of a first order, wherein the first order is higher than the second order, to obtain the compressed sound field data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicants: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Technische Universitaet IImenau
    Inventors: Johannes Nowak, Christoph Sladeczek
  • Process for vapor emission control
    Patent number: 9427693
    Abstract: A vapor emission control system for recovering hydrocarbon vapors displaced as vessels are loading consisting of two stages of carbon adsorption vapor recovery units. The first stage with two or more parallel carbon beds recovers the heavier C4-C6+ hydrocarbons on a first carbon bed which are then removed as a gas via vacuum and then converted into a liquid product via a vapor-to-liquid conversion unit. Lighter C2-C3 hydrocarbon vapor discharged from the first stage is recovered on two or more parallel carbon beds of the second stage. The vapor is then removed via vacuum as a concentrated gas for use as fuel or sent to a flare. The hydrocarbon lean first portion of the off-gas from each vacuum desorption is recycled to the other in-parallel carbon bed. The load and regeneration cycles alternate for the two carbon beds in each of the two stages based on an optimized time cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: H.E.R.O., Inc.
    Inventor: Joel Hill
  • Time warp activation signal provider, audio signal encoder, method for providing a time warp activation signal, method for encoding an audio signal and computer programs
    Patent number: 9431026
    Abstract: An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Bayer, Sascha Disch, Ralf Geiger, Guillaume Fuchs, Max Neuendorf, Gerald Schuller, Bernd Edler
  • Perylenemonoimide and naphthalenemonoimide derivatives and their use in dye-sensitized solar cells
    Patent number: 9428518
    Abstract: A sensitizer in a dye-sensitized solar cell, including a compound of formula (I?) where: R1 and R2 are hydrogen, a halogen, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, a hetaryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an arylthio group, a hetaryloxy group, a hetarylthio group, a diarylamino group, or a dialkylamino group; m, n are each independently an integer from 0-4; X is sulfur, oxygen, or NR3, where R3 is hydrogen, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or a hetaryl group; Y1 is oxygen or N—Z-A, where A is —COOM, —SO3M, or —PO3M, where M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation, or [NR?]4+, where each R? is independently hydrogen or an alkyl group, and where Z is C1-C6-alkylene or 1,4-phenylene, where the phenylene radical is optionally substituted by one or more alkyl, nitro, cyano, and halogen substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: BASF SE, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Henrike Wonneberger, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Ingmar Bruder, Robert Send, Yulian Zagranyarski, Chen Li, Klaus Muellen, Long Chen, Artem Nikolaevich Skabeev
  • Device for transmitting or decoupling mechanical vibrations
    Patent number: 9429210
    Abstract: A device for transmitting or decoupling mechanical vibrations between a first component and a second component with at least one of the first and the second components being free to vibrate in the at least one direction including: a planar coupling element, coupling the first and second components together, having a planar top surface and a planar bottom surface, and having a variably adjustable stiffness extending in the at least one direction; the planar coupling element, having planar dimensions with the planar coupling element being dimensionally stable along the planar dimensions and being elastic in a direction perpendicular to the planar surfaces; the first and second components are rotatable relative to each other about an axis extending in the direction perpendicular to the planar surfaces and in which at least one of the components is free to vibrate for adjusting the stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: William Kaal, Tobias Melz, Björn Seipel, Roman Kraus, Jan Hansmann
  • Galactose-rich polysaccharide, process for the production of the polymer and its applications
    Patent number: 9428591
    Abstract: This invention concerns a biopolymer consisting of a polysaccharide composed of galactose (50-90%), glucose (1-25%), mannose (1-25%) and rhamnose (0.5-20%), which may additionally contain, in trace amounts, xylose, fucose, ribose, arabinose and/or fructose. The galactose-rich polymer also contains non-saccharide components, namely, acyl groups. This invention also concerns a process for the production of the galactose-rich polymer, by microbial fermentation using glycerol or glycerol-rich substrates as carbon source, and recovery of the polymer from the culture broth. From the process for the production of the galactose-rich polymer results the co-production of intracellular biopolymers, namely, polyhydroxyalkanoates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: 73100-Setenta E Tres Mil & Cem, LDA.
    Inventors: Maria d'Ascencao Carvalho Fernandes De Miranda Reis, Rui Manuel Freitas Oliveira, Cristina Paula Pereira Da Cunha Rodrigues Oliveira, Maria Filomena Andrade De Freitas, Victor Manuel Delgado Alves, Joana Oliveira Pais
  • Transfer assembly
    Patent number: 9427509
    Abstract: A transfer assembly comprising an intracorporeal transfer coil of an implant, and an extracorporeal transfer coil of an extracorporeal supply unit. The transfer coil of the implant has permanently associated therewith a transmitting element. The transfer coil of the supply unit has permanently associated therewith at least one receiving element. Further, the supply unit comprises an evaluation module connected with the receiving element and issuing a locating signal depending on an offset and/or a direction of offset of the transmitting element relative to the receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.
    Inventors: Bernhard Vodermayer, Thomas Schmid
  • Cathode catalyst layer, membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9431661
    Abstract: A cathode catalyst layer used for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell that includes an electrolyte membrane is provided. The cathode catalyst layer comprises a catalyst having weight of not greater than 0.3 mg/cm2 of a reaction surface of the cathode catalyst layer that is adjoining the electrolyte membrane; and an electrolyte resin having oxygen permeability of not less than 2.2*10?14 mol/m/s/Pa in an environment of temperature of 80 degrees Celsius and relative humidity of 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nonoyama, Masanori Aimu, Randal Lewis Perry, Mark Gerrit Roelofs, Robert Clayton Wheland, Ralph Munson Aten
  • Transgenic transchromosomal rodents for making human antibodies
    Patent number: 9426970
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel transgenic nonhuman mammals capable of producing human sequence antibodies, as well as methods of producing and using these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: E. R. SQUIBB & SONS, L.L.C., KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Tomizuka, Isao Ishida, Nils Lonberg, Edward L. Halk
  • Thermoformable polymer thick film transparent conductor and its use in capacitive switch circuits
    Patent number: 9431147
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a polymer thick film transparent conductor composition that may be used in applications where thermoforming of the base substrate occurs, e.g., as in capacitive switches. Polycarbonate substrates are often used as the substrate and the polymer thick film conductive composition may be used without any barrier layer. Depending on the specific design, the thermoformable transparent conductor may be below or on top of a thermoformable silver conductor. Thermoformable electric circuits benefit from the presence of an encapsulant layer over the dried polymer thick film transparent conductor composition. The electrical circuit may be subsequently subjected to an injection molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Jay Robert Dorfman
  • Apparatus for decoding a signal comprising transients using a combining unit and a mixer
    Patent number: 9431019
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a decorrelated signal including a transient separator, a transient decorrelator, a second decorrelator, a combining unit and a mixer, wherein the transient separator is adapted to separate an input signal into a first signal component and into a second signal component such that the first signal component includes transient signal portions of the input signal and such that the second signal component includes non-transient signal portions of the input signal. The combining unit and the mixer are arranged so that a decorrelated signal from a combination unit is fed into the mixer as an input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Achim Kuntz, Sascha Disch, Juergen Herre, Fabian Kuech, Johannes Hilpert
  • Single blade hair straightener
    Patent number: D765911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: E. Mishan & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred Hollinger