Patents Assigned to Engineering
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Patent number: 8796367Abstract: A thermoplastic polyester resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic polyester resin (A), 5 to 40 parts by weight of a phosphinate (B), and an organosiloxane (X); wherein the phosphinate is a calcium salt or aluminum salt of phosphine acid having the anion part having a particular structure; which, as the organosiloxane (X), comprises 1.5 to 10 parts by weight of an organosiloxane compound (X-1) or 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of an organosiloxane polymer (X-2), relative to 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic polyester resin (A); and wherein the organosiloxane compound (X-1) comprises organic groups bonding to a silicon atom directly or through an oxygen atom, and 40 mole % or more of the organic groups are an aryl group, and the organosiloxane polymer (X-2) is in the form of solid at 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics CorporationInventors: Morio Tsunoda, Osamu Takise, Yasushi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8797505Abstract: A liquid immersion exposure apparatus and method exposes a substrate. The apparatus includes a projection optical system having an optical element via which exposure light is projected through liquid and a member having a channel in which the liquid flows. The member has an opening through which the exposure light passes. A gap is formed between a first surface of the member and a second surface of at least one of the optical element and a holding component which holds the optical element, and at least a portion of one or both of the first surface and the second surface is liquid repellent.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignees: Nikon Corporation, Nikon Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nagasaka, Takeshi Okuyama
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Patent number: 8795621Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for selective catalytic reduction of NOx with a low molecular low molecular weight aldehyde, e.g., acetaldehyde, as a reductant using a catalyst system including two catalysts. An exhaust stream containing an amount of NO from a combustion operation is provided. A portion of the exhaust stream is introduced to a first catalyst to convert the NO to NO2. The exhaust stream from the first catalyst with NO2 and a reductant stream containing a low molecular weight aldehyde, e.g., acetaldehyde, are introduced to the second catalyst to convert the NO2 to N2. The first catalyst can be bulk Co3O4, Ru or Pt loaded on alumina; the second catalyst can be various zeolites, or zeolites loaded with potassium.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and EngineeringInventors: Ajit B. Dandekar, Richard F. Socha, Richard L. Eckes, S. Beau Waldrup, Jason M. McMullan
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Patent number: 8796219Abstract: The present invention relates to a target-activated cell/tissue-penetrating peptide for delivery of impermeable compounds (Target Activated Cell/tissue Translocation peptide for Impermeable Compound Strategy (TACTICS)), and the use thereof, and more particularly to a target-activated cell/tissue-penetrating peptide, which comprises (a) a protein transduction domain (PTD), (b) a masking domain and (c) a spacer having a cleavage site specific for a target cell/tissue enzyme and is provided with target selectivity so as to penetrate specifically into a target tissue, and to a conjugate of the peptide with a drug or drug-containing particles for imaging or therapeutic applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Nano Intelligent Biomedical Engineering Corporation Co. LtdInventors: Yoon-Jeong Park, Chong-Pyoung Chung, Victor C. Yang
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Patent number: 8794029Abstract: A process for separating hydrocarbons from an LNG, including the steps of: distilling a feed LNG in a first distillation column to separate it into a fraction enriched with methane and a fraction enriched with components heavier than methane; distilling the fraction enriched with components heavier than methane in a second distillation column to separate it into a fraction enriched with ethane and a fraction enriched with components heavier than ethane; recovering the cryogenic heat of the feed LNG to be fed into the first distillation column or of the liquid inside the first distillation column by using a heat transfer medium; and cooling the overhead gas of the second distillation column by using the heat transfer medium which has recovered the cryogenic heat to condense at least part of the overhead gas of the second distillation column. An apparatus for carrying out this process.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Toyo Engineering CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Yokohata, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Akihiko Tamakoshi
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Patent number: 8797702Abstract: An example apparatus for obtaining a desired magnetic field distribution from an incident magnetic field, such as a kHz magnetic field, comprises a structure receiving the incident magnetic field and generating the desired magnetic field distribution at a predetermined distance from the transmitting side of the apparatus. The desired magnetic field distribution results from a spatial distribution of induced electrical current over the structure. Examples of the invention also include design methods and methods of using the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Debasish Banerjee, Hideo Iizuka, Jaewook Lee, Ercan Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 8797018Abstract: An apparatus and method for identifying the current and voltage phase and terminal for power system devices is described. In one aspect of the present invention, the respective current phase and terminal of two current terminals is identified based on a known phase and known phase angle associated with a third current terminal at the location of the electrical power system. In another aspect of the present invention, the voltage phase and terminal is identified based on a known phase and known phase angle associated with a third current terminal at the location of the electrical power system. In another aspect of the present invention, the respective voltage phase and terminal of three voltage terminals is identified based on known phase and known phase angles associated with first and second current terminals at the location of the electrical power system.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Matthew B. Watkins, Kenneth G. Workman
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Publication number: 20140209061Abstract: A system and method for improving the engine braking capacity for a vehicle is disclosed. The system and method include providing a compression release braking system, providing an energy drawing component for increasing power draw on the vehicle engine, and, increasing the engine braking capability by synchronizing operation of the energy drawing component with operation of the compression release braking system. The energy drawing component includes a hydraulic fan, which is part of the cooling system of the vehicle. Increasing the speed of the fan draws energy from the engine, which in turn, increases the braking capability of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: NAVISTAR DEFENSE ENGINEERING, LLCInventors: Jose Antonio Marques Neto, William McCoy, Rodger Michael Miller, Brian William Petersen, Victor S. Bertl
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Publication number: 20140209086Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of direct fired heaters including premix burner technology and/or feed forward control loop modulation via inlet air temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: CAMBRIDGE ENGINEERING INC.Inventors: Gary J. Potter, SR., John P. Foley, JR., Thomas J. Cleary, Marc D. Braun, Carl Schoenberg, John H. Kramer, JR.
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Publication number: 20140212342Abstract: A device for producing ethoxylation derivatives includes an assistant circulation loop with lower starting quantity is added on the base of the main circulation loop, and the assistant circulation pump is started first when slight chain initial dose is added with low flow rate of the ethylene oxide and high growth rate of polyreation; when the amount of reactant gets to the starting quantity of the main circulation pump, the main circulation loop is started with high flow rate of ethylene oxide. The two circulation loops cooperate with each other shorten reaction time and high yield in one batch; a pre-reaction cavity with smaller inner diameter than that of the main body of the reactor is extended from the bottom of the main body of the device, so that lower chain initial dose can start the assistant circulation pump, and then start the assistant circulation loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: XIAMEN JU SHENG MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: I-Min TSAI, Kun LI, Xiaobin WANG, Yanzhen HUANG, Kechang LI, Weiming WU
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Publication number: 20140210978Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining an inattentive state of an operator of a vehicle and for providing information to the operator of the vehicle by obtaining face images of the operator of the vehicle, obtaining images of an environment of the vehicle, determining one or more areas of interest in the environment of the vehicle based on the images of the environment, obtaining, from a relevance and priority database, relevance and priority values corresponding to the one or more areas of interest, determining a probability of attention of the operator of the vehicle to the one or more areas of interest based on the images of the environment and the relevance and priority values, determining an attention deficiency based on the determined probability of attention and the face images, and providing the information to the operator of the vehicle based on the determined attention deficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Pujitha Gunaratne, Richard W. Backs
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Publication number: 20140214783Abstract: A computer-implemented method for data management of product variants in control unit development is provided. Consistent data management is ensured by initially specification of product features in a variant model, specification of components in at least one domain, and definition of feature/component dependencies by associating components with at least one product feature, and subsequently specification of at least one product variant of interest by selecting product features, specification of at least one domain of interest, automated identification of the components pertaining to the product variant of interest through automated evaluation of the feature/component dependencies, and automated output of the identified components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbHInventors: Dirk STICHLING, Ansgar KUHLMANN, Andreas BOMERT, Daniel BECKE, Jobst RICHERT
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Publication number: 20140211624Abstract: Disclosed is a network communication switch that facilitates reliable communication of high priority traffic over lower priority traffic across all ingress and egress ports. The network communication switch may monitor the frame storage buffer regardless of egress port, and when the frame storage buffer reaches a predetermined level, the switch may discard lower priority frames from the most congested port. When the frame storage buffer reaches a second predetermined level, the switch may discard lower priority frames before they are stored according to egress port. The network communication switch may further monitor ingress frames for priority, and assign priority to frames according to pre-assigned priority, ingress port, and/or frame contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Manodev J. Rajasekaran, David M. Rector, Damian Sanchez Moreno, M. Wesley Kunzler, Srinivas Achanta, Jerry J. Bennett, Ian C. Ender
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Publication number: 20140215270Abstract: A method for manipulating a memory operation of a control unit program on a memory of a virtual or real electronic control unit (ECU), such as is used in vehicles, for example. The manipulation of the memory operation is accomplished by a memory manipulation program component, via which a set of manipulation functions is provided, from which at least one manipulation function is selected, so that this function, by activating the memory manipulation program component, changes a memory access initiated by the control unit program in accordance with the selected manipulation function during execution of the control unit program.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbHInventors: Ulrich KIFFMEIER, Tobias SIELHORST
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Publication number: 20140210215Abstract: An auxiliary electrical power system for a motor vehicle is described. Generally speaking, the system includes a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor and an auxiliary alternator. The pump is coupled to and driven by the vehicle engine mounted within the engine compartment of the vehicle, and the pump operates to pump fluid at a pressure. The hydraulic motor is operatively coupled to the hydraulic pump and turns a gear coupled to the motor. The alternator has a gear coupled by a belt to the gear of the hydraulic motor. the auxiliary alternator is positioned outside the vehicle engine compartment to conserve space for other critical engine components. Further, the hydraulic pump may be coupled to the engine power-take-off shaft. The motor gear to alternator gear ratio is about 1:4 to allow charging even at low engine idle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Navistar Defense Engineering, LLCInventors: Jose Antonio Marques Neto, Ernst Alfred Duerr, William McCoy
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Publication number: 20140213838Abstract: Processes are provided for producing a diesel fuel product having a sulfur content of 15 wppm or less (e.g., 10 wppm or less) from feed sources that include a biocomponent feedstock. The biocomponent feedstock can be initially co-processed with a mineral feed in a fluidized bed stage, such as an ebullating bed processing stage. Ebullating bed processing can mitigate the impact of the biocomponent feed on other hydrotreatment aspects of a diesel boiling range feed. Challenged biocomponent feeds can be handled by introducing the biocomponent feed into the ebullating bed reactor in a manner that reduces the fouling impact of the feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Patrick L. Hanks, William Ernest Lewis, Edward Stanley Ellis, Kathryn Younger Cole
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Publication number: 20140213834Abstract: Provided is a polyalphaolefin (PAO) fluid including a polymer of one or more C8 to C12 alphaolefin monomers. The PAO has a viscosity (Kv100) from 300 to 900 cSt at 100° C.; a viscosity index (VI) greater than 250; a pour point (PP) less than ?25° C.; a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) less than 2.0 as synthesized; a residual unsaturation (Bromine Number) less than 2.0; and a glass transition temperature Tg less than ?60° C. The PAO also has no crystallization peak as measured by differential scanning calorimetry and high thermal stability. A process to make and use the PAOs, including those having any combination of characteristics above is also provided. The PAOs are useful as synthetic base stocks and co-base stocks in lubricating oils, e.g., industrial lubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: ABHIMANYU O. PATIL, SATISH BODIGE, SHUJI LUO, JOHN W. CHU, KEVIN STAVENS, BRUCE A. HARRINGTON
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Publication number: 20140210240Abstract: A variable lumbar support assembly for a seatback of a vehicle seat assembly includes a support bracket and a lumbar member. The support bracket has an upper end, an opposite lower end, and a pair of side rails extending between the upper end and the lower end. The support bracket has a curved central portion positioned between the upper and the lower end. The lumbar member is slidingly attached to the pair of side rails of the support bracket. The slidingly attachment of the lumbar member along the pair of slide rails provides both a vertical displacement and a fore and aft displacement of the lumbar member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Todd Rupert Muck, John Fredrik Runske
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Publication number: 20140208964Abstract: There is provided a press machine which can apply a large compression force to a mold as well as impart smooth vibration only in a rectilinear advancing direction to the mold, and thereby can improve the press-formability. A main slide and a sub-slide constitute a slide and at the same time a cylinder-piston mechanism. During press-forming, a compression force is transmitted to the sub-slide (an upper mold) through hydraulic pressure applied interlockingly with driving of the main slide, and the sub-slide is vibrated with the hydraulic pressure being periodically changed. Favorable press-forming can be performed even under relatively difficult press-forming conditions, by controlling the vibration such that a vibration frequency of the sub-slide (the upper mold) becomes 9 Hz or higher but 33.3 Hz or lower and a vibration amplitude of the sub-slide becomes 0.05 mm or larger but 0.5 mm or smaller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki KOHNO, Ryosho IWAMURA, Tadahiro KONDO
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Publication number: 20140213709Abstract: Provided are compounds of the following: wherein R1 is a saturated or unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon optionally substituted with an alkyl and/or an OXO-ester, and R2 is the residue of a C4 to C14 OXO-alcohol. Also provided are processes for making the compounds and plasticized polymer compositions containing said compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventor: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
