Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 6960551
    Abstract: A functionalized porous crystalline material is disclosed exhibiting an X-ray diffraction pattern with at least one peak at a position greater than about 1.8 nm d-spacing with a relative intensity of 100. The crystalline material comprises a framework including metal atoms, oxygen atoms and at least one organic group bonded between at least two of said metal atoms so as to be integral with said framework, and wherein said organic group has at least one sulfonate moiety bonded thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. Ozin, Tewodros Asefa
  • Patent number: 6961041
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between a pair of substrates, and a plurality of pixels disposed on one of the first substrates. Each of the pixels is supplied with a video signal via a switching element connected to a first electrode thereof, and is provided with a capacitance. One of two capacitance-forming electrodes forming the capacitance is connected to the first electrode of a corresponding one of the pixels, and another of the two capacitance-forming electrodes is supplied with a pixel-potential control signal. Polarity of the video signal reverses with respect to a first reference voltage with a repetition period, and the pixel-potential control signal alternates between two voltage levels of same polarity with respect to a second reference voltage such that a voltage swing on the first electrodes of the pixels becomes larger than that of the video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhisa Ilda, Iwao Takemoto, Katsumi Matsumoto, Shigeo Adachi
  • Patent number: 6960291
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for desulfurizing naphtha boiling-range hydrocarbons such as cracked naphtha. More particularly, the invention relates to hydrotreating the naphtha under selective hydrotreating conditions, and then removing mercaptans from the hydrotreater effluent using a caustic extractant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignees: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Merichem Company
    Inventors: Mark A. Greaney, Binh N. Le, Daniel P. Leta, John N. Begasse, Charles T. Huang, Verlin Keith Turner
  • Publication number: 20050239079
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the identification of expression signatures in ER+ breast cancer cases, where the signatures correlate with responsiveness, or lack thereof, to tamoxifen treatment. The signature profiles are identified based upon sampling of reference breast tissue samples from independent cases of breast cancer and provide a reliable set of molecular criteria for predicting the efficacy of treating a subject with ER+ breast cancer with tamoxifen. Additional methods and compositions are provided for predicting tamoxifen responsiveness in cases of ER+ breast cancer by use of three biomarkers. Two biomarkers display increased expression correlated with tamoxifen response while the third biomarker displays decreased expression correlated with tamoxifen response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Arcturus Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Erlander, Xiao-Jun Ma, Dennis Sgroi
  • Publication number: 20050237146
    Abstract: An energizable magnetic core for use in an inductor or a transformer includes a plurality of legs extending from the back yoke. The back yoke is formed in a loop arranged to provide a magnetic circuit. Each of the plurality of legs have a first end adjacent to the back yoke and a second end extending away from the back yoke. With the legs positioned upon the back yoke, a cover yoke is positioned adjacent to the second end of each of the plurality of legs. The cover yoke is also formed in a loop such that the cover loop is arranged to provide a magnetic circuit. Coils are positioned upon the legs of the energizable magnetic core. In one embodiment, amorphous metal may be used to construct the energizable magnetic core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Light Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Hirzel
  • Publication number: 20050240358
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a genome information display system that allows the user to quickly conduct operations such as movement of display content on the screen presenting information of a gene or the like of a genome. A server 10, on receipt of a request for map screen from a terminal 60, transmits, to the terminal 60, a mass of map screen data necessary for preparing a map screen. Therefore, for example, when the user conducts operations such as movement, expansion/contraction of the display extension of an enlarged map on a map screen, the terminal 60, instead of making a renewed access to the server 10 for data communication, quickly prepares an enlarged map presenting the display extension according to the operation, based on the mass of map screen data stored in the memory means of the terminal 60, and displays the enlarged map at a high speed matched with the user's operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Nittetsu Hitachi Systems Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Sasaki, Tetsuya Ohtani, Kazuhiko Akizuki, Makoto Akeo
  • Publication number: 20050238810
    Abstract: Carbon nanotubes are grown directly on metal substrates using chemical vapor deposition. Metal substrates are comprised of catalysts which facilitate or promote the growth of carbon nanotubes. The nanotube coated metal substrates have applications including, but not limited to, heat transfer and thermal control, hydrogen storage, fuel cell catalytic reformers, electronics and semiconductors, implantable medical devices or prostheses, and tribological wear and protective coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Mainstream Engineering Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Scaringe, Dwight Back, John Meyer, Russell Davis, Gregory Cole
  • Patent number: 6958570
    Abstract: Inside an outer frame, which is interposed at between opposedly facing peripheries between a back substrate and a front substrate, there is an inner frame which fixes both end portions of plate member control electrodes, which are constituted of a large number of parallel strip-like electrode elements. By integrally forming the plate member control electrodes such that the plate member control electrodes are fixed to both end portions of a display region, a single part is formed. Further, a getter chamber is formed between the outer frame and the inner frame and getters are accommodated in the getter chamber. Due to such a constitution, the operability and yield rate of products at the time of assembling can be enhanced. Further, it is possible to hold a desired degree of vacuum in the space between the substrates for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, LTD, Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Kijima, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Shigemi Hirasawa, Susumu Sasaki, Tomoki Nakamura, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Jun Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6958603
    Abstract: A metallic contaminant detecting method and apparatus according to the present invention detect metallic contaminants mixed in objects under inspection, such as food products, pharmaceuticals, and materials for industrial use, which are wrapped in electrically conductive packaging materials, e.g. aluminum. A small magnetic field is generated by applying a voltage to coils (10, 11) or supplying an electric current to the coils. A detection magnetic field generated from a metallic contaminant in response to the small magnetic field is detected as a detection voltage or a detection current of the coils (10, 11), and a detection signal is output. The detection signal is analyzed to detect the metallic contaminant. The small magnetic field is created by applying a small voltage or supplying a small electric current to the coils (10, 11) and using a non-linear portion of the magnetic field characteristics of cores constituting the coils (10, 11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Tok Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobukazu Kondo
  • Patent number: 6957666
    Abstract: Improved low flow impedance flow control valves are disclosed in the present invention wherein spring valve means (12) captured between a valve spool (28) and a shoulder (30) are utilized for selectively metering a flow of fluid from an inlet port (18) to an outlet port (14) via a round edged helical orifice (82) formed between the open coils of the spring valve (12) as a function of the instant axial position of the valve spool (28) and the differential pressure therebetween. An improved method of controlling low impedance flow control valves is also disclosed in the present invention. The improved method provides better accuracy in controlling fluid flow through low flow impedance flow control valves through continually cycling a means for substantially interrupting fluid flow therethrough in a low frequency pulse width modulated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Cafe Engineering
    Inventor: Edward H. Phillips
  • Patent number: 6958122
    Abstract: In a high pressure and high temperature reaction system suitable for oxidative waste treatment, particularly a reaction system for supercritical water oxidation (SCWO), a method is disclosed for injecting a first fluid of a first temperature at a first flow rate into a second fluid of a second temperature at a second flow rate, mixing the first and the second fluids within a mixing length (115, 215), and wherein the first and second temperatures and the first and second flow rates are selected such that a temperature of the mixed fluids downstream of said mixing length (115, 215) is obtained, at which said first fluid being substantially non-corrosive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Chematur Engineering AB
    Inventors: Anders Gidner, Lars Stenmark
  • Publication number: 20050234821
    Abstract: A method for administering an annuity-based retirement funding in which an investor's funds or current income is used to make incremental purchases of immediate annuity benefits at market rates, with the annuity payments received from previous purchases being applied purchase additional annuity benefits. The investor allocates a first allocated portion of each received benefit into an account and the reinvested funds are thereafter available in combination with new investment payments from the investor for the purchase of additional immediate annuity benefits. At the direction of the investor, typically after retirement, all or part of the received annuity payments can be received for the use of the investor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: Retirement Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Bret Benham, James Williams, Francois Gadenne
  • Publication number: 20050233106
    Abstract: A floor laying material, a piece mat, and an arranging structure thereof whose sound absorbing property and sound insulating property are optimized. Floor laying material (10) comprises carpet layer (11) having joining strips (11a) of thermoplastic resin discontinuously arranged on the back surface thereof, and buffer material layer (12) layered to the back surface of carpet layer (11) through joining strips (11a). Carpet layer (11) has its front-to-back flow resistance value adjusted between 100 Nsm?3 and 1000 Nsm?3. Further, buffer material layer (12) is made of a material having an air wrapping property and has its front-to-back flow resistance value adjusted between 40 Nsm?3 and 800 Nsm?3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: Hayashi Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Masahito Imamura, Toshiyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20050233571
    Abstract: A semiconductor chip with bumps formed therein comprises an active surface, a plurality of bonding pads, a passivation layer, a plurality of first UBMs (under bump metallurgy), a second UBM, a plurality of first bumps, and a plurality of second bumps. The bonding pads are disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip. The passivation layer covers the active surface of the semiconductor chip with the pads exposed out of the passivation layer. The first UMBs are individually disposed on the bonding pads. The second UMB is disposed on at least two of the bonding pads. The first bumps are disposed on the first UMBs. The second bumps are disposed on the second UBM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Su Tao, Min-Lung Huang, Ho-Ming Tong
  • Publication number: 20050233034
    Abstract: Container for heating food in an electrical bread toaster or other radiant heating device comprises a closed or partially open pouch formed of flexible sheet material comprsing a woven fabric, such as glass or KEVLAR fibres, coated or impregnated with an electrically non-conductive heat resistant material, for example PTFE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: Culdrose Engineering
    Inventor: Guy Unwin
  • Publication number: 20050229694
    Abstract: A heating resistance flow rate measuring apparatus which can use a power source of an ECU in an automobile without requiring an expensive protective circuit and regulator. Heating of temperature detecting resistors themselves causes temperature changes on the windward and leeward sides, and these temperature changes depend on the amounts of heat generated by the temperature detecting resistors. The amounts of heat generated by the temperature detecting resistors depend on a voltage value of the ECU power source applied to the temperature detecting resistors, and an error is caused in a sensor output depending on a variation in the voltage of the ECU power source. Based on the finding that suppressing the amount of heat generated by the temperature detecting resistors is effective in avoiding the sensor output error caused depending on a variation in the output voltage of the ECU power source, means for suppressing the amount of heat generated by the temperature detecting resistors is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsumoto, Masamichi Yamada, Hiroshi Nakano, Izumi Watanabe, Keiji Hanzawa, Keiichi Nakada
  • Publication number: 20050229832
    Abstract: Barge double hull sections wherein at least part of the double hull is comprised of first and second layers and an intermediate layer of elastomer material bonded to the first and second layers. By manufacturing double hull walls of such three layered structures, the stiffness of the hull as compared to hulls of the prior art can be significantly increased, thereby decreasing the amount of separate stiffeners required in the hull structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: Intelligent Engineering (Bahamas) Limited
    Inventor: Stephen Kennedy
  • Patent number: 6957131
    Abstract: A positive signal comparator system includes a transceiver located on a train for transmitting an interrogation signal to a wayside signal device and receiving a response signal from the wayside signal device, an input device through which an operator enters a signal in response to the signal received from the wayside signal device, and a controller including a signal comparator for determining if the signal input by the operator matches the signal received from the wayside signal device and taking corrective action if the operator fails to enter the proper signal. In some embodiments, the corrective action comprises activating a warning device and/or activating the train's brakes. In some embodiments, the invention further comprises a display for displaying the signal received from the wayside signal generator to the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Quantum Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Edward Kane, James Francis Shockley, Harrison Thomas Hickenlooper
  • Patent number: 6956725
    Abstract: The arc suppression system for electrical contacts includes a transistor, such as an IGBT, which is connected across the contacts. A control circuit controls the operation of the transistor such that the turning on of the transistor results in a current path around the contacts, thereby tending to prevent arcing across the contacts. A current sensor, such as a flyback transformer, is positioned in series with the contacts, wherein when the contacts open, current is interrupted through the contacts and the transformer, a secondary voltage results which is applied to the transistor, which tends to maintain the transistor on for a time which is sufficient to allow the contacts to either open or close without an arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald H. Boughton, Jr., Tony J. Lee
  • Patent number: 6955393
    Abstract: A front end module including a plastic component connected to a metallic substrate. The metallic substrate can be formed by hydroforming and shaped into a substantially unitary member. The plastic component is then molded about the metallic substrate and simultaneously forms connections thereto at discrete locations along the length of the metallic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Carlisle Engineered Products, Inc., Vari-Form
    Inventors: James E. Staargaard, Eric Kowal, Thomas M. Goral, Mitch Brown, Keith R. Panter, Larry D. Butterfield, Blair Longhouse, Jerry Klanges, Terry E. Nardone, Dennis Gaida