Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20140164451
    Abstract: A file management system that provide a record file rapidly to a terminal, request source, by saving a record file to a storage device set at the local area, and to make it possible to refer it. A first device creates the record file and attribute information indicating the attribute about the record file, stores the record file in a first storage unit, and transmits the attribute information to the second device through the network. A second device receives the attribute information and the record file transmitted from the first device and stores them in a second storage unit. The terminal requests to acquire the record file based on the acquired attribute information to the first device or the second device. The first device or the second device transmits the record file requested to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki KOYAMA, Toyoki YAMAGISHI
  • NEGATIVE CUTTING INSERT, AND INDEXABLE ROTARY CUTTING TOOL, INDEXABLE ROTARY CUTTING TOOL SYSTEM AND CUTTING METHOD USING SUCH CUTTING INSERT
    Publication number: 20140161545
    Abstract: A negative cutting insert having a cutting edge comprising four long-side cutting edge portions for rough cutting and four short-side cutting edge portions for finish cutting, which are connected alternately, thereby being able to conduct rough cutting when attached to a rough-cutting tool body, and finish cutting when attached to a finish-cutting tool body. When such cutting inserts are used for rough or finish cutting and then reattached to a finish-cutting tool body or a rough-cutting tool body, finish or rough cutting can be conducted, thereby using all cutting edges thoroughly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko Inagaki, Hisanori Mura, Tomohiro Murata
  • Collapsible Intermodal Flat Rack
    Publication number: 20140161555
    Abstract: A collapsible intermodal flat rack features a cargo deck with first and second arches pivotally mounted to the cargo deck. Each arch is provided with a crank mechanism including a gearbox having an input shaft and an output shaft. The output shaft is attached to the corresponding arch so that the arch may be moved between a storage position, where a top portion of the arch is located adjacent to the cargo deck, and a use position, where the top portion of the arch is elevated from the cargo deck, by actuation of the input shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Fontaine Engineering Products, Inc.
    Inventor: James Adams
  • SPRING CONNECTORS WITH ADJUSTABLE GROOVES AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20140162487
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a housing and a shaft; at least a groove in the housing or on the shaft; one of the housing and the shaft has a first component and a second component; there being at least a first groove configuration and a second groove configuration resulting from two different relative positions of the first and second components; the first and second groove configurations resulting in a first insertion force and a first removal force of the shaft into and from the housing and a second insertion force and a second removal force of the shaft into and from the housing, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: BAL SEAL ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Frederick, Derek Changsrivong, Pere Pla-Junca, Peter J. Balsells, Richard Dawson
  • FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20140164450
    Abstract: A file management system that transmits a record file of voice data or image data created by a local device to a center device over a network and manages the record file in the center device. A first device creates the record file and attribute information indicating the attribute about the record file, stores the record file in a first storage unit, and transmits the attribute information to the second device through the network. A second device receives the attribute information transmitted from the first device and stores it in a second storage unit. The second device receives the record file transmitted from the first device according to transfer condition that is beforehand determined and store it in the second storage unit. A terminal may acquire the record file by using the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki KOYAMA, Toyoki YAMAGISHI
  • REMOTE FIRING DEVICE WITH DIVERSE INITIATORS
    Publication number: 20140158010
    Abstract: A remote firing system for remotely detonating explosive charges includes features that provide safety and efficiency improvements. These features include safety communication among multiple remote devices and multiple controller devices, a polling functionality permitting rapid deployment of system devices, electronic key systems, programmable remote devices for easy replacement of failing remote devices, and an event history log for the remote devices for efficient diagnostic evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Rothenbuhler Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Thomas Lee Jacobson, Neal H. Rothenbuhler, Richard B. Taft
  • REMOTE FIRING DEVICE WITH DIVERSE INITIATORS
    Publication number: 20140158009
    Abstract: A remote firing system for remotely detonating explosive charges includes features that provide safety and efficiency improvements. These features include safety communication among multiple remote devices and multiple controller devices, a polling functionality permitting rapid deployment of system devices, electronic key systems, programmable remote devices for easy replacement of failing remote devices, and an event history log for the remote devices for efficient diagnostic evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ROTHENBUHLER ENGINEERING CO.
    Inventors: Thomas Lee Jacobson, Neal H. Rothenbuhler, Richard B. Taft
  • SELECTIVATION OF ADSORBENTS FOR GAS SEPARATION
    Publication number: 20140157984
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving separation of gas phase streams using an adsorbent, such as 8-member ring zeolite adsorbents or DDR type zeolite adsorbents. Suitable gas phase streams can include at least one hydrocarbon, such as methane or a hydrocarbon containing at least one saturated carbon-carbon bond, and at least one additional component, such as CO2 or N2. The selectivity of the adsorbent is improved by selectivating the adsorbent with one or more barrier compounds. The presence of the barrier compounds is believed to alter the relative ability of potential adsorbates to enter into and/or move within the pores of the adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Harry W. Deckman, Peter I. Ravikovitch, Preeti Kamakoti, Chris Yoon
  • FIBER REINFORCED ZEOLITE EXTRUDATES WITH ENHANCED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20140162866
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a reinforced catalytic microporous and/or mesoporous bound composition comprising the steps of: providing a pre-formed catalytic crystalline material; mixing the catalytic crystalline material with water, a metal oxide binder, and a reinforcing glass fiber to form an extrudable composition; extruding the extrudable slurry under conditions sufficient to form the reinforced catalytic bound extrudate; and calcining the reinforced catalytic bound extrudate at a temperature and for a time sufficient to form a calcined reinforced catalytic bound catalyst. Advantageously, the reinforcing glass fiber can have a diameter from 5-100 microns and a length-to-diameter ratio from 300:1-3000:1 and can be present in an amount from about 1-50 parts, based on about 1000 parts combined of catalytic crystalline material and metal oxide binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Wenyih Frank Lai, Nicholas S. Rollman
  • Method for Optimizing the Configuration of Distributed CCHP System
    Publication number: 20140163745
    Abstract: A method for optimizing the configuration of a distributed CCHP system is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuesong Ma, Bo Hu, Yongchun Fan, Zehan Chen, Xueping Peng, Bin Ge, Junli Zhang, Yongming Hua, Wei Leng, Jiamin Yin, Linwei Li, Zhanpeng Liang, Miaomiao Han, Jing Qi, Xiang Xu, Yuhua Chen, Chunrong Cai
  • SYNTHESIS OF ZSM-58 CRYSTALS WITH IMPROVED MORPHOLOGY
    Publication number: 20140161717
    Abstract: Methods are provided for synthesizing ZSM-58 crystals with an improved morphology and/or an improved size distribution. By controlling the conditions during synthesis of the ZSM-58 crystals, crystals of a useful size with a narrow size distribution can be generated. Additionally, by controlling the ratio of water content to silica content in the synthesis mixture, it has unexpectedly been found that ZSM-58 crystals can be formed with an improved morphology. The improved morphology can result in ZSM-58 crystals with a more uniform size across the various dimensions of the crystal, which allows for more uniform diffusion within the crystal. This is in contrast to conventionally synthesized crystals, where the size of the crystal can vary along different axes of the crystals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Ivy D. Johnson, Nadya A. Hrycenko, Barbara Carstensen, Machteld Mertens, Brita Engels
  • TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140157813
    Abstract: A temperature control system of the invention recovers reaction heat in a reactor in which an exothermal reaction occurs, to control the temperature in the reactor. The temperature control system includes: a refrigerant drum in which vapor and a liquid refrigerant are stored in a vapor-liquid equilibrium state; a heat removing section arranged in the reactor to evaporate a part of the liquid refrigerant supplied from the refrigerant drum by the reaction heat; a Return line that returns mixed phase fluid of vapor and the liquid refrigerant generated in the heat removing section to the refrigerant drum; a Vapor outlet line that supplies vapor in the refrigerant drum to outside of the system; and a Replenishing line that supplies makeup water in an amount matched with an amount of vapor discharged to the outside of the system, to the Return line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicants: JAPAN OIL, GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION, INPEX CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO., LTD., COSMO OIL CO., LTD., JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzuru Kato, Eiichi Yamada, Kentarou Morita
  • SYNTHESIS AND USE OF MOLECULAR SIEVE ITQ-32
    Publication number: 20140163228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to molecular sieves having the structure of ITQ-32 is synthesized from a reaction mixture substantially free of fluoride ions and comprising 4,4-dimethyl, 1-cyclohexyl-piperazinium cations in its pore structure, as well as methods of making such molecular sieves and methods of using them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Allen W. Burton, Simon C. Weston, Karl G. Strohmaier, Hilda B. Vroman
  • METHOD OF PRODUCING OPTICAL COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20140159261
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition for producing an optical component in which resin composition respective of a (meth)acrylic equivalent and a content of a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1) are adjusted to given ranges, an optical component which is made of the resin composition, and an image display device. The resin composition of the present invention for producing an optical component is arranged such that the resin composition contains at least one kind of compound whose molecule contains the repeating unit represented by the general formula (1) and at least one (meth)acryloyl group and the (meth)acrylic equivalent and the content of the repeating unit meet the given ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SOKEN CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Nakamura, Kyoji Kitamura, Yosuke Tatsuno
  • SEPARATION OF CO2 AND H2S USING SUPPORTED AMINES
    Publication number: 20140161697
    Abstract: Methods are provided for removing CO2 and/or H2S from a gas phase stream, such as a refinery flue gas stream, a coal-fired or petroleum-burning power plant, or a natural gas stream. A gas phase stream containing CO2 and/or H2S can be contacted under effective conditions with an aqueous slurry of supported amine particles. The CO2 and/or H2S can react with the supported amines to form bicarbonates, carbonates, carbamates, sulfide salts, or other species. Because the amine is part of, bonded to, or otherwise supported on a particulate substrate, the reaction product from the amine reaction can also remain bound to the particle. After reacting supported amines with CO2 and/or H2S captured from a gas stream, the supported amines particles can be separated from the aqueous slurry environment for regeneration of the supported amine and release of the CO2 and/or H2S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel P. Leta, Jack W. Johnson, Ni Zheng, Harry W. Deckman
  • Portable air pump with a hidden pressure gauge
    Patent number: 8747076
    Abstract: A portable air pump includes a pump body, a base member affixed to the pump body and defining therein an accommodation chamber, a casing movable in and out of the accommodation chamber between an exposed position and a hidden position, a pressure gauge mounted in the casing and kept in air communication with the pump body, a footplate pivotally pivoted to the pump body and biasable between a received non-operative position and an extended operative position, a spring member set between the casing and the base member and adapted for forcing the casing from the hidden position to the exposed position, locking device adapted for locking the casing in the hidden position or unlocking the casing to allow the spring member to force the casing to move from the hidden position to the exposed position when the footplate is biased from the received non-operative position to the extended operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Beto Engineering and Marketing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lopin Wang
  • Apparatus and method for automatic video recording
    Patent number: 8749634
    Abstract: System and methods for pointing a device, such as a camera, at a remote target wherein the pointing of the device is controlled by a combination of location information obtained by global positioning technology and orientation information obtained by line of sight detection of the direction from the device to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: H4 Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott K. Taylor, Christopher T. Boyle, Alexander G. Sammons, Denes Marton
  • Hierarchical accumulated validation system and method
    Patent number: 8751093
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improvements in validating control specifications and more particularly pertains to a system and method to hierarchically validate graphically based executable logic control specifications. This method may include identifying, by a processor for hierarchically validating a graphically based logic control specification, a functional hierarchy of a first application of the control specification comprising a first feature. The method may include executing, by the processor, a specific first feature test case on the first feature to at least one of validate a structure of the first feature and validate that a specific functional requirement of the first feature is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jared M. Farnsworth, Koichi Ueda, Hakan Yazarel
  • Methods of robot behavior generation and robots utilizing the same
    Patent number: 8751042
    Abstract: A method of generating a behavior of a robot includes measuring input data associated with a plurality of user responses, applying an algorithm to the input data of the plurality of user responses to generate a plurality of user character classes, storing the plurality of user character classes in a database, classifying an individual user into a selected one of the plurality of user character classes by generating user preference data, selecting a robot behavior based on the selected user character class, and controlling the actions of the robot in accordance with the selected robot behavior during a user-robot interaction session. The selected user character class and the user preference data are based at least in part on input data associated with the individual user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Haeyeon Lee, Yasuhiro Ota, Cynthia Breazeal, Jun Ki Lee
  • Hydrotreating process
    Patent number: 8747659
    Abstract: A process for hydrotreating a first aromatics- and sulfur-containing hydrocarbon feed using a fresh supported CoMo catalyst, includes treating the fresh catalyst under first hydrotreating conditions with a second hydrocarbon feed having a lower aromatics content than the first feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Gabor Kiss, Lulian Nistor, John Zengel