Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Patent number: 8929721Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for automated creation of videos for interactive entertainment involving at least one individual, based on events that occur within that interactive entertainment are provided. One method includes storing a video history of a session of the interactive entertainment for an individual and examining the interactive entertainment for the session to identify events designated as significant. The designation as significant for each event being predefined to meet a threshold. Then, selecting segments of video from the video history of the session of the interactive entertainment. The selected segments being for a set of the identified events. The method then generates a video defined from the selected segments of video. The video is playable to show the selected segments of video in a selected order for the individual and saving the video.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Sony Computer Engineering America LLCInventor: David Cottrell
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Patent number: 8925215Abstract: A tool is used to determine whether or not a dimension between two surface features on two joined work pieces is within an acceptable range. The tool includes housing, first and second supports carried on the housing and carrying fingers which engage the surface features in a dimensional measurement position. An actuator and linkage displaces the supports relative to each other to bring the fingers into engagement with the first and second surface features on the work pieces. A first sensor is carried on the housing for measuring the dimension between the first and second fingers when the first and second supports are fully displaced relative to each other. The first sensor sends a dimensional measurement signal to a controller which compares the measurement signal with predetermined acceptable and non-acceptable dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Leon Drasovean
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Patent number: 8927636Abstract: To provide a polycarbonate resin composition excellent in flame resistance, impact resistance and external appearance and a molded article formed from the polycarbonate resin composition. The composition comprises 0.001 to 2 parts by mass of a metal organic sulfonate (B), 0.001 to 1 parts by mass of a fluoropolymer (C), 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of polyalkylsilsesquioxane particles having an average particle diameter of 0.6 to 5 ?m (D), and 0.5 to 8 parts by mass of a graft copolymer (E) having a butadiene content ratio of 50% to 90%, relative to 100 parts by mass of a polycarbonate resin (A).Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics CorporationInventor: Toshiki Monden
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Patent number: 8926063Abstract: The invention aims to form an ink coating having a predetermined film thickness on a surface of a printing medium having a three-dimensional structure in shorter time. As solving means, a plurality of times of scanning process is included, ink 80 is discharged to head-facing areas (10a, 10c) in a state of facing straight toward a printhead 110 in one scanning process, and the ink 80 is discharged to a non-head-facing area (10b) so that the total film thickness of the ink coatings (11, 12) to be formed without facing straight toward the printhead 110 in two or more times of the scanning process becomes a predetermined film thickness T0.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Ikeda, Masaru Ohnishi
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Patent number: 8929074Abstract: Electronic device assemblies employing dual phase change materials and vehicles incorporating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic device assembly includes a semiconductor device having a surface, wherein the semiconductor device operates in a transient heat flux state and a normal heat flux state, a coolant fluid thermally coupled to the surface of the semiconductor device, and a phase change material thermally coupled to the surface of the semiconductor device. The phase change material has a phase change temperature at which the phase change material changes from a first phase to a second phase. The phase change material absorbs heat flux at least when the semiconductor device operates in the transient heat flux state.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Ercan Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 8930305Abstract: An adaptive information processing system for updating product documentation and associated knowledge base is disclosed, the system including at least one subsystem for receiving original data from a data source, and a central dynamic data system to integrate the original data from the at least one subsystem. The central dynamic data system is configured to integrate system knowledge with the original data to form integrated data, wherein the central dynamic data system is configured to dynamically update the product documentation and the knowledge base based on the integrated data. A computer implemented method for dynamically updating product documentation and knowledge base is further disclosed, the method includes receiving original data from a data source, and integrating the knowledge base with the original data from the data source to form integrated data.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manfuacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Setu Madhavi Namburu, Danil Prokhorov, Liu Qiao, Sandesh Ghimire
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Patent number: 8929391Abstract: According to various embodiments, a communication switch may create and/or manage a variety of configurable network relationships between intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) connected via disparate network interfaces using a variety of communication protocols. Accordingly, a communication switch may provide media translation between various types of physical network ports and communication protocol conversion between various communication protocols. For example, a communication switch may be used to create a networked group of IEDs in which some IEDs are connected via Ethernet ports and other IEDs are connected via D-subminiature ports and/or optical ports. The communication switch may create and/or manage network relationships such as publisher/subscriber, master/slave, multidrop configurations, star configurations, and/or other complex network relationships between two or more IEDs or groups of IEDs.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Rhett Smith, Ryan Bradetich
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Patent number: 8925363Abstract: A split idle station assembly for a transfer press assembly includes a track assembly, a first base assembly slidably connected to the track assembly and a second base assembly slidably connected to the track assembly. The first and second base assemblies have a support configuration with the first base assembly adjacent the second base assembly forming a work piece support assembly for supporting a work piece thereon between work stations of the transfer press assembly. The first and second base assemblies have a split configuration where the first base assembly is moved apart from the second base assembly along the track assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Thoney R. Charles
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Publication number: 20150004740Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicon solar cell module comprising electrodes formed from conductive paste. In the invention, front electrode finger lines and front electrode bus bars are separately formed. The front electrode finger lines are formed by printing a silver paste and calcining the printed silver paste at high temperature, and rear electrode bus bars and front electrode bus bars are formed from an inexpensive lower-temperature conductive paste including a buffer and a curing agent having reducing power, whereby the expensive silver paste is replaced with the inexpensive low-temperature conductive paste, thereby reducing the production cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Gens Engineering Co. LtdInventor: Soon Haeng Cho
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Publication number: 20150006182Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic download of embedded voice components. One embodiment may be configured to receive an application via a wireless communication, where the application comprises a speech recognition component, receive the voice command from a user, and analyze the speech recognition component to determine a translation action to perform, based on the voice command. In some embodiments, in response to determining that the translation action includes downloading a vocabulary from a first remote computing device, the vocabulary may be downloaded from the first remote computing device and utilize the vocabulary to translate the voice command. In some embodiments, in response to determining that the translation action includes communicating the voice command to a second remote computing device, the voice command may be sent to the second remote computing device and receive the a translated version of the voice command.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Eric Randell Schmidt
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Patent number: 8921626Abstract: The operation of a plant for producing a gas hydrate is stabilized by making the gas phase within a downstream step have the same equilibrium composition as that of the gas phase within a generation step. The gas phase within a mixed-gas hydrate generation step is circulated to the gas phase within a downstream step located downstream of the mixed-gas hydrate generation step, and the gas phase within each step is thereby made to have the same equilibrium composition as that of the gas phase within the generation step.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Nobuyasu Kanda, Kenichi Sano, Toru Iwasaki
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Patent number: 8922400Abstract: A method is disclosed for compressing a sequence of initial digital values into a compressed sequence of compressed values, intending to restore these values into a decompressed sequence of decompressed values. For a first initial value of the sequence, the compressed value of the first initial value is equal to the first initial value and the decompressed value of the compressed value of the first initial value is equal to the first initial value.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: I-CES (Innovative Compression Engineering Solutions)Inventor: Than Marc-Eric Gervais
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Patent number: 8923005Abstract: An electrical component and a method for the manufacture thereof, comprising a connection arrangement between an active surface of an electrical component and a carrier, wherein electrical connecting elements are disposed in a connection zone on the active surface and/or on the carrier, and at least one spacer element is provided, which is disposed on the active surface and/or on the carrier. The at least one spacer element has a smaller height than the connecting elements before the connecting elements are reflowed to produce the electrically conductive connection, and is preferably disposed in an edge region of the connection zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Micro Systems Engineering GmbHInventors: Rainer Dohle, Florian Schuessler, Rolf Diehm, Oliver Kessling, Thomas Oppert
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Patent number: 8919918Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet printing apparatus in which aggregate or the like clogged in a nozzle is sucked to recover the clogged nozzle and provides a clogged nozzle recovering method. The inkjet printing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a cap which is structured to cover some of plural nozzles formed in a nozzle face of a head of an inkjet printer, a pressure sensor which acquires a pressure in an inside of the cap in a state that the some of the plural nozzles are covered by the cap, a suction means which sucks the inside of the cap with a pressure lower than a negative pressure at which a meniscus of a nozzle that is not covered with the cap is broken, and a nozzle recovery judgment means which judges recovery of a nozzle by comparing a reference pressure value, which is obtained when nozzles without being clogged are covered by the cap and sucked and is stored beforehand, with a pressure value which is outputted from the pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomomi Igawa, Seiichi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8920408Abstract: An ophthalmological apparatus includes a handle for manually holding and applying the ophthalmological apparatus, fastening has abilities for fixing the ophthalmological apparatus at an eye, a light source, and a light projector for the focused projection of light pulses for punctiform tissue breakdown at a focal point in the interior of the eye tissue. The ophthalmological apparatus also includes a movement driver for moving the light projector. The movement of the light projector and therefore that of the focal point with the assistance of the movement driver permits a dimensioning of the optical projection system of the light projector which is substantially smaller than in the case of an ophthalmological apparatus where the focal point is moved exclusively by an optical projection system.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: SIE AG Surgical Instrument EngineeringInventor: Christian Rathjen
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Patent number: 8920900Abstract: A cavity filler for use in a hollow pillar of a vehicle. The cavity filler includes a carrier having a generally planar upper surface, an expandable foam mounted to the carrier wherein the expandable foam is mounted to the carrier around a peripheral edge of the carrier. The invention further includes a flange connected to the expandable foam (also made of the expandable foam) wherein the flange extends away from and generally parallel with the planar upper surface of the carrier. The extension and flange of the expandable foam are operable to extend the expandable foam to ensure a full filling of the expandable foam after the heat treating process. The fully occupied hollow cavity of the pillar with the expandable foam blocks the transmission of noise from the engine, wind and/or road noise through the pillars to the interior vehicle cabin.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: David T. Nakayama
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Patent number: 8919179Abstract: A system and method for optimizing the response of a metal loss sensor which is configured in a way that its insertion depth and orientation in the process fluid are adjustable. These adjustments affect local turbulence and thereby enable achieving a desired corrosion rate at the metal loss sensor. Corrosion rate comparison between the metal loss sensor and pressure containment boundary can be measured directly or indirectly by computing wall shear stresses at the sensor and the pressure containment boundary.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Henry Alan Wolf, Alan M. Schliowitz, Manuel S. Alvarez, Anastasios Skoulidas, David Samuel Deutsch, Richard J. Basile
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Patent number: 8919450Abstract: A collet connection insulation apparatus has a frame having a first portion hingedly connected to a second portion such that the first and second portions are movable between an open position and a closed position, a first insulation section affixed to the first portion of the frame, a second insulation section affixed to the second portion of the frame, and a latch for locking the first and second portions of the frame in the closed position. The interior volume of the insulation sections is suitable for receiving the collet connection therein. The latch is slidably mounted on one portion of the frame so as to engage a sloted flange on another portion of the frame. The latch can be manipulated by a remotely-operated vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Pinnacle Engineering Inc.Inventors: Peter A. Cruz, Terence F. Townend, Jeffrey A. Liggett
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Patent number: 8922093Abstract: An axial flux motor assembly (10) comprises a stack of first and second discs (20a, 20b) arranged alternately such that there is a gap allowing rotation between each disc (20a, 20b). The first disc (20a) is mounted on a rotatable shaft (40), while the second disc (20b) is fixed in position. The first and second discs (20a, 20b) each comprise sectors (200) of magnetic material arranged on a face of the disc (20a, 20b), between each of which sectors (200) is a radially-extending conductor (202) of a conductive path (201) for conducting electric current. The sectors (200) of magnetic material on the first and second discs (20a, 20b) are arranged at a constant angular pitch, but the pitch of the sectors of magnetic material on the first disc may or may not be the same as those on the second disc.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Scimar Engineering Ltd.Inventor: Timothy Richard Crocker
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Patent number: 8920825Abstract: The present application is directed to a novel composition which acts as a barrier to noxious agents while adding self-detoxifying catalytic treatments to neutralize the noxious and harmful warfare agents when applied for example on a fabric, or other solid support.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignees: Stedfast, Inc., U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Chemical Technology TeamInventors: Hamid Benaddi, Heidi Schreuder-Gibson